WWF King of the Ring 1998 - The "Reliving The War" PPV Review

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WWF King of the Ring 1998 is one of the most infamous WWF pay per views of all time. Held in Pittsburgh, PA on June 28th, the show featured a Hell in a Cell encounter pitting The Undertaker against Mankind. During the cell match Mick Foley was thrown off the cage and also put through the cell with a chokeslam; moments in WWF / WWE history that are still discussed to this very day.
Not only was The Undertaker vs Mankind Hell in a Cell match good, but the main event also delivered. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Kane for the WWF Championship is the final match on the card, and this main event would introduce WWF fans to the "First Blood" concept, a match where the winner is the man who draws first blood on his opponent. Owen Hart vs X-Pac is an underrated bout that also takes place at King of the Ring 1998, and we also get a new KOTR tournament winner when semi-finalists Dan Severn, The Rock, Ken Shamrock and Jeff Jarrett compete for the crown.
This video is part of the Reliving The War video series.
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Headbangers & Taka vs Kaientai
03:32 - King of the Ring Semi Finals
06:55 - Al Snow vs Too Much
09:59 - X-Pac vs Owen Hart
12:28 - New Age Outlaws vs New Midnight Express
14:33 - King of the Ring Final: Rock vs Shamrock
18:28 - Mankind vs Undertaker Hell in a Cell
27:50 - Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Kane
32:27 - Final Thoughts / Credits
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[@mypronounsarehewhothinksfo7083]

Every fan has been waiting for this one since RLTW began.

[@chindub6563]

Big facts

[@jameglittlejohn8585]

Mannnnnnn how right you are!!! Lol 🍿

[@jondoe-qi3vo]

I've been wanting osw to do this one

[@darthbahnsen3832]

No doubt this was a pivotal moment in the narratives of these two companys. Bittersweet yet totally effin awesome dude!! *Cheers to all*

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

Love the name!

[@creamreviews1607]

JR's call when Head gets tagged in was legendary! "The Head is now the legal man....What the hell am I saying?"

[@randallrigney420]

I liked when they would fight for it, and they would say "the winner of this match gets head".😂🤣😂

[@mysticalplatypus87]

😢😢😮

[@leemasters5607]

What Mick Foley put himself through here to entertain the fans was truly insane

[@tylercox1875]

Yeah he nearly killed himself twice in the same match

[@catchcan221]

I always think about how out of 20,000 or whatever people that were there that night there must’ve been at least one person who was in the bathroom when Mick got thrown off the cage. That person probably regrets missing it to this day.

[@derjude5758]

If you were dumb enough to hit the bathroom during a mick Foley or undertaker match then that's on them

[@karl1091]

​@@derjude5758 i'd rather go bathroom during a fully naked match between Stacey Kiebler, Lita, Becky Lynch and Trish...than during Taker v Mankinf

[@raabdj]

😂😂😂

[@RocknRobby]

😂😂😂😂 aye this funny as hell

[@RocknRobby]

😂😂😂😂 aye this funny as hell

[@sp0nge1337]

"AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!" Is genuinely the greatest call in Wrestling history.

[@SumnerTube21]

always thought it was "with God as my witness" Had a proper listen and you are right, I'm always gonna say that wrong still. "He's broken in half... and the Undertaker likes it"

[@TheSBleeder]

Nah. Michael Cole: "THE DOG POOP! THE DOG POOP!"

[@fearless1024]

My favorite part of the iconic match is when Taker pins Mick after the tombstone, and Mick kicks his leg a little at the 2 count, showing he still had a little left. I can't think of any greater *birth of a legend* than this match.

[@shaggy7327]

Foley truly ascended to Legendary Status this night.

[@jadasheekstyles2000]

The opening kick at 10:14 of the Xpac Owen Hart match is a neat little callback to their 1994 king of the ring match, only roles reversed.

[@LionHart630]

I was just going to say this! Kid went lighter on Owen than Owen did for him though lmao

[@gst013]

Good call! The kick Owen gave Kid at KOTR looked absolutely brutal. The best version of that move I've ever seen.

[@renegadeloco1029]

The moment we've all been waiting for. Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy touched the heavens... only to fall back down to Earth.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

Vince said in an interview that after the match he was waiting for Foley in the gorilla position and spent about 5 full minutes thanking and praising him for what he went through and then went very serious when he said " but Mick.........never again, don't you dare do anything like that again, you scared the be jesus out of us"

[@mikerohlfs2836]

Taker and Mankind......it was like a Kennedy assassination moment, you REMEMBER where you were,who you were with. I remember thinking to myself, and my friends what's next? We were tape traders, we had seen a lot, it was amazing.

[@SiReTV8929]

Sitting there eating Dominos Pizza 🍕 and not knowing the future, watching THIS PPV just being a kid having fun... Knowing everything now, I was watching history. Thanks for Wrestling Bios!!!!!

[@rickjames2.0]

I'm so sorry you had to endure the Dominos 🍕 it sucked back then.

[@StillWeRide]

​@@rickjames2.0Man I loved Dominos back then. Their pepperoni now always smells like wet dog.

[@rickjames2.0]

@StillWeRide I always thought the Dominos tasted like cardboard in the 80's and 90's.

[@michelvanbriemen3459]

The Undertaker - Mankind match was the very first wrestling match I ever saw thanks to a recommendation back in the early days of KZbin in 2008. I've always known of wrestling, but that match made me a fan for life.

[@AllieRX]

The night that defined Mick Foley's career.

[@nickcliff]

It sure did

[@timbartschwolfman]

A historical moment in the Attitude Era

[@Kas58223]

How he not really hurt himself is the luck of fools and only got a separated shoulder and missing teeth

[@ComXDude]

@@Kas58223 And the mother of all concussions, a dislocated jaw, bruised ribs, and internal bleeding.

[@DofSWORDZ]

@@Kas58223 precisely how

[@cowboydan8532]

This was by the far the most talked about ppv at school during the 90s.

[@camilocuba6927]

I’ve seen the HIAC match a million times and have heard countless interviews on it, but your description of the match made me feel like I was just learning about it for the first time. Nice job.

[@GamerKing50]

As God as my witness, it’s time to review the 1998 King of the Ring.

[@WickedFireBird69]

I remember renting this PPV like it was yesterday. I was a casual fan up to this point... but for the next 6 years, I NEVER missed an episode of Raw. For me, this was where the "Monday night wars" was over.

[@romacechina]

Howard Finkel's reaction at 21:55 to Mick going through the Spanish announce table gets me everytime.

[@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS]

Everyone remembers JR's commentary, but there's something so chilling about King's commentary that really sticks with me. (In my opinion his commentary is a shoot). Just completely defeated and joyless and seemingly annoyed at the risk Mick took on, just a simple "oh my God..." and then "well that's it. He's dead." I was in 6th grade in 98, and this match and Kane's debut are the two wrestling moments that are seared into my mind for life. I'll never forget where I was or who was there or even little details about those nights.

[@nicismagic]

This PPV hooked my right up into wrestling. I watched here and there before with friends I was about the same age as you. Then my cousin told me he had to show me this thing...

[@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS]

@@nicismagic I happened to walk over to a neighbor's house while they were watching Summerslam 1997, and that was the first wrestling I ever saw. The next night was the very first Raw I ever saw, and it included the Debut of DX and Rock Maivia becoming The Rock. Needless to say I was hooked immediately.

[@nicismagic]

@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS it's being said way too much but I don't care that time in wrestling was the best to be a fan and connect with other fans. We were so lucky we didn't know how much.

[@JoeAriminvm]

He's waiting for Foley to move to deliver the "he's dead" line. I bet he held his breath for a few seconds before that.

[@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS]

​@@JoeAriminvmhe says "that's it. He's dead" the second time when he goes through the cage. He doesn't seem to be enjoying himself very much at all.

[@HereticalKitsune]

Dan Severn VS Shamrock could've been a very hard hitting match, I imagine.

[@JoeAriminvm]

It would get six stars in 2023 no doubt

[@stu9856]

Spoiler Alert but it did happen 6 days before SummerSlam 98. I knew that matchup wasn't gonna happen in the finals. Vince wasn't gonna give it away without at least some build & to pop a rating or get some UFC fans to pay for it.

[@JoeAriminvm]

@@stu9856 1) UFC wasn't what it was today until the mid 00s 2) I refer to the six stars rating looking at what Brock and Walter did in the last few years, crowds would've chanted 'boring' back then.

[@leaderofnoone9087]

​@@stu9856most UFC fans did not want to see a another Severn vs Shamrock fight after the second one. And they especially do not want to see a scripted wrestling match involving both.

[@TheSport78]

Love the story-telling in the X-Pac/Owen match. In their 1994 KOTR match, Owen jumped Kid before the match, and X-Pac returned the favor here in 98'.

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

King Of The Ring 98 was one of the first ppv's I ever bought on VHS and it remains an important part of my wrestling childhood for a lot of reasons. A pretty solid show from top to bottom and one of the most memorable from the attitude era

[@toptenguy1]

I watched this live on good ol' Scramblevision. So I was terrified and confused at the same time during the Taker/Mankind match.

[@rdrouynriv]

haha yes, scrambled PPVs I remember those days. For some reason my cable company didn't scramble the audio so it was somewhat enjoyable with JR's commentary.

[@michaelaburns734]

Undertaker and Mankind is the legendary moment. Mankind was made into a Mega Star after that match.

[@brettrossi034]

Get it while you still can boys!! It's Reliving the War PPV style !!:) Also, seeing Mankind with a tooth in his nose taking a beating AND the thumbtack bumps is insane to this day. I do remember Bruce Prichard on something to wrestle talk about how Mankind came to the back apologizing because he didn't take the tack bumps, but obviously he did this with the tacks in his back. Truly scary stuff, being absolutely concussed. They gave everything they had to the fans this night and every night

[@jojobeware4873]

I always thought that it was a thumbtack in his nose

[@ajk]

It's amazing honestly, concussed as he was, that he had the presence of mind to roll into the tacks on the backdrop, knowing the bump fell short of them some.

[@dogkingify]

Seeing Taker in his biker gear in 98 is really telling how much he wanted to change things up.

[@schizzo8959]

KotR 98 is where one of the most famous wrestling matches ever happened. I have no idea how Foley is still with us after all the things he did.

[@jdore8]

This PPV means that the Brawl for All is coming up soon. I'd like to congratulate WCW for pulling back within WWF's weekly win total soon.

[@jessecool8623]

Foley is the unsung hero of the war. The abuse he took and the uniqueness to his matches was unparalleled in the two companies.

[@JoeAriminvm]

When all this'll sadly end in 3 years time, this will definitely be a bookmark.

[@Captain-Palsy]

I remember seeing this when it was live, and several months later, Mick signed a copy of his first book.

[@Mambaman7771]

EXCELLENT that you mentioned François playing Sub-Zerro in the 1995 MK film. It's cool to see that two things I love kind of got mixed together that night, albeit under wild circumstances.

[@tafua_a]

It's less cool to see Glacier though

[@Mambaman7771]

@@tafua_a Loved Kanyon tho

[@AndyZoric]

I did not watch the PPV when it happened, but living just outside of Pittsburgh at the time I was driving home from work and the local sports report on my favorite FM station at the time was all about this even the day after. This was peak pop culture penetration for wrestling at this time. Anyway that's my memory of this event.

[@mrbigdogmk]

At the time, all my friends were WCW fans. I bought this PPV and they were hooked. Foley was amazing

[@toptenguy1]

Fun fact: In the past 8 PPVs, this is the SIXTH TIME that Rock has fought Ken Shamrock. (with 2 more times in the next 5 PPVs for a crazy 8 PPVs out of 13).

[@RetroDanno]

One of the first WWF PPVs I bought on VHS back in the day for obvious reasons. Still have it now! Easily one of if not the best WWF show of 1998. Mick Foley is one of my heroes. Dude (Love) sacrificed his body so much for our entertainment you can't not at least respect him. That story about Vince thanking him but telling him never to do it again hits an emotional note. There's an extra segment at the end of the VHS release after Kane wins the WWF Championship and the PPV ended. Mankind comes back out AGAIN to attack Austin but gets a Stunner as a result. He's helped to the back afterwards. The crowd start chanting "BULLS**T" due to Austin losing. Stone Cold looks at the camera, nods in agreement with the crowd and yells "You tell that son of a b**** (McMahon) that Stone Cold wants his belt back!" He would win it back the following night on Raw. I'll end by saying that Triple H is a lot of bi-things but lingual isn't one of them. And no I don't think he meant to say that out loud!

[@KIrvin_The_Scholar]

This was the night, Mankind became a Legend. I remember watching this when I was a kid & it still gives me the same level of emotion & excitement 25 years later

[@daveyadict_]

I think this is one of the most well known ppvs of the 90s and early 2000s. The spots that mick did....I can't even fathom

[@austinsmith7731]

Man i wish they just let Kane have it for longer. Knowing what happened the next night on Raw is just sad as a Kane fan

[@Kas58223]

For me it was someone different in that spot definitely deserved to have it longer than he did

[@austinsmith7731]

​@@Kas58223 if it was Rey Mysterio then hes also on my list hahaha

[@ianC62884]

This was my 14th birthday. I'm from the southern US, but we were traveling to see family up north when my dad surprised me with tickets and a stop overnight in PA. I'll never forget it. I held on to my ticket and had Mick Foley sign it for me in 2020. Thanks for the awesome video.

[@commanderjoj6426]

I remember watching this PPV and thinking that Mick Foley may not register pain the way we mere mortals do.

[@daviddee9336]

I still remember getting the VHS of this it being one of the very few WWF videos rated 18. Used to love watching it as a kid with all my friends and just thinking it was the craziest thing we’d ever viewed.

[@StillWeRide]

I paid 50 bucks for my VHS copy at Suncoast in the mall. Wore that tape out

[@dariushenry88]

I remember watching this PPV live. I wasn't even 10 yet and man, the HIAC match was one of the coolest things possible.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

I was watching this on PPV, a friend from school was there a few rows behind The King and JR. What an epic night.

[@zacharythomason7359]

Awesome

[@vincentalmojera5412]

Omg it's here, it's here King of the Ring 98 , I have read so much about this ppv and now I finally get to see it. Yes. Another masterpiece by Wrestling Bios. I have so much fun watching this war with you. Thanks so much brother.

[@Eric-wu7bp]

Kane’s 2 sleeve attire on this night is one of the greatest wrestlers attires ever

[@LordHeath1972]

First thing I did after watching this was to go back and re-watch the entire PPV!

[@freddiejohnson6137]

Nothing beats staying up late watching this quite honestly wasn't prepared for what we witnessed. I had just finished my GCSEs at the time so had plenty of late nights. Staying up past midnight for both episodes of Raw and PPVs felt essential for me and my friends at the time and it was reasons like what happened to Mick Foley that made it impossible to miss.

[@michaelnagle5482]

The fact Mick came out to interfere in the main event after THAT MATCH is pure insanity.

[@stu9856]

Mick did another run in after the PPV went off the air so Austin could give a stunner & give the fans a pop after the heel won.

[@NunChukka]

At the time I honestly believed Mick Foley was going to die during this match. I was a teenager so I was amazed and loved the match. Watching it back it’s still amazing and scary as hell. His head comes millimetres away from the monitor on the table.

[@DebitAdams]

I loved that Kane only had his hand exposed lol I was thinking as a kid there is no way Kane will lose

[@SuperND87]

My cousin had this recorded and was the first wrestling match I ever saw. After that I was hooked.

[@deandredukes95]

Mick Foley truly is a God to survive 2 terrifying falls

[@Kas58223]

I absolutely thought he was gone even Undertaker thought this that was scary the first fall then the second one and foley still got up and continued on with the match

[@illstreamthat]

And making it back out in the main event.

[@Kas58223]

@@illstreamthat yea he did and then of air he did again and Austin stunner him again

[@rdrouynriv]

The first hit was risky as hell, but at least he had the skill to land on his shoulder and avoid harming his head/neck. I don't know what he was thinking with the second spot. Just random luck that he came out of that without seriously crippling himself.

[@shady3legend]

Probably one of the most iconic PPV's of the attitude era with wrestlemania 14, 17, SS 98

[@dtxgonzo]

I was definitely one of those people you talked about at the end of the Foley/Taker match that had never seen anything like that before. I was strictly WWF at the time so I had NEVER seen anything like that. 17yo me and my friends were in shock watching this PPV

[@AnimeGun]

This was my first Wrestling match I ever went to. Seeing everything in person was just so different than watching on tv.

[@Zerato]

No matter how many times I've seen Foley fall I still think "I watched a man die"

[@irighterotica]

I didn't get to see Mick's fall at the time, but I do remember my friends who did talking about it. Seeing it for the first time is shocking, horrifying, and exciting-live or not, it doesn't matter.

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

For those who didnt know Pat Patterson's partner of 40 years Louie passed away earlier that night and he still went out there and he still went out there and performed. What a Boss Patterson was. RIP 🫡😇🙏🏿

[@thesprock5270]

That kid diddler? No thanks.

[@michaelreich4827]

Hmmm.....normally AIDS is much more effective.

[@Kirkenburer74]

I don't celebrate rapists

[@derjude5758]

Patterson cheated on him a million times so I doubt he loves Louie too much

[@illkid86]

​@@derjude5758 Patterson liked young dudes and harassed them

[@MR.__G]

Watching this ppv as a 7 year old was incredible.

[@ExtremeEgg80]

God I still remember watching this with my friends, all still in highschool, that fall was just crazy to see it live on the PPV.

[@siksic6192]

I remember being a cactus jack fan in ecw but not liking the mankind or dude love character at all going into this match. After seeing what happened on raw I bought the replay to see it for myself and I felt like it was the closest I ever want to come to seeing a live execution. I remember thinking "mandkind, dude love, cactus jack, I don't care what your name is, for the love of God stay down." I've been a huge Foley fan since this night.

[@shawnlevy4381]

This Era of Wrestling can NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER be replicated. Best ear of wrestling by far.

[@TomGorian]

Probably the most anticipated PPV Review of RTW even more than Survivor Series 1997

[@darthbahnsen3832]

Would you guys say this is THE defining moment from the attitude era? I cant think of a topper. Weaker argument: This event, more precicely foley's descent and aftetmath, was the equivalent of WCW meeting with a doctor and getting the horrible 'You have a year, maybe 2 at best. Make them precious.' diagnosis.

[@zlinedavid]

And then with that two year diagnosis, WCW had a decent couple of months, spiraled into depression, attempted suicide in January (Fingerpoke of Doom), but wound up just shooting themselves in the foot, which got infected and subsequently amputated. They then proceeded to just continually drop acid and stay in a nonsensical state until they died at that two year mark anyway.

[@1985JM]

I will never forget watching this event live on sky sports in the early hours , WWF was unmissable back then

[@timbartschwolfman]

King of the Ring 1998 in my opinion is one of the best PPV'S for WWE in 1998

[@GriffinNoel1]

JR's "Good God almighty" is what gets replayed all the time. But for me what really sells it was King's "My God."

[@cerburrows9380]

For me it's King's "that it he's dead" after the second fall. He's doesn't sound like he's trying to exaggerate, he genuinely thinks he's dead

[@coryshannon3815]

If I had to show a non-fan one match, I'd go with Taker vs Mankind in HIAC. Because if you show them Flair vs. Steamboat, or Malenko vs. Guerrero, they'd never get it. But if you show them Taker vs. Mankind from this event, they can't overlook the brutality of it. Kudos to Bios description of "Gunn/Cornette's stand off into Chyna's low blow" going faster than it actually happened at the event.😁

[@popeyedoyle6360]

The ultimate circus event.

[@thejoojooman6538]

The drop-kick that X Pac hits Owen Hart with is a reversal of the start of match they had @ the 1994 King Of The Ring (Owen took his head off).

[@kurtbarlow5408]

Ken Shamrock finally getting the push (albeit a short one) that he deserved

[@dford192]

I think I was in elementary school when this match happened and I watched it with one of my best friends at the time. We were both so utterly shocked and stunned. It's a moment I don't think I'll ever forget.

[@jamesjackson3766]

My favorite Jim Ross call happens in the hiac match. Good God all mighty

[@barneylowe129]

Every fan went into that arena unbeknownst to them that they would be the envy of everyone they will come across forever. Part of wrestling history. Imagine being able to say I was there live

[@AFCManUk]

I always knew Kaientai AS Taka and Funaki....so it's funny watching them on opposite sides :)

[@DLKnightstick1989]

That HiaC match will forever be one of the most iconic wrestling matches of all-time. It is insane to me that that wasn't even the main event for the show.

[@mrbransformer4184]

Awesome the drop we’ve all been waiting for!!

[@mikeharless4596]

This PPV shaped helped shape my senses for violence and destruction, as a kid lol great memories brought back back this one, friend 😃

[@DannieDecentVlogs]

One of the most anticipated pay-per-views so far in this series. Glad I got in before youtube could mess with it

[@Rando1975]

I remember predicting at the time that Mankind would get thrown of the cage. Of course, I didn't think he'd get thrown through the top of the cage as well. And I seriously questioned Mankind's sanity when he wanted to continue.

[@burgermania87]

11 years old it was my first time going to a WWF event. So many vivid memories.

[@everythingmainecooncat4938]

This was my first paid pay per view - 14th birthday with the boys. Watched plenty over at a friends house with a "black box descrambler" (anyone remember those??) Damn what a ride. Legendary PPV.

[@tashrif46]

22:20 the single most iconic era of the Attitude Era. Nothing was going to stop the WWF from winning the Monday Night Wars after that moment. Big respect to Mick Foley and the Undertaker for telling an incredible story

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

2:52 this is sad Pat left soon afterwords as his husband died that day

[@glynquigley4364]

Like you I vividly remember watching this live. They had me pumped and shocked by the HITC match. It was about 2:30 on a Monday morning so that makes it even more impressive

[@tahj727]

Happy 25th Anniversary King of the Ring 1998! My All Time favorite WWF PPV!

[@thegrimspeaker8987]

Micks work over the course of time was never really appreciated till this match. He put his body on the line his whole career and finally got the legendary status he so deserves and will pay the price the rest of his life.

[@lexkanyima2195]

That match led him to become WWF champion

[@stevenramirezmistersmokes6379]

Proud 2 honestly say I was watching this Pay Per Veiw Live when it happened. OG WWF#1

[@kevinconn]

We definitely are desensitized BUT for some reason, this still holds up. I still get goosebumps. I guess you never forget your first, lol

[@YoungAsparagus]

Welp here it is . Best damn wrestling match of all time .

[@simoneddy1174]

Love the callback to KOR 93 by X-Pac at the beginning of the match with Owen

[@HoustonHardHitters01]

These are addictive my dude you are doing a great service to fans of wrestling especially growing up in the Attiitude Era

[@andyneilson3301]

WWE should employ this man when it comes to looking back at the history books 📚

[@zacharythomason7359]

Totally agree with you

[@tomlehmann306]

This made mic foley a legend, main eventer, eventually world champion.

[@marsaillecanty765]

This was the night WCW lost the war after this pay-per-view there was no looking back for the WWF all-time legendary pay-per-view

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

These are just such a perfect compliment to the ongoing Reliving The War series. What's even better is the fact that we are officially into the beginning of some of the absolute best WWF, these good times were over before we had to "get the F out". 😄👍

[@AmazingGuy13]

It's cool that they're bringing the PPV back this year

[@SamTheMan688]

In Saudi..

[@hankdatank09]

Remember this event vividly. Feels like yesterday, glad you’re finally here.

[@jokersgiddygrin]

My first reliving the war watching on upload day. I've binged the whole series including ppvs since January

[@georgelea4297]

Me and my mum stayed up to watch this she's a big Austin fan, we were both amazed and stunned by the HIAC match It's a memory that'll stick with me

[@southpaw578]

I met Mick twice when WWF was in Hershey PA. I worked at Hershey Park and our office was where their cars would pull up. Both times he asked me questions where certain rides were and was so cool and humble. He drove separately with his family loaded in a mini van. He always came off as a little kid in a man’s body. He asked me where the new roller coaster was and asked if I’d show him and ride it with him. I was so down but my buzz kill supervisors wouldn’t let me because I was on the clock.