Talking Taker

We're taking you back 35 years to the best week of a young Mark Calaway's life on a brand new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up the career of The Undertaker as they celebrate the anniversary of his historic first ever WWF Championship reign - all 6 days of it! We kick things off with a watchalong of his win over Hulk Hogan at Survivor Series 1991 - The Gravest Challenge. Then we take a look at the only recorded title defense by The Dead Man during this week as he travels to Canada to face The British Bulldog. Then we watch along the sudden and shocking switch back of the title to Hulk Hogan from This Tuesday In Texas. We first covered these matches over nine(!) years ago on Talking Taker, so we've got a completely different analysis and perspective on these 3 matches, some of the most important in The Undertaker's entire career. All that plus we debut a brand new segment - Travis's Cinema Cemetery! Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!   Pick up your copy of Travis's album "Reconstruction" - available for a limited time only on vinyl!   Pick up our new DadMan Inc. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs, Alex's toy room tour, and more!  

It's been 35 years since The Undertaker's first WWF Championship reign, so we're throwing it way back with a pair of with a classic Talking Taker episodes, BACK FROM THE DEAD at the top of your podcast feed! Our November 2026 episode will be a few days late this month, but it's going to be a deep dive into the week of 11/27/91 - 12/3/91, a.k.a. The Best Week Of The Undertaker's Life up to that point. We're going to revisit everything that took place between Survivor Series 1991 and This Tuesday In Texas and The Undertaker's brief first reign on top of the wrestling world. To get your prepared, we're taking you all the way back to episodes 3 and 4 of Talking Taker from September of 2017! Listen to see just how far we've come over the course of 9 years, and especially how much better our sound quality has gotten. If you're a fan of the show you'll get a kick out of most early analysis of The Dead Man and you'll hear what's changed and what's stayed the same since our first few episodes. Enjoy this look back, try to forgive us for the rough audio quality, and be sure to join us the first week of November for a brand new episode looking back at the week 11/27/91 - 12/3/91 a.k.a. The Best Week Of The Undertaker's Life!      

The Pod Street Krew is back for another Ultimate Fantasy Draft and this time we're looking back at the B Shows from one of the greatest runs in WWE history! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White along with the P.S.K. originals Randy Turco, Watchalong Tommy, Stephen Zieman, and Treymasso Ciampa as we pick matches from the B Shows of 1999-2004 to create our dream PPV lineup. Don't let the name B Show fool you - these shows have some of the greatest matches in WWE history on them. And yes, they've also got some of the weirdest and wackiest ones as well! Take a stroll with us down memory lane in our jumbo-sized time-traveling hearse as we discuss some of our favorite matches of the Attitude Era, InVasion, and Ruthless Aggression eras along with giving some love to some unsung heroes of the time like Test, Victoria, Raven, Saturn, Chyna, Shane McMahon, Kane, Terri Runnels, Dean Malenko, Too Cool, The Kat, and many more. Plus we've got our monthly Undertaker Sightings as we look at his epic entrance at a Savannah Bananas game. Let us know who built the best card and what matches we should have drafted down below in the comments! Pick up your copy of Travis's album "Reconstruction" - available for a limited time only on vinyl!   Make sure you're subscribed to the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel to find out what Tommy On The Spot is up to next!   Check out Stephen's latest episode of Brothers Of Collecting on Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Pick up our new DadMan Inc. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs, Alex's toy room tour, and more!

Mean Mark was on the rise to the top in WCW in 1990, but things quickly came falling apart. What the heck happened?! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we complete our look back at the full journey of The Undertaker in his early days as Mean Mark Callous in WCW. Everything was looking up for the rookie in the summer of 1990 as he had his biggest match ever - a U.S. Title Shot on PPV against "The Total Package" Lex Luger. But after losing that match, everything began to go downhill. We cover Mean Mark's final few months in World Championship Wrestling and try to pinpoint exactly where it all fell apart, including a rematch with "Wildfire" Tommy Rich that may have been the beginning of the end. We also discuss Paul E. Dangerously's incredible promo skills that were evident from an early age, Jim Ross's ridiculous reliance on college stats for commentary, why we need to see more "Grannies" in wrestling crowds, Bob Caudle's awkward commentary blunders, the logics of pro wrestling hospital bills, some incredible house show matches in Mean Mark's final days, and so much more. All that plus we look back at our SummerSlam weekend in Minneapolis, make a pitch to take over the Six Feet Under podcast, and shout out our new friend on TikTok! Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!    Pick up our new DADMAN INC. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Check out the releaunch of our buddy Stephen's podcast on the Brothers Of Collecting on the Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Listen to "Reconstruction", the new full length album from Travis White! Stream Travis's new album of original tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or wherever you love to listen!   Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs from SummerSlam and Royal Rumbles past!

It's our first ever TWO NIGHT WWE experience so we're back again with another special bonus edition of Talking Taker! Alex Doriot and is joined by the Pod Street Krew for the second ever Talking Taker: In Your House, recorded live at Randy Turco's basement alongside special guests Stephen Zieman, and, making his podcast debut, Fitz Turco! Together we recap an awesome night of action and surprises including an all-timer of a main event, the shocking return of Kevin Owens, the deflating win of Baron "Borin'" Corbin, the euphoria of Chelsea Green and Chad Gable's big moments, a Michin sighting, and of course the first ever Human Monies On A Pole Match. We also had another wild day of activities including the ups and downs of our hunt for a Kit Wilson photo op, a visit to the Mall Of America, and a controversial log flume ride! Download, enjoy, stay tuned for our upcoming travel vlog on the Talking Taker YouTube channel, and Taker Easy!    Be sure to subscribe to the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel to see all of Tommy's videos from the weekend including his Superstore and Takeover walkthroughs!  

It's time, once again, for everyone to come aboard the BROOOOO TRAIN on this special bonus edition of Talking Taker! Alex Doriot and Travis White are joined by the Pod Street Krew for the first ever Talking Taker: In Your House, recorded live at Randy Turco's basement alongside special guests and travel companions Stephen Zieman, Watchalong Tommy, and Treymasso Ciampa as they breakdown an incredible weekend in Minnesota for SummerSlam 2026. We give our live reactions to all the incredible moments from night 1 of the show including Cody Rhodes vs CM Punk, Io Sky vs Liv Morgan, and the Hell In A Cell between Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar. Plus the true main event of our night - the WWE Debut of Nick Aldis, prophesied by Tommy himself! But that's only the start as we look back at our experiences at the Superstore and the WWE Fan Takeover including some meet and greets, the Danhausen Ice Cream Truck, and our tribute to The Godfather at the Create Your Entrance booth. We also saw all the sights and scenes of Minnesota including a run-in with a WCW legend, the incredible Mill Museum, and so much more. Download, enjoy, stay tuned for our upcoming travel vlog on the Talking Taker YouTube channel, and Taker Easy!    Be sure to subscribe to the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel to see all of Tommy's videos from the weekend including his Superstore and Takeover walkthroughs!      

We're headed back to the bowels of the arena, back to SummerSlam 1996, back to THE BOILER ROOM BRAWL for the 30th Anniversary of this legendary match! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take a look back at a classic, innovative encounter between The Undertaker and Mankind that has quite the long and surprising legacy. It was one of the first cinematic matches in WWE history as well as one of the first matches to take place primarily outside of a wrestling ring, and it continues to have an influence on pro wrestling today. We'll talk all about it plus the history of every other Boiler Room Brawl and some of the many matches that it had an impact on. Plus we've got our monthly Undertaker Sightings and we celebrate the 9 Year Anniversary of our podcast with a no holds barred Q&A discussing rebooking The Streak, our dream WWE jobs, Christopher Nolan remakes, best breakfast cereals, and so much more. Download, enjoy, and as always Taker Easy!   Pick up our new DADMAN INC. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Check out the releaunch of our buddy Stephen's podcast on the Brothers Of Collecting on the Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Listen to "Reconstruction", the new full length album from Travis White! Stream Travis's new album of original tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or wherever you love to listen!   Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs from SummerSlam and Royal Rumbles past!

We're talking penguin Undertaker, otter Mr. McMahon, and FISH MILK on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up the greatest professional wrestling character of all time as they review the movie ScreenRant called "The Worst Animated Sequel Of All Time" - Surf's Up 2: Wavemania! It's a truly bizarre cartoon that can't decide if it's made for WWE fans or fans of the first movie, so it ends up being for no one. Starring alongside The Undertaker as animated penguins are John Cena, Triple H and Paige. And then there's Vince McMahon himself as an otter with a bizarre obsession - you're not gonna believe this one! We do our best to make a sense of a nonsensical plot and discuss the interminable length of the movie, the confusing rules of the Surf's Up World, Michael Cole as an exploding seagull, the Napoleon Dynamite reunion on the cast, the puns that did actually made us chuckle, the weird foreshadowing and premonitions in the movie, and much more as we RTL (you'll have to listen to find out what that means). Plus we share some bonkers Amazon and YouTube reviews of this movie that will leave you cracking up. All that and our monthly Undertaker Sightings including Alex meeting another wrestling legend and Travis's review of all the hot 2026 movie releases so far. Download, enjoy, and RTL! Oh, and Taker Easy!   Pick up our new DADMAN INC. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Check out the releaunch of our buddy Stephen's podcast on the Brothers Of Collecting on the Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Listen to "Reconstruction", the new full length album from Travis White! Stream Travis's new album of original tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or wherever you love to listen!   Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs from SummerSlam and Royal Rumbles past!

Pack a bag and grab your passport - we're going on a summer world tour with The Undertaker on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we gas up the time-traveling hearse for a globe-trotting trip to 4 different countries to watch 5 incredibly rare Undertaker matches spanning 18 years of his career. Up first we travel to Japan in 1992 for matches against King Haku and Takashi Ishikawa. Then it's off to 1996 and Puerto Rico for a rarely seen brawl between The Undertaker and Mankind. After that we fly over to Kuwait for a Kuwaiti Cup Quarterfinal match with The British Bulldog. Then we close with some incredibly rare footage from Mexico in 2010 of The Brothers Of Destruction vs. Chris Jericho and Edge. It's a unique exploration of The Undertaker competing internationally featuring opponents we've never covered him against, the possibly first ever appearance of The Druids and his Coffin Entrance, and the famous Hot Tag video that went viral  a few years ago! All that plus our monthly Undertaker Sightings covering the red hot AAA match between The El Grande Americanos and tribute to a Talking Taker legend who recently passed away. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!    Pick up our new DADMAN INC. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Check out the releaunch of our buddy Stephen's podcast on the Brothers Of Collecting on the Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Listen to "Reconstruction", the new full length album from Travis White! Stream Travis's new album of original tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or wherever you love to listen!   Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs from SummerSlam and Royal Rumbles past!

The P.S.K. is back - and this time we're coming In Your House! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they welcome back Stephen Zieman, Randy Turco, Watchalong Tommy, and Headbanger Trey for another Ultimate PPV Fantasy Draft. This time we're picking our favorite matches from the In Your House shows of the New Generation, Attitude Era, and yes even NXT! These shows don't get the love they should, because when you really look back at them so many of the greatest matches of the 90s are found there. From Hell In A Cell to the Hogpen, from Buried Alive to Armageddon Rules, from Max Mini to Mad Dog Vachon's Fake Leg - we cover it all and reminisce about some underrated classics. Plus we cover all the happenings from WrestleMania 42 in our monthly Undertaker Sightings including Taker's live podcast with John Cena and the retirement of one of his greatest rivals. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy!    Make sure you're subscribed to the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel to see all of Tommy's WrestleMania 42  adventures!   Check out Stephen's latest episode of Brothers Of Collecting on Collecting Deadman YouTube Channel!   Pick up our new DadMan Inc. merch over TeePublic.com and celebrate 25 years of the Biker Taker with us!    Listen to "Reconstruction", the new full length album from Travis White! Stream Travis's latest album of original tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or wherever you love to listen!   Stay connected with our Creature Community by following us on Instagram and Facebook!   Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out all our travel vlogs from SummerSlam and Royal Rumbles past!