The Pody Swap Podcast

Best in Show: WWF Summerslam 1992

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 constraints of Pay-Per-View, how drunk Hawk was, and a very special appearance by Diana Smith!
Dark Six Man Tag Team MatchJim Duggan & The Bushwhackers (Butch & Luke) vs. The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags) & The Mountie (w/Jimmy Hart)
Dark MatchEl Matador vs. Papa Shango
Money Inc. (Irwin R. Schyster & Ted DiBiase) (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. The Legion Of Doom (Animal & Hawk) (w/Paul Ellering)
Nailz vs. Virgil
Rick Martel vs. Shawn Michaels (w/Sensational Sherri)
WWF Tag Team Title MatchThe Natural Disasters (Earthquake & Typhoon) (c) vs. The Beverly Brothers (Beau Beverly & Blake Beverly) (w/The Genius)
Crush vs. Repo Man
WWF Title MatchRandy Savage (c) vs. The Ultimate Warrior
Kamala (w/Harvey Wippleman & Kim Chee) vs. The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer)
Tatanka vs. The Berzerker (w/Mr. Fuji)WWF Intercontinental Title MatchBret Hart (c) vs. The British Bulldog
WWF Summerslam 1992 is available on the WWE Network in its neutered, butchered form for ONLY $9.99! Watch along and tell us your Best in Show in the comments. Like! Comment! Subscribe! Share!
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TWT- Episode #32: GLOW Season 2 Part Two

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 complicated relationship between Sam and Ruth, the AMAZING episode #8 ("The Good Twin"), poor Bash and his rash decisions, Black Junk Chain vs. Cholo Junk Chain, the time one of their own ended up in the hospital ER, Lumberjake with a very special spoken word about the dangers of kidnapping, and SO. MUCH. MORE!
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR PART ONE REVIEW OF GLOW SEASON 2!
All 10 episodes of GLOW Season 2 are now available on Netflix! Go watch it, right now. We'll wait here.
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Best in Show: Heroes of Wrestling

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 we not only made him watch Heroes of Wrestling on his birthday, but we also forced him to record the podcast at 3am after an NCW show on a full stomach of IHOP.
Yes, we're monsters.
Originally airing on October 10th, 1999 LIVE from Casino Magic! in beautiful Biloxi Bay Saint Louis the boys discuss the history of pro wrestling during the fall of 1999, JC being one of the 29k to order the PPV, the "classic" Jake "The Snake Roberts promo, and why 2 Cold Scorpio had a replica WCW title with him.
The Samoan Swat Team (Samoan Savage & Samu) (w/Paul Adams & Sika) vs. Marty Jannetty & Tommy Rogers
George Steele (w/Sherri Martel) vs. Greg Valentine
Julio S. Fantastico vs. Too Cold Scorpio
Nikolai Volkoff & The Iron Sheik (w/Nikita Brezhnikov) vs. The Men From Down Under (Butch & Luke)
Stan Lane vs. Tully Blanchard
Abdullah The Butcher (w/Honest John) vs. The One Man Gang
Bob Orton vs. Jimmy Snuka (w/Captain Lou Albano)
Jim Neidhart vs. Jake Roberts
Jim Neidhart & King Kong Bundy vs. Jake Roberts & Yokozuna
Heroes of Wrestling is available on YouTube if you search for it, it's fairly easy to find. We'd link it here, but legally speaking it wouldn't be right (Morally speaking no one should ever have to pay for this show).
PART TWO OF GLOW IS COMING!
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TWT- Episode #31: GLOW Season 2 Part One

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 microscope of the 1980s. But they also talk about syringe usage, enemas, and hum the Blue Blood theme.. So you know, an average episode of TWT.
Alison Brie stars as Ruth Wilder, an out-of-work actress living in Los Angeles in the '80s. Wilder finds an unexpected chance at stardom: enter the glitter and spandex-laden world of women's wrestling, where she must work alongside 12 other Hollywood misfits. Marc Maron plays the role of Sam Sylvia, a washed-up director of "B" movies who tries to lead the group of women to fame.
All 10 episodes of GLOW Season 2 are now available on Netflix! We'll be back with Part Two in the next couple of weeks where we'll discuss the final five episodes.
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TWT- Episode #30: Beyond The Mat

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 ring and into the lives of the men and women who inhabit this colorful, competitive, and surprisingly complex world.
While the boys watch the film they discuss the first time they watched Beyond The Mat, Terry Funk's numerous retirements, "The Extreme Enforcer" Paul Richards™ and the cult-like mentality of Paul Heyman, while also having a hardcore debate over tongue rings.
Beyond the Mat is currently available to watch online at Amazon Video to rent or purchase. It may also be available through other means, if you know where to look on the internet. *wink wink*
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TWT- Minicast: Interview w/ Beau Douglas

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 soon began talking about his training with Walter 'Killer' Kowalski, the real star of the MTV reality doc "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas (and Dawna!), the early differences between MA wrestling and RI wrestling, the ECW "Mass Transit" incident, who's handsy in wrestling,  and so much more!
Beau was even gracious enough to answer one of Three Way Theater's long standing questions, but you'll have to wait until the very end of the episode to get this rumor resolved.
With special appearances from Channing Thomas Timmy Thunder and Brian Cairo, this is our most packed Minicast yet (and the closest we'll probably ever get to doing a live show)!
EPISODE #30 IS COMING!
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TWT- Episode #29: Quantum Leap (+ Beyond Belief)

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 mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Beckett could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next leap will be the leap home... and not get murdered by Terry Funk.
On the latest episode of Three Way Theater the boys devote the show to the Funker, one of the stars of Beyond the Mat (Episode #30) and a true TWT All-Star. But before diving into his appearance on Quantum Leap Jake brings us a weird gem from the late 90s with Beyond Belief: Fact of Fiction featuring Funk and fellow TWT alum Gene Lebell!
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Once the guys dig into the adventures of Dr. Sam Beckett JC's love of the series shines through, spoiling five years worth of story lines without regard. So if you're worried about spoilers for a show that's been off the air 24 years, hold off on listening till after you've binged this sci-fi hit.
All 5 seasons of Quantum Leap is available on Hulu, and you can watch the wrestling segment from Beyond Belief up above.
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Best in Show: ECW Guilty as Charged 2001

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 PPV from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
Christian York & Joey Matthews vs. Cyrus & Jerry Lynn
ECW World Tag Team Title MatchDanny Doring & Roadkill (c) vs. Hot Commodity (EZ Money & Julio DiNero) w/ Chris Hamrick & Elektra
Chris Hamrick vs. The New Nasty Nova
I Quit MatchCW Anderson vs. Tommy Dreamer
Tag Team Three Way DanceKid Kash & Super Crazy vs. Mikey Whipwreck & Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. The FBI (Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke)
Balls Mahoney & Chilly Willy vs. Simon Diamond & Swinger
ECW World Heavyweight Title Three Way Tables, Ladders, Chairs & Canes MatchSteve Corino (c) vs. Justin Credible vs. The Sandman
ECW World Heavyweight Title MatchThe Sandman (c) vs. Rhino
Jerry Lynn vs. Rob Van Dam
ECW Guilty as Charged 2001 is available on the WWE Network in its neutered, butchered form for ONLY $9.99! Watch along and tell us your Best in Show in the comments. Like! Comment! Subscribe! Share!
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***DISCRETION IS ADVISED***