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Raven's got a lot of mileage out of that one.

Just watched the Road Warriors episode. I heard Ellering tell the story about driving the van to the funeral on a shoot before but the way it's illustrated here, and the memory of Hawk's funeral did bring a tear to my eye. Joe Laurinitis' recent passing brought a whole new perspective to it obviously, but seeing how some of these guys are now is sad. Especially Droz, jesus.

Me and my brother went as them for Halloween when I was 9-10 years old. Face paint and boxes spray-painted red. Can't remember if we did the spikes, as alas, no pictures. I was Animal.

An episode on Eddie Graham would be good.

Meltzer just reported on Twitter that Stephanie sold 43% of her WWE stock yesterday

A Nash podcast, regardless of content (or whether or not everything he says is of a factual nature), would be great. Him and Conrad could have good chemistry. If they brought on Hall or Waltman once in awhile would be cool too.

That's kind of his style on his podcast too

The book written by Piper's kids is way better.

https://cultaholic.com/posts/the-rock-and-redbird-capital-buy-the-xfl?fbclid=IwAR30clk8MNKEjxvgkroQdV7fyTOWz3DEPsSSz9XmJnFUGYU_GoOlj4YhUqY

"my lunchboxes gotta sell too" Piper on not jobbing to Hogan

Some of the English reviews on Letterboxd for it were pretty funny. One compared MJ to Alan Partridge.

Wonder what Vince made of it, if it was even brought to his attention.

Bret talked about it in his book and said him and Hogan were prepared to come down and back Tenta up

The last episode dropped today

I remember how goofy Triple H looked turning his WrestleMania 31 entrance into a quasi-commercial for Terminator-whateverthefuck was in 2015. The match itself, of course, was dredging up all the ghosts of the Monday Night Wars and rehashing their victory yet again. Wrestling is steeped in nostalgia, more so than ever now. I remember listening to the director of the Andre documentary talk about interviewing Vince, and mentioning something about the 80's being their "halcyon years", with Vince responding "what do you mean, halcyon years pal?" (something like that), suggesting that he still thought they were as relevant as they were in the Rock & Wrestling days or the Attitude Era (which while I am not so fond of it, I would argue was the only time they were even close to being ahead of the pop culture curve). Reading all this makes me realize there is, within the product, a push-pull between the nostalgia for when things were better, and the denial that things aren't the same now.

Between the Goldberg incident and his brother dying*, I think he's done. And with how they built the match up, breaking kayfabe, is probably as good an indicator that he's done with the character and found some finality in being closer to himself than he even was in the Attitude Era. *such an eerily fitting coincidence, considering the circumstances around his first match, with Bret Hart's brother dying just the day before. Can't speak to his state of mind, but it wouldn't surprise me if that isn't lost on him 30 years later.

It's interesting that the whole Starrcast drama was brought up. His body language regarding the fallout makes me think that (at least at the time he was being interviewed) the whole thing had not settled in his mind. Reddit is picking apart the moment after the Extreme Rules tag match where he goes up to Vince after and says basically that's it and Vince appears to subtly beg him to reconsider that position. Towards the end Triple H talks about the buzz of performing being an addiction, with clips of Ric and Shawn talking about how difficult retirement was. This kind of thing is usually portrayed a bit more heroically but it felt particularly sad considering that moment he is chasing through this whole series.

Hugh Dancy on the last season of Homeland is almost identical to CM Punk.

The 24/7 on Flair's WM 24 weekend was good. But I imagine it could have been a hell of a lot longer, or perhaps even being the basis of the career-long retrospective I fantasized about on the last page. Tough seeing the footage of all of his kids together in the front row watching him.

He refused to be interviewed for it

I remember the Nitro in January 98 I was at when Davey Boy Smith returned, and faced Mongo. They did a small angle where he was playing ugly American to Smith and the two had a blow-off match. It was responded to rather politely (bordering on tepidly, or so I remember it), since DBS' return was not a surprise to anyone at this point since Bret was already there.

Fill in for Ludvig Borga, who quit. Would have loved to have seen Tenta sit on a Nazi.

Better in the ring than in the broadcast booth.