I do hate to bug J especially when he is absolutely elbow deep in some of his favorite sort

of off schedule let's say and you know sports programming not NBA finals yet but

the sort of the stuff off the beaten path right now Jay is watching the 30 for

30 on American gladiators are you kidding me is this thing any fucking good

it's pretty fucking good so far tell me boy I hope to tell the backstory of how

you know taz came into existence and what his motivation was to warm up on some

stupid accountant dressed up as tights don't be so glib because we found out

that the guy who created the gladiators while being one of the shiniest

characters have ever seen was an Elvis impersonator really yes one of the

last thing one of the gladiators he said and I quote I was the baddest man on

the planet I carried a gun to church why why would you do that actually well

when you're living in Compton I think that's okay okay fair enough fair enough

so they've got all the get gladiators named here Malibu lace

zapp yes yes I said taz I don't think there was a taz there was a zap though maybe

a laser Gemini nitro sunny blaze Bronco gold laser yeah Jim star played laser

I don't know just some dude these were just these are just roided up dude sorry

I should have yeah I thought Jim star but somebody's like you know actually I

know who Jim star is well actually let's see here there is there's there's there's

one gladiator that actually I can't remember her name zapp she's blonde she was

in a movie with John Ritter which he got naked that's how I remember

rage hollet boom look at you there you go I'm on Wikipedia so so here's how you

know looking at the list of gladiators which ones were anybody their names

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