The Origins of The Undertaker Character

the jurogan experience how did you become the undertaker so so that's that's vince's brainchild so i went to another company wcw where i was mean mark callus and right there check that young stud out right there that's terrifying isn't it all right guys hobbit yeah uh just uh that's uh yeah we can take that down anytime [Laughter] so so so i go there and uh i was about i was there about eight or nine months and uh my contract was coming up and i go i go in to renegotiate my contract and they were like look you're great athlete kid but no one's ever gonna pay money to watch you wrestle like i'm just looking for a little bit of bump right a little bump in my paycheck i'm not looking for the mega deal i'm just looking for a little bit of bump now we're going to give you the same deal for a year i mean you just you know you do great things in the ring but no one's ever going to pay money to see you wrestle did they give you advice on how to get someone to pay oh wow that was it that was it so like okay my ceiling i know where my ceiling is here right so uh just through you know a few different people i get connected with some people in the in the wwwf at the times wwe now and i had a match coming up my hip was already bad at that point even back then yeah i i it got much worse but i was already limping and uh and i just heard it when we got vince you know they said all right you know they've got a pay-per-view just watching work you know so vince watches me work and i'm calm like i'm i'm you know talking to my buddy bruce i'm like bruce my hip is jacked he goes just go out there vince is going to be watching right so i'm working with a guy by name lex luger went out there and did what i could i sucked i mean i was you know i was i was physically you know i was physically not able really to to go the way i could go and vince wasn't impressed you know he's like okay he's you know he's running the mill fortunately guys like uh you know paul heyman and and uh and bruce pritchard you know they believed in me and they kind of kept pushing for me to get this meeting with vince and finally i did and he calls me i got to go to his house right so i go to his house vince's house like [ __ ] he couldn't it's nice it's [ __ ] where's he living he's in connecticut man he's so you're in control yeah so i'm not being called to the castle oh dude yeah and that's what i'm thinking right because most people go to you know the office to the towers there in stanford right and i'm thinking [ __ ] i'm going to the house i got this [ __ ] right so i i go in and i have the meeting meeting goes for about an hour and a half and you know and this is you know there's a lot of does he have a butler but he i know he had a housekeeper he imagined there'd be a dude with a british accent from the door i never saw him just ripped yeah right you had to be everybody everybody's jack that works for ritz but uh so i go i go there and uh you know granted we do some hokey [ __ ] it is what it is and they really at that point had some really really [ __ ] goofy characters and uh you know so that we're having this we're sitting in his living room and he goes well mark you got to be hidden talents you know other than you know wrestling do you do anything you know and i'm trying to be funny and not nervous and well you know i was sitting in the shower pretty good and as soon as i said it right i'm like oh [ __ ] i shouldn't have said that i'm gonna be [ __ ] i'm gonna be [ __ ] shower guys you know some something silly right shower guys yeah i'm gonna have to see you know i'm thinking i'm like oh [ __ ] i should not have said that right and then i'm like i'm kidding you know i'm trying to clear the air right away i'm just kidding i can't sing not you know and you know he's got the look right he knows how you know he can read people and he's like really no i can't i can't so i got this long meeting and i at the end of the meeting he goes well we don't have anything for you right now i'm thinking oh [ __ ] i guess i guess i overplayed my hand here because i'd already give wcw my notice that i was leaving i like [ __ ] i kind of i'm this is what i'm thinking in my head right i was like he invited me to the house he's gonna hire me right so you guys i see you guys down the road so now i'm sitting there like [ __ ] i got no job and uh anyway so one day uh it's getting getting close to thanksgiving and they start doing this promotion where they've got this giant [ __ ] egg have you heard this story oh yeah the gobbledygoo the gobbley cougar right so we do a pay-per-view around surviv around thanksgiving it's called survivor series so this year this particular year is 1990 they're gonna yeah there it is uh they've got this giant egg on the set on the tv every week and i'm sitting there thinking to myself holy [ __ ] i'm gonna be i'm now now i've gone from shower guy now i think i'm gonna be eggman right [ __ ] i'm gonna have to you know i'm trying to grow my hair out and i said [ __ ] he's gonna make me shave my head i'm gonna shave my eyebrows i'm gonna be [ __ ] eggman oh and i'm a nervous wreck right so one day i'm sitting at home phone rings i get up and go answer it because we didn't have cell phones back then right so hello he goes is uh is this the undertaker i was like undertaker undertaker undertaker hidden egg man [ __ ] undertaker that's pretty [ __ ] cool yeah yeah this is undertaker yeah and it was vince and that was how he introduced the character to me he called you up and asked you if you're the undertaker yeah and i had no clue to what it was and wow and uh i said yeah yeah i'm the undertaker because i knew it wasn't eggman and everything had to be better than eggman he wasn't singing the shower yeah he wasn't singing the shower guy it wasn't eggman flew me up to connecticut the next day showed me the storyboards and the character the original character is based on an old western undertaker you know the two guys in main street they had the [ __ ] shootout one guy loses undertaker comes out measures them does the box well that was the original likeness and and the name the undertaker and uh he just never found the guy he had had it for years i guess so why did he send you away the first time when you went well he didn't he at the time he didn't have a spot for me but he was thinking but he was thinking and then it kind of dawned on him that he had that character and he just needed a big guy with no personality [Laughter] he needed to go you know there was void of personality to do the deal and uh and he gave it to me and uh there's my debut right there that's november of 1990 and i was six years old and i was [ __ ] my pants how were you this was the scariest thing you could imagine for a six-year-old you know you're watching all these you know there was some guy in a chicken suit that came out of that egg to show you how silly things were back then so it had our attention and then all of a sudden this guy comes out and he's like half dead and you don't know what's going on and he's scary and dominant with anything yeah the the thing was was dominant but this is the era of everything i mean you could tell this guy's in bright pink and so that's coco beware yeah he's wearing some hot yoga pants yes you know i mean you know that guy had a parrot on his shoulder when he came to the ring did he yeah right was it a parrot yeah yeah frankie catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience

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Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 20 2021