Dropkicks and Attractions: Recent Episodes
Xander Invictus
How can one podcast be two podcasts? Easy! With Dropkicks and Attractions, you can have your favorite wrestling podcast and your favorite pop culture podcast at the same place. Join your hosts BigBoct and Xander Invictus as they delve into the past of both wrestling and pop culture. One week, we discuss wrestling and the next we discuss pop culture at the same time. We will be either your fave weekly podcast or fave biweekly podcast.
Raw gives us one of the better battle royales for a shot at the IC title next week and Saturday Night is so packed, it could have been a Clash of the Champions
We will be guaranteed a new IC champion in a couple of weeks, see what transpired. Plus who is sitting with Shockmaster?!
Can the Steiners win a singles match for a rematch at the tag titles on RAW? Plus already on the road to Halloween Havoc
High peaks and low valleys! Kramer vs. Kramer referenced! Plus Xander buys a car from Haku!
DNA is now a proud member of the Main Event Wrestling Network. What better way to introduce us to their crowd by discussing how and why we are wrestling fans. No worries, tangents are still here!
Because of no Raw for a few weeks, we have 3 episode of WCW Saturday, highlighted by the amazing best of 3 series for the US title
How does a near 45 minute match between Sting and Ric Flair get overshadowed? The Shockmaster...iykyk
We get a contract signing between Yokozuna and Lex Luger for Summerslam, plus a vastly improved WCW Saturday Night, not that hard to do
Monday Night Raw was in a small town, a literal one-stoplight town. Plus WCW Saturday Night was offensively bland
Yokozuna defends the WWF title against Crush on Raw and we are one day away from Beach Blast on WCW Saturday Night
We pay tribute to both Ice Train and Carl Weathers. On Raw, we find out the unlikely winner of the Stars and Stripes Challenge. And on Saturday Night we are one week out from Beach Blast.
GoFundMe to help Ice Train's family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/harold-ice-train-hogue?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
We learn more about competitors for the Stars and Stripes Challenge on RAW. Plus an amazing 6 man tag on Saturday Night. As a bonus, Xander tangents are back
Did Raw have the best match of the year? Plus nowhere to go but up for WCW Saturday Night. Shout out to notthattomgreen as well.
Intro song: Let's Raise Our Hands by Straight on Till Morning
After a long hiatus, Xander and Boct are back! They talk about post KOTR, Clash 23, and their least favorite Saturday Night.
Title song: "Let's Raise Our Hands" by Straight on Til Morning
Lots of stuff on the road after Slamboree. We have the fallout from that, the next Clash of the Champions in a couple of weeks, Beach Blast in a bout a month or so, plus KOTR real close. WHEW!
We are at the initial Slamboree! The show was great, but Boct and Xander agree on one match is bad
We are at the go home show for Slamboree and Peacock took out all of the legends interviews. Why?
We are on the road to King of the Ring and Slamboree so plenty of action this week. We also introduce a segemt called Tubbi or not Tubi. Boct gets a action scifi romp to watch. And Xander? Well...put the kids to bed.
WWE gave us a rare heel vs. heel tag match and WCW finally announces the first couple of matches for Slamboree. Plus Xander goes off on a tangent that may never be topped!
Find out what the Raw after Wrestlemania was like in 1993...nothing special. And how did a 90 second segment with Rick Rude enterain Xander so much?
After a long forced hiatus, Xander and Boct are back with the Dropkics and Attractions podcast! They discuss what is considered one of all time worst Wrestlemania's, WM IX. We also get a reference to Mr. Belvedere, a comparison between Hulk Hogan and New Jack, Poltergeist 3, and Xander nearly says every Undertaker WM from memory.
Raw gives us Mr. Perfect vs. Rick Martel, while WCW gives us the return of Ravishing Rick Rude, so good stuff on both shows
Xander and Boct are back after a short hiatus. They discuss the change of format and what the plan is going forward. Once they get into the wrestling, they discuss WWF as they are a month out from WM IX and WCW as they start the March to Slamboree
By far our longest episode yet! Xander and Boct talk about episodes 1-10 of the first season of Star Trek Deep Space 9. There is some really good stuff and really bad stuff in the first half. Check it out.
We close out February with the fall out of Superbrawl 3 and Raw has a main event that not only never finishes, we never see what happens
Xander and Boct both watch the Disney classic for the first time. See how it is both a Halloween and a Christmas movie
Xander and Boct delve into their first WCW PPV, Superbrawl 3. Find out which match they agreed was the worst, it may surprise you
Xander waxes poetic on one of his all time fave movies, Jurassic Park. So much talent in front of and behind the camera on this
Monday Night Raw is preempted for the Westminster dog show, so we have a 3 show episode instead of two to make up for it. WCW is on the end of the road leading to Superbrawl and WWE sows the seeds for Wrestlemania IX
Xander and Boct go over the only season of Saved by the Bell: The College Years. Woo boy, did Xander have a lot to say and most of it was not good.
Shorter wrestling episode as the majority of the matches were under 10 minutes, with most of those under 5, even 3.
Xander and Boct talk about the first season of Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron. In a first, one of them enjoyed it, but one did not. But they can both agree, that this was a dark show.
Not only do we have fallout from Royal Rumble 1993, but who is leaving WWE...Mr. Perfect or Ric Flair. Also on the WCW side, our main event is Sting and U.S. Champ Dustin Rhodes vs. Barry Windham and WCW Champ Big Van Vader
Xander is excited this week as he shares a personal favorite movie, True Romance. See what he and Big Boct think of it. WARNING: Mature subject matter and language
Come join Xander and Boct as they discuss what is considered one of the greatest comedies of all time, Groundhog Day
Welcome to Dropkicks and Attraction episode 3. XanderInvictus and BigBoct talk about the following shows:
Monday Night Raw 1/18/1993
WCW Saturday Night 1/23/1993
Welcome to the first episode of Dropkicks and Attractions! Listen as Xander Invictus and BigBoct discuss what exactly the DNA Podcast is before they get into the wrestling. The discuss the following episodes:
Monday Night Raw 1/11/1993
Clash of the Champions XXII 1/13/1993
WCW Saturday Night 1/16/1993