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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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
After 187 episodes of Talking Taker, for one night only we're Raising Kane! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they rise from the dead after their journey through every Undertaker PPV match for this special bonus celebration of the career of the newest member of the WWE Hall Of Fame, The Undertaker's Brother Of Destruction - Kane! We reminisce about our favorite memories of The Big Red Machine including his incredible debut in our favorite Undertaker match of all time, his uniquely important rivalry with The Phenom, his unmatched legacy as a tag team competitor, his many reinventions, and his underrated comedic timing. We hit all the over-the-top antics like Pete Rose, Drew Carey, Katie Vick, JR on fire, Snitsky, torturing Shane McMahon, "See No Evil", Anger Management with Daniel Bryan, and more. Plus we highlight the Mayor Of Knox County's many records and unique achievements in the ring before we debate our favorite Kane attires, theme songs, tag team partners, and matches. You don't want to miss this special edition tribute to The Devil's Favorite Demon - download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
It's time for Talking Taker to Rest In Peace! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White for one final time on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as they cover The Dead Man's Final Farewell at Survivor Series 2020 on the 30th Anniversary of his debut. It's an emotional moment as we reach the end of the encyclopedic exploration we started three and a half years ago. Taker's final match might have been at WrestleMania 36, but we take a look at the ways he stayed involved in WWE throughout 2020 including more mind games with AJ Styles, inspiring a match between Jeff Hardy and King Corbin, and the epic tribute at Survivor Series with the parade of legends, Tesla coils, an emotional Vince McMahon, and a Paul Bearer hologram! We also answer some final fan questions, get in one final Batman reference, share some favorite podcast memories, and give thanks to our friends and followers who supported us along the way.
Of course, the main event of this episode is the reveal of the Top 20 Undertaker PPV Matches Of All Tiz-iiiime! First, Travis and Alex go back and forth giving their personal Top 20s with some sure-to-be controversial and surprising selections and rankings. Then we unveil the matches you voted into the Top 20 with a battle for the number 1 spot separated by a single vote! And then, for one last time, we say to our Creatures Of The Night, "Taker Easy!"
Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Pick up a Talking Taker shirt & more merch TeePublic to help support the show!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to stay connected and hear his latest music!
Pick up a copy of Alex's dad John Doriot's horror story collections Crossroads and Intersections!
Get a free month of exclusive and ad-free podcasts on Stitcher Premium when you use the code TALKINGTAKER
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Our time-traveling hearse pulls into its final stop as we arrive at The Boneyard! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they reach the end of their journey through every Undertaker PPV match with the main event of night one of WrestleMania 36 between The Dead Man and AJ Styles. Yes, after 3 and a half years, we've finally reached the final match of The Undertaker's career - at least for now! The Boneyard Match was an instantly iconic cinematic spectacle, the perfect conclusion to The Phenom's legendary 30-year career. We'll break it down in full detail including all the hilarious trash talk and one-liners, the brilliant foreshadowing, the many meme-worthy moments, and all the reasons this match rocked our world in the early days of a global pandemic. Along the way we'll talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic turned the WWE on its head and completely upended the plans for WrestleMania, The Undertaker's final appearance in front of a live audience to date, AJ's intensely personal promos on Mark Calaway and Michelle McCool, our meet and greet with The Undertaker in the midst of all this, Taker's ranking amongst Mania main eventers, "Tiger King", Mark Wahlberg, Metallica, and the return of The Biker Taker after 17 years! Plus, Alex's Dad joins the show to present a special poem written about The Undertaker! Download, enjoy, Taker Easy - and don't forget to join us next week for our series finale as we rank our Top Taker Matches!
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Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
It's The Undertaker's second-to-last match ever! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as they cover The Dead Man's strange, brief, unannounced pursuit of the "prestigious" Tuwaiq Trophy at Super ShowDown 2020. It technically counts as a match, but The Undertaker only delivers a single move. And he never even takes off his hat or jacket! But since we've only got a couple episodes left, we're watching the entire gauntlet match and giving our thoughts on guys like R-Truth, Bobby Lashley, Andrade, Erick Rowan, and AJ Styles. We'll discuss this surprising launch to Taker's final WrestleMania feud, another awesome Saudi entrance, the early signals of the coming pandemic, The OC's inappropriate allusions on tv, Jerry Lawler's outdated (but still hilarious) commentary, and The Undertaker making both is final MSG and Smackdown appearance as he chokeslams Sami Zayn.
Plus, in addition to covering the full gauntlet match, we're also doing a Q&A throughout the episode as we answer your most insightful, creative, hilarious, and downright bizarre questions! You don't want to miss this one - download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
We're digging up The Undertaker's Hidden Gems on this week's Special Edition of Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take a detour from their journey through every Undertaker PPV match for a look at some of his untelevised and most rare matches. We're digging through the WWE Network archives and taking our time traveling hearse to across the country to territories like USWA, SMW, and OVW and across the world to Canada, Kuwait, and even Finland! We'll talk about match between "Mean" Mark and Jerry "The King" Lawler just a month before Mark become The Dead Man, The Undertaker's only title defense of his first WWF Championship reign, and an encounter with Taker's long-lost brother Kane before he became Kane! Then we'll hit some lost Attitude Era footage including The Undertaker and Triple H's first few singles matches, an iconic moment from Shotgun Saturday Night, and an incredible tag team battle from Madison Square Garden with Taker and Stone Cold vs DX just 6 days after the Montreal Screwjob. Finally we'll hit the Biker Taker era with the Brothers Of Destruction sharing some beers after an episode of Raw goes off the air, Undertaker and Kane's first meeting with Batista a year before he hit the main roster, and a lost classic from an international live event with Brock Lesnar. Plus we'll also cover some famous matches that are even more rare and only on Youtube against the likes of Tito Santana, Hakushi, and The APA (including a drunken Bradshaw promo that has to be heard to be believed)! Don't miss this one folks - download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
The Graveyard Dogs are unleashed on this week's Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as they cover his one-time team-up with Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules 2019 as they face off with Drew McIntyre and "The Best In The Worrrrrrld" Shane McMahon. It's a much needed return to form for The Dead Man as this match feels like it could have come right out of The Phenom's golden years. We'll discuss why everything in this match just clicks and what a breath of fresh air it was after the rough patches of the past few months. We'll also discuss this match's significance as Taker passes the ownership of "The Yard" over to Roman, gets to have an iconic moment with Drew McIntyre, and competes in a full match in a front of a crowd for the very last time. Plus we'll discuss all the build-up including Undertaker's surprise return to save Roman on Raw, Shane's hilariously pompous entrances, Kevin Owens stealing the show and absolutely burying Dolph Ziggler, Gary "The Goat" Garbutt, Elias sticking his guitar into things, and so much more "spookiness". Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
It's the dream match that turned into a nightmare! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as they cover the debacle between The Undertaker and Goldberg from Super Showdown 2019. These two icons led their respective companies on the battlefields of the Monday Night Wars. And though we all would have wanted to see this match a few years earlier, it still gave us goosebumps to see the holders of the two most legendary streaks in wrestling face off for their first ever match. Unfortunately, everything that could possibly go wrong did go wrong after that! We'll discuss the bloody miscue from Goldberg, the many times this match should have been stopped, the Jacked-Up-Hammer, and all the other cringeworthy moments that got crammed into under ten minutes. Along the way we'll also cover The Undertaker missing his first WrestleMania in 19 years, his "ceremonial burial" of Elias the very next night on Raw, the mistimed promo from Taker that might have been an omen of things to come for this match, WWE legends analyzing this match, Goldberg's bizarre warning to The Dead Man, the rare club Taker joined with the outcome of this match, Vince McMahon's confusing affection for these old-timers, and so much more. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
It's The Brothers Of Destruction vs Degeneration X for the first time ever - hold on to your wigs! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as they cover the dream match that turned into a nightmare at Crown Jewel 2018. Eight years after being retired by The Undertaker at WrestleMania 26, Shawn Michaels made his return to the ring alongside Triple H to take on Taker and Kane. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out - everything! We'll break down this cursed encounter including Triple H's early injury, Shawn's ugly moonsault, and Kane's hilarious unmasking. But we'll also give credit where credit is due and talk about the high points in this match including Triple H's amazing perseverance despite his painful condition. We'll also discuss all the build-up including the ridiculousness of 50-year-old men tossing out glow sticks, Triple H's problem with "big words", Kane and Taker's goofy boiler room promo, the real life controversy surrounding this show, and much more. Plus Alex unboxes his surprise birthday present from Travis live on the air! Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
It's The Undertaker vs Triple H for the Last Time Ever (until the next time)! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they head down under for the first and only time on the podcast for the main event of the Super Show-Down! Despite their End Of An Era match a few years prior, The Dead Man and The Game return to face each other yet again in for another mega-show on a new continent. Would they be able to recreate their WrestleMania magic? Or would this go down as an international incident? We'll give our thoughts as revisit the match for the first time since it took place. Along the way we'll also discuss The Undertaker's final house show match ever, how Taker's career is starting to feel like the end of a "Lord Of The Rings" movie, Triple H's confusing logic for accepting the match, the WWE Legends' predictions for the match, Shawn Michaels promising that he's a man of his word, The Authority's poor management skills, The Brothers Of Destruction reuniting, Elias and Kevin Owens in Seattle, and the shocking ending of this match that set up the unthinkable for the Crown Jewel PPV. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
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Pick up a brand new "G.F.Y. - Good For You" Talking Taker shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
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Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
It's Rusev Day on Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their journey through every Undertaker PPV match as we begin our look at The Dead Man's 2018 World Tour with the Greatest Royal Rumble. It's The Undertaker's final ever Casket Match and he's taking on the Bulgarian Brute in a match that feels straight outta 1993. It also might be the most bizarre build-up we've covered in the history of the podcast as the entirety of this rivalry takes place over Twitter! We'll discuss the infamous "Bury Me Softly, Brother" tweet from Rusev, how and why Taker's opponent was briefly changed to Chris Jericho, how and why it was changed back to Rusev, the controversies surrounding the WWE's first Saudi Arabia supershow, TMZ interviews, dumpster fire matches, the evolution from signs to cell phones in the audience, and, of course, the Titus World Slide! Plus we try out our Lana and Aiden English impressions! Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!
Pick up a "Bury Me Softly, Brother" Shirt & more merch at TeePublic to help support the show!
Subscribe to Travis's YouTube channel to help him get over 100 subscribers and hear his latest music!
Get a free month of exclusive and ad-free podcasts on Stitcher Premium when you use the code TALKINGTAKER
Check out our Spotify Playlist highlighting all the music featured across our episodes throughout the years and see if you can remember which songs went with each match - updated every week!
Join our Creature Community by following us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!