Y25 Years of Y2J

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

August 9, 1999 marked Y2J’s WWE (then WWF) debut, and to celebrate 25 years of the momentous occasion, Chris sat down on the landmark anniversary day itself and recounted the story, sharing all the incredible details leading up to the big reveal. You THINK you know this story. You THINK you’ve heard this story, but you truly haven’t heard it until NOW. From his last days at WCW to the clandestine meeting at Vince McMahon’s house in Connecticut to the countdown clock and Millennium Man original gimmick to shopping for new gear in downtown Tampa to working out the promo with The Rock in catering before that infamous RAW – Chris tells all. Plus, discover how the following factor into this legendary, totally true tale – Michael Jackson in Mexico City, an obscure Japanese rock band called Sly, rave culture, a trip to Harley Davidson, KY Jelly, Iron Maiden, and silver and gold tights. STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy Twitter: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho,
0:02.0	Is Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	My heart.
0:08.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:10.0	Mama. Talk is, baby. All right, welcome to Talk is Jericho, the pot of thunder and rock and roll.
0:18.0	And just a few days ago, I was informed that August 9th, 2024 was the 25th anniversary of the debut of Y2J in W. W.F.
0:36.6	Which of course is now W. W.B.
0:38.5	And I was thinking how monumental that is
0:42.2	and how cool it is. And a lot of people say it's one of the greatest debuts. how watch the whole thing back all the way through and we're going to do that today on the
0:54.6	show I have not watched it back I'm going to watch it the official watch along with
0:59.5	you guys and I'm going to stop it as we go also to kind of comment on different things that I'm seeing and looking at and that sort of a thing.
1:09.0	So you don't have to watch it along with me.
1:11.0	I will do the watch and the stop and you can listen and if you want to watch
1:15.4	it back beforehand then you can. But yeah I've kind of really written about this in a lion's
1:20.9	tale as if you guys have read that book, the book ends with the clock hitting zero
1:28.1	and me emerging onto the stage, and then undisputed begins, my second book begins with kind of what happened here so I did
1:35.5	read back those and I don't know how far back you want me to go with this but needless to say I was working in W.C.W. from 96 to 99 and towards the end of 97, I think it was.
1:51.6	I started realizing that it I don't have a lot of problems with
1:56.6	W c W I don't have like you know the the issues and bitterness towards it and that's why it wasn't on who killed
2:04.9	W.C. W. the the new series that
2:09.4	Evan did.
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