The Pody Swap Podcast

History is being made on October 28th, 2018 as WWE presents EVOLUTION, the first ever all-women's PPV extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except it's not the first, and Three Way Theater is here to talk to you about it! Back in February 2001 promoter David McLane brought the Women of Wrestling to Pay-Per-View for WOW Unleashed featuring the WOW World Title Match, a Hair Match, and headlined by a Stee...

After an outrageous trip to the land of talk shows featuring pro wrestlers, Three Way Theater continues its trek across the TV landscape with a trip over to Nickelodeon for the pro wrestling episodes of Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Tiny Tunes, Looney Tunes, Hey Dude, and Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred! The boys discuss Mikey's seasonal depression, the awesome Nick Studios being replaced with Blue...

Welcome to the Dog Pound! The boys are back with another episode of Three Way Theater! It's not just any episode though, as Lumberjake has put together the ultimate playlist of pro wrestlers appearing on Daytime Talk shows! Mike, Lumbie, and JC check out special episodes of The Jenny Jones Show, Martha Steward Living, Sally Jessy Raphael and a double does of DONAHUE, DONAHUE, DONAHUE! This leads t...

As the boys enjoy the dog days of Summer they're joined by podcaster and ring announcer extraordinaire Adam Salzer ( @TheSalzerEffect ) as they review WWF Summerslam 1992 headlined by Bret "Hitman" Hart defending the Intercontinental Championship against "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith. Recording out of the back of the TWT Mobile STD the gang deals with a monsoon like rainstorm, the time con...

After our brief foray into the heroes of pro wrestling we're back with the second half of our epic review of the Netflix Original Series GLOW and it's fabulous second season. After a slow start , the final 5 episodes of GLOW blew us away, with payoff after payoff as the show continued to subvert expectations and knock it out of the park at every turn. In the back half the boys talk about the compl...

It's one of the most anticipated episodes ever of Best in Show as we take a break from GLOW to sit down and power through what many consider 'the worst PPV of all-time' in the Heroes of Wrestling! Joining Mike, Lumberjake, and JC on this journey of sadomasochism is none other than The Abominable CPA , one of wrestling's best kept secrets AND Vince Russo's favorite wrestler. Unfortunately for CPA w...

THE GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOWN and the boys are here to review them as Mike, Lumberjake, and JC sit down for Episode #31 of Three Way Theater talking about the first five episodes of GLOW Season 2! The guys talk about Sheila the She-Wolf and the roles she auditioned for in Season 1, the fall of Sam Sylvia, and the duality of Season 2's characters while exploring the #MeToo movement under the microscop...

It's the Big Three Oh on Three Way Theater as Mike, Lumberjake, and JC celebrate thirty episodes with our first ever WATCH-ALONG as we watch the documentary Beyond the Mat, directed by longtime wrestling fan Barry Blaustein. "Beyond the Mat," Barry Blaustein's honest, intimate, revealing, highly entertaining, and critically acclaimed behind-the-scenes look at wrestling, takes viewers beyond the ri...

While we had the best of intentions to record a Best in Show this past week (sorry Adam!), things didn't end up going our way. Luckily for us recent inductee into the New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Beau Douglas was hanging about, and foolishly agreed to let us interview him. Our main goal was to discuss Beau's appearance on the 1999 episode of MTV's True Life: I'm a Pro Wrestler, but we so...

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett, prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mir...

It's celebration time as we kick off Three Way Theater's two year anniversary with a very special episode of Best In Show as we look back to the final Pay-Per-View of Extreme Championship Wrestling, ECW Guilty as Charged 2001! Joined by referee extraordinaire Rob "Buddy Christ" Greer (and Gay Tazz!) the boys look back on the sad demise of ECW and try to reconcile the ECW they loved with its final...

Did you ever want to see an 86 year old Oscar winner get stoned and fuck as many frat boys as possible? Did you ever wonder about the gal who sang pop perfection with the song 'Gloria'? Were you curious if Three Way Theater would truly stretch the premise of 'Pro Wrestling Movie' with a flick about mud wrestling? Well then do we have an episode for you! It's Episode #28-- Mugsy's Girls! An outrage...

A MOVIE FOR KID'S OF ALL AGES. a nostalgic tribute to the ever popular Mexican wrestling movies of the 50's and 60's. Fast Mexican wrestling action, colorful costumes, and a positive message for kids of all ages. Atomic Blue is an every man; a person among us who personifies heroism in the small actions and gestures of respect, fair play and honesty. The Mexican wrestler is both a statement and an...

No matter how great a pro wrestling event is, in the end there can only be one Best in Show! Mike Paiva, Lumberjake, and JC are joined this month by "RIOT" Kellan Thomas ( @VivaLaRIOT ) as they revisit one of the biggest Pay-Per-Views of all-time-- WWF WrestleMania X7! The greatest PPV ever? The Series Finale of the WWF? Four guys drunkenly talking about wrestling for 2 hours? The guys debate this...

Thank goodness it’s TWT! Mike, Lumberjake, and JC return to the world of television this week on Three Way Theater when they revisit some of the very offbeat pro wrestling episodes from ABC’s famous TGIF lineup, in addition to Netflix’s Full House revival Fuller House. First up is the Family Matters episode "Psycho Twins", guest starring the lovable Bushwhackers… well lovable until they find out C...

What was the match of the night? What was your five star classic? Join Mike Paiva, Lumberjake, and JC as they go beyond pro wrestling movies and head back in time to a random pro wrestling event to determine their very Best in Show! Returning to Best in Show to help the guys out is 2017 Peacock Award winner for Best Guest Host “Royalty” Ruy Batello ( @RuyBatello ) as they review the 1996 WWF Royal...

What was the match of the night? What was your five star classic? Join Mike Paiva, Lumberjake, and JC as they go beyond pro wrestling movies and head back in time to a random pro wrestling event to determine their very Best in Show! The gang welcomes New England wrestling upstart Todd Harris ( @brg_1032 ) to the show reviewing WCW SuperBrawl 1991, an event taking place seven years before he was ev...

For the first time ever on Three Way Theater it's SEQUEL time as Mike, Lumberjake, and JC return to the world of animation with Scooby-Doo & WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon! Scooby and the gang stumble upon a menacing phantom at an off-road racing competition. With the help of some WWE superstars, they try to save the race before it's too late. On the latest episode the boys discuss how the sequ...

What was the match of the night? What was your five star classic? Join Mike Paiva, Lumberjake, and JC as they move beyond pro wrestling movies and go back in time to a random pro wrestling event to determine the very Best in Show! Mike, Lumbie, and JC welcome "Retrosexual" Anthony Greene (Twitter @RetroAG ) to Three Way Theater to help review WCW Beach Blast 1993, originally airing on Pay-Per-View...

New Year, Same Us! We kick 2018 off here at Three Way Theater with one of our most requested films as we finally review Sylvester Stallone's 1978 opus Paradise Alley. The Carboni brothers -- con man Cosmo (Sylvester Stallone), disabled war veteran Lenny (Armand Assante) and dim-witted Victor (Lee Canalito) -- are determined to leave the slums of New York City. Their best escape route is the muscle...

It’s time to Peacock! Mike, Lumberjake, and JC look back on the year that was with Three Way Theater’s huge awards show The Peackies! After a trip to the red carpet Lumberjake serenades everyone with a musical medley from the films watched in 2017, JC blows the lid off of TWT’s best conspiracy theories, Mikey revisits his hatred for Bruce Springsteen, and Marissa Tomei gets robbed. Listen to all t...

J. Todd Anderson is an incredibly talented storyboard artist who's been connected to the Coen Brothers dating back to 1987's Raising Arizona. But for me Anderson will best be known as the director and co-writer of The Naked Man, a surreal film about Edward Bliss Jr. (Michael Rapaport), Psychiatrist by day, wrestler by night. After interviewing the director of photography Jeff Barklage for ThreeWay...

It's the end of the year for Three Way Theater as the boys decided to kick back, relax, and take a look at some of the best wrestler cameos in films that aren't Pro Wrestling Movies! Culling from a very detailed list Lumberjake put together Mike and JC finally get Lumbie to talk into the microphone, discuss the overlong fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David, JC's love of Road House, and...

Guess who's back? Back again? Three Way Theater, tell a friend! It's another chaotic episode of Three Way Theater, as we return to the world of animation AND television when  we review wrestling episodes from The Simpsons, King of the Hill, & Family Guy! In between talk about Bobby Hill, Glamorous Godfrey, and Maxie Patty the boys also find time to review the trailer for Cats & Dogs and re...

It's CROSSOVER TIME! Mike, Lumberjake, and JC welcome back Monster Mack & Trainee #1 ( The Mack-Cast ) for our Halloween Special, as the gang attempts to review the 2006 Horror film WrestleManiac, starring Rey Mysterio Classic. From Wikipedia-- On their way to Caba San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon La Sangre De Dios, a ghost town with a spine-tingling leg...