Sir Adam: It is a pleasure right now to introduce to you a WCW superstar, Dean Malenko. Good morning Mr. Malenko.

Dean Malenko: Good morning gentlemen. How are you doing?

Sir Adam: Good. It is a pleasure to speak with you.

Phantom: It is an honor to speak with you Dean. And I just want to say one thing: Watching Uncensored... Where are you? You're home right now? What are you doing?

Dean Malenko: Pretty much the rumor mill's been flying around. And pretty much I'm just taking some time off and spending some time with my wife and our new baby that we had Christmas night.

Sir Adam: Congratulations!

Dean Malenko: I'm just thinking about where I want to go from here. I've spent 17 years in this wrestling business and (it's) something I enjoy doing and I think when you get to the point where you lose a match to a guy like Chris Jericho... You know (if) there's one thing I've never stepped down from, that's from losing. And as Gene Okerlund said that night, it was a hard pill to swallow that I lost the last four pay-per-views. And I look back at that and maybe I lost my edge and maybe it's time to take a step down. And this is what I'm doing right now. I'm just sitting at home and having some conversations with my brother and my family and just seeing where I go from here.

Phantom: Dean, I don't condone hitting old men or anything, but he (Gene Okerlund) had no right to call you a loser!

Sir Adam: You're a former champion! Everyone has ups and downs in this sport, but I don't see him singling anyone else out.

Dean Malenko: That's freedom of speech and he can say what he wants and sometimes the truth is hard to swallow.

Al Isaacs: I don't know. Speaking on behalf of our reader's and all our fans, you were the last guy that, really, that he should be calling a loser.

Sir Adam: Especially (since) you're number one in the PWI 500 this past year.

Dean Malenko: I appreciate it.

Phantom: Was that an honor for you?

Dean Malenko: Yeah. I'm not much for reading magazines or for the hype or anything about accolades or a pat on my back or a trophy or a belt around my waist. I've always enjoyed what I do. I'm very fortunate that I'm in a position, in a job that I can do that I enjoy and travel and meet other interesting people like your selves.

Phantom: Thank you.

Dean Malenko: It's very fun and it's an enjoyable life style that I've done for 17 years traveling around the world. And if someone thinks that highly of me, I appreciate it, I'm flattered by it.

Manson: So are you happy with you being in WCW right now? (Do you think) you might take a trip up north to the WWF?

Dean Malenko: I'm not going to really comment about that. One thing I've said is that I spent 14 years in Japan and I was very, very timid about coming here and wrestling in the United States because I didn't think the wrestling fans were ready for a Dean Malenko style or an Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit or the Japanese style that has been brought here to the United States. And after spending two years in WCW I realized there is a market out there. I think there is fan base out there. There's a lot of fans that really appreciate some really good wrestling, guys that really take a lot of pride in their craft. Unfortunately, I think the other side of the coin, when we get into promoters and bookers, (they) maybe aren't ready for that yet.

Sir Adam: Right. I think the part of WCW I enjoy is the part like yourself and Jericho and Benoit. I can do without Piper and all the things like that. But In think that's what the main stream media picks up and that's why they have them around.

Dean Malenko: Well, you know there's always going to be a market for that. But I think like everything else that revolves in life, there's that change. And I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. I just thought in the two years that I've been here in WCW it has made a little bit of progress. Like I've said, I've gone through the airports when traveling around different cities I've gotten a lot of feedback from fans saying tits great to see some wrestling come back into the sport again. And as long as there's support out there and people keep following that and keep mentioning it, hopefully, someday, somehow they'll get behind it.

Phantom: A lot of rumors I'm sure you've heard on the internet, all over on hotlines, that you were the vocal person behind getting, for the lack of a better word, "push" for this style of wrestling. Did you have Bischoff's ear a little bit? Did you say, "There's a market for this,"?

Dean Malenko: Nah. Actually when I was wrestling up in ECW and at the time Kevin Sullivan was booking for WCW. And I have to give him the credit. He took a chance by bringing me, Eddie (Guerrero) and Chris (Benoit) all down together. And I think, and this is just my opinion, it's kind of rather funny that in two years in WCW, and if you look where WCW was before we got there and where they've been (after we got there), I'm not giving us a pat on the back or credit, but I think we helped change a little bit about WCW in where they've taken it.

Sir Adam: Dean, you sound a little down. I want to pick you up. The fans, I mean you have some big fans on hold. They're all dying to talk to you, cheer you up a little. Charlie from Huntington.

Phantom: Speak to Dean Malenko.

Caller: Dean Malenko, how are you doing?

Dean Malenko: Good. How are you doing?

Caller: Just like Rocky was told by Apollo Creed in Rocky III, "Get back the Eye of the Tiger!" We want to see you in wrestling... WCW, WWF, ECW. We need to see you in the ring. You've got a great style. I think you're a great wrestler. Get back at Jericho. Take the cruiserweight title. You've got to get back.

Dean Malenko: I appreciate it. I just want to make a comment guys, real quick on something. This decision that I'm in the process of making; it isn't all about wrestling. I mentioned this in some interviews a couple of weeks ago too. Having a new daughter in my life and her being three months... I'm a second-generation wrestler. My dad was in the wrestling industry for 30 years and spent a lot of time on the road. My mom pretty much raised me and my brother. It's something I don't want to do to my child. And so that's another one of my bib, big concerns; staying home right now and maybe stepping down from the business. So really it isn't all about wrestling.

Sir Adam: How many days a week is Dean Malenko on the road?

Dean Malenko: I think last year we did probably close to about 200 dates on the road. It's pretty hard.

Al Isaacs: Would you consider a limited schedule or are we talking maybe taking a couple of years off and returning when a little older?

Dean Malenko: Oh, I really don't know. If I walk I'm going to walk for good. I'm not going to do the million comebacks for a pat on the back or for the glory. I'm not about that.

Phantom: You sound serious, Dean.

Sir Adam: Dean's always serious. That's why he's the Ice Man.

Phantom: But I mean... He's really considering this. I can't believe it. Dean Malenko: Well, you know there's a point in everybody's career when they got to really search and look deep inside and say, "Where do I go from here? What do I do?" That's what I'm doing.

Phantom: I think you'd be the first pro-wrestler to step down in your prime, I'd have to say, in a long time.

Al Isaacs: Well, not injury anyway.

Phantom: yeah, not injury. But these guys hang around forever, like a Hogan. What do you feel about Hogan?

Dean Malenko: It's really hard for me to comment on other guys. (Laughing) I mean if I did that I'd definitely be "beeped" off a little bit. (All laugh)

Sir Adam: We encourage that, actually.

Phantom: Club Ed, get the beep ready.

Sir Adam: Beep's ready for you.

Dean Malenko: You know... Hey, different strokes for different folks. There's still a market for a Hulk Hogan. There's still a market for a lot of guys out there. I was just taught to wrestle. I was brought up in a wrestling business from the early sixties, the seventies and watching my dad get in the business. I was always taught that the marquee says "wrestling" and that's what you do.

Al Isaacs: Would you consider teaching at this point?

Dean Malenko: Well we've had the wrestling school here in Tampa since 1978 and for about the last 17 years that my dad started. And that's what I'm doing when I'm at home. And that's probably something that I'll get into on a full time basis if my decision is final.

Sir Adam: Hey Dean, Can I ask you a question a little off the subject. Today's WrestleMania. Are you going to watch it at all or not?

Dean Malenko: No.

Sir Adam: Do you have any interest? Will you give the fans out there who you think would win or no?

Dean Malenko: I have a lot of friends that wrestle for the WWF. I have some ex- students. When I'm home I like to spend time with my wife and my baby and to things with them and try to keep wrestling a separate thing. Phantom: Who are a couple of your ex-students?

Dean Malenko: Kane.

Sir Adam: Really?

Dean Malenko: He's wrestling up there now. And Marc Mero, of course, everybody knows. I think there's one or two other guys. We've had so many students the last 17 years it's hard to keep track of.

Phantom: Unbelievable.

Dean Malenko: Most of the guys change their names.

Sir Adam: Yeah, you probably don't remember who they are from time to time.

Phantom: Let's hit the phone lines again with Mike from Old Westbury. Get in the ring with Dean Malenko.

Caller: How are you Dean?

Dean Malenko: Good. How are you?

Caller: I just want to say I think you're an excellent wrestler and congratulations on your daughter.

Dean Malenko: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Phantom: Everyone's got great words to say about you, Dean.

Dean Malenko: I'd never say anything negative about them.

Al Isaacs: No really, It really says something about you. Because even the most popular of wrestlers you always get one or two people saying something negative. But when it comes to you, everyone seems to be unanimous. Everyone is a big Dean Malenko fan.

Sir Adam: Fans, let's get behind him right now. Let's keep him in wrestling.

Phantom: Try to cheer him up. Jamie from Bellmore. Come on! Get in the ring!

Caller: Hi Dean, how're you doing?

Dean Malenko: Good. How are you Jamie?

Caller: I was just wondering: You and Benoit, you guys are like the superstars. And you're so quiet. You don't get enough push in WCW. Don't you think there'd be a better atmosphere for you two in the WWF or something?

Dean Malenko: Well, I don't know. I think the hardest part for me is spending 14 years (in Japan). And Chris spent a lot of time in Japan being trained there also. It's a whole different type of lifestyle in being treated with respect as a wrestler over there. And when I came here it was a real, real shock for me the way guys are treated and the politics and all the stuff that goes behind the scenes. And in two years working for WCW and, actually, an American company it's still hard for me to go to work and see all the things that happen and the way guys are treated. It's just not the Japan style. And that's the style I'm accustomed to. And it's just hard. That's my demeanor, that's Chris's demeanor. That's just the type of people we are.

Al Isaacs: (There are people) really up on the ladder there, up in the higher ranks who have never stepped into the ring against you. Do you think that that's a booker's decision? They're afraid that maybe you'll make them look bad? Dean Malenko: Maybe a little of both maybe. Everybody's wants to look their best when they're on TV if it's a Monday Nitro or a Thursday on Thunder or especially a pay-per-view, which is the big show every month. But it has a lot to do with the booking committee who puts who together. And there's a lot of say-so on the guys who are wrestling on top, sort to speak. And of course they don't want to be out-shined or out-looked upon. So who knows?

M: Right now, who do you enjoy watching wrestling?

Dean Malenko: I always go back to these names only because I've been with them for so long in Japan and everything: guys like Chris Benoit and his intensity, his mind set, his attitude and the pride he takes every time he steps in the ring. I enjoy watching Chris Benoit. As much as Eddie Guerrero's changed his persona in the ring and outside, to me he's probably one of the best if not the best performers out there. I was real, real fortunate in my young career tat I had a chance to step in the ring with the Dynamite Kid and the Original Tiger Mask in Japan. I spent a lot of time with them. And now to come into the eighties and the nineties and see two gentleman like Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit. It's a pleasure to see the art of wrestling still going strong. And just watching these two guys, and there's a couple other guys I still enjoy watching too.

Al Isaacs: I'll tell you, if you step down right now the one match I think I would really regret never seeing would be you against Bret Hart. "Excellence of Execution" against "The Man of a Thousand Holds." I interviewed Bret a few weeks ago and he was talking about how much he respected you. And that is one match that I really would have liked to have seen.

Phantom: Wow! That'd be great!

Dean Malenko: Yeah. It's not that I'm saying this just because you brought up Bret: It's been on my mind. Wrestling isn't as fun as it use to be for me because I've been in it for so long and I've gotten the opportunity to wrestle some great guys and guys that I've always admired through the years. Bret's one of those gentlemen. And he'd be one guy that if I ever chose to retire and that match could ever be set I would definitely come back to wrestle him. He's one guy I definitely want to step in the ring with before I defiantly call it quits.

Al Isaacs: That might be phenomenal.

Phantom: Getting off this track a little bit, Dean, do you miss Japan? Like just being there?

Dean Malenko: Yeah, I miss it a lot. I miss it a lot. Just the respect that they give the wrestlers and the level of competition there. Of course that's where, pretty much, I grew up in the wrestling business and that's where I learned my trade from and such great young talent the way they bring the young talent up from the bottom to the top. There's some really good companies there and I've got some really good friends and I just enjoy the wrestling fans there and the way they treat the wrestlers.

Phantom: Just like walking around Tokyo, though, I meant. Do you miss the actual country?

Dean Malenko: When I first started going back in the early eighties it was fun because it was different, it was unique. But then after a while it becomes a job. I miss pretty much just the actual wrestling fans themselves every night and wrestling, to me, probably some of the greatest talent around today.

Sir Adam: Tommy from West Islip. You're up next on "Get in the Ring: with Dean Malenko.

Caller: Hey, what's going on Dean? I'd like to know if there's any chance that you would team up with Chris Benoit full-time since you guys were ECW tag team champions and very successful when you did team up on Nitro and Thunder?

Dean Malenko: I would love to team up with Chris. I'm very choosy about who my partners are, but unfortunately I don't have control of that. And I've mentioned it several times to people in WCW. If there's one gentleman I'd like to tag team with, that's Chris Benoit. I've said this in the past: I think we mirror each other as far as our pride and the way we look at the wrestling industry and what we take to the ring each and every night.

Sir Adam: Zac from Manhassit Hills, you're up next on "Get in the Ring."

Caller: Hi Dean Malenko, I'd just like to know which wrestling you'd like to go to most of all: WWF, WCW or ECW?

Dean Malenko: It's not about where I am. It's about what I'm doing where I'm at.

Phantom: Definitely. Now Dean, recently, Louie Spiccoli passed away. And, you know, Brian Pillman before him. And they're getting a lot of bad press in wrestling in general because of a lot of prescription drug use. Do you see that at all? Is that a new phenomenon in the business?

Dean Malenko: No. When I'm on the road I pretty much stay to myself and stay away from everybody else. So for me to comment on what other guys are doing, that'd be really hard for me to do being it that I'm not around a lot of the guys at that time. You know, our business is a business. It's like anything else and there's a lot of pressures. And if that's what guys chose to do then, of course, I can't do anything about it. It's a shame that guys are making the money that they're making, the opportunities that they're given and turning around and going on prescription drugs to live on they're daily lives. It really is a shame and I just hope that guys like Brian Pillman and Louie Spiccoli, and there's been guys in the past and there will be guys in the future that'll be doing the same thing, at least if there's one or two guys that can get off what they're doing and learn from this, then maybe it'll be worth it.

Al Isaacs: I think one of the things that fans respect most about you and guys like Chris Benoit is what you brought up before that you are just Dean Malenko. There was never a gimmick. There was never a new character. Was there ever an idea brought up to you for a new persona; pressure put on you to put on a mask or a new gimmick?

Dean Malenko: No. You know people ask me when they kind of know I wrestle but don't really know it's me and they'll say, "What is your gimmick?" And I'll say, "wrestling." (All laugh.) They'll kind of look at me like they're shocked. But that is my gimmick. I just go the ring and I wrestle. It's something that's kind of unique and it stands out because everybody has blonde hair or they're walking to the ring with an animal or whatever the case may be. And it's just something that I chose to do that's always been me. And I think when anybody ever tries to take Dean Malenko out of Dean Malenko they're going to be in trouble.

M: Dean, you've wrestled as a heel and a face. Which do you like better to wrestle as?

Dean Malenko: I'm neither one. I mean I'm just Dean Malenko.

Sir Adam: It sounds like everyone loves you anyway. It doesn't matter what you do. You could choke people.

Dean Malenko: Yeah. Love me, like me, hate me. But respect me and I'll respect you.

Phantom: have you ever used a chair in any of your matches?

Dean Malenko: Just to sit down when I get a little tired.

(All laugh.)

Phantom: John from Westbury, Get in the Ring with Dean Malenko.

Caller: Dean!

Dean Malenko: Yeah.

Caller: How are you?

Dean Malenko: Good. How are you John?

Caller: Alrighty. Guys, I went to school with Dean. Dean was my teacher. And what you guys see on TV as far as holds lie, the guys probably has about another 4000 hidden somewhere under those trunks.

(All laugh)

Sir Adam: Dean, do you remember this guy John?

Dean Malenko: John's going to win $20 for this after the phone.

(All laugh)

Sir Adam: So John you were trained by Dean?

Caller: 'Sure was. Yep, I also helped him out instructing over there for about four years down in Tampa.

Phantom: Interesting.

Al Isaacs: What brings you to Westbury then?

Caller: Business.

Dean Malenko: He tried to steal my holds.

(All laugh)

Al Isaacs: You wouldn't know about it all the way over here in New York.

Dean Malenko: Yeah.

Caller: He's a really great guy out of the ring. You don't see it on TV because he's all business. He's all business at the school but Dean is really a nice guy. I'm glad to see he's taking a little time off. Everybody's going to say, "I can't believe that..."

Phantom: John, you're going to ruin his rep. He's not nice. He's a tough guy.

(All laugh)

Sir Adam: You've got to say at the school he slapped you around!

Dean Malenko: Wait till John doesn't get a Christmas card next year.

(All laugh)

Phantom: John, thanks for calling, man.

Caller: Thanks a lot. Take care.

Dean Malenko: I appreciate it John.

Caller: Bye Dean.

Sir Adam: You've got students all over.

Dean Malenko: Yeah, they come out of the woodwork.

Phantom: Is it tough to remember? Do you remember John?

Dean Malenko: Yeah, I sure do.

Phantom: Oh you do?

Dean Malenko: I talked to him last week.

Phantom: Oh, cool.

Dean Malenko: He's a good friend.

Phantom: Steven of New Hyde Park, you are the next student of Dean Malenko.

Caller: Hello.

Phantom: Hello.

Caller: Hi.

Sir Adam: Caller, speak louder.

Caller: What wrestler would you like to wrestle in all three federations.

Dean Malenko: All three federations? Let me guess: You're talking about WCW, WWF and ECW.

Sir Adam: Yeah.

Dean Malenko: If I had to pick one wrestler?

Phantom: From each place I guess.

Dean Malenko: Oh from each place?

Sir Adam: It's a big question.

Phantom: Yeah, it's a three parter.

Al Isaacs: And if you were a tree...

(All laugh)

Dean Malenko: Yeah, I would "leaf" this question alone.

(All laugh)

Sir Adam: He's always on, this guy!

Al Isaacs: "The Man of a Thousand Punch-lines" over here

Dean Malenko: Probably guys I've never wrestled before. Bret Hart would be number one in WCW of course. He's a gentleman that I've admired and I think he looks at the wrestling industry the way I look at it. Probably in WWF, probably Owen hart because I've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle Owen. I know he's spent some time in Japan and he's got that Japanese mentality when it comes to the ring and that style of wrestling. As far as ECW, pretty much everybody that's there I've had the opportunity to wrestle. Maybe Rob Van Dam.

Sir Adam: Oh, I'd love that match.

Dean Malenko: Or Chris Candido maybe. But all the other guys that have been there I've stepped in the ring with.

Sir Adam: That'd be great matches.

Phantom: What's with these Hart boys? They're all such good wrestlers! Is it that they fed them well? Is there one Hart brother that doesn't wrestle?

Dean Malenko: I'm not really sure. I think most of them did. There's got to be at least 12 or 20 of them.

Sir Adam: Every time they used to drag out like Bruce and you're like, "Where'd this guy come from?" All right, David from Long Beach, Get in the Ring.

Caller: Hello. I'd like to say it's an honor to speak with Mr. Malenko.

Dean Malenko: Thank you David.

Caller: And I have two questions: what do you think was you r best match that you've ever had in your career and what do you think of someone I know you faced in Japan before, El Samurai?

Dean Malenko: The first question, boy, that's a hard question because I've really been blessed and had the opportunity to step in the ring with some really, really great guys. Going back I'd probably have to say Eddie Guerrero. Either Eddie or Chris or Dynamite Kid. It's really hard just to one because they're all such great talents and I'd hate to say one and have the other guy mad at me for not saying him. El Samurai's a great talent; somebody I've stepped in the ring with several times in Japan. And that's just the kind of talent that I was talking about when you have a guy like Samurai or (Jushin) Liger or the (Shinjiro) Otanis or even Ultimo Dragon. The list goes on and on. There's just great, great talent that comes out of Japan.

Phantom: And what'd you feel about that El Samurai?

Sir Adam: That's what he said you fool.

Dean Malenko: Yeah.

Sir Adam: Dean, you've got to feel good when all the fans call up giving you these compliments. I know from time to time we have wrestlers on, just one that stands out in my mind is Glacier came on, he was the nicest guy but yet he didn't get the respect... obviously he hasn't done as much in his career as you but maybe you should turn to radio if you don't do wrestling because everyone's calling up. The phone lines are going crazy here.

Dean Malenko: They've always said I had a face for radio.

(All laugh)

Dean Malenko: I think the way you handle your self on TV and when you speak and when you do interviews I think it transpires over to the general public and I think that's the way people view me. And if that's what they do, I'm flattered by it. I've always been a straight up kind of guy. I don't pull any punches and if I don't like you, I'll tell you.

Sir Adam: You've got time for a few more calls?

Dean Malenko: Yeah, no problem.

Phantom: I don't think you like Mean gene after that last comment.

Sir Adam: Mike from East Meadow.

Caller: Guys, how're you doing?

Sir Adam: Good.

Caller: Dean I know it's a cliche to say what a great wrestler you are, but the only...

Dean Malenko: Say it, say it! (All laugh)

Sir Adam: We're getting him back! Dean, when we see you on WCW we know it's going to be our job...

Caller: Maybe I should say you suck, Dean, I don't know.

Al Isaacs: No!

Sir Adam: Now you're going to get cut off.

Caller: I'm just kidding.

Al Isaacs: It's like Mean Gene's cousin there.

Caller: I'm going to get Mean gene for it. Don't worry about it. I think WCW kind of sucks except for Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko.

Sir Adam: At least you said it eloquently.

Phantom: Yeah. You don't pull any punches do you?

Caller: Sorry, no. I just wanted to know what was it like in ECW when you and Eddie Guerrero and guys like that were actually mat wrestling and you guys had the Sandman swinging barb wires and canes at you?

Dean Malenko: It was like having a clan man... I'm just kidding.

Sir Adam: I want to hear what that was!

Dean Malenko: No matter where I go if I were to go to WWF or go to Japan there's always going to be that other element that's going to be in the dressing room or sharing the show with Dean Malenko or Eddie Guerrero. When I was up in Philadelphia wrestling for ECW, and I've said this in the past and I don't care who I work for, I don't pull any punches, probably some of the greatest fans I've ever wrestled in front of in my life.

Phantom: They're rabid.

Dean Malenko: That was pretty much a stepping stone for Dean Malenko going to WCW and saying maybe it's time to come back here in the United States and wrestle where I feel comfortable and being home again.

Sir Adam: Nick from New Hyde Park.

Caller: Hello.

Sir Adam: Hi Nick.

Caller: Hi how are you doing? Dean Malenko, I think he's a great wrestler and I just wanted to ask him how'd he like working for Paul Heyman compared to Eric Bischoff.

Phantom: Very different styles.

Sir Adam: A lot more hair on Bischoff.

Dean Malenko: I'm pretty much, "If you treat me with respect, I'll treat you with respect." You take care of Dean Malenko; I'll take care of you.

Sir Adam: Sounds good. Non committal political answer.

Al Isaacs: There you go. We're really bringing Dean out of his shell today.

Sir Adam: Mike from New Hyde Park. Big in New Hyde Park, Dean. Mike... Mike are you there?

Caller: Yeah.

Sir Adam: Okay, go ahead.

Caller: I'm just making a couple of comments. Dean Malenko, the best top- talent in WCW and congratulations on your new daughter.

Dean Malenko: Thank you.

Caller: And I was just wondering what you think about Steve Austin's gimmick. (It's) not really a gimmick, but him being himself and can you see yourself getting into something like that?

Dean Malenko: You mean shooting birds and saying three-letter... no...

(All laugh)

Dean Malenko: There's a lot of things in the WWF that I don't agree with and one is pointing your finger, any finger for that matter...

Sir Adam: They sell those middle fingers.

Phantom: Foam fingers.

Dean Malenko: But it's great to see a guy like Steve Austin who I thought for many, many years was extremely talented. I had the opportunity to go to Japan with him when he was wrestling for WCW at the time. Him and Arn Anderson came on tour with us and that was one of the first times I got to talk to Arn who actually went back to WCW and made a proposal about bringing me and Eddie Guerrero in. I got the chance to spend three weeks with Steve and got to know him and talk to him and wrestle with him and what a great guy and what a great talent. And it's good to see a guy like Steve Austin gets the break that he's gotten. And that's somebody letting Steve Austin be Steve Austin.

Phantom: Definitely.

Sir Adam: they've certainly let him do that. And Dean we've given you a chance today to be Dean Malenko and we hope to see you in WCW as Dean Malenko in the future. And we just really appreciate you coming on the program; the fans appreciate it, the hosts appreciate it. We've got to see you back there. Just at least to see you slap around Mean Gene a little.

Dean Malenko: I'll see what I can do.

Phantom: We'll send you this tape. Every time you want a pick-me-up. This whole tape. Just listen to it.

Sir Adam: Yeah. If you're leaning against coming back, just come back on the show. We'll get the callers. We'll tell them to be even nicer.

Dean Malenko: Okie-doke. It was a pleasure guys.

Sir Adam: Thank you very much.

Phantom: thanks Dean.

Al Isaacs: Take care Dean.

Dean Malenko: Take care. Bye-bye.