Episode 760: New Generation Declassified: Hosts, Announcers & Commentators Part 3

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Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This weeks New Generation Declassified tackles part 3 of the Announcers, Commentators and Hosts series with podcaster extraordinaire, from the, "Rad Rob". Chad and "Rad Rob" look at the remaining list of names from the WWF announce team from the New Gen era and breakdown what made the inclusion of comedian Rob Bartlett so different, the beauty and understated usage of Johnny Polo and why both Jim Ross and Jim Cornette could have been used in stronger roles behind the mic during early part of their WWF tenures. We also relive a few of the names we covered in parts 1 and 2 as well as talk about growing up as fans in the WWF hotbed in the Northeast.

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0:00.0	The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. The President. All right. Let's get it going right now. This is New Generation Declassified. And you're listening to an all new
0:39.3	new generation declassified here exclusively on the two-man power trip of wrestling's
0:43.9	podcasting Empire. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. And every single week, we take a
0:49.1	journey back in time and we go and look back upon the World Wrestling Federation's new generation.
0:56.1	And this week continuing the series of announcers, hosts and commentators,
1:00.9	or commentators host and announcers.
1:02.6	I can never remember the order that I said it in.
1:05.1	But it doesn't matter.
1:05.9	We're still going to talk about part three of this illustrious group of performers
1:10.5	with a very talented podcaster,
1:13.6	a man who does many things, wears many hats, including wearing a hat right now.
1:18.3	And he is the Rad Turtle himself, Mr. Rob Francois, joining me for this evening.
1:23.3	How are you, Rob?
1:24.2	I am good chance, sir.
1:26.1	I've always wanted to do a project with you on your show. And I've enjoyed the stuff that you've done with me on Get My Go. And you knew I had to drop a reference there. The count was about 35 seconds on my watch. That's right. Well, I mean, we had a good run. I had a good run. So, no, it's good to be here, man. I'm looking forward to doing this and breaking all this down with you.
1:45.4	Awesome.
1:45.8	No, I appreciate it.
1:46.7	And, you know, it's been an interesting little look into this. You know, the concept for this show. I mean, I really can re-explain it every week. It's kind of giving you a look back if you weren't a fan at the time. if you were a fan who tapped out, if you weren't alive,
1:42.7	if you were somebody who has no knowledge of the new generation,
1:45.9	I'm not going to reinvent the wheel. a fan at the time, if you were a fan who tapped out, if you weren't alive, if you were somebody
2:01.0	who has no knowledge of the new generation, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel. All I want to do is
2:05.9	kind of bring attention to a basically ill-fated error that doesn't get the credit it deserves
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