Jumping Nothing

Jumping Nothing

A podcast about professional wrestling by Karl and Michael, teasing a powerbomb through the Spanish announce table before reversing into a back body drop through the English announce table. Mostly Raw and pay-per-views.

  1. 09/01/2015

    JN107 - Donald Trump Is A Wrestling Character

    If Vince McMahon's deepest, most personal dreams had somehow come true, the Million Dollar Man would have been a good guy. He would have come out, waved money, ordered people around, made off-colour remarks and, ultimately, he would have been lauded as a hero. It didn't happen that way for Ted DiBiase, but it's working for Donald Trump. "Lemme tell you something, I'm very rich," he says. The crowd cheers. "Women are pigs," he says. The crowd cheers. "I own a lot of golf courses, lemme tell you, my golf courses, they're the best in the world, everybody loves them," he says. The crowd cheers. And now he's going to run America. There's one way to understand the Republican frontrunner, and as vaguely news-savvy young men with a cynicism-hardened interest in pro wrestling, we're uniquely qualified to look into it. Donald Trump is a wrestling character. Here's why.

    1 hr
  2. JN107 - Donald Trump Is A Wrestling Character

    09/01/2015

    JN107 - Donald Trump Is A Wrestling Character

    If Vince McMahon's deepest, most personal dreams had somehow come true, the Million Dollar Man would have been a good guy. He would have come out, waved money, ordered people around, made off-colour remarks and, ultimately, he would have been lauded as a hero. It didn't happen that way for Ted DiBiase, but it's working for Donald Trump. "Lemme tell you something, I'm very rich," he says. The crowd cheers. "Women are pigs," he says. The crowd cheers. "I own a lot of golf courses, lemme tell you, my golf courses, they're the best in the world, everybody loves them," he says. The crowd cheers. And now he's going to run America. There's one way to understand the Republican frontrunner, and as vaguely news-savvy young men with a cynicism-hardened interest in pro wrestling, we're uniquely qualified to look into it. Donald Trump is a wrestling character. Here's why.

    59 min
  3. JN106: Roddy Piper Is Dead, Hulk Hogan May Never Die

    08/03/2015

    JN106: Roddy Piper Is Dead, Hulk Hogan May Never Die

    Hulk Hogan is alive. Roddy Piper is dead. Hulk Hogan is bad. Roddy Piper is good. Hulk Hogan was in that movie where he plays basically Hulk Hogan but wearing blue. Roddy Piper was in a John Carpenter cult-classic B movie that Slavoj Zizek featured in one of his documentaries about film. Hulk Hogan is despised. Roddy Piper is beloved. Hulk Hogan is the 1980s monoculture. Roddy Piper is the 1980s counterculture. Hulk Hogan did not kick Cyndi Lauper in the head and remain lifelong friends with her. Roddy Piper did kick Cyndi Lauper in the head and remain lifelong friends with her. Hulk Hogan essentially created the conditions for the first Gulf War. Roddy Piper did not create the conditions for the first Gulf War. It's hard to make sense of these things sometimes, but we try, with the help of Sartre and shoot interviews.

    59 min
  4. JN105 - Finn Balor Is From Where We’re From

    07/11/2015

    JN105 - Finn Balor Is From Where We’re From

    Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. Just south of Dublin, it’s the birthplace of Finn Balor, Hozier and, most importantly, Jumping Nothing’s Cathal. Join us as we hear tales of his time in the community hall watching an 18-year-old Fergal Devitt crack open his head off a ladder in front of the world’s most casual crowd. We also take in the new NXT champion’s time in Japan, the logic of his ‘inner demon’ gimmick and, most excitingly, we fantasy book his move to the main roster of the WWE. Will he defeat Cena clean under the Wrestlemania sign? Or will he become Wee Cousin Fergal, Sheamus’s Oirish partner in crime?It’s an Irish celebration (#nomacklemore) on the podcast today. Enjoy

    59 min
  5. JN104 - A Day At The Wrestling

    06/23/2015

    JN104 - A Day At The Wrestling

    The team head to the pub in blitz-wracked Bethnal Green, London to get soused and prepare for an evening of traditional greasy grapple in storied York Hall, as former WWE stars, indie darlings and THE CURRENT IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION fly in to take on the best the locals have to offer in Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Summer Sizzler. We speculate on what’s about to happen in the lively Old George pub before reviewing events back at the studio. We are SHOCKED by Matt Classic’s true identity. We are IN AWE of Big Damo’s bigness. We are ASTOUNDED by the feats of valour and athleticism shown off by Will Ospreay and Matt Sydal. We are EMBARRASSED by Karl’s reaction to AJ Styles. We are AFFLICTED by Stendhal Syndrome while watching Shinsuke Nakamura. Find out why, and more, by listening to the podcast.

    1h 12m
  6. JN103: Daniel Bryan, We're Sorry

    05/18/2015

    JN103: Daniel Bryan, We're Sorry

    Daniel Bryan is finished. Injury has done for him for perhaps the final time. In this podcast, the team discuss whether this is their fault, and by extension your fault, for demanding so much of a preternaturally talented star. There's a wide-ranging discussion, from a 25-year-old 5'8" indie wrestler being the best in the world to a man holding up the belt at the end of a Wrestlemania booked around him. We talk Bryan the strong-style master, Bryan the artist, Bryan the child entertainer and more, finishing by fantasy booking the rest of his life. Join us.

    1 hr
  7. JN102 - We Know Nothing About: Lucha Underground

    05/05/2015

    JN102 - We Know Nothing About: Lucha Underground

    The Irish and the Mexicans have links that go deep, from our shared affection for the Olé Olé Olé football chant to the disproportionately large number of Mexican fast good outlets in Dublin considering its population of ~8 Mexican people. So it’s sure to be a joyful time when our team, renamed Carlos, Don Miguel and El Wogano for the occasion, take a look at Lucha Underground, the hour-long lucha libre show that popped up at some point last year. Join us as we discover the wizardry of the luchadore, intergender wrestling and Alberto Del Rio doing great after the divorce. [We watched: Several episodes of Lucha Underground TV] Thanks to Tim for the music suggestion from the shadow of the Arena Mexico itself.

    1h 2m
  8. JN101 - Brock Lesnar Is A Carnival Freak, But That’s Okay

    04/20/2015

    JN101 - Brock Lesnar Is A Carnival Freak, But That’s Okay

    Brock Lesnar doesn’t seem like he enjoys wrestling all that much - but that doesn’t matter, because he is incredible at it. In the first episode of the new series of Jumping Nothing, Karl and Michael are joined in their new studio (...not apartment) by new addition Cathal, recruited for his unmatchable virtue of being from somewhat near Fergal Devitt in Bray. With the third man in place, they unpack the problem of Brock Lesnar, a man who doesn’t do anything smart fans like, but whom it is impossible not to enjoy. He’s made of ham. He sweats instead of selling. He won the title in the main event of his first Wrestlemania - and it wasn’t even his first title. But he was ready. He was born ready. (We watched: vs. Kurt Angle, Wrestlemania 19 vs. Eddie Guerrero, No Way Out 2004 vs. Goldberg, Wrestlemania 20 vs. John Cena, Extreme Rules 2013 vs. CM Punk, Summerslam 2013 vs. Undertaker, Wrestlemania 30 vs. Roman Reigns, Wrestlemania 31)

    1 hr
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A podcast about professional wrestling by Karl and Michael, teasing a powerbomb through the Spanish announce table before reversing into a back body drop through the English announce table. Mostly Raw and pay-per-views.

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  • Creator
    Jumping Nothing
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2015
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Jumping Nothing