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It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with
Jack and carn S e O and JP

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Sorrow. He's a lapsed fan and
all my years and wrestling, I never

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seen anything and it's the laps fan
name by the one in the ring.

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Forget about Slado. He the real
king of swing. When the bell goes

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in and the kick like me throwing
in the corner. But it's lash like

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stick. Even Jerry King can take
off the crowd nodded in his head like

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a Steve low Brown. Would you
get low down? Go even high up?

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Flipp you on your head, but
you know cool driver, you speak

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more and Dragon spits fire, give
you more shock than when he treats higher

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drop a more truth than the con
of sniper unless you with a coconut,

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Roddy Piper, Jack a JP.
He like j Y d drop the cupcakes

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and gold the brain Bob means the
best podcast Frost start the close cloud.

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If you all been as a classic
a pose, It's one of my favorite

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parts of hosting The Lapsed Fan Boss. We're coming off a journey yep of

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blood, sweat and tears. Yes, and you know lots of blood this

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time, lots of blood, lots
of fire, lots of wire. The

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credit belongs to the man in the
arena with dirt on his face and all

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the rest, and we get to
kick back, We get to bask in

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the glow of people, you know, appreciating that what we spent all these

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months doing will the value of it
will only be clear in hindsight all those

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years down the road where people were, who was that Terry Funk? At

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least that's always the way. That's
always the way. Ian, That's the

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same. I mean, look,
I think you know the proof is in

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the pudding because of that particular podcast. Thank you all right? How did

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I fail to make that a bite
for this episode? Can you work on

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that? It's like going, I
can definitely pull it up, But yeah,

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they'll never sleep on that. That, of course a reference if you

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haven't been up on it lately to
Holt mccaleney, who played Fritz von Eric

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in the Iron Cloth film, acknowledging
in an interview with our buddy Josh Nason

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at Wrestling Observer that the lamentable tragedy
of World Class and the TLF Archives was

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basically his entire homework to prepare to
play the role of Fritz which is of

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course only appropriate. And of course
his is the early role in the whole

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film that is universally praised, actually
performance, the performance universally praised. And

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so yeah, that's another example of
how you know, we hear at the

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Lapsed Fan are in the business of
putting things on the shelf for posterity as

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much as tickling the fancy of the
moment. Because the fancy of the moment

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is ephemeral, it changes, it
shifts it. Terry Funk was timeless,

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absolutely, and because we took so
many months addressing his career appropriately, they're

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created obviously a backlog of some wonderful
missives and letters from the Solar System that

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we weren't able to to in a
quarterly mailbag special as we're accustomed to here

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in our calendar. So yes,
here we are post journey, lots of

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great letters and reflections on Terry Funk
and all we learned about his life and

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times and in ring career here on
this episode, and also just some great

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letters that we've come to expect from
the best listenership in all of podcasting.

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They are fucking straight the TLF Solar
System and they're gearing up and the support

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is coming through. The ticket orders
are coming through April seventh, Punchline Philly

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in Philadelphia, high noon. Yes, the co chairs take the stage once

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again, and Boss, I think
it's safe to say there's not a lack

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of things to talk about. Would
I would imagine that there's not I would

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imagine that there's that There are you
know, kind of a few things that

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may be in discussion, you know, maybe pertaining to sexual endeavor, maybe

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pertaining to period endeavor, period maybe
maybe maybe uh you know, changing of

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of of of maybe cards subject to
change, I should say very much.

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So let's just say this. If
you know lapsed Vince, if you know

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this American work coming up April seventh
in Philly, it's not finish the story.

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It's finished the allegory with your fucking
co chairman on the stage, Punchline,

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Philly, no one will soon forget
it. And uh, we've got

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a lot of fun stuff lined up
for you. Oh yes, for our

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Bozo's biceps and bullshit brunch. Okay, if the WW isn't going to do

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it right, that's where we come
in. That's right, and they're not

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going to So no, no bagels, And I don't think anyone wants bagels

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and bacon from the e uh anytime
soon? There's something obnoxious about it all

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of a sudden. No, yes, adotally. It's it's such a it's

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such a fucking you know, I
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I think? Where is it?
Larry? Larry says it's uh, I

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believe. Yeah, you watch wrestling? What is that? Yeah? Exactly

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and right not to mention that where
the fucking just when you think it's safe

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to come out of the closset as
a wrestling fan. And that's why we're

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calling you together, that's why we're
ringing the bell, the liberty bell,

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if you will, on High New
April seventh, the punchline fan, who's

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the big phony baloney? Because there's
no better week than WrestleMania weekend. To

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remind yourself that, no matter how
mature you think the wrestling business has become,

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and no matter how mature you think
you've become as a wrestling fan,

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that the wider world sees you,
as you know, part and parcel in

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a kin to all of its scandals, as partially responsible in terms of voting

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with your wallet for all of the
things that happen that are anti social and

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foolish and duplicitous and carnival like in
the industry, and The Lapsed Fan is

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the only podcast to grapple with that
reality buried deep in the psyche of any

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self respecting, self aware wrestling fan. And when we gather on WrestleMania Weekend

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with some of our favorite people at
Punchline Philly, it will be in the

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spirit of trying to figure out why
we still stand here and why we're running

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on ten years here at The Lapsed
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I mean, what a roster already
we've got in terms of folks that

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are emailing us proof of purchase as
we've requested at the Lapsed Fan at gmail

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dot com. Some real heavy hitters
from the Solar System are getting on planes,

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some from the entire other side of
the world to join us a murderer's

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row at Punchline Philly. Unlike last
time in La, this is not a

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tough hour at a tough night,
Right, isn't traffic? There's part of

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that if you're making plans, And
many of the folks that will join us

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didn't even don't even plan on going
to Lincoln Financial Field and watching WrestleMania for

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sure. But if you're within the
sound of our voice and you plan on

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being in Philly for Wrestling media weekend
as tens of thousands, will you know

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what choice you need to make.
You know what will leave the most resonant

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impression on the weekend, and that
is the co chairs laying down the truth

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of what it means to be a
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worse. Yes, and we're going
to be doing it with many of our

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friends from the stand up comedy world
in concert again, with our buddy Ray

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Goots, who's been working hard to
pull together some fine Philly area stand up

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comics who know the industry, know
the sickness of wrestling fandom. Can't beleave

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boss. I would imagine that the
Philly comics know about the sickness more than

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most. Yeah. Anybody who's ever
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ECW Arena, Yeah, is so
much closer to that beating heart of sickness

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and vice. And Terry Funk introduced
us to that world, did he not.

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Oh? Yes, Indeed, with
flaming branding, iron and barbed wire

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and general insanity, chairs flying the
sky completely unnecessarily being tossed into the ring

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bye bye by people who have no
idea what they're fucking doing. Well,

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he stands there and sells the chairs, dinging them off the head. Why

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don't you go ahead and show that
ship in the ring got the damn thing

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going? And I bring up the
branding iron for one reason. Yes,

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if you have him been following us
on X and if you didn't catch the

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announcement at the tail end of the
final episode of Lapsed Funk last week,

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a very very special prize that we're
pleased to bring with us to Punchline Philly

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on Sunday, April seventh, and
present to the winner of a raffle that

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we're going to be conducting announcing the
winner at the conclusion of the show.

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This is indeed a one Texas genuine
Terry Funk Branding Iron. Boss. Mmmmm.

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We didn't get a lot of time
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we were threading, as you know, threading a story there at the end

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of the Lapsed Funk, But I
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able to secure from the Terry Funk
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I mean the fact that that all
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purchased, was obtained, is really
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and I'm like, holy shit,
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the paper shredder. I want to
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That's what I want to know.
Yeah, why they even bother to throw

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it? I want to know how
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that that fucking thing is shred Oh, I don't think you wanted to.

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We might have to completely redo the
lapsed Funk if we found out. That's

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very true. But the branding iron, I mean that was just I'm I'm

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I'm stunned, I'm appalled, I'm
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someone someone tweeted or were an email. I mean, we should maybe consider

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branding people while we're well, I
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just not necessarily with Terry Funk's branding
iron. But that's a great idea.

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We should Maybe we should make a
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like start sticking it on people's asses. Extremely appropriate and uh, I truly

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claim ownership of people. So the
terms are very clear. We have premium

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seating, which guarantees you front row
seats to the show and of course general

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admission seating as well. Punchline Philly
is not a joke in terms of the

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venue. Just look through some of
the I thought it was a comedy club.

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What's that? I thought it was
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mean. It's not a joke.
It's a place. It's a place.

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It's not a joke that's filled with
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right, yeah, right, but
them all. Just scroll through the

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roster of high level comics that are
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the days and weeks ahead, and
you'll get an idea. We're coming with

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the heavy art killery, and you
know this isn't necessarily going to be something

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where you're going to, you know, have an absolutely wonderful seat if you

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don't pick up some of those preferred
seats. And the key to it is

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that the raffle that we will be
conducting to give away Terry Funk's branding iron

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to a member of the Solar System. You get two tickets out of the

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raffle if you buy the preferred seating, send proof of purchase to the lapsed

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fan at gmail dot com. If
you do not do that, you will

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not be entered into the Raffle.
And if you buy a general admission ticket,

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you will get one entry into the
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So we're excited to be able to
do this. This is just this is

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just lap serendipity. Oh yeah,
excellence, I mean, yes, yep.

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Never could have expected that something like
this would come together. And what's

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such a killer is that the the
branding iron was buried in a lot,

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like you said, of this totally
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including a paper shredder and like lamp
posts, and like it's such a bizarre

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like like I guess, I mean
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in the fact that they're like,
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Like that's you know, like the
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think of the paper shredder and that
box of things I know I'm looking at

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right now, Like what what was
what is that that you get that that

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wooden box, a wooden stationary box, like you'd put pieces of paper in

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it, and what's in there?
There's there's empty empty. Oh you didn't

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get the can of thing in the
black book. Let me pull up what

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you're talking about in the photo.
There's a there's a there's like a black

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can of I don't know something.
And then and then a little black book

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is in there. Maybe it's a
stamp thing. I don't know. Let's

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take a yeah, yeah, it
was a stamp. Okay, it was

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a stamp with just like the address
And then you see that that claw looking

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thing is a head massager. Yep, yes, yes, and you have

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a little uh, it's like an
address book that says PBR, which stands

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for professional bull Riding. That's right
next to the spectacular gas fucking flashlight that

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you could knock somebody out with up
and over the head with it. Yep.

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Yeah, And I was fucking you
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collection of VHSS of wild vs.
I'm so excited about the Terry Funk television

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series, The West Tern Style Show. We're gonna that's gonna have to be

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fuck it, it's gonna have to
be a real We're gonna have to that

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might have to be a little Yeah, we're gonna have to so many journey

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at some point. Yeah, we're
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of under the cinemat to uh yea, to all out. Well, we

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did bay Watch for Rick, we
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mean, I think this is gonna
it's gonna have to happen, and I'm

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very very excited about it. You
don't come into possession of things like this

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from that from Terry Funk's own hands
and not act upon it. I mean

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you, I mean, look at
it. Oh yeah, I mean there's

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so much ship there. His copy
of Roadhouses, copy of Paradise Alleys.

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You get like four copies of road
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and take that off the ev Right
taped off television. You see the you

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know the figured I told I told
y, I understand the I might as

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well buy Roadhouse because then we'll get
a little bit of cut from it.

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I'll get a cut of the damn
thing. We'll get some money back.

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I understand there are a couple of
copies away from reaching a different threshold in

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terms of royalties. That's what I've
been told. You know. You know

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I'm serious about that, Vic,
I'm serious. Look, I mean,

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I really do. I mean that
sincerely. I want to get the damn

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threshold to the next level and we
start getting paychecks. Let's get the threshold

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to the next level. April seventh
in Philly. What do you fucking say,

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boss? I think it's Listen,
it's just the way it's got to

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be, all right, It's not
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know the situation. This is not
something that you want to be at.

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It's not something that you should be
at. It's something that you need to

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be at. It's something that you
must be at because it's the real,

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the real premium live event of WrestleMania
week. I love it so much.

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It's the closest thing to truth that's
going to be happening so week. And

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I can tell you that. And
I can't promise one truth, but I

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can promise, if you're great in
a curve with all the other industry people

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that are going to be on the
ground in the city of Brotherly Love,

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that we will index very high and
were I want to it, and by

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the way too, I will.
I mean, I don't know. I

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think I think there should be some
kind of I should get some kind of

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reward when this happens. I I
when when so so, Jack texted me

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about, oh so, so,
I want to tell you the whole story

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here. So so last Friday I
texted Jack a picture, this fucking idiotic

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picture of the rock from Instagram.
Oh my god, and and and uh

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uh uh you know, and then
I focused in on the fact that he

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did his whole, his whole seven
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goes from seven bucks to this surreal
day, which again with the sun at

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the stock exchange right with him at
the stock exchange, you know, with

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a fucking TKO championship belt next to
him. Such a fucking phony. And

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I said, he can't not say
it. And then Jack wrote back,

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did you see what happened on SmackDown? Didn't know about it? Talk about

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la I had no fucking clue and
so and so he texted me the link

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and and and then I watched the
whole fucking thing and this is what I

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wrote back. I said, I'm
watching the whole segment. I can't wait

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to see Dwayne get gassed five minutes
into the match and tear ten muscles and

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fuck up a dozen moves. Now, I know it won't be necessarily that

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many muscles and that many moves,
But I want some kind of prize when

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most of this fucking happens. Remember
Shane last year? Oh come on,

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yeah, I fucking to punks,
amazing thing, Yes, I want listen,

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he's not gonna be able to withstand
five minutes of wrestling. What is

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he fifties? Fifty? What?
Now? I can't bear to look it

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up, like it's just gonna be
it's gonna be an embarrassment. No matter

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how hard he tries, he just
he's too fucking big. He's just he's

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he's he's not a human being.
You know when he comes to the top

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of the ramp and he stands there
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Yes, he could barely do that. On Friday, I saw,

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I saw, I saw. I
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and I watched this fucking shot of
of of fucking Cody Rhodes, just

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like, I don't want to interrupt
your boss, but what did uh what

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did you fucking say last year?
What did you fucking say last year?

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In La Listen, I'd say said
it. This is the story's never getting

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finished. It's never going to be
finished. That's it's gonna happen. And

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and you know, here's a guy, and I don't care, he's gonna

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at the most, at the most, at the most to get that bullshit

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day to day world fucking big gold
belt rip off. Do you imagine that

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they're trying to like spin a yarn
about how that's actually the Dusty Belt.

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Hey, guys, Dusty wasn't a
workaday champion either. He held that he

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had that belt for like two weeks
at a time. Really in the grand

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scheme he held it three times and
probably didn't get more than six weeks total

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of right of winning the belt,
which also, when you think about it,

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he did. It's like dust you
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story. He did it himself.
He won the title three times. Well,

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that's the irony is the story is
always that Dusty almost won the WWF

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title against Billy Graham and MSG and
they reversed the decision. So it's always

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been about that belt. It's always
been about the New York broat right,

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And now they're pretending that somehow the
belt Seth has is closer to the spirit

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of the American dream, when Dusty
never worked that schedule ever. I mean

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he had that. He had it
in eighty one for like a cup of

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coffee when you know, the transition
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A and Jimmy Barnett was booking the
champ to strengthen territories as opposed to pick

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you know, a real a real
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guy that could handle himself in the
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the world. Really, as we
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era pretty much ended when Funk dropped
the belt up, when Funk dropped the

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belt of Race and then Race dropped
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yeah, yeah, so you know
Dusty had it for like a week

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and a half. I mean not
literally, I mean that's more where the

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Tommy Rich train. But he never
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Like what are you talking right about? Right? He won it from Flair

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Great American Bashiety six and lost it
in record time relatively speaking. He just

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had a couple of flashpoints where he
won the belt. There was a big

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celebration in Champagne popped, but he
was never a workhorse champion. That's ridiculous,

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right, or at least World Champion, you know down Florida hill straps

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that he you know, had for
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it's just it's wonderful to see,
and it's wonderful in terms of like our

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wrestling fans can trick themselves into thinking
that they now have agency. No,

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I mean Lapstvin said this at the
very first star cast in twenty eighteen,

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right after all they said, what's
going to be Aw's undoing is that they're

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going to hand over the reins to
a fan base that thinks they now have

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the right to author everything that happens
in the organization. Yes, yes,

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from how to handle pr crises to
how to book women, how to time

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out the show, to how much
high spots to allow, to who to

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push not push, who's being under
pushed. And this is what you get.

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You get a situation where the fans
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That's right, that's old hat.
Now, with guaranteed TV money,

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the fans do not matter. Didn't
we just go through the pandemic where everyone's

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margins stayed very handsome and they had
empty fucking buildings and nobody lost a television

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deal and nobody really you know,
WW didt those layoffs out of an abundance

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of paranoia. Apparently they didn't even
need to do it. They hired a

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lot of those people back right month, folks a fuck you things. And

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so we're learning the lesson all over
again that if you've been plugged in a

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TLF for the past ten years,
nothing has caught you by surprise. And

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that's in the spirit of Terry Funk
right seeing around the corner. Yep,

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that's right. That's why he proved
me such a kindred spirit over all those

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weeks of broadcasting. So the branding
iron can be yours. It might be

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difficult for folks who plan on going
to the stadium after our show to carry

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a fucking branding iron into the problem. It's not our problem. We'll try

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to accommodate. Maybe we can meet
up on Monday to hand it off if

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you can't take it with you on
Sunday. But don't let that stand in

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the way, please, that's a
poor excuse. We can definitely figure it

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out. And look, that's that's
also what we're there to do. We're

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there to take in WrestleMania to night. Your co chairs will be in attendance.

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At the show. You know,
we watch and process modern WWE,

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so you don't have to in soumlartings. And what a great opportunity Sunday at

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noon to be able to take in
what happened on Night one, to look

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ahead to what happened on Night too. I'm sure people will show up to

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the punchline. Philly Boss eminently satisfied
with the Night one undertaking and very excited

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about Night too. Just absolutely absolutely. By the way, I just want

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to let you know, so Dusty
Rhodes had a total of three official world

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title reigns with the NBA belt.
For if you include his his less than

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one night as the Midnight Rider winning
the belt, that's either way it they

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totaled one hundred and seven days.
So he's a workhorse champion. Yeah,

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of course, i mean, what
what did you bring that up? I'm

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saying, I'm going I'm proving that
you know he is, he is the

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workhorse champion and Seth kenn all the
time walk. By the way, we

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just trended. We decided to pretend
that Seth didn't just tear like two knee

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ligaments a week ago because all of
a sudden, you know, Punk gets

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hurt and they get to shuffle the
deck and then you know, fine with

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it. I'm fine with it.
Listen, listen the rock. Yes,

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now picture it, yes and accept
it. Oh all right, he's fucking

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he's gonna, he's gonna, he's
gonna. He's you know, no matter

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what happens with Roman, I mean, I assume he's gonna lose, although

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you know, then again he is
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Maybe he does put himself over,
you know, maybe we're at that

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lee then well I'll be on the
B O R E D. Yeah,

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exactly, he fucking puts himself over. You know, can you imagine if

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that's what happens Rome. It's like, you know, twenty six minutes in

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Roman goes with the spear rock side
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one B three barely lifts him up. To keep in mind, because again

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he yeahs abductive muscle. At this
point, he's he's ripped, he's ripped

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muscles, he's gassed for twenty one
minutes and he and he barely like lifts

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him up, and like I would
imagine that that one foot of Romans doesn't

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even lift, doesn't even leave the
ground, you know, So it's not

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even like a real rock botto where
he's up in the air. It's like

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one foot he can't even like he's
so scared of his own fucking well being

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because Rock so sloppy at this point. Now he'll he'll come in ready,

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he'll come in spry. I don't
know what your problem is. It's not

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like the Scena matches were a decade
ago. My god, oh my god,

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they weren't. They were more than
a decade ago or eleven. The

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last one was eleven years ago.
Yeah, WrestleMania twenty nine, we were

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there. He ridiculous. Oh my
god, Rock Rock, you're fired up,

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We're fired up. Okay, the
co chairmen are on the ground for

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an even number, well not even
number, but you give it, I

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mean a zero. WrestleMania forty and
uh he's fifty one years old, fifty

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one almost such. You a fucking
picture that I think really really encapsulates what

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we're looking for. I've never seen
his picture before. It's not even hard

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to find. I've never seen it
before. But like zoom in. Look

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at his face. Look at his
face, Okay, look at someone who's

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terrified inside. Look at I mean, look at all the wrinkles, look

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at look at I'm not I'm I'm
stating facts. I mean, this is

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Wikipedia fucking headshot photo. And he
just looks awful. He doesn't he looks

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incredible. Ah, he looks awful
like these people are grinding an under armour

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because of this guy, I mean, sweating like you would punishing themselves for

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being fat. Listen, I listen, I don't, I don't care.

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He looks he's his time is coming
gone, and I feel like we're going

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to have a new head of the
table. People just like filing out.

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He's in the middle rope with a
belt hoisted in the air. Yep,

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yep, can't wait. I mean
we were there last year when so far

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emptied out in a and a fucking
you know, I don't know how to

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even describe it in a huff.
I guess after Cody went down and the

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reality set in. Tremendous stuff,
tremendous stuff. Things only only get more

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interesting, and your co chairman look
forward to seeing you in Philadelphia for all

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of the festivities. So if you're
looking for tickets, please just google Punchline

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Philly and then in their schedule page, just type lapsed and you'll see the

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biceps bosos and bullshit brunch. It's
you know, deeper down the calendar,

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so it's better to just search to
get there right away. And we can't

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wait to see him and this is
this is really coming together beautiful, so

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much fun looking forward to that.
But we're here on business and you know

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one thing we always like to do
is did you hit me something else?

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No? Nope, remind folks,
done just a click. That was just

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a click of my of my mouth. I've remever, I can never trust

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those little noises in the background.
We always need to remind you what's available

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for your Patreon dollars. So many
messages here in this mailbag special that we're

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going to convey came via the one
of a kind community that's coalesced around our

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Patreon posts over the years. Just
some of the coolest motherfuckers talking about wrestling,

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oh yeah, dissecting what it all
means, and of course not just

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wrestling, because our EP and above
tier has access to the one of a

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kind series under the Cinemat where we
dive TLF style into cinema that has something

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to do with wrestling or wrestlers.
Yes, yes, most recently All the

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Marbles, the nineteen in film Mars
with Peter Falk managing a female tag team

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on the on the women's wrestling circuit. Just an incredible time spent there,

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and recently recently talking about some Kevin
Nash movies as well. Boston, what

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I understand we did, you know, we did talk about, well,

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not a Kevin Nash movie per se, but we were we were talking about

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ready to Rumble. We did ready
to about the beginning of the year,

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first movie of of of twenty twenty
four, and I said that I had

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put in a cameo request from Kevin
Nash because he's not in the movie and

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it's like the movie because he's done
the movie and I and it made no

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sense to me why some of the
biggest stars in the company weren't in the

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movie. And so I was like, you know, I want to know

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why he's not in it. And
so I put in a cameo request.

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But it didn't cut. You know, by the time we recorded it,

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it had not been received. But
I did get it. And should I

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should I mention the second question because
I had two questions for him in the

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cameo. Is it I don't think
he's giving anything away by saying, oh

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no, please go ahead let him
know what they're about to hear. When

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I so, I asked him why
he wasn't in the movie because let me

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see I can actually drop you know, I should find up my h the

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actual question that I asked him,
so if he had any more prompting,

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I mean, ready, when we
launched under the Cinemat, the first movie

404
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.480
that comes to mind is Ready to
Rumble. Yes, you know, it's

405
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.960
like this is were squarely in the
Wheelhouse and Under the Cinemata is so wonderful

406
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.400
because it gives us a forum to
address these sort of wrestling adjacent things that

407
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.400
don't quite qualify for a standard TLF
episode. We've done movies in the past

408
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.079
that are a square on the money
of wrestling, Thunder and Paradise, so

409
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.400
they're wrestling, yes, and others, but you know, this is the

410
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.000
wrestler got a second, you know, second thing because I you know,

411
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.880
for the one hundredth episode, because
I was looking in and there was just

412
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.920
so much stuff that didn't apply to
the main show in terms of the actual

413
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:37.319
making of the movie and discovering the
the incredibly dense history of the writer of

414
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.759
the wrestler, yes and stuff,
and finding that he was just this fucking

415
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.920
what was the name again, I
can't remember his fucking name, but he

416
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.599
was Oh my god, but it
was my tone. But he was basically,

417
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.720
he was just a he was a
guy, you know, just he

418
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:55.160
was a wand to entertainer Eugene Gump. Yes, of course, how can

419
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.839
I fucking forget Eugene Gump. But
he wanted to be an entertainer, you

420
00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:00.119
know, he wanted to be in
the busines. And he was just this

421
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:07.119
local you know, this this big
fish in a little pond type character in

422
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.640
in Ohio. Amazing. So here
never know about these movies if not for

423
00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.279
this this series. I I I
get a big kick out of it,

424
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:23.920
and I enjoy it, and I
both dread and love the the the the

425
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.200
rabbit holes that open up. That's
when you know you're all the money,

426
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.880
when you get that combination of dread
and excitement because I'm because you know,

427
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.240
it's like I I want, I
give myself plenty of time to get it

428
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.279
done. And then as I'm kind
of finishing up, something dawns on me

429
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:42.200
and I'm like, maybe I should, Maybe I should fucking overturn this rock.

430
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.920
And then it's like, oh no, look there's a bunch of other

431
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.680
shit in here. Hence, like
just like with a with Mildred uh,

432
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:55.079
Mildred Burke, that was it.
I was I had a whole I had

433
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.240
a whole thing set up for for
Peter Falk, and then all of a

434
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:03.359
sudden, I read this thing about
Mildred Burke just you know, I read

435
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.440
an interview with the women and Mildred
Brooke comes up, and I'm like,

436
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.119
okay, let's just see what her
story. I had no idea. I

437
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:17.039
didn't know her, you know,
from Black Adam, because because Mildred Brook

438
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:22.119
trained the women who are the California
Birds, the California California dolls, California

439
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.240
dolls in the mat in the movie. And yeah, and so it just

440
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:32.559
like and I was like, holy
shit, between her and Billy Wolf and

441
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.839
just it just was an insane insane
I mean, you know, it just

442
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.680
was an insane amount of that could
be a journey of itself. Her her

443
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:45.880
life could be a fucking, you
know, six month journey right there.

444
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.920
It's such a fascinating story. Yeah, there's that wonderful book about her.

445
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.119
And obviously she did a tremendous job, because having watched this film front to

446
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:57.079
back for the first time under the
cinemat, I can tell you it is

447
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.440
the best ring you have ever seen
in a wrestling movie. I agree,

448
00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:07.599
I'm so tight, so so true
to what you know, wrestling actually feels

449
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:09.759
like to watch matches. Yeah,
and these women, these women were in

450
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:14.319
like there were no stunt doubles,
and they worked really hard and they were

451
00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:16.039
into it as much as they could
be. You know, I know that

452
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:21.039
they necessarily weren't necessarily fans, but
like when they're in the ring and they're

453
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.640
doing their matches like they are in
it, and it's a different field than

454
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.039
any any other pro wrestling movie.
We're trying to say, Boss is Mildred

455
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.720
Burke. Mildred Burke, Ladies and
gentlemen, under the fucking cinemat, available

456
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:36.400
for your Patreon dollar. There's absolutely
no argument that it's worth even more than

457
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.200
we charged. So and I would
say definitely better in ring work than Ready

458
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:45.480
to Rumble. And so here's what
I asked, who are my instructions for

459
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:53.440
Kevin nash Y a longtime fanny or
is both in the ring and on film.

460
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.880
Why weren't top WCW stars like you, Hogan, Hall, Brett Hart,

461
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.640
etcetera. In Ready to Run,
I feel the movie would have benefited

462
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:07.279
greatly from your presence. Not a
lie, not a lie, not a

463
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:08.680
lie. But it's it's kind of
fun. And then I said, also,

464
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:16.680
what is your favorite classic film?
Oh? That's just bathing and he

465
00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:27.400
sent a fifteen minute cameo. It
was that second question that really swing the

466
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.880
deal. Yeap, and it is
it is, this is a riot,

467
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:35.440
this is one of the this may
be, I mean it probably is.

468
00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.799
They would do you think the king
of the cameos that we've done, Yes,

469
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.319
so fortunate I speak. Here we
go. Are you damn right?

470
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:45.079
Are you ready? Are you all
ready to hear this? I don't think

471
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:51.799
anyone is, but here we go. Kevin Nash, Hey, JP,

472
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.279
Kevin, Kevin. We're on a
first name basis at this point, by

473
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:04.480
the way, he JP, Kevin, Kevin run. Actually, don't that

474
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.559
was time you did? That?
Turned out that you're gonna fucking tear three

475
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:17.360
quads. H Let is bad.
Lighting's bad a ship let situation, wedding

476
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:22.840
situation. So why don't you change
the lighting set up? Now? Like?

477
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:24.000
Well, no, that's fine.
You know some may say I'm at

478
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:28.320
a wedding. Uh. He said, I'm in a shitty wedding situation.

479
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:36.000
But he alsoid the lighting was bad. He's sitting on his couch, on

480
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:37.880
a couch of sorts, Like,
why don't you fucking change the lighting?

481
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.440
He could have done. He didn't
sound like he's capable of moving right now.

482
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:50.119
It's not. So it's actually a
pretty interesting question because a lot of

483
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:52.960
people have asked it. I don't
think it's if it's an interesting bequse.

484
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.280
Sorry I keep interrupting it, but
I'm as if it's an interesting question.

485
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.400
But a lot of people have asked
it. How well, yeah, it

486
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.039
doesn't mean rare, you know,
it's just something that he has something to

487
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.440
say about. So let's right,
it's ever been addressed. So what happened

488
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:15.000
was when they came to us with
the movie, they offered everybody a favorite

489
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:23.239
Nations, the top guys like Dallas
Goldberg and the guys that ended up being

490
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:29.079
in the film. They offered one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do the

491
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:37.559
film. And at the same time, with that many people being involved in

492
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:45.320
the film, all we were going
to be doing was just the television tapings,

493
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:51.039
there'd be no house shows because they
didn't have the talent able to do

494
00:35:51.119 --> 00:36:00.119
house shows. So it was like
you could either work twice a week and

495
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.280
then five days on the movie set
and get an extra one hundred and fifty

496
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:10.400
grand, or you could just not
be in the movie. And at that

497
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:16.559
point I was making like two million
bucks, and it was like I would

498
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:27.679
rather just you know, do Nitro
and Thunder and not be involved in the

499
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:31.920
movie because it just and I read
the script, I just didn't think it

500
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:38.719
was It just didn't seem like something
that was going to then you gave notes,

501
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.920
yes, I do, yes,
I put it this way. I

502
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:49.880
didn't think that I'd be putting a
TuS on any time for any of the

503
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:59.039
awards ceremonies, so I wasn't really
involved in it. It was one of

504
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:08.039
those things where it's it's like one
of the basics of my career has been

505
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:17.880
I really try to push myself away
from anything film wise that puts me in

506
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:25.199
the light of being a pro wrestler, because you're already pigeonholed so hard into

507
00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:30.519
that situation. The last thing you
want to do is to show a real

508
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:36.920
and you're doing what you've I mean, you know, a person can watch

509
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:42.960
every Monday on Nitro and watch you
do. So there was no there wasn't

510
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:46.840
going to be anything that showed range
wasn't gonna be anything that showed that I

511
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:53.840
could do anything more than what they
had seen on television. And you know,

512
00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:00.719
a movie sets are like, I
mean, twelve hour day. I

513
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:09.000
don't care what anybody says that those
days are long days. And every time

514
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:14.639
I've been on a movie, I've
always felt blessed because you get treated at

515
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:23.360
least like a human. Most wrestling
promotions you don't. It's just it's such

516
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:30.920
a different situation. You just kind
of meet in the wrestling situation where you're

517
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:37.719
treated as an actor. But I
was so afraid because it was so closely

518
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:45.199
tied into what we were doing at
w CW, that it was just going

519
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:52.239
to be basically a seven day And
it was also shot in La. I

520
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:59.079
had a young child. My son
was geez, I don't even think it

521
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.719
was two when we shot that.
So it gave me. It gave me

522
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:06.719
a chance to be home for five
days with my wife and son, which

523
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:10.920
was just at that point monumental.
And that was the whole reason that I

524
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:15.440
left the w w F in the
first place because I wanted to be with

525
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:21.800
my son and my wife, and
I wanted to be their journal's developmental developmental

526
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:31.559
years with my son. And so
that's the reason that though it would have

527
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.880
maybe helped the movie, but the
script, like when I read the script,

528
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:45.719
the script wasn't that good. There
you go, there you go.

529
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:55.119
Yeah, I appreciate that morning kind
of It wasn't like Ironclaw or the Wrestler.

530
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:01.079
It didn't have that grit. It
had more of that campy you know,

531
00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:06.119
bullshit you know, kind of a
feel to it. Yep. And

532
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:09.280
that was just something that just I
just didn't I didn't see it. Uh

533
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:20.159
yeah, I didn't need one hundred
that to basically cough up five days.

534
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:24.880
And that thing shot for a while
too. So say three months you're making

535
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:31.559
one fifty, you're putting in twenty
days a month. Given number, that's

536
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:39.000
given the whole fucking thing, pal
give it. It's like scale. Yeah,

537
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:46.159
So I just uh about to be
home with my wife and my son

538
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:52.119
and I just built this big house
in Phoenixpan. It was just it was

539
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:59.199
absolutely the I mean I never looked
back at that decision and say to myself.

540
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:06.840
Wow, like I missed out on
that unless I wanted to be on

541
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:14.960
maybe Magnum Was it Magnum? Or
was it was Hawaii? I have Hawaifi,

542
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:22.159
I have o Chane with with con
Son. So but that's that favorite

543
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:27.559
classic film grab grab. I don't
know how classic you want to go.

544
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:34.880
You want to go, keV,
I have so many, you know,

545
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:47.480
I love film, I know Platoon, sure, Uh, I mean I

546
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:51.840
think you know, if you want
to talk about classic film, I do.

547
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.360
I think Scarface is a classic,
that's fair. I think Roadhouse some

548
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:05.800
way as a classic. What I
had? Did you go ahead? Calv

549
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:13.880
There's just so many great films a
huge science fiction fans, so two thousand

550
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:22.920
and one, Yeah, there's just
and you have to throw you know what

551
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:32.679
Father one and to of course of
course good Fellows sure yes, Raging Bull

552
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:42.719
yeah, Departed Yeah. And then
the sorcing films from you know, uh

553
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:51.280
in Interstellar not a sorting film to
tenants, not a sorting film to film

554
00:42:51.360 --> 00:43:00.239
separately behalf of them voice because even
with a high I Q, there so

555
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.760
brilliant with Christopher Nolan films, not
story comes into the room and you miss

556
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:13.039
a piece of it. So I
just you know, to me, it's

557
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:17.519
just like the film is just there's
so many classic films. I mean,

558
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:23.039
I was watching the other night.
I have a classic film channel, Yes

559
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:30.079
you do, Queen African Queen.
And you know I've watched Multi's Falcon much

560
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.079
Hall. You know, I'm kind
of a bow Guard fan. And it's

561
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:38.519
one of those things where it's just
like such a different era. Yeah,

562
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:42.599
I'll give you one on top of
that, I go for it. Creature

563
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:47.320
of the Blacklegod Wow, you know, just such a which was shot down

564
00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:53.079
here where I live. Creature Walks
among Us was shot sixty miles north of

565
00:43:53.079 --> 00:44:00.320
me at Marine Land. But and
I love that. I absolutely love the

566
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:09.280
famous monster films, Frankenstein, Dracula, wolf Man. I was never much

567
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:20.320
I never really dug deeply into the
CGI like I loved. I thought Iron

568
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:30.119
Man one was was amazing. They
lost me on Hulk Won. When Hulk

569
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:45.199
changed from you know, being seven
pounds in one scene to being I don't

570
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:52.800
know, one hundred and thirty feet
tall fighting the the dogs. Just he

571
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:58.360
was so so it just I'm an
old school I'm sixty four years old,

572
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:01.920
so I grew up with Herbie and
Lee and you know I grew up in

573
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:10.159
that that Marvel era didn't really read
d C comics, UH, but it

574
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:21.480
was I was a cash occasionally I
would read I would read Batman, UH,

575
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.960
and I was a Batman fan.
But as far as just the graphic

576
00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:30.840
UH comic books with graphic novels,
wherever you want to call him, I

577
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.760
was. I was so and I
always liked the guys that I remember.

578
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.440
One of my favorite, UH I
think was keep in mind, he's gone

579
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:45.000
from classic movies into now he's talking
comic books. You know, it's it's

580
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:49.800
wonderful, it's it's it's no,
it totally is. I'm not I'm not

581
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.000
denying that. It's just we're talking. Like all of a sudden, he

582
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:57.360
has changed, he has changed his
topic completely. Can you imagine me on

583
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.599
the road with these guys, Oh, I mean just like it, just

584
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.599
like everyone talks for two and a
half hours at a time. Yeah,

585
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:08.719
exactly, exactly, and he's still
going. It was two comics. But

586
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:15.440
when Spider Man fought Electro, an
Electro just beat the shit out of in

587
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:20.960
this theater, and like the last
scene before you went into the next month's

588
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:29.280
UH comic was Spider Man in the
Rumbles of this theater with his tattered U

589
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:36.280
costume on. I always liked the
people that had I didn't like the Hulk.

590
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:42.599
I didn't like Samritor. I didn't
like anybody that wasn't vulnerable. That's

591
00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:47.599
why I think Superman was never vulnerable. You don't like anyone who's vulnerable,

592
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:55.159
mister going over everybody. It's not
always a motherfucker's not always about you.

593
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:59.840
That's true. Good point. So
if you if you couldn't be damaged,

594
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.920
you know, I remember when Captain
America died, I remember when Bucky died.

595
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:10.679
I remember those comic books where there
was a well, they felt that

596
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:17.440
you know, like you you,
you felt that there was a mortality that

597
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:25.480
went with those And I think that's
one of the reasons I really resonated to

598
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:37.400
The Crow and his graphic novels went
on like I'd like The Punisher. Anything

599
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:44.960
Frank Miller did, I was.
I was a huge fan of this sin

600
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.920
City was I. I thought that
was a very well done The first one

601
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:55.320
was very well done. UH.
Theatrical release of UH of a comic book,

602
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:07.519
situation, graphic novel situation, Let's
see what else? Trying to give

603
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:15.679
you your money? It's worth damn
right. Yeah, it's just uh,

604
00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:22.199
I just got them watching Bargo.
I've got one more episode left. I

605
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:28.039
think Ham's did a great job and
being the heel not even not even the

606
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:35.039
movies. That's a really good I've
watched all the I've watched all the different

607
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:42.519
series. I love the Coen Brothers
work. Like I said, Sorking is

608
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:47.639
one of those guys the news room
and I like, I like Ship that's

609
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:58.519
smart, like Ship that makes me
think. So Succession was smart. Billiams

610
00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:04.159
was smart, but had a little
once I actually got kind of out of

611
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:09.480
the picture. It got a little
bit too much, but that's usually what

612
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:21.480
happens. After three seasons, I
sat during the pandemic and watched Suits like

613
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.840
it never never saw the show,
and I watched the first episode just to

614
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.679
try something to find and it was
just like fucking eight seasons and each season

615
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.400
had like sixteen episodes. I was
just like, oh my god. I

616
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:40.280
thought I wasn't going to have to
get a sure get to take me to

617
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:45.079
the top of Everest. It was
just like, but man, and it

618
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:53.679
was like a you know, forty
eight minute you know episode, And you

619
00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:59.320
said that at forty eight minutes exactly
of this show. I would grind three

620
00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:01.239
flips about of the day. It
was just like I was going to get

621
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:07.960
through this shit. So I thought
that was kind of brilliant too. And

622
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:15.440
it's funny how Golden Globes kind of
really kind of capsulized. That is something

623
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:22.000
like a lot of people did.
So, so JP, thank you so

624
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.880
much for your question. Thank you
so much for if you're still listening to

625
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:34.480
this rant, maybe you should put
down the ambient because I'm surprised if I

626
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:39.880
kept you awake this long. I
don't think any sleep aid's gonna go to

627
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:49.599
help things out. So I wish
you the best, hope I twenty twenty

628
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:59.599
four is a miraculous year. Politics
aside, oh not. I hope you

629
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:02.480
get what you want. Man,
I think we all will. I don't

630
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:10.960
really think that no matter who's in
charge, I just don't think that it's

631
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:17.960
going to change because we've got a
bunch of really old white people run in

632
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:24.159
this country and and I'm slowly becoming
one of those. I used to be

633
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:32.159
this you know, progressive rebellion,
and it's just like all of a sudden,

634
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:38.840
it's just like, eh, you
know, it is what it is.

635
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.119
I just want to make sure that
I'm not one of them to gets

636
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:52.199
shared for fucking my wolf Pisa.
Thank you so much, my friend or

637
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:54.199
sheep. I just want to make
sure I'm not one that gets shared for

638
00:51:54.320 --> 00:52:00.679
my wool. The Kevin Nash story, that was fucking what a tour of

639
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.719
the man's mind. Oh my god, what a tour of our modern condition

640
00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:13.360
of cinema, of camp cinema.
I can't, I mean, I am

641
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:17.559
that. It was just absolutely amazing, just unfolding, right, it just

642
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:23.400
it was just layer upon layer upon
layer, and it's it's brilliant. So

643
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:27.559
thanks thanks to Big Sexy for that. Indeed, as much as they get

644
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:32.760
would give him a hard time,
I fucking I I his his cameos are

645
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.159
always worth the fucking money. And
that's the virtuous circle, right, I

646
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:39.079
mean, why can we afford to
do that, to take a flyer on

647
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:44.239
that, because the solar system is
so generous in telling us keep doing what

648
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:45.159
you're doing, and here's the money
to prove that. I mean that,

649
00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:49.719
And I'm not just you know,
trying to trying to get some clout.

650
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.880
It's it's it's a phenomenal thing.
I mean, in so many ways,

651
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:57.920
the fact that we can offer Terry
Funk's authentic branding Iron April seventh. God

652
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:00.039
flows downstream from the fact that you
folks your money where your mouth is,

653
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.400
out of course, of course,
and that we've got such a mighty solar

654
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:07.480
system that of you know, if
we podcast for just one hundred people in

655
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:13.840
our Patreon universe, we would probably
still be one of the top earning wrestling

656
00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:19.360
podcasts because we just we bring only
the real ones to the forefront. Yes,

657
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:22.920
you know, I mean only the
real ones can stick it out long

658
00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:25.199
enough to understand. I don't go
don't phonies? All right, I guess

659
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:30.719
they're welcome at the table, but
don't don't be surprised when you don't get

660
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.719
catered to. They're working with the
door at the table. They're walking with

661
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:38.119
the door. When he did the
the Sorkin instead of Christopher Nolan, it

662
00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:42.800
reminded me of when from T n
H when Bishoff was talking about how Doc

663
00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:45.559
Holliday was holding the dead Man's hand
and it wasn't Doc Holiday at all.

664
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:49.079
It was wild Bill Hitcock. Right, But it's like, you know,

665
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:53.719
what do you what are you?
Why on earth? That's another dog holiday

666
00:53:53.800 --> 00:54:00.920
right there, right, That's that's
a holiday and why over your fuck ith?

667
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:04.639
Yeah, that's a attitude era Part
two w CW and the Lapsed Funk

668
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.039
where Kevin Nash on the first night
tro of two thousand picks up a mic

669
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:12.199
and just dresses down Terry Funk like
amazing all and says where you've done Cowboy

670
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:20.920
right where you're wide earth those one
line put downs, you know, uh

671
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:24.960
like he said, you know,
he got to meet Terry Funk during that

672
00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:29.119
run, and all he wanted to
talk to him about was roadhouse the whole

673
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.159
time, right, like your roadhouse, like, let's not talk about what

674
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:37.320
we're here to do and keeping w
CW with shit to the business A fucking

675
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.800
love roadhouse. Roadhouse one of the
classics of the eighties. You know,

676
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:44.519
shit, I mean the match.
You know, we don't need to talk

677
00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:46.599
about the match jack Knife one two
three, it's very studd Well, I

678
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:50.679
want to talk to you about his
roadhouse. What was so talk about?

679
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:52.920
You know, I want to hear
about it. You know, actually,

680
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:58.440
you know I don't even want to
hear about Swayze as much as oh,

681
00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:00.519
I can't think of his name right, Oh fucking hey, I can't think

682
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:06.440
of his name. What the fuck
is his name. Ah, I've ruined

683
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:07.719
it. I've ruined it. You
know, you gotta come correct, man,

684
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:12.639
you gotta be ready before you open
your mouth. I wasn't expecting that

685
00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:17.159
Roadhouse eighty nine cast Roadhouse. Yeah, I want to know about Ben Gazera.

686
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:21.239
You know ship you know, worked
with Cassavettis. Oh, you know,

687
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:22.960
Kevin. Al Jazeera is a wonderful
news outlet. It gets a bad

688
00:55:23.079 --> 00:55:27.880
rap because of its association. No
no, no, I didn't say Al

689
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:32.360
Jazero to no, no, no, al Jazeera, Ben Gazara, I

690
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:35.679
can see it. Get the two
well, you know, you know,

691
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.800
I went I went ahead and talked
to Ben and I we had a couple

692
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:45.119
of nice situations where we sat down, we you know, we had a

693
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.159
couple of meals together, and then
uh, you know, I started singing

694
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:54.599
my song and oh's got a pussy
that I started talking about Lucy's pussy,

695
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:58.519
and you know, he just wasn't
a big fan of that. Thought it

696
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:01.119
was a little crass, right,
And so I went ahead and said,

697
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:07.360
well, fuck you, Ben Gazera, you Al Jazeera. Fuck exactly.

698
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:09.960
I think Al Jazeera is going to
be ripping tickets at Puntline Philly for us,

699
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:15.840
that's yeah, I've heard about Oh, it's it's all there. And

700
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:17.880
so again it's just a beautiful thing. We're so glad to just kick our

701
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:21.760
feet up on these feedback shows and
just have fun, you know, like

702
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:28.280
anything is welcome at the table.
Do that anyway, Smork, there was

703
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:32.800
a reaction when you first opened that. Okay, So I first opened that

704
00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:38.800
fucking thing, and I was like, fifteen minutes What the fuck did he

705
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:44.760
talked fifteen minutes for? And and
because you know, we've sort of gotten

706
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:51.199
some some lengthy ones, but never
double digits, never double digits, and

707
00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:54.719
and so I started listening to it, and then when I realized that six

708
00:56:54.760 --> 00:57:00.440
minutes in he he stopped talking about
the thing. Like when on the second

709
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:04.159
question, I said, I can't
even listen to this whole thing right now,

710
00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:07.840
Like I can't. Like they also, to be completely honest, when

711
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:12.599
I first get cameos, they make
me very uncomfortable. Really, they make

712
00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:19.840
me very uncomfortable, Like having these
people talk to me almost like in private,

713
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.559
I feel I get very self conscious
for some reason. Okay, I

714
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.400
don't know, I don't know why
it is, but like I'm always like,

715
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:28.960
no, it's a pre recorded video. Right, it's all right,

716
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:32.079
it's a pre recorded video, it's
all done in but it's like there's something

717
00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:37.679
very for me. There's something really
intimate about it, and it makes me

718
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:42.239
very un name. Yeah. Right, And they're also like like directly answering

719
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.480
my question. It's not like an
email like they're talking about it and I

720
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:50.639
get it. Takes me the third
time to really like listen to what they're

721
00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:52.039
saying instead of listen to what they're
saying and kind of let it go.

722
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.239
And and usually by the third time
is like us playing it whenever, wherever

723
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:02.159
we're playing it sure, because I
I, yeah, there's it's so weird,

724
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.360
and I really don't know why I
get so self conscious about it,

725
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:12.199
but I get so uncomfortable. And
so I listened to six minutes and then

726
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:14.840
I was like I can't listen anymore. And I sent it to you and

727
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:19.159
I said, fifteen fucking minutes with
this guy and then and then and then

728
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:20.800
you said you got to listen to
the end, and I was like,

729
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:22.559
okay, all right, all right, and I went and I picked it

730
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:24.320
up and I listened to the end. I was like, oh, the

731
00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:30.480
fucking shit, he just the full
fucking Gamut Aaron as he says, politics

732
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:32.079
aside. I was like, oh
my, we can never play this.

733
00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:38.920
But fortunately politics aside, you know, shit, I think everyone's gonna have

734
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:44.199
a miraculous year. No, Kevin
Nash has a miraculous I hope he does

735
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:45.960
listen to that of the guy's been
through. The guy's been through a lot

736
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.599
of ships. You know, this
son and everything, and and and as

737
00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:59.159
much as you know there is a
I I get I he reminds me of

738
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:02.480
so many Like he reminds me of
just that fucking know it all uncle,

739
00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.440
that's right? Who? That's right? Who? Who? Is such a

740
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.920
you know it's great at holidays,
but you know anything else than that,

741
00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:13.559
And it's like, oh, man, come on, like I can't,

742
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.039
I can't deal with this. But
you still love him. That's what That's

743
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:21.639
Kevin Nash. Wonderful stuff. So
that's what happens, folks. That's what

744
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:22.920
happens when we all put our heads
together and say, all right, you

745
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:28.000
know one of the fans want,
what do we want? And we know

746
00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:31.559
they're both pretty consentatives. My mom
wants right Wressell Mamia for the Mote members,

747
00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:35.440
the biggest swinging dicks in the Solar
System can't wait to catch up on

748
00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:37.519
that. We've gotten so many people
since the last time we did a mailbag

749
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:42.199
segment where we shout out people that
have pledged anew at patreon dot com,

750
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:45.360
slash the lapsed fan that have joined
the Mother of All Tears, which isn't

751
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:47.760
for everybody. It's certainly isn't for
the weak stomachs out there or the short

752
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.519
wallets. And we understand the appreciate
that. But let me tell you,

753
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:53.400
if you're going to put down that
premium coin, not only you're going to

754
00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:57.800
get wrestle Mamia sit back in the
living room carpet with the boss Man's mom

755
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:01.679
and watch matches from the past,
but you're also going to get no shortage

756
01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:06.280
of catering too. Maybe we'll get
something together from motors in Philly. Oh

757
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:07.679
for sure. I think that's a
great idea. They'll meet up or something.

758
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:12.280
But they just watched. By the
time this drops, they will have

759
01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:19.639
watched. Listen to me and my
mom watching Hulk Hogan versus Ten ru Yes

760
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:23.199
from WWE SWS Super Wrestle. I
know that's what she's always wanted to see.

761
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:29.679
She's always wanted to see it,
and lapsed funk style, right,

762
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:31.880
there's plenty of that. Yeah,
yep, Oh god, there's stuff coming

763
01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:36.360
up, that's all I'm going to
say. Amazing, there is stuff coming

764
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:42.159
up that is ah, just glorious. It's always we're bursting at the seams.

765
01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:45.119
So there's so much more happening under
the surface and behind the scenes.

766
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:46.360
I'm excited to talk to you about
in the weeks to come as well.

767
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:51.159
It's just it's really a great time
to be a lapsed fan. TLFX is

768
01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:54.320
rocking and rolling like never before.
As you know, you've been hearing weekly

769
01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:59.840
here on the feed members of the
Solar System with their recollections and they're sort

770
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:04.559
of, you know, testimonials about
why being a lapsed fan has been so

771
01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:08.800
additive to their lives and to their
outlooks, into their just general sense.

772
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:12.719
I mean, you know, as
wrestling fans, it's as we've been talking

773
01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:16.079
about already, it's damn near impossible
to really look at yourself in the mirror,

774
01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:20.800
you know, and not see somebody
that gets talked behind his or her

775
01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:23.440
back all the time for liking that
stuff. And it's a mark against you

776
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:27.599
and in polite society to like wrestling. Let's just face facts. I mean,

777
01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:30.599
Larry David spoke to it. You
already heard it. Yep, Larry

778
01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:35.000
David is everybody you know, you
understand me, everybody you know you watch

779
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:37.800
wrestling. What is that exactly?
And so you know, we grow up

780
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:44.840
as fans looking for a community that
was that's almost impossible to find even online,

781
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:47.039
you know, because it's so tribal. Yeah, but the Solar System

782
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:51.760
is it. TLF is what you've
been looking for. As a self respecting

783
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.719
lifelong wrestling fan who's acknowledged that he
can't kick the habit, so he's got

784
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:59.440
to now manage it responsibly and just
take in the doses he can handle.

785
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:02.920
And we're it. We are the
community of fans that you've been looking for

786
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:07.920
your whole life. And I think
that'll be made manifest one more time coming

787
01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:12.119
out of April seventh, and for
wrestling fans have been tricked again. So

788
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:15.880
with TLFX upon us our ten year
celebration here, it's also highly appropriate that

789
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:21.119
we now announce another leg of our
TFX celebration. Stuff happening in all corners

790
01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:25.400
of TLF these days and some enterprising
members of the Solar System. You've heard

791
01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:30.000
so much about the lapsed power planted
our super fans that have got together to

792
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:35.840
try to really generate content resources for
people that might want to become acquainted with

793
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.800
what we've done over ten years and
have sort of a shortcut to understand why

794
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.639
we're still here and why we're so
strong. And the next leg of that

795
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.440
is just something I'm totally thrilled about, something I've always kind of thought somewhere

796
01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:51.119
in the back of my mind should
exist, But as the years have turned,

797
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:57.480
it became an absolute necessity. Sure, presenting Boss the TLF Hall of

798
01:02:57.480 --> 01:03:06.559
Fame, Oh fucking bang Pang saying
tangkank Kan cancin can can Cain Franken Caine,

799
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:15.800
can can King frankn Caine, Krank
came on, get into it,

800
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:27.199
Londan Kangnapang can can came Hall of
Fame, can can tank Kang canknk can

801
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:46.440
kanker Youang ball in un rong Pang
speaking in tongues. It can become spiritual

802
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:53.480
at a certain point, does it
not? Is it not? I can't

803
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.039
wait. Oh, by the way, I haven't told you this yet,

804
01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:00.760
but I think among the things we're
bringing to Philly is the lap to jukebox

805
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:06.800
okay, because I know from having
known you all these years and having watched

806
01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:12.440
you in person with my own two
eyes. Uh you know conduct score Yes,

807
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:15.119
of course, to go into absolute
hysterics physically so that you can not

808
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.800
only sing the music, but be
the music, feel the music, be

809
01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:21.639
the music. We're not the only
podcast and proud of it. But what

810
01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:26.039
that has meant is that over the
years, when Possman breaks out in a

811
01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:29.239
song like that, particularly when he's
doing I don't know, Stephen Reetle studies

812
01:04:29.679 --> 01:05:00.079
thing um bum boom boom, say
what now line Philly seven bu bring it

813
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:27.280
home? Bum bum b up wrong
bum What I want you to know.

814
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:33.079
I want you to know. I
want you to know that we just ended

815
01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:42.039
up in a place with that any
forewarning. No boss Man was reduced to

816
01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:56.440
doing this into the microphone on a
podcast. Oh ship, so oh god.

817
01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.880
I figured, you know, if
folks are going to invest the time

818
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.159
and energy to be with us in
Philly, they might get what I've always

819
01:06:02.199 --> 01:06:04.599
seen and what I always see in
my mind's eye when you break out in

820
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:10.800
a song and the lapse jukebox.
I think you can have. I think

821
01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.639
you were to be taking some requests. I'm sure I'm fine with that.

822
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:17.559
We'll put a fucking We'll put a
jar out there and I'll be like fucking

823
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:25.199
Billy Joel and the piano man,
just fucking h oh shit, man.

824
01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:29.119
You know we're talking about Philly is
as a fine rapper from Philly once said

825
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:33.440
ens had to get aggressive because being
humble wasn't working, And uh, that's

826
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:36.119
what we're at ten years on.
But the Hall of Fame is a great

827
01:06:36.119 --> 01:06:40.679
example of this, and I want
to pass along, uh, just some

828
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:43.440
notes about what the Hall of Fame
is, what the TLF Hall of Fame

829
01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:45.159
is, what it's going to be, and what you can look forward to.

830
01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:49.480
Over the last ten years, the
Lapsed Fan is gifted thousands of hours

831
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.920
of joy to a solar system of
grateful listeners. This college level podcast has

832
01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:59.719
brought tears to its listener's eyes through
both humor and pain, improving all of

833
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.440
their lives in the process. While
there are literally too many great moments to

834
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:05.400
count across the history of TLF,
it's only right to the co chairs be

835
01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:10.920
given a gift and equal response to
the gifts they constantly bestow upon their listeners.

836
01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:15.239
A branded auditory entertainment vehicle as successful
as TLF deserves to be celebrated and

837
01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:20.880
for its content to be properly honored. TLF has provided moments so funny that

838
01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:26.639
listeners had to pause the show due
to laughter, moments that caused meaningful introspection,

839
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.159
moments that caused legitimate sadness in despair, moments that provided insight into how

840
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:34.519
society operates, moments that flat out
left the audience speechless. And yes,

841
01:07:34.639 --> 01:07:40.079
moments that remind us it is really
all about food. Yes. To properly

842
01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:44.320
pay tribute to an occasion as momentous
as TLFX, a group of especially avid

843
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:48.480
listeners have banded together to create a
list of one hundred of these moments which

844
01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:53.800
are cultural, historic, and esthetic
importance to the history of the rest fan.

845
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:57.559
I agree. While this list can
be conceptualized as a top one hundred

846
01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:00.360
or is the TLF greatest hits,
it should really be thought of as the

847
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:05.000
first class among future entries into the
Lapsed Fan Hall of Fame. Content across

848
01:08:05.079 --> 01:08:10.079
all ten years from all of tlf's
brands under the Cinemat Live Calls, etc.

849
01:08:10.360 --> 01:08:14.440
Included were eligible for selection. The
inaugural class of the TLF Hall of

850
01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:17.159
Fame should be the standard bearer for
future classes, which will ideally be selected

851
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:25.359
by the broader Solar system. So
this is going to be a panel of

852
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:31.079
especially tenured and exceptionally well attuned listeners
who have proven over the years that they

853
01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:36.680
they understand and know our catalog more
deeply than we ever could. And we

854
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:42.000
fucking made the show. Yes,
they think about it in sort of like

855
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:46.239
a like almost a literary criticism kind
of perspective for sure. Yep. And

856
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:49.560
the Hall of Fame panel has been
assembled. The Hall of Fame Panel is

857
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:54.319
voted and coming to the main feed
over the course of twenty twenty four as

858
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:59.520
part of our TLFX celebrations. We're
proud to resurface and officially enshrine the one

859
01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:04.079
hundred initial entrance from our history of
podcasts into the Lapse Hall of Fame.

860
01:09:04.199 --> 01:09:08.760
So there will be no excuses by
the end of twenty twenty four in terms

861
01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:12.039
of where to point folks to acclimate
them to what tlf is all about as

862
01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:15.279
we borrow ten more years. I
can't wait to resurface some of these things

863
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:21.039
because it's just amazing the things that
we that don't even know. When you

864
01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:24.039
make the show, you've talked about
this, when you make the show.

865
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:28.000
You can't afford Terry Funk style to
sit there and look in the rear view

866
01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.560
mirror all the time. You just
can't. It's impossible because if you don't

867
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:35.600
keep the hamster wheel turning, eventually
it'll come to an end. And it's

868
01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:39.239
always such a joy to see the
solar system take the time that we'll never

869
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:44.319
have to really go through the fine
tooth comb to really have the wherewithal and

870
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:46.640
to really have the understanding of what
the catalog contains, to be able to

871
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:51.439
narrow down what truly is quintessential TLF
and can't wait to resurface and share those

872
01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:57.680
moments. With a new coat of
paint. You'll have Hall of Fame Boss.

873
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:01.800
I'm excited. I'm very very excited. It's a beautiful Yeah, this

874
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:08.640
thing comes about so uh that and
so much more happening this year for us.

875
01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:14.199
We need to thank all of our
supporters as mentioned on Patreon, and

876
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:16.199
we also need to point folks,
particularly with April seventh coming up to our

877
01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:20.520
store in Pro Wrestling Teas dot Com. Recently, we've added two new shirts

878
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:29.159
that are perfect to bring with you
to Philly. I've ordered Maes the Boss

879
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:32.520
designed t L f X commemorative shirt. That's right. And we also have

880
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:38.239
the Lapsed Fan Phillies collection. Pretty
yes, that's exactly what the p in

881
01:10:38.479 --> 01:10:44.720
lapsed is in the uh the logo
of the of the of the Phillies.

882
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:47.920
So yes, get get that ship
on your body. Yes, it'll be

883
01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:53.439
highly appropriate gear to be rocking on
the way. And of course stuff inspired

884
01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:56.399
by the Lapsed Funk, stuff inspired
by all our journeys and our whole catalog.

885
01:10:56.840 --> 01:11:00.199
Just Pro Wrestling Teas dot Com slash
lapsed Fan is also as the l

886
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:02.199
FX as it gets. Yes,
you're damn right, so damn right.

887
01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:06.600
Lots of good stuff up there,
and I think some some very uh uh

888
01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:12.840
uh. I plan on getting a
Rustle Pania shirt for sure, uh for

889
01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:15.640
WrestleMania. So it isn't going to
be on my bodys in there. The

890
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:19.520
main's in there. So lots of
good stuff, lots of good stuff.

891
01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:24.840
Swag on the ground, baby,
I might have to get a brother shirt.

892
01:11:25.359 --> 01:11:30.039
Oh that's a great one. Get
yourself a you a fan call out

893
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.439
on the ground in Philly. There's
no better feeling. Take it from that

894
01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:38.560
is the best. And I want
to see a Sergeant Adam funct shirt out

895
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:41.199
there. Yeah, I know some
have bought it, but I don't think

896
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:45.159
many have the nuts. We'll see, maybe maybe I should buy and wear

897
01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:49.039
it. Remember our oh my god
last year, Oh my god, what

898
01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:55.960
a riot. So we're going we're
going into the stadium with our pal,

899
01:11:56.079 --> 01:12:00.960
you remember who hooked us up with
the tickets, and he's wearing the aret

900
01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:03.560
to get excited when it's all fake
show. Oh yes, Oh my god,

901
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:06.560
I'm like, how do you wear
that to wrestle Mania? Ah?

902
01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:15.079
I was just so impressed that he
had the nuts to wear that. I

903
01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:18.359
just I couldn't believe it. And
uh sood so good a boy, Max,

904
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:23.840
And uh yeah, so stand up
for the for the solar system,

905
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:27.479
fly the colors, proud, wear
the shirt that makes people wonder, and

906
01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:30.199
wear this shirt that puts the spring
in your step. Coming up for WrestleMania

907
01:12:30.199 --> 01:12:34.199
weekend in Philly over Proresuees dot com, slash the Lapsed Fan, and we

908
01:12:34.279 --> 01:12:39.000
do also want to shout out our
friends over at Tight Nutrition. If you

909
01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:41.520
need to get you know, if
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910
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911
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912
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913
01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:57.960
of tight nutrition products. You've heard
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914
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915
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916
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health, of course, is and
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917
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921
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922
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923
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927
01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:53.880
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928
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in tightened Nutrition coming up as we pivot

929
01:13:58.119 --> 01:14:00.760
off of the Lapsed Funk and just
you know, bask in the glow a

930
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.359
bit with some feedback as well as
feedback unrelated to Terry Funk. We're pointing

931
01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:14.520
our compass at another momentous anniversary at
twenty twenty four occasions. Boss, We're

932
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:20.640
taking a look at the January twenty
third, nineteen eighty four WWF Madison Square

933
01:14:20.680 --> 01:14:25.760
Garden event where Hulk Coogan wins his
first WWF championship. It is the the

934
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:29.840
the birth of Hullcomania. No matter
what you say, no matter what happened

935
01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:32.439
beforehand, that is the birth of
hull Comania. I said, Boss,

936
01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:34.479
you know, what do we do
that has impact coming off a journey.

937
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:38.600
We always like to be mindful of
that, and you were very quick with

938
01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:41.600
the suggestion. Yep, yep,
it was to me, it was the

939
01:14:41.680 --> 01:14:45.920
only one. It was the only
one. It made perfect sense and the

940
01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:47.680
reason we're sign posting it now is
because we want your feedback, we want

941
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.239
your recollections. This is you know, we were one. I was one,

942
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:56.439
okay when this happened. I wasn't
even one yet, So it's hard

943
01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:59.960
for us to access what it was
like to see that handing of the torque

944
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:03.399
from Iron Cheek to Hulkogan, really
from Bob Backland to Hulkogan and just all

945
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:09.159
of the revolutions in pro wrestling that
that portended. But with your help in

946
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:12.960
the Lapsed Fan solar system, we
can put it into the appropriate context when

947
01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:15.239
we attack and put on the shelf, so to speak, this all important

948
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.800
event at Madison Square Garden. So
hit us up the Lapsed Fan at gmail

949
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:24.159
dot com early and often with your
thoughts recollections on the significance of Hogan's first

950
01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:27.880
title win as we look back forty
years after it took place, which is

951
01:15:27.960 --> 01:15:30.560
just unbelievably scary to think about in
so many ways that it was forty years

952
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:35.880
ago that title is happening. It's
so bizarre, and yeah, make sure

953
01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:40.359
that we don't just lay the fact
pattern down, as you can trust us

954
01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:45.600
to do definitively, but also get
at that emotional truth too that the title

955
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:48.239
win speaks to that we won't be
able to access just by mere research.

956
01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:53.079
But we need you, we need
your support. Already some wonderful insights from

957
01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:57.000
our friends in the Twin Cities who
are sort of being very observant about Hulk

958
01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:00.840
Hogan transitioning from the AWA's top baby
face to Vince Mooween, which is a

959
01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:04.000
subject of endless fascination for us over
the years. I mean, we can

960
01:16:04.079 --> 01:16:08.000
never boss take enough at bites at
the apple of Hulk leaving Vern in the

961
01:16:08.079 --> 01:16:10.520
dust. Oh, absolutely, no, not at all. I mean,

962
01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:14.880
it's it's it's so because you know
what there there's so much there, and

963
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:20.880
there's probably so much that has not
even been unfolded, you know, and

964
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:26.359
uncovered yet. It's all out there. But we're gonna pull it all together.

965
01:16:26.600 --> 01:16:28.439
You never know. I think I'm
sure that there are stories that have

966
01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:30.760
never made that in every single line
of day somehow, you know. I'm

967
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:33.479
not no if we'll ever get to
those or not, but there there are

968
01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:38.520
some in there that I'm just like, it's there's more to this than meets

969
01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:42.960
the eye. Too many machinations right
for for everything to have surfaced. But

970
01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:45.880
we're going to do our damnedest and
we're looking forward to it. It's kind

971
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:48.920
of when you really think back at
it, it sort of is the inspiration

972
01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:51.960
for one of our earliest journeys,
The Life and Death of the Away,

973
01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:58.840
This intense fascination that we had with
with Hogan's awa years. Absolutely absolutely no

974
01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:00.800
question about that in terms with the
fact that you know, he was talking

975
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:05.279
about whole Comania for years before getting
on Vince Junior's TV. Yeah, and

976
01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:09.319
all that means, so really looking
forward to it. Make sure that we

977
01:17:09.399 --> 01:17:12.279
can knock that one out of the
park with your contributions as well. That's

978
01:17:12.319 --> 01:17:15.560
why we're letting you know early.
We're also going to let you know that

979
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:18.439
at long last, we will deliver
in our promise to award a free hopper

980
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:23.800
pick. I remember in the past
we've been saying, you know, if

981
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:26.159
you bid on the hopper, we
understand it gets really rich for a lot

982
01:17:26.159 --> 01:17:28.800
of people's blood. But there are
some people that just breaks my heart.

983
01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:30.520
They try, they try, and
they always end up in a category they

984
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:34.399
can't afford. And I respect the
discipline and not you know, necessarily go

985
01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:39.119
overboard. So the people who have
bid, we put their names in a

986
01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.720
hat kind of like how we're going
to award the Terry Funk Branding Iron coming

987
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.840
up April seventh in Philly, and
we pulled the name at random, you

988
01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:48.159
know, every time they bid we
put in their name in once and our

989
01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:51.079
buddy pav Is won and he's going
to bring to us the two thousand and

990
01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:56.199
eight WWE Royal Rumble that is his
sport. It's John Cena comes in number

991
01:17:56.199 --> 01:18:00.119
thirty MSG as well, So it's
gonna be an MSGI Yeah cook ms G

992
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:02.279
detour here on the TLF main feedt
in the weeks to come, and so

993
01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:06.479
if you have any particular thoughts recollections
about the significance of that event, please

994
01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:10.840
do hit us up as well the
lapsed fan at gmail dot com and we're

995
01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:15.680
pleased to deliver on that promise what
we told him over the holidays. So

996
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:17.560
it still was a holiday gift as
we initially conceived of it, yes,

997
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.960
but Funkage and many other moving pieces
sought to it that it took months for

998
01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:25.479
us to get to it, but
we do get to it every single time.

999
01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:28.520
That's that's the whole point. So
yep, looking forward to connecting on

1000
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.600
that as well as much more to
come in the weeks ahead. But if

1001
01:18:31.640 --> 01:18:33.159
We're going to go ahead, boss, we got it. We got to

1002
01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:39.199
tap into that mailbox. I think
the time is now and it's let's go

1003
01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:42.840
ahead and tap into that mailbox.
See what's going on? Talk about tapping

1004
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:48.399
in? Uh what? And let's
hit our boy Christian wonderful supporter of the

1005
01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:53.520
solar system over the years. And
this is a letter that he sent really

1006
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:58.520
upon the embarking of the lapsed Funk
that I think so well telegraphed and encapsulated

1007
01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:00.680
where we were heading and where we
ended up. So if you could share

1008
01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:08.880
that with the people, absolutely,
twenty twenty three has been a rough year

1009
01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:15.039
for the sport of Kings. We've
lost We've lost some true giants and mantar

1010
01:19:15.720 --> 01:19:19.560
who helped shape our Childhohoods. In
the case of Bray, Wyatt was on

1011
01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:25.199
the cusp of reinventing what it meant
to be a refreshingly unique character in a

1012
01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:30.079
business where fans clamor for a guy
who's nothing more than an amalgamation of arguably

1013
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:32.840
the two biggest stars in the last
thirty years. I'm talking about you,

1014
01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:38.760
La Night. However, if the
passing of why It and Terry Funk can

1015
01:19:38.840 --> 01:19:42.640
offer us fans anything is that the
end of the day. At the end

1016
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:45.920
of the day, being one of
a kind is the greatest trade any wrestler

1017
01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:51.359
could aspire to have. Nobody will
ever come close to having the resume of

1018
01:19:51.479 --> 01:20:00.199
Terry Funk his career, which stretched
so many generations and eras think about it,

1019
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:02.640
funk debut during the boom period of
the Territory days was a top draw

1020
01:20:02.720 --> 01:20:05.520
in every area he went to,
whether it be Florida, Saint Louis from

1021
01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:10.119
Memphis, Russell, the Who's Who
of stars from Jack Briscoe, the Chic

1022
01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:15.920
Race, Lawler Flair, Hogan,
Sting, Bammers, Foley Brett, Michaels,

1023
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:21.760
Austin Tyson, brother Tyson. But
he was right all the way to

1024
01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:25.720
the end there. I think he's
yeah, I think he said, Michael's

1025
01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:28.439
Austin Tyson. Yeah, I know, I know I did that. Do

1026
01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:30.720
you see what he did? Though? You know you understand these because we

1027
01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:33.079
do Austin Tyson, Austin, Yeah, you get it. Matt for sure.

1028
01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:38.600
By the way he did Michael's Austin
Tyson. Because that's our joke that

1029
01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:43.439
we do. It's gonna bother me
forever. At the very end of the

1030
01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:45.359
Lapsed Funk when I was going through
all the people he inspired, and I

1031
01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.079
was like, Okay, I'm gonna
hit everybody. I forgot Harley Race.

1032
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:53.560
What the fuck like, don't forget
Harley? You know, he learned the

1033
01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:57.640
business in Amarillo. He was trained, you know, in and around Nebraska,

1034
01:20:57.800 --> 01:21:00.640
in Kansas City's from that part of
the country, owned that territory and

1035
01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:04.840
defined Kansas City wrestling in so many
ways. But the Funks taught this guy

1036
01:21:04.920 --> 01:21:09.600
the business. He was booking when
you know, Dorry Senor and Iron Mike

1037
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:13.279
DEBIASI were feuding. He you know, we read from his book. But

1038
01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:15.399
when we did the NWA World title
portion of the Lapsed Funk, I mean

1039
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:19.119
yeah, and it was the fact
that the Funk chose Harley to drop the

1040
01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:21.840
world title to Terry that is,
and yea, Dorry did as well,

1041
01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:26.840
but that was just because Dorry and
Jack couldn't get together to consummate the title

1042
01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.119
change for reasons we explored in depth. But still, I mean, Harley

1043
01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:34.159
Race ends up in the money and
off to an incredible start in his wrestling

1044
01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:38.680
career because the Funks, in particular
Terry Funk, bestowed it upon him.

1045
01:21:39.079 --> 01:21:42.520
You know, he deserved it,
but he hadn't earned it yet. And

1046
01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:45.600
it was Terry Funk saying, you're
the guy that I trust with the world

1047
01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:49.520
title because I'm done with it for
now. That made Harley Race Harley Race.

1048
01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:53.399
I mean, can you get more
impactful like you think? You think

1049
01:21:53.439 --> 01:21:56.760
Harley Race is a contemporary of Terry
Funk's and he was. But Terry was

1050
01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:00.359
was was his sensey. He was
everybody. I mean, there's nobody that

1051
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.359
predates the guy. It seems like. Besides, like a Kiniski says,

1052
01:22:03.399 --> 01:22:06.920
if you want to go back,
the black and white era, just remarkable.

1053
01:22:08.239 --> 01:22:11.079
He was coloring and of wrestling.
He was the y you know what

1054
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:15.119
I mean. He was the technicolor
Yep, Yes he was. He had

1055
01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:25.479
the three different film Valley. Terry's
greatest rivalry will be with that fat egg

1056
01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:29.800
sucking yellow dog, Dusty Rhodes.
I never saw Funk in his prime,

1057
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:34.239
but was introduced to him through the
vhs I Like to Hurt people that my

1058
01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:39.239
dad owned, currently available in the
Cement Archive. Yes, indeed it is.

1059
01:22:39.680 --> 01:22:43.239
When I discovered his classic nineteen eighty
one empty arena match against Jerry Lawler

1060
01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:47.039
in Memphis decades later on YouTube.
It was like unearthing a buried treasure I

1061
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:53.039
had long heard about but had never
seen speaking of. I like to hurt

1062
01:22:53.039 --> 01:22:55.880
people. You know what, I
got my hot little hands on. What

1063
01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:59.279
do you have? Brian? Uh? What was his name? Brian Greenberg?

1064
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:00.680
Uh? Huh? I remember he
was one of the creators of the

1065
01:23:00.720 --> 01:23:05.319
film. Yes, he recently put
out a DVD of of a b Roll.

1066
01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:10.479
Oh he did, because I remember
they were there was talk about this,

1067
01:23:11.079 --> 01:23:15.600
how we made I Like to Hurt
People. Holy shit. Uh.

1068
01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:19.279
It's a rare look behind the curtain
of hardcore wrestling in the seventies, featuring

1069
01:23:19.319 --> 01:23:25.000
the chik Andre Terry Funk Dori Funk
listed right here on the jacket ringside is

1070
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:27.840
the incredible true story, from start
to finish, how we were able to

1071
01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:30.279
make the hardcore wrestling cult classic.
I like to hurt people, I think

1072
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:33.319
when I deliver some of the things
we picked up in the funk of State

1073
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:38.279
sale on Beta Max, so to
speak. Boss, Yeah, I throw

1074
01:23:38.359 --> 01:23:43.920
this one in the fucking poulous will
I I I I because you know what

1075
01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:48.159
there? I want to Uh.
I've been wanting to have h a a

1076
01:23:48.319 --> 01:23:55.960
reason to kind of go back and
revisit since since the since the Chic book

1077
01:23:56.000 --> 01:24:00.199
came out as it came out right
after we did. We did the That

1078
01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:03.840
was the fiftieth episode of Under the
Cinemat And there's so much great information in

1079
01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:08.159
that book. Yeah, by Brian
Solomon on this movie in particular, right,

1080
01:24:08.359 --> 01:24:11.479
and so I wanted I've been wanting
the reason to go back to it.

1081
01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:15.279
So this will be it. We'll
figure it, We'll make this happen.

1082
01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:19.239
It'll be like an extended cut or
it almost be like bonus scene part

1083
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:25.880
of a DVD cinema right now,
right right, exactly exactly. Uh,

1084
01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:31.800
watching Terry Go, watching Terry Cus, Jerry Lawl the hell out demand Lance

1085
01:24:31.880 --> 01:24:35.079
Russell to clear him the winner by
default when Jerry didn't show up on time,

1086
01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:40.119
accuse Lawler of carrying a knife and
a gun to their match, then

1087
01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:43.520
wailing over his eye as he cried
for help. As one of the greatest

1088
01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:47.159
pieces of work I ever saw or
will ever see. If Dusty was Funk's

1089
01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:51.319
greatest rival to me, this was
his greatest match. For the sheer lunacy

1090
01:24:51.359 --> 01:24:56.000
of it all. I hope Terry
Funk found a ring in Heaven and wrestled

1091
01:24:56.039 --> 01:25:00.600
Big dust all around Heaven's territory.
Truly heaven needed a Funker and a Harcore.

1092
01:25:01.239 --> 01:25:08.239
God, I don't think I even
have that anymore, Q Flair yelling

1093
01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:14.880
I'm God in TNL. Well,
I got something else for you. Thank

1094
01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:16.840
you, Terry for giving us a
lifetime worth of showmanship, Thank you for

1095
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:23.079
adding Goozle Metake to our vernacular,
and thank you for declaring Jerry Lawler to

1096
01:25:23.159 --> 01:25:26.520
be a son of a bitch in
an empty arena in Memphis. There truly

1097
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:30.840
will never be another like you.
Absolutely, and further to the MPT Arena,

1098
01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:32.800
which of course was a key stop
in the lapsed Funk journey, something

1099
01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:35.840
that people who were contemporaries in the
Memphis territory at the time, like Dutch,

1100
01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:40.239
Mantel and others as we talked about, didn't remember us a particularly successful

1101
01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:44.039
piece of business because, you know, houses went down at the Mid South

1102
01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:46.239
Coliseum after the MT, right,
there wasn't really a lot to point to

1103
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:49.399
that was a business catalyst. As
Dutch pointed out, you know, the

1104
01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:53.960
closing scene is really you're supposed to
feel sympathy for Terry Funk, which isn't

1105
01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:57.600
exactly the recipe for coming back next
week to buy a ticket, you know,

1106
01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:00.960
because nobody was gonna feel sympathy for
that guy, so it kind of

1107
01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:02.279
left you. It's almost like Jerry
Lawler should have been left with the one

1108
01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:05.399
with his eyeball hanging out, right, if they wanted business off this thing,

1109
01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.960
But it's not. You know,
this thing isn't about business. This

1110
01:26:09.159 --> 01:26:13.720
is about Funk bringing it to a
higher level in terms of living in a

1111
01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:17.199
different skin as a performer and you
know, with a completely unfamiliar atmosphere with

1112
01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:23.119
a dead quiet building, realizing the
depth that he could pull from, realizing

1113
01:26:23.199 --> 01:26:26.640
the depth that he had. This
is acting ability, is what it is.

1114
01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:29.560
You know, wrestlers always talk about
when they hit a movie set,

1115
01:26:29.640 --> 01:26:32.880
it's just so disorienting to not have
that feedback loop from the live crowd that

1116
01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:36.119
tells you if what you're doing is
resonating, To have just silence on the

1117
01:26:36.199 --> 01:26:41.880
set with no real visual or audio
indicator that you're doing well, it's so

1118
01:26:42.199 --> 01:26:45.399
disorienting. Here Terry Funk proves that
he not only is capable of that,

1119
01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:47.760
but it's the best in wrestling history
at that at when you know, you

1120
01:26:47.880 --> 01:26:50.880
take somebody out of the element of
the typical give and take of a wrestling

1121
01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:56.039
match, that they can still produce
things that are true to their character and

1122
01:26:56.199 --> 01:26:59.399
keep you stuck to the screen and
stuck to their every move and every word.

1123
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:01.960
That's what the MPT arena match comes
to symbolize, and that's why,

1124
01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:05.399
even though it didn't catalyze a big
run of business in Memphis, everyone still

1125
01:27:05.399 --> 01:27:09.000
talks about it to this day.
Chris saw it coming. He wrote to

1126
01:27:09.039 --> 01:27:12.079
his chairman, I love all the
Terry Funk's phases. The feud with Flair

1127
01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:14.840
that started at the end of the
Steamboat Flair trilogy, the middle aged and

1128
01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:18.159
Crazy ECW run, death matches with
Cactus Jack, the matches between the Brisco

1129
01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:21.640
Brothers and the Funk Brothers, even
that weird Funk family run in his WWF

1130
01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:26.600
run with the uncomfortable jyd Food.
However, for some reason, the first

1131
01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:29.920
Terry Funk match that always pops into
my head is the empty Arena match with

1132
01:27:30.079 --> 01:27:33.840
Jerry Lawler from Mid South TV are
April twenty five, nineteen eighty one and

1133
01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:38.439
Terry Funk Shows. He writes more
sides to his personality in this match than

1134
01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:43.279
most wrestlers Today's show in a year, Funk cussing even more after Lance Russell

1135
01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:46.119
asks him not to swear yes,
that's great, Funk declaring himself the winner,

1136
01:27:46.199 --> 01:27:49.439
viaccount out when Lawler isn't there at
first, Funk becoming more angry and

1137
01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:54.359
starting to threaten Lance Russell. Funk's
paranoia ramping up as he asks if Lawler

1138
01:27:54.399 --> 01:27:57.880
brought a gun or a knife?
This is all here again, Funk flopping

1139
01:27:57.960 --> 01:28:00.800
around an empty rows of seats,
and Blake Funk's starting to back off as

1140
01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:04.720
he realizes that Lawler is maybe better
than he expected and going after improvised weapons,

1141
01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:10.359
Funk screeching. Funk goes after Lawler's
eye and then screams for a doctor

1142
01:28:10.359 --> 01:28:13.319
when Lawler damages Funk's eye at the
end. There is nothing in that video

1143
01:28:13.359 --> 01:28:15.399
except for maybe the quality of this
version that is not great. Lance Russell

1144
01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:18.159
lighting a cigarette while waiting to see
if Funk and Lawa will show up for

1145
01:28:18.239 --> 01:28:21.359
the match is definitely the best part. By the way, Lawler in full

1146
01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:27.079
regalia for an MPT arena match.
What's the problem? Great question, Chris,

1147
01:28:29.359 --> 01:28:31.800
So he saw it coming. We'll
hear from Matt Terry Funk memory,

1148
01:28:31.960 --> 01:28:34.359
Hi Gents, a bit of a
weird one. But there was a promo

1149
01:28:34.520 --> 01:28:39.359
that he did in his final WW
run when he talked about somebody being a

1150
01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:45.199
satchel ass that was mcfoley. I
love that. I mean to think about

1151
01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:48.960
a satchel, right, yes,
and it's shape and how it and an

1152
01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:54.039
ass made of satchel approximates the or
a satchel made of ass a general shape

1153
01:28:54.079 --> 01:28:57.359
of mcfoley's ass. And so he
writes, this was a huge thing on

1154
01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:00.439
the Brian and Vinnie Show, Brian
Alvarez and Vinnie over at figure four weekly.

1155
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:03.720
I assume Jack was on the board
back then, all kind of anyway,

1156
01:29:03.760 --> 01:29:05.960
he writes, it's what I think
about when it comes to the Funker.

1157
01:29:06.079 --> 01:29:12.039
So what I'm realizing here is there
was a promo that Terry Funk cut

1158
01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:14.680
on Mick Foley. We of course
saw the n ring one he did before

1159
01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:17.600
the One Night Stand in two thousand
and six show. Hey Fully, great

1160
01:29:17.640 --> 01:29:20.840
to see that one breathe new life
into courtesy the laps fan because that's just

1161
01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:26.840
a tremendous mitterring face off between those
two, just tremendous stuff. And apparently

1162
01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:30.359
he also cut a promo on Fully
that aired only on WWE dot com,

1163
01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:32.079
which they were really hot to do
with the mid two thousands when they were

1164
01:29:32.119 --> 01:29:36.439
trying to make dot com the place
to be for everything, and they would

1165
01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:40.840
shoot a lot of exclusive stuff for
that platform, And so Terry just does

1166
01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:44.359
a typical look into the camera Terry
promo, a copy of which does not

1167
01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:47.640
seem to have survived anywhere on the
Internet in terms of like the whole promos

1168
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:51.720
that existed. You only see like
descriptions of what it once was. But

1169
01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:56.680
what did happen is on the Brian
and Vinnie Show on Figure four Weekly,

1170
01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.039
they did grab some sound from the
promo make a little bit out of it

1171
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:03.520
because it was the first time anyone
had ever heard someone described as a satchel

1172
01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:08.600
ass, and it was a fucking
home run. So what Matt provided and

1173
01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:11.720
what we're going to provide here to
the Solar System is a clip from that

1174
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:15.880
show that kind of gives you a
sense of, how, you know,

1175
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:17.800
an early sense of what we discovered
along the way in the lapsed Funk Boss

1176
01:30:17.840 --> 01:30:23.680
that you can really make incredible entertainment
out of Terry's greatest hits. Sash Lass

1177
01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:34.359
Scholas promo. You don't see the
promo, No, the promo on e

1178
01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:38.359
c W dot com. He's a
talking about Mick Foley, all their good

1179
01:30:38.359 --> 01:30:40.920
promos now on the website. They
don't show him on TV anymore. That

1180
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:56.600
doesn't surprise me. Yeah, but
yes, he he Saslas McK foley's son.

1181
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:01.039
He takes a while to think of
the right words. He looks right

1182
01:31:01.079 --> 01:31:12.119
in the camera and says, and
then he tells the story about his dad.

1183
01:31:12.359 --> 01:31:15.560
I'm not trusting any man whose ass
was whiter than his shoulders. That's

1184
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:20.279
a really good one. Wow,
that's funny. Is somebody just emailed that

1185
01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:25.359
to me and I just saw Terry
Funk in a word and I was like,

1186
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:35.840
does that say satchel ass? I
didn't even it does Scholas? It's

1187
01:31:35.920 --> 01:31:45.680
the sing song I heard the show
pretty great, Wow satchel ass. Last

1188
01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:51.680
asked like a satchel guess that's what
it means. So he went ahead and

1189
01:31:53.920 --> 01:32:02.159
I want aheadn't remember we were going
through that and the lot last episode of

1190
01:32:02.199 --> 01:32:06.640
Lapsed Funk. That just like postcrip
part of his career where he's he's still

1191
01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:12.319
wrestling Lawlor and Piper and Abbey and
it's like two thousand and five, everybody,

1192
01:32:12.399 --> 01:32:15.399
He's like, yeah, right,
great stuff for our friend John who

1193
01:32:15.439 --> 01:32:18.279
wrote a I saw Terry Funk verse
Abduel the Butcher verse. Kevin Sulliman versed

1194
01:32:18.359 --> 01:32:24.399
US two Rhodes and a bloodbath of
a match at the Davy, Florida Rodeo

1195
01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:28.600
in two thousand and two. Holy
shit, they went all over the rodeo

1196
01:32:28.720 --> 01:32:30.960
grounds. It was nuts. I
took home a chair with blood on it.

1197
01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:40.159
Thankfully I did not contract hepatitis.
I mean, I guess that's gonna

1198
01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:43.479
have to be as shirt, isn't
it, satchel Ass, I think I

1199
01:32:43.560 --> 01:32:47.000
think that's a requirement, alright,
p mister Funk. Ben writes an interesting

1200
01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:53.039
compendium as we try to restart the
engine of the Coliseum collection soon, right.

1201
01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:58.159
We did promise to do every Colosseum
video ever in order, and a

1202
01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:01.000
ton of stuff ended up falling into
our lap that required our media attention and

1203
01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:03.920
a couple of Terry journeys. I
mean, all of a sudden a year

1204
01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:10.319
is passed. It could call it
a terrible journey, but we had already

1205
01:33:10.399 --> 01:33:13.439
kind of taken the measure of Terry
Funk's ww F run by virtue of those

1206
01:33:13.439 --> 01:33:16.079
early Colisseum takes, which features him
against the likes of Junkyard Dog and others.

1207
01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:19.279
Yes, he came in an eighty
five and Ben put together a helpful

1208
01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:24.479
list. Hidge co chairs a complete
run of Terry Funk's appearances on Colisseum Video.

1209
01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:29.159
Thought this would help you document as
ww run June seventeenth, eighty five

1210
01:33:29.319 --> 01:33:31.760
debuts on Superstars versus Aldo Marino.
We actually took a look at this.

1211
01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:38.960
This is when he satisfyingly beats up
Mel Phillips. Afterward, those that Matt

1212
01:33:39.039 --> 01:33:42.439
and that segment and that angle featured
on Villains of the Squared Circle by Colisseum

1213
01:33:42.680 --> 01:33:46.560
Video and Grand Slams. July thirteenth, ninet eighty five versus Lenny Poffo That

1214
01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:51.479
on Best of the WWF Volume six. We didn't get there yet? Did

1215
01:33:51.520 --> 01:33:56.560
we know? We're not there yet? So looking for that not Best of

1216
01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:00.479
Volume six now. October thirty,
first, eighty five versus junk Yard Dog

1217
01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:03.319
Most Embarrassing Moments and Grudge Matches.
Can't wait to see which of the two

1218
01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:08.479
this match qualifies for me. November
seventh, eighty five versus Moondog Spot on

1219
01:34:08.560 --> 01:34:12.199
Wrestling Classic. Okay, let's not
forget when we did the Wrestling Classic.

1220
01:34:12.319 --> 01:34:16.479
This is year one tlf sh the
Funker in play in the Man. I

1221
01:34:16.600 --> 01:34:20.199
came in a man amazing we did
WrestleMania two. I barely remember talking about

1222
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:27.760
Terry Funk and WWFA back in that
WrestleMania Journey November January eleventh, nineteen eighty

1223
01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:31.279
six, Pedro Morales versus Terry Funk
at the Boston Garden Best of WWA Volume

1224
01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:35.359
seven. Ben writes hell of a
match between two seventies world champs as Terry

1225
01:34:35.399 --> 01:34:39.640
somehow extracts motivation out of an aging
Pedro. Can't wait to see that one.

1226
01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:44.239
January twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six
versus Junkyard Dog and the Grudge Matches

1227
01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:47.279
tape April seventh, nineteen eighty six
with Hossfunk, his brother Dory of course

1228
01:34:47.560 --> 01:34:53.199
versus Tito Santana and JYD from WrestleMania
two and May first, nineteen eighty six

1229
01:34:53.279 --> 01:34:57.720
with has Funk against Hogan and JYD
on the Colisseum home video. Saturday Nights

1230
01:34:57.760 --> 01:35:00.199
made event's greatest hits. We absolutely
took a look at that ma as part

1231
01:35:00.279 --> 01:35:04.760
of the Lapsed Funk it being on
NBC, and finally, his January fourth,

1232
01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:09.399
eighty six Saturday Nate's Main Events title
match versus Hogan, Ben notes never

1233
01:35:09.520 --> 01:35:14.159
made Colisseum video, but is also
easily accessible and you better believe we hit

1234
01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:19.159
that match, particularly in Philly,
which is very serendipitous, as we're Philly

1235
01:35:19.239 --> 01:35:23.039
minded to the max these days.
I even think, for sure, the

1236
01:35:23.119 --> 01:35:27.520
best I can tell trying to find
photo evidence of the branding iron we ended

1237
01:35:27.600 --> 01:35:30.680
up coming into possession of. Yes, I see Terry Funk and ECW promos

1238
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:35.119
in like ninety four holding a flaming
branding iron that has all of the characteristics

1239
01:35:35.159 --> 01:35:38.880
of the one we have. Yep, I mean, it's just all it's

1240
01:35:38.920 --> 01:35:42.960
all pointing to Philly. Everything in
our lives suddenly is pointing to Philadelphia.

1241
01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:47.119
It's remarkable. And finally he writes, shit missed one September twenty thirty eighty

1242
01:35:47.159 --> 01:35:51.239
five versus jyd MSG is actually the
one that's on the most embarrassing moment,

1243
01:35:51.319 --> 01:35:56.680
So he within a dendum there it
was a September twenty thirty five, not

1244
01:35:56.800 --> 01:35:59.439
January twenty sixty eighty six, Junkyard
Dog. So we're looking forward to that

1245
01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:01.680
seeing Harry Funk once again. We're
never going to be too far away.

1246
01:36:02.319 --> 01:36:05.680
That's right. Even more exhaustive list, which is just great to see and

1247
01:36:05.800 --> 01:36:11.319
helped us so much as we navigated
the lapsed Funk is dismissive. Here from

1248
01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:24.359
Ian Boss, if you could please
regale the solar system. I think you

1249
01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:28.399
just gave me the list, all
right, you don't see Jack and JP

1250
01:36:28.560 --> 01:36:30.399
there at the top. Hold on
because I got a bunch of videos and

1251
01:36:30.439 --> 01:36:35.920
stuff too with it. No,
all right, wait a minute, hold

1252
01:36:35.920 --> 01:36:45.560
on, let me try again.
Here, got a ten eighteen timestamp Jack

1253
01:36:45.640 --> 01:36:47.079
and JP. Hello, my name
is oh there it is yep, I

1254
01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:51.920
got it. Jack and JP.
Hello, my name is Ian and this

1255
01:36:53.039 --> 01:36:58.600
message is embarrassing, embarrassingly long time
coming to say I've been a freeloader for

1256
01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:01.560
years. Has a shameful confession,
but I'm used to that. I'm a

1257
01:37:01.640 --> 01:37:05.319
lifelong wrestling fan. I'm a New
England They're living in Rhode Island, and

1258
01:37:05.399 --> 01:37:09.840
based on your stories from past episodes, I know we've attended some of the

1259
01:37:09.920 --> 01:37:13.880
same Ring of Honor shows. Adding
to the list of similarities. I'm a

1260
01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:16.800
huge fan of w has Bros.
And I proudly have a set on display

1261
01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:23.119
in my living room. As a
kid, my grandfather proudly proudly I don't

1262
01:37:23.159 --> 01:37:29.319
know you did lose me there,
but shame As a kid, my grandmother

1263
01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:35.560
was the manager of a department store
and knew the exact day my new Hasbros

1264
01:37:35.600 --> 01:37:41.239
would right fucking kidding me, I'd
never even thought of that. Can you

1265
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:45.000
imagine getting the jump? Oh my, like you can have your pick like

1266
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:50.520
be here, you know, right
after school on this day. Trust me,

1267
01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:59.239
that's when you can get the rockers. I'm I'm what has of those

1268
01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.399
days? Why can't kids have that? Why can't the kids because they need

1269
01:38:02.439 --> 01:38:12.279
to worry about skincare and that's awesome, They need to worry about screen versions

1270
01:38:12.399 --> 01:38:15.640
of the teeny bopper magazines that we
used to have, right exactly screen things.

1271
01:38:19.279 --> 01:38:25.800
I can vividly remember getting the iggy, the iggy the iggy. Yeah,

1272
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:29.680
that's a wrestling term for like a
physical signal you see to your opponent

1273
01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:33.279
the iggy And being at the store
on a Saturday morning to pull a Hasbro

1274
01:38:33.439 --> 01:38:39.479
Series two Hulk Hogan case fresh right
off the show. Jesus christ Man.

1275
01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:46.199
I know during those Hasbro years,
my Christmas mornings were legendary. And I

1276
01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:54.600
mean also, you're in Rhode Island, that's Hasbro Central, that is Hasbro.

1277
01:38:54.760 --> 01:39:00.399
It didn't have much to travel much
distance travel the store. I've dabbled

1278
01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:03.600
in the wrestling business, having competed
in about a dozen matches, promoted a

1279
01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:08.479
few shows, and even owned my
own ring. Even being a lifelong fan,

1280
01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:11.760
it didn't take long to realize that
it's a cutthroat, backstabbing business.

1281
01:39:12.079 --> 01:39:17.760
Trust no one. Thankful, Thankfully, My love for being a fan will

1282
01:39:17.840 --> 01:39:24.039
never die, even when my desire
to wrestle promote fizzled out. In my

1283
01:39:24.119 --> 01:39:28.159
free time wrestling related, I make
wrestling history videos on YouTube. My channel

1284
01:39:28.239 --> 01:39:31.159
is squared Circle History. I also
have a podcast with my friend Brian called

1285
01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:35.199
Pro Wrestling Rushmore. We pick a
topic, allow fans to submit votes,

1286
01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:39.720
tell everything, to tally everything up, and do a countdown en route to

1287
01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:43.399
revealing the mount rushmore of the given
topic. It's nowhere near the level of

1288
01:39:43.439 --> 01:39:47.279
the lapsed fan, but we have
fun. Brian absolutely hates Brett Hart,

1289
01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:51.720
so I take great pressure pleasure in
riling him up. I even bought him

1290
01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:55.680
a cameo from Brett for his birthday
and played it for him in front of

1291
01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:58.960
his entire family and friends at his
fortieth birthday party. Ring a Boss.

1292
01:39:59.319 --> 01:40:03.319
Yeah right. Brian didn't get as
mad as I'd thought, and I think

1293
01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:06.880
he secretly loved it. So what
made me finally send you guys an email.

1294
01:40:08.119 --> 01:40:10.720
It's been on my to do list
for years, but once I heard

1295
01:40:10.760 --> 01:40:15.119
you were planning to do Terry Funk
tribute, I knew that the time was

1296
01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:18.479
right. Terry Funk was the greatest
wrestler to ever step foot in a wrestling

1297
01:40:18.600 --> 01:40:23.279
ring. I've had that opinion for
years and it still holds true to this

1298
01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:30.079
day. He made you believe,
he made you feel something. Whether he

1299
01:40:30.239 --> 01:40:32.960
was a dastardly heel or a lovable
babyface, Terry was the best. His

1300
01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:39.920
promos were over the top and his
matches were wildly entertaining. If you've ever

1301
01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:43.520
seen any of his shoot interviews,
especially the RF video one from nineteen ninety

1302
01:40:43.560 --> 01:40:46.079
seven, you know that Funk is
an incredible storyteller and has seen it all.

1303
01:40:46.640 --> 01:40:50.000
His advice was more valuable than gold, with Brian Pillman once saying that

1304
01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:56.880
he'd normally consult Terry for advice and
even discussed the loose cannon persona. I've

1305
01:40:56.920 --> 01:40:59.439
had a lot of time to think
about why Terry meant so much to me

1306
01:40:59.520 --> 01:41:05.479
and finally figured it out. He
was selfless. Terry went to the ring

1307
01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:10.760
to make his opponent look good and
benefit from their time together. He should

1308
01:41:10.760 --> 01:41:14.000
ask Shane Douglas that question, yea, it depends what you're talking about.

1309
01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:16.439
Look at what he did for ECW. There was a whole locker room full

1310
01:41:16.479 --> 01:41:20.039
of workers that he made who had
the utmost respect for him, as evident

1311
01:41:20.079 --> 01:41:25.039
by the Terry Funk banquet the night
before Barely Legal. How about the fifty

1312
01:41:25.119 --> 01:41:29.319
Years of Funk supercard In the fall
of ninety seven, Terry faced Brett Hard,

1313
01:41:29.359 --> 01:41:30.520
who was the w champion at the
time, and Brett was willing to

1314
01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:34.920
put Terry over, but Terry knew
his role and agreed that Brett winning was

1315
01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:41.319
the better decision. Then again,
he walked out of the WWE at Survivors

1316
01:41:41.319 --> 01:41:44.880
Series ninety three because he didn't want
a job slash unmasked. But in true

1317
01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:47.000
Terry fashion, he made up the
excuse that his horse, Clyde, was

1318
01:41:47.079 --> 01:41:50.159
sick, and even then, could
anyone truly get mad at the guy?

1319
01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:54.239
It's a pretty great excuse if I've
ever heard one, and you got to

1320
01:41:54.239 --> 01:41:57.520
give the Funker credit for the creativity. In two thousand and nine, I

1321
01:41:57.600 --> 01:42:00.640
attended a wrestling convention in Connecticut that
had been organied by Just Incredible. He

1322
01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:04.880
had got a great turnout and had
an all star list of guests signing Harley

1323
01:42:05.000 --> 01:42:10.279
Race, Scott Hall, Marty Jeannetti
who disappeared from the table where he was

1324
01:42:10.319 --> 01:42:13.199
signing and I never got to meet
him. Knew Jack who took over the

1325
01:42:13.239 --> 01:42:16.720
house, Miken cut a profanity lace
promo, Bob Backman who lost his school

1326
01:42:16.760 --> 01:42:23.159
on Nu Jack Gorgeous, George the
Giant Silva, Tony DeVito, Spike Dudley,

1327
01:42:23.159 --> 01:42:28.079
Stevie Richards, and Rick Fuller and
Terry Funk. They're in the lead

1328
01:42:28.159 --> 01:42:31.920
there. Yeah right. I was
beyond excited at the thought of meeting the

1329
01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:35.760
person I respected more than anyone in
pro wrestling. My dad and I arrived

1330
01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:39.680
at the hotel where the convention was
taking place. To get to the convention

1331
01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:43.680
hall, we walked past the hotel
breakfast bffet, where Terry Funk had a

1332
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:48.479
heaping plate although he was although he
was more focused on the newspaper that he

1333
01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:57.600
was reading with it. It's just
such a great size with his glasses magnifying

1334
01:42:57.680 --> 01:43:00.680
his eyes in comedic fashion. You
have met the Bye vocals. He want

1335
01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:05.840
a head, oh God, and
his eyeballs are like four times bigger than

1336
01:43:05.880 --> 01:43:10.920
they have any right to be.
I want to head him. I'm reading

1337
01:43:11.000 --> 01:43:15.920
the paper. What's the headline here? I want a headline. I want

1338
01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:23.600
a headline. I want to head
Oh what, yeah, what's up,

1339
01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:28.319
Sonny? What? Thank you for
being you're big fan, your fan of

1340
01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:31.840
your fan of the funker with the
snap back on his trucker hat on top

1341
01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:34.920
of his ponytail. Yes, yes, that's right, a fan of a

1342
01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:42.359
funker, you like Terry Funker.
What do you want? Is a heaping

1343
01:43:42.479 --> 01:43:46.680
plate a picture like you know,
you know, it's not, it's not

1344
01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:50.720
it's about food. It's a pile. It's a pile, you know,

1345
01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:55.840
it's not. It's not like.
It's not like he has a lot of

1346
01:43:55.880 --> 01:43:59.640
food on his plate. It's piled
high like you've got You've got like a

1347
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:06.000
mountain of scrambled eggs with like bacon
sticking out and pancakes sticking out and sausage

1348
01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:13.000
and steaming. And he's reading the
newspaper. Is there something you need from

1349
01:44:13.119 --> 01:44:16.560
Terry Funk? Exactly? It's a
good question. What the let's go?

1350
01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:23.039
Hello? Why are you? Can
people stop up? I'm trying to eat

1351
01:44:23.119 --> 01:44:27.399
and read the news. I'm trying
to get ahead on on what's going on

1352
01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:32.800
in the politics world, trying to
get ahead on current events, trying to

1353
01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:42.039
go ahead and go home. What, Oh my god, what we got

1354
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:48.520
here? We got people drinking coffee? We got what? What? What

1355
01:44:48.720 --> 01:45:03.800
happened? Hello, Doug, No, Terry's just house brew Now the Dunking

1356
01:45:03.880 --> 01:45:14.079
Donuts centers down the blocks. Oh, I kept it together as I walked.

1357
01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:27.560
He'll die when Dori shows up with
a dozen Dunkin Donuts. Go ahead,

1358
01:45:27.600 --> 01:45:30.399
Sorry, hey, Terry Funk,
I'm here. I got the Uh,

1359
01:45:31.039 --> 01:45:34.960
I got the Terry Terry Funk,
I got the donuts. Oh you're

1360
01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:41.520
Dunkin Donuts. Huh, I got
Dunkin don't Yeah, that's what Terry,

1361
01:45:41.640 --> 01:45:44.479
Terry, that's what I brought.
I brought, dunk I brought. I

1362
01:45:44.640 --> 01:45:47.159
brought Dunkin Donuts. No, but
you're a dunk and you got donuts.

1363
01:45:48.399 --> 01:45:55.079
No, no, but no but
in other words like no, no no,

1364
01:45:55.279 --> 01:46:00.199
like don't change the subject. No
no no, no no oh,

1365
01:46:00.479 --> 01:46:03.279
pointing out on a Patreon funk finale
the same week as Dory's eighty third birthday.

1366
01:46:03.640 --> 01:46:08.640
Oh my god, thank you.
Yes, indeed, I'm I can't

1367
01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:13.840
believe I'm eighty three. I don't
you know. I woke up this morning

1368
01:46:13.960 --> 01:46:19.119
thinking I was two hundred and three, but I guess I'm mistaken. Somebody

1369
01:46:19.159 --> 01:46:23.079
told me otherwise, and I said, Okay. Ever since that, I've

1370
01:46:23.399 --> 01:46:28.520
you know, changed my mind.
I decided I changed my mind about what

1371
01:46:28.680 --> 01:46:31.479
age I am and what I should
be doing at this age. I guess

1372
01:46:31.560 --> 01:46:39.600
I'm I guess I should be sleeping
most of the day, not magnifying my

1373
01:46:39.680 --> 01:46:46.479
eyes in comedic fashion. Oh oh
no, I kept it together as I

1374
01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:50.279
walked past him, burning at the
seams with excitement. A few hours later,

1375
01:46:50.359 --> 01:46:54.119
it was time for the block,
for the block of signings that featured

1376
01:46:54.159 --> 01:46:58.640
Funk. I had to make this
moment special because it quite literally was.

1377
01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:00.960
I'm a big fan of ten and
an artist. One showed me a tattoo

1378
01:47:00.960 --> 01:47:04.840
while he'd gotten of the signature of
his favorite tattoo artist, Paul Booth.

1379
01:47:04.920 --> 01:47:09.319
That inspired me to go on a
journey of my own to collect signatures and

1380
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:13.239
my favorite wrestlers, and I had
to start with Funk. It's nuts,

1381
01:47:13.399 --> 01:47:15.760
I know, but it is what
it is, nuts, whatever you're into.

1382
01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:19.199
Absolutely, I approached Terry, shook
his hand, expressed my admiration,

1383
01:47:19.319 --> 01:47:24.159
and asked the question, will you
sign my back so I can get a

1384
01:47:24.239 --> 01:47:30.039
tattoo of it? Terry stared me
blankly and said you want what. I

1385
01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:33.039
explained to him again and he was
still puzzled, but waved me on to

1386
01:47:33.119 --> 01:47:38.000
walk behind the table. He asked
again, you're going to do what?

1387
01:47:40.239 --> 01:47:43.159
I again explained the tattoo. I
did and showed him where I on my

1388
01:47:43.239 --> 01:47:45.840
back. I wanted the signature.
As I lifted my shirt, Terry said,

1389
01:47:50.199 --> 01:47:56.239
do you want me to sign yours? Is that what it is?

1390
01:47:57.680 --> 01:48:01.000
Meanwhile, Harley Race is seated at
the next table, leaning over to get

1391
01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:06.039
a better look at what was going
on. Man Terry and I laughed and

1392
01:48:06.159 --> 01:48:10.920
he signed my back but didn't like
how it came out, so he signed

1393
01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:15.039
the opposite side. Even then,
Terry said, Hugh, I really wish

1394
01:48:15.119 --> 01:48:18.239
you wouldn't do this, but I
know you're gonna do what you wanna do,

1395
01:48:18.359 --> 01:48:23.560
and you're crazy. Heck quote is
that. He looked to my dad

1396
01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:28.159
and said he's crazy. Wow.
We laughed. He gave my dad a

1397
01:48:28.199 --> 01:48:30.680
big He gave me a big hug
and handshake, and I was on my

1398
01:48:30.800 --> 01:48:34.520
way getting the tattoo that evening.
Since the Funk meeting, I've had several

1399
01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:39.439
seven others signed my back. Brett
Hart, Christ, Jericho, Shawn michaels

1400
01:48:40.159 --> 01:48:44.279
Edge, Mick Foley signed Cactus Jack, the Undertaker and Hulk Hogan, which

1401
01:48:44.279 --> 01:48:46.680
is an amazing story for another day. They may say never to meet your

1402
01:48:46.720 --> 01:48:50.479
heroes, but thanks to Brooke thinking
I was actually Ed Sheeran, I got

1403
01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:55.560
the All Star introduction to the Hulkster
and he made it a very memorable experience.

1404
01:48:56.760 --> 01:49:00.239
Of course, of course, you
know, listen, Brook's gonna works,

1405
01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:02.880
gonna be like fucking yeah. Anything
to get her a fucking music contract,

1406
01:49:02.960 --> 01:49:05.880
please, And one of these days
I want no, dude, I

1407
01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:10.600
want to Ed Dude, what do
you What do you think about Brook?

1408
01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:15.159
Brother? Broositate you that next level? Dude? Uh? Sure, all

1409
01:49:15.239 --> 01:49:17.800
right this exchange of information, brother, come and get things. Okay,

1410
01:49:17.920 --> 01:49:21.600
the ball rolling. You know what
I'm saying, dude. The only wrestler

1411
01:49:21.720 --> 01:49:27.239
that ever refused to sign me was
Rick Flair. I explained the whole concept

1412
01:49:27.279 --> 01:49:30.920
and told him who else had signed
me. Flair could have cared less and

1413
01:49:30.039 --> 01:49:32.960
was quick to shoot me down.
That's right. Yeah, Hey, it

1414
01:49:33.079 --> 01:49:35.399
is what it is, and it's
a cool anecdote that I can share.

1415
01:49:35.880 --> 01:49:39.159
I know how bizarre of a request
it is. I get it. It's

1416
01:49:39.199 --> 01:49:42.520
weird, but you only live once, so mine as well. Might as

1417
01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:44.760
well make it interest, make things
interesting. The man a time for Hogan

1418
01:49:44.800 --> 01:49:47.079
does like a podcast and mentions that
you know, I from real understand Ed

1419
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:51.000
Shearon actually has my signature tattooed on
his back. Brother the brother assole thing,

1420
01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:55.079
dude. I'll talk to Ed sheeran
dude. I met him brother at

1421
01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:57.960
a convention. He's a fan dude, and he and he actually said,

1422
01:49:57.960 --> 01:50:00.680
hey, you know Holkster brother.
Can you saw him back, dude?

1423
01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:01.920
And I said, all right,
you know this is kind of what Ed

1424
01:50:02.039 --> 01:50:05.319
Shearon wants. Ed Shearon can get
my tie. You know, brother,

1425
01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:08.560
I saw my back, dude.
No one's no one said, dude,

1426
01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:15.560
no one sign of my back.
Brother? What brother? What do you?

1427
01:50:15.199 --> 01:50:16.880
I just I just you know,
I'm sitting here, what do you?

1428
01:50:17.039 --> 01:50:19.000
And you just come at me wide
open, and I just, you

1429
01:50:19.039 --> 01:50:23.359
know, brother, you kind of
like wide open. You're kind of exposing

1430
01:50:23.439 --> 01:50:26.399
your back. Brother. I'm like, whoa, you know, what's going

1431
01:50:26.439 --> 01:50:31.319
on? Dude? Are you expecting
me to turn around? Brother? Turn

1432
01:50:31.520 --> 01:50:40.920
around? Rolling Hogan up and in
the park and I got too he kicked

1433
01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:48.199
out. Oh shit, I'm really
looking forward to hearing the Terry Funk story

1434
01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:51.000
get the Laps treatment. I've included
a list of memory batches and promos that's

1435
01:50:51.000 --> 01:50:54.920
not in my head. I'm sure
there's stuff missing, which is easy since

1436
01:50:54.920 --> 01:50:58.720
Funk has been everywhere. I'll try
not to be a stranger and share more

1437
01:50:58.760 --> 01:51:00.960
stories from my thirty seven play.
This year's is the Fan. I look

1438
01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:02.840
forward to the Labs Fan every week, and I'm sure the Terry Funk journey

1439
01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:05.760
will be a memorable one. Thank
you for all the amazing content and keep

1440
01:51:05.920 --> 01:51:11.199
doing what you do. Can halt
it there? Thank you, Ann.

1441
01:51:11.279 --> 01:51:14.000
That's a great, great story.
I love that so much. That's so

1442
01:51:15.279 --> 01:51:16.760
That is good shit. It gives
me an extra texture on the Funker.

1443
01:51:16.840 --> 01:51:19.640
Yeah, I'm always going to picture
him eating a heaping plate of breakfast and

1444
01:51:19.720 --> 01:51:25.279
Providence now, oh fuck yeah absolutely. Neil writes to us Terry Funk and

1445
01:51:25.319 --> 01:51:29.960
the Boys of Summer co chairs between
total NonStop Hogan the Wrestler and Under the

1446
01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:31.840
Cinemat and now the passing of Terry
Funk the theme of twenty twenty three and

1447
01:51:31.840 --> 01:51:35.279
the lapsed fan has become the aging
Wrestler. It reminds me of one of

1448
01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:39.279
my favorite books, The Boys of
Summer by Roger Kahn pronounced like Con and

1449
01:51:39.319 --> 01:51:42.439
an ad to pro wrestling God,
was a junior beat reporter who covered the

1450
01:51:42.439 --> 01:51:45.760
Brooklyn Dodgers during their nineteen fifty two
and fifty three seasons. For the book,

1451
01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:47.319
he recounted those years in the first
part, but the vast majority of

1452
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:51.399
the book deals with the rocky and
often tragic aftermath of each player's career.

1453
01:51:51.439 --> 01:51:57.680
In nineteen seventy, before jumping to
seventy, Con wrote one of my favorite

1454
01:51:57.720 --> 01:52:04.439
passages, Unlike most, a ballplayer
must confront two deaths first, between the

1455
01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:09.439
ages of thirty and forty. He
perishes as an athlete, although he looks

1456
01:52:09.479 --> 01:52:13.600
trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual
coordination. The superlative reflexes, the major

1457
01:52:13.680 --> 01:52:17.199
League reflexes pass on at a point
when many of his classmates are newly confident

1458
01:52:17.279 --> 01:52:19.760
in rising in other fields, he
finds that he could no longer hit a

1459
01:52:19.880 --> 01:52:24.920
very good fastball or reach a ground
or four strides to his right. At

1460
01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:29.439
thirty five, he is experiencing the
truth of finality, as his major league

1461
01:52:29.479 --> 01:52:32.840
career is ending. All things will
end. However, he sprang, he

1462
01:52:33.000 --> 01:52:40.239
was always earth bound. Morality embraces
him pardon me, mortality embraces him.

1463
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:45.880
Mmmm ah more, morality would not
embrace at all. The Golden Age has

1464
01:52:45.000 --> 01:52:50.399
passed in a moment, so will
all things, So will all moments mm.

1465
01:52:51.159 --> 01:52:55.800
The second death condescribed as much worse
for wrestlers because they can work around

1466
01:52:55.840 --> 01:52:58.479
it. If you are a ballplayer, becomes clear to everyone when you can

1467
01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:00.600
no longer hit a twenty year old
fast, but a pro wrestler can be

1468
01:53:00.640 --> 01:53:04.520
protected even as their body and life
crumble around them if they enjoyed some degree

1469
01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:09.319
of national fame. You can beat
Greg Valentine in nineteen ninety seven WCW and

1470
01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:12.880
lumber around on the B and C
level shows, or Andre the Giant leaning

1471
01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:15.199
on the ropes in six man tag
matches in Japan. There is always the

1472
01:53:15.279 --> 01:53:18.399
sense with these past their prime wrestlers
that they are hiding from the fans.

1473
01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:23.279
Even when they are in full view. They preen and pretend that the realities

1474
01:53:23.279 --> 01:53:26.640
of their peak years are still in
effect, oblivious to what it means to

1475
01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:30.239
be a wrestler in the current climate. The veterans might argue that they provide

1476
01:53:30.239 --> 01:53:32.000
an escape to the past for older
fans, but make no mistake, the

1477
01:53:32.199 --> 01:53:40.520
escape is for the wrestler. The
escape is for the wrestler. That's right.

1478
01:53:41.199 --> 01:53:45.479
We sit here and say wrestling is
just an escape. Wrestling is an

1479
01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:50.319
escape for these wrestlers who fucking yes
will let up at a in an early

1480
01:53:50.399 --> 01:53:56.000
grave. If it wasn't for this
business. It's better to live Neil Wrights

1481
01:53:56.039 --> 01:54:00.239
in the bubble than venture into the
scary present. Put off the second death

1482
01:54:00.359 --> 01:54:04.520
until the first one comes to you. What made Terry Funk different, at

1483
01:54:04.600 --> 01:54:08.000
least the Terry Funk I knew when
I first watched him in the mid nineteen

1484
01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:10.720
nineties, was that he was one
of the few wrestlers who leaned into his

1485
01:54:10.880 --> 01:54:13.960
age and made it work in his
favor. A big part of it was

1486
01:54:14.000 --> 01:54:15.479
because, as many have pointed out
in tributes to the Funker, he never

1487
01:54:15.520 --> 01:54:18.640
had a set match with spots.
He would insist on working in every time

1488
01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:23.800
right. It have his go to
moves like the left jab or sometimes swinging

1489
01:54:23.840 --> 01:54:27.840
wildly at the air, but there
weren't specific sequences he latched onto. Think

1490
01:54:27.840 --> 01:54:30.319
of Ricky Steamboat always hitting his opponent's
knees on a standing splash to turn the

1491
01:54:30.399 --> 01:54:33.640
tide of the match. Because he
was a nimble wrestler, Funk could come

1492
01:54:33.680 --> 01:54:36.760
across as the wily veteran who adjusted
his game in the face of a changing

1493
01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:41.399
world. It made his struggle to
stay in wrestling compelling. While a lot

1494
01:54:41.439 --> 01:54:44.800
of his contemporaries tried to turn back
the clock and reach out towards the wrestling

1495
01:54:44.840 --> 01:54:46.920
they knew in their prime, Funk
was the type of guy who would learn

1496
01:54:46.960 --> 01:54:50.279
how to moon salts to the floor
or wrestle and barbed wire and explosives because

1497
01:54:50.279 --> 01:54:54.720
he knew the struggle was compelling.
Jim Cornett mentioned how we c W and

1498
01:54:54.760 --> 01:54:58.560
Paul Hayman reinvented Terry Funk into the
gentle elder statesman of wrestling, and that

1499
01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:02.119
it was that Funk that rivetted me
because he did talk about his age and

1500
01:55:02.399 --> 01:55:05.760
in his weariness, but despite those
limitations, he was still willing to do

1501
01:55:05.880 --> 01:55:09.760
what it took to hang with the
young guys coming up. How could you

1502
01:55:09.880 --> 01:55:13.760
not root for a man like this? The Funker never grew bitter in a

1503
01:55:13.840 --> 01:55:17.560
weird pseudo sport where you expected trash
modern day wrestlers. Once your body goes

1504
01:55:17.560 --> 01:55:21.239
and your mind starts to fog up, the idea of wrestling continuing after you

1505
01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:26.600
is a hateful thought. For most
veterans. Unlike CON's Boys of Summer,

1506
01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.680
Funk didn't retain his health past his
prime ring years. The injuries kept piling

1507
01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:32.880
up, and in the end his
mind went for long stretches. But it

1508
01:55:32.960 --> 01:55:38.079
was the Funker's embrace of his mortality, of the fans' ability to witness his

1509
01:55:38.199 --> 01:55:42.359
fight against decay and death, that
he knew would make him a legend.

1510
01:55:43.079 --> 01:55:46.239
Mmm. That's that fucking smoke.
That's that fucking mail bag. Thank you,

1511
01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:50.159
Neil, I appreciate that big fan, wonderful letter. We go now

1512
01:55:50.239 --> 01:56:02.359
to Shane's thoughts. Boss. Here
you go on the Funker. Dear gentlemen,

1513
01:56:02.399 --> 01:56:05.840
I hope it's not too late to
recall collections of meeting Terry Funk.

1514
01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:10.680
I've been listening to a LAPS fan
religiously for the best part of eight years,

1515
01:56:10.760 --> 01:56:14.119
but lately a lot has been going
on, so I have not had

1516
01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:15.560
the chance to catch up on the
latest episodes. All I know is that

1517
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:19.319
you two will provide an excellent tribute
show to the Funker, and I'd love

1518
01:56:19.399 --> 01:56:24.479
to tell you about the time I
met the man himself. It was about

1519
01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:27.720
four to five years ago, and
like any true wrestling fan, I had

1520
01:56:27.800 --> 01:56:33.159
my xx XL shirt T shirt T
shirt on, and I was on my

1521
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:39.279
way to meet and greet my hero, to meet and to a meet and

1522
01:56:39.359 --> 01:56:42.560
greet to meet my hero. That's
that's where it is. Terry was a

1523
01:56:42.600 --> 01:56:45.920
great guy and told me all kinds
of stories about being on the road in

1524
01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:53.840
a great match. You know.
One time, I remember, what does

1525
01:56:53.880 --> 01:56:56.159
he say, I'm being serious?
What is it? Yeah, I mean

1526
01:56:56.279 --> 01:57:00.239
I'm serious about this. I'm serious
about and I'm serious about this. You

1527
01:57:00.279 --> 01:57:01.680
know. One time I was on
the road, you know, I was

1528
01:57:01.760 --> 01:57:06.079
with Dunk and and and one time
we just kind of pulled over and and

1529
01:57:06.199 --> 01:57:11.720
just started rolling around the grass,
you know. And then and then I

1530
01:57:11.800 --> 01:57:16.039
got back in the car and Dunk
didn't fall on I just left and eventually

1531
01:57:16.119 --> 01:57:23.640
he ran back to wherever we were
going. Remember, laughs nervously. No,

1532
01:57:23.800 --> 01:57:27.960
you don't understand. I tried to
get rid of my brother. He's

1533
01:57:27.960 --> 01:57:31.439
a piece of shit. It doesn't
know where he is. If you ever

1534
01:57:31.479 --> 01:57:34.960
see him, tell him. Terry
wants him dead. If you ever see

1535
01:57:35.039 --> 01:57:46.880
him, I suggest you try to
kill him. Damn talking about suggest just

1536
01:57:47.119 --> 01:57:54.039
you're trying to kill him. Afterwards, I headed for dinner with my sister

1537
01:57:54.119 --> 01:57:57.159
and cousin and would you believe it, Terry Funk was at the same restaurant,

1538
01:57:57.239 --> 01:58:01.159
not only that, but would accidentally
give been given his table. Apparently

1539
01:58:01.199 --> 01:58:03.640
he was fond of the restaurant,
had a specific table he liked, and

1540
01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:06.800
the management had messed up and gotten
their days wrong. It was Tuesday and

1541
01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:10.760
they thought he was coming on Thursday
or something like that. Anyway, the

1542
01:58:10.840 --> 01:58:14.119
manager, completely embarrassed that this is
a pretty nice restaurant, comes by and

1543
01:58:14.199 --> 01:58:16.920
says, I'm so sorry, but
we'd like to move to another table if

1544
01:58:16.960 --> 01:58:19.800
you could be trumpled, and we
gladly accomplished you for the cost of the

1545
01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:24.880
meal and any other meal you'd like
while you're in town. My sister and

1546
01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:27.800
cousin and cousin were both like,
yeah, that's cool, and I kind

1547
01:58:27.840 --> 01:58:30.439
of played the asshole, but I'm
sorry. I just don't understand. We've

1548
01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:32.520
been here for fifteen minutes, we've
just ordered. Can we finish our meal

1549
01:58:32.560 --> 01:58:35.920
here? Then out of nowhere,
Terry Funk shows up next to the manager

1550
01:58:35.960 --> 01:58:39.600
and says, Paul, these guys
can finish, We'll be at the bar.

1551
01:58:39.720 --> 01:58:45.199
I got some time, and I
bet yeah, yeah, We've we've

1552
01:58:45.239 --> 01:58:47.920
done this one before. Oh,
Wow, I had no idea. Please

1553
01:58:47.960 --> 01:58:51.199
feel free to give them the table. Terry was grateful, shook my hand

1554
01:58:51.239 --> 01:58:55.239
and said thanks, then gave me
a card with his number on it and

1555
01:58:55.359 --> 01:58:59.159
told me to give him a call
later. And working up the nerve,

1556
01:58:59.319 --> 01:59:00.680
I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short,

1557
01:59:00.720 --> 01:59:10.640
we had a glorious She'll never forget
our bodies in from the Beauty of

1558
01:59:10.720 --> 01:59:15.840
Morocco to the French trip of the
Snortling in the Galpagos, Terry Funk and

1559
01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:18.560
I made glorious gay love to each
other on six of the seven continents.

1560
01:59:19.159 --> 01:59:21.920
Oh man, I guess the Vince
texts did leag in their entires there we

1561
01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:25.640
go. Yes, uh, Shane's
like, I want to get this in

1562
01:59:25.720 --> 01:59:28.960
and they're gonna read it not even
know. Yeah, sorry to disappoint,

1563
01:59:29.000 --> 01:59:30.560
but thanks for the letter. Pal. Yep, we know. Jordan.

1564
01:59:31.560 --> 01:59:34.239
I can't remember the first time I
saw Terry Funk. It was probably his

1565
01:59:34.359 --> 01:59:38.960
match against Hogan on Saturday Night's main
event. We're getting pushed through a window

1566
01:59:39.000 --> 01:59:42.239
by Sylvester Stallone. But I can
definitely tell you when I fell in love

1567
01:59:42.279 --> 01:59:47.439
with Terry Funk. We were in
the Galapagano nineteen eighty nine was such a

1568
01:59:47.479 --> 01:59:50.199
great year for wrestling, especially in
the NWA. It was the peak of

1569
01:59:50.279 --> 01:59:55.239
Rick Flair and he just completed a
trilogy of masterpieces with Ricky Steamboat. Without

1570
01:59:55.239 --> 01:59:58.239
even taking a literal breath. He
was fending off another challenger for his newly

1571
01:59:58.279 --> 02:00:00.920
won title, Terry Funk. I
watched the book ends of the Steamboat Feued

1572
02:00:00.960 --> 02:00:05.479
live with my dad and we were
fixed as Terry pled his case desperately for

1573
02:00:05.560 --> 02:00:09.640
a match against Flair. We felt
bad for Funk. It was almost pathetic.

1574
02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:12.479
I didn't know then what I know
now that a hurt Funk, a

1575
02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:15.720
desperate Funk, is a dangerous animal. What he did to Flair in the

1576
02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:18.760
aftermath of that interview didn't look planned, didn't look pro wrestling. Terry Funk

1577
02:00:18.840 --> 02:00:21.520
was real. At the time,
I loved Rick Flair. My dad said

1578
02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:25.199
it was because I respected him,
but I still couldn't take my eyes away

1579
02:00:25.239 --> 02:00:29.520
from the beating Flair took. Terry
Funk was mesmerizing in his violence. But

1580
02:00:29.600 --> 02:00:31.560
it was the next month that Terry
Funk became etched into my memory forever.

1581
02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:35.039
In June of eighty nine, he
cut the Beautiful Dream promo on Ric Flair,

1582
02:00:35.279 --> 02:00:40.159
where he turned the mannic fervor down
just enough to become even more menacing.

1583
02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:44.079
After describing a bizarre scene involving a
donkey and a broken fender, Funk

1584
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:46.039
got serious and stared down the camera, screaming, well, let me tell

1585
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:48.600
you something, Ric Flair. You
look at me in the eye, because

1586
02:00:48.640 --> 02:00:51.960
I am looking at you. You
realize that you must live not in the

1587
02:00:53.000 --> 02:00:56.319
future, because there is none.
You must live in the past. Give

1588
02:00:56.399 --> 02:00:59.159
up that belt or else, stick
your neck out one more time for me.

1589
02:00:59.640 --> 02:01:02.000
Stick it out for me, Flair. Yes, I had chills.

1590
02:01:02.039 --> 02:01:05.640
The man wasn't acting. They forgot
to tell Terry Funk wrestling wasn't real.

1591
02:01:06.560 --> 02:01:10.439
He was insane and fearless. And
I loved him so much that I sat

1592
02:01:10.479 --> 02:01:13.199
down and wrote him a letter,
an actual letter, and my dad mailed

1593
02:01:13.239 --> 02:01:15.560
it to the Double Cross Ranch,
or so he told me. Whether my

1594
02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:19.119
dad did or didn't doesn't matter,
though I hope he did. I truly

1595
02:01:19.159 --> 02:01:21.840
hope Terry Funk saw my letter in
the summer of nineteen eighty nine and knew

1596
02:01:21.840 --> 02:01:25.319
that on that day and every day
since, he had one more person in

1597
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:30.159
his corner. Recommended matches Terry versus
Jumbo nineteen seventy two, that the Funks

1598
02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:33.600
had a large hand and training Jumbo
helps explain the chemistry here. These two

1599
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:39.039
put on a technical chess match that
demonstrates both Funks in ring mastery and his

1600
02:01:39.159 --> 02:01:43.560
ability to guide a young prodigy.
Dorry and Terry versus Brody and Hanson nineteen

1601
02:01:43.600 --> 02:01:45.680
eighty two. These four had plenty
of classics, but this is my favorite,

1602
02:01:45.720 --> 02:01:49.439
possibly the bloodiest of the lot.
It's pure savage fun. Flair and

1603
02:01:49.479 --> 02:01:54.479
Sting verse Mooden Funk eighty nine.
This Thunderdome match is insane and so much

1604
02:01:54.560 --> 02:01:58.079
fun. Flair and Funk continue their
blood feud while Mooda and Sting more than

1605
02:01:58.159 --> 02:02:01.079
keep up their end. That's the
conclusion, Thanks Jordan, great little list

1606
02:02:01.159 --> 02:02:05.520
there. One day we'll get to
Halloween Havoc eighty nine. Yep, have

1607
02:02:05.640 --> 02:02:10.319
we not? I don't think we
did have a eighty nine. No,

1608
02:02:11.159 --> 02:02:15.079
let's see, isn't that kind of
that's where we're at now? Oh?

1609
02:02:15.159 --> 02:02:20.399
Yeah, I know, yeah,
we did Halloween Havoc ninety. Okay,

1610
02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:26.199
because Halloween Havoc eighty nine is the
one where the top of the cage lights

1611
02:02:26.239 --> 02:02:28.439
on fire, as they have,
I don't know why I could have sworn

1612
02:02:28.479 --> 02:02:34.560
and we've done it. The Pyro
accident, road Warriors over skyscrapers, Luga

1613
02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:42.800
versus pillman. Usually a quick look
at what I'm looking at right here tells

1614
02:02:42.840 --> 02:02:45.119
me if we did it, and
I don't think we did. We did

1615
02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:50.279
eighty nine great American Bash, for
sure, and again we did ninety havoc

1616
02:02:50.359 --> 02:02:58.039
but not eighty nine. Okay,
eighty nine, so very good. Let's

1617
02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:00.399
see what's next here. Over to
Patrick on phil Rights, I totally lost

1618
02:03:00.479 --> 02:03:06.319
my shit on quote Dusty identified as
being from both Hamburg and Frankfurt, AH,

1619
02:03:06.720 --> 02:03:15.439
and Dusty identifies as being from a
Hamburg B's, Frankfurt C Steak and

1620
02:03:15.520 --> 02:03:23.119
Cheese speaking of Philly. Yes,
that's right. I mean it's great stuff.

1621
02:03:23.760 --> 02:03:26.840
Give it to me. These little
moments that people on Patreon are highlighting,

1622
02:03:27.079 --> 02:03:30.279
kind of bookmarking for us, just
such a service they're providing and they

1623
02:03:30.279 --> 02:03:32.720
don't even realize it. Mm hmmm. It's here from Elijah Boss, he

1624
02:03:32.800 --> 02:03:41.840
writes, Terry Funk, the man, the Legend to the co chairs.

1625
02:03:41.880 --> 02:03:45.439
I write this letter first off as
a thanks to keeping up and giving it

1626
02:03:45.560 --> 02:03:48.119
to us hard. And secondly,
when I heard you were doing a tribute

1627
02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:51.199
to one of the wildest bastards in
the history of the sport of kings.

1628
02:03:51.760 --> 02:03:56.920
I had to share my thoughts.
I'll never forget my first time watching Funk.

1629
02:03:57.000 --> 02:04:00.680
It was in e c W back
in late ninety six. Caught a

1630
02:04:00.720 --> 02:04:05.000
glipse of this wild man, but
it more of a treating of but more

1631
02:04:05.039 --> 02:04:10.600
of treating him like the legend he
is. What made me a fan for

1632
02:04:10.720 --> 02:04:15.840
life was the Shotgun Saturday Night episode
before the nineteen ninety seven rumble. Early

1633
02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:19.640
Shotgun is wild to look back upon, but Terry being Terry, took it

1634
02:04:19.720 --> 02:04:25.199
to a level that blew my young
mind apart. Here's this legend calling Todd

1635
02:04:25.279 --> 02:04:30.359
Pettengill's mother a whore. He calls
Vince a Yankee bastard, and j R.

1636
02:04:30.520 --> 02:04:34.439
Got it too, for he was
an oky asshole and he said this

1637
02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:40.680
on Broadcast TV New York fifty five
was the station. Holy fuck, this

1638
02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:45.479
guy is awesome. I thought,
between that and ECW on WWE TV that

1639
02:04:45.640 --> 02:04:49.000
got me to watch Barely Legal,
the first ECW pay per view, and

1640
02:04:49.119 --> 02:04:54.319
on that night I knew that Terry
Funk is going to take it two levels

1641
02:04:54.399 --> 02:05:00.800
beyond anybody else before or after could
not even approach That's why I've always enjoyed

1642
02:05:00.840 --> 02:05:06.279
when the Old Coat ever appeared.
There was going to be some unforgettable insanity

1643
02:05:06.600 --> 02:05:12.399
that only he could bring. Funny
enough between that and this in his attempt

1644
02:05:12.840 --> 02:05:16.359
attempted suffocation of flair on WCW,
he might be the only guy whose actions

1645
02:05:16.399 --> 02:05:20.359
got the WWWW in trouble with their
networks. Keep it up, guys,

1646
02:05:20.399 --> 02:05:24.479
and thanks for all you do,
and I know you'll do Terry justice.

1647
02:05:24.520 --> 02:05:29.680
From insulting Dusty to telling others like
Meltzer how good all Japan women's wrestling was,

1648
02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:34.159
to getting choke slammed off his sneakers, he did it all. Indeed.

1649
02:05:35.239 --> 02:05:42.239
Indeed, Polly cautiously writing on Patreon
reminding us that apparently something we said

1650
02:05:42.239 --> 02:05:45.159
along the way is the following quote, all of a sudden my pants fell

1651
02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:51.279
down and I didn't have a penis
anymore. Sounds about right. Yes,

1652
02:05:51.359 --> 02:06:01.079
Indeed, a man writing some great
stuff, I want a head he Zach

1653
02:06:01.119 --> 02:06:04.359
says, it's a fall tradition to
almost choke on something pumpkin spice each fall.

1654
02:06:04.439 --> 02:06:09.640
Listening to that cast to twenty twenty
three was the line at two hours,

1655
02:06:09.680 --> 02:06:18.840
twenty minutes, make him sunk his
own cock Oh Jesus, Chrissy out

1656
02:06:18.880 --> 02:06:23.159
there, Zach. And the food
was pumpkin spice frosted mini wheats. So

1657
02:06:23.439 --> 02:06:27.359
that's right. Officially, fall is
here. That's amazing, he writes,

1658
02:06:27.359 --> 02:06:30.800
speaking of hair and skin tone,
Dory always reminded me of the crypt keeper.

1659
02:06:34.239 --> 02:06:36.720
I can see that, And he
writes, no journey has made me

1660
02:06:36.800 --> 02:06:41.600
more staunchly lapsed and more depressed for
what wrestling is now than the lapsed funk.

1661
02:06:42.000 --> 02:06:44.840
Goddamn to be alive. When the
Carnies would go to these lengths to

1662
02:06:44.880 --> 02:06:48.119
trick you into thinking it's legit to
people who say AW is a better alternative

1663
02:06:48.279 --> 02:06:51.399
WWE that respects the business of wrestling
more, how can you get your counter

1664
02:06:51.520 --> 02:06:56.159
to wrestling's history? How can you
get more counter, he writes, to

1665
02:06:56.199 --> 02:07:00.239
wrestling's history than having press conferences going
over the acting. They all do that

1666
02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:03.560
in fairness, but yeah, that's
definitely an unwelcome development, you know.

1667
02:07:04.399 --> 02:07:11.279
Yeah, try to channel Diana White
in a Carney business poly cautiously. Also

1668
02:07:11.319 --> 02:07:14.560
write, the lighter your bank account, the less your knees ache. That

1669
02:07:15.199 --> 02:07:17.079
you love that line. I love
that line. That one came up many

1670
02:07:17.159 --> 02:07:23.039
times. Oh so good. Dean
makes a great point on Patreon. At

1671
02:07:23.079 --> 02:07:30.600
Boy's Ranch, the boys were underaged
and crazy. Well that's not wrong.

1672
02:07:30.800 --> 02:07:33.399
Polly cautiously also writes, Dennis stamp
is the uncle you don't want to accidentally

1673
02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:39.039
sit next to a Thanksgiving I mean, he's a nice guy at all.

1674
02:07:39.439 --> 02:07:43.640
Brought the hot dish. He is
in Minnesota. Guy brought the hot dish,

1675
02:07:43.680 --> 02:07:46.119
and it has noodles, cheese,
cream of mushroom, green beans and

1676
02:07:46.159 --> 02:07:49.720
frenches onion strings and corn flakes on
top. But he'll tell you the same

1677
02:07:49.800 --> 02:07:55.880
stories about seeing Lurch in an airport
once, just as last year and the

1678
02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:58.600
years before. And can I tell
you about the time I saw Lurch?

1679
02:07:58.680 --> 02:08:01.279
Did I tell you about that?
Well, let me tell you again.

1680
02:08:01.720 --> 02:08:05.640
Oh God, Dennis, I thought
by saying yes, you wouldn't The next

1681
02:08:05.720 --> 02:08:09.840
year, I'm gonna try. No. Well, I mean the thing about

1682
02:08:09.880 --> 02:08:13.199
the Luch story is that there's so
many layers to it, and you can

1683
02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:15.680
find it on each time. Yeah, and I'm always left in the lurch.

1684
02:08:16.479 --> 02:08:18.399
The year after that, I'm gonna
try Dennis tell the story and everybody

1685
02:08:18.479 --> 02:08:24.000
dies. That's what it has to
come to. Well, I think I

1686
02:08:24.119 --> 02:08:28.159
might have to tell a story again. Just gotta keep telling is Paul Wright

1687
02:08:30.039 --> 02:08:31.760
telling on myself. You have to
pretend you never heard it before because it

1688
02:08:31.840 --> 02:08:35.479
might be his last holiday season.
That's right, that's right. That wasn't

1689
02:08:35.479 --> 02:08:39.960
the case for any members of the
Solar System. As twenty twenty three became

1690
02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:43.359
twenty twenty four. Haystacks rights,
I think it's safe to assume that the

1691
02:08:43.359 --> 02:08:46.960
anecdote about drinking beer while riding an
oil pump refers to writing a pump jacky.

1692
02:08:48.119 --> 02:08:50.399
This must have been some reference he
made. Terry Funk made it a

1693
02:08:50.439 --> 02:08:54.560
promo we listened to. This is
from the very beginning into the ring episode.

1694
02:08:56.319 --> 02:09:00.239
Okay, he says these slow moving
oil field pumps resembled kicking donkey when

1695
02:09:00.239 --> 02:09:03.279
they're in operation. So one of
those Texas isms coming out of the mouth

1696
02:09:03.319 --> 02:09:07.039
of the Funker over the course of
the years. Haystacks also rights, you

1697
02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:09.600
really love how this Funk tribute journey
is organically filling out the picture of Texas

1698
02:09:09.720 --> 02:09:15.039
Territorial wrestling. While we await the
iron Claw before the Lapschunk moves on to

1699
02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:18.359
bigger and better things. That's so
true. Like ye, this was such

1700
02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:22.119
an opposite side of the coin from
what we thought Texas wrestling was as scenes

1701
02:09:22.479 --> 02:09:28.119
on Erics, it became very apparent
to me as the episodes turned that what

1702
02:09:28.239 --> 02:09:33.760
Fritz wanted was the funks lifestyle.
He will the funk success. You know,

1703
02:09:33.239 --> 02:09:35.359
he wanted to be Dorry, and
he wanted his sons to be Terror,

1704
02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:37.800
to be Doriy senior, and he
wanted his sons to be Terry and

1705
02:09:37.880 --> 02:09:41.479
Dorry Junior. I mean that's what
it was. The blueprint was right there,

1706
02:09:41.560 --> 02:09:46.000
right across the state from him.
Yep. Stephen writes, I love

1707
02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:50.880
how the Laps Funk tribute has turned
into being Terry Funks fucking turn well.

1708
02:09:50.520 --> 02:09:54.359
Hm hmm, it happens. It
has to happen, always happens. Yep.

1709
02:09:54.880 --> 02:09:58.520
Jim Rocca writes on Patreon doctor to
Terry, Terry, your knee is

1710
02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:03.399
degenerate into powder and you need a
knee replacement, Terry. So, let

1711
02:10:03.439 --> 02:10:05.000
me go ahead and ask you a
question. If I don't do anything,

1712
02:10:05.359 --> 02:10:09.439
can I go ahead and live comfortably? If I don't do anything, am

1713
02:10:09.479 --> 02:10:18.159
I going to be okay? No? Well, if I don't do anything,

1714
02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:22.600
let me ask you like this,
If I don't do anything, can

1715
02:10:22.680 --> 02:10:28.479
I still eat dinner? Well?
That that would be something, wouldn't it,

1716
02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:33.399
Terry? I guess. Okay,
if I if I again and just

1717
02:10:33.560 --> 02:10:39.600
bear with me, will I be
able to actually go to sleep? I

1718
02:10:39.680 --> 02:10:43.159
mean I suppose, I suppose you'll
be in a lot of pain. I

1719
02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:48.119
didn't ask that. Don't go off
on crazy detours and distractions. I'm not

1720
02:10:48.239 --> 02:10:50.920
here to tell you. You know, we're going to keep the straight and

1721
02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:54.159
narrow, all right, We're not
going off on this direction that direction.

1722
02:10:54.640 --> 02:11:01.000
I'm asking you simple questions. I
want simple answers. Nick writes, I

1723
02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:05.279
feel like the co chairs glossed over
this because they are so desensitized to how

1724
02:11:05.319 --> 02:11:07.199
wrestlers behave. But I think we
need to pause and reflect on the fact

1725
02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:11.359
that Dennis Stamp was talking to the
mother of a child who had one month

1726
02:11:11.439 --> 02:11:13.319
to live, and he needs her
to know that he wrestled the World champ.

1727
02:11:16.600 --> 02:11:20.760
He could not allow another second to
go by with her potentially thinking that

1728
02:11:20.840 --> 02:11:24.720
he was just some nobody wrestler.
That's a yeah, that was a very

1729
02:11:24.800 --> 02:11:31.840
touching moment during the course of the
Lapsed Fan as this is the Jersey ll

1730
02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:41.239
Pro show that we talked about.
Okay, you know I don't remember.

1731
02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:46.600
Actually, let me med be doubly
sure here because it would be be a

1732
02:11:46.760 --> 02:11:58.479
tough slog if we've already conveyed this
sentiment, let's see here. Okay,

1733
02:11:58.119 --> 02:12:03.520
Yeah, that's that's the uh,
the great message that we got from Tom

1734
02:12:03.600 --> 02:12:07.479
drive you, which we were conveyed
of meeting Terry Funk at a Jersey El

1735
02:12:07.560 --> 02:12:09.399
Pro show in two thousand and three
and sort of already starting to notice the

1736
02:12:09.479 --> 02:12:15.479
shakes and yeah and those things.
So that's available on the final episode of

1737
02:12:15.520 --> 02:12:18.600
The Lapsed Funk Hull. Cogan writes
on Patreon. I don't know. I

1738
02:12:18.680 --> 02:12:24.520
think we hate school is kind of
fire. Terry's got bars. I mean

1739
02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:31.399
we hate school rock and roll.
Yeah, we hate school. I mean

1740
02:12:31.880 --> 02:12:35.319
I still remember it. Yep.
I'll say that for it. Yep,

1741
02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:41.880
yep. Carla writes regarding Japanese cowboys, I like to presume Japanese people get

1742
02:12:41.880 --> 02:12:46.279
the same incredulous astonishment at the Caucasian
mustache man sense running his martial arts class

1743
02:12:46.359 --> 02:12:50.560
for kids in full costume without irony. Isn't that true? Yes, everybody's

1744
02:12:50.640 --> 02:12:56.079
Chuck Norris and American karate gyms.
Rus writes, well, I went ahead,

1745
02:12:56.119 --> 02:12:58.279
and I decided to go ahead,
and just went ahead and went ahead.

1746
02:13:00.000 --> 02:13:03.600
I want to head, I want
ahead ahead of this ahead of that,

1747
02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:09.079
And I'll tell you I just I
just kept I just kept going ahead

1748
02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:13.239
of the eight ball. And you
know, dad eating eating turkey head and

1749
02:13:13.920 --> 02:13:20.880
what smoked fish head? And uh, you know, I kept telling I

1750
02:13:20.960 --> 02:13:26.880
kept telling Roman Reigns that I am
the head of the table. I'm actually

1751
02:13:26.079 --> 02:13:30.199
I'm actually ahead of the tablet hit
him in the head, but I want

1752
02:13:30.199 --> 02:13:31.439
to hit him with the head of
the head of the table. Ship.

1753
02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:41.000
Yeah, ahead of the table.
It's probably a good Philly. I went

1754
02:13:41.079 --> 02:13:48.920
ahead of the table. The head
of the table, shouldn't he I'm ahead

1755
02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:50.920
of the table. Yeah, I
want ahead of the table. Steve right

1756
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:54.960
to the cowboy fascination in Japan,
it's even more amazing. We talked about

1757
02:13:54.960 --> 02:14:01.680
this in the Japanese the funking in
Japan episodes of The Last The Cowboy fascination

1758
02:14:01.840 --> 02:14:05.079
is even more amazing when you consider
westerns like The Magnificent Seven, we're just

1759
02:14:05.199 --> 02:14:09.279
westernized remakes of Samurai films. That's
a good point. It's a very good

1760
02:14:09.319 --> 02:14:11.840
point. Actually. What you like
about that, well, that that that

1761
02:14:13.119 --> 02:14:16.840
because the the you know, you
forget that that movies like that. You

1762
02:14:16.920 --> 02:14:22.760
know, Magnificent seven is the seven
Samurai. But just told in American Western

1763
02:14:22.880 --> 02:14:28.319
style. Yeah, you know that's
a that's very interesting. Yeah, we

1764
02:14:28.399 --> 02:14:31.720
were noodling on, you know,
this apparent cultural phenomenon of the Japanese dressing

1765
02:14:31.800 --> 02:14:35.640
like American Western cowboys and themed bars
and things like that, and we saw

1766
02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:39.479
but it's really a flip of the
flip of the coin. There's a reason

1767
02:14:39.560 --> 02:14:43.720
it speaks to them. Auntie writes, A boss singing raw Hide is a

1768
02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:50.560
top tier moment. I'd have to
put that coin into the jukebox. Raw

1769
02:14:50.600 --> 02:15:00.840
Hide, raw Can I ask you
a question? Yes, you do?

1770
02:15:00.920 --> 02:15:03.960
Kamala again. I don't do these
kind of things after but I've been walking

1771
02:15:05.039 --> 02:15:09.680
around doing it to myself for days
now. It's it's the best one.

1772
02:15:46.840 --> 02:15:54.960
It's so stupid. It's so stupid, Like, oh god, I does

1773
02:15:54.039 --> 02:16:00.800
that speak to the fan? You
know? Oh? I could listen to

1774
02:16:00.840 --> 02:16:11.920
that all day just walking around laundry. Oh, we need you to bring

1775
02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:16.680
the passion at punchline, Philly.
Oh, absolutely, like Michael Bolton out

1776
02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.640
there. Oh fuck yah, Bruce
writes, fucked up realization here. Kenny

1777
02:16:20.640 --> 02:16:24.119
Omega is older right now than Abdullah
was in the matches we watched in All

1778
02:16:24.199 --> 02:16:28.079
Japan. Oh my god. Also
fucked up. Abby is the one that

1779
02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:31.800
is alive between Terry and him,
and that the truth. Neil writes,

1780
02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:33.360
what's great about Dory is he really
goes after you in the ring, keeps

1781
02:16:33.360 --> 02:16:37.760
his opponent in the clinch, and
doesn't really bail or separate that often always

1782
02:16:37.159 --> 02:16:39.840
looking for a way to hit you
and get your shoulders down. But I

1783
02:16:39.879 --> 02:16:43.479
get the feeling of style was much
better live than on TV. Terry had

1784
02:16:43.520 --> 02:16:46.680
the tools to connect to a television
audience. I think it's a good point.

1785
02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:48.600
And people have said about working with
Dunk that like, you don't see

1786
02:16:48.639 --> 02:16:52.440
that forearm coming and it can smash
you. You know, he's not in

1787
02:16:52.559 --> 02:16:56.159
there. He's not in there trying
to look anything but totally credible and tight.

1788
02:16:56.479 --> 02:17:01.159
And I think we grew in appreciation
for that the tag matches we watched

1789
02:17:01.520 --> 02:17:03.120
over the course of Oh for Sure, and that match with ANOK too,

1790
02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:07.639
Dorry one on one with an Nooke
with Terry at ringside and the young Terry.

1791
02:17:07.799 --> 02:17:11.040
Christopher writes, and Marilla not unlike
the AWA is a territory where people

1792
02:17:11.040 --> 02:17:16.719
are quietly insane, quoting us where
people quietly insane, it's still early,

1793
02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:20.840
Christopher wrote, But is it too
much to ask that Rod Tronguard call it

1794
02:17:20.959 --> 02:17:26.000
Terry Funk match. Oh never got
there. I don't think he ever did

1795
02:17:26.159 --> 02:17:30.639
call it Terry Funk match. Joe
writes, I think Dorry Junior was what

1796
02:17:30.719 --> 02:17:33.079
a champion really looked like to Middle
America at the time, quiet and humble.

1797
02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:37.840
Bad guys were loud and obnoxious.
Yeah, we talked about whether Dorry

1798
02:17:37.840 --> 02:17:43.520
had that look. Well, you
know, I kept telling Terry Fongki that

1799
02:17:43.680 --> 02:17:48.399
I am, well, I'm just
doing the best that I can as a

1800
02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:54.840
champion, and you never know,
you never know really what it is that

1801
02:17:54.360 --> 02:18:00.120
makes the appeal of a champion,
but you never know what it is is

1802
02:18:00.159 --> 02:18:05.319
that that I that someone can bring. You just do the best that you

1803
02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:11.200
can and hopefully you never understand what
it is that you brought to the table,

1804
02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:15.239
because if you understand what brought to
the table, then then somebody else

1805
02:18:15.360 --> 02:18:18.000
can and then what right, what
good is it? What good is that?

1806
02:18:20.000 --> 02:18:22.200
Said? Hopefully you can hopefully you
never understand what you brought to the

1807
02:18:22.280 --> 02:18:28.520
table. I mean, is he
having like leadership seminars with this kind of

1808
02:18:28.680 --> 02:18:39.520
high level thinking? I am,
and I always wish that I had participated

1809
02:18:39.600 --> 02:18:43.120
like Terry Funk did my brother Terry
Funk did in a royal rumble. I

1810
02:18:43.200 --> 02:18:48.600
never got there in the nineteen ny
six rumbledory. Huh you were in the

1811
02:18:48.680 --> 02:18:52.159
nineteen ninety six one in Fresno.
I think you might be mistaken. I

1812
02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:56.600
have no recollection of that. You
know, these things happen. We all

1813
02:18:56.680 --> 02:19:05.440
make mistakes, okay. Thanks.
That's like tell someone they're wrong with something

1814
02:19:05.520 --> 02:19:09.559
that's totally, verifiably right, and
then you say it's okay. We all

1815
02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:16.719
make mistakes before they can even express
any remorse for being wrong. What a

1816
02:19:16.840 --> 02:19:24.600
mind fuck this is for your dor. Sean wrote, who'd think that lapsed

1817
02:19:24.760 --> 02:19:31.360
Jack Briscoe would be a revelation as
fun times man? Oh yeah. Sean

1818
02:19:31.399 --> 02:19:35.479
also writes two degrees of paranoia.
Hogan is frantically back against the wall,

1819
02:19:35.639 --> 02:19:39.479
checking the blinds for the yakuza.
What However, Stan Hansen, who we

1820
02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:43.799
talked a lot about, is cool, calm and collected, but also informing

1821
02:19:43.879 --> 02:19:48.879
Hogan during breakfast that the Yakuza have
been fluoridating the water supply to pollute our

1822
02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:52.760
precious bodily fluids. What do you
mean, dude? Well, you know,

1823
02:19:52.920 --> 02:19:54.120
Terry, there's not a lot to
be afraid of. We're in good

1824
02:19:54.200 --> 02:19:58.360
hands and we're being watched over carefully. We're very important to the country and

1825
02:19:58.520 --> 02:20:01.000
the promoters. I just, you
know, in terms of the water,

1826
02:20:01.159 --> 02:20:03.399
that's the only thing, you know. I heard a lot about it and

1827
02:20:03.639 --> 02:20:07.920
it really stuck in my cross.
Dude, what do you mean the water

1828
02:20:07.680 --> 02:20:11.799
when you're in your hotel, Terry? I just recommend that you you stay

1829
02:20:11.840 --> 02:20:15.040
away from the water, that's all. I wouldn't drink it, I'm not.

1830
02:20:15.559 --> 02:20:20.040
I wouldn't even shower with it,
frankly to shower this morning, Terry.

1831
02:20:20.760 --> 02:20:26.000
Who it's got? The water's floridated
and it's what do you mean Florida

1832
02:20:26.079 --> 02:20:30.319
basically designed to make all men sterile? Solly boys, are you saying?

1833
02:20:30.399 --> 02:20:35.319
Brother? Are you saying that Florida
made sterile? Dude? What's Florida said?

1834
02:20:35.319 --> 02:20:39.399
It's Florida? Dude? What who
in Florida is eyeing? Mean?

1835
02:20:39.479 --> 02:20:50.159
Brother? What's h do you hear
that? Oh? I know, I

1836
02:20:50.200 --> 02:20:54.879
can't say I do what What do
you hear? What? What do you

1837
02:20:54.000 --> 02:21:00.840
hear? Brother? I told don't
hear anything. What can't hear me either?

1838
02:21:01.239 --> 02:21:05.879
This is going well? Must be
that Florida floridated water? What m

1839
02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:16.200
floridation? What do you are you
saying Florida is being sung to the ocean?

1840
02:21:16.280 --> 02:21:20.079
Dude? Is that what you said? I didn't say that, but

1841
02:21:20.120 --> 02:21:24.239
it's true. Terry brother. You
are you trying to climate change for your

1842
02:21:24.239 --> 02:21:28.280
brother? Are you? I just
want to get things clear, brother,

1843
02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:39.040
have you? Are you saying that
climate change? Brother? What about my

1844
02:21:39.200 --> 02:21:43.120
Tan? Right? Do CO two
stand for? About brother? I mean?

1845
02:21:43.319 --> 02:21:50.079
What about the General Tan? Dude? General General? Didn't he lead

1846
02:21:50.159 --> 02:22:09.399
a Cambodia into the battle? That's
General Tan? Got it? Got it?

1847
02:22:11.600 --> 02:22:16.479
What you know about General Tan?
Nothing? Nothing? Either way?

1848
02:22:16.520 --> 02:22:20.000
That would be the name of a
Tanning booth like North Korea, General Tan

1849
02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:26.639
like it's It has to be as
fucking generic and straightforward as it or they'd

1850
02:22:26.680 --> 02:22:37.120
shut it down. General Tan.
Food stand, restaurant, cheese dispensary,

1851
02:22:39.680 --> 02:22:46.319
Oh fuck, probably cheese, A
wonderful the wonderfully named patron. Probably enchiladas.

1852
02:22:46.440 --> 02:22:52.680
Right, I'm gonna go ahead and
uh get out of bed and uh

1853
02:22:52.200 --> 02:22:56.120
walk to the shed and then uh
get myself fed. Great way to start

1854
02:22:56.159 --> 02:23:00.360
the mornings, funk style. That's
it. That's what you gotta do.

1855
02:23:00.440 --> 02:23:09.760
Steve Wright's I've read a couple sticking
the mad, Sticking the med sticking the

1856
02:23:09.840 --> 02:23:15.159
mud. What Steve Wrights. I've
read a couple of stories that backs up

1857
02:23:15.159 --> 02:23:18.200
the co chairs view on Dorry at
the convention. Dory would be in all

1858
02:23:18.239 --> 02:23:20.280
these back room meetings with the big
promoters. Meanwhile, Terry would wind up

1859
02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:24.879
and heck all the same promoters during
their speeches during the convention. And if

1860
02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:28.239
Boss is interested, there is an
excellent Jack Briscoe Roddy Piper feud from the

1861
02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:31.239
early eighties from mid Atlantic that's worth
a look on the network. So yeah,

1862
02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:33.120
put that in our in our back
pockets. Yeah, yeah, that

1863
02:23:33.280 --> 02:23:37.239
was That's he's talking about the NBA
conventions, where Terry would be, you

1864
02:23:37.319 --> 02:23:41.760
know, actively working the crowd,
and Dorry would be like just this non

1865
02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:46.319
this non entity, this sort of
wallflower. Yeah. Neil Wright's Paranoia Power

1866
02:23:46.360 --> 02:23:50.600
rankings for the Lapsed Funk number one, Stan Hansen number two, Jack Briscoe,

1867
02:23:50.680 --> 02:23:58.639
number three, Dorry Junior. It's
a compelling little idea there, you

1868
02:23:58.760 --> 02:24:01.959
said. Matt pointed out a great
tweet. It says, I don't know,

1869
02:24:01.280 --> 02:24:03.520
it wasn't directed at us, but
it was out there and it was

1870
02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:09.399
it was. It was interesting in
Japan when I Sam from Texas, everyone

1871
02:24:09.440 --> 02:24:13.680
asks me about Terry Funk, but
I have to admit I have no idea

1872
02:24:13.760 --> 02:24:18.040
who this guy is. Wow.
Just some anonymous person out there tweeted that,

1873
02:24:18.920 --> 02:24:24.520
Oh, that's spectactuar. Extremely telling
as we talked about what Funk meant

1874
02:24:24.520 --> 02:24:26.680
to that nation during the course of
the lapsed Funk Mike writes on Patreon,

1875
02:24:26.719 --> 02:24:31.120
the NBA World Champion in nineteen seventy
four couldn't have a Burger in the room.

1876
02:24:31.440 --> 02:24:35.120
He had to settle for a Bologney
in the room. Perhaps bloney blow

1877
02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:39.399
out. Probably, Chris writes,
someone better than me needs to do an

1878
02:24:39.440 --> 02:24:43.680
AI painting of the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving
with Stehn helen Hart serving the turkey,

1879
02:24:43.760 --> 02:24:48.719
with Terry Funk attacking the cat in
the salad bowl, and a different picture

1880
02:24:48.719 --> 02:24:52.200
of all the talents under Terry's learning
tree. Maybe Terry is an ent from

1881
02:24:52.280 --> 02:24:56.399
Lord of the Rings. That's funny. Zach writes, TLF has unquashably taught

1882
02:24:56.479 --> 02:25:01.239
us if there is another wrestling royal
family at most, certainly the Funks,

1883
02:25:01.360 --> 02:25:05.079
not the Rhads is oo shots fired. Adam writes not to be confused with

1884
02:25:05.159 --> 02:25:13.079
Sylvester Ritter, who was the pastry
sucking dog eighty X three. That's a

1885
02:25:13.159 --> 02:25:20.079
winner, He writes a timecode down
and this is on the episode I Hate

1886
02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:22.879
You Lawler as we look at the
Jerry Lawler feud and lapsed Funk, he

1887
02:25:22.959 --> 02:25:28.559
writes at one twenty three twenty aspiring
artists, instead of going into lifelong debt

1888
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:33.239
to study your chosen media at university, drop out and listen to Terry Funk's

1889
02:25:33.239 --> 02:25:39.280
speech at that time period. For
those who are are curious, pd rights

1890
02:25:39.319 --> 02:25:43.280
that Barbara Streisand's no song that Terry
Cutt has been stuck in my head for

1891
02:25:43.360 --> 02:25:46.600
the past two days. It's as
it should be. It's a fascinating album.

1892
02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:52.319
Pop it is, Paul writes,
speak bizarre, bizarre, speaking of

1893
02:25:52.440 --> 02:25:56.040
Mick making Funk callbacks. In their
empty Arena match, the Rock throws a

1894
02:25:56.079 --> 02:26:01.000
bull of salsa and Foley's face,
causing him to the ground, screaming my

1895
02:26:01.120 --> 02:26:03.879
eye. I've forgot about that.
Oh God, my eye. And in

1896
02:26:03.959 --> 02:26:07.840
the Funker's credit it was much more
absurd as the Rock than grabs a chip

1897
02:26:07.920 --> 02:26:11.319
scoop salsa from mix I and says, what are you crying about? It's

1898
02:26:11.399 --> 02:26:18.680
mild, that's funny. They should
do another halftime heat. Oh yeah,

1899
02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:22.399
they totally should. I'd love to
see this. Hey Stax writes, If

1900
02:26:22.440 --> 02:26:24.399
listening to the lapsed Funk is considered
eating vegetables, I think I'm ready to

1901
02:26:24.479 --> 02:26:28.120
go vegan. There we go.
If the Funker didn't know who the real

1902
02:26:28.280 --> 02:26:31.639
Terry Funk was, from what I've
heard so far, it seems like he's

1903
02:26:31.680 --> 02:26:35.360
the only one who knew, and
you and you and us were just getting

1904
02:26:35.440 --> 02:26:39.719
perpetually worked. Wow, who the
real Terry was? It's a thought to

1905
02:26:39.799 --> 02:26:43.600
consider. It's a thought to consider. Phil Wrights just woke to see another

1906
02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:48.200
slice of Funk from my oral pleasure, still reeling from Terry repeatedly calling Jerry

1907
02:26:48.239 --> 02:26:52.559
Lawler a baby banger. The fact
that this is one hundred percent accurate is

1908
02:26:52.559 --> 02:26:56.079
of course totally normal in a no
way inappropriate, not at all. Philip

1909
02:26:56.120 --> 02:26:58.920
also writes, being from Britain,
a country with the significant Pakstini population,

1910
02:27:00.120 --> 02:27:03.239
Yes, I'm very glad that that
thing we inadvertently referred to that is a

1911
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:09.879
slur for people of Pakistani descent.
Yea and Britain. We have no idea,

1912
02:27:09.959 --> 02:27:13.600
but Funk just straight up says it
in his book. So we learn

1913
02:27:13.680 --> 02:27:18.239
every day here, that's for sure. Are A Ronaldi writes, imagine Hulk's

1914
02:27:18.239 --> 02:27:20.079
face when he calls to apologize and
Vicky Funk says, Oh, he doesn't

1915
02:27:20.120 --> 02:27:24.079
want to talk to you. He's
going to kill you. What that is?

1916
02:27:26.159 --> 02:27:30.920
I mean, I think my husband's
fearless, and that's the truth.

1917
02:27:33.520 --> 02:27:37.440
We fearless. I'm just looking to
talk to Terry's either there brother? Who's

1918
02:27:37.479 --> 02:27:41.959
Terry? A lot of these multiple
terries lately. I'm not what's going on

1919
02:27:41.079 --> 02:27:45.760
here, Terry Funk, Terry Brother, Terry Cross, who's next, Terry

1920
02:27:45.799 --> 02:27:48.000
Taylor brother? I mean, you
talked to Terry Sapinsky, Vicky? Who's

1921
02:27:48.120 --> 02:27:52.280
Vicky? Why is Terry Taylor even
here? Broke? Why do you bring

1922
02:27:52.399 --> 02:27:54.559
up Terry Taylor? Vicky? I
didn't say anything about that, Hulk do?

1923
02:27:54.760 --> 02:28:00.760
I want to understand why? What
the slowest thing down? Let's go

1924
02:28:00.799 --> 02:28:03.600
stop by. I got the time, you got the time. Let's let's

1925
02:28:03.680 --> 02:28:07.120
really walk through this in a way. We both had him on the same

1926
02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:09.879
page, Okay, Vicky, I
want to know exactly what the fuck is

1927
02:28:09.959 --> 02:28:22.000
going and which Terry is the real
Terry Brother? Huh do you know?

1928
02:28:22.760 --> 02:28:26.760
Do you know which? Because as
far as I know, dude, Terry

1929
02:28:26.399 --> 02:28:30.479
Hulk Hogan is a real Terry brother
Terry on the line right now, Vicky

1930
02:28:30.959 --> 02:28:35.760
is do you've been on the lote? Have you been? Have you been

1931
02:28:35.840 --> 02:28:39.319
fucking with me? Terry? Terry? Is this Vicky Funk? Or Vicky

1932
02:28:39.399 --> 02:28:46.319
ask you? Is this Vicky Guerrero? What is going on? Brother?

1933
02:28:46.559 --> 02:28:54.520
Where are we? WHOA? I
gotta go? I got it? The

1934
02:28:54.920 --> 02:28:58.360
Vicky has said not a word for
fifty seconds, not a word. What

1935
02:29:00.200 --> 02:29:05.040
h He's waiting for dial tone to
see if she hung up, but he

1936
02:29:05.079 --> 02:29:07.719
doesn't want to assume she hung up
and hung up? Hang up first?

1937
02:29:09.399 --> 02:29:43.799
Did you yeah? Yeahhhh? Where
or what? Yeah? Uh oh exactly

1938
02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:52.120
that's such a such a listless,
weak little horrified terrified who sits there?

1939
02:29:54.360 --> 02:30:00.479
Terrence? Terrence. Also, if
Oliverourne could could have yep, Terry,

1940
02:30:00.559 --> 02:30:01.920
then Hansen came in a year later, he might have had a fighting chance.

1941
02:30:03.000 --> 02:30:05.719
Yeah, that had been something Hogan
versus harrys of the w A wow,

1942
02:30:05.920 --> 02:30:09.959
it's not thought about enough. Yes. The great letter from Jacob,

1943
02:30:09.040 --> 02:30:13.600
which we shared on the show,
Neil writes the McMahon's love Cowboy Heels Watts,

1944
02:30:13.799 --> 02:30:18.280
Hanson, Funk, Bob Orton,
Junior jbl. It feels like it's

1945
02:30:18.360 --> 02:30:22.719
tapping into an East Coast sentiment.
That's interesting, Steve writes, I still

1946
02:30:22.719 --> 02:30:24.920
love from a few weeks ago on
that cast that cowboy Bill Watts complained about

1947
02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:28.639
Terry Funk being a fucking gimmick.
Yeah, that's an under explored part of

1948
02:30:28.680 --> 02:30:31.280
that. Like, what's up with
Bill Watts not liking Terry Funk. There's

1949
02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:35.719
got to be more to that story. Yeah, right, David writes,

1950
02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:37.479
I want you to know that because
of TLF, I'm calling my sister's new

1951
02:30:37.559 --> 02:30:46.319
dog Perry parents. That's very highly
appropriate. Yes, Steve writes, I

1952
02:30:46.440 --> 02:30:50.879
imagined upon meeting hul Cogan that Dory
Junior was incredibly confused and distressed that there

1953
02:30:50.920 --> 02:30:54.840
were multiple Terry's that were not his
brother, while Hogan was suspicious of his

1954
02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:58.840
behavior as it seemed like the sort
of thing the roll up artists he had

1955
02:30:58.879 --> 02:31:03.040
been warned of do to get behind
him to grab his torch. Mmm,

1956
02:31:03.440 --> 02:31:09.959
multiple Terry's brother. We didn't even
say anything about Terry Garvin. That's do

1957
02:31:13.440 --> 02:31:18.280
you have to I love this thought, Boss. Chocolate equals Detrimentat wrote this,

1958
02:31:18.479 --> 02:31:22.760
this, this, this makes it
all worth it, extremely comforting,

1959
02:31:22.799 --> 02:31:24.520
he writes, to wake up on
a Friday morning to hear the eggs sucking

1960
02:31:24.600 --> 02:31:31.000
intro as I make coffee. Yes, Carla writes, we're living the Funker.

1961
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:33.479
That's his charm and his golden gimmick. That smile. He can cut

1962
02:31:33.520 --> 02:31:35.840
a man open, bite his wound
and spit out blood, throw the whole

1963
02:31:35.879 --> 02:31:41.719
world in absolute chaos, cut psychotic
and insane promos. Then that smile just

1964
02:31:41.000 --> 02:31:50.040
washes everything away. It's wonderful.
Mmmm. A stacks lapsed Funk is multiple

1965
02:31:50.079 --> 02:31:52.639
listen worthy, even his new episodes
drop. If this is all going to

1966
02:31:52.760 --> 02:31:56.360
culminate in the coach chairman going ahead
and proclaiming the Funker the undisputed goat,

1967
02:31:56.799 --> 02:32:00.719
I can imagine him responding by giving
a tip of the hat from somewhere on

1968
02:32:00.799 --> 02:32:03.040
that big ranch up in the sky
and saying, you know, uh,

1969
02:32:03.440 --> 02:32:05.760
Jack and JP, that's just wonderful, followed by a twinklelied wink and a

1970
02:32:05.879 --> 02:32:09.840
ry smile at closing wink and smile, indicating of course, that he still

1971
02:32:09.920 --> 02:32:16.600
knows something you don't. That's right, I mean we didn't make the determination.

1972
02:32:16.719 --> 02:32:20.479
I mean, what do you think
greatest of all time? Yeah?

1973
02:32:20.920 --> 02:32:24.520
I think it's I think it's safe
to say I think I think, honest

1974
02:32:24.559 --> 02:32:28.280
to God, when and when you
consider when you consider all the the the

1975
02:32:28.559 --> 02:32:33.639
the different wrestlers that he impacted,
when you consider the longevity of the career,

1976
02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:43.920
the multitude of decades, it's like, I don't know my my my

1977
02:32:43.120 --> 02:32:54.920
only my only, like say,
like h drawback would be of course,

1978
02:32:56.079 --> 02:33:01.360
like it's like it's weird, like
we would you consider him to be a

1979
02:33:03.680 --> 02:33:09.799
significant TV draw. Yeah, when
he was in WCW in eighty nine,

1980
02:33:09.520 --> 02:33:13.520
he did do like that clash match
remarkably high rating, one of the highest

1981
02:33:13.600 --> 02:33:18.760
ratings ever for a cable television match. But the thing about his US career

1982
02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:22.520
is he was never really in a
position to draw a television rating as we

1983
02:33:22.520 --> 02:33:26.040
think, right, right, Certainly
the main event Seria's main event match with

1984
02:33:26.079 --> 02:33:30.520
Hulk Cogan was big numbers. But
I struggle to say that any other opponent

1985
02:33:30.600 --> 02:33:33.280
would have done more or less against
Hogan. I mean that was just you

1986
02:33:33.360 --> 02:33:37.000
know, right, That's just an
era where you were just the guy being

1987
02:33:37.040 --> 02:33:39.040
fed to Hogan next, and it
was hard to tell your value apart from

1988
02:33:39.760 --> 02:33:43.000
what Hogan kind of gave you as
a as a as a base right number.

1989
02:33:43.799 --> 02:33:46.600
But I mean, geez, But
that also is to say that it's

1990
02:33:46.639 --> 02:33:50.799
not like you can point to his
television numbers against Flair and Hogan and say

1991
02:33:50.840 --> 02:33:54.520
that the guy wasn't a draw.
You absolutely have. Yeah, no,

1992
02:33:54.680 --> 02:33:56.479
I know, like it's just it's
it's a it's a weird thing because he

1993
02:33:56.600 --> 02:34:01.559
wasn't like put in the position to
to to do it himself, you know,

1994
02:34:01.719 --> 02:34:03.639
right in a way where you can
clearly assign credit to him. But

1995
02:34:03.760 --> 02:34:07.239
even when he was on Raw in
ninety seven and ninety eight in particular,

1996
02:34:07.360 --> 02:34:11.079
I mean hugely rated segments, but
that's cross currents with the fully Austin stuff.

1997
02:34:11.120 --> 02:34:15.959
So it's like right, right,
but you know all the you know,

1998
02:34:16.040 --> 02:34:18.840
the New Age Outlaws angle the night
after WrestleMania fourteen, it's like he

1999
02:34:20.040 --> 02:34:24.840
just yeah, he can only be
there in the soup for so many significant

2000
02:34:24.840 --> 02:34:26.280
moments before you start to realize that, like, no, this isn't just

2001
02:34:26.479 --> 02:34:31.159
an accident, This isn't He's not
just a He's not just a character that's

2002
02:34:31.200 --> 02:34:35.520
there by chance. It happens too
many times. He puts himself in these

2003
02:34:35.559 --> 02:34:43.280
positions in ways that are sort of
I think that compel promoters to feature him

2004
02:34:43.399 --> 02:34:46.559
in things that are gonna draw money
without even really intending for him to be

2005
02:34:46.639 --> 02:34:52.440
the money drawing part of it.
Yet he's always that extra spice that guarantees

2006
02:34:52.479 --> 02:34:56.680
it's gonna work. He's that reliable
guy that has the instincts that you know,

2007
02:34:56.840 --> 02:35:00.600
this might be a shit idea,
but the best possible version it is

2008
02:35:00.719 --> 02:35:03.000
the version with Terry Funk involved playing
to his strength, right, you know,

2009
02:35:03.239 --> 02:35:07.120
right, that was his stock in
trade, and like you said,

2010
02:35:07.280 --> 02:35:11.520
very very observantly, you know WCW
and WWF and the Attitude era, they

2011
02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:15.440
brought him in when shit was tough. They brought him in when he felt

2012
02:35:15.440 --> 02:35:18.000
like the a lot of options or
you know, when the phone rang.

2013
02:35:18.000 --> 02:35:20.200
He knew WCW was in trouble,
like he said in two thousand, right,

2014
02:35:22.719 --> 02:35:26.280
But just just the level of draw
he was in all Japan and the

2015
02:35:26.360 --> 02:35:31.879
crowd he drew for ONEITA for a
non Big two Japanese wrestling event at Kawasaki

2016
02:35:31.920 --> 02:35:35.399
Stadium in nineteen ninety three. I
mean, all the signs are there if

2017
02:35:35.440 --> 02:35:39.920
you care to see him, that
this guy could really draw draw a crowd.

2018
02:35:41.440 --> 02:35:45.319
But he spent so much time doing
so many definitive things for his story

2019
02:35:45.360 --> 02:35:48.760
in ECW, where these venues were
kind of you know, they were going

2020
02:35:48.799 --> 02:35:52.040
to basically sell the same amount of
tickets no matter who was on the card.

2021
02:35:52.520 --> 02:35:56.760
They didn't really try to aggressively run
buildings that would test the outer limits

2022
02:35:56.799 --> 02:35:58.520
of how many tickets they could sell. You know, we talked about that

2023
02:36:00.079 --> 02:36:03.319
or in the course of the journey
how Paul was extremely conservative about going to

2024
02:36:03.360 --> 02:36:07.840
bigger buildings, even when ECW was
at its hottest. He'd much rather have

2025
02:36:07.959 --> 02:36:11.559
like a sold out small house than
learn the hard way that they can't draw

2026
02:36:11.600 --> 02:36:13.000
up more for five thousand people,
you know, something like that, which

2027
02:36:13.040 --> 02:36:16.360
they probably could have done, but
there were so many limited opportunities to see

2028
02:36:16.360 --> 02:36:20.920
that proven. They're disproven. I
think the pay per views always did well.

2029
02:36:20.000 --> 02:36:24.799
I mean, certainly he was on
top of the first show Barely Legal,

2030
02:36:24.840 --> 02:36:28.159
which was the success. So I
can't think of a metric where it's

2031
02:36:28.159 --> 02:36:30.959
like, yeah, but you know, look at that and you can tell

2032
02:36:31.000 --> 02:36:33.879
I guess the WCW ratings when he
was there in two thousand, but those

2033
02:36:33.920 --> 02:36:37.639
were hopeless anyway, And I'm not
sure I didn't do a close analysis,

2034
02:36:37.680 --> 02:36:41.600
but it actually wouldn't surprise me to
see that when Terry did come in for

2035
02:36:41.680 --> 02:36:45.319
that first Nitro of two thousand,
that it did a better number than Nitro

2036
02:36:45.440 --> 02:36:50.319
had been doing by maybe a smidge. I mean, Russo did do well,

2037
02:36:50.959 --> 02:36:54.399
didn't do exceptionally well, but he
did do well in November December ninety

2038
02:36:54.479 --> 02:36:56.840
nine when he first got his hands
on the book, in WW and October

2039
02:36:56.879 --> 02:36:58.879
as well, right, But a
lot of that was because Nitro dropped him

2040
02:36:58.879 --> 02:37:01.399
through to two hours, so there
was one less hour to throw off the

2041
02:37:01.440 --> 02:37:05.000
average comparing you were comparing it to
a time period where Nitros on the air

2042
02:37:05.079 --> 02:37:09.079
for three hours, So there are
a couple of numbers in there where it's

2043
02:37:09.079 --> 02:37:11.399
like, yeah, that's an increase, but it's just as much because there

2044
02:37:11.479 --> 02:37:16.879
wasn't a diluted third hour in play. Necessarily, you have to keep that

2045
02:37:16.959 --> 02:37:20.680
in mind. But no, man, I don't know as far as goat.

2046
02:37:20.760 --> 02:37:26.159
I mean, I can see the
case. He's got things in his

2047
02:37:26.280 --> 02:37:30.959
resume that nobody else will have the
same collection of Yeah, yeah, you

2048
02:37:31.040 --> 02:37:35.079
know, everything he did, someone
else did, but nobody did all of

2049
02:37:35.159 --> 02:37:39.159
them in as many places right,
and had the downstream effect on any wrestler

2050
02:37:39.239 --> 02:37:46.120
that's worth a shit for the past
fifty years. That's just such a unique

2051
02:37:46.479 --> 02:37:50.520
attribute that he has it nobody else
has. So I gotta say, yes,

2052
02:37:50.840 --> 02:37:52.479
I got to say he's the greatest
of all time. I think,

2053
02:37:52.600 --> 02:37:58.319
I think, I think if Flair
was arguing in certain ways, for sure,

2054
02:37:58.399 --> 02:38:05.520
Flair has got I think I think
if Flair. The thing that I

2055
02:38:05.600 --> 02:38:16.680
think makes Flair different than Funk,
and the the one thing that he has

2056
02:38:16.879 --> 02:38:22.200
going for like that I think would
would made him, would make him the

2057
02:38:22.319 --> 02:38:26.200
greatest, is the television aspect of
it, the week to week, the

2058
02:38:26.280 --> 02:38:39.680
regular television. The thing that Funk
has is the significance that he had over

2059
02:38:41.319 --> 02:38:48.479
five decades. Absolutely, that's the
difference. Flair did not have the significance

2060
02:38:48.399 --> 02:38:54.120
for that many that long, right, like real significance, And there's many

2061
02:38:54.159 --> 02:38:58.559
diverse circumstances, right. You know, Funk had a chance to prove that

2062
02:38:58.680 --> 02:39:01.799
he could be relevant in a million
different styles of promotion. But Flair,

2063
02:39:03.280 --> 02:39:05.559
no, he didn't have to do
that. So he never really had the

2064
02:39:05.680 --> 02:39:07.719
chance to. He didn't have to. He did later in his career.

2065
02:39:07.760 --> 02:39:09.600
He did start bumping on thumb tacks
and shit, I mean not to suggest

2066
02:39:09.680 --> 02:39:13.319
that's all I'm talking about, but
he definitely pushed out of his comfort zone

2067
02:39:13.360 --> 02:39:18.319
like way later in his career and
showed that he could do the modern spectacle

2068
02:39:18.399 --> 02:39:22.000
style matches. It's like he couldn't
do them, but it was I don't

2069
02:39:22.000 --> 02:39:26.000
know that he didn't embody them.
I think what Terry did that nobody else

2070
02:39:26.200 --> 02:39:31.600
was able to do was kind of
like express the full range of what the

2071
02:39:31.680 --> 02:39:35.520
business can be in one human being. Whereas everybody else, as great as

2072
02:39:35.559 --> 02:39:37.799
they might be that I can think
of, that might be in contention for

2073
02:39:37.920 --> 02:39:43.520
Goat, they just illustrated one or
two things about the business at the highest

2074
02:39:43.600 --> 02:39:46.639
level, and that was enough for
them. It's it's not a market against

2075
02:39:46.680 --> 02:39:50.559
them that they didn't also try to
prove themselves as promoters, try to prove

2076
02:39:50.600 --> 02:39:54.360
themselves as bookers, try to prove
themselves as extreme hardcore wrestlers, try to

2077
02:39:54.399 --> 02:39:56.360
prove themselves as someone that can get
a promotion off its ass, as somebody

2078
02:39:56.360 --> 02:39:58.920
that can motivate a locker room that
could create a new generation of talent.

2079
02:40:00.360 --> 02:40:03.159
That's certainly know. Sean Michaels would
cite Ric Flair as a foundational influence,

2080
02:40:03.239 --> 02:40:07.399
just like somebody wrestlers cited, including
Ric Flair Tory Funk in that same way.

2081
02:40:07.920 --> 02:40:09.959
But it's just it's not even close. I mean, Terry Funk was

2082
02:40:11.079 --> 02:40:15.719
every single attribute of every single great
wrestler you can think about wrapped into one.

2083
02:40:15.799 --> 02:40:18.719
Yep, yeap, just you can't. No one had the option to

2084
02:40:18.799 --> 02:40:22.159
be as great as he was,
let alone execute as well as he did

2085
02:40:22.239 --> 02:40:28.520
with you know, on all those
different fronts. Chocolate equals detriment and detriment

2086
02:40:28.600 --> 02:40:31.000
also writes, go ahead is some
kind of Texas affect. This is interesting.

2087
02:40:31.760 --> 02:40:35.399
I had a brain dead, dipshit
middle school coach science teacher who also

2088
02:40:35.559 --> 02:40:41.680
used go ahead as a verbal crutch. Wow. And you know, I

2089
02:40:41.719 --> 02:40:43.120
don't think of it as a crutch
with Terry uses it. I think of

2090
02:40:43.200 --> 02:40:48.280
it more as like a way to
like almost make everything you say sound folksy

2091
02:40:48.360 --> 02:40:52.719
and almost unassuming and unright, you
know what I mean? Unoffensive? Yeah?

2092
02:40:52.760 --> 02:40:56.280
You know. Yeah. Cromas Lamb
writes, here's a fun fact from

2093
02:40:56.280 --> 02:41:00.360
the LJN archives. As we talked
a lot about LJN when we talk about

2094
02:41:00.600 --> 02:41:05.200
Terry Funk and WWF, did you
know Terry Funk was the only individual figure

2095
02:41:05.239 --> 02:41:07.239
that came with two accessories. He
had the hat and the branding iron.

2096
02:41:07.799 --> 02:41:11.719
Wow. I remember as a kid
that branding iron was a major part of

2097
02:41:11.719 --> 02:41:15.639
the gimmick. We're keeping that alive, aren't we, boss, Yeah,

2098
02:41:15.680 --> 02:41:18.799
we are indeed Jason Wrights laps Jim
Hurd with the gun named it Terry's Balls

2099
02:41:20.680 --> 02:41:26.680
as me dead. What about Terry? What? Ronaldi writes the Pittsburgh Area

2100
02:41:26.719 --> 02:41:30.879
Arena, you're thinking it was the
Golden Dome that was a venue or ecw

2101
02:41:31.360 --> 02:41:33.280
try to punch above its weight and
draw a bigger, bigger crowd. That

2102
02:41:33.399 --> 02:41:35.479
was on the device of Shane Douglas, who knew the area. Well,

2103
02:41:35.959 --> 02:41:39.120
it probably seats two or three thousand. Rinaldi Rights. They would also run

2104
02:41:39.120 --> 02:41:41.440
the ice gardens, which is even
bigger. I went to a show there

2105
02:41:41.479 --> 02:41:45.879
that my uncle got kicked out over
sneaking beers into and they had to tell

2106
02:41:45.920 --> 02:41:50.200
my grandfather to put out a cigar
like four times, great times, Paul

2107
02:41:50.239 --> 02:41:52.600
writes eighty nine. A lot of
unusual things happened to me that year.

2108
02:41:52.680 --> 02:41:56.200
Broke my back, got abducted by
aliens, ad a sandwich, spotted big

2109
02:41:56.239 --> 02:41:58.959
Foot on the ranch, mode my
front lawn, shot at Chukabarra stub Mottee.

2110
02:42:00.639 --> 02:42:05.200
Not to mention funk I had some
had some diarrhea. Yeah, yeah,

2111
02:42:05.239 --> 02:42:07.760
that was that one year he had
diarrhea. That's right. I just

2112
02:42:07.760 --> 02:42:09.760
couldn't help myself, just said,
hey, this is the way it's got

2113
02:42:09.840 --> 02:42:13.559
to be. And I just said, you know what, the squirts are

2114
02:42:13.559 --> 02:42:18.280
coming out the sports are there fucking
hell taking care of business. To mention

2115
02:42:18.399 --> 02:42:22.120
Funk's selling while screaming a specific thing
happening to a body part is god tear

2116
02:42:22.440 --> 02:42:26.280
Maha, I'm blinded, or my
leg is breaking. My mom is broken.

2117
02:42:26.479 --> 02:42:31.959
Up there with flaars aye God,
Paula submits, so right up there

2118
02:42:31.000 --> 02:42:37.520
in that van ah my Ah Teddy
quoted lapsed Funk, well, I don't

2119
02:42:37.559 --> 02:42:39.719
know where I'm at. I hurt
my ribs. I can't do it.

2120
02:42:39.799 --> 02:42:41.120
I want ahead and try, but
I want to ahead and couldn't do it.

2121
02:42:43.280 --> 02:42:45.360
I want ahead and decided, you
know what, I'm not going to

2122
02:42:45.440 --> 02:42:50.719
try anymore. Zach writes, I
do like ECW from the mid nineties,

2123
02:42:50.879 --> 02:42:54.120
but in hindsight, they did start
a type of wrestling that felt like contrived

2124
02:42:54.159 --> 02:42:58.440
spots more than trying to actually win
a wrestling match. It's a fair point,

2125
02:43:00.120 --> 02:43:03.479
very fair. The great Tom Mattanacio
DeReKo chairman. I hope you're both

2126
02:43:03.520 --> 02:43:05.479
having a relaxing holiday. I just
wanted to note that Terry Funk's alliance with

2127
02:43:05.559 --> 02:43:11.799
the Rottens in ECW, Funks few
good men might qualify a few good men

2128
02:43:11.879 --> 02:43:16.120
for cinemat treatment. Part of the
gimmick was the Rockings always did what Terry

2129
02:43:16.159 --> 02:43:20.559
told them to do, similar to
Colonel Jessop's argument that Marines do it's ordered,

2130
02:43:20.639 --> 02:43:24.959
no matter what is ordered, the
code read and all that. I

2131
02:43:24.079 --> 02:43:26.959
think that's a little bit of a
stretch, but he said anyway, it

2132
02:43:26.040 --> 02:43:28.360
might be a stretch, but it's
something to consider. So you're saying,

2133
02:43:28.479 --> 02:43:35.360
nay, qualifying a few good men
under the cinemat Listen, listen, I

2134
02:43:35.520 --> 02:43:37.239
want a few good men to qualify. Why do you want it to qualify

2135
02:43:37.479 --> 02:43:43.200
because I want to get into Aaron
Sorkin. Yes, and I would have

2136
02:43:43.360 --> 02:43:46.200
liked just exactly. Nash would love
it. Nash would appreciate it. But

2137
02:43:46.719 --> 02:43:52.799
I just don't. I don't know. I have to investigate the situation more,

2138
02:43:52.920 --> 02:43:58.239
the wrestling situation more. Yeah,
but when we were doing the Terry

2139
02:43:58.280 --> 02:44:01.600
and Dory versus Public againemy and those
tag team Barber matches, and when Terry

2140
02:44:01.680 --> 02:44:05.399
first brought Dory into the territory,
it was around that time when actually,

2141
02:44:05.440 --> 02:44:09.159
if you good men already qualifies anyway, Oh yeah, that's fine. Oh

2142
02:44:09.280 --> 02:44:13.120
yeah, Well there's a guy there's
a there is there is a there's a

2143
02:44:13.639 --> 02:44:20.319
man uh a wrestler by the name
of Brad jacob Witz, Jacob Jacobowitz.

2144
02:44:20.440 --> 02:44:28.360
Jacobbowitz must be Jacobowitz, who has
been an extra in hundreds of movies,

2145
02:44:30.520 --> 02:44:33.920
so that qualifies it and not a
Terry Funk stable in ec W. Yeah.

2146
02:44:35.520 --> 02:44:37.719
Interesting, Well, I don't know, I'd have to I'd have to

2147
02:44:37.760 --> 02:44:39.639
look at the stable. I don't
have to get to if we ever get

2148
02:44:39.680 --> 02:44:45.280
there, is it like is it
really? Is it really like based on

2149
02:44:45.399 --> 02:44:48.200
a few good men? Or is
it just the angles to decide for yourself.

2150
02:44:48.479 --> 02:44:52.079
Tom provides a helpful link to some
hardcore TV episodes, So all right,

2151
02:44:52.120 --> 02:44:54.000
I'll take a look. But it
sounds like that's where they drew their

2152
02:44:54.040 --> 02:44:58.680
inspiration. Very interesting. Corey writes
in terms of moon salts, it was

2153
02:44:58.719 --> 02:45:03.760
disc that Mudo was like Terry's inspiration
in eighty nine to do the moon salts.

2154
02:45:03.959 --> 02:45:05.559
Likely Lenny Poffo, and that's a
good point. Was doing them in

2155
02:45:05.680 --> 02:45:09.799
WWF and eighty five and likely before
Latin other territories. I when Heart did

2156
02:45:09.840 --> 02:45:11.920
them in Stampede all the time.
I'd have to check his years, but

2157
02:45:11.959 --> 02:45:13.520
probably eighty six eighty seven or sooner. Plus I'm sure there are a lot

2158
02:45:13.559 --> 02:45:16.879
a ton of other guys that did
them. Mudas looked the coolest and BAWCW

2159
02:45:18.000 --> 02:45:20.159
missed the boat on a babyface mooda
run in eighty nine to ninety. That's

2160
02:45:20.200 --> 02:45:24.680
absolutely the case. Chavo Guerrero too
was moonsalting in the early eighties, I

2161
02:45:24.680 --> 02:45:30.760
think, even earlier than Wow Andy
Poffo. So it was it was cross

2162
02:45:30.840 --> 02:45:33.399
bodies though, that was the thing. It was. You would do it

2163
02:45:33.440 --> 02:45:37.479
to standing opponents, which to me
was a little less absolutely fucking nuts than

2164
02:45:37.559 --> 02:45:41.239
doing one to a opponent flat on
his back, especially at Terry Funk's age.

2165
02:45:41.319 --> 02:45:43.040
But Steve writes, if this journey
has taught me anything it is that

2166
02:45:43.120 --> 02:45:46.559
Dorry Junior has called people and got
into arguments with their answering machines because he

2167
02:45:46.600 --> 02:45:52.840
thought they kept talking over him.
Dan writes, we used to bring the

2168
02:45:52.879 --> 02:45:56.360
craziest things for the fans, bring
the weapons matches in ECW. Dan remembers

2169
02:45:56.399 --> 02:45:58.840
this ECW did two house shows in
my old stomping grounds of Woodbridge, and

2170
02:46:00.559 --> 02:46:03.120
the first time I stole a German
language class textbook from the high school and

2171
02:46:03.200 --> 02:46:07.559
turn that in for fans. Bring
the weapons. Funnily enough, my German

2172
02:46:07.600 --> 02:46:09.760
teacher was at the show with his
kids. The second time, I took

2173
02:46:09.799 --> 02:46:13.399
this carousel horse from the bulk garbage
loading dock at the mall I worked out

2174
02:46:13.440 --> 02:46:16.559
in those days. The mall had
a carousel, and I guess this one,

2175
02:46:16.559 --> 02:46:18.200
a particular horse was busted or something, so I loaded it into my

2176
02:46:18.319 --> 02:46:24.079
car for the sole purpose of b
fbtw at his fans bring the weapons for

2177
02:46:24.159 --> 02:46:28.399
ECW. I had to explain to
my father why I had this carousel horse

2178
02:46:28.479 --> 02:46:31.159
in his garage, and I'm sure
he thought I was a complete nutcase when

2179
02:46:31.200 --> 02:46:35.280
I did. This thing was probably
four foot long and fifty to sixty pounds.

2180
02:46:35.319 --> 02:46:39.840
Imagine, oh, my good brings
this to a ECW show. Imagine

2181
02:46:39.840 --> 02:46:43.319
my disappointment at seventeen, eighteen years
old when none of my plunder was used.

2182
02:46:43.399 --> 02:46:45.600
Yeah. I don't know what you
expect them to do with a sixty

2183
02:46:45.639 --> 02:46:48.440
pound gimmick like that, but yeah, a for effort. Clarkson writes,

2184
02:46:48.520 --> 02:46:50.959
Listen, I'm walking around my house
sing and I want to add to the

2185
02:46:52.000 --> 02:46:56.879
tune of I saw the sign from
Masive bass Ah when Ahead O. When

2186
02:46:58.040 --> 02:47:01.479
I had a when Ahead I hate
is what happens when the show. Are

2187
02:47:01.559 --> 02:47:07.079
you proud of yourselves? Ahead?
I ate myself? Hey, yes we

2188
02:47:07.159 --> 02:47:13.000
are Clarkson ahwhen Hey JW writes I'm
in that Terry funk WWF wheelhouse. As

2189
02:47:13.079 --> 02:47:16.520
things get imprinted, I even remember
Hogan's promo for the local show at Horizon

2190
02:47:16.600 --> 02:47:20.120
describing him as the terrible Terry Funk
or maybe the not so terrible Terry Funk.

2191
02:47:20.200 --> 02:47:22.479
There we go, that's more like
it. I paraphrase because I was

2192
02:47:22.520 --> 02:47:24.959
eight and haven't seen it in forty
years. I liked Heels because I'm a

2193
02:47:26.000 --> 02:47:28.440
parah, although Hogan will probably call
him the terrible Terry Funk because give me

2194
02:47:28.479 --> 02:47:35.319
a based on him thinking that multi
million dollars itself, you know, Oh

2195
02:47:35.399 --> 02:47:39.559
my god, I paraphrase because I
was eight and haven't seen it forty years.

2196
02:47:39.600 --> 02:47:41.440
I liked Heels because I'm a pariah. And I remember to liking Funk

2197
02:47:41.600 --> 02:47:45.719
and then being sorely disappointed that Ron
Bass was kind of lame. Has Funk

2198
02:47:45.840 --> 02:47:48.159
need Dorry will always be his name
to me. And I loved your vignette.

2199
02:47:48.159 --> 02:47:50.920
I guess where Vince went to Texas
to legally change his name just to

2200
02:47:52.000 --> 02:47:56.120
humiliate him. Yes, I never
forgot about that. I could care less

2201
02:47:56.120 --> 02:47:58.000
about him. But Terry was a
hoot to this kid. Yeap, Yes,

2202
02:47:58.040 --> 02:48:01.520
indeed, that's that's how Funk is
remembered by so many. I think

2203
02:48:01.520 --> 02:48:05.799
the way he describes there. Christopher
Wright's Last Man Standing was a Bruce Willis

2204
02:48:05.879 --> 02:48:07.760
movie that was released the weekend of
September twenty second, eighty ninety six.

2205
02:48:07.799 --> 02:48:11.200
Why did this come up? A
re make of the Western Fistful of Dollars,

2206
02:48:11.239 --> 02:48:15.079
which is a pre a remake of
the samurai movie Yo Jimbo. The

2207
02:48:15.079 --> 02:48:20.920
Bruce Willis movie was updated to Oh, this is because because it was written

2208
02:48:20.079 --> 02:48:22.879
that that he was going to make
this this, Oh, the Bruce Willis

2209
02:48:24.280 --> 02:48:28.239
movie. Right. What was it
called? Well, let's see Last Man

2210
02:48:28.360 --> 02:48:33.280
Standing? Oh, released in nineteen
eighty six. That was the movie.

2211
02:48:33.520 --> 02:48:35.319
I guess it is, Yes,
that he was Roye. Yeah, there

2212
02:48:35.319 --> 02:48:37.600
was a night of in the Observer
saying Terry Funk is going to be taking

2213
02:48:37.639 --> 02:48:41.600
some time off to do a Bruce
Willis movie. Right. It never ver

2214
02:48:41.719 --> 02:48:46.360
came, But there was never a
Bruce Willis Terry Funk movie. Right.

2215
02:48:46.360 --> 02:48:48.920
A remake of the Western A Fistful
of Dollars, which was a remake of

2216
02:48:48.920 --> 02:48:52.920
the samurai movie Yo Jimbo. The
Bruce Willis movie was updated to prohibition era

2217
02:48:54.040 --> 02:48:56.520
Texas. The name in the setting
sounds perfect for a Terry Funk role as

2218
02:48:56.520 --> 02:49:01.440
a minion to get killed by Willis's
character. Funk might have thought he would

2219
02:49:01.440 --> 02:49:03.360
go ahead and say he was getting
in that movie to take a break from

2220
02:49:03.399 --> 02:49:07.840
ECW without ever actually officially getting the
role. That's possible. I think that

2221
02:49:07.920 --> 02:49:11.200
was also the ECW break where he
had heppatitis too, So there's that,

2222
02:49:13.079 --> 02:49:16.520
Neil Wrights. No, No,
hepatitis was, Yeah it was. That

2223
02:49:16.600 --> 02:49:20.600
was in the ninety five absence.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the

2224
02:49:20.680 --> 02:49:24.639
late ninety four. Oh I want
I hadn't got happatitis and said, hey,

2225
02:49:24.559 --> 02:49:26.280
it's from food. By the way, I don't want you to get

2226
02:49:26.319 --> 02:49:30.440
the wrong idea. Hey hepatitis.
I didn't get it from Abdulla the Butcher,

2227
02:49:30.479 --> 02:49:33.040
absolutely not. But Hepatitlius. You
know it's what I got there,

2228
02:49:33.479 --> 02:49:37.479
Neal Rights, I said, fuck
it? Have you Terry fucking ECW?

2229
02:49:37.799 --> 02:49:41.520
As being analogous to when a major
Hollywood star begins doing horror movies once they

2230
02:49:41.559 --> 02:49:48.479
are past their prime. Mmmm,
it's very very good point. Our films

2231
02:49:48.520 --> 02:49:50.120
allow a fated actor to be a
top build name again and to use their

2232
02:49:50.159 --> 02:49:54.440
reputation to bolster what could otherwise be
a lackluster project. Yep, I think

2233
02:49:54.520 --> 02:50:00.520
of I think of a Santa Sleigh
Boss with Goldberg. Yeah, yeah,

2234
02:50:00.920 --> 02:50:03.840
all the stars in the beginning.
Yeah, oh that's true. Yeah.

2235
02:50:03.000 --> 02:50:09.520
Well also, you know what I
think of more recent one, Russell Crowe

2236
02:50:09.559 --> 02:50:15.120
in that in that presectoricism that was
that was being promoted at WrestleMania last year.

2237
02:50:15.239 --> 02:50:18.399
Oh great point, that's a that's
a that's a real one there where

2238
02:50:18.440 --> 02:50:26.520
you got uh, you know,
a former a level star like you know,

2239
02:50:26.600 --> 02:50:33.239
Russell Crowe being just brought down to
reality there. Unbelievable. It's a

2240
02:50:33.239 --> 02:50:35.959
step down in prestige and pay.
But horror movie fans are the ones that

2241
02:50:37.000 --> 02:50:39.399
will remember a star and sing their
praises long after the big roles and awards

2242
02:50:39.399 --> 02:50:43.840
have dried up. ECW was beneath
Funk in a lot of ways, Neil

2243
02:50:43.879 --> 02:50:46.600
Wrights, but it allowed him to
be a leading man again to fans who

2244
02:50:46.600 --> 02:50:50.239
wouldn't forget him. That is absolutely
true. Yeah, I mean that's so

2245
02:50:50.000 --> 02:50:56.239
that's such a big part of why
we sit here with nothing but nodding contemporaries

2246
02:50:56.280 --> 02:50:58.760
that yes, Terry Funk was great, it's because of the ECW run,

2247
02:50:58.879 --> 02:51:03.239
just based on age of everybody,
not based on it being the greatest thing

2248
02:51:03.239 --> 02:51:05.799
you ever did in his career right, but just based on his ability to

2249
02:51:05.840 --> 02:51:11.040
connect to fans that today are taste
makers and aren't too old, you know,

2250
02:51:11.120 --> 02:51:15.840
basically to even be in the discussion
in terms of taste making. So

2251
02:51:15.959 --> 02:51:18.959
that's that's a really interesting point.
Grumas Lamb writes, I love the Lapsed

2252
02:51:20.000 --> 02:51:26.120
Wives Club. Terry, You're ruining
the house. Just shut your damn mouth,

2253
02:51:26.280 --> 02:51:31.680
Vickie. I haven't got all fucking
deckies, and I'm gonna if I'm

2254
02:51:31.719 --> 02:51:35.520
gonna dare around, break the fucking
house. I'm gonna break the goddamn house.

2255
02:51:35.879 --> 02:51:39.479
I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Damn it. Ah oh,

2256
02:51:39.559 --> 02:51:45.600
I got ah derga got me kind
of excited for this, and then this

2257
02:51:45.719 --> 02:51:48.479
is the classic thing that happens over
the years with kind of a faded memories.

2258
02:51:48.760 --> 02:51:52.879
He wrote to us so very much
enjoying the Terry Funk episodes. I'm

2259
02:51:52.920 --> 02:51:54.479
not sure if you'll get to this
match, but during the FMW run you'll

2260
02:51:54.520 --> 02:51:58.360
be covering in a bit there's a
classic quote during some match with Cactus in

2261
02:51:58.399 --> 02:52:01.680
a school gym with about twenty five
people in attendance. Funk is down outside

2262
02:52:01.719 --> 02:52:05.440
the ring and goes, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I

2263
02:52:05.479 --> 02:52:09.040
think that about rivals, my eye
and pure funkness. I'm like, dude,

2264
02:52:09.120 --> 02:52:11.680
get me a time code. Do
you remember anything about it? He

2265
02:52:11.680 --> 02:52:13.239
said, God, I wish.
I'll see if I can dig it up.

2266
02:52:13.280 --> 02:52:16.000
And then he writes back, So
I've spent the last two hours digging

2267
02:52:16.040 --> 02:52:20.280
through dodgy video sites before finally giving
that baby bangor our video five bucks for

2268
02:52:20.319 --> 02:52:22.319
the best of Funk video that should
have the same matches that the Cactus Jack

2269
02:52:22.360 --> 02:52:26.559
tape had we back in the day. I'm thinking it was this match,

2270
02:52:26.600 --> 02:52:28.000
and he connects me to it.
It's pretty sure it's the match. Let

2271
02:52:28.040 --> 02:52:35.719
me see. Yeah, it's the
one in the in the freezing cold in

2272
02:52:35.799 --> 02:52:39.639
January ninety five. And iwa whenever
everyone's got jackets on in the audience and

2273
02:52:39.680 --> 02:52:43.639
they're bumping on a flaming chairs and
the blue mats on the outside, remember

2274
02:52:43.680 --> 02:52:48.600
that one took a big indoor match. And I guess this inside joke my

2275
02:52:48.639 --> 02:52:50.959
friends have had for twenty five years
is based on bad hearing or something.

2276
02:52:52.239 --> 02:52:56.639
I can't locate anything close to I'm
dead. I'd be fucking funny if he

2277
02:52:56.680 --> 02:53:01.399
said that, though, would be
that's a great well if you can say

2278
02:53:01.399 --> 02:53:07.799
that you're not Terry Vicky Vicky I'm
dead at the Pearly Gates. But you'll

2279
02:53:07.799 --> 02:53:11.159
want to cover that match anyways,
as we did Flaming Chair and all.

2280
02:53:11.159 --> 02:53:13.399
I can get you the file,
but to de myself, I'm the guy

2281
02:53:13.440 --> 02:53:16.120
that almost went off on Ed Ferraro
when I ran into him in an indie

2282
02:53:16.120 --> 02:53:18.559
show right after WCW folded. I
was lucky enough to meet Terry Funk twice,

2283
02:53:20.040 --> 02:53:22.200
once when I was eight or nine
and Terry and Dorry were working with

2284
02:53:22.239 --> 02:53:24.920
the WWF. The second time was
when I worked with Roh and I got

2285
02:53:24.959 --> 02:53:26.280
to sit with Terry for a couple
of minutes prior to him making his entrance.

2286
02:53:26.360 --> 02:53:30.000
My task was to give him his
cue when he needed to go out.

2287
02:53:30.239 --> 02:53:33.360
The taz recollection from the Banquet brought
that memory back, because I'm listening

2288
02:53:33.399 --> 02:53:35.879
to the promo and the ring for
the phrase to tell Terry that it's time

2289
02:53:35.920 --> 02:53:37.600
to go. But Terry is telling
me some story and I can't really pay

2290
02:53:37.639 --> 02:53:39.920
attention to him. What did he
tell me? I have no idea,

2291
02:53:41.319 --> 02:53:43.799
but I was enjoying that wonderful,
absurd moment and he absolutely made his cue.

2292
02:53:45.159 --> 02:53:48.840
Look at that good Memories of the
Funker Adam writes, Terry Funk's life

2293
02:53:48.959 --> 02:53:54.239
is like if Cormack McCarthy took LSD
and then fell asleep on the toilet after

2294
02:53:54.280 --> 02:53:56.840
a bad tie meal, then woke
up and wrote about the aftermath, brother

2295
02:53:58.000 --> 02:54:00.879
after read more Cormack McCarthy and come
back to you. On that analogy,

2296
02:54:01.520 --> 02:54:03.680
Sam writes, total lunacy, but
somehow it seems to fit Terry Funk perfectly,

2297
02:54:05.120 --> 02:54:09.680
and describing one of our episodes along
the journey, the Lapsed Funk death

2298
02:54:09.760 --> 02:54:11.920
matches, how do you feel about
those death matches, poss. I mean,

2299
02:54:11.959 --> 02:54:16.719
you've had some diver process and digest. Oh god, I just can't.

2300
02:54:16.280 --> 02:54:20.440
I can't do that stuff. That
stuff it's just not it's it's just

2301
02:54:22.000 --> 02:54:28.879
carnage and brutal. I'm not a
fan of that. I don't, you

2302
02:54:28.000 --> 02:54:35.040
know. It could just it could
very well be my age in it.

2303
02:54:35.319 --> 02:54:39.680
And you know, but I maybe
I probably would have loved it as a

2304
02:54:39.760 --> 02:54:43.639
kid, but I just can't.
I can't when he throws himself face first

2305
02:54:43.680 --> 02:54:46.440
into an ex floating barbed wire board
in the corner. No, it's just

2306
02:54:46.559 --> 02:54:48.879
come on like really, like,
is that what you need to do around

2307
02:54:50.280 --> 02:54:52.120
a bed of shattered glass? No? No, no, no, no.

2308
02:54:52.159 --> 02:54:58.079
You can hear it crunching under him, like when Daniel Stern stuffs Christmas

2309
02:54:58.200 --> 02:55:03.280
ornaments. I mean, fu folx, I mean when the fire goes off

2310
02:55:03.360 --> 02:55:07.120
so hard that Funker's hair is smoking
for a second afterwards, and he's like

2311
02:55:07.239 --> 02:55:11.200
sixty. Oh. By the way, Mick Foley's back out there saying he's

2312
02:55:11.239 --> 02:55:15.079
gonna drop, you know, twenty
pounds and wants to do one last death

2313
02:55:15.159 --> 02:55:20.239
match. Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. TLF does it

2314
02:55:20.319 --> 02:55:26.280
again. Steve writes that otto vance
match must have happened around the same time

2315
02:55:26.319 --> 02:55:28.559
a guy dropped dead between rounds and
a match with Tony Saint Clair. I

2316
02:55:28.600 --> 02:55:31.360
don't know about this, and in
an attempt to avoid scrutiny, VNS brought

2317
02:55:31.360 --> 02:55:35.680
in a bunch of US talent to
look more WWF level legit. I believe

2318
02:55:35.719 --> 02:55:37.520
it was mostly faded Territory guys and
a couple of up and comers, including

2319
02:55:37.559 --> 02:55:41.600
a young JBL Wow. I just
ttally do remember JBL working CWA, but

2320
02:55:41.920 --> 02:55:46.680
I didn't know there was an incident
that they were trying to distract attention from

2321
02:55:48.079 --> 02:55:50.959
Rob Wright's dearest co chairs. Inspired
by your masterful and media analysis of the

2322
02:55:50.959 --> 02:55:54.159
Funker's career, I decided to journey
from my home in London to the ancestral

2323
02:55:54.200 --> 02:56:00.159
home of the Funk family Germany.
We inspire road trips, Boss. I

2324
02:56:00.280 --> 02:56:03.239
love that. I like that well, I'm a fan, Whilst I have

2325
02:56:03.360 --> 02:56:07.040
no idea if the beautiful city of
Colne has any specific link to Adam Funk

2326
02:56:07.079 --> 02:56:09.000
and his Teutonic forefathers. I took
my wife, father and daughter there for

2327
02:56:09.079 --> 02:56:13.360
the family holiday. They thought it
was because of the fabulous architecture of fast

2328
02:56:13.399 --> 02:56:16.840
In history and rich culture. Little
did they know I had a devious little

2329
02:56:16.920 --> 02:56:20.120
mission. I was going to k
fae the shit out of my family.

2330
02:56:20.639 --> 02:56:24.840
Brother. Despite the copious girthy quantities
of pork and local beer that were consumed

2331
02:56:24.840 --> 02:56:26.799
each evening, when morning came,
breakfast was required. So each morning I

2332
02:56:26.920 --> 02:56:33.200
led my unsuspecting family to the venue
pictured below, the Funk House. Yes,

2333
02:56:33.879 --> 02:56:37.879
Jaus, I can report that the
coffee was excellent. I can report

2334
02:56:37.959 --> 02:56:41.959
the service was brilliant. I can
report that the delicious Frustuuk was as pleasingly

2335
02:56:43.120 --> 02:56:46.840
filling as a thorough anal pounding from
your virile selves. Finally, and most

2336
02:56:46.920 --> 02:56:50.479
gloriously, I can report that,
despite my assertions at having done research,

2337
02:56:50.840 --> 02:56:56.319
my clueless family had no idea that
I had selected the venue solely upon its

2338
02:56:56.440 --> 02:57:00.159
name in honor of the Funker,
And it made breakfast all the sweeter being

2339
02:57:00.200 --> 02:57:05.079
those Jibbroni marks in the dark.
Thanks for ten years of prolapsed privilege each

2340
02:57:05.239 --> 02:57:09.719
Varns terry Son Rob that's doing lapsed
work in the community right there, mm

2341
02:57:09.799 --> 02:57:13.719
hmm, bringing the family along for
the ride. Our good friend Scott Michael

2342
02:57:13.719 --> 02:57:16.520
writes my friends to try and convince
me to watch strangle Mania. That's the

2343
02:57:16.719 --> 02:57:20.399
ICP tape with aforementioned death matches on
it. Oh yes, way back in

2344
02:57:20.440 --> 02:57:22.319
the day. But I fought them
on it for as long as I could,

2345
02:57:22.319 --> 02:57:24.680
since I absolutely could not stand ICP. Then one day I gave in

2346
02:57:24.840 --> 02:57:28.440
during a sleepover. That was my
first exposure to FMW. It was also

2347
02:57:28.479 --> 02:57:31.959
my first time seeing Jack and Funk
together Cactus Jack. That is long story

2348
02:57:33.000 --> 02:57:37.159
short. I ended up buying both
VHS tapes and made my mom watch them.

2349
02:57:37.200 --> 02:57:39.200
With me, just so I could
be like, see this stuff is

2350
02:57:39.319 --> 02:57:43.200
real. What a sad moment in
any wrestling fan's life. Ah, when

2351
02:57:43.239 --> 02:57:46.600
you're trying to convince somebody you know
it's never works out. You always seem

2352
02:57:46.639 --> 02:57:50.120
more pathetic by the end. Boy, was I an idiot? He writes.

2353
02:57:50.680 --> 02:57:54.040
I still own those tapes. I
know they're on YouTube now. I

2354
02:57:54.159 --> 02:57:56.520
used to imagine that if I ever
won the Hopper, one of those strangle

2355
02:57:56.559 --> 02:57:58.159
manias would be in my top three
choices, just to hear how much of

2356
02:57:58.200 --> 02:58:03.879
the commentary Jack would actually repeat.
That's interesting. I'm sure you look forward

2357
02:58:03.879 --> 02:58:05.719
to that, right boss. Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait.

2358
02:58:05.799 --> 02:58:09.639
That's what I've always wanted. Jerome
R. That's when we started a

2359
02:58:09.719 --> 02:58:13.399
LAPS fan. That's exactly what I
was like, hoping we get into YEP

2360
02:58:13.719 --> 02:58:22.239
death match footage ic Yes, attacking
each other with glass in nineteen ninety five.

2361
02:58:22.079 --> 02:58:26.120
Fuck Jerome Rights. It's fitting you
discussed it's a wonderful life during this

2362
02:58:26.239 --> 02:58:30.639
journey because Funk is the George Bailey
of wrestling, with all the wrestling careers

2363
02:58:30.680 --> 02:58:35.440
he influenced. That's very true that
Terry walking around a marella, walking around

2364
02:58:35.479 --> 02:58:39.680
all the territories as a ghost,
observing a world in which he didn't exist,

2365
02:58:39.760 --> 02:58:43.959
and how dark it would be.
Robert writes, I remember listening to

2366
02:58:43.040 --> 02:58:46.360
Mixed Letter to Terry at the time
and being upset in the way you feel

2367
02:58:46.360 --> 02:58:50.079
when a celebrity dies. But listening
this time after that lapse treatment felt like

2368
02:58:50.159 --> 02:58:52.000
I was listening to the eulogy of
a cherished loved one. We aren't a

2369
02:58:52.040 --> 02:58:56.520
lot about that. Yes, lapsed
Funk people kind of felt like Terry,

2370
02:58:56.600 --> 02:59:00.319
I don't know, filled a role
of someone in their person, an old

2371
02:59:00.319 --> 02:59:05.799
family. You know that they felt
akin to Yep when riding the wave of

2372
02:59:05.879 --> 02:59:09.200
Funk's life and death, And I
don't know. I found that really interesting.

2373
02:59:09.239 --> 02:59:11.239
It's something we haven't heard in other
journeys, and of course they all

2374
02:59:11.360 --> 02:59:18.360
end in death, although the Hogan
one didn't, I guess, but yet

2375
02:59:18.879 --> 02:59:22.600
the Hogan one's an ongoing journey.
But listening this time after that lapse treatment,

2376
02:59:22.600 --> 02:59:24.600
it felt like I was listening to
the ulo Jiba cherish loved one.

2377
02:59:24.799 --> 02:59:30.760
We love you, Funker, long
may you run. Chocolate equals detriment rights.

2378
02:59:30.760 --> 02:59:35.600
I want ahead and meant things sincerely, sleeper line by The Boss I

2379
02:59:35.680 --> 02:59:41.200
want ahead and meant things sincerely.
I want to head and meant things sincerely

2380
02:59:41.639 --> 02:59:48.159
and serious about that and eating poon
tang. We just did it before.

2381
02:59:48.200 --> 02:59:50.000
But Paul makes a great point.
Why did it take nearly four months into

2382
02:59:50.000 --> 02:59:54.719
the journey to hear I want a
headlock to get called? We just did

2383
02:59:54.760 --> 03:00:00.239
it again earlier, like it was
the first time we said it. Are

2384
03:00:00.239 --> 03:00:03.200
you on this? Uh? This
these toys that got sent to the PO

2385
03:00:03.360 --> 03:00:07.959
box, I'm I'm I'm checking it
tomorrow. Good. That's a that's gonna

2386
03:00:07.959 --> 03:00:11.479
make u this gentle gun quight happen. I'm very disappointed that I missed that

2387
03:00:11.600 --> 03:00:15.079
I missed. Uh, you know, Mattel retros. Apparently that makes me

2388
03:00:15.200 --> 03:00:18.280
very sad. If you send us
something, do try to stay on us

2389
03:00:18.399 --> 03:00:20.559
via email, yep, because we
don't always get notified that there's something in

2390
03:00:20.600 --> 03:00:22.840
the PEO box, and we don't
always you know, expect to check.

2391
03:00:22.959 --> 03:00:26.120
I try to check, you know, at least once a week, but

2392
03:00:26.159 --> 03:00:30.120
it doesn't always happen, depending on
life. And apparently they get really impatient

2393
03:00:30.159 --> 03:00:33.239
over there. That's weird. I've
never heard of that before. That's bullshit.

2394
03:00:33.479 --> 03:00:35.520
Fucking leave my packages, No,
no, they're mine, not that

2395
03:00:35.639 --> 03:00:39.680
big. Leave leave my fucking toys
alone. You can sound like somebody's sending

2396
03:00:39.680 --> 03:00:43.799
me a refrigerator. For Christ's sakes, You've got the room if you don't,

2397
03:00:43.920 --> 03:00:48.959
that's right. But what what's coming
your way is the the Mattel two

2398
03:00:48.079 --> 03:00:52.000
pack of Terry Funk and Hulk Hogan
and the white very exciting. Sure,

2399
03:00:52.239 --> 03:00:58.040
yep yep Funk with the branding iron. It's it's a wonderful piece and it

2400
03:00:58.159 --> 03:01:03.520
couldn't be more appropriate for the lapsed
Funk. Zach writes, is Terry Funk

2401
03:01:03.559 --> 03:01:07.360
the Forest Gump of pro wrestling?
Wow? Yes, I've thought about that

2402
03:01:07.479 --> 03:01:11.959
one after he wrote that, Yes, he absolutely is visiting those different eras

2403
03:01:13.000 --> 03:01:18.360
as Forrest Gump does finding himself sort
of like a prominent yet somehow background character

2404
03:01:18.520 --> 03:01:24.479
in moments of great historical weight and
just kind of trapesing out of the frame

2405
03:01:24.520 --> 03:01:26.920
after the moment is over, not
sticking around to be part of the aftermath

2406
03:01:26.959 --> 03:01:30.559
of historic moments, but moving on
to the next one and the next one

2407
03:01:30.600 --> 03:01:35.280
and stumbling into them almost but being
special enough that he finds himself in a

2408
03:01:35.319 --> 03:01:39.120
position to stumble into those moments.
Yes, Terry Funk is absolutely the forced

2409
03:01:39.159 --> 03:01:43.520
Gump of professional wrestling, and thanks
for the analogy because it's handy. Paul

2410
03:01:43.559 --> 03:01:46.399
writes, I'm sure I've heard the
story before, but Jack's Shroudnder's dad changed

2411
03:01:46.399 --> 03:01:50.440
how Charlie's story got me. Oh
yeah, this is one my dad came

2412
03:01:50.479 --> 03:01:52.399
out of the box on raw.
Oh if it's the best fucking thing ever.

2413
03:01:52.639 --> 03:01:54.879
I love that. What a kid
thing to think. I remember how

2414
03:01:54.920 --> 03:01:58.760
devastated I was to find out the
Hulkstore wasn't my dad's close personal friend.

2415
03:02:01.239 --> 03:02:03.360
I don't think he ever told me
he was. I just assumed, of

2416
03:02:03.440 --> 03:02:07.600
course, you assume all adults are
like friends. Oh man, you know

2417
03:02:07.879 --> 03:02:09.559
all adults know each other things you
tell yourself as a kid. I remember

2418
03:02:09.639 --> 03:02:13.280
just looking out my back window and
just to hit a big ass tree in

2419
03:02:13.360 --> 03:02:18.120
the yard, thinking like, when
my dad comes home, I'm gonna have

2420
03:02:18.200 --> 03:02:20.239
him pick me up and put me
on the top of that tree. Bus.

2421
03:02:20.399 --> 03:02:24.000
This tree is like fifty feet tall. It's just my mind is so

2422
03:02:24.239 --> 03:02:28.159
underdeveloped that I just, you know, I can't appreciate how physically impossible that

2423
03:02:28.200 --> 03:02:33.040
actually. Oh yeah, of course
so weird. Yeah, where do I

2424
03:02:33.159 --> 03:02:39.239
remember that? It's so it's so
funny that it's all it's all, Yeah,

2425
03:02:39.760 --> 03:02:43.600
David writes, there are simply no
occasion where lapsed Durrance Funk Junior should

2426
03:02:43.600 --> 03:02:48.639
address his brother as anything other than
Terry Funk. I think you've scared that.

2427
03:02:48.920 --> 03:02:54.079
Hey, hey, Terry Funk,
I am Yeah. I just wanted

2428
03:02:54.079 --> 03:02:56.639
to say that. You know,
you've been a brother of mine for a

2429
03:02:56.760 --> 03:03:03.799
long time. Yeah, pretty much
my whole life, Dorry. Oh yeah,

2430
03:03:03.879 --> 03:03:07.520
yeah, Dunk. You know I've
been your brother. You know I've

2431
03:03:07.520 --> 03:03:13.760
been your brother my whole life.
Yeah. Yeah. But you know,

2432
03:03:13.879 --> 03:03:18.000
I feel like at this time it's
time for for both of us to move

2433
03:03:20.559 --> 03:03:24.959
to a different house. Really,
I think it's time for both of us

2434
03:03:24.000 --> 03:03:28.120
to move on. It's just,
you know, it's not really a relationship

2435
03:03:28.159 --> 03:03:31.559
in that way, Dory. When
your brothers, it's not really you know,

2436
03:03:31.639 --> 03:03:35.719
we can break up. I don't. I don't. I don't mean

2437
03:03:35.799 --> 03:03:39.239
to be a you know, to
to really hurt your feelings in any way

2438
03:03:39.319 --> 03:03:43.079
here they're Dunk. But you know, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell

2439
03:03:43.079 --> 03:03:46.799
you the truth that we're brothers.
We can't kind of end this relationship.

2440
03:03:46.879 --> 03:03:52.479
It's always going to be there.
You know that everyone's allowed their own opinion,

2441
03:03:52.840 --> 03:03:58.280
Terry Funk. But I appreciate your
opinion that this is something that may

2442
03:03:58.360 --> 03:04:01.360
not go away. But I'm letting
you know how I feel. And and

2443
03:04:01.520 --> 03:04:05.959
there the you know the thing is, I just I think I want to

2444
03:04:07.040 --> 03:04:13.319
walk in a direction that allows me
to swim. Wow, so you're headed

2445
03:04:13.360 --> 03:04:20.719
for the ocean. Then are you
going to go to the Are you going

2446
03:04:20.799 --> 03:04:31.000
to to Galveston Bay? You're going
to go to the you know the Well,

2447
03:04:31.000 --> 03:04:33.799
I don't understand you're going to go
to the Rio Grande. What what's

2448
03:04:33.840 --> 03:04:39.600
your plan? Well, you know, I haven't thought that far ahead.

2449
03:04:39.639 --> 03:04:48.719
I uh, I just I just
you know, Terry Funk, you've been

2450
03:04:48.760 --> 03:04:52.079
a brother for a good for a
good number of years and like a brother

2451
03:04:52.159 --> 03:04:56.680
to me. Terry Funk, you've
been like a brother to me. I

2452
03:04:56.840 --> 03:05:00.440
am your brother. Yeah, you've
been like one to me. No,

2453
03:05:01.000 --> 03:05:03.879
don't, I'm your brother, like
we're. First thing he says, was

2454
03:05:05.000 --> 03:05:11.000
you've been a brother day for many
years. I just don't want that to

2455
03:05:11.040 --> 03:05:20.360
get lost either way. I just
think that the time has come for me

2456
03:05:20.479 --> 03:05:24.639
to drive a car off a cliff. And haven't you already done that?

2457
03:05:24.760 --> 03:05:26.600
To get out of dropping the bell
to Brisco? I thought I thought you

2458
03:05:26.719 --> 03:05:30.840
did that Pale. I thought you
went there and you thought you already done,

2459
03:05:30.959 --> 03:05:33.440
gone ahead and did that. Well, maybe I have. But you

2460
03:05:33.520 --> 03:05:41.239
know, the memory is a thing
that not many people have. And the

2461
03:05:41.319 --> 03:05:43.559
thing is that I remember, they
don't have it, so it really fucks

2462
03:05:43.600 --> 03:05:46.600
things up. And Terry, I'm
here to tell you. I mean,

2463
03:05:46.639 --> 03:05:48.840
that's a good point, but I
guess what I'm here to really tell you

2464
03:05:48.040 --> 03:05:50.920
is, Terry, I'm going Terry
Funk, I'm going to do it again.

2465
03:05:52.520 --> 03:05:54.760
I'm gonna do it again, Terry, Terry Funk, I'm gonna do

2466
03:05:54.799 --> 03:05:58.639
it again, Terry Funk. I
plan on doing things multiple times in this

2467
03:05:58.760 --> 03:06:05.520
life time. And then the next
one is driving a car off a cliff

2468
03:06:05.239 --> 03:06:11.079
and just seeing what the end result
is going to be. As soon as

2469
03:06:11.120 --> 03:06:13.440
he's airborne off the edge of the
cliff, you just hear him go.

2470
03:06:13.719 --> 03:06:22.399
Oh, he plunges, oh tighty
feet. Oh. I forgot about this

2471
03:06:22.600 --> 03:06:33.399
part story say, as a rounding
third on the journey, the comment started

2472
03:06:33.440 --> 03:06:35.799
pouring in. Of course, Sam
Wright, So I went ahead and really

2473
03:06:35.920 --> 03:06:39.079
enjoyed this final chapter and possibly the
last Maverick we'll ever see in the wrestling

2474
03:06:39.120 --> 03:06:43.120
bizm cheers, gents, Nick writes, don't tell Hogan, but I'm working

2475
03:06:43.159 --> 03:06:46.920
on unionizing my workplace, and it's
an up and down process. This morning

2476
03:06:46.959 --> 03:06:50.600
I heard Terry Funk talking to the
trainees as we played in the final episode

2477
03:06:50.639 --> 03:06:54.360
there when he did that seminar in
twenty thirteen, and the upshot of it

2478
03:06:54.440 --> 03:06:58.360
being raise everyone up, to raise
up the business in the art itself,

2479
03:06:58.399 --> 03:07:01.079
and it's a little reminder of what
we're working four here. I'm gonna go

2480
03:07:01.120 --> 03:07:05.959
ahead and salute the funker man.
Oh if the Lap's fun Funk inspiring people

2481
03:07:05.000 --> 03:07:09.879
today could inspire the unionization of a
workplace. How about that, Zach.

2482
03:07:09.000 --> 03:07:13.399
That's amazing. Zach writes thing to
memorialize the journey, we need a shirt

2483
03:07:13.479 --> 03:07:16.639
TLF logo shown like it was stamped
as a brand from a branding iron with

2484
03:07:16.760 --> 03:07:18.399
a message below, we're on the
back. We did it our way because

2485
03:07:18.440 --> 03:07:24.159
we love it that way. I
like that. That's very true. It's

2486
03:07:24.239 --> 03:07:28.440
very true. Sam, his intrepid
self, dug into the archives a bit.

2487
03:07:28.920 --> 03:07:33.559
One thing we didn't touch on was
Dory and Terry's Funk Dory and Terry's

2488
03:07:33.600 --> 03:07:39.959
feud with Dynamite and British Bulldog.
Ooh, this was all Japan, mostly

2489
03:07:41.079 --> 03:07:45.760
eighty six or so, and they
did cross paths in the WWF as well

2490
03:07:45.760 --> 03:07:48.920
and had some matches, but it
really wasn't There wasn't really like a standout

2491
03:07:50.000 --> 03:07:54.440
match that made sense to build a
beat around during the show. But fortunately

2492
03:07:54.479 --> 03:07:58.799
for us, Sam did the work
of cracking open Pure Dynamite the Dynamite Kids

2493
03:08:00.280 --> 03:08:03.920
Revolutionary Book and found some great Terry
Funk stories in there, so we might

2494
03:08:03.959 --> 03:08:07.200
as well convey them in this Last
Breath of Funkage. For the first few

2495
03:08:07.239 --> 03:08:09.440
months we were with the WWF because
of Japan, it was on a semi

2496
03:08:09.479 --> 03:08:13.520
regular basis, Dynamite writes, but
that didn't stop us having some great matches

2497
03:08:13.559 --> 03:08:16.639
when the right opponents came along,
which was what happened when Terry and Dorriyfunk

2498
03:08:16.719 --> 03:08:18.799
Junior turned up in the WWF.
Terry hadn't changed. He still looked a

2499
03:08:18.879 --> 03:08:22.559
fool around. We had to catch
a plane early one morning to the next

2500
03:08:22.719 --> 03:08:24.639
venue. Terry got on and he
was dragging his rucksack behind him and looked

2501
03:08:24.639 --> 03:08:28.600
as if it weighed a ton because
he was heaving on the strap. His

2502
03:08:28.719 --> 03:08:31.319
face was going purple, and all
the muscles and sinews on his arms were

2503
03:08:31.319 --> 03:08:33.479
sticking out. So one of the
stewardess has walked by and said, can

2504
03:08:33.559 --> 03:08:37.159
I help you? Terry was panting
and out of breath, but he said

2505
03:08:37.239 --> 03:08:39.200
no, I'll be okay. He
finally got the bag to a seat and

2506
03:08:39.200 --> 03:08:43.280
he started trying to lift it into
the luggage compartment. He was struggling again,

2507
03:08:43.360 --> 03:08:45.159
so the stewardess said, come on, let me help you. She

2508
03:08:45.280 --> 03:08:48.559
bent down, lifted it up and
nearly fell over backwards because it was empty,

2509
03:08:52.920 --> 03:08:54.239
there was nothing in it. Yeah, he used to do that too

2510
03:08:54.319 --> 03:08:58.319
with Dorry. He'd get on a
plane, he would act like, you

2511
03:08:58.399 --> 03:09:03.000
know, he didn't know who Dorry
was, and he would he'd load the

2512
03:09:03.559 --> 03:09:05.959
faux heavy luggage into the overhead and
then he'd let it drop on a Dory's

2513
03:09:07.000 --> 03:09:11.760
head and knock a two pay off
of Dory's head, because Dorry would wear

2514
03:09:11.799 --> 03:09:13.760
a two pey onto the plane,
just a plate to play a joke,

2515
03:09:13.840 --> 03:09:18.000
and all the other passengers Dory was
in on it. But the joke was

2516
03:09:18.159 --> 03:09:24.280
like Terry would knock the two pay
loose and then they'd all basically sit down

2517
03:09:24.319 --> 03:09:26.680
and wait to see if anybody mentioned
it to Dorry, and of course no

2518
03:09:26.760 --> 03:09:30.959
one would, and it would be
endlessly hilarious so that's the funker, but

2519
03:09:31.000 --> 03:09:33.479
occasionally Dynamite writes the joke was on
Terry. We were in Pittsburgh one night

2520
03:09:33.559 --> 03:09:37.120
having a drink in the hotel after
the match. Got to about two am,

2521
03:09:37.200 --> 03:09:39.520
and although we had an early plane
to catch the next day, Terry

2522
03:09:39.520 --> 03:09:41.520
said, oh, come on,
we'll have one more. So I got

2523
03:09:41.600 --> 03:09:43.280
up and said it's okay, I'll
get this. What do you want?

2524
03:09:43.639 --> 03:09:46.959
Thanks, Dino? He called him
Dino. He called him, of course

2525
03:09:46.000 --> 03:09:50.280
he did. He would have called
him Guyo if not for the surgery.

2526
03:09:50.360 --> 03:09:52.920
By the way, I'll have a
brandy. While he wasn't looking, I

2527
03:09:52.959 --> 03:09:58.600
slipped a yellow jacket Speed how cool
dynamite drugs another one Speed which a lot

2528
03:09:58.600 --> 03:10:01.879
of wrestler I used to take Keith
themselves awake into his brandy. I handed

2529
03:10:01.959 --> 03:10:05.760
him his drink and said, cheers, Terry, Cheers Dino. I didn't

2530
03:10:05.760 --> 03:10:07.639
see Terry again. Just before the
match the next day, I walked into

2531
03:10:07.639 --> 03:10:11.120
the dressing room and there was Terry
sat in the bench with his head down.

2532
03:10:11.200 --> 03:10:13.879
He looked up at me. He
looked bloody awful and said, dinoh,

2533
03:10:13.959 --> 03:10:16.440
don't do that again. What don't
do what Terry? What are you

2534
03:10:16.479 --> 03:10:18.879
talking about? He said, I've
not been asleep. I said, Terry,

2535
03:10:18.879 --> 03:10:22.680
I'm being serious, what are you
talking about. I think he believed

2536
03:10:22.680 --> 03:10:24.600
me in the end, but anyway, Terry, Yeah, it was me

2537
03:10:24.479 --> 03:10:26.920
our last match with the Functions in
Buffalo, New York. Terry was having

2538
03:10:26.959 --> 03:10:30.440
trouble with his knees and right after
the match he said to his brother Dorry,

2539
03:10:30.479 --> 03:10:33.159
tell Dinoh, I'm going home.
Dorry said, you can't go home.

2540
03:10:33.200 --> 03:10:35.639
We've got another four weeks yet.
But Terry didn't care. He left,

2541
03:10:35.920 --> 03:10:39.959
which I didn't blame him for.
He never called Vince, never gave

2542
03:10:39.280 --> 03:10:43.920
them any notice, and buggered off, buggered off right, buggered off.

2543
03:10:45.040 --> 03:10:48.000
Summer of eighty four, as part
of the media blackout, our first match

2544
03:10:48.120 --> 03:10:50.840
was filmed but never shown on TV, which is a shame because it was

2545
03:10:50.879 --> 03:10:54.520
a great match. This is in
all Japan, myself and Davy against Terry

2546
03:10:54.559 --> 03:10:56.520
and Dorry in the correct won Hall
in Tokyo and ended in a double count

2547
03:10:56.559 --> 03:10:58.719
out with me and Terry outside the
ring. I was trying to crawl back

2548
03:10:58.760 --> 03:11:01.079
in, but Terry kept hold him
my leg and wouldn't let me in.

2549
03:11:01.120 --> 03:11:05.120
His wrestlers, The Funks were fantastic
and in my opinion, probably had the

2550
03:11:05.159 --> 03:11:07.399
greatest wrestling brains in the ring.
That was the first time I'd met Terry

2551
03:11:07.399 --> 03:11:11.120
Funk in the hotel in Tokyo.
I can't remember the name of the hotel,

2552
03:11:11.440 --> 03:11:13.319
but it was the same one that
all the wrestlers got kicked out of

2553
03:11:13.319 --> 03:11:16.319
a few years later because somebody I
don't know who made a mess of somebody's

2554
03:11:16.360 --> 03:11:18.559
bed. I didn't know Terry,
although i'd heard about his rep and he

2555
03:11:18.600 --> 03:11:20.840
didn't know me. But I can
remember the first words he ever said to

2556
03:11:20.920 --> 03:11:22.920
me, Dynamite, I think I've
got a job for you. Can you

2557
03:11:22.959 --> 03:11:28.680
speak Russian? Straight away? I
said, yes, nostrovia. He said,

2558
03:11:28.680 --> 03:11:31.600
okay, I think you've got the
job. Then he started telling me

2559
03:11:31.680 --> 03:11:33.440
how he was very good friend of
Sylvester Stallone, who at the time was

2560
03:11:33.479 --> 03:11:37.479
making another Rocky film, Rocky five
four with delf lungren Stallone was looking for

2561
03:11:37.520 --> 03:11:41.360
somebody who could speak Russian, and
he wants somebody who can. Box said

2562
03:11:41.440 --> 03:11:43.520
Terry, I think you're the man. I said, okay, when is

2563
03:11:43.559 --> 03:11:46.360
it in a few months, Dyna
might I'll let you know. Six months

2564
03:11:46.399 --> 03:11:50.120
later the film came out at the
cinema and there and the next time I

2565
03:11:50.159 --> 03:11:52.200
saw him, I said, Terry, what happened? How come I didn't

2566
03:11:52.239 --> 03:11:54.680
get the part with Sylvester Stallone?
He said, well, Dyno, he

2567
03:11:54.760 --> 03:11:58.479
always called me Dyno. There's been
a bit of a mistake. What do

2568
03:11:58.520 --> 03:12:01.879
you mean, Terry, a mistake
too short? We got some great laughs

2569
03:12:01.879 --> 03:12:05.559
over the years. He just lied
to about putting in a word. You

2570
03:12:05.600 --> 03:12:09.719
know, Donald, I never heard
back from you, but you wanted to

2571
03:12:09.760 --> 03:12:13.040
do it? I told you,
yes, Was there something else I was

2572
03:12:13.079 --> 03:12:20.639
supposed to? Well, you know
these things have so yes, what he

2573
03:12:20.719 --> 03:12:26.680
wasn't counting on that. I do
like the idea that Terry Funk would like

2574
03:12:26.760 --> 03:12:28.680
tell everybody that he was going to
put a word in but sly for them,

2575
03:12:28.959 --> 03:12:33.440
of course, just as a rib. But he no. I mean

2576
03:12:33.840 --> 03:12:35.959
it was said that Terry Funk tried
to get Cary von Eric the part right.

2577
03:12:37.079 --> 03:12:43.200
Yeah, of uh do ago?
I wonder if that was a rib

2578
03:12:43.239 --> 03:12:46.120
too, Yeah, might have been. We had some great laughs over the

2579
03:12:46.200 --> 03:12:48.399
years Datamite rights, mainly because Terry
was always messing about and acting looney,

2580
03:12:48.600 --> 03:12:50.559
and he is one of the greatest
bresslers I've ever been in the ring.

2581
03:12:50.639 --> 03:12:54.239
With all the years I wrestled,
I took pride and giving every single opponent

2582
03:12:54.280 --> 03:12:56.920
a good match, didn't matter how
pathetic or useless they were. I never

2583
03:12:56.000 --> 03:12:58.799
let anybody look bad. Never.
But you know what, Terry was better

2584
03:12:58.840 --> 03:13:03.120
at it than me. He took
the weakest chops and the worst clothes lines.

2585
03:13:03.280 --> 03:13:05.760
Then he'd bounced around the ring,
flop on his back like a fish

2586
03:13:05.799 --> 03:13:07.159
out of the water. He would
wrestle a broomstick and make it look like

2587
03:13:07.159 --> 03:13:09.799
a million dollars. That's how good
he was. I remember match he had

2588
03:13:09.879 --> 03:13:13.319
with the Native American Steve gator Wolf. He was a waste of time,

2589
03:13:13.440 --> 03:13:16.280
always bullshitting about how great he was, and then just before the match he

2590
03:13:16.319 --> 03:13:18.200
gets so nervous he couldn't speak against
Terry, Funky got in the ring and

2591
03:13:18.280 --> 03:13:22.559
froze. He couldn't move, and
when he finally managed a feeble tomahawk chob,

2592
03:13:22.639 --> 03:13:24.479
Terry looked as if he'd been hit
with a sledgehammer. He was fantastic,

2593
03:13:24.639 --> 03:13:28.120
and he was a terrible joker,
nearly as bad as me. He

2594
03:13:28.200 --> 03:13:31.879
pulled that Sylvester Stallone trick on another
good friend of mine, dangerous Danny Spivey.

2595
03:13:31.239 --> 03:13:35.239
Terry had been telling him for weeks
that Stallone was looking for a boxer

2596
03:13:35.360 --> 03:13:37.319
to play the part of the Great
White Hope in a new film, and

2597
03:13:37.399 --> 03:13:39.559
Danny was up for it. We
were in Houston, Texas, where we

2598
03:13:39.559 --> 03:13:41.799
had a match that night, and
Terry said to Danny, I've just got

2599
03:13:41.840 --> 03:13:43.600
a call from Sly that film parts
come up and he wants to see you

2600
03:13:43.719 --> 03:13:46.280
right away. He's sending his jet
to put you up at the airport.

2601
03:13:46.760 --> 03:13:50.840
So Danny rushed off to the airport
and sure enough there was Sly's lear Jet

2602
03:13:50.879 --> 03:13:54.520
waiting to fly into Los Angeles.
Bear in mind, he had to get

2603
03:13:54.559 --> 03:13:58.079
back to Houston to wrestle a match
that night. He flew to California,

2604
03:13:58.200 --> 03:14:01.079
got a cab to the film studio
in Hollywood, and straight to Sly's office.

2605
03:14:01.079 --> 03:14:03.559
The only trouble was Sly wasn't there. He was away in Vietnam making

2606
03:14:03.799 --> 03:14:07.440
another film. Well you can imagine
what Danny felt like a complete prick.

2607
03:14:07.520 --> 03:14:09.920
So he took a cab back to
the airport, probably planning what he was

2608
03:14:09.959 --> 03:14:13.079
going to do to Terry Funk when
he got ahold of him. Except when

2609
03:14:13.079 --> 03:14:16.040
he got there, the lear jet
had gone. Terry had only booked it

2610
03:14:16.079 --> 03:14:20.040
for a one way flight. Brother. I mean that that's a pretty cruel

2611
03:14:20.079 --> 03:14:24.280
rib but it's fucking awesome. Yes, yes, that's Terry. Finally,

2612
03:14:24.319 --> 03:14:26.680
the Funk brothers, Terry and Dorry
Junior were there as well. Dynamite recalls

2613
03:14:28.120 --> 03:14:30.600
we'd had some great times with them
during our first run with All Japan.

2614
03:14:30.840 --> 03:14:33.120
I remember one night when we've been
drinking in Tokyo, myself, Terry Funk,

2615
03:14:33.159 --> 03:14:35.040
and Harley Race, and when it
got late, we went back to

2616
03:14:35.079 --> 03:14:37.360
my hotel room and started in the
mini bar. All of a sudden,

2617
03:14:37.360 --> 03:14:41.520
for no apparent reason, Terry started
smashing my room up. He broke the

2618
03:14:41.559 --> 03:14:43.079
bed, the lamp shades, he
more or less wrecked everything. I said,

2619
03:14:43.079 --> 03:14:45.840
I'm not being funny, Terry,
but what are you doing? He

2620
03:14:45.879 --> 03:14:48.040
stopped, looked around at the mess
and said, don't worry, Dino.

2621
03:14:48.360 --> 03:14:50.040
We'll go down to the front desk
and report this. And we did.

2622
03:14:50.159 --> 03:14:54.200
I don't know, I know you're
not being funny, but I'm being funny,

2623
03:14:54.399 --> 03:14:58.040
ha ha, and we did.
Terry walked straight up to the receptionist

2624
03:14:58.079 --> 03:15:00.239
and reported the damage. Then he
said to her, and I know who's

2625
03:15:00.280 --> 03:15:03.079
done it. I saw the guy
breaking the place up. The receptionists called

2626
03:15:03.079 --> 03:15:05.200
the police, and when they arrived, they asked Terry where this man who

2627
03:15:05.239 --> 03:15:07.360
had allegedly caused all the damage was
Terry said, he's in room five oh

2628
03:15:07.520 --> 03:15:11.680
nine. Ah, but who's room
that is? They went up such a

2629
03:15:11.760 --> 03:15:16.239
fucking he's such a fucking like Ah. I at least went up to room

2630
03:15:16.239 --> 03:15:20.680
five oh nine, knocked on the
door. It opened and it was Dorry,

2631
03:15:20.799 --> 03:15:24.840
Terry's own brother. He was half
asleep and had absolutely no idea what

2632
03:15:24.000 --> 03:15:30.239
was going on? Those half what
what did I do this time? Those

2633
03:15:30.280 --> 03:15:33.239
two were as different as chalk and
cheese. Dorry was always very serious and

2634
03:15:33.280 --> 03:15:35.079
straightforward. Terry was like a wild
man. But his brothers, they were

2635
03:15:35.120 --> 03:15:37.719
close. Terry used to talk a
lot about the old days when he and

2636
03:15:37.840 --> 03:15:41.000
Dorry Junior took over their dad's promotion
in Emerald of Texas after he died.

2637
03:15:41.200 --> 03:15:43.799
Business was down and Terry was trying
to think up new ways to bring more

2638
03:15:43.840 --> 03:15:46.799
people in. He got on the
microphone one night and said, ladies and

2639
03:15:46.840 --> 03:15:48.319
gentlemen, next week, we have
a surprise for you. I'm gonna wrestle

2640
03:15:48.479 --> 03:15:52.840
Terrible Ted the Grizzly Bear, and
you're gonna imagine that. People were quite

2641
03:15:52.840 --> 03:15:54.120
excited by the idea, but when
they started, let a commission found out

2642
03:15:54.120 --> 03:15:56.840
they objected. They told Terry there
was no way he could wrestle a grizzly

2643
03:15:56.879 --> 03:16:01.200
bear in that building. Well,
Terry thought this, and the following week

2644
03:16:01.239 --> 03:16:03.719
he went to collect Terrible Ted just
as he had planned, and picked him

2645
03:16:03.760 --> 03:16:05.239
up in his brother Dorri's brand new
Cadillac. On the way back, he

2646
03:16:05.319 --> 03:16:07.840
brought a can of white paint and
painted Terrible Ted from head to foot.

2647
03:16:07.879 --> 03:16:11.600
He got white paint all over Dorry's
new car, and then drove to the

2648
03:16:11.680 --> 03:16:13.319
arena. Terry gun on the microphone
and said, ladies and gentlemen, I'm

2649
03:16:13.319 --> 03:16:16.239
afraid Terrible Ted couldn't make it,
but don't worry. I've managed to get

2650
03:16:16.239 --> 03:16:20.399
a replacement. It's Snowy, the
polar Bear. Oh my god. All

2651
03:16:20.440 --> 03:16:22.040
those years later, Terry hadn't changed
one bit. He was still a little

2652
03:16:22.040 --> 03:16:24.959
bit crazy, just like the traffic
in Tokyo the nighttime. We were all

2653
03:16:26.000 --> 03:16:28.840
standing outside the hotel one night,
the Bulldogs, Terry, Gordy, Terry

2654
03:16:28.840 --> 03:16:31.000
Funk and a few others. We'd
all had a few beers. All of

2655
03:16:31.040 --> 03:16:33.280
a sudden, Terry Funk shouted,
watched this, and he threw himself onto

2656
03:16:33.280 --> 03:16:37.920
the bonnet of a passing car as
it stopped he rolled off and pretended he

2657
03:16:37.040 --> 03:16:41.040
was dead with his arms stretched out
wide. Somebody called the police, but

2658
03:16:41.079 --> 03:16:43.959
even when they arrived, to just
lay there a complete havoc all around him,

2659
03:16:43.000 --> 03:16:46.319
not moving. There was nothing wrong
with him, but for a few

2660
03:16:46.360 --> 03:16:50.959
minutes he had everybody convinced that he
was dead. Oh but the funnies thing

2661
03:16:50.000 --> 03:16:52.639
I remember about Terry Funk was the
day I walked into his hotel room to

2662
03:16:52.719 --> 03:16:56.879
check if he was awake. The
coach was on UH was waiting to leave

2663
03:16:56.879 --> 03:16:58.639
for the next destination. All the
wrestlers were on board, but Terry hadn't

2664
03:16:58.639 --> 03:17:01.319
shown it. I went back up
to his hotel room, saw that the

2665
03:17:01.360 --> 03:17:05.479
door wasn't locked and pushed it open. There was Terry lying on the floor,

2666
03:17:05.559 --> 03:17:07.559
fully clothed and covered in sick.
His stetson was all crushed. He

2667
03:17:07.600 --> 03:17:11.200
had one boot on and one barefoot
propped up on the bed. I leaned

2668
03:17:11.239 --> 03:17:13.319
over him and said, Terry,
what happened. The former NWA World champion

2669
03:17:13.360 --> 03:17:16.959
looked up at me. His eyes
were all bloodshot and he could hardly open

2670
03:17:16.000 --> 03:17:20.120
them, and he said, dinoh, there's only one way to become a

2671
03:17:20.239 --> 03:17:24.440
champagne. I said, what's that, Terry? He said, you've got

2672
03:17:24.559 --> 03:17:28.120
to be a total fuck up.
Yes, it's been quite a few years

2673
03:17:28.520 --> 03:17:31.840
since I last spoke to Terry,
Dynamite writes, and that was one Christmas.

2674
03:17:31.879 --> 03:17:33.799
I was in Calgary. I called
his house in Texas. When he

2675
03:17:33.799 --> 03:17:35.120
answered, I said, hello,
Terry, it's only Dynamite calling to wish

2676
03:17:35.159 --> 03:17:39.159
you happy Christmas. Terry said,
oh, dinoh, You've just ruined my

2677
03:17:39.239 --> 03:17:46.120
fucking Christmas. The Funker. The
Funker is seen through the eyes of Dynamite.

2678
03:17:48.040 --> 03:17:50.920
Paul writes, after this journey,
you can consider me a funk gite.

2679
03:17:52.200 --> 03:17:54.239
There we go. D X three
writes, idiots are necessary in our

2680
03:17:54.319 --> 03:18:00.520
business. TLFX we are we are
necessary idiots. Yes, as a line

2681
03:18:00.600 --> 03:18:05.280
in fact that Terry Funk himself uttered, Haystacks rights usually after completing a t

2682
03:18:05.440 --> 03:18:07.319
left journey, I feel like I've
gained something after coming to the end of

2683
03:18:07.399 --> 03:18:11.559
Lapsed Funk, though, I feel
like I've lost something and it hurts.

2684
03:18:11.159 --> 03:18:15.200
The Lapsed Funk was a worthy tribute
to a deserving wrestler, now bound in

2685
03:18:15.360 --> 03:18:18.639
leather and put up on top of
the bookshelf for preservation and admiration. Thank

2686
03:18:18.680 --> 03:18:24.120
you, Coach Chairman, and thank
you Funker. Think that's exactly correct.

2687
03:18:24.920 --> 03:18:26.399
Yep, well right, I just
finished this episode and I want to thank

2688
03:18:26.440 --> 03:18:30.159
the coach chairman and Jack's farewell to
Terry. To not get choked up to

2689
03:18:30.200 --> 03:18:35.600
me feels like an impossibility, Christopher. A standing ovation doesn't seem like enough

2690
03:18:35.760 --> 03:18:37.239
for both Funk and the co chairs. But I want ahead it and stood

2691
03:18:37.319 --> 03:18:43.760
up and gave thanks. This is
my favorite journey. Wow, heel.

2692
03:18:43.040 --> 03:18:46.559
I think it'll be tough to cover
someone at this length and still come away

2693
03:18:46.600 --> 03:18:48.399
with a positive impression of them.
That's right, boss. I mean there's

2694
03:18:48.440 --> 03:18:54.399
nobody we can dissect like this and
I'd end up with you know, eighty

2695
03:18:54.479 --> 03:18:58.399
percent fucking court files to deal with, of course. I mean that's yeah,

2696
03:18:58.079 --> 03:19:01.879
Paul, that's to be expected,
Paul writes. Googling Terry Funk,

2697
03:19:01.000 --> 03:19:05.600
arm XPW brought up a message board
thread Circle twenty oh two talking about his

2698
03:19:05.680 --> 03:19:09.559
injury. The common feeling was does
Funk really need money? That bad Terry

2699
03:19:09.600 --> 03:19:11.360
lives wrestling, but this is not
wrestling, and that the injury was Douglas's

2700
03:19:11.399 --> 03:19:15.360
fault, and that Shane is the
biggest cry baby ever to appear on televised

2701
03:19:15.399 --> 03:19:18.799
wrestling and should get used to performing
in bingle Hall's the rest of his career.

2702
03:19:18.920 --> 03:19:22.879
So I guess, I guess it's
pretty charged rhetoric around that Terry Funk

2703
03:19:24.200 --> 03:19:28.520
cutting his arm open moment in XPW. I guess christ rights fully verse Funk

2704
03:19:28.559 --> 03:19:33.600
false cut anywhere that we saw on
Raw that episode that was to get corporate

2705
03:19:33.680 --> 03:19:35.479
dude Love a title match with Austin
it over the edge, but only a

2706
03:19:35.559 --> 03:19:39.760
fully destroyed Terry in the matches instructed
by Vince. So I think we missed

2707
03:19:39.799 --> 03:19:43.200
a little bit of that backstory when
we're commenting on it. Steve Writ's co

2708
03:19:43.319 --> 03:19:45.959
chairs. For the majority of last
month, I was suffering a mental health

2709
03:19:46.000 --> 03:19:48.200
breakdown because of anxiety, depression and
loneliness. Well, I waited for the

2710
03:19:48.239 --> 03:19:52.200
medication that sorted it to kick in. The only thing that was my lifeline

2711
03:19:52.399 --> 03:19:56.920
that made me feel nearly normal was
the lapsed Funk. I owe the two

2712
03:19:56.959 --> 03:20:00.959
of you and the Funker a belated
thank you. Well hmm, you're welcome,

2713
03:20:01.719 --> 03:20:03.760
Haul Cogin. It took the entire
journey, but finally we got to

2714
03:20:03.840 --> 03:20:13.959
hear the Funker go ahead and come
that he did, Zach, no question

2715
03:20:13.040 --> 03:20:16.639
about that, thank you, Zach. Terry Funk is the bumblebee of wrestling,

2716
03:20:16.719 --> 03:20:20.079
except instead of he shouldn't be able
to fly based on his body wings,

2717
03:20:20.239 --> 03:20:24.760
he shouldn't be able to walk with
his knees and walking through. Nick

2718
03:20:24.799 --> 03:20:28.120
writes, my only regret from this
whole journey is that Jack didn't hear the

2719
03:20:28.159 --> 03:20:30.600
Boss when he told him to pause
it. After Shane Douglas said, where

2720
03:20:30.600 --> 03:20:33.719
did them taters come from? Do
you remember that you piped up? Yes?

2721
03:20:35.079 --> 03:20:37.959
What did you want to say?
If you remember? No, I

2722
03:20:37.040 --> 03:20:39.399
think it might I don't remember what
I wanted to say, but uh,

2723
03:20:39.879 --> 03:20:43.639
I feel like it might have been
just related to the fact that he said

2724
03:20:43.680 --> 03:20:46.200
that. I'm sure it was.
This is him recollecting that XPW match.

2725
03:20:46.319 --> 03:20:50.920
Funk starts hitting him hard with a
TV camera and throwing him extra hard into

2726
03:20:50.959 --> 03:20:54.200
a post and like really seeming trying
to fuck him up. I think I

2727
03:20:54.280 --> 03:20:58.920
think I think saying where coming from? Right right? Taters? The fact

2728
03:20:58.959 --> 03:21:05.639
that he's calling though the potato you
know taters like what a boo business,

2729
03:21:05.799 --> 03:21:09.559
Wendy's. Where do you think they're
coming from? Shane? Yeah, coming

2730
03:21:09.559 --> 03:21:16.239
from Terry Funk. I think John
puts it well. I started out not

2731
03:21:16.559 --> 03:21:22.319
caring about Terry Funk. Now I
only care about Terry Funk. That's right,

2732
03:21:22.600 --> 03:21:26.840
That's what this is all about.
Haul Cogan asks the question. At

2733
03:21:26.840 --> 03:21:28.760
the beginning of the Journey, I
was excited because while I always respected the

2734
03:21:28.799 --> 03:21:33.120
Funker and had seen key matches and
promos, most of his greatest moments came

2735
03:21:33.120 --> 03:21:35.600
before my time or happening in promotions
I didn't watch. Now at the end,

2736
03:21:35.719 --> 03:21:39.520
I'm prepared to go ahead and say
Terry Funk is the greatest to ever

2737
03:21:39.639 --> 03:21:41.280
do it, and it isn't close. There's been a lot of talk recently

2738
03:21:41.360 --> 03:21:45.360
from a son of an eggsucking dog
about finishing stories. How's that working out,

2739
03:21:45.399 --> 03:21:48.319
by the way, Well, perhaps
it's work great. He went ahead

2740
03:21:48.319 --> 03:21:50.280
and took inspiration from the wrong guy. You want to finish your story,

2741
03:21:50.479 --> 03:21:54.760
do it the Terry Funk way because
I love it that way. And it

2742
03:21:54.840 --> 03:21:58.000
goes without saying fucking Bravo. Co
chairman Hall Cochin writes, how does it

2743
03:21:58.120 --> 03:22:03.840
feel to never miss? Well?
Thank you, Haul, and it feels

2744
03:22:03.520 --> 03:22:09.879
fucking great. It feels right.
Andrew writes, incredible Journey fits in very

2745
03:22:09.879 --> 03:22:13.879
well as a comparison companion rather to
World Class in a WA two and covering

2746
03:22:13.920 --> 03:22:16.719
different areas of wrestling during that time
period. I think one day a mid

2747
03:22:16.840 --> 03:22:22.360
South journey would be a ton of
fun. Mmm. They can never get

2748
03:22:22.479 --> 03:22:26.159
enough. They always awe another journey, and then they always have suggestion.

2749
03:22:26.040 --> 03:22:30.760
They always want something more promised.
Lamb heard something he likes. He writes,

2750
03:22:30.920 --> 03:22:39.520
tlll tll tll can't wait for the
lapse to Lanny. That's what we

2751
03:22:39.639 --> 03:22:43.680
need, are you Lanny Journey?
I don't think you're You're necessarily up to

2752
03:22:43.760 --> 03:22:50.639
it, Boss. A book of
poetry, a book of shooting the half h