All right.

You're listening to an all-new, new generation declassified here, just like you knew, every single week,

except for when I throw up an old rerun.

This week, of course, joined by the great Husey making his remarkable 377th

appearance on New Generation Declassified, which is interesting because there's only been

128 episodes, which I'm also very bad at keeping track of, Husey. But nonetheless, I was doing

some episodes about the fall of 1996,

mostly talking Survivor series,

but I felt I needed a little bit more of a deep dive into that time frame,

not just in the WWF.

We're going to start expanding the universe a little bit more.

And you yourself lived it.

You're here to talk about it and you're on New Generation

Declassified once again. Yeah, no, it was that whole time frame was as a fan, both the

in ring and behind the scenes, was just fascinating because the idea of being an insider mark

wasn't exactly like a complicated process where

you could just pick up a magazine and you're finding out where what's going on yeah who's

feuding backstage like it was it was this is when uh people went from being fans to marks

and uh it was a great time for it.

Yeah, some say might not have been for the best.

Others think it was the best thing that could have happened and probably kept them around as being a fan.

Now, before we get into it, I have to point out, and I failed to do this when we last spoke,

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