A pasty but with Sean Stasiak's hot pink pants wrapped around it like it's the package.

Come on to the Rock Show. Come on to the People's Show, come on to the People's Show, come on to the Premier Show,

Smackdown.

It's the 13th of January in the year of our Lord 2000. In the UK, the Tim Burton, alright but not bad film Sleepy Hollow

had finally dethroned The Mighty The World Is Not Enough from the UK Box Office Number One.

Nobody was releasing video games in the second week of January 2000 because that would be insane.

Instead everybody is trying to beat Crystal Caves on Donkey Kong 64.

Oh, what a game, underrated.

I'd say so.

Tess wouldn't.

Sadly, West Life's godawful cover of High Have a Dream, really tempting the end of the world that was happening in the millennium, is still number one.

Go on lads, hanging on in there.

And clearly the honky tonk man of bad singles but somewhere in

America that little old country hour Out of the Pond, there was a little company called

W.W.F. putting on a little show called Smackdown. And the world needs to know in these trying times,

what was happening back then 20 effin years ago but

luckily isolated as you all are in your bunkers your panic rooms your Harry Potter bedrooms wherever you are

fret not because myself and Tom Campbell are the only people on the planet

right now who know the answer to these questions and what

happened on a faithful night on the 13th of January 2000 and you're of course

listening to the dulcet audio-based blue, what does it say, blue microphone,

it says blue, it's not black, tones of Matthew hailing from his kitchen somewhere in Benwell speaking to a man who was coughing

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