Some people talk with their hands. Our hands are a major way we express ourselves. And expression is a critical part of professional wrestling, just as much as the wrestling itself. So which wrestlers’ taunts and gestures made Nate and Eric’s Mount Rushmores? What evoked emotion—happiness and hatred alike? What symbolized excellence, and what symbolized rebellion? And what’s just a thumb? Listen up and find out!

Ric Flair/Jay Lethal Woo-Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct7IWkiiWgA&pp=ygUSd29vIG9mZiBqYXkgbGV0aGFs

Hulk Hogan's Wind-Up Ear Cup: https://youtu.be/aE08Am4_bqc?si=QapSnoDW-zlz2WJ2&t=525

SNL "Suck It Trebek": https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl/video/7273192840279248158?lang=en

Let's Get Ready to Suck It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordVBW1JL4Q&pp=ygUjdHJpcGxlIGggbGV0J3MgZ2V0IHJlYWR5IHRvIHN1Y2sgaXQ%3D

Cougar Jay's hind-end cougar print: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rq_azufF0&pp=ygUVZ3JlYXQgbXV0YSBjb3VnYXIgamF5

Great Muta mists the Giant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrqWw6VPRs&pp=ygUWZ3JlYXQgbXV0YSBtaXN0cyBnaWFudA%3D%3D

Are you ready? Nate and Eric break it down--"it" being the greatest factions in wrestling history. Which star-making, storyline-driving, historically and culturally impactful groups of wrestlers individually came together to collectively dominate their respective federations? Which ones are too sweet? Which ones dodged a bullet? Which linked their legacies in blood? (And aren't Nate and Eric really *your* favorite wrestling faction?)

Also: Don't you want an "Americana In Your Loins" T-shirt worse than you need your next meal? Tell four friends about The Mount Rushmore of Wrestling, send us proof via email at 123Rushmore@gmail.com, and you'll be entered into a drawing for a too sweet new T-shirt.

Clips from this episode:

Four Horsemen - 4 Horsemen The Elite (youtube.com)

NWO - Hulk Hogan forms The nWo with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash: WCW Bash at the Beach 1996 (youtube.com)

The Bloodline - Roman Reigns Entrance after War Games: WWE SmackDown, Dec. 16, 2022 (youtube.com)

DX- Shawn Michaels officially names D-Generation X: Raw, October 13, 1997 (youtube.com)

D-Generation X State of the Union Address, Special Report - RAW IS WAR, February 2nd, 1998:

It's like they always say, whatever (fill in the female valet's name) wants, (fill in the female valet's name) gets. So find out which female managers and valets get a prestigious spot on Eric's and Nate's Mount Rushmores. Which amazing talkers, heat-seekers, cat-fighters, and beauty queens did the guys consider before etching their top four into the mountain? Listen and find out, sweethearts!