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You know, good for nothing,
eggs sucking dumb. We did it our

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way because we love it that way. We love it that way, And

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I have this wonderful gut feeling and
I've had it all my life. When

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it's time to go, I think
it's now it's time to go. Welcome

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back to the Lapsed Funk. Funking
in the Attitude Era is the next stop

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on our journey through the life of
the most consequential pro wrestler to ever live,

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Terry Funk. Yes, and Boss, I'm sure you became mostly acquainted

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with the Funker in the attitordre at
WWF. No, Oh, yeah,

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absolutely that that's that would be my
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with Terry Funk. I'm trying to
remember any other time. Yeah, I

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mean, I know I heard the
name for sure, but I can't imagine

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where I would have watched anything of
his or really appreciated his work, you

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know. And I remember thinking when
they when they made the connection that Chainsaw

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Charlie was Terry Funk. I said, oh, okay, like I knew

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who it was. It wasn't a
who. Yeah, No, it wasn't

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a who. It was definitely a
oh Okay, that makes sense. It

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wasn't a Jim Knightheart. No,
no, I was actually disappointed that it

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wasn't Jim Knightheart. Actually, so
the only person in the world who was

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upset that he that he was,
you know, unceremoniously excommunicated from degeneration x

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on raw rank And that's any the
only person, the only person who was

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upset about that. But anyway,
so not a who in the form of

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Jim the avul lightheart Butt. In
fact, he in the form of the

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Funker. And as we've gone through
his illustrious career from you know, Japan

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to Puerto Rico to Germany to ECW
to WCW to WWF in the mid eighties,

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I tried never to lose sight of
the fact that most people listening to

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this very well may have become first
introduced to Terry Funk in the WWF in

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nineteen ninety seven eight when he was
there side by side with the guy who

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we've clearly established by now in the
lapsed Funk was truly his chum of the

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nineties in mcfoley, be it to
callow each other up in Japan or creating

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memories in ECW, whatever the case
might be. It certainly paid back all

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of the sort of mentorship that Terry
Funk showed to McK foley when Mick got

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on with WWF and took off and
was able to bring the Funker in to

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compliment his act. Well, you've
actually covered the episode of Raw, the

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last one of nineteen ninety seven,
where Chainsaw Charlie makes his debut in the

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WWF, and we'll get into,
of course, why it was Chainsaw Charlie

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coming out of that box at Nasau
Coliseum and not Terry Funk. That's what

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I I'm always curious about. I
have no clue why that was the case.

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It's funny, after you read everybody
explain it, you still end up

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with no clue why it actually happened, which is about as Terry Funk.

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I thought it was just a good
idea. You know, why not had

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nothing to do with it, you
know, leaving me at the last minute

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to go check on your horse pal. I can guarantee you that why not

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Chainsaw Charlie. You know, I'm
a fan of Chainsaw Charlie. Still don't

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know exactly what it is, but
I got a pair of panty hose here

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and that seems like a start.
Don't ask me where school from. By

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the way, I don't listen.
My pantyhose are my business. Terry.

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I want to talk to you about
attitude. I know you've had a long

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career. I want to talk about
attitude. I want to talk about maybe

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an era of attitude that might suit
your needs. Oh, if it's a

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I really appreciate you considering my needs. But I always like to think of

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myself as coming to a place like
this because I'm here to fulfill your needs,

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and you know, I want to
have to decided I might come down,

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come up here and see if I
can, you know, make a

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difference. Well, actually, I
appreciate that we already had a guy do

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that too, but didn't really go
over too well. I'll tell you this,

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Terry. I'm looking here at this
online chronology of your career, and

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I noted that you said you would
never work Puerto Rico again after Bruce of

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Brodie was murdered in nineteen eighty eight. It looks like just a few months

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later you wrestled T and T in
Puerto Rico. Is that true? More

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importantly, did you wrestle on TNT
in Puerto Rico, because then we got

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real problems. Yeah, that's one. That's one thing Terry did, cross

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office list wrestling TNT on tnt on
USA. I suppose you could wrestle mister

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Usa on TNT on USA. You
do that too. And among the many

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things Terry Funk went ahead and did, those aren't among them. We're here

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to talk about what he did do
in the late nineties when you know,

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of course, as we all know, more eyeballs seem to be on pro

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wrestling in this country than at any
other time period in history. As the

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WWFNWCW going to war, and as
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Funker never really sets down and where's
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his phone does tend to ring when
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it all Japan, New Japan War. Be it you know, Jim Hurd

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trying to break through in the late
eighties and to establish himself as the new

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owner of the NWAWW ship. Be
at ECW trying to get something off the

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ground. Be it FMW trying to
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big two in Japan. That's when
the Funker's phone rings, and that's where

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the Funker specializes, coming in again, making a difference, and then going

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on ahead on down the road the
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the second he feels it all boxed
in, and he started his ww frond

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nine ninety seven boxed in, and
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on through his decision actually go with
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he was part of the ignominious and
brutal end of that company. Not that

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he was an author of any of
the key storylines that you can point to

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as downfalls, but certainly the Funker
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when the going gets tough in an
office that of course is replete with his

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disciples, people who knew him accredited
him with helping them in the business.

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In the case of JJ Dillon,
for a brief period of time after Vince

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Russol lost power in January of two
thousand, was basically running WCW long with

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Kevin Sullivan. You better believe JJ
Dillon who really cut his teeth in the

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Amarilla territory when you know the Funk
brothers were running it shortly after the death

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of Dory Funk Senior. You better
believe JJ Dillon knew knew who to call

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as well. So it's time to
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up to Atlanta one more time.
But I would say short of you know

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that the dusty stuff on Georgia Championship
Wrestling, which was on TBS, and

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you I don't have the ratings handy
from nineteen seventy whatever the fuck or nineteen

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eighty, but this has to be
the most watched part of Funk's career.

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Besides, you know, if you
count like one match against Holkogan on Saturday

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Night's main event, which isn't to
discount that because frankly, that probably is

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the most watched match Terry Funk ever
had, right this is probably the most

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sustained, the most watched sustained run
that Terry Funk had every single week,

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and certainly, again just based on
demographics alone, the folks around to listen

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to the lapsed fan here ten years
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learned all about him here as well, and they certainly, you know,

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talked a lot about his history with
Terry Funk on WWF television. A lot

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of the history that we've covered.
They didn't even really necessarily shy away from

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their ECW history together, because,
as we're about to learn, Paul Hayman

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wasn't exactly operating at arm's length with
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they were quite chumming in fact,
when it came time to find a

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place to stage this new concept called
Shotgun Saturday Night, the newsletters reporting Paul

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Hayman was actually willing to extend a
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to basically replicate the entire look in
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the nineties over on that short lived
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Night, And of course Shotgun Saturday
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and go without Terry Funk showing up
and making it very clear why it might

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not be the best idea to do
something like this live and to call the

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Funker on short notice to come in
with his you know, just personal standard

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of making an impact and leaving them
buzzing, even if you violate every single

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rule you're given before you go out
there. So looking forward to this.

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It's a media part of Terry's career. It's an underappreciated part of Terry's career

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in my opinion. Sure, sure, because it isn't you know, there's

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not a moment that's a monument or
a memorial to Terry Funk in this whole

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run. Necessarily he's kind of part
of the scenery. But in a way

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that really proves that despite the age
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whatever, still the best performers in
the game, still able to leave you

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talking about his match second almost none
on an entire card populated with what we

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know, young and dynamic workers.
So we'll talk about that. We'll talk

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about so much more. Now.
When you think about you think about Chainsaw

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Charlie, what do you think about
I think about I mean, the first

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thing comes to mind is the is
the dumpster match at Wrestling your fourteen?

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Oh? Sure you you were there, as was I, although we didn't

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know each other, That's right,
we were there and I loved that.

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I loved that match I had.
I thought it was so much fun and

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different and yeah, I got a
kick out of that. Yep. Generally

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I realized that Terry Funk was like
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he suffered just a as it turned
out, a horrendous hematoma taking that power

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bomb off the apron and of the
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They even showed it on Rob briefly, as we'll get into, but

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that was a real As far as
the litany of injuries the Terry Funks offered

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in his career, that was what
the hell is that? It's a Philly

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Philly level. Uh you know,
bumps for the funker. Yeah, ecw

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the level, bumps for the Funker. Uh there. And you know I've

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talked about this before, but it
bears repeating here if we're going to talk

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about Terry Funk and WWF as Chainsaw
Charlie. One of my most vivid memories

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of make you know appointment viewing Monday
Night Raw during the Monday Night Wars,

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making sure my ass was in front
of that television at eight o'clock, all

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homework done, no no reliance on
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I had to go to school Tuesday
knowing what happened. One of the

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things was this show long mystery about
who's inside the box over at Nasau Coliseum,

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which you know as the Crow Flies
is fairly close to where I was

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watching the show at the time.
Not really, but logistically the following was

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possible. My brother and I look
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Dad's not home yet, story that
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don't know, and that treats about
every commercial break they show this box on

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the stage and the Monday Night Raw
entrance set and talk about who the hell

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is in this box? What is
in this box? Find out tonight and

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we just you know, it goes
and goes, and it's the night goes

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before they make the reveal. My
brother and I look at each other and

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go, what if Dad's in the
box? What? Oh god? The

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box pops open and our father walks
out on mother night? Yeah, I

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mean it's like, of course that
wouldn't happen, but you know what,

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until the box opens, so you
never know, you kind of don't let

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the thought rest, you know,
it could have been my mom? Right?

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Well, yeah, first I wasn't
sure, even though I hadn't met

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you yet. Have you ever sat
their boss watching a live wrestling show and

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thought, maybe your mom's coming out
any moment that would be terry Funk because

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it gets I can be looking at
her like right next to me, like

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I watched the I wonder if mom
than me. I'll tell you what I

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mean. I'll tell you what's funny. I can't necessarily be your mom out

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there, but the closest thing I
can do is put this panty hose on

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my head and see what happened from
there. I'll go ahead and put it

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on my head. I'll tell you
what you know. I used to be

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a big fan of a panty hose. I'm used to Okay, I repeat,

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I used to be a big fan
of the panty hose. We'll get

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into that. By the way,
fucking bizarre. I said, you know,

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hey, I might as well wearing
on my head, Yeah, I

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said, I asked Vince mcman.
I said, hey, Vince, Yes,

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have you ever worn panty hose on
your head? Yes? I have.

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Did you like it? Uh?
Well? Uh? To be honest,

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mister Funk, what I enjoyed about
it really was not what was going

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on on my head, but was
going on down my pants. That depends

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what head you're talking about, pal
oh, because my member was shiny and

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throbbing, because I just I had
I had a veiny, gargantuan Darry had

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no idea what he's walking into.
But then like fifteen seconds later, Vince

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is saying words like Gary Danshulan,
like, we're talking about like a a

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pillar, right, A pillar of
sexuality and a pillar of the community.

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How can you be both? Well, not everybody can be. Vincent Kennedy

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McMahon O a pillar of community sexuality
in my pants? Well, you know,

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and critics say a pillar of community
theater by the way, Ah,

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you know what, I uh,
I think I'm gonna go a head and

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put my head down the toilet in
Vince, you know, we were talking

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the other day and I got to
thinking about this this chain saw Charlie idea,

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and at first I said, you
know, I'm not so sure that's

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for me, But that got to
thinking about it, and I said,

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you know, you can call me
chainsaw Charlie, and you can put a

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chainsaw on my head, but you
know what's missing. You know, I'm

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going to go ahead and say what's
missing. And I'm serious about this.

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There's a pair of petty hose on
my head covered with baby powder. If

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we can go there, I can
go there. If you know what I'm

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saying. I see, Well,
I'll tell you what. I'm certainly not

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a posed to the idea. I'm
not sure if I'm sold on the idea,

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but you know the I you know, maybe maybe what raw needs is

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a man with pantyhose on his head, right, the chance to to put

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a I don't know, there's just
something that tickles my balls about the chance

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to put a top star on a
wrestling dynasty that isn't the McMahon. Isn't

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the McMahon's on my television in a
complete lampooning of his reputation and his heritage

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and the level of respect he's built
up in the business. Find a way

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to talk him into showing up on
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See, Because what I appreciate about
you, Terry, is the fact

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that brother, what Terry not Terry, Terry, Terry. I'm sorry,

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I'll go back to nitro dude.
So what I appreciate about a man like

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yourself is that they know how to
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no, not to take themselves as
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what they know how to keep their
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them in front of the whole world. More precisely, they know that what

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makes me happy makes them happy.
Tests correct, So put the panmeos on

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your fucking head before I call elder
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Huh, I'd like to be middle
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is there? Have you? You
know people have been pointing this out?

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Hold on, let me look at
this. Is that is that on your

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side? That noise that people are
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that I'm seeing messages about it.
I know, I got that. I

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don't know. I don't drive me
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I've I've heard it. I've heard
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TJ's doing, probably, you know
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even talk about this yet. I
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it. Maybe that's that's like a
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hope it isn't too bad, because
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and I haven't heard it, you
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it happens until the episode comes out. But you know, let me.

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Let me try to because I'm doing
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here with the We can edit this
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sure, I'm recording the sound waves
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Give it a listen. Okay,
I think this is it. You

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can only can only hear it my
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that's why hold on. It's like
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sounds like a you know, like
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when you export a file and it's
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it almost sounds like the in when
the times I've heard it, it

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reminds me of in Twin Peaks,
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dream sequence who's walking and talking backwards
backwards? Oh, oh, that's where.

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Do you think it's reversing our audio
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don't know. I have no clue. Maybe it's take the tail into something.

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through a filter and see if I
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it is sort of like this weird
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audio or way it backwards what if
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too. I'm working on that.
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should be able to hear it now, all right, see what it is?

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April seventh, Good afternoon. This
is a news program service for Wednesday,

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November nineteenth, nineteen eighty. We
have twenty one stories for you,

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including six sports stories. The following
change has been made up to now on

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today's final lineup, Number ten,
titled skating has been dropped and we're now

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ready for transmission deck. Last summer, two members of the ITEAM were driving

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past former Mayor Rizzo's house at kyw
Our sister station in Philadelphia. He had

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an epic showdown with the former mayor, Frank Rizzo. We could have shot

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here, so we don't know.
Well, I take that thing out,

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I'm looking, We're off throw it
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Just days after protesters tried to take
down the statue, a former mayor and

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police commissioner Frank Rizzo the city of
Philadelphia and did it themselves. Let me

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tell you something, you know,
I know, you know, I've been

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around a long time and I just
can't understand. Sorry, I'll another stand

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barman from Channel three News. Can
we uh buy sir? How are you

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get away from me? You crumb? That's the challenge, except I'll put

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my dog away and I'll come back. And you got one, two,

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three, and I'll do it along
with you in that back of that fence,

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just the three of us, four
of us me and you show you

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what kind of a man you are. You're less than a man. Okay,

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you're a crumb creep. And I
wouldn't take that off of nobody.

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And there's three of you, and
I'm by myself, and when it's over,

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there'll be nothing to it, win
or lose. Okay, but you

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don't have the courage. You're a
real crumb bum. I t on alone.

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You're a crumb bumb. Well,
it's the last thing I am one

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of the ring. You're a coward. You're a yellow sneak. And if

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you want to now what I say, let's forget all the rules of this

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great country we live in. I
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three of you is just me.
There're a crumb creep, coward. You

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can't take you don't. You won't
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up. We're not here to fight. We're here to get some answers to

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some questions. That's what I want
to fight you. Why is that because

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you're a crumb, creep, lush
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Man, you are a lush.
I can tell by looking at you.

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I was a cop all my life, and I know a lush when I

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see one, and you're a lush. You're going to have the hall of

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a story on that. Philip So, I say, Philip, so Philly,

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So, Phily, So phili So
feel the sun. Bozo's biceps and

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bullshit? What do you say,
Boss? What do you say? Let's

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forget all the rules of this fine
country we live in Philadelphia, mayor Frank

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Rizzo style, Let's go to the
birthplace of the United States, where our

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founding fathers met, discuss, debated, and formed a new country. I

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think it's about time we sign our
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forge a new path by paying tribute
to the past. And well, no,

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it won't be April seventh, Bagel's
Biceps and Bacon as part of WrestleMania

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Weekend in Philadelphia. It will be
our very own Bozo's biceps and bullshit brunch.

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Yes, it will be Punchline Philly, neon eastern Sunday, April sect

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seventh. I hereby declear the fucking
games because the lapsed fan is fire bombing

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the city of brotherly Love. We're
back in the spot and this is high

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level shit for a high level podcast
on a high level year of commemoration,

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this being our tenth year. Anyone
who's going to WrestleMania within the sound of

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our voice and two three four degrees
separated from that, your presence is hereby

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required. Yes, the club is
Punchline Philly. It's in the Fishtown section

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of Philly. From what I'm told
the emerging Fishtown entertainment scene welcomes the lapsed

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fan to the stage the only WrestleMania
preview and recap live show that you'll need.

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Yes, at all kinds of hijinks
from there. Boss. We took

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the stage in La last WrestleMania weekend
and it was it was a tough night.

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It was a tough time of night, you know, North Hollywood,

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a Sunday night. People said,
God, what are you doing? Place

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was jammed, place was rocking.
Every One was left wanting more. And

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this time the time slot is perfect. The day is perfect, the city

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is perfect, Philly tlf Bozo's Biceps, bullshit brunch, the reality is perfect.

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Let me tell you we're gonna fill
Philly hard. That's right, fill

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it like a fucking cheese steak.
We're coming with that fucking who. And

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you know we go to completion every
single time, just like the lapsed Funk.

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Hey, you know we need to
finish two sometimes. This is how

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it was meant to be the crossroads
of this Lapsed Funk journey. And all

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we've learned about Philly and E.
C. Dub and the Philly scene and

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the Philly mentality, we've at least
in your mind at least boss, we've

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built these these rabid Philly wrestling fans
up to be almost psychopathic, I would

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imagine. So they're hungry for carnage, barbarians at the gate. Yes,

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and what do we do We book
a show in March directly towards them.

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Yep. And ask anybody who was
in attendance at the Comedy Chateau in North

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Hollywood after WrestleMania Nite too last year. This is the way to make sure

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if you are a lapsed fan that
your WrestleMania weekend counts because it will leave

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you feeling hollow at Lincoln Financial Field. We know this already, and we'll

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be there to explain why. We'll
recap night one of Mania, we'll preview

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night two. We'll make that long
walk like Hogan, surrounded by the kids,

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remember that all the way. Yes, and we guarantee your disappointment with

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WrestleMania. Oh of course, of
course. So if we're going to go,

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if we're gonna be there, which
we will be, it's only appropriate

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that we pitch our tent and invite
members of the Solar System and all their

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friends and family out to Punchline Philly. This is a high level venue and

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we're really excited that they're welcoming us. You want to go to Punchlinephilly dot

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com p U n h l i
n E Philly dot com and just scroll

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down to the calendar where they have
a search function. Because this is all

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the way out on April seventh,
it's not really like a page one thing

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yet. Just type in LAPS and
it'll take you right to all the information

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you need to join us at Punchline
Philly. We're offering general admission tickets for

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thirty eight dollars. That's with the
charges it can convenience charges included on a

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thirty five dollars ticket. We're also
offering preferred seating. So if you want

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to know for absolute certain that when
you get to Punchline Philly, you're gonna

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be front row with your co chairman. Basically, that's the splatter zone.

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Oh okay, that's the true that
that's that's that's the that's the zone you're

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going to get wet. And it's
my understanding that this being Philadelphia a state

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of the union, is incoming from
someone we haven't heard from it a very

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long time. He's been in hiding, he's been blotting. It's lapsed Vince.

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I believe that one thing that is
guaranteed is that we are we live

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in a society, We live in
a democratic union of of entertainment, and

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we will be providing an insight as
to the current state of entertainment product.

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There is a need for that sort
of you know that that that that vision

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in totality, that that read across
sectors, across industries, across future horizons,

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that only lapsed Vince can provide.
He's been quiet for a very long

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time, and we have it on
very good authority that April seventh, noontime

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at Punchline Philly in Philadelphia, Lapstvints
will have a bit to say, and

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also our friends from the stand up
comedy world to join us again. That

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worked wonderfully last year in LA for
anybody who was there, has some really

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funny motherfuckers corralled by our good friend
the Goots, who will be with us

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as well and played a pivotal role
in getting this set up once again.

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This year, we'll reach out to
a network of wrestling savvy comedians who will

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provide the sardonic insights you've come to
expect from TLF as we have like a

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you know, TLF and Friends fucking
extravaganza. And the menu looks pretty good,

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so oh it does. We actually
can deliver on the brunch part,

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I think, which is nice.
We might be able to deliver on the

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momsa front as well. If WWF's
going to drop this great tradition, boss,

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we can pick it up. I
think we have to pick it up.

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It's brunch time, noontime, Are
you kidding? I'll show up stomach

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rumbling. I don't give a fuck. Absolutely, maybe it will be anyway,

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I'll be rumbling hard so solar system
by now you know what to do,

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and unlike last year, there's no
excuses around you know, time zone.

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I know a lot of our fans
are on the East coast and the

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West coast was a lot to ask, although God did we reserve a special

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place in our heart for fans that
flew from the Caroline to see us as

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there massive didn't even go to wrestle
mass I know that was the best part.

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That was the best part. People
didn't even go to WrestleMania but came

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to see our show. Who's the
real draw? This one has to be

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a success, and it will be
and we'll be there and it's it's a

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beautiful thing the way this all came
together. Trust us. We'll be bringing

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you the whole story soon enough,
but suffice to say for now, it's

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The Lapsed Fan presents Bozo's Biceps and
Bullshit Brunch April seventh, noon, Punchline,

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Philly, and if you buy,
send us an email with proof of

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purchase to the Lapsed Fan at gmail
dot com. Not only will we be

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glad to give you a phone call
to congratulate you on your terrific decision as

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we did last year, but we'd
also be glad to enter your name into

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a special raffle that we're going to
be doing as part of this event.

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I haven't even told GP about this. No, I don't know about this

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one. This is exciting, Yes, So the first to order will get

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placed into the raffle if you order
your ticket by let's say, the end

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of February. I'm prepared to say
that if you buy your ticket enact soon,

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by the end of February, you
will be entered into a raffle to

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win a very special, one of
a kind prize that TLF is prepared to

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bring with them to Philadelphia. The
prize to be announced on next week's episode

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of The Lapsed Funk. But for
now, do not delay. Now.

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If you buy a general admission ticket
the lower price, you will get one

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placement for every ticket into the raffle. If you buy preferred seating, you

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will get two for every ticket you
buy, so little value add there for

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your preferred seating premium, making you
that much more likely to emerge from Punchline

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Philly with the kind of thing.
I prefer that option put into your hands.

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I prefer that option I think it's
preferred seating. Yeah, I mean

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there's nothing look one thing about the
show last year. You know, we

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came in with kind of like subdued
expectations, but if you showed up late,

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you were way in the back.
Like it wasn't a huge house,

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it wasn't a huge room, but
like it was hard to get in the

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front, Like only the realist motherfuckers
got up there. There was a little

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bit of elbowing that had to go
on to claim that front row. Oh

402
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:29.319
yeah, absolutely, I mean it
was uh, I mean, I do

403
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:32.359
believe I saw a few heads hit
the tables too. Yeah, body's hitting

404
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:36.119
the floor ECW style as well.
So if you want to feel secure and

405
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.480
arriving at Punchlineffilly at noon on Sunday, April seventh, that you're going to

406
00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.359
be able to be as close to
the co chairman as you need to be,

407
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.359
you do want to opt for that
premium preferred seating, which is something

408
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.359
Punchline Fly likes to offer to fan. So we said, sure, let's

409
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.839
do it. I imagine that there
will be you know, it's Philly,

410
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:59.559
it's ECW territory that will have flaming
tables at least, right well, I

411
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.480
can't make too many promises on that
front. But I but like last year,

412
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.200
I think the goal is to get
disinvited. So absolutely, maybe that's

413
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.000
the attack we'll have to take.
Let's make sure the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission

414
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.680
doesn't get tipped off to our presence
there, But it couldn't be a Maybe

415
00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:17.880
we can get to our lapse time
given us Pennsylvania. Maybe we can get

416
00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:22.000
doctors of Horrigan to come make you
a cameo. Dude, dude, maybe

417
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.680
we should just go visit him,
Just pay him a call, just say

418
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:30.160
hi, I'm here to see George's
Horian. Yeah, I have an appointment

419
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.359
please. Right, we have so
many great fans in Philly. Some of

420
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.559
my favorite members of the Solar System
are from in and around Philadelphia. Can't

421
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.319
wait to see them, can't wait
to see everybody, so many of our

422
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.640
great fans on the East Coast.
Hopefully we'll see this as a drive worth

423
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.799
making, a train trip worth taking. I mean, it doesn't even have

424
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.759
to be a flight, although if
it is, it's a breeze, right,

425
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.519
I mean, it's nothing for you. It's like Philly's like what maybe

426
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:55.839
four hours in a car? Three
four hours something like that. This is

427
00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:00.319
this feels last year as wonderfully as
it turned out. All we could think

428
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:02.599
about his logistics. All we can
think about is people don't have a bad

429
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:04.240
time because they need to get there, and it's going to be so hard

430
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:08.279
after WrestleMania this year. Man Man
is the wind at our sails, and

431
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.359
we're really looking forward to seeing you
there. So please act early, act

432
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:15.880
often, and send us proof of
purchase the Lapsed Fan at gmail dot com,

433
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.400
and we're gonna go balls to the
wall making you feel like it was

434
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.880
worth your purchase, because these are
the proof points. These are where the

435
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.279
doubters sit in the you know,
in the shadows, rubbing their hands hoping

436
00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:30.640
to see us fail. Hasn't happened
for ten years running, not gonna happen

437
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:34.599
this year with your help at the
TLF Solar System. So and you know

438
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.920
what, you know what I you
know what I still love about about the

439
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.279
last one was how there were people
who were newbies who came. Oh it's

440
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.599
so crivi. I mean there are
people that didn't no idea. They just

441
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:47.640
saw us on lists of what to
do, made the weekend. They came

442
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:48.799
up to Westward. They're like that
was fucking awesome, Like, who are

443
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:53.279
you guys? Let me tell you
a little something, pal, we been

444
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.759
do in this Okay, and it
continues, so we look forward to a

445
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.319
lot of that too, the word
getting out on the ground and Philly,

446
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:01.200
tell all your friends and family,
I mean, bring them all. I

447
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:07.000
want to see everybody. I want
to see brothers, cousins, sisters,

448
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:08.519
wives, girlfriends. I know wives
and girlfriends are tough sell, but there

449
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:12.559
are a few are at the LA
show, you know what. That's fine,

450
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.039
It's terrific to see. And if
you have a wife and a girlfriend,

451
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.160
bring them both, that's right.
Yeah, if we work in Salt

452
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.240
Lake City, you could bring both
your wives, that's right. Maybe that's

453
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:22.880
next year. I don't know.
I don't know where they're gonna do be,

454
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.400
but I think this is going to
be fucking amazing. So excited to

455
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.880
take the stage. Keep keep it
peeled, of course to our ex account

456
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:31.920
and of course the podcast for announcements
on what comedians are going to be joining

457
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.880
us. Couldn't have been more happy
with who turned out to support us and

458
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:38.920
share a little bit of limelight last
time. And I know the Goots is

459
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:44.559
hard at work on securing some perhaps
even higher profile folks considering how many more

460
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:49.000
wrestling friendly comics are you know,
have their base of operations in and all

461
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:51.720
New York, in the West,
in the East coast. So it's gonna

462
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:53.759
be really cool, very much looking
forward to seeing you there. We're gonna

463
00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:55.920
keep it tight, we're gonna keep
it strong, and you can eat and

464
00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:59.839
drink to your heart's content. I
don't know about your heart's content, but

465
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:04.160
it's all part of a memorable WrestleMania
weekend. It's WrestleMania forty. That's an

466
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.039
e. That's that nice zero year
boss, that nice decade mark. And

467
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.319
we know something about marking the decade
around here. Yep, yes we do,

468
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:16.559
Yes, we do, and we
know that we know most importantly that

469
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:20.720
we're here to disappoint, that's right, and we plan on disappointing. Yeah,

470
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.279
we come in ready to disappoint because
the win for us is entertaining ourselves

471
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:28.680
and if others are entertained in the
process, that's gravy and that's always been

472
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.079
our secret sauce, so count on
it. The Laps Fans, Bozos,

473
00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:37.119
Biceps and Bullshit Brunch Sunday, April
seventh, noontime, Punchline Philly, Philadelphia,

474
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.119
Pennsylvania. You know you can make
it, you know you will make

475
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:42.920
it, and we're very excited to
see you so again. For tickets,

476
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.680
visit Punchlinephilly dot com. Go down
to the calendar, type and laps lapsed

477
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.400
fan whatever you'd like and get on
board. Send us proof of purchased lapsed

478
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.440
fan at gmail dot com to get
one of a kind shout out from your

479
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.880
co chairs and some time with your
co chairs and in addition, be entered

480
00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:00.359
into a raffle. The winner will
be presented at the event on April seventh,

481
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.839
so make sure you're there in the
flesh if you want to claim your

482
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:08.039
prize. I'm pretty sure we're gonna
come down on a rule that if you

483
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:12.199
know somebody wins who couldn't make it
ors in attendance, we move on to

484
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.960
another name because we want that moment
of the handoff. So totally excited.

485
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.960
You're gonna bring You're gonna bring your
finest boss. You're gonna una dress up

486
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:25.440
like George the Horrin at this thing
around. I think I might not bring

487
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:29.039
my bow ties, and you know, we'll choose one. I'll wear like

488
00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:32.199
a gray suit and I'll buy some
new weird you know, like ad style

489
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.519
glasses and stuff, and yeah,
I think that'll have to happen as the

490
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.840
notorian. I'll bring and I'll bring
uh, I'll bring a number of syringes.

491
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:46.880
Oh, turn them out to the
boys. Yeah, maybe we'll go.

492
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.679
Maybe we'll go visit the U the
field House where they used to take

493
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:55.519
TV before we take the stage.
Anything, you know, I I think

494
00:34:55.679 --> 00:35:00.000
I think, uh, WrestleMania is
always a good chance to take a pill

495
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.480
cormage. I think you're exactly right. So uh, you know, make

496
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:09.159
it, make like the notorious former
Philadelphia mayor Rizzo that we just heard from

497
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:13.239
Rizzo, and get down there and
don't be a crumb bum. Okay,

498
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.280
don't be a crumb I help you
know that guy is the lapsed editor basically,

499
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.360
oh totally. I mean you gotta
look at this guy. This guy's

500
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:23.760
fucking money in the bank. I
mean, this guy is America. He's

501
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:27.960
like you know, friends of Eddie
Coyle era. Yeah, fucking you know.

502
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.960
He lives in like this incredible mansion
but just runs like the biggest scheme

503
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:38.559
going ye, big city scheming,
and America he's he is, He's the

504
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.559
American dream. His statue came down, ours goes up. April seventh,

505
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.000
Let's forget all the rules of this
great country we live in and let's commence

506
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.840
for a one of a kind Bozo's
Biceps and bullshit brunch. You decide which

507
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:57.840
switch. It's all so excited for
that, and also, in the spirit

508
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:01.480
of TLX, we must tip our
cap here to all of the rock solid

509
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:05.679
members of the Solar System over at
the Lapsed power Plant were coming off of

510
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.400
International LATS Day, which took place
January twentieth on X on Patreon. As

511
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.760
members of the Solar System who have
created and managed and overseen an incredible transcription

512
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:20.360
archive of the show's history. It
doesn't get more tlf X than this.

513
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:24.559
Manned the controls for twenty four hours
and took requests from all over the Solar

514
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:30.079
System to search the archives and find
time codes and episodes of some of your

515
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.159
favorite moments. And what a joy
it was to scroll through and see just

516
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.320
how esoteric and weird some of people's
like can I tell you? And also

517
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:43.760
again to just kind of like jog
my memory about things, because we always

518
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:46.320
talk about how shit just goes in
and out, Like you know, it's

519
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:52.360
very rare that something leaves a mark
on me that I'm like, oh yeah,

520
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:58.079
to the point where whenever I've had
to make a kind of like a

521
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:01.159
highlight reel or something, or you
know, I'm always like, what's good?

522
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.199
Yeah, what do we What did
we do? That's good? And

523
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.400
that's funny. And one that really
stuck out, I don't know, did

524
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.400
you go and did you find some
of the ones. I didn't go back

525
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:19.960
and play anything that wasn't already embedded
in X, but I did recall a

526
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.679
time stuff I'd forgotten just reading the
text I went out. There were a

527
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:29.079
couple that I went out, And
the one that really that really was a

528
00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:36.239
highlight for me was it was from
the w BF show Yep, and we

529
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.599
were and I guess that, you
know, Luger had gotten in the accident,

530
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:44.039
and the I guess the doctor that
he was, the first doctor he

531
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.800
saw, said that it's likely they're
gonna have to amputate his arm. Oh

532
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.519
my god. And we had a
whole fucking thing with like, you know,

533
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.760
Jim Hurd coming in having an idea
about having him be Captain Hook and

534
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:05.000
then and then then the doctor.
So then you know, Lucer's like you

535
00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:07.480
know, I want to get another
opinion. I don't want to have my

536
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:13.000
arm amputated. And so he gets
a hold of doctor Jim Andrews and he's

537
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:19.159
gonna he's gonna transfer there, and
the doctor, the doctor he's like,

538
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:22.800
you know, he's current doctor keeps
saying like, you're not going to Jim

539
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:28.480
Andrews, you know, with your
arm intact. It's like it's are like

540
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.400
I've been paying to make sure you
don't leave this hospital with an arm,

541
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:36.119
Like you're you're losing an arm one
way or another. Okay, you're getting

542
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.960
out of here with both arms.
Fucking amazing. I was fucking dying.

543
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:44.039
I was like, this is so
crazy, Oh my god, absurd.

544
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.039
There's so many of those like we
did what we said, Oh my god,

545
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:51.079
and people are just like, you
know, sometimes it's like something one

546
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.440
of us said, it's just ten
seconds. It's just in a side,

547
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:58.400
some stupid fucking pun we made or
something. Oh my god, so fun.

548
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:02.199
I could never probably mention them all
here the ones that impacted me.

549
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.000
But if you were watching our x
account and the responses to the you know,

550
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.159
the post that they put out the
call far and wide for time code

551
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:15.199
requests and this is all building towards
something very formal that we're going to be

552
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.320
presenting as part of our TLX celebrations
here TLFX celebrations, So look forward to

553
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:22.960
that. But man, just to
see those unfold, see the threads unfold

554
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.119
on Patreon, and to see people
realize that, like there are so many

555
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.800
people as passionate about the podcast as
you are. There are so many people

556
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.679
as you know what I mean,
they're almost like they're hesitant to acknowledge like

557
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.320
that these little, completely pointless moments
mean a lot to them. Yep,

558
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.840
yep. But when something like the
International LATS Day comes along, everybody realize.

559
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.079
Everyone sort of comes out of the
shadows, you know. It's like

560
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:47.199
they emerge from they emerge from underground
and see sunlight, you know, for

561
00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:51.719
the first time in a long time. And that's one of many things we're

562
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:54.360
proud to bring you as a result
of the cast. It's just proof of

563
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.679
concept, you know. Whenever people
get a little cute and suggesting that we

564
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.760
go too far and talking about what
this podcast is and what it means to

565
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.679
people, an event like International LATS
Day slaps them back on their heels and

566
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.840
reminds them this is a mighty,
mighty contingent that we're talking about here,

567
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:12.760
and it is very idea of all
of podcasting as it should be. So

568
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.760
we've got a great note here as
far as who to thank and how this

569
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.639
all came together. Great thanks goes
to Carlo Stallion, Big Steve, Chris

570
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.480
Kreva, Austin King, Saliver Goose
Hudson and Mike from the UK for their

571
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.679
exceptional help and making Lat's day go
round. These are all people just on

572
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.559
the keyboard all day, all twenty
four hours, I mean all day looking

573
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:38.000
up time codes. I'm amazed at
that. I'm absolutely amazed at the Yeah,

574
00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:44.239
the patients and the and the endurance
that requires. Yeah, And just

575
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:46.159
like you have to share the enthusiasm
of the person looking for the time code,

576
00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:49.760
you know you can't. That's what's
great is the person looking forward is

577
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.280
just as excited to find it as
you are, because they want to show

578
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.760
that this LATS thing is incredible and
that you know that I if I was

579
00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:00.119
organized by the Lapsed power Plant and
Solar System. Members who would like to

580
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.000
get involved and various other lapsed projects
can contact the Lapsed Powerplant at gmail dot

581
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.360
com. The Lapsed Powerplant at gmail
dot com from an address they don't mind

582
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:14.320
using for group communication. And extraordinary
thanks goes to Martin from Scotland and a

583
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.679
particular listener in the Southern United States
for their incredible efforts and helping create the

584
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.559
transcript database way back when the three
of us were looking up from the foot

585
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.960
of the Lapsed Archive mountain and didn't
even know where to place our first step.

586
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.679
Lats Lats, Ladies and Gentlemen operates
on a donation basis and is currently

587
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.000
two hundred dollars in the hole and
getting deeper every month, even though there

588
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.679
are now more than one hundred users. So if Lapsed fans value the database

589
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:42.880
and want to financially support its existence
and maintenance, they can visit Patreon dot

590
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.039
com, slash lats lats and pledge
in whatever denomination they see fit. There

591
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:50.480
are no added benefits for patrons,
but the database already benefits the entire lap

592
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.000
solar system and deserves its support,
and I think I think the proof is

593
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:58.039
in on that front. I agree. Yeah, do you agree? Amazing?

594
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.840
I said Wikipedia, You know,
like, yep, you're just doing

595
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.559
it because you could never do it
justice without a little bit of money to

596
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:08.480
throw around for software and logistics and
things. So please do consider supporting the

597
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:13.880
cause and getting getting a peek into
what LATS is all about. Folks,

598
00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:15.440
you got to believe me when I
tell you that this is not something we

599
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:20.440
set in motion. Okay, No, these things happen organically. You know.

600
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.400
It's like we're yeah, we're probably
shooting the nutrients downstream that hit the

601
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.679
soil and form you know, the
growth over time, but we don't realize

602
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:30.039
it. But there's stuff happening,
oh of course. Yeah no, no,

603
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:37.039
not at all there And there's also
seat sprouting at Patreon in general on

604
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.039
our Patreon, patreon dot com slash
lapsman. We're coming up on the Rumble,

605
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:43.559
boss, no better time. Oh
boy, get that live call.

606
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:57.519
Get that rumble. Always fun,
always disappointing, although you know it would

607
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.239
happen to Seth. No, what
happens is blew his knee out out of

608
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:07.199
mania. Fuck. Yes, ah, they acted, they're acting like him

609
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:12.679
versus Punk was the main event.
Ah, Punk win's the Rumble and chooses

610
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:16.760
the world title instead. You're ready
for that? Oh my god, I

611
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.960
am so happy. I don't know
what they're gonna do instead. I mean

612
00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:22.719
to be fair, we are recording
this before he takes the ring to make

613
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.280
the announcement. But it seems pretty
clear that that's what's gonna happen. Just

614
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:31.679
really, please he blew is me
out again on Raw Wrestling Gender Mahal because

615
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.159
he's an idiot. That's why he
was just going to on his phone.

616
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:37.000
No, no, he's not doing
his job. He's an idiot. Come

617
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:42.199
on, he's a fucking idiot.
Liner. It's gonna get a fucking you

618
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:44.880
know, his wife's gonna divorce him
any minute, one of them. He's

619
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:46.800
a idiot, one of the finest
of our generation. No he's not.

620
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:51.199
He's one of the worst. So
do join us to see what they do

621
00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:52.840
and pivot to that. And you
know it wouldn't be a big, big

622
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.960
w w p l E without some
last minute, fucking unscheduled emergency throwing coursing

623
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:05.119
into a tizzy. Go what was
it? Some who could like what happened

624
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:08.639
one year not too not not not
not too long ago, where there was

625
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.719
a big change right around the rumble. Maybe it was the day one pay

626
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.039
per view, I don't remember when
when something happened and all of a sudden

627
00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:24.440
brock Lesnards winning championships again. Yeah, what else when you panic? Brock

628
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:29.320
will be back now, Yeah,
exactly, Brock will win the world title

629
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:34.280
and beat him. He'll beat him
to god. So it's silly season around

630
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.079
here. Oh and this is,
by the way, you know, pretending

631
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.000
that Seampunk isn't going to tear something
before Mania two. Oh God, absolutely,

632
00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:45.800
the come on, folks. So
so really this is I'll tell you

633
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.199
what, you know, what I
can tell exactly what he's gonna tear before

634
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:54.480
WrestleMania. It's going to be his
contract, one could say. So join

635
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.639
us for the live call every month
we hit the modern w W premium live

636
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:00.079
events, so you don't have to
walk it through match by match with our

637
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:04.599
live call perspective the lapse perspective,
if you will, and very much look

638
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.440
forward to doing that throughout the course
of twenty twenty four. Will be of

639
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:09.840
course on the ground for WrestleMania forty
in Philadelphia as just mentioned, so we'll

640
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:14.519
bring you that a live college as
well as our live event on Sunday,

641
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.920
April seventh at noontime Punchline, Philly. And just a quick shout out as

642
00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:22.159
far as the Patreon goes to the
Mote tier occasionally to make sure to carve

643
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.840
out some time to tip our cap
to those who give a very high denomination

644
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.519
over at Patreon, our richest tier
folks who do it not because there's a

645
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.840
lot in it for them necessarily.
There is some like the exclusive Wrestle Mammia

646
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.280
Show with JP's absolutely going very very
strong and coming up in episode one hundred.

647
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.800
If I'm not mistaken, that'll be
this year. Yeah, later on

648
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:45.960
this year will be will be episode
one hundred with some nice surprises there for

649
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.840
sure, truly amazing what's happened?
Yeah? Yes, oh my god,

650
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.679
I mean actually with this one,
trying to see what will have been?

651
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.679
I think, what's what's what they
just saw? If I'm not mistaken,

652
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:15.599
it should be the uh, the
Rumble, the uh the the God Almighty,

653
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:16.920
the nineteen eighty nine Royal Rumble.
I believe. My mom and I

654
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.639
watched, Oh wow, the whole
match. Yeah, that's pretty cool,

655
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:22.320
I believe. So Yeah, I
got I got to hear Bushwhackers versus Beverly

656
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.400
Brothers from Rumbled that was more recent
yet, yeah, and Legion Doom versus

657
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:31.239
Natural Disasters from Rumble ninety two,
as well as Cactus for Triple h Rumble

658
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:35.440
two thousand of the most. It
was a rumble, It was a rumble

659
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:43.239
month, and I believe Yeah,
the next one should be nine Royal Rumble

660
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.480
Match, available exclusively to members of
the Moat Tire. It's like being back

661
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:50.000
in the living room carpet again with
your parents in the peanut gallery talking shit

662
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.159
about being a wrestling fan. But
Mama Sarrow has just a one of a

663
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.000
kind way of doing it, a
gentle We was, oh my gosh,

664
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:02.960
very straightforward, way, very very
very very very uh honest and endearing way.

665
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.000
So to the mote tier. We
tip our cap. We're talking about

666
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:10.960
Abel Lettier, Aiden, Kevlahan,
Andy Toff, Andy yellenich Arion, Austin

667
00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:15.519
King, Salver, Austin Tyson Better
believe it. Wow right Downing, Brad

668
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:20.599
Brandon, Kaiser, Brendan Moe,
Brian Blake, Brian Hinz, Chris Harris,

669
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:25.400
Christopher Creva, Chuck Pliacio cold Stone, Steve Austin, David camin Ester,

670
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.079
David Style, Dennis Owen's, Dominic
Carrera, Doctor Wiz, Pip and

671
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:32.599
Gabe Yoakum and Hal Cogan, An
Intern, Matt and James Irwin and Jim

672
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.239
Rocco and Justin Davenport and Justin Harmon
and Kevin Mills and Christopher Craig and Luth

673
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:45.199
Renoli and Lewis Perez and Lucky Lagucci
and Mark Daper and Martin Ferguson and Marty

674
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:50.800
Longhurst and Michael Taylor and Mike chespl
and Juan and Monti Davis Junior and Paul

675
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:55.360
the Saints Fan Graham Pedro Rios,
Pete Cozy and Peter Rustling and r Ronaldi

676
00:47:55.400 --> 00:48:01.840
and Robert Holtz Hammer and Ryan bo
Am Fairbanks and Sammy Conduit and Scott Michael

677
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:07.960
Ferry and Sean McGear and Stephen Laird
Thomas at Nacio the top lead leaguer league

678
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:14.199
leader Tom as Well straight up Tom
Vernon Simosa, who we're very glad to

679
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:20.199
welcome to the Motier recently joined William
Murphy and Zach Madrass. Folks, if

680
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.000
these were the only people who listened
to the Lapsed Fan podcast, we would

681
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:25.480
do it, and we would do
it with just as much enthusiasm as we

682
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.960
view it today because those are our
rider dies and we can't let too many

683
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:35.519
weeks go without reminding folks that there
are people that believe in it that much

684
00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:39.239
and We're humbled and for many geographically, we expect to see you April seventh.

685
00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:44.320
That would be wonderful to see you
there. We're a mote badge to

686
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:49.039
the punchline Philly, so we know
that you're of a higher level. But

687
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.599
this is this is exciting times.
TLFX is off to a rip roaring start

688
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:57.199
on so many fronts and rounding third
and the lapsed Funk is no exception.

689
00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:00.559
So we need to go to the
shore nineteen ninety seven Royal Rumble in San

690
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:07.320
Antonio when Terry Funk, despite being
portrayed as the Savior and Messiah VCW is

691
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.480
sure to take a Vince McMahon pay
off amidst all of that and go work

692
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:15.159
the rumble real quick. You want
to hit and got involved in a few

693
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:17.920
things even ahead of the rumble.
You remember a shotgun, right boss,

694
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:24.960
vaguely. I I never watched it. I remember that it was I remember

695
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:30.159
that it was supposed to be edgy. It was supposed to be kind of

696
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:36.119
danky and and run down and just
like basically no rules, you know,

697
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:43.880
just kind of anything goes a very
a very you know, anarchic type of

698
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:49.920
the atmosphere. Yeah, they wanted
nightclubs they wanted, you know, it

699
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.480
was it was in syndication. It
wasn't unnational cable, so it was you

700
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.280
know, depending on where you lived
in the country and what the syndicated clearance

701
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:58.880
they had was. Just like in
the old Superstars and Challenge days, you

702
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:00.840
might not always be able to see
it live if the right you know,

703
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.039
the market in your if the station
in your market had something else going on

704
00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.480
at that time slot, but they
broadcasted live and that was tricky enough.

705
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.280
But they would go to like bars, and they would go to nightclubs,

706
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:14.920
and they would go to these smaller
intimate venues that basically looked like ECW house

707
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:17.599
shows to me, and and you
know, they would have, like you

708
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:21.079
said, a little more edge to
it, and it was like a and

709
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:22.880
then they have like a tiny ring. It wasn't even like a full sized

710
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.000
ring. You know. I don't
know about that part of it. It

711
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.000
would make sense if the ring was
smaller because the buildings were smaller. I

712
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:34.400
feel like I feel like I remember
seeing like an episode that was smaller,

713
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:37.679
the ring was smaller. Maybe I'm
maybe I'm crazy. I don't know.

714
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.000
Well, I remember one episode I
think it was the very first Shotgun.

715
00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:43.880
To create some buzz, they had
Marlene I get up on the apron during

716
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.480
a Golddust match with it, I
think against Triple H with their back to

717
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.719
the camera and flash him yes,
and it was like they were tits and

718
00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:53.159
WWF and everyone got excited about that. But she had pastes on. Yeah,

719
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.440
they did remember that. You know, still remember that someone in the

720
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:59.000
building took and she had paste and
it was It ended up being in one

721
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:00.800
of the aftermags. I remember that. Oh a picture of that? Really?

722
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:06.079
Yeah? Yeah, I wonder why
you remember that? Is that a

723
00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:10.000
sticky page? Yeah? You know, at one point I couldn't separate the

724
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:15.280
page. I couldn't find anymore because
it was just the too sticky man.

725
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.920
Couldn't separate the real from the fake. That's your damn right, who can

726
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:22.519
fair Warning ready? Disc twenty eight. Disc twenty eight because as part of

727
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:28.519
this Shotgun Saturday Night concept, they
booked a buildings very small, intimate sort

728
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:32.880
of cowboy bar called Denim and Diamonds
in San Antono, where Steve Austin was

729
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.039
going to be there. He wrestled
Goldust on the show, and you know,

730
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:38.960
of course it being pay per view, it's part of the lead up

731
00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:42.599
to the brumble, Jim Ross is
there, Vince mcmahonnor there in the announced

732
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:45.320
position, and what the hell right, let's flavor it up a little bit

733
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.159
and let's bring in the Funker.
Yeah, of course. And if we're

734
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.519
trying to recreate the feel and no
one will admit this at Titan, but

735
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:54.800
they're trying to recreate the feel of
E. C W, let's bring in

736
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.880
mister ECW himself, Terry Funk and
so on the January eighteenth watch. I

737
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:06.760
don't even know what an ECW is. I'm simply I'm simply trying to create

738
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.639
a different, you know, a
new concept, a new entertainment concept.

739
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.000
You know. We you know,
we're trying to really basing it off of

740
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:21.079
a more of a Saturday Night Live
edgy sort of thing. And you know,

741
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:25.639
we're we're trying to disrupt the wheelhouse, you know with this and kind

742
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.760
of at a kind of go at
it with a holistic approach, uh,

743
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:37.320
and to create a content not a
macro cyclic approach. Well, now,

744
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:38.639
you know, I believe at this, for this, we wanted to do

745
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:46.039
more holistic and uh, you know, to to to to to really you

746
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:52.400
know, create you know, asks
for the fans. You know, what

747
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.880
exactly is it that they want?
What are the things you know we want?

748
00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:01.280
We actually want to partner with our
with our fans many ways for next

749
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:09.599
gen game changing influential cybernetic content.
Don't we all Easier said than done?

750
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:15.400
Vince cybernetic content, Get the fuck
out. It wasn't Cybernetico and the Rumble

751
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:20.360
that year, I think, so
speaking of what, Yeah, they reached

752
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:23.599
the alliance with Triple A to bring
in a flurry of lucadors. God,

753
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:28.559
you knew, you knew, you
knew the roster was shit. When they're

754
00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:31.559
suddenly fucking bringing in the luchadors in
the minis too, remember Minni Vager and

755
00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:37.119
Muscri de Sogrodod. It was quite
a time in the Federation rule. And

756
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.239
so yes, it's part of building
up the buzz. Let's bring the funker

757
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:43.320
in, Let's put him on this
live shot. Not even like you know,

758
00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:45.440
I'm not trying to shit the on
the Lucha libras. But but it

759
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:50.920
wasn't even like the really because all
the good ones were over in WCW right

760
00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:52.760
very much so. And that's why
you know, they had some really talented

761
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.079
ones that came in. It's just
a question of why did you do it.

762
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:59.599
You did it because w CW has
cruiserweight division. That's part of its

763
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:01.480
different and so you try to match
them there. And you had it also

764
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:05.440
because you know, being a border
town San Antono, maybe we can draw

765
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:08.039
some Oh, sure, that's true. The fires over the border not a

766
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:10.440
bad play. I get where they
did it, but it always felt whenever

767
00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:15.079
WW have tried light heavyweight or Luca, just seems so tacked on. It

768
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.519
seems such a yeah, you know, such a half hearted attempt to match

769
00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:20.639
what was, you know, one
of the more dynamic parts of the w

770
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:22.719
W show, which of course,
in its own right was almost wholly imported

771
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:29.320
from ECW in terms of where a
lot of those Lucadors first got their their

772
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.599
prime experience the United States, from
Ray Mysterio on down. So we're calling

773
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:36.280
in the Funker and he's going to
have a live mic, and Vince McMahon's

774
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:37.599
going to be there, And do
you think Terry Funk's going to take the

775
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:42.239
opportunity to say some things about Vince
McMahon that he always wanted to be able

776
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.239
to say with a live microphone in
his hand. Yes, better believe it.

777
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:51.920
So go to two O five ten
two five ten and actually let me

778
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:55.119
what's that? Which one is it? Which? Let me mix this up.

779
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:59.320
Actually, let me do something different
than that, Vivie. I'm going

780
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:02.679
to send you a link to Daily
Motion. And the reason I'm going to

781
00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:09.039
do this is because, in fact, the version that we've been working working

782
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:13.840
off of for our videos on the
series has this segment. However, it

783
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:16.880
hasn't muted. Oh as far as
yeah, let me pause that, as

784
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:21.119
far as you know, some of
the some of the language Terry uses,

785
00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:23.599
and ah, the whole magic is
in the fact that he was using this

786
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:29.840
language on the live WWF broadcast,
of course, and so fortunately for us,

787
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.679
this moment where he comes into the
ring on Shotgun Saturday Night lives unedited

788
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.840
on Daily Motion. So give me
a second. Here, that's a surprise.

789
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:43.239
I know you'd be in a rummer
tomorrow. Why that's a surprise.

790
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:49.360
I know you know Texas legend.
Here we go, Terry, my goodness,

791
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.840
Terry fuck is here? Why that's
a surprise. I know you'd be

792
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:57.280
in the rummer tomorrow about paper here, Jerie, want to tell me what

793
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.679
the hell? Terry clinks? Look
at him? Are the all Cora.

794
00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:05.280
Wow, look at that son of
a bitch. No, no, no,

795
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:07.039
no. He might be from Texas, but out of Texas, old

796
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:10.719
son, I hold the state.
Yeah, is he a legend? Yeah,

797
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:15.159
let's listen to him run his back
trap. This is my state.

798
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:21.039
Wrong, this is wrong, wrong
in the heart of Texas. Wrong.

799
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:25.519
Where I wanna be bet Gale,
This is where I wanna Benna be there

800
00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:31.840
by everybody out here knows. And
I'm a windmill and pile driving, neck

801
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:37.760
breaking, back breaking bear huggins and
knee dropping hold on, son of a

802
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:45.480
son of a gun. Let's a
laugh and more dangerous than our hallow lines.

803
00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:52.840
I'm ready to rumbo, and that
means he's ready to take you on.

804
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:55.119
Stone Goad, Austin. I got
a couple of knuckle sandwiches I brought

805
00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:59.599
with me. I'll just feed those
tongue. If you cross, do not

806
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.320
cross. One going to be in
that ring? What number am I going

807
00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:06.159
to be? Number one? Where
am I going to be? Twenty nine?

808
00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:07.440
Would be number fifteen? If you
be number five, doesn't it?

809
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:10.440
Nobody knows the hell Todd Patton Gill, by the way, and look at

810
00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:13.559
him, Look at him. Oh
yeah, he's in full of fact.

811
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:19.760
First man, George Butch and the
represented is of Texas. What has they

812
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:24.519
played me as a Texas member?
I want to start What the fuck is

813
00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:30.840
he talking about in the rumble?
I want to start that rumble, not

814
00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:36.880
tomorrow night. How about on one
sided rumble with you right now? Pett

815
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:44.039
and Dale throw your carcassist Tombo with
dude with you. Is there somebody else

816
00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:47.840
out there? I am looking for
anybody. Don't look too far as a

817
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:55.320
person that wants with me. There's
not a person who let him in with

818
00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:02.719
me, not a person in a
W seat. I'll be on w suckings

819
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:08.480
comeback and we apologize. Lait enough
for me. I'm looking around here.

820
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:16.639
Where's this big man looking? Oh? I realize this is life, heyn

821
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:22.719
face, give me the microphone.
How about rumbling with you? Your mother

822
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:27.599
is a hard shut up the wind, you rumble a little good? You

823
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:34.000
want to rumble? Bendale? No, No, you don't very anybody O

824
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:49.800
God enjoy you legendary asshole. Fuck
shot ser and I think we apologize for

825
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:52.519
some of those. Remarkably Harry fuck
has just five of those homes to be

826
00:58:52.639 --> 00:59:09.360
Boston. He's wasting time. He's
calling you out. Steve Boston got you

827
00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:17.079
you whyn't you just cool your jets
there, mister Austin, Wait a minute,

828
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:22.840
he's leaving the ring of course a
man no cost to god rel Son.

829
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.719
You ain't that stupid? Yeah,
and he's here in the fact,

830
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:34.239
so wait a minute. Uh honly
gonna hit physic man, Yes, shoving.

831
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.239
Vin's gonna come my yar tabs son. Okay, okay, all right,

832
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.719
all right, all rights, very
fun ladies. Head gentlemen, taking

833
00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:43.800
it bad, you'll get a knock
of service. I got over with those

834
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:46.760
Jared coll taps. Lay down the
gun for you. You ain't got to

835
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:51.639
lay down for me. Son,
I'll knock your ass down. You better

836
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:53.880
get back in the ring. I'm
gonna caupt the three. Look, he

837
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:58.400
already started walking. That's what I
figured. That's what I figured too.

838
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:00.280
I'll meet come out here trying to
call my bluff, and I'm a little

839
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:04.840
smarter than that. Son. Look
at him. He thinks he's really special.

840
01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:12.400
It's a complete idiot. He's an
icon. Listen, he's a jackass.

841
01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:15.559
He's going bottle. He's in jackass. Kerry fight guy, You'm gonna

842
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:21.800
put up a this trap man,
Wells side to Terry fumps. Show shot

843
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:25.639
done, Coach Steve Aston headed back
to the locker. Now wait a minute,

844
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.480
right, hang off, wait a
minute, gone, Coach Steve Austin.

845
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.960
What's he doing now? He's coming
to fight and folk very he's not.

846
01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:38.119
He's going back to the locker room
getting Oh he is. He's coming

847
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:45.920
right into the rag yellow ropes.
By the way he slapped Funk slapped Austin.

848
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:51.280
Look at him, face to face
his money godsh Austin, Terry,

849
01:00:53.840 --> 01:01:04.639
Yes, yes, boom, oh, of course he does. And he's

850
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:17.760
swinging outside again. Hold, that's
tremendous. What do you think of that?

851
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:22.960
I love it? I love it. I fucking love nervous vincig man.

852
01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:25.960
Right, there's this combination of like, we gotta play into it because

853
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:29.920
it's Funk being funk, it's live
TV. But at the same time,

854
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:32.760
we got to also pretend that he's
not infuriating us by how long he's going,

855
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:36.760
by the language he's using. I'm
not even sure, and I'm surprised

856
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:39.159
this has never been clarified historically.
I'm not even sure he was supposed to

857
01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:44.960
confront Steve Austin because Steve Steve reacts
like he's been putting the spot and like

858
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:46.920
he knows he can't get up because
he's not supposed to, yep. So

859
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:50.599
he's trying to find a way to
like explain why why he wouldn't immediately get

860
01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:52.239
up and kick this guy's ass,
and then he does it. Anyway,

861
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:53.800
what it's clear that Funk is going
to go back into the ring and keep

862
01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:57.800
talking, right, So it makes
me think someone's in his headset or maybe

863
01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:00.360
Vince has given him the high sign
off off Mike to go in and throw

864
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:07.400
some rights because Funk will arrest nothing
so tremendous. Let him in the door.

865
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:09.199
Man, he's gonna do shit like
that, and he's gonna put a

866
01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:12.719
paperbag on somebody's head, you know
what I'm saying. He's gonna do it,

867
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:16.000
and he's he's gonna, you know, someone's gonna get hurt. Pretty

868
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:21.480
amazing, and that that was Terry
Funk's returned to WWF television for the first

869
01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:25.559
time since nineteen eighty six. J
Jesus, there he is running absolutely fucking

870
01:02:25.719 --> 01:02:31.400
wild on a shotgun Saturday night.
And let's hear Bruce Pritchard on Something to

871
01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:35.960
Wrestle with talk about you know,
the shotgun concept and how one of his

872
01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:39.199
all time favorites, Terry Funk,
fit in. I called Terry and I

873
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:42.480
asked Terry, hey, would you
like to be in the rumble? Of

874
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:46.519
course he did. In addition to
that, we're gonna be doing a live

875
01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:53.119
Shotgun Saturday Night, which was a
syndicated television show that we did on Saturday

876
01:02:53.199 --> 01:03:00.639
nights at midnight in air, live
across the country. Oh that sounds like

877
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:06.519
that. Terry was the first person
at Diamonds and Dallas that day. He

878
01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:10.199
said in what was the makeshift dressing
room, had his bag there, share

879
01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:16.840
all kicked back and feed up,
and I walked in. He got out,

880
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:20.719
and I gave Terry a hug and
said, good to see you,

881
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:25.199
man, Love you. He sat
back down and he says, what are

882
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:31.519
we doing tonight? Richard's Night Off
Terry. I'm gonna work with Brett,

883
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:37.519
have hell of a match. Let's
get him over and uh a little promo

884
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:51.199
beforehand. But all I ask of
you, this is live and or we're

885
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:54.239
everywhere. I know it's late night, but we're live, live, and

886
01:03:54.320 --> 01:04:01.960
we got a lot of eyeballs on
us. Please just watch your language.

887
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:10.440
No hells, no, goddamns no
ship during this episode of Jesus looks at

888
01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:17.119
me as all laying backs. Did
Junor send you in here to tell me

889
01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:28.000
that? Jor and I laughed listen. Vinced mentioned to me and please talk

890
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:30.639
to you about it? But it
was on my checklist. Is it's just

891
01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:38.960
we can't do it? Terry,
Oh damn Prichard. I don't worry about

892
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:45.639
me, so all right, just
and I minded him right before he went

893
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:51.760
out, all right, please watch
your language. I think you called Vince

894
01:04:51.800 --> 01:05:00.280
a Yankee bastard, Jim Ross and
Oklahoma son of a bitch say that,

895
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:10.920
but okay, and then turned the
Brent and I understand getting Todd Petton Gill

896
01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:15.800
confused with Brett Hone to you never
happened this ship shot again Saturday night,

897
01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:21.960
I say, Terry funk. So
yeah, we had thrown off the air

898
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:30.079
for those comments. I think we
had a goddamn in there. I think

899
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:34.400
we had everything that I asked him
not to do he did. And there's

900
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:40.760
one point in the match where they
had the big troughs the beer you know

901
01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:45.039
on ice, like you know,
old fashioned washtubs, and at one point

902
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.320
he grabs me and put me in
it. And the ice and the water

903
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:58.320
and the beer, he remembering I
didn't have a change clothes, so a

904
01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:02.000
lot there. But I choose to
believe that the interactions he had before the

905
01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:05.960
show with Terry Funker one hundred percent
accurate because they're hilarious. But I can't

906
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.079
go with First of all, the
Shotgun got canceled. I mean after this

907
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:13.199
one in January eighteenth. There was
one on January twenty fifth from Webster Hall

908
01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:15.679
in New York City. There was
one on February first at the Mirage Night

909
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:19.079
Club in New York City. There
was one on February eighth at Penn Station

910
01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:23.159
in New York City, right,
and then I think that's when they switched

911
01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:26.679
to doing it in arena like tapings, and for years Shotgun was just like

912
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:30.000
a fucking syndicated series of matches with
mid carters. Right after that, but

913
01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.320
if they got canceled because of Terry
Funk, it certainly took them a long

914
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:38.719
time to get around. Actually,
it doesn't make any sense unless they have

915
01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:42.280
some kind of a weird contract with
them maybe and they were like, you

916
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.159
know you won't you know, you
said you'd give us at least this many

917
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:49.480
episodes live and in the way we
wanted. So Pal, I believe that

918
01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:54.320
that you that that this is the
way that it goes, although I don't

919
01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:56.239
know how that works in syndication.
I mean, they who doally have a

920
01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:00.920
deal with well every station every New
York so five, you know, and

921
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:06.119
maybe maybe maybe someone did cancel them
and then but they had all other you

922
01:07:06.199 --> 01:07:10.599
know, maybe yeah, maybe just
uh, some markets continue to carry them

923
01:07:10.599 --> 01:07:14.199
and some didn't. I don't know. But it's funny that he mentions Brett

924
01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:16.400
Hart there not because you Brett clearly
wasn't there. He clearly wasn't the person

925
01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:18.840
that said your mother is a whore
too. There's the main event of us

926
01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:21.119
on that show of Steve Austin,
and I think it was gold Dust,

927
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:24.239
right, we'll take a double look
here, Yeah, at gold Dust And

928
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.840
at the end Terry comes out and
continues to brawl with Steve Austin and they

929
01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:33.360
do more hygiens. But but you
know, does uh does does Todd Pett

930
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:36.159
and Gill like, does he does
he come out as a sex offender on

931
01:07:36.280 --> 01:07:40.000
this one? No? He does. He looks like it, and he's

932
01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:44.679
just smiling along. He's loving Terry. God, he looks so stupid.

933
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:48.679
With his with his buzz cut and
uh and his goatee. Now, like

934
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:53.119
he just looks like a like a
p Do you prefer that one to the

935
01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:59.199
the slip back here in a ear
ring or I I prefer there's like a

936
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:02.639
middle ground. He has like normal
hair and no earring and just you know,

937
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:09.360
just doesn't fucking you know, he's
just he's he's just normal annoying.

938
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:13.000
But this no, this is this
is it. He's trying to make the

939
01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:15.960
look happen on top of it.
Yeah, like, dude, you're not

940
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:17.960
to stop right whenever Son tries to
make a look happen, it's offensive.

941
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:23.000
It's really amazing how long he stood
with the company, really is he's a

942
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:27.239
survivor man, you know how to
thread that angle with Vince like the way

943
01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:31.760
that I mean he was there from
ninety three until ninety eight. Amazing,

944
01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:36.840
just bizarre, And don't forget,
you know, when we're looking at stone

945
01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:40.199
Cold here, we're still looking at
a guy that the audience is kind of

946
01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:43.359
getting to know. Yeah, yeah, this is not stone Cold. Yet

947
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:45.319
he hadn't even won the first rumble, which when he did win it,

948
01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:48.039
he was like a total underwent the
next the next one the next that's that's

949
01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:51.640
it. The rumbled that he was
going in right, and so that's Steve

950
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.159
Austin that confronts Terry Funk is not
one that the audience yet has really said

951
01:08:56.239 --> 01:08:58.960
like yeah, man, stone cold
fuck yeah, Like that's a heel getting

952
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:00.199
in there and throwing punches on.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean this is

953
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:05.239
this is just after the first match
with Brett, and you know he's definitely

954
01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:12.159
he's definitely you know, uber heel. Well, Austin you know, expressed

955
01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:14.880
a great degree of respect for Terry
when he had him on his podcast years

956
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:17.159
and years later. It is a
program that we never really got to see,

957
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:20.960
you know, Austin and Funk,
but that that that wouldn't have excited

958
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:24.079
me in the day, but it
would certainly excite me now. Yeah,

959
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:25.840
it would be great to look back
on. But this is going to have

960
01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:29.319
to do for the closest we got
to because Steve Austin's about to shoot stratospheric

961
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:31.680
and Terry Funk's about to leave the
WWF Yeah, just as quick as he

962
01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:36.600
got there after the rumble. And
so throughout nineteen ninety seven, Funk goes

963
01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:39.960
back to ECW of course, wins
the world title, at the first pay

964
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:42.479
per view barely legal in April.
As we've talked about here in the lapsed

965
01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:45.279
Funk and you know, continues to
be a key fixture of VCW scene through

966
01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:48.960
nineteen ninety seven. But it's funny
that Pritchard mentioned spread Heart because by the

967
01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:53.680
time we get around to September,
there's a little business to be done down

968
01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:56.920
in old A Marilla. And anybody
who's yeah, Matt knows about this.

969
01:09:57.880 --> 01:10:00.800
It's the fifty years of Funk,
you know, kind of retirement show for

970
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:04.800
Terry Funk where he goes back to
the sports arena and just calls on all

971
01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:09.600
it's called contacts in Amarilla and tries
to do one last big house. It's

972
01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:14.119
it's the it's the dentist stamp moment. It's where the Dennist stamp moment comes

973
01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:16.720
from. That's right, Terry.
I'm not booked. I'm not booked,

974
01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:18.720
Terry, Terry, I'm not but
I can't do anything again. I'm not

975
01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.840
booked exactly. But I want you
to come in to be a real honor.

976
01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:25.079
I really want you to be there. I want you to refee the

977
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:27.119
match. I'm asking I want you
to referee the match. I'm please,

978
01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:29.319
I'm asking, I'm begging you.
I'm on my knees, I'm walking away

979
01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:31.680
from you. But I'm begging to
Dennis. And I'm serious about this.

980
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:35.800
But Terry, I can't referee if
I'm not booked. I'm trying, Dennis.

981
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:39.600
I'm Dennis. I'm trying to book
you. I'm trying to book your

982
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:42.760
hell, but I'm not booked.
I'm halfway. I understand, But can

983
01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:45.439
I try? I want to do
it now. I want to book you,

984
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:49.760
but I got plans? What plans? I don't know? Well,

985
01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:53.279
Terry, I have to understand the
way I talk. There's no difference between

986
01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:57.199
I'm pretending and I do. So
when I say I have plans, what

987
01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.760
I merely mean is I pretend I
have plans. I'm pretending I have plans

988
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:02.840
that I can cancel in a moment. I want you to cancel them.

989
01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:06.279
I'm gonna book you for a past
and Brett, I want there, Come

990
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:09.800
on, I want you to do
it. I can't. I'm not booked.

991
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:13.479
Could you go ahead and book the
Son of a Bitch? Honey?

992
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:15.079
Can you? Can you get the
Son of a Bitch booked? For God's

993
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:17.600
sake? Put him in a book? Write him in a book. Yeah,

994
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:20.800
that's when he gets back to the
office, like a mile away from

995
01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:25.520
Dennis Stamp. I mean, Jesus
Triticky, can you book Dennis Stamp.

996
01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:30.800
I'm in the I'm just trying to
get the guy in referee the goddamn match

997
01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:34.119
has a favor to me, and
he's talking about not being booked. I

998
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:38.159
don't even know if the hell that
means. Can you find a book for

999
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:41.000
this son of a bitch. I've
been in the business fifty years. I

1000
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:44.880
don't even know what language he's speaking. I want a head and I want

1001
01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:46.840
to head and decided I don't even
know my own language. Vigory, what

1002
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:58.720
the fuck am I saying? Vic
Venom's like, huh, wrestling Terry.

1003
01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:00.920
So you know this is a key
moment of Beyond the mat They followed Terry

1004
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:04.479
back to his hometown and his retirement
show, and he pulls all the old

1005
01:12:04.520 --> 01:12:06.880
tricks to fill a house at Amarillo
one last time. Of course, the

1006
01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:11.159
territory is long gone and long dead, but the Funk name still carries a

1007
01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:15.119
lot of reverence in that city.
In that West Texas city Panhandle, a

1008
01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:17.960
stronghold of the Funker still living on
the double cross. The family you know,

1009
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:21.119
of course, has depicted in the
film the daughter's getting married. He's

1010
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:27.000
very much a man of the community, and he's got still enough widespread respect

1011
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:30.000
and reverence in the business that he
can pick up the phone and he can

1012
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:33.880
get WWF Champion Brett Hart to come
to Amarillo and wrestle him in the main

1013
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:36.479
event one on one, and Brett
does not bat an eye. And if

1014
01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:40.600
you wonder why, we'll turn to
a couple of sources. First, Boss,

1015
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.520
please share with us the passages from
Brett Hart's book about working the special

1016
01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:47.920
event for a very special wrestler in
Terry Funk. Dorry Funk Junior had asked

1017
01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:51.159
me a couple of months earlier if
I'd mind working with Terry for his retirement

1018
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:56.479
match and I am Maarillo on a
big card build as fifty years of Funk

1019
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:00.640
mind. I had said that I'd
be honored, and Dorry said that Terry,

1020
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:03.520
who like many of the old school
boys, had retired only to return

1021
01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:10.079
again and again, actually meant it
this time que crickets, Oh totally.

1022
01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:15.560
So after Toronto I connected with I
connected through Dallas where I caught a charter

1023
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:20.359
to Amori. Jesus what do you
get a fucking a flight travel plan from

1024
01:13:20.760 --> 01:13:25.039
Kevin Nash? And why did he
have to call Dallas Page to reach Terry

1025
01:13:25.079 --> 01:13:30.520
Funk? Anyway, Uh, I
got you the door. I caught a

1026
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:38.760
charter to Amarillo that was packed with
the remnants of v c W. I

1027
01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:43.560
don't understand that. I was when
you when you say the remnants. Isn't

1028
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:46.319
that when something is gone, something's
left behind? Yes? Left behind?

1029
01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:53.520
Like and why would Amarillo have the
remnants of e c W? Very strange,

1030
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:59.640
got nothing to do with Amarillo at
all. I looked at the heads

1031
01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:03.039
of the young wrestlers, bandages hiding
their gig marks, and they reminded me

1032
01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:08.439
of my old stampede days. I
had a bad flu, but couldn't miss

1033
01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:11.600
such a significant night. I crawled
out of bed and drove to the fair

1034
01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:14.920
grounds, where I met up with
Stu and Bruce and with Saddenity. Hear

1035
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:21.840
from them that Fritz van Erik had
died of cancer. I'm okay, so

1036
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:30.239
much information that is just being thrown
away. He's just like toss and shit

1037
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:32.479
like I mean, I don't know. Some of these deserve their own fucking

1038
01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:39.800
paragraphs, like you know, And
in many ways the Funk Show was like

1039
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:43.640
traveling back in a time machine.
Dory and Terry were old school pros who

1040
01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:47.159
kindly conducted business the way it always
had been done. Japanese reporters swarmed all

1041
01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:51.560
over as Dorry led me down down
back hallways to a room where he gave

1042
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:57.199
me and Terry are finished in great
detail. I was happy to put put

1043
01:14:57.239 --> 01:15:00.000
up, to put the title up
against Terry, but Addison distance he wanted

1044
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:03.159
to be, he'd wanted, he
wanted to put me over, even though

1045
01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:06.479
it was his retirement match. Well
that's just what we do, you know,

1046
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:11.920
you put the young guy over.
The Amarillo fans were so fired up

1047
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:15.359
about my anti American heel status that
I feared for Stu, who was sitting

1048
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:21.600
at ringside. The special referee was
Dennis Stamp, the big lanky wrestler who'd

1049
01:15:21.640 --> 01:15:26.239
given me one of my first matches
back in Amarillos so long ago. Wow,

1050
01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:29.359
when it was over, I didn't
know that that's crazy. When it

1051
01:15:29.479 --> 01:15:30.800
was over, I was so sick. I had to crawl back to bed

1052
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:35.159
before Terry could even thank me.
Hey, hitman, where'd you go?

1053
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:40.920
You know what? He I think
I'm gonna put us in front of hitman

1054
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:45.760
from now on. Yeah, yeah, guy skipped town. Didn't even fucking

1055
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:50.760
say let me say thank you to
him. He's a shit man. Red

1056
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:55.239
Hart taking the time in the middle
of his WF terrain to fly to Amarilla

1057
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:58.199
and work Terry Funk on a car
with a bunch of ECW guys and stuff.

1058
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.199
It's really yeah, it was really
remarked. I amost couldn't believe what

1059
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:02.760
I was reading when I saw what
Brett was up to that week. Yeah.

1060
01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:06.199
Yeah, but that such was the
respect and reverence that Terry Funk had

1061
01:16:06.279 --> 01:16:10.560
way back in our NWA World Championship
episode when we talked about Terry as the

1062
01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:14.960
traveling World Champion from seventy five seventy
six, Calgary was a key stop and

1063
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:18.239
he developed a really strong bond with
a heart family upon visiting Calgary and defending

1064
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:21.079
in the territory, and a lot
of the kids looked up to him and

1065
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:26.199
cross paths with him over the years, and this was the culmination of that.

1066
01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:28.680
In a lot of ways, it
goes back and also to ninety five.

1067
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:31.279
We mentioned this when we were breezing
through Terry Funk and ECW, but

1068
01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:38.239
one of the detours he made internationally
was to work stew Heart's fiftieth anniversary show.

1069
01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:41.439
So in a lot of ways,
this was reciprocation for that that took

1070
01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:45.119
place December fifteenth, nineteen ninety five. You'll remember we've talked about this as

1071
01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:46.840
the show where Brett Haart wrestled Davey
Boy before he wrestled them at the In

1072
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:51.199
Your House that year, and they
had you know, Chris ben wa versus

1073
01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:56.800
Rad Radford and a WC WWF match
and all of that. But among the

1074
01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:00.800
features that night are on our disc
twenty seven if you can ready that as

1075
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:04.319
Terry and Dorry formed, you know, one of the more vaunted tag teams

1076
01:17:04.359 --> 01:17:09.760
of the modern era went up to
Calgary to face off against the dynamic team

1077
01:17:10.119 --> 01:17:15.119
of Heart family member Bruce Hart and
Brian Pillman, so the Loose Cannon crossing

1078
01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:17.239
paths with the Funker as well.
There were nineteen ninety five to we take

1079
01:17:17.279 --> 01:17:20.000
quick sample. It's not a long
match, but it was. It went

1080
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:24.560
down as one of the more impactful
and buzzed about matches on this big tribute

1081
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:28.520
to Stu Heart card where the Prime
Minister came through of Canada and all kinds

1082
01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:31.079
of dignitaries. It was a huge
occasion for Stu Heart. They're put on

1083
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:34.960
by the Calgary folks, and we're
going to take a look at some of

1084
01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:40.760
the ways that Terry did favors for
the Heart family and thus was paid back

1085
01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:44.520
in full upon his calling it a
career at Amarillo, or at least we

1086
01:17:44.600 --> 01:17:46.079
thought in nineteen ninety seven. So
boss, if you want to go to

1087
01:17:46.159 --> 01:17:59.560
one nineteen thirty four, we'll be
ready to rock. Okay, the Heartfelt

1088
01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:03.560
performing two and three two one.
They come ed wheeling on the call.

1089
01:18:05.720 --> 01:18:12.199
Checks your story, crowd, it's
Terry funked it over the crowd. Dor.

1090
01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:18.079
He doesn't even know where he is. John jacking with Pilman a ringside

1091
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:21.720
look at him. They eye bad
company. Bruce Hart and Brian Pillman.

1092
01:18:24.359 --> 01:18:28.279
I don't you know, I didn't
even I didn't Terry, Terry, what

1093
01:18:28.439 --> 01:18:33.840
do Terry? What? Wow?
Terry, it's even Terry. I just

1094
01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:39.159
I don't where are we doing,
Terry. There's a big fat man in

1095
01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:41.640
the I don't even know what's the
big fat man doing on the ring.

1096
01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:45.239
He's making me nervous, Terry,
Terry, I gotta go home, Flash

1097
01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:48.520
Harry, take me home. Bruce
Heart takes on the funker here goes Terry,

1098
01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:54.119
Oh, ship, you always wanted
him to sell for Bruce, didn't

1099
01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:59.039
you, boss? Oh the dream
of mine? Shots, look at him,

1100
01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:00.920
look at it. He ends up
saying, how seated on the middle

1101
01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:05.760
rope, Terry, look at Bruce
hard? What a dufis? A rocking

1102
01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:10.399
horse? Spot from the funker?
Here ass in the middle rope, hands

1103
01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:14.800
gripping the top, ye back and
forth like as he saw or yo yo,

1104
01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:23.960
yeah, happy eightieth birthday. Here's
a tag. Get me starting on

1105
01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:30.359
head whiling, double whammy. There, I'll think what my pants? Oh?

1106
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:33.279
Funker grabs a headlock on pilmean and
kicks him in the nuts. I

1107
01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:38.760
could have sworn that a young lady
touched my penis dory, looking like a

1108
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:45.840
lady in the nursing home who just
came out of the shower. Head mom,

1109
01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:48.479
I know, Sunny, well,
you know they didn't bring my My

1110
01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:53.479
chains are closed, Terry, I
got, Terry, I got? Where's

1111
01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:59.479
my nightgown? Terry, Terry,
my nightgown? A fucker's grabbing at Whaling's

1112
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:03.039
table. Can you find me a
nightgown? Please? Will need a nightgown

1113
01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:09.279
for my pants. There's pants.
He's grabbed the table. Indeed, ed

1114
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:16.520
who's that fucking chubby motherfucker O Jesus, Pillman sent sailing over the table and

1115
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:20.760
hit his head on the guardrail.
Let just see Terry Funk. Who else

1116
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:26.520
Terry's in Canada? Boss, ring
it ding Dong is rugged, ring ding

1117
01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:32.039
Dong a souplex. Oh, Pilman
out of the table and it collapses.

1118
01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:40.720
That's why you bring it the funker
right there? Yeah, I don't think

1119
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:44.319
they're ready for that. Ninety five
in Canada, No rolled back in his

1120
01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:47.000
Pilman. Dory Funk with the lateral
press gets two and a half. Pillman's

1121
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:55.800
still in the fight and oh seven
eighths excuse me at will, it'll taste

1122
01:20:55.840 --> 01:21:00.359
of stampede here boss, or such
as it was in ninety seven, big

1123
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:02.880
double arm butterfly superplex by Dory Funk
to the float over on. Pilman gets

1124
01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:09.920
too in another kickout. You know
they had uh uh Terry, Terry,

1125
01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:15.960
Terry, my my hair, My
hair just isn't working for me. Terry,

1126
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:19.640
can you please, can you please? Well you are dorn what HI

1127
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:25.399
laid vertical nicely done by Dorry still
had Terry. I hurt myself just there,

1128
01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:30.039
I really hurt myself. I need
you to Oh god, Terry,

1129
01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:33.760
this young this youngster here, he's
making me feel uncomfortable in my pants,

1130
01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:39.399
and so he tags out to the
Funker comes Terry closing in like a fucking

1131
01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:44.680
but I'm gonna go ahead and hit
a D d T on your ast.

1132
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:49.399
Brian, Hey, Pillman, d
d T. I'm gonna get too d

1133
01:21:49.560 --> 01:22:00.560
d T for two. This is
his restaurant focus back got Funk, brothers

1134
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:04.720
working together, doubles who play on
order. Here, Bruce Bruce there.

1135
01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:08.800
For some reason, Bruce just needs
all the attention. Isn't that it?

1136
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:15.359
Bruce always needs to be the focus
of attention. Bruce borrowing Owen Hart's nineteen

1137
01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:18.840
eighty six Nucan. There's a tagero, goes Bruce, and they're going crazy

1138
01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:28.319
for Bruce. He look at a
bush, such a problem there to the

1139
01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:33.279
floor. Bruce sends Terry Funk into
the table. This guy like still you

1140
01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:42.279
know, he still thinks he knows
best. Still your Favorite and Survivors series

1141
01:22:42.319 --> 01:22:45.199
ninety three, right, Yes,
he was. Would have been an occasion

1142
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:47.000
where Terry Funk cross paths with Bruce
Hart, because remember he was supposed to

1143
01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:53.520
be one of the Knights. That's
true, Maybe not glory over to grab

1144
01:22:53.880 --> 01:23:00.840
Bruce another exchange. Bruce's duck about
him? What about him is interesting myself?

1145
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:03.199
He's such a loser. It's like
the promoter of the family. He

1146
01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:06.159
was the one that actually wanted to
like take over the office and book talent

1147
01:23:06.279 --> 01:23:12.800
and mind the family history and all
that. Is that Robert Craft over there?

1148
01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:16.720
Hey, don't put it passing.
Terry has got in color. Birthday,

1149
01:23:17.039 --> 01:23:20.439
Bruce. I'm gonna go ahead and
get some color. Dunk, dunk.

1150
01:23:20.479 --> 01:23:25.439
I'm gonna get color. You should
get color too, Terry. How

1151
01:23:25.479 --> 01:23:27.640
do I do that? Terry?
Do I get? What do I do

1152
01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:32.760
to get color? Can you?
Terry? Terry? Terry? What's the

1153
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:39.000
next match? What's the next thing
in the script? Terry's like, Dorry

1154
01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:43.479
funk works? What's next to the
script? Terry? Did? Terry?

1155
01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:46.720
Can you let me know what moves
are gonna happen next? Please? Terry

1156
01:23:48.399 --> 01:23:50.239
put the chair off his neck,
threw it in the air, and it

1157
01:23:50.319 --> 01:23:54.479
landed on his own head. Bruce, I'm gonna go ahead and toss a

1158
01:23:54.640 --> 01:23:57.840
chair and let it hit me in
the head. Just let it happen.

1159
01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:01.880
That's exactly what happened. Yeah,
bunkers popping ed whale and my crazy you

1160
01:24:01.960 --> 01:24:10.720
can't keep a straight face. He's
laughing. Lar Terry just gets so brilliant

1161
01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:19.920
and absurd. And Pillman, he's
a nutcase. Is banging away. He's

1162
01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:25.000
banging away, ah Man, pill
them before the accident. Look at the

1163
01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:32.760
move man. I know bro liven't
middle ring pile driver on Terry funk Wow

1164
01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:36.239
spikes him tough. Kill them with
the cover now, Dory quick to enter.

1165
01:24:36.800 --> 01:24:42.199
Are about as quick as he can
Terry. Hey, Terry, I

1166
01:24:42.319 --> 01:24:46.000
saved you by kicking my guy in
my head? Terry, you care to

1167
01:24:46.039 --> 01:24:50.560
keep reading the script out loud?
Terry? I read, Terry, I

1168
01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:54.319
got the pages in my pants,
and I decided to kick the guy in

1169
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:57.760
the head. Did I do it? Ride? Terry, Terry. I'm

1170
01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:00.439
trying to work right now. John. We'll talk about it later, but

1171
01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:02.000
I gotta know what's I gotta know
if I did? Okay, seeing all

1172
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:06.640
this from the y at the top
of this line from the apron at Terry

1173
01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:15.640
Terry, Terry, Terry, you
gotta see the natch parts, like how

1174
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:19.279
far away Harry is? Come on
tack me, Okay, I'm coming in,

1175
01:25:20.079 --> 01:25:25.079
Terry. It's my turn. Oh
God, Bruce attacking Terry. Bruce

1176
01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:28.119
is attacking me. Terry, I
don't think that's that's in the script.

1177
01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:35.319
Clothes line by Bruce leaves his feet
pups and cover one no funk played earlier.

1178
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:41.239
All god Ell then cuts off Terry
with a clothes line. It's getting

1179
01:25:41.239 --> 01:25:44.840
physical here in Calgary and it looks
like can fly. Hey, Terry,

1180
01:25:44.880 --> 01:25:47.439
I can't breathe in the middle of
the ring. I can't breathe in the

1181
01:25:47.479 --> 01:25:51.439
side of the ring. Top up
splashed by Bruce. No FuG says,

1182
01:25:51.439 --> 01:26:00.319
story is that it kick out?
Ah, I'm gonna try something. I

1183
01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:08.720
don't know if I can what us
ship snap superlex by Bruce on dory.

1184
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:12.840
Here comes Terry the chair missus c
again. I'm gonna go ahead and take

1185
01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:16.880
a pick a chair. Terry.
I don't know what saws to happen next.

1186
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:26.079
Can you please can you help me
out? Shot becomes Terry hell cracks

1187
01:26:26.119 --> 01:26:29.439
brookes across the back of the chair. Shot I want to had him smacked

1188
01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:33.760
him in the back of the head
with a chair. L sounds as Terry

1189
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:43.760
crowns Bruce with a chair. It's
a disqualification all the way exactly where head

1190
01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:53.720
forget it. Oh my, you
have Ben Bruce, I think I've been

1191
01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:58.279
through a war button. So there's
Terry giving back to the Hearts and uh,

1192
01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:01.560
with that prelude, we need to
turn now to Bruce Heart's book.

1193
01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:04.560
Boss. I know, one of
your favorite volumes, one of your favorite

1194
01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:10.640
wrestling books ever published. But man
does he delineate the history of the Funks

1195
01:27:10.680 --> 01:27:13.199
and the Hearts too with the great
wrestling clans of all time? And you're

1196
01:27:13.239 --> 01:27:15.239
making me read it too? Fuck
that? Are you kidding me? Of

1197
01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:20.720
course, give it to the people. Bruce Hart on Terry Funk Funk,

1198
01:27:20.840 --> 01:27:25.600
whose father Dory Senior, had a
promotion down in West Texas, seemed to

1199
01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:30.960
be able to relate to us.
What what does that mean? I guess

1200
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:34.119
he's gonna explain it. So our
wrestling family, both second generation, we

1201
01:27:34.199 --> 01:27:39.039
became pretty good friends, so much
that he invited Dean and me to come

1202
01:27:39.079 --> 01:27:42.720
and visit him and his family down
on Amarillo. I'm still not sure if

1203
01:27:42.760 --> 01:27:45.359
he was kidding or not, but
we took him up on his offer and

1204
01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:49.359
set off that August along with my
brother Brett for what would turn out to

1205
01:27:49.399 --> 01:27:54.119
be one of those coming of age
type adventures, kind of like stand by

1206
01:27:54.239 --> 01:27:59.159
Me. That was the first time
any of us had truly ventured beyond our

1207
01:27:59.239 --> 01:28:02.199
home turf retrospect. We were naive
as hell as Dean Brett and I,

1208
01:28:02.319 --> 01:28:06.600
all of whom had long hair intended
to be unabashed mark types, made our

1209
01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:11.680
way through these redneck states like Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas.

1210
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:16.880
We ran into all kinds of hassles
and near calamities with anally retentive truckers and

1211
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:23.520
narrow minded misfits who seem to think
we were draft dodgers or hippie radicals from

1212
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:27.600
up north seeking to cause problems in
the Land of the Free and the Home

1213
01:28:27.680 --> 01:28:30.279
of the brave. As only Bruce
could put it, Yeah, what exactly

1214
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:35.239
is an anally retentive trucker? How
did you get enough time around him to

1215
01:28:35.319 --> 01:28:42.199
know it means retentive? I mean
seriously, Like what I mean, I'm

1216
01:28:42.239 --> 01:28:48.560
assuming that we're having like a you
know, Rambo situation like in First Blood,

1217
01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:54.960
where you know, he's he's there, they're being they're being mistreated because

1218
01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:59.359
they're drifters. I see that's what
he's going for. But it's still like,

1219
01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:04.960
I mean, yeah, I don't
know, it still seems so stupid,

1220
01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:10.479
Like what were you at what don't
talk to the fucking trucker right,

1221
01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:14.079
leave them alone by your space,
mind your mind, your own business,

1222
01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:17.640
you fucking idiot. Even though we
endeavored to be as unobtrusive as possible,

1223
01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:23.760
because of the prevailing norms at the
time, we were routinely refused service at

1224
01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:28.239
truck stops and restaurants along the way, and on a few occasions found ourselves

1225
01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:31.119
having to high tail it out of
town with vigilantes and rednecks hot on our

1226
01:29:31.199 --> 01:29:33.760
tails. What did you do?
I don't Yeah, you know, Bruce.

1227
01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:40.239
The problem is I don't believe you, Like, what did you do?

1228
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:44.520
What? What I mean? You
had to do something? You skip

1229
01:29:45.039 --> 01:29:47.840
the part when you took a ship
in the guy's salad, right, You

1230
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:50.720
skipped the cart where you pissed.
Skipped the part where you where you hit

1231
01:29:50.920 --> 01:29:55.159
a woman and uh and her husband
came to beat the ship out of you

1232
01:29:55.199 --> 01:30:00.680
because it was pissed. After having
experienced on our way down to the Lone

1233
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:03.960
Star State more high spots than a
Ray Mysterio Jeff Hardy pay per view match.

1234
01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:08.359
That's enough of that, Bruce.
Please? Have we finally arrived on

1235
01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:12.800
Dorry Junior's doorstep, wide eyed and
eager to hook up with the Champagne.

1236
01:30:14.960 --> 01:30:16.640
Why did he spelt like that?
He does that through the whole book.

1237
01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:25.159
We were chagrined when his wife,
Jimmy informed us that he was still on

1238
01:30:25.279 --> 01:30:29.479
the road defending his strap in Florida. She said that his younger brother,

1239
01:30:29.600 --> 01:30:31.760
Terry, would entertain us in the
meantime. That was the first time I

1240
01:30:31.840 --> 01:30:35.640
met Terry Funk, who was one
of wrestling's legendary characters. Come back.

1241
01:30:35.840 --> 01:30:39.680
We can still talk him and Donk, but let me show you a couple

1242
01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:41.720
of things. Let me show you. I can you know what we can

1243
01:30:41.800 --> 01:30:44.399
do. We can go downstairs and
we can maybe, uh, you know,

1244
01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:45.880
kind of have a grappling contest.
What do you think of that?

1245
01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:48.880
I heard? You got your your
old Your old man likes to take guys

1246
01:30:48.920 --> 01:30:53.079
downstairs stretch him. Is that right? To stretch him then make him make

1247
01:30:53.159 --> 01:30:57.640
him scream and waal just screaming,
well without even being touched. So let's

1248
01:30:57.640 --> 01:31:06.800
see if we can work on that
scream. Even Ed Whalen, he came

1249
01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:10.920
out to the house and invited us
to tag along with him for a show

1250
01:31:11.039 --> 01:31:14.199
they they were having that night in
Lubbock, the hometown of Buddy Holly and

1251
01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:19.720
the Crickets for all you rock music
trivia types. Thanks Bruce. I count

1252
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:26.520
myself among that group. I mean
very nice of him to put that in

1253
01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:32.000
the book. Yes, yes,
and especially the condescending remark afterwards. Given

1254
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:36.399
Terry's superstar status at the time,
that would be about like Tom Brady or

1255
01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:42.279
Peyton Manning asking some what behind the
years young fans if they'd like to tag

1256
01:31:42.359 --> 01:31:47.680
along for some big game. We
eagerly jumped in Terry's big buick Riviera,

1257
01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:54.279
the kind with the boat tail back
back end. We were about to embark

1258
01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:57.439
on what would prove to be a
memorable adventure, or should I say miss

1259
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:01.119
adventure. Shortly after we set out, Terry pulled out a pouch of red

1260
01:32:01.239 --> 01:32:06.520
Man chewing tobacco and offered me a
jaw back in Canada. I'd never seen

1261
01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:11.640
chewing tobacco before, much less used
it, But since I didn't want to

1262
01:32:11.720 --> 01:32:14.279
appear to be a prude or a
whimp, I took a big wad of

1263
01:32:14.319 --> 01:32:17.319
it and stuffed into my cheek.
Not long after that, Terry began cussing

1264
01:32:17.399 --> 01:32:21.479
that his electrical system with malfunctioning.
God, damn it, hey, you

1265
01:32:21.600 --> 01:32:27.000
know, damn it. The son
of a bitch, the goddamn air conditioning,

1266
01:32:27.079 --> 01:32:32.359
the electrical systems malfunctioning. Do your
sons of bitches from Canada not a

1267
01:32:33.079 --> 01:32:40.199
fixed mouth functioning electrical systems? Air
conditioning, electrical windows? What the fuck

1268
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:51.199
do you son of a bitches from
Canada know how to fix malfunctioning electrical systems

1269
01:32:51.800 --> 01:33:00.439
electrical windows? What the fuck?
They never can They never consult and terry

1270
01:33:00.560 --> 01:33:03.800
before making all these technological breakthroughs.
No one asked him if you is okay

1271
01:33:03.880 --> 01:33:06.239
with it? Hey? Did you
what to you? Some of the pitches

1272
01:33:06.239 --> 01:33:10.760
from Canada they're about to leave because
Dunk's in home. Hey, hey,

1273
01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.720
hey, where the fuck you think
you're going? I didn't see I didn't

1274
01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:24.600
say you could leave, say you
could leave the ranch? Oh wait?

1275
01:33:24.840 --> 01:33:26.960
Oh well thanks. I don't let
me tell you. They don't call this

1276
01:33:27.079 --> 01:33:30.439
the double cross range for nothing.
I'm gonna double cross your asses. Well,

1277
01:33:30.520 --> 01:33:32.560
thank you, missus Funk. We
appreciate it. I'm sorry to have

1278
01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:35.279
called it a bad time, but
we'll come back some other time. We're

1279
01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:39.239
gonna be on the territory for a
couple of weeks and hopefully we can meet

1280
01:33:39.239 --> 01:33:41.520
Dorri then Okay, thank you,
Bye, hey, hey, hey,

1281
01:33:41.640 --> 01:33:45.079
hey, hey, I didn't say
you could on the second floor. They're

1282
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:46.640
walking down the stairs. You can
hear like the noise of the gravel in

1283
01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:49.439
their cowboy boots, and then all
of a sudden, from the second floor

1284
01:33:49.520 --> 01:33:54.079
window, Hey, hey, hey, I didn't say you could leave your

1285
01:33:54.159 --> 01:34:00.840
sons, the bitches, your Canadian
focks. Hey, no fucking idea.

1286
01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:03.239
He's there. They don't even know
who he is. What you think you're

1287
01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:08.840
doing up there, you fucking pieces
of ship. Get your asses back in

1288
01:34:10.079 --> 01:34:16.279
a malfunctioning Hey, don't you understand
the mod god damn electronics or malfunction.

1289
01:34:16.439 --> 01:34:26.199
I need some help from your Canadian
folk. Stop touching your cocks and get

1290
01:34:26.279 --> 01:34:30.840
your asses back in here. They're
standing there like their hands nowhere near their

1291
01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:34.680
cocks. Well, Bretts would because
it had thumbs in his. You know

1292
01:34:38.359 --> 01:34:45.960
you, you're scrubby looking, motherfucker. I'm tired of waiting. Imagine that

1293
01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:49.359
you're leaving to Dori's house and then
you're hey, I'm tired of waiting.

1294
01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:59.000
There, you're son of a bitch
and casts an actual fishing line from the

1295
01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:01.880
second floor and it hooks inside of
Bruce's lip. Yes, yes, how

1296
01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:05.680
are you son of a bitch.
I hooked you, you god damn Canadian

1297
01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:12.079
bitch. Get your ass backer.
He's like, I'm not done, frantically

1298
01:35:12.159 --> 01:35:15.439
spinning the wire back like you do
on the fish poles, like ripping Bruce's

1299
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:25.840
cheek. All right, then where
do we go? Bruce? Ah fucking

1300
01:35:26.319 --> 01:35:30.680
electrical problems uh, And that as
a result, his air conditioning and electric

1301
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:34.000
windows weren't working. Since it was
well up over ninety degrees out, it

1302
01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:38.960
soon became quite stifling in the car. In the meantime, I was still

1303
01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:43.119
chewing my big wad of tobacco,
and being the naive mark that I was

1304
01:35:43.279 --> 01:35:45.840
back then as opposed to the naive
mark that he is now, I had

1305
01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:49.920
no idea that you were supposed to
spit out the juice rather than swallow it.

1306
01:35:51.560 --> 01:35:55.439
My head soon began to swim and
my guts began to churn, and

1307
01:35:55.640 --> 01:35:59.079
I finally had to ask Terry to
pull over so I could puke my guts

1308
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:01.359
out. Terry, I noticed,
seemed to be having some trouble keeping a

1309
01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:04.920
straight face, and once I'd finished
my up chucking on the side of the

1310
01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:11.439
road, the air conditioning and power
windows somewhat miraculously seemed to start working again.

1311
01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.600
Just before we pulled into Lubbock,
Terry said he had an angle in

1312
01:36:15.680 --> 01:36:17.439
mind, which entailed me pretending to
be so there are all of a sudden

1313
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:23.800
they're working essentially. Yes, you
know, I had an idea for an

1314
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:26.840
angle. If you guys were interested, where you go or you know,

1315
01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:30.039
you could be a mark in the
in the crowd and he'd run into the

1316
01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:32.720
ring. And uh, and I'm
a finisher, save local hero Dick Murdoch.

1317
01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:35.720
What do you think of that?
You want to you want to play

1318
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:42.600
a game? You want to play
a game, be a wrestling mark.

1319
01:36:43.800 --> 01:36:51.920
Huh huh, huh huh? And
where are we? Why don't you go

1320
01:36:53.000 --> 01:36:56.960
ahead and say, yes, you
little fuck, I'm waiting. I'm waiting.

1321
01:36:57.239 --> 01:37:00.560
Huh. Hey, I'm not finished
with you. Hey, I didn't

1322
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:05.359
say you could leave. I'm not
done waiting for an answer the lapsed funk

1323
01:37:05.359 --> 01:37:08.560
T shirt. I didn't say,
hey, I didn't say you could leave.

1324
01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:21.720
Hey, I didn't say you could
leave. Your stupid cocksuckers. Fuck

1325
01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:29.159
Murdoch would be caught in the Russian
sleeper hole being applied by the dastardly Boris

1326
01:37:29.279 --> 01:37:32.159
Malenko, their top heel. I
told Terry I'd be happy to give it

1327
01:37:32.199 --> 01:37:35.560
a shot. Since I was supposed
to appear to be a quote mark,

1328
01:37:36.039 --> 01:37:41.520
Terry didn't want us to be seen
getting out of his car or walking in

1329
01:37:41.600 --> 01:37:44.560
with him, so he dropped us
off what he said was a block or

1330
01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:46.239
two or so from the building,
which proved to be a mile or two.

1331
01:37:47.239 --> 01:37:49.279
I'll tell you what, you know, I'm gonna drop you off here.

1332
01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:53.239
I want people seen you come out
of my car. Otherwise i'll know

1333
01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:58.279
that wrestling's fake. So why don't
you So, I'm gonna drop you off

1334
01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.880
here about a block or so from
the day place, from the damn building,

1335
01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:04.199
and you guys can hot tail it
up to the place and get your

1336
01:38:04.279 --> 01:38:10.079
seats. Oh, as he's driving
off, I'm sorry, I'm meant a

1337
01:38:10.199 --> 01:38:27.000
mile or two of you dumb fucks
each eat shitting dark Canadians. And then

1338
01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:42.520
Terry Funk shifts gears and guns guns
to pick up so hard that it proceeds

1339
01:38:42.560 --> 01:38:48.800
to take off like a bow in
seven thirty seven into the sky. I

1340
01:38:48.960 --> 01:38:55.479
go on to he shifts into gear. You know, he pushes the gas

1341
01:38:55.600 --> 01:38:59.199
so hard that you know the wheels
start spinning. Is not going anywhere.

1342
01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:06.079
And then finally it starts plowing away
and then it hits a tree and he

1343
01:39:06.159 --> 01:39:14.479
comes out walking like he sells,
you know, because hands going, he's

1344
01:39:14.560 --> 01:39:18.880
throwing a fists in the air.
I want you to know, after all

1345
01:39:18.920 --> 01:39:23.840
these weeks of doing the lapsed Funk, that we finally landed, or at

1346
01:39:23.880 --> 01:39:31.039
least JP did on. The sound
Terry Funk makes when he sells, for

1347
01:39:31.159 --> 01:39:40.840
some reason, sounds a little something
like this. Oh oh, so when

1348
01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:45.199
you picture the funker, you know, like legs spread open like he's being

1349
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:49.520
a pat searched at the airport security, rocking back and forth, knock need

1350
01:39:49.600 --> 01:39:54.199
like he's about to fall over.
Know that the sound version of that is

1351
01:39:54.279 --> 01:40:05.439
those moans you just heard, all
right, huh huh, huh huh International

1352
01:40:05.560 --> 01:40:11.119
Lats to Day twenty and fourteen,
Pardon two thousand and thirty four. Can

1353
01:40:11.159 --> 01:40:16.000
you find out that the episode where
JP moans when making the noise of Terry

1354
01:40:16.039 --> 01:40:21.640
Funk's cell job and when his truck
takes off into the horizon like et,

1355
01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:31.760
oh my god, O fucking plays
the et theme as he's fucking does he

1356
01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:41.000
flies away. Uh. When we
finally made it to the arena and sat

1357
01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:45.279
bringside and proceeded to play our roles
hardcore mark types, booing, cheering and

1358
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:49.600
whatnot. Our actions seemed to rub
some of the rednecks. We were sitting

1359
01:40:49.680 --> 01:40:53.520
here the wrong way and we almost
got into a fight or two. Why

1360
01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:56.560
did you keep calling everyone rednecks?
He loves that term. It's like he's

1361
01:40:56.560 --> 01:41:00.239
proud of himself for me. Their
rednecks up in fucking Canada too. They

1362
01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:05.840
were next everywhere. I suppose,
yeah, I suppose. During the main

1363
01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:10.920
event, when Maleenko got his drinded
Russian sleeper hold on Murdoch, I slid

1364
01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:15.399
under the bottom rope and jumped on
Malenko's back piggyback style. I should note

1365
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:19.000
that I'd never met either Malenko or
Murdoch before this, and I said something

1366
01:41:19.119 --> 01:41:25.359
was wrong as Malenko tensed up,
and I heard him telling Murdoch, some

1367
01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:29.319
fucking Mark just jumped on my back. Amazing. He then gave me a

1368
01:41:29.399 --> 01:41:32.359
stiff head mayor. Stiff head mayor
onto the mat. Is that a snap

1369
01:41:32.439 --> 01:41:36.079
Mayor? I think? So?
Okay. As I was lying on the

1370
01:41:36.159 --> 01:41:40.359
mat, I saw him wrapping the
chain around his fist and drawing back to

1371
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:51.399
clobber me with it. Wide eyed
and scared shitless, I began shouting wide

1372
01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:59.000
eyed and scared shitless. I began
shouting k fabe, k fabe, Bruce

1373
01:41:59.079 --> 01:42:02.079
Hart, ladies and gentlemen, which
is the wrestler's way of letting the other

1374
01:42:02.159 --> 01:42:06.520
guy know that you that you're not
a mark. He looked at me and

1375
01:42:08.239 --> 01:42:13.079
kind of perplexed, and I shouted, shouted, mind you, not whispered

1376
01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:19.640
or anything. Shouted Terry fun Dormana
running on the Finish. He did not

1377
01:42:19.800 --> 01:42:25.279
say that. That's what it says, and he says he shouted it.

1378
01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:32.039
He looked at me kind of perplexed, and I shouted quote Terry fun Domoa

1379
01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:39.319
running on the Finish up. Malenko
and Murdoch looked at each other, puzzled

1380
01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:44.520
and and Murdoch then snarled about fucking
Terry in his ribs. Okay, I'm

1381
01:42:44.520 --> 01:42:47.199
sure that's exactly what happened. At
that point, I suddenly found myself surrounded

1382
01:42:47.239 --> 01:42:51.800
by cops who handcuffed me and dragged
my ass out of the ring. They

1383
01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:56.079
threw me in the back of the
police cruiser, and I was contemplating having

1384
01:42:56.159 --> 01:42:59.560
to spend the night in a Southern
jail, which, based on movies i'd

1385
01:42:59.600 --> 01:43:02.119
seen, was nothing to look forward
to. Because the movies are the truth.

1386
01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:06.159
My spirits brightened momentarily when I saw
Terry Funk come out the back door

1387
01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:11.159
of the arena and approach the police
cruiser. I figured that he'd tell the

1388
01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:15.439
cops everything was cool, but he
instead launching into an Academy Award deserving rant

1389
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:18.399
about how I'd endangered the safety of
thousands of fans. I don't even know

1390
01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:21.840
who the fuck this guy is.
I know that he's the son of a

1391
01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:25.800
bitcher, came up from Canada,
and he came down here to try to

1392
01:43:25.880 --> 01:43:29.079
fuck with my guys in the ring. You better take him away, and

1393
01:43:29.159 --> 01:43:31.359
you better hang the son of a
bitch officer. It's my understanding that you

1394
01:43:31.399 --> 01:43:35.079
want to check this guy's papers in
addition to you know, taking him down

1395
01:43:35.119 --> 01:43:39.279
to the jail, and my understand
he's in the country legally, and I

1396
01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:43.279
want ahead and verify that with Immigration
and Naturalization Service. I did that in

1397
01:43:43.319 --> 01:43:45.840
the last five minutes. I have
friends, I'm the biz. I made

1398
01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:49.359
a couple of calls, and I
went ahead, made a couple of calls,

1399
01:43:49.439 --> 01:43:54.000
and you know what I did.
What I had yep, yep,

1400
01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:58.439
yep, yep, yep. That
thing, yep, that thing went ahead

1401
01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:00.720
and I'll tell you what this thing's
going over? That guy's head rot?

1402
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:09.199
Now, can you give me a
head? Please? Does everybody want a

1403
01:44:09.319 --> 01:44:17.279
head? To get a to get
ahead? He ordered for the lands,

1404
01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:23.079
beseeching the cops to lock me up
and throw the keys away. He then

1405
01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:26.239
stormed off in a huff, making
out to be in sense and leaving me

1406
01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:29.119
to ponder how I was going to
get my ass out of this sling.

1407
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:34.359
Luckily, just after that, Lord
Alfred Hayes, who later gained fame and

1408
01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:39.199
acclaim in the WWE came up to
the cop car and in his very proper

1409
01:44:39.239 --> 01:44:43.439
British accent, pleaded for leniency.
He told the cops that I got caught

1410
01:44:43.520 --> 01:44:45.640
up in the heat of the match, and I tested that he could that

1411
01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:48.720
he could vouch for me. Much
to my relief, the cops agreed to

1412
01:44:48.800 --> 01:44:54.119
let me go. I'm not sure
if that was some kind of routine initiation

1413
01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:57.600
for the new kid on the block, but after I had paid my dues,

1414
01:44:57.680 --> 01:45:00.640
Terry and I had a good laugh. We it would go on to

1415
01:45:00.720 --> 01:45:03.479
become great friends. He remains one
of the people I respect and admire most

1416
01:45:03.680 --> 01:45:06.680
in the business. So there you
go, the funks and the hearts forming

1417
01:45:06.760 --> 01:45:12.920
bonds very early on Great Malnko.
Of course, Boris Malenko referenced there as

1418
01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:15.760
in the match as one of the
promo inspirations for Terry Funk. We talked

1419
01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:17.600
about that all the way back in
the beginning. Yeah, I remember that.

1420
01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:21.000
It was discussing the inspirations for his
promo styles that he would see when

1421
01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:25.439
he just broke into the business in
sixty five. And then, of course

1422
01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:28.960
Dick Murdoch, somebody that Terry Funk
counted as a close friend, a fellow

1423
01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:31.000
West Texas boy, someone who claimed
to have gone to West Texas State when

1424
01:45:31.039 --> 01:45:33.800
he never really even did, but
still played in the alumni football game because

1425
01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:36.880
he was that much of a worker
that he convinced them that he belonged to

1426
01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:42.760
the gridiron and actually did quite well
for himself, wow, but had an

1427
01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:46.119
untimely death due to heart issues and
was something that Terry often pointed to and

1428
01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:49.079
shoot interviews. It was, how
you know, part of the reason he

1429
01:45:49.159 --> 01:45:53.720
kept in such cardiovascular shape was seeing
what happened to the likes of a Dick

1430
01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:56.319
Murdoch, who had all the athletic
traits you could hope for as a professional

1431
01:45:56.359 --> 01:45:59.560
wrestler, but you know, didn't
necessarily mind the p's and q's of his

1432
01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:01.680
personal health, and of course the
death of his father to a heart attack

1433
01:46:03.119 --> 01:46:06.079
hung like a dark cloud over the
rest of Terry Funk's life. Really,

1434
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:11.399
so the ties that bind, they
are being formed between the Hart family and

1435
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:15.319
the Funk family way back in the
Amerala Territory days. It's crazy Bruce and

1436
01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:18.039
Terry were just young folks and it
pays back all the way later. September

1437
01:46:18.039 --> 01:46:21.760
eleventh, nineteen ninety seven, Terry
Funk versus Bretttheart at Wrestle Fest. Boss,

1438
01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:25.640
I ask you to pull up disc
thirty one because it's time to watch

1439
01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:30.760
Wow, the definitive collision between Terry
Funk and the hitman Brett Hart. Just

1440
01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:34.359
thirty one. You got it right
at the very beginning. Too great.

1441
01:46:36.640 --> 01:46:43.720
We've got a tiny ring as picked
it and beyond the mat three two one

1442
01:46:43.880 --> 01:46:50.520
play Ladies and Gamer. If attention
real quick, we have two ex woman's

1443
01:46:50.600 --> 01:47:01.920
World wrestling champions here with us tonight
ladies in Noble Lady Noble, Jamie Noble,

1444
01:47:04.399 --> 01:47:17.479
relation to Jamie Noble in a relation
to Barnes. And there's the Desperado

1445
01:47:17.640 --> 01:47:27.199
entrance theme for the Funker Wow Joey
Styles took the announcing duties for this one.

1446
01:47:28.039 --> 01:47:30.800
That's wild. It's pretty much an
e c W show. Yeah,

1447
01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:33.800
it was filmed and distributed by our
video, the same guys who did all

1448
01:47:33.840 --> 01:47:39.640
the ECW hole videos Arena matches the
name. Who is this pervert in the

1449
01:47:39.720 --> 01:47:43.119
ring? Who's this pervert? Announcer? I couldn't tell you this announcer was.

1450
01:47:43.159 --> 01:48:08.359
Actually he said it right there last
time. An ambilla. Dorri's got

1451
01:48:08.399 --> 01:48:12.239
his type song. He's ready for
action. What's that? Dorri's got his

1452
01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:15.279
types on He's ready for action.
Yeah, he wrestled Brod van Dam earlier

1453
01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:19.960
in the night. Terry. I
don't, I don't Terry. What Terry?

1454
01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:23.720
What? Whoa Terry? What's going
on? Terry? People are touching

1455
01:48:24.560 --> 01:48:29.399
Terry. People are touching My god, two people are touching Terry. Terry,

1456
01:48:29.720 --> 01:48:31.640
Terry, Terry? Why are people
touching people? I don't like people

1457
01:48:31.720 --> 01:48:36.119
touching Terry. Somebody threw a black
cowboy hat on the funker there he is,

1458
01:48:36.159 --> 01:48:42.840
look at him, Look at Dennis
Damp Terry. Who's this fucking clown

1459
01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:55.279
of the referee. I've never seen
him before? Terry the referee y b

1460
01:48:55.560 --> 01:48:59.359
pointing to both all sides of the
ring. Thank you's out? Terry is

1461
01:48:59.439 --> 01:49:04.319
my mom the referee is that my
mom at WWW is on top of it?

1462
01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:10.239
Terry, is this my final match? Is this my retirement match?

1463
01:49:10.359 --> 01:49:15.520
Terry? Am I winning the title
from Brett Hard? Terry am I Woody

1464
01:49:17.720 --> 01:49:31.079
am I Woody Harrelson. Terry that
crazy would be to go to the show

1465
01:49:31.119 --> 01:49:38.640
and fucking Brett Hart is there?
Oh god, Yeah, winged eagle title

1466
01:49:38.720 --> 01:49:42.199
on his waist. Yep, yep. Montreal around the corner for the hit

1467
01:49:42.279 --> 01:49:45.960
Man is like a week before Vince
tells him at Madison Square Garden that we

1468
01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:47.960
can't honor your contract. And you
know what, Pell, We're not.

1469
01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:53.239
You know, you know Terry,
you know you know that he went down

1470
01:49:53.279 --> 01:49:57.319
to to do this fucking Terry Funk
thing. You know what, I don't

1471
01:49:57.319 --> 01:50:00.520
want to in my company anymore.
I'm gonna tell I can't afford anymore.

1472
01:50:00.479 --> 01:50:05.359
Yeah, oh my god, think
about that. It's a catalyst get another

1473
01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:10.960
thing, Terry Funk said in motion
to change the whole business. Gotta tell

1474
01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:13.760
Brett a little lethargic on the walk
to the ring, not feeling great,

1475
01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:30.319
ye style of a bit of a
history lesson fucking Bruce Jesus, that's the

1476
01:50:30.399 --> 01:50:40.119
Ambrella story, saying that a Stamp
when Brett was a teenager visiting Amarella as

1477
01:50:40.159 --> 01:50:43.119
they did, and so Brett caught
in the ring and had his first match

1478
01:50:43.159 --> 01:50:49.880
against Dennis Stamp. Would have thought
Amrella had a It's a central role in

1479
01:50:49.920 --> 01:51:01.039
Brett Hart's story. Yeah, and
rustlers. And now Terry Funk's daughter is

1480
01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:08.520
entering the ring. Who's that in
the back there? Who are all these

1481
01:51:08.560 --> 01:51:14.800
people? Candido? Oh my god, see Paul's mahoney. Basically all the

1482
01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:16.920
e c W guys. They came
to the shower in the ring. Now

1483
01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:24.079
surrounding Terry for group photos. There's
Vicky, He's beloved Vicky Funk. Sure,

1484
01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:28.000
I'm sure those camera men are for
Ry Blaustein or some of them.

1485
01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:32.000
Oh yeah, there's two daughters.
Paul Hayman in the ring as well.

1486
01:51:32.039 --> 01:51:48.079
Looks like a little impromptu speech here
from Paul Hayman microphone. Victor Quinonez as

1487
01:51:48.119 --> 01:52:01.720
well as Dory Sadman. Tommy Dramer
bears the boom mic for Barry Blaustein,

1488
01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:10.399
Well, Texas to patribute to Terry
Fuck. Terry retiring from full time competition

1489
01:52:10.640 --> 01:52:14.520
in the United States, at the
end of nineteen ninety seven. What a

1490
01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:20.159
great career it has been, Bridies
and gentlemen. For those of you who

1491
01:52:20.319 --> 01:52:28.199
don't know, the wrestlers that are
in the ring within me to night represent

1492
01:52:28.640 --> 01:52:38.680
a promotion. BOBCW. I guess
they're happy. What are you doing?

1493
01:52:39.119 --> 01:52:45.800
Here's a promotion that I swear to
you was put on the map because we

1494
01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:54.039
had the services of election that Emmy
Roll lent to us by the name of

1495
01:52:54.359 --> 01:53:15.000
Terry Buck in nineteen eleveny three when
we sawbody c W with perhlf of Barley

1496
01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:23.239
Funk Junior and with the pleas of
Terry's white and there's two beautiful borders,

1497
01:53:24.600 --> 01:53:33.960
the literally on behalf of the state
of Texas with us and the man Vicky

1498
01:53:34.039 --> 01:53:44.560
stepping into the foreground there. That
was interesting the night I assume everybody is

1499
01:53:44.680 --> 01:54:09.520
here the sum of fifty years at
the thank Berlin I want, I had,

1500
01:54:10.279 --> 01:54:14.199
I went, I went, I
had him, and and and and

1501
01:54:14.600 --> 01:54:21.840
and and and retired way the harder
three years. I want the fun family

1502
01:54:23.319 --> 01:54:28.960
tax done, but I wanted docation
of this city n the Royal Texas.

1503
01:54:35.960 --> 01:54:45.239
As you all know, tonight is
Terry Bump's final match in his hometown are

1504
01:54:45.319 --> 01:54:58.439
down the roll, Kerry Funk on
behalf of not only Extreme Championship Wrestling,

1505
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:14.159
on behalf of not only your family, but on beha we would would say,

1506
01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:30.920
who would hearts Life Time Tommy Dreamer
hoisting the memorial Championship belt for the

1507
01:55:30.960 --> 01:55:40.760
Funk or he'd already lost it at
Hardcore Heaven. Ye pardon it was the

1508
01:55:40.800 --> 01:55:47.560
saboo before Hardcore Heaven. Nonetheless,
Terry Funk presented with a permanent championship down

1509
01:55:50.319 --> 01:55:56.720
strong embrace from his family. Hey, Terry, is this for me?

1510
01:55:57.880 --> 01:56:01.600
That Dory's very confused? Terry?
Is this my belt? Have I won

1511
01:56:01.680 --> 01:56:10.319
the championship? Did I beat Brett? Okay? Terry? Can I Can

1512
01:56:10.399 --> 01:56:14.600
I go home when the match is
about thirty five minutes? And you can?

1513
01:56:14.760 --> 01:56:16.880
Dory? Terry? Do I need
to be here for this? No,

1514
01:56:17.039 --> 01:56:20.159
it's all right, you can go
home. Ben. I just you

1515
01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:28.159
know, I certainly got really tired
and all, and you know what,

1516
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:34.319
my feeling really tied it on my
crotch, Fifetime Championship belt high above his

1517
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:39.119
head. It's funny that Brett Hart, the WWF champion, has to stand

1518
01:56:39.159 --> 01:56:42.479
there in the corner of leg Yeah, watch this whole thing with his hands

1519
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:49.399
on his hips. C W takes
the fucking Center's dage right, Barry blasting's

1520
01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:56.680
boom mic. You see it seriously
like it's all over the place, the

1521
01:56:56.840 --> 01:57:04.079
size that fucking boom too. It's
cut the full into the ring. I

1522
01:57:04.159 --> 01:57:08.439
wonder if Berry used that to like
get you know over here, neighbors having

1523
01:57:08.520 --> 01:57:12.920
sex or something in apartments. Bratt's
got a mic. They're pulling the hell

1524
01:57:12.920 --> 01:57:21.880
out of him. Hear me out. I just want to say, tonight,

1525
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:42.159
where their in the history of the
game. There's another one. You

1526
01:57:42.279 --> 01:57:46.079
got it, Brett, I made
up from the bottom of my heart.

1527
01:57:47.680 --> 01:57:53.319
I know a lot about the room, the men of Texas. I was

1528
01:57:53.359 --> 01:57:57.920
invited down here years ago when I
was Anna sop Kiddy. I favor with

1529
01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:03.800
Dory and I'll favored carry you up
for one down a wrestling. I will

1530
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:14.159
say one thing with the greatest rustling
you have the law. It's a very

1531
01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:17.199
important thing for great to be here
tonight. So I was just one of

1532
01:58:17.239 --> 01:58:23.319
the bad teams and doctor too long. The luck on people the arm as

1533
01:58:23.359 --> 01:58:31.560
long as third one last seven,
I'm gonna give you a pay ask womany

1534
01:58:31.640 --> 01:58:41.560
the holidays last That was good.
That was good Breton Brett Hart showed a

1535
01:58:43.159 --> 01:58:54.760
a spark, class and sportsmanship,
but the competitor always shives through go to

1536
01:58:54.880 --> 01:59:00.039
qualifications in this sign one fall to
a finished no, d K. Let's

1537
01:59:00.079 --> 01:59:05.600
keep it clean right all right?
So again, you've never seen this before,

1538
01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:10.399
have you? No? Never,
Let's go takes on a life of

1539
01:59:10.439 --> 01:59:13.000
its own when you see it in
the movie. You know, yeah,

1540
01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:15.760
right, Coulering, you all go
to the corner now, Funker backing up

1541
01:59:15.800 --> 01:59:21.079
the hit man. Get in there, Dennis Brett, come on, basing

1542
01:59:21.199 --> 01:59:27.000
your book to call it down the
middle. I mean, look at that

1543
01:59:27.359 --> 01:59:32.640
looks like big bird? Does it
looks like the love child a big bird?

1544
01:59:32.680 --> 01:59:39.680
And Tony Gia definitely stole total Grea's
hair hair, there's no question about.

1545
01:59:40.680 --> 01:59:43.399
After a brief lock up, Brett
hits the floor looking to regather his

1546
01:59:43.520 --> 01:59:49.840
wits. Joey Styles says psychology.
Yes, so we're off to a good

1547
01:59:49.880 --> 01:59:55.359
start. I think the key factor
for Brett is that he's in a ring

1548
01:59:55.520 --> 01:59:58.840
much smaller than he's used to it. You have to account for that absolutely.

1549
02:00:00.199 --> 02:00:01.279
You gotta think Terry's home turf.
You know, he's probably had a

1550
02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:04.039
little bit of an edge as far
as getting a preview of the ring early

1551
02:00:05.560 --> 02:00:09.520
Dennis Damp, very very thorough.
I sees one shoulders off the canvas.

1552
02:00:09.560 --> 02:00:15.399
Brett finally pins it down, rolling
up Terry's from the headlock position. Funk

1553
02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:19.640
or how many how many uh,
how many minutes do you think uh uh

1554
02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:25.880
uh Stamp spent on the trampoline before
coming. It's a great question. I

1555
02:00:25.920 --> 02:00:28.319
mean, you got to get your
wind up if you're gonna referee amavement like

1556
02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:33.159
this. Yeah, so Brett taps
the matt furiously while trapped into submission.

1557
02:00:33.199 --> 02:00:41.000
Get the matches not over. Yeah, that's still a new thing. Shammy

1558
02:00:41.119 --> 02:00:44.880
was tapping people in WWF by this
point though, Yes, yes, this

1559
02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:47.960
is when it all developed. Yeah, but I don't think it had branched

1560
02:00:48.000 --> 02:00:54.199
out as much to other places.
Right Jane of Terry going up as Funk

1561
02:00:55.119 --> 02:00:57.640
Squeeze is tight on the headlock,
Brett looking at break by pushing to the

1562
02:00:57.760 --> 02:01:10.119
ropes. It's free brother heel Brett
here. I love it. I always

1563
02:01:10.159 --> 02:01:20.079
loved Heel Brett funk with a low
base, wide stance. Yep, look

1564
02:01:20.119 --> 02:01:28.359
at it working some real Greco Roman
grappling wristlocks and tie ups, and it

1565
02:01:28.479 --> 02:01:33.399
gets wrist clutch carried by the Funker
in nineteen eighty seven. I'll take it,

1566
02:01:34.760 --> 02:01:38.199
and he goes to a side headlock. This is like keep in mind

1567
02:01:38.239 --> 02:01:43.359
too, you remember this is this
is peak violence Terry Funk, and he's

1568
02:01:43.439 --> 02:01:50.319
doing absolutely some traditional catch you know, catches catch can style. Yeah,

1569
02:01:50.359 --> 02:01:55.239
it wasn't just chainsaw, Charlie.
That was the only version of Terry Funk

1570
02:01:55.279 --> 02:01:59.880
that refused to be put in a
box. Okay, that's true, right,

1571
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:02.279
keeps that sign headlock on the on
the canvas on the getting too.

1572
02:02:03.079 --> 02:02:08.239
But I will say Terry Funk always
insisted on being in Vicki's box. That's

1573
02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:14.560
what I heard. Great point,
the only box he was very comfortable and

1574
02:02:15.319 --> 02:02:20.079
can put in. Oh nice.
Brett extracts himself from the headlock and grabs

1575
02:02:20.119 --> 02:02:29.840
the front of Chancery Funk now in
all fours in the canvas trapped in Brett's

1576
02:02:30.119 --> 02:02:36.880
clutches as he tries to stand up, and the bread had the style in

1577
02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:41.079
him back then, you know,
ye ever got to flex this kind of

1578
02:02:41.079 --> 02:02:48.399
methodical pace in w w F No, right right behind the age from standing

1579
02:02:48.479 --> 02:02:54.640
up heart standing up. But I'm
trying. I mean it also goes it

1580
02:02:54.760 --> 02:02:57.600
goes to show you too, and
it's a real testament to both these guys

1581
02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:02.800
that that this is also it's in
engaging stuff. It's not like it's it's

1582
02:03:02.880 --> 02:03:08.520
not like it's boring at all at
all. It's very very animated. Yeah

1583
02:03:08.640 --> 02:03:11.079
ninety seven, no less, Yeah, single like pick up funk code and

1584
02:03:11.079 --> 02:03:14.600
the spinning to hold and Brett scrambles
to the ropes and gets free. It's

1585
02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:18.800
battle of the spinning to hold in
the sharpshitter. Wow, he bailed out

1586
02:03:18.800 --> 02:03:21.640
of there like hul Cogan, you
know, avoiding a fucking roll up.

1587
02:03:21.760 --> 02:03:29.000
Cogan bailed out. Nick Teeney,
that's right. Brother k goes right out

1588
02:03:29.039 --> 02:03:38.239
after Brett, and Brett slips right
back into the ring. Got a stamp.

1589
02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:40.640
Is loving life right now? Oh
my god, this is it.

1590
02:03:40.760 --> 02:03:45.039
He's so happy to be happy to
be booked colraand Elbow Center ring. Yeah,

1591
02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:54.159
Horn, Dennis stopped making me stop
dragging all the attention to yourself though,

1592
02:03:54.279 --> 02:03:58.079
Okay, pal, it's a great
answer the trivia question. Did Joey

1593
02:03:58.119 --> 02:04:01.279
Styles ever call a Brett Hart match? Hey, there you go? Should

1594
02:04:01.319 --> 02:04:04.800
a minute series of rights? Now? Brett opening up with stumps to the

1595
02:04:04.840 --> 02:04:10.399
bad knees of the funker. Certainly
came in knowing all about the weak points

1596
02:04:10.399 --> 02:04:13.479
of Terry Funk after all the years
of abuse and the knees are certainly the

1597
02:04:13.520 --> 02:04:30.439
beginning of that of that at the
top of that list. You think you're

1598
02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:33.359
gonna be doing fifty years celebrating another
wrestler fifty years from now, doing a

1599
02:04:33.399 --> 02:04:36.960
show like this where everybody comes together
to pay tribute. I don't. Somehow,

1600
02:04:36.960 --> 02:04:43.079
I don't think so. No,
not at all. Fifty years of

1601
02:04:43.920 --> 02:04:51.760
Adam Page center ring Brett looking that
headlock and throw in some Oh you can't,

1602
02:04:51.840 --> 02:04:55.760
we might say, cheap shots in
there in the funker is Terry.

1603
02:04:56.560 --> 02:05:00.199
Terry can never touch the ropes without
just like getting all entangled in them.

1604
02:05:02.600 --> 02:05:06.680
Oh and the Funker takes a violent
ride through the ropes to the hard concrete

1605
02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:12.399
with the a Mailla Fairgrounds. I
don't know, Boss, this might be

1606
02:05:12.399 --> 02:05:20.720
the Amilla unfair Grounds at this point. That's true. Brother girls laughing at

1607
02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:30.359
wrestling neighbors, their black Funk goes
up to the apron and Brett throwing heavy

1608
02:05:30.439 --> 02:05:33.079
rights. Such an old school field
in this building. Oh yeah, totally.

1609
02:05:35.079 --> 02:05:38.119
It really was like a blash in
the past. Was like a time

1610
02:05:38.199 --> 02:05:41.720
capsule in terms of psychology. Like
you said, it seems like you've got

1611
02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:44.880
a lot of people here that aren't
necessarily going to wrestling matches all the time.

1612
02:05:45.159 --> 02:05:49.399
You know, I'm sure Terry Funk's
good friend, former footballer John Ayers,

1613
02:05:49.479 --> 02:05:57.520
is here. Wouldn't surprise me if
they convinced Jack Briscoe that the Governor

1614
02:05:57.560 --> 02:06:03.039
of Texas was here as well.
Remember that story. I'll tell you I

1615
02:06:03.199 --> 02:06:09.000
heard that the I don't mind telling
you that. I heard that the governor

1616
02:06:09.159 --> 02:06:13.800
was many places at the same time, and I wondered if I could believe

1617
02:06:13.880 --> 02:06:16.079
that, And I said, you
know what, I might be able to

1618
02:06:16.119 --> 02:06:24.399
believe that if I talked myself into
it. That's a good lie, right

1619
02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:30.760
with fucking absolutely perfect How good is
this step Suplex. He's so much good

1620
02:06:30.800 --> 02:06:38.119
it's ridiculous. Pretend to forget how
good he was. I mean, he

1621
02:06:38.239 --> 02:06:46.119
was in like he was in his
his like his prime between ninety four and

1622
02:06:46.239 --> 02:06:51.239
ninety seven. It's right easy.
And the only reason he got out of

1623
02:06:51.279 --> 02:06:55.880
his prime in ninety seven is because
he went to WW Right, they slowed

1624
02:06:55.920 --> 02:06:58.920
him to a crawl that one exceptional
match with the rec Flair right away,

1625
02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:00.800
and then he just ever do you
have a chance to do that again.

1626
02:07:01.560 --> 02:07:06.039
Brett sits across the leg of Funker
draped on the bottom rope and whet,

1627
02:07:06.039 --> 02:07:11.000
it's really opening up on the bad
wheel of the hometown hero. Here here

1628
02:07:11.039 --> 02:07:12.640
he goes, he's gonna kick up. No, hope, he's gonna twist

1629
02:07:12.640 --> 02:07:18.760
it. No, I'm just gonna
twist. This is giving Funk a chance

1630
02:07:18.840 --> 02:07:24.159
to sell almost like you know,
late seventies, early eighties, all Japan.

1631
02:07:24.880 --> 02:07:28.880
Yeah, totally, he states.
There's a similar affinity in the air

1632
02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:30.520
for him from the fans. You
know, Brett, I was thinking,

1633
02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:33.760
what if we go ahead and do
it like a like a Japan match,

1634
02:07:34.640 --> 02:07:38.399
you know, go back to the
kind of the old school instead of doing

1635
02:07:38.479 --> 02:07:42.399
the hardcore stuff. The hands him
a fork like a but I'll tell you

1636
02:07:42.600 --> 02:07:45.239
the next thing you gotta do is
you gotta stab me in the head with

1637
02:07:45.319 --> 02:07:49.520
a fork and let it sit there. Speaking of old school. Right,

1638
02:07:49.600 --> 02:07:53.319
With a single leg, Pickup continues
to attack the left knee of the Funker.

1639
02:07:55.680 --> 02:07:59.239
I hope we see h a figure
four on the post. It's a

1640
02:07:59.239 --> 02:08:07.000
good call, that's right. Ninety
seven Brett totally Funk with the striped red,

1641
02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:11.640
red, black and white number on
the pants. It goes funk with

1642
02:08:11.720 --> 02:08:13.760
the boxing and they're coming alive for
it. Look at him staying in the

1643
02:08:13.760 --> 02:08:22.680
comboy ass. They believe in Terry's
right jab still an amarilla. They also

1644
02:08:22.760 --> 02:08:28.760
believe in Terry's right to jab and
is right to bump, right to bear

1645
02:08:28.920 --> 02:08:33.840
jabs. The floor goes Terry after
a piston like right hand from the WWF

1646
02:08:33.960 --> 02:08:39.800
champion. I mean, I think
this is unprecedented. I think you'd be

1647
02:08:39.880 --> 02:08:46.159
hard pressed to find an example of
a WWF champion under Vince Junior going to

1648
02:08:46.199 --> 02:08:52.560
an American indie. Yep, they
did go through USWA, but there was

1649
02:08:52.560 --> 02:08:56.239
an alliance there with Jerry Lawler.
I'm talking about a promotion of an event

1650
02:08:56.359 --> 02:08:58.680
that they had nothing to do with, you know what I mean, they

1651
02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:05.840
know, business alliance whether or anything
like that. This definitely seems like something

1652
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:09.079
Brett asks that didn't ask permission to
do. You know, It's like very

1653
02:09:09.119 --> 02:09:13.199
clear he's going, Yep, I
love your thought there that maybe that's the

1654
02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:18.399
first straw on the camel's back for
Montreal. Pissed Vincent. It really you

1655
02:09:18.479 --> 02:09:24.840
know, you know, like putting
up Vince's belt down and yeah, making

1656
02:09:24.920 --> 02:09:30.119
Vince realize that WWF champion is willing
to go and do some other company show

1657
02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:35.720
and not taking no for an answer. I know this isn't an ongoing concern.

1658
02:09:35.800 --> 02:09:39.079
This isn't a company. It's gonna
be around, you know, Brett.

1659
02:09:39.239 --> 02:09:43.079
I'm glad that you went down there
and collected that payday because quite frankly,

1660
02:09:43.119 --> 02:09:45.840
I'm not able to afford your contract
with the d W tow anymore.

1661
02:09:46.279 --> 02:09:48.840
Well, Brett, I hope you
collected all the money down there that you

1662
02:09:48.880 --> 02:09:52.079
could, because I've got some bad
news. You're not collecting any more money

1663
02:09:52.079 --> 02:09:56.319
from me, exactly correct. As
of right now, I cannot pay you

1664
02:09:56.600 --> 02:09:58.640
a single dime. I made a
contract with you, and I only have

1665
02:09:58.720 --> 02:10:01.600
to live up to it until I
feel like it. Uh and uh,

1666
02:10:01.920 --> 02:10:03.680
you know, I know you're going
to say that, Wait a minute,

1667
02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:09.239
didn't you give Steve Austin Sean Michael's
raises just now? And that is true,

1668
02:10:11.119 --> 02:10:13.840
nor is it your business. But
nonetheless, I can't afford you.

1669
02:10:15.600 --> 02:10:20.840
I don't want to afford you.
Nonetheless, Brett, I don't want you

1670
02:10:20.079 --> 02:10:26.600
here. Right now, we're getting
it again, old school like intensity building

1671
02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:30.960
for it looks like Terry's about to
make a comeback. Yeah, crowd starts

1672
02:10:30.960 --> 02:10:35.159
getting up for it, and then
Brett cuts him off. It's like Terry

1673
02:10:35.279 --> 02:10:37.359
used to do to Jerry Lawler in
Memphis. Yeah, right's now locked down

1674
02:10:37.359 --> 02:10:43.439
a figure four and grabbing the middle
ropes for dastardly healish leverage. There's Dory

1675
02:10:43.520 --> 02:10:46.319
nowhere to be found to stop this
injustice. It's no DQ anyways. I

1676
02:10:46.359 --> 02:10:50.479
don't well, I didn't even you
know, I don't. I don't.

1677
02:10:50.680 --> 02:10:58.079
I don't a bit. What was
I supposed to do? I don't.

1678
02:10:58.920 --> 02:11:05.039
I don't watch things. Who's that? No, it's reader? Oh yes,

1679
02:11:05.199 --> 02:11:13.600
Ross Smith or Ross Ross Parole.
Yeah, the only time there there

1680
02:11:13.600 --> 02:11:20.920
he is wow seated ringside but not
in front of the way Hart boys talking

1681
02:11:20.960 --> 02:11:26.760
all kinds of ship to Terry.
Hey, hey, hey, Brothie,

1682
02:11:26.640 --> 02:11:37.079
Berthie, I just took a ship
in my bands. Oh take the ship

1683
02:11:37.159 --> 02:11:41.640
and smothered in Terry Funk's face,
and then go find me some chicken soup

1684
02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:48.479
so I can put it in my
jock chicken soup for the Jowels. For

1685
02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:50.920
some reason, Dennis Stamp decided to
extract Brett's figure four in a no DQ

1686
02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:56.000
match, and then, uh,
Bruce Hart plants a steel chair on top

1687
02:11:56.039 --> 02:11:58.640
of Funk's head. One of those
cowboys is being let out. I think

1688
02:11:58.680 --> 02:12:05.119
somebody had to hop the the rope
railing. Here comes a slug fest,

1689
02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:07.880
Brett throwing rights, Funk throwing from
his knees left and right to the gut.

1690
02:12:09.119 --> 02:12:11.800
Yep, oh my god, look
at him. Was a cotback.

1691
02:12:13.239 --> 02:12:16.279
Huh, I'm gonna go ahead.
Funk stands tall, left hand drops the

1692
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:24.479
hit man drops some cold and look
at the baby face. Terry Funk come

1693
02:12:24.560 --> 02:12:26.800
back. He knows he's going back
to the Al Japan bag of tricks,

1694
02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:31.279
heavy jack. It's also interesting to
see, uh, like, you know,

1695
02:12:31.640 --> 02:12:35.239
because I'm like in WWE at the
time, Brett Hart's playing like traditional

1696
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:39.439
baby traditional heel stuff like back in
the way and being coward and I don't

1697
02:12:39.479 --> 02:12:45.680
recall him doing that in w W. He was more of a of a

1698
02:12:45.800 --> 02:12:50.479
deliberate heel, right, you know. I know he was dastardly on the

1699
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:52.880
mic and what he did between matches, but in the body of the match,

1700
02:12:52.880 --> 02:13:01.119
he wouldn't really do much dastardly and
coward nor cowardly. Right, Terry

1701
02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:09.399
Chance go up as Funk hits and
covered by the Funker off the DDT gets

1702
02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:18.640
too some reason, I don't mind
Terry Funk using the DDT as a non

1703
02:13:18.680 --> 02:13:22.640
finisher. I don't know why,
well, you know, because I feel

1704
02:13:22.640 --> 02:13:26.720
like he's earned it. Maybe that's
it. And a ring pile driver Funk

1705
02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:35.640
plants Brett hard yep, definitely heavy
cardiovascular demands on the fifty plus year old

1706
02:13:35.640 --> 02:13:39.439
Bruce Brice try to put a Brett's
foot on the rope there, Brett's delabled

1707
02:13:39.439 --> 02:13:48.800
to kick out after the pile driver
back up and Funk tosses Brett to the

1708
02:13:48.840 --> 02:13:54.039
floor. I love the silhouette cowboy
hats in the front. Yeah, ye

1709
02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:07.039
had some high ceilings there at the
fair Grounds. Seriously, it really is

1710
02:14:09.760 --> 02:14:16.600
woof brad Han's heads slammed right into
the chair there. Had Terry taking this

1711
02:14:16.720 --> 02:14:22.920
one to the people as he's wont
to do. People flip it off Brett

1712
02:14:22.920 --> 02:14:33.319
in the audience attitude to get up? Were they just in the Canadian Stampede,

1713
02:14:33.359 --> 02:14:39.600
you know? And that was all
about marshaling people to chant Usa at

1714
02:14:39.640 --> 02:14:46.399
the at the heart to reciprocate for
how nationalistic the Canadians viewed it in that

1715
02:14:46.479 --> 02:14:48.640
show, and that one was that, you know, Calgary Stampede week and

1716
02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:52.920
all that is very similar to this, Ye fair Grounds you know, cowboy

1717
02:14:54.000 --> 02:15:00.960
culture had something else the heart shared
into common with the funks. Is from

1718
02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:05.239
a cowboy town. Funk's honors over
to Brett and here you go. Your

1719
02:15:05.279 --> 02:15:07.159
boy is about to become true.
There it is that's about to lock on

1720
02:15:07.239 --> 02:15:09.880
the figure four around the ring post. Ooh, and it's one of those

1721
02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:15.960
with the those kind of extended handles
too. That can't be good funking a

1722
02:15:16.039 --> 02:15:22.600
lot of trouble bred absolutely cranking upside
downing Dennis Stamp What are you doing,

1723
02:15:22.680 --> 02:15:26.880
Dennis? It's a no DQ match. You don't need to touch him.

1724
02:15:26.920 --> 02:15:30.560
Yeah, Brett, Look at he's
get dog shit on his back. Is

1725
02:15:30.600 --> 02:15:35.079
that what that is? Now?
I'm sure it's just stampede cowshit? Is

1726
02:15:35.119 --> 02:15:46.359
it? Manure ringside absolutely packed with
photographers and personnel and managers with a sad

1727
02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:50.039
Russian Oh no, no, he
just jumped over the leg and he worked

1728
02:15:50.079 --> 02:16:11.680
in the right laying into the funker. Here. What's on that name?

1729
02:16:13.239 --> 02:16:20.840
You get the crowd shout and Terry
Terry is funk in agony. If Bruce

1730
02:16:20.880 --> 02:16:31.159
described the mic, come on,
he's such an asshole. Mike Brett's about

1731
02:16:31.159 --> 02:16:35.040
to sit on the leg across the
ropes. Oh, devastating to Terry Funk.

1732
02:16:45.799 --> 02:16:52.719
Terrence Funk, that's a great point. M h, where's Durrance?

1733
02:16:54.079 --> 02:17:01.959
He just bounced. I gotta go
home back there's a classic bred heeart backbreaker.

1734
02:17:01.440 --> 02:17:05.559
You know people are there. I
got TV shows to watch at home.

1735
02:17:07.719 --> 02:17:09.280
Yeah, maybe you should really go
Dorry, that's a good that's a

1736
02:17:11.000 --> 02:17:13.639
I tape Party of five. I
don't want to miss it. Oh my

1737
02:17:13.799 --> 02:17:22.879
god, he said, I taped
Party of five. I don't want to

1738
02:17:22.920 --> 02:17:26.799
miss it. Party of five.
That was the Reform party when Jesse Ventura

1739
02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:30.879
was in it. It's on tape. You taped it, Dory. It

1740
02:17:30.920 --> 02:17:39.399
ain't going anywhere. You can't miss
it if you taped it. He thinks,

1741
02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:41.559
after so much time, VHS tapes
just dissolved in the thin air.

1742
02:17:43.879 --> 02:17:48.000
Bred is just pill and I left
you. No, I've I've seen the

1743
02:17:48.120 --> 02:17:52.920
news and I can tell you that
I know the tapes to disintegrate after five

1744
02:17:52.120 --> 02:18:00.159
years, Dorry, that was a
recall. That's not every tape. I

1745
02:18:00.200 --> 02:18:05.000
don't want to lose Party of five, and I don't want to lose you.

1746
02:18:09.319 --> 02:18:13.159
So despite this Party of one loves
Party of five, Party of one,

1747
02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:20.520
the Dory Funk story, despite wedging
Terry Funk's legging a chair and stomping

1748
02:18:20.559 --> 02:18:24.200
away. The Funker is on the
comeback trail and he's dropping a leg across

1749
02:18:24.239 --> 02:18:28.440
Brett's knee. Now, my heart
being shown by Terry Funk in this most

1750
02:18:28.440 --> 02:18:37.440
important matches is he wants chairs?
Oh please don't. There's another one.

1751
02:18:39.040 --> 02:18:45.840
He's gonna do it again. Brett
is not prepared for this. Wow,

1752
02:18:46.680 --> 02:18:50.440
Terry let the chair fly down under
the knee of Brett. Man. Terry

1753
02:18:50.479 --> 02:18:54.079
Funk has been driving steel chairs into
knees to greater What is Dennis Stamp doing

1754
02:18:54.200 --> 02:18:56.239
is an no d Q match?
Pale, Oh my god, cheers a

1755
02:18:56.280 --> 02:19:00.680
flying again. Oh, Dennis is
trying to stop him. Look, oh

1756
02:19:00.840 --> 02:19:03.680
the funker. These are plastic chairs, but he's still letting him. Raine

1757
02:19:03.719 --> 02:19:09.200
down on the hitman. Yeah,
Evince, I'm gonna go down to Amarillo

1758
02:19:09.319 --> 02:19:18.559
to work with Terry and let fans
or chairs at the ring and ship to

1759
02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:24.319
the floor they go. Funker picks
up another ring side folding chair, smacks

1760
02:19:24.399 --> 02:19:33.959
it across the back. Wow,
Terry, these these chairs weren't booked.

1761
02:19:35.079 --> 02:19:43.319
They can't be in this matter exactly. Terry ends up knocking down Brett underneath

1762
02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:50.399
the ringside table. And now he's
positioning the table over Brett's carcass. Terry's

1763
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:58.680
about to climb to the Brett effort. Wan ahead butt Mmm, oh no,

1764
02:19:58.760 --> 02:20:01.639
Brett, it's been splayed out of
the table. He's on top of

1765
02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:05.120
it. Funker's in the middle rope. What's he gonna do? Fifty years

1766
02:20:05.159 --> 02:20:09.920
a fuck? Oh oh, he
missed a vaderbomb. He tried a Vader

1767
02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:11.600
bomb down on the table. Brett
rolled off, and not only did Terry

1768
02:20:11.639 --> 02:20:18.399
crash at the table, he smacked
his face on it. Terry came to

1769
02:20:18.440 --> 02:20:20.959
Amarilla to risk it all, Yes
he did. It's going to be his

1770
02:20:22.040 --> 02:20:28.559
last match, all right, but
not for the reasons. You think red

1771
02:20:28.680 --> 02:20:33.799
Heart really dodging a panhandle sized bullet
right there? Look at the funk.

1772
02:20:33.840 --> 02:20:39.479
Call up, juice, you do
what it took? Mm hmm. The

1773
02:20:39.559 --> 02:20:43.479
business commands him to run the razor. Hey, you know, if you

1774
02:20:43.559 --> 02:20:48.760
want to make a match matter despite
all these for him, Terry bleed for

1775
02:20:48.000 --> 02:20:54.239
me, Terry, prove to me
you still love the business. Bleed,

1776
02:20:56.719 --> 02:21:01.000
Prove to me you love yourself.
Carve your head up, exact and a

1777
02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:07.920
stamp jaw jacking at ringside with Bruce
and ross Hart, Chance of Terry going

1778
02:21:07.000 --> 02:21:13.600
up in Amarilla as the wounded blooded
warriors rolled back into the ring, the

1779
02:21:13.680 --> 02:21:18.239
hit man and after him. Now
see what Brett has in mind. He's

1780
02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:24.120
limping a bed as he drops an
elbow. Brett's in full command. That

1781
02:21:24.239 --> 02:21:33.760
is building, Yes, he is
full command up here. He goes,

1782
02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:39.319
rights him to the center and drops
the head button the lower abdom into the

1783
02:21:39.319 --> 02:21:43.959
funker, signaling with the thumbs down
to the people. The Brett He's gonna

1784
02:21:43.959 --> 02:21:54.360
put away Terry that steps through the
fit to the sharpshooter. No funk inside

1785
02:21:54.399 --> 02:21:58.879
cradle cover two. Nice position is
dead A stamp yet to he slapped.

1786
02:22:00.239 --> 02:22:03.559
They had to move his whole body
to slap too. I mean, that's

1787
02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:05.879
Dennis Stamp for you. He wasn't
booked to be in that other position.

1788
02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:11.479
Put a stamp on this one single
leg here by the Funkers who tries to

1789
02:22:11.559 --> 02:22:16.879
rise to his feet while controlling one
of Brett's legs. Good position for an

1790
02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:22.920
insegurary if he asked me, Brett
ops instead to hop on one leg and

1791
02:22:24.000 --> 02:22:28.639
throw rights. Yeah, he wasn't
much of an instagrae guy, was he?

1792
02:22:28.719 --> 02:22:31.280
Brett? I really know. I
don't think I can remember him ever

1793
02:22:31.399 --> 02:22:37.840
doing it, but this would be
the time. Finally Brett loses his balance,

1794
02:22:37.200 --> 02:22:45.239
flatbacks and the Funker steps over flash
bumps, popping an amilla, his

1795
02:22:45.399 --> 02:22:52.719
dad's old hold, his brother's hold. I just don't get it. He's

1796
02:22:52.760 --> 02:23:00.200
twisting away, that's tapping like a
drunk man, but it doesn't count step.

1797
02:23:01.159 --> 02:23:05.600
I wouldn't imagine Denis Stamp would know
anything about the requisitions off the spinning

1798
02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.079
tol gets too, almost pulling the
rug out from under the funker. There

1799
02:23:09.280 --> 02:23:15.680
was the World Wrestling Federation champion.
Brett Up springs off the rope and levels

1800
02:23:15.719 --> 02:23:20.360
Funker with a clothes line. It's
bad. Brett's swinging desperately on the clothes

1801
02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.120
lines, trying to keep Terry at
bay so we can recuperate. Here.

1802
02:23:26.239 --> 02:23:31.200
Third launch, Terry this time hits
the ropes himself. They bunk heads.

1803
02:23:33.840 --> 02:23:39.680
Well, Terry kind of falls on
top of Brett. See if Dennis Stamp

1804
02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:41.559
goes for it, Yes, he
does one. Two, Brett lifts the

1805
02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:46.120
shoulder. They think that Terry Funk
is going to win the world title.

1806
02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:50.639
The title isn't on the line.
I thought you said how you wanted the

1807
02:23:50.680 --> 02:23:58.440
title online, So they say that
I thought it was that was in the

1808
02:23:58.479 --> 02:24:01.799
book whatever some of you read.
That'd have been something to come home and

1809
02:24:01.840 --> 02:24:03.200
tel Vince h Yeah, I dropped
the belt to Terry. We decided to

1810
02:24:03.239 --> 02:24:07.719
be best on the night back Suplex
Funk with the bridge too. Brett lifts

1811
02:24:07.760 --> 02:24:11.159
the shoulder but stays on top.
Dennis Stamp slaps three and you know what

1812
02:24:11.239 --> 02:24:16.159
that means. Yep, it appears
that Brett Hart has out foxed Terry Funk

1813
02:24:16.799 --> 02:24:22.959
and a compromising convoluted position. Yeah, fans throwing it in the ring.

1814
02:24:22.040 --> 02:24:35.959
There's already some projectiles. Get the
official decision. Joey's screening at Dennis Stamp

1815
02:24:35.040 --> 02:24:37.399
to raise somebody's hand here, and
he does. He raises Brett the hit

1816
02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:43.639
Manhart's hand. So it's that old
finish were Funk, you know, you

1817
02:24:43.719 --> 02:24:46.399
do the backsup plex you bridge one
two, but the other guy lifts the

1818
02:24:46.399 --> 02:24:54.680
shoulder, which is always so weird
to me because they're counting both shoulders in

1819
02:24:54.719 --> 02:24:56.920
the first place. Yeah, that's
what it is. They're counting both shoulders,

1820
02:24:56.079 --> 02:24:58.319
right, Yeah, which is weird. It's it's a weird thing.

1821
02:24:58.319 --> 02:25:03.120
You shouldn't become both shoulders. Terry
Funk, blood dripping from the tip of

1822
02:25:03.159 --> 02:25:09.440
his nose seated against the ropes,
dejected that he took the l there,

1823
02:25:11.920 --> 02:25:15.719
but he insisted I wanted to put
him over to hear him tell it.

1824
02:25:16.239 --> 02:25:18.920
And judging by the response to this
finish, that may have been the move

1825
02:25:20.000 --> 02:25:28.319
tonight. Not what Terry Funk came
to a Mailla looking to do. Arguing

1826
02:25:28.360 --> 02:25:31.520
now with Dennis Stamp, but it
looks like not arguing so much as and

1827
02:25:31.639 --> 02:25:39.040
again next make sure like Tree,
I tried to understand the call, and

1828
02:25:39.280 --> 02:25:43.920
his body language indicates that, as
Joey Styles just said, Terry Funk accepts

1829
02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:48.079
Dennis Stamp's decision, crawling into the
ropes, righting himself. Brett has extended

1830
02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:54.879
a hand. There's the handshake.
Kick him now, kick him, Yeah,

1831
02:25:54.959 --> 02:26:00.959
Terry does want to overdo it.
He's demeuroring here. Let's just get

1832
02:26:01.000 --> 02:26:05.000
some extra heat and kicked Dennis Damp
raises Brett Hart's hand one last time.

1833
02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:13.680
Remarkable this came together. Let's said. He crawled out of the ring and

1834
02:26:13.760 --> 02:26:18.680
went right to bed. He's in
the ring and Terry's out the funk he's

1835
02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:30.799
talking about now he's going. So
there you have it. The match,

1836
02:26:30.879 --> 02:26:33.639
the moment, the occasion is so
dramatized and beyond the match. Yep,

1837
02:26:33.920 --> 02:26:37.719
Terry Funk's last match, then his
last match in the United States, then

1838
02:26:37.799 --> 02:26:43.120
his last full time match, then
his last match in Near Marilla. I

1839
02:26:43.639 --> 02:26:46.639
want to know about his I want
to I'm sure we will. I'm assuming

1840
02:26:46.680 --> 02:26:50.399
we will see his actual last match. Yeah, we will know which one

1841
02:26:50.440 --> 02:26:54.280
it is, but we will not
be able to see it interestingly. Ah,

1842
02:26:56.000 --> 02:27:01.040
thanks for the memories. Indeed,
Terry Funk will always be out here,

1843
02:27:01.120 --> 02:27:05.319
always be our hero, bloody mess. He'll be your hero. Yeah,

1844
02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:11.719
they should have saved it for him. He row, he'l be your

1845
02:27:11.920 --> 02:27:24.200
hero. Whoa Yeah? What does
it take to be a key role question?

1846
02:27:24.360 --> 02:27:33.040
What does it take to be a
Manunk? With the mic? No

1847
02:27:33.159 --> 02:27:54.959
complaints now about my family. Blood
dripping from his nose to the microphone,

1848
02:27:56.040 --> 02:28:05.159
Terry Funk says bye to his hometown. Things were coming out that in the

1849
02:28:05.200 --> 02:28:07.799
heart of operations for his father's territory, dating all the way back to cal

1850
02:28:07.920 --> 02:28:11.639
Fartley's Boy's Ranch. I'm sure there
are some boys Ranch folks in the crowd

1851
02:28:11.680 --> 02:28:16.520
tonight. I have home. Carefully, is Terry Funk let up the isleway?

1852
02:28:16.600 --> 02:28:20.879
And that is that for the wrestle
Fest event in nineteen ninety seven,

1853
02:28:22.120 --> 02:28:24.360
Terry Funk given the sendoff, and
if you want to figure out where to

1854
02:28:24.440 --> 02:28:28.920
place this in terms of Terry's many
retirements and the degree to which he meant

1855
02:28:30.079 --> 02:28:33.520
this one certainly seemed like a lot
to go through for a retirement that he

1856
02:28:33.520 --> 02:28:41.520
didn't quite believe in or buy into. Piece of sound from Barry Blaustein should

1857
02:28:41.520 --> 02:28:45.360
tell us how to feel about it. So this is Terry Funk talking to

1858
02:28:45.440 --> 02:28:48.520
Barry Blaustein on the director's commentary which
you pointed me to for under the unders

1859
02:28:48.600 --> 02:28:52.959
in that episode, on the significance
of this match and what he really hoped

1860
02:28:54.120 --> 02:29:00.159
it meant and what he actually thought
of as the stipulation in his mind it

1861
02:29:00.399 --> 02:29:05.719
retirement match. Did you really think
you were retiring? I really did retire

1862
02:29:07.760 --> 02:29:15.719
and been back to Amarilly. I've
never wrestling back at Amarilla, and you

1863
02:29:15.760 --> 02:29:18.879
know Dennis is I would. I
wanted Dennist be there because it was it

1864
02:29:20.000 --> 02:29:22.040
was a show in Ambrella. It
was my last match in Amreilla, and

1865
02:29:22.120 --> 02:29:26.079
it really is my last match.
I'll never go back here. And how

1866
02:29:26.120 --> 02:29:31.239
many towns are there in America?
Thousands? So then we fousends my retirements

1867
02:29:31.440 --> 02:29:35.920
maybe just five hundred or so.
I no, I really mean that as

1868
02:29:35.959 --> 02:29:39.319
I, you know, as it's
a has a pretty big deal to me

1869
02:29:39.440 --> 02:29:45.399
that night, it really was,
you know, and and UH people laugh

1870
02:29:45.479 --> 02:29:48.559
about that about how many times we
retired, but I did go after that

1871
02:29:48.680 --> 02:29:50.719
night and I said that's it.
I'm not going back, you know.

1872
02:29:52.239 --> 02:29:56.239
And uh Brett beat up Terry for
a wh and again there's that dad gim

1873
02:29:56.200 --> 02:30:01.120
Brett, you know. And at
this time Brett was wrestling for the w

1874
02:30:01.440 --> 02:30:05.360
w F and it was quite an
honor to have him come down or as

1875
02:30:05.479 --> 02:30:09.719
being champion, you know, he
didn't think man, it was a man

1876
02:30:09.719 --> 02:30:11.159
who could beat the chance. Can
you talk about why you wanted to lose

1877
02:30:11.200 --> 02:30:15.159
the matter, Well, you know, it's kind of funny, you know

1878
02:30:15.319 --> 02:30:20.840
with UH, I really do with
uh again as UH, I wanted to

1879
02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:31.000
go out as UH as a wrestler. And I don't I know that doesn't

1880
02:30:31.079 --> 02:30:37.440
mean and I much to some people, but I wanted to go out as

1881
02:30:39.440 --> 02:30:48.079
a wrestler and passing on something to
and don't ask me what it is,

1882
02:30:48.280 --> 02:30:54.840
but UH passing on something to somebody
else and UH being a success in my

1883
02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:58.920
business. And I think it shows
something like that doesn't mean that you have

1884
02:31:00.200 --> 02:31:07.040
to be a Winterberry, you know, and uh that that's very very important

1885
02:31:07.079 --> 02:31:13.440
to me and to pass that on
to other wrestlers that you don't have to

1886
02:31:13.479 --> 02:31:18.639
be a winner. You just have
to go ahead and and uh and and

1887
02:31:18.799 --> 02:31:22.719
and give a give a great amount
Mick to have to give. Mick told

1888
02:31:22.760 --> 02:31:31.239
me that wrestling true the truly I'm
not classifying myself in this group, but

1889
02:31:31.360 --> 02:31:37.600
what I consider truly a great wrestler
is a wrestler that that gives and doesn't

1890
02:31:37.639 --> 02:31:43.399
take. And I think that there's
a lot of guys that have have done

1891
02:31:43.479 --> 02:31:48.079
that in this profession that had never
been recognized for it. You know,

1892
02:31:48.000 --> 02:31:54.319
I think that that's uh, that's
the epitome of a great wrestler is to

1893
02:31:54.760 --> 02:32:00.920
go out there and do what is
best for his other people. But see

1894
02:32:00.920 --> 02:32:03.360
as I grew up in a different
era. I grew up whenever it was

1895
02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:09.159
appearing all of us depended on each
other because we didn't have contracts. We

1896
02:32:09.280 --> 02:32:13.559
got paid by the number of people
over there. So if what we did

1897
02:32:15.680 --> 02:32:18.559
could help them the next week,
it helped all of the other wrestlers on

1898
02:32:18.639 --> 02:32:24.840
the card make a few more bucks. And you always did what was best

1899
02:32:24.639 --> 02:32:31.559
for your fellow wrestler so he could
go ahead and feed his family. How

1900
02:32:31.600 --> 02:32:37.159
has that changed Tonight's daughter, Well, it's it changed so much, it

1901
02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:41.639
really has, because it's a contract
situation anymore. You know, you signed

1902
02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:43.319
for a year, so it really
doesn't matter to you about the crowd.

1903
02:32:43.879 --> 02:32:48.120
But I still can't wipe that away. I can't wipe that away. I

1904
02:32:48.200 --> 02:32:54.200
can't wipe that that that's ingrained in
my mind that I have to help my

1905
02:32:54.920 --> 02:32:58.760
fellow wrestler, you know. And
I think that there is a lot more

1906
02:32:58.799 --> 02:33:07.360
of individuality, you know, where
these guys want to maintain their super stars

1907
02:33:07.079 --> 02:33:11.520
status. But it's a funny thing, you know. I in w c

1908
02:33:11.799 --> 02:33:16.440
W, one of the chips are
on the table, wrote me, and

1909
02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:24.040
uh, you start not doing the
ratings that you were doing before. It's

1910
02:33:24.120 --> 02:33:31.079
amazing that this is how much more
compatible some of these personalities are. And

1911
02:33:31.239 --> 02:33:37.559
by GLLI, you've got to do
it and they're forced into the situation of

1912
02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:43.239
becoming that giving person again. This
is me and in its own way,

1913
02:33:43.719 --> 02:33:50.840
and you know, being down can
have its can have its pluses to it

1914
02:33:50.280 --> 02:33:56.680
by sometimes making you a better person, you know. And I think that

1915
02:33:56.799 --> 02:34:03.360
that's what happening with w c W, you know at this time is a

1916
02:34:03.479 --> 02:34:09.920
hint, But we're attempting to close
the gap and somewhat narrowing it and might

1917
02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:16.280
continue to do so, might not, But the people that were impossible to

1918
02:34:16.360 --> 02:34:22.799
deal with are becoming very, very
compatible as far as it's good things that

1919
02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:26.559
are asked of them. Terry part
of WCW at the time he sat down

1920
02:34:26.559 --> 02:34:31.600
to record that, yeah right,
and talking about the uphill climb but recovering

1921
02:34:31.680 --> 02:34:35.159
the lost ground that he was brought
in to try to help recover for WCW,

1922
02:34:35.639 --> 02:34:37.559
but talking about how you know,
when you're on top, people act

1923
02:34:37.680 --> 02:34:41.799
like they can't work with each other, they're not compatible. That the idea

1924
02:34:41.200 --> 02:34:45.440
that we're all responsible for each other's
fates in a wrestling locker room is just

1925
02:34:45.719 --> 02:34:48.959
like this outmoded notion. But when
the chips are down, you actually then

1926
02:34:48.040 --> 02:34:50.879
start to realize all over again what
Terry Funk knew from the moment he was

1927
02:34:50.920 --> 02:34:56.120
born into the business, and what
any wrestler worth a fuck knows that unless

1928
02:34:56.120 --> 02:34:58.600
you're creating value for everyone up and
down the card, you're not a good

1929
02:34:58.600 --> 02:35:05.879
progress you're not a great pro wrestler. If you if your ray of sunshine

1930
02:35:05.920 --> 02:35:11.040
doesn't you know, provide sustenance to
the plants elsewhere on the card, then

1931
02:35:11.799 --> 02:35:16.360
you only deserve so much credit in
terms of the plaudits that can be assigned

1932
02:35:16.399 --> 02:35:18.680
to you. Sure and Funk remembers
a time where you, you know,

1933
02:35:18.799 --> 02:35:22.360
like you said, you got paid
on who showed up. And sometimes I

1934
02:35:22.440 --> 02:35:26.040
wonder, boss, how much better
wrestling could be if somehow we could return

1935
02:35:26.120 --> 02:35:30.239
to that. You know, you
got to pay the guys, but you

1936
02:35:30.319 --> 02:35:33.639
got to pay them to keep them
away from opposition. You got to lock

1937
02:35:33.680 --> 02:35:35.120
them in contracts, and you got
to you know, take care of them

1938
02:35:35.159 --> 02:35:39.600
when they're hurt. It's just it's
great for the guys. You love to

1939
02:35:39.639 --> 02:35:43.799
see it, but it does take
away the discipline of like, okay,

1940
02:35:45.799 --> 02:35:48.000
say is it working. We can't
feed our families. We have to change

1941
02:35:48.079 --> 02:35:54.079
course instead of we're telling a story, give it time and wait so long

1942
02:35:54.159 --> 02:35:58.600
that people stop caring about whether it
actually counted as a success or not before

1943
02:35:58.639 --> 02:36:01.719
it suddenly gives away. And you
hope nobody notices that it was a lot

1944
02:36:01.760 --> 02:36:03.719
of wasted time. So I'm going
to feed you now a little piece.

1945
02:36:03.799 --> 02:36:09.639
This is terry reflecting because if we're
going to be here. We've talked so

1946
02:36:09.760 --> 02:36:13.520
much about beyond the mat justifiably sure. Over the course of the Lapsed Funk

1947
02:36:13.559 --> 02:36:16.520
of course gave you an under the
cinemat entirely on that landmark film, but

1948
02:36:18.079 --> 02:36:20.760
considering they were in attendance and conspicuous, they're shooting all over the place in

1949
02:36:20.799 --> 02:36:26.680
this bread heart match. A quick
passage from Terry Funk's book about what's actually

1950
02:36:26.760 --> 02:36:31.079
being depicted here. Blausting ended up
filming the events leading up to my latest

1951
02:36:31.120 --> 02:36:37.319
retirement match at a show called fifty
Years of Funk, celebrating the anniversary of

1952
02:36:37.399 --> 02:36:41.000
my father's nineteen forty seven debut in
the city. It was set for September

1953
02:36:41.040 --> 02:36:46.000
eleventh, nineteen ninety seven, and
was to be my last match in Amarilla.

1954
02:36:46.600 --> 02:36:50.399
In my mind, I needed another
reason besides the fifty years to make

1955
02:36:50.479 --> 02:36:54.040
the show a special one, one
worth promoting. So I announced it would

1956
02:36:54.079 --> 02:36:58.159
be my last match and Amarilla.
I never intended to retire altogether even then.

1957
02:36:58.639 --> 02:37:05.040
I just wanted one last reason to
do big business in Amarilla. That

1958
02:37:05.200 --> 02:37:11.200
show had some incredible talent from Japan
ECW and even the WWE. You know

1959
02:37:11.319 --> 02:37:13.399
they were guys. I knew where
had worked with like the Heart Family in

1960
02:37:13.559 --> 02:37:18.879
Calgary. I asked Brett Hart to
come in and he okayed it with Vince.

1961
02:37:18.440 --> 02:37:22.920
Vince also okayed my good friend Mick
mcfoley, a work in the show

1962
02:37:24.000 --> 02:37:28.200
as Mankind is WWE persona. One
of the more memorable scenes in the movie

1963
02:37:28.319 --> 02:37:33.840
is one where I'm talking with Dennis
Stamp, a former wrestler in the area

1964
02:37:33.879 --> 02:37:37.920
who I've known since the mid nineteen
sixties. Dennis was telling me he had

1965
02:37:39.000 --> 02:37:43.040
wanted a match on the show and
was refusing my request for him to referee

1966
02:37:43.120 --> 02:37:46.159
my main event against Press Prett Hart. Although he finally agreed to do it,

1967
02:37:48.920 --> 02:37:52.879
I've had questions about it from people
who think Dennis was working for the

1968
02:37:52.000 --> 02:37:56.719
camera's benefit, so let me said
things straight. That whole conversation was one

1969
02:37:56.799 --> 02:38:01.159
hundred percent real. Once I real
his feelings had been hurt, I really

1970
02:38:01.280 --> 02:38:05.559
did regret not having him on the
show because he was exactly the kind of

1971
02:38:05.639 --> 02:38:11.200
guy I was doing that show for. I was doing it for my friends,

1972
02:38:11.520 --> 02:38:13.959
for the guys who had wrestled around
there, the guys I liked.

1973
02:38:15.079 --> 02:38:18.760
I really did want Dennis to be
a part of it, and I was

1974
02:38:18.840 --> 02:38:22.399
glad when he finally said okay.
Dennis was actually one of my first tag

1975
02:38:22.520 --> 02:38:28.760
team partners when I wrestled for Verne
Gagn's AWA in Minnesota. He came down

1976
02:38:28.840 --> 02:38:35.440
to Amarilla in the mid nineteen seventies
and has been here ever since. These

1977
02:38:35.559 --> 02:38:39.040
days, he has a pretty successful
bug spray in business. Dennis was actually

1978
02:38:39.079 --> 02:38:43.719
a good wrestler with some amateur wrestling
background. He was a solid worker and

1979
02:38:43.840 --> 02:38:48.319
did not rely on gimmicks or anything. He believed that straight wrestling was the

1980
02:38:48.399 --> 02:38:52.079
way to go. To this day, he's very involved with amateur wrestling in

1981
02:38:52.120 --> 02:38:56.959
the youth leagues. He referees matches
and just loves working with kids. He's

1982
02:38:58.000 --> 02:39:03.399
a very good legitimate amateur wrestling referee. He takes a great deal of pride

1983
02:39:03.440 --> 02:39:07.000
in it, and he should.
Dennis was also an excellent referee for my

1984
02:39:07.159 --> 02:39:13.239
match with Brett Yeah Saint Louis times
where sea how much Nick was preoccupied with

1985
02:39:13.319 --> 02:39:16.120
these referees having credibility and not being
made fools up by the heels because they

1986
02:39:16.120 --> 02:39:26.799
would referee legitimate youth sports like wrestling
in the community right. He was perfect

1987
02:39:26.959 --> 02:39:31.399
in perfect position for everything. I
worked hard promoting the show. I went

1988
02:39:31.479 --> 02:39:35.120
to one of the TV stations in
town and got E c W on the

1989
02:39:35.200 --> 02:39:39.440
air for about six weeks before our
show. This wasn't a lot of lead

1990
02:39:39.559 --> 02:39:45.280
time, but it helped to establish
who those guys were so people would know

1991
02:39:45.840 --> 02:39:50.280
that I'm a little when they came
here. I had well over thirty five

1992
02:39:50.440 --> 02:39:54.719
thousand dollars invested in the show,
and we ended up grossing about forty five

1993
02:39:54.840 --> 02:39:58.920
thousand. As you can see,
even under the best circumstances and independent promotion

1994
02:40:00.479 --> 02:40:03.719
is not an easy road a hoe. I think a lot of people who

1995
02:40:03.959 --> 02:40:09.639
try to become independent promoters have no
idea what the about the expenses involved.

1996
02:40:09.799 --> 02:40:15.040
As time goes by, it gets
more expensive. The expenses are unbelievable,

1997
02:40:15.159 --> 02:40:20.760
especially when you're running up running spots
shows as opposed to a regular territory because

1998
02:40:20.760 --> 02:40:24.319
of the cost of transportation for the
talent. Thirty years ago or more,

1999
02:40:24.399 --> 02:40:28.879
a promoter would never want to drive
a car up to a newspaper building.

2000
02:40:31.479 --> 02:40:33.440
He wanted to drive an old,
beat up car and go in and beg

2001
02:40:33.840 --> 02:40:39.520
for what he could get for free. You have to think about your venue

2002
02:40:39.360 --> 02:40:43.799
nowadays. You look at these independent
guys running spots shows, it seems like

2003
02:40:43.879 --> 02:40:48.559
all they want to they seem like
they all want to run Philadelphia. How

2004
02:40:48.600 --> 02:40:52.959
are you going to buy advertising in
the newspaper for your show? It'll cost

2005
02:40:52.000 --> 02:40:58.879
an arm in a leg. Is
he talking to us here? I think

2006
02:41:00.120 --> 02:41:03.520
so. I think he is.
On the other hand, there are plenty

2007
02:41:03.600 --> 02:41:09.159
of good sized markets that aren't the
biggest cities in the country. But there

2008
02:41:09.200 --> 02:41:13.719
are places where WW hasn't run too
much and where you can go and beg

2009
02:41:13.879 --> 02:41:18.920
to the newspaper because you can afford
their ads, you can afford the radio

2010
02:41:18.040 --> 02:41:22.879
spots, and Marilla was a pretty
good sized market that fit that description at

2011
02:41:22.920 --> 02:41:28.920
that time. At that time,
and I was very pleased with the fifty

2012
02:41:28.040 --> 02:41:33.280
Years of Funk Show. One of
the things I was most pleased was that

2013
02:41:33.399 --> 02:41:37.159
I was that I got to work
with Bret Hart. Brett Hart was my

2014
02:41:37.280 --> 02:41:39.920
first choice for an opponent at the
show because of his in ring talent and

2015
02:41:41.000 --> 02:41:45.520
because of his status in the business. I also wanted him as an opponent

2016
02:41:45.600 --> 02:41:48.799
to make him a part of it, because I love that family. When

2017
02:41:48.840 --> 02:41:50.879
I asked Brett to do the show, he said, Okay, just send

2018
02:41:50.920 --> 02:41:56.360
me an airplane ticket. It was
just that simple. Brett was another second

2019
02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:00.840
generation wrestler, but he was a
very good businessman and a very sharp wrestler.

2020
02:42:01.319 --> 02:42:05.760
Sometimes younger guys forget that have a
knowledge of the business and working smart

2021
02:42:05.920 --> 02:42:09.959
means more than all the tanned muscles
in the world. In order to put

2022
02:42:11.079 --> 02:42:13.479
to be someone who consistently puts people
in seats, you have to be sharp.

2023
02:42:15.120 --> 02:42:18.959
And I should stop again here and
respond to something from Rick Flair's book

2024
02:42:18.200 --> 02:42:22.680
where he called Brett a mediocre wrestling
talent. I think Brett Hart was an

2025
02:42:22.719 --> 02:42:26.879
excellent worker. He had a great
feel for the crowds and had as much

2026
02:42:26.920 --> 02:42:31.680
athletic ability as anyone, and he
had a good mind for the business.

2027
02:42:31.760 --> 02:42:35.440
Yep. Brett was a creator of
moves and a real innovator. I think

2028
02:42:35.520 --> 02:42:39.280
his and Knightheart's matches against the Dynamite
Kid and Davy boy Smith were some of

2029
02:42:41.159 --> 02:42:46.079
the of the best tag team matches
I've ever seen in the States. Again,

2030
02:42:46.159 --> 02:42:48.479
I'm totally at ODZ with Rick and
this asset in his assessment of Brett

2031
02:42:48.520 --> 02:42:54.120
Hart. For fifty years of funk, Brett the ww Champion was open to

2032
02:42:54.200 --> 02:42:58.680
anything, including me beaten him that
night. Should that right there should tell

2033
02:42:58.719 --> 02:43:01.799
you what kind of guy Brett Hart
it is. However, I thought it

2034
02:43:01.840 --> 02:43:05.479
would be ridiculous for an old fart
like me to beat the champion. I

2035
02:43:05.520 --> 02:43:09.479
said, let's do something no one
is expecting. And I think the match

2036
02:43:09.639 --> 02:43:13.120
was accepted better with Brett beating me
in the middle of the ring than it

2037
02:43:13.159 --> 02:43:16.440
would have been if I'd beaten him, because it was fifty years of Funk.

2038
02:43:16.959 --> 02:43:20.280
It was known that I was promoting
it. It was known that this

2039
02:43:20.319 --> 02:43:22.600
would be my last match in Amarilla, So what are you gonna What are

2040
02:43:22.639 --> 02:43:24.680
you gonna think? As a fan, You'll think, Oh, it's his

2041
02:43:24.879 --> 02:43:30.239
show, so you know he's gonna
win the thing. Our match was actually

2042
02:43:30.319 --> 02:43:33.479
the first time I had ever worked
with Brent. His dad's too hard,

2043
02:43:35.040 --> 02:43:37.959
uh and pretty and much of our
hard family came down for the match,

2044
02:43:37.000 --> 02:43:41.120
and I really enjoyed seeing them again. So a better night for Terry Funk.

2045
02:43:41.200 --> 02:43:43.760
And he goes out like he wants
to doing the honors and what he

2046
02:43:43.879 --> 02:43:50.040
considered his final match in a city
boss where this whole fucking thing began Amarilla.

2047
02:43:50.159 --> 02:43:54.719
Yep, uh, it's on of
the chainsaw chartlie portion of his career.

2048
02:43:54.840 --> 02:43:56.319
Now, of course, we're just
a few months from him signing with

2049
02:43:56.479 --> 02:44:01.920
WWF and making his debut on the
last Monday Night Raw of nineteen and ninety

2050
02:44:01.959 --> 02:44:05.440
seven, and for the setting there. In the context there, we returned

2051
02:44:05.440 --> 02:44:09.840
to mcfoley's book, because of course, it's the association with mcfoley that creates

2052
02:44:09.879 --> 02:44:13.280
the opening for Chainsaw Charlie. In
the Attitude erat WWF, Personally, Mick

2053
02:44:13.319 --> 02:44:16.959
writes, I felt as if my
career was at a crossroads. I knew

2054
02:44:16.959 --> 02:44:18.200
that Vince was a big fan of
both mankind and the Dude, but I

2055
02:44:18.239 --> 02:44:22.520
felt personally that Cactus Jack could draw
the most interest in money. But the

2056
02:44:22.559 --> 02:44:24.639
return of Cactus Jack in mind,
I proposed a somewhat bizarre series of matches

2057
02:44:26.000 --> 02:44:28.959
with my old friend and nemesis,
Terry Funk, which would culminate in a

2058
02:44:28.040 --> 02:44:31.879
Coudi gras of barbarity at WrestleMania.
I want you to picture this boss for

2059
02:44:31.879 --> 02:44:37.920
WrestleMania fourteen, Okay, m I'd
been talking with Victor Quinonez of my iw

2060
02:44:37.079 --> 02:44:41.440
WA Japan past, and I asked
if I thought death matches would ever go

2061
02:44:41.520 --> 02:44:43.079
over in the States. Now.
It's just my personal opinion, but I

2062
02:44:43.120 --> 02:44:46.680
find blood letting and savagery between two
friends to be less offensive than heavy sexual

2063
02:44:46.760 --> 02:44:50.600
content, at least when it's done
well, I would never propose putting this

2064
02:44:50.680 --> 02:44:52.239
type of match on raw, but
if it were on pay per view the

2065
02:44:52.319 --> 02:44:58.079
disclaimer, then it wouldn't. I
mean, that's typical American censorship. That's

2066
02:44:58.120 --> 02:45:05.000
the systemic sense nsorship we've been presented. Oh yeah, bet violence. That

2067
02:45:05.200 --> 02:45:09.639
violence is much more acceptable than sex
and titties on network television on Monday after

2068
02:45:09.879 --> 02:45:13.760
righth exactly, which you know is
common in Europe. Not common, but

2069
02:45:13.879 --> 02:45:16.719
you can find it. I would
ever propose putting this type of match on

2070
02:45:16.840 --> 02:45:18.799
raw, but if it were on
pay per view with the disclaimer, then

2071
02:45:18.799 --> 02:45:22.239
I wouldn't see anything wrong with it. I came up with the idea of

2072
02:45:22.319 --> 02:45:26.639
the best of seven death match tournament. Magnum Ta and Nikki da Koloff had

2073
02:45:26.719 --> 02:45:30.000
enjoyed incredible success with this concept in
the mid eighties featuring regular matches, and

2074
02:45:30.040 --> 02:45:33.799
I figured the added a lure of
danger would complement their concept nicely. Imagined

2075
02:45:33.799 --> 02:45:37.000
a press conference where Terry and I
would pull these ridiculous matches out of a

2076
02:45:37.040 --> 02:45:39.920
fish bowl. Mister Fonk has just
chosen a bet of nails match, The

2077
02:45:39.959 --> 02:45:43.840
announcer would say, after six matches
we picked were picked, the fans would

2078
02:45:43.840 --> 02:45:46.760
be allowed to choose the stipulations for
the final showdown. Now, I'll admit

2079
02:45:46.959 --> 02:45:48.200
I was going to tamper with the
votes just a little bit so that the

2080
02:45:48.239 --> 02:45:52.680
finale would be a rematch of our
Kawasaki Stadium Classic no rope, barbed wire,

2081
02:45:52.799 --> 02:45:58.000
barbed wire board CE four explosive exploding
ring deathmatch. Can you imagine proposing

2082
02:45:58.040 --> 02:46:05.239
this in the WWS ah, I
mean I can imagine proposing it. I

2083
02:46:05.280 --> 02:46:07.639
can't imagine that it's going to go
over. I pictured it an airing on

2084
02:46:07.680 --> 02:46:11.040
wrestle Mania via satellite live from Terry's
Double Cross Ranch near Amarillo, Texas.

2085
02:46:11.079 --> 02:46:15.040
He thought it was going to be
a cinematic one. I thought I had

2086
02:46:15.079 --> 02:46:16.719
winner on my hands, and I
wanted badly to propose it, but first

2087
02:46:16.719 --> 02:46:18.680
I had to make sure that I
had an opponent to propose. I gave

2088
02:46:18.719 --> 02:46:22.399
the Funker a call. Less than
a year earlier, Terry had been brought

2089
02:46:22.399 --> 02:46:24.639
in for a couple of shows and
the Federation had vowed never to use him

2090
02:46:24.680 --> 02:46:28.000
again. He had on the air
called an announcer a Yankee bastard, an

2091
02:46:28.000 --> 02:46:33.760
announcer you can be more specific than
that, Mick, and had referred to

2092
02:46:33.840 --> 02:46:37.600
Vince as a goddamn sun. I'd
prefer if you don't refer to me at

2093
02:46:37.639 --> 02:46:41.280
all in your book. The company
had been somewhat less than thrilled with him,

2094
02:46:41.319 --> 02:46:43.440
but hell, looking back, Terry's
verbal rampage had been a precursor of

2095
02:46:43.559 --> 02:46:48.040
sorts for the current Raw show.
The words he had been reprimanded for were

2096
02:46:48.040 --> 02:46:50.520
pretty common utterances for the new Federation
attitude, and I thought that maybe they'd

2097
02:46:50.559 --> 02:46:54.319
give the goddamn Texas bastard another try. I called Terry up and ran my

2098
02:46:54.399 --> 02:46:58.399
idea by him. His answer was
simple, Cactus, I would love to

2099
02:46:58.440 --> 02:47:01.200
work with you. Again. Came
the hard pitching part. Now came the

2100
02:47:01.239 --> 02:47:03.920
hard part pitching the idea, Evince. I requested a meeting with a man.

2101
02:47:05.000 --> 02:47:07.879
We met along with Bruce Pritchard and
Jim Ross after television taping in a

2102
02:47:07.000 --> 02:47:11.239
dressing room in Columbus, Ohio.
I tried to stress the human drama aspect

2103
02:47:11.280 --> 02:47:13.920
over the blood and got although I
freely admitted there would be plenty of that.

2104
02:47:13.000 --> 02:47:16.680
Also, I also wanted him to
know that the quality of matches would

2105
02:47:16.719 --> 02:47:18.680
be accounted, and I personally gave
him my guarantee that they would be top

2106
02:47:18.799 --> 02:47:22.200
notch. I proposed that the series
of matches would cover the January, February

2107
02:47:22.280 --> 02:47:26.879
and March pay per views, with
March being WrestleMania blowout. The other four

2108
02:47:26.920 --> 02:47:30.159
tournament matches could take place after television
tapings, with cameras still rolling, so

2109
02:47:30.280 --> 02:47:33.600
that the highlights of the ring atrocities
could be aired. I also speculated that

2110
02:47:33.639 --> 02:47:35.040
a home video of the death Match
tournament would bring in big money. I

2111
02:47:35.040 --> 02:47:39.680
wonder where he got that idea.
Vince seemed intrigued, especially with the notion

2112
02:47:39.760 --> 02:47:43.040
of a ring exploding at Terry's ranch. We might possibly be able to do

2113
02:47:43.159 --> 02:47:46.639
this, the Evil McMahon stated.
A few days later, Jim Cornette called

2114
02:47:46.680 --> 02:47:48.559
me up, Cactus. Vince loves
the idea, but we're going to change

2115
02:47:48.559 --> 02:47:50.799
it up a little bit. Corny
told me we want you and Terry to

2116
02:47:50.799 --> 02:47:54.479
start off as the tag team at
the Royal Rumbland January. Somehow you too

2117
02:47:54.479 --> 02:47:56.120
have a falling out and Terry challenges
you to Texas Death Match right there in

2118
02:47:56.159 --> 02:47:58.479
Houston for the February pay per view, and then you'll have the damned to

2119
02:47:58.559 --> 02:48:01.840
fight they've ever seen at WrestleMania.
It sounded great, but there was one

2120
02:48:01.920 --> 02:48:05.120
problem. Vince was planning a huge
surprise which would turned out to be Mike

2121
02:48:05.200 --> 02:48:07.959
Tyson, and he was expecting a
lot of mainstream media to be covering the

2122
02:48:09.000 --> 02:48:11.040
event. He didn't think that having
two human beings blow each other up would

2123
02:48:11.040 --> 02:48:15.360
be the best way to expose our
product to this new audience. In retrospect,

2124
02:48:15.399 --> 02:48:18.159
he was probably right. They still
wanted the Funker, but they wanted

2125
02:48:18.239 --> 02:48:20.600
him as my tag team partner.
Hell, that didn't sound too bad.

2126
02:48:20.639 --> 02:48:22.200
After all, Terry and I had
probably done enough damage to each other.

2127
02:48:22.440 --> 02:48:24.719
Maybe it was time that we were
on the same side for a while.

2128
02:48:26.000 --> 02:48:28.239
Now, all he had to do
was come up with a way to introduce

2129
02:48:28.319 --> 02:48:31.319
Terry to an audience that, unfortunately
hadn't been privy to the Funker's exploits over

2130
02:48:31.319 --> 02:48:35.680
the last thirty years or so,
they told themselves as a big frustration that

2131
02:48:35.760 --> 02:48:41.239
Jim Cornette talks about as Kevin Dunnacht
and like nobody knew, nobody would know

2132
02:48:41.280 --> 02:48:46.040
who Terry Funk was when he came
in as Chainshaw Charlie, And as Terry

2133
02:48:46.040 --> 02:48:48.120
wrote in the book, when I
came back to work for Fince in late

2134
02:48:48.200 --> 02:48:50.760
nineteen ninety seven, one of the
first things Vince said to me was,

2135
02:48:52.360 --> 02:48:58.760
so, how's your horse it's incredible. Well that's your horse, pal,

2136
02:49:01.239 --> 02:49:07.479
do it? Okay? Do you
touch the horse? Do you mate with

2137
02:49:07.600 --> 02:49:13.559
the horse? Are you fucking your
horse? Terry Funky is what I'm hearing.

2138
02:49:13.639 --> 02:49:20.000
True, is what I saw on
my videotape. Truth. Notwithstanding,

2139
02:49:20.280 --> 02:49:24.399
Yeah, Bruce Pritchard on the arrival
of Chainsaw, Charlie and the WWF.

2140
02:49:24.600 --> 02:49:30.959
He didn't want to just didn't want
to. Terry wanted to work. And

2141
02:49:31.079 --> 02:49:33.520
then if Terry wasn't working, he
wanted to be home. He's talking about

2142
02:49:33.520 --> 02:49:35.799
why he left it. Terry didn't
want to travel, Terry didn't want the

2143
02:49:35.840 --> 02:49:43.159
responsibility, and Terry didn't want the
bs. And Terry wanted to be his

2144
02:49:43.280 --> 02:49:50.479
own man, with his own rules
and be able to do it his way.

2145
02:49:52.079 --> 02:49:58.879
So if that, if that meant
that he was going to not make

2146
02:49:58.959 --> 02:50:03.559
as much money, that was with
him. He liked ranch, like riding

2147
02:50:03.600 --> 02:50:09.920
his horses, he liked being home, he liked going out making the occasional

2148
02:50:11.000 --> 02:50:16.200
appearance. But that the rest of
it didn't mean that much to him.

2149
02:50:16.760 --> 02:50:20.760
As much as it did. I'm
not saying it didn't mean anything to him,

2150
02:50:22.280 --> 02:50:24.440
but it wasn't. That wasn't life
or death to him. Life and

2151
02:50:24.520 --> 02:50:31.600
death to him was his family and
being happy. So if he was happy

2152
02:50:33.120 --> 02:50:37.239
doing X y Z, he didn't
give a shit about d E and F.

2153
02:50:39.440 --> 02:50:43.520
It's just who he was, Darry
Funk. That makes a nod fit

2154
02:50:43.600 --> 02:50:48.920
for the WWF though, doesn't it. Yes, it does. And you

2155
02:50:48.000 --> 02:50:52.600
can see him sort of being content
with this life where he just you know,

2156
02:50:52.239 --> 02:50:56.040
makes a trip to Japan for a
couple of weeks pockets five figures.

2157
02:50:56.079 --> 02:50:58.360
And it's almost like Terry went through
wrestling in the later stages of his life

2158
02:50:58.399 --> 02:51:03.360
thinking about what can this run by
me? You know, like there's a

2159
02:51:03.440 --> 02:51:05.799
new need in my life that requires
a nice infusion of cash. And if

2160
02:51:05.840 --> 02:51:09.079
I just take this shot, if
I just work a year for w c

2161
02:51:09.239 --> 02:51:11.840
W, if I just you know, work a couple more months for ECW,

2162
02:51:11.959 --> 02:51:13.000
if I just go to Japan and
blow myself up for a couple of

2163
02:51:13.000 --> 02:51:16.719
weeks, then I can check that
box. But they but you know,

2164
02:51:16.959 --> 02:51:20.399
Terry Funk's lives a testament to the
fact that those bills never stop coming in.

2165
02:51:20.799 --> 02:51:24.520
They never do. They never do. And so so long as you

2166
02:51:24.559 --> 02:51:28.559
tell yourself you're only in the business
because new, new, uh new debt

2167
02:51:28.600 --> 02:51:33.200
instruments arrive in your mailbox. You're
never going to get out of the business.

2168
02:51:33.600 --> 02:51:37.680
Yeah, because you live in America, and so you will die in

2169
02:51:37.799 --> 02:51:41.319
debt. Right, that's the whole
idea. Exactly. You can't live,

2170
02:51:41.680 --> 02:51:43.639
you need to do, you need
you need, you need to die in

2171
02:51:43.840 --> 02:51:48.639
debt so that your loved ones can
inherit that correct, And so that's the

2172
02:51:48.719 --> 02:51:52.360
reality. And so off to Connecticut, we go off to New York,

2173
02:51:52.440 --> 02:51:54.479
so to speak, and uh,
here's Terry Funk and his book Boss.

2174
02:51:54.520 --> 02:51:58.559
If you could convey this police briefly
explaining the atmosphere he found upon returning to

2175
02:51:58.639 --> 02:52:05.319
the World Wrestling Federation the first time
I walked in in nineteen ninety seven,

2176
02:52:05.440 --> 02:52:09.000
the atmosphere there wasn't really very positive. I don't know if the deal with

2177
02:52:09.079 --> 02:52:13.719
Brett Hard and Montreal was the cause
of interfer was just the WCW was kicking

2178
02:52:13.760 --> 02:52:20.520
the w's ass, which it was. There was a definite feeling from McMahon

2179
02:52:20.799 --> 02:52:24.920
and from the guys in the locker
room that WCW had become the real power

2180
02:52:24.000 --> 02:52:30.120
in the profession. Coincidentally, this
was also around the time Vince was starting

2181
02:52:30.159 --> 02:52:35.000
to make his stuff Corner programming by
incorporating some of the Hard edged style that

2182
02:52:35.120 --> 02:52:39.120
allowed a niche group by like ECW
to make a national impression. I got

2183
02:52:39.200 --> 02:52:43.719
ready for my big debut on Raw
that Monday night in December, and the

2184
02:52:43.840 --> 02:52:46.639
plan was for me to come out
of a box. Bruce Pritchard, one

2185
02:52:46.680 --> 02:52:50.399
of the backstage guys, was describing
to me what they wanted me to do.

2186
02:52:50.920 --> 02:52:54.200
I said, that's it. You
want me to come out. You

2187
02:52:54.280 --> 02:52:58.440
just want me to come out of
a box. Yeah, he said,

2188
02:52:58.319 --> 02:53:01.239
just come out of the box.
Do you want to come out of as

2189
02:53:01.399 --> 02:53:07.040
anything? Before my brain could fully
process the question, my lips blurted,

2190
02:53:07.399 --> 02:53:11.959
blurted out chainsaw, Charlie, give
me a chainsaw so I can go out

2191
02:53:13.040 --> 02:53:18.120
there there. It is the origins
mechanics. I can't explain it. It

2192
02:53:18.280 --> 02:53:20.280
just popped into my head. They
asked me what I wanted to wear,

2193
02:53:20.399 --> 02:53:24.959
and then got me some Levi jeans
and a pair of suspenders. I already

2194
02:53:26.079 --> 02:53:28.760
had a red shirt, so I
kept that. Then they got me a

2195
02:53:28.840 --> 02:53:33.079
woman's panty hose stalking and some baby
how powered to put on my head.

2196
02:53:33.680 --> 02:53:37.200
All that my request. What an
idiot, I guess. I could have

2197
02:53:37.600 --> 02:53:41.799
just gone out there without without anything
over my head, but I would have

2198
02:53:41.879 --> 02:53:45.959
had I wouldn't have been chainsaw Charlie
with Terry Funk's head, would I?

2199
02:53:46.920 --> 02:53:50.600
I'd have been chainsaw Terry? Brother? What big problem? What do you

2200
02:53:50.680 --> 02:53:56.559
mean chainsaw Terry? Dude? What? That's why I'm asking you did what?

2201
02:53:56.239 --> 02:54:00.159
Brother? What? What do you
mean chainsaw Terry? Dude? You're

2202
02:54:00.159 --> 02:54:03.120
gonna change something, dude? What
do you to cut me? Brother?

2203
02:54:03.920 --> 02:54:09.440
I don't understand. What where did
you come from? Hulk? It came

2204
02:54:09.479 --> 02:54:11.000
from out of nowhere. You're making
me nervous. Well, brother, that's

2205
02:54:11.000 --> 02:54:13.920
making You're making me nervous to do
with the chainsaws? Dude? Who you

2206
02:54:15.040 --> 02:54:22.600
cutting? Brother? Who you cut
in half? What? I didn't say

2207
02:54:22.639 --> 02:54:26.479
anything? Terry? Well? Why
not? Terry Terry? Terry, Terry,

2208
02:54:26.719 --> 02:54:35.799
Terry Terry Terry Right, Terry?
I really I just figured out something

2209
02:54:35.799 --> 02:54:39.559
about Hogan. Boss. Hogan thinks
that you said something whenever he's talking.

2210
02:54:39.040 --> 02:54:45.639
So whenever Hogan utters something, yes, he always thinks that you took that

2211
02:54:45.680 --> 02:54:50.879
opportunity to slip in exactly. That's
why always goes, what would you slip

2212
02:54:50.959 --> 02:54:54.920
in? Brother? Right? Right? What? What? What would you

2213
02:54:54.920 --> 02:54:58.479
slip in? Dude? Terry?
I didn't slip in anything, brother,

2214
02:54:58.440 --> 02:55:01.799
That's the problem. Dude, I
don't know what you've been slipping in,

2215
02:55:01.879 --> 02:55:05.040
brother, another wedding without your without
telling you. Terry, you know,

2216
02:55:05.159 --> 02:55:07.799
my my own daughter slipped in the
wedding, Brother, She didn't invite,

2217
02:55:07.840 --> 02:55:11.040
mean or anything. Dude. What's
going on? Brother? What's the deal

2218
02:55:11.120 --> 02:55:13.760
dude? Well, Terry, you
know, I don't know. I don't

2219
02:55:13.799 --> 02:55:18.399
know Brooke at all. I'm not
aware of what Brook's uh, you know,

2220
02:55:18.559 --> 02:55:20.760
social calendar looks like I'm not.
I don't. I'm not privy to

2221
02:55:20.840 --> 02:55:24.360
that, brother. What do you
mean, privy? Dude? What are

2222
02:55:24.399 --> 02:55:26.760
you privy to? You? Brother? That's a very good question. I

2223
02:55:26.799 --> 02:55:28.879
don't know what I'm privy to.
I'm privy to whatever Vicky says. I'm

2224
02:55:28.920 --> 02:55:31.319
privy to you? Word, brother, privy? Like, what the fuck?

2225
02:55:31.360 --> 02:55:35.200
Privy? What like? Dude?
Why why are you talking big language?

2226
02:55:35.239 --> 02:55:37.680
Brother? Well, Terry, I
don't. I didn't mean that.

2227
02:55:39.040 --> 02:55:41.799
I'm not talking big language, brother, Terry. Wats this? You call

2228
02:55:43.079 --> 02:55:46.920
me? Terry? How do you
know my name? How do you know

2229
02:55:48.040 --> 02:55:50.520
my name? Dude? How do
you know I'm Terry? Brother? What

2230
02:55:50.639 --> 02:55:54.159
do you get off? What do
you get off talking to Terry? Dude?

2231
02:55:54.399 --> 02:55:56.680
What do you get off talking turkey
with Terry brother ship talking turkey with

2232
02:55:56.799 --> 02:56:11.719
Terry. That's gonna be Hogan's podcast. Well, Terry brother, who's this

2233
02:56:11.879 --> 02:56:22.479
dude, Terry? It's Dorry Dorry
brother Terry? I what Terry brother?

2234
02:56:22.879 --> 02:56:33.559
Terry donk Terry. I don't which
Terry's Terry Funk? I'm not Can you

2235
02:56:33.639 --> 02:56:35.159
can one get tell me? Can
one of you direct me to Terry?

2236
02:56:35.399 --> 02:56:39.079
Can one of you Terry's direct me
to Terry Funk? Please? He's a

2237
02:56:39.159 --> 02:56:45.440
brother of mine. Yeah? How
many of them are of them? Are

2238
02:56:45.479 --> 02:56:48.600
you? Don't we establish that Terry
had and Dorry had another brother? As

2239
02:56:48.639 --> 02:56:52.200
weird as that is, I feel
maybe they have a brother or sister or

2240
02:56:52.239 --> 02:57:00.360
something something like sister Terry brother sister
Terry, like sister sherriff. Dude,

2241
02:57:00.360 --> 02:57:05.559
what's going on? Where's Sherry?
Brother? What I didn't talk about?

2242
02:57:07.120 --> 02:57:11.120
You didn't expect them to notice that
rhymes? Brother? What do you?

2243
02:57:11.479 --> 02:57:13.959
Dude? Why? Brother? What
are we talking about? Dude? Well,

2244
02:57:15.000 --> 02:57:16.879
I'm trying to get to the bottom
of that. Hey, Terry can

2245
02:57:18.239 --> 02:57:28.440
Terry and Terry? I don't know
who either of you are grooming. I

2246
02:57:28.520 --> 02:57:35.239
feel like right now, I feel
like I'm being groomed. Is someone grooming

2247
02:57:35.360 --> 02:57:45.159
me, am I your parents,
but I don't see I feel like I'm

2248
02:57:45.239 --> 02:57:48.840
talking in my head? Right are
you guys? Let's have let's have help

2249
02:57:48.879 --> 02:57:50.360
talk to Dory here health. Do
you have any questions for Dory on the

2250
02:57:50.440 --> 02:57:56.879
line? But I won't know who
you are? Dude? What who said?

2251
02:57:56.920 --> 02:58:01.079
Hey? Brother? Why I'm the
champion? Dude? What do you

2252
02:58:01.159 --> 02:58:09.239
mean? But I think you've got
the work of a champion? Did I

2253
02:58:09.360 --> 02:58:13.280
talk to you? Brother? And
it took a lot of wrestling training.

2254
02:58:15.000 --> 02:58:20.200
It took a lot of amateur wrestling
training, because, well, who's working

2255
02:58:20.200 --> 02:58:22.879
amateur style on me? Brother?
I didn't get an amateur push? Dude?

2256
02:58:24.879 --> 02:58:30.719
What if somebody decides to shoot on
you? Well, brother, why

2257
02:58:30.719 --> 02:58:33.280
are you what are you trying to
shoot on me? Dude? Who's trying

2258
02:58:33.280 --> 02:58:35.239
to shoot on me? Brother?
Are you shooting on me? Dude?

2259
02:58:35.360 --> 02:58:41.280
Champion away from you? Brother,
No, I don't always taking my belt.

2260
02:58:41.319 --> 02:58:45.239
Brother, I'm Hulk Hogan, Dude. I roll people. Nobody rolls

2261
02:58:45.280 --> 02:58:50.360
me up. I roll them,
my brother. What has happened, No,

2262
02:58:50.559 --> 02:58:54.120
it hasn't happened, dude, on
occasion on occasion of what? Brother?

2263
02:58:54.559 --> 02:59:00.639
What occasion? Dude? No?
What goes into what? Dude?

2264
02:59:00.920 --> 02:59:05.120
Why are you being secretive? What
days of the National Wrestling Alliance? Some

2265
02:59:05.319 --> 02:59:11.440
promoters who work very closely together?
Brother, who's conspiring? Dude? Who's

2266
02:59:13.200 --> 02:59:20.559
Edda in Florida? Brother, I'm
not Territory Jim Crockett, Brother Atlantic?

2267
02:59:20.600 --> 02:59:30.360
What Jim Crockett was very close?
No territory. Are you talking to Tennessee

2268
02:59:30.440 --> 02:59:33.440
Lee? Brother? What are you
talking about to the Tennessee Lee territory?

2269
02:59:33.760 --> 02:59:41.319
Get together? And who could groom
somebody for brother World Championship? Okay,

2270
02:59:41.360 --> 02:59:43.600
that's what I want? No,
Brother, who's being groomed? Dude?

2271
02:59:43.799 --> 02:59:46.879
Who's being groomed? What you are? Brother? What your family decided to

2272
02:59:46.920 --> 02:59:52.360
push me for the title? Who? Why? No? No, that's

2273
02:59:52.399 --> 02:59:54.799
my belt? Brother. You can't
push yourself for the belt. Dude.

2274
02:59:56.360 --> 03:00:03.799
I'm at the same time, Eddie
Graham had his eyes on a great wrestler

2275
03:00:03.840 --> 03:00:07.399
who was doing a great cab in
his territory. And it may be a

2276
03:00:07.520 --> 03:00:13.239
surprise to some people. He Brother, hear about sud broke my leg?

2277
03:00:13.319 --> 03:00:18.280
Dude, you can't have brother.
He makes me nervous. Dude, you

2278
03:00:18.479 --> 03:00:24.079
make me nervous, Brother, I'll
make myself nervous. I had to stop.

2279
03:00:24.159 --> 03:00:28.280
That was too fucking amazing. No
planning at all. I just toggled

2280
03:00:28.319 --> 03:00:33.559
to a random part in Dory shoot
interview from our video and he starts talking

2281
03:00:33.600 --> 03:00:39.360
about pushes. That's that's Terry right
there. Hey, he went to hero

2282
03:00:39.520 --> 03:00:46.399
Mat Suda and uh, Terry,
Uh, you know, Terry just Terry

2283
03:00:46.479 --> 03:00:50.000
didn't know what where to go about
from there? Brother? I know what

2284
03:00:50.079 --> 03:00:54.079
do you mean? I didn't know
where to go about? Brother? I

2285
03:00:56.200 --> 03:00:58.559
what do you? What are?
Who are you? Brother? Right?

2286
03:01:01.079 --> 03:01:03.120
Who am I to you? I'm
Terry Hull Hogan brother for my brother.

2287
03:01:03.159 --> 03:01:07.319
Why do you keep mentioning? Brother? I mean you keep mentioning? Are

2288
03:01:07.319 --> 03:01:11.319
you looking for Terry? Brother?
Whether I am Terry? Dude, You're

2289
03:01:11.360 --> 03:01:18.200
not Terry. I know Terry.
You're not Terry. Terry's not here right

2290
03:01:18.280 --> 03:01:22.600
now? Then where am I?
Dude? If I'm not here, where

2291
03:01:22.639 --> 03:01:26.319
am I? Brother? I don't
know where you are, but I know

2292
03:01:26.479 --> 03:01:33.239
Terry's not here. Ah, you
little motherfucker. I don't know what the

2293
03:01:33.239 --> 03:01:35.120
fuck you're trying to do to me, dude. I don't know what you're

2294
03:01:35.120 --> 03:01:37.840
trying to pull on me, brother, But you're making me nervous, dude.

2295
03:01:39.000 --> 03:01:43.719
You're making me very fucking nervous.
Brother, I don't mean to make

2296
03:01:43.760 --> 03:01:46.680
you nervous. But I don't even
know. But you're you keep calling me,

2297
03:01:46.840 --> 03:01:48.479
you keep looking for my brother,
but my brother's not here, brother,

2298
03:01:48.840 --> 03:01:52.000
and Terry, Terry's not here either. Terry is my brother. And

2299
03:01:52.120 --> 03:01:56.079
I don't know what I'll tell you. You know what I want to do

2300
03:01:56.239 --> 03:02:00.479
right now is I just want to
go get a chicken salad sandwich. Who

2301
03:02:03.040 --> 03:02:11.559
why? I want to know where
you came you went from? Terry,

2302
03:02:11.680 --> 03:02:15.159
Brother, Terry is not here.
I'm not here, dude. That the

2303
03:02:15.239 --> 03:02:18.959
fact is that i'm your brother,
brother, but where your brother is not

2304
03:02:18.120 --> 03:02:20.959
here? Brother? Yet I am
here, dude. And now you're talking

2305
03:02:22.079 --> 03:02:26.040
chicken salad, brother, right exactly, and you expect me and somehow I'm

2306
03:02:26.120 --> 03:02:31.879
the one that's, you know,
being paranoid by expressing concerns and you're the

2307
03:02:31.120 --> 03:02:35.479
you're talking about chicken salad dude,
Like, well, you know I'm a

2308
03:02:35.559 --> 03:02:46.600
former world champion there. Oh well, brother, I'm a champion, dude.

2309
03:02:46.280 --> 03:02:52.200
I was a champion. Brother.
While we're who said you could be

2310
03:02:52.319 --> 03:02:56.520
champion? Well, you know,
there are a lot of guys who groomed

2311
03:02:56.639 --> 03:03:00.399
me. I was groomed to be
a champion. Pat Patterson was one of

2312
03:03:00.440 --> 03:03:09.520
them. Terry, Garvin, Mel
Phillips, Mike Tyson. You know I

2313
03:03:09.719 --> 03:03:18.319
was groomed by Mike Tyson and Steve
Austin. What, Brother, I'm so

2314
03:03:18.559 --> 03:03:24.959
worried what the ramifications could be of
that? How that could that's relevant to

2315
03:03:26.040 --> 03:03:28.799
him? You know? I'm right? Did I get groomed by Mike Tyson?

2316
03:03:28.840 --> 03:03:33.639
Brother? I've been groomed? Brother? Well, you know, Terry,

2317
03:03:33.680 --> 03:03:37.239
everyone gets groomed one way or another. Sometimes people get groomed by Mike

2318
03:03:37.360 --> 03:03:41.159
Tyson. Some people get groomed by
Sean Michaels. And I'll tell you the

2319
03:03:41.280 --> 03:03:46.120
thing that groomed me the most was
was was going was going to the barbershop

2320
03:03:46.200 --> 03:03:48.520
with Terry? Brother. I didn't
go to any barbershop with you? Dude?

2321
03:03:50.760 --> 03:03:52.520
Why are you saying I went to
the barbershop? Brother, I've only

2322
03:03:52.559 --> 03:03:56.239
been we're talking. You're talking to
brudeye? Brother? Are you talking to

2323
03:03:56.280 --> 03:04:01.399
Brudus? Brother? You feel?
Are you thrown me through the barbershop window?

2324
03:04:01.479 --> 03:04:07.680
Dude? You are you cutting my
head? Brother? Is it plate

2325
03:04:07.799 --> 03:04:11.040
glass? Brother? Brother? Who's
hey? Who's let's call brooken? Brall

2326
03:04:11.120 --> 03:04:13.959
over here? Brother? Who groomed
you? Do? Brother? Who groomed

2327
03:04:15.000 --> 03:04:20.000
you? I want to talk to
Steve Lombardi. Dude, right, let's

2328
03:04:20.040 --> 03:04:26.360
get to Jason. Hey, I
don't know. I don't know Steve Lombardi.

2329
03:04:26.840 --> 03:04:28.680
I do know that my brother Terry
should be coming here any moment.

2330
03:04:28.719 --> 03:04:31.159
I'd be a great person, asked
Terry Dorry about, you know, go

2331
03:04:31.200 --> 03:04:39.600
to a signing. Dorry, what
are your thoughts on Steve Lombardi. I'm

2332
03:04:39.680 --> 03:04:45.760
well, I remember back in the
day I talked to Steve Lombardi. I

2333
03:04:45.840 --> 03:04:48.040
knew a Lombardi. I don't know
if it was a Steve Lombardi. We

2334
03:04:48.079 --> 03:04:52.600
did have a neighbor. We had
a neighbor who who was a Lombardi.

2335
03:04:52.280 --> 03:04:56.440
He might have had a relative,
names football coach or something. You know,

2336
03:04:56.520 --> 03:05:00.120
I thought, we I know,
I know a Lombardi who was as

2337
03:05:00.120 --> 03:05:03.719
a football coach. Never meant to
die. I don't remember him doing anything

2338
03:05:03.840 --> 03:05:09.399
significant, but I knew I do
you know? Besides that, I really

2339
03:05:09.440 --> 03:05:16.639
don't remember much past nineteen sixty five. That's kind of where my memory ends.

2340
03:05:16.639 --> 03:05:18.719
I don't even know where I came
from this morning, well, or

2341
03:05:18.760 --> 03:05:24.280
where I'm going to for that matter. Well, Dorry involuntarily memory holes things.

2342
03:05:24.840 --> 03:05:28.639
Terry wishes he could here. He
is an art a video talking about

2343
03:05:28.159 --> 03:05:33.159
the Chainsaw Charlie idea and how he
looks back on it and Chainsaw Charlie.

2344
03:05:33.840 --> 03:05:37.120
Now are you shocked? God I
killed Chainsaw Charlie. I hope I did

2345
03:05:37.200 --> 03:05:41.479
it. Thank he's dead. I
want Chainsaw to be dead. That was

2346
03:05:41.559 --> 03:05:45.840
the most well, that was the
most absurd thing that I ever came up

2347
03:05:45.879 --> 03:05:50.479
with in my life was Chainsaw Charlie. Chainsaws Charlie was not successful. Chainsaw

2348
03:05:50.680 --> 03:05:54.799
Charlie. And I did another one
one time for Joe Blanchard Donner. I

2349
03:05:54.879 --> 03:05:58.159
came in one week, lasted one
week. As doctor knows it all,

2350
03:06:00.479 --> 03:06:03.760
it's your occupation, chiro practice.
I did seriously, I put on a

2351
03:06:03.840 --> 03:06:07.319
mask, thought the hell, this
is the hell of an idea, you

2352
03:06:07.399 --> 03:06:11.760
know? And that one sucked too. Uh. I guess everybody's going to

2353
03:06:11.799 --> 03:06:16.680
have a couple of a couple of
sucking creations in their life time, you

2354
03:06:16.760 --> 03:06:20.959
know, Well I did. I
hope I don't have any more. Kind

2355
03:06:22.000 --> 03:06:24.079
of curious that Terry, one of
the more successful legitimate actors that's ever been

2356
03:06:24.079 --> 03:06:28.639
a pro wrestler, was never really
good being anybody else but Terry Funk and

2357
03:06:28.719 --> 03:06:33.399
pro wrestling, that is true,
ever could pull off anybody else and I

2358
03:06:33.440 --> 03:06:35.680
guess that's what we'd love about him, right, I guess yeah, always

2359
03:06:35.680 --> 03:06:41.719
getting us right. So, looking
back on the Chainsaw, Charlie Genesis Funk

2360
03:06:41.760 --> 03:06:45.079
writes in his book one time in
the late nineteen seventies, I wrestled once

2361
03:06:45.280 --> 03:06:48.120
and only ones in San Anton under
a mask as Doctor Knows it All and

2362
03:06:48.200 --> 03:06:50.680
Honesty. I thought it was a
clever idea to go out one week as

2363
03:06:50.719 --> 03:06:54.799
the mysterious Doctor Knows it All.
Didn't last long. Since my match was

2364
03:06:54.840 --> 03:06:56.399
over, I pulled the mask off. I knew it wasn't working. Another

2365
03:06:56.440 --> 03:07:00.079
one that didn't work was change such
Harley. The WWF was in trouble in

2366
03:07:00.200 --> 03:07:03.559
late nineteen ninety seven. Eric Bischoff
and WCW had recruited away a lot of

2367
03:07:03.639 --> 03:07:07.319
Vince's stars. Vince Damner lost at
all. If WCW had been smart and

2368
03:07:07.360 --> 03:07:09.120
hadn't gotten complacent in the late nineteen
nineties, they could have finished him off.

2369
03:07:09.680 --> 03:07:13.120
They thought they were smart, but
he was the one left standing.

2370
03:07:13.440 --> 03:07:16.280
And he was left standing because he
was forced to push some new names,

2371
03:07:16.520 --> 03:07:18.879
and a lot of them clicked with
people. One of the ones who clicked

2372
03:07:18.920 --> 03:07:22.399
was my Japan and ECW running buddy
Mick Fuley aka Mankind dude loving Cactus Jack

2373
03:07:22.639 --> 03:07:26.319
ed Mick was about to get a
tag team partner. He hadn't yet watched

2374
03:07:26.440 --> 03:07:28.319
reached rather his peak as a superstar, but he was definitely getting there.

2375
03:07:28.600 --> 03:07:31.399
Jim Ross, the great announcer who
had come to the WWF and had become

2376
03:07:31.479 --> 03:07:33.879
Vince's right hand man, was the
one who gave me the call. I'm

2377
03:07:33.879 --> 03:07:37.479
pretty sure Cactus had prompted to him
and Vince the idea of us working together.

2378
03:07:37.559 --> 03:07:39.520
But hell, if they didn't want
me at all, they wouldn't have

2379
03:07:39.559 --> 03:07:43.319
called Paige. I agreed to come
in because I wanted to help that company.

2380
03:07:43.680 --> 03:07:46.559
There's just a challenge to going to
a company that's an underdog and trying

2381
03:07:46.600 --> 03:07:50.319
to make whatever changes you can to
be a part of its improvement, and

2382
03:07:50.440 --> 03:07:52.799
I think I was part of it. I wouldn't say I was the swaying

2383
03:07:52.879 --> 03:07:54.440
factor, nor did I ever expect
I would be, but I pitched in

2384
03:07:54.559 --> 03:07:58.399
my two cents. I also wanted
to go for Cactus. I wanted to

2385
03:07:58.440 --> 03:08:01.079
do anything I thought would help CACTIFS, and I still would now why I

2386
03:08:01.120 --> 03:08:03.959
would want to do something for the
Big Goof, I'll never know. I

2387
03:08:05.000 --> 03:08:07.120
guess I just liked the guy.
I was actually supposed to work WWF.

2388
03:08:07.200 --> 03:08:09.799
Late nineteen ninety three, they had
called me about becoming head booker. They

2389
03:08:09.840 --> 03:08:13.399
were doing their big Survivory show in
Boston and they wanted me to wear some

2390
03:08:13.440 --> 03:08:16.600
silly outfit with a blue mask to
be one of Jerry Lawler's nights taking on

2391
03:08:16.639 --> 03:08:18.319
Brett Hart and three of his brothers
had a big tag match. Their plan

2392
03:08:18.559 --> 03:08:20.520
was, but it was going to
beat me, then take my mask off

2393
03:08:20.559 --> 03:08:22.920
and put his finishing hold the sharp
shon, run me and beat me again.

2394
03:08:24.360 --> 03:08:26.120
After that, they they said I
would become the creative head of the

2395
03:08:26.120 --> 03:08:30.239
company, replacing Pat Patterson. My
old friend. Patterson had gone from being

2396
03:08:30.280 --> 03:08:33.040
Ray Stevens tag partner to being the
WWS booker, but pat was looking to

2397
03:08:33.079 --> 03:08:35.639
step down and take a little easier. I went to meet with them about

2398
03:08:35.639 --> 03:08:37.280
it, and going from my ranch
with all the open space to New York

2399
03:08:37.360 --> 03:08:41.360
City with cabs and people, the
hustle and bustle, was culture shocked.

2400
03:08:41.399 --> 03:08:43.520
It was an hour to get there, an hour to get there, It

2401
03:08:43.600 --> 03:08:45.799
got an hour to get here.
There was no place to go that I

2402
03:08:45.879 --> 03:08:48.920
was going to get very quickly.
I met with them and had dinner with

2403
03:08:48.959 --> 03:08:50.120
Pat and it was great. We
laughed and told a lot of old stories,

2404
03:08:50.159 --> 03:08:52.319
and I went up to my hotel
room and went to bed. As

2405
03:08:52.360 --> 03:08:54.040
I lay there, I got to
think, and I'm not sure if I

2406
03:08:54.159 --> 03:08:56.760
want to follow through with this deal. I got up the next morning left

2407
03:08:56.760 --> 03:08:58.680
the note Evince. It read,
my horse is sick. I think he's

2408
03:08:58.719 --> 03:09:01.239
dying. I'll see you later.
A couple hours later, I was at

2409
03:09:01.239 --> 03:09:05.479
the airport when I heard from my
a call from my name for calling the

2410
03:09:05.520 --> 03:09:07.200
airport paging system. I was running
by that time, and I came home.

2411
03:09:07.399 --> 03:09:09.959
I escaped again. As it turned
out, that was when Lawler was

2412
03:09:11.000 --> 03:09:13.079
having his legal trouble, so they
were replaced him with Shawn Michaels. I

2413
03:09:13.079 --> 03:09:15.959
would not have I would have been
one of Seawn Michael's knights. When I

2414
03:09:16.040 --> 03:09:18.479
came to work for him in late
night ninety seven. One of the first

2415
03:09:18.520 --> 03:09:20.040
things Vince said to me was,
so, how was your horse? First

2416
03:09:20.120 --> 03:09:24.159
time I walked in ninety seven.
The atmosphere there wasn't really positive. I

2417
03:09:24.159 --> 03:09:26.520
don't know if the deal with Brett
Harten you already said this, Okay,

2418
03:09:26.079 --> 03:09:33.479
I covered this, sorry Ontreal.
And then he starts talking about the chainsaw

2419
03:09:33.600 --> 03:09:37.959
Charlie idea okay. Coincidentally, this
is also the time Vince of starting to

2420
03:09:39.000 --> 03:09:41.440
make his stuff counter programming by incorporating
some of the hard edge style that allowed

2421
03:09:41.680 --> 03:09:45.840
a niche group like ECW to make
a national impression. I got ready for

2422
03:09:45.920 --> 03:09:48.120
my big debut on Raw that Monday
night in December, and the plan was

2423
03:09:48.159 --> 03:09:50.559
for me to come out of a
box. And this is where he says

2424
03:09:50.360 --> 03:09:52.000
he just wanted me to come out
of a box. And he says,

2425
03:09:52.040 --> 03:09:54.959
Chainsaw, Charlie, like you read, I feel like there's a little bit

2426
03:09:56.000 --> 03:09:58.520
more I wanted to convey here,
but let's move ahead. This is him

2427
03:09:58.520 --> 03:10:03.479
talking about out the Road Dog match
that the New Age Outlaws match that they

2428
03:10:03.520 --> 03:10:11.280
went on to have at WrestleMania.
Okay, let's see Robert James. Okay.

2429
03:10:13.440 --> 03:10:16.559
This culminated in a false countmy where
a match on Raw where we brawled

2430
03:10:16.600 --> 03:10:18.879
all over the place that both tag
teams. The match ended with us both

2431
03:10:18.879 --> 03:10:24.040
in a dumpster that was going to
be pushed off stage. Who a Brian

2432
03:10:24.120 --> 03:10:26.440
James, son of Robert James,
whom I'd wrestled, no telling how many

2433
03:10:26.479 --> 03:10:31.440
times under his ring name of Bob
Armstrong was involved. We set up for

2434
03:10:31.600 --> 03:10:33.520
it by Cactus tossing me into a
dumpster set up on the stage at the

2435
03:10:33.520 --> 03:10:35.760
top of the ringside ramped. You
remember this, boss, when they pushed

2436
03:10:37.360 --> 03:10:39.959
a dumpster off the raw ya Cactus? Oh god, yeah, that was.

2437
03:10:39.639 --> 03:10:41.799
That was an amazing moment, really
was. They played it ap huge

2438
03:10:41.840 --> 03:10:43.879
and we'll look at it here in
a moment here. Yeah, the lapsed

2439
03:10:43.920 --> 03:10:46.959
funk. Then Cactus climbed up the
railings alongside the monitor and delivered a big

2440
03:10:48.000 --> 03:10:50.120
elbow on me in the dumpster.
It was supposed to be a thrilling,

2441
03:10:50.200 --> 03:10:52.280
dangerous spot when Cactus did his big
dive onto me. The thousands and thousands

2442
03:10:52.280 --> 03:10:56.840
of little styrofoam puffs I remember this
put in there for our protection, poofed

2443
03:10:56.920 --> 03:10:58.360
up into the air. That was
not our idea of hardcore. I guess

2444
03:10:58.360 --> 03:11:01.639
it would have rather had just the
metal floor on the bottom and killed our

2445
03:11:01.680 --> 03:11:05.959
damn selves. Ye Jesus sent that
up. A WrestleMania fourteen, he writes,

2446
03:11:05.000 --> 03:11:07.440
fifteen, the wwf S Bigga show
of the Year against the New Age

2447
03:11:07.440 --> 03:11:09.479
out Laws and a dumpster match.
But the only way to win was to

2448
03:11:09.479 --> 03:11:13.600
put both the opponents into a dumpster
ring. We ended up in WrestleMania two

2449
03:11:13.680 --> 03:11:16.559
thousand, we did a spot during
the match of road Dog power Bomb.

2450
03:11:16.600 --> 03:11:20.399
Me was actually Billy gunn into a
dumpster from the ring. This meant that

2451
03:11:20.440 --> 03:11:22.840
he would pick me up over his
head and fling me forward, send me

2452
03:11:22.920 --> 03:11:24.639
back first over the top rope and
into the dumpster. Below is actually off

2453
03:11:24.680 --> 03:11:28.040
the apron, not over the top
rope. It was a dangerous spot because

2454
03:11:28.079 --> 03:11:31.520
there wasn't much room for error with
metal dumpster, but we thought it was

2455
03:11:31.559 --> 03:11:33.959
worth it because we wanted to do
something memorable for the major event. It

2456
03:11:35.040 --> 03:11:37.719
was especially dangerous because I was flying
blind, so to speak. Since I

2457
03:11:37.760 --> 03:11:39.920
was going backwards. I was pretty
much relying completely on Brian's guidance to make

2458
03:11:39.959 --> 03:11:43.920
sure I laid it inside the thing. Okay, his guidance was perfectly good,

2459
03:11:43.959 --> 03:11:46.159
but what we didn't know was that
there was a big two x twelve

2460
03:11:46.319 --> 03:11:50.879
plank in the dumpster. Of course, he checked the dumpster beforehand. Hell,

2461
03:11:50.920 --> 03:11:52.760
who would think that there would be
a huge plank in the dumpster we

2462
03:11:52.760 --> 03:11:54.920
were going to use for our match. I hit the board right on the

2463
03:11:54.959 --> 03:11:58.479
right cheek of my ass. Immediately
a heemotomas swelled up on me. It

2464
03:11:58.559 --> 03:12:01.479
looked later like I had a blue
watermelon sticking out of my side of my

2465
03:12:01.600 --> 03:12:05.600
ass. I damn sure. I
didn't feel like moving, but I knew

2466
03:12:05.600 --> 03:12:07.399
I had a match to finish,
so I got on and on out of

2467
03:12:07.399 --> 03:12:09.239
there and kept on going. Still. It was awfully painful, but that's

2468
03:12:09.280 --> 03:12:11.879
the kind of thing that happens.
The match ended with us putting them in

2469
03:12:11.920 --> 03:12:16.040
a dumpster backstage to win the match. Immediately after, I wasn't looking to

2470
03:12:16.079 --> 03:12:18.920
celebrate the victory. I went to
the doctor backstage. To this day,

2471
03:12:18.920 --> 03:12:22.520
I have no muscle tone to the
right cheek of my ass. The whole

2472
03:12:22.600 --> 03:12:26.200
cheek just hangs there, drooping.
The funker, oh my God, leaves

2473
03:12:26.200 --> 03:12:31.760
the WWF attitude arrow with a drooping
ass cheek, and let's figure out how

2474
03:12:31.799 --> 03:12:33.479
we got their boss. I turned
your attention please to Disc thirty one,

2475
03:12:35.760 --> 03:12:48.280
Disc thirty one, t D thirty
one. Where did you go? Here

2476
03:12:48.559 --> 03:12:56.479
we go again? What is the
time? Cold forty one thirty six.

2477
03:12:56.760 --> 03:13:03.159
It's time for the debut of Chainsaw
Charlie in the WWF. Now again.

2478
03:13:03.200 --> 03:13:05.280
This is available in our archives.
It's the December twenty ninth, nineteen ninety

2479
03:13:05.280 --> 03:13:09.239
seven edition of Monday Night Raw,
where we get a lot more into the

2480
03:13:09.120 --> 03:13:15.399
logistical complications of Terry Funk coming out
with a sparking chainsaw that he holds over

2481
03:13:15.479 --> 03:13:20.079
his head. Gasoline God pours on
his fucking head another insanity from that night,

2482
03:13:20.319 --> 03:13:22.319
which, of course, it could
have lipped the penny hoose on fire

2483
03:13:22.399 --> 03:13:26.079
easily, and I think actually very
easily did when they parted the curtain after

2484
03:13:26.360 --> 03:13:31.760
the segment. But here we go. This is the ill fated WWF debut

2485
03:13:31.920 --> 03:13:35.239
Chainsaw Charlie December twenty ninth, nineteen
ninety seven. That's at play in three

2486
03:13:35.680 --> 03:13:43.440
two one play, Cactus parked the
curtain for the first time in a while.

2487
03:13:45.000 --> 03:13:46.719
Of course, we're heading into the
ninety eight rumble where the three faces

2488
03:13:46.760 --> 03:13:50.319
of Foley. Well, all,
yes we are. And there was a

2489
03:13:50.319 --> 03:13:54.040
big spot in that match, wasn't
there where Cactus and Terry mix it up.

2490
03:13:54.479 --> 03:13:56.159
Yeah, well, they open it
up. They open the match up.

2491
03:14:01.079 --> 03:14:05.040
The Outlaws in New York Rangers jerseys
and hockey sticks are in the ring.

2492
03:14:05.120 --> 03:14:07.159
It fully hits the ring and Cactus
Jack Garbman a barbar bat. He

2493
03:14:07.280 --> 03:14:13.000
goes right in to the right hands
of road Dog and Billy Gunn, his

2494
03:14:13.200 --> 03:14:18.879
partner. Having it to be revealed, do you remember this raw vaguely.

2495
03:14:22.280 --> 03:14:28.559
Yeah, I back when you could
just bring a sign promoting your business to

2496
03:14:30.120 --> 03:14:35.280
show you those are the good old
days man. Yeah. Just when I

2497
03:14:35.319 --> 03:14:37.959
see this ninety seven rods like,
I still don't feel attitude here. I

2498
03:14:39.040 --> 03:14:43.159
still feel like, like, I
know, WWW still winning and winning so

2499
03:14:43.319 --> 03:14:46.079
hard. Yeah, but like I
see, I can always think back to

2500
03:14:46.200 --> 03:14:52.760
the time when I was like,
when I was like, because the storytelling

2501
03:14:52.879 --> 03:14:58.000
quality was so good, I didn't
really think, yeah that W was still

2502
03:14:58.000 --> 03:15:01.600
winning the war. Yeah, if
you didn't know that's interesting, like if

2503
03:15:01.600 --> 03:15:07.280
you didn't read any websites to know
who actually was winning, no idea changing.

2504
03:15:07.479 --> 03:15:11.040
Yeah, I felt I felt that, like in late ninety six,

2505
03:15:11.799 --> 03:15:16.600
early ninety seven, like that this
was more. This was obviously when like

2506
03:15:16.920 --> 03:15:20.959
W was obviously winning the war.
Boston Dex does it again. Off the

2507
03:15:20.000 --> 03:15:24.200
apron, Cactus drops a big elbow
and road Dog halfway up the aisleway,

2508
03:15:24.440 --> 03:15:31.399
bang banging away. They're making reference
to the fact that Chainsaw Charlie is here

2509
03:15:31.479 --> 03:15:37.520
already, but we had to see
him, so this appears to actually be

2510
03:15:37.520 --> 03:15:41.200
a one on nine match between Cactus
Jack and the road Dog. Road Dog

2511
03:15:41.319 --> 03:15:46.440
with the short hair looking like he's
got that justin Timberlake hair. Yeah he

2512
03:15:46.440 --> 03:15:50.360
does, looking like Michael Rappaport.
Yeah, folly with the classic wording clothes

2513
03:15:50.399 --> 03:15:52.680
line. Both spill over the top
of the floor. Back then the tables

2514
03:15:52.719 --> 03:16:00.479
were so much closer to the ring
they really were. Cactus stalking road Dog.

2515
03:16:00.559 --> 03:16:03.479
Well, Billy Gun sneaks up behind
and picks up a hockey stick baseball

2516
03:16:03.520 --> 03:16:05.440
bat, the barb wire bat,
but he gets cut off before he can

2517
03:16:05.520 --> 03:16:15.360
swing it in while get ready sickening
coming up a road dog absolutely wearing a

2518
03:16:16.799 --> 03:16:24.639
chair over the top of the head. There is no dqu apparently, I

2519
03:16:24.719 --> 03:16:31.120
guess. So those weird tights that
Billy Gun would wear at this time,

2520
03:16:31.200 --> 03:16:35.399
like the rock like as Techi type
things you know back in the ring.

2521
03:16:35.559 --> 03:16:39.520
Fully shot off the ropes, but
catches road Dog with a double arm ddt

2522
03:16:41.000 --> 03:16:48.639
rolls him over cover to no bill
Billy gunn And now now you go,

2523
03:16:48.040 --> 03:16:54.680
Russo has the pencil here. They
spent all this time talking about being no

2524
03:16:54.799 --> 03:17:05.840
DQ right or freeze discretion? Yeah, well no good, save Jr.

2525
03:17:07.120 --> 03:17:09.639
Again. Just closeesline Cactus out of
the ring, and Cactus is walking up

2526
03:17:09.639 --> 03:17:11.280
the aisleway saying, come on,
come after me, bring it because he

2527
03:17:11.399 --> 03:17:16.440
knows he's leading them into the lions
down of the chainsaw man. You see

2528
03:17:16.440 --> 03:17:18.360
that big wooden box off to the
left of the entrance, way up on

2529
03:17:18.479 --> 03:17:22.920
the stage, looking like the leg
lamp from Christmas Story. I know it

2530
03:17:24.079 --> 03:17:30.000
really does. I mean though,
funny enough like anything. Oh that that

2531
03:17:30.120 --> 03:17:31.319
was his cue, right, yeah? I think so. He just smacked

2532
03:17:31.680 --> 03:17:35.239
road dug into it, into the
box and then here comes the chainsaw cutting

2533
03:17:35.319 --> 03:17:41.319
through. You know, funny enough, like what the contents of this wooden

2534
03:17:41.399 --> 03:17:48.040
box or anything? Butt for gla. Yeah, it's listening as Funker opens

2535
03:17:48.120 --> 03:17:56.600
up the box, just like ECW. That's where they got the idea.

2536
03:17:56.639 --> 03:17:58.719
By the way, him comes up
out of the box and give it.

2537
03:18:00.120 --> 03:18:09.040
Sure, he's having a hell of
the time opening it, and he does.

2538
03:18:11.799 --> 03:18:18.680
Looking on it. He looks horrifying. Sparks flying the chainsaw, billy

2539
03:18:18.719 --> 03:18:24.479
gun backening up down the ramp,
his chainsaw Charlie with a long John red

2540
03:18:24.600 --> 03:18:28.399
shirt overalls. Oh my god,
he's swing everywhere. He's totally playing leather

2541
03:18:28.479 --> 03:18:31.559
face here from That's exactly where he
got it from. Yeah, come on,

2542
03:18:31.719 --> 03:18:39.120
folks, but like we're talking a
real chainsaw. Yeah, well it

2543
03:18:39.200 --> 03:18:43.399
was his gimmick. To not turn
but still shoot sparks. But how did

2544
03:18:43.440 --> 03:18:46.639
he cut through too? So we
had a real one to cut the box

2545
03:18:46.719 --> 03:18:52.200
open, and then you'll see him
hand off to a gimmicked one and he

2546
03:18:52.280 --> 03:18:56.520
left the other one on the floor
of the box. I see. Still

2547
03:18:56.559 --> 03:19:00.479
this one's full of gasoline so we
can create the sparks and is holding it

2548
03:19:00.559 --> 03:19:03.399
over his head and spilling gas all
over the place. We're gonna stick with

2549
03:19:03.520 --> 03:19:09.040
it past this segment because now Chainsaw
Charlie is here. It's like Terry Funk

2550
03:19:09.120 --> 03:19:13.680
to me. Yeah, I know, he's throwing such a nut. We're

2551
03:19:13.719 --> 03:19:18.159
just standing there like, what the
fuck is this doing anything? You can't

2552
03:19:18.280 --> 03:19:22.000
entertain? Oh my god. So
now we're going to go over to the

2553
03:19:22.319 --> 03:19:26.120
January twenty sixth, nineteen ninety eight
RAW. That's right about this time of

2554
03:19:26.239 --> 03:19:33.040
year. I think this is the
first Chainsaw Charlie and Cactus Jack first New

2555
03:19:33.079 --> 03:19:37.239
Age Outlaws match. Back then,
of course, the Outlaws were WWF Tag

2556
03:19:37.280 --> 03:19:41.040
Team Champions members of Generation Next,
but not quite yet, yeah, not

2557
03:19:41.159 --> 03:19:46.399
yet member. They would meet members
until after WrestleMania officially, although they would

2558
03:19:46.559 --> 03:19:52.600
team up with uh Triple H and
Wright Savio Vega, but it was supposed

2559
03:19:52.600 --> 03:19:56.360
to be Sean Michaels at No Way
Out the February pay per view, which

2560
03:19:56.760 --> 03:20:01.799
has Terry Funk across the ring from
them teaming with Stone Cold, because right,

2561
03:20:01.879 --> 03:20:05.200
exactly, that's something. When did
Terry Funker a team with Steve Austin

2562
03:20:07.280 --> 03:20:09.559
so road Dog doing his whole promo. They're both wearing Catcher's masks and there's

2563
03:20:09.600 --> 03:20:13.000
a chef from South Park side in
case you forgot what year it is.

2564
03:20:13.440 --> 03:20:20.079
Yeah, right, still the traditional
tag belts that matter. Oh they had

2565
03:20:20.159 --> 03:20:22.799
those for a long time, longer
than the other two, that's for sure.

2566
03:20:28.680 --> 03:20:33.719
Oh you didn't know so fast?
How did how did fucking road Dog's

2567
03:20:33.760 --> 03:20:37.879
hair grow so fast? That's a
great point. It's just a month later

2568
03:20:37.959 --> 03:20:46.879
he's got dreads after the cactus music, here he comes baiting Dan Dan danned

2569
03:20:48.000 --> 03:20:56.200
Dad and he stumbling around. Yeah, like he walks with like the the

2570
03:20:56.360 --> 03:21:01.600
chainsaw is so heavy. The same
we can see is they replay the debut

2571
03:21:01.680 --> 03:21:05.239
of Chainsaw Charlief. You can see
him switch off milling show. They just

2572
03:21:05.399 --> 03:21:07.639
got right to the match, because
of course they get right into it,

2573
03:21:09.920 --> 03:21:13.040
really gun punching cactus up the steel
rampway while Terry Funks in the ring working

2574
03:21:13.120 --> 03:21:18.760
over road Dog. Those fucking grandpa
jeans that he's wearing too, so deranged

2575
03:21:18.799 --> 03:21:26.959
looking locked soup lay Funk with the
jack. His hair is so massive.

2576
03:21:26.120 --> 03:21:33.959
Now from from a month prior,
what is road Dog's hair? It's massive.

2577
03:21:35.360 --> 03:21:37.000
Yeah, that's actually a great call. How he pulled that off.

2578
03:21:37.040 --> 03:21:43.520
Maybe they're extensions. And I remember
that wide ass ramp they used to have.

2579
03:21:43.000 --> 03:21:46.719
Oh yeah, cacked a sup plex
billy gun on the ramp and then

2580
03:21:46.799 --> 03:21:50.639
kicked him down it back in the
ring. The Funker didn't bother mixing up

2581
03:21:50.680 --> 03:21:54.040
his offense try to mask his identity. These are classic Terry Funk moves,

2582
03:21:54.479 --> 03:22:00.799
duding the hangman's noose. Oh look
at this, Harry Funck. He says

2583
03:22:00.840 --> 03:22:03.719
it right there. I see.
I knew they said it pretty early on.

2584
03:22:03.799 --> 03:22:11.799
I remember when they said that a
little bit note in some circles,

2585
03:22:11.840 --> 03:22:15.920
as Terry Funk say it's name to
deal with the fact that people would know

2586
03:22:15.959 --> 03:22:20.079
who he is, and he hasn't
made his bones in the modern WWF.

2587
03:22:22.680 --> 03:22:24.879
And so a low blow attempt by
Cactus, which, for some reason,

2588
03:22:24.920 --> 03:22:26.719
probably because he's wearing a baseball cup, Road Dog was able to blow off

2589
03:22:28.399 --> 03:22:31.840
that Billy Gun hits a cactus in
the head with a tag belt and now

2590
03:22:31.879 --> 03:22:35.760
working over Terry Funk and his chainsaw
Charlie Garb in the middle of the ring.

2591
03:22:37.920 --> 03:22:39.399
That's a testament to Terry Funk that
you bring him in trying to rename

2592
03:22:39.479 --> 03:22:48.040
him something and eventually you got to
change your mind. Held wide open as

2593
03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:52.639
the Funker swinging at nothing and falling
on his ass. Geez, they're on

2594
03:22:52.719 --> 03:22:58.000
Monday Night raw. It's like such
prime conditions for Terry Funk to enter because

2595
03:22:58.000 --> 03:23:03.079
they haven't shown signs of life yet. From a rating standpoint, right,

2596
03:23:03.520 --> 03:23:07.840
just seems like so dour. He's
like Terry like specializes in distressed assets.

2597
03:23:09.040 --> 03:23:11.959
You know, he's like, Yes, he's the guy you bring in right

2598
03:23:13.000 --> 03:23:18.559
before you file for bankruptcy. I
mean, it's probably a wise idea for

2599
03:23:18.639 --> 03:23:22.040
him too, because like you know, they can't. He can't. You

2600
03:23:22.120 --> 03:23:26.200
can't blame a decline on this exactly
because you're already declining. But you know,

2601
03:23:26.360 --> 03:23:31.360
if you do get started getting better, you can always say, hey,

2602
03:23:31.479 --> 03:23:35.799
he helped Bunk. Still fighting like
hell, grabbing Billy Gun by the

2603
03:23:35.840 --> 03:23:41.399
shirt and throwing looping lefts. But
the outlaws are all over the Funker here,

2604
03:23:43.840 --> 03:23:54.079
it's gonna be yep. Oh,
it's a wonderful time in wrestling.

2605
03:23:54.120 --> 03:23:56.959
It really is. It really is
being so cold out when the show happened,

2606
03:23:58.000 --> 03:24:03.879
like yep, and there's just you
know, everything was like unpredictable and

2607
03:24:03.000 --> 03:24:07.159
it was exciting and you feel like
anything was gonna happen at any moment.

2608
03:24:09.639 --> 03:24:11.239
Pump comes back up, swing and
grabs the headlock, shot off by the

2609
03:24:11.319 --> 03:24:18.719
road Dog. Tackle down goes the
e O double G as Funk stumbles around,

2610
03:24:22.360 --> 03:24:24.959
references on commentary to Stone Cold and
Austin having a confrontation that's still to

2611
03:24:26.040 --> 03:24:28.000
come, but he was due to
appear at the Rumble, of course,

2612
03:24:30.120 --> 03:24:35.719
side headlocked by the Funker and road
Dog with a high delayed backsop play rocks

2613
03:24:35.760 --> 03:24:46.719
the Funker. That's right, his
face turned around. Ten Circles finally makes

2614
03:24:46.719 --> 03:24:54.520
a tag to Cactus Jack, who
comes in swinging again, taking bumps,

2615
03:24:54.559 --> 03:25:05.000
befitting the best athlete in the WWE. That's true, chairs he is.

2616
03:25:07.360 --> 03:25:11.760
He is so unpredictable and so dangerous, turning the Outlaws against each other.

2617
03:25:11.840 --> 03:25:16.000
Now Big Double Arm DDT on Billy
Gunn. Meanwhile, Jesse James takes off

2618
03:25:18.959 --> 03:25:22.639
from the middle rope here's Funker throwing
chairs in even did he hit road He

2619
03:25:22.719 --> 03:25:30.079
threw a chair jesus fifteen feet.
Here comes another. Oh my god,

2620
03:25:30.200 --> 03:25:39.639
he's not even like he's just like
tossing ship Jesus, Terry. The other

2621
03:25:39.760 --> 03:25:43.680
chair is Billy gunn backdrop out of
the ring. Road Dog charges with a

2622
03:25:43.799 --> 03:25:48.360
chair, gets a kick back in
his face by cactus. Chair is still

2623
03:25:48.440 --> 03:26:03.079
landing on the prone body of road
Dog. Oh fully pulls the cup out

2624
03:26:03.120 --> 03:26:07.159
and kicks him in the knight.
He took the fucking cup out. I'll

2625
03:26:07.200 --> 03:26:09.600
help us chairs of the head of
the Outlaws, both on the floor and

2626
03:26:09.639 --> 03:26:18.319
in the ring. Cactus crowding road
Dog, Terry hitting Billy gunn ah elbow

2627
03:26:18.319 --> 03:26:22.000
off the apron with a chair.
This is that beautiful time where they had

2628
03:26:22.040 --> 03:26:26.639
the scratch attitude logo in the corner
of the screen. Ye put the yellow

2629
03:26:26.719 --> 03:26:31.760
logo on the tables, yep.
And now the mannible claw from Cactus Jack

2630
03:26:31.840 --> 03:26:35.159
has put on referee Jimmy corderis so
apparently that was a disqualification that Mick jumped

2631
03:26:35.200 --> 03:26:41.399
off the apron. He did it
again, started smacking together in the head

2632
03:26:41.399 --> 03:26:46.680
with weapons. No one said a
word and then just decided arbitrarially that one

2633
03:26:46.719 --> 03:26:50.239
of those attacks was the d H. Well, if they attacked the referee

2634
03:26:50.319 --> 03:26:58.040
or but they dec after who knows
still put in the chair show. Maybe

2635
03:26:58.079 --> 03:27:05.879
he just lost and maybe he'd lost
enough patience in control. So they're wearing

2636
03:27:05.959 --> 03:27:07.639
that road Dog with more chair shots. And now they're covering Oh no,

2637
03:27:09.399 --> 03:27:11.040
when you cover an opponent with chairs, and this is road Dog, this

2638
03:27:11.159 --> 03:27:16.200
is Bob Armstrong's little boy. The
first time Funk Moon salted on a little

2639
03:27:16.200 --> 03:27:20.520
pile of chairs, who was underneath
them? Boss well at bar bombshronk,

2640
03:27:20.040 --> 03:27:24.280
Yeah, we go funks in the
Moon's all un raw noh, he sacrifices

2641
03:27:24.319 --> 03:27:28.799
it all. He just hit it
like he hit Oh my god, they're

2642
03:27:28.879 --> 03:27:37.360
right on his shoulder on the pile
of steel. Bunker came to the WWF

2643
03:27:37.840 --> 03:27:46.440
to sacrifice and to matter. Yep, Jesus bunks up cross legged again.

2644
03:27:48.079 --> 03:27:52.120
We can freaking one more. I
don't know if that's when he's signaling or

2645
03:27:52.159 --> 03:27:54.799
not. We take another look at
the removal of the cup and the kicking

2646
03:27:54.840 --> 03:28:01.639
the nuts by a cactus chare over
the head of road Dog. See right

2647
03:28:01.680 --> 03:28:03.799
there, he lands that, and
then they call for the bell. Ah,

2648
03:28:03.959 --> 03:28:09.000
Funk Jesus moon Salt for the industry, terry moonsalt, because without that,

2649
03:28:09.280 --> 03:28:11.040
we don't care about you. Is
that guy in the front rows like

2650
03:28:11.200 --> 03:28:18.760
screaming, Ah God, to go
back to this air of Raw? That

2651
03:28:18.920 --> 03:28:26.920
was January twenty six, nineteen ninety
eight, And it's important to remember that

2652
03:28:26.079 --> 03:28:31.840
before before they went for the tag
titles together, Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie

2653
03:28:31.840 --> 03:28:37.959
actually had a match against each other
on Monday Night Raw. And that's what's

2654
03:28:37.000 --> 03:28:41.799
up next here from the February two, nineteen ninety eight addition to the programs

2655
03:28:41.920 --> 03:28:48.159
Jesus, Oh my god, here
comes Chainsaw Charlie pushing a complete bin of

2656
03:28:48.200 --> 03:28:54.559
gimmicks, tables, up chairs,
garbage cans in there only an attitude af

2657
03:28:54.600 --> 03:28:58.280
would you beat each other? And
they noticed beat each other senseless at a

2658
03:28:58.319 --> 03:29:01.879
no DQ match before going for the
belts to other. Yeah, what what's

2659
03:29:01.920 --> 03:29:07.959
the fucking America balloons for? What
the what are the America balloons for?

2660
03:29:07.840 --> 03:29:11.159
That? I couldn't tell you.
That must have been some segment earlier with

2661
03:29:13.120 --> 03:29:16.319
it's back when oh my god,
look at him, the addressed from the

2662
03:29:16.399 --> 03:29:28.959
presidential podium that was a ninety seven
yeah right here, Well, oh my

2663
03:29:28.040 --> 03:29:39.079
god, supporter. Okay, Kevin
Kelly, oh boo fuck fuck Moon Salting.

2664
03:29:39.159 --> 03:29:46.840
They keep replaying it. It's because
it's horrifying because I'm not a kid

2665
03:29:46.879 --> 03:29:52.639
anymore. Jim buttressed with what type
of legacy I'm going to leave this sport?

2666
03:29:52.360 --> 03:29:54.520
You don't want to go down to
history as the guy in the toget

2667
03:29:54.559 --> 03:29:58.799
WrestleMania nine? Do you you want
to go down in history as the greatest

2668
03:29:58.799 --> 03:30:01.840
play by play man that's ever announced
a mask? You want to go buy

2669
03:30:01.000 --> 03:30:05.520
the toga guy wrestling at nine Good
Time? Ten years ago, after a

2670
03:30:05.600 --> 03:30:07.879
match in Columbus, Ohio, I'm
just a twenty two year old kid,

2671
03:30:07.959 --> 03:30:13.239
impressionable kid, just overjoyed to not
be sleeping in my car. I came

2672
03:30:13.280 --> 03:30:16.479
back from the match and the world
heavyweight champion at that time was waiting for

2673
03:30:16.719 --> 03:30:22.719
me with anger in his eyes,
and he says, don't you understand nobody

2674
03:30:22.879 --> 03:30:26.440
cares about you, and no one
cares about that high flying stuff. You'll

2675
03:30:26.479 --> 03:30:31.159
be in a wheelchair by the time
you're thirty. He's going to care.

2676
03:30:31.920 --> 03:30:35.559
And I'm sure he doesn't even remember
that moment, but I have not forgotten

2677
03:30:35.559 --> 03:30:41.000
it for a single day. And
I love, dude, love he's a

2678
03:30:41.079 --> 03:30:45.760
hip cat. But when people mention
the name Mick Foley, I want them

2679
03:30:45.799 --> 03:30:48.680
to remember what they're going to see
in that ring tonight. If I I

2680
03:30:48.879 --> 03:30:50.200
was due to be in a wheelchair
by the time I'm thirty, then I

2681
03:30:50.239 --> 03:30:54.079
guess I'm on borrowed time. So
if I've got to go, it's damn

2682
03:30:54.120 --> 03:30:56.840
sure going to be going down swinging
a cactus jack. And who knows,

2683
03:30:56.920 --> 03:31:00.840
maybe he'll be tonight with this man
right here, Terry, what are your

2684
03:31:00.879 --> 03:31:03.520
thoughts? Well, my thoughts are
this, Jim. If there's a lot

2685
03:31:03.639 --> 03:31:05.719
riding on this match tonight, a
whole lot riding on. Oh you know,

2686
03:31:05.920 --> 03:31:09.719
Jim, whoever wins this match is
going to be King of the hard

2687
03:31:09.799 --> 03:31:13.559
cores. And all of my life, I've been a hardcore wrestler and that's

2688
03:31:13.559 --> 03:31:16.840
what I want to go out as. And it's not that long till I

2689
03:31:16.959 --> 03:31:20.200
go out, and I've got the
opportunity to do it tonight. And I

2690
03:31:20.399 --> 03:31:26.000
love you like my own son,
but not tonight, Kac, because when

2691
03:31:26.000 --> 03:31:39.680
we get in that ring, we
may go out together. Pantyse face Now

2692
03:31:41.479 --> 03:31:48.559
he's showing his face in the pre
role. Yeah, yeah, Terry Funks,

2693
03:31:48.559 --> 03:31:50.159
still taking the time to put panny
hose on his head and cover it

2694
03:31:50.399 --> 03:31:58.239
with baby powder to go to the
ring. What's the problem. So yeah,

2695
03:31:58.319 --> 03:32:03.559
an extra extra wide BFI dumpster being
pushed out now by Cactus Jack for

2696
03:32:03.639 --> 03:32:09.879
this hardcore match. Terry Funk wielding
a chair, and there's the all the

2697
03:32:09.959 --> 03:32:16.840
popcorn there, Yeah, the styrofoam
coming out of the dumpster. They meet

2698
03:32:16.879 --> 03:32:20.200
on the ramp and here we go, they go. Why did they fight

2699
03:32:20.760 --> 03:32:24.719
just for the reasons they just outline
in that pre roll because they have to

2700
03:32:24.000 --> 03:32:28.879
just for kicks, pretty much,
because they wanted to prove that hardcore has

2701
03:32:28.920 --> 03:32:33.600
a place or whatever and compete against
each other to see who's going to be

2702
03:32:33.639 --> 03:32:39.360
the king of it. Terry aren't
already down on the still rampway. Cactus

2703
03:32:39.440 --> 03:32:43.920
lands a big chair shot and he's
gonna garbage bag full of god knows what

2704
03:32:45.159 --> 03:32:52.239
trash I guess is there snow,
Look at the look at the Look at

2705
03:32:52.280 --> 03:32:56.200
the floor there. I think that's
just the ash of the burn marks or

2706
03:32:56.200 --> 03:33:01.879
the pyro shooting off underneath it.
Okay, I mean it's weird. Jar,

2707
03:33:01.120 --> 03:33:03.879
Yeah, I know it is weird. It looks like it's been salted

2708
03:33:03.799 --> 03:33:07.239
for the winter. Yeah, it's
it's like a thin layer of snow on

2709
03:33:07.360 --> 03:33:11.799
it. You know, cactus with
the double arm DDT on the steel grating.

2710
03:33:11.000 --> 03:33:15.120
That must not have been fun to
bump that stuff. So this is

2711
03:33:15.159 --> 03:33:20.760
a this is false conny way.
I mean, look, oh maybe okay,

2712
03:33:20.159 --> 03:33:26.959
so I guess that's I don't know, total mess. Near the aisleway

2713
03:33:26.959 --> 03:33:30.319
here is Cactus negotiates up a ladder. It's going to suplex it down on

2714
03:33:30.399 --> 03:33:43.559
a Terry Funk's prone carcass. Jesus, you just had that wonderful you know,

2715
03:33:43.879 --> 03:33:46.719
catch classics with set Heart And now
he's months before this, and now

2716
03:33:46.760 --> 03:33:52.879
he's wearing this outfit and getting a
with JR. Saying they fought in Bingo

2717
03:33:54.000 --> 03:34:00.760
halls and bingo halls. Yep,
we're in Indianapolis for this one. Inside

2718
03:34:00.799 --> 03:34:03.440
Cradle and look at there, gonna
roll down the ramp together in cradles.

2719
03:34:03.719 --> 03:34:07.840
It's gonna work out quite as planned, But it's funny. It's so funny

2720
03:34:07.920 --> 03:34:13.559
yet, spotyhead. Oh, when
I hadn't tried to do a rolling down

2721
03:34:13.680 --> 03:34:18.440
inside cradle, brother, what do
you mean inside cradle? Dude? Solding

2722
03:34:18.559 --> 03:34:26.319
down brother, Big jabs by the
Funker and the left drops Cactus signature punching

2723
03:34:26.520 --> 03:34:30.600
flurry there from Terry Funk because he
loads the ring up trash cans from the

2724
03:34:31.799 --> 03:34:46.879
the rep the receptacle he brought out
here and boom right into a shot to

2725
03:34:46.920 --> 03:34:50.799
the head with the trash can,
goes to Funker. Another one on order

2726
03:34:50.879 --> 03:34:56.719
here Terry's selling his ass off.
Oh boom into the fucking old man dome.

2727
03:34:56.760 --> 03:35:07.639
There he goes. It's dumbles the
ropes. It's kind of wild think

2728
03:35:07.639 --> 03:35:13.200
these two wrestled singles matches against each
other in WWF Yes, really forgot about

2729
03:35:13.200 --> 03:35:16.559
it. Meanwhile, back in the
ring, Funk doing the drunk man stumble

2730
03:35:16.040 --> 03:35:22.680
Cactus with a can high over his
head and oh, Cactus can't do it.

2731
03:35:24.959 --> 03:35:33.280
Her hands, Cactus, he saw
that the garbage can. He's saying,

2732
03:35:33.399 --> 03:35:39.159
do it, damn it, come
on, damn it. Terry hits

2733
03:35:39.159 --> 03:35:56.239
the ropes and he can't do it. Dully hey fully and now he's wearing

2734
03:35:56.280 --> 03:36:05.120
him out with the trash can.
He throws it a his even basically gives

2735
03:36:05.200 --> 03:36:16.000
him a big splash with the trash
can on the canvas. Bringing the pain

2736
03:36:16.120 --> 03:36:26.280
is the Funker on USA Network.
Cactus with a big back elbow puts down

2737
03:36:26.399 --> 03:36:37.000
Terry. Yeah, Jesus trash can
on his head. Now Terry's head didn't

2738
03:36:37.000 --> 03:36:48.280
fully stomping it. What could him
stand with the trash can in the national

2739
03:36:48.360 --> 03:36:54.280
television Such a ship shot of his
fucking mind, always going to pile drive

2740
03:36:54.319 --> 03:36:58.879
him with his head in the can. Oh my gosh, oh fu.

2741
03:37:00.159 --> 03:37:05.799
He was like suspended air. This
fight it's gonna continue. They're gonna last

2742
03:37:05.280 --> 03:37:11.000
find out when we come back.
Cactors go ahead, which oh, now

2743
03:37:11.000 --> 03:37:15.920
they're in the rampway and Funk's gonna
wear the ladder necklace and spin around with

2744
03:37:16.000 --> 03:37:22.440
it. Just keep hitting fucking Foley
Jesus off. These buddies like to fight

2745
03:37:22.479 --> 03:37:26.319
their tip team partners. Anything goes
in this match. This is exactly the

2746
03:37:26.440 --> 03:37:33.360
kind of match that Terry Funk Funk
with plunder galore here, who's the king

2747
03:37:33.440 --> 03:37:37.559
of the hill, who's the man? And these type of matches. Funk

2748
03:37:37.600 --> 03:37:39.479
with a steel chair now up near
the rampway. On the rampway, I

2749
03:37:39.479 --> 03:37:45.360
should say to have this matchup.
They wanted the one on one matchup,

2750
03:37:45.559 --> 03:37:48.920
they wanted no horse parts, and
they're getting it here tonight. They're crazy.

2751
03:37:50.319 --> 03:37:54.719
They brought the party gifts with themselves. Cactus Jack brought that dunster full

2752
03:37:56.239 --> 03:38:00.440
weapons weird. I remember, I
have these really vague memories of seeing this

2753
03:38:01.479 --> 03:38:05.479
when it happened, but I also
feel like I've never seen it. It's

2754
03:38:05.520 --> 03:38:09.040
it's such a strange combination. Yeah, I know what you means. Now,

2755
03:38:09.120 --> 03:38:13.840
there's a table on the ramp.
On the the ramp, Terry's gonna

2756
03:38:13.840 --> 03:38:18.360
pile driving, but he's backdropp from
the table into the dumpster and Mick pushed

2757
03:38:18.399 --> 03:38:33.360
out oversize Jeez look pacts with the
mandible claw, trying to put Terry to

2758
03:38:33.440 --> 03:38:46.840
sleep inside the dumpster. Now,
what's gonna do Jesus, Charlie Parker requested,

2759
03:38:58.319 --> 03:39:01.799
Oh my god, I forgot he
jumped off the trunk. Oh yeah,

2760
03:39:01.959 --> 03:39:05.680
he does jump off the ladder of
the stage. He climbs the actual

2761
03:39:05.879 --> 03:39:13.079
trussing on the perimeter of the tron. It's on a ladder. Jane saw.

2762
03:39:13.200 --> 03:39:16.000
Charlie's inside the dumpster and Cactus is
standing on the truss at the bottom

2763
03:39:16.079 --> 03:39:22.239
of the Titan tron and he takes
off with the elbow and there goes the

2764
03:39:22.319 --> 03:39:28.079
poof. No, No, I
don't think the poof is that bad.

2765
03:39:28.920 --> 03:39:33.360
Does it make it look cartoonish to
you? Uh? No? And now

2766
03:39:35.360 --> 03:39:37.520
this is where those bastards the new
Age laws strike, they creep out.

2767
03:39:37.600 --> 03:39:41.559
They close the dumpster with both men
inside. Takes a hell of a long

2768
03:39:41.600 --> 03:39:50.159
time for them to negotiate it,
seriously, tying the lid shut as best

2769
03:39:50.239 --> 03:39:56.760
they can. What do these men
have in mind? I shudder to think.

2770
03:39:58.280 --> 03:40:07.559
H m hm. Both seem to
be trying to figure out what to

2771
03:40:07.680 --> 03:40:13.600
do. Yep, we look out
over the edge here we get boy,

2772
03:40:20.319 --> 03:40:28.799
they're looking. I think it's signed
for some sacrifice. Oh boy, either

2773
03:40:28.920 --> 03:40:41.680
Jim for the ride, they get
pushed the road. Jesus Christ. There's

2774
03:40:41.799 --> 03:40:56.680
people in there. Thus people in
here too, outlaws looking down like what

2775
03:40:58.000 --> 03:41:03.959
the hell did we just do?
That'd gonna be personality. Got Patterson,

2776
03:41:05.000 --> 03:41:11.159
Brisco officials out here trying to open
this thing frantically. Even Mark Merrow and

2777
03:41:11.200 --> 03:41:13.520
other wrestlers are out here. They
really put this over as a serious angle.

2778
03:41:20.120 --> 03:41:26.920
I remember being a big fucking deal. Yeah, because they have this

2779
03:41:28.000 --> 03:41:31.760
whole element of, like, you
know, people legitimately panicking over it.

2780
03:41:39.399 --> 03:41:43.760
Wrestlers that have nothing to do with
these two are like rushing out here or

2781
03:41:43.799 --> 03:41:56.159
trying to get them out. Yeah. Michael Michael Cole somberly addressing the fall

2782
03:41:56.200 --> 03:42:05.719
there's own heart of all people.
We can hear the s from the crowd.

2783
03:42:11.639 --> 03:42:16.000
When do you want the ambulance?
I think that was Bruce Pitcher who

2784
03:42:16.120 --> 03:42:20.000
said that Sergeant Slaughter, the commissioner
at the time of w w F,

2785
03:42:20.159 --> 03:42:31.479
is out there. Oh yeah,
that's porcherd given stage direction ambulance in three

2786
03:42:31.559 --> 03:42:41.280
minutes, stayed with them. Yeah, somebody do something. We look inside

2787
03:42:41.319 --> 03:42:46.760
the dumpster. They're covered and white
popping. You know, I've never seen

2788
03:42:46.760 --> 03:42:50.200
anything like this. It hacking peanuts. Well, it's a whole hell of

2789
03:42:50.239 --> 03:42:54.200
a lot over the line. We've
gotta We've got to get a lot of

2790
03:42:54.280 --> 03:42:58.159
folks are here. Nick Pauley and
Terry pug both have a great deal of

2791
03:42:58.440 --> 03:43:03.479
respect in this business, and they're
very much respected here in the w w

2792
03:43:03.760 --> 03:43:11.879
F. But no doubt they're professional
professional cactus jacks change Sawky. They wanted

2793
03:43:11.920 --> 03:43:16.520
the match. Who's the king of
the hardcore. We're gonna show you how

2794
03:43:16.559 --> 03:43:20.319
this whole thing kind of got started. There you say, cactus jack up

2795
03:43:20.520 --> 03:43:30.639
play off the tron Jacks standing boom
and there then the opportunistic new age laws

2796
03:43:30.680 --> 03:43:37.920
and this is off the rent I
selling by Mike Jim Corderis there some of

2797
03:43:39.000 --> 03:43:41.920
you they have been fortunate enough to
be in a car accident, and I

2798
03:43:43.000 --> 03:43:46.760
don't want to turn your head.
Here in slow motion, human beings are

2799
03:43:46.799 --> 03:43:52.440
in a dumpster, and I hope
there's not some idiot there saying, well,

2800
03:43:52.479 --> 03:43:56.120
they learned how to fall this is
uh is j R. Deploying Then

2801
03:43:56.479 --> 03:44:01.840
they know how to fall. Line
they put this over, big man,

2802
03:44:01.360 --> 03:44:05.559
Yeah they didn't. I remember this
being one of the kind of the key

2803
03:44:05.680 --> 03:44:11.520
moments of early ninety eight. There's
a lot of a lot of the boys

2804
03:44:11.920 --> 03:44:20.760
Terry stuck, whether over a couple
of commercial breaks, which is a huge

2805
03:44:20.799 --> 03:44:24.840
commitment to the angle, A legend
in this business, to say the least.

2806
03:44:24.920 --> 03:44:33.520
Cactus Jack certainly a one of a
kind human being. I'm just and

2807
03:44:33.680 --> 03:44:37.959
Jerry Lawler looks to be that.
Vince McMahon himself is out there, look

2808
03:44:37.000 --> 03:44:39.040
at that in front of the Outlaws, like, what the hell did you

2809
03:44:39.120 --> 03:44:41.280
do? What does the matter with
you? Guys? There's sons of bitches.

2810
03:44:43.520 --> 03:44:46.959
What do you have to hear?
It's phenomenal, man, it's good

2811
03:44:46.959 --> 03:44:52.559
stuff. Yeah, yeah, I
forgot that Vince himself got involved, yep,

2812
03:44:58.479 --> 03:45:09.360
dressing down on the Outlaws, yep. A quarters, but that obviously

2813
03:45:09.680 --> 03:45:15.000
talking with the new way Jackwais.
You could hear Terry is screaming in there

2814
03:45:15.479 --> 03:45:22.079
and of the dumpster. Hey,
look at Terry's old Puerto Rico chum Savio

2815
03:45:22.200 --> 03:45:28.479
looking down Yep. Television ratings and
competition and all that stuff. Jerry making

2816
03:45:28.559 --> 03:45:37.600
reference to the Wars. Obviously,
these two men packed this Jack and chainsaw,

2817
03:45:37.799 --> 03:45:43.840
Charlie, Jesus, we gotta shout
at Terry's convulsing hand. Look at

2818
03:45:43.879 --> 03:45:50.319
him work. Oh wow Ah.
They zoom in tight on Terry's shaking hand

2819
03:45:50.360 --> 03:45:54.040
as they go to a commercial break, and we're still with it. Jeez.

2820
03:45:56.280 --> 03:45:58.399
Now Terry has been taken out of
the stretcher. He's got a neck

2821
03:45:58.479 --> 03:46:01.799
brace on. He's being loaded on
taking on the dumbstter I should say it's

2822
03:46:01.840 --> 03:46:09.319
been loaded onto a stretcher. Those
men off the edge of the stage say,

2823
03:46:09.440 --> 03:46:13.399
crying going on. Look at look
at Tammy Sitch crying for the wow

2824
03:46:13.319 --> 03:46:16.760
crying. She's crying because she's high. Well there's that too, Yeah,

2825
03:46:18.280 --> 03:46:24.040
she's crying because Terry was her connect
for tonight. Terry Newar We're in town

2826
03:46:24.120 --> 03:46:28.479
to get the drugs. The race, you know, the new the tag

2827
03:46:28.600 --> 03:46:33.040
champions are arametic scrambling the strap,
Terry Downald Gurney, look at Terry.

2828
03:46:33.120 --> 03:46:35.520
Tammy Sitch crying her eyes, holding
Terry's hand, look at this like he's

2829
03:46:35.520 --> 03:46:39.680
out of his tenth bed. It's
wild. Getting over a term that the

2830
03:46:39.879 --> 03:46:45.920
wrestlers use to get over with their
peers and get old get over using choop

2831
03:46:46.000 --> 03:46:56.559
terminology as well. Just uh,
too much cactus being loaded on as well,

2832
03:46:56.559 --> 03:47:01.159
and there's a commotion. Oh if
Flash Funk wants to fight the outlaws

2833
03:47:01.239 --> 03:47:05.920
over this ship and they're holding him
back, Lash Funk would go on a

2834
03:47:05.959 --> 03:47:09.799
team with Terry Funk and wwf that's
so good holding back Funk like he has

2835
03:47:09.840 --> 03:47:11.840
nothing to do with Flash Funk.
He has nothing to do with it,

2836
03:47:11.959 --> 03:47:16.200
you know, with Terry on screen, but he wants to kick his ass.

2837
03:47:16.399 --> 03:47:20.399
It's awesome. And Vince of course
makes it. You know, he's

2838
03:47:22.959 --> 03:47:28.479
he's so money. Yeah, totally. Every officials out here trying to stop

2839
03:47:28.559 --> 03:47:35.440
the whole thing is so mesmerizing with
the You see a tight shot of Cactus

2840
03:47:35.520 --> 03:47:41.399
with the big ass neck breaks on
Terry Funk as well. Oh, now,

2841
03:47:41.479 --> 03:47:45.159
brawl's breaking out there we go.
Looks like the Headbangers and some others

2842
03:47:45.200 --> 03:47:54.079
attack and the Outlaws. Ship's on. Do an angle like this again?

2843
03:47:54.159 --> 03:47:58.440
Man, they never go this hard, just committed over a break. It's

2844
03:47:58.479 --> 03:48:01.719
just not gretty enough. The TV
is too slickly produced. It'll look phony.

2845
03:48:05.000 --> 03:48:09.520
Ken Shermrock out there. Oh e've
ben Kevin, Kelly Pinces in the

2846
03:48:09.600 --> 03:48:31.920
next trying to break up the brawl
or something. Individuals or in very crazy

2847
03:48:33.239 --> 03:48:37.319
Terry can't stop shaking on them.
They're given him oxygen, so money,

2848
03:48:39.840 --> 03:48:46.000
Jesus Christ. They get thrown off
a stage in the dumb store? Did

2849
03:48:46.040 --> 03:48:52.399
they get fucking firebomb with poisonous go? Look at Terry. His old face

2850
03:48:52.520 --> 03:48:58.799
is covered in medical apparatus better than
Paty Hose. I guess you're right,

2851
03:48:58.879 --> 03:49:03.559
actually one, you're on raw tonight
here in Indianapolis, Jactus, Jack and

2852
03:49:05.959 --> 03:49:09.559
Jane saw Charlie let On. In
most circles is Terry Pump great friends one

2853
03:49:09.600 --> 03:49:13.959
on one in a match up.
They wanted a match. They love each

2854
03:49:13.000 --> 03:49:16.559
other. They wanted hardcore. They
got it, traveled together, but they

2855
03:49:16.600 --> 03:49:20.760
wanted to fight who's the king of
the the hardcore matches. They had their

2856
03:49:20.840 --> 03:49:28.159
match and us Terry Funk with the
help of Flash Funk being lifted up the

2857
03:49:31.799 --> 03:49:37.920
Flash Funk, the the third Yeah
or fourth brother of the He's the lands

2858
03:49:37.959 --> 03:49:43.799
Fine Erica, the family favorite ambulance
has been backed right up out of the

2859
03:49:43.879 --> 03:49:48.040
floor here next to the rampway and
with the help of Miguel Perez, Savia,

2860
03:49:48.159 --> 03:49:54.959
Vega, Mash and Flash Funk,
Terry is loaded into an ambulance.

2861
03:49:56.280 --> 03:50:05.079
Not to mention unfortunate situation, Sonning
keeps crying, there's cactus being wheeled off.

2862
03:50:07.239 --> 03:50:13.559
It's a hell of an angle.
That's one thing about being a They

2863
03:50:13.639 --> 03:50:18.200
take a lot of pride and how
hardcore they are. This is what hardcore

2864
03:50:18.280 --> 03:50:24.520
gets you, oh jem with tomoralizing
games, this is what hardcore gets you.

2865
03:50:26.239 --> 03:50:30.840
Absolutely not. And this before Coley
came off the top of the cage,

2866
03:50:30.920 --> 03:50:35.120
so numerous people hadn't seen it all
yet not fathom anything to this degree.

2867
03:50:35.680 --> 03:50:43.639
It has stopped this program in mid
stream again. For those of you

2868
03:50:43.760 --> 03:50:56.280
that may be just joining us,
we'll show you what what happened here here

2869
03:50:56.319 --> 03:51:03.840
again Cactus Jack showing the elbow again
in front Yeah, fearlessly dropping the elbow.

2870
03:51:03.079 --> 03:51:07.680
The hell of a way to build
a dumpster stipulation or dumpster match.

2871
03:51:07.879 --> 03:51:11.440
So then the lid was tied shut
and here's what the New Age out Laws

2872
03:51:11.920 --> 03:51:18.600
did blatantly pushing that dumpster rod off
the stage. Michael Cole mentioned about a

2873
03:51:18.680 --> 03:51:26.079
ten foot drop slow in the h
dumpster going off the edge. They set

2874
03:51:26.120 --> 03:51:30.680
a table up so it landed on
tables, but it did tilt way too

2875
03:51:30.760 --> 03:51:33.239
much over it CD ofver heels.
It didn't fall straight down, so it

2876
03:51:33.280 --> 03:51:37.799
went a little bit tilted a little
bit past the center point yep, which

2877
03:51:37.879 --> 03:51:45.479
must have rattled them pretty good in
there. Tammy such an absolute mess as

2878
03:51:45.520 --> 03:51:50.719
the ambulances take off here. That's
how you do business, I guess.

2879
03:51:50.799 --> 03:52:01.280
So it's a little tough getting it
out of here. And this is probably

2880
03:52:01.280 --> 03:52:05.120
the most hideous shot of all.
Show you this, uh, I understand,

2881
03:52:05.200 --> 03:52:09.440
we have this shot. Look at
the reaction of the new Age total

2882
03:52:09.520 --> 03:52:13.360
heels. Both those men have children. You know how it's going to be.

2883
03:52:13.639 --> 03:52:16.399
Both of those men have children.
I am proud of your daddy,

2884
03:52:16.760 --> 03:52:22.760
have no idea the condition of these
two man. We willemy go all in,

2885
03:52:22.000 --> 03:52:33.399
We'll be right. How far crazy
angle and so of course it's going

2886
03:52:33.479 --> 03:52:37.360
to lead to the dumpster matchet at
WrestleMania. But before we get there,

2887
03:52:37.079 --> 03:52:41.840
here is Terry Funk reflecting on working
with the Outlaws and you know they had

2888
03:52:41.879 --> 03:52:45.920
the Pavlovian promo. Oh you didn't
know. And the crowd shows up in

2889
03:52:46.000 --> 03:52:48.559
this attitude era. What do they
show up to do? Boss? They

2890
03:52:48.600 --> 03:52:52.040
show up to play the hits,
right, they show up to to play

2891
03:52:52.120 --> 03:52:58.600
their part, and you know being
you know, the b side of a

2892
03:52:58.680 --> 03:53:01.399
lot of the stick that doing.
Yep. So here's the Funker on a

2893
03:53:01.840 --> 03:53:07.120
shoot interview commenting on what he started
to be noticing about changes in the business

2894
03:53:07.200 --> 03:53:11.360
when he was working against the Outlaws
in the WWF. They just want the

2895
03:53:11.440 --> 03:53:20.079
simplest of things. They want to
hear the same thing over they want to

2896
03:53:20.200 --> 03:53:22.440
hear. I mean, here's two
guys that are here's Rod Dog, who's

2897
03:53:22.520 --> 03:53:30.440
capable of doing wonderful things on a
microphone. But the people dictate to us,

2898
03:53:30.559 --> 03:53:35.079
the fans dictate, but they just
want the same thing over and over

2899
03:53:35.319 --> 03:53:39.200
and over, and they don't want
anything else. But I mean, here's

2900
03:53:39.280 --> 03:53:41.159
the guy. I mean, that's
what's so absurd about this time and restling,

2901
03:53:41.200 --> 03:53:46.239
because here's a guy with this wonderful
talented can spout out all of this

2902
03:53:46.559 --> 03:53:52.280
craziness and stuff forever. The fans
don't want it. They want to hear

2903
03:53:52.360 --> 03:53:54.799
the same thing so they can do
the same thing right with him and repeat

2904
03:53:54.879 --> 03:54:03.399
the same lines with him. That
to me me, way did he call

2905
03:54:03.520 --> 03:54:07.200
that change in the business or what
Jesus I mean? That would become the

2906
03:54:07.239 --> 03:54:11.600
whole defining characteristic of the attitude era, showing up looking at channelong, looking

2907
03:54:11.639 --> 03:54:15.840
to be a participatory audience. And
of course that got totally out of control

2908
03:54:15.879 --> 03:54:20.040
as the years went to the point
where the what chant overwhelmed years of WWE

2909
03:54:20.120 --> 03:54:26.440
promos without I mean Steve Austin here
in the vicinity, and yeah, he

2910
03:54:26.680 --> 03:54:28.639
still does, still does at times. Yeah, it completely can take.

2911
03:54:28.719 --> 03:54:33.079
It take on a life of its
own to this day. And here's Terry

2912
03:54:33.200 --> 03:54:37.120
saying, you know, this is
different like when I when I showed up

2913
03:54:37.159 --> 03:54:43.399
on a town people didn't expect,
didn't feel dissatisfied if they didn't see me

2914
03:54:43.520 --> 03:54:46.680
do the exact same stick that I
did last time. I had to make

2915
03:54:46.719 --> 03:54:50.280
sure to do a different stick because
if you did the same one every time.

2916
03:54:50.120 --> 03:54:52.559
I guess on the microphone as well
as in the ring, it's phony.

2917
03:54:52.680 --> 03:54:56.440
It's like you know you're what you're
You're here to see the the globetrotters

2918
03:54:58.000 --> 03:55:03.559
or the the circus do their thing
and in a pre prescribed program as opposed

2919
03:55:03.600 --> 03:55:05.000
to just live in the moment and
feel like you're seeing these people reacting in

2920
03:55:05.040 --> 03:55:09.360
a real way. So it's interesting
that if all the opponents Terry Funk worked,

2921
03:55:09.399 --> 03:55:13.680
it was the New Age out Laws
and ninety seven who you know,

2922
03:55:13.000 --> 03:55:16.600
knowing Brian James could cut a hell
of a promo that really laid bare to

2923
03:55:16.680 --> 03:55:20.399
him that you know, you're not
even if you're capable of doing very organic,

2924
03:55:20.520 --> 03:55:22.479
wide ranging interviews, that's simply not
what the business wanted you to do.

2925
03:55:22.600 --> 03:55:26.200
That's not what kept you paid and
kept you over with the fans at

2926
03:55:26.239 --> 03:55:28.479
that point in time. So we're
gonna go to wrestling. Oh, it

2927
03:55:28.559 --> 03:55:31.559
was like it was like show short
term memory stuff, you know, like

2928
03:55:31.639 --> 03:55:33.159
that's basically what it was. It
was the attention span. Yeah, yeah,

2929
03:55:33.159 --> 03:55:37.159
it was. People would watch raw, they'd watch the crowds react and

2930
03:55:37.239 --> 03:55:41.879
have a ton of fun to their
you know, cues, and when you

2931
03:55:41.959 --> 03:55:43.319
went to the show, you felt
like it was your turn. It looked

2932
03:55:43.360 --> 03:55:46.200
like fun to watch other people do
at other crowds, So when they came

2933
03:55:46.280 --> 03:55:48.239
to your town, you showed up
so that you could do it too,

2934
03:55:48.639 --> 03:55:52.079
and it was like a party,
and it was sort of like it,

2935
03:55:52.239 --> 03:55:56.280
just it was less about wins and
losses. It was less about showing up

2936
03:55:56.280 --> 03:56:00.719
to see who left with the belt
that was still there. But the people

2937
03:56:00.719 --> 03:56:03.719
would have been equally satisfied if all
that stuff was ignored and they just got

2938
03:56:03.760 --> 03:56:07.360
to do their chance and they got
to pop in the entrances and the guys

2939
03:56:07.399 --> 03:56:11.399
hit the finishes that they wanted to
see, the big finishers, and that

2940
03:56:11.520 --> 03:56:13.399
was pretty much it. I mean, that's the conditions in which the Rock

2941
03:56:13.479 --> 03:56:18.000
became the Rock, because he took
that to its like logical extreme, where

2942
03:56:18.920 --> 03:56:20.799
every other thing out of his mouth
is like a prompt to the audience.

2943
03:56:22.479 --> 03:56:24.920
And to this day when he comes
out, even when he came out on

2944
03:56:24.000 --> 03:56:26.559
day one on Raw and did the
this side of the building says this,

2945
03:56:26.760 --> 03:56:31.799
This side of the building says this, The people still kind of, you

2946
03:56:31.879 --> 03:56:33.440
know, see him as a monument
to that era in wrestling where it was

2947
03:56:33.559 --> 03:56:37.639
just sing along with the Rock,
you know, play along with the characters,

2948
03:56:39.079 --> 03:56:43.159
yep, play your little role,
and the matches are so deeply secondary

2949
03:56:43.200 --> 03:56:46.840
to that. But this did build
to a match, of course, WrestleMania

2950
03:56:46.840 --> 03:56:50.120
fourteen, Boston, The Night Stone
cold Steve Austin becomes WWF Champion for the

2951
03:56:50.159 --> 03:56:52.959
first time, Shawn Michael's doing the
honors, though not without a pity fit

2952
03:56:54.719 --> 03:56:56.280
or a hissy fit, I should
say, and disappearing for years as far

2953
03:56:56.319 --> 03:57:01.239
as in ring, and it's a
monumental show, and Terry fun found himself

2954
03:57:01.639 --> 03:57:05.399
and a key part of it.
It's Cactus and Chainsaw versus the Outlaws,

2955
03:57:05.600 --> 03:57:09.479
bost in the same file which is
yep, it's thirty one, We're going

2956
03:57:09.559 --> 03:57:15.239
to move to one fifty three forty
seven a sample not only the WrestleMania fourteen

2957
03:57:15.319 --> 03:57:18.799
match, but also the very next
night on Raw and what I consider to

2958
03:57:18.879 --> 03:57:24.040
be the oh yeah, greatest Monday
Night Raw of all time. The concluding

2959
03:57:24.079 --> 03:57:28.639
match, Let's not forget Terry Funk
finds himself in the middle of industry shifting

2960
03:57:28.680 --> 03:57:33.200
angles and moments and matches once again. They take on the Outlaws in a

2961
03:57:33.239 --> 03:57:37.200
rematch in a cage in the main
event, at which point it's revealed that

2962
03:57:37.920 --> 03:57:41.600
XPOC, who had returned to the
WWF earlier in the show, which was

2963
03:57:41.639 --> 03:57:43.959
a huge shot across the bow in
the Monday Night Wars because he was one

2964
03:57:43.959 --> 03:57:48.520
of the first after Jeff Jarrett to
go over there and come back to go

2965
03:57:48.600 --> 03:57:52.600
to WCW, take the payday,
and then come back to WWF. Yep,

2966
03:57:52.639 --> 03:57:56.639
and that was huge. That's sent
a huge signal as far as you

2967
03:57:56.719 --> 03:58:01.399
know what WWF was able to muster
at the time. And then uh,

2968
03:58:01.520 --> 03:58:05.040
and then the Outlaws join the Degeneration
next to very end of that show,

2969
03:58:05.120 --> 03:58:09.120
forming the X table. That would
be so definitive to the Attitude era.

2970
03:58:09.600 --> 03:58:13.120
So for at one fifty three,
forty seven and here we go three two

2971
03:58:13.440 --> 03:58:20.239
one play. We got nineteen thousand
ringside here at the Fleet Center in Boston,

2972
03:58:20.399 --> 03:58:24.440
and our booking is gross one million, twenty nine thousand, two d

2973
03:58:24.440 --> 03:58:30.840
and thirty dollars. It's the highest
grossing event in the history of Boston.

2974
03:58:31.040 --> 03:58:35.760
Man, this is this is the
turning point this show. Sure, it's

2975
03:58:35.799 --> 03:58:39.639
amazing to be there for this.
Well I have I'm a little busy right

2976
03:58:39.719 --> 03:58:41.959
now, if you don't mind.
As they roll the dumpster out to ring

2977
03:58:41.040 --> 03:58:46.719
side, big grossing event in the
history of Boston. I guess he means

2978
03:58:46.760 --> 03:58:54.360
wrestling in Boston, all all events. I assume he means ww F events,

2979
03:58:54.399 --> 03:59:01.760
but here it brings side all events
ever, NBA Finals, NHL Finals,

2980
03:59:03.280 --> 03:59:05.520
and here he comes back on WrestleMania
for the first time since nineteen eighty

2981
03:59:05.600 --> 03:59:09.000
six, where a team with his
brother, and he's not even Chainsaw Charlie

2982
03:59:09.040 --> 03:59:15.959
anymore. There is Terry Funk in
the red bandana that band rather well he

2983
03:59:16.159 --> 03:59:20.000
is, but just not with the
face thing. Yeah. Yeah, he

2984
03:59:20.079 --> 03:59:24.440
still has the chainsaw flanked by cats
and they call him Chainsaw Charlie and they

2985
03:59:26.040 --> 03:59:33.040
you know right see they added the
WW logo to the transition the wipe there.

2986
03:59:37.120 --> 03:59:48.280
Yeah, what's your problem? I
guess you're right. It was always

2987
03:59:48.360 --> 04:00:00.360
there. It's always been w I
just weren't paying close enough attention. Get

2988
04:00:00.399 --> 04:00:05.559
the blurred out T shirts at ringside
so crazy, so fucking ridiculous. There,

2989
04:00:05.639 --> 04:00:11.040
I am up there on the hard
cam where the pinpoint. But I'll

2990
04:00:11.079 --> 04:00:16.399
try. When someone goes to the
top rope on the left, the far

2991
04:00:16.559 --> 04:00:20.040
left corner, you can see me. But on the hardest cam shot it's

2992
04:00:20.440 --> 04:00:26.040
just a little too low. I'm
right above it. There comes the Outlaws

2993
04:00:26.120 --> 04:00:37.959
with that sing song entrance I mentioned. Oh he hadn't he didn't have it

2994
04:00:37.040 --> 04:00:41.120
down yet, No, I didn't. It was still it was still he's

2995
04:00:41.120 --> 04:00:46.920
still putting it together. But he
did have mister ass back when they were

2996
04:00:46.920 --> 04:00:58.079
still doing airbrush T shirts. It
was ten rows behind Jr. Wow,

2997
04:00:58.239 --> 04:01:07.479
where are you now? Yep?
Incredible to think about that. This is

2998
04:01:07.559 --> 04:01:09.840
so wild to me. I mean
I'd never been to a show. I

2999
04:01:09.959 --> 04:01:13.719
never been to a wut BIF show, any show at all. Wow.

3000
04:01:13.879 --> 04:01:18.280
You can see me there, white
T shirt. My brother's to my right,

3001
04:01:18.719 --> 04:01:22.360
to my left, rather right there
with a blue jacket. Left one

3002
04:01:22.360 --> 04:01:26.399
had a black hat on to wear
that hat on fucking day and night.

3003
04:01:26.399 --> 04:01:31.600
Here we go, Here we go, and the matches underway. WrestleMania fourteen.

3004
04:01:31.760 --> 04:01:39.200
Terry Funk is back on the grand
stage here his old pal Foley.

3005
04:01:41.559 --> 04:01:46.319
So this is what we ended up
with instead of the originally proposed exploding barbed

3006
04:01:46.319 --> 04:01:54.440
wire boss, Well, I prefer
that. Hey, yeah, yeah,

3007
04:01:54.440 --> 04:01:58.760
I don't think. I do remember
that, the buzz and the speculation about

3008
04:01:58.760 --> 04:02:00.920
that. I remember hearing that they
were going to a barber and match it

3009
04:02:01.000 --> 04:02:05.360
no way out. I don't know
how I heard that. Running knee from

3010
04:02:05.399 --> 04:02:09.840
cactus smashes a road dog's head against
the dumpster at ringside. Well, Billy

3011
04:02:09.879 --> 04:02:15.639
basically hits a stunner on Terry Funk
across the top rope. Now, why

3012
04:02:15.680 --> 04:02:18.559
is it taking a stone colds heat. It's a great question, especially in

3013
04:02:18.639 --> 04:02:22.239
a show where I love he's going
to use that hold to become champion for

3014
04:02:22.280 --> 04:02:33.879
the first time. For talk of
Mitch Noko versus on this show, it's

3015
04:02:33.920 --> 04:02:39.520
basically a casket match, Yeah,
very much. Do you have to put

3016
04:02:39.559 --> 04:02:41.520
him in the dumpster and roll to
the back? Oh? I don't think

3017
04:02:41.600 --> 04:02:43.760
so. I think dumps are just
there to use. You don't need it

3018
04:02:43.840 --> 04:02:48.920
to win right now. You got
put him in the dumpster and close the

3019
04:02:48.000 --> 04:02:52.639
lids. Oh really, that's the
win when you close Yeah, I'm pretty

3020
04:02:52.680 --> 04:02:54.639
sure. Remember that. I thought
it was like a stretcher Matchere you have

3021
04:02:54.719 --> 04:03:00.440
to hug him a stretcher and then
cross a line. No, I don't

3022
04:03:00.479 --> 04:03:07.040
think so. Comes to make first
big bump of the night. Here we

3023
04:03:07.120 --> 04:03:11.239
go. Oh, front flips throws
himself into the wall of the dumpster.

3024
04:03:11.520 --> 04:03:16.959
So stupid. There's something Billy Gunn
was supposed to do. He was waiting

3025
04:03:16.040 --> 04:03:20.120
on it, Billy to do something. He didn't do it. Well,

3026
04:03:20.520 --> 04:03:24.879
Billy did it. He was Billy
was waiting to do the baseball slide.

3027
04:03:24.920 --> 04:03:28.319
He's the one who you know.
He kicked road Dug out of the way.

3028
04:03:30.159 --> 04:03:31.200
Oh, that's why he did it
to move his partner. I say,

3029
04:03:31.280 --> 04:03:37.239
okay, yeah, funk into the
rail now and funk his backdrop,

3030
04:03:37.680 --> 04:03:48.120
dump back drop. It's half over. Jerry says. It's just not the

3031
04:03:48.200 --> 04:03:54.719
compliment itself. Up the aisleway now, cactus sent into the dumpster side Russian

3032
04:03:54.799 --> 04:03:58.760
legs. Wee bit of the dumpster
by the Jesus Christ. Just do that

3033
04:03:58.799 --> 04:04:16.840
in a railing too, man,
those crazy flowery bird it just throw his

3034
04:04:16.959 --> 04:04:24.799
body at the dumpster, Jesus coctus. Now they're putting their heads there we

3035
04:04:24.840 --> 04:04:28.000
go edge. They're shutting the lid
of the dumpsters on the back of their

3036
04:04:28.040 --> 04:04:39.239
heads. They're draped in position like
guillotine almost remember and blum that's crazy.

3037
04:04:41.680 --> 04:04:46.200
Or someone had a big ass WrestleMania
sign like the the old gold WrestleMania sign

3038
04:04:46.280 --> 04:04:52.319
that just he replaced wrestling with Austin
yeap so good. Billy has a bunch

3039
04:04:52.360 --> 04:04:56.040
of nose somehow, brother rip off
the shirt of the funker and start going

3040
04:04:56.079 --> 04:05:00.920
to town with chops it again,
son of a tell me again, you

3041
04:05:01.079 --> 04:05:05.159
stop ship, come on hit me
again. What do you think this is

3042
04:05:05.639 --> 04:05:09.319
a dance? I love how they're
never peeking into the dumpster with the camera.

3043
04:05:09.719 --> 04:05:13.719
What do you think this is a
sock hop son of a Biteah that

3044
04:05:13.799 --> 04:05:24.200
on your head, didn't you,
Terry? I don't think Cactus emerges from

3045
04:05:24.200 --> 04:05:28.879
the dumpster, blocks the lid shot
and then puts a mandable clow dog for

3046
04:05:30.120 --> 04:05:35.719
twenty see it says in a shirt. Damn right, yep, just too

3047
04:05:35.760 --> 04:05:46.559
cool for us. Oh yes,
where is that idiot chainsaw? There he

3048
04:05:46.719 --> 04:05:50.079
is with a Hey, I found
myself a cookie shit. I'm gonna go

3049
04:05:50.159 --> 04:05:56.600
ahead and hit your in the goddamn
head, Billy, I asked. Terry

3050
04:05:56.639 --> 04:06:01.680
emerges screaming billy ass, screaming fucking
hey, hey, ask gun, I'm

3051
04:06:01.719 --> 04:06:09.360
coming for you, piece of shit. Hey you said wrestle, We need

3052
04:06:09.399 --> 04:06:11.159
to hear then? Yeah, yeah, Jay I recalling the last time he

3053
04:06:11.200 --> 04:06:16.319
was out the Funker on the Grand
Stage. Every would have thought he'd be

3054
04:06:16.440 --> 04:06:24.000
back all these years later, especially
in this incarnation. Oh there's Jared's Muscogee

3055
04:06:24.559 --> 04:06:28.360
Muskogee. There. I ever went
there and got my yellow sign in front

3056
04:06:28.399 --> 04:06:35.920
of me, man said icon,
suck on it Hagman's noose by the funker.

3057
04:06:37.200 --> 04:06:39.280
My sign got taken away from me, did it? Really? Yeah?

3058
04:06:41.159 --> 04:06:50.479
I had? I had uh an
Austin three sixteen sign and no,

3059
04:06:50.600 --> 04:06:54.879
I said it was a Steve Austin
sign. I said, pure unsaturated wood

3060
04:06:54.959 --> 04:07:03.000
mass with two you know, two
hands, given the bird and like a

3061
04:07:03.079 --> 04:07:07.600
beer can of whoop ass, phenomenal
the word unsaturated them there. Well,

3062
04:07:07.680 --> 04:07:13.200
I just very carefully, yeah,
and it uh. They they took it

3063
04:07:13.280 --> 04:07:20.159
away because of the because of the
fingers, which is hilarious because like that's

3064
04:07:20.360 --> 04:07:24.920
all that's Steve Austin's gimmick. But
they were still a nile kind of about

3065
04:07:24.920 --> 04:07:28.239
the direction. They sell the fucking
foam fingers of him, of the of

3066
04:07:28.319 --> 04:07:35.840
the fucking middle finger, but they're
gonna take away my, my fucking sign.

3067
04:07:35.760 --> 04:07:39.120
They were still acting like that wasn't
the direction. That seems like right.

3068
04:07:39.799 --> 04:07:46.479
Terry just got a broom like a
like a dust pan and threw it

3069
04:07:46.600 --> 04:07:48.680
up. You got thrown in the
ring, and you just threw it back

3070
04:07:48.719 --> 04:07:50.920
out of the ring. Now the
ladder's in play. Cactus is climbing the

3071
04:07:50.959 --> 04:07:54.680
ladder. They went through this matchup
where they going, where are they going

3072
04:07:54.719 --> 04:07:58.639
to the question what's this ladder doing? Up here? We go he Kerry

3073
04:07:58.719 --> 04:08:05.520
bump in the head backs into the
ladder and they've destroyed the dumpster. They

3074
04:08:05.559 --> 04:08:09.239
can't use that dumpster anymore. This
is why they go in the back because

3075
04:08:09.239 --> 04:08:15.040
they they ruined the the covers.
Yeah, they had him had damn thing

3076
04:08:15.079 --> 04:08:28.280
clothes and they bumped right through the
roofe what hllacious ride that with very fun

3077
04:08:28.200 --> 04:08:35.399
ahead. This is where Funk takes
the horrendous injury. You see Billy Gun

3078
04:08:35.559 --> 04:08:37.959
loading up the power bomb. I
guess he was kind of right that road.

3079
04:08:37.000 --> 04:08:43.719
Doug was responsible for guiding his body. See. Oh and that's where

3080
04:08:43.760 --> 04:08:48.920
Funk lands on a two by four
in there? Why is there a two

3081
04:08:48.959 --> 04:08:52.079
by four in there? That's his
point, you know, huge power bomb.

3082
04:08:54.040 --> 04:08:56.440
I remember that was like the big
moment in the match to me is

3083
04:08:56.479 --> 04:09:00.280
when he did that. Yeah,
it was. It was a sick match

3084
04:09:00.440 --> 04:09:05.079
six a sick moment, right that
that strange L shaped dial away they had

3085
04:09:05.159 --> 04:09:11.280
that year yep yep, which they
used to do it for Summer Slams and

3086
04:09:11.319 --> 04:09:16.200
stuff, you know, yeah,
true, Remember Summer Slam ninety one had

3087
04:09:16.280 --> 04:09:22.280
that weird I don't know, that's
a good question. Where are where the

3088
04:09:22.360 --> 04:09:31.799
hell are they going? We got
to get a recordable showing the big ladder

3089
04:09:31.840 --> 04:09:41.159
bump again d X rated Remember that
Yep. This was d X rated because

3090
04:09:41.239 --> 04:09:52.120
d X was raiding the WrestleMania.
Of course a Funk there's j R.

3091
04:09:52.920 --> 04:10:01.799
They know how to fall. Yep. Wo oh geez. Dinner was such

3092
04:10:01.959 --> 04:10:09.280
chaos. All the catering there,
the kitchen guys, Come on, folks,

3093
04:10:09.319 --> 04:10:13.559
are they're guys in there? Sweets? Were getting food security guys like

3094
04:10:13.600 --> 04:10:16.840
all right, folks, Hey,
hey, hey, why don't you two

3095
04:10:16.920 --> 04:10:20.479
guys calm down? All right?
You know what is this ship? Billy

3096
04:10:20.559 --> 04:10:26.760
goneag all over there? You have
Billy Gunn and Billy Gonne got it right?

3097
04:10:30.479 --> 04:10:31.840
Yeah, you know you clowns.
You you sitting here. You know

3098
04:10:31.959 --> 04:10:35.440
I thought what you did. I
thought what you guys did was fake,

3099
04:10:35.719 --> 04:10:39.879
like a real chair shot to me. Remember those big ass buckets of powery

3100
04:10:43.760 --> 04:10:46.280
ch and Terry Funk is driving a
fucking fork left, God help us.

3101
04:10:50.200 --> 04:10:52.440
That was guy's name, Chang Saw
Shaali. That's what we used to call

3102
04:10:52.520 --> 04:11:00.200
my brother. Right not in dow
Chester. You know just how I got

3103
04:11:00.239 --> 04:11:03.920
him. He's lifted up on the
forklift at the Funker is driving the Outlaws

3104
04:11:03.959 --> 04:11:11.079
around backstage. It doesn't matter what
as long as it's a dumpster. He's

3105
04:11:11.159 --> 04:11:15.360
trying to control the things. So
they roll off into the dumpter and they

3106
04:11:15.479 --> 04:11:28.440
just do it on their own.
So crazy, well fled shut Terry Funk

3107
04:11:28.959 --> 04:11:33.079
lifting the outlaws on a forklift,
dropping him in a dumpster. He's gonna

3108
04:11:33.520 --> 04:11:39.879
there, he goes, he's gonna
leave it there. And now he's dropping

3109
04:11:39.000 --> 04:11:50.879
the shaking. Yeah, we got
He's punching the dumpter like he's insane.

3110
04:11:50.000 --> 04:12:03.200
He's now he falls, he's back
looking, Oh my god, I remember

3111
04:12:03.200 --> 04:12:05.200
it, kind of being a bum
You can pop for them in the arena.

3112
04:12:07.799 --> 04:12:18.120
Yeah, i'd say, Terry's banging
his head into the dumpster now celebration

3113
04:12:18.239 --> 04:12:22.479
of course. And this would be
Terry Funk's first and only WWF title belt

3114
04:12:22.479 --> 04:12:33.079
too. Yeah, but it's true. It's fucking crazy man, hardcore legends.

3115
04:12:33.120 --> 04:12:37.399
Indeed, this is the highest grossing
event in the history of Boston massass

3116
04:12:37.440 --> 04:12:43.159
See, the highest grossing event ever. So go to the March thirtieth,

3117
04:12:43.239 --> 04:12:48.000
nineteen ninety eight Steel Cage, Blue
Bars. I was so bummed about this.

3118
04:12:52.200 --> 04:12:56.000
What was your hope? I didn't
want I I've never really been a

3119
04:12:56.079 --> 04:13:01.440
fan. Wow, what did you
funk? Having this back the night before

3120
04:13:01.520 --> 04:13:07.479
the day after and you can see
how wide and read that back injury is.

3121
04:13:07.639 --> 04:13:16.000
Oh, it's got big ass fucking
like poison ivy. Then wait,

3122
04:13:16.120 --> 04:13:20.520
where are their belts? Why don't
they have their belts? It's a great

3123
04:13:20.600 --> 04:13:28.120
question. I'm sorry I couldn't hear
you. Why were you bummed? I

3124
04:13:28.360 --> 04:13:33.200
was bummed because I've never been a
big fan. I mean, on certain

3125
04:13:33.239 --> 04:13:39.879
occasions it's okay, but I really
was not a big fan of like twenty

3126
04:13:39.920 --> 04:13:43.959
four hour title reigns. I don't
like that. I don't like them changing

3127
04:13:45.040 --> 04:13:50.680
the title. The only time I've
ever liked it was Brett Hart losing the

3128
04:13:50.799 --> 04:13:54.319
night after Final four because I couldn't
stand Brett Heart and Austin winning back from

3129
04:13:54.559 --> 04:13:58.200
Kine because I was like, Kine
should never be with such a hot show,

3130
04:14:00.120 --> 04:14:03.520
you know, after that only.
But besides that, I've never really

3131
04:14:05.559 --> 04:14:13.920
I don't I don't buy it.
I don't like it. Yeah, yes,

3132
04:14:15.159 --> 04:14:20.239
your ass better call somebody south Park
shirts and this being on Monday nights,

3133
04:14:20.479 --> 04:14:24.239
they saw in one yet in the
ratings, No, not yet,

3134
04:14:26.879 --> 04:14:30.879
still a couple of weeks away.
That'd be April, whenever Vince wrestled Austin

3135
04:14:31.239 --> 04:14:33.319
for the first time. I'm gonna
say it was like three weeks after this

3136
04:14:33.440 --> 04:14:37.840
one sounds about right, yeah,
because Mitt H. Foley has to go

3137
04:14:37.959 --> 04:14:41.159
away as Cactus and come back as
Yeah, this is the end of it.

3138
04:14:41.280 --> 04:14:46.000
This is the end of his run
as Cactus and then yeah, And

3139
04:14:46.159 --> 04:14:48.319
I think they were like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that there were three

3140
04:14:50.479 --> 04:14:54.719
a few weeks of Austin, you
know, the Austin McMahon stuff building up.

3141
04:14:58.920 --> 04:15:01.239
So the Outlaws under the ca Agent
We're underway made event on raw tag

3142
04:15:01.280 --> 04:15:03.840
titles on the line of the cage
just the last time you saw the blue

3143
04:15:03.879 --> 04:15:07.440
Bars too, I think no,
yes, yes, it is blue Bars,

3144
04:15:07.559 --> 04:15:11.200
Yes, yes, because now they
used him on a ninety ninety eight

3145
04:15:11.559 --> 04:15:18.760
Austin the October ninety eighth show.
I think too. Roustin threw Mark Henry

3146
04:15:18.799 --> 04:15:22.760
around on the pre show. I
seem to remember that blue bars or was

3147
04:15:22.799 --> 04:15:28.120
it black bars, because I know
that did change it to black bars maybe

3148
04:15:28.159 --> 04:15:41.920
a onetimes because like the what do
you call it? The same Valentine's Day

3149
04:15:41.959 --> 04:15:48.319
massacre had this kind of cage,
but it was black bars. Oh tree

3150
04:15:48.360 --> 04:15:50.440
of woe for Billy Gun with his
legs over the top of the cage.

3151
04:15:50.479 --> 04:15:56.719
Double suplex by Foley and funk Pot
on the run off the Elbow to the

3152
04:15:56.040 --> 04:16:02.959
upside down Billy gunn Funk gutting it
out getting in the ring in that condition.

3153
04:16:03.079 --> 04:16:07.000
Man, you saw the back.
I always preferred this cage, Oh

3154
04:16:07.159 --> 04:16:11.879
well by a mile to me.
Just felt so violent to me, absolutely

3155
04:16:15.719 --> 04:16:22.680
wow by Billy Gun took a nasty
bump. Remember the first time I saw

3156
04:16:22.840 --> 04:16:29.879
the WCW cage, like you know, that was the chain link cage.

3157
04:16:29.959 --> 04:16:32.840
Was the first time I ever saw
the WW cage or the first time I

3158
04:16:32.840 --> 04:16:36.280
ever saw the chain link cage was
in W CW, and I was like,

3159
04:16:36.399 --> 04:16:42.399
Oh, Terry swinging on anybody who
moves, grunting, mounting Billy Gun

3160
04:16:42.440 --> 04:16:45.639
with punches. Meanwhile, road Dogs
thinks it behind the Funker and starts choking

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with the belt. Terry floiling about, Oh Rocker dropper, the famous sir,

3162
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if you will buy Billy Gun on
cactus. Terry threw the ropes up

3163
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against the cage wall, getting pummeled, abused, his T shirt tattered and

3164
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ripped. This is where they handcuff
him, right yep. Laws working to

3165
04:17:11.079 --> 04:17:26.959
handcuff Terry Funk to the cage wall
is they tied him king to the cage.

3166
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Can't move Funkers flailing one arms free
the other one's locked down. Oh

3167
04:17:30.680 --> 04:17:36.079
it's by his neck. That's right
by his neck while they hot shot Cactus

3168
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throat first across the top rope,
looking at this road dog slapping Terry Funk,

3169
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who can't move an inch because his
neck is to the cage wall.

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Jesus, what are you compelling imagery
there? Double whip Foley stops in a

3171
04:17:52.760 --> 04:17:59.159
dime and DDT's both outlaws. Hey, w he hey, road dog,

3172
04:18:00.639 --> 04:18:03.479
chain me up by my neck?
Same me, shame me, ba hme,

3173
04:18:03.559 --> 04:18:10.280
wrestle me. Let's do some chain
grappling with real chain. He's in

3174
04:18:10.399 --> 04:18:12.799
d a. All of a sudden, All of a sudden, fucking Bryly

3175
04:18:12.959 --> 04:18:18.799
comes down fully catapults Billy Gun into
the wall. He eats the wall and

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stumbles into a right hand, and
Terry Funk still manages to throw despite being

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04:18:23.120 --> 04:18:26.760
chained by his neck. Hey,
why ain't gonna help Terry not die before

3178
04:18:26.799 --> 04:18:30.120
climbing out of the cage. I
know, because then you know you can't

3179
04:18:30.159 --> 04:18:36.319
if you both guys have to leave
the cage. Cactus, it's just he's

3180
04:18:36.360 --> 04:18:47.120
just not thinking out there. Cactus
and Billy Gun battling on the top rope

3181
04:18:47.159 --> 04:18:51.079
and Billy Gun knocked down lands crotch
first on the top and here come wait

3182
04:18:51.120 --> 04:18:55.040
a minute, the Triple H China
X POC. What are they doing out

3183
04:18:55.079 --> 04:19:00.479
here? Oh sean wallman cracking this
several times in the head. He is

3184
04:19:00.559 --> 04:19:03.760
hanging over the top of the wall, trying to make a run for it

3185
04:19:03.159 --> 04:19:07.399
China, distracting referee Tim White.
And they just fed a chair into the

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ring of the Outlaws. There we
go. And how revolutionary is this?

3187
04:19:11.520 --> 04:19:18.000
I mean, think of the stuff
this sets in motion right totally up spike

3188
04:19:18.360 --> 04:19:22.079
pile driver on a steel chair by
the Outlaws to Cactus Jack. Terry Funk

3189
04:19:22.159 --> 04:19:27.639
still strapped to the wall, helplessly
hanging there trying to prevent himself from a

3190
04:19:29.479 --> 04:19:33.200
worm by Billy a road dog under
the cover two three, And just like

3191
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that, the Outlaws are tag champs
again, Triple AH and XPOC entering the

3192
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steel cage. It's amazing that Terry
Funks found himself in the middle of this,

3193
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too happy he did, fucking helping
to get it over big time with

3194
04:19:48.600 --> 04:19:52.120
his body language. And like he's
like the compelling victim there hanging there like

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04:19:52.200 --> 04:20:03.159
that, yep, take it up
now, working to tie his hands down

3196
04:20:03.159 --> 04:20:08.280
as well. Are China and road
Dog channing for Austin. No, it's

3197
04:20:08.280 --> 04:20:17.680
not quite the plan had agreed by
Triple H on Cactus Jack and they're just

3198
04:20:17.760 --> 04:20:25.520
laying waste to the former tag champions. Put the pieces together, and this

3199
04:20:25.760 --> 04:20:30.120
was the night that the d X
that we remember from the Attitude era was

3200
04:20:30.879 --> 04:20:53.920
formed. Some crotch chops for the
Funker Bronco Buster by x poc. Look

3201
04:20:53.959 --> 04:20:56.920
at that. Billy gets up on
the ropes and just starts punching the helpless

3202
04:20:56.959 --> 04:21:14.559
Terry Funk on the head. It's
like Shina taking over the rain Olka Terry.

3203
04:21:15.479 --> 04:21:18.799
Look at him, he's fucking furious, talking shit even though he's hog

3204
04:21:18.879 --> 04:21:26.680
tied. Oh my god. Triple
H completely dense a chair on Cactus's head

3205
04:21:26.040 --> 04:21:30.879
and embraces Billy Gunn once again.
Cactus to thank for the big angle,

3206
04:21:32.719 --> 04:21:36.639
taking the punishment to get it over. Always always he's on to do it

3207
04:21:36.719 --> 04:21:41.200
first to you Austin as well.
In just a couple of weeks, and

3208
04:21:41.319 --> 04:21:44.959
that was a closing image of all
four of them climbing the wall of the

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