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Hogan, again.
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Later, dude.
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Transcript
Chad Reampush Retrospective
00:00:22
The Whole Ballgame
Nothing prepared, no fancy intro tonight, just the continuation of a retrospective on a career that touched many of us, many of us inappropriately as well.
00:00:39
The Whole Ballgame
It's Chad Reampush, Hector Livingston.
00:00:41
Todd David Miller
Chad Rainpush, dude.
00:00:49
Todd David Miller
Maybe I did, maybe I did it.
00:00:51
The Whole Ballgame
There's 24-inch pythons and a good six inches sticking out the top of that bathtub, baby.
00:00:51
Todd David Miller
like
00:00:57
The Whole Ballgame
It's the whole ballgame. How are we doing, Blakers?
00:01:08
Todd David Miller
pretty girls.
00:01:10
The Whole Ballgame
Oh.
Speculation on Will Smith's Future
00:01:12
Todd David Miller
yes can you see all these people standing not moving will is smiling
00:01:24
Todd David Miller
it lives with me to this day that i think we're gonna are we gonna see will uh unalive himself in our lifetime
00:01:35
The Whole Ballgame
ah it's it's distinctly possible. If he continues down the route he's going, like, the the the sort of adoration that you so set yourself up for, like he did in his career, where people kind of gush over you, and, I mean, there's even a group chat that we're a part of where I was talking about how, like, disappointed I am that the human that he was clearly faking, pretending to be, wasn't ever real.
Critique of Modern Music and Will Smith
00:02:07
The Whole Ballgame
um Imagine how how people who actually give a shit feel about him now. And he can feel every bit of it, I guarantee it.
00:02:20
Todd David Miller
Too fine for the line tonight.
00:02:25
The Whole Ballgame
It's a full house. Better play your cards right. You see what he's doing there, right? He's like, he's like connect that connective tissue between cards and playing your cards are and it like double entendre sort of stuff.
00:02:32
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:02:35
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Right, right.
00:02:38
The Whole Ballgame
Boy, oh boy The lyrics just couldn't get smarter.
00:02:42
Todd David Miller
He doesn't curse, you understand, because he promised his grandmother.
00:02:44
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's true. That's right. I did forget about that. Um,
00:02:51
Todd David Miller
Just another...
00:02:51
The Whole Ballgame
Eminem had a Will Smith diss track at some point, I believe.
00:02:57
Todd David Miller
you know, just another one. Another dude from back in the day falling face first down every rung on the goddamn ladder on the way down. But at least he's still got his wife and all that.
00:03:08
The Whole Ballgame
that
00:03:15
Todd David Miller
That's gotta be fun to think about every day.
00:03:17
The Whole Ballgame
Just like... Man, oh man, I will give them that. Like, at least, even though that, and I'll just say it, that terrible cunt ah came out after after everything that went down and revealed the truth of the relationship after the lengths that he went to to protect the lie.
00:03:44
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:03:44
The Whole Ballgame
You know
Defending Will Smith's Actions
00:03:45
The Whole Ballgame
what i mean? Like, Jesus Christ, the man...
00:03:49
Todd David Miller
I castrated him.
00:03:50
The Whole Ballgame
The man smacked the shit out of a longtime friend on public television, castrated his own career, and then...
00:03:54
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:04:00
Todd David Miller
I have no problem with the slapping, by the way, just for the record. i I'm perfectly fine with the fact that he hit him. I think he should have done it a second time with the other hand, quite frankly.
00:04:10
Todd David Miller
But not for her, though. like yeah the The whole context of it, like fuck that bitch. like She is, a by definition, see you next Tuesday. But yeah, I enjoy Chris Rock getting slapped. That was fine.
00:04:29
Todd David Miller
Everybody hates Chris, right?
00:04:29
The Whole Ballgame
it's that's that's what they say ah it's um yeah and then for her to come out you know days or weeks later and and drop that shit and make it uh an opportunity for herself instead of helping who you've apparently chosen to be a partner in life um
00:04:31
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:04:54
The Whole Ballgame
after he helped you in such a public way, it's just like, that's the worst kind of human being. That's insane kind of behavior. and And the idea that he sticks around and, and quiets down and then writes terrible music to try to build a
Emotional Toll on Will Smith
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The Whole Ballgame
comeback. It's just,
00:05:16
Todd David Miller
Hey, he likes pretty girls.
00:05:18
The Whole Ballgame
Imagine the emptiness inside of him that has to exist to create something though that he created like that. It's just completely devoid of soul or well creativity or really anything.
00:05:34
Todd David Miller
Life.
00:05:36
The Whole Ballgame
Life, yeah. Yeah, there's no life there. There's no spark left. So yeah, you know, like, I don't know if he's going to kill himself or not, but by God, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up one morning and read it.
00:05:48
Todd David Miller
that the what you just landed on circles back and I think that touches the tip of that. you know let's That emptiness is so is what leads to it. and ah you know When Will Smith listens to this episode tomorrow morning, he he's going to have some hard truths to look at in the mirror, I'm sure, but um you know we're we're in your corner, pal.
00:06:11
Todd David Miller
and and you know Send us an email and we'll get back to you and and and help you, you know, get through this time like like Uncle Phil did when your dad left you.
00:06:24
The Whole Ballgame
It's true. um'm I'm waiting with a big old fat guy hug, man. Let's do this thing.
00:06:31
Todd David Miller
Noted homosexual James Avery, by the way.
00:06:34
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, noted homosexual. A good man from what I understand as well.
00:06:39
The Whole Ballgame
um
00:06:39
Todd David Miller
ah
00:06:40
Todd David Miller
theatrical actor, very very ah prominent on the stage, I'm told, from my assistant, Woodrow.
00:06:51
The Whole Ballgame
Jesus Christ.
Discussion on Public Figures
00:06:55
The Whole Ballgame
We're talking about another empty shell of a man today. One whose shell has moved on to what we assume are greener or hotter pastures.
00:07:08
Todd David Miller
no turtle, dude.
00:07:08
The Whole Ballgame
One, one, he has shed his mortal coil is what I'm getting at, Blake.
00:07:15
Todd David Miller
Oh, I gotcha.
00:07:17
The Whole Ballgame
he's a He's Terrence Jean Bollea, and he is up for a bit more dissection here on this week's episode of the whole ballgame.
00:07:31
Todd David Miller
ah Yeah, they may not have done an autopsy before they put him in the ground, but you know we'll finish ours up here because we bookended with the Hulkster Hulk Hogan, the very first Coliseum tribute to our hero at the time. and um The Real American was, I believe, ah comes after he comes after right around the same time as Hulkamania 6.
00:08:00
Todd David Miller
ah This is the one available as well, so that also was a big part but of it and yeah i you know We're quite a week down the road now.
00:08:13
Todd David Miller
We've seen the funeral well i meant for the like last time we we met and held conference in our fellow help holly no don't like that no ah but yeah
00:08:14
The Whole Ballgame
God, two weeks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.
00:08:22
The Whole Ballgame
Hell, hell. Hell.
00:08:29
The Whole Ballgame
Explains why I never got that email back about helping at StarCast.
00:08:33
Todd David Miller
that's yeah yeah probably that i'm sure
00:08:36
The Whole Ballgame
When he finds out what I'm doing now, motherfucker's going to shit himself. I'm going to steal all his business.
00:08:41
Todd David Miller
Yeah, you want to tell the people what's what's going down? Are you holding that under your hat?
Wrestling Event Teasers
00:08:46
The Whole Ballgame
we'll We'll hold on to that one for a little bit longer, but um it's good shit, pals. we'll We'll talk about it soon. Stay tuned. And stay tuned for the return of the whole ballgame t-shirts.
00:08:59
Todd David Miller
Gabe will be making a run at Clash in Paris is what he is saying at the end of the month.
00:09:03
The Whole Ballgame
That is correct. i've talked to I've talked to Brock. I've talked to Paul. I've talked to Tony. I'm sorry, Nick. And we're... we're
00:09:14
Todd David Miller
shot as well
00:09:15
The Whole Ballgame
I got the, ah yeah, him too. I got the the the flights booked. Shad bought the flights. It was weird, but I'll take it.
00:09:23
Todd David Miller
he's just got to pass the stress test on the ticker so we got that and then uh i'm gonna be working a cage with ah bobby kennedy on the undercard so look forward look forward to that one
00:09:26
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Easier said than done. That's coming up on the 15th, pals.
00:09:38
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, for fuck's sake.
00:09:42
The Whole Ballgame
RNA is not reliable.
00:09:45
Todd David Miller
um want to rip it I'm gonna rip his throat out Dalton style.
00:09:49
The Whole Ballgame
My throat was removed 17 years
00:09:54
Todd David Miller
I'm gonna do the roadhouse when I fucking grab it. like that Like that guy in Memphis. You gotta let that shit go, me-ho.
00:10:02
The Whole Ballgame
ago. See, any anytime I think of of ripping out an organ from a movie, I think of Kali Ma.
Terry Hogan's Health Story
00:10:09
Todd David Miller
Yeah, true. You can also be thinking about pulling your dick out as well because that's what Jerry Lawler thinks about 2 o'clock, 2.50 on a Tuesday afternoon and in early April outside the fucking Shelby County Middle School.
00:10:27
The Whole Ballgame
Middle school? Shelby County Middle School. Yes, sir. ah It's right there on Germantown Road, from what I understand.
00:10:35
Todd David Miller
Hey, baby. Not me, though. I'm going to be from Memphis, but I ain't no pervert. Hey, I heard y'all do Terry tonight.
00:10:42
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:10:43
Todd David Miller
You know, it's been weird. Did you see the picture of me with Leilani Kai in the locker room game looking all melancholy?
00:10:52
The Whole Ballgame
I did. I did. You looked, you looked very sad. I saw you, I saw one of you in the stands, um, as well. Like, uh, the night of, uh, raw, the, the stands, the, uh, the, nope, we're sorry.
00:11:01
Todd David Miller
Which Stan? Stan Lane? Or Hanson?
00:11:06
The Whole Ballgame
So there's a D at the end of the word I'm talking about.
00:11:08
Todd David Miller
Oh, baby, you talking about in the chairs?
00:11:08
The Whole Ballgame
the stands where the seats you're up in the seats.
00:11:09
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:11:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:11:12
Todd David Miller
yeah
00:11:12
The Whole Ballgame
Up in the chairs. Um, looking, looking quite melancholy as well. I heard a couple of interviews that you couldn't quite get through without, uh, losing it over, over what I assume was your best friend.
00:11:25
Todd David Miller
I chipped a tooth baby. It was terrible.
00:11:29
The Whole Ballgame
Ah, I understand.
00:11:29
Todd David Miller
My teeth were looking so subpar. And I just. I like of all days. I got to go out there and smile. And I got this chip on my tooth baby. It just. When it rains it pours you know Giz.
00:11:41
The Whole Ballgame
i do, I get it. Well, tell me, tell me this, Jimmy, I, you know, I know there, I know there's, there's a lot of emotions
00:11:44
Todd David Miller
Yeah baby.
00:11:49
The Whole Ballgame
floating around and and I know you had said that ah Terry was looking good and feeling good ah you know the day before he passed um but I gotta ask you this this new revelation that that Terry had Terry Hulk Hogan had had succumbed to to leukemia, a form of cancer usually no sort of um ah reserved for the young Um, so, um, did you know,
00:12:19
Todd David Miller
I ain't no pervert. I just told you that, baby. I said I'm from Memphis. I don't touch no kids, though.
00:12:25
The Whole Ballgame
I'm just giving some context around the leukemia piece.
00:12:28
Todd David Miller
Oh, yeah, Luke.
00:12:28
The Whole Ballgame
It would all
00:12:29
Todd David Miller
Well, baby, you know, here's the thing. You know, ah you Back in 2020 when we thought that old Terry, he was going to be, ah you know, we thought maybe him and the Fiend was going to be working an angle of maybe having a match with Mania.
00:12:43
Todd David Miller
And we was going try to get Terry back on top and get that man of it pushed. So he had me sneaking Roman Reigns' bedroom window one night. And I had withdraw some blood. I got a syringe from Beefer. And I just kind of put it in...
00:12:57
Todd David Miller
in Roman's thigh and I took out about a couple quarts you know and and yeah baby don't worry about it oh that's Memphis math and we oh and then we took it back and we put it through the flux capacitor and infused it in Terry and it turns out that it was also around that time Roman got out with leukemia so
00:13:02
The Whole Ballgame
Quartz? Jesus Christ, Jimmy. Okay, got it.
00:13:13
The Whole Ballgame
Hmm.
00:13:18
Todd David Miller
I probably got some the leukemia blood from Roman, and that's probably where Terry got it, I would guess, you know, because we was messing around, and doing all kinds of weird shit, trying to get that, you know, he wanted that one last main event title, baby.
00:13:31
Todd David Miller
He wanted one more push. He always said, I got one more run left in me, and that usually meant I was running to the store, getting this, that, the other, and, you know, putting needles in Roman Reigns while he's sleeping, but...
Nostalgia for Wrestling's Past
00:13:44
Todd David Miller
Luckily, I got a bottle of ether that Paul Bear loved me back in about 1998, and I kept that. It's been, it came in handy a time or two, if you know what I mean.
00:13:54
The Whole Ballgame
i I do. And and apparently, not not for any children, though.
00:13:56
Todd David Miller
Hey, I gotta dance. Keep on, keep on, keep on dancing. I'm gonna keep on dancing. It's joke.
00:14:00
The Whole Ballgame
So that's good. So there there it is. I'm not sure, Jimmy, that the science works that way. But if it does, I suppose, ah in the case of adrenochrome, then leukemochrome?
00:14:11
The Whole Ballgame
Is that a thing? Maybe it is. Maybe it is now.
00:14:15
Todd David Miller
It's like a European basketball prospect. It's like six foot 10 and 48.
00:14:21
The Whole Ballgame
Luke, Luke, Luke Emachrome?
00:14:22
Todd David Miller
190, and shoots 43% from three. But he has a terrible inside game because only 190 pounds.
00:14:24
The Whole Ballgame
Luke Emachrome. Yes, okay. the bulls The Bulls drafted him at number 27 in the third round.
00:14:32
Todd David Miller
he shoots forty three percent from three
00:14:32
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:14:36
Todd David Miller
but he has a terrible inside game because he's only a hundred and ninety pounds
00:14:41
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, stop bruising me. Stop bruising me. Stop it. Your elbows, they hurt so much.
00:14:47
Todd David Miller
is a andreas
00:14:50
The Whole Ballgame
No, it was a little more German than Andreas. and i wouldn't be so silly I wouldn't be so silly as to to make fun of Andreas on this podcast, knowing that he's he's a listener.
00:14:54
Todd David Miller
It wasn't. Yeah, I was gonna say
00:14:59
Todd David Miller
going to say. No, that wasn't a silly voice.
00:15:03
The Whole Ballgame
Okay.
00:15:05
Todd David Miller
Let's talk about Andreas Bargnani, former number one pick of the Toronto Raptors, dipshit.
00:15:05
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, boy.
00:15:09
The Whole Ballgame
they' were oh okay. I thought you were talking about my my current boss.
00:15:13
Todd David Miller
No, see, that's on you now.
00:15:14
The Whole Ballgame
Okay. it is It is on me. It's always on me, frankly.
00:15:18
Todd David Miller
Reversing in the McGillicuddy on the gimmick on the gimmick on the
00:15:22
The Whole Ballgame
It's a Hulk Hogan colon real American on your peacocks. That's all you got to do. You can search real American. It's the first thing that pops up. If you, you type that in and get that up and loaded and ready. And we'll press play after I count it down, like usual, we'll do three, two, one play.
00:15:45
The Whole Ballgame
And then we'll press play.
00:15:49
The Whole Ballgame
In three, two, one, play.
00:15:55
Todd David Miller
Now, do you know if in four months are we going to need an ESPN subscription to do this?
00:16:02
The Whole Ballgame
ah Looks like what I heard was that ah somebody dug into the source code. Listen to that. My goodness.
00:16:12
Todd David Miller
That's the sound of the collector series, my friend.
00:16:14
The Whole Ballgame
Somebody dug into the source code of the peacock and discovered that everything will be disappearing on March 16th, 2026. twenty six
00:16:26
Todd David Miller
That sounds right.
00:16:28
The Whole Ballgame
So we've got seven months left or so.
00:16:34
Todd David Miller
God, I'm so glad I got that hard drive.
00:16:34
The Whole Ballgame
We got, uh, what is that flag?
00:16:37
Todd David Miller
It's the collector series, buddy.
00:16:37
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness.
00:16:40
Todd David Miller
There
00:16:40
The Whole Ballgame
Okay. Okay.
00:16:43
Todd David Miller
we got Hulkster at the, or maybe not the first Saturday nights, man. One of the first Saturday nights again, it's Nikolai.
00:16:50
The Whole Ballgame
Wrestling challenge?
00:16:52
Todd David Miller
We also lost Rick Derringer and, uh, the, uh, The Hogan fan as well. That's kind of fucking weird.
00:16:59
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, it's super strange in this close proximity to have lost all three of them.
Wrestling Broadcasting Changes
00:17:07
Todd David Miller
like the same cord got pulled out of the wall somewhere.
00:17:12
The Whole Ballgame
Well, quite frankly, it's a cord I found on the Baja.
00:17:18
The Whole Ballgame
See, I live off the grid and there aren't many cords down there.
00:17:18
Todd David Miller
Jesse. Yeah. yeah
00:17:22
The Whole Ballgame
And so it's a good place to hide your cords.
00:17:25
Todd David Miller
Yeah, you got ah pulled from the broadcast for shitting on the gimmick of the match, Jess. Randy, whatever.
00:17:32
The Whole Ballgame
I'm not sure who this Jess is.
00:17:34
Todd David Miller
Yeah, sorry.
00:17:34
The Whole Ballgame
This is Randy Johnson.
00:17:35
Todd David Miller
Sorry, Randy. Yeah, forgot. Big unit on the whole ballgame. Professional photog.
00:17:42
The Whole Ballgame
Looking up to heaven, thanking God for his victory.
00:17:45
Todd David Miller
Yeah, well, looking down from heaven now, right? Well, maybe.
00:17:48
The Whole Ballgame
That's what they say. Did you see the cloud picture?
00:17:51
Todd David Miller
I saw it, yeah.
00:17:51
The Whole Ballgame
that's That's probably going to be the second the the thumbnail for this one.
00:17:56
Todd David Miller
Oh, that'd be perfect. Yeah.
00:17:57
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
00:17:58
Todd David Miller
There's Gene. Look at him.
00:18:01
The Whole Ballgame
At the control center.
00:18:03
Todd David Miller
That's green screen, right?
00:18:06
The Whole Ballgame
Looks like if you look around his ears, it's it's blurring pretty good. So that's my guess.
00:18:10
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:18:15
Todd David Miller
Why couldn't they just have him sitting in front of this shit? I don't know. I guess he's probably in a different place or something.
00:18:19
The Whole Ballgame
This is, yeah, this is one of the exciting tapes that you're going to be able to enjoy. just so you know.
00:18:27
Todd David Miller
Yeah, these are like $9.95 or something.
00:18:30
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I've got one here, a physical one called
00:18:39
The Whole Ballgame
WWF wf Wrestling Tough Guys.
00:18:43
Todd David Miller
Oh, yeah, that's also on here. Yeah.
00:18:48
Todd David Miller
Gene tells us we get Nikolai DiBiase and a workout.
00:18:56
The Whole Ballgame
Little Andre.
00:18:59
Todd David Miller
Ah, yes.
00:19:06
Todd David Miller
I've got it.
00:19:06
The Whole Ballgame
WrestleFest in Milwaukee.
00:19:07
Todd David Miller
Let's see here.
00:19:08
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness.
00:19:21
Todd David Miller
Yeah, I man, chased this show for a long time as a child.
00:19:31
Todd David Miller
We also have WWF High Flyers, Hulk Hogan Real American,
00:19:39
Todd David Miller
the aforementioned Wrestling Tough Guys, as well as the best of Hulkamania, WrestleMania's greatest matches.
00:19:52
Todd David Miller
So, yeah,
00:19:54
The Whole Ballgame
I think I had the WrestleMania one at some point.
00:19:57
Todd David Miller
yeah.
00:19:57
The Whole Ballgame
Sounds very familiar.
00:20:00
Todd David Miller
But so, you know, obviously I i don't know if in real time, I don't know this pretty close to probably, I probably find out about it on primetime or something, but cause I start watching, you know, around the beginning of 88.
00:20:17
Todd David Miller
But anyway, when I find out this happens, it's like shit, man, Hogan and Andre in a fucking cage.
00:20:17
The Whole Ballgame
sure
00:20:24
Todd David Miller
And then it's like, it, the goddamn Brewers baseball stadium on top of that. And.
00:20:31
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I've never seen this.
00:20:33
Todd David Miller
Oh, really?
00:20:34
The Whole Ballgame
No, I've never seen this.
00:20:35
Todd David Miller
Oh, what a treat.
00:20:37
The Whole Ballgame
So, yeah, and it's bright what i is what I really appreciate. So much brighter than I would have expected it to be when they don't have a truss above the ring.
Wrestling Production and Presentation
00:20:47
The Whole Ballgame
They're using the stadium lights, um which is pretty pretty fucking incredible looking.
00:20:49
Todd David Miller
Oh, it's great. Yeah. 25,000
00:20:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. And would be pretty awesome for them to do something like this on television today without the truss at night at a baseball stadium. Because with the quality of the cameras and that and whatnot, with that kind of lighting beaten down, like it'd be really amazing and very bright for television.
00:21:13
The Whole Ballgame
And you know i i think this is where they pulled the name of the video game. I think this came before the video game. No, the arcade game.
00:21:22
Todd David Miller
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:23
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. And so like all of that stuff just makes me feel really like I'm excited to watch this because of all of that shit. Like that's this is great.
00:21:34
Todd David Miller
Well, they got their chance.
00:21:35
The Whole Ballgame
He's wearing a red shirt, by the way.
00:21:36
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:21:37
The Whole Ballgame
That's different.
00:21:38
Todd David Miller
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a while since ah didn't really see the red around this time. Well, the they have shot at San Diego this year for Survivor Series. They're doing it at Petco.
00:21:51
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, which is interesting because it is outside. that's That's not a...
00:21:53
Todd David Miller
But it'll be daytime, I bet.
00:21:56
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yeah, it's West Coast. Absolutely.
00:21:58
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:21:58
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Yep. Nowadays, their shit starts at 3 p.m. on the West Coast.
00:22:05
Todd David Miller
It's a mess. It's a fucking mess. Nothing matters anymore. You know that, though.
00:22:11
The Whole Ballgame
Andre smiling at Hulkster.
00:22:13
Todd David Miller
Everything matters here, though. Look at this. Look at these fucking gods.
00:22:19
The Whole Ballgame
They're three quarters of the way up the cage, by the way, just standing and locking up.
00:22:22
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Yes.
00:22:25
Todd David Miller
How could that be? That's ah that's a 15 foot high cage, Gabe.
00:22:27
The Whole Ballgame
15 foot high. yeah Well, it's 15 feet off the ground, not from the ring.
00:22:31
Todd David Miller
Oh, yes.
00:22:32
The Whole Ballgame
You understand. Yeah.
00:22:35
Todd David Miller
Thanks, Gino.
00:22:37
The Whole Ballgame
we got to We got Bobby on the outside looking splendiferous in his black jacket with red star and silver outline.
00:22:47
The Whole Ballgame
What a win.
00:22:48
Todd David Miller
So to finish, put the the point on this this VHS story.
00:22:52
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:22:55
Todd David Miller
So probably sometime in 89 or 90, I would say, is I'm visiting my cousins and their local like town and country grocery store, IGA thing.
00:23:08
Todd David Miller
i fucking see WrestleFest 88 there. Never been able to find it. And i of course... have no means or access to rent it and i just had to look at the box and it was awful man i never got to uh i never got to rent the vhs i think i finally yep i got it like you know in 2000 or something on a fucking off the internet somehow off ebay
00:23:24
The Whole Ballgame
Ugh.
00:23:30
The Whole Ballgame
That's the kind of pain that sticks with you.
00:23:37
The Whole Ballgame
Ugh.
00:23:41
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, at least you could watch it on VHS still. That's good, at least.
00:23:46
Todd David Miller
Got Randy and DiBiase for the belt on here as well.
00:23:46
The Whole Ballgame
God. God.
00:23:52
The Whole Ballgame
Wow, yeah, I don't know anything about the card. but Like, i've I've never, it's just...
00:23:55
Todd David Miller
Hitman and Bad News um from their WrestleMania, post-WrestleMania angle. a Demolition and the Bulldogs.
00:24:09
The Whole Ballgame
Demolition of the Bulldogs, that's pretty good.
00:24:11
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:24:13
The Whole Ballgame
Hogan is standing on Andre's chest and choking him both with his shirt and his boot, big elbows off the middle rope.
00:24:23
Todd David Miller
Oh, the other big attraction is Warrior and Heenan in a Weasel match.
00:24:28
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay.
00:24:32
The Whole Ballgame
We got to imagine that this this was the main event, no?
00:24:36
Todd David Miller
Yep, this is the main event.
00:24:37
The Whole Ballgame
so So Heenan has already been out there, i assume in a weasel suit. So that's that's fun.
00:24:43
Todd David Miller
Yep.
00:24:46
The Whole Ballgame
Explains why his hair is all tussled.
00:24:48
Todd David Miller
Yep, yep, exactly. don't think Beefcake and Honky do the IC rematch as well.
Golden Moments in Wrestling
00:24:54
Todd David Miller
Because you got to remember, this is also...
00:24:58
The Whole Ballgame
Oh. Oh.
00:25:01
Todd David Miller
Jeez.
00:25:04
Todd David Miller
It's right before SummerSlam.
00:25:09
The Whole Ballgame
After. This is the end of August. Well, i guess...
00:25:12
Todd David Miller
Well, back then, SummerSlam was...
00:25:14
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. ah It might be before. Yeah, that's a good point. Andre's got Hogan tied to the cage around his neck with his ripped t-shirt.
00:25:18
Todd David Miller
oh
00:25:24
The Whole Ballgame
And he's just beating the piss out of him. ah ah Lord Alfred just suggested that Andre should climb the cage and jump off the top to the floor to win the match.
00:25:33
Todd David Miller
Yes.
00:25:38
The Whole Ballgame
um
00:25:38
Todd David Miller
That would technically win it. It's hard to argue.
00:25:41
The Whole Ballgame
It would. Yeah. The Hulkster has gotten himself free and went scrambling for the legs of the big man.
00:25:48
Todd David Miller
See, Heenan's in his singlet, too.
00:25:48
The Whole Ballgame
Keep him. Yeah. Keep him in the match. So everyone rest easy.
00:25:53
Todd David Miller
Take a look at that picture sent you.
00:25:58
The Whole Ballgame
oh fuck me.
00:26:00
Todd David Miller
That was the VHS cover.
00:26:01
The Whole Ballgame
God damn it. um
00:26:06
The Whole Ballgame
So you got the ring in the middle of of
00:26:12
The Whole Ballgame
ah What was the Brewer Stadium called? That was ah Milwaukee Stadium, right?
00:26:14
Todd David Miller
ah Milwaukee County came. Yeah, Milwaukee County.
00:26:16
The Whole Ballgame
Milwaukee County. Yeah. um He got Warrior holding up a jobber above his head with blue and orange face paint and his his powder blue tights and blue and orange tassels.
00:26:30
The Whole Ballgame
ah
00:26:30
Todd David Miller
right.
00:26:31
The Whole Ballgame
ah Much less blonde than he was later on. Yeah. Hogan ah gripping the the inside of the cage and looking absolutely jacked out of his mind on Coke.
00:26:43
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:26:46
The Whole Ballgame
um
00:26:46
Todd David Miller
It's a tremendous picture.
00:26:48
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Live from Milwaukee County Stadium, the Ultimate Warrior, Hacksaw Jim Duggan. That's Blake's favorite. Ravishing Rick Rude, Powers of Pain, Jake the Snake Roberts, and many more.
00:26:59
The Whole Ballgame
Exclusive, never-before-seen Hulk Hogan meets Andre the Giant in their one and only steel cage match.
00:27:06
Todd David Miller
You got to see this.
00:27:10
The Whole Ballgame
What a beautiful thing. Oh, man.
00:27:12
Todd David Miller
Look at this thing.
00:27:13
The Whole Ballgame
Come on.
00:27:14
Todd David Miller
Look at that fucking thing.
00:27:15
The Whole Ballgame
That is worthy of framing.
00:27:15
Todd David Miller
it
00:27:19
Todd David Miller
Yes, that thing's beautiful. Look at the bottom.
00:27:21
The Whole Ballgame
So the entire... ah where you can find superstars of wrestling and wrestling challenge.
00:27:26
Todd David Miller
Yep.
00:27:28
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Yes.
00:27:29
The Whole Ballgame
It's like, you all have probably seen the, the standard ww WWF program from house shows, right? Like it's like that, but like plussed up considerably.
00:27:37
Todd David Miller
Yes.
00:27:40
The Whole Ballgame
Right. um
00:27:42
Todd David Miller
and also known
00:27:43
The Whole Ballgame
And it's in unbelievable shape.
00:27:44
Todd David Miller
is what It's also known as what I would do during church every fucking Sunday.
00:27:45
The Whole Ballgame
My God.
00:27:52
Todd David Miller
I would sit there in the pews with my notebook and I would make my fucking cards and I would design them to look just like that. I would put the lines in there. I'd have like WWF champion, Hulk Hogan versus challenger. Like I, God, I'd give anything to fuck because I had notebooks full of that shit, man.
00:28:12
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Unfortunately, you're not Tony Khan and you didn't save them. Um, because then you'd be able to book your territory now, just fill in different names, you know?
00:28:16
Todd David Miller
Yeah, no, I grew up a little bit. Sure. Sure. I just need the territory. Yeah.
00:28:23
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, so let's see here. Uh, tickets on sale now, $25, 15. Can you imagine $25 for front row seats?
00:28:30
Todd David Miller
We got color. So you could watch the Hulkster take a turnbuckle to the head and juice because it's a cage.
00:28:33
The Whole Ballgame
Wow.
00:28:37
Todd David Miller
There it is. He's cutting himself.
00:28:38
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. I saw it. Yep. He just sliced himself. Um, 25, 15, 12, and 9.
00:28:44
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:28:45
The Whole Ballgame
We got, ah here's the rundown of the card. Killer Bees versus the Rougeaus. Junkyard Dog versus King Haku. Ken Patera versus Dino Bravo. Brutus the Barber Beefcake versus Hercules.
00:28:56
The Whole Ballgame
Brett Hitman Hart versus Bad News, as mentioned.
00:28:57
Todd David Miller
Oh.
00:28:59
The Whole Ballgame
ah Jake the Snake Roberts versus Ravishing Rick Rude. Classic matchup. Ultimate Warrior versus Bobby the Brain Heenan in a a weasel match with special ring announcer for this match.
00:29:12
The Whole Ballgame
The Crusher, Milwaukee native.
00:29:14
Todd David Miller
Oh. I remember that.
00:29:17
The Whole Ballgame
ah The Powers of Pain versus the Bolsheviks.
00:29:21
Todd David Miller
ah what a match.
00:29:21
The Whole Ballgame
So is the is it the Powers of Pain as the faces here? Or was it? Yeah, it would have to be, right?
00:29:26
Todd David Miller
Yeah, they're babyfaces.
00:29:27
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:29:28
Todd David Miller
This is July 31st, by the way. Mm-hmm.
00:29:30
The Whole Ballgame
July 31st. Yeah, Gene at the beginning said end of August. ah Intercontinental champion, the Honky Tonk Man with ah manager, the Colonel, Jimmy Hart.
00:29:35
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:29:42
The Whole Ballgame
versus ha Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
00:29:44
Todd David Miller
Ah, Duggan.
00:29:46
The Whole Ballgame
Tag Team Championships Demolition versus the British Bulldogs.
00:29:53
The Whole Ballgame
WWF Championship title match, the Macho Man Randy Savage versus Ted DiViase, and Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant in this a steel cage match.
00:30:03
Todd David Miller
See, and...
00:30:03
The Whole Ballgame
it's It really is a beautiful program. My God. Wow.
00:30:06
Todd David Miller
Oh, yeah, that thing is... is if Michael, if you're gonna design a program from the ground up, yeah it would look like that, Michael.
00:30:07
The Whole Ballgame
wow
00:30:15
The Whole Ballgame
I love that ah they call it Milwaukee WrestleFest on here. That fucking logo of the ring in the middle of the stadium is just wonderful.
00:30:21
Todd David Miller
Yeah, with the stadium, yeah.
00:30:25
The Whole Ballgame
My God. What is it? What is it that we we... I think Andre's about to tie himself into the ropes here, and he's trying to get there.
00:30:32
Todd David Miller
Uh-oh. andre Andre's going down.
00:30:37
The Whole Ballgame
He just hasn't quite figured it out. he's but i think i think he's going to get that rope spot in here.
00:30:39
Todd David Miller
Hulksters.
00:30:41
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know, though.
00:30:42
Todd David Miller
Oh, he's down.
00:30:43
The Whole Ballgame
Hogan is bleeding like a stuck pig.
00:30:47
Todd David Miller
Crowds loving it.
00:30:49
The Whole Ballgame
What is it that we've we've we've insisted on adding more and more and more and more to everything to the point that it now doesn't mean anything?
00:31:01
Todd David Miller
Here we go.
00:31:03
The Whole Ballgame
It means so much less. Heenan is in the cage, everybody. Andre just got leg dropped. Heenan is in the cage, has something wrapped around his hand and is punching Hogan.
00:31:14
The Whole Ballgame
And Hogan no-sells. It jumps down off the rope. Keenan throws himself to the ground.
00:31:20
Todd David Miller
Oh, God. Look, Andre's climbing. Andre's climbing.
00:31:23
The Whole Ballgame
Andre's climbing the the cage.
00:31:25
Todd David Miller
Andre's going up.
00:31:29
Todd David Miller
He's going to jump. Oh, God. Andre's down.
00:31:33
The Whole Ballgame
There it is. Okay, he's tied up the opposite way.
00:31:35
Todd David Miller
He's tied backwards.
00:31:36
The Whole Ballgame
what a smart What a smart way to do it, too, for the crowd. the You see how nuts the crowd went when it happened?
00:31:40
Todd David Miller
Yeah. Because they can yeah they can see his face.
00:31:43
The Whole Ballgame
They can see his face.
00:31:45
Todd David Miller
Probably see one of his nuts, too.
00:31:46
The Whole Ballgame
Heenan goes face first into, well, yeah. Now you can see Heenan's nuts too. And here comes the Hulkster going over to the top.
00:31:54
Todd David Miller
You can't see Jim Dillon's in Sagamino's, though, because he's not there. again
00:32:00
The Whole Ballgame
This is all of a seven-minute match or so.
00:32:03
Todd David Miller
Yeah, look at him.
00:32:03
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness. And that's the end of it.
00:32:04
Todd David Miller
And everybody's happy as fuck.
00:32:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yep, exactly.
00:32:07
Todd David Miller
They did nothing but punch each other, okay?
00:32:10
The Whole Ballgame
Correct. Correct.
00:32:11
Todd David Miller
And Hulk bladed from a turnbuckle, exposed turnbuckle, and... Andre flugged around and fell. Hulk dropped a leg, and then Andre... climbed up two rungs of the cage and got his himself tied up.
00:32:26
Todd David Miller
And there's a massive Harley Davidson sign there. That's cool. Oh, look at this.
00:32:36
The Whole Ballgame
Idle defense against Nikolai with ah Freddie Blassie this time.
00:32:41
Todd David Miller
Gabe's second favorite Bolshevik.
00:32:48
The Whole Ballgame
Freddie Blassie? Yes.
00:32:49
Todd David Miller
Ha ha ha ha.
00:32:50
The Whole Ballgame
Correct.
00:32:54
Todd David Miller
Yeah, this is, uh...
00:32:54
The Whole Ballgame
Nikolai treating us to the Russian national anthem.
00:32:58
Todd David Miller
this has got to be SNME 2 or 3 here.
00:33:04
Todd David Miller
want to say it's...
00:33:04
The Whole Ballgame
Got a great sign out there that says Hulk number one in red, white, and blue.
00:33:04
Todd David Miller
It
00:33:13
Todd David Miller
is the Cold There's the hammer and sickle.
00:33:18
The Whole Ballgame
Vince and Jesse on commentary. So yeah, I think this probably is Saturday night's main event number two, I think.
00:33:28
The Whole Ballgame
Hogan should sit back and
Future of Wrestling Broadcasts
00:33:30
The Whole Ballgame
let him do it.
00:33:32
Todd David Miller
It's probably around this time where Hogan has stooged off the vents about the union.
00:33:41
The Whole Ballgame
He's got the um the white American maid t-shirt on with that shitty-ass silver belt.
00:33:49
Todd David Miller
not a good belt. That's when they were doing the entryway interviews.
00:34:00
The Whole Ballgame
The Hulkster's proud of America, and he's carrying the red, white, and blue tonight, brother.
00:34:05
Todd David Miller
and And before he died, he helped get a Russian asset elected.
00:34:11
The Whole Ballgame
My oh my, how the how the turntables...
00:34:17
Todd David Miller
It's all the yin and yang, dude. It's like I told, though. No. we We're going to have to fix it. And part of that is the resurrection that we're going to have to have to bring him back, dude.
00:34:29
Todd David Miller
And part of that will be Adam's burning ceremonial mustache hairs tonight at 12.03 a.m. m
00:34:37
The Whole Ballgame
You hear that, Adam? You have your... your task ahead of you and we'll send you some music to play while you're burning the mustache hairs courtesy of your favorite artist.
00:34:49
Todd David Miller
I can do an acapella tune for you, baby. i could even make some bullshit up.
00:34:53
The Whole Ballgame
You know what, you know what I think would be good? Like some ah little like, ah like Nickel Creek, maybe something like that.
00:35:00
The Whole Ballgame
Maybe a little mandolin in the background.
00:35:00
Todd David Miller
I don't even know what
00:35:03
Todd David Miller
I was thinking maybe I could just sit there and go, burn them hairs, burn them hairs, everybody burn Terry's mustache hairs, everybody burn, everybody burn, everybody burn them mustache hairs, and then I could kind of spin it into this.
00:35:22
Todd David Miller
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, bend over, here we go, oh!
00:35:27
The Whole Ballgame
It's my, my, it's my, it's my two year old's favorite song, head, shoulders, knees, and toes. So congratulations, Will. What a, what a creative triumph.
00:35:37
Todd David Miller
Look at the ref's pants. What's going on with those?
00:35:41
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Interesting. Uh, he's got a little, little, little white stripes on the sides. Uh, Nikolai Volkov wasting no time here.
00:35:52
The Whole Ballgame
ah Jumped to the gun at the bell and just knocked Hogan down. Again, choking with the shirt here. ah the ah the but The best way to work a choke, apparently, is to...
00:36:06
The Whole Ballgame
to to choke from the front instead of from the back. So you're controlling the pressure and just like kind of moving back and forth as opposed to actually doing anything. Now Hogan blocks and Hogan all in white here again, makes me believe that we might see another bit of ah the Hulksters leukemia stained blood tonight.
00:36:27
Todd David Miller
probably not on nbc he was in the white fairly regularly back then
00:36:29
The Whole Ballgame
Hmm. Hmm. You don't think they'd, you don't think they'd allow it, huh? Dick, Dick Ebersole says no blood on my television. Thank you very much.
00:36:41
The Whole Ballgame
i don't know if you see this, but like there are some pretty significant stains on the film here.
00:36:42
Todd David Miller
Nick was very, very anti-blood. He was pro-crypt.
00:36:49
The Whole Ballgame
a bunch of like yellow stains on the film, the original film here that have kind of bled into the failure that it's, it's very interesting to see on digital.
00:36:58
Todd David Miller
Hey baby, maybe it's some of Brock's peepee videos.
00:37:01
The Whole Ballgame
That's probably the case as a matter of fact. ah yeah You know, interestingly, Meltzer, ah for the uninitiated here, Brock Lesnar, returned to the ah the World Wrestling Federation
00:37:15
Todd David Miller
God, Nikolai sucks.
00:37:17
The Whole Ballgame
um on Sunday at SummerSlam. And
00:37:26
The Whole Ballgame
there's there's been a lot of talk about about the whether or not it should have happened, given... the situation with Vince's lawsuit and the lawsuit that, you know, names WWF as a co-defendant in the situation.
00:37:47
Todd David Miller
Are you insinuating they maybe shouldn't have brought him back because he was a sex trafficker?
00:37:47
The Whole Ballgame
And
00:37:51
The Whole Ballgame
yeah, ah big time.
00:37:52
Todd David Miller
Oh, okay.
00:37:53
The Whole Ballgame
ah But ah Dave Meltzer was talking about this and and said, look, this is a this is a despicable company. Why would you expect...
00:38:04
The Whole Ballgame
like not despicable things from happening or something along those lines. Despicable wasn't the word, but,
Critique of Wrestling Industry Decisions
00:38:10
Todd David Miller
Yeah, no. He's right.
00:38:11
The Whole Ballgame
um but yeah, it's just, it's just kind of like, well, yeah, I mean, that absolutely tracks.
00:38:16
The Whole Ballgame
I didn't expect it because I didn't think that they would open themselves up to and continued liability like that. Right. But apparently at the end of the day, what really matters is story.
00:38:33
Todd David Miller
They're fucking more whorish than ever. ah And it's become pretty clear to me that this is this is Triple H's only move.
00:38:44
Todd David Miller
is Some dude shows up at the end of a goddamn show like two times a year.
00:38:49
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, completely creatively bankrupt. That is correct.
00:38:52
Todd David Miller
like it's He's so full of shit, man. like i don't know.
00:38:57
The Whole Ballgame
Well, it's like the dudes arguing with you online about how much better it's been since 2020 today. Like, give me a break.
00:39:04
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:39:04
The Whole Ballgame
Like, yes. But if you, you know, from 2015 to 2020, WWF, WWE was bad wrestling.
00:39:17
The Whole Ballgame
But I could probably pick out three or four things that happened in that time frame that were pretty cool. And that's exactly the same thing I can say about 2021 to present.
00:39:28
The Whole Ballgame
There are three or four cool things that have happened. But overall, it's still pretty fucking bad.
00:39:36
Todd David Miller
Yeah, it's basically the same thing, except it's somehow more whorish now, which I didn't think it happened, but they they really found a way to do it. You got goddamn logos everywhere, and I mean, Jesus Christ, it's only a matter of time before like, you know, every fucking, yeah, the guy is like going out there with ring jackets on and shit with sponsors on them.
00:40:06
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, tights. Absolutely. You don't think that Jey Uso is going to have Slim Jim on his on his ass in the next year? Give me a break. If you don't believe it, you're out of your mind.
00:40:18
The Whole Ballgame
ah You know, look, ah
00:40:22
The Whole Ballgame
we live in a world where success is decided ah by the amount of revenue you generate, and that's it.
00:40:35
The Whole Ballgame
And, you know, today the mouse gave them $1.6 billion to to to to have the rights to to charge us $30 to watch WrestleMania.
00:40:44
Todd David Miller
is
00:40:48
Todd David Miller
Yeah, that's not going to happen. We...
00:40:50
The Whole Ballgame
And now they're two nights, so actually probably $60 now that I think about it.
00:40:54
Todd David Miller
Yeah. ah They'll you cut you deal for 50 or something.
00:40:58
The Whole Ballgame
Sure.
00:40:58
The Whole Ballgame
Sure.
00:40:58
Todd David Miller
But, like,
00:41:02
Todd David Miller
we we live in a point in time where you shouldn't have to take every goddamn possible cash grab you can get. You should be able to make some fucking prudent decisions and and think about, like, the larger picture of things and
00:41:26
Todd David Miller
I don't know.
00:41:26
The Whole Ballgame
There is no larger picture. The money's it. That's it. That's all there is. It's money.
00:41:31
Todd David Miller
Yeah, but if you go too far, then the money will all stop because people will get turned off eventually.
00:41:31
The Whole Ballgame
You strip everything else away, it's about the money.
00:41:39
The Whole Ballgame
Will it? Will they?
00:41:42
Todd David Miller
i think, I mean, they got a whole goddamn term for it.
00:41:43
The Whole Ballgame
i We have to hope so. We have to believe it. Or else...
00:41:47
Todd David Miller
It's fucking jumping the shark, right?
00:41:50
The Whole Ballgame
I guess...
00:41:52
Todd David Miller
You know?
00:41:52
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, but let's be honest here. If they haven't jumped the shark yet, it's never going to happen.
00:41:58
Todd David Miller
Well, look, yeah, we're also talking about wrestling. There's a...
00:42:00
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, it's ah it is a it is a ah niche of a niche, right?
00:42:04
Todd David Miller
There's just... the There's a certain baseline of people that will never leave it, no matter what, as long as...
00:42:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:42:13
Todd David Miller
it's As long as it's... People inside of a wrestling ring.
00:42:16
The Whole Ballgame
man fell from the man fell from this Man fell from the ceiling and men continued to wrestle on top of the bloodstain.
00:42:25
The Whole Ballgame
Right?
00:42:26
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:42:27
The Whole Ballgame
we we we We honored a ah ah child, a family, a family what do they call that?
00:42:30
Todd David Miller
They bleed for purpose.
00:42:35
The Whole Ballgame
A family ah destroyer? A family, whatever, there's a term for it. ah For three hours before we knew what was going on.
00:42:42
Todd David Miller
Beast incarnate.
00:42:44
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. but shit Fuck. done yeah and and and He even did the little jig. Did you notice that? He did his little dance on his way out.
00:42:53
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:42:54
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, real good. um It's just, you know, I don't know. I don't know if there is a bridge too far.
00:43:03
Todd David Miller
Yeah, i mean, it's, again, wrestling.
00:43:07
The Whole Ballgame
We've got King Haku versus the Hulkster this time around.
00:43:12
Todd David Miller
Though, the but people that'll never leave are always going to find a way to justify, you know, whatever it is that it's why it's not that bad or, you know, I...
Declining Quality in Wrestling
00:43:29
Todd David Miller
i I don't know. i just It's hard to understand because you've got to be a real broken-ass person to to to be just thick and thin defending that stuff today because it's it's just not good.
00:43:45
Todd David Miller
It looks like shit. It's sloppy. they they It's phonier looking than ever. And it's as dumb as and as cliche as it's ever been.
00:43:57
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, a lot of the problem that I have with it lately is is the... um Oh, my goodness. who Elizabeth just said, come on, Hulkster.
00:44:08
The Whole Ballgame
We got a date with royalty. Because they're going to fight King Haku, you understand.
00:44:11
Todd David Miller
i
00:44:13
The Whole Ballgame
um
00:44:14
Todd David Miller
You could do one of those things with Liz there where you can see like your dick protruding in her stomach. Got it. It's like.
00:44:22
The Whole Ballgame
Wonderful. Yeah.
00:44:26
Todd David Miller
That's what I thought, baby.
00:44:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, the the the lies that people tell themselves to to to get through the day, I think, is is is part of this. The problem that I have with the product nowadays, right now especially, is ah ah that how how obvious it is that the cooperation is happening.
00:44:46
Todd David Miller
Yeah, that's big.
00:44:47
The Whole Ballgame
You know, especially like the turnbuckle shit that they're doing now, where they're both up on the top, and it's just like, it takes 25 seconds for them to get set, and...
00:44:51
Todd David Miller
a
00:44:57
The Whole Ballgame
The one guy just climbed up there and they're like, just like maneuvering themselves to, to do the next trick, you know, instead of any re any reality at all.
00:45:05
Todd David Miller
Yeah, and that's what I was referencing about the phony looking.
00:45:09
The Whole Ballgame
just, there's not, you're not able to suspend that much disbelief.
00:45:14
Todd David Miller
cocksuckers are counting their fucking steps, for God's sakes. Like, you need get those cameras a little further away. you Like, don't shoot it so goddamn close if it's going to look this shitty. Like, I don't know.
00:45:31
Todd David Miller
This is, ah I think we're heading into, we're going to be heading into WrestleMania V here. right, with Liz there.
00:45:40
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, well, uh, he was talking about his partner. So this is pre Saturday night's main event. Um, might be close, but, uh, yeah, yes.
00:45:47
Todd David Miller
Yeah, no, I just meant it's like, you know, sometime before Mainz 5, yeah.
00:45:49
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. We're on the way. We're between four and five for sure.
00:45:57
Todd David Miller
I want to say October 88.
00:45:57
The Whole Ballgame
Keenan on the outside again.
00:45:58
Todd David Miller
It's October 88. Check me.
00:46:04
The Whole Ballgame
Let's see.
00:46:07
Todd David Miller
See if my brain is still sharp.
00:46:17
Todd David Miller
Perhaps this is an autistic trait. We can trademark the name The Violent Autist.
00:46:23
The Whole Ballgame
The Violent Autist. Yep. Saturday Night's Main Event, October 25th, 1988.
00:46:29
Todd David Miller
Nice.
00:46:31
The Whole Ballgame
Look at you. Look at you, you fucking autist.
00:46:34
Todd David Miller
The Violent Autist.
00:46:36
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. Wonderful.
00:46:38
Todd David Miller
Born in August.
00:46:39
The Whole Ballgame
What song's that? little did identity
00:46:44
Todd David Miller
Did you see they redid the song?
00:46:47
The Whole Ballgame
what songs that
00:46:49
Todd David Miller
the fucking Benoit theme, the Our Lady Peace, whatever.
00:46:53
The Whole Ballgame
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:46:53
Todd David Miller
It's
00:46:54
The Whole Ballgame
Whatever their name is. Yeah. Yeah. I did see that.
00:46:56
Todd David Miller
Our Lady Peace, Gabe.
00:46:58
The Whole Ballgame
Are you sure?
00:46:59
Todd David Miller
Or as they refer to themselves as well, OLP.
00:47:04
Todd David Miller
I saw OLP open up in concert for um Bush.
00:47:16
Todd David Miller
can hear my daughter banging on her wall.
00:47:19
The Whole Ballgame
that's good.
00:47:19
Todd David Miller
Yeah. That's probably fine.
00:47:21
The Whole Ballgame
Ah, yes. I do see they redid it. Yes, indeedy.
Connections Between Wrestling and Music
00:47:26
The Whole Ballgame
They did it live for the first time in a long time in April.
00:47:32
Todd David Miller
Perhaps they're trying to rewrite the devil's story to take their power back or their song in this case. Hmm.
00:47:37
The Whole Ballgame
Well, there's no holding them back from what I understand, so...
00:47:45
The Whole Ballgame
See, what i I think more about Benoit when I hear that, that song, is it finger 11?
00:47:57
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know who it is exactly. The, if I gave it all away for one thing, wouldn't that be something from the D the Benoit DVD, the, the, the, the biography, I must've watched it six or seven times.
00:48:05
Todd David Miller
oh but the think that's it. I never saw the DVD.
00:48:13
The Whole Ballgame
i was, I was enjoying the Chris Benoit, um, uh, championship reign quite a bit. Um,
00:48:21
Todd David Miller
I was not.
00:48:22
The Whole Ballgame
at the time and I had the DVD.
00:48:25
Todd David Miller
i was in my this is the beginning of the end phase. It's
00:48:31
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. How you feeling now?
00:48:34
Todd David Miller
a long end.
00:48:35
The Whole Ballgame
It is a long ass end. Jesus Christ. Longer than Foley's daughter's end as a matter of fact.
00:48:43
Todd David Miller
Those fucking vanilla midgets got on top and killed the goddamn business, Gabe.
00:48:50
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, it's kind of a mess now, Kev. I got to admit, you were right all along.
00:48:53
Todd David Miller
It's Daryl, fucker.
00:48:54
The Whole Ballgame
and That's the reality of it. if If they had just listened to you, maybe Nancy and Daniel would still be alive. You ever think about that?
00:49:03
Todd David Miller
I, Daryl Strawberry, don't know anything about the Benoits, pal.
00:49:08
The Whole Ballgame
no, no. I'm talking to Kevin Nash. So if Kevin can come back, that'd be great. I want to i want to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think that if...
00:49:14
Todd David Miller
I don't know anybody named Kevin Nash.
00:49:16
The Whole Ballgame
Do you...
00:49:17
Todd David Miller
it's I played baseball with Doc Gooden. We used to drive up and down 70 in ah in between Kansas City and St. Louis. We'd stop.
00:49:29
The Whole Ballgame
i doubt You know, I doubt that very seriously. i think you think somebody is is imitating you and and taking from their personal experience and roads that they know of is what I think is happening here.
00:49:29
Todd David Miller
with
00:49:42
Todd David Miller
I hate to tell you this, pal, but this whole goddamn thing's a fucking imitation.
00:49:46
The Whole Ballgame
i don't know if that's true.
00:49:49
Todd David Miller
It's an imitation of a simulation.
00:49:49
The Whole Ballgame
i like to believe that we're I like to believe that we're creating realities, you understand.
00:49:56
Todd David Miller
Creating realities in round robin. Oh, he didn't...
00:49:59
The Whole Ballgame
Keenan just took the brunt of that one, a big tomahawk off of the ah the apron from Kahaku.
00:50:01
Todd David Miller
Oh. Alright. I gotta get a check on Earth.
00:50:05
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go check on her. well We'll take it from here.
00:50:09
Todd David Miller
you
00:50:09
The Whole Ballgame
Hogan now has the crown and has it on his head.
00:50:10
Todd David Miller
Kids.
00:50:12
The Whole Ballgame
He is dancing around the ring, and he's the whiz. Nobody beats him. ah Very, very yeah handsome handsome man in that and that crown.
00:50:28
The Whole Ballgame
The king of wrestling, Hulk Hogan. Heenan is selling this ah this karate chop from the ring apron like death. And I think Heenan is on his way back to the dressing room at this point. And that leaves Haku all by himself. And Hogan takes full advantage right away.
00:50:46
The Whole Ballgame
Big punches in the corner. Haku reeling over the situation. Irish whip into the opposite corner. And Haku bounces right off and... Gives the Hulkster a nice clothesline there. And Hulk's down and down hard.
00:51:02
The Whole Ballgame
Big splash. Headbutt from Haku.
00:51:08
The Whole Ballgame
Right on the bridge of the nose there. Jesse talking about how concerned Elizabeth needs to be over this situation. And we've got some barefoot kicks from Haku.
00:51:20
The Whole Ballgame
ah Right to the throat of the Hulkster. Here we go. Big... Suplex right there in the middle of the ring and Jesse going on about the strength. Hogan kicks out well and we've got a Hulk up.
00:51:35
The Whole Ballgame
We've got hoof. We've got hoof, Blake.
00:51:38
Todd David Miller
Yeah, we do.
00:51:39
The Whole Ballgame
We've got hoof.
00:51:41
Todd David Miller
Kid's going to be up for two more hours.
00:51:43
The Whole Ballgame
That's wonderful. Hulking up is happening here. We got the the baby hairs on the side of his head flying in the breeze. One punch. Two punch.
00:51:55
The Whole Ballgame
Three punch.
00:51:56
Todd David Miller
Who needs to kick him?
00:51:57
The Whole Ballgame
Irish whip. Big boot.
00:52:02
The Whole Ballgame
Hits the rope. Leg drop.
Wrestling Costumes and Personas
00:52:06
The Whole Ballgame
One, two, three.
00:52:07
Todd David Miller
That was a beautiful textbook leg.
00:52:08
The Whole Ballgame
That was it.
00:52:13
Todd David Miller
Happy Halloween for the Hulkster in 88. I wonder what I was 88.
00:52:18
The Whole Ballgame
There's his candy right there at ringside.
00:52:19
Todd David Miller
I think
00:52:20
The Whole Ballgame
and
00:52:21
Todd David Miller
seven
00:52:24
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, i was i my mom only knew to ah two hits, and that was when I was little. Clown or vampire. She'd get the grease paint at the store and just paint my ass up, get me a cheap-ass cape, and send me on my way.
00:52:37
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:52:40
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. You got vampire-like qualities. I can see that working.
00:52:44
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, i did i did I used to have a really pronounced widow's peak that she could really take care of there and make that work.
00:52:50
Todd David Miller
Yeah, you're definitely a whiz-piz guy.
00:52:53
The Whole Ballgame
We got, to thank you. Thank you. Wiz Piz, indeed. ah got Liz doing the pose down with the Hulkster here as well.
00:53:01
Todd David Miller
Now they're both dizz.
00:53:06
The Whole Ballgame
I wonder if he's if he's he's cucking in the Macho Man as we speak again.
00:53:10
Todd David Miller
Oh, man. Be a man, Terry.
00:53:13
The Whole Ballgame
Do you think that Terry fucked Liz?
00:53:18
Todd David Miller
No.
00:53:19
The Whole Ballgame
No?
00:53:20
Todd David Miller
i I think he...
00:53:21
The Whole Ballgame
Not at any point, not WCW, not at any point.
00:53:24
Todd David Miller
No, because i not unless... not it Not until in his mind he believed Randy wouldn't murder him for it. If that ever happened.
00:53:34
The Whole Ballgame
Hmm.
00:53:36
Todd David Miller
i think I think at the end of the day he was probably scared of Savage.
00:53:40
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, here she goes up on the shoulder.
00:53:43
Todd David Miller
Goddamn hands fit her around her entire waist, man. He could just destroy her.
00:53:50
The Whole Ballgame
thermos. Uh,
00:53:53
Todd David Miller
dude, I'm fucking stuffed, Liz. eat like a pig.
00:53:58
The Whole Ballgame
Jesse says, what a feat of strength. That was by Hogan picking up that 120 pound woman.
00:54:07
Todd David Miller
Jesse was on to him the whole time.
00:54:14
The Whole Ballgame
We got Jean back in the control center here. was Those reels, by the way, rolling without any film between the two reels. I don't know if you noticed that.
00:54:25
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:54:26
The Whole Ballgame
No film actually being recorded anywhere.
00:54:31
Todd David Miller
You know, Gene's engineering in the studio. He's going to take that jacket off, roll the sleeves up, and he's going to spool film.
00:54:43
The Whole Ballgame
I would love to go back in time and be able to record audio over top of video. One of these machines, it would absolutely make my day. And there's only one man I'd take with me. Uh, that's, uh, Mike, the moon pie.
00:54:58
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:54:59
The Whole Ballgame
Look at this. We got the, the Hulkster workout here as well.
00:55:01
Todd David Miller
Sweet.
00:55:02
The Whole Ballgame
Look at the vascularity in his thighs. My goodness.
00:55:08
The Whole Ballgame
Very nineteen eighty s sort of edit effects here
00:55:08
Todd David Miller
Didn't this, uh...
00:55:13
The Whole Ballgame
Some freeze frames,
00:55:14
Todd David Miller
this Crush's music?
00:55:18
The Whole Ballgame
the cowbells there. So yeah, I think it is the original crush music, the orange, orange, purple crush.
00:55:24
Todd David Miller
Yeah, just Yeah.
00:55:26
The Whole Ballgame
I think so.
00:55:26
Todd David Miller
Like, just had that in the can for four years.
00:55:31
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, it's not, not at all surprising.
00:55:34
Todd David Miller
No, I'm sure Johnson is just... Jim, go fuck around your studio and come up with some of your diddles.
00:55:41
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:55:42
Todd David Miller
No fiddles, though, goddammit. We're not doing the hillbillies anymore. They clog the toilets.
00:55:48
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, I'll give it to him. You know, he knew how to write a piece of music with a driving beat. At least there's that, you know, that's what you need for for a baby face.
00:55:54
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm. um I think that guy was a genius.
00:56:02
Todd David Miller
Like, you want to talk about underrated, unsung heroes? They're...
00:56:08
The Whole Ballgame
If I did that math correctly, that's ah the those stacks that he had there, not these old-fashioned barbells, but the stacks that he was working with were 240
00:56:15
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
00:56:21
The Whole Ballgame
pounds a piece, those barbells with stacks on them, 120 on each side.
00:56:35
Todd David Miller
sounds like a lot.
00:56:38
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, i'm so no, no, 240 total.
00:56:40
Todd David Miller
Yeah, I was going to say maybe half.
00:56:40
The Whole Ballgame
Sorry, 60 on each side of the barbell.
00:56:43
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
00:56:43
The Whole Ballgame
yeah, yeah.
00:56:46
Todd David Miller
120 sounds about right. Most I could ever do with what he was doing in 120s there with relative ease to x like push out, which was actually as high as the weights went, but I couldn't have done much
Wrestlers' Workout Routines
00:57:00
Todd David Miller
more.
00:57:00
Todd David Miller
We had ninety fives that were that. Yeah, 34. like that
00:57:05
The Whole Ballgame
that's I mean, if you could pull that, how many reps could you do? That's pretty fucking impressive.
00:57:12
Todd David Miller
yeah three four
00:57:14
The Whole Ballgame
That's pretty good. DiBiase in long black pants with... Oh, never mind. i thought he was going to wrestle in the pants, and I was excited about it.
00:57:25
Todd David Miller
I think this is the LA Sports Arena.
00:57:28
The Whole Ballgame
Looks like it. and If Rod Trongard's on the call, then we know it is.
00:57:33
Todd David Miller
Jesus. Yeah. It's Pritchard. Oh, it might be Houston.
00:57:46
Todd David Miller
This could be the first show at Sam Houston Coliseum, actually.
00:57:51
Todd David Miller
Good. Luke of Dorchester is on the call too. Awesome.
00:57:55
The Whole Ballgame
God, what how how are you going to have DiBiase and Hogan with fucking Pete Doherty and dipshit on the call?
00:58:10
Todd David Miller
Pete Doherty and Mike McGurk. Wow.
00:58:17
Todd David Miller
Yeah, my money's on Houston.
00:58:29
Todd David Miller
The first show was in December
00:58:30
The Whole Ballgame
Let's see.
00:58:32
Todd David Miller
eighty-f four
00:58:41
The Whole Ballgame
Could be the bottom line for the see here.
00:59:01
The Whole Ballgame
yeah you're out You're fucking dead on, dude. Again. Any guess on the year?
00:59:08
Todd David Miller
of this ah this is gotta be 88 I think I there you go
00:59:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:59:14
The Whole Ballgame
Close. It's December 10th, 1987. In Houston. Very this room. december tenth nineteen eighty seven
00:59:23
The Whole Ballgame
in houston
00:59:28
The Whole Ballgame
very dark in this room
00:59:30
Todd David Miller
uh-huh at the B I sees a man he's fresh in this is
00:59:36
The Whole Ballgame
Double noggin knocker by the Hulkster between DiBiase and Virg.
00:59:41
Todd David Miller
Yeah, so this is brand new. This is like ah right after... Because 87 Survivor Series, they show all those Million Dollar Man vignettes, and they did that for months, but I think you've been wrestling on superstars or something for a month or two, but yeah, this is...
00:59:49
The Whole Ballgame
That's right. Yep.
00:59:57
The Whole Ballgame
Big boot for DiBiase to the outside. Big boot for Virgil. He takes the powder as well over the top rope.
01:00:06
The Whole Ballgame
Now he's calling for Andre. He says, I'm going to pick you up over my head, you big stinking giant.
Evolution of Wrestling Broadcasts
01:00:14
Todd David Miller
It's pretty interesting.
01:00:14
The Whole Ballgame
Bruce Prichard needs to not ever be on commentary unless he's making fun of Dusty Rhodes.
01:00:17
Todd David Miller
oh no. It's the whole Houston thing.
01:00:23
The Whole Ballgame
He's, you know what it sounds like to me with him? Two things. He's trying to get rid of his Southern accent and he's trying to sound like Gino.
01:00:32
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
01:00:35
The Whole Ballgame
He's trying to sound like gorilla and he's like half yelling everything he says.
01:00:40
Todd David Miller
He's also like 23 here or some bullshit.
01:00:43
The Whole Ballgame
Jesus Christ.
01:00:44
Todd David Miller
and to which is awful. Going to heartbreakers.
01:00:50
Todd David Miller
But, you know, it's interesting to look back in retro...
01:00:55
The Whole Ballgame
It is. It's what we do here.
01:00:57
The Whole Ballgame
It is interesting to look back.
01:00:57
Todd David Miller
Yes.
01:00:58
Todd David Miller
In retrospect, and, like, look at how, like, all these guys, like, their careers kind of progressed and how the whole way, like, Vince just paired these guys off with each other.
01:01:11
Todd David Miller
And you think about, like, you know, a guy... like, DiBiase or something, is like, ah, his whole... And you really think about like so it. He comes in, he works with Hogan, and then he works with Savage, and then he moves to, like, you know, I'll get my order out of here somewhere, but Dusty, and he works with Bop, man. You know, really, like, these guys end up working with, like, six guys or something over their entire wwf run, and that lasts, like, four fucking years or something.
01:01:44
The Whole Ballgame
It's over. And you've got guys like, uh, who was it that I was shocked to hear that they'd been around this long the other day? Um, Oh, the Miz.
01:01:55
The Whole Ballgame
Miz has been around over 20 years.
01:01:57
Todd David Miller
It's awful. It's absurd.
01:01:59
The Whole Ballgame
It's absolutely awful.
01:02:05
Todd David Miller
Pay him to go away.
01:02:08
The Whole Ballgame
Mike McGurk said, nice move. Nice move. And Bruce Richard said, nice.
01:02:13
Todd David Miller
trip chat check Yeah, think they know DiBiase around here.
01:02:24
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, certainly. No question.
01:02:26
Todd David Miller
Oh, look at that poison shirt.
01:02:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, great. What It looks like Mike Awesome.
01:02:31
Todd David Miller
Fuck. That's what I envisioned myself looking like when I grew up. Either that the Hulkster.
01:02:36
The Whole Ballgame
I'm sorry.
01:02:40
The Whole Ballgame
Well...
01:02:43
Todd David Miller
Look at the channel too.
01:02:43
The Whole Ballgame
Look at that. looks like they borrowed it looks like they but yeah It looks like they borrowed cameras from the local news station, Channel 2.
01:02:50
Todd David Miller
Maybe it's on local television.
01:02:51
The Whole Ballgame
Maybe.
01:02:52
Todd David Miller
Probably not.
01:02:52
The Whole Ballgame
I doubt it.
01:02:55
The Whole Ballgame
Look at him, you dollar man. He's fabulous.
01:02:57
Todd David Miller
See, i think that's probably because it's like why that's why Pritchard's there.
01:02:58
The Whole Ballgame
Pete Doherty's the best part of this.
01:03:02
Todd David Miller
Like, you know, Vince wasn't to spend any money on this shit. So it's like, Pritchard, you're going to run the show and you got to do the fucking commentary and which I don't know. You wonder.
01:03:12
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I mean, they got no padding outside the ring, you notice? Like, yeah, lots of ah lots of shortcuts here. lots of They're not real concerned about much of anything here.
01:03:23
Todd David Miller
You do wonder why they're even recording it, though.
01:03:28
The Whole Ballgame
My guess is probably some of the stuff from the undercard ended up on ah primetime or superstars.
01:03:35
Todd David Miller
Yeah, but, you know, like, if this is such a just nobody's going there and bullshit this and that, we got to rent equipment, like, you know, they do plenty of shows from all those fucking northeast places that they show things on. It's like, why why go to half measures kind of thing?
01:03:53
Todd David Miller
I don't know.
01:03:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's a good question. i i wonder if it has something to do with the fact that it is... I mean, at the time, it probably still was the fourth largest media market in the States, right?
01:04:05
Todd David Miller
Yeah.
01:04:06
The Whole Ballgame
It's it's right behind Chicago. And nowadays, it goes back and forth with Chicago in terms of size based on population.
01:04:14
Todd David Miller
wonder if they show these on TV at any time.
Rumors About Radio Colleague
01:04:21
The Whole Ballgame
Devastating shock shot from the hook.
01:04:26
The Whole Ballgame
Pete Doherty sounds like a member of the WACPAC.
01:04:30
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, you see that news? Did you see it, by the way, about Papa Howard today?
01:04:30
Todd David Miller
He really does.
01:04:35
Todd David Miller
I did, I did.
01:04:36
The Whole Ballgame
the ah The official, the ah the the official ah new the actual real-life news organizations have picked up, ah which means it's been sourced appropriately, the idea that looks like DiBiase just got disqualified because Andre grabbed Hogan's foot.
01:04:56
The Whole Ballgame
um But anyway, ah looks like ah the rumors are pretty much true and Sirius is going to cancel the program, as it were, ah at some point in the fall this year. So ah get your it your Papa Howard fix in while you still can, I suppose.
01:05:17
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know what will happen, how he'll iterate. He speaks a lot about his disdain of podcasting.
01:05:27
The Whole Ballgame
And so I doubt very seriously you he goes to a stream you know a streaming sort of option. Andre has just been fined $2,000 in order to leave the ring area for grabbing the ah foot.
01:05:42
Todd David Miller
right. Chief J Strongbow is going to make him do it as well as a ah believe Mark Eaton there.
01:05:50
The Whole Ballgame
George Papadopoulos?
01:05:56
The Whole Ballgame
That man's nose looks like my grandfather's nose right before he died.
01:06:02
The Whole Ballgame
My grandfather was a rabid alcoholic. I remember one Christmas.
01:06:06
Todd David Miller
That's good.
01:06:08
The Whole Ballgame
ah It's my dad's dad. ah One Christmas, he was at the house and he was supposed to be clean and sober. And ah my my mom caught him ah drinking rubbing alcohol from under under the bathroom sink.
01:06:25
Todd David Miller
Sure.
01:06:28
The Whole Ballgame
huh I don't know how old I was. I was very young,
Future of Wrestling Content
01:06:30
The Whole Ballgame
but...
01:06:30
Todd David Miller
Great elbow there.
01:06:32
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, very good elbow.
01:06:32
Todd David Miller
ah You know, you get in where you fit in.
01:06:37
The Whole Ballgame
Hulkster barely kicks out of that elbow from the second rope.
01:06:44
The Whole Ballgame
He's gonna get him!
01:06:48
Todd David Miller
Now, you know, you know, it's wild.
01:06:52
The Whole Ballgame
Mike McGurk said, oh
01:06:56
Todd David Miller
I'm sure Pritchard fucked her.
01:06:58
The Whole Ballgame
um I'm certain. She might be giving him a handjob as we speak.
01:07:03
Todd David Miller
You know, we live in a world.
01:07:04
The Whole Ballgame
Just.
01:07:06
Todd David Miller
Oh, yeah. She's skiing in Sam Houston.
01:07:08
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh. Yep.
01:07:10
Todd David Miller
We live in a world where probably by this time next year, if not already now, i'm sure I'm sure somebody more savvy would know, but we will be able to seamlessly be watching this and insert our own dark carnival run in as if it really happened and you won't be able to tell the difference.
01:07:32
The Whole Ballgame
I would imagine that that's the case. the The way that you can manipulate video now with the free AI apps is pretty scary. And that's only going to multiply you know over and over and over again.
01:07:42
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
01:07:48
The Whole Ballgame
What I'm waiting for, what I want, is someone to create a product that we can buy um where we can just...
01:08:00
The Whole Ballgame
very simply record over top of all of the audio to these things and, and just make it up a seamless sort of process so that we could be doing this in one piece instead of jumping through the hoops that you and I have to jump through to do this now. I think it, you know, it's just a matter of time and it'll happen, but um Hogan gets the win here with a big boot and a leg drop. And that's the end of that.
01:08:29
The Whole Ballgame
Although DiBiase doesn't sell very much for him, I would imagine that was a bone of contention.
01:08:36
Todd David Miller
I've never had a bona.
01:08:40
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, ah yeah, there's an update everybody needs to hear. um It is, as we speak, August 6th, 2025.
01:08:44
Todd David Miller
but
01:08:47
The Whole Ballgame
two thousand and twenty five
01:08:47
Todd David Miller
Gabe's birthday was three days ago.
01:08:49
The Whole Ballgame
My birthday was two days ago. Thanks, Blake. Fuck you. ah And ah my birthday was the two-year anniversary of the last time I had sexual intercourse with a woman ah to completion.
01:09:04
The Whole Ballgame
And it came and went, and we're still here. so We're 368 days on I'm sorry. that That math is absolutely wrong.
01:09:14
The Whole Ballgame
733. 733 days. Understood seven hundred and ah thirty three seven hundred thirty three days so
01:09:22
Todd David Miller
Well, you know, Gabe, I've been very lethargic lately. I'm not quite myself, and my energy levels have been low
01:09:31
The Whole Ballgame
understood i
01:09:31
Todd David Miller
I guess we're doing this now, huh?
01:09:33
The Whole Ballgame
I guess we are. Dear God in heaven. Hogan's sitting down in a chair that DiBiase threw at him, and he's doing the double ear cups from the chair, being very sassy with one Ted DiBiase here.
01:09:48
Todd David Miller
Mm-hmm.
01:09:49
The Whole Ballgame
Pete Dordery doesn't like it.
01:09:52
Todd David Miller
There's the man we will resurrect.
01:09:56
The Whole Ballgame
Mike McGurk. That's our champion. oh
01:10:00
Todd David Miller
By the time you guys are done with me, dude, I'll be telling you how I voted for Obama twice.
01:10:00
The Whole Ballgame
Having a three-man booth here.
01:10:11
The Whole Ballgame
You know, I don't doubt that he voted for Obama the first time. Well, look, dude, he's light-skinned enough, you know what I mean?
Wrestling and Politics
01:10:19
Todd David Miller
He's from Hawaii. He's like one of Samoans, dude.
01:10:25
Todd David Miller
Hawaii, dude. You ever been to Hawaii, Gizl?
01:10:29
The Whole Ballgame
I always got along with Barry O., so I don't see why not, dude. Brother.
01:10:33
Todd David Miller
I don't know nothing about it. Barry Scioto, dude.
01:10:39
The Whole Ballgame
Barry O.
01:10:41
Todd David Miller
Yeah, it's Las Vegas' own. Barry, uh... He died of AIDS, surely, right?
01:10:47
The Whole Ballgame
Looks a terrifying amount like young Randy Orton, by the way. Look at his face.
01:10:55
The Whole Ballgame
That's that. That's the end of the DiBiase match here, and I think that's the end of the... Yeah, we've got a couple seconds left here. so gino ah well Gene Okerlund wraps things up here on...
01:11:09
Todd David Miller
We got somebody doing some technique technical work in the background.
01:11:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:11:12
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:11:15
The Whole Ballgame
Hulk Hogan, real American. Right here on the whole ballgame.
01:11:21
Todd David Miller
Hey, you look at the camera, you stupid bitch.
01:11:25
The Whole Ballgame
I don't like that that weird wavy line that's supposed to look like an American flag without the blue. It upsets me, and I don't understand why.
01:11:31
Todd David Miller
No, it's it's stupid.
01:11:37
The Whole Ballgame
Evart Enterprises... Hulk Hogan, Hulkster, and Hulkamania are trademarks from Marvel Comics Group, it's licensed exclusively to Titan Sports Incorporated. Just in case you didn't know.
01:11:50
Todd David Miller
Yes.
01:11:52
The Whole Ballgame
So that's a that's that. I think it's it's best we just keep the dead buried at this point. um
01:12:02
The Whole Ballgame
he He was a thing that was important at a time. And gradually he showed us how unimportant he needed to be.
01:12:17
Todd David Miller
yes Yes, he did.
01:12:23
Todd David Miller
Terrence Jean Belaya is dead.
01:12:28
Todd David Miller
Hulk Hogan is dead.
01:12:31
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
01:12:33
Todd David Miller
But Hulkamania will live forever. And that's and' so what we got.
01:12:37
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, i like that. I like that better than the Hulk Hogan thing. Yeah. there's a There's a lesson in there somewhere, I think.
01:12:49
The Whole Ballgame
I'm not sure what it is, but you know maybe we'll discover it at some point. ah We got to go to the All-Star Game, Blake. That's what's coming up next. We're going to the 1994 All-Star Game here on the whole ballgame.
01:13:02
The Whole Ballgame
Will Smith does the seventh inning stretch at the 1994 All-Star Game, if I remember correctly.
01:13:09
Todd David Miller
Or we could, you know, go and visit another dead man if you'd like to do that before that as well. We did, well, we lost Rhino in the meantime as we pontificated the Hulksters.
01:13:15
The Whole Ballgame
Who?
01:13:19
The Whole Ballgame
No, no. let's Let's get the All-Star game out of the way, and then we will do our Rhino episode. um I think that makes more sense. Well, no, you know what? Fuck it.
01:13:29
The Whole Ballgame
yeah let's do ah let's do ah ah ryan let's do the Ryan Sandberg game.
01:13:30
Todd David Miller
and it doesn um doesn't matter. Yeah, yep.
01:13:34
The Whole Ballgame
All right. Yeah. we I mean, it's been on the list anyway, right? We were going to do it at some point. We might as well do it now.
01:13:40
Todd David Miller
Give it to the patrons for their bonus.
01:13:43
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Stay tuned for that. The the Ryan Sandberg game coming up, and then... on the main feed next, you're looking at the 1994 all-star game, where we will really unpack, uh, exactly what it is that we lost.
01:13:57
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, if we haven't done a good enough job already, we'll pack in the entirety of, uh, the sadness in that one for you. So stick around from what I understand, Rick is coming back.
01:14:09
The Whole Ballgame
Um, I found his decapitated head in my freezer, uh, my refrigerator rather. um On my birthday, which was August 4th, Blake had Jimmy come up and saw his head off while he was asleep on the green couch.
01:14:23
Todd David Miller
oh Jimmy, it wasn't me, baby.
01:14:25
The Whole Ballgame
I got the i got the ah ah got the scotch the Scotch guard on there, though, so the blood came right up. So that's good.
01:14:31
Todd David Miller
It was Dino, baby. It wasn't me.
01:14:33
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, that's right. No, no, you just arranged Dino to come. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:14:37
Todd David Miller
I used to manage him, but that's it.
01:14:37
The Whole Ballgame
So ah it explains explains why all the loose tobacco leaf all over my carpet.
01:14:44
Todd David Miller
Dina does like to smoke. Like President Obama used to as well.
01:14:52
The Whole Ballgame
So that's it.
01:14:54
Todd David Miller
smoke
01:14:54
The Whole Ballgame
That's the, uh, Oh, Jesus Christ.
01:14:55
Todd David Miller
Smoke up, Johnny.
01:15:00
The Whole Ballgame
What are they listening to Blake?
01:15:03
Todd David Miller
What is who listening to?
01:15:05
The Whole Ballgame
It's a very good point you make. End of the show. Will you?
01:15:09
Todd David Miller
Oh, what are they? Oh, this. Yes, right. They're listening to...
01:15:16
Todd David Miller
Pretty girl.