Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And boss you know us, you know for an event as historic as the final DCW Monday Nitro that we're going to lay bare the fact pattern, that we're going to turn over every stone and convey every detail available in the public arena.

But what this is really about, isn't it, is going further than that?

It's about letting the fans tell us in the Lapsd Fan Solar System, the most well-attuned kind of sharp and

perceptive fan base in the wrestling world, what it was that this meant to them as fans because

that's what this podcast is about. It's not about

trying to cozy up to buddy up to people in the business. It's about trying to make bonds with fans of the business who

feel a certain degree of shame and pain about that fandom and need to you know sort of

yes commiserate around that reality and so in that spirit we've got no shortage of

nitro recollections do we not? We have a plethora of recollections and you know it's kind of interesting in a weird way at least you know when you think about it in in a

At least the modern, you know, nationwide wrestling world, this is for a lot of people that breaking point of becoming a Yeah. Lapsed fan. Well makes sense right this was that last idea that promised to

reverse course on what seemed to be slowing momentum for the W. W. F. You know the Austin run is ending and what it shouldn't have been

ironic of him winning the championship too.

It also runs ending as he wins the championship for a fourth or fifth or whatever time.

But in a new birth is a heel now actually aligned with Vince McMahon which absolutely nobody was

asking for and so yeah it would make sense that this was the last time a

generation of fans gave the W. W. W. W. F. A chance to make them care again, to let them care again.

And we're summarily let down. So... Of course, as we should be, as we we deserve to be let's look back on it with the solar system we start with fell

Hello chairman I'm here to answer the call for memories of the final nitro I got into wrestling through W c W9 W. W. in 1996. I came in after the N. W.

began but right at its infancy I was obsessed. I love to see what was going to happen each

week. I marked out hard for Sting even without being very familiar with the rest

I need I need more information on this guy how so I need more information on him I

need to know like what what about it drew you in because so much of the appeal of the NWO was seeing

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