Dean Malenko Pulls Out W/Nika Howard

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Whom amongst us does not have dead eyes? [00:00:03] Speaker B: From time to time, the horrors they persist. Yes. Welcome back to Monday Night Fake Fights, where I, Garrick Taylor, she. They am doing a rewatch of the Monday Night wars and continuing to make it your problem this week. Sorry, you jumped the gun. Sorry. Eager, eager. Ultimate co host is ultimate hapter. [00:00:42] Speaker C: I'm doing. I'm doing two laps, shaking the ropes, jumping up and down. My wizard's hat is flopping, spreading glitter everywhere. Everywhere. It permeates the air. [00:01:00] Speaker B: You say this hamster because you know I will edit that. And our week's esteemed victim is. [00:01:11] Speaker A: It's me, Nika Howard. [00:01:13] Speaker B: I'm here, you are. [00:01:17] Speaker A: My pronouns are she, her. I'm so happy to be here. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm so happy to have you. I cannot stress enough for the folks at home how delighted your host is. I was like. I wasn't. I didn't even think about. And I was like, wait a second. I steal the name and pronouns from Nika's podcast. So, like, all of a sudden, I was like, I'm not sure I'm emotionally prepared. I was like, oh, my God, Nick is going to do the thing. [00:01:48] Speaker C: Yeah. So, so excited to meet you, too, for the first time. So thanks for joining us. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yes. Meeting. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Meeting Garrick's hero or never beat your heroes. [00:02:04] Speaker B: I've met several. They're mostly okay. [00:02:09] Speaker A: I think, like, my. My biggest red flag is I like to collect teeth and dead things. That's it. That's, like, probably the worst, Jill. [00:02:16] Speaker B: That's. That's. Most of my people. Like, that's in my bone. [00:02:23] Speaker A: What's it from? [00:02:25] Speaker C: I don't know. I got a bag of bones from my friends for my birthday. I put it in my hair a lot. [00:02:34] Speaker A: It's like a perfect hair bone. [00:02:37] Speaker B: I love you so much. [00:02:39] Speaker C: Yeah, I apologize for that. So. For the. Because this is a visual medium. It's a long, thin bone. It looks like a sort of like a hinged joint on one end. Like, it could be a leg bone. [00:02:53] Speaker A: But maybe like a rib animal. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I think that might be a rip. That. Oh, is that a human? [00:03:04] Speaker A: Is that a human? [00:03:09] Speaker C: No, Nika, My red flag is I hate it. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Okay. To be fair, I did see a tick tock where a girl ate part of her own rib, so I. Jesus Christ. It was like a medical thing. She had it removed and then she boiled it and ate it. [00:03:27] Speaker C: Wait a minute, Nika. [00:03:29] Speaker B: I know another podcast you need to go on. Jack of all Grapes. Corey, if you're listening. Holy. Do Something with that. What. [00:03:40] Speaker C: Like queen. But also, I have concerns. Mainly viral in nature and parasitic. [00:03:48] Speaker A: I just. [00:03:49] Speaker C: Right. [00:03:50] Speaker A: I guess the only thing, like, because it was hers, maybe she'd be, like, in the clear. [00:03:54] Speaker C: That's true. But if, like, you've ever eaten your own scabs, I guess. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:04:02] Speaker A: I think I'd rather eat my own rib than scabs. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. I. Piper's not here. I'm giving you a check mark for your strike. Piper's usually the one handing them out. [00:04:17] Speaker C: Oh, I apologize. I will turn the feral down, like, a half a degree. [00:04:22] Speaker B: No, you're amazing. This is why I only hang out with trash creatures. Like trash pandas and. [00:04:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know what you expect from me. I never claim to be a role model. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Yes. I'm a possum in a wizard hat. Shit. [00:04:38] Speaker A: What do you want from me? [00:04:39] Speaker C: Yeah, I scream at my own ass. [00:04:45] Speaker B: I just pull bones out when someone's like, I collect dead things. [00:04:48] Speaker C: Holy. [00:04:49] Speaker B: Here's my bone. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Here's my navy human rib. [00:04:54] Speaker C: Very tiny human rib. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say. Well, it could be the floater. I don't know. Oh, my God. Yeah. All right, folks, we need to stop talking about Hampter's bone. This all started with me trying to na T. Tell the people who you are. Now, after that, follow that. [00:05:18] Speaker A: I'm a person whom sometimes those things that are funny, like D and D podcast. Greetings, Adventurers is every time someone asked me to tell them about myself, I feel like I am meeting myself for the first time and I don't know anything. I play every week on Greetings adventurers. We are a 5e Dungeons and Dragons Realplay podcast. We've been going for 12 years. It's very fun. We have lots of episodes and we like to tell a lot of piss jokes. [00:05:55] Speaker B: So many piss jokes. Lots of. [00:05:57] Speaker A: So many piss jokes. [00:06:00] Speaker B: My love of beans was a thing before Blue sky did it. Y' all did it before. It was cool. All right. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Y' all were on the beans train early. [00:06:11] Speaker A: Beans are so good. Beans are great. Beans are top tier food. And our podcast loves beans. We had a whole, like, bean themed arc, basically. [00:06:26] Speaker C: Did somebody become, like, a. A farmer for a time, or were you saving some money? Bean farms. [00:06:33] Speaker A: We were in prison and we were the chefs, and we only made beans. [00:06:39] Speaker C: Done incredible. [00:06:42] Speaker A: And they were the tastiest beans. [00:06:44] Speaker C: They were good beans. Yeah. No, I. I would argue that a lot of piss jokes are a sign of a good and healthy, like, TTRPG table. Like, I think so, yeah, you really have to be, like, with each other. [00:07:01] Speaker A: To make just kiss jokes. Nothing says yes. And, like. [00:07:11] Speaker C: How far are you willing to go? [00:07:13] Speaker B: It's like, by the end of it, you're like, wow, we really are close friends, huh? [00:07:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:20] Speaker B: The next question would be, what, if any, relationship do you have to the sport of Kings? Professional wrestling. [00:07:28] Speaker A: So I learned from Jennifer and the. The podcast group about wrestling. Well, okay, so I guess first. My very first, like, interaction with wrestling was in elementary school. There were some kids that were very into wrestling, and they were the kids that were, like, from the, like, the bad side of town kind of thing. So it always was like, wrestling. And then Jennifer got into it, like, several years ago, and she was like, you should watch this match. And I want to say the first one that really got me was the Hangman Swerve. Where, like, Swerve had just gone. Or, sorry, Hangman had, like, just lit Swerve's house on fire. [00:08:15] Speaker B: That's recent. Hell, yeah. [00:08:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:18] Speaker A: And they were stapling pictures onto each other, and I lost my mind. I was like, what the is this fight? This is crazy. [00:08:28] Speaker B: That's that badge. [00:08:30] Speaker A: So good. And then I saw the one I think it was with. Was it Jon Moxley or someone got bamboo skewers in their head? [00:08:37] Speaker B: That was Mox. Yeah. [00:08:38] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [00:08:39] Speaker B: So that. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Those were, like, my first. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Guess what this cap. Ginger cat producer who will cut you's name is. This is Moxley or Moxie, because she's a girl and she's the producer. Yeah. She will cut you. So she's not. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Oh, go ahead. Sorry. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Well, she's on here to. Because she found I was podcasting, so she had to make herself known. She jumped on me anyways. [00:09:04] Speaker A: It's like, I want to be in your room. Aren't orange cats mostly boys? [00:09:09] Speaker B: Which is why her name started as Moxley, because we thought it was a boy. Oh, she came off the street. Like, I went outside back when I still smoked. I went out front to have a cigarette and just this. This little. Clearly lived on the street their entire short life. Kitten was just like, meh. And jumped on my shoulder. And I was like, well, I guess we have a cat. [00:09:31] Speaker A: Cat distribution center or system. The universe chose you the way working. [00:09:35] Speaker B: The way it intended. My partner's familiar happened the same way, like, six years prior to or something like that. So it's just like, I guess I have a cat now. And we thought it was a. Thought she was a boy. And then my partner, like, once she got settled in and Settled down. My partner was able to get a closer look and go, wait a minute. I was like, is Moxley moxie? As soon as we said girl at her, she got super excited. I was like, you're trans. Like mama. Her gender. And she lost her. That's euphoria, baby. Let's go. Oh, hell yeah. So you. I'm so happy they got you into the new, new good stuff too. Yes. [00:10:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:10:24] Speaker B: I took, you know, everyone knows I took like 20 years off watching while I was a kid. And then I just got into aw probably a year and a half or so before you did. And I was like, oh, it's good again. I stopped watching because Vince killed it. [00:10:39] Speaker A: So like, oh, okay. Because Vince McMahon was with AEW. It was WCW. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Well, this is what. Well, this is what the show. What our show is, is the Monday night wars. This is everything that led up to Vince buying every other competitor and putting them out of business and making a single homogeneous product for 20 years that stuck, in my opinion. It had its good parts, but like there was no other option. He. He got. Because he got rid of wcw. He bought. [00:11:12] Speaker C: It is often referred to as the Fed. [00:11:15] Speaker B: The Fed? Yeah, we just call it the Fed. People in the back scenes literally call him Caesar. That's the kind of he is. It's like, well, he wanted to conquer his enemies and he did. And we all suffered for like 20 years. [00:11:28] Speaker A: And now we have wonderful, sweet Tony Khan. I want to kiss him on the face. I do think that it's really nice with. I. I don't know if this is like jumping too far ahead, but one thing I noticed with watching the then WCW versus the WWF is the WCW had a lot more of like the Japanese and like Mexican style. [00:11:55] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:56] Speaker A: With like the more acrobatics and everything. And that to me is so much more dynamic and engaging to watch. And the other stuff was just like big. They just look like big guys who are like moving around. [00:12:08] Speaker B: And I think that is a great transition. Well done. We get a lot of them around here. [00:12:13] Speaker C: Yeah, are so many. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Yes. So many. Great transition. Let's talk about Nitro because hell yes. I. I want nothing more than to talk about Lucha. [00:12:24] Speaker C: Oh, we're starting with Nitro. Okay. [00:12:27] Speaker B: I think we should start with Nitro because I. Naa. This is. This opening match is. Is for a feud that I have been waiting. I've been doing this podcast a year to get to this match. Basically. Like I. I have been looking. I didn't see. Don'. I have been looking forward to this like I. This is the one I've been joking where I've been like edging for the Ray versus being Malenko 29 year old match. Oh. I mean I've seen it a lot but I'm like, oh my God. We get to like cover it on a podcast with my friends. I get to talk about it. I get to lose my. [00:13:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. [00:13:06] Speaker B: So no, this is unreal. But f. Like first and foremost though, it's the Disney episodes. [00:13:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:14] Speaker B: How does everyone wild. [00:13:17] Speaker A: I looked at the date because whenever. Whenever I. In 1997 I went to Disney for the first time with my family and we were like a Disney family. So then I was like, what is the date on this? Was I at Disney when I was this. [00:13:30] Speaker C: Oh my God, that have been sick. [00:13:32] Speaker A: I would have screamed. Could you like young Nika not even knowing but being in the same place. [00:13:41] Speaker C: Actually wait. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Oh my God. Go ahead. [00:13:44] Speaker C: Were this. This is still going in 1997. So like get those pictures out. Let's look at those timestamps. We can. [00:13:51] Speaker B: I don't know if they go back to Disney MGM in 97. [00:13:54] Speaker C: Okay. Oh yeah, that's right. Because they always change the location. [00:13:57] Speaker B: No, this is the thing though. This is the first episode. This is why it's noticeable. I was like, I have to talk about it. They did this thing where it's. They do a residency at Disney MGM over the summer of 1996. So this is going to be like every week. They. They're going to be coming at us from Disney for the next like two months or something like that. So like a lot of the early NWO stuff that we're. Because this is the day after nwo. Yeah, all of that. I feel like people like memory hole. It all happens at Disney. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Technically. That makes those wrestlers Disney princes or princesses. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Absolutely. Oh my God. No. Chris Benoit is a. [00:14:46] Speaker A: Disney prince. [00:14:49] Speaker C: He is though, actually. He is. [00:14:53] Speaker B: He really. So yeah, they are starting their residency. So that. That's our setting, folks. We're at Disney, right. And Tony says he'll show everyone the heel turn heard around the world. Because it is the day after Hogan switched and Larry Zabisco, he just kind of duck faces the whole time and you know, like he does. [00:15:17] Speaker C: I. I like his. I like him on commentary. He. He calls shots and he calls moves and he explains them well. And he like, I. I was like, oh, this is actually quite nice. [00:15:28] Speaker B: He's like, if Bobby is less funny but had more wrestling. Basically. [00:15:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Thought that the nitro commentators were a lot Better, Better. I enjoyed them more than the Raw ones because they actually were like commenting on things and not just like yelling random. [00:15:46] Speaker C: Because they don't spend the entire episode forecasting and broadcasting to the world about how much they suck. Like, yeah, Barry Lawler is a menace. Ah, yeah. [00:15:59] Speaker B: He. He's only not in jail because he knew the right cops, basically. [00:16:04] Speaker A: That's sounds like a lot of people. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of people in this industry. But yeah, Larry, probably not much better, but they are better at commentary. I think the best, the best way to sum that up is in my notes for each match. I have a section for the commentators. Under Nitro, it's the boys in the booth. Under Raw, it's chuckle. That's how I feel. [00:16:31] Speaker C: Yeah, that's pretty well. [00:16:33] Speaker B: So, yeah, they set us up for this opening match and it's it. We're here, folks. Rey Mysterio Jr. Still has the junior versus Dean Malenko, who's the cruiserweight champion. And you talked about like the stylistic differences, Nika. And like this is very much the beginning of on TV at least what's going to become like modern wrestling style. Like everybody is more or less a cruiserweight, even the heavyweights. I mean, down in the aw was just in Arena Mexico. Brody King, a heavyweight who A Karate. A guy. [00:17:12] Speaker C: Holy. [00:17:13] Speaker B: It was hot as. And then he barked at the crowd like it was amazing. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Yes. So like everybody does this style now, you know, like this is. And it's because they did this. No one had seen it because Vince, Vince is still pushing that older style. And even wcw, the older styles, some of what we'll see later with your Ric Flairs and such, where he's a lot of punch and kick and grappling, but not these big high flying fast moves which is coming in with the Lucha. And I mean, this is. We all know Rey now, but this, he's 22. [00:17:49] Speaker C: He. He is, baby. He is 5, 3, 5, 4, depending on what 711 he's walking out of. And he, he is quick and he will take you down and will take an incredible amount of punishment. Like, this was an incredible match. [00:18:07] Speaker B: He's so little. [00:18:09] Speaker C: He's so small. Dean fucking threw him like three times. And he was like, very great. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Was that whenever he did the malinka, did the pickup and like flipped him and then threw him back down. Because that was a point. I was like, I lost my. And I was like, this part is so cool. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Right? [00:18:32] Speaker A: And that's where I was like, that reminded me of like present day newer stuff. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, well, there's a few things like that. And I mean, like, Dean's got a lot of. Dean too, is great because he's doing a lot of stuff that a lot of people don't usually do because he's got holds. [00:18:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:49] Speaker B: A thousand of them, according to. [00:18:51] Speaker C: You can see it on his ass. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah, his ass told us. I do. I have for notable spots though. Speaking of things on people's asses, I just need to say Ray Ray's gear is unfucking real. I need an entire outfit based on this. It's my colors. It's pink and black with question marks. I was like, I need Rey Mysterio and the Heart foundation stat. So as far as grabs, though, like, there's too many high spots to mention. I think you're talking about. Naa. When is it. When he has him on the ropes over like the fireman's carry and he puts them over his head into the gut buster. [00:19:26] Speaker C: Yes, that was it. [00:19:29] Speaker B: The avalanche Gut buster. Yeah, that shit's. And he. He works on his stomach like the whole time. And this is just two goats doing their thing and throwing Ray Ray around. I also took note of. He dropped him on the top rope, like, picked him up as suplex and put him across the top, top rope. And he. That he just bounced like, just like. He just flew backward out of the ring and was like, oh, no. Me and everyone in the audience just gasping. [00:20:00] Speaker C: Well, Ray was wild in that entire match. Like, he went off the top rope once onto the cement and like grazed Dean and mainly took the hit onto the cement. And I was watching with a friend of mine, Pingu, and we were both like, oh, oh. Because like he just sideswiped Dean, but mainly took the fall on the. On his own. [00:20:22] Speaker B: And I was like, that's rough. Oh, go ahead. [00:20:25] Speaker A: There was one thing I was wondering because, like you mentioned with that, there seemed to be a lot of moves where like the landing choreo maybe wasn't planned as much, so it seemed like a lot more like real hits. And just like I actually did just throw this man on his neck. And like one of them, I was like, did he. Did he break his neck and then he just popped right up And I was like, okay. Like, it seems way more dangerous and not as rehearsed, I guess. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Well, yeah, yeah, no, that's a good way. That's a good way to put it. Rehearsed. It's not. Especially when you are people who have been through the Fed. That's another thing the Fed did is that when it was just them, every wrestler who wanted to be big and on TV came through their school and all learned how to do it their way. Whereas back in the day, you learned by getting your ass kicked in front of a crowd and figuring it out like. [00:21:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker A: And actually getting thrown on your neck and then. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Yeah. So, like, a lot of these guys, it's. It's doing that and looking like that, because I think they don't. It's something we talk about a lot with Chris Benoit does a lot. Eddie does it a lot. We'll see later in the match where it's. It just doesn't look as controlled. It looks sloppy, but it's, like, sloppy sometimes. I think on purpose. I think with Ray Ray, I think him bouncing off the rope, I don't think he meant to go that hard. I think he's just so tiny. [00:21:52] Speaker A: Launched his tiny body across the. [00:21:55] Speaker C: Truly. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah, truly. [00:21:58] Speaker C: Truly. It was. Yeah. Messy, critical. Just. You succeed, but at a cost. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Right. Hampter. You. You mentioned the acai moonsault onto the outside where he did the springboard and just grazed him. I think Dean was supposed to catch him. Yeah, he just straight up missed. [00:22:18] Speaker C: Yeah. Because you could see Dean's getting up and he's trying to move into it. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:23] Speaker C: Yeah. And then he sells it. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And he selled it like it hit him, but it, like, raised his arm. [00:22:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Which, you know, you'll get that. But like, it's like. No, that I think was just a splat outside Disney. Like. But that leads into what you mentioned is your spot that you. I love how all. Everyone mentioned a different notable spot that were all in my notes. That pleases me. He's like, it. We're working on your gut, I guess. So he does the avalanche of his gut buster and it's like. Okay. And then he does something interesting. And like, this kind of like, I was like, oh, I need to take notice of this. This is wild. [00:22:59] Speaker C: When he. When he pulls out. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:23:02] Speaker C: That's. That's okay. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Phrasing. [00:23:06] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:23:08] Speaker B: You're the asexual of the group, and you always do this. [00:23:12] Speaker C: People are gonna say that I'm supposed. [00:23:15] Speaker B: To be the pervert in the room here. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:23:18] Speaker C: I only have two cards, and I'm gonna take it. Okay. So when he. When he pulls back from the pin. [00:23:26] Speaker B: Yes. That. Because Dean goes for the COVID and then lifts him into, like, a heel bastard of old. And people get real mad, and, like, the boys in the booth are mad, and, like, everybody's murdered. Dean's kind of been a tweener. Like, he's never been like a baby face because he's just like a. [00:23:45] Speaker C: He doesn't look like a baby face. He doesn't sell. Like, his face is always very determined. I'm sorry. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Stoic, you know, no good points, Derek. And yeah, so he. But he's never done heel. The last couple weeks he's been doing heel mainly ever since he's had to fight Rey. And this is what I love about this is like old school storytelling. Something that AEW is getting really, really good at. Sometimes some people get mad at him. I think those people are just busy. But I mean, you can't tell me Tony's. That Toni Storm year and a half long thing wasn't amazing. Long term, long term storytelling. It's not still going on. She's the greatest. God damn it. It's just unreal. So, yeah, so like, this is long term, long term storytelling in that these. This is their rubber match. This is the third time they fought. Dean has beat him twice by being a heel, which was not things that like putting his feet up on the rope for the pin stuff that he didn't have to do because he was just a good wrestler. And now he's having to be dastardly because Ray Ray is just so good. [00:24:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:55] Speaker B: And now this is the third time. And it's like Dean's like, how many times do I gotta beat your ass, little kid, to get you to stop yipping at my heels? So he's like, I'm mad. I'm gonna pull him up and get him again. Then he gets him with the brain Buster straight out of New Japan. Holy. And yeah, like it pulls him up again like that. No, I'm just gonna keep hurting you. And then I think he's going for. Oh, God, I don't even remember tombstone. He throws him off the ropes and he twists them into a tombstone. [00:25:26] Speaker C: Oh, right. [00:25:27] Speaker B: But all of a sudden Ray Ray wakes up and he like contorts his body and gets into a hurricane, ran a position and drills him for three. [00:25:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:36] Speaker B: Out of nowhere in the reversal and it was just like, holy. It is first American gold. Yep. So that's Rey Mysterio Jr. Winning his first American gold on TV. And yeah, that was just. That's what I consider that a five star classic. That's a Gary five star classic. Holy. [00:25:58] Speaker C: Did you hear Eric Bischoff of Cassandra prophecies? Like, oh. Because he started, he, you know, Dean's backing off. He's like, oh, well, that's gonna turn yeah, he's gonna pay for that. He's gonna pay for that. I was like, oh, don't spoilers, Tony. [00:26:16] Speaker B: You're giving the game away. They're gonna think this isn't real. Holy. So, yeah, that. That is. I. I've been trying to kind of, in this newer format, tell people at home, see it or skip it. See it. Watch this. Find it. It's probably on YouTube. Watch this match. Anyone else have feelings about Ray and Jean? [00:26:38] Speaker A: Okay, well, I actually had a question. Who is the Leprechaun? Yeah, he was on, like, the very, like, big, like. Okay. In one of the links you sent me, there was like, the very beginning of this match, and it was like an eight person tag team. And then there was this one guy who ran around and his name was the Leprechaun. [00:26:58] Speaker C: Did I watch that? [00:26:59] Speaker B: I think. I think I might have. One of the links I sent you was wrong and I had to fix it. So you might have watched a different link. [00:27:07] Speaker A: Okay, well, there is this one person named the Leprechaun, and they all have big Danhausen vibes because they literally just blast out from underneath of the ring and run around and cause chaos. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And he, like, eats the. The ring or something. He was, like, chewing on the ring or something. [00:27:25] Speaker B: Must have sent you the wrong, like. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Well, I watched that one. That was great. [00:27:35] Speaker B: Oh, no. Yeah. No, I was. I. Y' all tweet Peek behind the curtain to Gorilla Position. I've had a hell of a week. It's end of chaos month of June. Like, queer chaos June. I was like, it didn't get much better. It just kept being chaos where we're riding it out. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Yeah, that's fantastic. [00:27:55] Speaker A: And now it's July and we're all straight. [00:27:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:00] Speaker B: I make no promises. Exposition corner with me and cheat. [00:28:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:28:07] Speaker B: As good a transition as any. You get some of those, too. Nasties and Steiners are both in the locker room. Rick Steiner is smiling like he just ate a bag of edibles. [00:28:19] Speaker C: Diner so high. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Just go on. And he's a puppy boy. You're not supposed to eat him. That's. You can't give dogs those. It's. It's not safe. So, yes, it's. It's a weird thing. The old. To me, the only important part of any of this promo at all is that when Scooter Pie says they hit my brother Rick with a cane in the head, you just hear Rick in the background go, it hurt. [00:28:48] Speaker C: He's so real for that, right? [00:28:50] Speaker B: I was like. I felt that. And then he just starts barking like he saw a mailman. And that's. Scene. [00:28:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:58] Speaker B: Oh, Rick Steiner. How do you feel about Rick Steiner? Na. Are you like, I'm realizing this is all kind of new to you, huh? [00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I. I don't. I don't know that I had too. [00:29:12] Speaker B: Many strong feelings either way. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:18] Speaker B: Ever. I figured that's a good one to ask the guy who's barking, you know? [00:29:23] Speaker C: Well, I'm actually quite interested in your feelings towards the Nasty Boys, because those are. Because they. They nasty. Like, that's. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Okay, wait, now I have a question. [00:29:34] Speaker C: Because I'm wondering, did you all not watch the. [00:29:38] Speaker A: I don't think what I watched had the Nasty Boys in it. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Oh, no. Did you straight up watch the wrong one? [00:29:47] Speaker A: I'll send you the links to the ones that I watched that I had in the. No, Now I'm like, oh. [00:29:56] Speaker B: Okay. All right. But this might just turn into a different show now. It's gonna be me and Hampter telling you what happened this week, apparently. [00:30:07] Speaker C: Oh, just watch it now. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Oh, no. All right, let's see here. [00:30:14] Speaker C: Okay. [00:30:15] Speaker B: All right. So you watch to the correct Raw. [00:30:18] Speaker C: Oh, yes. That's unfortunate. [00:30:20] Speaker B: And I think you watched the wrong nitro. [00:30:24] Speaker C: All right, well, I love the way. [00:30:27] Speaker A: The Nasty Boys look on TV or on Google. [00:30:32] Speaker C: To send you their. [00:30:34] Speaker A: They look like some nasty boys. [00:30:36] Speaker C: They are so nasty. And then what they have on, they have their own faces on the back of their jackets. The 90s is real big for this right now. This is peak faces on jackets era. [00:30:49] Speaker A: This is like. To me, they remind me of. Are they the bad guys in. Or like the. The bullies in Back to the Future? Yes, yes. Yeah. [00:31:03] Speaker B: His whole crew. Flea, because Flea was there because it was a movie in the 80s or 90s. [00:31:07] Speaker A: Yes. [00:31:10] Speaker B: That's amazing. Oh, my God. Yes. That's a Nasty boy. A Nasty Boy is exactly what a Nasty Boy is sounds like. And they are big, meaty men. And this is going to be so interesting. I am, like, flushed because I can't believe I sent you the wrong thing and this up. All right, but folks, we're 46 episodes into it. We're gonna roll with the changes. [00:31:34] Speaker C: Hell yeah, we'll go. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Because next, it's the Blue Bloods. [00:31:39] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Blue Bloods. Yes. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Okay. [00:31:42] Speaker B: So the Blue Bloods I love. All right. Nika's gonna be playing the Google ride, I think, the whole time. So the Blue. Okay. Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor. [00:31:53] Speaker C: Are you on pro wrestling.fandom.com? no. [00:31:57] Speaker A: Should I be. I was on Google under images. [00:32:00] Speaker B: That works too. [00:32:01] Speaker C: That's also very true. [00:32:03] Speaker B: I think we can fill in the rest. [00:32:09] Speaker C: Because what you can then do is open up the links because they have links to all of the wrestlers in that, in that card. And then you can see how tall and how big they are. And then they also have like their promo shot which is nice but they like you have to like tone that down like 5 degrees because I, I. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Just really love so much that you're like. It's important that you know how big they are and kind of. [00:32:36] Speaker C: It's true. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Go. [00:32:40] Speaker B: No, no. [00:32:40] Speaker A: I should say I do think it's interesting to know how big they are because I like to sometimes different proportions of people fight and it's very fun to watch and very interesting. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Well if it helps, one of the guys they're fighting's name is Big Bubba. And Big Bubba and they, they meant it formerly Big Boss man and Hugh Morris which is supposed to sound like humorous. He is the joker. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Right. People are freaking God. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Things that are horrifying. He finds funny. You see. And that's it. That's his whole thing. [00:33:16] Speaker C: These losers are from like a kind of a watered down Dungeon of Doom. They're just from the depraved mind of Jimmy of Kevin Sullivan. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Yeah. This is. I wrote here. They are the Dungeon of Doom's third string players which. [00:33:32] Speaker C: Yeah, you didn't miss much. It's a three minute match. [00:33:35] Speaker B: It's a three minute eight second match. Yeah. It's really. It's the. Yeah. And they bring out their fifth dimensional sprite Jimmy Hart in. In. Oh God. They face off against the British Invasion. Basically this is three minutes that exists so that people can say usa. [00:33:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's all you need to do. [00:33:56] Speaker C: Yeah. So for the blue bloods, all you need to think about is like the most stereotypical British guys that you know. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Like British lords, like they tried to make them look like British like old school. [00:34:11] Speaker C: Lord Steven Regal as a heel. [00:34:13] Speaker A: With like the hand in the chest like. [00:34:15] Speaker C: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Because he's. He's royalty. British royalty and American. We don't like them. [00:34:22] Speaker A: That I kind of love that. [00:34:24] Speaker C: It is, it's a, it's a gimmick. [00:34:28] Speaker B: He does it well when he talks. He sounds like a blue collar guy from Liver from Blackpool because that's where he's from. But he's a Lord Steven Regal. [00:34:38] Speaker A: But they actually had British people. So not just someone pretending to be British. [00:34:43] Speaker B: So one of them I'm pretty sure the Other two are pretending. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Built from. Oh, build from might be different from where they're actually from, but this is Pennsylvania. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Yeah. More often than not. Yeah. Beautiful. Bobby Eaton. The Bobby. The Earl of Eaton is not. He's from like Alabama or something. [00:35:06] Speaker C: Stratford shirt. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Englandville, Alabama. [00:35:10] Speaker B: Yes. Called it. See, I am a nerd for this. So y' all don't bother. Don't bother. Just don't bother. Like Regal is amazing. He gives it his all. Steven Regal is one of the best to do it, but there's only so much he can do. [00:35:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:26] Speaker B: For this match, it ends with John Tenta coming out to pull Bubba out for an ass kicking. And the Blue Bloods get a win off of it. And so the night before this they had a John Tentis dignity on a pole match. And I thought that this feud was going to be over, but it sure enough. No, there's still. I don't get it. [00:35:49] Speaker C: Fortunately for us. So they for the dignity. The John Tenta's dignity on the line is a sock for full of silver dollars tied to a pole. [00:36:02] Speaker B: The mischief sprite Jimmy Hart, to the best of his ability. Yes. Ran up it like a. Like a. A hampter. Almost like like an opossum in a wizard. [00:36:16] Speaker C: Snatched the sock. [00:36:18] Speaker B: He did it and it was. It was pretty wild and it was a unnecessary match and it's an unnecessary feud and I'd want it to be over. And John tended deserved better. That man was a sumo wrestler. God damn it. [00:36:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:36:34] Speaker C: He still hasn't fixed his hair. He so last night. Well, I suppose dude, he could have gone to Best Cuts. He's down in Orlando. Like they don't have them around there. No, he still has the up hair because the whole feud stems from like. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Big Bubba cutting his half of his hair off to make. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:36:52] Speaker C: And the man can't take a hit to charisma like that. Like he's like a eight. [00:37:00] Speaker B: Yeah. I was going to say what, what, what's the role you take when you decide to keep the hair like that? To let people know that you're not that mad and like you deserve it. And it's there to remind you to not ever let that happen again. And then it happened again. [00:37:14] Speaker C: The deception. Check. [00:37:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Like it's like decepting yourself. Check why you're lying to yourself, John. So. Yeah. Holy hell. I. I can't believe I'm gonna just get folks I'm gonna keep doing it. I can't believe we're doing the show and the guest hasn't seen the show. You've seen Raw, though. Okay, so we'll. We'll do it. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:36] Speaker B: And I'm pretty sure I sent you the link to the right one at one point, so you can go back and watch this if you want. It's a band. [00:37:43] Speaker C: Because after the Blue Bloods. Yeah. There is a match you should see which. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Oh, please, please, blow my mind. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Exhibition corner with me and Gene. It's important we get a lovely shot of the water tower with mouse ears, which is just weird psychosis. And Eddie Guerrero got jobber entrances. So you're talking about the Lucha, Nika, which is why I thought that you saw this, because there's more Lucha. [00:38:11] Speaker A: I watched. His last name was Malinko. [00:38:15] Speaker B: And yeah. [00:38:17] Speaker A: They had a really good fight on the one. [00:38:19] Speaker B: So you probably saw. You saw a rematch, I think, two weeks from what we just watched. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:26] Speaker B: This funny that we were able to. July 22nd. Yeah, yeah. Is the one I said. Yeah. And we're watching July 1st, so. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:35] Speaker B: All right. It's gonna keep me honest. So you get more. If you do watch this, you get more. More Lucha. Because Eddie versus psychosis. [00:38:44] Speaker C: And Eddie's haircut, his mullet is. Oh, just peak. Just so good. I want it so much. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Holy hell, you should. Oh, my God. Hampter. You need. Hampter needs the Eddie Guerrero I know. [00:38:56] Speaker C: I'd shave the sides completely down, though, because I'm that. But that. [00:39:02] Speaker B: You'll look more like a Dom Mysterio mullet then that, which works, too. You go, oh, you get Dom heat every time you're talking to a mic. I'll boo you. [00:39:11] Speaker C: Go ahead. I've seen what makes chair. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Nika, your face tells me that you just looked up Eddie Guerrero's mullet. How you feeling? [00:39:22] Speaker A: I did look them up, but I saw psychosis, and the one that I watched had psychosis in it. So I was like, oh, I remember this strange looking person. Cuervo is like, that's a ass mullet. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Like, he rides that till sadly, the end of his life, but he rides that. [00:39:44] Speaker C: And that must. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Like. Yeah, he's not. I wouldn't say, like, he's my type, but he's not. Not my type looking like this. [00:39:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:55] Speaker A: Out of everyone I've seen, he's looking pretty good. [00:39:58] Speaker C: And then you see him move, and it's just incredible because, like, this match is eight minutes of bliss. [00:40:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Eight and a half minutes. I wrote here. I don't know what else to say about this other than they put on a goddamn clinic like this. Is two of like the best Luchas at the time doing their thing. I love Psychosis because like just his whole everything. He looks like a Power Ranger, basically. And like his. His hair, the big hair which is part of the mask, like, that's not his actual hair. And it's just like all that. Just like everything about this guy is insane. I can't imagine wrestling it that notable spots for this though he's Psychosis at some point decides that the story of this match is Eddie's shoulder. [00:40:40] Speaker C: Yeah. He goes. [00:40:41] Speaker B: He shows us like all the ways you can hurt a human shoulder with a wrestling ring. It's wild. [00:40:50] Speaker C: I think he actually dis. It looks like he dislocates it at some point. And I'm just like, oh. And Eddie does a really great job of selling it. He keeps it close to his chest even when he wins. Oh, spoilers. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Oh, hey. I will get there. [00:41:05] Speaker A: It's okay. I think actually, I literally just Googled it from. Wait, seven from July. Oh, sorry. No, July 8th was the one I just found. So I need to go like one week back. [00:41:18] Speaker C: No, you are. [00:41:20] Speaker A: No, that is it. [00:41:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God. No, I'm sorry. You are July 8th. Oh, my God. That's my fault again. [00:41:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:41:26] Speaker B: I'm leaving all of this in. I don't. Because. [00:41:31] Speaker A: You'Re a professional, you just cut it out. No one needs to know. [00:41:34] Speaker C: There were no one. [00:41:35] Speaker A: And if anything, you blame the guest. It's my fault. It's mine. [00:41:40] Speaker C: No. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:41:41] Speaker C: No, no, no. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Nica Howard jumped on a grenade for me. I'm so flattered. Yeah. No, wait, you're watching July 8th. July the natural. June 30th was the one that just came out. That's this week's episode. I am so just been out of it this week. But like. No, that's the point is that like the ones that came out this week lined up with the current date. But we're almost there. No. So yeah, the 8th is the one you would be watching. Okay. So. Yeah. Oh, God, that's felt bad because. [00:42:14] Speaker C: So Psychosis lost last night as well. He fought a Dean Malenko. [00:42:19] Speaker B: He. Yeah, he fought Dean at a pay per view last night. [00:42:22] Speaker C: Yeah. And he lost. And I was like, he. It's. Watching him is so good and so entertainment entertaining. I was just like, I really want him to win. Like, come on. [00:42:34] Speaker B: But it's Eddie, so you know it's not. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:42:37] Speaker B: Can't Eddie, right? Sure enough, after 8 minutes and 33 seconds of wonderful Lucha, even though the the boys in the booth spent all of it talking about Hogan and doing a little bit of racism just for a treat to Larry. [00:42:53] Speaker A: They like to do that a lot. In the one I. In the match I watched, I made a little note because they talked about Ming the cannibal. [00:43:00] Speaker B: And I was like, yeah, yeah, I. [00:43:03] Speaker A: Don'T think I like that. I like Ming, but we don't need to add the kind of racist history there. We could make him a cannibal for other reasons. [00:43:12] Speaker B: That was probably Larry. Again, Larry likes to bring that up. And again, part of that is that Larry is old school wrestler and, like, part of the, like, part of hard w. With a hard w cather. You were amazing. Because, like, there's so much, like, racism that was, like, built in because they're working off of stereotypes as, like, the fact that everything they're doing is big. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:40] Speaker B: So, like, that was a thing in wrestling forever. And, like, it's still a thing and, like, not as much as it was. But Larry's just like, I know what to do here. And it's one of those things where it's like, we don't call it that anymore, grandpa. Like, stop. Yeah, yeah. You're a living legend, but that means you're old. Shut the up. [00:44:01] Speaker A: We don't want to hear you anymore. [00:44:04] Speaker B: I don't need you to hear you say jalapeno and a silly pronunciation. [00:44:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Joel Faniel. No, stop it, dude. We know how to say it. You don't. And it's not funny. It's just racist. But yeah, folks, see it or skip it. See it. Eddie's here. Watch it. Eddie. Eddie, Eddie. Eddie ends with a big old frog splash for three. Like, only Eddie can do it. Go watch it, kids. [00:44:30] Speaker A: I just watched one part where Eddie had, like, jumped over psychosis and then was going to jump on top of him and, like, psychosis jumped down or, like, bent down, but then jumped up and, like, rolled Eddie off of his back and everything. That was insane. [00:44:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God. So good. [00:44:47] Speaker B: It's just where they, like, go back to back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They, like, roll over each other is so wild. They're doing, like, parkour off each other. Like, yeah, Lucha rules. I love Lucha. [00:45:01] Speaker A: I want someone to take a clip of this and put the office audio of parkour. Parkour. [00:45:12] Speaker B: I might just have to do that for you. We'll see. And then I think leads us again to exposure position. Corner with me and Gene. He. Gene's getting a workout tonight as he usually does. He's talking. [00:45:24] Speaker C: He's talking about it. [00:45:25] Speaker B: Oh, right, sorry. Yeah, no, you're right. Everyone's talking about the Hulk. The Hulk, everything. [00:45:31] Speaker C: Can I jump in real quick? So you haven't seen this, Nika. So to set the stage, a huge thing happened the night before. Like they had been building up to a match in which to the outsiders, these outside forces, big guys come in. [00:45:51] Speaker A: Outsiders, they fucked up the control room. I had questions on that. [00:45:54] Speaker C: Yeah, right, yeah. So you see them. So like they're harassing wcw. They, they, Eric Bischoff who is like on the mic, who's the one of the owners or whatever, they slam him into the floor like and they're hold. They're like, okay, we're going to take control of wcw, but you need to put up some fighters to defend yourself. And they were talking about guys. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Yeah, give me three year guys. Your best guys. Yeah. [00:46:18] Speaker C: And so the whole entire lead up to this is they're just like, we have a third man that's going to fight with us and you're going to find out in pay per view. And that's the fight last night. Now, now the fight has happened, but they still have to sell the pay per view viewing the second time around. And so they tease what happened in with Hogan but they don't say what hap. What he did for an hour. And like 30 minutes into the show they tell you you need to call people, you need to tell all of your friends to be here by the second hour so you can see the most, the stunning upset in the history of wrestling. There's a countdown timer at some point hour to. Yeah, this is hype central. And everybody's talking about how they feel about what happened last night at what Hogan did to the wcw. [00:47:13] Speaker B: Yep. But they don't want to like come out and necessarily say like it's all, it's presupposing that you either have seen it or you're gonna see it. All we know is that Hogan did an naughty bad. [00:47:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:25] Speaker B: And, and for the context he turned heel on his friends and joined the Outsiders and is now a bad guy for the first time ever. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Spoilers. [00:47:33] Speaker B: Yep. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Well, I watched the one later in the month so he came out in all black. Whenever I, I was like that son of a. And he's like, I'm gonna make a WCW like full of people like me. And I was like, please don't cues. [00:47:47] Speaker B: Yeah, no, exactly. He's so bad. [00:47:50] Speaker C: Oh God, I love that you had like you and I, you had only watched a, you know, recent wrestling and you're just. You immediately saw Hogan. You were like, nah, no, no, no, no, no, no. [00:48:02] Speaker A: I don't like, that's one thing is, like, I used to watch the MTV show that Brooke Hogan and like, the. Hogan had. [00:48:10] Speaker B: I watched that. [00:48:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:48:12] Speaker A: Hogan Knows Best. I used to watch that. Like, I know. [00:48:15] Speaker B: I know a lot during that point. That's a dark time. [00:48:21] Speaker A: I know a lot of, like, pop culture things with wrestler. So I do know I got to watch Macho Man Randy Savage, which I've never seen him actually wrestle and, like, in action, so that was really fucking fun to watch his match. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Love that for you. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Oh, he did not snap into a Slim Jim, though, and I was very upset. [00:48:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he does sometimes. It depends on if the. If the. I think it depends on if the contract is. Is active or not. [00:48:52] Speaker A: They had an ad for Slim Jim. It said it was, like, sponsored by a Slim Jim. So I was waiting for it. Yeah. But a simple person. I just want to watch Macho Man Randy Savage snap into a slim gym. [00:49:11] Speaker C: The wrong dude died. I was watching with my friend Pingu, and he's like, why did it have to be? Why couldn't it have been Hogan? And I was like, yeah, bro. [00:49:20] Speaker A: You know, if. If Randy was alive right now, you know, he'd be blue. He'd be like, no, no. Really hoping. [00:49:31] Speaker B: No, we call. We call him Florida Man Randy Savage for a reason. That man is like the epitome, like, the amalgamation of, like, the spirit of Florida Man Randall Savage. Oh, no. Yeah. No, I mean, Savage. Yes. [00:49:50] Speaker A: I love that. [00:49:50] Speaker C: He's a little French on his mind. [00:49:53] Speaker B: I can't help but give all the wrestlers nicknames. Yeah, I like it. So I can. I can't help. I give them all nicknames. Speaking of, I love it. Scooter Pie and Puppy Boy Rick. The Steiner Brothers. Oh, Go. [00:50:11] Speaker A: No, this is unrelated, but y' all were talking about Ric Flair earlier. Have y' all tried his weed? He has. There's Ric Flair weed. [00:50:17] Speaker B: No way. [00:50:19] Speaker C: I had it. I thought I heard that. [00:50:21] Speaker A: I. I was like, oh, I think that's a wrestler. So I got it, and then I googled it, and it was. And it wasn't bad, but it was wild. I was like, what? [00:50:29] Speaker C: It's like, what, does it have Rohypnol in it? [00:50:33] Speaker A: I did take a lot of naps. [00:50:36] Speaker C: That couch lock, though. Okay. [00:50:43] Speaker B: Hampter. Holy. I mean, you're. They're. They're out of line, but they're right. [00:50:51] Speaker A: Like, they're like, where's the lie yeah, exactly. [00:50:55] Speaker B: I see. Yeah. [00:50:57] Speaker C: Taking the ropes. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Oh, no. No good. Is that we. We are. We are. Ric Flair's good at wrestling. Unfortunately, household is like, I was that guy, but, oh, my God, I'm gonna. I might need to do that. I'm happy the Steiners don't have weed. That we would probably suck the Nasty Boys. You know, that's just. That's probably just swag. [00:51:25] Speaker C: Yeah. I would not smoke Nasty Boy weed. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Nasty Boys do not smoke kind bud. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Nasty Boys should not have weed. They should have some weird pill at. [00:51:34] Speaker C: A truck or whatever it is and. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Like, yellow jackets, gas station drugs. [00:51:43] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a B12 Krakatone mix. Yeah. Daddy, you have not seen Nasty Boys. That is the Nasty Boys you've just encompassed. Incredible. Incredible. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Yeah, amazing. You got. You got the power of prophecy, Nika, because that's basically so. Yes. This is Nitro's edition of the Meat Match. It's just a bunch of big, meaty men. The Steiners are just walking biceps there. I've said before. Scoot. Scooter has never met a. A growth hormone he wouldn't put in his body. [00:52:24] Speaker A: He's like, give me more. He's sponsored by Monsanto. [00:52:29] Speaker B: He's like, straight him down to see how it. [00:52:33] Speaker C: That's how they found DDT was not safe. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah, they love joke about DDT in. [00:52:40] Speaker B: In going Rob. Well, because Jake the Snake's. Jake the Snake's finishing move is called the ddt not named after the harmful chemical. As far as we know. No one knows what the DDT is called, is named after, like, it's secret. [00:52:55] Speaker C: It unfortunately plays into dts, which is Jerry. Anyways, sorry, we'll get. [00:53:02] Speaker B: We'll get there. We'll get there. Now I feel like I need to rush through this Nitro, because he didn't see it, but, folks, no, this has been great. [00:53:13] Speaker C: Good, good, good. This is the second match where there is interference too, actually. [00:53:19] Speaker B: And every time we see. Well, I'm not sure. [00:53:23] Speaker C: Not you from sister Sherry and Colonel Parker. [00:53:26] Speaker B: Colonel. Colonel Parker's back. So Colonel Rob Parker is. Is managing Harlem Heat, who are amazing, and they are the champions. And it's. It's. Guess you guessed it. It's racist. They are the black tag team. He's literally a caricature based off of a plantation owner. So I don't like. [00:53:47] Speaker A: Oh, I thought he was gonna be like the KFC Colonel. [00:53:51] Speaker B: God, I wish that would have been so much better. [00:53:54] Speaker C: I wish he just raised chickens. No, no. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Yeah. No, no. And. And his sister Sherry is A good girl. And he's get away from it him anyways that he eventually comes out. In the meantime, for me, the story every time these two teams meet is just reckless abandon because the, the nasties are not athletic enough to take some of the power moves that the Steiners do. And the Steiners is like, I don't care. We are so strong that I will do it anyways even if you drop on your head. And that's so as far as, like, if you want to, to see this match or not see it. If you like watching the Nasty Boys almost die like eight times because the Steiners just lift them off the ground and put them down hard. Watch this match. [00:54:42] Speaker C: Yeah, it's wild. You're talking about Nasty Boys top out like six, three. We're pushing like £300 a piece. But like, the Steiners are just also super huge and strong and are just like, yeah, I'm gonna throw you. Which is pretty cool. [00:54:58] Speaker A: That's kind of fun. Whenever you just see people who are just like and throw someone, like, it's nothing. It's not as much. [00:55:06] Speaker C: It is. [00:55:07] Speaker A: I, I, I feel like that's what a lot of like the, the Raw was, was just like pushing or like picking up and throwing and stuff like that. But I think that there's like, I don't know, there's something different about just doing that as opposed to like doing the other stuff and then being able to also just have like some big boys. [00:55:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:27] Speaker A: Throwing each other around. [00:55:29] Speaker B: Meat match. That's why I call it match. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Yes, that's why. Okay, that's perfect. I understand now. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Say, you know, aew, the, the Purveyor five Purveyors of Meat chant. This is the, our origins of the mechan Big meaty men slapping me. [00:55:44] Speaker A: They love to slap each other's titties. [00:55:49] Speaker B: Look, I'm just, I'm not saying that I am for or against titty, but, you know, like, good on them. Good on them. I say often wrestling is just kink between, between skies who think they're straight. Yeah. [00:56:07] Speaker A: I don't know if you guys have seen recent wrestling news. Is the Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian Women's wrestling. They have literally what looks like latex full body suits that they're wearing. And I'm just like. And I'm, I'm looking at that and I'm like, how do you guys not realize this is making them, like, so much hotter? You're putting everyone in latex and like, ma', ams. [00:56:35] Speaker C: Excuse me. [00:56:36] Speaker A: We need to make women's Saudi Arabian wrestling blow up. [00:56:41] Speaker B: No, that's all. And you got like. Every time. They're like. And here's Rhea Ripley and we're covering her body with latex. And I'm like, yeah, you don't understand. The woman's finishing move is a mating press. Okay, like, you're not helping your. Your cause here. Every lesbian always dies every time. That's one of my favorite things is just. You could drop a picture of Rhea Ripley on a social media site and it's like a frenzy chummy. [00:57:10] Speaker C: It's called Chumming the waters. [00:57:12] Speaker A: Yeah, she is really hot. But I do have to say AEW has some absolutely gorgeous. [00:57:18] Speaker B: Just. [00:57:19] Speaker A: I am beings like, yeah, everyone is so pretty. And like, I just. I want to kiss everyone in aew. [00:57:30] Speaker B: And I mostly I want to. I want to be Tony and Mina's new third because Mariah May or whatever her name is. [00:57:37] Speaker A: Blake Monroe. [00:57:39] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:57:40] Speaker A: I just saw her rebrand today and I was like, this makes me sad. And I don't like it. [00:57:45] Speaker B: It's not fun. She had such a good thing going, you know, do what they will. We're on the wrong show. This is Wednesday night Fake Fights. But yes. Which is an actual show now, folks. Check that out there. Now I don't have to promo it in the. [00:57:58] Speaker A: Okay, well, I'll come back for Wednesday night fake Fights and we can talk more about that. There you go. [00:58:03] Speaker C: We'll hook you up with Piper. [00:58:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't host that one. I'll put in a good word for you. Yeah. So. Yeah, like, absolutely. I agree. And none of them are the Nasty Boys. And. And that helps too. There are no nasties in Nasty Boys. That's basically their theme. [00:58:21] Speaker C: Yeah, that's actually their theme song kind of. [00:58:25] Speaker B: Boys. They're the boys. [00:58:27] Speaker A: It's like, yeah, they're the boys and they're nasty. [00:58:33] Speaker C: Literally. That's. Yeah. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Not one of Jimmy Hart's better songs. [00:58:40] Speaker C: I will say every time you feel bad about a character that you created where it's like, feels a little rough around the edges. Before you polish them out, know that you are in really good. Like, you're amongst your. You are already head and shoulders above, like 90 of this. [00:58:58] Speaker B: For us. Nicely. Yeah. Like they're gonna like. Case in point. Oh, my God. We'll get there the next. I could just think of it because one of the next fights. So the finish of this. You mentioned Colonel Parker. There is no quick. There is no clean finish of this. Naturally, Colonel Robb hits him with a cane again. I think and the Steiners get to go fight Harlem Heat for the titles at Sturgis. They literally do a pay per view where they fight at the motorcycle rally. We have that to look forward to for. Yeah. Patreon.comffpod for the Patreon Watch parties. That is. I mean, we've seen Bobby Keenan drunk at work before. [00:59:41] Speaker C: Yeah, we have. [00:59:43] Speaker B: We have never seen Bobby Heenan drunk at work. Like, we are gonna see Bobby Heenan drunk at work during that pay per view. And Tony Schiavone also probably toasted, like, everybody. [00:59:57] Speaker C: The whole. [00:59:57] Speaker B: All of them just are partying the whole time. [01:00:00] Speaker C: I hate to do this, but before we go on to the Ric Flair match with what I say, Jim Powers. Who the fuck is that of the guy Ric Flair is going to lose to? Okay, sure. After the Eddie Guerrero and Psychosis fight, there is a promo and they talk to Jimmy Hart and Kevin Sullivan. We did skip over it. [01:00:21] Speaker B: Yeah, we did skip over that. [01:00:23] Speaker C: Because this is what we were talking about before we started the prescient statement, because Kevin Sullivan says, and I quote, oh, I forgot. [01:00:31] Speaker B: We should. [01:00:32] Speaker C: Every time I look in the mirror, I see Chris Benoit's face. [01:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I forgot to talk about. I. I was okay skipping over that because it's doom. And I'm like, you know what? It. I don't care. But you make a good point. [01:00:47] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:49] Speaker C: You're watching. Yeah. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah. This is the Meet cute. The taskmaster is Kevin is Kevin Sullivan, who is Nancy Sullivan's current husband and the guy who writes the show. And he's about to write himself out of a wife and permanently. Permanently. [01:01:09] Speaker A: No, I. I don't think he did. Right. There's a dark side of wrestling, and I watched the Crispin Wa episodes. [01:01:16] Speaker B: So you. So you do know some of this. This is that we are heading into that where. Where Kevin accidentally writes a you steal my wife angle, and then he does. But he was able. Like, woman left him because he was being shitty. He was also abusive to her. So it was kind of like a. Like I, you know, out of the frying pan and into. What you didn't realize was the. The fire. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah, a different type of abuse. [01:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it was one of those things where, like, woman just. Woman deserved better. [01:01:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:51] Speaker B: Woman is one of my favorite things about doing this show is getting to see woman be woman. Because I think she's just. She was so good. And this is so good. [01:02:02] Speaker C: Like I said, unapologically. Yeah. Unapology. Unapologetically. Like, very, very feminine. Like, very stereotypical feminine. [01:02:12] Speaker B: And like wilds and like, like. Yeah, yeah. She like, plays into the stereotype that they like the male gaze of wrestling wants to put on her and says that I'm going to control you. Also the fact that she. Every time she's around Mean Jean, she's trying to give him a work loner. And like. [01:02:30] Speaker C: Yes. And it's so great. They play off each other really well. [01:02:36] Speaker B: You can tell that they had a great relationship. Everything you've ever heard is they did that because like, she knew Gene is like a pervy old man, but mostly harmless. So play with them like that on camera when you would like after, like doing my job. And she's like playing with his tie and. Right. [01:02:58] Speaker A: She's using it against him. She's like, I know that you guys are gonna subject or like, see me in this way anyway, so why shouldn't I have the power within that? [01:03:08] Speaker B: Right? [01:03:08] Speaker A: And that's why we love woman. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Yes. And woman shows us even more because she's coming out for this match. We get more woman because she is part of the Real Housewives of wcw. [01:03:23] Speaker A: You know, I love Real Housewives so. Well, this is my Venn diagram where they. [01:03:31] Speaker B: Well, it's all this. Friends, wives. And like one of the ex wives, like Ric Flair has been collecting wives like Pokemon. And like last week I was like, this is Real Housewives of wcw. Yeah. This. [01:03:45] Speaker C: This. Elizabeth Woman. [01:03:46] Speaker B: Elizabeth Woman. [01:03:47] Speaker C: Arie Anderson Sable. [01:03:49] Speaker A: Is that too late? [01:03:50] Speaker B: That. No, that's the wrong company. Different company. [01:03:52] Speaker A: Oh, so sorry. So sorry. [01:03:54] Speaker B: No, how dare. How. [01:03:57] Speaker A: They're. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Raw is only an hour. Because we're taking our sweet time with this. [01:04:02] Speaker C: I know. Sorry. [01:04:03] Speaker B: No, it's okay. [01:04:04] Speaker A: Listen, the nitro was good. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Yes. You're having. [01:04:10] Speaker C: You didn't even see it. [01:04:11] Speaker A: So much fun. [01:04:13] Speaker C: And it's. And it was better than Raw. Yeah. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. [01:04:17] Speaker C: You can sum up this. These two. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Oh, I have to. Apparently we're great at this. We see. We should. We. We should have been commentary for Raw. Not these charts. [01:04:27] Speaker C: There you. I know. It's almost like you're professionals. [01:04:32] Speaker B: Stop it. You're gonna make me believe in my head's gonna get huge humble. Yes. Yes. Mid. Mento Mori as well. [01:04:46] Speaker C: Mid. In death. [01:04:48] Speaker B: Yes. The embrace. Mid. The. The future is mid. Yes. That's. My entire brand is mid. I can't do anything too well or I'll up. But yes. Rick comes out. [01:04:58] Speaker A: Feel that. [01:04:59] Speaker B: Right. Thank you. [01:05:01] Speaker A: You don't want to try too hard because then anyone says it's not good. It's like, well, I could have Done better. [01:05:06] Speaker C: Y. Y. [01:05:07] Speaker A: You don't know what I could have done because I only gave like 20 on this. [01:05:11] Speaker C: Don't rob yourself of joy. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Right? And to me, it's. It's the. I. I try. It's the best manifestation I could come up with of the Star Trek principle of buffer time. I'm not sure if you're familiar at all with that. Start with that, Nika. A little bit, a little bit. Buffer time is. Is when it comes from Scotty the. The original TOS engineer. Anytime, anytime the. The captain asks you how long it'll take to fix something, you tell them twice as long. So then when you finish it. And half the time you look like a miracle worker. [01:05:51] Speaker A: I'm usually like a 30 minute, but yeah, I like that. [01:05:53] Speaker C: Double time. [01:05:54] Speaker A: That's better. [01:05:57] Speaker B: Give yourself buffer. It's that buffer sound that you can slack a little bit and still look like a miracle worker and not get. [01:06:02] Speaker C: In trouble, have more time. [01:06:04] Speaker B: So. Exactly. If I tell ever mid and not a professional, then I don't have to, you know. Hey, look, this week it worked. I'm leaning into the bits. That's it. So this match, Ric Flair comes out to fight Jim Powers for the WCW US Heavyweight Championship. [01:06:20] Speaker C: Who the cares. I know this dude that I go to school with him. [01:06:26] Speaker B: This guy, he looked like someone you would go to school with. [01:06:30] Speaker C: He does. He does. [01:06:32] Speaker B: Well, I. I put it here. Like, I've said it before too. Imagine a jobber in 1990. 96 named Jim Powers. And that's Jim Powers. That's it. It's who he is. It's what he does. [01:06:43] Speaker C: Yeah, he's a local. Huh? I was like, how do you know? He's like, ah, yeah, I. I know, I know. [01:06:50] Speaker B: I know that guy. So Rick. Yeah, Rick has decided he's. I forget how this happened, but it's like he. You're not. I think it's because, like, Hogan's back, so you're not getting the world title because it's in. Ho. It's in Hogan's. Hogan at this time, Nika literally has creative control in his contract, which is one of the things. [01:07:14] Speaker C: Okay. [01:07:15] Speaker B: Because. Because if he isn't, his ego will break him. So like, as we know now. So, yeah, he was the only guy who ever got this. Because it's absolutely insane to tell a talent that they can have final say in whether or not they win the championship. Like, like, like. So he got to, like, just hold them hostage whenever he decided he wanted to be champ. And we're gonna. That's Gonna be a lot of the story of the last five years of this promotion that we're going on, this journey to watch is just Hogan up because he has an ego. So because of that. [01:07:51] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. [01:07:52] Speaker B: No, go. Go ahead. [01:07:53] Speaker A: I was just gonna say, how does he get to that point? Is it just that, like, he had earned them so much money or he had been like, so popular of a wrestler that he. [01:08:01] Speaker B: Well, to. Too long didn't read it because I. I have done this a lot. Him and Vince found out. Him and Vince lucked the out and stole ideas from the right people and they struck gold and they went viral more or less in the 80s with Hulk Hogan, Hulkamania and WrestleMania and all of that. Like, and that's what brought wrestling to the neck. Like, kind of brought it out of a slump that had been in for at least 10, 15 years. You go far enough back, it's because a guy got pissed and tried to tell everyone it was fake and. And it pissed everyone off and ruined the business. [01:08:41] Speaker A: And you still hear that today. [01:08:42] Speaker B: Yep. And. And it's like everyone knew, but you're not supposed to say. Don't talk about it. The fat. The fun of wrestling is that everyone's in the lie together. So like, he brought it out and got kids into it and they made so much money. [01:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:59] Speaker B: With. With Hulk Hogan. Stay in school, eat your vitamins. Don't look at my steroid fridge. Bring me and bring me a large man that I can lift and put down. And they made so much money doing that. [01:09:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:18] Speaker B: So that became everything that. That Vince has done since then, has just been trying to do that again. And it's the only thing Hulk knows how to do. So when him and Vince broke up because Vince decided that Ultimate Warrior was going to be my new Hulk because Hulk is getting old that they broke up and Vin and Hulk went to wcw and that's why they're at odds now. So this whole thing is them having a lover's quarrel over national television. [01:09:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:49] Speaker B: So because of that, though, Hulk has the sway because like, he like, saved. He's the professional wrestling. Because of how popular he was and them getting in with Cyndi Lauper and. And the MTV generation because of that, he like, kind of saved the business. So because of that he has the clout and at this point, the industry, it still does to a lot of extent. It runs on. What's the. What's the carny word? There's a carny word for this that they use. Stroke. If you got the stroke to. To to which I'm sure has a sexual origin to, like, to have, like, the pole to get what you want, you know, because, well, they're all a bunch of sexual deviants and not in the fun, queer way. Some posture. [01:10:40] Speaker A: I used to go to high school in a place called Carney, and so I was like, what is this. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Brother? Yeah, no, the op. Carney. That's what I mean by Carney is like carnival worker. They're all a bunch of. [01:10:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like cabbage. [01:10:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:58] Speaker C: Hey, yeah. [01:11:00] Speaker B: Thank you for making the Austin Powers reference. So I didn't have to, because I go, why? I hate that. My millennial brain caught that. [01:11:09] Speaker A: I literally was gonna say, like, that's the millennial. Like, I'm sorry. I can't help it. [01:11:13] Speaker B: I'm the most. [01:11:14] Speaker A: I feel like I'm, like, the most millennial ass millennial. Like the most Midwestern ass millennial. I have started saying. [01:11:20] Speaker B: Oh. [01:11:21] Speaker A: And, like, really just open it out to everything I normally say. [01:11:25] Speaker B: It's Neapolitan in the Chicagoland possum. Here, here. So let's just open up, shall we? [01:11:34] Speaker C: Midwest intest. Midwest intensifies. [01:11:37] Speaker B: Wait, where did you from the ranch? [01:11:40] Speaker A: Chicago. Oh, wait, wait, where are you from, Eric? [01:11:43] Speaker B: Minneapolis. [01:11:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God, you're from Minnesota. [01:11:47] Speaker C: I'm jealous. [01:11:48] Speaker A: I wish I could be from Minnesota. [01:11:50] Speaker B: Wait, where are you. You're in Missouri. I forget where you are. Yeah, I was g. To say Mazora, Missouri. [01:11:57] Speaker C: Oh, that's rough. Yeah. [01:11:59] Speaker B: Well, to that, I say the thing I say to everyone that doesn't live in Minneapolis, which is, you should live in, man. [01:12:05] Speaker A: I actually. I keep telling my partner, I was like, can we go to Minnesota? Because his company's headquarters is in Minnesota. [01:12:14] Speaker B: And so a lot of them are. Yeah. [01:12:16] Speaker A: I would be very chill living there. I mean, I'd be very cold living there in winter, but, yeah, there's ways to getting by. [01:12:22] Speaker B: We. We find ways. I myself am a. I've said before, I'm a Nord. I. I have, like, frost resistance. It's originally from Wisconsin, so, like. [01:12:31] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Yeah. [01:12:32] Speaker B: Frozen tundra through and through there. It's. It does not bother me. And I got cheese in my beans. [01:12:39] Speaker A: You also. Now that you've said that, now that I've got you talking about Minnesota, you have that northern accent. I can hear it. [01:12:45] Speaker B: And it. It. It absolutely covers. Comes out more when I talk about Ric Flair, because he's got it, too. [01:12:55] Speaker C: Fun fact about Ric Flair. He was stolen from his parents. Yeah, yeah. There. Do you remember there was a. The basis for, like, the whole entire adoption system. This woman in Georgia who is stealing babies and selling them to like middle aged rich couples. [01:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:13:15] Speaker A: You didn't know this? That's how adoption started. [01:13:17] Speaker C: Started, yeah. [01:13:18] Speaker B: Oh, no. Adoption literally started as a baby stealing business. And it kind of still is. Is the problem. Yeah, that's the problem. But this specific one lady like specifically like revolutionized it and she stole Ric Flair. [01:13:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Can you. And so can you imagine? Because I was talking about this with my friend. He was like, you know what would have happened if that had not had happened? He would never have come to wrestling like this match. [01:13:47] Speaker B: Because he ended up in. In Minnesota, which is why he sounds like that. And he like just gets this weird little. When he gets really going, it comes out in weird ways. In iron. When he says iron, that's when you can hear it the most. Is what? Yeah. Oh my God. But no, he. He started wrestling in. In the Midwest and Awa Ver Vern Gan's territory up by me. And so like. Yeah, he was, I think born in Georgia but stolen to Minnesota and then got really big and over in the NWA in the Carolinas, which is why that's. The Carolinas are our flare country. That's Horseman country. And Georgia. Because he was such a big deal in Crockett, which is what eventually became wcw. So like he's a old franchise player. I'm a nerd. I've watched it. I know we could go back so far. [01:14:49] Speaker C: So like, that's why he's lineage of Ric Flair. Him. [01:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah. He's not even the first nature boy. [01:14:55] Speaker C: No, he's not. We were actually. It's like Buddy Lauren or Lauder. [01:15:02] Speaker B: Buddy Rogers. [01:15:03] Speaker C: There's two. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Yes. Who now I feel like now I gotta look it up. Oh my God. [01:15:10] Speaker C: This is also an absolutely nothing match. Oh, Buddy Landell. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Buddy. [01:15:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I was too busy looking up because I was like, where did Rick Flair got his skimmick from something. [01:15:20] Speaker B: The original was Buddy Rogers. [01:15:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:22] Speaker B: And then Buddy Landell was another guy, but Rick, him and him existed at the same time. And then you got Greg Valentine. Who's Greg Valentine? We talked about him last week. It's like, here's this other guy who's trying to be Ric Flair and they just kind of let him. [01:15:41] Speaker C: Just don't look directly at him. You just go away. [01:15:45] Speaker B: He kind of does. If you don't look directly at the Greg Valentine, he just leaves. He gets tired. [01:15:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:51] Speaker B: So this match is. There's not much to. It's a squash with extra steps. Yeah. [01:15:58] Speaker C: Circumstance. [01:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Rick's got to be the top of the mid card because it can't be the top of the top card, which is what started that rant that I look forward to editing later. This is gonna be fun. There's not a whole lot going on here very much Rick yelling at park goers, which is nice. And he does, like, a little dance. Uh, at one point, the Chuckle Fox, they're going to continue to ask opinions on Hogan's turn. And Bobby lets us know, as he should, that he's been giving his opinion on Hogan for years. [01:16:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:30] Speaker B: Like, he is vindicated. And then because I am who I am, I wrote, he is selfish. He is wrong. Yeah. And I was like, no, stop. I'll do the whole thing. No, but no, he is vindicated. He has hated Hogan this entire time. God damn it. [01:16:47] Speaker C: So, like, a lot of people are very emotional about. They're playing it up as very emotional, like, this great big shock. And Bobby Heenan is a hater. Like, world class. Bobby Heenan hates everyone. And he's hated Hogan from the first. And he's just like, you know, a lot of people say, I. I told you so, but I'm not going to say I told you so, even though I've been telling you the beginning that this guy's a snake in the grass. And he just. He's like, you're too emotional. You need to let it go. Like, we. He's actually kind of positive towards the end. He's like, we know who the third man is, and we're going to stand up and we're going to take him down. Like, okay. [01:17:29] Speaker B: Wow. [01:17:29] Speaker C: That. [01:17:30] Speaker B: That. Bobby's giving it his all. He's this whole NW Arc, the whole leading up to it, too. Bobby has been giving it his entire. Well, as we like to say on the show, he has put his entire. [01:17:42] Speaker C: Into being scared, truly. [01:17:44] Speaker B: He's of the nwo. Like, he is, like, terrified of these invaders. And he's been, like, selling it harder than anyone else. So now he's trying to sell the. The standing up. Like, he's like, now we got to come together. [01:17:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:00] Speaker B: The heels and the baby faces to fight these. [01:18:03] Speaker C: He actually talks quite glowingly about Sting because in the p. The paper match, Sting has to go against Scott hall. And who's Kane? Kevin. Yeah, Kevin Nash. Two huge men. And he gets his ass beat for like seven or eight minutes. And Bobby's like, yeah, you know what he got in there? And he got the done. Like, I'm just like, what is this? What is this Bobby tone change. Good for him. [01:18:35] Speaker B: He's. [01:18:36] Speaker C: That could be the, like the second scotch or not second, but yeah, whatever. [01:18:40] Speaker B: He's sniffed and. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of, all I will say about this round of Exposition Corner with Mean Gene is that while Double A is talking about how awful it is and how Hogan hurt us, Ric Flair is in the back opening a bottle of champagne because he don't give a. He's like, I got priorities. I just beat this guy's ass. I got. I gotta do this. And then he hops on Mike and talks about having sex, but it's, it's Rick, so it sounds gross instead of dirty and fun, so it's terrible. [01:19:11] Speaker C: The only, the best takeaway from this is Aron Anderson. Anderson looking dead in the camera and is like, I never said I was a model or we never said. And I was like, take that, Natalie Portman, take that. [01:19:26] Speaker B: I want Natalie and arm to do it. He's still alive. We can make this happen. [01:19:33] Speaker C: Low key. [01:19:34] Speaker B: I'm manifesting that believe in you. So apparently our poor, poor himbo hot dog man, Lex Luger got hurt last night. So he can't get his ass kicked by Chris Benoit today. [01:19:46] Speaker C: And that's unfortunate because he legit hurt. [01:19:50] Speaker B: I think he might have actually legit been hurt. So now they send in Sergeant Craig Pittman. This is another one of those I, I expected this to be. Well, here's the thing. Craig Pittman, one of the worst wrestlers I have ever seen. [01:20:07] Speaker C: Yeah, it was not good. [01:20:09] Speaker B: It had its moments though, because he's fighting Chris Benoit, the industry's second biggest actual monster, who is unfortunately pretty good at this. [01:20:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:20] Speaker B: And like, I didn't even believe in his ability to get a good match out of Pittman, but he like let Pittman suplex him in a couple different flavors. Even there was a Cool Ranch, there was a German. Like there were some good suplexes in there. Sid German's tummy, many of the Germans and, and he took them all. And so it was pretty good. Yeah. [01:20:43] Speaker C: But fun facts. [01:20:46] Speaker A: What? The little strumpet, he just. [01:20:50] Speaker C: Took them all. [01:20:52] Speaker B: Just laps your arms around his belly and fast. And you just. [01:20:59] Speaker A: German accent says someone who's only been to Germany once and has no other German knowledge or anything. It's the best. [01:21:06] Speaker B: I was born in Wisconsin. You get it's osmosis through the brats. [01:21:11] Speaker C: Each time you, you eat a, a brat or a curd, you turn a little bit more German. [01:21:16] Speaker B: It happens. [01:21:17] Speaker C: Yeah, it's wild. You got to be careful. [01:21:19] Speaker B: That's the My grand. That's my grandma coming out. Yeah. Oh, my God. [01:21:30] Speaker C: Teddy Long tells Chris Benoit to stop because. Or calls. Yeah. He calls the match because he doesn't want Chris to. To injure. I'm gonna use the word injure. Craig Pittman, as opposed to. [01:21:46] Speaker B: He finishes it up by. Yeah, he gets him in the. What is going to end up being called the Crippler Crossface, because they call him the Canadian Crippler because he killed the guy once. That's how he got that name. [01:22:00] Speaker C: I didn't know that. Oh, Jesus. [01:22:06] Speaker A: I don't think you should name yourself. [01:22:08] Speaker B: It wasn't too. All right. And this is one of those things. You never have to fight. Hand it to Chris Benoit. You never do. But I don't think it was on him. Like, I've looked at his. Accidents happen. You know what I mean? Like, I think it was one of those things where it was like, accidents happen. I don't think he actually crippled this guy, but when you are a wrestler, you tell the fans, I crippled this guy, you know, so, like, yeah, I broke his bag or something. I think it was his neck. But yeah. Who. So they. They call them the rabid Wolverine for the first time, and he gets him in the Crippler cross crossface. And. And they throw in the towel because I think they're starting to. They're. They're trying to really push Benoit. This just murder machine, which, you know, unfortunate. [01:22:51] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:22:53] Speaker B: I swear, I didn't even mean to do that. I. [01:22:55] Speaker C: It's just happens like that. That dude looks like he. He was just gonna kill someone. Like, just. It was. It's in his countenance. [01:23:05] Speaker A: It is whenever the. The match that I watched. They also had said stuff like that where they're like, oh, Benoit's just gonna. [01:23:11] Speaker C: Like, kill this dude. [01:23:12] Speaker A: And like, all this stuff. And I'm just like, yeah, too. This is too eerie. In hindsight, watching all of this, it's terrifying. [01:23:19] Speaker B: No, the worst is when you see him, like, hit his head real hard and you're like, oh, Jesus. [01:23:25] Speaker A: Wait, do you know when that happened? Wait, it's 2007. Whenever. [01:23:30] Speaker B: When it murdered. [01:23:32] Speaker A: When was it that the head. Head injury happened? [01:23:35] Speaker B: Which one? [01:23:37] Speaker C: A span of 20 years. [01:23:40] Speaker A: I didn't know if there's one specifically that you were talking about. [01:23:43] Speaker B: Well, the one that I'm talking about is a match that was. We went to watch Nitro, and it was not on Peacock because they pulled it, probably because of. This is my guess. He went flying over the top rope and he overshot it and he just smacked his head on the concrete and he got concussed real bad. Oh. It was the kind of thing where, like, they finish the match by the skin of their teeth. Like, it ended real quick. And then they got him off camera and you just didn't see him, which is how they used to do that. They used to actually, like, like, oh, man, you probably gotta go to the hospital. Well, let's finish the match, because this is real. You know, that's up in the 90s, it was still doing that. We don't. Aw. Now when Moxley takes Hangman's head off with a. A clothesline and he gets concussed, they stop the match. Mocks still talk, but they said they stopped. [01:24:34] Speaker A: They're also like, if it's like a tag team kind of match, they're really good about almost hiding it. And that's how, you know, like, if the camera goes over and shows them checking on the person, they're totally fine. If you don't see the person, they got taken and they're getting some emergency medical help right now. [01:24:55] Speaker B: We didn't see Benoit for a while after that. To sum it up, I've mentioned it twice already and I know I repeat things too often, but there's a. There is a letterboxd for wrestling called Dropkicked that I just found out about. And the first thing I saw when I went on there was a list someone had made just titled Benoit matches that make you go. Is that what did it? So, yeah. Na, you are making the correct face. [01:25:22] Speaker A: Of like, did you watch them? [01:25:24] Speaker B: No, but I'm gonna. I'm sure I've seen some of them. [01:25:28] Speaker A: Send me that link. I just want to make sure that it's okay for you. [01:25:37] Speaker C: Good looking out. [01:25:40] Speaker A: Ability. [01:25:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's not. [01:25:42] Speaker A: I think that I gotta make sure Jennifer also. [01:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it gets a. Gets a look at that, you know, so she's taken care of, you know, don't want her to get hurt by seeing something terrible. [01:25:52] Speaker A: Exactly, exactly. We need to know how to see head injuries and face them to make sure that they don't happen and we don't get some traumatic brain injuries. [01:26:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Cte. Cte. [01:26:06] Speaker A: Cte. [01:26:07] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. Excuse me. So, yes, now we know. Yeah, all of this is bad, but, yeah, like, some people won't even watch his matches. And I'm like, I. If I did that, I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to do this. You know, like, he's everywhere. So, like, I'm able to Say, it's. I feel like if I can separate. And some people, like, well, Ric Flair is not as bad as Chris Benoit. I'm like, I don't know. I'm a. I'm an essay survivor. Yeah, he is. In my mind. Yeah. Like, in my heart of hearts, every time I see Ric Flair, I have a murderous rage, and it's justified. And I'm still able to go, God, he's good at this. So, like, I feel like it's up to each individual person, because I. I know that he's gonna get what's coming to him, so it's fine. Even if that's an eternal blackness, that's what he's got coming to. So, like, that guy in with Ben Y. It's just like, I. I'm never gonna be like, yeah, I love Chris Ben Waba. I'm gonna say he's good at this. Like, I can't. I. I feel like if. I feel like if I tried to be like, oh, well, and, you know, and Crispin Juan, obviously, that's bad. It would be disingenuous. And that's why I would rather have people think I'm a monster for being able to enjoy his matches. I would rather have people. Yeah. I would rather have that than be disingenuous and. And be like, the man doesn't bridge the. Out of a German suplex. Like, I'm sorry. He. He does it like. He gets on the tippy toes. Like a. Like, it. There. There. Like, there's just. What? Yeah. Like. Like, I can't help it. That being said, see it or skip it. This is a squash with extra steps. Skip it. It's. This. This is ridiculous. Now, finally, main event time, and we're almost to the show. Naa. Actually saw. Oh, this might be our longest episode yet, and I'm so fine with it. This is such an experiment. Thank you, Na, for being here for this. This absolute experiment. [01:28:08] Speaker A: Oh, my God, It's Grace. It's. It's Grace. It's Grace. [01:28:11] Speaker B: It's Grace. [01:28:12] Speaker C: This final match annoyed this out of me. [01:28:16] Speaker B: Really. Oh, God. Right in Hamper's got thoughts talk. [01:28:20] Speaker C: I've got thoughts, because here's the thing. [01:28:21] Speaker B: Tell me about kid. [01:28:23] Speaker C: So a little setup. They're all of a sudden, Eric Bischoff and Bobby Heenan say, hey, there's a black limousine that's just pulled up. We don't know what's going on. They're just. They're just standing parked, like, we don't know what this is. Everybody is on high Alert because of the outsiders. So that's leading up to the match, which is between Sting, who's great. [01:28:47] Speaker B: A man. [01:28:48] Speaker C: I love him. And you've got it because you're. Yeah. You're at Disney. [01:28:53] Speaker A: Sorry. [01:28:54] Speaker C: Absolutely. [01:28:55] Speaker A: His son is my rat husband. I love Darby Allen so much. [01:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, his. Oh, I was like his son. Like, his two kids showed. Oh, you mean. [01:29:05] Speaker A: Sorry. No, not his real son. His wrestling son. [01:29:08] Speaker B: Baby. I'll trade the boy. Yeah, like, Like. Yeah. [01:29:14] Speaker A: Wrestling ward. [01:29:16] Speaker B: Yes, exactly. Batman. Yeah. [01:29:20] Speaker C: Oh, Jesus. Yikes. But he doesn't die, though, so. [01:29:27] Speaker B: I really thought. I really thought Everest was gonna take him. [01:29:30] Speaker C: I thought so. [01:29:31] Speaker A: But he. I mean, so far we haven't heard anything from him since he reached the peak, though, so at least I haven't. [01:29:39] Speaker B: So there's still time. She might win yet. Yeah. And then, yeah, it's Stinger and hit that beautiful Arn Anderson theme. [01:29:51] Speaker C: Who's like, a great wrestler. And it's. But like, like, this matches nothing. And like the entire. [01:29:57] Speaker B: So your uncle, though, Hampter. [01:30:01] Speaker C: Anderson, is. [01:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah, everyone's uncle. Yes. Okay. [01:30:06] Speaker A: What? That's your. [01:30:07] Speaker B: No, no, no. [01:30:08] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:30:10] Speaker B: You've been holding out. You got an enforcer. [01:30:13] Speaker C: Can you imagine? Can you imagine that the entire time are my actual dad? And it's like, yeah, I know he's wrestling, like, just. No, sell it the entire time. Like, this is my heel turn. [01:30:24] Speaker B: He just shows up behind you and. [01:30:26] Speaker C: Yeah, he's behind the couch right there. He just pops up. He's got a little Waffle House menu. [01:30:31] Speaker B: I'm disappointed in you, Gary. Yeah, just hide behind the Waffle House menu. [01:30:37] Speaker C: Exactly. Ric Flair or no, Arne Anderson has a great comb. He's got a great build. He's called a sack dad. And, like, he's a great wrestler, but, like, the whole entire time they're talking about this black limousine and, like, what's going on? So you know that this is there to showcase Sting. It's not a real match because they just want to show them the kids. And then the whole. The whole point of the match is for Sting to get hyped up when the outsiders do emerge from. [01:31:05] Speaker B: And they are wearing their denim skins. [01:31:08] Speaker C: This time, dude's rocking up fanny pack. And you're just like, okay. [01:31:17] Speaker B: 90 80s and 90s wrestlers. Pro wrestlers love fanny packs. [01:31:24] Speaker C: I don't know. [01:31:25] Speaker B: It's the culture. It's part of the actual culture. It's a bodybuilding thing because you keep all your. Your steroids in there. [01:31:31] Speaker C: Shut the up. [01:31:33] Speaker B: No, seriously. You keep your drugs and on Your. Like, all your. You need. Because it's great. It's everything you need. You don't have to carry your purse like some sort of queer, you know? So, like. And he just. It's like, okay. But instead, you look like a. A magoo. Like, you look like you derogatory. Like. [01:31:50] Speaker C: Yeah, it's so funny. [01:31:52] Speaker A: I do love a fanny. [01:31:55] Speaker C: So here's the thing. Like, now. And ironically. Yes. But also, there's just. It's. It's startling to see. [01:32:06] Speaker B: Yes. [01:32:07] Speaker A: I mean, I do keep my steroids in there, but. [01:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:09] Speaker A: I love fanny pack. I was just like. [01:32:12] Speaker C: I have a purse where I. My. I hold my penjamin. So, like, is that any different? [01:32:17] Speaker B: No, exactly. [01:32:19] Speaker A: A devoted purse to it. [01:32:21] Speaker C: No, it's just a pocket in a purse. But, like. Yeah, it's very small. It's square. [01:32:30] Speaker B: I have a. I have a pocket in my purse specifically for my little pretty girl pipe. So. Thank you. [01:32:37] Speaker C: That's great. [01:32:37] Speaker A: I just. I just shove mine in the back because. Because I have one of those crossbody fanny packs. [01:32:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:32:46] Speaker B: That's not a fanny pack. That's different. [01:32:50] Speaker C: It could be. [01:32:52] Speaker A: I could put it around my waist if I wanted, but it is technically designed to be this. But it is the classic fanny pack shape. [01:33:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:00] Speaker A: And everything. And I've got a little pocket in the front and a little pocket in the back. And normally I tie tuck my penjamin in the back. Unless I'm wearing athletic, like some biker shorts with a pocket on the side. And then it goes right in there. [01:33:13] Speaker B: There you go. There you go. [01:33:15] Speaker A: You gotta keep it right there. [01:33:16] Speaker B: I wish. [01:33:18] Speaker C: On a lanyard, you never. [01:33:21] Speaker A: You never know when you need to hit that pinch. [01:33:25] Speaker C: I've seen. I have a friend who has a crocheted little holder that. He just wears it around her neck. It's just so good. [01:33:33] Speaker B: I need to get my partner one of those. That would actually be really smart. [01:33:37] Speaker A: That's so cute. [01:33:38] Speaker B: I can't do vapes because I'll smoke them too fast, I think, because I. I used to smoke the. The cigarettes and, like, I. It's oral fixation. [01:33:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:47] Speaker B: So, like, anything I need. I need to have to have the ritual of, like, breaking it up and putting it in the thing. [01:33:53] Speaker C: Or. [01:33:54] Speaker A: I. Yeah. [01:33:55] Speaker B: And it's like, suck it down. Just. [01:34:01] Speaker A: Pull out. Suck it down. What else you got tonight? [01:34:05] Speaker B: This. No, we're having these now. We're not. We're never gonna finish this. Okay. [01:34:17] Speaker A: Okay. [01:34:18] Speaker B: This is more fun. This is more fun. [01:34:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:34:21] Speaker B: Because, Hampton, you're right. This is. Yeah. This Is this is a prime example of a cookie cutter match. But the cookies are baked by like two of the best to do it. So like they're still warm and they're like a lemon basil type thing with rose water or some. [01:34:32] Speaker C: Yeah, okay. [01:34:34] Speaker B: Real good cookies. [01:34:35] Speaker C: Yeah, you totally do it. But it's also like not really worth the 850. [01:34:39] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Because it's. It's 12 minutes of the WCW standard of excellence. But no one cares because all they're talking about is denim dance man. [01:34:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:34:51] Speaker B: His tall friend. [01:34:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:34:53] Speaker B: The big mang and the medium sized mang. And thus. Yeah. There's not much to do this. Oh, I will say it's important. There is a Bobby of the night. [01:35:03] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [01:35:04] Speaker B: Yes. Bobby Heenan line of the night is what I call them because I. I love. This is a Bobby Heenan love show. I can't help it. And during this match, talking about the black limo. Limo, limo. Eric says that it pulled up and like basically it's the NWO mobile. It's the mang mobile, if you will. And Bobby says, get macho man out there. It doesn't matter if there's 50 people in the car. He'll pull them out through the tailpipe. [01:35:32] Speaker C: That was good. Oh, that was good. [01:35:35] Speaker B: Bobby of the night. But really this, this match does not matter. It's. It's 12 minutes of. Of waiting for them to get to the outsiders. And basically security keeps them away from the ring. Florida man Randall Sage does come out and helps with some of the ruckus. Sting hits the death lock on Arn for the win. Whoopy doo. [01:35:55] Speaker C: Yeah, cuz he. Leading up to this Arn was pretty much beating his ass. Sting had wrestled the night before, but seeing the outsiders. Oh yeah, yeah. This is. Yeah. He went for seven to eight minutes with these two chuckle. [01:36:11] Speaker B: And then he sees session for Stinger. [01:36:13] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he sees the. He sees them coming and he gets all bumped up and he pull. Pulls the scorpion death out. Death lock out. This is of course symbolic that WCW is strong. Like rise to this occasion like in this essay. Yeah. Well, let me show you that they're breaking down the moon. The Arn Anderson staying a match from Disney MGM Studios. [01:36:39] Speaker A: Please tell me this is your senior thesis. [01:36:41] Speaker C: Yeah, right. I like walk in and they're just like, who are you? [01:36:48] Speaker B: I'm wearing that specific face paint. What is going on here? [01:36:51] Speaker C: I have the warrior or the Sting face paint in the hat. [01:36:55] Speaker B: Yes. So yeah, basically that's what happens. And then it's Comes down to Gene trying to talk to everyone about it. [01:37:04] Speaker C: I do think. I did think Scott hall and Kevin Nash did a pretty good promo. Like, they did. [01:37:10] Speaker B: All right. Scott hall is. He wants to be Dennis Miller, and I need him to stop. It's silly. Big Kev has got a lot of things to say. He's very smart. And, like, he up and said that play was an adjective that one time, and he'll never live it down. [01:37:28] Speaker C: And. [01:37:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, you're making the correct face. Na, that's wrong. He tried. He tried real hard. There you go. Sting, though. I have to give. I have to give credit here. Sting is not good on the mic. He never really has been. This whole show. This is, like, the best promo he has ever given. I think, like, this was kind of fire. He wrote, like, where have you been? And all it took was him standing up for the entire, like, soul of pro wrestling against the evil that is Hulk Hogan and his minions. Like, that's the stakes we needed Sting. Yeah, Right. But that's the stakes it took to get a good promo out of Sting. And we're coming up on Sting never talking. And it does wonders for his career. [01:38:21] Speaker C: It makes sometimes to be like that. [01:38:24] Speaker A: Listen, sometimes a man just needs to shut the up. [01:38:32] Speaker C: So true. I see no lies. Some real fire. [01:38:37] Speaker B: Macho has a. It's got a message for Hollywood hooligan. Yeah. [01:38:44] Speaker A: I love to call him Hollywood Hogan because he's out trying to get an Oscar. [01:38:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's not hanging out with us, his friends. And he says, what. What I want to do to you, I can't say here on TV or here at Disney. It's gay sex. Yeah. And then he starts doing math and. [01:39:00] Speaker A: Like, yeah, you want to ram you and put my tongue in your mouth. Sexy. I want to lay you down by candlelight and stroke your body. Happen to you like a Slim J. [01:39:20] Speaker B: Oh. And I cannot stress this enough. Oh. And then back from commercial. And Jean tries to do the same with the Outsiders, and it's pretty solid. They know what they're doing. They. They're. Oh, my God. Big Kev, though, the name drops. Some dude, and it's just like, stop. Just stop. I. I don't even know. But, yeah, Scott keeps it simple. He's like, this is brought to you by the nwo. H, you're welcome. Jean says he's worried about his job. And Scott says, scheme jeans, you'll always have a job with. I like you, you weird little guy. [01:40:05] Speaker C: It was very. He's still rocking that kind of puerto Rican thing, too. [01:40:12] Speaker B: Not quite Cuban. He's supposed to be a Cuban. [01:40:14] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. [01:40:15] Speaker B: No, he's not. He's from Florida. And he's right. [01:40:20] Speaker A: It's fine. It's fine. He's not Puerto rican or Cuban. [01:40:25] Speaker B: 1996. Yeah. [01:40:27] Speaker C: Yeah, he was. 29 years ago. We had Barack Obama and racism. [01:40:32] Speaker B: Oh. So, yeah. Going home. Basically. Eric and Bobby send us off with a bunch of still photos from the night before because they do not want to show you the actual. [01:40:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I forgot to mention. [01:40:45] Speaker B: Buy that goddamn replay. [01:40:48] Speaker C: Yeah. So they're Nikki the whole entire time. They just show stills and they're all, like, pixelated as, too, which is very, very funny. But they're. But they will not show any of the motion, any of the fight. Any. It's very much a cash grab. And you're just like, okay, okay, Eric, you could get that money, honey. [01:41:08] Speaker A: That's. They were really just trying to get your money and not give you good wrestling. [01:41:14] Speaker B: I will say WCW at least gave us good wrestling. [01:41:18] Speaker C: This is true. [01:41:19] Speaker B: Like, we can think of all the lucha. It's been a while. Because we've been at this a while. Because we're chatting. [01:41:23] Speaker C: Because it's been six years. [01:41:25] Speaker B: It's been six years. It's Been 84 years. [01:41:28] Speaker A: We've been recording for four years. [01:41:32] Speaker C: That'd be incredible. [01:41:34] Speaker A: Have you ever been to the Salt and Pepper Cafe? [01:41:39] Speaker B: No, but sure. What's going on? [01:41:43] Speaker A: Sorry. Hampter. It's in Chicago. [01:41:46] Speaker C: Oh, no. [01:41:47] Speaker A: Okay. Sorry. It's. There's a John Mulaney comedy skit, and he makes a joke about, like, it's been gone for 40 years or whatever. So that reminded me of that. But then there is skit where they go to the. I think it's the Salt and Pepper Diner. And I. I've been there. I used my. I had friends that used to live off of Belmont and Sheridan, Right. And I went and visited, like, every month. Every other month. So I used to go to Chicago, like, all the time. And we went there and it was super fun. Anyway, I'm not helping us move things along. [01:42:21] Speaker C: Please continue. [01:42:22] Speaker A: But we all said different time frames of how long we've been recording Trigger memory. I have adhd, so. [01:42:32] Speaker B: Hey, you're amongst friends. [01:42:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Welcome to the club. [01:42:36] Speaker B: I don't have that particular neurodivergence, but it's okay. There's others. Here's my transition. Speaking of someone who should probably talk to a professional. Hey, got Kendrick's here again. Your girl's a little busy and, hell, I should probably Keep it down. Everybody's sleeping. Oh, one second. I just wanted to ask y' all to, like, read and subscribe to the podcast. 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That's the length of five football fields. Just shy of a half a mile. Oh, no. It smells like Vader. Right, we're gonna go to raw. In the intro is Warrior, who is on double secret probation. So it's actually, it's. It's Gorilla Monsoon. [01:44:33] Speaker A: Yes. I was just gonna say my first note. Gorilla Monsoon. Beautiful name. [01:44:37] Speaker C: That's is really good. [01:44:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:41] Speaker B: Not his real name, but it's his actual fake name. [01:44:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I wanna. [01:44:45] Speaker A: That is like. I don't know. I feel like maybe I up by just choosing Mika because I could have had Gorilla Monsoon. [01:44:54] Speaker C: Could be like Nika Tsunami or. [01:44:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:45:00] Speaker C: Flash Flood. [01:45:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Chimpanzee Earthquake. Oh, yeah. I was trying to think of an alliteration one, but like. [01:45:10] Speaker C: Okay, it's too hard. [01:45:13] Speaker A: It's too hard. [01:45:14] Speaker B: See, the problem is, is that now all I can think is Chalupa Batman. [01:45:17] Speaker C: From the League of Batman. [01:45:23] Speaker B: So watch a dog named Chalupa Batman. He was so amazing. He was a bird. He was a British bulldog. He was a tank. He was amazing. [01:45:29] Speaker A: Oh, damn. [01:45:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Huge. Huge old boy just run into you. Just full love. Terrible. [01:45:36] Speaker C: Speaking also on RAW to this night tonight. [01:45:39] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. There you go. Look like you did it. Look. [01:45:45] Speaker A: I know it's fast. [01:45:46] Speaker B: No, I was good. I was gonna. I was gonna do 10 minutes on this bulldog, but no. All right. Gorilla Monsoon. Have you ever gotten in troll? So much trouble at work. That a guy who isn't even actually your real boss on national TV and tell everyone you up. [01:46:06] Speaker C: My tongue. [01:46:07] Speaker A: It's not even like we. We got in so much trouble. You got in so much trouble. But it's like you're. You're in trouble. We also need you to like post bond your actual physical appearance somewhere. [01:46:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:46:21] Speaker B: Like you're in trouble and you're paying for it. Yeah. This is so this will be the. This Jerry Lawler keeps saying. Yeah. This is the last time you're gonna see him in the ring. And he's not wrong. [01:46:35] Speaker C: Yeah. Which is fine because he gets fired. [01:46:38] Speaker B: Warrior. [01:46:38] Speaker C: Yeah. Warrior is like phone in. [01:46:41] Speaker B: Warrior. [01:46:41] Speaker C: Phone in real hard. [01:46:43] Speaker B: Why the ultimate warrior. Oh, what do you have to. What I was gonna say. Please, what do you have to say? [01:46:52] Speaker A: Whenever you said that he was supposed to be the replacement for. [01:46:57] Speaker B: He's supposed to be. [01:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:46:58] Speaker B: New Hogan. Yeah. [01:46:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:47:00] Speaker A: And I'm like. He was like really weird. He has dinosaur panties and like his whole outfit was like crazy. But then also he was so clunky. How are you gonna like. [01:47:17] Speaker C: I don't know. [01:47:17] Speaker B: Well, that's the thing is much as I like to on Hogan and I do and I will. And there's plenty to do for. He can work when you pay him enough and. And. And force him to and put him in a corner and say, seriously, Terry, go take the goddamn bump. [01:47:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. And sell it this time. [01:47:36] Speaker B: Yeah. You go like, Hampter is just like done with Hulk Hogan. [01:47:42] Speaker A: Let's go get it him up. [01:47:45] Speaker C: I'm sorry. I shouldn't. I don't know. [01:47:49] Speaker B: No, no. Tell us how you feel. It's wrath month now. [01:47:56] Speaker C: Sorry. I just had like a flashback to Hogan and Hoagies and I was like. Or that it's the gif where he's in the parking lot and he's walking around the car and you see his hand on the car because he knows he's going to be jumped. Because he does. He doesn't want to sell it. [01:48:12] Speaker B: He knows he's. Yep, exactly. You're right. [01:48:14] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:48:15] Speaker B: Hogan and Hoagies. We did a film festival in the Choya AV Club in the beginning of June where we watch three nights in a row of three Hogan movies. Movies while eating hoagies. And I. I think I broke Hampter. I'm a little bit different now that that outburst was. Was a result of what we put them through. He deserves it. I tried to say. I. I generally save that word for when someone's serving it professional wrestling. But yeah, you Know what, Hogan? The Hulk Hogan. At least he can work. Ultimate Warrior can't wrestle. He does not do enough cardio. He instead he does cocaine, which doesn't help in the ring. [01:49:00] Speaker C: He was so gassed tonight. [01:49:02] Speaker B: This whole time, just gassed. Oh, my God, it was. But thankfully, he's with Owen Hart. [01:49:13] Speaker A: May I send y' all a gift that is on my phone as a sticker? And I saw this fight, and I was immediately like, I think that this is of the ultimate Warrior. Maybe I'm wrong, but let see it. [01:49:28] Speaker C: Yeah, please. [01:49:28] Speaker A: Okay, I'll send it to. [01:49:30] Speaker C: Oops. [01:49:30] Speaker A: Yeah, here we go. [01:49:31] Speaker B: The group chat. [01:49:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:49:33] Speaker C: Why? [01:49:34] Speaker A: Oh, wait. [01:49:35] Speaker C: Message recording booth. Okay. [01:49:38] Speaker B: This is fantastic audio content, by the way. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's. [01:49:46] Speaker C: That's him. [01:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's him doing his one thing. Yeah, yeah. [01:49:52] Speaker C: Well, he does the two things. He does that and he does the knee kip ups, where he's, like, just running in place. [01:49:59] Speaker B: Yes, this is true. He does run in place. [01:50:04] Speaker A: I've used. I've used that before. And then I saw this, and I was like, oh, my God. I've been. I think that's the ultimate warrior. [01:50:14] Speaker C: I know. You know? [01:50:17] Speaker B: But thankfully, from here on out up until a couple years from now, in this podcast journey, the only Ultimate Warrior that we will be seeing is the ultimate Hampter here. Because, yeah, he can't show up. Uh, he doesn't want to show up because he can't wrestle and he doesn't want to lose. So everything he does is a disqualification because he can't lose. His. He. He's. He's the worst. He's the worst. Everyone hates him, and he's fighting the best of them. Owen Hart, who is, like, the greatest, who everyone loves and who is so good at this. At one point, he goes yay with this slammy, and I'm just like. He's just. That's. He's in this. This is my favorite era of Owen, where he's just like the excited little boy. I get to wrestle. Unfortunately, I got Wrestle Warrior. [01:51:17] Speaker A: Why did his ring, his outside ring person have a tennis racket that he was just using the whole time? Yeah. [01:51:27] Speaker B: Jim Cornette's stick. Jim Cornette. He started out when he was very young in Southern promotion, and he was, like, very, very young. So he decided, I'm gonna dress in a suit and with a. A racket, like a country club kid. And that's gonna be my stick is I'm the rich country club boy, and my parents have all this money, right? And all These poor focal will hate me. And it just stuck and it became his thing and now it's just. Why did. Why does Jim Cornette have a racket? Because he's Jim Cornette. Okay. [01:52:05] Speaker A: His last name is an instrument. [01:52:08] Speaker B: Yes. And I call him Corny and. Or the guy who blocked me on Blue sky when I asked him about his cuckoldry. [01:52:17] Speaker C: Coward. [01:52:19] Speaker B: Coward. We don't kink shame on this podcast. But that cuckoldry was not necessarily consensual. So him to death. And that's why I asked him about it. And apparently he didn't want to talk, so that's fine. Again, Jim Cornett, amazing man. Yeah. Rude, amazing manager. One of the guys, one of the historians of wrestling. Terrible human being. [01:52:43] Speaker A: He's also one of the co host or commentators. Right. [01:52:46] Speaker B: On this one. Because lawyer to be terrible with. [01:52:53] Speaker A: Wait, which is the one that wears the epaulets. [01:52:57] Speaker B: Jerry Waller. [01:52:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:52:58] Speaker A: Okay. [01:52:59] Speaker B: Yes. [01:52:59] Speaker A: The king. [01:53:00] Speaker B: He's the king of crimes that we don't like to say out loud without a trigger warning. [01:53:09] Speaker C: Monster. Yeah. Yeah. Because he should be deposed. [01:53:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he should be deposed. No Kings. No Kings. [01:53:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:53:16] Speaker B: No Kings means especially Jerry Lawler. [01:53:19] Speaker A: Especially. [01:53:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:53:23] Speaker B: But Owen's amazing. So like, of course we. Because this is WWF though. Vince McMahon hates wrestling. He owns a wrestling company. He hates wrestling. It's. It's for pores and. And. And people that he is not. Damn it. And again, he won't go to therapy, you for asking. So he deals with this by. Every time there's wrestling, he instead shows something else. So he goes to Ahmed and Sean talk and. [01:53:50] Speaker C: Right. That was part of it. What? [01:53:53] Speaker A: So many times they went to them to talk and I'm like, why are you guys continually talking? Just because he show the match. [01:54:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's wrestling, Nika. And that's. He. This has been like this for a while and it's why WCW is winning in the ratings now at this point. [01:54:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:54:11] Speaker A: Like, I understand it. [01:54:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Raw wasn't doing good when Nitro started. Like, Raw was not. It was doing as good as it could be being the only. The only thing on TV that night, you know? So like, that's why this is a war. Because Nitro showed up. I was like, we're gonna give them actual wrestling. And he's like. [01:54:30] Speaker C: Have to work watching. [01:54:31] Speaker A: These two are like totally different in terms, like the story seems there with Raw. But then like, also, I think it wasn't so much that it was like a cohesive story, more that they just kept like she showing different wrestlers in Ways that made it seem like they were like, promoing them in a, like, story way, if that makes sense. [01:54:55] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [01:54:57] Speaker A: And then the wrestling just felt so clunky compared to WCW wrestling. [01:55:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it's more. Well, also, like, we'll see some of the other matches, but there were. There weren't. Raw wasn't sending her best. And the best that they were sending were. Were fighting Ultimate Warrior. Yeah. [01:55:17] Speaker C: So you have that addition to it. So, like, Ultimate Warrior is just trash. Owens. Owens, go. But you, like, you can only kind of work with what you're given. And then. Yeah. Shawn Michaels and goodness. God, what's. Ahmed Johnson are like, we have the third man at home. Home. Kind of. [01:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Is what they're trying to do so much because that was the WCW build up is they're talking about the third man for a month and end up being Hogan. So Vince is like, well, I'm gonna rip you off. So we have our own third man for this tag team match that no one gives a. Yeah. [01:55:59] Speaker A: The way that they kept teasing for it made me seem. Or made it think. Made it seem like they were having Mr. Perfect. [01:56:09] Speaker C: Yes. [01:56:09] Speaker A: Their tag team. And I don't know if that was the case, but they're just like, oh, this third member is just a perfect fit. And they had just had Mr. Perfect on the phone and like that. [01:56:20] Speaker B: And I'm like, I think they were trying to swerve us. Yeah. [01:56:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:56:24] Speaker B: That. That was them trying to do a clever. And it was. Okay, I will say we'll get there. We'll get to that. Right. Reveal. That's at the end of the show. But in the meantime, it's getting in the way of my Owen doing good things like getting tossed over the top rope and just flying like a bird or, you know, like, face plan within. [01:56:41] Speaker A: The first 10 seconds. [01:56:43] Speaker B: Yeah. He's giving it his entire everything again, whole against Warrior and doesn't deserve it. It doesn't deserve it. I'm. It's. But he gets. I will say when it. When we get to the Se? Or Skip of it all, I will say Owen Hart gets something resembling an entertaining wrestling match out of Ultimate Warrior for that alone. I'm saying see it because, like, mark that down. I don't think that ever happens again. [01:57:12] Speaker A: This is one of the few times that ultimate warriors actually watchable. [01:57:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't hate this. Like, that was great. Like, and it's just because no one's awesome. [01:57:22] Speaker A: If nothing else, watch it for the dinosaur panties. [01:57:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:57:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:57:30] Speaker B: The finish, though, because this can't end normally because Ultimate Warrior. Bulldog comes out for Warrior, hits his, like, flash dance switch and starts Warrioring up. He's a maniac. Maniac. [01:57:42] Speaker C: Yeah, just. [01:57:43] Speaker B: He's just a maniac. He's a terrifying person. Bulldog gets in for the DQ win for Warrior, and then Vader comes out. So it's all a cornet. [01:57:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:57:52] Speaker B: Coming out. And Warrior, like, begins by fighting them off. But this was. I got a little. Because I'm a simple girl. I like when Warrior is humiliated. Everyone gets their finisher in on him. Oh, yes, Good. [01:58:11] Speaker A: This is my note. Tag team match gets in all the caps. Insane. Two exclamation points. There are two refs for every wrestler. And everyone beats the out of Ultimate War Warrior. And he has to be carried back to the locker room. [01:58:26] Speaker B: And you're paying for it, pal. [01:58:30] Speaker A: That was so good. And then one of the. One of the commenters was like, this had to have been whenever the movie Michael just came out because he was like, we need John Travolta to come out here and heal Ultimate Warrior or. [01:58:47] Speaker C: Phenomena, angel. [01:58:51] Speaker A: Whatever that movie. [01:58:52] Speaker B: I think those came out in the same year. No, there was Michael in Phenomena, and I loved them both as a child, and I could not tell you why. [01:58:59] Speaker C: No, it might have been Michael because Michael's with the Angel, I think. Phenomenal. Because I was like, different. [01:59:03] Speaker B: I. I just feeling Phenomena too, though, I think. [01:59:06] Speaker A: Interesting. Maybe that was okay, so maybe. Yeah. [01:59:11] Speaker C: It'S. It's real in life. It's in real life too. [01:59:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he does healing Michael too. But I think Michael was where my love of Andie McDowell came from. And now Margaret Qualley, her daughter is like one of my favorite actresses. And I was like, why am I so in love with it? Oh, your mom's Andie McDowell. Okay, that makes sense. The Nepo baby of awesomeness. [01:59:35] Speaker A: Okay, that's fine. [01:59:37] Speaker B: Also, it's Margaret Qualley and I'm very gay, so, like, there's only so much you could do. I'm. I'm a human. But yeah, this. This match ends with and him getting carried out. And I was like, this is all. Whatever. [01:59:54] Speaker C: He did get Vader bombed, so. [01:59:57] Speaker B: God. [01:59:58] Speaker C: Also Owen blue snot on him. I'm sorry. I get. There are some really. Wrestling is very physical and they do very unhygienic things. [02:00:07] Speaker B: That's not. [02:00:09] Speaker C: That's not Covid safe. [02:00:11] Speaker B: That freaked me out. I don't like that at all. [02:00:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't like that. [02:00:15] Speaker B: So we come back and it's Savio time, which is great. I Love Savio Vega. I do need to notice that Brian Pillman, they're just booking him like a jump scare, I guess. Like he just tried, he just tried to sneak up and hit Savio with his crutch for no reason other than he could. They have no beef that I'm aware of. [02:00:37] Speaker A: He just, it was just like, you know what? I want to you up just this. [02:00:41] Speaker B: Guy in particular woke up and you're. [02:00:44] Speaker C: Just like, you know what, there's a little switch. It's like evil or violence. Violence today. [02:00:53] Speaker B: Well and every day is a pro wrestler. But that was like a weird little. This happened and I'm like, okay, cool. [02:00:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:00:58] Speaker B: But this we have Sabio versus Justin Bradshaw. [02:01:02] Speaker C: Yeah. I have a heart. [02:01:04] Speaker B: Oh, go ahead. [02:01:06] Speaker C: First of all, I hate what they do to Savio Vega because he's good but like it's every match is a hate crime, like kinda they. [02:01:15] Speaker B: It's all, it's all Vince Snow. [02:01:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:01:19] Speaker B: Minority Vince, no hate woman. Yeah, that's it. Like what. [02:01:25] Speaker C: And also part of what threw me first that I like, I don't. I like Savio Vega. But Justin Bradshaw could give up less of a about. But this was also when Jimmy started talking about the oh my God, Jake the Snake and his alcoholism and Pinky. [02:01:42] Speaker B: Was a drunk routine again. It's exhausting. [02:01:45] Speaker C: Oh, apparently they used to pour alcohol when he was sober. When he was getting sober they poured alcohol on him and the in matches. [02:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Literally. Yeah, yeah. No, they were terrible to him. I think you're muted. [02:02:00] Speaker A: Oh wait, am I? [02:02:01] Speaker C: No, you're good. [02:02:02] Speaker B: Oh no, you're just dramatic. I was like, it looked like I. [02:02:06] Speaker A: Was gonna say I, I might have just talked too. High pitch. [02:02:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:02:09] Speaker B: Holy, that's amazing. [02:02:13] Speaker A: You. You heard the sexism that happened against me. [02:02:16] Speaker B: Yes, the microphone did a sexism. [02:02:21] Speaker A: That was in one of the episodes of like the dark side of wrestling was they talked about how there were several different wrestling wrestlers who were forced into these stereotypes and they would have to play out different scenarios that were actually like real life. But like regular people didn't realize there was like one wrestler. I don't remember what his name was, but he like came down and he was in a box and he literally had to like break out of the box. But he was, he was gay and he didn't let like everyone. [02:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, Chris Canyon. Yeah. [02:02:54] Speaker A: And so it was like this big deal. And so that's like. Seems like kind of the worst thing about like the, the WWF scene, the, the McMahon scene is that a lot of that is like they're using things against their own wrestlers. [02:03:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:03:09] Speaker A: And whether it's. Go ahead. [02:03:12] Speaker B: That that's gonna get worse, that that's cut. We are in, I like to call it the liminal space of. Of like kayfabe begins to blur and we get into what Josie Reisman called Neo kfa where they like, everyone knows it's fake, but then you start kind of leaking and you made what, like you enter. You. You take stuff that happens in their real lives and make it the storyline. [02:03:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:03:36] Speaker B: So that it blurs the line and next thing you know, we live in a fascist country. Like, that's literally an actual domino now. So, like, because it broke reality, like, Vince McMahon found out how to break reality and he. And he honed it doing this. But he did that kind of like they would do that. He did it more. This is one of Jake. Jake the Snakes being a drunk angle is one that's like more heavy and one of the heavier ones that they do like that I can think of so far. And they really lean into it. Lawler. Oh, God. [02:04:13] Speaker C: Yeah. They. He brings his kids into it. [02:04:15] Speaker B: He's just a sack of exhausted with this. [02:04:20] Speaker C: I. [02:04:20] Speaker A: That was just like a whole different time too, of the 90s of like, what was acceptable. And like, I know that it wasn't the same type of like reality TV, but reality TV in the 90s was stuff that we had like cops and stuff that was very like negatively charged. [02:04:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:04:38] Speaker A: And so to bring like your real life into wrestling through like a negative way just feels like not a great, like obviously just like a bad reinforcement of reality TV in general. But then it also just puts scenarios. Negative type, negative stereotype on wrestling also. [02:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah. It helps no one. And. And like Vince just. It's all he know to do. And that's how we get this match with Justin Bradshaw, who basically just. Is this guy. Like. Are y' all familiar with the Asylum? They're like the. The. The video production company that make like the super cheap knockoff of blockbusters that are like just legally distinct. So. [02:05:19] Speaker A: Oh, but I'm gonna look. [02:05:20] Speaker B: Oh, my God. So they'll make. They make like Alien Requiem, but It's not Alien vs. Predator Requiem or like, they'll like make things alien. [02:05:28] Speaker A: Rubicon is one that just. [02:05:31] Speaker B: Yes, exactly. So that we could just. So Justin Bradshaw, is that for Stan Hansen? Who's Stan the Lariat Hansen? This is Justin the Clothesline Bradshaw. And I've decided that's it. Like, that's just all he can be to me. I can't take him seriously. It's gross. He does do a Road Wars. Road Wars, Yeah. [02:05:54] Speaker A: Fast and Fierce. [02:05:58] Speaker B: I broke Nika, so you have that. I, I can't. Yeah, you have that to look forward to. That should be a whole. That could, could be a whole separate podcast or just all watching. [02:06:09] Speaker C: Fierce. [02:06:10] Speaker A: I, I, I legitimately love the Fast and Furious franchise. [02:06:14] Speaker C: Yeah, we will do that. [02:06:16] Speaker B: We'll do that for Patreon. You can come back. We, we'll absolutely. I will host that for Una in club. We will do this. Yeah. Holy. But no, that is absolutely what this, this guy, he's just trying to be the better cowboy who was also wild. This match is whatever. There's not a whole lot to point out. It's. If you want some Savio time this week, watch it because, like, Savio is great. Everything Savio does is awesome. [02:06:45] Speaker A: He was awesome. [02:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah, everything he does is fantastic. Even the end is weird because Zeb, like, the, the bad guy heel manager trips Savio, but, like, at the wrong time. And Bradshaw hurts himself up for the pit. And I was like, this feels like a up, but I don't know what is going on. This whole thing is so weird. And then they do a Third man thing again and I'm like, no, let's not. [02:07:08] Speaker C: We have Third man at home. [02:07:10] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. That's. That's gimmick infringement, brother. Hit the button. [02:07:13] Speaker A: Are we stopping with Third Man? No, we have Third man at home. [02:07:19] Speaker B: I've been to Third Man Records in Nashville. Like, are we stopping at that Third Man? That was fun. Everything is very Jack White. It's like, what's Third Man? Like, it's like Jack White's brain. It's a little weird. It's kind of creepy. Yeah, right? All the vinyl is the same kind of blue. I like that. And they have a booth where you can just get in the booth and, like, put a little quarter in and sing a song. Well, no, you sing a song and then it'll print a little vinyl. [02:07:52] Speaker C: Oh, that's. Oh, my God, that's so cool. [02:07:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that was one of the cooler things. I'm not sure if it's still up because it's super expensive, but it's like a thing that used to exist and he has one in Nashville. Nashville's great. Everyone should check out Nashville. That's neither here nor there because now it's Davey Boy Smith and Vader. The other bits of Jim Cornette's camp. And they are fighting Godwins Hog farmers. Yes. [02:08:17] Speaker A: Hello, Billy. Jim and their goats. I love them. [02:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I love them. [02:08:24] Speaker A: They're like country nasty boys. [02:08:27] Speaker B: Exactly. Oh, my God. Nico, you have your finger on the pulse. [02:08:31] Speaker C: Absolutely cold read. [02:08:34] Speaker B: Well, it's Henry O. Godwin and Phineas. I Godwin. So Hog and Pig. And this is again the meat match. This is our meat match for the Raw evening. We get Steiners throwing other guys around, and Vince is like, damn it, I want that. Phineas is happy. [02:08:51] Speaker C: They do it. [02:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they do it. Phineas is having a ring. I think he got. Just got back from an injury, so he's got ring rust. And, like, I swear to God, Vader is just trying to literally knock it off of him this entire match. Yeah, out of him. Vader doesn't like when you aren't good, and when you aren't good, he'll hit you about it. People don't like Vader. [02:09:14] Speaker C: Yeah. He's also the stinkiest man in world, right? [02:09:19] Speaker B: Yes, he is known as the stinkiest man in the history of wrestling. [02:09:23] Speaker A: Is he the Eureka of wrestling? [02:09:26] Speaker B: Yes. [02:09:26] Speaker A: Do you guys watch Drag Race? [02:09:27] Speaker B: Okay, wait. Yeah, I've watched enough to know that he doesn't wash his gear. [02:09:33] Speaker A: Oh, that is eureka. [02:09:34] Speaker B: Yes, he doesn't watch his gear. And they work like 300 shows a year. And he has a large. [02:09:41] Speaker A: Too stinky. [02:09:42] Speaker B: Yeah. In a leather face mask. [02:09:45] Speaker C: So can you. When they go into holds or they're, like, picking him up or grabbing him. [02:09:49] Speaker B: By his panties, like, get underneath his. [02:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. Every time I see him, I was. [02:09:56] Speaker B: Like, oh, Vader was a problem. [02:10:00] Speaker C: Yeah. He also used to hit, like, super hard right when pulls. [02:10:04] Speaker B: Yeah. He's a bully. Like, yeah, you. He just doesn't give a. Because he's big enough that, like, you can't do anything about it. He also broke someone's back in the ring. Yeah. [02:10:15] Speaker C: Are you serious? Oh, God, of course. [02:10:17] Speaker B: Well, he did kill the guy. He didn't actually kill the guy. [02:10:20] Speaker A: Not that time. [02:10:21] Speaker B: He recovered. Yeah, not that time. I don't think he. He ended up paralyzed at all, but, like, he broke a dude's back. He power bombed him, like, and just snapped him. Yeah. Scary. So there. There's a dark side of the ring about Vader, as there should be, because I guess he was, like, the nicest guy until he really wasn't. And, like, you never knew when that was going to happen and he would get in the ring. Yeah. I wonder if that ct. Yeah. Well said. Na. But this is a straightforward match. Otherwise. Cornet's on commentary again, so Jerry's going to up his game. Cornet does say there's of a lot low blow to the go groal area. And he was right, because I think Phineas is just not wrestling good today, basically, like I said, he's just. He's rusty, and he goes for a kick and just straight up kicks Vader in the balls. And I was like, immediately. Like, immediately I was like, he's gonna receipt you for the rest of this match. Beat the out. Vader is a Pokemon. He says his own name when he strikes. [02:11:27] Speaker A: But also, I don't imagine or I can't. I can also imagine Hillbilly Jim and that duo doing the same thing. [02:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [02:11:37] Speaker A: Finn. [02:11:39] Speaker B: H, H. Yeah. [02:11:44] Speaker A: Pig. [02:11:44] Speaker B: Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, pig. [02:11:47] Speaker C: It's actually quite adorable, though. [02:11:50] Speaker B: That might be better. I might like that more. More. Yeah, yeah. This is good stuff. Cordet's theory on the third man for Shawn and Ahmed is that they just found a day worker for 50 bucks, basically. [02:12:02] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [02:12:02] Speaker B: But I. I mean, at this point, there's probably a jobber in the back that'll do it for 25. [02:12:06] Speaker C: I'm just a competitive market here, brother. You need to be on top of it. Like, know your market. [02:12:14] Speaker B: Competitive business. Yeah, exactly. [02:12:16] Speaker C: I was. [02:12:17] Speaker A: I. Oh, go ahead, go ahead. [02:12:19] Speaker C: No, no, go, please go. [02:12:20] Speaker A: I was just gonna say, I do. Shawn Michaels has, like, these coquettish, like, oopsie, I didn't mean to do that. I'm so sorry. And I cannot stop laughing because he, like, sexy boy. [02:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Yes. [02:12:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:12:37] Speaker A: And he's just like, oh, did I do an oops? [02:12:40] Speaker C: I'm so bad. [02:12:43] Speaker A: And I love him in the background of everything being like, yeah, right. [02:12:47] Speaker B: Is. Oh, I'm a little stinker. The problem is, is he takes that same energy into popping a bunch of, like, muscle relaxers, drinking too much, and starting a fight with a bunch of Marines in a bar. And then you'd be like, I'm a little stinker. [02:13:04] Speaker C: Look at me. [02:13:05] Speaker A: Oopsie. I took all these pills, and now I have so much unbridled wage wage. [02:13:11] Speaker B: And I'm trying to do something about it because I'm a fan fighter. And in reality, it's like, he's on soas, and he was probably, like, just done. Like, every time I think of that fight, I imagine Leo DiCaprio and Wolf of Wall street on Quo trying to get in his car. [02:13:25] Speaker C: Yes. [02:13:25] Speaker B: And I was just like. But with Marines stomping the. Out of. Oh, Sean. [02:13:32] Speaker A: I would actually probably like to see that fight. [02:13:36] Speaker B: Honestly, that would have been more entertaining than this. This finishes pretty straightforward. Davey boy slams the out of pig for three. And like. And I. I don't even know which one I just said. And pig farmer. One of them. [02:13:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:13:50] Speaker A: Was it yellow shirt? Was it green shirt? Who knows? They were both overalls. Someone with overalls got. [02:13:58] Speaker C: The one with overalls died. [02:14:01] Speaker B: It was not Hillbilly Jim, though. And the goats were okay. Thank you. [02:14:04] Speaker C: Yeah, the goats were fine as far as. [02:14:07] Speaker A: Were harmed. [02:14:08] Speaker B: Right. As far as see or Skip. In my opinion, mostly forgettable. But if you want to see Vader try to murder Dennis Knight for sucking, this is the match for you. [02:14:19] Speaker C: Sometimes you're just in that mood. [02:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Sometimes you just want to watch Vader hurt a guy. They give us one more. I think this is the fourth time that they go to Sean and Ahmed after this match. And they. [02:14:33] Speaker A: A lot. [02:14:34] Speaker B: It was a lot like this whole thing also. I didn't take notice of it. But you saw the, The. The row of Burger Kings throughout the entire. [02:14:44] Speaker C: I saw that. [02:14:45] Speaker B: That I missed these. Oh my God. The whole hard cr. The whole time. The hard cam. The whole front row. [02:14:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:14:53] Speaker B: Is a. A bunch of. Of my. My unfortunate brethren, Wisconsin dudes in Burger King caps in 1996. And these are the same guys who have been in the. That row for three weeks now because nitro is live, but raw isn't. So this is. This is. They're still using footage that they filmed I think like going on three weeks ago, which is these men. [02:15:20] Speaker A: Really. Everyone smells bad here. Everyone needs to go to the bathroom. [02:15:28] Speaker B: It. We're alive, pal. Yeah. [02:15:30] Speaker A: We've been live for three weeks. No breaks, no cuts, nothing. [02:15:34] Speaker B: That's why those Burger Kings are calmed down now. I will say, like the first episode I saw, they were rowdy and they've just been tired. [02:15:40] Speaker C: Okay. I was wondering because I did notice there was a distinct lack of energy in the. In this crowd where it was just like. [02:15:49] Speaker B: I think it's because they probably made them sit through. Through like three raw tapings. That was a long. I bet you that was a long show. So like by the time we get here, everyone's just like done. That was probably like a three or four hour show. And it's like, please go home. No, I get my good. [02:16:09] Speaker A: Having to sit there and watch like slow, like old fashioned fighting like this for four hours where they're just pushing each other around and like maybe someone throws someone out of the ring. But that, that's the most. [02:16:24] Speaker C: Join us for the next pay per View night, babes. Let's go. [02:16:29] Speaker B: Now that you've been on the show, you're you're cordially, yeah, yeah, yeah or. [02:16:34] Speaker C: Yeah, next pay per view. [02:16:36] Speaker B: Oh, because I need to come hang. [02:16:38] Speaker A: Out more whenever you're watching. [02:16:41] Speaker B: Absolutely. We do. For the Patreon, we do pay per view, pay per view, watch parties. We watch all the pay per views that happen in between the Monday shows. And you are welcome to come hang out in Mystery Science Theater. Those with us like. Like you do. But yeah, they. They go to them for the fourth and think final time. They tell us the third man is here. He is the perfect tag partner. Like you were saying. Na. Is like, is this gonna be Mr. Perfect? But no, no, no, no. We come back from commercial, Cornet's doing his little mischief gremlin thing, and he's like, there is no third man. They're bluffing them. They're lying. And come and do a gang fight with no gang. And then they go to Sean and Ahmed and he's like, here's our third man. It's Ramen head himself. The king of the Vienna sausages. Psycho Sid Yuty. Yes. And he says, some psycho in it rules. [02:17:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:17:35] Speaker B: That man is weird. That's all I can say about Sid Yuty. He's weird. We haven't seen Sid in a while, likely because it was softball season, but he's back. [02:17:51] Speaker A: Is he a softball player also? Minor or major? [02:17:55] Speaker B: He would. He. These are the things you find out when you. You want to know all the things about wrestling. He became kind of famous in the back. Like, he would no call. No. She would call them and be like, I can't. I can't make it to the show. I just. I will not be able to catch my flight. And like. And then be like. And you try to come up with an excuse. And then they find out he's playing softball at, like, a local rec league. [02:18:23] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [02:18:24] Speaker B: It's his boys. He couldn't miss out. He's playing for the church league. He's like, he's no one, though. He just loves softball and couldn't care two shits less about pro wrestling. But it was good money. When you're seven foot tall, you built like that, there's nothing for you to do. So he. He plays pro wrestling because they pay him to show up and talk. Like there's a screen sometimes. But he doesn't want to do that. He wants to be playing softball. So that. [02:18:54] Speaker C: For a Pathfinder game, though, for real. [02:18:56] Speaker A: For real. [02:18:57] Speaker C: They're like, I gotta go wrestle. And you're. I'm just like, no, no, I got something Something's going on, and it's just four and a half hours. Pathfinder. [02:19:05] Speaker B: Right. [02:19:07] Speaker A: That doesn't sound like the worst thing. [02:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah, there's worse things. Yeah, but that's. Yeah. [02:19:12] Speaker A: You could play Pathfinder 2e. [02:19:16] Speaker C: That's true. The new one. [02:19:18] Speaker B: Need to go. I made. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. Now we're at the end of the episode. I'm gonna wet all of the sausage. Making slips. I made sure Hampter was the co. Yeah. For this episode. Because I know Hampter is a tabletop RPG player. And I was like, you got. You've gotta hang out with us. [02:19:37] Speaker A: Yes. What's your favorite system? [02:19:40] Speaker C: So right now it is Pathfinder 2e, because that's what we were playing the majority of the time after, like, Watsi kind of did everything with magic and Dungeons and Dragons, and we're just like, you know what? Maybe it's time to system. Yeah. But for before that, like, d. D5E. For sure. Basic. [02:20:03] Speaker B: You're gonna. Nika, you're gonna find lots and lots of TTRPG people in the Choya AV Club. Lots of folks, including Kennedy Cooper, one of the other. My business partner, and one of the other founders of said AV club. Whole hosts game nights in Albuquerque, like, all the time. Like, it's a thing they're doing. I saw the local. [02:20:25] Speaker A: I saw that channel. [02:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:20:28] Speaker A: Thank you. I'm bad at Discord, so I don't know what to call things. So I was gonna say subreddit at first, but this is not Reddit. So. [02:20:37] Speaker B: Because of Kennedy and working with Kennedy and, like, Discord is like my office at this point point, but also where I hang with all my friends. So it's weird. [02:20:47] Speaker A: I use G Chat. That's what I really. I have sold my soul to Google. You got to do it to Google or Apple. Those are the two choices that you get. And so I chose Google. [02:20:58] Speaker B: I. I am. I am making myself the radical independent. And I. I have sold Discord. Discord. Discord has Craig. The. The recording bot with the dead eyes. [02:21:08] Speaker A: Wait, but where do you save all of your, like, documents and stuff? [02:21:13] Speaker B: Oh, that. I do Google. Yeah. No. [02:21:15] Speaker A: Okay, so, yeah. [02:21:16] Speaker B: So you're Google. Yeah. No, I have spreadsheets. I got the Monday night fake fights sheets and the election sheets, and the whole. The whole thing is done with sheets. I love me a spreadsheet. As soon as I found out I liked spreadsheets, I was like, I can be a podcast network person. I like. [02:21:33] Speaker A: I'm told I can make a pivot table. [02:21:38] Speaker B: And Kennedy and Brandon taught me what all those words mean. And now you get to hear me make a podcast, which we did. We finished it. We made a podcast. [02:21:46] Speaker C: We did. [02:21:47] Speaker B: Do we have. [02:21:48] Speaker A: It was so much fun wrestling. This was super fun. I know that we didn't watch the same night. [02:21:56] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Which is why this took three hours to record. [02:22:01] Speaker A: We both got to watch Crispin with the Outsiders and Malinko fight and Psychosis. [02:22:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to see. [02:22:10] Speaker A: So. So we all saw similar things. It was super fun. Raw was wild. I'm so glad that we are not subjected to that anymore. I'm so glad we have awe. I appreciate it so much more. Sorry. [02:22:25] Speaker C: Awe. Aew. [02:22:32] Speaker A: I appreciate it so much more. [02:22:34] Speaker B: Wrestling can be queer in its text now and not instead of subtext, right? [02:22:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it's interesting. So do you. How. How do. How did it feel watching a 1996 match versus there wasn't a huge amount of shock there, right? Because you had seen stuff, but, like. [02:22:52] Speaker A: Seemed so tame compared to what I see now because I've seen someone staple a picture onto someone else's titty or even just the slapping. Like they don't slap each other as much as they did. Like, they slap each other now way more than they did in 1996. [02:23:11] Speaker B: That's because AW has more Japanese influence and you get the chops in America. Back in the day, the only guy who was really doing the chops was Flair. That was a flare. But that's a thing in strong style where you share the strikes back and forth forth to see. And it's a matter of like, seeing if you can take it. [02:23:29] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a. [02:23:30] Speaker B: That's a. The fighting spirit thing. That of. Of that's a Japanese wrestling thing. So that's that influence. Eddie Kingston, who I is my sweet, sweet violence boy, I love him so much. Eddie is. Got me. Is the guy who got me into Japanese wrestling because, uh, back when I was still on the Twitter, his entire Twitter presence is just him sharing YouTube of old Japanese wrestling because he. His like special interest is Japanese wrestling and he used to do tape trading and now tape trading is. Is YouTube and all this stuff exists. So he would just give clinics for free on YouTube or on Twitter about Japanese wrestling. That's how I learned everything about Japanese wrestling. [02:24:14] Speaker A: Have you watched the wrestling match where I don't remember what the name is, but they wrestle against a mannequin. [02:24:25] Speaker B: Yes. A hero. [02:24:26] Speaker A: Yes. [02:24:27] Speaker B: Yes. No. That's my favorite thing Jennifer showed me. [02:24:31] Speaker A: And I lost my mind. I like my. My Stomach hurt the next day from laughing so hard from it. It is the funniest. And it also shows. [02:24:41] Speaker B: Grandpa, did you see. No. You know, Murder Grandpa. You know Suzuki, the guy with like the crazy cut in his hair Cut hair who's like the older Japanese guy. [02:24:51] Speaker A: No, I don't think it was him that I saw. [02:24:53] Speaker B: Okay. [02:24:53] Speaker A: Is there another one that's like super. Wait, I'd have to see a picture of him. He thinks. [02:24:59] Speaker B: All right, hold on. Let me show you. Murder Grandpa. Murder Grandpa. Murder Grandpa has been in aw a lot, so I think you might know him. [02:25:06] Speaker A: Okay, I've probably seen him. [02:25:08] Speaker B: But he just this. Just this year over WrestleMania weekend at the GCW or at the DDT show. He wrestled Yoshiro. And it's like this is guy. This guy Murder Grandpa is famous for. He started one of the shoot Minoru Suzuki. He started like helped start one of the shoot leagues in Japanese wrestling where they're actually beating the out of each other kind of stuff. And he fought the sex doll. The like crash. And like, it was so good. This guy in the chat. [02:25:43] Speaker A: No, I don't think it was him. [02:25:47] Speaker B: It's amazing. [02:25:48] Speaker C: Incredible Murder. Yeah, that's correct. [02:25:52] Speaker A: I need to see which one it was that Jennifer showed me because it was hilarious. But I want to say it was like a younger guy guy. [02:25:59] Speaker B: It could have been. He does a lot. I mean that. That doll has. Has held DDT championships. Damn it. [02:26:07] Speaker A: It's a very accomplished wrestler. [02:26:10] Speaker B: Very accomplished doll. They are. They are everything I love about wrestling. See also or there's a reason I love Orange Cassidy so much is like the. Just that too. But I. I just love, love that. That people. And for all the reasons the old guys who we've just watched several hours of hate this stuff. [02:26:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:26:35] Speaker B: Is because it's. Well, you're giving away the game and it's like the game's gone, buddy. Like the games gave away. So why not then have fun with it? Because like, if. If you lean into the fact that everyone's in on it, then you get to wrestle a sex doll and have people in the audience react as though you're fighting for your life because this doll has you in an ankle lock. [02:27:01] Speaker A: I don't think I've ever cheered harder for someone than whenever I watch that. Because I wanted him to beat the doll. [02:27:10] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. [02:27:11] Speaker A: Because it was a really good opponent. [02:27:15] Speaker B: Absolutely. And I will always bring up the. The Orange Cassidy match where the guy he's fighting puts him in a sleeper hole by Catches him or. No, first. No, that's what it was. That's later. He catches him. He, like, tries to cross body him and he catches him like a baby and starts rocking him back and forth. And Orange Cassidy falls asleep. [02:27:34] Speaker A: That's perfect. [02:27:35] Speaker C: I love it. [02:27:36] Speaker B: That kind of stuff. I was like, that can be wrestling, too. Like, that should be wrestling, too. That's my favorite thing of wrestling, so. God damn. Thank you. Na. This has been a blast and a half. And you. No matter how much editing down I do, which I'm sure I will, you have broken the record. You broke the record. No, no. Let's go, let's go. It's happening. This was a blast. You are welcome back any old time. [02:28:05] Speaker C: Yeah, please. [02:28:07] Speaker A: I'm so happy you tell them. You send me the blank. And don't maybe watch the right one. [02:28:18] Speaker B: To see what we see if we did a good job telling you about it. All right, That's. [02:28:22] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that be great. [02:28:24] Speaker B: You should tell people one more time at the end. I know. We. We make you tell at the front in case they don't make it through three hours of us giggling. You should tell the people where to find you if you want to be found and things of that nature. As I always like to say. Send my guests money. Where can people send you money? [02:28:42] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Well, okay. You can go to Blue sky at N. Howard, and I have all of my links and everything in there. That's probably the best place to find me. I'm there. Or Instagram, and I think that's at the Nika Howard. I don't remember. Go to Blue Sky. Thank you. And then you can also find me at Greetings Adventures podcast. We record and stream on Twitch every Tuesday. And yeah, it's fun. [02:29:12] Speaker B: I've been in that Twitch. It's a good time. Go, folks. It's. It's a good time. [02:29:17] Speaker A: And I like to think we're fun, especially if you like piss. [02:29:21] Speaker B: Or beans. Or piss. Yeah. [02:29:23] Speaker A: Or beans. [02:29:25] Speaker C: We got the both. Both of them. Yeah. [02:29:27] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. You know, no wonder when. When we were all early Blue sky folks, and I saw you show up, and I was like, oh, Nika's gonna love it here. [02:29:37] Speaker A: I hate Twitter. I love Blue Sky. [02:29:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:29:41] Speaker B: As soon as he showed up, I was like, oh, my God, Piss and beans. And everyone's just saying. Everyone's just saying piss or come or things of this nature. And I was like, I've listened to enough of their show. And I was like, oh, Nika's gonna love this. So imagine my surprise when we became oomphies, and I was like, oh, no. What? Oh, this is weird. And that's how you got here, folks. And now. Now we can do the. [02:30:03] Speaker C: That's how podcasters are made. [02:30:05] Speaker B: That's how podcast. When two randos on the Internet like each other very, very much. [02:30:12] Speaker A: Yes. [02:30:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:30:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:30:17] Speaker B: So, folks, thank you all for hanging out. This was a marathon. Thank you for listening. I. I had way too much fun. But we will see you guys next week for more Raw versus Nitro. On Monday night, Fake Fights K By.