The Undertaker
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Wrestlemania is this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, and Editor Eric has been dying to talk about the mythos of his favorite wrestler of all time, The Undertaker. Even if wrestling isn’t your thing, we think you’re going to enjoy the journey of how the Deadman went from wrestling mortician to a leader of his own cult of the undead. It’s a modern hero’s journey. Just, with more piledrivers.
This week, Julia and Amanda recommend you check out Bored Ghost. They both guest starred in the two-part Rusalka game.
Videos referenced in this episode:
- Mike Quackenbush’s The Art of Pro-Wrestling
- Undertaker’s first appearance as Survivor Series
- Undertaker’s signature “Rise Up”
- Macho Man Randy Savage’s Cream of the Crop promo
- Kane Debuts at Hell in a Cell
- Undertaker Uses Lightning Powers to Destroy the Ring
- Paul Bearer “Killed” By Cement (and the rehearsal)
- Mankind vs Undertaker Buried Alive Match
- Mankind vs. Undertaker Hell in a Cell Match
- The Introduction of The Brood
- Undertaker Inferno Match
- The Undertaker Black Wedding
- The “Greater Power” Revealed
- The Undertaker as the American Badass
- Shawn Michaels’ Super Christian Entrance
- Streak vs Career Match
- Streak vs Career Promo Packaged (with fantastic country song)
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About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a podcast collective and consultancy. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.0 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.3 | And I'm Julia. And this is episode 123, The Undertaker. Yes, we're doing WWE wrestling things. I'm very |
| 0:14.5 | excited about this. You know, the purview of our show is myths and legends throughout time. |
| 0:18.6 | And we love talking about things that you would |
| 0:21.5 | traditionally think of as mythology, but also we love deconstructing how and why we retell |
| 0:27.4 | stories in the modern era. So talking about a character that has a mythology of their own |
| 0:32.7 | and understanding a mythology of this major entertainment universe was really interesting. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah. And I mean, it's a hero's journey told over weekly television for 30 years. |
| 0:42.5 | That is a wild concept. |
| 0:44.3 | And I really, really liked looking at it kind of through the mythology lens. |
| 0:48.2 | You know who have excellent personal mythologies? |
| 0:50.7 | Would that be our new patrons, Deanna and Kayla? |
| 0:53.4 | Absolutely, as well as our supporting producer-level |
| 0:55.9 | patrons, Philip, Julie, Eey, Samantha, Christopher, Kathy, Vinnie Danica, Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Neal, Jessica, |
| 1:03.6 | Phil Fresh, and Debra. You all have the WWE Championship belt hanging on your wall. You look right now, |
| 1:10.7 | I put it there for you. |
| 1:11.8 | And never with a dusty belt in sight are our legend level patrons, Haley, Sarah, James, Jess, |
| 1:18.4 | Sarah P, Sandra, Audra, Jack Marie, and Leanne. The Universal Champions of our hearts. |
| 1:24.0 | Totally, totally, totally. Julie, what were we drinking during this episode? |
| 1:27.7 | So we did an early morning recording for this one. |
| 1:30.4 | I know you were rocking a tequila sunrise. |
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