Six Feet Under - Undertaker reacts to iconic Survivor Series moments

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26:26How about when you returned like a gothic superhero in a mask? Yeah, so we had to figure out a way. So I had a match with Mabel. Mabel, mm-hmm. and uh in the course of that match i ended up he was coming off of one rope as fast as he could and i was coming off the other rope and um i think it was going to be i don't know if i was going to just eat a clothesline or if it was a double clothes i don't remember actually what what the spot was but he was behind in the spot and because he was he was a little bit gassed and instead of throwing a clothesline so he tried to compensate for being behind in the spot and he threw instead of a clothesline he threw a punch the punch hits me in the face and it ends up his fist ends up kind of stopping in my eye socket and um called it caused a uh an orbital blowout fracture is that number one this was the first one yes this was the first one uh where i lost 90 of my orbital floor um in that one had to have all of that surgically rebuilt and put back together.

27:56What's that? I was, I might've been a little hot. Um, so, but when I come back, um, like I came back as fast as I could, I could come back and they wanted me to, which is pretty rare for that time period to like wanted to make sure that my face didn't get crushed again. Yeah. So, um, that the, the mask was serving basically to its main focus and main purpose was to protect my eye socket, protect the moneymaker. And, but we didn't want it to look like, uh, you know, we didn't want it to look like, uh, you know, a basketball player when they break their nose and they got to wear the, yeah. So I, I had this guy make the mask, and it actually turned out it was a very cool part of my development, the character development.

28:57But when it was time to come out of it, I had to fight to come out of that thing. Vince loved it. He wanted to keep you in it? Yeah, he wanted to keep me in it for a while. Rib. Hmm? Probably a rib. uh no i think because it was it was really it was really cool a whole nother mystique yeah it was another layer to the mystique of the undertaker but yeah it was just yeah there's a lot a lot to that mask let's look at it let's look at it yeah so oh yeah i do remember these um i i don't remember if we settled i guess we did on the on the lace-up back but But so this was. You look hot there. Like you're not trying to look scary.

29:42You're just being yourself with a mask on. Kind of like it. Free. I had to go to this guy's apartment in downtown New York City. Mm-hmm. His apartment was on the third or fourth floor. No lift, no elevator, nothing, right? So, and that doesn't really sound like, well, what's the big deal about that? But, you know, by this point I'm already, I'm already in, my hips are already getting shot. But so we go to this guy's apartment and as any, I don't know. You don't know him. I don't know him at all. Like I meet him at his front door and a little bit eccentric. and we start he's got like his whole apartment is probably the size of this studio and so he was actually still working it's made out of leather so was it full of other stuff too?

30:50yes his apartment yeah there's stuff all over the place but now he's giving me I guess he did a lot of musical costumes and stuff like that and special masks for different shows. And so he's giving me the do's and don'ts of wearing a mask, this type of mask. He says, you don't touch it. He says, don't touch the mask when you work because the mask is part of you. Yeah. And I'm like, okay. But it's not like he's just telling me this. I mean, he's really animated. He's worried about the mask, too. And he's worried about the, yes, he's worried about, which I appreciate. I do appreciate it. And I probably listened to him.

31:44But just meeting this guy and this whole circumstance of him putting a mold on my face. And I'm in this strange apartment in New York City. and I'm laying there and I've got this mold material on my face. That sounds horrible. With the straws in the nose so I can breathe. And it was, this is actually, if I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, this is the same guy that ended up building or making Kane's mask, original mask.

32:21so yeah so I get the lecture on how the the mask etiquette is that top on the back of it it laced up like that in the back was it like a you know what I keep wanting to think that I changed that but I'm not certain it may have been a big lace-up wow well you just you untie the bottom like in a mask like that you just untie the bottom and loosen them up like like you do your shoes but i don't think that i liked i don't really think that i like that yeah and i i'm i just can't remember but i much preferred the way like mick he did mix mask i think as well i could be mistaken on that but you where you just strap it on and not have to lace it all up but that's wild how much that looks like you right well yeah me with a yeah big scary mask so yeah that that's the clay mold that he's making inside his apartment wow so yeah so when i come back to work okay i'm wearing that and then he paints it obviously and it looks like uh you know kind of like the phantom of the opera i mean you can tell that's a mask there but that one on the bottom That looks like, yeah.

33:38Because you really can't except right there around the mouth. Then he painted it like I wore my face back then, too. And now let's take a look. Is everyone well at that face?

33:56Wait a minute. Oh, I talked for so long, I forgot this is Survivor Series. Yeah, you're actually teaming with Savio, Fatou, or Quiche, and then Henry Godwin, which that's a good little group, huh? Fun group, I should say. Oh, this must be, this is already the end of it. Yeah, I don't even think, you know, so yeah, I did have the lace up. I just saw it right there. So I kept, that's Triple H right there. Whoa. Nice. He always took a really good choke slam. Nice, that was really good. You had like your own little Avengers group. Speaking of eclectic mask maker, eclectic group. I'm like the dead guy.

34:41I got the hillbilly guy. Yep. Savio and then Quiche. Yeah. None of us got, nobody got eliminated. That was a clean sweep. Strong, strong four there. So it was y 'all four and then you had what? The king. You had Lawler, right? Lawler, mabel triple h and isaac yankum oh that's right isaac yankum he would go on to he would go on to have a fairly good career not as isaac yankum but as your as my as your i would adopt brother my brother my brother kane yeah um do you remember working with the the other guys that much i mean that that team in particular uh yeah i remember working with all those guys yeah um obviously i remember working with mabel because yeah i lost an eye socket so that's always kind of stood out and obviously my matches with triple h of yeah they only went uphill from from that one um and then i had some i had some i had some pretty good matches with yankum kane kane yankum I guess you could say yeah Yankem Cain Yankem Cain Yankem Cain okay it's amazing that he survived after Isaac Yankum but he did he did yeah he only had one way to go probably in his mind there was only one way to go after Yankum true what photos do you wish you could share with your long distant friends or family big events silly everyday things what are you currently doing to stay connected Horror Frames keeps my family connected even when we're miles apart.

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37:25okay so you went from bat mask to bat wings basically what really yeah i mean look that's what they were and what was that that was that was the year after correct 96 95 was the mask and then 96 you were filling the whole bat gimmick so they put bat wings on you you know at this point in my life i'm staying out really late and okay probably uh drinking more than i should and probably yeah my my judgment might be impaired through a few of these years are you saying you asked for the bat wings i did that was my idea nobody else to blame i i was i was this was my like my early attempt at being more demonic, I guess.

38:14The character kind of taking it to that demonic state. So I figured what would be more demonic than me being in all leather, all shiny leather with some really big bat wings. And hey, I'm not just going to do this anywhere. I'm going to do it at Survivor Series in Madison Square Garden. If you're going to go, you go big, right? You came in, yeah. Yeah. It's, again, not one of my better ideas. But see, memorable. Everybody remembers the bat wings. They do remember. They remember the bat wings. Not in a good way. Well, you know. It just, it looks so much cooler. And this kind of thought process would repeat itself later on in my career with a pair of the snakeskin pants.

39:05But I just, in my mind's eye. It looked good. I mean, it was going to be really, really cool. Right. I mean, you're coming in from the top of Madison Square Garden, like a giant demonic bat dragon thing. Yeah. But then it kind of turned out like. Well, yeah. Then I'm just kind of hung there trying to be intimidating with my black leather ensemble. it was it was like Batman on a budget it was but Batman budget it was budget Batman fortunately fortunately I was working with mankind and we were pretty dialed in at this point so yeah like in a shark cage yeah Paul Bearer from due to his outside interference and everything that he'd done and was and I don't know how they got him in there really but um wow what I'm just saying it was a small cage.

40:04I mean, he didn't have a lot of room to... No wiggle room? Yeah. And I didn't really like working right underneath it either. Oh, yuck. What? I can only imagine. Yeah. Actually, I don't want to even imagine. Not from the stories I've heard. Okay, so clearly you're out drinking maybe a little too much, maybe thinking some ideas are greater in your head than on live TV. everybody in the car that was in the car when i brought up the idea uh-huh may or may not have been in the same state if not worse than me i thought it was good they all loved it they're pitching ideas they were like that's the greatest thing ever that'll be so awesome i'm like yeah it will be and they're your friends yeah my best friends okay yeah at the time not after that they survived but i'm just yeah it was everybody was on board okay so you and the whole car gets on board with this idea is grand and you have to go pitch it to Vince, right?

40:59So like, yeah, he trusted you and your character enough to give you the green light right away. Or was there like, no, no, I just had to pitch it to him. So I mean, by this time I'm foot five, six years into my run here. And I'd done pretty well with the things that we'd changed. And, you know, I constantly was always trying to evolve the character and keep it fresh. And so I came in, I was like, I want to take this character in a darker place. And, you know, he made me explain it and give my reasoning for, and I'm not just talking about the bat wings. I'm just talking about the whole different look, because it was different, right?

41:44It was a different. But that's something you're always good at, like evolving the character. Like you've always been good at that. And then he trusted me because I didn't win a lot of arguments with Vince. Like if we – there was just a lot that I came out on the upper hand with. But I think he – I was very passionate when I delivered my idea to him and explained what the look was going to be and what the character, why I'm doing this. And I think it was – Got him. God damn, that'll be great. I love it. And that's all I needed. And then I remember I always had rather been yelled at when I come back to the gorilla position.

42:34I'd rather be yelled at than not to be made eye contact with. And I had to stand there for a second for him to get him to look up. And I think when he looked up, I got a, oh, what were you thinking? One and done. Yeah, so the Batwings, they flew away. They flew away right there. They flew away. Okay. This message is sponsored by Raycon. Keep your ears open and your holiday playlist rolling with Raycon's Essential Open Earbuds. These open earbuds let you stay connected to your surroundings while enjoying your favorite music, podcasts or calls perfect for a jog commute or just kicking back and this black friday and cyber monday you can save up to 30 on all raycon audio products raycon's essential open earbuds keep your ears open while still delivering crystal clear sound they sit just outside your ear canal so you can stay tuned into traffic co-workers or whatever's happening around you without losing out on music or podcast quality lightweight and all day comfortable they'll never feel bulky and they Secure fit means that they stay put, whether at the gym, on a walk, or grinding through my to-do list.

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45:06Feels so good.

45:10The Undertaker. This was really big at this time. Like the lighters. We didn't have cell phones there. So these are lighters. He is the one. He is the only. He is the Undertaker. And look at that. He's descending from above. Look at those things. What is the legit wingspan on those? They've got to be eight foot. That didn't help me. They didn't really help me with camera angles either. That's very Gene Simmons-esque. What am I supposed to do? You look like a legit bat. How'd they go like this? Well, I know, but I couldn't flap my wings. That would have been really stupid. I'm so glad you didn't flap your wings.

45:57They're probably heavy. But why are your feet like this? Because I'm hooked up to a harness coming down from the roof at Madison Square Garden. Even your feet, there was no wiggling on the feet? Well, that would be silly too. if I was just wiggling my feet. Okay, okay, fair enough. At least they got off of me to get me unharnessed. How soon did you take the bat wings off? Look, they're gone. They're gone. Okay. And the teardrop. He loved the teardrop too. Poor bat wings. Those were very short-lived. Yeah, they were one and done. He has wiggle room in there. Oh. Why don't you just, I don't know why I didn't go around to the other side, because he wasn't going to get up that quick.

46:46He screamed the entire match almost, didn't he? Yes. So, I mean, maybe if I had just come out like that with a coat or a cloak or something, it might have worked better. But even that's different. That's all leather. Was that the first time you wore all leather? It was all extremely very, it was extremely hot. Sticky? Did it get hot and sticky? Yes. Was that your idea too? In the same dream? Like in the same? All of it. All of it's mine. Same part of the whole car green? Like they were digging the leather? Oh, yeah. The leather. Yeah, that'd be cool. Tight leather pants that lace up on the side.

47:21Hair half up, half down. I mean a whole. It's mine too. Hey, at least you're owning it. Hey, what am I going to do? I don't know. You have to. It's there for the world to see. Okay. um you know i you know i kind of it looks like gene simmons back there on the aisle look in the back left corner back left halfway up the aisle looks like gene simmons like getting ready to sue me for gimmick infringement um yeah you know you have to look at the guy's face right there on the front right with a v on his shirt he's like did you see those stupid ass bat wings that's what he's telling his buddy this is what i paid for no way he no way he came down in those silly bat wings But you have to, you know, that's the part of this business.

48:05You have to throw things against the wall. Some stuff's going to stick. Some's not. Some flies away. Yeah. So lesson learned. Lesson learned. What about that? That's a teardrop. Oh. Because I'm going to take a soul and not shed one tear for it. Oh, okay. I was going to ask you if that was a little blemish on your cheek, but no. No. That was an intention. It was an intentional teardrop. Okay. And that was the meaning behind it. That I'm going to take your soul and I'm not going to shed a tear for you. Not one tear. Did you keep the teardrop for a while? Yeah, I did keep the teardrop for a little bit.

48:40Okay. And then it just miraculously, that tattoo went away one day. It happens. It does. Did you know that good old producers found some behind the scenes? Of what? behind the scenes footage of the bat wings that the rehearsal and so we can see more actually we've seen we no no no we haven't seen enough the people have not seen enough this is good this is like never never before seen you may not have even seen it before why why are you doing this i like it it's great it's different i i would have been in that car saying yes that is great i like it no you wouldn't let me you wouldn't let me go out like that i've never seen this footage so okay here you go here you go look this is rehearsal okay yeah this is rehearsal look at paul what do you think everybody's thinking look what's been showing this is looking at you laugh look oh sean's in the ring laughing

49:45it's utterly silent in there no way yeah no nobody wants to say anything they're all looking at each other like who wants to tell him who's going to tell him well this is what the real i don't know if he ribbed me and just stuck me there for a while that thing's gotta be so heavy there's bruce look at that oh my it looks like you can hear paul bearer nick

50:23he wasn't afraid of heights or anything was he

50:29and he thought it was a good idea well he'd already turned on me so he wasn't gonna tell you trusted him to not rip you but look those things are ginormous were they heavy themselves they had to have been they yeah i mean that's all that's all leather Pat Patterson over there on the right

50:53Look at your face This is not a great idea Were you still owning it though? You had to At this point I still think we're going to pull this off Even with that look right there There's no lighting I'm thinking dark The right lighting and the right camera angles This is still going to work but anyway no tattoo just yet it doesn't look like unless it's unhooked oh goodness hey you know what back in back in Memphis in 87 I got tarred and feathered do we want to look at that too do we have it guys next time please thank you for that I don't even think they had cameras back then So they did. They were in black and white.

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52:21Are you feeling good? Are you feeling good about this? I mean, I like the commentary. I like to know what was going through your head in certain moments, and that was definitely one of them. Obviously not much at times. No, there was a whole lot going through your head with the whole batwing idea. Yeah. There had to have been. Regrets. Regrets? I've had a few. All right, let's skip a few years. 2005. By 2005, I think I got my shit together by 2005. This is when you come out of a flaming casket. Yeah. Was that your idea too? Absolutely not. Good. Okay, okay, okay. Because, I mean, nothing says, you know, like romantic flashback, like third degree nostalgia, which you have gotten a few times.

53:04I mean, I got a little singed on this one too, but not like I did at the Elimination Chamber. That was the worst. But, yeah, this one is... So, I think I had a... I think I had a casket match or something with Randy. Randy. And him and his dad lit it on fire. Right. And so, this is my return from that. It's during Survivor. I don't have an actual... I don't have a match. But this is my official return. Randy had just won Survivor Series for Team SmackDown. And so this was when we were trying to create the Raw SmackDown dynamic and make it a real competition. Randy had been on Raw, had got moved to SmackDown, and now he just won Survivor Series for SmackDown.

54:02So the whole SmackDown roster, not the whole roster, but a large part of it all come down to celebrate with him. And then somebody shows up. And his face, because I was there at this point. Were you? I was there, yeah, 2004 is when I started. So I remember this. I thought you were still in high school. No, not quite. I just graduated. Just joking. Two years prior. You keep doing this. I have not been the one to initiate any of the wisecracks. You're not afraid of some pyro. You and your pyro, like, that was the, when you got called on fire at the Elimination Chamber, that was the worst thing I've ever seen.

54:38The aftermath. But we're talking Survivor Series, so. Survivor Series 2005. Golden Fire Series. Randy Orton right there. He used to be part of Raw. You guys threw it. Now he's part of SmackDown. And he was victorious with Team SmackDown. Uh-oh. Oh, my. Look how young Randy is.

55:01Everybody's in the ring. They won't let him down. right? He's trying to get down and they're still trying to celebrate like they don't hear my music. Look, I think at this point, yeah, I think I'd have been gone, but they're going to hold him up here for, oh, now they've let him down.

55:23My trusted druids. Trusted druids. Yeah, you've had a few.

55:33I bet Randy was what 23 Oh yeah he was young Yeah Look at his face

55:44Funny enough I was more I was more worried Like when we rehearsed this and everything I was more worried about the casket Getting put on its side Than being called on fire Well, I didn't have any clue that I was going to get caught on fire a little bit. Oh. I just thought that they might, when it be too heavy, when they put it down, that I was going to continue to go and the casket would fall over. I knew you didn't know you were going to get caught on fire, but even the heat, you weren't worried about the heat? Well, you know, whatever you take for the show sometimes. In 2005, I still had that mentality.

56:23I don't know that I ever lost that. Uh-oh. Okay, whose idea was this? Because that just does not look safe. It wasn't. I'm not sure whose idea it was. His eyes are about to pop out of his head. But it was sold to me. Vince sold this to me. You'll be inside the casket. Yeah, on fire. Look at that. I don't remember you. I think I had to count in my head. So what you can't tell when that happens is when I kicked that door off, it created a draft. Oh, no. So the fire that's on the casket come in, and I lost some eyebrow. But I don't think I got any skin melted on this one. You look like a video game character right there walking down.

57:11So jacked? Yeah. Duh. Get out of here. See ya. One down. Who's next? Look at the beard. Oof. Oh. Oh.

57:28Nobody's running. They were all trying to get out. Oh, sorry.

57:37I don't know what that was. I think I got jammed up on a punch. Regal.

57:46Sorry, Regal. Which makes it him even heavier, but it was very cool the way it looked, I thought. Randy's the smart one. Oh, he bailed early. He said, I'm out.

58:13Again, it's another one of those deals where I was glad that my hair was wet. Yeah, I bet. But my eyebrows did get a little singed on that and a little burn on the skin. Not bad, though. I just don't know if somebody told me I was going to be inside something burning that I could mentally get through that. And I like hot. I like heat. Obviously. Obviously.

58:41That was good, though. I think Randy might have, you know, his britches might have been a little wet. He might have sold himself. Was Regal the craziest tombstone you've, like, that was, he was on full on, full on, middle splits. No, I don't know that was the craziest, but it was one that, like, I remember visually. Did he say something after? Huh? Did he say something after, like, or was it just, he just did it in the moment? No, he just, Regal was Regal from the whole beginning of the segment, like, wanting to know what he could do to make it better, make it, you know, make it stand out. Yeah.

59:16So I think that was what the leg thing was. I like it. Yeah. It was different. I don't think anyone's ever taken on purpose. I don't think anyone's ever taken that. They hadn't done the splits upside down. You and Randy, is he one? I know you consider Sean and Hunter, you know. Randy, you've had some good matches. Is he one of your greatest rivals also? Was you putting him up there with? He was fun to work with. He was young, and obviously you could see tons of potential in him, and you knew he was going to be a star. So I do remember people asking or making comments to the fact of why I sold so much for him.

1:00:05In that program at some point, I took a big backdrop. Like 2005, like the backdrops and things like that were on a minimum and you better be on that top tier. But I knew that was his trajectory and that's where he was going. So I sold a lot for Randy, but he was smooth. Even at however young he was there, 23, 24, however old he was, he was still really smooth and fun to work with. I bet. All right. I think this is the last one. Yep. Let's hope. Let's hope Casket match with Big Show Remember what year it was? Six Almost eight 2008 2008 Yeah, you sent him into like Is this where you sent him into a standing casket?

1:00:54Yes And the lid wouldn't shut? No, I think that's how I ended up going over Is because I ran Like I Irish whipped him on the stage Into the casket The casket flipped over And then the door shut When he came down. Okay. This, like, you know, 2005, 2005, 6, 7, 8, I think it was physically for me probably some of my best years. Still got a lot of bounce in my steps. A little pep in your step. And fluidity in my body. And Big Show at this point has really got a really good understanding of what we do now. Right. And you'll see him the way he sells and does different things sometimes. Again, it was kind of like that Yokozuna effect in his cell.

1:02:04Unassumingly athletic. Huh? unassumingly athletic. I don't know if it was in the beginning of this before. Like he's – I think it was in another match. But, I mean, he's really good. And these are the little things that really set everything up and make everything make sense are the facials and the different cells from him. So he did a really good job at this. No pun intended, but wasn't he one of the first big guys to jump from um wcw yeah he he came over pretty early on um and uh it was like a he was like a big big lump of clay that we had to mold um not only as a as a performer incredibly gifted athlete um you know he's legit seven yeah one seven foot seven one 400 pounder 500 pounds whatever he is but a legitimate athlete, but sometimes wanting to be athletic and do all those things didn't work.

1:03:13Didn't make sense. Didn't make sense for him being a Giant. He got really mentored a lot, good and bad. I may have seen you mentor him partially a few times. Yeah, but the funny part about that is, though, it came around completely full circle where I seen him mentoring and repeating things that I remember telling him. And he gives you credit for that. He used to always talk about that. Yeah, it took him a while, but he picked it up. Look, you still got signs. Take her, bury me alive. That lady wants you to bury her alive. Well, I still had it back then. Still got it. All right, let's see. Let's see how we do it.

1:03:57Giant versus giant. No bat wings, no leather. Just Dukes. Just Dukes. No gloves. Just the red line across the head from the hat. That kind of became a staple. Yeah. Look at John Cone. Watch John Young, John Cone. Look at the show. See? He's doing nothing, but it's just... Mm-hmm. Jeez, he's huge. Watch Charles look the exact same. He does look exactly the same. Now that casket, that's not like that big. No. this is a bigger than normal casket but this is a casket specifically built for a big person who's died obviously

1:04:45were you ever concerned that he wouldn't fit in the casket or did you know because I know you custom built some for your opponents but Yeah. Were you pretty confident he'd go in? Yeah, well, we tried it. I'm sure they tried it out. I noticed three announce tables over there. So you got what, Raw, SmackDown, ECW, commentator tables, announce tables? I think it's Raw. I don't know. It's one of the Raw. Raw, SmackDown. Yeah, that's ECW. That's Matt Stryker, yeah. Yeah, yep. And then Raw, and then SmackDown.

1:05:24Ooh. Ham walk. Heavy. Now, I know y 'all were super close. Almost like brothers, and I definitely know that you treated him like a brother. Because he was easy to mess with. What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about. You would mess with him all the time. Did you mess with him during matches? I don't know. What are you? You are such a liar. It matches. Not probably not in this match. Not in a PLE. Yeah. Or TV. In house show matches, maybe.

1:05:58They were all Learning lessons though He makes those chairs look like they're two pounds Yeah like they weigh nothing right Those are like awkward and kind of heavy

1:06:13What was that the monitor That was one of the monitors Which are kind of heavy And not to be Not the best idea to swing them like that I figured it was show So he could take it. He could take it. He could take this. The Big Show. What the? And The Undertaker driving the largest athlete in the world right through the announce table. That's a tailbone breaker right there. That's a hip replacer. I'm thinking right now, why on earth would I do take that and lead with my butt? Oh, yeah. So I still had hops in. So when he came in, did you feel like since he was a big guy that you should teach him the ropes and kind of take in that big brother mentorship role?

1:07:05Well, yeah. I mean, look at it. In his first match with WCW, he wins the world title for them. But he also was in a system where he wasn't learning anything but bad habits. And he got here And He brought a lot of those bad habits with him Not only in the ring But you know his The way that he dealt with people And I mean obviously you can You have a seven foot Monster athlete Like if you can get his Stuff together here Yeah it's a future It's a future opponent so yeah I want to mentor him And get him on the right page and be obviously a viable opponent for several people. Right. So he, he pushed the limits of my patients several times, but also like always looked and like, man, if he can get this shit together, he's going to be a player.

1:08:22Right. They always listened, right? Like, maybe not. Yeah, he would listen, and then he would sometimes revert back. See, this is their trying to explain that he has to shut the... He doesn't want to get close to the casket. Ah. He's freaked out by the casket, so... See, this is just storytelling. Uh-huh.

1:08:49Well, you get the impression Big Show doesn't want to touch the casket, but...

1:09:01I think he just spared my leg right there. Some good flexibility. Oh, oh, oh. He's alive. Dang. I think one of these punches looks that way. I didn't touch him, actually. Okay. I mean, I've seen a few, but what? Top your head. show testing your patients. Give me something. Give me an example. I'll give you one example that's kind of in the ring and one just on a personal note. For a long period of time there, we'd get to the buildings early. 12, 1 o 'clock was our call times. And nothing really went on for a few hours. rehearsals or anything like that. So, I think most people now by now know that we played a lot of dominoes and we're playing dominoes.

1:10:02I think it was myself, Kane, Godfather, and I don't remember who the fourth was, but we kept a friendly game. We didn't play for money. We played for bragging rights, right? Be able to talk trash for the rest of the day and who the best domino player was. well we caught that joker double palming or he was palming a double five like when he was doing the dishes and we caught him which is cheating and yeah he almost got he almost got jumped at that day because there was no need for it right it's just and then there was another time

1:10:52I had just come back I think I had been I don't know if I had an injury or what not but I started in a house show it was in Detroit and at this point in my career it was just a house show I didn't like to I didn't like to get there and start talking about matches Right. Like all I want and the way that I wanted to run a house show was I just want to finish. And then we'll come up with the rest of it. So I roll in. Again, I'd been off for a while. I come in. I'm saying hello to everybody that I hadn't seen in a while. And, you know, he comes in and he's like messing with me like a little kid. Like, hey, hey, hey, hey, what are we going to do tonight?

1:11:44What are we going to do tonight? Me and you, we're going to go. I'm going to blow you up. I'm going to do this. I'm like, so? I was like, leave me alone. I said, I'm just talking right now. This is like when we showed up to the building. We're not on until the very last match. So we still got intermission. The match hasn't even started yet. So anyway, he just keeps at it. And then finally he gets the message. And then right after intermission, here he comes again. He starts it all over again. And it was a tag. And I want to say it was me and Kane against him and somebody. And I don't remember who the somebody was.

1:12:29But I made sure I said, when I tag him in, or when you tag him in, do not tag him out. And I went to work on him. Blow him up. I gassed him to – he was purple. When I finally let him tag out, he was purple. He was sweating profusely. And he got out, and he was laying on the top rope to where the top rope – he was laying on it so hard that the top rope was touching the second rope. Oh, my goodness. And just slobber and drool are running out of his mouth. He is so gassed. and then finally he recovered enough and we got him back in the match and I said, you still want to play high? No, sir. No, sir.

1:13:20I was like, all right, here we go. But, you know, it's just, by that time he was really feeling comfortable and he knew that, he knew I was hard on him, but he knew that I loved him and I actually was looking out for him. But sometimes it was tough love. I always love when he tells stories about me getting on him. Because he had come back and he said, I'd see those little crooked fingers. He'd be telling me to come over here and I'd be like, damn, I'm about to get chewed out. Remember when he made you so mad overseas in one match that you decided to play a rib on him and have everybody not talk to him?

1:14:03Nobody talked to him on the bus. We got to, and he was coming up to me like, he called me MC. Is Taker mad? Like, I know the match wasn't good, but he's super hot. Like, he wouldn't talk to me. I was like, yeah, I don't know what's going on. Like, he's hot about something in the match and left it at that per your request. And then we got to catering. Nobody would sit with him. And then he finally sat with. He sat by himself. No, everybody moved first. He said, when he comes and sits down, let's all move. Oh, my gosh, y 'all. I felt so bad. Show sits down. We all move. I thought he was going to cry.

1:14:36Like he was like this, eating by himself, and then Dave felt so bad that he went and told him. Dave's kind heart. He's like, I can't do it. He had to go sit by. I know. I think it was the same night Dave choked on a chicken wing, which was terrifying. But anyway. Yeah. You did mess with him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've got him, Taker. Oh, yeah.

1:15:17Big Show has apparently destroyed one casket. We now have another casket. And these two huge men just hammering away. It's almost as if Big Show is wrestling defensively just to get out of dodge. Missed that camera angle. He just ran me into that 10 right there.

1:15:46That one doesn't look that deep. He's so freaking strong. Yeah. Sheesh. That's not light. There's no way that's light. It's not light. No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Nick Show teetering on disaster on the edge of the staging area.

1:16:09And Nick Show in the basket. The lip shots. Was that planned or did it just happen to? I don't remember. That's pretty good. Regardless.

1:16:22Yeah, I love it, though, when there's, like, happy accidents. Like, if that were. A happy accident was cool. See, that was actually fun. That wasn't painful. Yeah, I just made most of that up. I don't know that any of that was true. You didn't have to say that. Nobody would have known. No, believe me, they're going to fact check everything. This is true. That's okay. It's your point of view. Huh? It's your point of view. It's my recollection. It's your recollection. It's my recollection of what happened. And the biggest thing is that you were accountable for the batwing idea. I mean, I own the batwings.

1:16:56I own the snakeskin pants. and the leather, all leather. Yeah, the all leather get up wasn't the greatest either. I really did enjoy that. That was fun. I think that people like it. I don't know that I've ever done commentary on any of those matches, by the way. You barely even watch your matches back ever. Not anymore. I used to when I was in the game, I would do it. But in the last 15 years? No, probably not so much. No. No, wait a minute. 20 years? No, come on, man. What? I've only been retired. Oh, yeah, you debuted 35. My brain's a little tired, too. 35 years. What year are we? 25. 10 years.

1:17:38Ish. Something like that. Yeah. Ish. Point being, you rarely watch your matches, and that was fun. So thank you. A little blast from the past. A little blast from the past. Mm-hmm. You still look good. Come on. Come on now. Stop. I can't with you I know alright well that's all we got that's a wrap