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86 | Monday Night Raw Episode 1 - 1993 · The ExtraCooler Show

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  Welcome everyone to a brand new episode of the extra cooler
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  show. My name is Nick otherwise known
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  as extra cooler and this week I'm joined by Matt Jim and Mike
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  and we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of money.
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  Day Night, Raw, welcome, everybody.
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  It's good to be back. I'm at thankful and impressed by
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  your Vincent. Kennedy McMahon impression every
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  single time. You do it in the intro, so
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  cheers to that and try not to wake my children cheer, so
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  talking about him later. So Fired Up by that 93 theme
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  right there. I can't even tell you I'm tight.
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  Like I said to you guys. I listen to it about five times
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  before we hit record. It's just so good anger and
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  fans. He said that smile.
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  I'm just asking here, right? Actually performed that for the
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  lip sync contest in high school? Yeah.
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  Only the safety. Instrumental themes.
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  That's right. I did Seinfeld esteem and that
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  one. Is this true?
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  No, nobody wanted to. I was we thought we had it all
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  planned. It was planned down but didn't
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  come through. Yeah.
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  All right, as usual, you know, Jim Johnson.
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  The same name is, you know, we had this conversation ahead of
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  pressing record. It was it was this a Jim
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  Johnston, Banger and Jim goes off and researches it and still
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  call him Joe. My bad guys, usually him
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  deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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  Oh yeah. Yes, forget about WWE Hall of
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  Fame. That's right haleh for tonight.
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  I love it. I like it as usual.
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  You can find us on Instagram at extra cooler and over on Twitter
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  Discord were talking about a lot of hot topics that have just
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  gone down that Matt's gonna get into later.
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  But first, Matt, you've got some housekeeping to do.
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  Oh man, I got a lot of trouble last week.
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  I got a couple of text messages of how in the world are you
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  going to have episode 85, without giving us the answer to
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  the question that we asked an episode 84.
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  So we were talking, you know, it was our, our two-year
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  anniversary and Nick asks the question of how many times We
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  have covered Bret Hart and this includes matches on full cards
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  like we did in Prime Time wrestling.
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  So before we move on, I need a Anita ruling so I calculated
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  everything Nick your guests in the moment was 16 and then you
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  said definitely over 15. The one that texted me first was
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  Carl. So Carl thanks for being so
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  passionate about this question and your favorite red heart.
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  He guessed 18 so before I unveil the answer episode, Seven was
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  Survivor Series 1990, it was the Warriors vs.
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  The perfect team and Brett is on the card.
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  Brett is not spoken about on the on the episode outside of us.
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  Just saying he was on the the perfect team.
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  It doesn't doesn't count. Does not count.
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  No, you had to. You had to have looked at my
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  notes. I put the note, I did not quite
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  know. So because of this ruling, if we
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  are we all are we all in agreement?
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  It's this one does not count. It does not count.
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  We did not talk about it. He's in the match.
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  No, not the match recover. Oh no, it's not that much week.
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  We covered the whole card. Yeah, not no, no.
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  We covered that match in depth. That it wasn't.
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  No, we did not. It was Survivor Series.
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  It was talking about as we just mentioned him, like on impact by
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  and passing. Then forget it.
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  Okay, so yeah, we had a litigate a little here so I was I was
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  hoping it would count because if that one counts at the answer is
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  17, it should does not count. Nick is dead on with 16 times.
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  So episode 2, 4 8, 10 12, Jesus Christ, 1930, 31 33, 34 37,
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  41:46 64 78-84. So my favorite part about, I
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  can't quit you Brett. My favorite part about Bret
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  Hart, and his matches are every time we're like, okay, let's
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  throw out an event or a match for us to Cover one of us always
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  throws out a a match or a card involving bread and we always
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  have to pump the brakes. Like come on man, Brett's in
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  that. I do not want to cover here Bret
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  Hart. One of us is a little like, a
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  brat again. I feel like it's always me.
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  That's it is always uses recently.
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  There's something else going on there, man. 16 out of 84, is
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  exactly 19 percent of shows, so cheers to Bret Hart and
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  forgiving us Stu Hart out of that.
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  If he would have the number one seed in like the NFL playoffs,
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  right? First round by Brett Hull.
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  Kingsley's, he's yes easily for this podcast without a doubt,
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  without a doubt. All right.
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  So thank you for your housekeeping.
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  Matt and welcome. Thank you for holding it down
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  last week. Solo, you did an excellent job
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  covering everything that is going on wrestling.
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  Because boy, is there a lot? Oh, my goodness!
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  Thank you, fellas. So this week we've had this
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  mapped out for a while. We are here to celebrate the
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  30th anniversary Diversity of Monday Night Raw.
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  When this episode drops on January 11th 2023, it will turn
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  30 because the first episode of Monday Night Raw aired on
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  January 11, 1993. For those of you who are not
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  mathematicians, this takes place on the USA Network and it's a
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  replacement to Prime Time wrestling that Prime Time
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  wrestling. Do you know how long that was on
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  USA? It's got to be like to guess if
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  it's 93 10 years old. Going to say eight.
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  Yeah yeah Mike's. Right it's eight years.
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  Eight years Prime Time wrestling.
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  I'm sorry hon I know hello everyone did it run right up to
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  this pretty much because I know I stood up for myself mr.
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  Perfect got a fight with on Prime Time with Tina.
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  Yes the water and that was like not yet before this.
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  Yeah a month month or two before Lawler's actually on one of the
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  final Prime times that that you know the round table there elect
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  angle to really that'd be all over you should watch the last.
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  So, as we're going to get to later, the original raw was only
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  60 minutes and before this, all of WTF shows were, were
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  pre-taped, right? None of them were alive there on
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  sound stages, small audiences. At large Arenas, the raw formula
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  really, like changes things up for WWF and it's, it's Overkill
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  how much Michael Cole, always delivers that line, the longest
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  running weekly. Sadiq, but, but it's pretty
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  incredible. Like, I remember this first
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  episode of Monday Night Raw, I remember W like taping it
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  because I wasn't staying up at 9:00 at this time.
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  But it's wild because it's totally different from
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  Superstars, or wrestling challenge, which is all.
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  We knew all leading up to this uncut.
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  Yes, uncensored. So is it?
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  It's amazing. The first thing I'd love to when
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  I when I saw like when they Pan the crowd and do all, It's like,
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  wow, the evolution of the show. Yes.
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  It's you know, Cole is right, you know, it's like amazing to
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  how will what it's evolved into from right here there to today
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  and then just through the years? Well, yeah, if it was still in
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  the Hammerstein, Ballroom there, I don't think right.
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  Still be going on. So rawr rawr originated.
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  These first few episodes of from the grand ballroom at the
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  Manhattan Center, which is a small New York City Theater, it
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  aired live every week, right back to our first concert.
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  When we met yes. Yes, that's right.
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  So funny to me. Sorry, Nick.
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  No, he wanted. Vince wanted to keep it in New
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  York because he knew like he couldn't have it in Connecticut
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  and you know eventually they realized they couldn't do it
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  every week here because the live schedule and you know they
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  needed to bounce around a little bit but it was really
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  interesting listening to Pritchard talk about this.
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  Yes podcast and Kind of talking through Vince's reaction and
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  wanting this to be like a cost-cutting situation from
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  prime time off to Raw little. Did he know it was going to
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  explode, it probably cost millions and millions more than
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  what Primetime make. But regardless, yeah, pyrogen
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  idea was to kind of build their own Studio environment and make
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  it like a small Arena but they couldn't do it from Stamford
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  every week who's going to run a here from Stamford Connecticut
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  like right? Basically and I am sorry.
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  Yeah, I picture them. Visioning NXT.
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  Right? What they did in NXT, like what
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  they have now? That was their Vision back.
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  Then I apologize. That's an interesting way to put
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  it. I know that's, that's a really
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  great call out. And I was just going to say that
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  the same people that run MSG, which obviously, Vince has this
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  long standing relationship with Madison Square Garden.
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  Also manage the Manhattan Center and it was cool to kind of hear
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  the evolution of this story. And then, ultimately, the what I
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  found to be The most like interesting piece was that the
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  working title for this was called Down, Dirty gritty raw.
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  And then somebody was just finally, like, why don't we just
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  call it raw? Yeah, that's so exciting.
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  Whoever whoever did that is a genius that's great.
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  Right? Cut it.
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  Yeah, so on the commentary team, we have Vince Macho, Man, and
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  none other than Rob Bartlett. Basically the idea of Rob
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  Bartlett. Yeah, we're gonna do a lot of
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  dumping on Rob bar. Those of you.
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  Yeah, Vince Vince basically wanted like someone who could be
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  the fan at home, someone who could ask like questions that
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  the fans would ask during this. And this guy's nuts, right?
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  Let's replace Bobby Heenan. Who's been like the best
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  commentator and of the past like 20 years?
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  Like right, maybe it's like brick guy from Don Imus show.
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  Heenan says, later in the episode, it's like comparing ice
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  cream and what horse manure or whatever.
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  Yes, that's this. Yeah.
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  Ring, announcer is Howard Finkel and then we've got Sean Mooney,
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  who's still in the picture, he's the man on the street.
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  They on Pritchard, they talked about how they wanted to give it
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  like a feel of like SNL being on live TV.
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  Make it feel like, you know, there's someone out there like,
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  ready for anything that happens, really appreciate the like
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  opening shot where yes, looking down 34th Street.
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  It's looking at the, the Empire State Building.
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  It's really foggy out. You can't even see the the
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  needle or the top of the building and It's still lit up.
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  It's a really, really cool shot that pans back to Sean, Moody
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  standing there in front of the, in front of the, the Manhattan
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  Center, which I've been to. And I said, sounds like we all
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  have, and it's really cool to be able to place yourself on 34th.
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  Totally. Yes.
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  Folks. Who grew up a stone's throw.
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  You're not too far from New York.
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  It gives you all the feels The Nostalgia chills.
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  Yeah, 100%. So we get a cold open with Sean
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  Mooney and he's outside the Manhattan Center bundled up its
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  January Henan arrives. He is trying to get in because
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  he wants to host raw and Muni tells him he's out and bartlet's
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  a hidden and the event is sold out so and even get him.
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  Yeah, there's like 500 people in there I think 500 to 1000.
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  I think that is a capacity. Wow you almost feel like you can
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  count it when you're when you're looking at it.
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  You know where you configure every voice in the arena, the
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  important part is Vladimir, is there in attendance?
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  That is true? Rightfully so yeah.
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  He needed to be a Part of this one, but I found it really funny
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  that Heenan. As soon as he blows by him is
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  like on the defensive immediately of like, why can't I
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  go in? And, and yes, even before Mooney
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  delivers the, you can't go in there.
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  It was like, so, so comically appropriate and everybody agrees
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  I like them together. Oh yeah.
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  I totally agree. Sirens.
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  You know, you heard the sirens in the beginning and Vince and
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  Macho and Rob Bartlett, kick things off and there you know,
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  net traditional like for some reason.
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  And I always remember these early rows of them, standing in
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  the corner on the floor and it's the three of them.
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  You got Vince in his like black tuxedo with the red bowtie
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  Macho's got his Macho gear on, but with the bow tie as well,
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  and then we've got robbed Bartlett.
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  Rob, Bartlett says, he can't wait for the match of Coco,
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  beware versus Yoko Zuma. A guy who wears a diaper thing
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  going right up there and dead man's land.
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  No man's land. And now, that's all that Macho
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  can think about as Bart. Latt than impersonates Macho Man
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  and gives us an oh yeah it's we are we are off to a hot start
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  stumbling out of the gate. Well I think Matt's General
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  background. So we've got our first match is
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  Yokozuna with mr. Fuji, he's facing off against
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  Coco. Beware the bird.
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  Man comes out and he's got that classic.
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  I forgot that they use the original Owen Hart.
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  Theme energy baby. He's right.
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  Energy. Right?
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  So we're gonna get to own later in the card but Birdman comes
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  out. No bird.
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  He's Japanese fangs. He's got the Wayfarers.
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  That, you know, he got from. Oh yes.
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  Looks like I think, right? And he's got the MC Hammer pants
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  on and then Rob, Bartlett. We're like, what a minute or two
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  in Rob, Bartlett. Odors, I always wondered what
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  happened to Gary Coleman Tara. It's bad taste.
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  Yeah, it's proposal. None of none of his Stick ages.
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  Well like that's that's the biggest Billy not really hung
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  out with Don Imus. So you owe me plus.
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  It's like it's like wide with the joke is they're both black
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  like, oh good one. It's like saying like oh we all
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  go take her. Looks like Dave Coulier like
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  what like to drink random comparison of like to write it's
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  awful. Yeah, it's brutal.
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  Yeah, so like, you can tell that Vince right out the gate with
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  the Yoko Zuma. Oh absolutely.
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  I'm gonna get back. The ha ha, but it looks like
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  immediately that Vince is like regretting his decision as soon
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  as he says Yoko Zuma and and he says, it's more than once by the
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  way. Oh, he definitely refers to him
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  as your Kazuma multiple times. It definitely does.
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  But you can anytime that Bartlett drops, any type of
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  slight, any type of joke. You just hear Vince with his
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  classic. Ha, ha ha.
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  Like, it's soaked and and fake. And just like, it's almost him
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  telling him to shut the f. If up like just stole a
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  speaking. So that's what I'm telling
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  myself Yoko and Fuji come out and yoko's still undefeated,
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  he's barely been around, he gets his flowers from the two girls
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  which is pretty crazy. They talked about this on
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  Pritchard, how, you know, Vince didn't want to pay the two girls
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  to give yoko's flowers but he would pay for the ring girls,
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  which I don't know what will get to Luna Vachon sister later.
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  Macho lets us know that yoko's yet to be knocked off his feet.
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  Is that true? Yes.
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  Awesome. It really is.
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  It's incredible. And then what about the shot
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  from underneath? Yoko's legs is it succinctly?
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  Interesting. It's a bizarre shot and you can
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  write, you can tell that he's not wearing white Underpants
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  underneath his weight spandex. I'll just say that.
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  Was it? Like the shot between?
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  What was it? A genius.
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  It mr. Perfect, mr.
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  Perfect. Yes.
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  That's exactly what I thought about.
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  We just talked about it on prime time.
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  Wrestling about how they had like the the golf ball on the
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  tee and you see the genes through the same, you know,
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  video on? Yeah.
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  Like let me go for my move. So at this point we're like
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  maybe six minutes into the first ever Monday Night Raw and we've
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  got Bartlett's already like muffed so many things and he
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  hits us right out the gate of this match with.
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  It's a no-fly zone, right? He doesn't have a zipper and
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  then he'd little delivers but that is one big butted Oriental.
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  Yeah, followed by, he's got an ass like an Amphitheater and and
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  Bartlett is obsessed with yoko's thong and and the line to kick
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  things off is just really uncomfortable, you know, it's
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  extremely uncomfortable and it Bartlett like goes into saying
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  something right after he drops. This, this rug reference I'll
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  say and he he stopped speaking immediately and that's me
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  assuming that Vince immediately mutes everybody and tells him to
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  shut. Shut the f up stop talking about
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  it. You messed this up, man.
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  Just stop, just stop. But then, but then on Monday
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  Night Raw, Vince, Vince in 93, really like that, I said, I had
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  that initial thought, but then Vince like plays it cool
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  throughout this episode prime example, when he delivers the,
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  he's got an ass like an Amphitheater.
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  He goes, ha ha ha uncut. Uncensored Monday Night, Raw?
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  Like, what? This is probably Vince's idea,
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  right? Passive A guy like that.
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  Sounds like a Vince idea. 100%, the I miss guy on here, like oh
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  my God, probably laughs in his car, wanted it to be wild and
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  like yeah yeah well I've been pretty golden powered Stern.
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  Shit Bartlett's Bartlett's making remarks about how Yoko
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  needs a bra and Yoko doesn't wear a bra and then Macho's
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  feeding into it. About how, you know, he can't go
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  a certain area and the beach he can wrestle, but he can't.
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  Go on the beach like what? Cause it's so uncomfortable.
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  The college Oaks are like the lowest hanging fruit imaginable.
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  Like yeah. Like he there wasn't even one
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  that I smirk that throughout this entire but Carla's me,
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  physical pain. Yes, this guy is not too much
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  worse people on the planet than o than shock jock.
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  Yeah, yeah, just say yes, yes. Well said what it is.
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  It's the wannabe Howard Stern's. Yes.
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  One guy that could do it. And then like, yeah, like
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  cut-rate and postures. I, I think it was me.
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  You listen to Pritchard that now now Pritchard recorded this at
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  the 25th, anniversary of raw correct.
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  And I believe he made reference to Vince, you know, being really
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  liking Howard Stern and wanting Howard Stern.
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  And he'll actually like, they considered Bob Costas for that
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  role at some point. And there was another name that
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  they threw out there. Yeah.
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  They just wanted someone a little bit more mainstream.
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  I think it would have better fought a few years later.
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  Yes. Yes, real heated.
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  So for those that didn't figure it out.
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  Yokozuna remains undefeated and takes down, Coco, beware in 3
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  minutes and 45 seconds. So I found it really interesting
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  that they kind of foreshadows some things a little bit and
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  Vince makes it a point to say that Yokozuna will be going to
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  the Royal Rumble as are you Macho and then fast forward and
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  those are the final two of the royal 1993.
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  And isn't that the first time that someone knocks him off his
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  feet Macho? Not know, kasab was a hacksaw
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  Three arrests and then he gets okay.
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  Coming out of his mouth, right? Right Bonsai.
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  We right leg on top of the holes.
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  Yes, yes. This is also the first time that
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  the Royal Rumble winner will be awarded a title shot at
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  WrestleMania. Yeah.
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  You know what? Those Nick it but he does go
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  down and rub. Yeah, that's a huge point.
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  He goes down in the rumble because of course famously or
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  infamously. Yeah.
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  She tries to pin him against like yeah, the worst elimination
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  to end the Royal Rumble. It was awful.
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  You know, I was so mad. I think we all were so we get a
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  promo for the the Royal Rumble, 1993.
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  And the only, the one thing I could think of is it is crazy,
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  how drastic of a difference from 92 to 93?
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  It is like the whole climate has shifted, its totally changed in
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  WWF, you know, 92 is known as probably the greatest Royal
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  Rumble ever. Some people would say it's their
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  favorite match of all time, you know.
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  And and now you've got this and you just see the Two serpents in
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  it alone and it's like, wow, what like Vince has really
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  trying to shape things. Totally differently.
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  It's and and there's guys that we like, after all.
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  But yeah, no, it's definitely it feels like the distinct New
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  Generation, you know like even though I know they coined that
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  term a couple years down the road but like this is it like
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  the beginning of it? I feel like in my point of view
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  so we get a I made reference to earlier.
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  We get a bra girl and listen. Really Vince like this is the
• 21:17
  best you could do for the first Monday Night Raw.
• 21:19
  Like, I'm not impressed with your rebro.
• 21:22
  Yeah. That that girl isn't what I
• 21:25
  consider to be like a real quick.
• 21:27
  She's from like, 1986. Oh yeah.
• 21:30
  You could have done better? Everyone's like looks a lot
• 21:32
  older than to, right? Yes, I bet you she's young,
• 21:35
  right? But like oh probably you know
• 21:37
  how old Rob Bartlett is he looks old, right?
• 21:39
  He looks like he's at least in his 50s during this episode.
• 21:43
  Do you think? In this episode and he's younger
• 21:45
  or older than us. Where the over-under younger
• 21:48
  death? He's in his 30s is minus 6.
• 21:50
  Wow. Well, I was kind of very the way
• 21:53
  you set it up. I was expecting it to be less
• 21:55
  than 36. No, no, no.
• 21:58
  That would be messed up with. He's like, yeah, he's 28 Macho
• 22:01
  makes reference to wishing. He had x-ray vision while
• 22:05
  looking at the raw girl like no Macho, stop feeding into.
• 22:09
  No, I'll ease. Heenan's backstage with a promo
• 22:16
  and he's got a deep V dou neck under work towards Cody and it
• 22:24
  right? He's cutting a backstage promo
• 22:26
  on mr. Perfect about the narcissist who
• 22:28
  he's bringing in. We don't know who the narcissist
• 22:31
  is Baldwin called the narcissus yet.
• 22:33
  It's narcissus. Yes.
• 22:37
  And he's comparing comparing. Perfect to him is like,
• 22:42
  comparing ice cream to. Or and he's going to unveil him
• 22:45
  in a few weeks at the Royal Rumble.
• 22:47
  So so I don't like water thing. You must be, he's holding a
• 22:52
  grudge, man. He's got to get Lex Luger on his
• 22:54
  side. Oh yeah, it's definitely hold a
• 22:55
  grudge there. I'm back to Heenan style for one
• 22:59
  second. Would you think you guys could
• 23:01
  pull off the in and lock? Yeah, you can Jim.
• 23:04
  Yeah, this I don't think I have the right body type for it.
• 23:08
  We have a few friends who could pull it off.
• 23:10
  I don't know if any of us could pull it off.
• 23:12
  Yeah, I don't know. No, none of us have that bleach.
• 23:14
  Blond hair left. The pitch, someone for Halloween
• 23:17
  this year. I like it.
• 23:18
  I like it. So, our next match.
• 23:20
  We've got the Steiner Brothers facing off against The
• 23:23
  Executioner's. I'm assuming you guys figured
• 23:26
  out who The Executioner's are in this match.
• 23:29
  Please. Daughters, Jimmy PLO and Mikey
• 23:31
  work right now. It is very Hardy and Duane.
• 23:34
  Gill rescue. Yes, and during this match, the
• 23:41
  massive distraction is Doink Get a look at that.
• 23:44
  Goofy clown in the crowd. They keep saying torque, the
• 23:46
  clown is Rob, Bartlett, Bartley Bartley.
• 23:49
  Good Vince, Vince follows up on it, so it's Bartlett calls them
• 23:53
  dork and then Vince starts calling him dark and of all
• 23:56
  people Bachi, Man. Randy, Savage is the one that's
• 23:58
  got to correct them. I thought his name was dark.
• 24:01
  Come on, come on. It's a shame.
• 24:04
  He's the voice of reason. Exactly.
• 24:06
  Exactly. It's a shame because this this
• 24:09
  match like I would have I really wanted to watch the Steiners
• 24:13
  like Granted it's against to Zhang bears but suit, I watched
• 24:17
  the chum I actually watched it and they freaking destroy these
• 24:22
  guys. Yes, there's one point where one
• 24:23
  of them I think it's Rick sends one of them off the ropes and he
• 24:27
  sends him so hard off the ropes that he likes lips in the middle
• 24:31
  of the ring, and like, goes under the bottom smiling.
• 24:34
  They're like having fun. Yes.
• 24:36
  Stiffest really like, they're killing these guys.
• 24:40
  Absolutely killing them. I think they really enjoy that.
• 24:42
  These two brothers. Like sick, people just like, see
• 24:45
  getting the hell out of like, so he offers it's so weird because
• 24:50
  you got it ends with a doomsday device, Bulldog.
• 24:54
  Yes, like kills Duane Gill. Basically, the crazy part about
• 24:58
  this match though is like you've got this big tag team in the
• 25:01
  Steiners who are facing jobbers, but they don't pay any attention
• 25:05
  to the match whatsoever. It's all about doink.
• 25:08
  And then they start talking about the guy on the bills,
• 25:10
  who's about to join WWF, but then never ends up Joining WWF.
• 25:15
  Oh man. Right so that's our yeah.
• 25:16
  Mikey were crates sent us an article today about that guy,
• 25:20
  right? Look, I want to call himself
• 25:22
  Pitbull, right? Yeah.
• 25:25
  What happened to mr. Turn decided to return to the
• 25:30
  bills, you know, I football. It's not well for Hazy.
• 25:33
  Everybody's like all information that was the first.
• 25:36
  I read about it, I feel I thought he was a musician now.
• 25:39
  Yeah, sorry, bad joke moving Moving on, we've got a we've got
• 25:46
  a highlight speaking of cool. Yeah that's a cool yeah a joke
• 25:48
  right there and get out. So we've got a highlight of the
• 25:55
  night Sean Mooney on the outside still and there's a commotion as
• 25:59
  a woman is claiming to be robbed Bartlett's.
• 26:01
  Aunt and is trying to get in and it turns out to be none other
• 26:05
  than Bobby The Brain Heenan dressed in drag trying to get in
• 26:08
  there. He's gotta see his nephew.
• 26:10
  He's got to see his nephew. I died.
• 26:13
  Just love inan, man. I loved it.
• 26:17
  I loved every second of it. He Ninja Gaiden is dressed like
• 26:21
  like this big blond wig. He's the way.
• 26:24
  He's speaking is tremendous. It's just, it's just so quiet
• 26:27
  because this one, there's one picture out there.
• 26:30
  That's floating about this one particular, you know.
• 26:35
  Yeah, it's gonna be on our graphic.
• 26:36
  We're going to use ahead. It's absolutely incredible.
• 26:40
  He has shocked. Looking at the camera Mooney
• 26:42
  pretends like he He does. He does recognize me good.
• 26:45
  Two minutes guys worked with for years.
• 26:48
  You blind money but that's Mooney just playing like that
• 26:52
  carry. That's really funny.
• 26:54
  It is, I probably hit in his ugliness looking woman.
• 26:59
  All right, so let's move on to what's in everybody's cooler and
• 27:02
  take a little break, the extra cooler showing what's in the
• 27:04
  coolers, brought to you by Sloop Brewing company's Loop Brewing
• 27:07
  is known for their hazy and golden ipas like juice bomb and
• 27:11
  Supersoft tonight for this. Very special 30th anniversary of
• 27:15
  Monday Night Raw. I brought a Sloop myself,
• 27:18
  Interstellar, burst. I believe Matt had it during the
• 27:21
  holidays, correct, but sure I've absolutely had the beer before.
• 27:28
  Did I already know? I know that I'll or maybe I'm
• 27:31
  almost positive because I, you know, you read the back and I'm
• 27:34
  like, I can remember the Hop God reading that out on are so yeah,
• 27:40
  what do you got? I too have a Sloop sir.
• 27:44
  You know it's funny. We haven't.
• 27:46
  I feel like we haven't had Sloop on the show in a couple of weeks
• 27:49
  and now here we are and like he was famous like he's got 12.
• 27:53
  So we'll follow it up with some more.
• 27:55
  I've got Simcoe bomb part of their single hop series, out of
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  the bottom box, tremendous, six and a half percent irr.
• 28:01
  All Simcoe Hops and fits the bill perfect.
• 28:05
  So cheers fellas, Michael Well, I have a bomb the mountain, I
• 28:11
  think I might have, I may have had this on our, what's the
• 28:16
  cooler, like, a couple of weeks ago, but I don't remember.
• 28:18
  I can't remember what I had for dinner, like, two days ago.
• 28:21
  So I think I think this was a last year.
• 28:24
  It was right. Definitely had a, you definitely
• 28:27
  had it last year, that's for sure.
• 28:30
  But I feel like you had a different winter Sloop recently,
• 28:34
  but maybe I could be wrong because obviously I can't
• 28:36
  remember shit either. So cheers.
• 28:39
  Yeah, it's good. What do you got?
• 28:40
  Jim? I was also going to get a Sloop.
• 28:43
  I was at the store yesterday but I saw this, it's a from
• 28:46
  resurgent, Resurgence Brewing, its circle, the wagons buffalo
• 28:50
  style, IPA okay Vive. You are facing, you know, our
• 28:58
  glorious host of the show extra cooler, Nick, his dolphin's.
• 29:02
  So I had, it's not gonna be pretty.
• 29:05
  I don't know, let's see. But actually, you know what?
• 29:08
  I thought I picked out a In there because they have like a
• 29:10
  million different bills once and I'm just reading it now Mike.
• 29:12
  Oh this is an IPA 6.5% I, those drinking of 4.2% pilsner I'm
• 29:18
  clearly. Joe John Jim, Johnston World,
• 29:21
  Joe Johnson. I'm jealous that you could get
• 29:22
  those local beers because around here.
• 29:25
  The best we could do is some like dog piss Jets Budweiser,
• 29:29
  I'm sorry Bud. Light sand as far as football
• 29:32
  teams, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:35
  All right. So, let's move right along
• 29:36
  because our next segment, we've got Vince McMahon in the Middle
• 29:39
  of the ring with his red bowtie. Interviewing Razor Ramon about
• 29:42
  his forthcoming match for the WWF championship at Royal Rumble
• 29:47
  against none other than Matt's favorite wrestler, Bret Hart.
• 29:51
  So I love this how right off the bat, right?
• 29:56
  Okay. So razor comes out and he's not
• 29:58
  in his, like wrestling gear. He's full-on like Scarface.
• 30:02
  Wannabes are face a Jace. Vince called him.
• 30:07
  Right out the gate, though. Become lately because he's only
• 30:10
  been around eight months, I think he says, and he references
• 30:14
  how took Brett eight years to get the title.
• 30:17
  And now he's been here, eight months and he gets a title shot.
• 30:21
  It's this whole thing is crazy to me like I almost forget
• 30:26
  about, I remember that he main evented this card with Brett but
• 30:30
  you forget that razor even had like the title shot here.
• 30:34
  Yeah, I remembered you remember. Thinking.
• 30:36
  At the time, I remember thinking like whoa.
• 30:38
  Like I didn't know the term. Like he got like, you know,
• 30:39
  Hotshot it or anything, right? But like he did basically right
• 30:43
  like, right? Because what are we in fifth
• 30:44
  grade at the time? Fifth grade, fourth grade 9350.
• 30:49
  Yeah. So fifth grade.
• 30:51
  Yeah. No, yes, fifth grade.
• 30:54
  You're right. Yeah, we're in fifth grade.
• 30:56
  And, and by the way, the I'm sorry to go off on a tangent
• 31:00
  this Royal Rumble. Jim.
• 31:01
  I believe you were at a birthday party but I watched this with
• 31:05
  your brother. How cool is it?
• 31:06
  I remember I remember that. It was my grandmother's birthday
• 31:09
  being celebrated. Your brother was also over my
• 31:11
  house and this Rumble was on at 4:00 in the afternoon.
• 31:15
  Like that was the coolest part about the 93r.
• 31:17
  The whole line does look like daytime in it.
• 31:19
  Yeah, I actually watch this with my key work rate.
• 31:22
  At a another of our friends. It was no longer a friend.
• 31:28
  But yeah, so this. So anyway, back to the razor,
• 31:33
  right? It's it highlights razor taking
• 31:35
  out Owen and backstage interview putting Owen on the Shelf,
• 31:38
  what's up? So when wearing by the way, what
• 31:40
  kind of pass some suggestions as are they bills back there, red,
• 31:44
  white blue baby. Wow yep I beat up too broad
• 31:47
  Jermaine backs. Also hit mang mang.
• 31:53
  He should have come back. All those pretty awesome.
• 31:55
  Yeah, the a kaitos full Scarface like you said, like and like
• 31:59
  like the random one Spanish silencio, like okay, yeah, one
• 32:02
  minute. I love it at the end though, how
• 32:06
  he's like a foot away from Vince and he throws a toothpick.
• 32:10
  Right in his face perfectly. I always loved how he also had
• 32:14
  hair so slick back at one in the mouth, one behind the ear.
• 32:17
  I This guy is is the greatest. He came to play a man that he
• 32:22
  really did. Yeah, he really did speaking of
• 32:25
  the crowd of 500 to 1000 whatever.
• 32:28
  However, been it is, they keep cutting to one fan during the
• 32:30
  segment. He's got a unibrow.
• 32:33
  Oh my God. Sake, choose broken glass and he
• 32:35
  like keeps following the camera around.
• 32:37
  Do you see him talking about? He's wearing them all over?
• 32:41
  He's wearing the all-over. Print Undertaker?
• 32:44
  Sure passes. Well sweet shirt, it's an
• 32:46
  amazing shirt. But he is all over our cameras
• 32:50
  all night long and he looks like Teen Wolf like they looks like
• 32:53
  he's about to just Sprout hair and beard.
• 32:56
  And pause the exact guy you're talking about people's lives
• 33:00
  like transition like yeah. Yeah.
• 33:05
  Before our next match we get Macho with an update on headlock
• 33:09
  on Hunger event that's taking place that no one gives a shit
• 33:12
  about right except for some Tonka Tatanka.
• 33:16
  He's backstage and he's About the headlock on hunger and I
• 33:20
  love it. How Bartlett is supposed to
• 33:21
  intro this? And then afterwards you could
• 33:24
  tell Vince has pissed and he's like well that's Tatanka.
• 33:30
  Thank you dick. This is just like a spot for
• 33:34
  Tatanka to do is like signature than.
• 33:36
  Yeah, I wish I could do that. No ik, you know, in a way you'll
• 33:39
  be ridiculous. Nick used to do a great year,
• 33:44
  you know what I'm doing? And also you saying the pants
• 33:46
  and song really well? Well he could get up really
• 33:49
  high. Let's put it all out there on
• 33:55
  the extracurricular shove it seems.
• 33:56
  Is we glorious usually it usually you guys are burying
• 33:59
  Mike. I'm enjoying that you're burying
• 34:01
  Nick here. It makes it even better.
• 34:05
  All right, our next match is Shawn Michaels.
• 34:07
  The Intercontinental Champion facing off against Max Moon and
• 34:11
  this is a title match. Oh yeah this is this is the
• 34:15
  Highlight match of of the Hard. I love it.
• 34:20
  How it opens up and you got a bird's-eye view shots.
• 34:22
  We can see Max moon, like shooting, confetti out of his,
• 34:26
  like, Megaman gloves. It's awful.
• 34:29
  You can barely hold a man, never thought of it that way.
• 34:32
  That's great. So, you know, the story of Max
• 34:35
  moon, right? Like, everybody knows this isn't
• 34:37
  Conan, right? The, the rumor was so Conan
• 34:40
  never actually wrestled as Max moon is what I believe I have
• 34:45
  found, right? So this This guy, this guy is
• 34:48
  oversold video this guy. Yeah, so this guy is Paul
• 34:52
  Diamond who's also from San Antonio.
• 34:55
  And at one point earlier in the career he teamed with Sean and
• 35:00
  he was actually a former member of the Orient Express this guy.
• 35:05
  That's right, he's Cato. I believe so yeah.
• 35:08
  Mask if yes. Yes.
• 35:11
  And I guess the rumor was was they made this suit for Conan?
• 35:16
  And the Conan never pass. Out and he kind of like was
• 35:19
  backstage and he was like what are you doing with that suit?
• 35:22
  And they altered it to fit him and he became Max moon and the
• 35:27
  best origin story. I've right?
• 35:29
  There's I never slang around. I always just went with like, oh
• 35:32
  yeah, Max moon. Was was Conan, you know, kind of
• 35:36
  like, how do I think was Matt, born for a period of time and
• 35:41
  then otherwise we're Savio Vega, right?
• 35:44
  Right. So here we are with this Paul
• 35:47
  diamond. Oh, guy and it explains why this
• 35:49
  match goes 10 minutes because they have a little bit of a
• 35:51
  history and they worked well together.
• 35:54
  The max moon like pulled out moves that we're not being
• 35:57
  pulled out by anybody. Besides Scott Steiner really?
• 36:01
  Yeah. We you know we think of you
• 36:03
  know, maximum everybody, the whole culture wrestling culture.
• 36:06
  I think like it in hindsight now especially as like wrestle crap.
• 36:10
  Right? Like, you know right?
• 36:12
  Quote those guys over there like he is like classic wrestle crap
• 36:15
  and like so like I was blindsided By the fact that
• 36:18
  there was a maximum match on this, right against Shawn
• 36:21
  Michaels of all people. So, that was so cool.
• 36:23
  And then to, actually, like you said, it's like a decent match.
• 36:26
  Like, wait a second. What?
• 36:27
  Right eye. So being like, the aesthetic
• 36:30
  guy, I was sitting here, trying to figure out what it is with
• 36:33
  Max Moon that really went wrong and I think it's just the full
• 36:37
  body suit, right? Like maybe if he didn't have
• 36:40
  sleeves, it would have worked a little bit better.
• 36:42
  I don't know. Something, I do MIT the helmet.
• 36:46
  Yeah. But like they're trying to Mm
• 36:47
  asked him like, you know, how about somersaulting around the
• 36:51
  ring like a dickhead. How about the dreads coming out
• 36:57
  of the top of the helmet? All right, I guess.
• 37:00
  Yes. It's the Predator, ladies.
• 37:01
  It helmet. Is it?
• 37:02
  Or is it like a? I always thought it was like a
• 37:04
  Luchador mask? Yeah, it's a luge, it's a
• 37:07
  Luchador mask. It looks like it costs.
• 37:10
  More of like a helmet. I do they recycled it later on
• 37:13
  for rukh's. Yes.
• 37:15
  Farooq's Like Gladiator helmet. For her account anyway.
• 37:20
  So Sean with the light blue, the baby blue, Intercontinental
• 37:24
  title, which I feel like doesn't get enough love.
• 37:28
  Yes, and very cool. And this ring gear is
• 37:31
  interesting too, because it's like full zebra all over the red
• 37:34
  and the white. I love it.
• 37:36
  I made a note of the, of the gear myself.
• 37:38
  I thought it was really awesome. It's black, the red pants with
• 37:41
  white and black Zubaz pretty much and it's tremendous really
• 37:45
  good. And I like the motorcycle Style.
• 37:47
  Boots and yes, classic Shawn look and so he like I want to
• 37:51
  trade mark this right now before and else tries to steal this
• 37:54
  idea from us. You should make like some sort
• 37:56
  of cameraman commemorative print or t-shirt the first raw ever
• 38:01
  Michaels verse moon. It's like, you know, like yeah.
• 38:04
  Here I Converse guy who somersaults around the ring like
• 38:11
  that, fall that text there. It's aesthetically it's actually
• 38:17
  like Looking. I agree.
• 38:19
  Yeah I thought so too. I really did nobody.
• 38:22
  It's about it. That this is not much.
• 38:25
  No not at all. Intercom like title match and it
• 38:28
  goes like I said, it goes 10 minutes which is pretty long.
• 38:32
  Cuz like we've talked about on the superstars, we've covered
• 38:35
  Superstars matches were like, you know, to minute three
• 38:38
  minutes squash matches and you look back.
• 38:40
  And you think I'll Max Moon. He's a jobber.
• 38:42
  This isn't going to go this long, but here we are.
• 38:45
  So Shawn. This is like an interesting area
• 38:47
  of showers. Sean right 93.
• 38:49
  He's like still a heel but like they keep showing girls in the
• 38:53
  crowd you know cheering for him. It's a very interesting version
• 38:58
  of Shawn. It's like Vince knows he can't
• 39:00
  hold on to heal strong for much longer.
• 39:03
  No. And you know very unnatural
• 39:04
  music. Yes.
• 39:08
  Shaughnessy. He'll do until right or like
• 39:12
  late 95. Yes, right.
• 39:13
  The restaurants year. Look like it.
• 39:15
  This is the start of 93 so he's Tatanka at WrestleMania, right?
• 39:18
  SummerSlam is Miss yet. Perfect.
• 39:20
  Is that correct? Yes.
• 39:22
  Yes to the 93 Survivor series. Is he hurt?
• 39:24
  Is that? No, he's no.
• 39:26
  He replaces Lawler. Yes, what is it?
• 39:29
  Yeah. He's with the Knights.
• 39:31
  Yeah, facing that was hard. So good.
• 39:33
  I'm always recall because I just don't have it especially by
• 39:37
  year. Yeah II, you're sweet.
• 39:40
  Yes. Yeah.
• 39:42
  So who at one point during this match?
• 39:46
  Bartlett makes a comment about like covering wafs version of
• 39:51
  the Amy Fisher. Story called pin me.
• 39:53
  Vince starring as Joey Buttafuoco.
• 39:55
  It's like it completely goes over the head and in my notes at
• 40:00
  some point. I don't like him in my notes.
• 40:01
  I feel like I could bring this up now like at some point.
• 40:05
  I'm like I can't keep writing about Rob Bartlett.
• 40:08
  Cuz he's just so goddamn awful. I don't want to think about this
• 40:12
  guy but no unthinkably back. Yes, have to write it down the
• 40:15
  it. Right?
• 40:16
  Sure. Joke.
• 40:16
  That feels like it was like, that was like pre-written to
• 40:19
  like yeah. That was like, I'm gonna like
• 40:21
  say this thing, like the rest of it's like, a random shit.
• 40:24
  He's. Yes.
• 40:24
  But that was like, let me get this Amy Fisher joke, right?
• 40:28
  And then right after he goes to saying, how next week we're
• 40:32
  going to see on Monday Night, Raw, mayor Dinkins versus
• 40:34
  Cardinal O'Connor. Like cares, why we cares?
• 40:38
  This isn't funny. Ya know this painful how unfunny
• 40:42
  it is and then you want to talk about painfully unfunny, we get
• 40:45
  robbed, Bartlett doing the worst.
• 40:46
  Mike Tyson correction, I've ever heard and the worst part about
• 40:50
  it, I think. Is that Vince just plays into
• 40:52
  the entire thing again? I think what you said it had to
• 40:55
  have been planned, it wasn't off the cuff.
• 40:58
  If it was off the cuff, then Vince was just like, I don't
• 41:00
  know what the hell to do. The wheels are coming off.
• 41:03
  Listening, is there just like I think there's like like imagine
• 41:06
  being a human on planet Earth. Not being able to do it, Mike
• 41:09
  Tyson impersonation. It's like the one in personation
• 41:12
  I think everybody knows how to do ya know and he's like, it's
• 41:15
  not even close. Yeah, it's just he doesn't eat,
• 41:18
  doesn't add the like fifth, the lift and know where there's
• 41:21
  like, there's not one lisp is just on high voice.
• 41:24
  Yeah. And it's not even that high,
• 41:26
  it's so bad. And keep in mind, this is Tyson
• 41:31
  when he's in prison, so they're cosplaying this.
• 41:34
  This conversation that that that Tyson is calling from And then
• 41:39
  on top of it, he asks of Vince, asks Tyson for New Year's,
• 41:43
  what's your New Year's resolution?
• 41:45
  Because to make sure not to miss the Royal Rumble.
• 41:48
  Like, come on, come on, Tyson into a rumble commercial, they
• 41:53
  go to Commercial and they come back and he's still doing Tyson
• 41:56
  oppression it. That's that's the worse.
• 41:58
  I was like I thought this shit was over.
• 42:00
  It's so good. I found it so distracting to.
• 42:03
  Yes agreed. We said this match is kind of
• 42:06
  decent but it's like you get sucked into the bar.
• 42:08
  Slit orbit just like the Macho Man Who also feeds into this
• 42:11
  even more. Where he's like, like totally
• 42:13
  lost in the Tyson multi. Oh yeah.
• 42:15
  Something like it's so bad and you guys doing running around to
• 42:19
  distract you from the match, you've got, you've got Bartlett
• 42:22
  saying that Shawn Michaels pulled a knife during the yes,
• 42:25
  commercial break Vince Vince. I felt like Vince snap to here a
• 42:29
  little bit because he's like, stop it Rob.
• 42:31
  Stop it, stop it, stop it. It's not raw.
• 42:33
  And then it goes right into the rehearsed raw uncut, uncensored,
• 42:36
  uncooked thing. And I was like, maybe, This was
• 42:38
  all planned. This is all insane.
• 42:41
  There's like not even like you forget that Macho is even on the
• 42:46
  commentary team. That's like how he can't like
• 42:48
  find a way into the conversation at all.
• 42:51
  No, so the season yet. I don't think, you know, there's
• 42:55
  one spot that was pretty cool where Max Moon slingshots Shawn
• 42:58
  over the top rope onto the outside and then like, it's a
• 43:02
  her Carano, or like a, I don't know what kind of movie hits on
• 43:05
  him, but I was like, that's where I was like, oh, okay.
• 43:08
  The moon match ends with a savant kick in the middle of the
• 43:13
  ring and then he picks him up and delivers the side.
• 43:16
  Suplex to end the match weird finisher for him.
• 43:19
  It really is, it really is saying it was his, it was his
• 43:23
  finisher in the Royal Rumble video game tonight.
• 43:25
  And he looked cool though. In the game, you have to come up
• 43:30
  behind the guy if I remember correctly.
• 43:32
  Yeah, we we want to talk about the commercial.
• 43:37
  Wake up. Wake up to parents sleeping
• 43:40
  being woken up for WWF Mania. Like the dad Falls over in his
• 43:43
  chair while eating breakfast. Good.
• 43:45
  I dreamt that like that. He's got you dreamt that you
• 43:50
  were watching or that that commercial existed.
• 43:53
  Both, I think ahead and kills just a fever dream, come to
• 43:57
  life. Anyway, that's all that's,
• 44:01
  that's where he was born right like that's him.
• 44:03
  Maybe yeah. So yes, yeah.
• 44:05
  I like that man's kind of fun. Him and Susan Waldman.
• 44:09
  I wish my kids was sent caffeine-free.
• 44:13
  I wish my kids would let me sleep till 10:00 in the morning
• 44:16
  like on a Saturday, like give me seven o'clock and I feel lucky
• 44:20
  anyway, we get a Royal Rumble report by Mean Gene and these
• 44:24
  Graphics are some of the most beautiful things like to paint a
• 44:28
  picture. It's like a concrete wall that's
• 44:31
  been busted out the middle by like the Kool-Aid guy and
• 44:34
  behind. It is a brick wall and you've
• 44:36
  got the Royal Rumble logo. In the guy, it's like his upper
• 44:40
  body sitting on top of the text. It's incredible.
• 44:43
  They run down a list of guys, wait in the rumble, they play
• 44:46
  the music and, and mean genius rattles off names.
• 44:50
  Like goes like seven, guys, and then we get a promo for mr.
• 44:53
  Perfect. And then we get another seven
• 44:57
  guys and it's like he lists both headshrinkers in there.
• 45:00
  He doesn't reference Yoko, I don't think it's true, right?
• 45:03
  Yo goes not in the graphics Macho, Man.
• 45:06
  Looks like no, I'm sorry, not Macho, Man.
• 45:08
  The Ted DiBiase graphic looks like he's on cocaine and a lot
• 45:11
  of it, but he doesn't, he doesn't mention Yoko, but they
• 45:16
  throw it to Yoko and mr. Fuji, yes, I guess it's implied
• 45:20
  because they name it. If you include Yoko.
• 45:24
  He names 23 out of the 30 participants during just this
• 45:28
  little segment here. Oh yeah, yeah, Yokozuna, right
• 45:31
  yoko's, yellow Yosh and like a Fuji Fuji almost looks like he's
• 45:35
  got a full head of hair for food.
• 45:36
  He does he does. His like gigging scars from what
• 45:41
  cutting himself, look awful in this part.
• 45:44
  But I think this is where the Bartlett Yoko Zuma then comes
• 45:47
  from, because it sounds like Michelle is pronouncing it with
• 45:53
  an end. And I have a feeling that's what
• 45:55
  Bartlett was going for with the joke.
• 45:57
  It just doesn't land never. And it always, I always think of
• 46:01
  the the promo at WrestleMania 9 where he like calls out Hogan
• 46:05
  and he's like, my you'll go Zuma.
• 46:07
  Yeah, you yellow-belly Early life.
• 46:09
  It's just, I don't know. I can always remember that and
• 46:12
  thinking, yo, Kazuma, but anyway, Backstage promo from
• 46:17
  Duggan and I'm gonna talk about this dope.
• 46:20
  The talking, I mean, was there any Hacksaw Jim Duggan fans?
• 46:23
  I really want someone to tell me, they were axilla Jim, Duggan
• 46:26
  fan as your top guy. Not even in top of guy but like,
• 46:31
  I'm a brother like them. That's how he like didn't work.
• 46:34
  The LumberYard. I guess that's the only way you
• 46:39
  could, like, Jim Duggan e these. He's keeping the Lights On by
• 46:41
  buying all until I think it's that simple, man.
• 46:44
  He key lesson. Is it Jim Duggan or Joe Duggan?
• 46:50
  Now, you turn the tables on Doug and says that.
• 46:55
  He's not, he's not going to guarantee wins the match.
• 46:58
  Like, oh yeah, what an athlete. You are.
• 47:01
  You can't even like, but I can remember at this point.
• 47:04
  Like it's crazy to think of like Duggan had a history like and he
• 47:08
  was good at one point like, because when we were started
• 47:12
  really get, yeah, I know, that's the crazy part like imagine ring
• 47:15
  or something, right? In the crown for a bit.
• 47:17
  Yeah, he's the one who Macho became Macho King from and then
• 47:21
  so find Sapphire, right? Oh, and smite smiling.
• 47:25
  Earthquake is also in the rumble smiling typhoon as well.
• 47:28
  Smiling type of guy. He's like, I like arms crossed
• 47:32
  yet. Nobody likes that.
• 47:34
  They also we also get a promo about the Michaels, verse
• 47:37
  gennadievich right. Yes.
• 47:39
  Yes. Which is again.
• 47:41
  Yeah, it's a we talked about this.
• 47:43
  I think all fair, but it was Jeanette.
• 47:45
  He's like last chance. Pretty.
• 47:46
  It's right. It's amazing gone for a while
• 47:48
  it's two years after yeah. The term.
• 47:51
  Sorry, I'm sorry it's a full year to yes.
• 47:53
  It's not quite his his last hurrah because right.
• 47:58
  Leif Cassidy. No.
• 47:59
  No, because he actually wins the Intercontinental title.
• 48:03
  I'm Ross this year couple right this year after that that's
• 48:07
  actually like touted as a. That's touted as a pretty good
• 48:09
  match. I would like to watch that.
• 48:11
  I feel like it was like in our conversations for coverage at
• 48:13
  some point. Definitely was the Marty
• 48:15
  speaking of Marty. The Marty jannetty promo.
• 48:17
  Did you guys watch that? Yeah, sure you did.
• 48:20
  Yes, you know how he heat. So this is my favorite thing.
• 48:24
  He talks about how the Royal Rumble, January 24th.
• 48:26
  He says they he's I call it Marty jannetty day that I love
• 48:31
  the idea of Marty jannetty dialects holiday gonna Mark that
• 48:35
  in my calendar. Yes, draw a picture, every
• 48:37
  January 24th. I know what I'm gonna do.
• 48:40
  Marty jannetty today, I'm good. This is bad.
• 48:45
  Cut off. Jim.
• 48:47
  You don't know because what you do on Marty jannetty day now is
• 48:50
  very different than what you did in 1983.
• 48:52
  Well, no, so it what you do is you drink a case of Kirkland
• 48:55
  light, you get blind drunk and you go shit your pants at like
• 48:58
  an indoor trampoline park or something like that and then you
• 49:02
  go to Facebook and you talk to underage.
• 49:03
  Girls are like that. Yeah, they're hot hashtag party
• 49:15
  janetti. Deej in Nettie.
• 49:17
  All right. So we've got folks lining up
• 49:19
  outside to get tickets to next week's Monday Night Raw and here
• 49:23
  he comes. Good ol Uncle Morty you got
• 49:30
  heated to howdy Uncle Morty. He's got the the Hat, the long
• 49:34
  beard and it's doesn't really age well for heating.
• 49:38
  And if you ask me Idiot Abroad really like hit on like every
• 49:42
  you know like they this is like all the cultures offensive to
• 49:45
  everyone. Yeah.
• 49:47
  Yeah he it's just so anyways talking it's like oh Heenan.
• 49:52
  Come on, we love you. Don't do this anyway.
• 49:57
  So full. He's just pulling characters all
• 49:59
  night though, you know. He is it's great, especially
• 50:03
  coming off, you know, a few weeks earlier when we watched
• 50:05
  him play Santa Claus, excellent job.
• 50:09
  He's still having beard problems in this.
• 50:11
  Yes, in this episode as well. So next up, we've got highlight
• 50:15
  of Kamala. Returning on kimchi and Harvey
• 50:18
  wippleman from Superstars and he turns face the, the two of them
• 50:22
  are berating him in the corner and Slick comes down for the
• 50:26
  save to tell him. It's over with him and kimchi,
• 50:30
  kimchi goes to attack slick and Kamala loses it and chases
• 50:34
  wippleman away from The Ring after taking out kimchi, kimchi
• 50:39
  was the Brooklyn Brawler, right? I think so I believe.
• 50:43
  So right. That's a were crates that right
• 50:45
  there. Yeah.
• 50:46
  What was slick doing prior to this, he was like born again.
• 50:51
  Oh you something yes I forgot about that there was that whole
• 50:53
  deal. Was he buys himself though?
• 50:56
  Just like yeah, he's he's revered just promoting like yes,
• 51:01
  no longer. The doctor of style.
• 51:03
  Interesting, the slough, right? A Stern.
• 51:06
  Everyone who's got are clamoring for it.
• 51:08
  We we've got our main event and it is the You take her with Paul
• 51:12
  Bearer facing off against Damian Demento.
• 51:15
  Now, before we talk about Damian Demento, it's interesting,
• 51:19
  right? It cuts to the ring and it's
• 51:21
  Damian Demento standing in the middle of the ring.
• 51:24
  And did you guys pick up on it? You here gone just one and and
• 51:31
  then they realize like oh crap. We're not supposed to pray.
• 51:34
  Play Undertaker's music yet because we haven't introduced
• 51:37
  Damian Demento, and then they proceed with introducing Damian
• 51:40
  Demento. And then the craziest part of
• 51:43
  this all is Undertaker's music hits and he's standing at the
• 51:46
  stairs ringside because he must have already come down.
• 51:51
  And that's why the camera was focusing on Damian Demento
• 51:54
  because they realize they botch the entire thing there.
• 51:58
  There was a lot of like production snafus and in this,
• 52:02
  this whole thing in the very beginning of the episode, when
• 52:05
  the sirens going off, you see the like it looked like it could
• 52:09
  have been Pritchard, Ring Ring Side like lifting his In the
• 52:12
  air. Like, yes, I crowd crowd to clap
• 52:15
  the when they show the Owen Hart, peace and his bills Zubaz.
• 52:19
  He's the sound is playing over the top of the interview, like
• 52:24
  they were a handful of things here that just stuck out as
• 52:27
  like, ooh, we got to take the training wheels off, put it back
• 52:29
  on a little bit here, boys. Yeah, TV pal.
• 52:32
  Yeah, it doesn't. There's radio at one point like
• 52:34
  radio, maybe it's during this Main Event, it's weird.
• 52:38
  And Vince has to, like reference the radio station and like
• 52:40
  Lending During our Lemma called are something something it was
• 52:45
  it was bizarre. So anyway we get trying
• 52:48
  everything they're just trying so hard.
• 52:50
  Yeah, without a doubt without a doubt.
• 52:53
  So this is the only time that Bartlett actually popped me for
• 52:57
  a second and it was because Undertaker's announced and
• 53:01
  Bartlett in a classic like New York.
• 53:03
  Grandmother voice goes, get your hair out of your face.
• 53:07
  You have such a pretty face and it just it popped me for
• 53:10
  whatever. I can't believe.
• 53:12
  Bartlett work, do you? He's landed one man didn't want.
• 53:17
  I have a feeling that that may make it to the next extra
• 53:21
  cooler. Intro, New York grandmother
• 53:24
  voice now I hope so, I hope so. So in this match we get take her
• 53:30
  walking the top rope as usual. Macho tells us we're watching
• 53:35
  two big names, which Damian Demento this guy rescues.
• 53:39
  The only match that I ever remember this guy wrestles
• 53:41
  Sling. It was in the nabhi rumble.
• 53:43
  He's like a poor man's he's like a poor man's Berserker or skinny
• 53:47
  you know? Or like if Berserker hat if
• 53:50
  Berserker and warlord like slicks warlord had a baby that
• 53:54
  is this is what would have kept he's in that.
• 53:56
  Yeah that he's in that level of guys though like yeah, it's all
• 54:00
  how to start are not good. They're like rubber like someone
• 54:04
  thought hard about it and it just sucked out the gate.
• 54:07
  I think those two had to make with a wolf.
• 54:09
  And then you getting Demento? Yeah.
• 54:11
  Is he does anyone know like to see it?
• 54:13
  No, I don't trust anybody that just leaves that amount of hair
• 54:17
  on the back of their head. Yeah.
• 54:19
  Just think about it with no hair anywhere else.
• 54:21
  You got Shawn Michaels in Undertaker on this card, right?
• 54:24
  Like in different places like think about how close they were
• 54:27
  to like you right when we put those two together, right?
• 54:30
  Right. How cool would that be?
• 54:32
  Then you got the Mentos vs. Max Moon.
• 54:34
  Yeah. Yeah, that would've been good.
• 54:38
  That would not have been good, so take your calls for the
• 54:41
  Earth. Turn Lanes of Tombstone, and,
• 54:43
  and basically ends Damian Demento and 2 minutes and 26
• 54:46
  seconds. Yes.
• 54:49
  Extremely extremely running out of time.
• 54:52
  What is with, this is where like a lot of the Bartlett jokes had
• 54:56
  to have been pre-written, I realized because Vince cuts to a
• 55:00
  screen that shows us a match for next week of Woody Allen versus
• 55:04
  Mia Farrow in a steel cage match.
• 55:06
  Yeah like what? That joke just got something
• 55:09
  Wheatley over everybody's head. It don't remember this
• 55:13
  whatsoever. Now may I know what they're
• 55:16
  talking about but like yes of course, it has nothing wrestling
• 55:20
  fans. Come on like that.
• 55:22
  No, get it out of here. It makes me want to watch it.
• 55:25
  I think the guy in the know, the front row of chewing glasses,
• 55:27
  like knows what's going on like. Hey yeah, yeah, it makes me want
• 55:31
  to like, watch the, the, a few episodes like Beyond to see if
• 55:36
  they try and do this kind of stuff because like we said,
• 55:38
  Bartlett only lasts till about April.
• 55:40
  I believe That's incredibly long.
• 55:43
  Yeah, yeah, too long God, they start to zone is to the, he
• 55:47
  doesn't even do the eldest strict here, does he?
• 55:49
  No not at all. That's what I remember the most
• 55:53
  as like, from yes, as a kid, like this guy that you dated,
• 55:56
  like, Elvis impersonations, which, like, even Clinton, I
• 55:59
  think, lamest hell. So I, you know, you'd think for
• 56:04
  whatever reason. I remember, I can remember the
• 56:07
  raw. The first raw beginning with
• 56:09
  Yoko, I remember ending with Baker and I thought it was over,
• 56:13
  but here we get doink ringside in that corner that I spoke
• 56:16
  about earlier with Vince and he's cutting a promo on them and
• 56:21
  Crush, warned him not to make kids cry and outcomes crush and
• 56:26
  doink runs away from him. Crush gets on the microphone.
• 56:30
  All right battle, bad idea. I do not I do not remember this
• 56:36
  version of crush with the accent.
• 56:38
  Oh yeah, right. We watch the superstars from I
• 56:41
  don't know what year, and now I've got to go back track.
• 56:44
  We watched it on this Epic on this podcast and it's him in the
• 56:48
  junkyard, crushing the cars. I don't remember him using this
• 56:51
  accent. He doesn't talk that much though
• 56:53
  in that one but think about it shaka-brah and all that shit.
• 56:56
  Yes, I remember Shaka brah. But I don't run like this 30
• 56:59
  times brought against brother see Kong tank bra.
• 57:04
  Yeah, brother brother. Many times many.
• 57:06
  I'm just going to start pick up a crush affect and start talking
• 57:10
  like yeah. My favorite is stroke or
• 57:12
  something. My favorite is is crushed.
• 57:16
  Chase is doing around the ring, like twice, and he could clearly
• 57:20
  catch doink, but he just decides to go climb into the middle of
• 57:24
  the Ring. Doink lays on the floor and
• 57:26
  it's, it's, it's odd. Expression was like, laying even
• 57:29
  right? Yeah.
• 57:32
  Dwight laying on his back with his feet and hands in the air.
• 57:35
  Yeah, Dogwood is laying in classic.
• 57:37
  It's hilarious. I do like this doing, though.
• 57:39
  The Matt Bourne doing agreed. It's great.
• 57:42
  There's something like nasty on. Yeah, you know, like it's
• 57:45
  without a doubt where he does, he does a great job.
• 57:48
  You see it now when you watch, oh, we're like days away from
• 57:52
  him beating up crush with the fake arm.
• 57:55
  You see, that's what I do. I honestly thought I was about
• 57:57
  to see that I was like, oh, this is where he gets like Crush gets
• 58:00
  clobbered. Because that, yeah, cool.
• 58:01
  That was Superstars right. We needed a Stars.
• 58:03
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 58:05
  So to end to end the event. We've got Sean Mooney and he's
• 58:09
  on the roof with with I mean, and he's telling Heenan, he can
• 58:13
  go into the the scent Event Center and little.
• 58:16
  Did he know the show's over get up there?
• 58:18
  Yeah. So in when he's dressed as the
• 58:21
  Jewish man, he is at the end of it.
• 58:24
  He's like the roof the roof. There's Gotta Be A Way in on the
• 58:27
  rule. Yes.
• 58:27
  And I guess they paid it off. Yeah.
• 58:30
  But how does he get in there? Get to the roof inside.
• 58:36
  Well, I touched pictures. They reference Pritchard.
• 58:39
  They reference. How this was on the sixth floor.
• 58:41
  Or really interesting. Yeah young and there's
• 58:45
  definitely like different like performing spaces in that place.
• 58:49
  I know they reference how like lugging how like it had to be a
• 58:53
  permanent fixture because they couldn't get the ring anywhere
• 58:57
  else through like elevators and they couldn't do it all the
• 59:00
  time. Like they had some said there he
• 59:02
  said they only had a large passenger elevator and there was
• 59:05
  no freight elevator. So getting the ring in and all
• 59:08
  of the the the two by fours or Whatever.
• 59:11
  The planks of wood that are underneath it were, was a
• 59:14
  difficult task, and it's unionized because it's New York
• 59:17
  City, and it was just absolute chaos of getting things out of
• 59:22
  that space. So, now, I realize, why don't
• 59:25
  why Crush goes into the ring? Because there's a dark match
• 59:28
  that ends this and it's crushed versus Bam.
• 59:30
  Bam, Bigelow, eat salmon but via disqualification.
• 59:33
  So that's probably why he climbs into the ring so I apologize.
• 59:38
  I wish that was on the card. So that being said, right?
• 59:41
  Right, we just sat here. We watched the first ever Monday
• 59:44
  Night Raw. It was listen, like we pride
• 59:47
  ourselves on the style Julia. It was a lot of fun.
• 59:51
  I can't give this anywhere near close to five Kan kooler because
• 59:55
  Bartlett wasn't even like he wasn't so bad that it was funny.
• 1:00:00
  He was so bad that I didn't want to listen to him anymore at some
• 1:00:03
  point after the Tyson shtick, I just stopped taking notes on
• 1:00:06
  things. He was saying because I was
• 1:00:08
  becoming so like frustrated with everything That being said, I'd
• 1:00:12
  give it three cans and cooler for the first Monday Night Raw.
• 1:00:16
  I know it's pretty average right about what I would give it to.
• 1:00:19
  I could just only imagine what it would have been.
• 1:00:22
  Like if Heenan has what have been the guy instead of him?
• 1:00:26
  Probably would have been five stars but you know Bartlett
• 1:00:29
  brings it down to about three. You think it's like I said you
• 1:00:31
  got you've got Yoko in the beginning Michaels in the middle
• 1:00:35
  Undertaker. To end Steiners mixed in there
• 1:00:38
  too. I don't know.
• 1:00:40
  It could have been a lot better. Better.
• 1:00:42
  It's amazing how it's like the highest level stuff.
• 1:00:45
  It's like the first Raw, it's good.
• 1:00:46
  Michaels Undertaker, all the guys, he mentioned and then,
• 1:00:49
  like, Bartlett, Damian Demento Max Moon.
• 1:00:52
  Although we kind of had High, Praise her Mexican here.
• 1:00:55
  So it's like such a weird mix. So it's really I find it hard to
• 1:00:59
  rate. I think you guys are right
• 1:01:01
  because he Bartlett is literally so bad that like he's
• 1:01:05
  distracting and it gets sucked into what he's saying and it's
• 1:01:07
  so distracting. It's that bad.
• 1:01:09
  Yes. But what, but Take him out.
• 1:01:12
  And it's really interesting. It's fun to watch.
• 1:01:15
  And I'll say, the best compliment I can pay, I don't
• 1:01:18
  want to give it a 3 is probably right.
• 1:01:20
  But the best thing I could say about it is that it made me want
• 1:01:23
  to watch the next episode. Yes.
• 1:01:25
  So this is such interesting TV to me.
• 1:01:27
  Yeah. Because like it was just
• 1:01:29
  everything was so different and new.
• 1:01:31
  And I wanted to watch the next episode which I highly recommend
• 1:01:34
  because it starts with a Repo Man refraining right?
• 1:01:37
  Macho Man and stealing his hair. Yeah, like that's the best.
• 1:01:41
  You say about it's like I want to just keep watching and it's
• 1:01:43
  short so and to piggyback, yes it right.
• 1:01:46
  And to piggyback off that I believe the if it's not the
• 1:01:50
  second episode I think the third episode features flare versus
• 1:01:54
  perfect. Loser leaves town, right?
• 1:01:56
  Which is, which is a great match.
• 1:01:57
  So it gets better, they learn from their mistakes and it's
• 1:02:01
  really, it's clearly such a great idea, you know, yes, even
• 1:02:04
  in. It's like nascent form.
• 1:02:06
  Like, you could tell there's like something there, right?
• 1:02:09
  They've set the like fine to it. Every Everything Jim just said,
• 1:02:14
  I admire everything I have, I have it on in the background as
• 1:02:18
  you all heard me mess up and unplug the headphone jack that I
• 1:02:21
  had in it. But yeah, three stars is or
• 1:02:25
  three cans in the cooler. Pardon me is got to be where it
• 1:02:27
  lands, but I found something as I was, I don't even remember how
• 1:02:33
  I stumbled across it, but I found an eBay listing for one of
• 1:02:37
  the original Monday Night, Raw banners, that are hanging from
• 1:02:41
  From the balcony Afters. Oh my God, Rafters it said, it
• 1:02:46
  had it listed as 8,500 dollars is what it has.
• 1:02:51
  Whoa. And then the one that I took
• 1:02:53
  screenshots of just a couple of days ago to have in my phone, I
• 1:02:56
  went to go search it again, and its original 1993 WWF, Monday
• 1:03:03
  Night, Raw wrestling stitched balcony, banner.
• 1:03:07
  And then it has the dimensions at it.
• 1:03:09
  Somebody bought it. I imagine and reposted it.
• 1:03:12
  For nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine dollars for this
• 1:03:16
  is obscene and it's questionable, whether it's real
• 1:03:20
  or not, how big is? So it's like in a wooden frame,
• 1:03:24
  it's 7 feet by five and a half. Man, this thing is huge and I'll
• 1:03:31
  send you guys out the link to it.
• 1:03:34
  I'll even drop out Discord, but this, it's wild to me that I saw
• 1:03:38
  it at 8,500 and now at 10,000 Dollars.
• 1:03:42
  So it's legitimately selling for these prices.
• 1:03:44
  I mean early attention of it, right?
• 1:03:46
  Yeah. I mean I'm assuming because it
• 1:03:48
  looks like the dude has the same exact pictures like switched it
• 1:03:51
  up a little bit from the screenshot that I had, but it's
• 1:03:55
  wild. It's in a wooden frame that like
• 1:03:57
  is it's screwed in, it's a cool thing to look.
• 1:04:00
  Magining, what are you guys buying it?
• 1:04:02
  Like hey hon, I'm going to put this in the living room.
• 1:04:04
  All right. It's a nice backdrop for the
• 1:04:09
  wall, that's right? Yeah, I don't know if I have 7.
• 1:04:11
  I don't. Hide me.
• 1:04:12
  You'd have to wrap it around. Yeah, right.
• 1:04:16
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  So first, honorable mention money in the bank has been
• 1:06:00
  listed as or has been announced as being at the O2 Arena in
• 1:06:04
  London England, set for Saturday, July 1st.
• 1:06:07
  This is like a 20,000 cap room. It should be really fun that
• 1:06:11
  Raucous crowd, they've had NXT events there previously so
• 1:06:16
  should be a lot of fun. I'm excited to see where this
• 1:06:18
  all goes Darby. Allen comes in next at our
• 1:06:23
  honorable mention taking home the TNT title from Samoa Joe,
• 1:06:26
  interesting. Turn of events.
• 1:06:27
  As this one has been kind of felt hot shot at going from the
• 1:06:31
  whole Wardlow story. Samoa Joe moving things over to
• 1:06:34
  Darby in Seattle atw loves their Hometown wins.
• 1:06:38
  So an interesting one, they're interested to see where it goes.
• 1:06:41
  Who's next, honorable mention in the last honorable mention will
• 1:06:45
  be the finish of the Jade Cargill match in battle of the
• 1:06:49
  belts 5 versus sky blue. She caught her coming off the
• 1:06:53
  top and turn this into her finish.
• 1:06:55
  It was insane to watch what she was able to do here and just a
• 1:06:59
  true sign of just pure strength. Here, definitely, go, seek it
• 1:07:03
  out. If you haven't seen it, let's
• 1:07:05
  move to the top three story, number three, the Jericho
• 1:07:08
  Appreciation, Society shows up at printing.
• 1:07:12
  Wrestling gorillas Battle of Los Angeles.
• 1:07:15
  Really cool to see Jericho be at an indie show and like this
• 1:07:19
  cements pwg and specifically Battle of Los Angeles needs to
• 1:07:24
  be on every wrestling fans bucket list of something to go
• 1:07:27
  and do it. Just looks so truly incredible.
• 1:07:31
  It's not streamable. Anywhere.
• 1:07:33
  The DVDs will come out like a year later.
• 1:07:35
  Like, it's just a really cool wrestling for the sake of
• 1:07:39
  wrestling. And I feels like they do it
• 1:07:41
  right. And you know, moving out of the
• 1:07:43
  Elks Lodge or whatever it is and in Reseda and now they're like
• 1:07:47
  in a true theater it just looks beautiful and it was really cool
• 1:07:50
  to see you know Jericho at an indie match in in LA area.
• 1:07:55
  Number two story is mjf and Daniel Bryan Danielson.
• 1:08:01
  Oh I haven't done that long time.
• 1:08:02
  Finally has the path to Res to Revolution is set a lot more of
• 1:08:08
  the kind of Labor's of Jericho styles.
• 1:08:11
  That mjf put Jericho through Danielson needs to win his
• 1:08:17
  matches every week on Dynamite now through February 8th and
• 1:08:20
  he'll become the number one Contender.
• 1:08:23
  And then at revolution in March, we are going to see a 60-minute
• 1:08:28
  Iron Man match between these two really interesting choice here.
• 1:08:32
  It's feels like MJ f is trying to prove that he can be a real
• 1:08:35
  wrestler and the way you do it is to stand toe-to-toe with
• 1:08:40
  Daniel Bryan, Bryan Danielson, Nelson for 60 minutes in the
• 1:08:43
  middle of the ring. But all of that is to fast
• 1:08:47
  forward into the news that is consuming.
• 1:08:49
  My brain is consuming the life of what feels like every WWE
• 1:08:53
  Fan. Vince McMahon has officially
• 1:08:56
  been reinstated to the WWE board of directors.
• 1:09:01
  It doesn't end there, so really quick.
• 1:09:03
  The Wall Street Journal seems to be in front of all of this.
• 1:09:07
  They reported back in December that this kind of Rumblings were
• 1:09:10
  happening. And now, Excuse me, they are
• 1:09:13
  reporting that Vince McMahon is back on the board.
• 1:09:15
  There are three seats that were vacated one of two of which have
• 1:09:21
  were people that resigned which included the person who was
• 1:09:26
  leading the internal investigation on Vince and Vince
• 1:09:29
  doesn't come back alone. He comes back with Michelle
• 1:09:31
  Wilson and Jorge Barrios. Who are people that he fired in
• 1:09:35
  the past for to make way make room for dicking to come in.
• 1:09:40
  So he's got people well with them really interesting.
• 1:09:43
  It sounded though as though and it seemed like his emails were
• 1:09:48
  were leaked. So I read through all of that
• 1:09:50
  legal mumbo-jumbo, would you what you call it?
• 1:09:52
  Legalese Jim. I think that's you called it in
• 1:09:54
  our text message but essentially Vince strong arms himself back
• 1:09:59
  into this position stating that he if he is not on the board as
• 1:10:04
  the majority shareholder. He has the ability to not sign
• 1:10:07
  off on any meteorites deal nor any cell of the company.
• 1:10:12
  So really just forcing his way back into the picture here and
• 1:10:16
  as the majority shareholder he can absolutely do that.
• 1:10:19
  Stating that the best of the intentions for the future of the
• 1:10:23
  company is really here pwi. I'm sorry, I'm going on, but
• 1:10:28
  this is a lot of information, but pwi reports, that Friday,
• 1:10:32
  there's an all-hands meeting before Smackdown.
• 1:10:35
  For all employees. It is reiterated that there will
• 1:10:37
  be no change to management which includes Stephanie McMahon Nick
• 1:10:41
  Khan and Aah and nothing would change from the day-to-day.
• 1:10:46
  It was spun as a positive that this is great for, you know,
• 1:10:48
  market value and the potential sale of the company.
• 1:10:51
  And, you know, sell offers could happen before the deal.
• 1:10:54
  Right of the rights deals come about and it could be anywhere
• 1:10:58
  between three and six months is where they're quoting, the sale
• 1:11:01
  could be. And within 24 hours, JPMorgan is
• 1:11:04
  hired as WWE's representation, essentially, and trying to get
• 1:11:09
  the books in order for a potential sale.
• 1:11:12
  Big Time. Whoo, that's not it folks.
• 1:11:17
  Just hours before we are going to record this Tuesday at 6:36
• 1:11:22
  p.m. there's an announcement that Stephanie McMahon has given
• 1:11:26
  her a fissile official resignation as chairwoman of the
• 1:11:29
  board and co-ceo Vince is now reinstated as chairman of the
• 1:11:35
  board. So he's right back to where he
• 1:11:36
  was Nick. Khan is now the sole CEO.
• 1:11:41
  And it's also reiterated that Triple H Paul Levesque is still
• 1:11:45
  the chief content officer. Oh my God, like tornado.
• 1:11:51
  I just spent three minutes probably running this down and
• 1:11:54
  all the details. There's so much to consume
• 1:11:57
  before the Stephanie drama before the Stephanie news.
• 1:12:02
  This this past week I was going to give a plug to Sam Roberts on
• 1:12:06
  his podcast on Monday. In addition the the math man
• 1:12:10
  show on Monday did a really great.
• 1:12:11
  Great job. But Sam in particular did a
• 1:12:13
  masterful job of really breaking all of this down.
• 1:12:16
  He did a lot of research, it seemed like he had perspective
• 1:12:20
  of what, all this could mean where it all could potentially
• 1:12:23
  go. And I was really floored by the
• 1:12:26
  details that he provided here and I don't even know what to
• 1:12:30
  make of this. This it's just it feels
• 1:12:32
  incredible. I know what to make of it.
• 1:12:35
  Here's what's going to happen. All right, tomorrow night on aew
• 1:12:38
  Dynamite. It's not going to be Tony storm
• 1:12:43
  as surveys. This array has partner, it's not
• 1:12:47
  going to be Mone. It's going to be Stephanie
• 1:12:50
  McMahon. No, I'm sorry.
• 1:12:52
  Here's my take on this whole thing.
• 1:12:54
  No, and I'm being honest about this part.
• 1:12:56
  I don't think anything that has gone down is going to affect us
• 1:13:01
  as wrestling fans. That that's my prediction and
• 1:13:05
  take this is all like behind the scenes stuff that because
• 1:13:08
  Vincent is name is evolved. I bet you it's all stuff that we
• 1:13:12
  don't see. Maybe the company gets sold.
• 1:13:15
  Maybe someone buys it, I don't know.
• 1:13:17
  It's I don't know. I bet that's my prediction is
• 1:13:21
  that we're going to look back at this and be like Oh Vince
• 1:13:24
  doesn't own the company anymore. Oh, well, it.
• 1:13:27
  I truly can see it going that way and you know, it feels like
• 1:13:35
  so even in Stephanie's press release, it stated that she took
• 1:13:38
  time away from the company eight.
• 1:13:40
  To go and that, you know, it was originally just a leave and, you
• 1:13:45
  know, I jumped at the opportunity to become the CEO of
• 1:13:48
  the company, but it feels like now, she's making this official
• 1:13:55
  her leave official with her, her, with her resignation.
• 1:14:00
  It feels like maybe I've just watched too much, too much of
• 1:14:03
  HBO's succession. Like, if you haven't watched
• 1:14:06
  that show, go and do it. It's tremendous.
• 1:14:07
  And it feels like this is the real life.
• 1:14:10
  Succession. It's about an old man.
• 1:14:12
  That owns this media conglomerate and all his kids
• 1:14:16
  want a piece of it. And it to me maybe I'm just
• 1:14:19
  putting this whole WWE Universe and the the McMahon Family into
• 1:14:23
  that cookie. Cutter of like Stephanie went to
• 1:14:26
  Vince and was like, I want like, are you really going to sell it?
• 1:14:30
  I thought that this was going to go to me and Vince was like, ya
• 1:14:33
  pal. I'm gonna sell the company and I
• 1:14:36
  hear the high-pitched, like Stephanie McMahon.
• 1:14:40
  To our voice attitude are overweight knows.
• 1:14:43
  Yes, Grinch nose like it was supposed to be mine.
• 1:14:47
  I just know but why they don't understand why they I think of
• 1:14:51
  it. You said succession is a great
• 1:14:53
  comment but like I think the like wrestling is like NFL
• 1:14:57
  owners, right? Like the Jaguars are aw, see
• 1:15:00
  what I did there but like in the WWF is like a the rooneys with a
• 1:15:05
  matter of family, like it's good, you know, it's going to be
• 1:15:08
  in my family forever. So what is the It.
• 1:15:10
  What are they doing? Like, I don't understand selling
• 1:15:12
  the whole thing off. Like so it's not a McMahon
• 1:15:14
  product anymore. I thought this was going to be
• 1:15:16
  like the forever like is right now.
• 1:15:18
  So unless they just don't want to hand in it and I don't then
• 1:15:21
  they'll forever. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:24
  If it's not them, it's different, you forgot together,
• 1:15:27
  pal. But that's a good point.
• 1:15:29
  Mike of like that. Then now for everything, it
• 1:15:31
  feels like they're there, that's a joke.
• 1:15:35
  But the Legacy was supposed to be and you know, Shane McMahon
• 1:15:38
  books, one bad Rumble. And he's completely out of the
• 1:15:41
  family. You don't hear about him at all.
• 1:15:44
  Like, and I'm gonna throw some flowers at Sam Roberts.
• 1:15:47
  Again, who's you know, the tremendous, it had what he does
• 1:15:51
  especially on the podcast side. And, you know, it seems like now
• 1:15:55
  the climate of meteorites is everyone wants to own what they
• 1:16:00
  have. So look at the Marvel Universe
• 1:16:02
  with Disney like that's that's now owned by them.
• 1:16:05
  And Vince always seems that he That he views WWE on the same
• 1:16:13
  plane as what Marvel is, and I totally understand that it's his
• 1:16:17
  own universe that he's created and and makes total sense.
• 1:16:21
  But what Sam was saying is that because everyone wants to own
• 1:16:27
  the meteorites, it makes more sense that way you you own, it
• 1:16:30
  outright, you don't have to worry about spending.
• 1:16:32
  It's like renting a house or renting an apartment versus
• 1:16:35
  buying a house is my like scenario here.
• 1:16:39
  That you're paying a billion dollars, literally a billion
• 1:16:42
  dollars I think is what peacock was paying just for the rights
• 1:16:44
  to stream the WWE product and I'm sure they make it back with
• 1:16:48
  all of us jabroni. He's paying 999 a month or
• 1:16:50
  whatever it is. And essentially, they're saying
• 1:16:54
  that there's a turn in the media world that now, instead of
• 1:16:58
  renting, they want to buy and it makes and what Vince's
• 1:17:02
  strong-arming was was to get in that he needs to be a part of
• 1:17:07
  any conversation that has Do with meteorites, especially as
• 1:17:12
  the chairman of the board and now he's found himself as
• 1:17:15
  chairman of the board again. So it's a really interesting.
• 1:17:17
  Listen, certainly took bits and pieces of it here and I don't
• 1:17:22
  want to, you know, have a teacher in the room.
• 1:17:24
  I don't want to plagiarize here, but I wanted to give credit
• 1:17:27
  where credit is due and Sam. Did an incredible job, masked
• 1:17:30
  man with with, David Shoemaker and and kazim.
• 1:17:36
  They do a really fun job as well, and really good at
• 1:17:39
  breaking. It all down.
• 1:17:39
  I highly recommend you guys go listening to it but everything
• 1:17:42
  has changed now with this whole another wrinkle of Stephanie.
• 1:17:45
  Do you think that you know he's so distracted by that point of
• 1:17:50
  it that it's not going to affect the wrestling.
• 1:17:53
  I think Nick is on the right path here.
• 1:17:56
  Is that like of course especially us like the the
• 1:17:59
  top-tier fully invested in what's going on in the in the
• 1:18:03
  world of wrestling and especially the McMahon Saga that
• 1:18:07
  seems to be playing out in front of us over the last however
• 1:18:09
  However, long we are going to be innately concerned because we
• 1:18:14
  liking what Triple H is doing, it feels good.
• 1:18:17
  They continuously tell you that, you know, is he still going to
• 1:18:21
  BCC oh he's still going to be in charge of everything and Vince's
• 1:18:26
  here just to focus on, you know, matters of the board.
• 1:18:30
  And at the end of the day, Nick statement of it won't affect us
• 1:18:33
  as viewers. Is is all you have to hope for.
• 1:18:37
  There's other people out there that like all right, that's it,
• 1:18:40
  Austin theories winning the Royal Rumble.
• 1:18:42
  Like I know what? He's going to come in and buy it
• 1:18:44
  and be like, oh, you're all fired, you know.
• 1:18:46
  Let's have Joe Schmo take over the booking, you know, it and
• 1:18:50
  that that's something kazim said, because even Fabu de
• 1:18:55
  Casas, amazing. And he was like, you know,
• 1:18:57
  nobody's going to come in and pay 6.5 billion dollars to buy
• 1:19:04
  WWE. And then sit around and be what
• 1:19:09
  Vince McMahon was forever. Like, you've got to have people
• 1:19:12
  in charge. And Nick, Khan is tremendous at
• 1:19:16
  what he did with these last meteorites deals.
• 1:19:19
  He feels like the right person to be in that chair.
• 1:19:22
  And I'm not that level of business savvy, not understand
• 1:19:25
  anything that goes on in that world.
• 1:19:27
  So I'm just speaking from what I can see and what they cashed out
• 1:19:30
  at like a billion dollars from Fox in a billion from peacock.
• 1:19:34
  So, And that's not even talking about the USA contract, which I
• 1:19:38
  have no idea about. So it's wild.
• 1:19:40
  It's money. That's beyond our wildest dreams
• 1:19:43
  and it's stuff that like it's fun to talk about.
• 1:19:47
  It's fun to, you know, air quotes of report on his kind of
• 1:19:50
  what I did over the last couple of minutes.
• 1:19:53
  But this it's a wild wild scenario and you know sit back
• 1:19:58
  and get your popcorn fellas gun to your head.
• 1:20:01
  Did they bring Rob Bartlett back?
• 1:20:05
  I mean the only cost $125 for a cameo so he can't be that
• 1:20:09
  expensive. And I don't know if they bring
• 1:20:11
  Rob Bartlett back, but that might bring back.
• 1:20:13
  Mike Tyson, I think that's a perfect place to end our
• 1:20:21
  episode. That was a great impression of
• 1:20:25
  Rob. Bartlett, doing an impression of
• 1:20:27
  Mike Tyson. Next week, we will be covering
• 1:20:30
  its Rumble season baby. We're covering the Royal Rumble
• 1:20:33
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• 1:20:36
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• 1:20:39
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• 1:21:06
  Excuse me. Excuse me, excuse me.
• 1:21:12
  The problem here. Bobby Heenan.
• 1:21:30
  I thought I'd seen everything here in the World Wrestling
• 1:21:32
  Federation. Nobody eats Beefaroni on a boat
• 1:21:35
  man. That's a problem, right?
• 1:21:38
  So I wasn't cooler.