The current status quo of big name professional wrestling is… not something that is easy to have enthusiasm for. But we’re a podcast about WCW, which means our ability to Remember the 90s is extremely well honed. This means

Thunder in Paradise

Jun 26th, 2018 1h 33m

In Jetta’s intro to this episode, she neglects to use the word “eulogize” to the normal intro of our show. That’s because what we have for you today isn’t a eulogy; it’s an invitation to those convened to speak up in respec

DDP vs The Machine

May 10th, 2018 47m 46s

Quick, how do you kill time on an episode of Thunder? How about having lightning strike the transmitter and ruin the broadcast quality for an entire episode. That is one way, but another is to debut an unknown against an es

A Normal Episode (About the UWF)

Apr 3rd, 2018 57m 40s

It’s been a long time since last we reconvened. Live goes as ever it has, with its peaks and valleys, and without going into the nitty gritty, it’s nice to see some foothills for once. In the spirit of needing to get back i

The WCW Hardcore Championship

Jan 19th, 2018 59m 7s

What Puerto Rico unleashed upon the world of wrestling was something that ECW picked up, WWF ran with and WCW… had. Yes, it’s the wonderful world of divisional Hardcore Wrestling, that area of kayfabe that wants you to assu

Spring Breakout

Dec 6th, 2017 56m 7s

Spring Break is among our hinkiest holidays, one which carries a higher than normal percentile probability for public humiliation, an STI and misdemeanor offenses stemming from altered states and mob mentality. It is thus o

Spooky Wrestlers!

Nov 2nd, 2017 54m 46s

We missed the mark by a day, but such is life. At least it’s not as late as a modern Treehouse of Horror episode, and it’s also not a modern Treehouse of Horror episode either, so that’s two points of mitigation. Instead, w

The Television Championship

Oct 6th, 2017 58m 47s

Television was a terrifying prospect, as millions of homes across the world were threatened by new technology that allowed images raging locomotives and men getting shot with old cannons to be wired into the living room. Th

HULK FOR PREZ

Sep 12th, 2017 48m 3s

Anyone who lives with the intrusion of disruptive thoughts knows that scary hypotheticals are only half of the horror; the other half is the wondering how feasible your waking nightmare actually was, and also, if it’s alrea

WCW Logic

Jul 25th, 2017 1h 11m

A common thing I caught myself saying in this episode, over and over, so as needing to restart my sentence so that it did not contain a cliche, was “trying to pull the wool over our eyes.” This was the first thing that came

Socialism, Wrestling and WCW

Jun 20th, 2017 59m 57s

We live in interesting times. As social progress struggles to avoid backslide in the US at the hands of one of the most repressive and unpopular cryptofascists to ever take office, the UK is being reimagined as a battlefiel

The Invasion Angle, Part 3-1: INVASION PPV

May 15th, 2017 1h 36m

We’re back after a long while, with more delving into the dark Gordian Knot of McMahon Self-Satisfaction. This time, the main course, WWF Invasion itself, a show that upends the toybox of professional wrestling into the pro

Son of Moneyburners

Apr 5th, 2017 49m 15s

Stuff happened. Stuff always happens, but this time it happened in sufficient quantities that we took an unscheduled break. But we’re back, and we’re hauling with us a payload of dollar bill ashes. Yep, we’re talking about

Backstage Assault

Feb 4th, 2017 1h 1m

Welcome to the New Year! Did you miss us? We’ll fix that, as we unleash upon you the polygonal horrors of a game so misbegotten, it could only have come out at the end of both WCW and the Playstation’s life. Yes, we’re talk

WCW Superbrawl (SNES)

Dec 13th, 2016 56m 24s

We’re back after a bit of a break, and in our journeys away, we have brought you this: a game in which the all-stars of WCW past shout at you from a highly compressed bitmap hell, while twitching and gesticulating from thei

The Invasion Angle, Part 2-2: Smackdown, July 12th, 2001

Nov 8th, 2016 57m 56s

We continue on into the Vince McMahon show, featuring WCW and ECW, and things are not particularly sunny. We examine the exciting new kink of Erotic Denial of a Stunner (Receiving), Vince leaving the venue, which for some r

The Invasion Angle, Part 2-1: Smackdown, July 12th, 2001

Oct 26th, 2016 1h 9m

Come with us, listeners, as we are about to delve deeper into the ennui of the greatest squandering of wrestling talent in the history of the industry, now with much improved audio! With Raw, you saw the emergence of the In

The Invasion Angle, Part 1-2: RAW, July 9th, 2001

Oct 16th, 2016 1h 47m

Welcome back to our reckless fanboat ride through a miserable swamp of wrestling history. We have for you today part the second of our first recording session, discussing a truly crushing episode of Raw, one that is fully B

The Invasion Angle, Part 1-1: The Preamble

Sep 30th, 2016 1h 14m

That’s right, fans, you know when a title’s got that many colons in it, business is picking up. We’re joined by Lucas Brown and Alex Hardison to talk about one of the greatest squanderings of talent in wrestling history, an

Revenge of Bad Gimmicks

Sep 6th, 2016 1h 1m

The Invasion crossover is in the pipe, but we’ve got something to tide you over until we can get everything zipped up. Namely, another delve into the deep barrel of awful gimmicks WCW talent got handed over the years. Come

ICP in WWW

Aug 23rd, 2016 1h 6m

Fresh off a long helicopter ride, direct from the Gathering of the Juggalos, which we stole in our prison break for stabbing people. That’s the story of our delay, and we’re sticking to it. But What is a Juggalo? We don’t k

Your Questions, Our Answers

Jul 15th, 2016 1h 2m

You asked for it, brothers, sisters and those beyond and in-between, and you got it! It’s our first Q&A episode, where you come to us with pressing questions about WCW history and we mostly just goof on the responses. I mea

Warrior in WCW

Jul 1st, 2016 2h

Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel, load it with the warriors and put this podcast on the sound system, then prepare to break loose from all the vast sources of shouted incoherence across these weak planets. Yes, we’re

WCW Gold, WWF Snubs

Jun 14th, 2016 1h 41m

A lot of talent switched sides back in the day between the big two on the block. Some jumped ship to Play (look at the adjective) with the Big Boys, while others found a better life among wrestling mounties and hockey enfor

WCW Video Games

May 30th, 2016 1h 2m

Like a lot of the big time pro wrestling promotions out there, WCW had quite a selection of video games out there to waste your time with. Some of them, like WCW vs nWo: World Tour, are much beloved titles. Others, like the