Talking Taker

Can The Undertaker break The Von Erich Curse? Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take their time-traveling hearse back to Dallas in 1989 to cover some of the earliest footage of Mark Calaway as The Punisher facing off with The Modern Day Warrior Kerry Von Erich and many more characters from the USWA. This episode...

This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the first match of The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels/Triple H WrestleMania Quadrilogy, and we're celebrating this momentous occasion with a special MEGASODE edition of Talking Taker! Collected here for the first time is all 4 of our Watch-Along alternate commentaries joined by special guest Randy Turco for each of these matches, back to back to back to back!...

We're taking the time-traveling hearse back to the ATL with Randy Turco in tow on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they bring their time-traveling correspondent Randy along to revisit a classic WrestleMania match between The Undertaker and Triple H. It's the 15th anniversary of the beginning...

For one episode only, Talking Taker becomes SPITTING VENOM! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take a detour from their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they pay tribute to the icon whose career mirrored The Undertaker's in so many ways, the man called Sting! With The Stinger's retirement match coming up this weekend we look back at his unparalleled ca...

We're celebrating the 20 year anniversary of a milestone moment in Alex and Travis's friendship on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies as they reminisce about Alex's 18th Birthday gift - an all-expenses paid trip for these best friends to WrestleMania XX! It's not only one of the greatest experiences of our lives as wrestling fans, and not only one of the most i...

Forget about Netflix - Be Kind & Rewind with us to the days of the video store for a brand new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they cue up another round of Undertaker matches originally found on Coliseum Video releases in the early 90s. The days of physical media may be dwindling and Monday Night...

It's a special simulcast between Watchalong Wrestling and Talking Taker on this BONUS episode to get you ready for the Royal Rumble! Friend of the show and Pod Street Krew member Tommy On The Spot joins Alex Doriot for a unique countdown of their Top 10 "Non-Rumble" matches from the Royal Rumble PPV. That's right - we're ranking our favorites all of the classic singles, tag team, World Title, stre...

We're ringing in the new year with the tolling of The Undertaker's bell in yet another Royal Rumble as we look back 25 years to a classic Attitude Era melee on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they revisit a Rumble match The Lord Of Darkness didn't technically participate in, but certainly p...

We're having a slumber party and watching some vintage WWF Superstars from 30 years ago on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take the time-traveling hearse back to 1993 for some classic moments featuring The Undertaker on the WWF's former flagship show. Up first it's June 12 1993 as Mr....

We're looking back at the year in Undertaker Toy Collecting on a special bonus episode of Talking Taker! Alex Doriot is joined by friends and P.S.K. members Stephen Zieman and Randy Turco to discuss all of The Dead Man figures, Funkos, bobbleheads, inflatables, and more that put a goozle on our wallets in 2023. We review every Taker release from the past year, pick our favorites, look ahead to 202...

Dance With The Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they do a deep dive on the complete evolution of The Undertaker's Entrance Music! From the Funeral March to the Graveyard Symphony to the Dark Side to American Badass to Rollin' to You're Gonna Pay to Now That You're Dead, we're discussing every piece of music Th...

It's the debut of one of The Undertaker's most iconic entrance songs on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join Alex and Travis as we look at the origins of the "American Badass" song and character for The Undertaker at King Of The Ring 2000. Our next new episode in November is a journey through the history and importance of Taker's entrance music, and there might have been no more important shift i...

It's a Halloween Havoc on this month's Talking Taker as we look back at one of The Undertaker's SPOOKIEST matches of all tiz-iiiime! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they "celebrate" the 5 year anniversary of Crown Jewel 2018 and the truly cursed match between The Brothers Of Destruction and DX. It's been reviewed (and reviled) as one of the worst matches of The Phenom's ca...

We're looking at the origin of The Brothers Of Destruction and DX's rivalry on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join Alex and Travis as we look back at the wild brawl between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels from In Your House: Ground Zero in September of 1997 and discuss the foundation it laid for one of The Undertaker's greatest rivalries. Our next new episode in October will focus on Crown Jew...

Before he was The Undertaker, he was The Master Of Pain! And Texas Red! And Punisher Dice Morgan! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take their time-traveling hearse back to the days before Mark Calaway became The Phenom we know and love and worked the territories back in the late 80s. It's a sequel to our "Main E...

We're looking at some of the earliest (and most hilarious) in-ring footage of the man who would go on to be The Undertaker on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join Alex and Travis as we look back at Mark Calaway in one of his earliest gimmicks as The Master Of Pain working in the Memphis territory in 1989. You won't believe some of the other characters we unearth here like Ronnie P. Gossett, Freez...

We're recapping an incredible weekend in Detroit Brock City on this special bonus edition of Talking Taker! Alex Doriot is joined by special guests and travel companions Randy Turco, Watchalong Tommy, and Nick Fugate as they discuss the first half of their trip to The SummerSlam. We discuss meeting in real life for the first time, Tommy and Alex's airport shenanigans, the unbelievable culinary del...

We're celebrating our 6 year anniversary by looking back at the 15 year anniversary of one of our favorite rivalries of all time on this month's Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we revisit the finale of the epic story between The Undertaker and Edge which took place inside Hell In A Cell at SummerSlam...

We're raising a glass to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of our brother podcast The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast on this bonus episode of Talking Taker! Alex is joined by Bottom Line Cast cohost Mike Proulx to commemorate this awesome milestone and discuss Mike and JV's journey covering the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. We discuss Mike's journey as a wrestling fan from seeing Hulk Hogan and Ja...

We're taking the time-traveling hearse to the frontlines of the Monday Night War on this very special edition of Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they look back at the main events of Raw and Nitro on a historic night for professional wrestling - July 6th, 1998. On Raw the main event sees an unforgettab...

We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Undertaker's most infamous match of all tiz-iiiime on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join Alex and Travis as we do a watch-along special for Taker vs. Mankind inside Hell In A Cell from King Of The Ring 1998. It's a match with some of the most incredible moments to ever take place in WWE history, but its legacy is a bit complicated looking back on it...

It's times like these for us to geek out about the Foo Fighters on this special bonus episode of Talking Taker! We're taking a quick detour on our exploration digging up The Dead Man for Alex Doriot and friend of the show and everlong Foo Fan Randy Turco to discuss the band's epic new album "But Here We Are". Don't worry - we'll be back with our regularly scheduled Taker Talk on July 1st. But for...

We're ranking The Undertaker's Top 10 Rivals of all tiz-iiiime on a brand new episode of Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they rank and debate The Phenom's most fantastic foes. We've both made up our lists and we take turns arguing which 10 of Taker's opponents truly stand out from the rest. Some of ou...

We're taking the time-traveling hearse back to a wild "royal" rumble as we revisit King Of The Ring 1997 on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join Alex and Travis as we explore a match you might have forgotten ever happened between The Undertaker and Faarooq for the WWF Championship. Travis has often said this is one of his favorite episodes we ever recorded, and it really does go off the rails as...

We're going back 25 years to cover a couple of glaring omissions from our back catalog on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on our encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we take a look back at a pair of classic Attitude Era matches that didn't quite warrant their own episode during our original run but definitely deserve to be revisited. U...