Block 2:

A listener calls into the show and asks Taz about the old WWE shows, Jacked and Metal. Taz says those shows were secondary shows similar to Sunday Night Heat. Heat was another step up from the two previously mentioned programs but was still under RAW and Smackdown.

Taz says he had a lot of creative control on those shows because they weren’t as heavily produced as RAW and Smackdown. He wrestled on those shows a couple of times, and when he was doing commentary for them a lot of the work was done after the fact in a sound booth at WWE Headquarters.

Taz welcomes former TNA Knockout Madison Rayne to the show.

After a very successful career in TNA which included multiple Knockouts Title wins, Rayne is now a free agent and she says that’s very exciting but also quite alarming. She had a WWE tryout and she mentions that other than having her baby, that was the hardest thing she has ever done.

She knows how to work and she can bump all day, but it was almost as if WWE’s tryout was focused around blowing up the performers as much as possible to see how they react when they’re that exhausted physically. She struggled to catch her breath from time to time, but she was able to get through it by helping some of the women around her who were having much more trouble with the workout than she was.