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Talking Taker

Digging up the career of The Undertaker one PPV match at a time every Friday. Hosted by wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White.

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242: Ultimate Survivor Series Fantasy Draft With The...

Talking Taker ·

2025/11/01

The Talking Taker Pod Street Krew is back with another one of our infamous fantasy drafts! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White alongside Watchalong Tommy, Stephen Zieman, and Randy Turco as we duke it out to draft the ultimate Survivor Series card. There's no clowning around as this might be our most cutthroat competition yet! We encourage you to play along with us and come up with your own 5 match dream Survivor Series card, and tell us in the comments who you think had the better

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53:50

BONUS: Celebrating Halloween With Legendary...

Talking Taker ·

2025/10/30

On this special bonus episode of Talking Taker, Cohost Alex Doriot celebrates Halloween with one of the greatest Undertaker Cosplayers in the world and a loyal P.S.K. member, Stephen Murphy A.K.A. Jokerious Torrance! Stephen sits down with Alex to discuss his many different tributes to The Dead Man in cosplay form and walks us through the inspiration for them. Along the way he shares about why doing cosplay is such a meaningful hobby for him, how it all started with Halloween and the Teenage Mutant

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105:09

241: The Undertaker Goes Hollywood With Stephen...

Talking Taker ·

2025/10/01

Before The Rock, John Cena, or Batista did it, The Undertaker went Hollywood! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White alongside fellow P.S.K. member Stephen Zieman as they hop in the time-traveling hearse back to 1999 and the summer The Undertaker was making guest appearances on all sorts of tv shows! It's an often overlooked era of Taker's career and even The Dead Man's most dedicated fans may have never even heard of some of these offbeat appearances. We'll break down his guest roles

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91:59

240: USWA Watchalong With The Bottom Line Wrestling...

Talking Taker ·

2025/09/01

Long before The Undertaker battled Stone Cold, The Punisher faced off with Steve Williams! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they welcome back Mike and JV from The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast for a Watchalong of USWA TV from 11/4/89 featuring the first ever match between the men who would go on to become The Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Who could have ever guessed these two random grapplers from a territory in

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03:08:38

239: Ultimate SummerSlam Fantasty Draft With The Pod...

Talking Taker ·

2025/08/01

The Boys Of Summer are back to dream up our Ultimate SummerSlam cards of all tiz-iiiiime on an all new Talking Taker! Alex Doriot and Travis White are joined by their Pod Street Krew Brothers Randy Turco, Stephen Zieman, Tommy On The Spot, and Trey Ciampa for a sequel to our WrestleMania Draft earlier this year. We're taking turns building our fantasy 8-match card of the greatest matches from 37 years of The SummerSlam - and you won't believe what does AND what doesn't get picked! From classic main

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01:38:07

BACK FROM THE DEAD: Vengeance 2003

Talking Taker ·

2025/07/20

We're celebrating the final year of John Cena's career by revisiting his first PPV encounter with The Undertaker from 22 years ago this month with this classic episode of Talking Taker, BACK FROM THE DEAD at the top of your podcast feed! Originally released in June of 2019 as episode 93, It's Vengeance 2003 featuring Cena trying to prove himself against Big Evil in the biggest match of his career up to that point. Cena showed no fear with his non-P.C. battle raps calling out Taker in the build to

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01:41:23

238: Mean Mark - Flyin' High!

Talking Taker ·

2025/07/01

Put on your Nintendo Power Gloves and travel back with us 1990 for another deep dive into Mean Mark on this month's 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 again to WCW to discuss his rise up the ranks in the formative days of his pro wrestling career. When we last left the man who would become The Undertaker he was scoring a win in his first ever PPV match against

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01:36:37

237: The Rise Of Mean Mark In WCW

Talking Taker ·

2025/06/03

Before he was the Dead Man, he was the Mean Man! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we take the time-traveling hearse all the way back to early 1990 for part one of a deep dive on a prequel chapter to The Undertaker's career - his singles run in WCW as Mean Mark. Taker has often downplayed this run in interviews and talked about how there were never any plans for him down south - but was that really the case? After The

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01:29:44

BACK FROM THE DEAD: Survivor Series 2000

Talking Taker ·

2025/05/24

We've got our python pants on for our trip in the time-traveling motorcycle celebrating 25 years of the Biker Taker on this throwback Talking Taker, BACK FROM THE DEAD at the top of your podcast feed! Originally released in November of 2018 as episode 67, It's Survivor Series 2000 featuring an overlooked classic between The Undertaker and Kurt Angle. Perhaps it's kind of forgotten about due to a random finish featuring Eric Angle? Or maybe it's truly forgotten about because the only thing anyone

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01:33:10

236: This Is My Yard

Talking Taker ·

2025/05/01

We're trading out the time-traveling hearse for a time-traveling lawnmower as we enter The Undertaker's Yard 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 celebrate the 25 Year Anniversary of the "Biker Taker" character's debut by looking back at the home video release of "This Is My Yard". This was was a historic video back in 2001 for many reasons, not the least of which is it marks the first

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01:30:50

235: The Boneyard Match Revisited 5 Years Later

Talking Taker ·

2025/04/01

We're going back to The Boneyard on this month's Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they celebrate the 5 year anniversary of The Undertaker's final match which wound up being one of his greatest - The Boneyard Match vs AJ Styles from WrestleMania 36. No one had any idea what to expect when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world in March of 2020 and completely upended the plans for WrestleMania. We

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01:51:28

BACK FROM THE DEAD: WrestleMania X7

Talking Taker ·

2025/03/19

We're hopping in the time-traveling motorcycle on the road to WrestleMania with our classic coverage at The Undertaker and Triple H's first match in their triology BACK FROM THE DEAD at the top of your podcast feed! Originally released in December of 2018 as episode 71, It's WrestleMania X7, arguably the greatest WWE PPV of all tiz-iiiiime and Taker and HHH put on a wild brawl that goes all over the Astrodome. We'll cover a blood-soaked journey to the PPV and all the involvement from Stephanie

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02:19:21

234: Ultimate WrestleMania Fantasy Draft With The Pod...

Talking Taker ·

2025/03/01

It's a six-pack challenge to create the Ultimate WrestleMania Card on a brand new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White alongside fellow P.S.K. members Tommy On The Spot, Stephen Zieman, Randy Turco, and Trey Rafalowski for a very special fantasy draft as we each try to build the most epic WrestleMania lineup of all tiz-iiiime. Each participant gets 8 picks of any match from the past 40 years of WrestleMania. But they also must adhere to certain restrictions such as no

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01:04:48

BONUS: Royal Rumble 2025 Weekend Recap & Reactions...

Talking Taker ·

2025/02/03

YEET! We're recapping an incredible weekend in Indianapolis on this special bonus edition of Talking Taker! Alex Doriot and Travis White are joined by special guests and travel companions Randy Turco, Watchalong Tommy, Stephen Zieman, and Trey Ciampa as they break down their biggest Pod Street Krew travel weekend ever at this year's Royal Rumble. We recorded this just a few minutes after we got home from the show - our voices are hoarse and some of us may have had a few too many. But we are riding

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01:41:25

233: Royal Rumble 1995 30 Year Anniversary Watch-Along!

Talking Taker ·

2025/01/30

This month on Talking Taker, we're Talking Taxman and giving Alex's most hated wrestler a second chance! 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 30 years ago to the 1995 Royal Rumble and the infamous battle between "Death and Taxes" as The Undertaker tried to audit Irwin R. Schyster. Alex has spoken many times about how much he despised the I.R.S. character as a kid, but know that Mike

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01:42:45

BONUS: Ranking The WORST Royal Rumbles Ever With...

Talking Taker ·

2025/01/18

You've heard us talk about the best - now it's time to bury the rest! Talking Taker cohost Alex Doriot is joined by P.S.K. member Tommy On The Spot from the Watchalong Wrestling YouTube channel for another special simulcast celebrating Royal Rumble season. A couple of years ago they ranked their Top 10 Royal Rumble matches of all time, and this year they're ranking the Bottom 10 - the worst Rumbles EVER! It was tough to do as the Royal Rumble is typically one of the most fun matches of the year for

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01:52:52

232: Suburban Commando

Talking Taker ·

2025/01/01

We're rockin' the suburbs on this month's Talking Taker as we finally cover The Undertaker's cinematic debut! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we take our time-traveling hearse back to 1991 to cover the cult classic film "Suburban Commando" starring Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and, yes, Mark Calaway as a bounty hunter trying to hunt down the international space agent Shep Ramsey. Our Pod Street Krew

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01:22:58

BONUS: Collecting Dead Man 2024 Year In Review With...

Talking Taker ·

2024/12/20

The Treacherous Trio is back! Join Alex Doriot and P.S.K. members (and fellow toy collectors) Stephen Zieman and Randy Turco for another look back at the year in Undertaker Toy Collecting on a special bonus episode of Talking Taker! 2024 brought another bounty Dead Man figures, Funkos, bobbleheads, buddies, and more that put a goozle on our wallets in 2024. We review every Undertaker action figure release from the past year (as well as some Taker-adjacent guys) pick our favorites, explain why we

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01:01:20

BONUS: Saturday Night's Main Event 2/8/92 Watchalong...

Talking Taker ·

2024/12/13

Saturday Night's Main Event is back this weekend and so are we with a special BONUS edition of Talking Taker! Join Alex Doriot and P.S.K. member Watchalong Tommy as they take the time-traveling hearse back over 32 years to watch The Undertaker's first and only match on the original version of SNME. It's a massive tag team match with huge implications for WrestleMania VIII as Taker teams with WWF Champion Ric Flair to face Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice! We had to have Tommy on the show to talk about

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01:44:13

231: Armageddon 2004 20 Year Anniversary Watch-Along!

Talking Taker ·

2024/12/01

It's absolute Armageddon as revisit a forgotten classic Fatal 4-Way featuring El Hombre Muerto on this month's 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 hears back 20 years to December 2004 and a WWE Championship match featuring The Undertaker against JBL, Booker T, and in their only PPV battle, the legendary Eddie Guerrero. It might get overlooked as it took place during WWE's usual

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