Talking Taker
Digging up the career of The Undertaker one PPV match at a time every Friday. Hosted by wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White.
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Wednesday May 22, 2024
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Before we go back to The Undertaker's origins in WCW, we're taking it back to the infamous WCW Invasion on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take the time-traveling hearse back 23 years to the absolutely insane era of the summer of 2001 including the formation of The Alliance between ECW and WCW as well as the stalker angle with DDP and Taker. It was a wild ride and arguably one of the worst storylines of Big Evil's career, and we discuss it all in-depth. Plus we cover Travis's debut on Monday Night Raw - for real! Enjoy this trip back in time and be sure to join us June 1st for our next brand new episode covering The Complete History Of The New Skyscrapers!
Saturday May 04, 2024
Saturday May 04, 2024
Just in time for this year's Backlash event, enjoy this special bonus audio of our cohost Alex Doriot joining friend of the show and P.S.K. Member Watchalong Tommy on his YouTube channel to revisit Backlash 2007! Alex and Travis were there live in Atlanta for this hidden gem of a PPV so you'll hear all about the experience inside the Philips Arena. Plus we'll discuss all the goings-on of 2007 in the WWE and beyond including forgotten WWE Dot Com shows, American Idol contestants you haven't thought about in years, a Divas match that blew us away, a dark match and a backstage segment that you won't see on Peacock, and two World Title matches that are worth looking back at including The Undertaker's Last Man Standing Match with Batista!
Check out the full video version of the show on the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel and be sure to like and subscribe!
Check out Alex and Travis's original episode discussing their trip to Backlash 2007 and all the buildup to The Undertaker's match!
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
We're breaking down the opening shots of the Thursday Night War of the Attitude Era on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they look back 25 years to the pilot episode of Smackdown featuring a massive tag team match (playa!) between The Undertaker and Triple H against The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. It's so massive we had to call in another tag team to discuss it with us - Mike and J.V. from The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast! We'll discuss this historic night that features Taker in the main event of the first episode of another one of the WWE's signature programs and how the show stands up 25 years later. And we'll match it up with the other wrestling program that was airing at the exact same time that night - WCW Thunder featuring a World Title match between DDP and Bam Bam Bigelow! We'll give you the watch-along cues to watch both of these huge main events with us as we discuss the very different vibes of these shows as well as some of the other pop culture highlights of April 1999 on TV, the movies, and even the radio at the time.
Plus we'll also give a full breakdown of The Undertaker's exciting WrestleMania 40 weekend including his Hall Of Fame appearance, narrating the Bray Wyatt documentary, and shocking main event run-in that saved the story for Cody Rhodes! You don't want to miss this one - download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
Check out The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast every week as Mike and JV cover the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin one PPV match at a time!
Check out The Extreme ECW Live Cast every week as Mike and JV go episode by episode through ECW!
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Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
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Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
They just played a role in the main event of WrestleMania 40, so now we're looking back 25 years at the origins of The Undertaker and The Rock's rivalry on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take the time-traveling hearse back to the height of the chaotic Attitude Era in June of 1999. Taker and The Rock have a highly memorable build up to their match including The Rock busting out his own Brahma Bull symbol, plus we try to unravel every loose thread and plot hole from the Greater Power reveal and so much more. Enjoy this trip back in time and be sure to join us May1st for our next brand new episode covering 25th Anniversary of the pilot episode of Smackdown featuring our friends Mike and J.V. from The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast!
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Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Can The Undertaker break The Von Erich Curse? Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take their time-traveling hearse back to Dallas in 1989 to cover some of the earliest footage of Mark Calaway as The Punisher facing off with The Modern Day Warrior Kerry Von Erich and many more characters from the USWA. This episode is inspired by the award-winning film "The Iron Claw" and we'll give our thoughts on the movie before discuss these "deleted scenes" and why we think The Punisher got cut out of the movie. We'll discuss some matches and characters we never thought we'd talk about on this show including Taras Bulba, Latin Lover, Uncle Elmer, Cousin Junior, Billy Toe Travis, Eric Embry, Gentleman Chris Adams, Matt Borne, and more. Along the way we'll cover The Punisher roaming free in the badlands, grown men ripping cigs in the front row of these matches, grandmas going nuts over The Von Erichs, brawls running through the fire exits, whether or not Uncle Elmer is a trained athlete, Marc Lowrance's unintentionally funny commentary, Kerry's amazing babyface promo, the pure fun of territory wrestling, the returns of Percy Pringle III and Skandor Akbar and P.Y. Chu Hi, plus a final encounter between The Undertaker and The Texas Tornado in the WWF. All that and another jam-packed edition of Undertaker Sightings for the month of March including predictions for The Dead Man at WrestleMania XL. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
Today's episode is brought to you by Stubforge! Check out their ticket stub replica creation tool and share your creations with us on our social media and we'll pick one listener to receive a physical ticket replica of their choice!
Show your P.S.K. Pride with our brand new double-sided Pod Street Krew shirt over at TeePublic.com!
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our collection of figure unboxings, vlogs, video podcasts, and more!
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the first match of The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels/Triple H WrestleMania Quadrilogy, and we're celebrating this momentous occasion with a special MEGASODE edition of Talking Taker! Collected here for the first time is all 4 of our Watch-Along alternate commentaries joined by special guest Randy Turco for each of these matches, back to back to back to back! We'll give you the time cues and invite you to join our three man booth as we look back The Undertaker vs Shawn Michales from WM 25 and 26 and The Undertaker vs Triple H from WM 27 and 28. It's the greatest story in Mania history and some of the best matches in WWE history, and this feels like a fitting way to honor them. It's also the perfect audio for you to listen to on the Road To WrestleMania whether you're traveling to Mania 40 in person or just getting hyped from your own home. So sit back, relax, rewatch these classics with us, and Taker Easy!
Today's episode is brought to you by The Art Of Manliness Podcast! Be sure to check out their latest episodes, subscribe, and let them know that Talking Taker sent ya!
Give Randy a follow over @PokeysLittleDog!
Show your P.S.K. Pride with our brand new double-sided Pod Street Krew shirt over at TeePublic.com!
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our collection of figure unboxings, vlogs, video podcasts, and more!
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
We're taking the time-traveling hearse back to the ATL with Randy Turco in tow on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they bring their time-traveling correspondent Randy along to revisit a classic WrestleMania match between The Undertaker and Triple H. It's the 15th anniversary of the beginning of Taker's WrestleMania rivalry with DX, and this is the last match of that rivalry that Alex, Travis, and Randy have yet to cover Watch-Along style, so we decided it needed to get done! Along the way we'll discuss more stories of Alex and Travis's experience watching this one in the Georgia Dome, what it was like for Randy watching on PPV, the music edits on Peacock, the chairshots that led to fines, the huge crowd reactions, Triple H's picture-perfect tombstone, the action figure representations of this match, the place it holds in Undertaker's history, the aftereffects of Abdullah The Butcher's restaurant, and of course a comparison to of this match to a Batman movie. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
Today's episode is brought to you by The Art Of Manliness Podcast! Be sure to check out their latest episodes, subscribe, and let them know that Talking Taker sent ya!
Give Randy a follow over @PokeysLittleDog!
Show your P.S.K. Pride with our brand new double-sided Pod Street Krew shirt over at TeePublic.com!
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our collection of figure unboxings, vlogs, video podcasts, and more!
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
For one episode only, Talking Taker becomes SPITTING VENOM! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take a detour from their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they pay tribute to the icon whose career mirrored The Undertaker's in so many ways, the man called Sting! With The Stinger's retirement match coming up this weekend we look back at his unparalleled career and share some of our favorite memories and moments from his runs through WCW, TNA, WWE, and AEW. Sting was also Travis's gateway into pro wrestling and we reminisce about all the reasons why from the Surfer Sting days to The Crow to the Wolfpack and more. That all leads up to our main event - breaking down the ultimate dream match of both men's careers that we never got - Sting vs. The Undertaker! We discuss all the possible times it would have made sense to happen, why it never worked out, what made fans dream of this match for so long, and both give our fantasy bookings for how it could have played out. You don't want to miss this very special episode - download, enjoy, and #TakerEasy!
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Pick up some of our brand new merch celebrating Master Of Pain and Punisher Dice Morgan over at TeePublic.com!
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our collection of figure unboxings, vlogs, video podcasts, and more!
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
We're celebrating the 20 year anniversary of a milestone moment in Alex and Travis's friendship on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies as they reminisce about Alex's 18th Birthday gift - an all-expenses paid trip for these best friends to WrestleMania XX! It's not only one of the greatest experiences of our lives as wrestling fans, and not only one of the most important matches of The Undertaker's career, but this just so happened to be a historic episode for our podcast as we hit the 100 episode mark. We had to get together to record episode 100 live, and Alex even invited his parents on to question their sanity in sending a couple of high school kids from a small town in Georgia all the way to New York City. Enjoy this trip back in our time-traveling hearse and be sure to join us March 1st for our next brand new episode covering the greatest "What If?" in The Undertaker's history: The Undertaker vs. Sting!
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Forget about Netflix - Be Kind & Rewind with us to the days of the video store for a brand new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they cue up another round of Undertaker matches originally found on Coliseum Video releases in the early 90s. The days of physical media may be dwindling and Monday Night Raw is moving to streaming, so what better time than to look back at these iconic home video releases? Don't worry - you don't need a VCR to check out these matches as they're all available in the Home Video Classics section of Peacock. We're covering 7 matches featuring opponents we've never discussed before including The Undertaker vs Tugboat, Greg The Hammer Valentine, The Mountie, The Berserker, Papa Shango, Sid Justice, and even a rare face-off with The Macho Man Randy Savage! But it's not just the matches, we'll also discuss all the hilarious quirks of Coliseum Video including the commentary of Sean Mooney and Lord Alfred Hayes, the mullets and fashion in the crowd, the ridiculous interstitial segments on the tapes, Travis's resemblance to one announcer, Bobby Heenan's off the wall remarks, Gorilla Monsoon's new nickname for Taker, Sid Justice's Book Club, a Taker wardrobe malfunction, moves we've never seen before, and so much more. Of course we've got another round of Undertaker Sightings discussing his reveal for the latest WWE 2K video game, the WWE-Netflix deal, and more. Plus stay all the way to the end as Alex unboxes a very important addition to his Talking Taker figure collection! Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
Listen to our first volume of Coliseum Video Classics here!
Use our affiliate link to make your WWE Shop purchases and help support the show!
Pick up some of our brand new merch celebrating Master Of Pain and Punisher Dice Morgan over at TeePublic.com!
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest release, "Bridges" - also available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our collection of figure unboxings, vlogs, video podcasts, and more!