The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production.

All right. This is New Generation D Classified, and of course, you're listening to an all-new,

new Generation Declassified here on the two-man power trip of wrestling's podcasting empire.

If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. But every single week, we take that journey back in time,

and we go back and look at the finer days of professional wrestling.

And of course, I'm talking about the new generation era of the World Wrestling Federation, where the newer stars took center stage.

This week, we have the opportunity to welcome in a guest, fellow podcast aficionado, fellow podcast producer, creator.

This time, we're taking a specific look into the dead man the undertaker as we welcome the hosts of the collecting dead man podcast mr stephen z

joining me tonight stephen nice to meet you nice meet you too. Thank you for having me on,

taking you on a journey to the dark side. Absolutely. The dark side, the dead man,

the phenom, you know, the master of the WWF locker room. Before we get into your show

concept and why you do the collecting dead Man podcast, talk about The Undertaker.

What made you kind of gear yourself towards the man from Death Valley?

Sure, sure.

Well, it all started on a very late evening back in December, 1998.

I was about six years old and staying up way past my bedtime

and happened upon a episode of Monday Night Raw. And what made this episode so special,

it was the episode where the undertaker sacrificed Stone Cold Steve Austin on his symbol.

And just that imagery of the lighting and the music and the Undertaker standing there,

you know, tattooed, rolling his eyes back, surrounded by Paul Bearer, the druids, and all that imagery, it immediately captured

my imagination and my attention. And ever since then, I wanted, you know, just coming off

that episode of Monday Night Raw, I wanted to know more about this guy, you know, I wanted

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