3:16 Day Special: Shotgun Saturday Night: 01/18/97
7th Annual 3:16 Day Special: 2025

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Austin 316 says I just whipped your.
Speaker B:Stone cold. Stone cold. Stone cold.
Speaker A:You sit there and call yourself the gorilla, yet you hee haw out here like a jackass.
Speaker C:What? I said shut up. You can kiss my ass.
Speaker B:Kumbaya, my lord. Goodby.
Speaker C:What? That's the bottle blind.
Speaker B:Welcome to the Bottom Line Wrestling cast. The career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. And we are back with another special episode. It's a 316 day special episode and I'm looking forward to this one. It's a great one. It's Shotgun Saturday night and we are covering January 18th of 1997. I'm Mike Prue along with J.V. as always, we'll get a special guest. We'll get to him in just a second. But JV, welcome back. Bottom Line Wrestlecast 316 day special. How many years have we been doing this?
Speaker D:I think we landed on eight, right?
Speaker B:I think it off just one year.
Speaker D:We said this is our seventh one. Yeah, 16. But you asked how many years we've been doing Bottom Line cast.
Speaker B:Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, so, so you're right, I'm wrong, that's fine. But this is our seventh 316 day special. Crazy. I think that we've been doing that and we do have a special guest.
Speaker D:Jv, who, who is our specialist of all special guests.
Speaker B:Yes, he is a specialist.
Speaker D:Our co host from the Extreme Live cast, Rick Beebe, the legend.
Speaker E:Well, I appreciate that. At first I was like the specialist. I don't know how I want to take that, but I'll take the legend. That works. How you guys doing?
Speaker B:You know. You don't like the Specialist, Rick?
Speaker E:Well, because I, I don't know whether it's I want to be specialist or if you're calling me special. You know, like the most special. Like. Okay.
Speaker B:Hey, the Specialist is a cool nickname.
Speaker E:No, it is, it is. I'm gonna put that on Specialist. Yeah, I'm gonna put that on Twitter.
Speaker B:That's the most special.
Speaker E:Yeah, like, like you guys have said, I'm. I'm the Lance of the, the Extreme Live cast.
Speaker B:So yes, you're all Lance and people that don't know that what we're talking about because we're here on the Bottom Line wrestling cast.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker B:Not the book of the territory feed with our extreme ECW Live guest. But yeah, I mean there is interconnection. So most listeners probably know.
Speaker E:Yeah, there's some crossover.
Speaker B:Yeah, of course. Olance is the, the world class expert and we have Rick B. Who is the ECW expert.
Speaker D:Oh yeah.
Speaker B:And Harry is with us to do shotgun Saturday night 316 day special. So, you know, we haven't done, you know, this goes without saying really. So we haven't done a whole lot of Bottom Line Wrestling cast episodes in the past year, year and a half or so. Because we've been doing Stunning Steve on a periodically basis, periodical basis. I don't know how to phrase that, but I would say we do it when we can do it. Our main focus is doing the extreme ECW Live cast. So for you Bottom Line cast for listeners out there, just listen to the extremely CW Live cast, please.
Speaker E:Yes. Especially since Stone Cold shows up at some. He's not Stone Cold, he's Superstar. It's like, it's like a prototype because he kind of just lays it all out there about how much he hates Eric Bischoff's.
Speaker B:Yeah. And the thing with that is we already covered it. So it's like, I don't know if we can do that again.
Speaker E:Oh, right, yeah.
Speaker B:On the Bottom Line Wrestling cast.
Speaker E:No, no, no, no. But I mean for the people that haven't heard it, you know, go back and listen. Oh, yeah, yeah, that was the tail end was like September, October of 95 to December of 95.
Speaker B:Yep. Yeah, that was all good, fun stuff. And we covered a lot of it already here on the Bottom Line Wrestling cast just in some special watch alongs that we've done in the past. Most of that's already covered. But yeah, I think maybe we will do it as some kind of just like typical Bottom Line Wrestling cast episode coverage where we break it down, not just watch along so they'll like.
Speaker E:Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker B:So anyway, yeah, thanks guys for listening and welcome to our seventh 316 day special. Holy. And I always say, 316 day. What are you gonna do, JV? You gotta pop. What? I say it all the time. Get a papa top. Right.
Speaker D:Papa Steve Weiser.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:Papa top.
Speaker B:Papa top. You get a Steve Wiser. Suck that down. Last year we did our watch along for the Kevin Owens, Steve Austin.
Speaker D:What's that? Last year or the year before?
Speaker B:Yeah, that was last year.
Speaker D:It was last year before that.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, because, well, we had done a whole episode on that. We called that one last can.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker B:Covering the whole thing, the whole build up in our typical format. But then we finally did a watch along last year on that. Prior to that we did the Scott hall tribute. Then the year before that we did a episode of Livewire from 1997. So what we're doing today is kind of similar to the live Wire thing. But, you know, Shotgun Saturday Night, and it's from the same year. It's 1997. It's early stone Cold, once. He's, like, getting into that mode of, like, just being a cocky, and he's comfortable with this character. You know, he's moved away from being the ringmaster, and he's. He just got through his little fight with Brad Hart, so he's really building up his character at this point. So this should be fun and shocking. Saturday night. This is a live show. And who better to be with us than Rick Bibi? Because this has the same kind of feel as an ECW show on Saturday night, right?
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker B:That's what this was meant to be.
Speaker E:Yeah, it was created. This is, I believe, the third episode of Shotgun Saturday Night that they ever put on. And for those of you who don't know the premise, they basically would just do an episode of it live from a bar or something like that with a smaller ring and all that. And it was supposed to be cutting edge and edgy and risque and all that. Like, the second episode is the. The infamous one where Sonny has a sex tape with Elmo. So, you know. Yeah. The first episode is when Marlena flashes her. Her breasts at the Sultan, Although you don't get to see anything because they have the camera behind her.
Speaker B:But, yeah, I did it for the titties.
Speaker E:Exactly.
Speaker B:The Sultan.
Speaker E:But, yeah, they. They. They intended this to be, like, the answer, quote, unquote, to ecw, which is funny because they would have been putting this on roughly the same time that ECW was on for us at least, you know, 1:00am Something like that. In the morning, on a Saturday night, into Sunday morning.
Speaker B:Yeah. And this was also a syndicated show, so it wasn't on any. You know, it wasn't on usa, you know, just be on whatever station decided to pick up having this program.
Speaker E:For some reason, I feel like it was on Fox 25 for us, you know.
Speaker B:Yes, it was. It was. It was on Fox 25 for us. And I think most Fox syndications picked it up as a Fox show, so I think that's where you probably got it most. But even still, that's. That's up in the air. Some people didn't pick it up. And so there could be people that never even got shotgun Saturday night, depending on what the syndication was. But, yeah, it was generally Fox from. From what I understand. I know. I definitely know it was Fox 25 for us or Fox 64. Yeah, I was gonna say, did you get Rick did you get Fox 64 or is that just provenance?
Speaker E:Yeah, we had. No, we had. We had Fox 64 up. Not that I'm like that far from you, from where you guys grew up, but. Right, yeah, we had Fox 64. That's how it's. Oddly enough. I remember we used to get the. The Bozo show on. Yeah, on that. The weekends, like, you know, Sunday afternoons or whatever. And it was the Providence one.
Speaker B:Yeah, the shitty studio.
Speaker E:Yeah, right, the shitty. The shitty studio with the guy. Whoever was doing the camera would just zoom in and out randomly on these kids. You get like motion sickness.
Speaker B:I always wanted to be in the crowd too.
Speaker E:I was like, how do I get on that show? I have. I have a buddy. I won't say his name, but I have a buddy who was on that. And he was embarrassed as shit to be on there. Like, he was. He was cool with going because, you know, we were like 10. But at the same time he was like. He realized that, oh, people had.
Speaker B:People gonna make fun of me.
Speaker E:People are gonna see. People are gonna see me on this. Yeah. So he was all like. Like, I swear he had to leave early because whatever the taping day was, they. They did it like early enough that he couldn't have like come home from school normally. So his mom picked him up and he was telling everybody he had dentist appointment.
Speaker B:You were a Bozo.
Speaker E:Yeah, you were on. You were on the Bozo the Clown show.
Speaker B:Oh, that's great.
Speaker E:Ringmaster Maria.
Speaker B:Oh. All right, let's get into this. All right, so we're gonna do this watch along style. It's Shotgun Saturday night, episode three. As Rick said, it's January 18th, 1997. It's in San Antonio, Texas. This is live too. These shows were, I guess, live, right? Were they live?
Speaker E:Yeah, I think. I think so.
Speaker B:I think they were kind of live. Right.
Speaker E:I mean, they may have had a delay on them in case there was something. But yeah, I mean, they're in a bar, so you know, drunk patrons are gonna say, stupid Terry Funk says some stupid.
Speaker B:It's not.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker E:But yeah. And this was also the night before Royal Rumble 97, right?
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker E:Yeah. That's why they're in San Antonio.
Speaker B:Yeah. So they're in San Antonio for that. And this is at a club, a bar called Denim and Jean. No, Denim and Diamonds. Denim and Jeans.
Speaker E:How delightfully Texas.
Speaker B:What the is that? Denim and Diamonds? I don't know. I. I guess that's a place where you think you get. Get laid. I guess Denim and diamond.
Speaker E:Do some line. Some line dancing, maybe do some lines of coke and then get laid.
Speaker B:The person that should be There, though, is DDP 10 of United.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Bang.
Speaker E:Self. High five.
Speaker B:All right, so this show's going to have a run time of 58 minutes, 36 seconds. I know you guys aren't going to be able to watch along with us because this is our own special episode that we have to ourselves, and it's not available to you. Sorry. But if you do want to watch this episode on your own, it is available on the Internet Archive. Rick, you found an episode of what, 44 minutes, right?
Speaker E:Yeah. They cut all the commercials out. This one has the commercials.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:And also the. The one that I found. It starts, like, just with the. Them. The opening of the show. Whereas this one has the. Has that, like, you know, World Wrestling Federation for over 50 years type of signature. Right, Exactly. Yeah, but. But yeah, essentially it's the same thing. Yeah, it's the same episode. It's just missing the commercials and. And the. The very beginning.
Speaker B:Right? Yeah. So you can watch it. It's out there. But we're going to watch the one that has the commercials because, hey, I want to watch commercials. I want to see Game Day 97 and Crash Bandicoot. So we're gonna be checking that out as we watch along with this. All right, so let's get started with this. I'll give a countdown three down to one. When I say play, we all click play. And everybody's good to go. Yep. And make sure I'm good to go. Here we go. All right. Three, two, one. Plate.
Speaker F:Warning.
Speaker B:Program in action.
Speaker D:Your discretion is advised.
Speaker E:Graphic.
Speaker B:So classic. Over 50 years.
Speaker E:Nope, that was a lie.
Speaker B:Yeah. West 42nd Street. I'll show Michael stripping his ass on the Bob. Back on.
Speaker E:Holding up traffic. I love how this is all in New York and then they're actually in San Antonio.
Speaker B:I know. They abandoned the whole thing, like, two weeks later.
Speaker E:Yeah. I literally think they do two more episodes and that then they go to it. It's just a recap show.
Speaker B:The bizarre one. The Gold Dust versus Stone Cold. So that's the main event. Hey, we got the Rock versus Hunter.
Speaker E:Yeah. Not Jeff Jarrett. Jesse James. The real.
Speaker B:Just think of that today, though. The Rock versus Hunter Hurst Helmsley.
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker B:With all that's going on. Yeah, they're just in a bar wrestling ring there.
Speaker E:The lighting rig just all above it, flashing titties. She's just dancing on her chair.
Speaker B:All right, so it looks like we got a feed from new NY55Y. I think it's Fox.
Speaker E:It always amazes me that. That there's channels. Like 55 was a. A normal station for somebody, you know, like not a cable station, you know.
Speaker B:Oh, just like us having 64. Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker E:Yep, that's true.
Speaker B:38.
Speaker E:Oh, Hunter's original music Teeth.
Speaker B:That's right. Yeah.
Speaker E:Well, it's not his original music, but yeah, it's it.
Speaker B:This was his second song.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah. Oh, yeah. I like this though. It was better than the.
Speaker E:Yeah. Todd Pettingale.
Speaker B:Jesus, he's right in his grill. Holy.
Speaker E:Well, I mean, considering how tight that bar is.
Speaker B:Yeah. Nowhere to walk the ring Panic. With a goatee.
Speaker E:Yeah. And a shaved head.
Speaker B:I think he's about to leave.
Speaker E:Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's done longer. I think. I feel. I feel like he sticks around till WrestleMania 13 and then he just disappears.
Speaker B:Oh, 14, you mean. Oh, 13. Oh, 13, you're right.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:The 13 is 97. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker E:Maybe. Actually, I feel like he's there till SummerSlam now. Now that I think about it. I think. I think he shows up at SummerSlam 97. But then he's gone.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker E:I. I don't know. I remember him just being there and then being gone. Yeah. Like no explanation whatsoever. He's just. Oh, now he's not here anymore.
Speaker B:Yeah. Because they brought Michael Cole in.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Kevin Kelly.
Speaker E:Yep. Trying to think. Yeah. Kevin Kelly I think was before Michael Cole. But that. Well, they went. They went through announcers and from like 94 to 97, they went through now like multiple announcers. That guy Charlie Min, who was on for like six months.
Speaker B:Oh, well, he. He was doing like the.
Speaker E:He was. Action Zone.
Speaker B:Yeah, Action Zone. And he was doing like segments like. Yeah, like wrap up segments.
Speaker E:Oh, yeah, absolutely. And Stephanie Wyand.
Speaker B:Was a top bat. You'll oftentimes on Mania.
Speaker E:Yeah. But she would do segments too. Like the. What do they call it? Control center or whatever.
Speaker B:Our Event centers.
Speaker E:Event Center. That's what I was. Yeah. Control. Control. Control center was. Was wcw.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:Look how small that ring is. Yeah.
Speaker B:What was that jv? You said?
Speaker D:I said the ring's mad small.
Speaker B:Yeah, they. They must have had a smaller ring, just kind of like building.
Speaker E:Yeah, because it's a bar, so it kind of has to be a smaller ring or else they wouldn't be able to fit as many people in it. You know, in the, in the bar, I mean.
Speaker B:Right. Jim Ross, Vince McMahon on commentary. These guys are doing it Live. So these guys are staying awake doing this live. That's crazy.
Speaker D:I love that neon cactus.
Speaker B:It makes sense that this whole idea didn't last long because how could it? Who the wants to produce a live show on a Saturday night, right? At 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, whatever the.
Speaker E:I mean, technically we're doing that right.
Speaker B:Now, but you know, we don't want to do that.
Speaker E:No, no, no. There's. There's a reason why we. There's a reason why the episodes get spaced out every week.
Speaker B:Right? That's their protocol. I'm gonna do this every week. It's probably not a good idea. Yeah, but if this is in Texas, not really live at 11, right?
Speaker E:No, it's. Are they what, an hour, whatever?
Speaker B:An hour or two.
Speaker E:Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker D:We're gonna lose an hour of sleep tonight too, right?
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:We're gonna lose an hour. At 2:00, it becomes 3:00.
Speaker E:Yeah. It goes from 159 to 3.
Speaker B:How close that crowd is to the ring. That's crazy.
Speaker E:I know.
Speaker D:Atomic drop.
Speaker B:Jake the Snake just throws a throw snake in there.
Speaker E:Jake the Snake Roberts in a bar. Huh? Never would have guessed that. Is that Gerald Brisco?
Speaker B:Jake the Snake with a tie on too.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:We're coming. Commercial break. Yes. This what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker E:Toe ball. Holy.
Speaker B:Final Fantasy 7. Classic John Lovett's Eminem commercial.
Speaker E:Oh, what's her name? Smoking Wayne's World.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker D:We love you long time.
Speaker B:She bit your head. Was this sel or something?
Speaker E:Yeah, one of the two that sell some blue.
Speaker B:How the did I remember that?
Speaker E:I don't know. I knew it was a dandruff commercial.
Speaker F:But I. Snowboard shops announced that Sunday, January 19th is the beginning of their final end of.
Speaker B:Oh, this is a local commercial. I don't know what this is. Princeton. It's in New York. Yeah, they were in New York.
Speaker E:$185 parka for only 30 bucks. Holy.
Speaker B:That's still expensive.
Speaker E:That's still expensive. Yes. Yeah. Manhattan, Westchester, Long island in New Jersey. Oh, look at that computer.
Speaker B:Wow. That CPU Quicken my phone.
Speaker E:Probably better than that. Computer.
Speaker B:Speakers.
Speaker E:Super vga. Oh, wow.
Speaker F:Millions in merchandise.
Speaker B:Oh my God.
Speaker F:Price is so low they blow the stores away. This weekend at Sports plus in Lake Grove. Welcome back everyone.
Speaker B:We are live 1997. You gotta get your computers, but watch out.
Speaker E:Y2K is gonna come and your computer up.
Speaker B:The rookie Rocky my via.
Speaker E:Both of these guys were like rookies, so to speak. I mean, Hunter had. Hunter had only been wrestling for a couple of years.
Speaker B:Yeah, Hunter only started in WCW in 94.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:And you certainly made your point because indeed, if in fact you could.
Speaker B:Take the Snake on commentary now, 30.
Speaker F:Individuals you just were in the ring with, then you're going to have your advantage. Just like you want. Right.
Speaker C:We woke some people up and I tell you, when I walked through that dressing room area, they weren't the only ones that were scattering either.
Speaker A:Everybody moved.
Speaker F:Well, I guess so.
Speaker C:Nothing changes about that. Something about constant, about the snake, when he gets in the ring, he's always done the very best he could.
Speaker D:He's always taking Damian.
Speaker C:And when a snake comes out, you leave.
Speaker D:If you don't. Is the snake's name not Damien?
Speaker E:It was, it was in the early 90s. It's revelations now, I believe.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker E:Because he got all Jesusy.
Speaker B:It was Damien. And then there was Lucifer, another one.
Speaker E:That was the Cobra.
Speaker B:Revelations.
Speaker D:Yeah. Lucifer was what, Macho man, right?
Speaker E:Yep. And then a couple years after this at the Heroes of Wrestling, the snake just became known as penis because he was waving it around like that. You don't. Did you ever see that?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker E:Oh my God. You have jv.
Speaker D:No, I don't think I have.
Speaker E:Okay, so completely unrelated to this episode, but I'll make it quick. So the heroes of wrestling, pay per view, very well known as like one of the worst pay per view views.
Speaker B:Oh yeah. Okay.
Speaker E:And he was drunk or on something and he comes out to the ring with the snake. He takes his shirt off? Well, no, he's sorry. He dumps the snake in the ring. He goes walks back up the ramp, goes out back to the backstage, takes his shirt off. Comes off, goes up to some like 40 year old lady or whatever and like makes her rub his chest. And then he gets in the ring and he puts the snake between his legs and starts stroking it like it's his dick.
Speaker D:Wow, that's obnoxious.
Speaker E:It was, it was, it was awful.
Speaker B:Holy.
Speaker E:Yeah, it's. It's worth seeing because it's a spectacle, not because it's good.
Speaker B:I know that book in the territory covered it and I watched it. At some point it was.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah, that, that, that's the.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker E:You want to play blackjack? I. You got 21. Well, I got 22. That means you lose, Jake.
Speaker D:Dumbass. You bust bus. Bus.
Speaker E:You want to play blackjack? I got two of those too. What? He's just drunk, hanging off of the announcement interview guy Hunter Cheating like a good heel putting his feet on the ropes.
Speaker B:Yeah, I like the intimacy of the show. Hey, it's.
Speaker E:It's a. It's a Faith no More guy from ecw.
Speaker B:There he is, right up front as always.
Speaker E:Lenny.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker F:From Vi.
Speaker E:Vince has to make sure that everybody knows that we're live. That is so weird, though, that they're in San Antonio and the dude from Philadelphia came down for Royal Rumble, you know?
Speaker B:Yeah, well, yeah, he's there for a rumble, so I figured, oh, Chuck, on Saturday night, I'll do that, too.
Speaker E:Yeah. No, but you wouldn't expect it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker B:You know, it's like how people today, like, oh, if we're gonna go to a Wrestlemania, gonna go to Raw and do it. I forgot Junior was there. He just randomly spotted out some cuz. He hasn't been able to get a word in edgewise. He's probably pissed.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Why the Jake grit talking over me.
Speaker D:All salty?
Speaker B:Jake Roberts. If. If he could have been like, somebody they can count on, he would have been a great commentator.
Speaker E:Oh, absolutely. I mean, there's the. There's the story of. He wanted to, like, transition, to be, like, back backstage. Yeah. Working with, doing finishes and being an agent and everything.
Speaker B:Yeah. They wanted to be basically like his dad was.
Speaker E:Yeah. Like a match. The quote unquote matchmaker, Even though he's really not a matchmaker. But be one of those guys that comes out in a suit and breaks up the fights.
Speaker B:Oh, an agent.
Speaker E:Yeah. An agent. Yeah.
Speaker F:Look at this. What is going on?
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker F:I think you're right.
Speaker B:She. Molina.
Speaker D:Yes. Those hard nipples.
Speaker B:Rick. Jv and I call Marlena. You know the answer.
Speaker E:I honestly. I'm trying to think that's. That's one of the things my recall is not working on for some reason. There's gold dust.
Speaker D:Yeah. Oh, lbt.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:Oh, yeah. Lbts. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Like. Like kimono. Wanaleo.
Speaker B:Yeah. Little big tits.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker B:This show.
Speaker D:What a.
Speaker B:Is a show. Which it's supposed to be that way. I guess it's supposed to be haphazard. Like, oh, we got a match going on here, but some random people come out. Yeah.
Speaker E:Anything can happen.
Speaker B:Yeah, anything can happen. It's live. If it's live, nothing can go wrong. Which is a good motto. I like that motto myself. Like, just like with the job of teaching, like, nothing can go wrong because it's. It is what it is. You just adjust on the fly.
Speaker E:Yeah. You just go with the flow.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:Rocky with his poodle haircut. Yeah, the Chia Pet haircut, which. Which I'm sure as. As you know, is. Is a coming back, so to speak. Or has come back. That kind of a weird haircut.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker E:Shaved on the sides and poofy on the top.
Speaker B:Yeah. I don't know. Some kids think.
Speaker E:I know.
Speaker B:Look at this. What do we got? Line dancing here in front of Jim Ross.
Speaker E:Yeah. Sonny, Todd Pettingale, and then Doc, who's.
Speaker B:This nasty lady right here?
Speaker E:I don't know, but she clearly does not know how to do the Macarena.
Speaker B:I think she's in accounting.
Speaker E:German philosophy probably.
Speaker B:All right, so we got a promo now from Sid. Psycho Sid from last week on Monday Night Raw, which would be January 13th of 1997.
Speaker E:He was the WWF champion at the time, I believe.
Speaker B:Yeah. Right.
Speaker E:Sean's facing him for the title the next night.
Speaker B:Sid Yuri, well, a week later. But he had just won it.
Speaker E:No, no, no. Sean was facing him at Royal Rumble 97 for it. Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker E:He had beat Sean at survival series.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:That's when he hit him with the. Hit him with the camera.
Speaker B:She would know that look, too. The man.
Speaker D:Yeah, s. I loved him.
Speaker B:Look at those. Look at those traps.
Speaker E:Yeah, he's jacked.
Speaker B:Bigger than his shoulders.
Speaker E:Let's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker E:It's like they reference on. On booking the territory. He looks like he walked out of a Marvel comic.
Speaker D:Yeah, he does.
Speaker E:He looks like a super villain. He's the crazy version of Prince Adam.
Speaker B:He said it himself. He's the master and the ruler of the world.
Speaker E:Yep, exactly.
Speaker B:This is Sid. You're the man. You're the master.
Speaker E:I love that.
Speaker B:Sends a man. I love that too, sonny.
Speaker E:I used to. I used to carry a picture of her in my wallet. That's how.
Speaker B:Wow. Okay.
Speaker E:How bad? I was into her.
Speaker D:Before porn on the cell phone.
Speaker B:What picture of Sunny was.
Speaker E:Was her in a bathing suit? No, no, it was her in jeans, cowboy boots, and the little, like the shirt, but it was tied off in the middle of her boobs.
Speaker B:Yeah, okay, I know that one.
Speaker F:Bottom of the deck.
Speaker B:I had pictures hanging up in my room Sunday from the Raw magazine.
Speaker E:Oh, yeah, the. The lingerie.
Speaker B:Yeah, the lingerie the one that was. I was just describing. She's on. She's on the beach and the water is like.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Going through. And she's. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker E:Holding her hair back. Yep, yep. Nope. Hey, jv. There's. There's many Mankind.
Speaker B:Oh, he's about to come out. Mini Mankind is so. Oh, geez.
Speaker E:Things you can't say on television for 200, Alex.
Speaker B:Oh, you can still say it if you're the president.
Speaker D:What'd he say? I missed it.
Speaker E:Something about crossing the border. Yeah. Hysteria.
Speaker B:Who?
Speaker E:I looked this up. That is not super crazy. Super crazy was. Was the first guy to play Hysteria, but by now super crazy was super crazy. And that was a different.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker E:Hysteria is the masked guy that's teaming with Mini man there.
Speaker B:With Mini Man.
Speaker E:How big is his Paul bearer? What the.
Speaker B:How big is this Paul error. So that, like, because he's mini. Has a mini dick.
Speaker E:Yeah, right.
Speaker B:Micro dick has. They call it, I guess, micropenis.
Speaker E:He's not a kickstand.
Speaker B:What is this? Is this the Kansas City Chiefs commercial? Who's this? Who's the chefs? Does that look like the same commercial?
Speaker E:Yeah, it is.
Speaker D:Yes, it is classic.
Speaker E:Yeah. Grab a snake.
Speaker B:I didn't know it was a remake, Snickers. Holy.
Speaker D:What do you mean it was a remake? You don't remember this one?
Speaker B:I don't remember that. I thought the new one was the original.
Speaker D:I don't think I've seen the new one.
Speaker B:Yeah, this is the new one with. No, no, it has. What the is name? Head coach of the Chiefs.
Speaker D:I don't think I've seen that.
Speaker B:And they. And they do it same thing. And then. Yeah, Andy Reid, he says, oh, good job. But who are chefs?
Speaker D:No, I haven't seen that.
Speaker E:Yeah, I haven't seen that one.
Speaker B:It's been out for, like, two years. I don't realize that was an old commercial. I thought it was clever. Now.
Speaker E:My major is politics, economic economics and society. The reason I came here is because it was advertising Suni.
Speaker B:Because I love the teachers.
Speaker F:Sunni Old Westbury's many degree programs for the 21st century.
Speaker E:I think it's State University of New York. I think that's what it stands for.
Speaker B:I am not just flesh.
Speaker E:Yeah, I mean, it's definitely University of New York. This dude's about to fight a little.
Speaker B:Dog for a pizza.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker B:Little scissors.
Speaker E:Yeah. John Elders, Thurman Thomas, Herschel Walker, and Barry Sanders. Three out of the four guys, I believe, are all in the hall of Fame. Actually, Thurman Thomas might be in the hall of Fame. Yeah. I mean, hold up. Elway and Sanders definitely are.
Speaker D:Yeah. I think Herschel Walker might be.
Speaker E:Herschel Walker should be.
Speaker B:I think it's recent that he was in.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:Seen before. Todd, where are you?
Speaker B:Well, didn't Herschel Walker have some shady going on recently?
Speaker E:But I think he was. I think he said some yeah, Political. Yeah. Some dumb.
Speaker D:He's dumb, though. He is dumb. Be no mistake.
Speaker B:Take a lot of hits.
Speaker E:Yeah. Took a lot of hits to the head.
Speaker B:See you tomorrow.
Speaker E:For. For those of you who watch Lucha Underground, that is Mascarita Sagrada. Yes.
Speaker B:Ah.
Speaker E:Two parts tequila, one part lime juice.
Speaker D:Is he older now?
Speaker E:Probably, yeah. No, but he was. I mean, you figure this is 97, 10 years later or whatever. I don't know, 15 years later he was doing. No, he's still the same. Hug. Unfortunately.
Speaker D:That's what I meant. Did he grow up?
Speaker E:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:That's why I said.
Speaker F:Sounds like a car or something. Purple tram with the white.
Speaker E:Yeah. Venom and hysteria.
Speaker B:It's funny. Our guest host is keeping us in line. He's keeping decorum here. Like, what's funny at this point is like, Rick is not a guest host anymore in our minds because we just record with him all the time.
Speaker D:Announce him as a special guest.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:This is my second appearance on your. Your Bottom Line show. Yeah, yeah. Because the. The other time I came in was just for a little. Yeah, yeah. It was for one segment of Variety Pack. Yeah.
Speaker B:Did the Undertaker match, right?
Speaker E:Yeah, I believe so. It was. It was. Yeah, it was a raw y.
Speaker D:Forget about it.
Speaker B:Yeah. I'd like to do another variety Pack. It's tough to come up with ideas like what to do with them. Like, I love these mini matches.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Look at how they move.
Speaker D:Well, see, the thing is technically sound.
Speaker E:Well, that's the thing. Yeah. When, when, when you used to see the, the. The. The little people matches or whatever you want to call them, they were all comedy. They'd bite the ref on the ass. They'd chase each other around. These guys are actually jump on each other.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:Stone colts here.
Speaker B:Sweet. This is the main thing here. That figures.
Speaker A:He here?
Speaker F:No, he. He unfortunately has a throat problem.
Speaker A:Well, that's just as well, because he didn't have a throat problem. He'd have a throat problem by the time I got through with him.
Speaker F:As far why I came out here.
Speaker A:Vince, all this sense has been cutting me off. Now everybody at the USA Network's getting on Stone Cold Steve Austin because of all the three and four letter words I've been using. Let me clear something up right now. Why do I use those words? People ask me? Because I don't want to be misunderstood, misconstrued, or misinterpreted. Talking the way I do is pretty concise, and I think you can tell exactly what I'm saying. Is that true, son?
Speaker F:Oh, we, we hear you loud and clear, son.
Speaker A:What's this in the ring here?
Speaker B:I love that he just littles McMahon. Austin has really come into his own with his voice so comfortable now compared to what we've been covering jv in the stunning Steve episodes, we see it gradually change. But now he's a master.
Speaker D:He's matured as a character. It's like well developed.
Speaker A:There's going to be 20 knacks pieces.
Speaker B:Of trash.
Speaker E:29 pieces of trash.
Speaker B:Right there. That's like also a way of Stone Cold right there saying to Vincent again, I am the number one superstar.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker B:We have Royal Rumble. I am the number one superstar. Just putting him, putting Vince on notice. I am your superstar.
Speaker D:I'm your guy.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker E:The wrestler is going to dominate the sport and 9 the 90s or however. However he said it in WCW.
Speaker B:Hey, Austin appreciates it too.
Speaker E:Yeah. How can you not appreciate, you know, the, the minute the work rate's great. Yeah. And even if they botch something, it's still impressive.
Speaker A:Well, like I said, you know, you don't gotta expect nothing from me. But I'll tell you what, you can.
Speaker E:Oh, Jesus. That looked like it hurt because he went to. He went to slide out and it was like, oh, the ring's about 4ft shorter than I'm used to.
Speaker B:I'm gonna hit the God rail. Whatever.
Speaker A:Yeah, on a USA network or Monday Night Raw. Whatever.
Speaker E:Oh, that was ugly. But I loved it.
Speaker D:Yeah, that was not crisp.
Speaker F:It was good things up here a little bit.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker F:It's late night. It's a wmf. Nobody home. Venom took a chance and Hysteria was able to move now. Now let's see if he can capitalize.
Speaker E:Straight jacket power gone.
Speaker B:Why are they playing Mankind music?
Speaker E:I guess Hysteria doesn't have his own music. He doesn't deserve his own music.
Speaker A:One of these guys can last 1, 2, 3 minutes with Steve Austin. And that's the truth.
Speaker F:All right, go ahead and say. Go ahead and say it.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker A:I'm going to whip somebody's ass tonight.
Speaker E:That's the bottom.
Speaker B:I'm going to whip somebody's ass tonight. We didn't allude to why we chose this episode, but it'll be apparent in a little while.
Speaker D:Did you hear me rip one?
Speaker B:You fought it. Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker E:I didn't hear it either. Adam and George, though.
Speaker B:It is Adam and George. That's one of the main writers or producers, right?
Speaker E:Yeah, they were both behind the scenes writers or producers or whatever.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:All right.
Speaker D:It's like Trey Parker. Matt Stone.
Speaker E:Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker B:Oh, Terry Funk being introduced to the ring. This is one of the main reasons why we chose this episode is that Stone Cold is gonna interact with the Funker. Hey, this kind of pairs up with what we're doing. Extreme ECW live cast. We're in 1997. This is just a few months before where. Where we're currently at.
Speaker E:Yeah, three, three months from this date. He is the ECW World Heavyweight Champion, right? Yeah.
Speaker B:Terry Funk is off his rocker here. So let's take a listen.
Speaker C:This is where I wanna be there very long. Everybody out here knows that I'm a windmill and pile driver. Neck breaking, back, back breaking, bear hugging, wrist lock and knee dropping, toe holding son of a. Son of a gun. Meaner than a rattlesnake Tougher than shoe leather and more dangerous than a hollow eyed score pine and I am ready to rumble.
Speaker F:And that means he's ready to take you on. Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker E:Why does he dress like Chainsaw Charlie though?
Speaker A:I'll just feed those to him if he gets hungry.
Speaker C:To know what number I'm going to be in that.
Speaker B:I love that I get a couple knuckle sandwiches in case he's hungry.
Speaker F:Could be number 15, you could be number 5. Nobody knows.
Speaker C:The hell with number 15.
Speaker A:Going to be over the top run.
Speaker C:Back out there with that first man. George Bush and the representatives of Texas designated me as our Texas member. I want to start to rumble and I want to end the rumble and I want to start that rumble. Not tomorrow night.
Speaker B:Don't let your teeth fall out.
Speaker C:With you. Well, is there somebody else out there? I am looking for anybody.
Speaker A:Don't look too far.
Speaker C:Where is a person that wants. Wants to rumble with me? There's not a person in the WWF that wants to rumble with me. Not a person in a wcw.
Speaker B:Those bunch of snakes WCW is mentioning.
Speaker E:Yep, John's laughing at it for me.
Speaker C:I'm looking around here. Where's Vince McMahon, that Yankee bastard? I realize this is wise. Hey, take him. Give me the microphone. How about rumbling with you? Your mother's a.
Speaker B:Your mother's ail.
Speaker C:No, no you don't. Is there anybody here?
Speaker F:We're live, ladies and gentlemen, San Antonio, Texas in the ring.
Speaker B:If you just joins us, you legendary ain. I'll be with Austin, baby. What's better than Terry Funk in Austin? My God.
Speaker F:Why don't you just Google your jets there, Mr. Austin? Wait a minute. Here comes right over here.
Speaker E:I love how it's still the. The old school Block. WWF turnbuckle pads. You.
Speaker A:How about a couple of jar tabs, son?
Speaker E:He's unhinged.
Speaker B:Yeah. He's going nuts here. It's crazy how Austin's like, relaxed.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, I'll you up.
Speaker E:Austin's just throwing out. I'll take some geratol.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What I figured too, he could come out here and try to call my bluff, but I'm a little smarter than that, son. Look at him. He thinks he's really special. He's a complete idiot.
Speaker F:He's an icon.
Speaker B:Yes, he is. All right, Jim Ross. He's an icon.
Speaker E:No, he's a jackass.
Speaker B:He's a jackass. All right, Austin's had enough. Here you going go up funka.
Speaker F:What's he doing now? He's coming to fight. And Funk is right. No, he's not. He's going back to the locker room getting. No, he is. He's coming right into the ring.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker F:Oh, no. Fox slapping Austin. Jerry Fox doesn't care.
Speaker C:Austin.
Speaker B:Ah, that's awesome. I was not gonna take that. And if. If they could have had Funk involved a little bit more in 97. Him and Austin having a few of them. Great.
Speaker E:So anyway, I'm playing Jet Moto, right? And I'm riding on this concrete. That game was a. And I mean, like, in a good way, you know, it was awesome.
Speaker F:This year we got to be a little more politically correct with the team prayer. Hit it, Padre. Let's take this moment to look inside side and reflect on our good fortune. All right, Rabbi, let's go. And may victory be with you.
Speaker B:Come on, Snickers. Commercials, though.
Speaker F:That was very touching. Come on, Baguan.
Speaker B:Not going anywhere for a while.
Speaker E:Yeah, stay in line.
Speaker F:No pushing. Next. Grab a Snickers. Come on, timid monk. We got a football game to go here.
Speaker B:Hungry? I wait.
Speaker D:Sounded like he said no, but he said no pushing.
Speaker F:Case in advance. Some restrictions and limitations apply. Two for one companion.
Speaker B:Fair.
Speaker E:You just got to go.
Speaker B:It's crazy how some of these commercials just come back. Been brainwashed by commercials. Something from 1997 I can immediately remember of them.
Speaker E:28 years later.
Speaker A:Your favorite WWF superstars.
Speaker B:Psycho Sid defends the World Wrestling Federation title against the phenom man. It's so true that Sean Michaels meets the core. Memories are just from your childhood. Then everything else just forget.
Speaker F:Takes on the man they call like.
Speaker B:I mean, I guess maybe I'll remember stuff, but just seems so different. I feel like I can't remember from what happened in 2018 compared to what happened in 1995.
Speaker E:Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Like, I, I, I did recently a rewatch of WMAC Masters. Do you guys remember that show? Okay, it was, it was WMAC Masters. It was a, like, if martial arts met WWF or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I rewatched it. It's on YouTube. And I was watching. I'm like, oh, I remember this. I remember this. I remember this. And I'm like, like, you say core memories, you know, coming, coming back. But then I'm like, but I couldn't tell you what I, what I did last year.
Speaker D:Yeah, I do remember this. I remember this a lot now.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah. It was filmed at Universal. Yeah.
Speaker D:That'S right. Shannon Lee was the host.
Speaker E:Yep. Yeah, the first season. Then they, they dumped her the second season for whatever reason. Probably, probably for budgetary reasons because it seemed like they, they kind of got cheap, so to speak, on the production, the second season.
Speaker B:But what channel was that on?
Speaker E:I'll say. Fox 25. It was syndicated. Yeah, yeah, it might have been on 64. It was. I swear, it was like, it was on either before or after superstars in, like, 95, 96. Yeah.
Speaker D:What, did Power Rangers come on?
Speaker E:Power Rangers on Fox, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:It was Saturday morning.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's Morphin Time.
Speaker E:It's Morphin Time.
Speaker B:Spend my days working hard on the.
Speaker E:Go the hands on the clock keep.
Speaker B:Spinning too slow I can't wait to be alone with my baby tonight now.
Speaker E:His mic's not working. Yours is.
Speaker B:Mine was better than his. The real Double J, right?
Speaker E:Really singing Double J.
Speaker B:Really singing. This song is a good song. I don't care.
Speaker E:It's a banger. Yeah, It's a good song. You could even play this song.
Speaker B:Jesse James is the one that sang the damn song, right?
Speaker E:Yeah. You could throw it in a, in like, a mix of country music, and it won't.
Speaker B:Nobody would know.
Speaker E:Sound out of place.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, nobody would know. This isn't a real song. This is a hit.
Speaker F:The fastest way to send money worldwide.
Speaker E:What the is that now? This is the Marines or something.
Speaker B:Marine commercial, right?
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah. Like you said, it's all coming back to me.
Speaker D:The door.
Speaker B:Yeah. Why do they have to recruit so many Marines back in 1997?
Speaker E:I don't know. Were they, Were they hurting for people to go overseas?
Speaker B:Was it. Oh, it's Army.
Speaker E:Oh, Army.
Speaker B:Yeah, that too.
Speaker E:Either way.
Speaker B:Nobody wants to join the military. I remember in high school, like, there was always people recruit for the Marines, recruit for the Army.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker E:Yeah, I, I got that.
Speaker B:Anymore.
Speaker E:See, I Had a marine's beanie because the recruiter was handing them out and that, you know, high school or whatever.
Speaker F:Micah kids rooms. Micah adult bedrooms. Micah home office and more at Atlantic Furniture. You can choose.
Speaker B:All right. We got a local commercial here for Atlantic Furniture.
Speaker F:Is the time to discover Atlantic.
Speaker B:I was always so jealous of these rooms. Like, oh, I wish my room looked.
Speaker F:Like that at the best price. Is Atlantic Furniture Farmingdale.
Speaker E:Yeah. But then you think about it. It's like you would have had to. You would have had to keep that clean as in order to make it look that nice.
Speaker B:Yeah. It's not practical.
Speaker E:You can't even live in the room.
Speaker B:Always a good idea. Idea.
Speaker E:Dry gas, one for every car.
Speaker F:Snow shovels, a must. Booster cables, battery chargers, seat covers, floor mats, driveway heat. Everything you need.
Speaker B:Driveway heat.
Speaker E:And Prestone de icer.
Speaker B:Winter madness at auto stores.
Speaker E:Winter Madness. Yeah.
Speaker B:Hey, it's January 18th, so I guess.
Speaker E:Yeah, I know. It makes sense.
Speaker B:It's the heart of it all.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:You want. You want the driveway heat.
Speaker B:Match already started. So standing in the ring. What's going on here? How much time did I just waste standing there?
Speaker E:Seriously, I mean, you got to think maybe. Maybe, you know, Road dog or Jesse James, whatever you want to call him, walked around and sang the song a couple of times. You know, it's like. It's like the sandman's entrance. So just keep playing the song. He'll wander. It's good.
Speaker B:I can't wait to be alone with my baby tonight.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Over and over again. Nation of domination. If PG13 there, they could have done it.
Speaker E:Oh, definitely.
Speaker B:They could have gone out for a few minutes.
Speaker E:Yeah. 97 row rumble. Is that when they. They first bum rushed your mother?
Speaker B:Yeah. Yep.
Speaker E:That was an awful drop kick from Jesse James.
Speaker B:It's funny how you phrase that though. Is that the first time they bum rushed my mother?
Speaker F:Some time Junior you. Almost six months. Hip top. Nicely done. And it was questionable as whether or not Ahmed Johnson's career was going to be over. There were several weeks there that it was touch and go as far as Ahmed ever returning to.
Speaker E:It's so weird to think that a year from now he'd be the road dog and be a completely different character.
Speaker F:My goodness.
Speaker B:Yeah. And he would have thrown Terry Funk into a dumpster.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:That'S. That's true.
Speaker F:Think we're going to see a great deal of scientific, technical wrestling, so to speak.
Speaker B:It's crazy. Like tomorrow. No. Even at this point, like you said, 97 to 98, this thing like 91 to 92 or like every one of the years, like, from one year to the next, how much changed? And now, you know, within the last. I would say 15 years, 20 years, you might even say how little changes from year to year.
Speaker E:Right. I mean, John Cena's played the same. Besides the heel turn he just did when we recorded this, he's been the same character for 20 years.
Speaker B:Yep. Yeah. There's like. Like Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn's feud, like.
Speaker E:Right. Yeah.
Speaker B:How the long has that been going on?
Speaker E:Oh, right, Exactly.
Speaker B:Jesus Christ. It's like, I wouldn't know that there was any ever change when you just. If you go back and watch the pay per View, you'd be like, oh, nothing's changed.
Speaker E:It's the same where. Whereas a year before this, what we're watching, Farouk was dressed up as a gladiator in a powder blue helmet, and now he's that. And any. A year. Ish. After a year and a half after he was an acolyte, you know, so it's just crazy that in two years he's changed characters twice.
Speaker B:What they're showing right now, the starboard Starburst rewind. Shawn Michaels winning the Royal Rumble in 95. That seems like ancient history.
Speaker E:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker B:Even at this point, like, if you're watching 1997, January, tomorrow's the Royal Rumble two years ago, that's a totally different Shawn Michaels.
Speaker E:Oh, totally. Totally different Bulldog, too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:Austin.
Speaker F:What a matchup.
Speaker B:And maybe that's part of it is that they didn't often make any reference to the past, so they didn't make connections that, oh, this is all tied together. So you didn't get reminders that, oh, this was in the past, this happened before. You just have to know that yourself because they didn't give you reminders.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker B:Whereas today, so many frequent reminders. And even like now, if a wrestler comes out to the ring, oh, he was the previous winner of the elimination chamber in 2016, and blah, blah, blah, like all these stats and.
Speaker E:Right. Yeah. Well, it's like. It's also like you said, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, they. During the elimination chamber, they mentioned that. They mentioned that they were El Generico and Kevin Steen, you know, and that feud's been going on. They've been friends and enemies for the past 20 years.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:They would have never brought that up. And, you know, this time, 97, they would have never brought up that, you know, 15 years earlier, Sami Zayn was El Generico, and him and Kevin Steen had A knockdown, drag out brawl, you know, at what the hell? Ring of Honor. Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think what the. Whatever their. Their big show isn't. It's in December. I forget what it's called. But like they. Yeah, they had a massive like blood feud 15 years ago. They never would have brought that up in WWF in 1997.
Speaker B:No, of course not.
Speaker E:I was honestly thinking about that and I was like, man, I remember seeing that thing. And Generico gives Steen a brain buster on the top rope and everything. I'm like, I hope they bring that back. They didn't, but it was just weird that like they still are doing the same, you know.
Speaker F:Provides three way filtration.
Speaker E:Another local commercial. You let Petland discounts bring you that. That dude does not look that. That dude does not look trustworthy.
Speaker B:Local commercials are the best.
Speaker E:Oh, they are.
Speaker B:Ah, we got Stone Cold coming.
Speaker E:I doubt it.
Speaker B:That's the last match.
Speaker D:Alamo.
Speaker B:Minnie's playing po. Wait a minute.
Speaker F:Hunter Hurst healthily back with a couple of ladies. And I don't know if that bodes well for Goldust who was in the ring. Elves are still here in the facility. Anything could happen there. Talk about sights to see what Goldust. Ladies and gentlemen, ready for action against Stones cold Steve Austin.
Speaker B:And everybody better see that gold dust. What does his daddy think?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:To earn the right to meet the WWF champion.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Based on our recent coverage here on the Bottom Line wrestling cast, we've seen a whole lot of Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes. And here's some more.
Speaker F:3.
Speaker E:Three years ago, this was the exact same match, except one of them wasn't painted up as a. A weird, possibly homosexual, you know. And Austin had hair. Fairly long hair, if I remember correctly.
Speaker B:Yeah, long hair for a while. 91 and 92.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:To be fired up in his own right to regain Intercontinental championship.
Speaker B:Yeah. These guys must have been pretty damn close with each other. Some extent. Same age, came up at the same time. Worked so much with each other, which is just funny, like knowing that they had that camaraderie. Austin had to tip over him in a porta potty. Remember that? Yep.
Speaker D:When he was all like.
Speaker B:Just like a baby. Yeah.
Speaker D:That was messed up.
Speaker E:Let me give you a stunner. And then throw you into a porta potty.
Speaker F:Next week when we come to you, ladies and gentlemen, live once again from New York City. That's right. We return to New York City next week from world famous Webster Hall.
Speaker E:Hey, Webster Hall. ECW Wrestled there somewhat off the mark.
Speaker F:A Little far fetched I would suggest. Nonetheless, maybe an attempted.
Speaker B:I keep forgetting Junior's on commentary here because he doesn't get much in at all.
Speaker E:Yeah, he hasn't been talking much.
Speaker B:Every time he talks like, oh, he's here.
Speaker E:My fans, I have arrived.
Speaker B:Hey, some commercials. Multi career.
Speaker E:I will never it say no to Tia Carrera.
Speaker B:She can yank my whammy bar. That's a Wayne's World reference too. He has a whammy bar?
Speaker D:Oh, on his guitar.
Speaker B:Yeah, that.
Speaker E:My cousin Richie was getting married and the night before he calls me up.
Speaker B:I know a dude just like this guy.
Speaker E:Do you Delivery place.
Speaker B:Do you want to see the wedding photos? It's funny how like some characters can be created but they are like that's a real person.
Speaker E:Yeah, like, like Bill Alfonso and your buddy Billy sometimes.
Speaker D:Seems like I'm involved in almost everything, but I'm prepared with my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering technology from SUNY Farmingdale. What I learned in the classroom I put into practice here every day.
Speaker B:And that's helping us kind of ironically get the same name.
Speaker D:Education help you? Hey, it's your world, your future.
Speaker B:Shitty ass commercial.
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Speaker D:I'm thinking of getting one next year. It's so expensive.
Speaker B:I mean it does obviously hit the house, but man, they're sleep machines. You'll just pass out.
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Speaker B:I know what's happening now. It's getting too late. So we're getting all the shitty local commercials.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:That people paid for. Yeah, we'll throw that on at 12:13.
Speaker D:No lawyer commercials yet.
Speaker E:No. Or. Or 1 900, you know sex line number.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's oh, we can get any 100 ones.
Speaker D:Yeah, you call me to fill all your deepest, darkest desires.
Speaker E:Exactly. There's. There's hundreds of sexy women waiting to take your call.
Speaker B:I. I want to keep watching all the Shotgun Saturday nights. Now, I know we can't do that, but.
Speaker E:If Austin's on them, you. You. You can find your. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah. We never covered any Austin Shotgun Saturday Night, the original show. So this is obviously the most memorable one. All right, so Terry Funk runs in there. He's gonna break up this match. Bushwhackers.
Speaker D:Bushwackers.
Speaker B:What a show. What was that? Phineas Godwin.
Speaker E:Yeah, Phineas God. When the headbangers are in there.
Speaker D:The headbangers. I said Bushwackers.
Speaker B:Bushwackers, Headbangers. Whatever the.
Speaker D:Yeah, same thing. Different freaking era.
Speaker B:Different gimmick. Different. Yeah, that's so funny. I never thought of that. Wish Wakin had bangers. Naturally the same.
Speaker F:Look at this.
Speaker E:Terry Funk in the. Oh, a beer is in the tub. Beer tub.
Speaker B:Beer tub. Austin up the funker as it goes off the air. The show's about to close. That's it.
Speaker E:That's it. That's it.
Speaker D:What an abrupt ending.
Speaker B:It was live. They got to go off the air.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:What the.
Speaker E:We're desperately out of time.
Speaker B:Yeah. What do you think was coming on right after that?
Speaker E:I don't know. Probably that Howard Stern.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:Either that or infomercial for the Gazelle.
Speaker B:Yeah, some. Yeah, yeah. Probably an infomercial. Yeah.
Speaker D:Yan can cook.
Speaker B:All right, so that was fun. That was a nice little throwback 316 day special covering shotgun Saturday Night. And like I said, I'd like to do more of these, you know, when we get a chance, especially if it involves Austin. Shotgun Saturday Night wasn't something that we're able to do in the past because we didn't have access to the episodes. So.
Speaker D:Yeah, now we do. So we do have to consider it.
Speaker B:Yeah. So maybe we can look back at some things that we kind of miss. I don't think we missed anything really big. It's just that little like Shotgun or maybe Live Wire with Austin appearances are things that we can maybe go back and see if there was something notable or.
Speaker E:Yeah, because you guys did that one Live Wire where he kind of comes in and just rips everybody a new one.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think there's more that he was on too. Or even if, like some episodes of Superstars we didn't cover either.
Speaker E:Oh, for sure.
Speaker B:That we could cover with some of his earliest stuff. In 96. So, yeah, so, yeah, we'll get, we'll get some more of this stuff out there. You know, we don't always wait until a 316, 316 day special, especially since we're kind of towards the end of Stunning Steve already too.
Speaker E:Yeah, I mean, you did say you wanted to do more variety packs, so if there's like a, a segment you could, you know, instead of having watched the entire Superstars or something, if it's just a good segment, you could do that.
Speaker B:Yeah, so that's something to consider. Like I said, we're almost getting close to the end of Stunning Steve already. I say already. It's been like five years since we started it. Yeah, we're 21 episodes in, but I, I don't think there's more than maybe 10 to 15 episodes left in it because it ends in 94 and we're in 94. So. Yeah, so there's still more out there. It's good to just keep this going. The Bottom Line wrestling cast. So it's great to have you, Rick, with us here for this and would like to have you on even more. Of course, of course.
Speaker E:Thanks for having me.
Speaker B:It's fun to have you here. So, you know, thanks for that. And we're gonna do a little wrap up just in a second, but take a listen to Alex Dorio as he talks about his podcast, Talking Taker, and we'll be right back.
Speaker G:All right, Bottom Line cast listeners, this is Alex Dorio, one half of the Talking Taker podcast. And after nearly 200 episodes exploring every pay per view match of the Undertaker's career, along with my co host, Travis White, we just couldn't let the podcast rest in peace. So join us now on the 1st of every month as we dig even deeper into the legacy of the newest member of the WWE hall of of Faith. From unearthing some rare and unreleased hidden gems, to exploring Mark Calaway's career outside of the wwe, to revisiting some favorite matches with collaborations with our friends of the show, to movie reviews, to ministry of darkness fantasy drafts. You just never know what we might come out of the grave with next. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, watch the full video versions on YouTube, follow us on social media. Akitaker. And as always, take her easy.
Speaker B:All right, guys, we're back for now for the Bottom Line wrap up. And please check out our friends and our podcast pals, Talking Taker. You just heard them, Alex, Dario, Travis White. They cover the entire career of the Undertaker. You know, just like we did with song called Steve Austin. They covered the entire career and then now do special episodes every month. Their latest episode is a WrestleMania fantasy draft with the podcast crew, the Pod Street Crew. And you know, that's a lot of their friends, Steve Zman of Collecting. Collecting Dead man, you know, Randy Turco, Watch Along Tommy, you know all those guys over there and they're doing their little draft of their ultimate WrestleMania fantasy matches. So check that out. And check out their episodes monthly. Go back into the archives, check out the whole career of the Undertaker. And we've done many episodes with them, so please check those out as well. And check out Book of the Territory, the unprofessional wrestling podcast where they are now covering weekly episodes of WWE Saturday Night. And they are currently in 1993. And the latest episode is August 14th of 1993. And on their Patreon, they also covered the latest Clash of the Champions, which was the. The debut of the Shock Master.
Speaker E:It's gonna shock the world, baby.
Speaker B:Shock the world. It falls on his ass.
Speaker E:Busted his ass.
Speaker B:He fell on his ass. Oh, man, that was great. And they spent like 30 to 40 minutes talking about.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:I love the first time that I saw that. Like, I didn't see that live at the time because I wasn't really watching WCW Weekly and like that back in 1993. So the first time that I ever really heard about the Shock Master was like probably in 2005, 2006. Maybe a little late. I forget when it was, but it was on the WWE on the man thing. Classics, whatever it was called. It was on.
Speaker E:Yeah, WWE Classics.
Speaker B:Yeah, WWE Classics. I had it on demand on. On cable.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:It was an app. And there were shows. That was the show. It was like Mean Gene was on it. It was like a roundtable.
Speaker E:Confidential.
Speaker B:No, not Confidential. That was just him on his own. This around table. Like Dusty Rhodes was on this one.
Speaker E:Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker B:Yeah, I forget the name of it. And there was one episode where they highlighted this, the Shock Master thing. And that's the first time that I ever heard of this happening. That was just the funniest thing. And oh, such a great episode because Dusty Rhodes was on it. And Dusty Rhodes was like partially responsible for creating this whole thing happening. And. And Fred Ottman, Shock Master, Tugboat Typhoon is brother in law, Uncle Fred, right.
Speaker E:Big Steel, man.
Speaker B:And that's when he also mentions like Cody. Cody Rhodes. He mentions Cody Rhodes is watching this as a little Kid, he's watching the Habit. He goes, is that Uncle Fred? He sees them fall and then the masks come off and he's like, is that Uncle Fred? Ah, just brilliant. So anyway, yeah, they cover that in detail on Book of Terrorism, Book of Territory. So check that out. Also check out our vantage point, the Retro Wrestling podcast with Joe Marauder and Michael Quinn. And they are now. And they've done many episodes podcasts where they cover various different topics. But their current thing they're doing right now is covering weekly episodes of superstars. WWF superstars. And they're in 1987. They covered WWF Championship Wrestling from 1982, 83, 84, 85, 86 into the transition where it became Superstars. And now they're in 87. And it's August 8, 1987. And those episodes are available rev you podcast and the video versions are on YouTube free. So check them out. Also, again, check out JV and I and Rick Beebe on the Extreme ECW Live Cast. Our latest episode is covering 7-29-19. Actually, no. July 29th. Yeah, 1997. We didn't do August 5th. It was. That's not out yet, but it'll be out. So check that out. But also check out our free feed as well. We're about one year behind. And the latest episode is covering Easter Behavior TV 191, 192 of December 17th and 24th of 1996.
Speaker E:Yeah, eight months behind at this point.
Speaker B:Yeah, I know it's creeping, so.
Speaker E:Yeah, it is.
Speaker B:Yeah. But it's generally a year behind.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah, it's close enough.
Speaker B:Yeah. All right, guys, so thanks for listening and I hope you have a great 316 day papa top, like I like to say, and enjoy it. Slug one down for Stone Cold Steve Austin. Have a great St. Patrick's Day as well tomorrow. And guys, anything left to say?
Speaker E:I got nothing.
Speaker D:No.
Speaker B:All right, guys, so long.
Speaker C:And that's the bottom line.
Speaker A:As far as I'm concerned, this, it's over with.
Speaker C:So get the hell out of here.
Speaker E:Sa.
3:16 Day Special: Shotgun Saturday Night: Jan 18, 1997
On this 7th annual special episode to celebrate 3:16 Day we are joined with our buddy Rick Beebe! We will be watching the third episode of Shotgun Saturday Night!
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