WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:20.800 You know, good for nothing, eggs sucking dumb. We did it our 2 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:29.359 way because we love it that way. We love it that way. And 3 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.039 I have this wonderful gut feeling and I've had it all my life when it's 4 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:50.960 time to go. I think it's now it's time to go. It's the 5 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.280 lapsed funk happy Holiday Solar System co chairs are back in the sleigh. You 6 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.920 could say, oh yes, I am ready to sligh with the lapsed funk. 7 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:04.840 Got I've got I've got a nice alpine forest candle going right now? 8 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.879 Do you actually? Absolutely? It's an exciting time around here, as you'll 9 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.120 begin to see in the feed the TLF Christmas n rapping specials starting to hit 10 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:18.159 fast and furious gift by gift this year, it's feeling festive, it's feeling 11 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:23.000 real, and it's feeling funk. Because that's what's under the missiletoe this holiday 12 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.959 season is it regards KLF. And we're turning the page away from you know, 13 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.680 his time in Japan, his time with the n WA Championship, to 14 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.200 individual feuds that in so many ways defind terry funk. And this is gonna 15 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.560 be something unlike we've done before. And it's going to be really fun. 16 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.640 We're gonna kick it off with well, the person that Terry Funk is making 17 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.000 reference to in the song we play at the top of every episode of The 18 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.120 Lapse, Funk, the egg sucking dog himself. They MalCon dream Dusty Rhodes. 19 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.519 Oh daddy, what do you What do you know about sucking eggs? 20 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.439 Uh? You know, not much. I'm not a big fan of sucking 21 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:05.000 eggs, but I understand it's a thing that some people do. They'll be 22 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.159 deviled by the time we're done with this. That's true. From Florida to 23 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:15.280 WTBS out of Atlanta, this feud, in so many ways brought forth all 24 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:19.000 the best qualities that Terry Funk brought to the wrestling business. And it also 25 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:24.039 helps illuminate how Dusty Rhodes became a national sensation off TBS. One of the 26 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.319 key feuds there not only on TBS but setting him up as he got his 27 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:34.400 sea legs under him as a you know, massive babyface in Florida Championship Wrestling 28 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.919 was the feud with Terry Funk through the mid to late seventies, and as 29 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.039 the eighties turn, it's onto TBS and these two do absolute battle and before 30 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.960 you know it, Dusty's in demand and all corners of the country Madison Square 31 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.719 Garden to name just one, where he of course went up to challenge Billy 32 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.639 Graham off of the stardom that he was able to obtain off TBS, feuding 33 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.080 with you know, Oly Anderson, many others, but Terry Funk definitely among 34 00:02:55.159 --> 00:03:00.960 them, and we very much look forward to sampling some of those contributions from 35 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:02.960 the Funker that we would otherwise never really have an excuse to tackle. So 36 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:07.479 this is going to be something wow. And so before we get to business, 37 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.800 we do want to remind you that since the holidays are ringing in, 38 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:15.520 there really is no excuse in terms of finding a gift for the LAPS fan 39 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.000 in your life, or perhaps telling folks in your life who are looking for 40 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:21.520 a gift for you and know you listen to a very strange podcast about a 41 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:27.599 very strange business that the TLF has you covered this holiday season, not the 42 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.840 least of which boss is the Pro Wrestling te store for the LAPS fan. 43 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:36.039 Fuck Yeah, Absolutely Pro Wrestling Teas dot Com Slash the LAPS Fan get your 44 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:42.560 holiday schwag right there, from our movie themed LAPS fan t shirts to our 45 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:49.240 jolly old Saint Fritz. You find that shit there and you can tell people 46 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:55.240 exactly what you and we are all about to say nothing of going ahead and 47 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.960 buying the Sergeant Adam Funk shirt because you don't get fan damn straight. I 48 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.520 mean, listen, you want to warn people. Okay, yep, he's 49 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:08.479 coming for you. He will find you. And if you're so compelled, 50 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.639 why don't you stick your hand up the puppets ass and become a ventriloquist over 51 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.600 it. The Lapse Fan's cameo, you can give voice to the motley crew 52 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:26.800 of TLF characters. So so on Thanksgiving Day, I actually recorded the one 53 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.920 I talked about it last week. I think where the request was for Lapsed 54 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:38.360 Vince to tell to tell the guys that were going to that that that performed 55 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.639 on the Halloween Halloween Macy's Parade on on in nineteen ninety four, that they 56 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.360 had to do it as if they didn't know, basically telling them after Survivor 57 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.639 series that they couldn't go home, no, that they had to go to 58 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.199 New York and they had they had to go on the fucking float in the 59 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.519 parade. And I hope, I hope I did I did it well. 60 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:01.920 So from what I understand, that's from the homie Zach who's making that an 61 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.879 annual tradition asking lapstants to tell the wrestlers via camon to get on that fucking 62 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.959 float. Really, it was, it was, it was, it was 63 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.759 fun. 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We talked about it in the Survivors Series live call, 98 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:28.079 but for folks that might not have been able to avail themselves take us through 99 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.240 it. I decided, you know, I just it was kind of a 100 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.360 last minute thing. I was like, you know, it could be kind 101 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:39.199 of fun to do, you know, kind of one of those And they 102 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.360 bug me so much when I see the people cooking, because usually first, 103 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.519 you know, because usually I get not surprisingly, I get you know, 104 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:54.279 on my on my feed videos about about guys cooking steak, you know, 105 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.920 and usually you I would say maybe seventy five percent of the videos that I 106 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:03.199 get that I have to do cooking steak are outside in a winter type of 107 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.720 you know, a snowy atmosphere, and they're cooking outside on an open flame. 108 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.920 Yeah, like Barren Corbyn. They've got black latex gloves on. So 109 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.600 it's so grotesque to me at times, and it's like how, like what 110 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.560 the fuck do you? Like, really like, what are you? What 111 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:20.600 are you doing? What are you proving? And so I said, you 112 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.879 know what I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of do that myself and and kind of 113 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:30.199 have fun with that and do a little video showing how I make the sandwich. 114 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.200 It's lovely to see and it's lovely to see sliced and issue forth. 115 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.320 And it was tasty. I take it, boss, I tell you. 116 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:39.320 It's all about the cranberry sauce. Yes, yes, it is. I 117 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.840 I I realized that. So as I took my first bite, I was 118 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.519 like, you know it it it's great and it's good. But I was 119 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.159 like, you know, it's a little too rich and a little too savor. 120 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.600 I was like, it needs a little more sweetness. And so I 121 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.080 just started, you know, dipping it in some cranberry sauce and it was 122 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.960 not better. Like it's a fun and uh like it's, uh, what 123 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.399 do you call it? What's that? What's that sandwich that's like extra the 124 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:11.159 French dip, not the French dip. It's I'm thinking of it's fucking christ 125 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.559 I don't know what you're talking about, the torta. No, it's it's 126 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:20.799 that. It's like it's like deep fried on French toast and ship. Oh 127 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:28.080 oh oh, people are screaming, right, oh my god, I can't 128 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:35.200 not Napoleon, Napoleon, and I know it's like it's it's it's it's part 129 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.879 of a movie, like it's the name of like a story as well. 130 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:46.240 I can't fucking think of it. It's the the the crystal crystal money, 131 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.080 Cristal money, crystal, Yes, the kind of money, Cristo, right, 132 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.519 money, Christian. You dip it in the you know, you dip 133 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:58.120 it into the raspberry jam whatever. So it's the same thing. The sandwich 134 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.320 gets dipped in cranberry. So we do hope our American listeners enjoyed Thanksgiving this 135 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.240 year, and holiday greetings and blessings to all across the TLF solar system. 136 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.960 We're deeply moved. I'll tell you you know, you know who's you know, 137 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.159 those are actually a big fan of dipping in the cranberry's conan I was, 138 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.720 I've been dipping it in all these crime berries. I'm not a single 139 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.879 one at Motos Locos. No no, So he's in Iran this this holiday 140 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.840 season, so we wish him the best, uh in those I ran away 141 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.200 from him too for that. And and yeah, we feel humbled by the 142 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.360 outpouring of holiday gifts shot at our po box with the Christmas special that come 143 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.519 in your way, and because we're attacking it gift by gift, pod by 144 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.399 pod this season, the window is still sort of open. We know there 145 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.720 are been some folks that didn't get it in under the wire so to speak 146 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.440 for our in person gathering, but as we're going to prove here, we're 147 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.720 more than happy to connect remotely as well and react to your gift appropriately in 148 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.679 that form. Also, so deep thanks Patreon dot com. Rocking and rolling 149 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.080 for the holiday season. Back and effect under the cinemat is knocking on that 150 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.720 door, Yes it is, Yes it is. We We've got one. 151 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.080 We've got one more movie, you know, before we get into the into 152 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.200 the holiday, the holiday spirit. And you know it already, so I 153 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:20.320 don't mind telling to everybody in in celebration of Terry Funk and the Lapsed Funk. 154 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.759 We're gonna go to the Roadhouse. I got one of the Funk's proudest 155 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.279 cinematic on screen achievements. Yes, indeed, and I think, uh, 156 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.639 you know, I'm gonna I'm I've never seen over the Top, but I 157 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.960 do believe he has more screen time in Roadhouse than he does over the Top. 158 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.840 Yeah, we were debating if there's going to be a UTC accompaniment to 159 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:43.440 Lapsed Funk. We've already done Paradise, Sally, We've already done it like 160 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.039 to Hurt Peece. Of course we've already we did be on the mat. 161 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.320 Which of the two should it be Over the Top or Roadhouse? Those are 162 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.879 the two sort of you know, it's made reference to when he turns on 163 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.000 Flare at Wrestle Worrety nine and starts that program that you know, you got 164 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.240 to get to the back of the line as a title contender because you've been 165 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.240 off in Hollywood, right, And this is really the era that Rick Flair 166 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.639 is making reference to when he said that in nineteen eighty nine, was was 167 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.200 the time period where Funk was really trying to make it in Hollywood in the 168 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.519 Midtal Ladies. Well, I mean, you know Roadhouse came out right around 169 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.960 that time. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the movie he was referring to. 170 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:16.440 Yeah, I'm pretty sure too. You know, it's actually good. 171 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.080 It's a fitting thing. Yeah, it came out in eighty nine, so 172 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.159 it's like, right, he'd probably just finished making it, which is wild 173 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.039 because you better believe a stop on this this line that we're on a Funk 174 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:30.600 feud by Funk feud is Rick Flair, sure, and and the series of 175 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.120 matches he had with him over his illustrious career, so that'll be a nice 176 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.600 accompaniment as well. So we landed on Roadhouse as being the Terry Funk film 177 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:41.559 that will get the cinemat treatment. We'll touch on over the top as well, 178 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:46.200 of course. Yeah, and there's also just mainly also a reason is 179 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.720 there's just non stop fighting, like to a just hilarious degree. I haven't 180 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.879 seen a movie, so I'm excited. Yeah, it's it's it's just it's 181 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.759 so goofy. But it sounds like Terry Funk the man for the job. 182 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.639 Then, absolutely, and so much more on that front to come as the 183 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.559 laps Funk unfolds here this holiday season. So patreon dot com not only rocking 184 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.960 and rolling for Under the cinemat Scary Movie three, just dropping as boss Man 185 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:15.120 was able to talk a scary movie in due to the truncated schedule that was 186 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.679 exciting, featuring, of course former WCW World Heavybay Champion David Arquette, but 187 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.159 also on Patreon the live call for the Survivor series and the return of Cmpunk 188 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.360 And this was a special one. It's wild. Just what the file is 189 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:35.720 happening. I mean, we're we're we're in it's it's it's uh, you 190 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.440 know, it's it's just bizarro world here, Okay, is what it is. 191 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.200 It's just it's it's off the fucking hook. The first thing he said 192 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:48.480 was something along the lines of he's gonna start so much shit. I think 193 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:56.679 of his face right now. Oh oh man, Hey that nice locker room 194 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:01.720 harmony you got there. Yeah, would be a shame if something happened to 195 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.240 it. Yeah, right, would be if somebody just started saying, you're 196 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:16.159 a fucking asshole. I'm I'm I really don't. It's it's so so the 197 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.639 Art of War Games continuing on Patreon as your Coach heare. I took on 198 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.759 the men and Women's War Games matchups this year at Survivor Series, so you 199 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.159 do want to head over there and check that out and some other goodies coming 200 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:31.159 your way over on Patreon this holiday season. So that addressed that out of 201 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.080 the way, Let's turn to the Eggsucking Dog, shall we. Let's all 202 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:41.000 right to hold about eggsucking dogs. Here to the amakn Dream, Dusty Rhodes, 203 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.440 and the phrase is always wrung in the minds of anybody who witnessed Terry 204 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.120 Funk cut promos on Dusty over the decades, but it was most recently sort 205 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:52.519 of tabled by one Cody Rhods, of course, son of the American Dream, 206 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:54.840 who was allowed to take a live mic on the first SmackDown after the 207 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.399 passing of Terry Funk as well as the passing of Bray Wyatt. Let's not 208 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.759 forget reason Funk kind of got short shrift was because he passed away the same 209 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:07.080 week as the entirely death of Bray Wyatt, so it was very difficult to 210 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.279 figure out where to place the emphasis in terms of tributes and outpouring. So 211 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.320 now that that's sort of settled down and we can focus on Funk, we 212 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.000 go back to what Cody had to say about one of his dad's greatest rivals 213 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.879 on that SmackDown. You know, I want to tell you about a time 214 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:28.240 eleven years old. I'm at the Denver Airport. I am traveling with my 215 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:37.159 father, and across the people mover, I hear a man yelling the most 216 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:48.799 peculiar insult. I hear a man calling my father an egg sucking dog. 217 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:58.399 I don't, Michael, can we say egg sucking dog on Fox? Brother? 218 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.240 They're not renewing you, brother, Yeah, and choice words for my 219 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.320 grandmother as well. And again I could not see the man yelling. So 220 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.759 I am assuming, at eleven years old, we're about to have some sort 221 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:22.120 of domestic incident. And then I see him. It was the proprietor of 222 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:30.559 the Double Cross Ranch. It was Terry Funk. It was Terry Funk, 223 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:36.879 and I can you imagine I mentioned his grandmother. What Funk said to Dusty's 224 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.279 mom to in the airport, She's no good. You're no good, Dusty. 225 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.639 Hey, Dusty, you're a your mom's a triumph. Hey, Dusty, 226 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.480 suck my deck, Dusty, this is Miami International Airport. Hey, 227 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:59.399 Dusty, did you know you're my son. I fucked your mama's right hard. 228 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.000 She's no good. You're no good, just like all knockkneed walking through 229 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:10.559 the airport in ninety four. He works, he works, He imagedially flips 230 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:11.960 the switch because it's Dusty has told us, and we're about to play it. 231 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:18.559 Worker worker, Terry is always working. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's 232 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.559 what we want, right, absolutely, so I don't want any fucking reality. 233 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.640 I want I want, I want workmanship. So let's hear it as 234 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.160 it occurred. This is a promo that Terry Funk cut on Dusty Roads on 235 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:36.079 Florida television in nineteen eighty, where he more than deploys the famous egg sucking 236 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:45.960 dog line Thirsty Road, you know you're good for nothing, egg sucking dog. 237 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.359 I'm sick and tired of having you claim to be a cowboy, you 238 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:59.839 with your putrid body, your verhicles, veins, trying to claim that you 239 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.759 are the greatest at a bull rope match. You don't even know what a 240 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:10.240 bull rope match is. You don't even know what a rodeo is. You're 241 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:15.519 a drug store cowboy, That's exactly what you are. And I wrote in 242 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:22.039 rodeo after rodeo after rodeo, and I intend on doing the same if I 243 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:27.839 ever get you in the ring in a bull rope match, I know what 244 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:36.400 I'm doing. And I'm gonna ride you around that ring and I'm gonna whip 245 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:41.200 on you, and i'm gonna spur on you, and I'm gonna whip and 246 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.519 I'm gonna spur and I'm going to ride, and I'm gonna put you up 247 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:52.440 with. Boy, I'm gonna put you up with That's what I'm gonna do 248 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.799 because rodeo in was when you put a man against an animal. And I 249 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:03.440 know you're a page. Yes, dislike your mama was a peg. Your 250 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:11.440 mother's a peg, and you should stay nestled in that soals belly instead of 251 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:17.759 ever coming into a ring and trying to compete with me. Now, a 252 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:22.440 bull rope match goes until there's a submission. Well, in a rodeo, 253 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.960 you don't even realize that you just gotta ride that bull eight seconds. Well, 254 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:32.119 I'm gonna ride you and ride you until you run out of gas and 255 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:36.799 you're gonna be s. S. Norton and you're gonna be sweating and you're 256 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.920 gonna be breathing oh so heavy because there must be a winner, and you 257 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:51.240 are going to admit, you're gonna admit that I'm the best. Wow thoughts, 258 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.039 there we go. I love it. That's great, that's fucking awesome. 259 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.559 He's an intense guy and thought he was. I really thought he was 260 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.839 gonna say he's a drug addicted fool when he said that, not drugstore cowboy. 261 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:06.000 Yeah, I know, yeah, that'd be much later. Well, 262 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:10.680 Terry Dusty, you're a you're uh, you're you're you're a you're a drug 263 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:18.240 infused bitch. That the only he's also infused with a he's also infused with 264 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.799 bacon grease. I mean he called he called Dusty's mom a pig right there, 265 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.759 right? A pig? Is that what he said? Yeah, a 266 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:27.279 pig, that's what he said. That's right. I don't know. I 267 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.920 didn't know if she was a police officer. What do you know, learn 268 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.519 different things, you know. All I'm saying is that's the promo that comes 269 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.400 up when you type Terry Funk Dusty Rhades eggsucking dog in the YouTube, and 270 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:42.720 it has him calling him his mom a pig, and then Cody acts like 271 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:45.960 I don't know that he heard it, and did he really hear it. 272 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.200 I don't know, Cody did he did he hear it in an airport? 273 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.839 Like, what's going on? Pal? What airport was this? Cody? 274 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.720 When would you have been traveling with your grandma? Exactly when we are you 275 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.440 alive? Did you? Did you say? Did you just hold on? 276 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:08.200 Did you say, brother? When were you alive? Because that hasn't that 277 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:17.839 hasn't been established to my satisfaction yet, Brother, I mean said that happened 278 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:22.640 in nineteen eighty right, that promo? Yeah right, he heard those same 279 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.960 words. Cody wasn't born in eighty five. Well, you know he watched 280 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.720 the promo on YouTube before he went to the ring on SmackDown. I see, 281 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:34.680 I see, I understand. So it was so we have to know, 282 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:37.759 of course that Terry Funk didn't just create the term egg sucking dog. 283 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:47.720 It's that fucking cast, it's that fucking lapsed funk. Oh my god. 284 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.880 Apparently this has been an insult that's been hurled around and you know, political 285 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.559 circles and any other forum in which people go joust for joust verbally. This 286 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.880 is an article from the Ottawa Citizen in Canada in two thousand and six. 287 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:07.440 Because apparently there were some there were some feuding going on between some prime ministers 288 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.279 and MPs in the Canadian Parliament in which one accused the other of being an 289 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.680 egg sucking dog, and this, of course led the Ottawa Citizen newspaper to 290 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:21.119 do some research into wherefore this curious phrase came from. And Boss, I 291 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:25.000 think it only appropriates me bark on the Terry funk Dusty Roads view to share 292 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:30.160 this article with people, anatomy of an insult the egg sucking dog, that's 293 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:36.559 written by Bruce Dietschman. Mister Deechman, thanks for your contribution to Bruce. 294 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:44.880 Indeed, when MVPMP Pat Martin, commenting on Liberal leadership hopeful Joe Volp's acceptance 295 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.160 of campaign funds from contributors as young as eleven, compared the Liberal Party to 296 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:55.119 quote egg sucking dogs, we can only hope that he wasn't using that expression 297 00:22:55.160 --> 00:23:00.759 in its nineteen fifties slang incarnation meaning elderly homosuals. What that's what it meant 298 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:06.599 in the fifties In the nineteen fifties, elderly homosexuals calling Dusty Rhodes and elderly 299 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:12.400 and elderly homosexual they could yeah, more likely, mister Martin was referring to 300 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:19.359 the old American expression popularized in Fred Gibson's classic nineteen fifty six young adult novel 301 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:26.519 Old Yeller, indicating farm dogs that have become liabilities by rating the chicken coop. 302 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:30.640 Here's an excerpt quote a big yeller dog, Mama asked, looking sober 303 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.759 and worried. Yes'm the man said, then added with the grin and the 304 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:41.400 worst egg sucker and camp and camp robber you ever laid eyes on. The 305 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.920 phrase egg sucking dogs has a long, if not particularly proud history, including 306 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:49.920 in nineteen sixty eight, Johnny Cash released an album of songs he performed at 307 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:56.599 California's Folsom Prison. Included was Jack H. Clements Dirty old egg Sucking Dog, 308 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:02.640 which opens this way, Well, he's not very handsome to look at 309 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.039 all. He is shaggy and needs like a hog, and he's always killing 310 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:10.559 my chickens. A dirty egg sucking dog. Oh, that's got to be 311 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.480 where he got it from. Jack H. Clement, Dirty old egg sucking 312 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:21.440 Dog. Right wing American radio talk show host Ken Hamblin has been described as 313 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.720 quote the Black Avenger by himself, and the black and quote the Black Rush 314 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.559 Limbaugh by his critics. Among his detractors, presumably, are those he refers 315 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:38.400 to as egg sucking dog liberals from Annie roe Car's nineteen nineteen adventure novel Nan 316 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:45.200 Sherwood at Pine Camp quote, He's a miserable, fox faced scoundrel and I've 317 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.960 no more use for him than I have for an egg sucking dog. Definitely 318 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.720 sounds like a book that Terry Funk's mom would have read after reading. Oh, 319 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.519 absolutely, after watching whatever that TV show was that you got the name 320 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.240 Terry from? What was he remember? Oh? We had like the war, 321 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:06.720 the World War II plane over Japan. Well, or I'm Terrence. 322 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.400 I'm gonna read you on a novel, Nan, Sure, what a time 323 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.680 camp? This is your go to bed novel? Well, I sure do 324 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:19.839 appreciate the opportunity to listen to the story. Mama, He's a miserable fox 325 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.640 face scoundrel and I have no more use for him than I have for an 326 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.000 egg sucking dog. I'm gonna go ahead and listen. Oh, it's me 327 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:33.079 wonderful. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and use that one. 328 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:37.000 Mom, Can I use egg sucking dog? No, Terrence, You're 329 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:41.200 a piece of shit. Whoever caps the roads of raiding a chicken coop anyway, 330 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:47.720 a fried chicken coop I got, yeah, yeah, the fried chicken 331 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:55.079 coop off east and South and fucking Austin, Texas off like nineteen oh two 332 00:25:55.200 --> 00:26:00.519 novel Glengarry School Days. That's it's coffeest for closers. He was gotta say, 333 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:10.079 is that the prequel to Glengarry glenmer Canadian author Ralph Connor aka Reverend Doctor 334 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:21.200 Charles William Gordon brother, that sounds what what do you mean? I mean, 335 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:26.599 it definitely does sound like a wrestler's name. Absolutely Introducing prefriend, Doctor 336 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:33.759 Charles William Gordon wrote quote, his chief business was the doing away with dogs 337 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:38.799 of ill repute in the country. Vicious dogs, sheep killing dogs, egg 338 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.279 sucking dogs were committed to Allan's dread custody, and often he would be seen 339 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:51.160 leading off his wretched victims to his den in the woods. Whence they never 340 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.039 returned. Well, I'm sure Terry Funk saw that as the future for his 341 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:02.319 arch nemesis, Dusty Roads wherever they battled, But he of course failed to 342 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:07.799 prevent Dusty from returning time and time again to cook and smoke with some elbows 343 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:12.519 and bionic punches and just you know, wild offense. These two totally epitomized 344 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.599 the Texas style of violence across the country. Wherever they fought, we're gonna 345 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.000 taste of not only how they did it in the ring, but how they 346 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.240 talked about it before and afterwards and made sure people came out to the Omni 347 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.960 or whatever the hell it was the fucking build one of several buildings in Tampa. 348 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:32.720 I'm not sure they fought much at Fort Hesterley, but Saint Petersburg and 349 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.640 all the rest of those towns where Dusty was so hot down there during the 350 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:41.279 seventies. One thing Terry does acknowledge looking back on it upon writing his memoirs, 351 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.119 Dusty Rhodes was always one of my favorite opponents, but I must admit 352 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:52.839 I have no concrete proof that he actually does suck eggs. Damn it, 353 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:57.039 Terry. That's why I bought this fucking book. I thought it long last, 354 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:00.119 you're going to produce that? And what what the pictures were that baby 355 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:07.319 doll slip Dusty on TBS? No such luck. He turned out to more 356 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:10.960 than just hardcore. Terry Funk's book, as he reflects on the first time 357 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.559 he became aware of one Virgil Runnels. Oh, Virgil Runnals was another West 358 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.480 Texas boy you know who became a big name in wrestling. His Dusty Rhodes. 359 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.839 I met Virgil playing football, and then I met Dusty Rhodes after that. 360 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:32.880 No, vir Virgil was a good linebacker about two hundred and twenty pounds 361 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.400 at that time. He could move too. That son of a bitch could 362 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:37.839 play ball. Truth is, he was a better baseball player than anything else. 363 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.880 But he was an all around great athlete. There was only one problem. 364 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:48.640 He couldn't talk a thwere You just couldn't understand a word he sed. 365 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.759 He writes that out so that fanatically it sounds like Dusty's tongue's actually pretty clever. 366 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:59.640 Wow, he writes thwere t h w e ar instead of swear. 367 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:06.000 He writes jeff j u t h t instead of just. He writes under 368 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:11.200 tanned of u n d e er wow th h t a n d And 369 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:18.240 he writes wood w u h d for word and fed tgd four said my 370 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.119 future father in law had a filling station in town. This is something that 371 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.599 really pisses Dusty off that he keeps. He always every interview I've seen pretty 372 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.240 much that he's asked about Dusty Roads in a shute kind of context, he 373 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.000 brings this up. Yep, my future father in law had a filling station 374 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.400 in town, and he had this idiot working for him, Virgil. He 375 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.160 was working at Terry, father in law's gas station. Oh my god. 376 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.559 One day Dusty was working there and I drove up in my nineteen sixty five 377 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.880 Galaxy, the first new card ever bought. I'd spent three dollars on it. 378 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.480 As he filled up the tank, Virgil said, Hey, try I 379 00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:02.079 just dweam about a car like Fifth some day. If I could just get 380 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:06.960 a call like Fifth, it would be full for fine. As good an 381 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.200 athlete as he was, he couldn't get into wrestling here. We wouldn't train 382 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.519 him. We didn't have anything against him. It was just that guys would 383 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.880 get interested in the business because of how it was portrayed here in its popularity. 384 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.880 We had just started Bobby duncom Off when Dusty wanted in, and we 385 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.839 didn't want him to seem like it was that easy for guys just to come 386 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.640 in and start wrestling out of West Texas State. Remember, Dusty went to 387 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:29.519 West Texas State played football trand yep. But to Dusty's credit, he found 388 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:32.799 his own way into the business. Dusty went up to Pittsburgh, told the 389 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:34.960 promoter he had worked for the Funks in Amarilla. They were having some kind 390 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:38.119 of bullshit world title match in the promoter put Dusty in as the challenger, 391 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:41.440 even though Dusty had left his gear quote unquote, of course, the truth 392 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:48.200 was he had no gear. I did worth noting that Terry says in his 393 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.319 book it's Pittsburgh. In interviews he says it was Boston. It was almost 394 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.759 definitely Boston, because, as Dusty will talk about, he goes up to 395 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:59.960 Connecticut to play for RUM with the semi pro football team that was based on 396 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.880 out of I think Hartford at the time, and that's where he became a 397 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:07.880 lifelong Boston Celtics fan and Bruins fan as well. I believe, of course, 398 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.039 the truth was he had no gear. At the end of the night, 399 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:12.079 the promoter gave Dusty's ten dollars payoff, and Dusty wanted to know where 400 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.079 the rest of the money was. Since he'd been in a world title match 401 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:17.920 and all, it didn't matter to him that there were only one hundred and 402 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.400 fifty people there he's twisting the mind. God, I love it. Terry 403 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.240 will remind you that he was there before you were, right, of course, 404 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.079 he'll do it with a smile. He'll do it like in a gregarious 405 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:32.839 way. But he will always mention that he was there first. And Dusty, 406 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.839 is that of course because it was because he was Yeah, because that's 407 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.720 one thing you can certainly hang his cowboy hat on. Then Dusty turned that 408 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:45.720 into a chance to work in Detroit for promoter at Farhad, who also wrestled 409 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.119 as the Sheik. He came back down here and said, tay, I've 410 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.519 been looking for the Sheikh. Oh my god, He pointed to a bunch 411 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:55.839 of scars on his forehead. Well, I wasn't so sure he'd been wrestling 412 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:57.359 for the Sheik. He went into the dressing room, but nobody would talk 413 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:00.160 to him. I went in first and told the guys, Hey, we're 414 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.359 letting this guy into the dressing room, but we're not sure he's smart to 415 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:07.039 the business, so watch what you say around him. Dusty went in, 416 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.359 pulled up a chair and sat down, and no one said a word to 417 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.240 him. But when we got word from the Sheek that Dusty had wrestled for 418 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.000 him, it was like the arms opened up and he was welcomed into that 419 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.880 fraternity. He was a living testament to the will of guys who truly wanted 420 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.480 into the business. He made his own way and became a tremendous box office 421 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.240 attraction. Dusty turned that into a chance to work in Detroit. From butter 422 00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:29.319 Red Farhat, he kind of jumps around a little bit in his book, 423 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.119 who also wrestled this to Sheik. He came back down here and said, 424 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:37.839 Tewey, I've been working for the Sheik. Okay, Twy, I'm repeating 425 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:42.519 myself. So basically the story is that, you know, growing up in 426 00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.799 Austin and playing football at West Texas State, knowing Bobby Duncan really well did 427 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:50.440 Dusty, and of course the pipeline, the straight pipeline of pro wrestlers that 428 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.480 were coming out of that out of that university from you know, we've mentioned 429 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.079 them all, Tully Blanchard and Teddy Biassi and Tito Santana, not to mention 430 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.920 Dorry and Terry Funk Bruce of Brodie Stan Hansen. I mean, christ, 431 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.000 you know, it's like, where's my fucking ticket to the dance? You 432 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.000 know, I played too, I was a good player, Dusty kind of 433 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:12.279 took a more meandering path than Terry kind of indicates. Dusty has talked about 434 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:16.240 getting an athletic scholarship to play baseball at another college beside West Texas State, 435 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.920 getting in trouble, getting kicked out of the school, transferring here, transferring 436 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.599 there, ending up at West Texas State kind of incidentally, and then trying 437 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:28.480 to you know, having a proclivity for the business, already trying to find 438 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:30.960 his way in. Terry Funk kind of portrays Dusty's hanging around the arena and 439 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.640 trying to catch her break and trying to talk his way into getting trained. 440 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.039 And I'm sure there's some degree of truth to that. But it's interesting because, 441 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.079 you know, Funks is in his book they're already training Bobby Duncomb, 442 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:43.640 Whereas other times when he tells the story, he makes it seem like both 443 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.079 Bobby Duncomb and Dusty were just two guys on the outside looking to get in 444 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.279 that they wouldn't let in. So why he let Duncan in and not Dusty, 445 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:53.880 I've never heard him specify, or why the Funk family did. But 446 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.920 of course this was you know, at a time, and Amarella was one 447 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:59.559 of the top territories in the country. They had the japan influence, the 448 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:05.359 funks WA Worldavyweight champions in their respective times, right, So this was this 449 00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:07.599 is a special time to grow up in that part of the country as it 450 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:09.119 regards being a wrestling fan, because it seemed like the biggest wrestlers in the 451 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.280 world were right there in your backyard. They weren't in New York, they 452 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.119 weren't in La They they weren't some some far flung city. They were right 453 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.280 there in Emerald of Texas. Not again, as we've talked about, not 454 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.960 the biggest metropolis in the great state of Texas, that's for sure. At 455 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:23.760 all. It's a very strange place to have so much outweighted influence. Of 456 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.639 course, per Dori Funk Senior in the NWA, in the wrestling business. 457 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.360 And so we're gonna hear Terry kind of tell the story that we just read 458 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:34.960 from his book and his own words. This is from the first RF video 459 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.440 shoot interview he did. And I would just like you to listen boss to 460 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.960 the passive aggressiveness in Terry's voice. Okay, yep, Like you know, 461 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.440 Dusty is keen to point out there's always working here. I don't think Terry 462 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.559 Funk is capable of answering a question about Dusty Rhodes without recalling many of the 463 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.440 old digs. We heard him going on Jerry Briscoe's nose, remember that last 464 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:54.519 time. Yes, yep, like no reason. They totally been called for. 465 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:58.559 But as soon as someone comes up, he starts going under the mode 466 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.719 of the hundreds and hundreds of promos that he's cut on the guy before, 467 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.960 and he's got to reiterate these things. But I just find it fascinating, 468 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.760 this kind of like balance he's striking between answering the question in a shoot way 469 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:13.880 and still making sure to twist the knife a little bit. One has to 470 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.039 wonder, you know, the agree to which he's he's really trying to fuck 471 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:21.239 with Dusty getting some of these answers. I've got a lot of memories of 472 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.920 Dusty. Yeah, Dusty played football with me too, see in West Texas 473 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:29.480 tite you know. Yeah, he was always uh, he was always uh 474 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.480 second team guard right behind me. See I was the first team. You 475 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:38.880 know. He couldn't stand that. Yeah, he was always very fat and 476 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:52.039 overbearing. Had even Dusty had a tremendous amount of turisma and funny story. 477 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:53.000 I'll tell you a story, and this is the true story. You can 478 00:35:53.039 --> 00:36:00.519 ask Dusty about this. But I had started in nineteen sixty five, and 479 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.960 uh, I was wrestling and going to different times, you know, and 480 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.559 I finally saved up enough money to buy a new Galaxy Ford five hundred, 481 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:14.079 you know, which was the least model of the forge. But and it 482 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.360 was maroon, you know, it was maroon and black roough on it. 483 00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.360 And Dusty Rhodes had a job this God's on the true Dusty Roades had a 484 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.760 job with my father in law's gas station, pumping gas. And I used 485 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:29.920 to drive through there going to Appling and those other places that I talked about, 486 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.079 and Dusty would go ahead, and he'd go ahead, and you have 487 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.880 to wash the windows, and he lost the windows, you know, and 488 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.559 he timed the gas. And I'll never forget one day that they did that 489 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:46.440 didn't do it the good that can call the dumb day that I loved to 490 00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:51.679 have CODs in like, but he couldn't. He really couldn't talk then, 491 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:54.599 you know, because he really had that lit bit. But he used to 492 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:58.480 come to the matches every Thursday night, you know, and he watched the 493 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:00.480 matches. You know, and him Bobby Duncan wanted to come together, you 494 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.639 know, and they sit up and the Crows danced up there. You know. 495 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:10.719 We wouldn't let him in the dressing room or anything. Seriously died. 496 00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:15.039 He didn't ring. We would never let him start, you know, he 497 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:22.599 he's too fat. He took off and he went up to uh play Continental 498 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.960 League football up here. And so he came to Boston and I think the 499 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.840 guy was God, what was the old promoter. It was Stepher's partner or 500 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:36.679 something like that that had Boston wrestling for years. Not sure, no, 501 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.199 no, wow, yeah, I'll think of it in a minute. But 502 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:43.760 this guy had the worst cards in the world and worst boys in the world. 503 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.920 And Dusty went up there one night because Continental League folded, you know, 504 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.199 and Dusty went into there and he said, went and said that. 505 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.679 But he went into the dressing room, you know, he told him, 506 00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:58.239 you know, you know enough about wrestling. They say, Hey, I've 507 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:01.719 been reffing before, you know, wrestled bot before. What he wants to 508 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:08.639 do well that I've been rentling down there in Ambrella for him bumped. So 509 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:13.920 oh really his name is Frank So I think of a minute, somebody out 510 00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.880 there in the woods. But anyhow, his Dusty went ahead and then convinced 511 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.679 him that he was a professional wrestler. So they put him in the ring 512 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:25.039 that night, you know, and he wrestled this one guy that was in 513 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:30.360 He wrestled for the world Championship the first night. It's like the winner is 514 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.000 supposed to get five hundred dollars or something like that, you know, or 515 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.440 he supposed to get paid five hundred dollars or whatever it was. But anyhow, 516 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:40.440 Dusty went out there and wrestled him by the match guy. The other 517 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:45.280 guy came back in his wrestroom said, are you sure that this guy has 518 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.840 wrestled before. I don't think he's ever wrestled before. I do like it, 519 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.199 you know. Dusty came back here and he said, well, that's 520 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.360 about my money. And then when they had they gave him like ten or 521 00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:02.280 fifteen bucks, and he the well, Reugh money money money. But anyway, 522 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.360 he went from Marion, he went to Detroit, and he was up 523 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.840 in Detroit for about a year then, but he got to start that way. 524 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.079 That's where he got to start, from Boston, and then from Boston 525 00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.519 he went to Detroit, and then from Detroit he came back down to Ambrilla 526 00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:19.400 there. You know, him and Dick Murdoch were a big team down there. 527 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:22.360 There. You have it from the horse's mouth, boss. Love it 528 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.239 fucking love what's going on. He's operating on several levels there. What do 529 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:32.199 you want? I mean, I'm I'm I'm hearing. I mean, it's 530 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:38.320 it's hard, you know. He he transitions very well into you know, 531 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:45.440 being a pro wrestler, being a pro wrestler, into talking about pro wrestling 532 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:52.119 as a business, you know, like excuse me, like he he goes 533 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:57.639 from from from k fabing into into into real life. And it's very seamless 534 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:02.719 at times, seamlessly armless. You know, it's very it's it and in 535 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:07.000 that way, it's very like the you know, it's very convincing in a 536 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.440 way, you know, because because it's so seamless. I think one of 537 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.280 the best, as great of a worker as Terry was, he was best 538 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:20.039 at working sincerity. Yes, that's really a rarity in pro wrestling. You 539 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.199 know, everyone thinks everyone in wrestling is a manipulator. Some are great. 540 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.480 Mostly they're great, and aren't that great Terry, But a few can convince 541 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.480 you that now I'm actually dealing with you on a one to one level, 542 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:35.119 right, But what he's really doing is just like any other worker getting a 543 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.039 shit in, and he got a shit in on Dusty right there, And 544 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.480 I think, what kind of color is my understanding? It hits different, 545 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:44.559 so to speak. Knowing that this shoot interview came out first and then Dusties 546 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:49.039 came out second, it was a it was a hard battle to get Dusty, 547 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:50.920 I guess, I gather, I sense. I mean, I haven't 548 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:52.920 talked to anybody about it to do a shoot interview because he was, you 549 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:57.840 know, front office at WSW until it hit the skids and right had that 550 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.000 ECW run and there was that little period there where he was kind of in 551 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.159 between booking jobs and didn't really have a lot of income coming in. They've 552 00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:07.920 talked about this in WWTV and playing up the Roman Cody storyline at Mania, 553 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:12.039 because of course Hayman, you know, being in ECW at the time and 554 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.440 booking Dusty to do some stuff and Cody framing that is you know, something 555 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.039 that was done really to help put food on the Rhodes family table at a 556 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:23.920 time when they were really struggling. So I feel like it had to get 557 00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:28.039 to that perfect little air pocket there for Dusty to see that's worth his time 558 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.199 getting the pay day to do the shoot interview. But when he does, 559 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:34.199 you can tell he's got what we just played and what will continue to play 560 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.320 on his mind, and he fires back in a way that to me does 561 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.599 not feel like working. Yes, because one of the keys, Terry Funk 562 00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:44.079 always talks about it, from calling Rick Flair a banana nos to calling Jerry 563 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:53.719 Lawler something we'll specify later. He's not satisfied until he is saying something that 564 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.239 really the guy on the other end of the promo would rather not have him 565 00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.199 say publicly, even in a promo. He yes to go that far, 566 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.000 He needs to burrow that deep, and he needs to do it so much, 567 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:08.039 to the point that I'm actually convinced that Terry loves fucking with people. 568 00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:13.960 Oh yeah, and even though he's got the fraternity and the camaraderie with these 569 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:16.039 guys on level with nobody else, at the end of the day, he 570 00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:20.400 goes home and kind of snickers to himself about what a bunch of assholes all 571 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.960 these fucking guys are. I like to think of Terry Funk that way. 572 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.920 Yes, Yes, as a guy who's basically marionetting and having fun with these 573 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:30.880 people because he knows how to make them feel like he puts them in a 574 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.719 different category than the other wrestlers he makes fun of, and of course he 575 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:39.199 does not. So this is Terry and that sit down high Spots interview with 576 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:44.039 Harley Rays and Bill Apter that we acerpted last time on the lapsed Funk we're 577 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:45.639 talking about, of course his days is NWA champion with Harley there, that 578 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.079 made sense, But there's also just an aside where Dusty comes up and Terry, 579 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:53.320 who again is very clearly having bottles of beer throughout the course of this 580 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:59.559 session, of course, and gets increasingly more belligerents as the event goes on. 581 00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:05.159 As soon as as soon as Dusty's name comes up, you can tell, 582 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:07.920 I think this is probably five six oh seven something in that ballpark, 583 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.480 the enmities, the distaste for Dusty is still there. And again you tell 584 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.599 me where work starts and shoot begins. As regards Terry Funk, who again 585 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:20.119 he's commenting to kind of like a closed room full of hardcore fans that would 586 00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:22.480 buy a ticket like this to a Q and A. Apparently Dusty Rhodes was 587 00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.280 supposed to be part of this sit down conversation as well, and no show. 588 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:29.920 They make several references to that. And this is around the time where 589 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.079 I presume Dusty was coming off the T and a booking job and started getting 590 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.079 set up with the Developmental Territory in NXT and started working for vinc again through 591 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.400 Triple H and stuff. So you tell me where work ends and shoot begins 592 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:45.760 here as the Funker addresses Dusty all those decades later after the clip we just 593 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:50.440 heard, well, Elton John it used to be pretty fair, but not 594 00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.559 as fans Dusty. Why are you written on Dusty? He was? I 595 00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.920 know Dusty Rhodes was supposed to be here this evening. I don't know why 596 00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.880 he's not here, but because he's a fat, overbearing up, nonxious wind 597 00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:15.280 breaking, a sucking dog. Anyway, what is this whole thing with you 598 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.480 and Dusty? First? Why isn't he here? He was supposed to be 599 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.679 here tonight. And I don't know why isn't Dusty Rhodes here. I'll tell 600 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:31.239 you why he isn't here, because Dusty Rhodes is up in New York with 601 00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:40.039 his nose Vance McMahon's. But if he's again big hand for noses, up 602 00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:45.440 punts here. Yeah, and uh Vance McMahon is up in New York with 603 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:52.360 his nose up dusties. But now that's a horrible thought. Yeah, too 604 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:59.360 much information. So you want to fisure that? Well, did you want 605 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:07.760 to ed any into that? Not to releases? Well, somebody bought me. 606 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.000 It's so fucking do it. You fucking be said, Shit, I 607 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:14.960 don't know exactly what year it is, but you know how I know it's 608 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:17.639 before two thousand and nine. How that's the year Terry Funk was inducted into 609 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.800 the w W Hall of Fame. And he never wants said that shit evinced 610 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.719 before that. But that's Terry, you know, like he he gets pissed 611 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.760 off when people just try to supplant and and prop up the giant while he's 612 00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.679 on the you know, while he's trying to make independence matter and make independence 613 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.119 place like ACW where guys can actually come close to make a living right, 614 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.920 not to say the dusty o's, you know, the indie circuit that. 615 00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:43.960 But you know, he didn't hesitate to go all in on him there, 616 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.039 and I think that's that that's revealing. Remember this is a small, closed 617 00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:50.639 room and it's also you know, just a limited release DVD. I presume 618 00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:53.519 it's pre YouTube, or at least pre everything that's ever existed on DVD being 619 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:59.079 available on YouTube in some way, shape or form. So he's probably making 620 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.039 these remarks without a whole hell of a lot of concern that is going to 621 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:04.280 echo all the way out to Dusty, just to entertain the fans in the 622 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:07.039 room. But well, yeah, that fascinating blend. And I think that's 623 00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:10.239 why we're sitting here all these years later talking about Terry Funk's great feuds and 624 00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.719 the promos that preceded and postseeded them is because he did cut deep. Yep. 625 00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:20.719 Yeah, he did say things that when you hear them, even all 626 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:22.159 these years later, you can tell yourself, you know, that probably really 627 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.760 pissed that guy off. That probably really did get the blood flowing a little 628 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.400 harder in Dusty's veins and push him to swing a little bit harder when they're 629 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:31.880 in the ring. And god damn it, Terry Funk's happy is a pig 630 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:36.440 and shit when that happens, he loves that shit because nor right now he's 631 00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.639 permissioned to swing back full throttle as well, which he loves nothing more than 632 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:42.719 to have his matches look real and full contact. We've learned that and we 633 00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.239 will learn that has the laps funk on folds here. So I just thought 634 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.960 that that was really interesting to hear him Todd greed Dusty without really any prompting, 635 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.360 without Dusty standing in front of his face, without trying to build a 636 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.679 particular match. You know, it's you can't mistake that for trying to do 637 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:59.679 business, because he's acknowledging that Dusty, He's pretty much can't do business with 638 00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:04.119 Dusty now because he's now aligned with WW again. So there's the flunker. 639 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:06.920 I don't know. Maybe the enmity between these two has something to do with 640 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:08.960 the fact that, unlike Dusty, Terry was actually in the movies. Boss. 641 00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:15.079 You know that that could be. That could be a very good point. 642 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:16.719 Actually, I really don't doubt for a second that Dusty didn't get kind 643 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.719 of pissed off that Terry had a little movie career there, and Dusty always 644 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:22.480 saw himself as a John Wayne or a director. We talked about this at 645 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:27.960 nauseum over the years. I mean, that's a very good point. So 646 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:30.159 his big cinematic ideas come from, of course, the war games, sprouting 647 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.480 out from what was it called demolition Man. What was it called no Wargames 648 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:39.280 was from Mad Max DM Thunderdome. That's right, Thunderdome, thank you. 649 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:43.920 Yeah, yeah, there's some something that came from demolition Man. But it's 650 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.679 so u it's so interesting to think about because when these two really turned up 651 00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:51.119 the heat in their feud in Florida in seventy six, seventy seven, seventy 652 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:52.960 eight, that's when Paradise Alley comes out. That's in Funk shooting the movie. 653 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.360 That's Funk sort of transitioning off dropping the n WA championship in seventy seven, 654 00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.320 as we talked about last time, and you know, trying to make 655 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:04.480 a go, you know, to supplant the income that the world champion would 656 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:07.400 get by actually diversifying in a Hollywood and trying to get acting gigs and really, 657 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.440 as far as I could tell, trying to lean full throttle into that. 658 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:13.840 And I think Terry Funk would have gladly just acted and done nothing else. 659 00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:16.280 If right, Yeah, I think you're right. Opportunity presented itself. 660 00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:22.320 Of course, he met Stallone in seventy seven when he got word that Stallone 661 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:24.760 wanted to do a movie with a pro wrestling background called Paradise Alley of course 662 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:30.199 played Frankie the Thumper in that film, and of course that available under the 663 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.039 cinemat archives for you. We also posted it to the main feed when we 664 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.199 launched The Lapsed Funker a little bit before we launched The Lapsed Funk earlier this 665 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:38.960 year. Wonderful job by the boss breaking it all down. And you probably 666 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:42.320 have your notes right in front of your boss, but just your general sort 667 00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.360 of recollections, what stands out to you as highlights is what you learned about 668 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:49.320 Terry Funk's transition into Hollywood. And you know, of all the wrestlers you've 669 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:53.320 studied that have made the acting transition, where does he stand? You know? 670 00:48:54.280 --> 00:49:01.079 He I think he's kind of an underrated, an underrated a talent in 671 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:09.599 that regard. You know. I'm I remember you know well, especially you 672 00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:15.639 know I when I did the little I did that thing, uh, I 673 00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:20.079 think for it was for beyond the mat when I did that little video tribute 674 00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:27.039 to to Funk, and I was amazed really at how much he really did. 675 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:34.199 And when you think about the time period and you think about the work 676 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:40.239 that people that that wrestlers did outside the ring, it's not it wasn't as 677 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:45.920 nearly as much as as they would do now, you know, like it 678 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:50.800 was a really impressive thing that he was that he was doing that. I 679 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.320 think, yeah, he actually you know, in Paradise Sally, he does 680 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:57.039 not come off as a pro wrestler trying to be an actor. No, 681 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.320 not at all. It's not like an Academy Award winning performance or anything. 682 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.400 But there are a lot of performances in like the Wrestler, including Dusty's scene, 683 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:06.679 where it's like, Okay, this is it's fun to watch, but 684 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.199 yeah, this guy clearly couldn't fit in as a character that would seem as 685 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:12.559 ly integrate into the narrative of the movie. He just has to be involved 686 00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.599 in some over the top violent hype scene, you know, some crazy violent 687 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:21.239 fight scene. And listen, Funk's not the the the greatest actor in the 688 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.079 world, you know, he's not. You know, I certainly have seen 689 00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:28.599 plenty of scenes where he looks like a fucking idiot. But at the same 690 00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:34.039 time, you know, they are there's always I'll never I'll never forget this, 691 00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:38.360 And I think I might have said this one time that before that that 692 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:44.360 there when it comes to being a movie star or being a film actor, 693 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.320 and a and A and a big name. It doesn't always mean that you're 694 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:52.840 a good actor, and it doesn't always mean that you're necessarily a top draw. 695 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:58.440 What it means too, why you keep getting work could also mean there's 696 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:06.239 something you do that's unique that no one else does, right, you know, 697 00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:09.360 And it could be something that we just do not know, Like I 698 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:15.000 for example, one of the things that I've heard about about Tom Cruise, 699 00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:16.679 at least back in the day. I don't know if if if it's so 700 00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:22.360 much now, but back in the day he was known as somebody who was 701 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:31.119 reliable to do the same hit his marks every fucking time, and do everything 702 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:37.400 the same way in terms of movement, maybe give a different performance and stuff 703 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:44.079 like that, but in terms of physicality he hit every single mark precisely the 704 00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:50.599 same way. And that makes you know, an editor's job or and also 705 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.800 a you know, a continuity person's job much easier, you know, And 706 00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:00.280 that was a thing that made him stand out, Yes, besides fact that 707 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.559 he's fucking Tom Cruise, you know, like those like it's things like that, 708 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.960 that right word might travel that on the set he was especially especially good 709 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.280 and not just what was you know, filmed, but right setting a scene 710 00:52:10.360 --> 00:52:15.800 up things that might be invisible to get exactly like that impressed Stallone. You 711 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:19.320 know, if you're right exactly there could be something else that that. You 712 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.239 know, and Stallone, you know, being a being, being a bodybuilder 713 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:27.840 himself. You know, I'm sure he liked the giant physique and stuff, 714 00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.920 and you know, and that and that Funk is a charming individual, like 715 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.320 all sorts of things could have happened, and you know it's true, and 716 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.199 and stallone gave him a lot of work, you know, over the years, 717 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.719 he gave him a lot of work, not not just on you know, 718 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:43.679 in front of the camera too, but behind the scenes. You know, 719 00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.400 he did a lot of stunt work for first Stallone stuff. So it's 720 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:51.679 and paved the way for Hulkan Rocky three. Indeed he did, you know, 721 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:55.039 indeed he did. And it's it's very much like how funks kind of 722 00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:00.800 mainstream appeal in Japan Mirrord that of Hulk Hogan with the record and everything like 723 00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:04.119 that and sort of like being a pop culture sensation. Yep, there's a 724 00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:07.400 lot of I think there's a lot of Pat Terry Funk flit that Hulkgan walked, 725 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:10.880 but two terries. Yeah, two terries, that's right, two terries 726 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:15.000 in a pod. So I'm going to do something. I'm gonna resurrect something 727 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:19.159 that you actually played and I heard for the first time on the Paradise Ally 728 00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.079 Under of the Cinemat episode. This is from the Mike Douglas Show. Oh 729 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:23.840 yeah, yep. Now that we're talking about Dusty Roads, we're talking about 730 00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:28.239 the promos. Keep in mind too, don't don't forget. This is also 731 00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:37.440 the segment. This is the segment he met the director of Beyond the Mat. 732 00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:39.280 Oh yeah, we talked about that Beyond the Mat too. Barry Last 733 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:43.559 Team's there, Yep, he's there. They do they do a skit that 734 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:49.480 is on this thing, but that just doesn't It didn't survive or at least 735 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:51.599 no one's put it on YouTube yet. That is to say, the skit 736 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:53.920 plays elsewhere on this episode of the talk show. Yeah, yeah, So 737 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:57.920 this is the Mike Douglas Show. It was like a primetime or like a 738 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.079 late night talk show at the time. Yeah. And they have Terry Funk 739 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:04.159 on because he's going to be in this movie Paradise Alley, and he's brought 740 00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:09.480 along with him his audition tape where he shows the country what it was that 741 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:13.440 he submitted to stallone to get cast as Frankie the Thumber and what it is 742 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:16.000 he said. And while we're talking about this in the context of Dusty and 743 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:20.920 the Dusty feud and the Promosy cut on Dusty, you have to say that 744 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:24.639 the line he came up with eggsuck and dog to nail Dusty roads with also 745 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:30.119 perhaps got him the job on Paradise Alley. Yeah, his breakthrough rolling Hollywood 746 00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:38.599 listening. This is again from the Mike Douglas Show, Lee Canalito, nineteen 747 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:45.840 seventy nine. By the way, Slide didn't want to tell the audience and 748 00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:51.079 our viewers in this studio audience and they're getting hostile who won the arm wrestling 749 00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:53.039 mess? But if you guys want to tell it, okay with me? 750 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:59.119 Isn't it's lie with you? Absolutely, I'm the wrestlers in the United States. 751 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:00.760 Well, I hope, but uh, I'm glad that you think so. 752 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.280 Well, even if I didn't think so, I'd say it. Yes, 753 00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:14.159 Yes, I saw the movie and terror. I saw the movie and 754 00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:17.440 you were more than convincing. Thank you. I haven't feeling your He's tough, 755 00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:22.679 don't you think tough, uh universal city. And I thought, well, 756 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:25.039 by golly, I'll just answer that I'd like to be in the dog. 757 00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.159 I'm telling you. I sent back my picture and everything else, and 758 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.840 UH got ahold of Arthur Chamanion, who is associate producer on this. And 759 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.559 Arthur got the thing and he said, showed. I guess he showed the 760 00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:38.639 pictures of Sly. I don't know, but he called me back, said, 761 00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:40.639 Terry, so those look pretty good there. He says, uh, 762 00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:44.599 why don't you send us some kind of videotape? You know? He said, 763 00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:46.800 we want a goop and a nut and Sly hype cast. And so 764 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:50.599 I guess that's what he wanted, was a goop and a nut. So 765 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:52.360 I went ahead and just kind of made this promo, you know. And 766 00:55:52.440 --> 00:56:00.320 I hadn't talked that ahead. And I said, Sly, over bearing, 767 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:05.800 obnoxious, egg sucking dog, I'm gonna go ahead and hit you over with 768 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.719 a head with a lem brick until your eyeballs turn. I think you're being 769 00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:13.360 a little too passive right now. It was more like this, We got 770 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:21.400 the tape, baby, look at it. Yes, why you over burying, 771 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:36.239 ub notchious, perverted egg sucking dog. I perverted is the worst. 772 00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.519 He sucked that one in there, perverted egg sucking dog, Like, wait 773 00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:44.320 a minute, perverted. Yes, that's never been a part of your arsenal. 774 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:47.039 But I guess he decided to pull that in for stallone because you probably 775 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.440 heard something. Oh my god, that's spectacular. Again, this is him 776 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:54.360 just using the dusty promo to get booked on Hollywood in Hollywood and to get 777 00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:59.639 over on this talk show. Yeah, yeah, I always love watching the 778 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:01.280 wrestler do his stick in front of a crowd that's not accustomed to it. 779 00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.480 Oh yeah, Like you heard the shoot interview. Everyone's popping because they recognize 780 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:08.639 the lineg sucking dog and that they want to hear it. It's him playing 781 00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:12.599 the hits. This is an audience it's never heard such a phrase in their 782 00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:16.719 life, let alone being it being uttered by someone who's so masterfully playing the 783 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:20.840 aw shucks, dumb cowboy. Hear how he played He leaned into that there, 784 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:24.440 he totally. I mean, god, he's he's sitting there. Holy 785 00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:28.280 know, I just that gumm it, you know, a dog on on 786 00:57:28.360 --> 00:57:30.199 it on? I want ahead and and uh you know, I said, 787 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:32.800 hey, you know, I might want to try doing the movies and uh 788 00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.199 and then I want ahead, an auditioned, and I want ahead and went 789 00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:40.480 ahead, went ahead, ahead and went ahead. When is this Billy Vanilly? 790 00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:45.599 Oh my god, it's so funny the way he fucking does that. 791 00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:50.920 So I don't know, I just thought it was so good to hear him 792 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:53.159 kind of a because he could tell he's reading the room and he knows. 793 00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:57.320 Like the most over version of this story is, I'm just a simple cowboy, 794 00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.719 you know who who somehow by ad got got word that I could be 795 00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:05.280 in the big pictures. And uh, you know, I stumbled and fumbled 796 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:09.280 and bumbled my way through getting my auditioning materials to to Sly and here I 797 00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:14.480 am all shucks. But he's so much more cerebral than that. Nobody survives 798 00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:16.159 as long as the pro wrestling business at the level he's, Oh no way, 799 00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.239 guy's a cunning son of a bitch. And I think that's a great 800 00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:23.239 early I think he played that whole thing. He you know, I come 801 00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:28.119 on, first of all, you know damn well that they that he knew 802 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:30.440 that obviously they had the tape there. Oh of course, he was no 803 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:35.760 fucking surprise, and so he's just you know, he's just fucking manipulating the 804 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:37.440 whole ship out of that. I mean that those people the way they like 805 00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:42.320 have a guttural reaction to him saying egg sucking done. I just like milk 806 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:45.920 and cows. And you know, uh, I went ahead and and uh 807 00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:51.159 I ate, I ate some biscuits before I came on the show, and 808 00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:54.039 and said, you know, I'm just going to take a nap, and 809 00:58:55.840 --> 00:58:59.519 it looks pretty good, and terry and then you know, I said, 810 00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:02.519 the tape looks pretty good, and I said, well, I might as 811 00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:07.840 well go ahead and do an audition video, and uh so I got a 812 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:12.920 camera and I started talking, and I decided to go for it. He 813 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.880 went for it. Nothing big, nothing, nothing, nothing over the top. 814 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:22.199 No, that would be way later. So let's turn the dusty side 815 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:25.320 of the coin. Okay, let's hear how does he tell this story of 816 00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:29.480 coming of age in the wrestling business and uh how he interacted with the Funks 817 00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:31.440 in the early days. This from his book. If you could get that 818 00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:43.079 list here were on daddy as I was kicking around with with Texas College in 819 00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:45.960 Kenyon, Texas, nineteen thix six sixty seven. The school's favorite sons were 820 00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:52.320 Terra Funk and Dorifunk junr Thunder, the very famous dorith Funk. They had 821 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.920 the Emerald Territory, Emerald Lebock el Patha or Deafa, New Mexico. You 822 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:01.480 get the picture. I get, Yes, have a third than an Amarilla 823 01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:07.880 ran at the fair ground and Frank Goodish who later became Brewther, Brody, 824 01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.679 Bobby Duncombe and others would go with miss. He said he went with Brody 825 01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:15.519 to the matches too, bounce with me at the bat cave not club, 826 01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:20.480 so we would have a little money. He bounced for Bruiser Brody yep, 827 01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:23.480 cuff about a dollar fifty to get in. Bobby would bail Hey with me 828 01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:28.079 for some of the ranchers in the area to get on money to go Okay, 829 01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:30.920 so Dusty says he and Bobby Duncan would bail Hey to get money to 830 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:35.400 go to the auditorium on Thursday nights to watch pretend fights. I thought he 831 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.519 would just bail right things and just yeah, he thought. He used to 832 01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:43.320 bounce with Frank Goodish. Wait did they both get in the ring together taking 833 01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.480 a bump instead? So that's his story of you know, kind of hanging 834 01:00:46.519 --> 01:00:52.360 out of the matches as a you know post West Texas State football player looking 835 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.840 for his way in the world, and this year from his r video shoot 836 01:00:54.880 --> 01:01:00.719 interview, and Funk comes up as he's talking about these days, these precocious 837 01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:05.880 early days for the American dream before he was anything in the wrestling business, 838 01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:08.719 and I just invite you to just listen and just enjoy and soak in him 839 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:13.840 thinking Terry is a bitch and barely being able to contain it, having heard 840 01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:16.519 the version where he looks like a total income poop that we just heard Terry 841 01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:22.760 Funk spin and his shoot interview. Listen in then I'd had a scholarship to 842 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.480 go to West Texas State, Bobby Dunclan and all them kids went there, 843 01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:31.079 and so I actually ended up going there, you know, and playing football, 844 01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:38.679 and that's where I met the Funks. And Thursday night was at the 845 01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:45.159 fairgrounds was the uh. I will talk more about Funk because I'm talking about 846 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:52.400 him now a little more somber than I usually would because of his affiliation with 847 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:58.320 me and his refusal to recognize that the only reason that he even have his 848 01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:01.039 ranch or his home, or it's wife or anything, it's because I made 849 01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:06.440 him what he is. Wow, And the excuses to even on your interview 850 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:08.719 that you did with him to give me any credit, except he's used in 851 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:14.119 the phrase from the sixties. I believe it still is the internet even us 852 01:02:14.199 --> 01:02:17.559 it now? Is it a fat egg sucking dog? I think his his 853 01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:21.320 freight for me. So they all got off on him a little bit. 854 01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:24.599 But anyway, they were there and we would go to the matches. And 855 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:30.159 as a kid growing up about I remember seven or eight years old, I 856 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:35.079 produced matches in the backyard like we see now where you've seen the thing on 857 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:37.280 Cactus Jack where he was jumping off the barn and stuff. But we would 858 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:40.559 build a ring and I would be like the promoter even back then, and 859 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:44.559 I would book the matches at eight, nine, ten years old, with 860 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.679 me always winning. And it was always I was against you know, Luthas 861 01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:52.679 or whoever it was, you know at the time, and the industry was 862 01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:58.039 so intriguing to me that I wanted to do it. Dust on you, 863 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:04.880 what about this backyard federation? Do it? Did you say? Never never 864 01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:07.400 lost back there? What was that about? I wonder just what you're what's 865 01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:10.079 to your mind? But what what? What? What? What? What? 866 01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:17.280 What? What? Exactly? So do you hear that there Terry Funk 867 01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:21.119 wouldn't have a ranch, he wouldn't have a wife, he wouldn't have anything 868 01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:24.960 that is a ball. I mean, come on, I'm dust like, 869 01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:29.400 there's no like he was a big star before even fucking wrestled. I mean, 870 01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:31.679 look at Japan alone. I'm out playing the guy for having no idea 871 01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:35.599 what Terry Funk was doing in Japan in the seventies. It was basically impossible 872 01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:39.159 to access videotape or information about that back then. But what the fuck? 873 01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:42.440 Man? That's like? Man, that's that to me tells me that it's 874 01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:45.400 very personal with Dusty because like he starts, he starts starting with no basis, 875 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:49.719 you know. Oh yeah, absolutely, Dusty is pretty sure if you 876 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.639 if you're a success in this business, Dusty's pretty sure. He's pretty much 877 01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:54.480 the reason that's the case. Yeah, if you go back, if you 878 01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:59.400 if you peel the onion back far enough to this day, he still he 879 01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:01.360 feels that way. I mean, that's just so delusional and hilarious, you 880 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:05.320 know, I mean it is in a lot of ways Terry made Dusty in 881 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:08.840 terms of I was gonna say like that. To me, it feels that 882 01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:12.239 the way around very much. So like if you if you talk about the 883 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:15.079 history, I mean, Jesus, like, you can't deny the fact that 884 01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:19.480 that that that that Terry Funk was a big star before, way before Dusty. 885 01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:25.360 I'm so grateful for the shoot interview era because it allows us to document 886 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:30.639 like the level of bullshit in how convenient friendships work in wrestling, and how 887 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:33.559 you know when it's time for the banquet and it's time for everyone to put 888 01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:36.880 a bow tie on everyone's the best friends. But it doesn't take much to 889 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:42.280 go back and hear them when the chips were down and WCW's out of business 890 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.679 and they're not quite sure where their next paycheck is coming from, and they 891 01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:46.440 start really auditioning because now they don't feel like they have a friend in the 892 01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:49.920 world, you know what I mean, Because if they had friends, they 893 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:56.039 wouldn't be in this position having to do this fucking interview. Okay. So 894 01:04:56.119 --> 01:04:59.079 it's it's just wonderful to be able to get that window into that time period 895 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.239 where guys, we're a little scared and a little honest about the fact that 896 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.800 you know, under the surface all this fake camaraderie, just under the surface 897 01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:10.519 is a certain feeling that you wouldn't be shit if it wasn't for me, 898 01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:15.039 And it's all basically my not all, but it's it's to a very large 899 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:20.719 degree my you know, I don't know my ability to be nice to you 900 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:27.960 and giving to you my personality, my my sense, my business sense that 901 01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:33.199 you are who you are. Dusty famously really got over in Florida when he 902 01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:36.079 was wrestling Jack Briscoe as a heel. Dusty was a heel in the beginning 903 01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:41.719 of court as he was in the beginning of his career, and he covered 904 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:44.360 Briscoe. He had him on the ropes in a world title match and he 905 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.719 got the two and Briscoe was forced to put his foot on the ropes to 906 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:50.239 break the cover. Oh my god, that was a big deal for a 907 01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:54.840 right that pristine grappler like Jack Briscoe was. He should be kicking out of 908 01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:58.480 everybody's pin attempts. Nobody should even come close. And when Briscoe had to 909 01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:02.599 resort to that, it was that subtle NWA heels seventies tactic that then made 910 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:05.760 people realize that, holy shit, like this guy, Dusty, he's our 911 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:09.119 asshole. You know, same thing mgf's doing, same thing, stone cold 912 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:12.599 did he You know he may be, you know, a total badass, 913 01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:16.519 renegade, dickhead, scumback, son of a bitch, but he actually could 914 01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:20.000 lead us to glory. He actually could represent us all the way to the 915 01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:25.760 top. And we kind of love him for being as obnoxious and flamboyant and 916 01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.000 all the qualities we first hated him for were starting to love him for because 917 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:31.280 he's just so good at it consistently and just you know, gives us a 918 01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:33.760 sense we get our money's worth every time we come to see him. And 919 01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:36.880 so when he came that close to become a NWA World heavyweight Champion, that 920 01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:41.119 was the signal. Remember Eddy Graham tremendous way in the NWA, He had 921 01:06:41.119 --> 01:06:44.000 a big, big voice, and who got positioned just like he did to 922 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:46.880 Jack Brisco to even be considered a candidate for the NBA championship. And the 923 01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:49.000 fans, I think down there picked up on that, especially the hardest core 924 01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:51.719 fans that will probably make the most noise and come to the arena most regularly. 925 01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:56.239 They're there thinking, holy shitly Dusty came close enough. They want us 926 01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.719 to start kind of believing in him as a future world heavyweight champion. We 927 01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:02.199 can put this guy across the finish line if we finally and this is before 928 01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:04.760 he did a formal face turn that was an angle with pack Song and Gary 929 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:08.800 Hart that you can find on YouTube. It was a massive moment where suddenly, 930 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:11.480 you know, instead of you know, he came to the ring and 931 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:14.719 you thought he was just gonna help pile onto the baby faces as a dastardly 932 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:17.639 heel. And they repeated this with the flare turn to start the horsemen and 933 01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:20.480 all that, and he said, he turns around and starts wheeling on the 934 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:24.360 heels for the first time and makes a stand. You know, we realize 935 01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.519 there is there's a moral code here to this bad guy that the others don't 936 01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:29.679 have, and we love him for that. And ever since then it was 937 01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:32.400 off to the races. I think that was seventy four, I think it 938 01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:38.320 was. And then Funk comes through around seventy six to Florida to work with 939 01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:41.679 the Dusty who had been set up, but to suggest that Dusty made Terry 940 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:45.519 like Dusty had just been made himself. I mean, Funk was the great 941 01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:48.360 first opponent for him. No, and the problems, the problems we were 942 01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:50.599 about to sink our teeth into. We'll tell you all you need to know 943 01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:57.320 about how how Terry queed him up beautifully to succeed. Just a bizarre statement 944 01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:01.079 that was Dusty Man. You know all id a like who's who's working who 945 01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:05.039 dust Yeah, Dusty worked himself into a tizzy, that's for sure. He 946 01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:10.599 definitely did. And I think, uh, he probably probably has a distaste 947 01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:14.360 for Terry Funk because Funk was in a position to kind of big brother him 948 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.640 about that, you know, like, you're not gonna You're not gonna jive 949 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:20.800 talk me into a corner and and and just spin a big yarn about how 950 01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:25.359 you know you're my dad and I'm your son. Basically, no, I'm 951 01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:29.239 I remember who you were when I was getting paid to be a wrestler, 952 01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:30.800 had this big fancy card and you were pumping gas and you can't deny that, 953 01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:33.239 so shut the fuck up. It's great stuff. It's a great It 954 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:36.720 has all the great raw material for a great pro wrestling feud, because there's 955 01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:41.319 enough reality there that at any given time, one or the other can push 956 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:43.680 a real button to take it to a higher level of intensity. And the 957 01:08:43.760 --> 01:08:47.119 fans back then couldn't tell the difference between something they manufactured whole cloth and something 958 01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.439 that actually happened that they're leveraging in their promos. So it was all fair 959 01:08:50.520 --> 01:08:53.760 game, and it was all on an even keel, and it was all 960 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:56.319 about what what can I say that's gonna get the other guy really to come 961 01:08:56.359 --> 01:08:59.560 back at me hard and sell some fucking tickets. It's that simple, right 962 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:02.279 right. So a bit more extrapolation here from Dusty Rhodes's book which he wrote 963 01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:05.840 with Howard Brody called Dusty Reflections of Wrestling's American Dream Boss. If you could 964 01:09:06.439 --> 01:09:10.399 give us this passage, this will take us through a lot of the meat 965 01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:13.640 of the story between Dusty and Terry. During that time, I had a 966 01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:17.159 chance to thief them with great refer and young Terry with the Nick Barkley a 967 01:09:17.239 --> 01:09:20.840 pro reffling and Nick Barkley with a with a character on the TV show The 968 01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:26.079 Big Valet, which was popular at the time. Tarry would tell me would 969 01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:30.199 later become my rival and model eminemy in the pro refferen ring for more than 970 01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:33.640 thirty years. But we would wait to see who is coming in the next 971 01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:38.159 week. You know. One time there was a thign hanging from the raft 972 01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:43.079 the with the date on it saying come in the Sheikh Man with promotion. 973 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.600 If you read the reflin magazines, you knew that the Sheikh was the battle 974 01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:53.640 motherfucker, the fight of Thary Arabia, much less tofa truly detective. You 975 01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:56.760 although knew that he would kick the shit out of Terry and the old Man 976 01:09:56.760 --> 01:10:00.960 would meet him in the following week. Man, I couldn't wait. However, 977 01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:03.760 it would be another year or so before a cross path with the Funks. 978 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:08.960 Meanwhile, it was now nineteen fifty seven, and being fresh out of 979 01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:13.600 West Texas State University, I went to play football for the Hartford, Connecticut 980 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:18.479 Shotter Oak of the now defunct Continental Football League to twelve games into the Thief 981 01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:21.479 and however, with a record of five to seven, the TI team folded 982 01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:28.920 and there I was stuck in the fucking Northeast with a mufftang that had no 983 01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:34.880 heat or air conditioning and only thirty five dollars in my pocket. You know 984 01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:38.840 what if we took that and electrified it a little bit and made it seven 985 01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.720 bucks, I was gonna say, like, you know, you think about 986 01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:45.159 it. You know, thirty five dollars in nineteen sixty seven is you know, 987 01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:50.000 if you include inflation, it's way more than seven dollars in nineteen nineteen 988 01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:54.239 ninety five or six or whatever the fuck. So you know, and this 989 01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:57.760 is incredibly similar, and that Rock was coming off a failed career in a 990 01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:01.760 secondary pro football league. Yeah, yep, yep, yep. Getting back 991 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:05.600 to Terry, I always looked up to him because he played football take the 992 01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:09.960 state, and so did I. That's all I gotta say about him at 993 01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.279 the end. Right, So I hope you enjoyed that passage, and I 994 01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:16.800 hope you enjoyed this installment of the lapsed funk. He had family ran the 995 01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:20.680 refer in town that I would go watch, kind of like how yellow finger 996 01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:30.159 looked up to what yellow fingers? Yeers, that's right, that a yellow 997 01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:33.880 finger. It's funny. You'd think he'd capitalized yellow finger because it's not. 998 01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:38.000 But anyway, Yeah, they kind of a yellow finger look up to me, 999 01:11:38.079 --> 01:11:41.039 although he may not admit it. When he would go to the Tampa 1000 01:11:41.159 --> 01:11:44.680 Armory to fee and learn from me before he got into the business. Later 1001 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:46.680 on, when I was established at the American Dream, Terry would come to 1002 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:51.399 Florida and talk some shit about me quitting the team because that'd because I was 1003 01:11:51.479 --> 01:12:00.039 behind him. But that was just part of the funds. He definitely he 1004 01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:02.399 wants to correct the record on the idea that he played second string to Terry 1005 01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:05.199 Funk in West Texas. And again this is a mark against Terry. I 1006 01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:10.279 actually believe Dusty here. Terry's all right, totally fabricating this idea that Dusty 1007 01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:15.479 was second fiddle to him in football. I always claim Dusty quit the football 1008 01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:19.039 team because he was behind me. That's a second string guard. That wasn't 1009 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:23.079 true. He was a hell of a ball player, a hell of an 1010 01:12:23.119 --> 01:12:27.000 athlete, a good linebacker. People don't know it, but he was rough. 1011 01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:30.720 Hard knows. He was a tough, hard nose, damned good athlete. 1012 01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:34.079 Right there in a quote that Dusty is keen to including his own book 1013 01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:38.840 from Terry Funk. Terry Funk's ture to admit that it wasn't true that Dusty 1014 01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:41.600 quit the football team because he was behind him as a second string guard. 1015 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:45.239 But did that stop Terry from repeating that exact line and that clip we played 1016 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.520 from the RF video shoot interview, that exact line repeated in exactly the same 1017 01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:51.399 tone of voice as everything else he said that was supposedly shooting on Dusty. 1018 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:57.399 Listen, listen if he if he can get under someone else's skin. He's 1019 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:01.880 gonna do it, thank you, right, there's no it's it's not it's 1020 01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:06.199 it's not a a like a you know, maybe maybe I shouldn't do that. 1021 01:13:06.279 --> 01:13:09.960 It's you know what, if I can, I'm going to do it. 1022 01:13:10.079 --> 01:13:13.239 I don't care if it's business or not exactly. I can use that 1023 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:15.159 as an excuse if you ever call me on it, if you confront me 1024 01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:16.880 in person. Never I can just say, oh, you know, I 1025 01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:20.479 was just working an angle verge. Well you never know when we're gonna get 1026 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:25.239 another phone call. That's right, you never know. And let me tell 1027 01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:30.119 you we never got another phone call. I still would have said it if 1028 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:32.359 you were dead in the ground open I tell you if I if I don't 1029 01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:35.800 ever get a phone call ever again from anybody, I'm still glad I said 1030 01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:49.479 it, and I'd say it again. Where so go suck on that your 1031 01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:58.720 dumb bit right, fuck it? Fuck fuck fuck it. Fuck that always 1032 01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:02.720 says it. I always went there. Fuck so it sounds like this, 1033 01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:15.840 fuck fuck fuck it. Fuck ah, I want to hear I went ahead 1034 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:20.000 and I had, and I had, and I had and I had, 1035 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:30.880 and then I went behind what who? Why? And Where where the fuck 1036 01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:39.159 did I go? I disappeared and nobody knows. I went ahead and disappeared, 1037 01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:45.479 vanished in thin air. That disappeared, and nobody knows. I want 1038 01:14:45.520 --> 01:15:01.000 ahead and disappeared. I went ahead and disintegrated like you do. I dissolved 1039 01:15:01.199 --> 01:15:09.439 like sugar and water. Fuck. See you know what I did? I 1040 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.520 want to happen. I shot myself in the head, so I said, 1041 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:25.119 fuck it, might as well shoot myself, can get away. I'm gonna 1042 01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:30.079 go ahead and shoot myself and get away with it. Yeah, pretty safe, 1043 01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:36.279 bet Terry, Like Terry staring straight ahead and going I'm gonna get away 1044 01:15:36.319 --> 01:15:40.279 with it. As Dory drives right off the creek into the fucking ditch in 1045 01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:45.119 the trailer at the tractor, looking as coma toast, looking as down syndrome 1046 01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:55.439 as ever, Dory funk right off the edge. Oh that the fucking thing. 1047 01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:58.680 The John Deeer bursts into phones, and Terry's standing up at the top 1048 01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:03.239 of the tree like, I'm like, ahead, might as well jump myself 1049 01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:13.479 ship all right, don't come coming, don't don't go without me. You 1050 01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:17.119 know, it's the biggest irony of the Funk family. What Dory preferred Starbucks 1051 01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:31.039 that was the biggest disagreement between the two of them. Terry Terry wanted Dunk 1052 01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:35.760 wanted Dunks, and Dunk wanted Starbucks. And now you know what's extra weird 1053 01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:39.640 is you know Dori Funk Junior. His nickname, of course was Dunk. 1054 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:49.279 Terry Funk's nickname is a little kid Starbucks actually heard they called him Tim Horton. 1055 01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:57.920 Is that one of the guys he defended against in British Columbia. I 1056 01:16:58.119 --> 01:17:03.079 wonder I want to have and became Tim Horton. I want to head and 1057 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:09.359 order to nice cap boy, you cappen, clinking boy, you capen. 1058 01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:15.880 I want to head and order to large regular. You know, say what 1059 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:19.760 you will about my record in Japan and we hate school. But at the 1060 01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:25.199 end of the day, the record is a critique of capitalism. You know, 1061 01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:32.439 everybody cappen that's hollered to cap capitalism. That's Timothy shallow Man SNL. 1062 01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:42.880 Very funny. A couple of weeks ago, a Terry unopha docs. He 1063 01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:45.720 was one of those workers who really thought he with a hooker and a shooter, 1064 01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:51.680 like yellow Finger, like Hogan brother, What who you thought I was 1065 01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:55.239 a shooting? Who told you what was a shooter. Dude, who are 1066 01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:59.279 you shooting on when you say when you say, what do you mean by 1067 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:01.920 why I thought I could shoot? Like? Why would you even wonder if 1068 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:06.039 I could shoot? Why would you want? Brother? Why are you tracking 1069 01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:11.640 me into this too? This runk? I thought other Terry brother, one 1070 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:13.880 Terry at a time. Dude. By the way, if you're keeping track, 1071 01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:18.239 Yes, Dusty also takes credit for Cogan. Of course, anything him. 1072 01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:23.319 They think they're hookers and shooters, but they have a great wall of 1073 01:18:23.439 --> 01:18:30.840 imagination. They just have this Dick Muduck or the McDaniel. They just had 1074 01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:36.680 that Dick Muddock or Wahoo McDaniel mentality, except Wahoo could be mean. The 1075 01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:45.039 wrestlers should be respected, whether they deserve it or not. Great point, 1076 01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:50.279 Tara had the respect for the business like nobody I have ever met outside myself 1077 01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:56.199 and a few others like Dick or Wahoo. To the day, at sixty 1078 01:18:56.319 --> 01:19:02.000 three years old or however old, he really is Terry. It's real m 1079 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:08.439 walking out though through the curtain when his name is called is believable at that 1080 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:13.680 point because he does things for his love of the bisness that people who are 1081 01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:17.840 younger than him shouldn't even be doing. But that's what he knows. That's 1082 01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:23.439 how he We took care of the business, or we would feud to the 1083 01:19:23.479 --> 01:19:29.279 point of real stitches twelve or fourteen stitches and ribs really being broken. When 1084 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.920 he would hit you with a chair, it was wasn't on the flat sigh. 1085 01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:35.319 The son of a bitch would either throw it at you, I hit 1086 01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:39.880 you with the jagged part of it. Are you so throwing a chair across 1087 01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:45.039 the ring? That's Terry funk. Is there a jagged part of a chair? 1088 01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:53.119 Apparently there is jagged little pill the north. It didn't make a fuck 1089 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:57.560 of a difference to him, because in the ring he always within a barroom 1090 01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:01.039 fight. Hold on the state thinking at the Imperial Lounge in Tampa one night 1091 01:20:01.039 --> 01:20:04.520 when my good with my good friend Captain Lewis, and he crawled through the 1092 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:09.960 club on his hillnds and kneave going between people's legs from the back door to 1093 01:20:10.039 --> 01:20:15.079 the stage to come after me. You imagine Dusty's on a nightclub stage performing 1094 01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:19.119 and Terry is crawling on his hands and knees through the venue to get to 1095 01:20:19.159 --> 01:20:21.880 the stage to work an angle. I'm sure to even tell her he's gonna 1096 01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:27.039 do it. He's there. You know, hey, I heard Dusty's there 1097 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:30.840 and they's singing. He's singing show tunes. I'm gonna go in there and 1098 01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:34.319 I'm gonna fuck with him. He's not gonna sing show tunes much longer. 1099 01:20:34.520 --> 01:20:39.239 I'm gonna go in there and fucking kill him. I'm gonna, you know 1100 01:20:39.279 --> 01:20:42.760 what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take a knife to his back and then 1101 01:20:42.800 --> 01:20:45.600 I'm gonna slit his belly from side to side and see if he makes it 1102 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:50.479 out alive. I'm gonna go ahead and fully him. All of a sudden, 1103 01:20:50.520 --> 01:20:59.520 the chair is flying from thirty feet across the room. Earlier that night 1104 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:02.439 we had a brutal, brutal match. Once he made it to the stage, 1105 01:21:02.479 --> 01:21:04.920 he threw a drink in my face. I didn't see it coming. 1106 01:21:05.039 --> 01:21:09.640 I leaped up and have fought all the way towing out the back door. 1107 01:21:10.720 --> 01:21:13.520 He just thought that was the greatest thing in the world, daddy, and 1108 01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:18.800 it was funnier than shit because he believed that, And so that believability carried 1109 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:24.520 to the people, and the believability to this day is not carried long about 1110 01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:28.920 anybody besides me, the Devil, Kevin Sullivan and probably terrible because he's been 1111 01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:31.880 in his entire life. As far as he and I are concerned, I 1112 01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:36.560 believe it's still a feud that people will pay to see these two old gunfighters 1113 01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:41.800 going at it. Some of the Texas deathmatches we had have still talked about 1114 01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:46.640 historic if you will, so you know the feud with him is still going 1115 01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:50.520 on. The hatred between us is still strong. We're not shooters, we're 1116 01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:55.079 not hookers, which is two sons of bitches who want to kick each other. 1117 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:59.119 There every time I see each other, two old warriors beating the fuck 1118 01:21:59.159 --> 01:22:01.199 out of each other. A time added somebody than your pen and show in 1119 01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:04.159 front a hundred the people going crazy. It doesn't get any better than that, 1120 01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:10.399 buddy, There's no gray area here that said. This is fucking me 1121 01:22:10.760 --> 01:22:14.319 and him kicking each other there in for a hundred the people and getting the 1122 01:22:14.439 --> 01:22:18.239 crowd into it. That's a great match. Longevity terry thing. I don't 1123 01:22:18.279 --> 01:22:21.520 know any better way of explaining it. From the time he picked up a 1124 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:25.600 roll of bobed wire and threw it at me, son of a bitch, 1125 01:22:25.640 --> 01:22:30.640 and he threw barbed wire at him, You're a fucking follows, you fat 1126 01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:33.520 pig, he throws it. Hey, hey, Dosty, you're a fat 1127 01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:41.560 fucking lord bitch and you're gonna eat and you're gonna eat barbed wire for breakfast, 1128 01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:53.800 you fuck head. Heat suck brick kid, Hey, dust suck barbed 1129 01:22:53.880 --> 01:23:00.600 wire, bitch? Yes, so what it's the lapsed funk. People know 1130 01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:03.760 those big rolls weigh about fifty to twenty pounds and the big roles that I 1131 01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:08.479 eat for breakfast. To wear that much and just throw it at me and 1132 01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:11.039 hit me in the arm with it, and just throw it at me. 1133 01:23:11.239 --> 01:23:13.600 I was looking the other way and turned around, and I was thinking, 1134 01:23:13.800 --> 01:23:18.000 this stupid motherfucker. Well, when let that happens, you get so mad, 1135 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:21.720 you start hitting him fucking hard with whatever you can, grab bingo, 1136 01:23:23.079 --> 01:23:28.000 bingo. Your eyeither shut as you're hitting him, and the brutality about it. 1137 01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:31.560 Throw it hotter together with great with respect for each other. We have 1138 01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:35.760 a tremendous amount of respect for each other. Because we steal and I won't 1139 01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:41.640 even say the word. We still believe it's real while others don't. That's 1140 01:23:41.680 --> 01:23:45.640 what makes it great. Well, you would call an angle or a great 1141 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:48.880 feud or whatever, but we can't talk about our ending because it's still going 1142 01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:53.680 on. But let me tell you how crazy the terry funk really is. 1143 01:23:54.079 --> 01:23:57.439 He would go down in the airport while I would be there, and he 1144 01:23:57.520 --> 01:24:00.359 would walk behind me without knowing it, without me knowing it, and he 1145 01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:04.239 was followed me. He was creamed fifth. Oh, they didn't hide behind 1146 01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:08.000 everybody or in the corner, so when I would come around, I didn't 1147 01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:12.760 fee anybody. Hey hap so? And then he'd hide in the in the 1148 01:24:12.840 --> 01:24:16.720 duty free show, Dory Dory, hide me, Dorry, donk, donk, 1149 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:21.279 you gotta hide me. It's Dusty. I'm gonna call him a bitch. 1150 01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:30.079 Hey, bitchy, Hey, Hey, don't wait, I'm gonna do 1151 01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:34.520 this. Hey, hey, Dusty, you fat cut? Dusty turns around 1152 01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:39.800 with his Louis Vuitton. Carry on the fucking going on? Who called me 1153 01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:43.680 a cut? Who the hell? And the sad damn airport called the man 1154 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:47.039 had dreamed up? They brother cut, Cody, block your ears, Cody, 1155 01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:53.079 you fucking put those goddamn mother fucking headphones on your head? Who called 1156 01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:57.760 me a fucking cut? Who dare call me a mack? And dreamed up? 1157 01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:03.600 They brother fucking cut? You are fucking gunk. I ain't no gun, 1158 01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:14.319 I think I got him, Dunk. It's like, well, I 1159 01:25:14.399 --> 01:25:16.600 think you did. Man, he's still standing in the middle of the I'm 1160 01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:25.119 just rat. Oh, that's did you, Terry? Did you want me 1161 01:25:25.199 --> 01:25:30.279 to hide you? Terry? Terry's right, he's twenty feet away. Terry 1162 01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:34.000 Dunk takes a left and walks into the woman's room. Well, I do 1163 01:25:34.159 --> 01:25:39.439 have to irrinate. Excuse me, it's not there. He's not something. 1164 01:25:39.479 --> 01:25:47.399 Excuse me to anyone, pooper. Doooo. Do do you think that's our 1165 01:25:47.439 --> 01:25:50.640 plane? I think so? Yeah, let me see the minute. Look 1166 01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:55.359 down on the runway. Is that is that Dory standing on the runway? 1167 01:25:58.520 --> 01:26:00.680 Is he waving to a part? I think I think that. I think 1168 01:26:00.720 --> 01:26:03.760 in my plane. Hey, Dori, you don't hail a plane like a 1169 01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:09.720 fucking cab. Hey, hey, can you stop? I want to get 1170 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:13.800 on. Oh I got a ticket to some I got a ticket to somewhere. 1171 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:19.399 Where is this? Fuckings the little girl in Frosty getting on the train. 1172 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:29.079 But I roll up, Bori, Alice? Can I jump on? 1173 01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:34.439 Please? Got it? Dorrance, I'm coming plane, I'm coming. As 1174 01:26:34.520 --> 01:26:38.920 he was following me, he would scream fatso. Then he'd hide behind somebody 1175 01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:41.319 or in a corner. So when I would turn around, I didn't see 1176 01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:45.680 anybody. I'll walk about five more feet and yell a lot of the good 1177 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:49.680 foot, turn around again and look back, and I still couldn't feel him. 1178 01:26:49.800 --> 01:26:53.319 But then I would hear him, so I would ask him, here, 1179 01:26:53.479 --> 01:26:57.880 what are were you doing on the fucking apple? Call me feto kid? 1180 01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:00.800 They no, I was. I was saying this. Somebody walking with 1181 01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.239 me? Is that? So? What do you mean is that? So 1182 01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:08.199 he look right at me and say, you just took it wrong. That's 1183 01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:13.560 why we didn't see like each other. You just took it wrong. That's 1184 01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:15.640 why we don't. That's why we don't like each other. And then you 1185 01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:18.760 walk away. That was his mentality. We had a lot of good fun 1186 01:27:18.960 --> 01:27:23.520 to get that buddy right. So Dusty confronts him for real, and Terry's 1187 01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:27.760 just like, No, I didn't misunderstood. I was talking to somebody else. 1188 01:27:27.800 --> 01:27:31.760 He's talking constantly. I love it. And this is what it boils 1189 01:27:31.800 --> 01:27:35.239 down to. This is the thing you have to keep in mind both when 1190 01:27:35.239 --> 01:27:40.439 you're thinking about Terry Funk feuding with Dusty Rhoades and you're thinking about Terry Funk 1191 01:27:40.520 --> 01:27:53.079 ritt large. Here's Dusty Dorry. Classic wrestler, okay, not to do. 1192 01:27:53.399 --> 01:28:00.439 Not a great interviewer, not chrismatic, but he was a funk and 1193 01:28:02.319 --> 01:28:06.640 great on the mat. Hook her a little bit, you know, respecting, 1194 01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:15.359 don't get your ass kicked in there, but slow, slow, n 1195 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:18.800 So he had his He tried his hand booking a couple of times, you 1196 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:29.439 know, and everywhere he booked, every place that he booked was on the 1197 01:28:29.560 --> 01:28:31.720 down side. So I can't say whether he was going to be a great 1198 01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:38.399 booker or he was good, or but he had he had ninety minute Broadways 1199 01:28:38.600 --> 01:28:42.960 in his head when me and Terry Falk had ten minutes, blood guns, 1200 01:28:43.079 --> 01:28:46.439 chained chairs out the back, you know, things in our head. So 1201 01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:53.600 it became like a contest between us, and I always, for some reason, 1202 01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:57.159 went in I would get the job after he left, you know what 1203 01:28:57.199 --> 01:29:02.159 I mean. And I remember sitting and looking at him one day, and 1204 01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:06.920 he's sitting there in Jimmy Crockett's office, and he had on a brown cowboy 1205 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:14.920 boot and a greenish cowboy boot. And then one day he actually he came 1206 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:20.319 in his ten shoes and he brought his boots and they were two different color, 1207 01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:24.039 and they were of the same side foot. They were on the right 1208 01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:29.399 side, and I said, he's slow, you know what I mean. 1209 01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:32.920 Then gets his bookings, and I think he was working. Because the Funks, 1210 01:29:33.039 --> 01:29:36.920 believe me, no matter what that interview he did, they we always 1211 01:29:38.119 --> 01:29:41.960 work everything. He said. It was the fucking work. They're workers, 1212 01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:45.039 they're working you and you and you, they're working us. He's a worker, 1213 01:29:45.119 --> 01:29:47.439 he's a worker. Worker. It's alias Church of Worker. Yes, 1214 01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:53.960 that's right. Let's make sure we heard that. They're workers. They're working 1215 01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:56.800 you and you and you, they're working us. He's a worker, he's 1216 01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:01.399 a worker worker. It's alias Church of worker. That's about that. Terry 1217 01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:04.119 is the worker baby, their workers. They're working you and you and you, 1218 01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:08.039 they're working us. He's a worker. He's a worker, worker. 1219 01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:13.920 That's all he is. Terry a worker, a beautiful thing. That's amazing, 1220 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:16.000 but still lots of fun. You can say that Terry Funk was a 1221 01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:19.199 worker, worker, worker, but he was still lots of fun. According 1222 01:30:19.279 --> 01:30:30.119 to the American Dream Boss, please pick up here from Dusty's missives, you've 1223 01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:33.039 been drinking, beering and going along. And he would try to be in 1224 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:36.039 like an outlaw of something when he was with me. Anyway, we came 1225 01:30:36.079 --> 01:30:40.279 from Amma Rebel and it was about three thirty in the morning. He said, 1226 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:45.000 let's go by. Who's he talking to? Terry talking to Dusty? 1227 01:30:45.079 --> 01:30:50.000 Terry Funk talking to Dusty. Oh here, let's go by Terry's house down 1228 01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:55.399 in the canyon. Wait, Tarafunk. That's why I'm wondering who he's talking 1229 01:30:55.439 --> 01:30:59.239 to. Uh, Terry Funk literally lived in the canyon out thout of Canyon, 1230 01:30:59.359 --> 01:31:02.119 Texas. This is a motherfucker of a ride. So Nick was driving 1231 01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:10.159 the Hawkway and there was a hundred nine and there was one hundred and nine 1232 01:31:10.319 --> 01:31:14.800 five degrees outside. Let's let's stick with the truth. Only here dust I 1233 01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:17.520 was threaten to death. And he still had that fucking shooting sport coat on 1234 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:21.319 that that all the old guys wore, and that he had that the shoulder 1235 01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:25.439 pads in them that made them stick out a lot more in there, and 1236 01:31:25.479 --> 01:31:28.760 then they wore they all wore them. Every time you see a picture of 1237 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.920 those guys, they had the shooter shular pads. He had this coat on. 1238 01:31:32.199 --> 01:31:34.920 And we're drinking about twenty beers, and I and I like Nick, 1239 01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:41.319 and I and I like Nick. He's right there with me drinking beers and 1240 01:31:41.399 --> 01:31:44.720 but he's immaculate. He didn't spilling it on the shutar like me. I 1241 01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:47.800 was shooting guns off and shitting the night, being loud andnoxious whether we were 1242 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:51.720 driving down the road, and he's calm and cool. Baby. We drove 1243 01:31:51.960 --> 01:31:56.800 and we got down there, and he said, what are you gonna do, 1244 01:31:57.000 --> 01:31:59.680 myke, what are you gonna do? My plan with this sneak around 1245 01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:01.479 them? Got a house that's a that's a ranch house, terry as a 1246 01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:05.119 screen, didn't deal And knowing he probably had the windows up because it was 1247 01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:08.760 so hot, I was gonna take the water hole, stick it through the 1248 01:32:08.800 --> 01:32:11.920 window in the bedroom where he and Vicky were, and turned the son of 1249 01:32:11.960 --> 01:32:15.920 a bitch on full breaths three thirty in the morning. Why, Nick says, 1250 01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:21.000 my boy, talking like my boy, that sounds like fun, talking 1251 01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:26.079 like Jim bond Man. I said, all right, motherfucker, we got 1252 01:32:26.159 --> 01:32:29.680 there. Stop the car, turn the lives off, just like a jewel 1253 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:32.159 HAIs or something. We walked down into the canyon. Nick still immaculate, 1254 01:32:32.359 --> 01:32:35.079 He didn't even break a sweat. He was down there and he said, 1255 01:32:35.279 --> 01:32:39.479 Dusto. He always called me Dusto. He said, dust O, what 1256 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:42.359 do you want me to do. When I give you the signal, you 1257 01:32:42.479 --> 01:32:45.800 turned that water holes on full blast. I crawled around in the back and 1258 01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:48.039 I ran the water hole through the window. Nick was standing by the facet 1259 01:32:48.199 --> 01:32:55.239 shoulder pads sticking out in the moonlight. You could see this motherfucker. Motherfucker. 1260 01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.359 I turned around and standing right behind Nick with Terry holding a double barrel 1261 01:32:59.439 --> 01:33:05.399 shuck on. Oh what a hell? I went ahead and shot Nick barklingle 1262 01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:11.319 in the goddamn head for the double barrel, double barrel, double goosel. 1263 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:16.560 Fuck it, okay, sir, what was your dress again? Nick was 1264 01:33:16.640 --> 01:33:19.239 waiting at me, waiting for the signal, and I'm just staring at him. 1265 01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:23.960 Terry put the double barrel shucker behind Nick's head, sticking straight up in 1266 01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:27.960 the arrow co Then he pulled both barrels. Brother, I never seen a 1267 01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:31.560 white man turn whiter than this. Motherfucker found that thing made me made in 1268 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:34.199 the stove of the night with like a cannon went off in my ear drum. 1269 01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:38.800 Terry ran back around in the front of the house and locked him felf 1270 01:33:38.880 --> 01:33:44.000 in. I got him, I got him, Vicky, I got him, 1271 01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:53.199 fucked the door the door, thinking a call Sogan Adam funk to get 1272 01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:57.039 this barricaded suspect out of his house the hard way. Lock the fucking door, 1273 01:33:57.199 --> 01:33:59.960 Vicy, look him all. I learned this and my uncle locked him. 1274 01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:06.399 Walk down, lockdown. Motherfucker. Well. Nick was running around a 1275 01:34:06.439 --> 01:34:10.239 thugle, like a chicken that had just had his head cut off and didn't 1276 01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:14.399 know which way to go or what the fuck happened. He was running around 1277 01:34:14.439 --> 01:34:15.640 with his mouth open, but nothing was coming out. It was like, 1278 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:23.840 why did they do this? Why did he go to the river across ranch? 1279 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:26.960 Uh? It was a ribb. Daddy was trying to rib the man. 1280 01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:30.760 Baby fuck it. Fuck ah, I mean, Terry coming out with 1281 01:34:30.800 --> 01:34:36.600 the shotgun is just fucking unbelievable. Oh god fucking can imagine picture of him 1282 01:34:36.640 --> 01:34:43.079 waking up and beyond the mat right with it the bed head. Hey hey, 1283 01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:45.119 Vic, I think somebody's out there. You know what, I bet 1284 01:34:45.159 --> 01:34:50.199 it's those fuckers Dusty and Nick Buckwinkle. I'm gonna go fuck with him. 1285 01:34:50.520 --> 01:34:59.279 I'm gonna get the double barrel, the double cross ranch. I went ahead 1286 01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:01.680 and got the double cross, double barrel, double goosele. Fuck it, 1287 01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:10.479 You're going to hell and I'm gonna eat ship. By the way, VICKI, 1288 01:35:13.159 --> 01:35:18.319 by the way, In a related note, I'm going, by the 1289 01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:26.319 way, I'm going to eat ship. You're gonna do that after all this 1290 01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:29.880 is done, or get ready to lock the damn door. Get ready to 1291 01:35:29.960 --> 01:35:33.079 lock the goddamn house down. We're gonna fucking lock this ship up, leave 1292 01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:41.119 it on the doorstep, and get the hell out of here. Merry Christmas, 1293 01:35:41.239 --> 01:35:46.720 your fucking bitches. Oh it's great. In the end, Terry Funk 1294 01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:51.159 can't say enough about the guy Dusty Rhodes. Back to Terry's book, It's 1295 01:35:51.239 --> 01:35:55.479 like my memories of Dusty Rhodes talking about a finish with his opponent. Of 1296 01:35:55.560 --> 01:36:00.159 course, the discussion always ended with how Dusty was going to win. I'd 1297 01:36:00.199 --> 01:36:03.399 say, I'll go ahead, and I don't think he said that. I'll 1298 01:36:03.439 --> 01:36:05.960 go ahead, and I'll climb up to the top rope before you can move. 1299 01:36:06.399 --> 01:36:10.840 Then you'll be down on the mat. After I flam you, I'll 1300 01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:15.800 draithfully fly off the top rope and land on your body and cover you one, 1301 01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:18.199 two, three, and the crowd will go wild. Of course that 1302 01:36:18.399 --> 01:36:21.720 was not what happened. Dusty would climb up to the top rope, taking 1303 01:36:21.800 --> 01:36:26.319 quite a long time to get there. Then he would fall like a three 1304 01:36:26.399 --> 01:36:31.439 hundred pounds sack of shit onto the other guy's body and get the pin. 1305 01:36:31.920 --> 01:36:35.840 You know, there's a great deal of difference between graceful flying and fallen like 1306 01:36:35.880 --> 01:36:41.399 a sack of shit. But Dusty believed he was so like a damned Eagles 1307 01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:46.560 tru That's hilarious. And that's why I don't watch my matches, because I 1308 01:36:46.600 --> 01:36:49.319 have occasionally watched a match of mine, and I know that I don't look 1309 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:53.960 like what I think I look like. Florida was always a good territory before 1310 01:36:53.960 --> 01:36:57.199 I won the title in after starting in nineteen seventy five, and for about 1311 01:36:57.199 --> 01:37:00.000 a decade, Dusty was the top star there. It was hard to believe 1312 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:03.520 ve this incredible star was the lips lisping baseball player from West Texas State. 1313 01:37:03.960 --> 01:37:08.479 Dusty had become a really big babyface, a three hundred and fifty pound one 1314 01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:12.920 at five foot four. When he was born, Dusty was fourteen pounds eight 1315 01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.600 ounces and he was only eleven inches long. The interurn dribbledhim out of the 1316 01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:20.000 delivery room and slam dunked him into the incubator. I actually used that one 1317 01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:24.760 on Dusty on TV once. Seriously, he was incredibly over. What was 1318 01:37:24.800 --> 01:37:27.600 so surprising was that the guy had a lisp and he utilized it. He 1319 01:37:27.680 --> 01:37:31.560 took every single hindrance he had from his speech impediment to his physique and turned 1320 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:35.159 them to his advantage. And College Dusty could be very difficult to understand. 1321 01:37:35.560 --> 01:37:39.840 I mean, you'd seriously have a problem communicating with him. That's how bad 1322 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:43.600 it was. It just piles it on. He doesn't stop, he doesn't 1323 01:37:43.640 --> 01:37:45.960 just say no. He was hard to understand. He keeps going. He 1324 01:37:46.119 --> 01:37:49.039 self corrected that to a large degree and did it because he knew he had 1325 01:37:49.079 --> 01:37:51.239 to be able to talk on TV in order to make a buck in the 1326 01:37:51.239 --> 01:37:55.640 wrestling business. The lisp he still had he made into part of his character. 1327 01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:59.159 I can't say enough about the guy because he was smart enough and tough 1328 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:01.760 enough to turn weaknesses into strengths. He was a classic, and he was 1329 01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:05.239 another one of those who was very real. He really hurt and he really 1330 01:38:05.319 --> 01:38:11.520 meant it when he told the people I am the American Dream? Is it 1331 01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:15.359 time to taste it? Boss? I think so? I rap Disc two 1332 01:38:15.439 --> 01:38:21.800 if you would, all right? He I think the Hair Terror Funk tribute 1333 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:28.319 and we're gonna go ahead and toggle fifty three seventeen on the time I said 1334 01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:34.880 funk Funk two. That's what you said, funk two? Right, yes, 1335 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:45.520 sir, And what's the time code again? Fifty three seventeen. Okay, 1336 01:38:53.960 --> 01:38:56.960 okay, I got the uh. I got the graphic up there, 1337 01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:00.880 and this apparently is from Florida in nineteen seventy six. Definitely is from Florida 1338 01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:05.039 nineteen seventy six, so it would be Boss for the nw A World Heavyweight 1339 01:39:05.159 --> 01:39:09.920 Championship. That's wild Terry Funk comes to Florida because he had yet to be 1340 01:39:10.000 --> 01:39:12.800 made by Dusty even though he was the fucking world champion of the n w 1341 01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:17.800 A to face Dusty Rhodes. This is the earliest piece of Dusty versus Terry 1342 01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:21.800 footage I could find here from nineteen seventy six. Here we go, hit 1343 01:39:21.880 --> 01:39:30.600 play on my play, so that'll be three two one play Dusty. This 1344 01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:32.800 was an unusual situation and solely on the call of course, right, yes, 1345 01:39:35.159 --> 01:39:41.760 this is my whole lab but dreams here Dusty and studio laying commentary over 1346 01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:46.880 the match this Broadway. This is the super Bowl. We're waiting rugged dust 1347 01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:53.720 World Heavyweight Champion road from up at the time. One I didn't know way 1348 01:39:53.800 --> 01:39:56.640 what's going he he comes back. There comes Terry with a wooden chair at 1349 01:39:56.680 --> 01:40:02.399 ring Soccer. That ship, Oh my god, ah, the meanest man, 1350 01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:12.439 James. They're saying dust they what's that? Are they saying? No? 1351 01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:15.319 What are they saying? No? Go go go? Who's the who's 1352 01:40:15.359 --> 01:40:18.520 the fatty there? And the no shirt? I don't know. I couldn't 1353 01:40:18.520 --> 01:40:28.039 tell you. That is extend Durrance. Wow, Terry and the charge side 1354 01:40:28.039 --> 01:40:31.279 steps into Terry was running around with the world title around his waist a minute 1355 01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:48.600 ago, Cold Steel Daddy and Jack. Look, I mean, look at 1356 01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:56.439 the having to stop some of this. Look at Funk, Look at that 1357 01:40:56.560 --> 01:41:01.359 fucking wrong and who that fucking hair on Funk? That's the Missouri maler I 1358 01:41:01.359 --> 01:41:13.319 guess, oh to been there four hours? What are you doing four hours? 1359 01:41:13.359 --> 01:41:15.640 There? Dust has been ready for it for four hours, he said 1360 01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:20.159 stop, So Funk immediately seizes and now he's stomping on Dusty's head. From 1361 01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:27.800 the ring open you can hear door. You can hear Dusty kind of narrating 1362 01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:30.840 for the Florida television against what's happening and the injustices. Terry swings at the 1363 01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:41.560 reft. I mean this this was on W twenty four seven, extremely desperate. 1364 01:41:43.399 --> 01:41:46.319 Was this was never on on on Hidden Gems either? Like what the 1365 01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:51.760 fuck guys read at that point if you wouldn't mind, I was saying that 1366 01:41:51.920 --> 01:41:55.880 that this was on W twenty four seven but was never on Hidden Gems. 1367 01:41:55.960 --> 01:42:00.920 No fucking failure, another failure of imagination. Dusty's and cooking. Look at 1368 01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:02.560 that. Look at him. He's fat, but he's moving, man, 1369 01:42:03.479 --> 01:42:11.039 Yeah, I mean he's he's like, uh uh, what's his name? 1370 01:42:11.319 --> 01:42:14.760 Adrian had Donnis. In many ways, sure, he's big guy, but 1371 01:42:14.840 --> 01:42:18.039 he could fucking move. Dusty running Terry funk of the post from the apron 1372 01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:20.520 note, taking him from the outside into the ring with the big body slam 1373 01:42:20.560 --> 01:42:25.399 the world champion down bianic elbow misses the bark, Dusty crashes into the canvas. 1374 01:42:26.000 --> 01:42:28.279 I mean, you know, it makes total sense to me. Actually 1375 01:42:28.319 --> 01:42:30.159 when you think about it, how oh, look is he busted open this 1376 01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:33.199 Zerry Maller's back out would have taken forehead after Dusty took care of him. 1377 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:36.720 That and this blood leaking through too, or maybe it's paint. Ref're trying 1378 01:42:36.720 --> 01:42:40.119 to stop the interference with his world title on the line, and you can 1379 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:43.960 you can imagine how these these fans at a fever picks thinking Dusty could become 1380 01:42:43.960 --> 01:42:48.600 world champ any day that dropped Terry out of the ring. Dusty ref bump 1381 01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:53.600 hit the maller as well as the referees. You know, I definitely you 1382 01:42:53.640 --> 01:42:57.560 know, and watching this, I have to agree. You know, it 1383 01:42:57.640 --> 01:43:00.560 makes total sense to me that that the n w A champion would be made 1384 01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:04.840 by Dusty Rhodes here. Yeah, you know, even though he's already n 1385 01:43:04.920 --> 01:43:10.960 w A champion, Dusty's listening by listen to him. Listen. Yeah, 1386 01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:17.119 he's going crazy elbow, He's on the fena the greatest three or drops funk 1387 01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:21.399 hits the ropes running elbow. Wow, Dusty lands to the heart of funk 1388 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:29.720 rap down one, two, three, static no, No. I see 1389 01:43:29.760 --> 01:43:33.279 the referee, I see the second referee, the other referee, Sonny Myers, 1390 01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:35.520 is Dusty shand at the other referee that was pumped out of the ring. 1391 01:43:36.560 --> 01:43:40.960 I I can smell it a mile away, back to that point when 1392 01:43:41.079 --> 01:43:44.399 Terry Punk went over that top or but you see God and I'm standing at 1393 01:43:44.439 --> 01:43:48.439 the third point. I can smell it, Dusty finish the third where the 1394 01:43:48.520 --> 01:43:51.520 man went over the top blow where they jumped over book. Whatever happened, 1395 01:43:51.560 --> 01:43:56.560 he went over the top roof just one seen it. We called it like 1396 01:43:56.680 --> 01:44:01.439 you've seen it. Sonny called the one he did like this boo. Dusty 1397 01:44:01.520 --> 01:44:05.800 finished much Oh my god, I mean, Jesus Christ, you can you 1398 01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:10.439 could, you can smell it? Dusty finish fucking a mile away. Dusty 1399 01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:13.279 snatches the ten pounds of gold from the ref and hugs it, thinking it's 1400 01:44:13.319 --> 01:44:15.840 his, it's his property, but no, the referee is indicating, looking 1401 01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:25.319 like my, uh my, my dad's cousin Linda Dusty Rhodes. Battle continues 1402 01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:28.720 after the beil Terry Funk doing the knot. Sell is Dusty just crowning with 1403 01:44:28.840 --> 01:44:31.600 rights and elbows. The Maler's back in blindsiding Dusty and this feud will continue 1404 01:44:31.640 --> 01:44:36.520 locally well presumably the world champion. Terry Funk moves on to his next territory. 1405 01:44:36.720 --> 01:44:44.600 He's got it. Look at it, ugly, faith. This is 1406 01:44:44.640 --> 01:44:46.880 how Dusty got over as a baby face to the Florida audience doing voiceovers like 1407 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:50.079 this with Gordon of well what happened at the Big Arena shows. It's a 1408 01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:54.560 good idea, It's a very very smart idea. Explain himself. Explain the 1409 01:44:54.640 --> 01:45:00.000 injustices he suffered. Explain, you know, you watch this on Florida television 1410 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:01.880 and you're pretty sure that the next time the world champ comes through, you're 1411 01:45:01.880 --> 01:45:04.159 buying a ticket because that might be the night that Dusty gets it done. 1412 01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:10.119 Look at Terry covetously clutching his belt on the mat. That'll end that piece 1413 01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:15.079 of business. As Terry has his hand raised. That's pretty brilliant challenge before 1414 01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:19.920 the match. The winner of this matched. So this is another glimpse of 1415 01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:24.760 Dusty versus Terry. We'll keep it rolling here. PW, Sorry I stopped 1416 01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:32.119 it. What what's your time? Code? Is fifty nine sixteen, actually 1417 01:45:32.159 --> 01:45:36.239 fifty nine eighteen for you. This aired on ESPN Classics Canada, much like 1418 01:45:36.319 --> 01:45:40.960 the Harley Race title win over Terry we watched last time. So let's uh 1419 01:45:41.199 --> 01:45:43.680 okay, I'm ready to go. Listen in here, three two, one 1420 01:45:43.760 --> 01:45:48.159 play both of you in one night. I'm standing very nonchalantly. I can 1421 01:45:48.279 --> 01:45:50.520 Dusty out in jeans with no shirt on, entering the ring. This is 1422 01:45:53.600 --> 01:45:57.239 the face off dust He's fighting in street clothes and Terry's bouncing around like a 1423 01:45:57.279 --> 01:46:00.359 box or pumping jabs. Here we go look, listen to them, go 1424 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:05.199 for look at Dusty move elbow. Terry Funk decleats on the cell canvas and 1425 01:46:05.319 --> 01:46:12.600 Punk Funk grabs the belt that makes Auji belt and decides to leave the ring, 1426 01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:15.840 and Dusty Roads standing the tall and standing alone in the center of the 1427 01:46:15.920 --> 01:46:20.279 ring, still offering Punk that opportunity if he wants it. The Dusty Road 1428 01:46:20.359 --> 01:46:26.319 still wants that World Heavyweight Championship, standing tall, standing alone. All right, 1429 01:46:26.359 --> 01:46:29.479 that'll do it. So a little bit of a taste of the intensity 1430 01:46:29.520 --> 01:46:33.479 of the seventies between Terry Funk and Dusty Roads definitely worth observing. That was 1431 01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:38.600 from seventy six as Terry was that that was a bit of an elusive footage. 1432 01:46:38.640 --> 01:46:41.760 Last week we talked about how there's precious little of Terry defending the world's 1433 01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:45.680 title during his run in the United States. We have the Machikin's Jumbo that 1434 01:46:45.760 --> 01:46:48.359 we looked at during the All Japan series, the Funk in the Japan series. 1435 01:46:48.439 --> 01:46:51.640 But there it is Terry Funk coming through Florida defending against Dusty Roads. 1436 01:46:53.319 --> 01:46:56.720 That's amazing, and uh, that's some good ship. You can send some 1437 01:46:56.800 --> 01:46:59.840 intensity there. You can definitely get the feeling of what they were trying to 1438 01:46:59.840 --> 01:47:03.560 get get done with Dusty, definitely giving the fans the impression that even some 1439 01:47:03.680 --> 01:47:06.239 of the statue of the world champion is going to end up running with his 1440 01:47:06.319 --> 01:47:11.319 tail between his legs. Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, they 1441 01:47:11.399 --> 01:47:15.560 did a great job making him look like a like a fucking killer. I've 1442 01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:19.479 never seen Dusty, even even in the the prime of of like Crocot days, 1443 01:47:19.520 --> 01:47:24.399 look like a killer like that. Absolutely, And we're going to jump 1444 01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:27.920 out a disc four. Here's a little bit more of Dusty and Terry mixing 1445 01:47:27.960 --> 01:47:30.560 it up down in Florida. These clips are from the summer of nineteen and 1446 01:47:30.840 --> 01:47:39.399 seventy nine and on this forward to jump to one nine forty eight four. 1447 01:47:40.560 --> 01:47:42.359 So here we go. Let's sit back. First, we're going to hear 1448 01:47:43.159 --> 01:47:47.359 some words from the American Dream as communicated to the Florida wrestling public watching him 1449 01:47:47.399 --> 01:47:50.520 campaign and feud in battle with Terry Funk. Here's what he had to say 1450 01:47:50.560 --> 01:47:57.680 in three two one play of course. A week ago Tuesday night, Dusty 1451 01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:00.680 Roads was wrestling Charley Race for the World Heavyweight Championship. At a point in 1452 01:48:00.800 --> 01:48:04.239 the match, both men went over the top rope one to the ring apron 1453 01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:10.279 one to the floor outside. This was the point of controversy. However, 1454 01:48:10.720 --> 01:48:15.760 as you will see Dusty when the match resumed, Dusty very solidly, very 1455 01:48:15.880 --> 01:48:20.159 firmly and unquestionably in the champion and defeated him and won the World Heavyweight Championship. 1456 01:48:20.359 --> 01:48:25.199 We're going to take a look at that instance right now. Well, 1457 01:48:25.239 --> 01:48:30.199 it wasn't very definitive rule immediately direct because the you know, n w A 1458 01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:36.439 fucking changed their minds there right, I'm just a second clips of Dusty laying 1459 01:48:36.520 --> 01:48:42.159 into a Harley then took the NWA into there coming thing seventy nine. Harley 1460 01:48:42.199 --> 01:48:44.439 was n w A champion at this point, Terry had turned the belt over 1461 01:48:44.439 --> 01:48:46.039 to him on the outside. Now there was no rule made at that point. 1462 01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:51.319 The National last got together the review the film this year is all all 1463 01:48:51.319 --> 01:48:55.399 I have to say about this film gun. So it is clear cut all 1464 01:48:55.439 --> 01:48:58.600 the people that all the people witnesses. It was made a decision. It 1465 01:48:58.720 --> 01:49:01.640 wasn't miss head in by her made the decision to point the disqualification. We 1466 01:49:01.760 --> 01:49:04.720 would be waving later on then I'll never know. But right here you've seen 1467 01:49:04.800 --> 01:49:10.760 the mass but by Harley Road getting up off the canvas right here he's shaking 1468 01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:14.920 his head and shaking his head, coming alive. Gilbow to holler. Race 1469 01:49:15.000 --> 01:49:18.520 right here and with this big blood right here becomes well heavyweight champion now whatever, 1470 01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:24.880 this is just dust for the belt. Three. I just feel how 1471 01:49:24.960 --> 01:49:28.399 can people even fucking like to see this ship? Watch this ship? You 1472 01:49:28.479 --> 01:49:32.399 can't even see nothing? Well was that you can't see ship? It's so 1473 01:49:32.680 --> 01:49:38.159 dark? How can people even watch this ship? Yeah, in the arena 1474 01:49:38.199 --> 01:49:40.960 when it was happening. Well, no, I mean like the footage of 1475 01:49:41.039 --> 01:49:45.199 it after Reed, because protests were lodged immediately by Protests were lodged immediately by 1476 01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:50.399 Hartley Race because of the film, and here Gordon solely explaining what happened why 1477 01:49:50.560 --> 01:49:56.880 Dusty the belt decision situation, however, there was no question about the fact 1478 01:49:56.920 --> 01:50:00.119 that Dusty Road scored the pinfall and won the World Heavyweight Champion engine. However, 1479 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:05.199 they did rule. I mean that for the match in Orlando Byron split 1480 01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:11.640 decision of the NWA board that the disqualification rule would be waived for that match, 1481 01:50:11.960 --> 01:50:14.960 which means that when Rusty Roads, the World's Heavyweight Champion, went into 1482 01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:18.359 that match, it means that the title could be lost via disqualification of most 1483 01:50:18.439 --> 01:50:25.960 unusual circumstances. What dust lost for work Race didn't have anything to do with 1484 01:50:26.479 --> 01:50:30.039 There was something that the board directors, after reviewing the film did but there's 1485 01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:33.880 no doubt in anybody's flying that just seen the film. I defeated Holly Race 1486 01:50:33.960 --> 01:50:38.479 for the World's heavyweight title in Tampa, Florida, and I f I defeated 1487 01:50:38.560 --> 01:50:41.359 him right in the middle of the ring. There is cut and dried at 1488 01:50:41.399 --> 01:50:45.439 what I mean if Florida, I'm concerned. There is no way we can 1489 01:50:45.479 --> 01:50:48.319 get around that. I don't care how you slant it. I beat Hally 1490 01:50:48.439 --> 01:50:51.159 Race for the World's heavyweight title. I pinned him right in the middle ring. 1491 01:50:51.239 --> 01:50:55.920 Whatever ruling they brought down, what not no doings of mine or no 1492 01:50:56.119 --> 01:51:00.920 doings Harley Race. And I might just say that there is something else involved, 1493 01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:05.399 as I said, a most unusual set of circumstances around this world Heavyweight 1494 01:51:05.479 --> 01:51:10.359 championship match that took place last Sunday night in Orlando. And we're going to 1495 01:51:10.439 --> 01:51:15.119 go to that scene right after we paused for these words. Appreciate it, 1496 01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:21.479 so it's more to come, Ordecaiah. I know it's just like you barely 1497 01:51:21.600 --> 01:51:27.039 see anything in this dusty Harley h Dusty year Old's journey. Now we're back 1498 01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:30.279 at the desk and Gordon's gonna explain what Terry Funk has to do with all 1499 01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:33.640 of this World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race. And the announcement was made that the 1500 01:51:33.720 --> 01:51:39.560 disqualification rule had been waived. When suddenly, out of the audience, he 1501 01:51:39.720 --> 01:51:42.640 was not there to wrestle, had no business being there as far as I'm 1502 01:51:42.680 --> 01:51:47.199 concerned, appeared Terry Funk to add another twist to this most unusual situation. 1503 01:51:47.399 --> 01:51:50.199 Dusty and I hope this doesn't hurt too much if we take a look at 1504 01:51:50.239 --> 01:51:53.680 the situation. They look at it. They need to see it. Baby, 1505 01:51:54.119 --> 01:52:02.880 Let's go to Orlando and I look at the marquis at the Sports Stadium. 1506 01:52:03.520 --> 01:52:09.039 Every week, our championship wrestling every week. Now turn left, No, 1507 01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:11.840 Dusty's got the strap. He's now the n w A World Heavyweight chance, 1508 01:52:12.039 --> 01:52:15.199 American Dream. No no time right here for anything else. So that's 1509 01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:19.520 legit. He's the champion. Yes, the attack Terry Funk coming from the 1510 01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:24.640 audience, coming from out of nowhere, coming from the Wow, hit me 1511 01:52:24.720 --> 01:52:27.960 with his well, here's Terry Funk and street clothes out of the audience, 1512 01:52:28.000 --> 01:52:30.600 So what are we seeing funk do here? He's beaten the ship out of 1513 01:52:30.680 --> 01:52:34.399 Dusty. So he's got a belt wrapped around his wrist. Dusty still with 1514 01:52:34.479 --> 01:52:40.159 the title on his waist here all the way from the top. Look at 1515 01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:45.600 it goes right to the knee to unleash attack. What you know, does 1516 01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:49.760 the leather really add that much of a punch to the Where does that come 1517 01:52:49.800 --> 01:52:54.960 from? It's hardly raising his ring jacket stands on the ropes, like, 1518 01:52:55.039 --> 01:53:00.399 what my fucking match? God, a goddamn what am I of? What 1519 01:53:00.600 --> 01:53:04.920 happened? Where am I supposed to go? Now? I gotta sit here 1520 01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:11.520 and watch this fucker, this fat pitch just walk around like a gun at 1521 01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:15.279 the end of what I'm talking about? Where's the fucking ball game here? 1522 01:53:16.079 --> 01:53:21.399 I have created a dream I have brought it, have created a dream he 1523 01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:25.840 created himself. Will make me give up without a battle? That means a 1524 01:53:25.920 --> 01:53:29.760 bast fighting with one arm, with one leg, with one ear, with 1525 01:53:29.960 --> 01:53:33.279 one me whatever I need. I will fight a man till the day I 1526 01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:40.680 died. Fucking Harley Race, Oh, look at him, bumpus. He 1527 01:53:40.800 --> 01:53:43.640 taken on Harley Man and they are land. Look at Dusty, his right 1528 01:53:43.800 --> 01:53:46.399 arm hanging like a limp noodle because Terry attacked him for the battle. You 1529 01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:51.800 will see go up that salesmanship there, Terry. I am a lot of 1530 01:53:51.880 --> 01:53:55.960 pain here at this point. I don't know how bad I'm injured. I 1531 01:53:56.039 --> 01:53:59.640 have wrapped it with injured before. You know, see the sweat fly, 1532 01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.520 see other thing by you see my arm hanging that we cannot look at Race 1533 01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:06.800 right now. We cannot make a diagnosis. All I know is I'm fighting. 1534 01:54:06.920 --> 01:54:13.319 You cannot make a diagnosis, understand right the bad arms really amount of 1535 01:54:13.359 --> 01:54:15.079 pain gun and sold that I had n't felt earlier in the match out ooh 1536 01:54:15.479 --> 01:54:20.920 nice city attack. Racist now Grace fucking really going to town on the knee, 1537 01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:27.800 on the on the elbow with the knick. Absolutely, that's so great. 1538 01:54:28.239 --> 01:54:31.000 Fighting valiantly with that black guy tc Lee and thinking about doing what I'm 1539 01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:35.119 doing right now. It's gonna take somebody to beat me, and this man 1540 01:54:35.239 --> 01:54:39.439 right here can't do it with two good hands. Now. The thing that 1541 01:54:39.560 --> 01:54:43.199 happens here, it's gonna be Howard Sterner, referee for the match. I 1542 01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:45.239 know I'm a lot of pain, but like I said, there is no 1543 01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:49.920 pain like the pain that is gonna strack Dusty Roads and his people, his 1544 01:54:50.159 --> 01:54:55.600 fans, the American dreams, and the world towels. Right now, good 1545 01:54:55.680 --> 01:55:00.239 picture is worth a thousand thousand words. Oh backdrop, they freeze frame it 1546 01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:04.159 as Dusty as backdropping hardly out of the ring, and there is no d 1547 01:55:04.279 --> 01:55:06.000 Q on this match, right, Is that what they're saying, I mean, 1548 01:55:06.199 --> 01:55:09.159 or the DQ we could lose the belt, right, Yes, that's 1549 01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:15.560 what they were saying. Oh they're keeping this freeze frame. Might point out 1550 01:55:15.600 --> 01:55:20.520 at this time that the n w A Board of Directors is considering the disciplinary 1551 01:55:20.560 --> 01:55:24.560 measures that are going to be taken against Terry Funk. Got totally already consider 1552 01:55:24.680 --> 01:55:28.560 them. I've already considered display actions. And I know what's going to happen 1553 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:32.960 to It's gonna happen to Terry Funk all this situation. Oh here, you 1554 01:55:33.039 --> 01:55:38.600 know I bought this. There's Joe LaDou trying to clear the desk. I 1555 01:55:38.680 --> 01:55:42.079 realized that we were scheduled to talk to her, and but by the same 1556 01:55:42.159 --> 01:55:45.319 joke and clear this out. This is my time. If you don't mind, 1557 01:55:45.319 --> 01:55:47.800 I'll talk to you just a couple of moments. If you don't mind, 1558 01:55:48.039 --> 01:55:51.479 you just say to you just a couple of Minutes's funny. I used 1559 01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:55.279 to Dusty, roads are going smaller to anybody, and now smaller this. 1560 01:55:56.199 --> 01:56:00.479 It's kind of like got small shoulders. Yeah, and situation with a month. 1561 01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:04.039 I don't know where they at. I think this is here and I'm 1562 01:56:04.079 --> 01:56:10.800 going to talk. Because Dusty beat Harley in August twenty first, nineteen seventy 1563 01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:13.680 nine. This is supposed to be from June. So apparently they did a 1564 01:56:13.760 --> 01:56:16.399 deal where Dusty walked around with the strap around his waist but had that rain 1565 01:56:16.479 --> 01:56:27.399 taken away from him retroactively. Oh, Dusty with a cast on his arm 1566 01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:30.680 from the terry attack, just leveled Joe Lado over the announced desk and we're 1567 01:56:30.720 --> 01:56:36.760 fighting in the studio. Dust even grabs it. Gordon solely to me about 1568 01:56:36.920 --> 01:57:00.680 nothing that works, Yes, but anywhere getting funky. Wow there it was 1569 01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:12.600 better. Let's get after the wrestler's coming out here to collect Joe LaDue who's 1570 01:57:12.640 --> 01:57:17.760 left unconscious near the desk by Dusty and inflamed American dream. Oh it comes 1571 01:57:17.800 --> 01:57:30.439 up luddy. Wow, what a bit moment. Oh, Dusty hit him 1572 01:57:30.479 --> 01:57:33.640 with the cast I see yep, like we hit the fans every week. 1573 01:57:33.880 --> 01:57:38.319 Ha. His attainment of that goal of winning. So here's Dusty winning the 1574 01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:42.000 belt and then just five short days, then five short days later finding that 1575 01:57:42.159 --> 01:57:45.840 goal utterly and totally destroyed. The goal was destroyed. He was defeated by 1576 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:48.319 the World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race and lost the title back to him. But 1577 01:57:48.439 --> 01:57:53.680 it was not that alone. It was the very fact that Terry Funk took 1578 01:57:53.720 --> 01:57:58.119 it upon himself very fun charge Dusty Rhodes in the ring before the match ever 1579 01:57:58.239 --> 01:58:00.640 started, and it was not until half the match was over that it was 1580 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:05.279 discovered that Dusty Roads had indeed suffered a fractured arm at the hands of Terry 1581 01:58:05.399 --> 01:58:10.359 Funk. He insisted upon wrestling in that kind of a condition. He did 1582 01:58:10.479 --> 01:58:13.600 so and then lost the title, and now Harley Race is one of the 1583 01:58:13.640 --> 01:58:16.439 few men in history ever two have won a World heavyweight championship for a third 1584 01:58:16.520 --> 01:58:21.359 time. Dusty Rhoads, after being treated an orthopedic surgeon, had the arm 1585 01:58:21.479 --> 01:58:25.960 stabilized. It was put in a cast. He then appealed to the NWA 1586 01:58:26.039 --> 01:58:30.720 for permission to wrestle with the arm in a cast. The NWA, after 1587 01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:34.279 checking the reports by from the surgeon, agreed and said yes that he could. 1588 01:58:34.359 --> 01:58:39.960 After all, it happens in almost all of the professional sports now you'll 1589 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:44.640 see people with the injured members of their bodies and members expected by a cast 1590 01:58:44.720 --> 01:58:47.039 that bandages the wrapping stone. So yes, here it is bottom line anyway, 1591 01:58:47.079 --> 01:58:49.560 Harley beats Terry for the belt, as we talked about last week in 1592 01:58:49.600 --> 01:58:55.439 February of seventy seven. August twenty first, seventy nine, Dusty beats Harley 1593 01:58:55.520 --> 01:58:58.680 race of the title in Tampa to become the champ. Five days later August 1594 01:58:58.680 --> 01:59:01.680 twenty sixth ninety nine. The aggressive as Gordon just said, Harley takes it 1595 01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:05.600 back from Dusty and our Lando. So that about Dusty Road, that was 1596 01:59:05.640 --> 01:59:09.840 like one of the first times they did that, Like infuriatingly short baby face 1597 01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:13.239 runs. The Rhodes is using the cast as a weapon. What for should 1598 01:59:13.279 --> 01:59:15.439 not be allowed to wrestle? What was the purpose of that? I don't 1599 01:59:15.439 --> 01:59:17.760 know. It's it's it's it's tint. The one week Tommy Rich run that 1600 01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:23.680 was like, let's put the belt on the guy that's famous on national television 1601 01:59:24.560 --> 01:59:27.560 so that we can put him on TBS and say he's a file world champion 1602 01:59:27.640 --> 01:59:30.399 who perpetrated the injury on At the same time to the claim that now Dusty 1603 01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:33.520 should getting around concerns the board of the n w A might have that Dusty 1604 01:59:33.600 --> 01:59:39.119 Rhodes might not actually have the constitution need it to be a true and w 1605 01:59:39.279 --> 01:59:42.600 way World Chair Resting Alliance say, it's all right. I certainly feel that 1606 01:59:42.640 --> 01:59:45.760 their judgment is August, and I certainly think that all of you would join 1607 01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:48.920 me in that same diss judgment is August, Gordon, August. It is 1608 01:59:48.960 --> 01:59:53.239 August. Just so happens that very Funk claim that he entered the ring. 1609 01:59:53.640 --> 01:59:57.000 So let's not forget when Dusty lost the championship after a five day rain, 1610 01:59:57.079 --> 02:00:00.199 infuriating every Dusty fan in the world. It was because it's this ambush attack 1611 02:00:00.279 --> 02:00:04.439 by Terry and just a couple. Yeah, we'll see what Terry Funk is 1612 02:00:04.479 --> 02:00:09.000 talking about when he says he wants to check the condition of a cast. 1613 02:00:09.439 --> 02:00:12.840 We'll also see the manner in which he entered the ring, and we're also 1614 02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:15.920 going to see the manner in which he left the ring and indeed left the 1615 02:00:16.159 --> 02:00:20.439 entire building. It's some highly unusual camera work and I think you're going to 1616 02:00:21.239 --> 02:00:24.800 enjoy it, and we're going to come back and take a look at it. 1617 02:00:24.920 --> 02:00:28.560 Terry Funk will be joining me and well, I'm excitedsing the situation of 1618 02:00:28.600 --> 02:00:32.399 Dusty Rings, right, Let's get Terry's perspective. Yes, the deal was 1619 02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:35.920 that they want to put the belt on Dusty. Eddie did, but the 1620 02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:40.520 board didn't believe Dusty could actually go around and defend the belt. Okay, 1621 02:00:40.840 --> 02:00:45.319 so they agreed on just like this really short ring. And here's Terry getting 1622 02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:48.199 right. You're wanted to check the cast. Yes, I did. I 1623 02:00:48.319 --> 02:00:50.960 went in the ring to check the cast. That's right, all right, 1624 02:00:51.079 --> 02:00:54.920 Well, then let's take a look at this situation that mister Funk is during 1625 02:00:55.000 --> 02:00:58.199 Terry with the taped up eye having done an eye inkrey angle with Dusty Rhodes 1626 02:00:58.239 --> 02:01:02.840 Is he also would do with Jerry Lawler in Memphis, Dusty Roads at a 1627 02:01:03.279 --> 02:01:08.119 househo footage Dusty going nuts on Joel. And as we're going to see here 1628 02:01:08.159 --> 02:01:11.079 in just a moment, even with his handicap of the broken arm, mister 1629 02:01:11.159 --> 02:01:16.039 Funk he is able to defeat the three hundred pound from the other end helbow 1630 02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:19.239 on the top of the head. And the Duke has got himself a pile 1631 02:01:19.239 --> 02:01:23.800 of a lot of troubles right here all right now, yellow covered by Roads, 1632 02:01:24.439 --> 02:01:28.640 the cast that hit him roads pins side chop. You're trying to call 1633 02:01:28.840 --> 02:01:33.399 out a side chop? So was that was an illegal weapon? Is what 1634 02:01:33.560 --> 02:01:41.079 he used? Yes? Cast for anything? I think that's killer con the 1635 02:01:41.159 --> 02:01:44.960 killer count Gary Hart. You see roads go down in a moment, you'll 1636 02:01:45.000 --> 02:01:47.119 see me come into the road. You'll see me go ahead and come up 1637 02:01:47.159 --> 02:01:54.159 here. Because what I want to do is I want to sweet the consistency. 1638 02:01:55.079 --> 02:01:58.079 Look at him in street clothes with he wants to examine the consistency of 1639 02:01:58.159 --> 02:02:01.520 the cast State of Florida. If you want to examine anything on dusty roads, 1640 02:02:01.560 --> 02:02:05.000 if you want to question anything, you had better clear the ring You 1641 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:10.279 saw me clear the ringing getting in there, dropping over the insight. Blemy 1642 02:02:10.359 --> 02:02:13.960 take the referee and get him out of there, because I realized that the 1643 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:20.199 man would try to stop me from taking a look at roads at all and 1644 02:02:21.520 --> 02:02:27.159 front round. Brother, just tell the people that the man is there is 1645 02:02:27.920 --> 02:02:33.760 better. He is rationalization weapon. Now it's so great. One time he 1646 02:02:33.920 --> 02:02:39.039 knew something. I was lifting the legs so everybody in the whole audience could 1647 02:02:39.039 --> 02:02:42.039 see it. And I'll admit that I went ahead and saw that leg and 1648 02:02:42.079 --> 02:02:44.880 I thought I'll go ahead and just go around on it one time, but 1649 02:02:45.039 --> 02:02:48.359 you saw it breaks free me with that cast, and you saw it drive 1650 02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:51.520 me straight up in the air a foot and a half again, you see 1651 02:02:51.560 --> 02:02:58.479 him hit me with that Look what the man is could is anyone sitting down 1652 02:02:58.560 --> 02:03:02.760 poss off trying to wrestle me. What he's doing is to try to put 1653 02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:08.359 me out of commission. There you sawing completely destroy a wooden chair with that 1654 02:03:08.640 --> 02:03:12.800 cast. He's using it as a weapon. Now, look at the man. 1655 02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:15.279 I'm trying to go ahead and get out of the ring to the best 1656 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:19.560 of my ability, just to get away from him because I'm real I realize 1657 02:03:19.880 --> 02:03:24.920 that I'm overmatched. Whenever you get in the ring and the fella has a 1658 02:03:25.039 --> 02:03:29.720 weapon, I mean a weapon that he should be right across the forehead with 1659 02:03:29.800 --> 02:03:35.319 the forehead, look at him. We need stumbling around like a baby doe. 1660 02:03:38.159 --> 02:03:44.159 He is a buffore bearing buffoon, an eggs sucking dog. You see 1661 02:03:44.239 --> 02:03:46.760 the blood on that cast. He hasn't touched me with one other thing. 1662 02:03:47.159 --> 02:03:50.560 He hasn't tried to wrestle me. I pick up that chair and self defense. 1663 02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:58.039 Now, I'm just trying to look for escape, look for escape from 1664 02:03:58.119 --> 02:04:01.720 not Dusty Rhoades, but a weapon. Right here, you see him trying 1665 02:04:01.760 --> 02:04:05.600 to drag me. He spin me back around to hit me again. Sure 1666 02:04:05.720 --> 02:04:10.600 enough he does. How many times did he hit me? Anybody else, 1667 02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:15.520 any common average human being, anybody else at what a tremendous athlete would be 1668 02:04:15.680 --> 02:04:20.439 headed for the hospital right now that Wyy beheaded, But not me. I'm 1669 02:04:20.520 --> 02:04:26.760 still trying to go ahead and figure out what in the world is going on. 1670 02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:29.800 I'm dazed at this time. You see him again? Do you see 1671 02:04:29.880 --> 02:04:31.560 him again? And you see all of the people out there, Do you 1672 02:04:31.640 --> 02:04:34.159 think they would come to my age? Do you think that they would help 1673 02:04:34.239 --> 02:04:36.840 me in any way at all? No? No, they won't help me. 1674 02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:41.439 Right there, I collapse over the top of that railing and I go 1675 02:04:41.640 --> 02:04:45.600 down. Rhodes follows me back out. He's not satisfied. He's going for 1676 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:48.279 what's he going for? He's going for my life. He's going for it 1677 02:04:48.359 --> 02:04:54.479 complete. He see me just praying the escape, trying to get away from 1678 02:04:54.560 --> 02:04:58.119 him in any way that I possibly can. There you see me out back 1679 02:04:58.199 --> 02:05:02.880 here, must say at this point, mister Punker, you've you've interfered after 1680 02:05:02.960 --> 02:05:06.600 a match was over, and a lot of people right now must feel that 1681 02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:10.399 you've got a taste of your arm, swinging, pushing tables over amidst the 1682 02:05:10.439 --> 02:05:13.279 people at the back of the arena, swinging that belt in the ring. 1683 02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:15.279 I didn't even use a belt. I was just trying for a little self 1684 02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:20.039 depitched. This is nothing but the see he's a he's where what is he? 1685 02:05:20.640 --> 02:05:25.119 He's a red neck Floridian, that's what he is, right, He's 1686 02:05:25.159 --> 02:05:28.840 a last of the crackers. He's a last of the crackers. That's what 1687 02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:31.000 road is. I'm trying to get away. I know that he's gonna be 1688 02:05:31.079 --> 02:05:34.920 coming through that crowd at any minute, so I head out the front door. 1689 02:05:35.520 --> 02:05:40.399 I head out the front door. The people, the marble, my 1690 02:05:40.720 --> 02:05:45.640 god, any one of them individually, A wild night outs seriously into the 1691 02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:50.800 wee hours of the morning. Wrestle but this isn't wrestling. Well, well, 1692 02:05:50.880 --> 02:05:57.680 there you had it, and mister Counk disappears in the night. Damn, 1693 02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:04.720 I'm solely here. He thinks he's so smart. Listen, I've had 1694 02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:10.479 five years of college. When you try to attack me verbally, and you 1695 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:14.319 go ahead and you stick that night and you turn it and it hurts. 1696 02:06:14.680 --> 02:06:17.279 But I want the people to be the judge, is what I want. 1697 02:06:17.800 --> 02:06:24.239 Like I said before, this man here has a problem. His brain is 1698 02:06:24.560 --> 02:06:28.840 pickled. That's what this man's problem a lot, and insult you too, 1699 02:06:29.000 --> 02:06:32.399 That's amazing, Come on television, insult me. But can he get in 1700 02:06:32.520 --> 02:06:38.279 the ring and damn will try to wrestle me and compete with me? No, 1701 02:06:38.560 --> 02:06:42.079 he can't. He's got to use an illegal weapon all the time. 1702 02:06:42.159 --> 02:06:48.119 But what he's using an illegal he's going to well call it what you will, 1703 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:54.039 Sarah uh be Florida State ship. This man has a lot of room 1704 02:06:54.119 --> 02:06:56.920 to talk about anything, that is for sure. Let's turn it over to 1705 02:06:57.000 --> 02:07:01.920 a ring announcer, please, And that's that. Jesus Christ, thoughts please, 1706 02:07:03.039 --> 02:07:06.960 I'm I'm I'm just amazed. I think that's that's such fucking great shit. 1707 02:07:08.680 --> 02:07:12.800 I mean, there is a I mean, Dusty said it in the 1708 02:07:12.880 --> 02:07:16.800 book, like they just they they believed it. They believed what they were 1709 02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:24.960 doing was real, and in doing so, they made everyone else believe that 1710 02:07:25.039 --> 02:07:28.760 it was real. And they are trying to rip each other's heads off. 1711 02:07:29.560 --> 02:07:34.079 Yep. And it's all in this sort of you know, in the spirit 1712 02:07:34.199 --> 02:07:41.119 of like, I just love how Terry's in the booth. They're justifying every 1713 02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:44.479 last thing he did. Oh, that's some of the greatest shit I've ever 1714 02:07:44.600 --> 02:07:46.199 heard. Do you remember when we went back to those influences and he talked 1715 02:07:46.239 --> 02:07:50.479 about Professor Boris Malenko in Florida? Yep, yep. Remember how we found 1716 02:07:50.520 --> 02:07:54.640 that clip of Malenko doing exactly the same thing, voicing over a match he 1717 02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:59.159 had with Paul Bosch, yep, and just making excuses for every last little 1718 02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:03.039 dastardly thing he was clearly doing on film and like justifying it, creating building 1719 02:08:03.079 --> 02:08:09.359 these narratives up about Terry Funk right there and sitting with solely justified why he 1720 02:08:09.520 --> 02:08:13.399 just randomly attacked the referee as well. Of course he would have stood in 1721 02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:22.640 the way he would have. It's some brilliant, absolutely brilliant rationalization. And 1722 02:08:22.720 --> 02:08:26.000 as they hit the floor and Dusty battles Terry Funk over the rail into the 1723 02:08:26.039 --> 02:08:30.399 people, just that there's no you know, parting of the Red Sea with 1724 02:08:30.479 --> 02:08:33.560 security. There's nothing that makes it look you know, contrived and phony and 1725 02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:37.600 planned. And I'm you know, I'm not suggesting we put the wrestlers who 1726 02:08:37.640 --> 02:08:39.359 brawl in the crowd at great physical risk. But I'll tell you what what 1727 02:08:39.520 --> 02:08:43.760 I just saw there, people shoulder to shoulder, cops fighting for positions, 1728 02:08:45.000 --> 02:08:48.640 as as Terry stumbles around the back of this arena bloodied, pushing tables over. 1729 02:08:48.800 --> 02:08:52.279 Yep, that's superior. That's a superior wrestling experience, no matter what 1730 02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:56.840 slice it. And Dusty giving chase, I mean, it's just it's just, 1731 02:08:58.279 --> 02:09:03.199 I can't they create such a sense of chaos, don't they. I 1732 02:09:03.279 --> 02:09:09.680 mean, it's yeah, I mean it's it's chaos. It's but it's also 1733 02:09:09.039 --> 02:09:13.520 just a a I mean, I don't even know how to really describe it. 1734 02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:20.199 It's just it gives goosebumps. Yeah, it gives you absolute goosebumps. 1735 02:09:20.239 --> 02:09:24.640 It's it's some incredible excitement. See the people that dialed into every little thing 1736 02:09:24.720 --> 02:09:28.399 that's happening on. So after chasing the title and never winning it for about 1737 02:09:28.439 --> 02:09:33.840 five years, Meltzer wrote Eddie Graham, the booker in Florida and Dusty's mentor, 1738 02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:37.600 finally got the ok for a short term title win for Dusty Rhodes, 1739 02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:41.319 and has mentioned Rhodes beats Race August twenty one, seventy nine in Tampa and 1740 02:09:41.399 --> 02:09:45.319 five days later in Orlando, which I think is what we just saw. 1741 02:09:45.680 --> 02:09:48.920 There was a rematch funk At challenged and lost to Rhodes and an August twenty 1742 02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:54.159 fifth title match in Saint Pete. So between Dusty winning the belt and then 1743 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:58.880 losing the belt, he defended successfully once against Terry Funk. The next day 1744 02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:01.439 in Orlando, Roads comes out first with Race, but before Race could come 1745 02:10:01.439 --> 02:10:03.680 out, Funk attack Roads from behind and quote unquote broke his arm. That's 1746 02:10:03.680 --> 02:10:07.359 the footage we saw there. Yeah, so very historically significant, and that 1747 02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:13.720 that was the storyline justification for why Dusty came up short in the rematch with 1748 02:10:13.800 --> 02:10:16.760 Hartley Race for the World's Championship, and Meltzer wrote, Roads refused to not 1749 02:10:16.920 --> 02:10:20.239 give the people who paid their title match a match, so right after breaking 1750 02:10:20.279 --> 02:10:24.079 his arm quote unquote, he went in with Race. That's the footage we 1751 02:10:24.199 --> 02:10:28.439 saw there, with Dusty's arm dangling by his side as he's wrestling Harley and 1752 02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:31.880 lost the title. Funk and Roads headline for the next two months in the 1753 02:10:31.960 --> 02:10:35.279 territory, including Dusty and Andre the Giant versus the Funks. So Dory's coming 1754 02:10:35.319 --> 02:10:41.399 in Wow to provide some reinforcement, and Andre has an ally, pardon me, 1755 02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:46.479 Dusty Rhoades has an ally and Andre the Giant, So that's what it 1756 02:10:46.560 --> 02:10:48.239 looked and felt like in Florida, and the stakes couldn't be higher with the 1757 02:10:48.279 --> 02:10:54.439 world title in play as well, especially with Dusty looking at the menu absolutely 1758 02:10:54.560 --> 02:10:58.720 right. And so as the calendar turned to nineteen eighty, this is when 1759 02:11:00.039 --> 02:11:03.359 becomes very clear that, you know, the absolute premier place to be in 1760 02:11:03.399 --> 02:11:07.640 pro wrestling is on the WTBS superstation, which for the limited amount of homes 1761 02:11:07.680 --> 02:11:11.279 that had cable, basically made you a national star. And Dusty was the 1762 02:11:11.319 --> 02:11:16.199 face of Georgia Championship Wrestling broadcast across the nation on WTBS WTCG before that, 1763 02:11:18.119 --> 02:11:22.800 really the first sort of TBS superstar in the mid seventies, out there doing 1764 02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:28.199 his one of a kind promos, doing his flashy and ring work and establishing 1765 02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:30.720 himself there and as we mentioned, getting booked in the Garden as a result. 1766 02:11:31.399 --> 02:11:33.079 Now, as this starts to happen, Terry Funk, who of course 1767 02:11:33.119 --> 02:11:37.399 grew up in the territorial system, steeped in it like few others. Of 1768 02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:39.760 course, his father running the MRL office, starts to detect that. You 1769 02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:45.000 know, he credits his dat as saying eventually what happened, as opposed to 1770 02:11:45.079 --> 02:11:46.960 putting his finger on the moment it did happen. But the thought was, 1771 02:11:48.000 --> 02:11:50.479 eventually, somebody's going to nationalize this thing. Eventually, somebody's going to get 1772 02:11:50.479 --> 02:11:54.479 a television timeslot that puts them national. And as he says, you know, 1773 02:11:54.560 --> 02:11:58.359 it could have been Jim Barnett. Barnett could have chosen, based on 1774 02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:01.239 his position of power in the NWA, to just say fuck anybody else in 1775 02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:05.520 the nwway that thinks they have rights to an area. I've got TBS, 1776 02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:09.000 I'm out of Atlanta. I'm just going to go into all their territories and 1777 02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:13.399 run shows and run off the fact that this new national television phenomenon makes my 1778 02:12:13.520 --> 02:12:16.279 stars bigger than the local territory stars. But he didn't do that, of 1779 02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:20.920 course, keeping with the niceties of the NWA political structure that he so masterfully 1780 02:12:22.039 --> 02:12:26.359 navigated throughout the course of his lifetime. But Terry looked around and he had 1781 02:12:26.399 --> 02:12:31.600 a particular moment where he remembered thinking, Okay, things are changing here because 1782 02:12:31.640 --> 02:12:35.640 they were down in New Mexico, which is Amarilla Territory, regular stop on 1783 02:12:35.680 --> 02:12:39.600 the circuit. Funks big names forever, Ricky Romero, big name forever. 1784 02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:43.119 They were accustomed to being the big wrestling stars that everybody had heard of when 1785 02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:46.520 they came through town. But one time he's traveling with Tommy Rich, who 1786 02:12:46.560 --> 02:12:50.479 basically came after Dusty Rhoads and being a nationally made star on TBS, a 1787 02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:54.039 guy who everybody in the country suddenly knew, even though he was just some 1788 02:12:54.119 --> 02:12:56.119 guy working out of Atlanta and had been in Memphis for a bit. But 1789 02:12:56.199 --> 02:13:01.239 suddenly Tommy Wildfire Rich is becoming NWA World Heavyweight Champion because of the power of 1790 02:13:01.319 --> 02:13:03.880 the superstation and what it meant to be presented on Georgia Championship Wrestling as the 1791 02:13:03.880 --> 02:13:07.520 biggest deal in wrestling, this of course being the exact timeslot and company and 1792 02:13:09.199 --> 02:13:11.359 television show that Vince McMahon moved in on on Black Saturday in nineteen eighty four, 1793 02:13:11.880 --> 02:13:15.680 right giving you a sense of how powerful that was. And we talked 1794 02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:18.520 about that in our Black Saturday coverage last year. But here's Terry Funk we're 1795 02:13:18.520 --> 02:13:22.159 calling in a shoot interview when he realized as they made their way through the 1796 02:13:22.239 --> 02:13:26.720 usual stops in New Mexico that the business was changing and who the fans were 1797 02:13:28.119 --> 02:13:31.199 thinking of as the most important wrestlers was no longer who was most important at 1798 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:35.920 your local arena. That Jake was up whenever I went to tokumb Carey, 1799 02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:39.359 New Mexico, and I think it was myself and I'm trying to figure out 1800 02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:43.199 who else it was, but a couple of the other guys that were riding 1801 02:13:43.279 --> 02:13:48.479 with me and on we go to tucum Carrey. We go to Albuquerque, 1802 02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:52.239 but we stopped in tucumb Carrey for breakfast. So we stopped in it for 1803 02:13:52.359 --> 02:13:58.000 breakfast, and it was me and I'm trying to think of what the guys 1804 02:14:00.119 --> 02:14:07.199 it was me and oh it was uh, who was the guy that was 1805 02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:13.000 over so well, then Tommy Rich, Tommy Rich. So Tommy Wildfire, 1806 02:14:15.560 --> 02:14:22.600 that's right, Tommy Wildfire Rich was in the car with us and he just 1807 02:14:22.800 --> 02:14:28.640 came in for that week and he was in Albuquerque. But we drove from 1808 02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:33.399 Ambula and Albuquerque, but we stopped in tucum carry so we were gonna go 1809 02:14:33.439 --> 02:14:37.399 ahead and needed this little restaurant that we ate there every week, so we 1810 02:14:37.560 --> 02:14:43.800 stopped there and along came this car load of high school girls. I don't 1811 02:14:43.840 --> 02:14:48.720 know where they came from, but they were all screaming, hollering, going 1812 02:14:48.920 --> 02:14:54.600 crazy everything. Whenever we got out of the car there and I thought, 1813 02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:58.680 oh my gosh, we're really looking good. You know, we ran right 1814 02:14:58.760 --> 02:15:05.600 by me and right up Tommy Rich. The TV was going to make a 1815 02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:09.439 big difference in the world of wrestling, and it sure did too. And 1816 02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:15.960 that's that's true story. And uh, it really really did. Tommy Rich 1817 02:15:16.159 --> 02:15:20.439 was probably just huge all over the entire United States. But you guys had 1818 02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:24.159 been there in that territory and went through that same town every week for the 1819 02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:26.800 previous eighteen years, and all of a sudden, here's something I've never been 1820 02:15:26.840 --> 02:15:33.079 here before, but yeah, on National TV. And it was the only 1821 02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:39.680 national TV at that time, and that's what really made that different. And 1822 02:15:39.800 --> 02:15:45.840 they could go anywhere. And you know, Jim Burnett was you know, 1823 02:15:46.039 --> 02:15:48.640 he was a very generous guy because he could have done that. He was 1824 02:15:50.279 --> 02:15:54.479 he wasn't an idiot. But what did Jim do. He would go ahead 1825 02:15:54.720 --> 02:15:58.399 and he would would put these people. You'd go ahead and you'd say, 1826 02:15:58.479 --> 02:16:01.680 well, hey, I want to book Tommy Rich, Well, okay, 1827 02:16:01.760 --> 02:16:07.760 you can have me. Jim had no desire to do what Vince did later, 1828 02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:13.399 which was take over the entire country. But he was Jim Barnett who 1829 02:16:13.399 --> 02:16:18.880 had taken over the entire country at that time. So that's Terry Funk with 1830 02:16:18.960 --> 02:16:24.439 Jim Cornette on the k FABE commentaries Tales from the Territories season that they did 1831 02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:30.399 Back to the Territories as they called it, reflecting on when he realized that 1832 02:16:30.479 --> 02:16:33.600 Tommy Rich was better known in this small town in New Mexico than he was 1833 02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:37.280 and it's his territory. Yeah, that's like, Okay, there's no way 1834 02:16:37.319 --> 02:16:39.959 this is just an aberration. There's no way that Tommy Rich is the only 1835 02:16:41.000 --> 02:16:43.719 guy that's going to do this. This is now going to be the future. 1836 02:16:43.719 --> 02:16:46.719 And he was exactly right. As he points out in his book, 1837 02:16:46.760 --> 02:16:50.360 it wasn't the first attempt to go national. He writes, Hell, Vince 1838 02:16:50.440 --> 02:16:54.479 wasn't even the first person who tried it. In the mid nineteen seventies, 1839 02:16:54.520 --> 02:16:56.799 at Eye One, Horn started a group called the International Wrestling Association, which 1840 02:16:56.840 --> 02:17:01.479 included Pedro Martinez. On Horne One was the sports guy who helped create the 1841 02:17:01.639 --> 02:17:05.879 NCAA tournament in the Final four, a great concept. This was before Cable 1842 02:17:05.959 --> 02:17:09.079 came out, and he put the promoters in the position of trying to keep 1843 02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:13.399 a national program from taking over. Einhorn's idea was to make wrestling a nationally 1844 02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:16.360 syndicated show. Actually got sued over that deal. It happened while I was 1845 02:17:16.479 --> 02:17:20.959 n W A champion. Pedro Martinez was on an airplane. The Dusty Roads 1846 02:17:20.959 --> 02:17:26.799 and I were also on. Dusty spotted and said, Terry, you see 1847 02:17:26.799 --> 02:17:30.399 that gujithon of a bitch back there. That's Peedo Martinev. I wouldn't have 1848 02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:33.520 known him if Dusty hadn't pointed him out, but I did know that the 1849 02:17:33.559 --> 02:17:35.799 IWA had gotten on TV in Odessa, Texas. It was just one small 1850 02:17:35.879 --> 02:17:39.840 town in our territory. Who gives a shit, right, but it was 1851 02:17:39.959 --> 02:17:43.440 serious business to me, So I asked Dusty, where is that son of 1852 02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:48.559 a bitch? Dusty said he thittened back there and motioned his head toward the 1853 02:17:48.600 --> 02:17:50.879 back of the plane. I said, well, you just point him out 1854 02:17:50.879 --> 02:17:54.239 to me when we land After we landed and we were walking in the terminal, 1855 02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:56.280 Dusty pointed Martinez out to me. I walked up to him, touched 1856 02:17:56.280 --> 02:17:58.920 his collar, grabbed his lapels, got right in his face and said, 1857 02:18:00.079 --> 02:18:05.159 keep your goddamn tapes out of Odessa, Texas. Said what are you talking 1858 02:18:05.200 --> 02:18:07.200 about? I guess he had tapes going in stations all over the country and 1859 02:18:07.239 --> 02:18:11.079 didn't know every single city he had. I told him he'd better stay out 1860 02:18:11.079 --> 02:18:13.520 of our area and to be ready for a fight if he didn't. I 1861 02:18:13.639 --> 02:18:16.440 let go. When Martinez took off, I went back to Dusty and said, 1862 02:18:16.440 --> 02:18:18.520 well, I guess I showed that sign of a gun. As we 1863 02:18:18.559 --> 02:18:22.239 were passing security, there was page Martinez, only now his lapels were ripped 1864 02:18:22.280 --> 02:18:24.040 and torn, his shirt ripped open, and his belly hanging out. He 1865 02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:28.840 was pointing out the two police officers with him, putting me out to the 1866 02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:31.559 two police officers with him. They put me under arrest and took me to 1867 02:18:31.680 --> 02:18:33.840 jail. I got right out, but soon after that I found out Martinez 1868 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:37.719 was suing me for eighteen million dollars in Eastern airlines for one million dollars. 1869 02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:41.159 I went to court and Martinez passed around a picture of a testicle that had 1870 02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:46.520 swollen to the size of a basketball. He said, I kicked him in 1871 02:18:46.559 --> 02:18:52.200 the nuts. I never touched his nuts. What happened was he'd found another 1872 02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:54.719 wrestler who had a swollen testicle, took a picture of it, and they 1873 02:18:54.760 --> 02:19:00.639 found me guilty off of that. It wasn't even his nut, dirty son 1874 02:19:00.719 --> 02:19:03.120 of a bitch. I appealed, but I ended up settling out of court 1875 02:19:03.159 --> 02:19:05.799 with him for five thousand dollars. I've seen his nuts. I know the 1876 02:19:05.920 --> 02:19:11.280 nuts. I've bet a nut. I've kicked myself, Terry, my boy, 1877 02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:15.639 can I help with this? What's the situation you've got with a nut? 1878 02:19:16.360 --> 02:19:20.000 I ain't got no nuts. Let me take a look, my boy, 1879 02:19:22.600 --> 02:19:24.479 ain't got nothing to see. I got no nuts. Jim. You 1880 02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:28.440 wouldn't believe it. He's passing around this picture in the courtroom of some other 1881 02:19:28.520 --> 02:19:35.239 wrestler's nuts. I Jim, I've seen nuts before, and I know you're 1882 02:19:35.360 --> 02:19:39.479 familiar with nuts, and they ain't the real nuts. Can you help me 1883 02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:45.079 out here? Can you provide any forensics? Maybe? Can you provide me 1884 02:19:45.280 --> 02:19:48.000 with a pair of nuts, Jim? Can you help me with all the 1885 02:19:48.079 --> 02:20:01.360 nuts stuff? Jim, I'll let you finish. Oh I just busted thoughts. 1886 02:20:03.680 --> 02:20:05.600 Ah? Yeah, he turns it right back on him, doesn't he. 1887 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:13.479 Well, I guess you know that's a certain kind of not too. 1888 02:20:13.280 --> 02:20:16.120 I ended up settling with them out of court for five thousand dollars. But 1889 02:20:16.239 --> 02:20:18.799 that was five thousand dollars. I shouldn't have even had to pay for another 1890 02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:24.959 guy's testicle. This is fucking Terry Man. The NWA, Jim Barnett in 1891 02:20:24.000 --> 02:20:28.079 particular, wasn't very happy with that situation. I thought they'd be very pleased 1892 02:20:28.120 --> 02:20:31.079 till I thought the entire wrestling industry would be proud of me handling Pedro Martinez 1893 02:20:31.159 --> 02:20:35.600 for them. The entire nWay ran from it. Anytime you had a lawsuit, 1894 02:20:35.840 --> 02:20:37.920 you had no friends. Even Eddie Graham would run from me when he 1895 02:20:39.000 --> 02:20:41.159 saw me if there was a lawsuit here. I was doing the right thing 1896 02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:45.399 to help protect their business, and they ran from me. I've dealt with 1897 02:20:45.479 --> 02:20:48.360 a lot of lawsuits, but I have to say, what's wrong with our 1898 02:20:48.399 --> 02:20:52.079 country today is that we say you're innocent until proven guilty, But the fact 1899 02:20:52.120 --> 02:20:54.280 is in a lawsuit, you're guilty until proven innocent, and it can be 1900 02:20:54.399 --> 02:20:58.520 very costly. Someone once told me about an old curse. May you be 1901 02:20:58.600 --> 02:21:03.559 involved in a lawsuit in which you are in the right Ironharm ran out of 1902 02:21:03.600 --> 02:21:07.639 money and closed up a few months later in nineteen seventy six. But Vince 1903 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:11.520 and the WWF weren't going down as easily in nineteen eighty four, so just 1904 02:21:11.600 --> 02:21:16.120 the last vestiges of the old territorial rules there, and Terry Funk was there 1905 02:21:16.200 --> 02:21:20.159 to bridge the era, as he really was doing what he thought it called 1906 02:21:20.200 --> 02:21:24.000 for, doing what he thought called for, as someone tried to go national 1907 02:21:24.040 --> 02:21:26.719 and put their tapes on in his market, and everybody's like, uh, 1908 02:21:28.319 --> 02:21:30.920 try to keep with a hands off approach to the whole thing. This is 1909 02:21:30.959 --> 02:21:35.520 hardly yeah, right, you know the Blacklist days that got the NWA investigated 1910 02:21:35.559 --> 02:21:39.319 by the FEDS decades before this, And further, they didn't think they had 1911 02:21:39.319 --> 02:21:41.440 anything to worry about. They thought Vince was just the latest guy to have 1912 02:21:41.520 --> 02:21:46.799 this bright idea to nationalized wrestling, and up to that point, everybody had 1913 02:21:46.840 --> 02:21:48.840 failed to do it that claimed to have the pockets and the logistics to pull 1914 02:21:48.879 --> 02:21:52.799 it off. So you can see why Vince really was able to shark his 1915 02:21:52.879 --> 02:21:56.559 way through that whole thing. Because those sons of bitches were resting real easy 1916 02:21:56.600 --> 02:22:00.879 after fending off Pedro Martinez in the mid seventies. They hardly took a Vin 1917 02:22:00.959 --> 02:22:03.159 senior son seriously as the guy to be able to do it, and he 1918 02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:07.040 did. So that's that's Terry living in two worlds with his foot and two 1919 02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:11.559 eras here and in terms of what he took to the year waves for TBS 1920 02:22:11.639 --> 02:22:16.639 to say about his opponent Dusty Rhodes. Here's a sample of a great promo 1921 02:22:16.719 --> 02:22:22.319 he cut on TBS one time against the Dream the all of the National Wrestling 1922 02:22:22.319 --> 02:22:30.079 Alliance Champions, Dory Funk Junior, myself, Terry Funk highly Race. But 1923 02:22:30.319 --> 02:22:37.040 then a long comes that egg sucking dog Dusty Road to after the book the 1924 02:22:37.120 --> 02:22:39.319 end of the World Championship. Now I have a picture of this man. 1925 02:22:39.399 --> 02:22:43.079 I want to ask you what does he represent? Does he represent Wrestley? 1926 02:22:43.120 --> 02:22:48.159 Look at that big fat, obnoxious BELLI he is Rock Holley's in the ring 1927 02:22:48.239 --> 02:22:54.719 and a pair of faded blue jeans and a shirt that says everybody loves somebody 1928 02:22:54.840 --> 02:23:00.760 and looking backing a pair of cowboy boots and Vera cos veins and each blonde 1929 02:23:00.879 --> 02:23:07.239 hair and this overbearing, age sucking dob thinks he's a World's heavyweight wrestling champion. 1930 02:23:09.040 --> 02:23:13.799 Well, listen, I have spent my entire life in wrestling rings, 1931 02:23:13.200 --> 02:23:18.719 and I know what it is to be a champion, and this man certainly 1932 02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:22.920 doesn't represent one or never should have been one. And that's why I did 1933 02:23:22.000 --> 02:23:26.719 what I did, and I'm gonna do the same thing to him. Sunday 1934 02:23:28.200 --> 02:23:35.760 night, seven point thirty in the Omni I'm gonna get ahold of dusty boats 1935 02:23:35.840 --> 02:23:43.479 and believe me, you're overpaid of not wow. Wow, dog, I'm 1936 02:23:43.520 --> 02:23:50.520 gonna do something to you that's never been done before. Damn I'll buy tickets. 1937 02:23:52.719 --> 02:23:56.120 Yeah, I'm there. Don't meet me there, beat me there. 1938 02:23:56.120 --> 02:24:00.920 They Omni in Atlanta, who Terry Funk takes advantage of that TBS exposure to 1939 02:24:00.959 --> 02:24:03.120 push tickets, and remember that's what you would see. You might be watching 1940 02:24:03.600 --> 02:24:09.440 Georgia Championship Wrestling in fucking Fargo, North Dakota, but you would get local 1941 02:24:09.520 --> 02:24:13.520 promos for the Omni because that's that's all they really cared about plugging the fact 1942 02:24:13.520 --> 02:24:16.079 that they went it went out national was almost incidental. It was almost we 1943 02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:20.680 did Black Saturday only Anderson's out when people suspected of him trying to make a 1944 02:24:20.760 --> 02:24:24.639 national push, especially as he moved into Ohio a bit. And what Biot's 1945 02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:28.440 territory used to be out there in the Doyle territory was that, you know, 1946 02:24:28.639 --> 02:24:31.280 it's not my fault that the territory guy happened to book ended up, 1947 02:24:33.000 --> 02:24:35.680 you know, having a relationship with the station that decided to go national. 1948 02:24:35.799 --> 02:24:39.719 I didn't pick them for that reason. They didn't go national at my urging. 1949 02:24:41.600 --> 02:24:43.719 So the fact that I'm national is just a happy advantage I have. 1950 02:24:43.879 --> 02:24:46.239 But it's not something I'm going to exploit. It's not something I'm going to 1951 02:24:46.280 --> 02:24:50.440 take advantage of. It's just something that's a reality. And so he would 1952 02:24:50.479 --> 02:24:54.959 have had Terry trying to sell your tickets to see him fight Dusty Roads in 1953 02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:56.399 the Omni in Atlanta, no matter where you were in the country at the 1954 02:24:56.440 --> 02:25:00.639 time. So we're gonna move down to dis number five boss. All right, 1955 02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:03.559 the time code there is one forty seven to twenty nine. We're gonn 1956 02:25:03.559 --> 02:25:09.399 get a bit more now that Dory Funk has come down to Georgia to back 1957 02:25:09.479 --> 02:25:15.719 up his brother Terry. This from Well you pull that up, let me 1958 02:25:15.760 --> 02:25:28.120 take a look. You said, one thirty seven twenty nine, go ahead 1959 02:25:28.159 --> 02:25:31.840 and take a look here. So I went ahead and took a look and 1960 02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:39.600 eight some pussy. This is a promo from WTBS March of nineteen eighty. 1961 02:25:39.559 --> 02:25:43.280 All Right, I believe it is Terry and Dory Funk about to hold some 1962 02:25:43.440 --> 02:25:52.079 court. All Right, I'm ready when you are in three to one play 1963 02:25:52.239 --> 02:25:58.040 see video tape from Terry Roonk from Texas. Suddenly I have both Dory vonk 1964 02:25:58.120 --> 02:26:01.719 Junior and Terry Vink with me. I'm the last gentleman. I cannot interrupt 1965 02:26:01.760 --> 02:26:05.520 our format. So we're going to take a look at this tape that came 1966 02:26:05.959 --> 02:26:09.520 from you from Amarillo, and I would like to say the Championship Wrestling is 1967 02:26:09.600 --> 02:26:13.879 not responsible Laura's Channel seventeen for the actions of the comments of this man. 1968 02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:24.079 Let's go to Amarillo. That's what wow today is mental preparation. And whenever 1969 02:26:24.200 --> 02:26:26.399 I want to get right mentally, what do I do? I come to 1970 02:26:26.479 --> 02:26:31.399 the ambilla, dump the ambilla do with a rifle in his hand? What 1971 02:26:31.520 --> 02:26:35.760 the fuck is he going to? Go? Ahead? Terry funk satisfaction out 1972 02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:43.559 of shooting up the running around and speaking of Rose, I understand King of 1973 02:26:45.600 --> 02:26:54.200 Dusty Roads the death match to file on me for attacking him with the deadly 1974 02:26:54.440 --> 02:26:58.639 weapon. Well, this is not the deadly weapon. I attacked him with. 1975 02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:05.280 The deadly weapon I used on Dusty Rhodes is my mouth. Wow, 1976 02:27:05.760 --> 02:27:11.920 when you blow them and I can't destroy. Truth destroys everyone whenever it is 1977 02:27:13.120 --> 02:27:18.280 the truth. And what I say about him being an egg sucking dog is 1978 02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:26.520 the absolute truth. Speaking of a few rats, how about Jack and Jerry 1979 02:27:26.639 --> 02:27:35.639 Briscoe. Anytime you put a Texan against an Oklahoman, there's extreme hatred from 1980 02:27:35.719 --> 02:27:45.559 the Oklahoma side because they can't stand it because fellas like Junior and I are 1981 02:27:45.760 --> 02:27:56.159 Texans and we are superior to those silly, stupid okies laughing. Well, 1982 02:27:56.319 --> 02:28:00.120 all right, not what I'm confused about. I'm curious about is why you 1983 02:28:00.239 --> 02:28:05.040 two here? Why am I here and Junior here? I'll tell you why. 1984 02:28:05.159 --> 02:28:09.319 But first of all, where is Dusty Road? Here's he? Does 1985 02:28:09.360 --> 02:28:15.440 he have another film clip of himself? Or is he gonna send another telegram 1986 02:28:15.639 --> 02:28:20.440 up here? Let's face the facts. We ran him out of Georgia. 1987 02:28:22.159 --> 02:28:26.840 He doesn't have enough guts to come back within the state. And besides that, 1988 02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:31.799 we sending the wheeling. We sending the wheeling, and that's not West 1989 02:28:31.920 --> 02:28:37.280 Virginia either. We went sending the wheeland dirt and garbage where he should be 1990 02:28:37.440 --> 02:28:41.360 because he never was a wrestler. Really, I don't think we need to 1991 02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:45.799 pursue this. We have a television pro Terry Funk was standing in London, 1992 02:28:46.040 --> 02:28:50.159 Jack and J twenty foot piles of dirt, the biggest sir. It's amazing, 1993 02:28:50.959 --> 02:28:56.840 a bunch of surprises on short It's like such a weirdo because my brother 1994 02:28:58.040 --> 02:29:05.920 and I Boughty and not Jack. Jerry's of course not. We bought the 1995 02:29:05.040 --> 02:29:09.520 two. Uh Terry, where are we? Terry? You can't remember their 1996 02:29:09.600 --> 02:29:18.040 names? Now we're gonna prove to the people who is the number one in 1997 02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:26.440 the United States right here on national television. Bring on the Briscos. You 1998 02:29:26.600 --> 02:29:31.559 do have well? All right, all right, gentlemen, we've got the 1999 02:29:31.639 --> 02:29:41.959 turn. Pick em Jack my brother? Wait are we coming there? You 2000 02:29:43.079 --> 02:29:50.799 have it? Events here? Carry where are we going? Having bought the 2001 02:29:50.879 --> 02:29:56.760 contracts of and uh, Terry, that means that all we're waiting for now 2002 02:29:56.239 --> 02:30:01.879 is for Jack and Jerry Briscoe to appear, Terry, so we'll be waiting 2003 02:30:03.120 --> 02:30:05.280 for that. Let's turn it. So Terry and Dorry in the ring in 2004 02:30:05.360 --> 02:30:09.600 the studio, Terry, where are we going? We're free trying to touch 2005 02:30:09.680 --> 02:30:16.440 me, Terry. We're free trying to touch me Terry. That week. 2006 02:30:16.639 --> 02:30:24.200 Ah, it's dust wow, how McDonnel dusty roads at the ring. Listen 2007 02:30:24.280 --> 02:30:35.600 to Gordon, Wow, look a dusty coat of fucking town. Oh, 2008 02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:43.520 Terry flailing all over the ring like he's taking gunfire. Tory, such an 2009 02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:56.479 idiot, nice bump, Dory, fucking Terry Horn these guys, hor Terry, 2010 02:30:58.840 --> 02:31:07.040 no touching me, Jerry, you just got the cap to today. 2011 02:31:07.440 --> 02:31:13.280 Oh god, Terry's got his T shirt ripped off and wrapped around his throat. 2012 02:31:16.559 --> 02:31:20.319 Terry stumbling all over the studio. Take me out of here. I 2013 02:31:20.520 --> 02:31:24.920 gotta go home, Terry. You gotta go to the bathroom. Dusty's with 2014 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:31.120 Gordon now after running off Terry, so we confirmed. Fucking Wahoo said, 2015 02:31:31.159 --> 02:31:35.159 where's that the road? Ho these weeks? Where's dust the roads? Where's 2016 02:31:35.200 --> 02:31:37.239 the Mac and Dream? I wanna cut and drive this? Yeah, baby, 2017 02:31:37.920 --> 02:31:43.079 it's just a simple at this. Whoa McDaniel, come all away from 2018 02:31:43.120 --> 02:31:46.319 all in good Texas last night, all away from all again to be with 2019 02:31:46.440 --> 02:31:52.479 dust the roads, dear Mac and Dream? Whoa wide naked wide and turn 2020 02:31:52.600 --> 02:31:56.840 funk and dorm funks. Juja, you dug about dump, you dug about? 2021 02:31:58.159 --> 02:32:01.879 Hey, let's go look at him. But that, baby, that's 2022 02:32:01.959 --> 02:32:07.280 what it's all about. This man and me a brother with brothers. Baby, 2023 02:32:07.559 --> 02:32:11.840 that's what it's all about. And it's pretty obvious too that you took 2024 02:32:11.879 --> 02:32:16.479 the Briscoe's place here today and cleared the ring in very very very short order. 2025 02:32:16.559 --> 02:32:20.600 Indeed, uh there's no question about it. But I understand tomorrow night. 2026 02:32:22.520 --> 02:32:24.600 That's right. You know we bought up for contract. I don't know 2027 02:32:24.680 --> 02:32:28.520 what it costs because I'll leave on my high financing to this man. He 2028 02:32:28.680 --> 02:32:31.680 wants to be heavy picture taking in a dump. Well, I'll tell you 2029 02:32:31.760 --> 02:32:33.639 one thing. This man I off familiar with that dump. We know right 2030 02:32:33.680 --> 02:32:37.079 where it is, and I'll tell you it will be very easy tomorrow night 2031 02:32:37.159 --> 02:32:41.680 for him and I to put Dory Funk Junior and Terry Funk right back in 2032 02:32:41.799 --> 02:32:45.600 that dump. And Kenya, Texas. There's a shame that has come down 2033 02:32:45.639 --> 02:32:50.079 to this talking about one of the beautifullest cities in the world right here and 2034 02:32:50.280 --> 02:32:54.360 let it goo goo. Then let it on this Tomornday. Me and woe 2035 02:32:54.360 --> 02:32:58.319 who back guy do against the Funks, And I can guarantee you this, 2036 02:32:58.040 --> 02:33:03.399 terryff Funk, I'm going for ya, arm Daddy, I'm going for y'all. 2037 02:33:03.959 --> 02:33:09.600 Me and Waldach McDaniels, our brother's doll, we all family, and 2038 02:33:09.719 --> 02:33:13.239 the morning in the army, oh of our family, will be there. 2039 02:33:15.280 --> 02:33:18.120 Get ready, You'll only have one arm when you come out of that night, 2040 02:33:18.319 --> 02:33:22.399 and not as I promise, was here tomorrow night, in a manner 2041 02:33:22.399 --> 02:33:24.559 of speaking of you don't mind my saying so, Terry. A week later, 2042 02:33:24.639 --> 02:33:30.159 I think competitors I've ever seen in the room. I am absolutely sick. 2043 02:33:31.200 --> 02:33:33.600 And I'm not sick at my stomach. I'm sick right here, right 2044 02:33:33.680 --> 02:33:39.639 between the years is I am sick and tired of hearing people go ahead and 2045 02:33:39.760 --> 02:33:46.399 say that Dusty Rhodes was a world's heavyweight champion. He was the shortest lived 2046 02:33:46.639 --> 02:33:52.479 champion that there ever was. And yes, yes I did cost him that 2047 02:33:52.719 --> 02:34:01.879 championship, and yes, yes I did break his arm, and yes, 2048 02:34:03.000 --> 02:34:11.280 I want to put the man out of professional wrestling more than anything else. 2049 02:34:11.399 --> 02:34:15.440 You see, as I've got a father up there, and I want him 2050 02:34:15.479 --> 02:34:18.360 to be looking down on me, and I want him to say, Terry, 2051 02:34:18.479 --> 02:34:22.280 I've got a lot of pride in you because you do what you say. 2052 02:34:22.399 --> 02:34:26.879 And Terry, you are king of the Texas death matches right now. 2053 02:34:28.639 --> 02:34:33.799 That's what I want the people to go ahead and realize in Georgia. And 2054 02:34:33.079 --> 02:34:41.200 yes, my brother McDaniel's the world championship. And yes, I will continue 2055 02:34:41.360 --> 02:34:46.719 being on this man's back from now on until we get him out of wrestling. 2056 02:34:46.760 --> 02:34:50.680 And I hear people say to me yellow yellow when they come from behind 2057 02:34:50.799 --> 02:34:54.159 tomorrow night, they may be saying the very same thing, sir, I 2058 02:34:54.559 --> 02:35:00.680 have got after that, no disqualification match, my their junior, and I 2059 02:35:00.760 --> 02:35:03.959 are gonna lead them lying in the ring and the omni. And after that, 2060 02:35:05.239 --> 02:35:09.040 I'm gonna have a chance at Dusty Rhodes at eight sucond Dog, and 2061 02:35:09.120 --> 02:35:13.239 I'm gonna put my hands around his neck and his face is gonna swell and 2062 02:35:13.319 --> 02:35:20.000 his eyeballs are gonna bull. We're gonna find out tomorrow. Let me there 2063 02:35:20.040 --> 02:35:24.399 it is, My god, what do you what do you think? What 2064 02:35:24.559 --> 02:35:30.719 a fucking pause? Okay, holy ship, He's gonna start crying. He's 2065 02:35:30.760 --> 02:35:33.440 going so nuts. That's one of the that's one of that. That is 2066 02:35:33.559 --> 02:35:37.680 a I mean, is that is that a well known promo? Can people 2067 02:35:37.719 --> 02:35:41.360 talk about that promo? I don't think so. They should? They really 2068 02:35:41.440 --> 02:35:46.879 should. That's one of the great promos. What did you like it? 2069 02:35:46.079 --> 02:35:52.879 I mean his I love that his intensity was contained. I loved that he 2070 02:35:54.159 --> 02:35:58.680 wasn't he wasn't overreacting, he wasn't going crazy. He was very Jake Roberts. 2071 02:35:58.920 --> 02:36:03.000 Yeah, and it has gotten too serious for him to just be screaming 2072 02:36:03.040 --> 02:36:07.639 and hollering. He had a different his gear. His threats were were like 2073 02:36:09.040 --> 02:36:11.639 homicidal. I'm going to kill you, that's right, and it's not. 2074 02:36:13.000 --> 02:36:16.079 You know, I'm not. I'm just I have settled on that. That 2075 02:36:16.239 --> 02:36:20.639 is the only way that I can that I can finish this is by just 2076 02:36:20.840 --> 02:36:26.440 murdering you. Tremendous. Terry Funk makes pretty good TV. Oh he's exquisite. 2077 02:36:26.520 --> 02:36:30.440 It's got some more jumping over now to disc six. The very beginning, 2078 02:36:31.120 --> 02:36:33.760 We'll start at zero zero, zero zero, and this is Terry Funk 2079 02:36:33.840 --> 02:36:39.079 ringside with Gordon Solely on Georgia Championship Wrestling, further expounding upon the latest in 2080 02:36:39.200 --> 02:36:45.719 his feud with the Amalican Dream. Right. So this is from TBS September 2081 02:36:46.079 --> 02:36:48.879 of that same year, nineteen eighty. What a fruitful decade it would be 2082 02:36:50.040 --> 02:36:54.120 for Terry Funk, both in the ring and in Hollywood and in so many 2083 02:36:54.159 --> 02:37:00.879 other ways. The eighties is kind of when Terry Funk becomes absolutely undeniable in 2084 02:37:01.000 --> 02:37:05.040 some ways. Yeah, so let me know when you're ready. Yeap three. 2085 02:37:05.399 --> 02:37:09.840 You used to use a four letter word that was very shocking to people, 2086 02:37:11.360 --> 02:37:13.239 and I'm going to use that four letter word. But I'm not going 2087 02:37:13.319 --> 02:37:16.559 to say it, and I'm going to spell it out to you people, 2088 02:37:16.600 --> 02:37:22.760 and I guarantee you that it'll shock you. The word is felled f E 2089 02:37:24.879 --> 02:37:31.239 A R. And that's exactly what Dusty Rhoades is going to have whenever he 2090 02:37:31.319 --> 02:37:35.159 steps into the ring with me, because I realized that the man is a 2091 02:37:35.319 --> 02:37:41.479 drugged man. He's drugged on his own ego. And whenever Dusty Rhoades thinks 2092 02:37:41.479 --> 02:37:45.159 that he's so terrific, he thinks he's so spectacular, he thinks he has 2093 02:37:45.239 --> 02:37:50.360 a great following, he thinks that you VELVEDI slim is pooling somebody. It's 2094 02:37:50.479 --> 02:37:54.680 not pooling anybody, not me. I'd like to say something else too about 2095 02:37:54.760 --> 02:38:01.360 Ole Anderson's brother, Lars. Lars Anderson is dumb. He is ignorant. 2096 02:38:01.719 --> 02:38:05.319 He does not show any respect for his family name. I can vouch for 2097 02:38:05.360 --> 02:38:09.639 that family has respect for each other, and a brothers fight should be not 2098 02:38:09.959 --> 02:38:16.200 in public. I have no respect for Lars Anderson, and I have no 2099 02:38:16.600 --> 02:38:24.639 respect for that fat, no good eggsucking cock roads, Dusty Road cocksucker. 2100 02:38:24.799 --> 02:38:28.479 That's a twist. Let me ask you this. First of all, you 2101 02:38:28.799 --> 02:38:33.920 are scheduled to wrestle against Uveeldi Slim on the nineteenth at the Omni in Atlanta. 2102 02:38:33.079 --> 02:38:41.559 Not Dusty Rhodes. Listen, he will not have a place to wrestle 2103 02:38:41.680 --> 02:38:48.719 because he will be barred from wrestling as soon as that mask is taking off 2104 02:38:48.799 --> 02:38:54.239 from him, and he can go back to Fat City or wherever that he 2105 02:38:54.520 --> 02:39:01.040 is from because he doesn't impress me or any of the intelligent wrestling in Georgia. 2106 02:39:03.000 --> 02:39:09.440 I was there. Oh okay, he can go back to fat City, 2107 02:39:09.200 --> 02:39:13.639 Fat City. Oh my god, I really thought he was gonna say 2108 02:39:13.680 --> 02:39:20.719 egg sucking cocksucker. Let's move ahead on this desk to twenty three fifty one, 2109 02:39:20.959 --> 02:39:26.159 so we continue rolling here in Georgia Championship Wrestling as Dusty Rhodes and Terry 2110 02:39:26.200 --> 02:39:28.920 Funk come face to face one more time on TBS. Was hit that play 2111 02:39:28.920 --> 02:39:33.360 button? Are you ready? I am ready? That's a three two one, 2112 02:39:37.040 --> 02:39:48.760 very very I'm here, baby, I'm a Macan daddy before with that 2113 02:39:48.879 --> 02:39:54.639 guy that I could have told Terror Funk before I get him the baby it's 2114 02:39:54.760 --> 02:40:03.040 me because and Is Lou louis my lad. Don't be good, brother. 2115 02:40:03.479 --> 02:40:07.000 I hate your damn is Terry. Look at that rush off a match, 2116 02:40:07.360 --> 02:40:13.079 But let me tell you something. He looks like a grandfather from Maine to 2117 02:40:13.280 --> 02:40:18.479 Mexico. And you tried to break my back in Kansas. Woof, and 2118 02:40:18.680 --> 02:40:28.000 I broke love. Terry almost cries. It's so true, whether you know 2119 02:40:28.120 --> 02:40:33.879 it or not, is that we've got that fire down below. I've never 2120 02:40:35.120 --> 02:40:39.399 asked you for anything cal Farley style, only wait, and I asked you 2121 02:40:39.680 --> 02:40:46.079 right now to take me as your partner in there. Uh oh, I 2122 02:40:46.200 --> 02:40:50.520 get oh. I know that you might think it I'm going across you, 2123 02:40:50.639 --> 02:40:54.639 but I got something right here. And that's right here means more to me 2124 02:40:54.799 --> 02:41:00.600 than anything else I've had in my life. This is my father's watching this 2125 02:41:01.399 --> 02:41:07.360 watch. Who cares? No money doesn't mean anything to you, but it's 2126 02:41:07.399 --> 02:41:11.159 the only way. It's the only way. I mean. If you'll be 2127 02:41:11.319 --> 02:41:15.680 my who cares about the watch, I'll put I'll let you hold this, 2128 02:41:15.959 --> 02:41:20.280 just an expression of how seriously Terry cares about the watch. I guess fathers 2129 02:41:20.079 --> 02:41:24.360 and my father's been gone a long time. It's all I got from him. 2130 02:41:24.399 --> 02:41:28.360 And you take that watch right there, brother, You take it and 2131 02:41:28.479 --> 02:41:33.879 you hold it, and you let me be your partner, even though I 2132 02:41:33.040 --> 02:41:37.239 hate your guts and they tell you something don't you ever put your hands on 2133 02:41:37.399 --> 02:41:43.399 me like that, put your hands on me like that. I won't take 2134 02:41:43.479 --> 02:41:46.479 the watch because I know is your soul. I know it's your body, 2135 02:41:46.840 --> 02:41:52.159 your blood and your soul. And it's gonna take somebody just as evil and 2136 02:41:52.280 --> 02:41:56.760 it's low down and low life. Have you to kick ther butt, but 2137 02:41:56.959 --> 02:42:11.799 I've made your on you on Terry's still screaming after the bicrophone, threatening Gordon 2138 02:42:11.840 --> 02:42:18.079 solely as well on set. Well, I know where a fact o what 2139 02:42:18.200 --> 02:42:22.079 the late Dory Funk Senior meant to Terry thun Let's go to the ring and 2140 02:42:22.280 --> 02:42:28.319 two pause there. Okay, so some intensity there between these two. They 2141 02:42:28.479 --> 02:42:31.760 they kind of neat a different level. Yeah, No, for sure. 2142 02:42:31.760 --> 02:42:35.239 I mean it's it's it's it's funny to see them be intense when they're when 2143 02:42:35.280 --> 02:42:39.319 they're friendly. Does it bother you that they were feuding over a rolex? 2144 02:42:39.920 --> 02:42:46.760 Uh? Well, I guess I don't see what the fucking point of the 2145 02:42:46.879 --> 02:42:50.920 watches, but whatever, And I know it's special, but I don't know. 2146 02:42:50.239 --> 02:42:54.959 Heirlooms are weird to me? There's there's not there's very there are very 2147 02:42:54.000 --> 02:42:58.840 few things that that I put meaning into like that, got it? You 2148 02:42:58.920 --> 02:43:01.920 know, I mean there are let me, there certainly are some things, 2149 02:43:03.200 --> 02:43:07.360 don't get me wrong, But you know, and I'm and I'm a sentimental 2150 02:43:07.399 --> 02:43:11.799 motherfucker. But I'll just assume sell the watch and make some cash. Sure 2151 02:43:13.319 --> 02:43:16.280 well, I think Dusty kind of just did that. He said, I'll 2152 02:43:16.319 --> 02:43:20.000 take the watch I bought, Daddy, I'll take the watch. Baby. 2153 02:43:20.159 --> 02:43:24.040 I'm gonna hawk this fucker right on the fucking in. But I haven't better 2154 02:43:24.159 --> 02:43:30.680 yet, Daddy, I guess that's better than animal ing this sucker. One 2155 02:43:31.200 --> 02:43:39.040 f five is our next stop as we continue in Florida or in seat of 2156 02:43:39.079 --> 02:43:43.719 as opposed to Georgia Championship Florida Championship, though of course still Gordon solely with 2157 02:43:43.760 --> 02:43:56.000 the microphone. UM, okay, I am ready stand by, ladies and 2158 02:43:56.040 --> 02:44:05.680 gentlemen, And three two one plays the American Dream in a bunk house match. 2159 02:44:07.319 --> 02:44:11.559 Bunk Yes, Terry Funk's cup of tea. If you will well with 2160 02:44:11.799 --> 02:44:15.520 Terry, wouldn't it be a funk house match a challenge? And he didn't 2161 02:44:15.760 --> 02:44:18.760 turn down this one either. You certainly met him. We're going to go 2162 02:44:18.920 --> 02:44:22.159 now to the armory. We're going to catch the closing moments of what turned 2163 02:44:22.159 --> 02:44:26.719 out to be one of the most grueling matches I have ever seen. That 2164 02:44:26.879 --> 02:44:31.319 was my pleasure to be at the Armory for that particular match and for Homer 2165 02:44:31.399 --> 02:44:39.159 Hester. Go to the Armory and watch Terry Funk and Dusty Rhodes, Texas 2166 02:44:39.280 --> 02:44:48.079 bunk house match. Look at Terry dressed up like chainsaw Charlie so true. 2167 02:44:48.280 --> 02:44:54.360 Look at that and it's funny. I guess got his own or is he 2168 02:44:54.479 --> 02:45:01.440 wearing fucking like eighteen hundred's a nightgown? Night yeah, clothing or whatever. 2169 02:45:01.520 --> 02:45:03.360 It looks like he's gonna wake up and encounter the ghost of Christmas past. 2170 02:45:05.639 --> 02:45:09.120 So Funk's crank in a spinning toe hold on the canvas and Dusty's throwing hands 2171 02:45:09.120 --> 02:45:13.200 off his back. Both men and street closed cowboy boots. It's bunk house 2172 02:45:13.239 --> 02:45:16.000 here, boss, Yes it is. Or like I said, it could 2173 02:45:16.000 --> 02:45:20.360 be funk house. Be funk howser. That's there we go. Dusty just 2174 02:45:20.440 --> 02:45:24.120 locked out a few four on Terry Funk. Look at them all bloody and 2175 02:45:24.200 --> 02:45:28.079 messy, like wait a minute, he's got looking look what he's wearing though, 2176 02:45:28.079 --> 02:45:33.319 he's got red and then he's got fucking like blue panties on. Just 2177 02:45:33.440 --> 02:45:41.079 Terry Funk. That is kind of weird, isn't it. Yeah, Ah, 2178 02:45:41.280 --> 02:45:46.440 James J. Dillon hits the ring. Wow, thus begins the bond 2179 02:45:46.559 --> 02:45:50.239 between Dylan and Dusty that of course would carry through Crocket and the Horseman. 2180 02:45:50.280 --> 02:45:54.559 And now Dusty's got his hands on Jim Dylon and a bionic elbow for Dylan. 2181 02:45:54.600 --> 02:45:58.440 And look at him that Jesus Christ, look at him sell Yep, 2182 02:46:03.920 --> 02:46:13.319 Dylan looking like someone who works with Clark Griswold on his seat, flailing about 2183 02:46:13.319 --> 02:46:18.280 as Jim Dylon, as Terry Funk and his long John's begins to gather himself. 2184 02:46:18.079 --> 02:46:26.840 Funk just keeps peppering away at Dylan. He's taking shots Ken do he 2185 02:46:26.959 --> 02:46:31.200 just charged the ring and now he's blind siding road. Where's Hiroshima? That 2186 02:46:31.440 --> 02:46:37.399 remains to be seen? Look at the look at the bass in Gordon's voice, 2187 02:46:39.120 --> 02:46:43.360 Oh, look at the blood and look at this missed missed hit Terry 2188 02:46:43.360 --> 02:46:50.040 Funk in the face and Dusty roads pins Terry Funk. Wow, that's Dusty 2189 02:46:50.079 --> 02:46:52.479 and he just keeps fighting. The matches over but he's still cooking. Look 2190 02:46:52.479 --> 02:47:00.680 at him, go, I know appears sixer as declared by Solely. He's 2191 02:47:00.680 --> 02:47:13.799 got no one on his side though, fucking Dylan. Who's that? That's 2192 02:47:13.879 --> 02:47:18.799 Haku? Oh is it really? Oh my god, it is King Kong 2193 02:47:18.920 --> 02:47:28.799 Tonga. Look at the mang. Here comes Dory. Dory is actually fighting 2194 02:47:28.799 --> 02:47:35.959 on the side of Dusty Rhodes. How interesting. Why apparently Gordon just said 2195 02:47:37.000 --> 02:47:41.159 Nagasaki get injured. Terry. Oh, I don't know if he's a friend 2196 02:47:41.200 --> 02:47:43.600 to just now when he accidentally Oh probably, yeah, but this is weird. 2197 02:47:43.680 --> 02:47:48.840 This is still you know, you know, I have an issue with 2198 02:47:50.360 --> 02:47:56.200 with I mean, not surprisingly with with Dory's hair at this point. I 2199 02:47:56.280 --> 02:48:03.879 mean it's just now a it's it's a real problem. I mean, he 2200 02:48:03.959 --> 02:48:09.000 looks like a like a like a perverted farmer. It's like like a mad 2201 02:48:09.120 --> 02:48:11.760 scientist or something. No, I wouldn't give him that much credit. And 2202 02:48:11.799 --> 02:48:16.360 there's Terry on the floor swinging at ghosts as Dory tries to console them. 2203 02:48:18.520 --> 02:48:22.440 Could there be some room for wow daylight in the relationship between Dusty Rhodes and 2204 02:48:22.520 --> 02:48:28.520 Terry Funk here as they end up on the same page. Terry, Terry, 2205 02:48:28.600 --> 02:48:33.159 I don't, Terry, I don't know what happened. Terry. I 2206 02:48:33.239 --> 02:48:35.959 went, you know, I went to the ring and then there were people 2207 02:48:35.079 --> 02:48:39.479 fighting. I didn't know who was who. I just I just I just 2208 02:48:39.600 --> 02:48:45.040 said, well, what would what would mama do? And and Mama told 2209 02:48:45.079 --> 02:48:48.079 me to hit people yep, and then she told me to hit myself. 2210 02:48:48.879 --> 02:48:54.639 And I don't even know where I am c WF. So let's jump ahead 2211 02:48:54.680 --> 02:48:58.760 now to a further clip from Florida nineteen eighty two. This is a one 2212 02:48:58.680 --> 02:49:03.239 eight and it's sort of like an empty arena steel cage match between Terry Funk 2213 02:49:03.319 --> 02:49:09.319 and a Florida jobber by the name of Bruce walk Up, which apparently there 2214 02:49:09.440 --> 02:49:11.600 was no walk up for this particular night because there's no one here. But 2215 02:49:11.719 --> 02:49:18.079 it's really it's really like a test tube early eighties Terry Funk presentation in so 2216 02:49:18.159 --> 02:49:35.239 many weeks, so this in just a moment. Yeah, I ain't know 2217 02:49:35.360 --> 02:49:43.000 twenty by twenty either, twelve by twelve and in three two one play and 2218 02:49:43.200 --> 02:49:46.920 it is Gordon. I can only say in my I can only say, 2219 02:49:48.000 --> 02:49:52.159 in fairness to all of you, I think it is necessary that all of 2220 02:49:52.239 --> 02:50:00.799 you realize the kind of twisted personality we have in Terry Funk. Now, 2221 02:50:01.239 --> 02:50:05.040 what you're going to see took place without benefit of any audience. It was 2222 02:50:05.079 --> 02:50:11.000 a match a bunk house steel cage match between Harry Funk. Definitely working the 2223 02:50:11.040 --> 02:50:18.000 empty arena. Stuff he's doing at this time as well, really goes without 2224 02:50:18.079 --> 02:50:30.680 saying. And I'll be back with some further comments after we view this are 2225 02:50:30.760 --> 02:50:41.159 Do you realize what this man? And shut the door and lock up the 2226 02:50:41.239 --> 02:50:48.719 door? Do you realize what you stepped in? You know, have you 2227 02:50:48.959 --> 02:50:54.440 been formed him? Who's the idiot? Who's the idiot in the in the 2228 02:50:54.559 --> 02:51:00.879 in the white shirt. That's his opponent, right, come as you are, 2229 02:51:01.040 --> 02:51:05.399 Terry dressed in shirt, cowboy hat, cowboy jeans. Okay, what 2230 02:51:11.920 --> 02:51:20.840 br Bruce lock up? Is more like it? Oh, Terry go nuts 2231 02:51:22.399 --> 02:51:28.600 right to the phone, Jesus, Oh smashing his psycho? Is that Barry 2232 02:51:28.639 --> 02:51:41.200 Horowitz? It's like Barry Horowitz pretty much. I mean, Darry was from 2233 02:51:41.200 --> 02:51:54.399 Florida. This is just Terry Funk insanity, like no crowd noise drowning out 2234 02:51:54.479 --> 02:52:15.120 his verbosity. He's just grotesque and perverse. Oh motherfucker, he fucking drilled 2235 02:52:15.200 --> 02:52:20.959 him with that pile driver, got his cowboy boot out, screaming, look 2236 02:52:20.959 --> 02:52:24.040 a maniac, get up and smashes it across the back of the head with 2237 02:52:24.120 --> 02:52:33.399 the boot listen a funk go nuts, get up and just screaming, get 2238 02:52:33.520 --> 02:52:45.799 up, get up. It's practically squealing in there. Yeah, I wonder 2239 02:52:45.840 --> 02:52:52.399 if that's where fully got it from. Oh, stiff pile driver covered by 2240 02:52:52.479 --> 02:53:03.319 Terry one two. Mercifully it's over, Jesus, I said, wide open. 2241 02:53:03.479 --> 02:53:11.280 There's Dusty Rose. He says, pig, pig. Yeah, it 2242 02:53:11.440 --> 02:53:20.000 definitely sounds like a little uh, get him out of the cage. It's 2243 02:53:20.040 --> 02:53:31.879 Telfonso. What's your people see is the final conflict? That's what you've seen. 2244 02:53:35.760 --> 02:53:46.680 Do you realize what the final conflict is? That's when it all goes. 2245 02:53:48.079 --> 02:53:54.479 That's when there's no children left. Oh, when somebody pushes the red 2246 02:53:54.600 --> 02:53:58.760 button, Pal, I got on that, Pal, I'm already way at 2247 02:53:58.799 --> 02:54:07.239 you. Buttons, red buttons on between Dusty Rhodes and myself. Was pushed 2248 02:54:07.280 --> 02:54:13.959 several years ago whenever he damaged my eye. He pushed a red button in 2249 02:54:15.200 --> 02:54:18.280 but I let it go. Later on, he pushed a red button again 2250 02:54:20.440 --> 02:54:26.319 whenever he took the world championship from me, cost it to me, but 2251 02:54:26.479 --> 02:54:33.680 I let it go. Later on he doubled across me riding the Mayfront Center 2252 02:54:33.760 --> 02:54:39.879 in Saint Petersburg, and I let it go. But now I'm not because 2253 02:54:39.959 --> 02:54:45.879 you people are going to see the final conflict, the conflict that ends it 2254 02:54:45.959 --> 02:54:56.360 all, because I am not ever going to face that big face egg second 2255 02:54:56.760 --> 02:55:09.639 dog again. I'm gonna feed him and I am prepared to take care of 2256 02:55:09.000 --> 02:55:15.840 him, feed him like a dog headed the cage, headed in the cage 2257 02:55:16.680 --> 02:55:24.680 that I can take more punishment than in the barn world, and I would 2258 02:55:24.799 --> 02:55:33.239 take care of It's the last thing that I do me. It is about 2259 02:55:33.280 --> 02:55:39.559 the only way that you can talk about it. Man like Terry Funky number 2260 02:55:39.600 --> 02:55:43.239 one, Dusty Rhodes, and he's talking about an incident that occurred in the 2261 02:55:43.280 --> 02:55:46.799 Bayfront Center. Dusty Roads did not let him down. Yes, Dusty Roads 2262 02:55:46.799 --> 02:55:50.159 did cost him part of his sight years ago. And these are these are 2263 02:55:50.200 --> 02:55:56.239 two men who only know one thing, but they know it from such entirely 2264 02:55:56.479 --> 02:56:01.680 opposite approaches. Roads wants to win, but not at the sacrifice of somebody 2265 02:56:01.760 --> 02:56:07.760 else. Bruce walk Up and how he got involved in this situation, how 2266 02:56:07.840 --> 02:56:13.760 he got himself involved in a challenge. I know anytime Bruce walk Up, 2267 02:56:13.760 --> 02:56:20.239 who uh that Terry just destroyed? Bruce Walkock, Editor's man, a man 2268 02:56:20.239 --> 02:56:22.159 who's wanted to come down here. That's what he was. He was a 2269 02:56:22.200 --> 02:56:24.799 fucking walk up. He has that dream, that the same kind of dream 2270 02:56:24.840 --> 02:56:28.200 I guess each and every one of us carry in our hearts that we'd like 2271 02:56:28.280 --> 02:56:33.520 to get right there to the top one day. And uh, for Terry 2272 02:56:33.600 --> 02:56:35.840 funk to do what he did to him, where is that dream? I'll 2273 02:56:35.879 --> 02:56:39.520 have some kind of what we're talking about, and I'll bring that information to 2274 02:56:39.600 --> 02:56:43.000 you as to his condition. But it was obviously he was hurt. And 2275 02:56:43.079 --> 02:56:48.239 I'll tell you what. Wherever Dusty meets him, wherever be it today here 2276 02:56:48.360 --> 02:56:54.600 on Championship Wrestling eighty two at the Convention Center in Miami, at the Sundome 2277 02:56:54.639 --> 02:56:58.639 at the University of South Florida and Robarts Arena the Jacksonville Coliseum, it doesn't 2278 02:56:58.639 --> 02:57:03.879 make any difference. When Dusty meets him, he knows, he knows the 2279 02:57:03.920 --> 02:57:13.159 bunk house, he knows the steel cage, he knows pain brother Terry Funck 2280 02:57:13.600 --> 02:57:22.840 may yet have some lessons to be learned. It's a wrap there, powerful 2281 02:57:22.840 --> 02:57:24.319 stuff. I mean, what do you think of Terry's promo in that cage? 2282 02:57:24.360 --> 02:57:26.680 Man? Oh god, that was unbelievable. What was unbelievable? For 2283 02:57:26.680 --> 02:57:31.440 those accounts I mean, I've never I mean, he just when you think 2284 02:57:31.479 --> 02:57:37.840 about what we've been watching with him, and in terms of his his nineteen 2285 02:57:37.920 --> 02:57:41.559 seventies run, his world title run, I mean, he's completely insane. 2286 02:57:41.559 --> 02:57:46.600 He's horrifying, like he that would as a kid, that would scare the 2287 02:57:46.600 --> 02:57:50.079 shit out of you. Imagine in nineteen eighty two watching wrestling and seeing a 2288 02:57:50.120 --> 02:57:52.280 guy talk like that into the camera, like you would think someone's about to 2289 02:57:52.319 --> 02:57:58.479 get fucking murdered. Seriously, Yeah, exactly, exactly. I mean it's 2290 02:57:58.600 --> 02:58:03.239 it's that's incredible stuff. That was just, you know, that's par for 2291 02:58:03.319 --> 02:58:05.520 the course for Terry. He showed up in your town, he pitched, 2292 02:58:05.559 --> 02:58:09.799 I don't understand what Gordon Soley was talking about, though. What dreams is 2293 02:58:09.840 --> 02:58:11.559 he talking about? Like he's walking about that. Why does everybody have a 2294 02:58:11.600 --> 02:58:15.840 fucking dream of being becoming the top of you know, a top wrestler in 2295 02:58:15.879 --> 02:58:18.600 the world. Not everybody. That means all the wrestlers you've become acquainted with 2296 02:58:18.680 --> 02:58:24.079 here on Championship Wrestling from Florida, he said, all of us, Yeah, 2297 02:58:24.879 --> 02:58:26.920 that includes him. He wants to be top wrestler in the world. 2298 02:58:28.319 --> 02:58:31.000 I mean, the way Terry was banging his head against the not in the 2299 02:58:31.120 --> 02:58:35.799 mesh, the bars of the bar that promo. Yeah, I mean he's 2300 02:58:35.280 --> 02:58:39.639 he's out of his mind. He's out of his mind. He's not, 2301 02:58:39.920 --> 02:58:41.680 but he is, do you know what I mean? Yeah, it makes 2302 02:58:41.719 --> 02:58:46.559 him even more out of his mind when you realize how collected he can sound 2303 02:58:46.639 --> 02:58:48.639 when he's trying to sound normal. Right. Yeah, It's like, how 2304 02:58:48.719 --> 02:58:52.000 can someone go to a place like that and still be thought of as just 2305 02:58:52.079 --> 02:58:56.360 like an old grandpa. This guy's out his fucking mind. Yeah, and 2306 02:58:56.440 --> 02:59:00.399 he's feeling it. He's feeling every word he says, He's feeling every emotion 2307 02:59:00.520 --> 02:59:05.399 he's conveying. And so it would get interesting because after the nineteen eighty two 2308 02:59:05.440 --> 02:59:13.239 blowoff in Florida between Terry Funk and Dusty Rhoades, of course Dusty eventually matriculates 2309 02:59:13.280 --> 02:59:16.239 over to Jim Crockett Promotions. The first Starcade happens in eighty three yea, 2310 02:59:16.360 --> 02:59:22.840 with Dusty involved in naming the event and clearly involved in coming into Charlotte as 2311 02:59:22.920 --> 02:59:28.879 the new top guy for that company. And it happens at a time when 2312 02:59:30.479 --> 02:59:35.840 you know there's a divergence between you know, Funk and Rhodes's respective career paths. 2313 02:59:37.440 --> 02:59:41.879 Dusty's about to be much more Charlotte focused, much more focused on being 2314 02:59:41.000 --> 02:59:46.920 like an actual legit NWA World champion, like building a proper rain. Yeah, 2315 02:59:46.719 --> 02:59:50.239 and Terry is off to Japan to have his farewell tour in All Japan, 2316 02:59:50.280 --> 02:59:54.200 which of course ends in August of nineteen eighty three. And by the 2317 02:59:54.280 --> 02:59:58.719 time he comes back to the States after that tour, Dusty's already fully ensconced 2318 02:59:58.760 --> 03:00:03.840 to JCP and then that whole Star Kate era begins. So after this blowoff, 2319 03:00:03.719 --> 03:00:09.840 these two really don't meet for the rest of the eighties until that's wild. 2320 03:00:09.559 --> 03:00:13.239 What's that I said? It's wild when you really think about it. 2321 03:00:13.360 --> 03:00:16.319 Yeah, really is, Because, of course Terry is we'll talk about further 2322 03:00:16.440 --> 03:00:18.799 down the road here in the Lapsed Funk. He not only returns from Japan 2323 03:00:18.840 --> 03:00:22.479 in eighty three to it to a different scene, he eventually goes to work 2324 03:00:22.479 --> 03:00:26.079 for Vince in eighty five, right while Dusty is hit a man over on 2325 03:00:26.200 --> 03:00:30.680 Crockett in eighty five, battling with Ric Flair winning the championship at Star K 2326 03:00:30.760 --> 03:00:33.639 eighty five. The Hard Times promo. All of that and Terry focus on 2327 03:00:33.840 --> 03:00:37.760 WWF television when that's playing out wrestling Hogan and stuff. Yeah, Saturday Night's 2328 03:00:37.760 --> 03:00:41.600 made event, teaming with his brother working the program with Junkyard Dog. That's 2329 03:00:41.639 --> 03:00:46.399 a relatively short lived run, but Dusty is still playing out the string through 2330 03:00:46.479 --> 03:00:52.440 to nineteen eighty eight over in Jim Crockett Promotions Stroke WCW and of course has 2331 03:00:52.520 --> 03:00:58.799 the you know the blow up over direction once Ted Turner buys the organization, 2332 03:00:58.440 --> 03:01:03.760 has that fit where he gets color on TV and direct defies or not to 2333 03:01:03.799 --> 03:01:07.280 And where does he end up? He ends up in New York. But 2334 03:01:07.760 --> 03:01:11.719 in and around that time, right before he debuts for WWF, Dusty Rhodes, 2335 03:01:11.760 --> 03:01:16.879 that is, he makes an attempt to resurrect the Florida Territory as we 2336 03:01:16.000 --> 03:01:20.319 have been experiencing it here in the last few hours here in the lapsed funk 2337 03:01:20.879 --> 03:01:24.639 really does He tries to get the band back together, He tries to get 2338 03:01:24.680 --> 03:01:31.319 the territory up and running again. And who does he call? Who does 2339 03:01:31.360 --> 03:01:35.120 he call when it's time to usher his son, Dustin Rhodes properly into the 2340 03:01:35.200 --> 03:01:39.920 industry. Is the uber baby face and air apparent to the room throne. 2341 03:01:39.920 --> 03:01:41.799 Who does he call? I'm gonna guess he wants to get funky. Oh 2342 03:01:41.799 --> 03:01:46.399 it's Terry funk. So I ask you to pull up a disc fifteen if 2343 03:01:46.440 --> 03:01:48.680 you could, We're going to take you to not CWF, but p WF. 2344 03:01:50.559 --> 03:01:54.520 That was the name of the company that Dusty started upon leaving WCW Professional 2345 03:01:54.520 --> 03:01:58.399 Wrestling from Florida as opposed to Championship Wrestling from Florida, which was the long 2346 03:01:58.440 --> 03:02:01.959 standing Any Graham territory that he came up in and became a superstar. And 2347 03:02:01.959 --> 03:02:03.840 as we've been chronicling, so if we pull up this twenty four, we're 2348 03:02:03.840 --> 03:02:09.760 going to see how twenty four he said fifteen brother, fifteen, thank you? 2349 03:02:09.200 --> 03:02:18.799 Okay, brother, got me nervous an over On disc fifteen, we're 2350 03:02:18.799 --> 03:02:28.000 going to toggle the thirty seven, forty four, thirties forty four and I 2351 03:02:28.120 --> 03:02:39.159 got is that DDP in a Batman shirt? That is indeed DVP. This 2352 03:02:39.280 --> 03:02:45.799 is where the uh longtime Dusty Rhodes Diamond Dallas Page friendship is forged. Page 2353 03:02:45.840 --> 03:02:48.559 coming in off of debuting as a manager of bad Company in the AWA, 2354 03:02:50.239 --> 03:02:54.799 breaking into the business for under vern and yeah, his first next stop, 2355 03:02:54.879 --> 03:02:56.680 if you will, is this this attempt to get Florida going again. As 2356 03:02:56.719 --> 03:03:01.959 the territory, and of course Stu would be a key proponent for DDP for 2357 03:03:03.079 --> 03:03:07.440 the entirety of his run with a book at WCW and played no small part. 2358 03:03:07.000 --> 03:03:11.120 And I'm helping Page ascend to the top and become champion. In ninety 2359 03:03:11.200 --> 03:03:13.559 nine, Page tells the story about getting a phone call from Dusty after winning 2360 03:03:13.600 --> 03:03:16.440 the title at Spring Stampede, asking him how it feels. It feels real, 2361 03:03:16.479 --> 03:03:20.479 and Dusty says it's because it is m and in a lot of ways, 2362 03:03:20.719 --> 03:03:24.600 second only perhaps to Jake Roberts, Stabbn Dallas, Page has his whole 2363 03:03:24.600 --> 03:03:31.479 wrestling career. Roberts, Savage and Dusty those are the that's the support structure 2364 03:03:31.520 --> 03:03:33.399 that put Page over the top. And this is where it starts. So 2365 03:03:33.479 --> 03:03:37.200 yes, it is DDP serving in the role of you know, Piper on 2366 03:03:37.239 --> 03:03:39.360 Georgia as the heel color commentator next to the straight man Gordon Soley, so 2367 03:03:39.479 --> 03:03:45.719 solely getting what year was this again? Nineteen and eighty nine before? So 2368 03:03:45.840 --> 03:03:50.360 this isn't like the months leading up to Dusty going to WWA. Yeah, 2369 03:03:50.520 --> 03:03:52.120 yeah, the month it's little more than a month. I think this thing 2370 03:03:52.239 --> 03:03:56.360 runs for like six or seven months or something like that. Because he leaves. 2371 03:03:56.520 --> 03:03:58.680 He leaves Crockett in the middle of eighty eight. I believe it is 2372 03:04:00.000 --> 03:04:01.479 believe it's I believe it's the end. I believe he's that Starkade. If 2373 03:04:01.479 --> 03:04:05.559 I'm not mistaken, it's star K eighty eight. Yeah. Yeah, So 2374 03:04:07.559 --> 03:04:11.159 here we're going to see how the phone rings down at the Double Cross Ranch, 2375 03:04:11.239 --> 03:04:15.600 because it's it's time to pop the territory to the degree that's possible in 2376 03:04:15.680 --> 03:04:18.479 nineteen eighty nine. Of course, this is post Vince McMahon national expansion in 2377 03:04:18.520 --> 03:04:20.920 the WWF becoming, you know, sort of the McDonald's of professional wrestling. 2378 03:04:22.360 --> 03:04:24.360 Yeah. Sure, And Dusty's got his boy to get over. And there's 2379 03:04:24.399 --> 03:04:28.200 only one man for the job in that regard, and it's the Funker. 2380 03:04:28.319 --> 03:04:33.920 So let's press play in three two one play, So Oliver Humperdink has go 2381 03:04:33.000 --> 03:04:37.680 oh, fuck my life, the other guy that would follow over a w 2382 03:04:37.760 --> 03:04:43.760 study under dust any more, here's the Funker. Don't want to scream and 2383 03:04:43.079 --> 03:04:48.879 holler on this television, as I have heard Dusty Rhodes doing Gordon Solely, 2384 03:04:50.559 --> 03:04:58.840 I want to tell a simple story for you simple minded people out there. 2385 03:05:00.959 --> 03:05:07.680 Once upon a time, when I was a child, I had a jackass. 2386 03:05:07.680 --> 03:05:16.159 My father walked up to that jackass cock a gun and blew that jackasses 2387 03:05:16.399 --> 03:05:26.159 brains out. Now, I said to my father, Daddy, why did 2388 03:05:26.319 --> 03:05:33.600 you do that to my jackass? He be said, because that jackass was 2389 03:05:33.000 --> 03:05:43.680 fat and useless. There and useless things in the state of Florida. One 2390 03:05:45.239 --> 03:05:50.600 fat thing that is useless in the state of Florida is the city of Miami. 2391 03:05:52.520 --> 03:06:00.159 It is fed with pollution and decadence. And the only reason that I 2392 03:06:00.440 --> 03:06:05.799 would go into that rat hole his to rind this state of something that is 2393 03:06:07.000 --> 03:06:15.079 also fat and useless, fat on its own ego. That is dp w 2394 03:06:15.760 --> 03:06:20.559 F champion Dusty Rhodes put the belt on himself, of course he did. 2395 03:06:20.000 --> 03:06:22.760 You can't get the world champion. He gets the fucking I'm here. He's 2396 03:06:22.799 --> 03:06:28.559 gonna get the Florida championship at Texas death Match. But why can't you, 2397 03:06:30.120 --> 03:06:35.879 Dusty Rhoads, why can't you put your belt on the line. You and 2398 03:06:37.239 --> 03:06:43.159 Randy Roberts, a president of the Federation, are ducking and dodging who you 2399 03:06:43.440 --> 03:06:50.200 are ducking and dodging, terry fuck Because I am down here with a reason, 2400 03:06:50.719 --> 03:06:56.239 and I am going to that staking rat hole to a pndast what I 2401 03:06:56.440 --> 03:07:01.559 wanted to and I will. Yeah, we'll find it. Just definitely post 2402 03:07:01.840 --> 03:07:07.280 over the top, post roadhouse tearing, Oh totally yeah. Yeah, here 2403 03:07:07.360 --> 03:07:13.239 comes Dusty later on the broadcast. Anyway, where's the belt? I want 2404 03:07:13.239 --> 03:07:18.879 to see him more carrious strap, no strap, cool, bomber shades, 2405 03:07:18.000 --> 03:07:24.120 leather jacket, indoors dust linking is cool in eighty nine Jesus Christ d DP 2406 03:07:24.360 --> 03:07:33.280 greeting Dusty at the interview set. We brought We brought something for you too. 2407 03:07:33.040 --> 03:07:43.239 I want to make everything who was a good idea? I can't stand 2408 03:07:43.280 --> 03:07:48.799 any of these people, like it's all your favorites. They're all fucking disgusting, 2409 03:07:48.879 --> 03:07:52.520 looking like a woman comes out of the bottom. By the way, 2410 03:07:52.520 --> 03:07:56.440 it was the Professional Wrestling Federation, not Professional Wrestling from Florida, but it 2411 03:07:56.520 --> 03:08:03.760 was clearly designed to evoke c w S right Humperdinks a fucking pervert. Dusty 2412 03:08:03.840 --> 03:08:07.799 is a goddamn slob. D d P is just I don't know what the 2413 03:08:07.840 --> 03:08:16.360 fuck the DP is brought. You ain't bad funks in the boxes. They 2414 03:08:16.479 --> 03:08:28.760 work out ahead, jump out of the box, and I'm gonna fucking beat 2415 03:08:28.840 --> 03:08:35.000 a bitch with a goddamn chain funk pop out of the same box the woman 2416 03:08:35.079 --> 03:08:37.079 did with no shirt on, overalls, jeans and cowboy boots and he's beat. 2417 03:08:37.159 --> 03:08:43.920 Here comes Dustin. There's Dustin. We've got them all over and the 2418 03:08:43.079 --> 03:08:52.600 nasty boys. Oh yeah, brother in law SAgs and dust him how badly 2419 03:08:52.840 --> 03:08:58.000 Dustin? I don't have any idea. Look at that pudgy little bitch, 2420 03:08:58.120 --> 03:09:05.360 Dustin Rhodes and so diabolic. It's hilarious. Look at all. Look at 2421 03:09:05.399 --> 03:09:09.120 Scott All. Yeah, Scott Halls down there too, yes, ship and 2422 03:09:09.280 --> 03:09:16.319 this man was beyond believe, Terry. It's like the whole band he got 2423 03:09:16.360 --> 03:09:20.280 together when he came into ninety one. Yeah, right, Debut, Who's 2424 03:09:20.280 --> 03:09:24.200 that is that Gibson? Is that Robert Gibson? Dust everybody taking him off? 2425 03:09:24.239 --> 03:09:28.879 I can't now that's the current. That's skinner. Get the funk out 2426 03:09:28.920 --> 03:09:33.000 of the mullet. Look at that and look at that perverting mullet, with 2427 03:09:33.600 --> 03:09:37.959 with with with the fucking highlights at the end, the fucking frosted tips, 2428 03:09:39.000 --> 03:09:43.360 the scarlet. Boss, Let's get it. What is wrong with these men? 2429 03:09:45.239 --> 03:09:48.879 Verry? So we can pause there, okay, so yeah, we 2430 03:09:50.079 --> 03:09:52.760 just you know, let's play all the hits, baby, Yeah, I 2431 03:09:52.840 --> 03:09:58.319 mean so by the way I looked it up, Dusty was only in his 2432 03:09:58.520 --> 03:10:01.559 own organization for two months. It was two months only, Wow, I 2433 03:10:01.600 --> 03:10:03.159 thought it was like six at least according to his wikiped it. Just did 2434 03:10:03.159 --> 03:10:11.760 a quick look out onder under Wikipedia and he made his debut. He launched 2435 03:10:11.799 --> 03:10:15.799 in February eighty nine. He made his debut in March on March fourth, 2436 03:10:15.959 --> 03:10:18.840 and then his last match was May thirteenth in the PWF No. May twentieth. 2437 03:10:18.879 --> 03:10:22.120 May twentieth, Yeah, and the PWF. Amazing man, he realized 2438 03:10:22.159 --> 03:10:26.000 really quickly, there's no there there huh. Yeah, I guess not. 2439 03:10:26.239 --> 03:10:30.600 Probably sold zero tickets I give if I give that the PWF if not, 2440 03:10:30.680 --> 03:10:33.360 but a money if daddy. Just I think it's so telling that Terry's the 2441 03:10:33.399 --> 03:10:37.879 first guy brings in you know, yep, plugs right in that main heel 2442 03:10:37.920 --> 03:10:41.000 position. Yeah, the guy pops out of the box angle. And I 2443 03:10:41.079 --> 03:10:43.079 mean for folks that didn't have the benefit of seeing this, I'm sure it's 2444 03:10:43.079 --> 03:10:46.719 available somewhere on YouTube. Why did you bust out laughing when Funk came out 2445 03:10:46.719 --> 03:10:52.159 of the box. Oh my god, he he You see him get out 2446 03:10:52.159 --> 03:10:54.680 of the you know, you see his head pop out of the box, 2447 03:10:54.120 --> 03:11:01.760 and clearly he does not have like a good sense a balance from whatever he's 2448 03:11:01.799 --> 03:11:03.959 climbing out of. I don't know if he's just in the box, or 2449 03:11:03.239 --> 03:11:07.479 maybe his foots asleep, or maybe there's a trapdoor or something, but he 2450 03:11:07.639 --> 03:11:11.520 just he gets out of there, and he immediately just fucking falls like a 2451 03:11:11.079 --> 03:11:16.000 complete animal. I want ahead and attacked Dusty, and I fell on my 2452 03:11:16.120 --> 03:11:18.200 ass and I said, fuck it, I'm gonna whip this bitch with a 2453 03:11:18.360 --> 03:11:22.399 chain, and I'm gonna do it with a smile on my face. And 2454 03:11:22.479 --> 03:11:24.959 I'm gonna think to myself, go ahead and need a candy cane and get 2455 03:11:26.040 --> 03:11:33.120 that shit under way. Yes, he fucking falls. He's just a complete 2456 03:11:33.200 --> 03:11:37.639 disaster. I mean, he's everything you think of Terry Funk like the way 2457 03:11:37.719 --> 03:11:39.840 he falls, and part of me wonders maybe it was on purpose, because 2458 03:11:39.879 --> 03:11:43.319 he falls the same way when he gets kind of tangled up in the ropes, 2459 03:11:43.360 --> 03:11:46.239 when he gets beating up hard in the ring, you know, when 2460 03:11:46.280 --> 03:11:50.600 he wants to create that sense of absolute chaos raining and he's all bouncing and 2461 03:11:50.760 --> 03:11:54.200 flailing and inside the ropes and going in and out like a goofball. Well, 2462 03:11:54.239 --> 03:11:58.120 thanks for that chronology. That's great to place it precisely where in nineteen 2463 03:11:58.120 --> 03:12:01.120 eighty nine it was taking place, so suffice to say that there was so 2464 03:12:01.319 --> 03:12:05.239 funny. There's like a pretty long match between Dustin and Terry Funk on PWF 2465 03:12:05.319 --> 03:12:07.639 Television where Terry, let you know, Dustin take him to the limit, 2466 03:12:07.719 --> 03:12:09.920 and that is not a Yeah, Dustin shot a few pounds before he showed 2467 03:12:09.959 --> 03:12:16.319 up on Vince's TV. Yeah, I'll say that's the beginnings of Dusty trying 2468 03:12:16.360 --> 03:12:20.239 to create a legacy for the Road's name in the nineties, and it carries 2469 03:12:20.280 --> 03:12:22.760 through, of course into Dusty getting the book at WCW and pushing Dustin at 2470 03:12:22.879 --> 03:12:26.639 US Champion, feuding with the likes of Steve Austin and so many others, 2471 03:12:26.520 --> 03:12:30.159 and by the time nineteen ninety four rolls around, we've had a couple of 2472 03:12:30.200 --> 03:12:35.079 regimes and Dusty's back in control as Eric Bischoff takes over executive producer of w 2473 03:12:35.239 --> 03:12:39.959 CW, but of course in trusting a lot of booking responsibilities to Dusty and 2474 03:12:39.000 --> 03:12:43.959 his right hand man from Florida, Kevin Sullivan, and come Bash to the 2475 03:12:45.040 --> 03:12:48.200 Beach nineteen ninety four. God not only does Ul Cogan come in of course 2476 03:12:48.200 --> 03:12:54.319 on that show and win the World titler. But there's also the stud Stable. 2477 03:12:56.639 --> 03:13:01.079 The stud Stable Terry and bunkhouse Buck team up to face Arn Anderson and 2478 03:13:01.120 --> 03:13:05.479 Dusty Roads. I'm sure you remember that. Yeah, I remember that because 2479 03:13:05.479 --> 03:13:09.360 you bought this pay per view, right, I'm not buy this one now. 2480 03:13:09.479 --> 03:13:11.719 Oh you didn't buy Dalton. I bought Halloween Havoc. Ah, my 2481 03:13:11.840 --> 03:13:16.040 mistake. So that's again and keeping we've seen glimpses of it. The big 2482 03:13:16.079 --> 03:13:20.159 angle is always like Dusty or Dustin, they get a partner that they used 2483 03:13:20.200 --> 03:13:24.600 to not be able to trust. Right. We just saw it there kind 2484 03:13:24.639 --> 03:13:28.079 of with dorifunk Junr when he saved Dusty from Kendanagasaki and others. And he 2485 03:13:28.159 --> 03:13:31.840 did it with Oli Anderson as well, and one of the most famous TBS 2486 03:13:31.920 --> 03:13:35.639 angles ever where it was like a year long, drawn out thing where only 2487 03:13:35.760 --> 03:13:37.719 one Dusty's trust, only to turn on him and you know, kind of 2488 03:13:37.760 --> 03:13:41.760 spun a masterful yard after doing it about how you know, he planted the 2489 03:13:41.799 --> 03:13:43.760 seeds every step of the way, and you know this was always how it 2490 03:13:43.840 --> 03:13:48.040 was going to end up kind of thing. And here they did the same 2491 03:13:48.079 --> 03:13:52.079 with Arn Anderson just with Dustin in the Dusty position with a question of whether 2492 03:13:52.159 --> 03:13:54.920 Arn's going to turn on him considering the history that Dusty and Arn Anderson had. 2493 03:13:54.319 --> 03:13:58.319 So they wrestle at Bash at the Beach, and it's now time to 2494 03:13:58.360 --> 03:14:03.799 fire up disc twenty four because not only does a Dustin face off against Terry 2495 03:14:03.799 --> 03:14:05.879 Funk and WCW with RN in his corner, Yes, at the Clash of 2496 03:14:05.959 --> 03:14:11.120 the Champions Oh on August twenty eighth, nineteen ninety four on TV, as 2497 03:14:11.319 --> 03:14:16.719 Dusty Rhodes returns to the ring and battles Terry Funk in a w CW ring 2498 03:14:16.440 --> 03:14:20.799 and a tag team match. Is Terry and bunkhouse buck face Dusty and Dustin 2499 03:14:20.920 --> 03:14:26.559 Rhodes. Oh my god, So let's go to twenty four twenty four on 2500 03:14:26.639 --> 03:14:28.440 the spot. Oh just twenty four. It's twenty four, brother, Yeah, 2501 03:14:28.639 --> 03:14:33.280 I'm there and of course worth noting over at one O seven twenty nine. 2502 03:14:33.319 --> 03:14:35.600 If you're there, boss, what's what's the time going? One O 2503 03:14:35.719 --> 03:14:41.200 seven twenty nine, one O seven twenty nine. So not only when Dusty 2504 03:14:41.239 --> 03:14:43.159 tries to get floored up as a territory again does he called Terry Funk, 2505 03:14:43.159 --> 03:14:46.319 But when he gets the book at WCW when he needs to usher himself back 2506 03:14:46.319 --> 03:14:50.520 into an on screen role as a character work in angles and matches, Who 2507 03:14:50.520 --> 03:14:56.440 does he call? Who finds a job ATCW despite all the uh the you 2508 03:14:56.520 --> 03:15:01.239 know, just under the surface real animosity apparently between these two it's the Funker. 2509 03:15:01.360 --> 03:15:03.520 It's just you can't you know, once you have a dance partner, 2510 03:15:03.680 --> 03:15:05.639 once you have the foil, once you have the other side of the coin. 2511 03:15:07.120 --> 03:15:09.799 In professional wrestling, you can never not work together if you're in the 2512 03:15:09.840 --> 03:15:13.440 same company or or available in concentric circles. And we're seeing it right now 2513 03:15:13.479 --> 03:15:16.159 with Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair. That's kind of like another example of it 2514 03:15:16.559 --> 03:15:20.680 exactly. You know, It's like when people detect that when they see you 2515 03:15:20.799 --> 03:15:24.840 guys go at a promo battle or battle in the ring, that there's just 2516 03:15:24.959 --> 03:15:30.200 that little extra oomph, that little extra sense of reality, you're always gonna 2517 03:15:30.239 --> 03:15:33.520 end up working together. And the Dusty Roads Terry funk story serves as really 2518 03:15:33.559 --> 03:15:37.879 the ultimate testament to that. So totally go to World Championship Wrestling Boss. 2519 03:15:37.920 --> 03:15:41.840 It's the clash of the champions, all right, Terry and Bunkhouse versus Dusty 2520 03:15:41.879 --> 03:15:56.840 and Dustin hit that play in three two one play ladies and gentlemen. Well 2521 03:15:56.879 --> 03:16:01.360 they call him the natural not true. Oh oh, Dusty's got his tan 2522 03:16:01.520 --> 03:16:07.959 going. Oh yeah, Salary, I think you gotta get tan, dude, 2523 03:16:07.000 --> 03:16:09.760 if you wanna, if you're gonna play on the game, brother. 2524 03:16:09.920 --> 03:16:11.920 Right, Oh, this is the show. So this is August, right, 2525 03:16:13.520 --> 03:16:16.639 that's correct. This is Hogan and Kamala. Right. No, I 2526 03:16:16.680 --> 03:16:18.319 think it's it's no, no, no, that would have been. That 2527 03:16:18.319 --> 03:16:20.360 would be the next year. This is Hogan and Flair, the rematch where 2528 03:16:20.479 --> 03:16:28.040 the uh, the the Man in Black attacks the first time? The what 2529 03:16:28.239 --> 03:16:31.719 again the Man in Black? Oh? Sure, yeah, yeah it's that 2530 03:16:31.840 --> 03:16:37.479 one. It's Flair Hogan again. Look at look at Dusty and send him 2531 03:16:37.479 --> 03:16:41.840 over the top rope. Holy ship. That's let down it. I'm fucking 2532 03:16:41.920 --> 03:16:45.360 around me and Terry with a chair. He picks it up. He doesn't 2533 03:16:45.360 --> 03:16:46.200 know what he's gonna do with it. I don't know what I'm gonna go 2534 03:16:46.319 --> 03:16:50.840 with a fucking chair. How you gonna sit around? I'm gonna throw it. 2535 03:16:50.000 --> 03:16:54.840 I'm gonna puke on my fans. Fuck everything? What ahead? Hold 2536 03:16:54.840 --> 03:17:00.000 on ahead and dump my ass out of the ring. Hold on a head 2537 03:17:01.440 --> 03:17:09.520 a sandwich in the ring either any other riveting stories, Terry, I like 2538 03:17:09.559 --> 03:17:16.079 that sign Dusty plus dustin Texas, not Amarella but Texas. Yeah, and 2539 03:17:16.239 --> 03:17:22.479 never did Amarella. Bunk House buck of course, the jama top just he's 2540 03:17:22.520 --> 03:17:28.719 just soiled all over. Colonel Park. I can't. I can't fucking believe 2541 03:17:28.760 --> 03:17:31.639 it. Bunk house but what a what? It just can't with him, 2542 03:17:31.680 --> 03:17:37.719 I don't. I don't understand the fucking pajama top. And uh, you 2543 03:17:37.760 --> 03:17:41.840 know, just what a fool. How remarkable as it though? We were 2544 03:17:41.920 --> 03:17:46.639 just watching nineteen eighty two Dusty and Terry at each other's throats on TBS, 2545 03:17:46.799 --> 03:17:50.959 and here we are in August nineteen ninety four and still on TBS. Yep, 2546 03:17:50.399 --> 03:17:56.200 it's the card they played. Hey, you know, if it's money, 2547 03:17:56.239 --> 03:18:00.360 baby, you go back to it, daddy Terry And is red black 2548 03:18:00.399 --> 03:18:05.319 striped pants era? Now, so let me ask you so. But but 2549 03:18:05.479 --> 03:18:09.399 it's it's it? Is it at all likely that people? I don't, 2550 03:18:09.440 --> 03:18:13.479 you know, I don't remember the build up to this at all. Was 2551 03:18:13.559 --> 03:18:18.079 there any talk about the past between Terry and Dustin? Yeah, yeah, 2552 03:18:18.120 --> 03:18:20.719 there was like passive references made. It was more about you know, Dustin 2553 03:18:20.879 --> 03:18:24.479 having injustices done to him. It's basically rerunning every angle Dusty ever did, 2554 03:18:24.600 --> 03:18:28.280 just with Dustin. He's even got the cast on his arm from when see 2555 03:18:28.280 --> 03:18:31.440 that from when Dusty right got his arm broken and lost the title the Harley 2556 03:18:31.479 --> 03:18:33.559 Race, think to Terry Funk. So they just run ran the old playbook. 2557 03:18:35.479 --> 03:18:37.440 It was like it was like there was echoes of the past, and 2558 03:18:37.520 --> 03:18:41.799 everybody knew that. But it's also fair to say that a lot of people 2559 03:18:41.840 --> 03:18:43.920 don't even really appreciate who are watching this. I know that there are some 2560 03:18:45.120 --> 03:18:48.680 long time no you know, Georgia, Florida, Atlanta fans, but you 2561 03:18:48.760 --> 03:18:52.559 know, yeah, that's why you can repeat it, because people don't automatically 2562 03:18:52.600 --> 03:18:56.920 go, oh, this is exactly what in eighty two. You know, 2563 03:18:56.000 --> 03:19:01.319 that's Georgia, that's Florida. That's not National TV. I mean, especially 2564 03:19:01.360 --> 03:19:03.959 because no one, no one actually had access to the fucking tapes either. 2565 03:19:03.959 --> 03:19:09.200 It's not like that stuff everyone. So Dusty's got the tag, he's untucking 2566 03:19:09.280 --> 03:19:13.319 his denim vest and he's pumping the elbow. He's dancing because he realized you 2567 03:19:13.399 --> 03:19:20.600 need to breathe and he can't breathe, and that shit's tucked in exactly at 2568 03:19:20.639 --> 03:19:22.920 the fist. Oh crowning bunk house buck with a bionic elbow down he goes 2569 03:19:24.000 --> 03:19:28.639 Dusty. Uh heenan just said he that that that Dusty wants funk. He 2570 03:19:28.719 --> 03:19:35.280 knows. Here comes Terry Duke's up from the funker, baby dast what do 2571 03:19:35.360 --> 03:19:37.600 you? What do you want to do? Pal? You want to go 2572 03:19:37.719 --> 03:19:39.719 in and out? I went ahead and decided that we should do a big 2573 03:19:39.879 --> 03:19:43.159 thing, a big scarmish I'm gonna kick you in the balls, then you 2574 03:19:43.319 --> 03:19:46.239 kick me in the balls, and then I'm gonna gou your eye out with 2575 03:19:46.360 --> 03:19:50.719 a fucking a needle, and then you can stab me in the face with 2576 03:19:50.799 --> 03:19:54.200 a fork. Means every word of it he does. Dustin threw his body 2577 03:19:54.239 --> 03:19:56.840 on the buckle so Dusty couldn't take the buckle. And here comes here comes 2578 03:19:56.920 --> 03:20:05.280 Terry fucking doing the up and down the seesaw action that he does. Fucking 2579 03:20:05.479 --> 03:20:13.520 those legs move around. He's such a goof little yep brother. Something about 2580 03:20:13.520 --> 03:20:18.000 the way Terry Funk pumps his shoulders and when he's doing that staggering cell yep, 2581 03:20:18.319 --> 03:20:22.520 yep, yep, Dusty Roads whips Terry Funk into the corner and incidentally 2582 03:20:22.600 --> 03:20:26.600 into the face of Bunk House. Bunk goes, Buck goes Terry Funk's ass 2583 03:20:28.319 --> 03:20:31.959 early stink face. I guess exactly right. Well, they call him the 2584 03:20:33.120 --> 03:20:41.479 natural natural with Commissioner Nick Bockwinkle, the guy who tried to help Dusty sneak 2585 03:20:41.520 --> 03:20:50.600 the garden hose into Terry's bedroom. Terry quick to break up the cover and 2586 03:20:50.639 --> 03:20:52.840 puts a right hand on Terry Funk's face. Oh yeah, he's coming out 2587 03:20:52.879 --> 03:20:56.040 earlier. I remember this now they're talking about Hogan came out earlier, and 2588 03:20:56.319 --> 03:21:01.319 and the man in the mask brewed or actually I think it was arn Anderson 2589 03:21:01.639 --> 03:21:07.559 under the mask actually, and he came out and and waffled him in the 2590 03:21:07.639 --> 03:21:09.959 knee, and they had to postpone the match to like the main event, 2591 03:21:11.120 --> 03:21:16.200 which it's like, well it was the main event anyway, exactly what Terry 2592 03:21:16.239 --> 03:21:18.760 came in, tried to ddt dust and Dustin dead waited him, and Funk 2593 03:21:18.840 --> 03:21:22.879 just took a bump. So I forget. This is less than a year 2594 03:21:22.920 --> 03:21:26.479 after Terry Funk walked out on Vince McMahon at the ninety three Survivor series, 2595 03:21:26.719 --> 03:21:31.600 saying his horse was sick and so he couldn't Yeah, he was going to 2596 03:21:31.639 --> 03:21:37.000 be a knight, right, exactly right. There was even talk of involving 2597 03:21:37.079 --> 03:21:39.639 him in the front office too and having him involved as as a booker as 2598 03:21:39.680 --> 03:21:41.760 part of that deal. Well, I think you know we can have you 2599 03:21:41.840 --> 03:21:46.399 definitely booked the towns and and you know, I think but all you gotta 2600 03:21:46.399 --> 03:21:50.440 do is you just got to be one of one of Lawler's Knights or Shawn 2601 03:21:50.520 --> 03:21:54.200 Michael's Knights, whichever one we got. Just I think it's important that you're 2602 03:21:54.200 --> 03:21:58.600 a knight, all right, shining armor. Oh well, you know, 2603 03:21:58.479 --> 03:22:03.280 oh, Vance say, hey, you know what I'm saying. That went 2604 03:22:03.319 --> 03:22:05.120 ahead, and I'd go ahead and do this, but you know the thing 2605 03:22:05.360 --> 03:22:09.360 is, I want ahead and rode the horse, and the horse just said 2606 03:22:09.440 --> 03:22:11.760 fuck it. If I can't come up, The horse said, fuck it? 2607 03:22:11.799 --> 03:22:18.760 What do you want me to do? Did you say? Who Dustin 2608 03:22:18.799 --> 03:22:20.719 from? Look at that? There's that old you know, partner turns on 2609 03:22:20.799 --> 03:22:26.239 him thing again and arm tripping Dusty as well. Dusty and Peril now is 2610 03:22:26.559 --> 03:22:31.719 funking buck work him over? Look at this. Look at that's the old 2611 03:22:31.760 --> 03:22:35.360 hold Dusty's arm out to break it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 2612 03:22:35.559 --> 03:22:43.639 Meng is involve he it's just running the playbook man, oh Man, barnyard 2613 03:22:43.639 --> 03:22:48.040 buffoons. You got that right, yep. Terry Funk stumping the ship out 2614 03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:52.920 of Dusty's arm as he splayed out on the canvas like a beached whale right 2615 03:22:52.000 --> 03:22:56.520 in the center of that beautiful W CW logo. I know that is the 2616 03:22:56.559 --> 03:23:05.639 best. Put u Dusty on his knees getting worked over here, kicked and 2617 03:23:05.680 --> 03:23:11.559 punched by Buck. The Dusty makes a desperation dag to Dustin, Dustin swinging 2618 03:23:11.600 --> 03:23:16.239 that cast hand. The youngster's in, Hey, wasn't he in like eighty 2619 03:23:16.360 --> 03:23:18.760 nine? Like? How was he in ninety four? At this point? 2620 03:23:20.319 --> 03:23:22.239 I mean, because he's the youngest one in the ring. I guess, 2621 03:23:22.520 --> 03:23:26.559 oh yeah, by a mile. Buck is the oldest guy in the ring. 2622 03:23:26.639 --> 03:23:28.559 I think at this point? Is he really? Buck's older than all 2623 03:23:28.600 --> 03:23:33.040 of them? Pretty sure he was? Yeah, even Funk Yep, yea, 2624 03:23:33.040 --> 03:23:35.239 I'm pretty sure he was the oldest guy in WW and he was there 2625 03:23:35.760 --> 03:23:37.120 no ship. Well, I'll give him that. He looks good for his 2626 03:23:37.200 --> 03:23:41.319 age. Dustin whips Terry in a Dusty's elbow and Terry spills out of the 2627 03:23:41.399 --> 03:23:46.920 ring. Crowd still loving it. Man, You know what works works? 2628 03:23:46.000 --> 03:23:52.280 Yep, it's true. Buck but no double A slips in. Double A 2629 03:23:52.399 --> 03:23:56.120 is coming in. He hasn't double A with the excellent hinge. No one, 2630 03:23:56.639 --> 03:24:01.440 No one has got a bend over hinge like arn Anderson. He knows 2631 03:24:01.479 --> 03:24:05.200 how to do it. Out of Dustin. I was coming face to face 2632 03:24:05.239 --> 03:24:09.879 with Dusty brother and an elbow puts down double A. There comes the toughest 2633 03:24:09.959 --> 03:24:18.840 man to ever walk into wrestling, the mang Daddy. I'm out of here, 2634 03:24:18.879 --> 03:24:20.959 baby, let you be, walks away. I'll let you be, 2635 03:24:22.120 --> 03:24:26.559 baby best. He not looking for a fight with the tongue. I thought 2636 03:24:26.600 --> 03:24:28.520 that I'm not. You know, I gotta go home. I got a 2637 03:24:28.040 --> 03:24:31.040 I got a pie waiting for me and the other and dadd I gotta go 2638 03:24:31.159 --> 03:24:39.000 get out of here. H. But first I'm gonna bring in a chair. 2639 03:24:39.079 --> 03:24:41.520 Uh yeah, Dusty's fish to cheer out from under the ring. I 2640 03:24:41.559 --> 03:24:45.239 don't remember this post match, so he hit Mang in the head. Yeah, 2641 03:24:45.280 --> 03:24:46.399 he breaks like a wooden chair over his head. Oh yeah, it 2642 03:24:46.440 --> 03:24:54.879 doesn't work right. Where's it like a necklace? I mean I will say 2643 03:24:54.920 --> 03:25:01.239 this they they h once you get the fucking tongue of death. Yep, 2644 03:25:01.440 --> 03:25:07.479 oh for good he I will say this about about they really did build up 2645 03:25:07.520 --> 03:25:09.840 Meng as being this monster totally. It's just a shame that, you know, 2646 03:25:11.959 --> 03:25:13.000 they never really did anything with it, because all of a sudden he 2647 03:25:13.079 --> 03:25:20.239 becomes just haku. But you know he's he's more of a monster here. 2648 03:25:24.760 --> 03:25:35.479 Ah. Yes, Frankie Lancaster dressed like he's fucking assistant manager of seers of 2649 03:25:35.559 --> 03:25:37.600 course, not funks in the ring taking on everybody. Yeah, if it 2650 03:25:37.639 --> 03:25:41.479 turns into like a fucking group warfare, you bet he's he's walking around. 2651 03:25:41.879 --> 03:25:50.200 Oh, meng is choking Dusty Roads around the neck with something, you know, 2652 03:25:50.440 --> 03:25:52.399 just more chaos with Dusty and Funk at the eye of the stone. 2653 03:25:52.440 --> 03:26:01.159 Of course it's Greg Ganya try to break it up in the suit. Oh 2654 03:26:01.280 --> 03:26:18.799 my god, wow w w that's wild, just you know, just to 2655 03:26:18.920 --> 03:26:22.079 be able to connect, to go all the way back to the first clip 2656 03:26:22.159 --> 03:26:26.680 we saw between Dusty and Terry. It was what it was, let me 2657 03:26:26.799 --> 03:26:35.000 fine to hear seventy seventy six, the first time we saw them tussle. 2658 03:26:35.040 --> 03:26:39.959 I think it was I think so yep nineteen seventy six to see them going 2659 03:26:39.000 --> 03:26:43.360 at it and Dusty, you know, Terry is world champion with the YEP. 2660 03:26:43.879 --> 03:26:48.440 The headband on and going ahead and going ahead, and and and and 2661 03:26:50.280 --> 03:26:54.520 and making sure we all get fed. So that has to be the end, 2662 03:26:54.639 --> 03:26:56.520 right, that has to be considering their age. And yeah, they 2663 03:26:56.520 --> 03:27:00.200 didn't do an awful lot in that match. The crowd was hot for you 2664 03:27:00.280 --> 03:27:03.639 know, there are other promotions out there. I'm not convinced yet. I'm 2665 03:27:03.639 --> 03:27:05.840 not nineteen ninety four. I mean, that's long in the tooth. I 2666 03:27:05.879 --> 03:27:09.319 mean, like we just said, we started with this feud in seventy six, 2667 03:27:09.399 --> 03:27:11.719 for God's sake. Yeah. Yeah, Well, I'll tell you what. 2668 03:27:11.479 --> 03:27:16.280 That last thing they are is long in the tooth. Are you suggesting 2669 03:27:16.360 --> 03:27:20.440 that it's not nineteen ninety four, that's the last time Terry Funk and Dusty 2670 03:27:20.520 --> 03:27:26.920 Rhodes, these these true enemies mix it up together in the ring. It's 2671 03:27:26.040 --> 03:27:30.959 not nineteen ninety five. It's not nineteen ninety six. It's not nineteen ninety 2672 03:27:31.000 --> 03:27:33.879 seven or nineteen ninety eight, or nineteen ninety nine, or even two thousand. 2673 03:27:33.000 --> 03:27:37.559 Oh my god, are you serious it's that far. Well, it's 2674 03:27:37.600 --> 03:27:39.440 not two thousand and one. It's not two thousand and two, it's not 2675 03:27:39.520 --> 03:27:43.879 two thousand and three, it's not two thousand and four. It's two thousand 2676 03:27:43.920 --> 03:27:48.799 and five Jesus Christ promotion called Carolina Championship Wrestling that was formed in and around 2677 03:27:48.879 --> 03:27:54.680 South Kakilaki by a promoter by the name of Tony Hunter. He essentially created 2678 03:27:54.719 --> 03:27:58.319 a starcade Jim Crockett Promotions nostalgia promotion in two thousand and five. That was 2679 03:27:58.360 --> 03:28:03.280 all the rage ec W came back and all of that. And of course, 2680 03:28:03.319 --> 03:28:05.280 if you're bringing back Starkaid, or at least the essence of it, 2681 03:28:05.920 --> 03:28:11.799 you definitely want Dusty a call. And Dusty, this is the time period 2682 03:28:11.079 --> 03:28:15.639 that we heard Terry Funk talking about in that sit down with Bill after this 2683 03:28:15.840 --> 03:28:18.680 is that time period where Terry is what were Dusty's kind of loosely affiliated with 2684 03:28:18.879 --> 03:28:24.040 w WE, so, you know, doing things and not doing things on 2685 03:28:24.120 --> 03:28:30.799 the basis of you know, soft but I'm sure firm suggestions from from Stanford 2686 03:28:30.920 --> 03:28:35.920 is to what he can do and making some money independently versus what they'd rather 2687 03:28:35.159 --> 03:28:39.159 really rather see him not do, if you know what I mean. And 2688 03:28:39.360 --> 03:28:43.680 so that tension serves as a backdrop. But no, Tony Hunters group got 2689 03:28:45.280 --> 03:28:50.520 got some funds together and really really paid high dollar for anybody that was around 2690 03:28:50.120 --> 03:28:56.000 that meant something from the Starkate era to start running shows. And so what 2691 03:28:56.120 --> 03:28:58.440 what do you do right when you got to when you got to pop a 2692 03:28:58.479 --> 03:29:01.399 house, you got to you got to get something ready made out of the 2693 03:29:01.440 --> 03:29:03.719 oven, something that doesn't require any of course, of course, you don't 2694 03:29:03.760 --> 03:29:07.559 have to discover talent. You don't have to you know, discern who can 2695 03:29:07.639 --> 03:29:09.559 do what. You don't have to do anything. You just have to plug 2696 03:29:09.600 --> 03:29:11.920 and play. That's Dusty Rhodes and Terry Funk and the ultimate example of it. 2697 03:29:13.040 --> 03:29:18.760 Now, there was there was talk for a little while there that that 2698 03:29:18.000 --> 03:29:22.159 when Dusty was in ECW in two thousand, Remember I made reference to how 2699 03:29:22.239 --> 03:29:26.760 Dusty came an ECW in two thousand. Yes, it was kind of like, 2700 03:29:26.120 --> 03:29:30.200 you know, perceived at least a bit, as you know, Paul 2701 03:29:30.239 --> 03:29:33.799 Hayman doing a favor for the Rhodes family because Dusty it was pretty much not 2702 03:29:35.120 --> 03:29:39.079 not earning any money at that point and was trying to start like a like 2703 03:29:39.200 --> 03:29:43.520 a like a fantasy camp for wrestling fans where they can come and train, 2704 03:29:43.600 --> 03:29:46.719 it was called, and he had an indie group called Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling that 2705 03:29:46.399 --> 03:29:52.040 completely. I vaguely remember that Yeah, totally fell in his face, went 2706 03:29:52.040 --> 03:29:56.959 absolutely nowhere. But yeah, that's just sort of a lustra of what I'm 2707 03:29:56.000 --> 03:30:01.040 talking about. And in one of the RF video shoot interviews they did at 2708 03:30:01.079 --> 03:30:09.799 around the time, around the time that people were speculating that maybe there was 2709 03:30:09.840 --> 03:30:13.399 a chance this is post ECW closing, but not too long after that, 2710 03:30:13.559 --> 03:30:16.280 Terry and Dusty could have actually hooked it up in e c W. He's 2711 03:30:16.360 --> 03:30:20.399 asked in two thousands, he's asked by our video if that almost came to 2712 03:30:20.479 --> 03:30:24.959 be Listen, is there any plans anything with you and Roads and Center? 2713 03:30:26.040 --> 03:30:28.760 Dusty came in and he hit made some comments, So that's actually about bringing 2714 03:30:28.760 --> 03:30:33.319 you and know some stuff. Well, that Dusty Road, the Dutchy Rhodes. 2715 03:30:33.360 --> 03:30:39.879 He had the plans, but I didn't, right, No, No, 2716 03:30:39.639 --> 03:30:43.120 I would have enjoyed working a program with him. I would have, 2717 03:30:43.200 --> 03:30:46.440 and I talked about it. I don't know what was it. I don't 2718 03:30:46.440 --> 03:30:48.559 even know. I just kind of just blew away. You know, could 2719 03:30:48.559 --> 03:30:50.879 have been money and stuff, and could have been anything with PAULI industry, 2720 03:30:50.959 --> 03:30:54.360 you know, yeah, could have been a master plan. I'm sure it 2721 03:30:54.479 --> 03:31:01.920 was a master plan if those two were involved. After covered from off you 2722 03:31:01.000 --> 03:31:03.920 never came back. So I'm sure it was a master plan if those two 2723 03:31:03.920 --> 03:31:07.079 were in uh huh, but you see how you had to get that dig 2724 03:31:07.120 --> 03:31:09.079 in there. Of course, Firsty wanted to program. I didn't want it. 2725 03:31:11.280 --> 03:31:13.040 He wanted a program. I didn't, you know, I never I 2726 03:31:13.159 --> 03:31:16.680 never got a program. I didn't. I didn't ever ask for a program. 2727 03:31:16.760 --> 03:31:22.079 I only watched my television programmer with the program. I've never gone with 2728 03:31:22.159 --> 03:31:24.440 the program. I've never been in the program. I'll tell you. I 2729 03:31:24.600 --> 03:31:28.079 just you know, I went ahead and decided, you know, I just 2730 03:31:28.200 --> 03:31:31.360 don't think Dusty has a program in mind. I'm not so sure about you 2731 03:31:31.479 --> 03:31:35.639 never being in the program, Terry. I've got some arrest records here. 2732 03:31:37.760 --> 03:31:39.719 I think it was core ordered. As a matter of fact, I've never 2733 03:31:39.799 --> 03:31:45.200 been a programmer. I've never never been a programming you know. I never 2734 03:31:45.280 --> 03:31:50.680 quite learned my sequel coding. I've never been a computer program but apparently my 2735 03:31:50.799 --> 03:31:54.959 computer because the woman took Dusty Rhodes's job in that one. That was unfair. 2736 03:31:56.280 --> 03:32:09.879 I've never been a computer program, not programmer program So we want uh, 2737 03:32:11.159 --> 03:32:16.000 that's fucking great on disc thirty six. And if that doesn't tell you, 2738 03:32:16.360 --> 03:32:20.280 I mean, we started on like this two and if you can't tell 2739 03:32:20.280 --> 03:32:28.360 it goes in an order and disc and pick it up at about two o 2740 03:32:28.520 --> 03:32:37.040 two thirteen. This is now post ECW. This is post one night Stand 2741 03:32:37.159 --> 03:32:43.159 reunion stuff. This is like, you know, what's out there that we 2742 03:32:43.280 --> 03:32:48.000 can leverage that has some degree of nostalgia to it where the guys can actually 2743 03:32:48.040 --> 03:32:52.200 go in there and still do something presentable. And it's just it's just, 2744 03:32:52.959 --> 03:32:56.440 I don't know, it just speaks so much to the magic these two were 2745 03:32:56.479 --> 03:33:01.680 able to create. That there's or the or sadness of the business. Well, 2746 03:33:01.760 --> 03:33:05.920 I think we're approaching sadness. I think we are. I'm not exactly 2747 03:33:05.000 --> 03:33:11.479 sure how sad to cast it, but that's pretty sad. I definitely think 2748 03:33:11.479 --> 03:33:16.159 there's there's there's an element of sadness we're about to encounter. Is when we're 2749 03:33:16.280 --> 03:33:20.120 when we're doing well. I guess I get so. My time code has 2750 03:33:20.200 --> 03:33:24.879 us on the very end of the previous matchup and it says they're no dunking, 2751 03:33:24.000 --> 03:33:26.879 So I guess, uh, I guess Dory is not not allowed in 2752 03:33:28.000 --> 03:33:31.520 this uh in this little gymney. Yes, yes, because there's a fucking 2753 03:33:31.559 --> 03:33:35.200 basketball hoop in sight. That's always I mean that that to me. Lets 2754 03:33:35.200 --> 03:33:39.040 you know exactly the state of of of where these men are at, Okay, 2755 03:33:39.280 --> 03:33:45.680 exactly if you're if you're in a you know, a building that only 2756 03:33:45.799 --> 03:33:54.600 has floor seats and has a basketball like a permanent basketball hoop fixture, it's 2757 03:33:54.719 --> 03:33:58.200 hard time, daddy. And so if you're going to bring in Terry Funk 2758 03:33:58.399 --> 03:34:01.639 and Dusty Rhodes in two thousand five and pay that premium, you might as 2759 03:34:01.680 --> 03:34:03.159 well have them cut some promos, right might as we'll have them of course, 2760 03:34:03.239 --> 03:34:05.399 do what they do again is just wind them up and let them go. 2761 03:34:05.959 --> 03:34:09.440 So here are promos in two thousand and five, Terry Funk and Dusty 2762 03:34:09.559 --> 03:34:16.000 Rhoads, still building matches against each other, still playing from running the same 2763 03:34:16.040 --> 03:34:20.959 playbook from seventy six eighty two, all the rest here we have it. 2764 03:34:20.079 --> 03:34:24.719 This is some promo battles. And then we're going to see a match in 2765 03:34:24.760 --> 03:34:28.040 two thousand and five between Terry Funk and Dusty Rhodes. Hit play in three 2766 03:34:28.520 --> 03:34:41.319 two one play. It's getting closer and closer and closer. Ah, I'm 2767 03:34:41.360 --> 03:34:48.760 a national treasure. Look at him, you woan breaking eight break sucking dog. 2768 03:34:48.479 --> 03:34:52.520 I didn't care for Dori Funk. I didn't care for Terry Funk. 2769 03:34:54.559 --> 03:34:58.879 I didn't care for old man fuck, and I didn't like motherfucking you win, 2770 03:34:58.440 --> 03:35:16.280 breaking a sucking breaking bad every time he sees uh a line, stinking 2771 03:35:18.000 --> 03:35:28.920 buffoon like you roads, I have integrity. Seventh, Tony Hannah brings this 2772 03:35:28.760 --> 03:35:37.360 band of ruthless people in the Gefne. Terry Funk leads the pack. I 2773 03:35:37.479 --> 03:35:39.360 want you to look into my eyes, Dusty, and think about me. 2774 03:35:39.639 --> 03:35:45.600 That's hatred. So maybe the seventh, the guests like Walter Mathow in that 2775 03:35:45.680 --> 03:35:50.239 shot, we're gonna find out if he still has that Scene five burning inside 2776 03:35:50.360 --> 03:35:56.399 him like I do. The winner of that match on the seventh can proclaim 2777 03:35:56.680 --> 03:36:09.879 themselves they won and only living legend Gaffney Middle School. Uh yeah, okay, 2778 03:36:09.159 --> 03:36:20.440 like I'm sorry, ready, I can't no ah ah, Like you 2779 03:36:20.520 --> 03:36:22.200 said, Dusty has got a job with the E right at this point? 2780 03:36:26.520 --> 03:36:37.000 Oh you can't hear me? Is Dusty working? W W at this point? 2781 03:36:58.639 --> 03:37:09.520 What yes? A song for Dusty? Oh boy, cull it up 2782 03:37:20.559 --> 03:37:58.760 with the branding iron in his hand. Yeah, uh, Terry, I'm 2783 03:37:58.760 --> 03:38:18.319 sure this is working, Terry ha Terry's just wandering around the ring unbelievable. 2784 03:38:18.399 --> 03:38:31.680 Hoping these lyrics are registering with people. What the fuck is going on? 2785 03:38:33.000 --> 03:38:35.159 Do you know what song that is? I have no idea. I have 2786 03:38:35.360 --> 03:38:43.040 no idea what song that is? What the fuck is going on? He's 2787 03:38:43.120 --> 03:38:48.959 just walking around with the mic. Well the whole song plays through. Look 2788 03:38:50.000 --> 03:38:54.200 what it's come down to. I mean, thoughts on the Gaffney Middle School. 2789 03:38:54.639 --> 03:38:58.840 I can't. I mean, it's depressing. It looks like that look 2790 03:38:58.879 --> 03:39:01.879 at the school. We saw that that show in that Wakefield Wakefield High show. 2791 03:39:03.879 --> 03:39:09.639 Oh yeah, Honor, that was yeah, duh, stay, it's 2792 03:39:09.680 --> 03:39:16.239 an aesthetic. I feel awful. I feel very like he was working for 2793 03:39:16.399 --> 03:39:18.719 WWE, right, Uh, Dusty did you say that? Not quite yet. 2794 03:39:18.799 --> 03:39:22.600 I feel like the flirtation had begun. He had just lost his job 2795 03:39:22.639 --> 03:39:26.600 as book er at TNA Okay, so he was between jobs. So he 2796 03:39:26.760 --> 03:39:31.399 needed a payday. Oh yeah, yeah, a snicker is preferably, but 2797 03:39:33.159 --> 03:39:35.000 so I think he liked Actually, I think you preferred both. Else A 2798 03:39:35.079 --> 03:39:39.959 reporting at the time that Rhodes is working generally for fifteen hundred dollars per shot 2799 03:39:39.040 --> 03:39:43.959 these days, while Fus charged at twenty Oh my god, and this shot 2800 03:39:45.319 --> 03:39:52.200 fifteen and fifty fans at Oh yeah, Dusty, here it comes with's some 2801 03:39:52.280 --> 03:39:54.840 old time rock and roll for sure. Who the fuck is this clown? 2802 03:39:56.000 --> 03:40:00.520 Just like security thinks it's cool, he's like, yeah, ever cool when 2803 03:40:00.520 --> 03:40:03.639 you're wearing like a striped polo shirt. Look at Dusty. Look at him, 2804 03:40:05.120 --> 03:40:11.360 sleeveless t shirt. His fucking tits are all over the place. Look 2805 03:40:11.360 --> 03:40:16.239 at him. Look what it's come down new for the map. I mean, 2806 03:40:16.280 --> 03:40:22.680 this is this is the true American nightmare luggage. Dust where's the leard 2807 03:40:22.799 --> 03:40:28.879 yet? Who's working hard times now? And he's wearing the fucking Oh he's 2808 03:40:28.879 --> 03:40:31.360 got knee pads on the outside of his jeans. He does its bunk house. 2809 03:40:33.159 --> 03:40:35.719 Ah, that's how the old cowboys used to do it. They put 2810 03:40:35.799 --> 03:40:43.000 knee pads over their jeans. Yeah, I don't think so. Dusty hits 2811 03:40:43.079 --> 03:40:48.600 the ring and Terry clears the ring. Go imagine what he's gonna do to 2812 03:40:48.680 --> 03:40:54.600 this fucking middle school. I mean seriously, like, you know, he's 2813 03:40:54.639 --> 03:41:01.959 like looking at all these people chairs already frame, Terry's launching chairs already. 2814 03:41:09.920 --> 03:41:16.920 Who's this egghead? The fucking announcer god a decade after Actually, you know, 2815 03:41:16.000 --> 03:41:18.520 the sad thing is is that Dusty is one of the thinner people in 2816 03:41:18.559 --> 03:41:24.280 the building. Jesus, that's true. Actually the double Cross ranch Terry steps 2817 03:41:24.280 --> 03:41:28.639 in, thinning hair up top, but still looking good. You know, 2818 03:41:28.799 --> 03:41:31.239 he looks all right. He looks like a hot mess, but you get 2819 03:41:31.319 --> 03:41:35.239 my point. Yeah, he doesn't look like a shell of his former self. 2820 03:41:35.280 --> 03:41:37.399 Really, No, just looks like an older version of himself. Right, 2821 03:41:43.639 --> 03:41:46.520 Dusty just finished off a couple of moon pies in the back. Oh. 2822 03:41:48.719 --> 03:41:50.479 Actually, I think he's got a couple in his pocket. Actually, 2823 03:41:50.399 --> 03:41:58.159 Terry fuck fun Funk Funk Darry Funk just launched the chair at the ring announcer 2824 03:41:58.200 --> 03:42:01.360 halfway through his new bounce mean and send him flying out of the ring. 2825 03:42:03.200 --> 03:42:11.120 Oh my god, listen to this idiot on commentary. Get Terry just stand 2826 03:42:11.159 --> 03:42:16.040 there with a chair. You know they're gonna I have a bad feeling that 2827 03:42:16.120 --> 03:42:20.959 they're gonna juice. Yeah, I think it's a guarantee, because you gotta 2828 03:42:20.959 --> 03:42:22.639 get color for these fans. At least you can do for these people. 2829 03:42:24.040 --> 03:42:26.799 I mean, look at look at the size of these depressing individuals on the 2830 03:42:26.840 --> 03:42:48.959 outside. Dust has the mic. Why is he talking his shirt in his 2831 03:42:48.280 --> 03:43:01.879 in his in his gems. Oh man, give him, dust Rose, 2832 03:43:01.959 --> 03:43:05.680 give himself a little thing and thing and thing. Brother, call her an 2833 03:43:05.719 --> 03:43:09.719 elbow. Tie up, boss, Take a look. That's how come the 2834 03:43:09.760 --> 03:43:13.399 elbows. He's not even hitting him. Terry's trying to do the cell. 2835 03:43:15.120 --> 03:43:20.440 My god, he's gonna die. That's what happened in two thousands. It 2836 03:43:20.520 --> 03:43:24.959 became like a perverse game of this. He gonna hurt himself, you know, 2837 03:43:30.239 --> 03:43:33.120 My god, hardwood floor of a middle school. Terry Funk two thousand 2838 03:43:33.200 --> 03:43:39.399 currents. I love how they can't even afford fucking uh gym mats on the 2839 03:43:39.520 --> 03:43:43.079 on the on the floor. This is a full decade after that w c 2840 03:43:43.239 --> 03:43:48.639 W match we just watched. Think about that. I'm just trying to figure 2841 03:43:48.719 --> 03:43:54.280 out what's going on. Terry stalking the outside of the right now? Hey, 2842 03:43:54.319 --> 03:43:58.440 actually is that Bruce Pritchard on commentary? It sounds like it be a 2843 03:43:58.479 --> 03:44:03.639 long long way I can remember, not that one, the other one. 2844 03:44:03.600 --> 03:44:11.520 Ah. Yes, Nelson Royal introduced the bunk house match. Terry's found a 2845 03:44:11.559 --> 03:44:13.840 fan to get involved. Here we go. He's gonna get all pissed off. 2846 03:44:15.120 --> 03:44:16.360 Terry leaves the ring. There, you got a damn thing. You 2847 03:44:16.440 --> 03:44:20.280 go get face to face with this fat motherface. That's the way the cowboys 2848 03:44:20.360 --> 03:44:22.319 used to He thinks he's cool looking at it, he thinks he's tough. 2849 03:44:22.360 --> 03:44:26.360 Stuffing Terry, fucking cool guy with the stuffed chicken in his hand, stab 2850 03:44:26.479 --> 03:44:30.600 hm the fucking belly with a with a pencil. Oh, Terry went for 2851 03:44:30.639 --> 03:44:39.440 the chicken. Dusty creeping over good, Dusty. I mean so slow, 2852 03:44:41.079 --> 03:44:43.520 it's like one punch, like wait twenty seconds to something else. Look at 2853 03:44:43.559 --> 03:44:48.680 that. You see that like barely tapped the ring post. A cowboy wouldn't 2854 03:44:48.680 --> 03:44:52.959 be carrying around a chicken. Terry is the only one move, you know, 2855 03:44:52.079 --> 03:44:56.920 leaving his feet, that's for sure. Yeah, anyway or not, 2856 03:44:56.120 --> 03:45:01.600 he still wouldn't be carrying around a chicken. Dusty came outside. Oh, 2857 03:45:01.959 --> 03:45:05.639 I mean it's not even The sad thing is they're not even at a high 2858 03:45:05.680 --> 03:45:07.559 school. They're at a middle does not make it somehow worse, you know, 2859 03:45:07.879 --> 03:45:15.040 it makes it so much worse. These guys are going at it big 2860 03:45:15.159 --> 03:45:18.559 time? Is it big time? I don't know. Oh yeah, look 2861 03:45:18.559 --> 03:45:22.520 at the intensity these guys are going on at big time. So it's something 2862 03:45:22.559 --> 03:45:26.360 to see the physicality evolve or devolve. Yes, does he's still swinging at 2863 03:45:26.399 --> 03:45:33.280 ghosts. But he's doing it at zero point five speed. Yeah, what 2864 03:45:33.399 --> 03:45:37.319 do you do? Boss? Let the people know he just Terry went grabbed 2865 03:45:37.360 --> 03:45:39.760 the chair and put it around his own neck, picked it up like he's 2866 03:45:39.799 --> 03:45:43.280 gonna throw it, just drop it around his own head like a necklace. 2867 03:45:43.360 --> 03:45:46.440 That's Terry man. He's just gonna grab things and creep. He's a color. 2868 03:45:46.600 --> 03:45:50.399 We have color. We already blame. We have, we have color. 2869 03:45:52.799 --> 03:46:01.280 Didn't pointed elbow will get a trick his forehead open. Oh my god. 2870 03:46:01.760 --> 03:46:07.799 The tight jeans in the crowd are it is? It's very It's unbelievable. 2871 03:46:09.280 --> 03:46:15.079 Oh my god, Dusty is Oh he's covering him. Oh, look 2872 03:46:15.120 --> 03:46:18.000 at him. Hit the ground, Look at him. I can't even move 2873 03:46:18.079 --> 03:46:31.920 when kicks out. Awful saw I ball, no, no, no, 2874 03:46:33.440 --> 03:46:39.360 Dusty p no. Harry's trunks down so further than Shawn Michaels wrestling, I 2875 03:46:39.479 --> 03:46:46.239 mean full ass past the bottom ask sheet and Terry of course rolling around with 2876 03:46:46.280 --> 03:46:50.120 his ass hang it out. Look at that. Oh my god, they're 2877 03:46:50.120 --> 03:46:58.000 getting like fucking clear shots of that. Oh what a hell? Oh I 2878 03:46:58.559 --> 03:47:03.559 took my pants down because that's what the fans need, thank you. It 2879 03:47:03.680 --> 03:47:07.840 is the lapsed funk after all. Oh, oh he just oh he stuck 2880 03:47:07.920 --> 03:47:11.000 something in his head. Oh god, he fucking stuck his thumb or something 2881 03:47:11.079 --> 03:47:13.479 on there, and now it stinks like ship. Oh has he smelled it? 2882 03:47:15.079 --> 03:47:18.280 Yeah? And he shoved his hand in the referees face oil check dive 2883 03:47:18.319 --> 03:47:24.920 Daffney. Dusty went from pumping gas at uh Terry's brother in law's gas station 2884 03:47:26.159 --> 03:47:31.479 to check and oil here on Terry himself and Daffney the uh he's a regular 2885 03:47:31.600 --> 03:47:41.200 minor key this guy referee Mike van Eric here. Yeah, before he if 2886 03:47:41.239 --> 03:47:48.120 he didn't kill himself, big low blow there from uh Funk puts Dusty roads 2887 03:47:48.159 --> 03:47:54.680 on the canvas. What are we seeing? Boss? Just so so atrocious? 2888 03:47:56.319 --> 03:47:58.840 I mean, And the thing is like you look at the at the 2889 03:47:58.920 --> 03:48:03.479 ringside people, No what he cares. Everyone's just fucking silent, sitting on 2890 03:48:03.520 --> 03:48:09.840 their asses. They're watching it almost like like you'd watch, like to see 2891 03:48:09.840 --> 03:48:15.200 if the groundhog is coming out of the ground. Right right, Dusty's got 2892 03:48:15.280 --> 03:48:18.600 color. Now, look at him hiking his jeans up. O, my 2893 03:48:18.799 --> 03:48:22.799 god, fifty you just did it again. He was sucking cut himself of 2894 03:48:22.920 --> 03:48:24.399 it more. Do you see him do it? I missed it Dusty he 2895 03:48:24.479 --> 03:48:33.920 went for Yeah, Dusty did. Terry's choking him with the rope. It's 2896 03:48:33.920 --> 03:48:35.559 not a it's not a good retaining rope. If it's that loose, you 2897 03:48:35.719 --> 03:48:39.040 just kind of I mean that most of these people couldn't. But you can 2898 03:48:39.120 --> 03:48:43.040 step over it. Yeah, people can just walk through it. Fucking cut 2899 03:48:43.079 --> 03:48:48.079 it with scissors, Dusty stumbling. I mean they're just walking around, you 2900 03:48:48.159 --> 03:48:52.920 know, randing iron to the head of Dusty Rode. He's got a brand 2901 03:48:52.959 --> 03:49:01.479 and iron there and he's sticking in his face from the double Cross ranch and 2902 03:49:01.920 --> 03:49:07.959 oh that was that was a solid shot, actually, Dusty. But that 2903 03:49:07.360 --> 03:49:11.319 Ernie iron not a good follow up. They're gonna come down the air, 2904 03:49:11.440 --> 03:49:20.799 Oh man, Terry versus Dusty Reverends, the perennial battle. Bust open the 2905 03:49:20.879 --> 03:49:31.559 wall, middle School the door and the door won't open. Oh I supposed 2906 03:49:31.559 --> 03:49:39.639 to. Terry Funk is knocking on that door with Dusty's head. Oh God, 2907 03:49:39.159 --> 03:49:43.920 Derry, Derry is knocking on that door with Dusty's head. You want 2908 03:49:43.959 --> 03:49:48.680 ahead? Terry Funk knocked the door on his head, and I said, 2909 03:49:48.239 --> 03:49:54.159 well it's about Tom was sped up and again, as sad as it may 2910 03:49:54.239 --> 03:49:58.040 be, back comparison flashes back to when Dusty was beating up funking the audience 2911 03:49:58.079 --> 03:50:03.639 and eighty to remember that in seventy nine, yea of the hair. Maybe 2912 03:50:03.799 --> 03:50:07.120 through the thing we did in seven and nine. Take back of the venue, 2913 03:50:07.600 --> 03:50:09.440 Take it the back of the venue. Baby, we get back of 2914 03:50:09.479 --> 03:50:13.000 that daddy, We get back in the middle school. Maybe we can pick 2915 03:50:13.079 --> 03:50:18.000 up some death and get some textbooks. You know what I'm saying. Dusty 2916 03:50:18.079 --> 03:50:24.959 walks well, oh yeah, shuffling along like a like a dying show horse. 2917 03:50:24.440 --> 03:50:28.319 You can tell his knees aren't going to fucking break in any moment. 2918 03:50:28.319 --> 03:50:31.920 Look at the look how high the waistband is. And those jeans, I 2919 03:50:33.120 --> 03:50:41.000 know, I mean it's like somebody you know jeans. Apparently jeans in this 2920 03:50:41.280 --> 03:50:46.120 town have a lot of work to do. Yes, all right, they 2921 03:50:46.479 --> 03:50:48.920 have to contain a lot of humanity. Terry's got the mic. He doesn't 2922 03:50:48.920 --> 03:50:52.760 know if it's working. This is fine work, and they cannot work. 2923 03:50:52.879 --> 03:50:58.639 Oh ship, just one ahead and taught a got a chair all round my 2924 03:50:58.760 --> 03:51:05.280 head? How on Hana sad bread. It's like it's comedy, I as 2925 03:51:05.959 --> 03:51:11.520 it is. But he's just so goofy that like you believe that he's not 2926 03:51:11.680 --> 03:51:15.319 doing it for comedic effectness, right, you just think that he's insane. 2927 03:51:15.840 --> 03:51:16.959 So he's found a way to make it seem like with the chair wrapped on 2928 03:51:18.120 --> 03:51:20.719 his neck, he's trapped between the ropes as he tried to enter the ring 2929 03:51:20.280 --> 03:51:26.159 like he's stuck. This is no place to be. It's physical comedy. 2930 03:51:26.200 --> 03:51:33.920 It's slapstick. Right hand, down goes the funker. Wow, he fucking 2931 03:51:33.000 --> 03:51:39.319 did a real bump in the middle of the ring. Jesus say, it 2932 03:51:39.399 --> 03:51:43.760 must have been an announcer's microphone down there in ringside. I must beut an 2933 03:51:43.760 --> 03:51:46.200 announcer his microphone down there. A ring shot, A couple of gut shots. 2934 03:51:46.239 --> 03:51:48.360 As the Funker comes back to his feet with a chair in tow, 2935 03:51:50.520 --> 03:51:54.040 barely taps Dusty on the head way that look at this, I know I'm 2936 03:51:54.040 --> 03:51:56.319 looking at he's just like I mean not to mention the fact that it's a 2937 03:51:56.360 --> 03:52:01.559 plastic chair. He's like shoving in his face speaking. Terry takes a big 2938 03:52:01.600 --> 03:52:03.719 swing and Ye ricochets off the ropes, hits him in the head, drops 2939 03:52:03.760 --> 03:52:09.399 down. Two. Three. DUSI did the thing where you stand behind the 2940 03:52:09.399 --> 03:52:18.399 guy he stumbles across your back. Dussia Rose against the wind. Oh my 2941 03:52:18.600 --> 03:52:28.159 god, what a disgrace. Carolina Championship Wrestling boss. Uh kids there, 2942 03:52:28.239 --> 03:52:31.920 look at that. You got fucking like five year old kids there. Of 2943 03:52:33.040 --> 03:52:35.879 course, Terry goes to work on the ref After the bell, Terry beats 2944 03:52:35.959 --> 03:52:39.920 up on Jesse Tyler Ferguson. There. Yeah, exactly, big left hand. 2945 03:52:43.079 --> 03:52:52.079 Terry beat up Jamie Tucker. Oh, Jamie Tucker. A Funker stands 2946 03:52:52.120 --> 03:52:56.719 tall again, tucking his ass, cheeks back into his pants. Look at 2947 03:52:56.159 --> 03:53:00.319 dig around in his ass. He's fucking trying to find you. He might 2948 03:53:00.399 --> 03:53:03.040 have he might have actually just let out a piece of ship, and he's 2949 03:53:03.079 --> 03:53:05.840 like, where is I gotta find I gotta find that piece of ship. 2950 03:53:05.879 --> 03:53:09.680 Talk about the lap of Funk hanging in my ass? There. Dusty still 2951 03:53:09.719 --> 03:53:13.920 just kind of standing there, loitering at ringside. Despite getting the victory, 2952 03:53:16.879 --> 03:53:20.280 Terry makes the walk, the slow, bloody walk to the back of this 2953 03:53:20.399 --> 03:53:28.040 middle school, having tankeed dream Yeah, please so long forever the love of 2954 03:53:28.159 --> 03:53:31.440 God. So that's gotta be it, right, that's gotta be the last 2955 03:53:31.440 --> 03:53:33.159 time Dusty Rhads and Terry Funk met in the ring. Come on, you 2956 03:53:33.520 --> 03:53:37.200 gotta be kidding me. No, they did not December third. I said 2957 03:53:37.200 --> 03:53:43.479 this was it. You said this was it. Carolina Championship Wrestling Steel cage 2958 03:53:43.600 --> 03:53:54.319 match. What disc thirty seven? Fuck? Wow, it's the problem that 2959 03:53:54.399 --> 03:54:01.559 didn't inspire God, and even even Dusty and Terry Funk managed to overstay their 2960 03:54:01.600 --> 03:54:03.719 welcome. This one did not draw that the one we just saw, pretty 2961 03:54:03.719 --> 03:54:09.760 good house. It was but four hundred people. No, it was his 2962 03:54:09.840 --> 03:54:13.479 fifteen hundred and fifty fans in that building. You get out of town. 2963 03:54:13.559 --> 03:54:16.879 I was onarded house, yep. But when they came back for this cage 2964 03:54:16.920 --> 03:54:20.000 match, you would think I'd do more, but it did. It did 2965 03:54:20.159 --> 03:54:24.000 less, and this would pretty much be the end of the experiment of it 2966 03:54:24.040 --> 03:54:28.200 with only seven hundred in attendance. Kind of a money loser considering the high 2967 03:54:28.200 --> 03:54:31.520 priced talent they're bringing in, but a testament to the enduring appeal, at 2968 03:54:31.600 --> 03:54:37.239 least to the minds of the promoter, Tony Hunter here of the Dusty Funk 2969 03:54:37.319 --> 03:54:43.079 rivalry. So we go to one seventeen thirty seven. All right, unbelievable. 2970 03:54:48.120 --> 03:54:50.120 Okay, you don't want to see him in a cage after that. 2971 03:54:52.719 --> 03:54:56.399 I don't want to see him ever again after that, either of them. 2972 03:54:58.639 --> 03:55:01.520 You don't want to go, ah, head, don't want to go ahead 2973 03:55:01.799 --> 03:55:09.079 and watch this match? I know it was wonderful. I want ahead. 2974 03:55:09.959 --> 03:55:13.399 I'll tell you what I did. I want to head, and I went 2975 03:55:13.440 --> 03:55:16.559 ahead. I went over. Get ready. The Funker's got a microphone and 2976 03:55:16.639 --> 03:55:20.959 he's got to he's got to drive home the significance of this one last rodeo 2977 03:55:22.120 --> 03:55:28.280 all right with the Drugstore Cowboy himself, Dusty Rhodes, the Emilk and Dream 2978 03:55:31.719 --> 03:55:37.479 three two one play. You know, there's a lot of you know, 2979 03:55:37.600 --> 03:55:45.479 there's a lot of people in the professional wrestling that I love and a lot 2980 03:55:45.559 --> 03:55:50.239 of people that I hate. But o those people that I love and hate, 2981 03:55:50.559 --> 03:55:56.159 the one thing that's the most important thing to me is that they respect 2982 03:55:56.239 --> 03:56:01.959 me and I respect them, just as I respect the Slam fans that are 2983 03:56:01.000 --> 03:56:07.360 out there. Just like Hulk Hogan might be an obnoxious, ball headed idiot, 2984 03:56:09.159 --> 03:56:13.040 but I respect Hiller and he respects me. Rick Clair, he might 2985 03:56:13.159 --> 03:56:22.280 have a banana nose and be a goof that I respect him and he respects 2986 03:56:22.360 --> 03:56:28.760 me. Nick he might have a adential ass. I respect mcfuley too. 2987 03:56:30.840 --> 03:56:35.600 But there's one person in this world that I do not respect, and that 2988 03:56:35.840 --> 03:56:41.639 person is that fat overbearing, obnoxious, egg sucking dog, and I've got 2989 03:56:41.840 --> 03:56:48.120 him in the ring tonight in a cage, and that's exactly where I want 2990 03:56:48.280 --> 03:56:54.399 him. Now. I respect the people of Carolina, and I'm going to 2991 03:56:54.520 --> 03:57:00.159 tell you one thing. As you people have been used to great performances in 2992 03:57:00.239 --> 03:57:03.840 the ring, You've been used to great talent, and now you have to 2993 03:57:05.040 --> 03:57:15.840 watch this big fat slob walk around and do absolutely nothing a lord tonight. 2994 03:57:16.399 --> 03:57:20.879 And that's a promise from the Funker Roads, the American Dream. How many 2995 03:57:22.040 --> 03:57:26.639 roads about traveled with Terry Funk? How many beatings have we gained all night? 2996 03:57:26.719 --> 03:57:30.639 This thing has to come to an end inside this steal casey, the 2997 03:57:30.639 --> 03:57:33.920 American Dream of tower power, too sweet to be sour, Terry Funk, 2998 03:57:35.280 --> 03:57:39.959 that's the road, the longest running feud in the industry. And then ain't 2999 03:57:39.959 --> 03:57:43.120 gonna be putty tonight. So I'm telling you, when you see this cage 3000 03:57:43.200 --> 03:57:46.079 go up, you better take a deep seat and a fallway. Look like 3001 03:57:46.159 --> 03:57:50.559 they say, an old rodeo house, the American Dream, Dusty Roads are 3002 03:57:50.559 --> 03:57:52.959 gonna put it on till you get funky like a monkey right here tonight, 3003 03:57:56.079 --> 03:58:00.719 All right, fans, this is what it's all. Cage is up. 3004 03:58:01.040 --> 03:58:07.719 The scene is set high school. They end this time at the same school, 3005 03:58:07.479 --> 03:58:11.280 same the middle school. I'm pretty sure this is the middle school again. 3006 03:58:11.360 --> 03:58:16.559 Yet oh no, sorry, this is Conway South Cakilaki Okay in the 3007 03:58:16.639 --> 03:58:22.680 building said vicious No showed this event. Of course. What I mean is 3008 03:58:22.719 --> 03:58:30.520 that a surprise the glacier you're talking to glacier over there. Loose They made 3009 03:58:30.639 --> 03:58:37.159 up the saying loose cannon they had Terry Terry Trump starts and fights with Glenn 3010 03:58:37.200 --> 03:58:46.840 ciders that the Mic. I one can hear a word he's saying. Mike 3011 03:58:46.879 --> 03:59:01.520 doesn't even work. Of course not there. He is respect you mass you 3012 03:59:01.719 --> 03:59:09.920 respect me? I mean he stepping the show fit fair no matter what it's 3013 03:59:09.040 --> 03:59:18.920 not. I want step. But I have no respect for you and these 3014 03:59:18.079 --> 03:59:33.600 people go ter they no respects you. I have nos I thought that and 3015 03:59:33.879 --> 03:59:52.280 stopping. Hey, I'm just like it sad think that bohm. That's may 3016 03:59:52.440 --> 04:00:05.280 I put now and have that? Yes? And I oh god, oh 3017 04:00:07.600 --> 04:00:15.799 there I agree? Yeah did? I ain't a monkey? But enough about 3018 04:00:15.840 --> 04:00:20.879 lunch for the male con dream bell Sounds Terry Funk Dusty Rhodes December two thousand 3019 04:00:20.920 --> 04:00:26.040 and five, and a steel can Still go under the just the standards. 3020 04:00:26.040 --> 04:00:31.159 So do you see how Funk leaned into the fact that in his in his 3021 04:00:31.239 --> 04:00:33.239 pre match promo about how the last time you saw Dusty he was out there 3022 04:00:33.479 --> 04:00:37.639 like, you know, like he wasn't even trying. Yes, like Terry 3023 04:00:37.760 --> 04:00:43.760 knows how he's coming off, and he tries to somehow if he can incorporate 3024 04:00:43.879 --> 04:00:46.079 that into what he says about his opponent. It seems like he's, you 3025 04:00:46.120 --> 04:00:50.559 know, going a bit too far. And the things he's said phenomenal. 3026 04:00:50.239 --> 04:00:54.520 So it goes from making fun of Dusty being fat in the seventies and eighties 3027 04:00:54.000 --> 04:00:58.159 to making fun of Dusty cashing a check in two thousand and five, right 3028 04:00:58.760 --> 04:01:03.079 right, And I'm going he'll he'll follow, He'll follow that lead wherever it 3029 04:01:03.159 --> 04:01:07.319 takes him, and that will alienate him from working in one place for very 3030 04:01:07.440 --> 04:01:11.639 long because you can go there so many times. But here we are again, 3031 04:01:13.360 --> 04:01:15.959 back to the well as Dusty puts Terry Funk down in the center of 3032 04:01:16.000 --> 04:01:26.920 the ring with yet another But these guys gonna what's that? Veryls Who's going 3033 04:01:26.000 --> 04:01:33.079 to draw first blood? The question is did they draw ushers? Who's gonna 3034 04:01:33.159 --> 04:01:43.040 draw? Period? These two guys. If you Uh, it's gonna seemed 3035 04:01:43.040 --> 04:01:45.479 like noster domis. You can go ahead and predict a blood and a Terry 3036 04:01:45.559 --> 04:01:48.719 Funk versus Dusty Roads two thousand and five match. I think that's a safe 3037 04:01:48.760 --> 04:01:58.399 bet, Dusty of a Funk lan time be assured that this match will be 3038 04:01:58.559 --> 04:02:05.680 violent and very bloody. You can almost be assured it will be a blood 3039 04:02:05.719 --> 04:02:13.600 bath. All right, all dust on his knees, taking left hands. 3040 04:02:13.639 --> 04:02:18.120 Now he's gonna eat this, eat the steel. How many people were here 3041 04:02:18.399 --> 04:02:22.159 at this one? Seven hundred? Wow? Half the crowd? Huh. 3042 04:02:24.280 --> 04:02:28.319 Funk eats a cage bar, just like a Ye Florida t himself. It 3043 04:02:28.440 --> 04:02:33.399 was Funk bang there the steel. Make sure to rest on there, his 3044 04:02:33.479 --> 04:02:39.280 eye on it. Yeah, he has a wave in his old age of 3045 04:02:39.440 --> 04:02:43.840 selling where it seems like, yeah, if you were old and you had 3046 04:02:43.879 --> 04:02:46.079 no reflexes, that that is how you'd respond to getting your head smashed into 3047 04:02:46.079 --> 04:02:56.000 a you would stand there almost frozenss There's just something about Funk's mastery of body 3048 04:02:56.120 --> 04:03:00.319 language where even when he couldn't hardly do anything physically, Yep, he's still 3049 04:03:00.520 --> 04:03:03.360 know how to make it look like he was really being hurt out there. 3050 04:03:05.239 --> 04:03:11.159 The selling well, cartoonish always had just enough completely of an element of believability 3051 04:03:11.200 --> 04:03:16.840 to it. Yep, opportunity alone. And you know, we've seen so 3052 04:03:16.920 --> 04:03:20.440 many wrestlers step in like Dusty here just twenty years after they should be and 3053 04:03:20.879 --> 04:03:22.239 they don't have that. They can't sell like that anymore. They just stand 3054 04:03:22.280 --> 04:03:26.680 there, They just you know what I mean, they take shots and they 3055 04:03:26.760 --> 04:03:28.760 just they're like a statue the whole time because they can't muster the energy to 3056 04:03:28.840 --> 04:03:33.680 sell. Terry never lost that. He refused to. Yeah, I know. 3057 04:03:33.760 --> 04:03:35.639 I mean that's you know, that's what makes it. That's that's what 3058 04:03:35.799 --> 04:03:39.520 does it, you know, he he that's what makes him so special. 3059 04:03:39.879 --> 04:03:43.159 That's why Dusty still will you know, want to work with him moving in 3060 04:03:43.200 --> 04:03:46.719 two thousand and five, because he knows, if nothing else, he's got 3061 04:03:46.760 --> 04:03:50.920 someone that can move around the ring enough to create something approximating value for the 3062 04:03:50.040 --> 04:03:54.600 for the fans dollar. You don't want to be facing the chic at this 3063 04:03:54.639 --> 04:03:58.120 stage, you know what I mean, somebody else doesn't move. Was he 3064 04:03:58.200 --> 04:04:05.920 still alive this Yeah? I don't think so. I think he died in 3065 04:04:07.200 --> 04:04:15.239 three alright. So Funk comes a live pumping jabs into the American dream cutting 3066 04:04:15.280 --> 04:04:16.440 him off, throwing him into the fence, and now Funk's trying to rattle 3067 04:04:16.479 --> 04:04:20.959 the cage door open. Did you expect we'd end up here? Boss? 3068 04:04:20.959 --> 04:04:28.000 When we barked on it, I know I did not just illustrates how long 3069 04:04:28.040 --> 04:04:30.600 Funk's in the business man, It's just I feel like I've watched like six 3070 04:04:30.680 --> 04:04:33.600 different eras. It's so true. I mean we have, we really have. 3071 04:04:35.639 --> 04:04:37.680 There's no question about that. This is like the Batista's winning the title 3072 04:04:37.719 --> 04:04:46.520 at Mania. Like, yeah, selling us the cage doors tied, so 3073 04:04:46.639 --> 04:04:48.680 you can't get out of the cage door. You got to score a pin 3074 04:04:48.760 --> 04:04:54.079 follow get out of the cage. Wow, Dusty having his head raked along 3075 04:04:54.159 --> 04:05:00.879 the fence again, three quarters of that cage door open, corners of Dusty 3076 04:05:00.959 --> 04:05:03.879 roads his head open too. So there you have it. They're both Luster 3077 04:05:05.000 --> 04:05:13.239 Rhodes had h Terry biting the the meaty forehead of the American Dream. It's 3078 04:05:13.319 --> 04:05:18.959 probably about to be busted open as well. Oh, Dusty's already busted open. 3079 04:05:18.600 --> 04:05:24.559 Dusty's busted open. Got double juice again, Boss, I don't imagine 3080 04:05:24.600 --> 04:05:26.920 that, Like, remember Dusty's forehead in the promo. We just saw the 3081 04:05:26.959 --> 04:05:33.600 pre match promo. Yes, so pink I he's back here with the razor 3082 04:05:33.639 --> 04:05:37.680 burn on his forehead at this age. Oh, I know, it's so 3083 04:05:39.600 --> 04:05:43.920 Dusty Cooking throws a big elbow Funk doing the weak needs cell. I gotta 3084 04:05:43.959 --> 04:05:48.879 come up with a name for that, and he flare flops. Essentially, 3085 04:05:52.799 --> 04:05:58.239 he's all the kinetic energy in the match. It's all Funk. I'll tell 3086 04:05:58.239 --> 04:06:05.959 you it's someone I don't in the ring. Den I don't know. That's 3087 04:06:05.000 --> 04:06:09.680 a promoter and that's that's the promoter. Don't you feel like you've seen a 3088 04:06:09.719 --> 04:06:20.040 real celebrity h elbow to the cut of Terry Funk, Dusty Rhoades laying on 3089 04:06:20.079 --> 04:06:26.280 the punishment here just standing around. I mean, I don't much more. 3090 04:06:26.360 --> 04:06:33.719 But it's not it's it's very uncomfortable. It really is. Gus, you'll 3091 04:06:33.760 --> 04:06:37.559 do something that he'll stand there still, right, I mean, he's right. 3092 04:06:37.760 --> 04:06:41.440 That's that's that's part of the issue is that he's he doesn't really he 3093 04:06:41.520 --> 04:06:46.479 doesn't do anything. He just you know, he does a thing and he 3094 04:06:46.639 --> 04:06:56.799 just lets he lets Funk sell or something. So does this look to you 3095 04:06:56.040 --> 04:06:58.840 like Dusty made Terry or Terry made Dusty. I don't know, you tell 3096 04:06:58.959 --> 04:07:05.079 me. Uh oh, Dusty obviously made Terry no question about it. There 3097 04:07:05.159 --> 04:07:09.280 another view of Terry's satchel ass. Oh, please, let's see if we 3098 04:07:09.280 --> 04:07:13.639 can get some more testicles for the fans. Yeah. The last match, 3099 04:07:13.680 --> 04:07:18.360 he oh, Funk gets crouched on the top of rope. Look at him 3100 04:07:18.360 --> 04:07:20.600 more at this guy, he's like sixty something. I mean, like, 3101 04:07:20.680 --> 04:07:28.360 what's he like? Seriously, exactly what's he doing hanging there? Dusty down 3102 04:07:28.399 --> 04:07:31.159 to with a knee pep burning barely touching Terry Funk's forehead with those bunches. 3103 04:07:31.200 --> 04:07:35.440 I know he can't. Yeah, I mean the last match, you know, 3104 04:07:35.200 --> 04:07:39.280 he you know, Dusty mooned everybody with Terry Funk and pulled his pants 3105 04:07:39.319 --> 04:07:41.040 down. In this match, he pulls him down in the front and just 3106 04:07:41.399 --> 04:07:43.600 like starts, you know, rubbing his crotch. It's kind of weird, 3107 04:07:45.959 --> 04:07:48.200 and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, He's got Terry Funk's 3108 04:07:48.239 --> 04:07:52.920 cock in his mouth, and I'm like, what is you know? I 3109 04:07:52.000 --> 04:07:58.879 mean, dust Now they're on their knees, exchanging red hands. Hey, 3110 04:07:58.920 --> 04:08:01.399 you know, Terror, don't yeh? I think you should go ahead and 3111 04:08:01.799 --> 04:08:07.479 and suck my cock. I think that'll be a good, No, good, 3112 04:08:07.479 --> 04:08:09.959 egg sucking dog. We're gonna put that to the test. I think 3113 04:08:11.280 --> 04:08:16.280 we're gonna we're gonna have you be a cocksucking bitch. What's he got? 3114 04:08:16.319 --> 04:08:18.040 Oh my god, Oh my god, are you serious? Has lit something 3115 04:08:18.079 --> 04:08:22.520 on fire? My god, he's got a flaming branding iron in two thousand 3116 04:08:22.520 --> 04:08:26.200 and five. No, oh, he's going after the fucking promoter. What 3117 04:08:26.360 --> 04:08:33.840 the fucking he's just killing the promoter, stabbing with his flaming branding iron. 3118 04:08:33.600 --> 04:08:37.799 Oh my god, that's Terry Man. He's not going he's not going to 3119 04:08:37.879 --> 04:08:41.440 allow you to think he's boring. Oh my god, Oh my god, 3120 04:08:41.520 --> 04:08:46.920 Dusty is branding Terry in the ass. Dusty is poking a on all fours, 3121 04:08:46.040 --> 04:08:50.159 Terry funk in the ass with a bak with a flaming brand. Yeah, 3122 04:08:50.239 --> 04:08:52.159 hey, hey that's what I got. I got, I got a 3123 04:08:52.200 --> 04:08:58.520 flaming brand. We're hot, my favorite kind of cheetah hot brand. Takes 3124 04:08:58.559 --> 04:09:07.520 the fucking fire toy away from Dusty. That's the end. Oh my god, 3125 04:09:07.600 --> 04:09:11.319 Oh my godsty was supposed to do the same finish where he drops down 3126 04:09:11.360 --> 04:09:13.959 and Dusty trips over his back. Why wouldn't you, Why wouldn't you just 3127 04:09:15.040 --> 04:09:18.719 get up and try it again. You know, he kind of up chop 3128 04:09:18.840 --> 04:09:22.879 blocking him and the referees counting the three while holding the flaming branding iron in 3129 04:09:22.959 --> 04:09:28.200 his other hand like an Olympic torch. Now, Terry, he doesn't give 3130 04:09:28.239 --> 04:09:31.840 a buck. He's grabbing at this flaming branding. He doesn't give a damn. 3131 04:09:33.280 --> 04:09:35.159 Now Dusty has it, He's gonna make some s'moores, no doubt. 3132 04:09:37.040 --> 04:09:43.000 Absolutely again up Terry Funk with the with the hot thing. That's where Terry's 3133 04:09:43.000 --> 04:09:50.479 got the gram crackers in his ass. Yeah, I mean, are you 3134 04:09:50.639 --> 04:09:54.239 proud of yourself? Pal? You proud of what you put out here? 3135 04:09:54.520 --> 04:10:03.200 What are we witnessing? We're witnessing just a complete deconstruction of society and humanity. 3136 04:10:03.959 --> 04:10:07.840 That's a very dangerous situation we're looking at here, ladies and gentlemen. 3137 04:10:07.079 --> 04:10:13.120 Yeah, this match is a very dangerous situation. The referee, but the 3138 04:10:13.159 --> 04:10:18.760 flaming branding iron raises the hand of that. Nobody cares, say to Black 3139 04:10:18.200 --> 04:10:24.040 on the Dusty Roads versus Terry Funk feud ending of All Year's Boss in two 3140 04:10:24.200 --> 04:10:30.280 thousand and five, pretty amazing. Just four years later, the Hall of 3141 04:10:30.360 --> 04:10:35.479 Fame induction ceremony. When it came time to induct Terry Funk and his brother 3142 04:10:35.600 --> 04:10:39.280 Dorry Funk at the same time into the WWB Hall of Fame, it only 3143 04:10:39.319 --> 04:10:43.879 made sense to give one man the call to induct the Funker. What a 3144 04:10:45.000 --> 04:10:54.079 magical night we have upon us. When you talk about Dori Funk and Terry 3145 04:10:54.200 --> 04:10:58.159 Funk, that's so much to say. Dory Funk held the world's heavyweight tittle 3146 04:11:00.879 --> 04:11:05.040 long years, the only man to hold that title at any length of time 3147 04:11:05.079 --> 04:11:09.879 being and that was the Great Lutairs. Still today he captivates a young audience 3148 04:11:11.079 --> 04:11:16.399 of learning the waves of the world in sports entertainment. He truly in his 3149 04:11:16.680 --> 04:11:20.079 era and his day, Dorry Funk was called what they called in the Old 3150 04:11:20.159 --> 04:11:26.680 West, a shootist, and that's a great honor to even talk about him. 3151 04:11:26.159 --> 04:11:28.760 Terry Funk now is another story. You know what I'm talking about, 3152 04:11:28.879 --> 04:11:33.840 Yep. Terry Funk myself has stood across the ring from each other about three 3153 04:11:33.920 --> 04:11:39.680 thousand times, so many bruises and bumps, so many times I was left 3154 04:11:39.120 --> 04:11:43.200 like I was wasted a wave. But what was always true about Terry Funk. 3155 04:11:43.239 --> 04:11:48.239 He brought the fight to you before it was fashionable to call ourself East 3156 04:11:48.280 --> 04:11:52.639 ced W before Tommy Dreamer stepped up and made E c W a name and 3157 04:11:52.719 --> 04:12:05.120 a household around the world. Terry Funk was extreme, even at a young 3158 04:12:05.239 --> 04:12:11.879 age in our entertainment world as we call it now. Terry Funk exiled also 3159 04:12:11.079 --> 04:12:16.879 world's heavyweight champion. They rode out of West Texas on two horses and captivated 3160 04:12:16.959 --> 04:12:22.840 a whole nation, captivated a whole continent, went all the way international Japan 3161 04:12:22.000 --> 04:12:30.520 were they he erected statues of these two men. They were legendary. You 3162 04:12:30.680 --> 04:12:37.719 call them icons, their national treasures, both of them. When I think 3163 04:12:37.799 --> 04:12:43.520 about the years that we have spent on the road together across from each other, 3164 04:12:43.239 --> 04:12:52.799 and Terry Funkendorfunk calling me an age sucking dog, Jesus, but at 3165 04:12:52.920 --> 04:12:56.159 least he can still call it, you know what I'm saying. But the 3166 04:12:56.200 --> 04:13:03.120 bottom line, I thought a long time about these two guys and the respect 3167 04:13:03.200 --> 04:13:07.239 I have for them, and the respect they have for all of you, 3168 04:13:07.879 --> 04:13:13.040 the fans, And I said to myself, you know that's right, that's 3169 04:13:13.120 --> 04:13:22.879 right. I said, I wonder who's going to be around to take us 3170 04:13:22.079 --> 04:13:31.120 all home when these two cowboys are gone. I want to shoot us the 3171 04:13:31.239 --> 04:13:43.760 other one the last surviving outlaw in captivity, Ladies and Gentlemen is Ananna in 3172 04:13:43.799 --> 04:14:16.239 the Hall of Fame, Dory and Terry the Funks. After an inDrama like 3173 04:14:16.399 --> 04:14:20.600 that, I'll never call him an overburn. I'm not just a sucking dog 3174 04:14:20.719 --> 04:14:26.319 again. They'll make promises he can't keep. Yeah, I'll say, well, 3175 04:14:26.360 --> 04:14:30.520 he wouldn't get many more chances. As Dusty Roads passed away in twenty 3176 04:14:30.719 --> 04:14:33.520 fifteen, Terry Funk was seventy one years old when he lost his old dance 3177 04:14:33.600 --> 04:14:37.840 partner. He told him bus at Open Radio. Dusty had such compassion, 3178 04:14:37.239 --> 04:14:41.239 such love, and he instilled that love into his two kids. You watch 3179 04:14:41.319 --> 04:14:43.920 those kids. I call them kids now and they aren't kids anymore, but 3180 04:14:43.280 --> 04:14:46.520 they are going into their prime now, and you watch them in the next 3181 04:14:46.559 --> 04:14:48.840 ten years, They're going to be very well known in the business. For 3182 04:14:48.920 --> 04:14:50.920 one reason. They idolized Dusty, both of them, and they should have 3183 04:14:50.959 --> 04:14:54.600 idolized him because he was one of the very best in the country. I 3184 04:14:54.719 --> 04:14:58.040 truly believe both of them are just wonderful pieces of talent that are going to 3185 04:14:58.079 --> 04:15:00.680 be pushed to a different level than what they have been. At least I'm 3186 04:15:00.719 --> 04:15:05.559 hoping that they will I think that's the smart thing. Asked when the last 3187 04:15:05.600 --> 04:15:11.079 time he recalled speaking to Dusty Rhodes was, Terry Funk gave an answer that 3188 04:15:11.159 --> 04:15:15.319 I think you would expect, considering the roads he's traveled and the many ponds 3189 04:15:15.360 --> 04:15:18.360 in which he dipped his toe. Oh heck, I don't know what it 3190 04:15:18.600 --> 04:15:22.600 was, probably a year or two ago. That's how we always went. 3191 04:15:24.440 --> 04:15:28.360 Wrestlers are that way. We say we love each other and we say goodbye, 3192 04:15:28.440 --> 04:15:31.639 then we go on to the next town. We don't ever really say 3193 04:15:31.719 --> 04:15:35.319 goodbye, just go to the next town the next day, and whether you 3194 04:15:35.399 --> 04:15:39.079 see those guys, you see them again. I talked him a few times 3195 04:15:39.120 --> 04:15:41.879 through the years, probably a couple of times a year, telling him whatever, 3196 04:15:41.959 --> 04:15:45.319 you know, we're just running into him. We always feel like we're 3197 04:15:45.360 --> 04:15:48.520 going to run into each other again. We never say goodbye. It's just 3198 04:15:48.680 --> 04:15:56.680 like going down the road, you know, good for nothing. Eggs second 3199 04:15:58.280 --> 04:16:15.879 down. Then we did it our way because we love it that way. 3200 04:16:18.280 --> 04:16:23.319 We love it that way, and I have this wonderful gut feeling and I've 3201 04:16:23.360 --> 04:16:27.200 had it all my life when it's time to go. I think it's now 3202 04:16:27.479 --> 04:16:29.639 it's time to go.