“Whoomp! (There It Is)” — Tag Team

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Rob looks back at Tag Team’s no. 2 charting single “Whoomp! (There It Is)” along with the controversy surrounding the song and 95 South’s release of “Whoot, There It Is.” This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Rodney Carmichael Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are certain moments and words that shaped a new era in pro wrestling.
0:05.0	Austin 316 says I just whipped your ass.
0:09.0	Brett screwed breath.
0:11.0	Die, Rocky die.
0:13.0	Suckey!
0:15.0	Introducing the book of wrestling, 25 catchphrases that explain the attitude era.
0:20.0	Tune in as we relive one of the most exciting, intense, and over-the-top times in WWE,
0:26.2	with new interviews with the voices that made the promos, calls, and catchphrases into history.
0:32.0	Listen now.
0:36.9	Mundane, embarrassing teenage memory number 4,672 in the early 90s as a broadly oblivious junior high
0:45.8	doofus growing up in Ohio.
0:47.7	I once took a weekend day trip with my buddy Ryan and his family to an inexplicable local
0:53.0	tourist attraction called the Blue Hole.
0:56.4	What was it like growing up in early 90s, Ohio? You ask, sometimes for fun, we hopped in the car
1:01.0	and drove for hours to get to a place called the Blue Hole. What was the Blue Hole? You ask?
1:08.0	It was a blue hole in the ground. Don't overthink it. We listen to Top 40 radio on this drive,
1:13.0	a Casey Kasem top 40 countdown. One of the songs Casey played us was Hold On by Wilson Phillips,
1:19.0	had to be top five at least. I am absolutely certain about this. Why do I remember that song
1:24.2	in this moment specifically? What am I supposed to do with that information now?
1:30.6	Better question, what are you supposed to do with that information?
1:34.4	So on the drive back from the blue hole,
1:36.6	Ryan leans over to me in the back seat and he says,
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