Chairs, Ladders, and Ring Giants: Our All-Time Wrestling Favorites

Wrestling's greatest legends have captivated audiences for decades with their larger-than-life personas, incredible athleticism, and unforgettable storylines. As WrestleMania approaches, we're diving into our Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling – the superstars who've defined and transformed this unique form of entertainment.

Our discussion spans multiple eras, from Andre the Giant's pioneering presence that changed what was possible in professional wrestling to modern-day stars like Roman Reigns, whose record-breaking championship reign has made him today's biggest attraction.

Beyond ranking our favorites, we share fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about these legends – from Andre the Giant's interactions on The Princess Bride set to the dangerous Hell in a Cell match where Mick Foley was thrown from the top of the cage. We also touch on wrestling's evolution from the unregulated days of unprotected chair shots to today's more safety-conscious product.

Whether you're a lifelong wrestling fan or just curious about these cultural icons, join us for this nostalgic celebration of professional wrestling's greatest characters. Check out entertainthispodcast.com to discover more episodes and connect with us on social media to share your own wrestling Mount Rushmore!

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Intro and Podcast Overview

Speaker 1 0:01

Oh yeah, oh, that was about all the energy I got. Now I'm tired.

Speaker 2 0:08

There's Red Bulls in the fridge. Mitch, there's Red Bulls in the fridge.

Speaker 1 0:11

I've already had two energy drinks today.

Speaker 2 0:13

Two Is that why you have food poisoning, or you think you have food poisoning?

Speaker 1 0:20

No.

Speaker 2 0:21

Are you just like?

Speaker 1 0:23

Red Bulled out For sure, or whatever the hell it is that you for sure, or?

Speaker 2 0:27

whatever the gas station biscuits, avoid them. Entertain this top tip. Hello and welcome to entertain this. It's a podcast about movies, tv shows and video games, and today wrestling well, you know, wrestlemania is coming up, so there's in honor of wrestlemania. We're going to talk about me and Mitch's favorite wrestlers. We don't have Hayden, so we don't have to suffer through that.

Speaker 1 0:48

I was told I get an obligatory one wrestling episode a year. Well, it's WrestleMania. We're doing a wrestling episode.

Speaker 2 0:53

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Speaker 1 1:19

You're reading it, so were you for four years. Most of the time I'm trying to do it off of memory.

Speaker 2 1:27

Four years of you and your Captain America shield notebook would flip open and read it out and bobble it. There's no timeouts in podcasting.

Speaker 1 1:34

We changed the social media this last year, so it's not fair that I had to memorize and then I had to try to re-memorize it.

Speaker 2 1:41

You're feeling like a heel Mitch.

Speaker 1 1:45

Sometimes I gotta do what's best for business.

Speaker 2 1:47

Feeling like a heel Mitch. Look at me Wrestling words.

Speaker 1 1:52

Things, chairs.

Speaker 2 1:55

Ladders Cages Canvas Mike Sweat.

Speaker 1 2:03

So I was going to do top ten wrestlers, but Tom said he only has six.

Speaker 2 2:08

So I'm doing top five. I asked for five. I had 20 written down Because I thought five would be a little bit more of a discussion.

Speaker 1 2:15

Yeah, I had 20 written down, but he said let's do five.

Speaker 2 2:17

I was like okay, well, mitch, we don't need everyone who's ever wrestled ever.

Speaker 1 2:21

No, not even half the people that I know. That's wrestled. I mean, there's a lot more.

Speaker 2 2:26

I know there's a lot more.

Speaker 1 2:29

Like you know, I like doing Macho man voice, but he's not even in my top 20.

Speaker 2 2:34

What? Yeah, you don't have Macho man Randy Savage, your namesake, no, no, no, I'm ashamed. He was close to being like number 21, 22.

Speaker 1 2:46

He hears this he's dead Still.

Speaker 2 2:49

He's hearing it now. He's upstairs, he's on a cloud with big sunglasses on looking down going what the hell?

Speaker 1 2:57

Well, we can jump right into it. Since Tom knows less wrestlers than I do, I'll let him go first. So I had six, we'll go with five. I'll narrow it down. All right, I'll take people you don't my honorable mention at number six.

Speaker 2 3:12

Then is Bill Goldberg. Okay, I was always a big fan of Bill Goldberg. I thought he was an awesome wrestler undefeated, he would just come out, take out whoever it was, and I know some matches were kind of like you should have lost.

Speaker 1 3:25

That, or they were five seconds long. Because he spears, the guy suplexes him and he's done.

Speaker 2 3:30

Yeah, from what I heard, he was also kind of like he would hurt people Eh.

Speaker 1 3:35

Bret Hart was a crybaby about it, but yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 2 3:38

Yeah, I got Bret Hart.

Speaker 1 3:40

Yeah, he's a crybaby.

Speaker 2 3:45

I don't like Bret Hart. He's not on my list. That's why I have like pinkish purple, mirrored sunglasses in honor of Bret Hart.

Speaker 1 3:48

Yes, I know he's not dead, he's like Chris Jericho. You just made the list click, click wasn't loud enough.

Speaker 2 3:56

I don't have a clicky pen in front of me, click it in front of the mic. There you go. You're on the list yeah yeah, so let's start with your number five oh, my number five.

Speaker 1 4:07

I'm still trying to narrow it down.

Speaker 2 4:09

I was gonna let you go first, um all right, I can go first yeah, okay, go, go go my number five, andre the giant okay, that's one low ones off my list. I think he was a absolutely massive, not you know massive man. A massive contributor to wrestling.

Speaker 1 4:26

He was like was it the 8th winner of the world?

Speaker 2 4:30

I think that's what he was called the 8th winner of the world, andre the Giant.

Speaker 1 4:34

Because he could literally palm people's heads with his hand.

Speaker 2 4:38

It was just such an amazing gimmick for wrestling to have someone that big and that likable.

Speaker 1 4:46

Yeah, I mean, like, from what? Like? I watched the documentary and stuff about him. Actually Hayden watched it too. It was pretty interesting. But I mean he was, he was just like a really just nice, fun guy, unless you made him mad, like if you. There are stories about people you know saying wrestling was fake and he did not like. He did not take that kindly.

Speaker 2 5:03

Or other wrestlers who pissed him off and he was not having it when they got in the ring Exactly.

Top Five Wrestlers Discussion Begins

Speaker 1 5:09

There was a lot of times where he said that if Andre didn't agree with who's going to win, they're not going to win, Because when Hulk Hogan was supposed to body slam him in front of the world, Hogan was like I don't know, did you talk to Andre he's? Like uh, hogan was like I don't you know you should. Did you talk to andre? He's like well, I don't know if andre's gonna go along with that.

Speaker 2 5:28

And he didn't know until andre said pick me up which is wild, because I was just thinking that too and I was like the probably was at wrestlemania 3 where hulk? Hogan lifted andre the giant over his head and like, slammed him and everybody's just like, and everybody's like oh, that's the first time anybody's ever lifted.

Speaker 1 5:44

Andre, which actually it wasn't, but it was like the first time, live on TV.

Speaker 2 5:49

Well, it was the first time a person was recorded doing it. Yeah, because forklifts didn't count.

Speaker 1 5:53

Well, I mean they had done it.

Speaker 2 5:54

Everybody thinks like the classic Andre the Giant story where he got so drunk he passed out in a hotel lobby and they left him there because because six dudes couldn't even lift him up to get him out, people just walked around him. It's just Andre.

Speaker 1 6:09

He's fine.

Speaker 2 6:09

I liked Andre the Giant.

Speaker 1 6:13

He was a nice guy. Granted, I acted like I know him, but from the things I'd seen, From what I'd heard, everybody spoke very highly of the guy. The story stuff about Princess Bride.

Speaker 2 6:23

Exactly, that was exactly what I was going to bring up, princess Bride, where he was worried that everybody would just be freaked out because of how big he was or how good his English was or how bad his English was. But everybody just treated him like he was just another member of the cast on the crew and he had the most fun time, even though he couldn't hold up Robin Wright because he had back pain, because of his gigantism.

Speaker 1 6:44

Yeah, because towards the end of his life he had real bad knee and back problems.

Speaker 2 6:49

But he was a legend in the ring.

Speaker 1 6:51

He was the world's largest man. Anyways, on to the next one. For number five, I'm going to go with Roman Reigns.

Speaker 2 7:01

Roman Reigns. Isn't he the current?

Speaker 1 7:04

He's the tribal chief.

Speaker 2 7:04

He's the tribal chief. He's the tribal chief. Isn't he the current heavyweight champion, or was?

Speaker 1 7:08

that last year he lost last year.

Speaker 2 7:10

He lost last year. Who did he lose to Cody Rhodes? Cody Rhodes.

Speaker 1 7:12

Yeah, dusty Rhodes' son oh a legacy, a legacy wrestler.

Speaker 2 7:16

I guess wrestling really is a family business.

Speaker 1 7:19

Yeah, dusty Rhodes, then you had Dustin Rhodes, which?

Speaker 2 7:23

is his oldest son. Then you have Cody Rhodes and you got Dusty Hill, dusty Springfield. Well, dusty Hill's member is EZ Top and Dusty. Springfield sang that song, son of a Preacher man.

Speaker 1 7:32

I was like I have no idea you gotta tie it all in Mitch.

Speaker 2 7:35

It's a big universe.

Speaker 1 7:36

Time is a flat circle, I mean well, yeah, I mean, you know Roman Reigns, he's let's see, he started probably I think it was like 2012 or so, but yeah, I mean he's pretty much the biggest attraction in pro wrestling in the world right now.

Speaker 2 7:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:56

He also holds the record for the longest reign as champion, which you know. Granted, you know it is what it is, but I think it's three or 4,000-something days. He was champion for like three or four years.

Speaker 2 8:08

Three or four years yeah.

Speaker 1 8:10

Nobody could beat him. Granted, he's a bad guy. People would help him out to where he would win sometimes, but he never lost, you know what? And then he actually ended up becoming the double champ. They had the Universal Championship and then they had the World Championship. Well, he won them both and he had them both.

Speaker 2 8:26

He was a double belter.

Speaker 1 8:27

Yeah, nice, he'd always come out and just hold up both belts. And everybody would be like boo, he's the Rock's cousin.

Speaker 2 8:35

You know what? All right, now you say it. I've got to see the resemblance.

Speaker 1 8:39

Yeah, he was in the movie Hobbs and Shaw as part of the Rock's family in that one as well.

Speaker 2 8:49

When they go to Hawaii they have to fight off the. Is that like? The ultimate career move in wrestling is?

Speaker 1 8:52

to make it to movies. I think that's what they're working on Most of the big names in wrestling. That's what they move to, John.

Speaker 2 8:57

Cena Batista, the Rock Stone Cold, steve Austin Goldberg, santa Slay Ho ho hoes Also, where he met his wife.

Speaker 1 9:08

Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 2 9:09

Hulk Hogan. I think probably Hulk Hogan might have did it first with Rocky III.

Speaker 1 9:15

Yeah, I think so. He was probably one of the earliest ones to do that.

Speaker 2 9:18

Before Andre the Giant did it, because I think Princess Bride was like 1988.

Speaker 1 9:23

What was Rocky III?

Speaker 2 9:24

Rocky III, I think was like 1988. Rocky three, rocky three, I think was like 1981, 82, because, uh, rocky four is 1985 and I think rocky five is 1990 okay, who's your next one? My next Bret Hart. I always liked Bret Hart. I thought Bret Hart was so cool because he'd come out with the pink mirrored sunglasses that were wrapped around like Cyclops, Like the dark black and the vibrant colors, the long hair, all sweaty. He'd come down and he was a very technically proficient wrestler.

Speaker 1 10:05

Well, I'll just say they've made up him and the WWE as far as the way things used to be. But at one point he was leaving WWE because it's a show he refused to lose and lose the championship. He wanted to leave WWE and go to WCW and never lose his championship. It's a show, you can't just take the belt with you when you go. And he refused to do it. So they had Shawn.

Speaker 2 10:30

Michaels. Yeah, Shawn.

Speaker 2 10:31

Michaels rolled him up and they counted real fast and he was so mad yeah that's the story Undertaker tells on a podcast where it's like we're all in the locker room and everybody's losing it, like what the hell? And Vince McMahon comes in and then like bret hart stand there and like he's like there's like a crowd and bret hart's like I'm gonna go take a shower and get changed. If you're still here, I'm gonna knock you out. Yeah, and then sean michaels with to say something. Everybody turned to sean michaels. The undertaker was like you need to shut the f up and go somewhere else, sean, before you get hurt. And they were like and Bret Hart was like he went, he showered, he cleaned up, got dressed, came out. Vince McMahon was still there and the Undertaker was like there was like eight people between the two of them and he landed a punch and knocked down Steve McMahon or Vince McMahon.

Speaker 1 11:15

And it's like that's legendary stuff.

Speaker 2 11:18

That's legendary stuff.

Speaker 1 11:20

Well then there was that. And then he didn't like Goldberg because he said Goldberg didn't know how to wrestle Because Goldberg gave him a concussion one time the way Goldberg tells it he was going to go. You know, he told him, hey, you're going to do a kick or whatever, and Goldberg went to kick him and he didn't like go with it or whatever. So he just got kicked in the face by Bill Goldberg.

Speaker 2 11:40

Yeah, who's who's a big dude. They never get along after that. How big is Bret Hart? I feel like we need baseball cards to get stats.

Speaker 1 11:51

I know. See, if I had my charger from my computer, I'd have all this pulled up.

Speaker 2 11:55

Mitch, you need to be more prepared on this show.

Speaker 1 11:58

That's funny.

Speaker 2 11:59

It is funny. It is funny.

Speaker 1 12:02

Are you?

Speaker 2 12:02

looking to hit Bret Hart. I am, he's 67 years old. It's exactly. Are you looking at Bret Hart? I am All right.

Speaker 1 12:06

I'll look up. I think he's 67 years old.

Speaker 2 12:09

Let's look up Bill Goldberg height Just to get a comparison of the size of these guys as we go through. I mean Goldberg 6'4".

Speaker 1 12:21

I don't know why I can't just find Wikipedia.

Speaker 2 12:25

Bret Hart's 6 feet tall.

Speaker 1 12:26

Yeah, 6 foot and 235 pounds.

Speaker 2 12:29

Yeah, Goldberg was probably like 270 or something.

Speaker 1 12:32

Yeah, because I think he was like 270, 260 or something like that he was a large, large man. Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:37

I bet that hurt, I bet that smarted.

The Legendary Undertaker

Speaker 1 12:40

Well, and then if you watch like, you can tell the difference between when he spears people and when other people are spearing people Like he actually knew what he was doing. So when he spears, it looks like it hurts.

Speaker 2 12:50

Yeah, I mean Goldberg looked like he was doing it, because I mean he played football at UGA.

Speaker 1 12:54

Yeah, played football at UGA and he went pro. Yeah, he was with the Falcons for a little while.

Speaker 2 12:57

I think he was with the Falcons he didn't start, but he was with the Falcons. I think he was with the Dolphins. Oh, I don't know I could be wrong, I could be wrong. He was with the Rams.

Speaker 1 13:08

Okay. And then he was with the Falcons, then he was with the Panthers, but that was like an offseason but first team, all SEC, yeah, so he knows how to tackle moving on to our next one, because I want to try and have my team and your team, which I'm going to do something here shortly, I got to pick my number one, which is Undertaker.

Speaker 2 13:33

Undertaker was my number one.

Speaker 1 13:35

I had to take Undertaker.

Speaker 2 13:36

I feel like Undertaker is an unfair choice. Do we just want to talk about Undertaker now? Yeah, I mean, why not? I really think Undertaker is the unfair choice. I really think Do we just want to talk about Undertaker now? Yeah, I mean, why not? All right, I really think Undertaker is the ultimate face of wrestling. Yes, I think he is the greatest thing that wrestling has put out in probably the last 25, 30 years.

Speaker 1 13:51

I agree.

Speaker 2 13:52

Oh, go ahead. His like whatever, like his like action, kind of guy crap in like the late 80s into the 90s, because he kind of fell off. I'm like watching like interviews with him. He's like they're like pitch me this like undertaker thing or like they pitched him something and he threw in like this undertaker bit and they kind of melded well, no, he he was originally.

Speaker 1 14:14

He was called mean mark calloway. Yeah, he was mean mark well then, uh, vince mcmahon talked to him and he hey, I got this great idea for you. Well, at the same time, wwf had this giant egg on the screen and they were talking about leading up. They had a countdown and he goes. I just know I'm going to be Eggman, Because they had all sorts of gimmicks. They had the dentist and the garbage man.

Speaker 2 14:40

The guy in the black glittered-out Stormtrooper helmet who knocked himself out when he entered the room.

Speaker 1 14:45

Yeah, undertaker. He just knew he was going to be Eggman when he came to WWF.

Speaker 2 14:49

But they ended up making the Undertaker character.

Speaker 1 14:52

He came in with that and he's dead. He's just back here to fight for the what was it? $10 million man, ted DiBiase. But then he had that whole gimmick where he hardly ever said anything. He had the announcer, which was Richard, something I can't remember his last name, but he had a white suit and stuff. It was the guy that walked around with him.

Speaker 1 15:18

But yeah, undertaker, he went from the uh like dead man, like kind of what he called the uh crypt keeper, not uh yeah, something like that like an old west kind of uh it did have western look to him yeah, well then he got to like the super goth where he even had like a little like a teardrop on his eye.

Speaker 2 15:37

Yeah, he had like a little eyeliner, he did the eye thing, which I don't know how he does.

Speaker 2 15:40

That, yeah, and then like the black out the leather and they he had like a little eyeliner. He'd do the eye thing, which I don't know how he does. That yeah, and then like the black hat, the leather, and they'd bring him out in like a coffin. I mean you watched wrestling in that time to be watching and all the lights would go out and you thought your TV went out but you still heard the music and then you heard the bell and it's like Undertaker, everybody would be like yes, it's the Undertaker, yeah, he's always been my favorite, yeah, and he seems like an awesome dude.

Speaker 1 16:09

Well, his interviews are absolutely amazing. I mean he's actually got his own podcast as well. We're six feet under which I listen to a good bit. I don't know if it's where he, like I said, I haven't listened to it a whole bunch, but he's got some friend with him that got him into doing the podcast stuff and a whole bunch. But he's got some friend with him that got him into doing the podcast stuff and now he really enjoys it. He'll have Glenn. Jacobs, which is Kane. He'll be on there.

Speaker 2 16:26

sometimes he's had a couple other people on there he was marketed as his brother, the Undertaker's brother, kane.

Speaker 1 16:33

Undertaker's one of those characters. He went from being the Old West kind of Undertaker to the Gothic Undertaker. Then he became the the biker. Then he went back to the original Deadman Undertaker thing. It was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 16:47

Didn't he get lit on fire?

Speaker 1 16:48

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 16:49

And he never broke step. He's like I just have to kind of keep walking.

Speaker 1 16:52

Well, that's what they had in Elimination.

Speaker 2 16:53

Because they effed up the pyrotechnics.

Speaker 1 16:55

Yeah, at the Elimination Chamber one year, he chamber one year. He was walking out and the pyro was supposed to go off or whatever.

Speaker 2 17:08

Well, it went off at the wrong time and he had third degree, or I think he said to the second or third degree, burns before the match even started and then he wrestled for an hour what a man.

Speaker 1 17:12

But like, yeah, it like lit his coat on fire and he kind of, like you know, jumped, swirled his coat, threw it off and walked to the ring. That's like, all right, make it work. Yeah, there was several times like he was putting a casket and it was lit on fire, though.

Speaker 2 17:24

Yeah, or like they'd wheel out the casket but he wouldn't be in it and then he'd pop up somewhere and it's like 100 seconds. Yeah, it's like he's a crafty man. I was watching. You really think, like the last 30 years of wrestling and you look, you try to break down top whatever moments he's in most of them.

Speaker 1 17:41

Like the cage match. Oh which one.

Speaker 2 17:45

The one where he launched the dude off.

Speaker 1 17:48

Launched the dude Mankind Mick Foley. Yeah, and he broke his shoulder.

Speaker 2 17:56

He had all these injuries knocked out Concussion, doesn't even remember it and it was his idea and he's like what are you out of your mind? While they're up there, and then the cage was like giving out underneath them and he fell through it.

Speaker 1 18:08

They went to the top and like that wasn't supposed to happen Because mankind climbed to the top after, vince told him do not do that. Yeah, that's too high up. So they went up there and then he got thrown off. I think he dislocates his shoulder. I want to say like fractured a rib or something like that.

Speaker 1 18:25

Well, they had to help him but gurneyed him off after they raised the cage with Undertaker still standing on top and as they're going up the ramp, he's like am I on the stretcher?

Speaker 1 18:35

Yeah, so he starts getting up, walking back to the ring with a dislocated shoulder, somehow climbs to the top and as, walking back to the ring with a dislocated shoulder, somehow climbs to the top and as they're walking around on top that's like they said when they got up there or when they looked at it before the match it wasn't held together with little like zip ties as long as they were walking, they were just like pinging off.

Speaker 1 18:52

And then when he went to like throw him down, he wasn't supposed to go through it. He said they just gave way. But he said that the only reason that he didn't end up dying when he fell because he, if he'd actually lifted mankind up, he would have landed on his head, because if mankind was just Mick Foley was just so like drained and kind of out of it that he never, he couldn't actually jump. So he just kind of fell back, which he landed on his shoulders instead of his head. And when he did, when he's sitting there, I always thought it was a booger, like just snot coming out of his nose.

Speaker 2 19:21

No, he split his lip.

Speaker 1 19:22

His tooth was sticking out of his nose. Somehow he'd gone up through the inside and was sticking out.

Speaker 2 19:27

Yeah, and it was one of the most legendary moments in wrestling.

Speaker 1 19:31

And before that match the Undertaker actually had a fractured ankle so he just taped it up and was wrestling. He jumped down from the top and landed.

Speaker 2 19:37

Warriors.

Speaker 1 19:38

Yeah, from the top Warriors, the Undertaker, there's a lot of cage matches, though he's in.

Speaker 2 19:45

Oh yeah, I've watched them when I was a younger boy.

Speaker 1 19:47

It's one of my top five matches that we'll talk about.

Speaker 2 19:51

I guess my next guy Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Speaker 1 19:55

Yeah, he was on my list.

Speaker 2 19:57

I like that. He's the ultimate heel. Not always, but that's what you remember. You know the monster truck, the six packs of beer. Well, he wasn't the heel. Then he was after the man Austin 360, and he'd smash two beers together. I just remember his legs like crap, it's the stone.

Speaker 1 20:14

Well, there's one promo that I keep seeing. They were from back, I guess it was in the 90s, but it was him and the Rock and the whole promo is just. I forgot the name of the song. But basically the whole thing is like they're kind of like clashing the beers together or whatever, and all of a sudden one hits it harder. They take a swig, then the Rock looks at him, smashes it harder, stone Cold looks at him, and then they just start swinging and punching each other. It's pretty funny. But yeah, people still, even though Stone Cold hasn't been on there you know more than just appearances in years they still go what Every time, because that was something he came up with. Whenever somebody would just start talking, he would just interrupt them and go what, what? That's how I had the button before. What that's how I had the button before what, what.

Speaker 2 21:05

It was funny Because you hear like the glass break, yeah, and it was like stone cold. And it was a lot of his behind the off the canvas or outside the ring antics too with the cameras, where he was like throwing people through windows or something.

Speaker 1 21:21

Well, the whole Austin 316 thing where he started using that, it was just like he just something that came to him in the middle of an interview and then it was popular with everybody, so they just ran with it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock

Speaker 2 21:27

Yeah, and then he had the shirts. Everybody was like you'd see people at school all the time at that time with Austin 316 shirts because it was Stone Cold, steve Austin, yeah.

Speaker 1 21:37

Well, now he runs his own tequila business. Since you took Stone Cold, I'm going to take the Rock.

Speaker 2 21:41

You can have the Rock.

Speaker 1 21:43

The Rock is the biggest name in wrestling. Why?

Speaker 2 21:49

Because he's. The Rock the transformation to what he is now the roided up 49-year-old guy that we see now he's got to be on. He's on something.

Speaker 1 22:00

He's twice the size from when he was a full-time wrestler.

Speaker 2 22:03

Yeah.

Speaker 1 22:07

You're an actor. Before he was wrestling three to four times a week. He would work out in between and go wrestle. Now all he does is work out and then go film and then work out.

Speaker 2 22:21

I hear he's not a nice guy.

Speaker 1 22:23

I've heard that he's pretty nice when there's cameras. Well, maybe, but one of his regiments he works out, or at least he says he used to like four hours a day. So it makes sense why he's three times his size.

Speaker 2 22:37

Because everybody sees the Rock now and you think of the movies. It's like those of us who are old enough to remember when he was a wrestler and he had hair and the eyebrow. It's like can you smell what the Rock is cooking? We remember that crap. But it was never like, oh, it's the Rock. I was never like, oh, wow, the Rock. It's like, oh hey, there he is. He starts out as the Scorpion.

Speaker 1 23:02

King, yeah, and then he got a movie about it, yeah Well, yeah, I think they were filming the movie at the same time that he was filming the Mummy 2.

Speaker 2 23:07

Well, yeah, because I think he did the Scorpion King first in Mummy 2 and the Mummy Returns, and then he got the standalone film.

Speaker 1 23:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:17

Which is probably better than the second Mummy movie if. I remember them both correctly. You mean no. The peanut gallery wishes to.

Speaker 1 23:27

There's a microphone, you can come over.

Speaker 2 23:28

You want to sit down and weigh in?

Speaker 1 23:34

I'm going to get the microphone and walk that way. She's like don't you dare? Well, yeah, the.

Speaker 2 23:41

CGI was not great.

Speaker 1 23:42

You can't count CGI from the 90s. This is 2002. Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 23:48

Well, I mean, they spent the entire budget on it, but that's neither here nor there. We're talking about wrestling, not mummies.

Speaker 1 23:55

But I mean the Rock. Now he's still on there and he calls himself the final boss. That's going to play a big part into WrestleMania, I'm pretty sure, because John Cena turned heel to join him. He's going to form Not John Cena, I guarantee he's going to form a third person into a group. He's going to be like the Vince McMahon nowadays he doesn't own, he's the CEO over basically the UFC and WWE right now.

Speaker 2 24:26

It'll be awesome. Whoever it is, they have to go against John Cena, the Rock and whoever the other heel is. It's like the final boss. And then, while they're standing there, all of a sudden the lights turn out and you hear. And then they turn and look and there's the Undertaker. But then there's Stone Cold, steve Austin and Bill Goldberg. And look and there's the Undertaker. But then there's Stone Cold, steve Austin and Bill Goldberg and they're both asleep that actually kind of happened last year. Goldberg and Steve Austin in a tag team.

Speaker 1 24:51

I'd watch that there was one Wrestlemania where it was Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar, with Stone Cold as the referee. The only problem with the match that it didn't go over well, was because everybody knew that Goldberg and Brock Lesnar were leaving the WWE after that match, so nobody liked it.

Speaker 2 25:08

Yeah, you probably shouldn't announce it. Announce it after.

Speaker 1 25:10

Well, yeah, but you know, now with the internet people kind of start figuring that out.

Speaker 2 25:13

Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 25:15

So let's see, I had the Rock. What's your next one?

Speaker 2 25:17

Hulk Hogan, hulk Hogan, hulk Hogan, hulk Hogan Brother. A lot of people don't like Hulk Hogan. What do you do now?

Speaker 1 25:24

I think he's racist.

Speaker 2 25:25

He kind of is. But have they seen Thunder in Paradise? I have. It's probably better if they don't the trials and tribulations of Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 1 25:38

There's, dad there's, mr Mom there's.

Speaker 2 25:41

The sex tape he had.

Speaker 1 25:43

He wasn't even young when he had that either.

Speaker 2 25:45

No, he was like 62.

Speaker 1 25:47

Now I have to say, though, Suburban Commando Suburban Commando.

Speaker 2 25:51

It's a goofy movie, but it's great, yeah, it's awesome Rocky III Because he's gigantic, next to Mr.

Speaker 1 25:58

Stallone, gigantic. Next to Mr Stallone, he's like Mr Thunderlips. Let's see how big is Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 2 26:03

I think Hulk Hogan's huge.

Speaker 1 26:07

I know he's a big guy, but I wasn't sure exactly. Let's see.

Speaker 2 26:11

Oh, Little Ninjas.

Speaker 1 26:13

Oh, okay. Well, he's 6'7 and 300 pounds, yeah.

Speaker 2 26:17

So he's rather large. Yeah, he's gigantic.

Speaker 1 26:20

I didn't think he was that tall.

Speaker 2 26:22

Because I remember Hulk Hogan from wrestling and then I remember him from Little Ninjas.

Speaker 1 26:29

Yeah, Little Ninjas, or Three Ninjas.

Speaker 2 26:30

Three Ninjas, Three Ninjas.

Speaker 1 26:32

Three Ninjas knuckle up or something.

Speaker 2 26:34

His filmography can't be that big, you might be surprised. Rocky III, gremlins 2. He III, gremlins 2.

Speaker 1 26:42

He was in Gremlins 2.

Speaker 2 26:43

Yeah, he plays himself in a cameo, suburban Commando Mr Nanny Thunder in Paradise, playing Randolph Hurricane Spencer, randolph Hurricane Santa with muscles. Three Ninjas High, noon to Mega Mountain.

Speaker 1 26:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:58

I can't tell you how many times I watched that movie, muppets from Space.

Speaker 1 27:05

Oh yeah, I forgot, he's in that.

Speaker 2 27:06

He's in a lot of stuff in the 80s and the 90s.

Speaker 1 27:08

Of course that was like his biggest time in wrestling.

Speaker 2 27:11

Thunder in Paradise. That's such a bad show. Baywatch Walker, texas, ranger Hogan Knows Best. I remember that show.

Speaker 1 27:21

Yeah, a little reality show Robot.

Speaker 2 27:23

Chicken. He plays himself Abe Lincoln, the Giving Tree and Bigfoot. I really want the Hulk Hogan Abe Lincolnincoln movie. Why hasn't this been made?

Speaker 1 27:36

but I have to say you know it's hulk hogan, whether people like him or not if there's a mount rushmore, yeah, of wrestling hulk hogan's one of them yeah, whether you like him or not, whether wrestling wouldn't be the same without him, he's the one that put wrestling on the map when it came to, you know, tv being, yes, he was the consummate showman of the time.

Speaker 2 27:51

Well then, he's the one that put wrestling on the map when it came to, you know, TV being, yes, he was the consummate showman of the time.

Speaker 1 27:55

Well, and then he's the one that did a popular person to do it. Well then, I mean he changed the whole game, granted, you know, like.

Speaker 1 28:02

I said it's a show, but when he became the leader of the NWO, I mean, and he was the biggest baby face ever and became a bad guy Kind of like John Cena, except for, you know, john Cena's good and John Cena's funny, but he doesn't have the same clout as Hulk Hogan, just because of the time frame when there's so many big stars in wrestling now, as opposed to back then. There was big stars but nowhere near that level but in, like the 80s and thes, it was Hulk.

Speaker 1 28:33

Hogan. Hulk Hogan was like Batman and Superman. Everyone around the world knew who he was.

Speaker 2 28:38

Yeah, you saw the hair. The red ripped the shirt, the handlebar mustache that was bleached, blonde, died. It was Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 1 28:46

Yeah, let's see I got three, so I got to have my fourth one.

Speaker 2 28:52

How are you on four when I'm on like five already? Oh you got bret hart oh well, no, I've already done four, because you took my number one.

Speaker 1 28:59

I had the undertaker yeah, yeah, I had to grab him because I I knew he was gonna be on the list. I had to grab him. Um, let's see, I'm gonna go with Triple H Cooper. You don't like Triple H?

Speaker 2 29:14

Yeah, he's just annoying. He's annoying what I never cared. When he popped up it's time to play the game, triple H was going to spit in the water.

Speaker 1 29:24

They made a commercial and they're like. He has to do this every time and his wife, stephanie. My man is sitting in the car. He's walking up to the car door and goes.

Speaker 2 29:34

Yeah, and gets in. And then there was a meme, a little geyser.

Speaker 1 29:38

There was a meme, stupid, because Linda McMahon is the head of like. Was it a teaching or education department or whatever in the government? Yeah, linda McMahon's a. You know she's big on education and stuff. Trump made her the head of the education department While she's sitting in Congress or whatever. You can see Triple H sitting behind her. Somebody made a meme because he takes a bottle of water and just sips it. They're like you know what he's thinking, just in the middle of the Senate.

Speaker 2 30:13

Just do the stupid Triple H spit. It's so dumb.

Hulk Hogan's Wrestling Legacy

Speaker 1 30:18

But you've got to give it to the man. He's like the one that's behind all the story stuff. Nowadays he runs a lot of stuff in WWE even though he's not in the ring.

Speaker 1 30:27

He actually had a heart attack. While he was wrestling One of the matches he went to the outside and as he was walking back to the ring he just kind of fell down to a knee and then stood up, sat back, kind of walked over, sat down in a chair and they gave him some water and stuff and then they said that he was close to dying and so immediately that was the last time he wrestled, which was kind of sad Because I mean, he's not young, but he's still young enough where he could wrestle if it wasn't for that, I mean, the Undertaker he's like what?

Speaker 2 30:59

60 now 61? He's in his early 60s or I think he's in his late 50s.

Speaker 1 31:05

Let's see, oh, there it is, professional wrestling.

Speaker 2 31:08

Yeah, pro wrestling.

Speaker 1 31:10

Pro wrestling. He is 60, yes, and he was still. Yep, he was 6'10", 309 pounds. Jesus.

Speaker 2 31:18

So basically, you're not going to be a pro pro mega guy, nah, Unless you're like 6'7 and up and you weigh 250 pounds or more. Well, nowadays, Well then, you have shorter guys, so I'd like to throw a shout out to a shorter guy. Or more Well nowadays. Well then, you have shorter guys, so I'd like to throw a shout-out to a shorter guy. Who's that? Rey Mysterio? Oh, okay, I don't know if you had him on, I did.

Speaker 1 31:36

You did.

Speaker 2 31:37

He was the 20th. He was number 20? I always liked Rey Mysterio. I thought he was so cool with the mask, because there's always different kind of the 619. The 619 where he do like the flip thing, like right through the ropes and KO somebody right in the face.

Speaker 1 31:54

He still does that. He actually wrestled with his son. Him and his son were tag team champions at one point. Oh, that's cool. His son's like one of the biggest bad guys now.

Speaker 2 32:02

No.

Speaker 1 32:03

As far as, like his son dresses like Eddie Guerrero, like he has, like the little mustache, he's got the mullet, oh like the little mustache he's got the mullet. Oh my God, I forgot about Eddie Guerrero?

Speaker 2 32:12

Was it WrestleMania like 42?

Speaker 1 32:14

or 32? No, it might have been 32.

Speaker 2 32:17

He won 30. He won WrestleMania, but then he died.

Speaker 1 32:23

It was before that, though, because I don't think it was 32. I can't remember the numbers, but I know it's not 42, because this year is 41.

Speaker 2 32:30

Okay, so it might have been 32 or 20. But that's right. He did win a WrestleMania, eddie Guerrero right.

Speaker 1 32:36

Yeah, he won. That was the first time he became champion.

Speaker 2 32:41

And then he died not long after.

Speaker 1 32:43

Yeah, they said he had a heart attack and they don't know whether it was drug-induced or because, a lot of you know, back then a lot of wrestlers were on painkillers and all that stuff because, I mean, they wrestled all the time and they didn't have the regulations like they do nowadays. They used to take chair shots to the face, like just take it.

Speaker 2 33:02

That's like Undertaker talking about it he goes. That's just what we were.

Speaker 1 33:09

There was one. I don't know if it was on his podcast or not, but they were talking about where Devon and Bubba, ray Dudley, were supposed to hit him and Kane in the back with a chair. Well, devon was standing over here, he got ready to hit him and him and Bubba come over there and kind of switched places with him and Bubba hit Undertaker in the back of the head and busted him open on accident. Well, you know, when they had planned this out, devon was supposed to hit him, so he turned around and he just started swinging at Devon because he was pissed and Devon's going. It was the fat white guy.

Speaker 2 33:38

It was him.

Speaker 1 33:46

But they were talking about there was a guy named Maven. He was on there for a short time but Undertaker basically taught him how to take a chair shot, because there was times like I mean, he just flat out like broke a chair over his face and you know he's like, you know it's going to hurt, but he's like you know, as dumb as this sounds, there is a safe way to get hit with a chair. He said you, you take that crown on your head Right at the ridge.

Speaker 2 34:10

Same spot you would headbutt somebody with.

Speaker 1 34:13

It's going to hurt, but it's not as bad as getting hit in the side of the head or the back of the head.

Speaker 2 34:18

Right across the back.

Speaker 1 34:20

That's pretty much. All they do now is across the back, or they'll turn it sideways and hit you with the end of it and just kind of jab you with it and stuff. That's pretty much all they do nowadays. They don't bring out the sledgehammers anymore.

Speaker 2 34:36

They do, but they do things differently with them. Wrestling in the 90s was way cooler People got hurt.

Speaker 1 34:40

They have kind of upped it up a little bit. Then you have people like Jon Moxley where he's kind of sadomasochist where he had this two-by-4 that had nails on it, where they laid it on the ground and he got suplexed on top of it and they actually had to bring the doctor out to remove it from his back because they couldn't pull it out. It was stuck.

Speaker 2 35:02

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:04

I'm not a fan of that.

Speaker 2 35:05

What if the nail just went right through his spine?

Speaker 1 35:07

I mean, these nails were that long.

Speaker 2 35:09

What.

Speaker 1 35:10

Yeah, when he landed they like bent sideways, but they were stuck in him and they had to like they actually had to stop the match and come out and remove them because they were stuck.

Speaker 2 35:20

Yeah, jesus.

Speaker 1 35:25

Anyways, I'll move on to my last one, which is kind of difficult Because, again, like I said, you made me narrow down my list of 20 to 5.

Speaker 2 35:35

We've covered pretty much the cream of the crop of the greatest wrestlers of all time.

Speaker 1 35:39

So now I've got to pick between John Cena, randy Orton, shawn Michaels or Sting. Look what you made me do. Look what you made me do.

Speaker 2 35:46

You know who I'd pick who?

Speaker 1 35:50

Sting, you know what? For the Sprite commercial? For the Sprite commercial.

Speaker 2 35:55

Yeah, the one I sent you where he beats the crap out of that kid. Oh yeah, beating up the kid yeah. He like, launches him into, like the cabinets.

Speaker 1 36:03

You know what, While I like John Cena, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels, I am going to give it to Sting.

Speaker 2 36:07

I like Sting the most.

Speaker 1 36:08

Sting was like my superhero because I wasn't allowed to watch WWE when I was little. Why? Because they cussed and there was a lot more blood stuff. My parents didn't like that so we watched WCW Sting. When he started dressing up like the crow kind of thing, that was awesome, fighting off the NWO all by himself. I remember those days I wasn't allowed to watch WWE until right at the end of the 90s, like I watched WWF, and then when it became the Attitude Era, my parents were like I don't really want you watching it, so I missed the whole, like Goth Undertaker and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 36:41

Missed, missed greatness.

Speaker 1 36:43

I missed the arrival of Kane. The only time I got to see it was when I was at my grandparents and my cousins were watching it, because my parents were watching it and that was back when he had hair and like the red mask, I think. Yeah, did you know? Kane is actually the mayor of Knox County, tennessee. Now, yeah, it's just funny. Like there was one person running against him.

Speaker 2 37:03

He was like oh, you can't body slam people here.

Speaker 1 37:05

He's like I still won.

Speaker 2 37:07

I still won and I totally could. You would not be able to stop me, I mean.

Speaker 1 37:13

I'm a lot bigger than you. Kane was even bigger than the Undertaker.

Speaker 2 37:17

That's insanity, because what Mark Calloway's 6'10"? You said yeah.

Speaker 1 37:21

Let's see Kane. Let's see God he's 7'323". So yeah, he's a large man.

Speaker 2 37:31

Lordy Jesus. I mean because he was a.

Speaker 1 37:34

did you ever see the movie See no Evil?

Speaker 2 37:36

Yes, yeah, I know, I remember him from that.

Speaker 1 37:39

That was him, after he'd lost his mask.

Speaker 2 37:41

What's Undertaker he was in the Hills have Eyes. The remake Was he.

Speaker 1 37:45

Yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 37:46

He played one of the. I think they had like a bunch of wrestlers that played those.

Speaker 1 37:51

I know Undertaker was in Suburban Commando as well. He was one of the bounty hunters that was chasing Hulk Hogan and he had a voice. He goes you're a dead man, ramsey.

Speaker 2 38:00

That's right, because we watched it, that's right.

Speaker 1 38:04

I remember that now.

Speaker 2 38:06

Oh man, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 38:09

But you know I had a lot of other ones on my list that you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 38:11

Let me go through, just saying I mean rick flair and his cocaine addiction and I hear rick flair.

Speaker 1 38:19

He's just like the worst yeah, I mean he tries to be good, but uh like he's just a menace, and you know, john cena yeah, john cena, randy orton, the only reason I'd almost call John Cena the wrestler of the 2000s.

Speaker 2 38:36

I'd say he was probably the most popular wrestler of the 2000s.

Speaker 1 38:38

And we're not saying these are the top, like our choices aren't the top wrestlers. You know these are our top wrestlers. John Cena he's pivotal to wrestling as a business in general and Sean Michaels.

AI Battle: Team Matchups

Speaker 2 38:51

Yeah, you know I'mels. Yeah you know I'm not a fan. I'm not a sean michaels fan per se, but I will give him credit that he is probably one of the top 10 wrestlers of all time oh yeah, I mean if not in, probably in the top five, I mean, depending on who you ask.

Speaker 1 39:06

He had some matches with undertaker that were still, like, considered the top matches ever. Yeah, which they're? They're on my list as well, but anyways, anyhoos, I also had Kurt Angle.

Speaker 2 39:17

I was going to mention Kurt Angle. He's an Olympic gold medalist for wrestling.

Speaker 1 39:21

I had Batista Seth Rollins, I remember watching Batista wrestle. One of them that I think he would have been. He's one of my favorite. The only reason I didn't put him on this list is because you know he didn't. He wasn't on there as long was a bray wyatt, which he was the one that was the fiend that had that mask oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 2 39:41

When we were at the um, yeah, when you made us download, like with wwe, like 22 or 21, and you made all three of us as characters and we're wrestling as our three characters and my guy's got his stuff on and Hayden's dude, and then we do another match and Mitch comes out as this fiend guy and his stats are through the roof and he's just beating the crap out of me and Hayden, throwing us into the audience.

Speaker 1 40:09

Well, I like the fact that y'all just kept beating me up and my guy just kept getting back up.

Speaker 2 40:13

It wasn't fair, it was stupid, you were cheating.

Speaker 1 40:18

Let's see.

Speaker 2 40:18

It was in the script. We weren't meant to win.

Speaker 1 40:23

Talk amongst yourself.

Speaker 2 40:24

I'm surprised Arnold Schwarzenegger never showed up in a wrestling. That would have been a wild event to have Arnold and like Stallone wrestling in like the 80s and not like wrestling just like a one-time only, like you know cameo, Like they show up. Donald Trump even showed up, I think, for one when he's like.

Speaker 1 40:47

The.

Speaker 2 40:48

Rock. He's a terrible wrestler. I can't smell what he's cooking. It's food stinks. I can't smell what he's cooking. His food stinks. I can't take it.

Speaker 1 40:53

Well, Donald Trump actually had a hair versus hair match. Donald Trump and Vince McMahon both picked a wrestler and they wrestled for him, and so you had Bobby Lashley versus a guy named Umaga. Bobby Lashley won, so Donald Trump got to shave Vince McMahon's head.

Speaker 2 41:13

I remember this. You're like pulling this out of my mind, palace.

Speaker 1 41:17

What was funny was, as they were coming out to the ring, Donald Trump. As he's walking down, he's just got 20s falling from the sky. He just donated money. It was just letting 20s fall into the audience.

Speaker 2 41:30

That's a president.

Speaker 1 41:30

Yeah.

Speaker 2 41:32

I don't remember Joe Biden or any of these other characters showing up on WWE or Raw or SmackDown or any of that. Donnie T was there shaving Vince McMahon's head making moves.

Speaker 1 41:44

All right. So the reason I wanted to do a five on five and I wanted us to pick different people is because I'm putting this into a the AI thing here Chat GPT Pretty much. Well, it's Grok.

Speaker 2 41:56

Grok.

Speaker 1 41:57

Yeah, we use Elon Musk stuff here, so sue us, but basically it's Survivor.

Speaker 2 42:03

We peddle our show on his social media platform.

Speaker 1 42:06

Well, survivor Series is a pay-per-view and in Survivor Series they would typically get a team of five and it's elimination. So if you get pinned, it's four on five until everyone from one team is gone. So I'll put your team in, I'll put my team in, let's see. It says some of the key matchups would be Undertaker versus Andre. It says some of the key matchups would be Undertaker versus Andre. It says Undertaker's agility and endurance could outlast Andre, whose prime stamina was limited. So I put all the wrestlers in their prime.

Speaker 1 42:34

Another key matchup would be Austin versus Triple H A brutal clash, but Triple H's cunning and technical edge might neutralize Austin's brawling. Mysterio versus Sting Sting's experience could counter Mysterio's speed, though Mysterio's underdog flair could steal an elimination. Hogan versus Reigns Hogan's Hulk-up comeback meets Reigns' relentless power. Reigns' athleticism might edge out Hogan's formulatic offense. And then Bret Hart versus the Rock A technical classic, but the Rock's explosiveness could overwhelm Hart's precision in a team setting.

Speaker 2 43:08

Hmm, hmm, indeed.

Speaker 1 43:11

Let's see In the elimination dynamics. In Survivor Series, eliminations often come via surprise roll-ups, disqualifications or teamwork. Team 1's strategic minds Triple H and Undertaker could exploit Team 2's reliance on individual star power. Mysterio's high flying could score a shock elimination. But Team 2's reliance on individual star power Mysterio's high flying could score a shock elimination. But Team 1's depth makes it harder for Team 2 to capitalize the outcome In a classic Survivor Series match, team 1, undertaker, the Rock Triple.

Speaker 1 43:37

H Roman Reigns and Sting would likely win, with two to three survivors remaining. Likely Undertaker Triple H or possibly the Rock. Their combination of strategic teamwork, athletic versatility and modern in-ring style narrowly overcome Team 2's raw power and technical brilliance. Just saying I'm the champion, that's all Okay, all right, all right.

Speaker 2 43:57

Mitch, mitch. Okay, all right, mitch. Anyways, we can move on Use your fancy subscribe to AI. I didn fancy subscribe to ai subscribe to skew this. It's like who do you really want to win?

Speaker 1 44:10

you're like well, my team no, I just I'll put them in and you know I figured off the ones you picked. When you put, uh, bret, hart, ray mysterio in there, I figured my team was gonna win, just because they're not as big names as the others. But so if I put john cena, you probably would have if you'd put john cena or like instead of have If you'd put John Cena or Shawn. Michaels, you'd probably win.

Speaker 2 44:29

Yeah Well, I didn't know we were going to do an AI battle, Otherwise I would have picked a different team.

Speaker 1 44:32

Well, I just wanted you to pick who your favorites were. Because I picked my favorites, other than I didn't get Stone Cold because you took him. Well, I had the Undertaker on my list, but you took the Undertaker Well yeah, that's why I took the Undertaker, because I knew you were going to have him on your list.

Speaker 2 44:47

I should have said Undertaker first and just claimed it.

Speaker 1 44:49

I needed to have him.

Speaker 2 44:51

You suck.

Speaker 1 44:55

Anyways, since we're kind of, that took a little longer than normal. What's your favorite WrestleMania match? I know you don't watch wrestling as much as I do, or much at all, but I mean, I really couldn't say a favorite WrestleMania match.

Speaker 2 45:06

It's been so long since I've watched WrestleMania.

Speaker 1 45:09

And since I've seen it, I'm just saying it's tomorrow.

Speaker 2 45:12

I know you're saying it's tomorrow, Mitch.

Speaker 1 45:14

It's tomorrow. It starts at like 7 o'clock.

Speaker 2 45:17

Isn't it a pay-per-view?

Speaker 1 45:18

event.

Speaker 2 45:19

Yeah, I'm not paying to watch it. You don't have to pay.

Speaker 1 45:23

I got it. It's on Peacock. Actually, you can watch it here. It's on Peacock, don't cost you anything extra. You've got my login.

Speaker 2 45:29

No, I have my own Peacock subscription.

Speaker 1 45:31

Oh, you do, okay. Yeah, it's part of that.

Speaker 2 45:32

So I can just watch WrestleMania? Do I have to pay to watch that if I have the subscription?

Speaker 1 45:37

No, Well, here's an entertain this top tip. That's why I have Peacock it will come out after WrestleMania.

Speaker 2 45:44

No, it won't.

Speaker 1 45:46

I'm uploading stuff. It's a special, I'm back. Look, you've got to work with the algorithm. If we're going to make a wrestling episode, we might as well put it out on WrestleMania weekend.

Speaker 2 45:55

Mitch, you raise a lot of good points. You raise a lot of good points.

Speaker 1 46:01

But I'll put a. You know, since you don't have a specific match, I'll say my favorite one was Undertaker versus Triple H in Hell in a Cell. It was a. They called it the end of an era match because it was. Let's see, the three years prior Undertaker beat Shawn Michaels twice and then Shawn Michaels retired the second time. Then he beat Triple H. Well then, triple H wanted one more shot at him. So they fought and Shawn Michaels was a special referee inside Hell in a Cell and Undertaker still won. Yeah.

Speaker 2 46:24

Yeah, it's the Undertaker and Undertaker still won. Yeah, yeah it's the Undertaker.

Speaker 1 46:27

But it was a good match because, like you know, being a show, at the end all three of them walked up the ramp together, kind of, like, you know, arm up. I think Shawn Michaels and Undertaker were on both sides and had Triple H's arms around them, like carrying them up Because they beat the crap out of each other Like before the match was over. You could see bruises all up and down their backs and stuff. I mean they were hitting each other with chairs and steps Old cowboys riding off into the sunset.

Speaker 1 46:50

Pretty much. That's pretty much what it was. It was a good match. We can watch it after this until Hayden gets here.

Speaker 2 46:57

Okay, You're like sure why not.

Speaker 1 47:02

Okay, mitch, Mitch, okay, but yeah, that was my favorite one. While we have a few minutes left, though, let's we can go over some of our stuff that we've been watching, or any kind of news that you have.

Speaker 2 47:11

Well, I mean you want to save that for the main show well, no, because we got a different formula.

Speaker 1 47:15

Remember, we're gonna work on that all right, well, uh you ain't gonna tell us everything.

Favorite WrestleMania Matches

Speaker 2 47:19

I mean naked gun trailer. They're remaking that with leslie nielsen yeah I think and from just watching the trailer you watched it too I really think they're gonna go more like he's action capable ish, because like where he throws a light pop like into the guy's mouth, like on purpose, and it's like it's spiked or whatever he does like some nonsense. Yeah, it's like that's not the frank drebin nonsense yeah, that from the naked gun movies or police squad, because it was like he accidentally and bumbled his way through it.

Speaker 1 47:49

I never liked the Naked Gun movies to begin with, so that's all you.

Speaker 2 47:54

The Naked Gun movies. It's a feast for your eyes because there is so much happening in the scene that's just pure physical puns or written or spoken puns. It's like Air meets the. You know police academy which I mean police academy is a comedy but it's a yeah, it's just like that level of writing and nonsense in the background, like it's it's, it's comedy in depth, like you have to watch it multiple times to see nonsense happening.

Speaker 2 48:26

Like the opening, like because the naked gum movies are based on the character for police squad, which was like a addition, like in 1981 or 1982, to a time slot and they had six episodes. It ran for four before they canceled it and everybody was so mad. They canceled because it was so funny. But like the opening is like you know the old, like 70s crime trauma. It's's like police squad in color and they got like the bubble gum light on the top of the car, you know the old police cruiser and Leslie Nielsen pulls up, gets out so he starts shooting at the car. He does like a quick head cock, like you know, misses, like you know he dodged it. Pulls out his revolver, you know, shoots the bad guy off screen, holsters and it cuts to like the uh, his captain. Like they're in the precinct and it's just getting raked with machine gun fire. Like a guy runs by naked and screaming on fire. A woman throws a baby out of a window. It's all this night. He's just standing there at his desk blasting away off screen and then the then the greatest part of it is and rex hamilton as abe lincoln and it's him at fort steer and his hat gets shot off and he gets up and turns with a revolver and starts blasting, killing john wilkes booth.

Speaker 2 49:33

Okay, but the the funniest part of that whole thing is and like tonight's you know special guest, and they'd announce who it was and to be a big actor at that time. Like lauren green from like battlestar galactica, uh, william shatner at that time. Like Lauren Green from like Battlestar Galactica, william Shatner. And they'd kill him off in the first 30 seconds. Like Lauren Green's. Like the first guest, special guest. Car screams by and they throw his body out. He's got a knife. He's like ah, and just dies. It's like that's it, it's over. Like the mom from the Brady Bunch they shot her up with a machine gun in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 50:05

Well, that's like Grand Tour, where they're like we have Jeremy Renner and he jumps out of the plane and in the background you see him.

Speaker 2 50:11

Yeah, it's literally that, like they took that from that show. Okay, like I mean, if it's on YouTube, you can watch them all the first original six episodes of Police Squad with Leslie Nielsen, and this is like like right after Airplane. Like this is, I think, two years after Airplane and it's just like it's so great. It's like whoever came up with this and was writing this, it's like you deserved every award and people still look back. It's like this was like the pinnacle of comedy. The world just wasn't ready for it. Like today, this show would be a massive hit.

Speaker 1 50:46

Okay, Tom, Tom okay.

Speaker 2 50:49

Okay, mitch, mitch, okay, you don't even know what that's from. No, I do not. It's from Letter County. I know you do it all the time. Okay, scroll down. Scroll down okay.

Speaker 1 50:57

Another movie that's coming out actually came out today while we're recording is the movie the Sinners. Have you seen that trailer?

Speaker 2 51:03

yet the Sinners.

Speaker 1 51:05

Yeah, I think it's just called Sinners, total no.

Speaker 2 51:07

I had not.

Speaker 1 51:08

It's Michael B Jordan and Hailey Steinfeld.

Speaker 2 51:11

Is this like the still? I've seen where he's holding a Tommy gun. Yeah, he's shooting at something.

Speaker 1 51:16

It's actually a pretty neat thing that I haven't seen yet, which is it's a vampire movie, but it's based in the 1930s, okay, and I don't know a whole lot about it, other than like a little synopsis. Here is trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them home. Oh, but like uh.

Speaker 2 51:41

I know you're already going to go see it. It's a vampire movie.

Speaker 1 51:43

Well, I mean I want to see it. It's uh movie. Well, I mean I want to see it.

Speaker 1 51:51

It's who was I forgot his name director Ryan Coogler, coogler, coogler, I think. From the trailer it looks really good. The only thing I'm hoping is that you know, because it's the 1930s, I hope it's not one of those like ultra, like oh, white man, bad kind of things, you man, bad kind of things, you know, and everybody's like I've had people comment on on our social media that's like oh well, you know, it is the, it is that time. So of course it's going to be that I'm like well, you know, if you can write a movie, it doesn't have to be. If you can actually make a story, you don't just have to play if you can do that magical thing that's called good writing.

Upcoming Movies and Closing Thoughts

Speaker 2 52:23

That seems to be lost because hollywood can't make a new movie. They got to redo the naked gun series, which I mean, or which are fantastic for for like the third fourth time. Thank you, Rachel.

Speaker 1 52:36

But I mean the movie, the unofficial fourth member of this show the trailer looks really good and I'm I'm looking forward to seeing it, I'll have to check out the trailer, but yeah if you haven't, you know you're listening.

Speaker 2 52:51

Now go check it out this weekend, you know, after wrestlemania I think the best movie that's done like a throwback like going back in time till, you know, the 30s, 40s, 50s or whatever and did it with a kind of modern touch, but it wasn't just too much, but it was still really well done and well acted. And well executed is oh yeah we did watch that.

Speaker 1 53:08

I forgot about that. I was like I forgot exactly what that was.

Speaker 2 53:10

With Josh Brolin and Sean Penn, who was mad at Trey Parker and Matt Stone because of Team America.

Speaker 1 53:19

Well, I mean this movie. It's an original idea. It's not based off a book, from what I understand. I mean, like I said, I haven't done too much research, but I like an original idea. And it's not one of like the you know, fall in love with the vampire, kind of things. It's these vampires are just trying to trick you into letting you let them kill you.

Speaker 2 53:38

It's not sexy vampires yeah well, I mean Haley Steinfeld is pretty good looking, but All right, mitch calm down looking, but she's trying to basically you know, these vampires are trying to lure them outside to kill them, and so, because it's just like the traditional vampire sense, they have to be invited in I?

Speaker 1 53:53

I don't know, but from every scene, like in the trailer, it looks like the people are trying to run to get inside before they get on, or something like that are they trying to get to a church? Because it's all ground and they can't walk on it I think so, but, like said for the trailer, I can't really tell.

Speaker 2 54:07

Sounds like Hayden's here.

Speaker 1 54:08

I just know they're running from a building.

Speaker 2 54:09

Should I go get him?

Speaker 1 54:11

Eh, we can wrap this up first.

Speaker 2 54:13

Yeah, we can wrap this up. He can wait for two minutes. So thank you once again for listening to Entertain this, our wrestling episode, that's going to come out before WrestleMania. Oh yeah. And to come out before WrestleMania oh yeah, and a little special. We hope you enjoyed it. And once again, for our social media stuff. You can check us all out on entertainthispodcastcom. We're on X Instagram TikTok at at entertainthis underscore and feel free to just check out Patreon.

Speaker 1 54:39

Also come check us out on free comic book day on May 3rd in downtown Lawrenceville, georgia.

Speaker 2 54:42

Georgia. There We'll be there. Yeah, bye, bye.

Speaker 1 54:53

Go away.