Talking Taker

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.

Episodes

December 31, 2025 175 mins
The P.S.K. is declaring for the Royal Rumble with another Ultimate Fantasy Draft! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White alongside the Krew of Randy Turco, Watchalong Tommy, Stephen Zieman, and Trey Rafalowski as they draft their dream Royal Rumble card. Each participant gets to craft a fantasy 5 match card using real matches from 40 years of Rumble PPVs. But they've got to be careful to not have their picks stolen b...
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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! 2025 brought new Dead Man figures in the Ultimate, Elite, and Main Event lines along with bobbleheads, buddies, blind box slap bands and thumb wrestlers, and even some weird crypto collectibles - and we...

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The Last Time Is Now - and we are there for it! Talking Taker cohost Alex Doriot is joined by Pod Street Krew members Watchalong Tommy and Randy Turco as they recap being there live for John Cena's final match at Saturday Night's Main Event in Washington D.C.! We discuss the incredible atmosphere in the arena, debate our opinions on the finish, and contemplate the legacy of the Never Seen Seventeen time champ. We also cover a very ...

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We're revisiting one of The Undertaker's greatest rivalries for it's 20th anniversary on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as we take the time-traveling hearse back to 2005 and the epic conclusion of the Randy Orton-Undertaker feud inside Hell In A Cell at Armageddon 2005. It's a bloody battle that helped establish Orton as a mai...
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To celebrate the 35 year anniversary of his iconic debut, we're looking back at the final episode of WWF TV before The Undertaker debuted! It's a special BONUS episode of our encyclopedic exploration Digging Up The Dead Man as wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White do a watch-along of the November 17, 1990 episode of WWF Superstars, just 5 days before The Undertaker made his debut as the mystery man on The Million Dollar ...
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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 ...
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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 hob...

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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 o...
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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 c...
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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 wo...
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July 20, 2025 98 mins

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 fe...

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June 30, 2025 101 mins

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 Unde...

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June 2, 2025 96 mins

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...

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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? ...

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April 30, 2025 93 mins

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 20...

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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 Marc...

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March 19, 2025 111 mins

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-s...

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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 Wrest...

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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 h...

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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 h...

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