Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to the episode thirty of Wickedly Weird
with Jerry and Amanda. I am jose Feliciano.
Speaker 2: I know Amanda only Zuel.
Speaker 3: That's who I am today.
Speaker 1: One thing I know you would not be good at
improv me.
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't expecting you need to do it. I
had a few.
Speaker 1: That's what improv is is not expecting to know what
the next thing coming at someone's mouth.
Speaker 2: Like if it takes me a second, it just takes
me second to realize it's just I'm down.
Speaker 3: Fine, We're gonna move forward. How's it going.
Speaker 1: It's going well.
Speaker 3: I love that for us.
Speaker 1: How was your mother's day?
Speaker 3: It was all right? Was that right? Very like my mom?
Speaker 2: Actually, so my daughter's birthday was on Saturday, so we
kind of did like a birthday slash mother's day thing
on Saturday where my daughter's request was to sleep over
my mom's house. That was like part of our birthday present.
So we picked up a cake, she got her ears peirce.
We made homemade pizza. My stepdad bought a pizza a
pizza oven, and that was delicious, Like it was just
a really good, kind of like low key weekend.
Speaker 3: This weekend coming up, I've got my hands full.
Speaker 2: But other than that, it was just very like, how
is your mother's day weekend?
Speaker 1: Well, I worked the whole town awesome, and I had
Tracy go out to a to rent a booth for
next weekend. So that's how she spent her mother's day.
Speaker 3: Love that you are the man, all right.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm quite the romantic.
Speaker 2: It's really nice. Yeah, Like it wasn't anything crazy. We
just kind of Matt made dinner and that was yeah,
that was that.
Speaker 1: Your daughter, the one whose birthday was is the spitting
image of you.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's Everyone says that everyone's like Jesus Amanda.
I'm like, I know, and it's funny because my son
does look like me, but their instances where he looks
like his dad. But he gets so tanned because he's
got Greek in Italian blood in his body. You wouldn't
know I was because I burned like you would, and
I'm a little roasted marshmallow. He gets so dark that
people question if Matt's his dad because of how all
of the his skin is, and I am like, yes,
that is the one his papa. Like this is not
like that is his dad, because my daughter doesn't get
as dark as my son does, so he looks a
lot like my brother. Actually, my brother used to get
really tan, so I didn't hierret those chines.
Speaker 3: I don't know like my husband does.
Speaker 2: To be fair, he does get dark, but my son
and it lasts like all the way until like mid November.
Speaker 3: So it's like, I've got these pictures of.
Speaker 2: Us and he's like the only one with like this
beautiful tan, nice skin.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what that fun Like? All right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Amanda, I have a mystery for you tonight
that it's one of those kind that you're gonna be like, well,
we don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: But with it murdered? Is it murder? Mystery evening somewhat?
Speaker 2: Guess what I'm gonna be doing in the near future.
What finally got someone to agree to go with me.
We're gonna do the Conjuring House. Oh nice, I finally
got a four soul that's down with the darkness. To
go check it out, Go see what's going on, Go
talk to some people. I'm gonna do the ghost hunting
one because I'm I have, like, I don't know what
my problem is I don't have any fair I just
go in there, like, what's up, let's do it.
Speaker 3: So I'm desensitized. I think, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Don't like I'm ready for it, like I'm ready to
like I'm I contemplated doing the sleepover, but I can't
justify parting with like six hundred bucks to be scared shitless.
Like I'm like, let me just do the torn see
how it goes, because you know how touristy things can get.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be sucked into that like.
Speaker 2: You you're gonna be scared because we're gonna make you
scared type of thing.
Speaker 3: Like I want it to be natural.
Speaker 2: I want something to huh scare me that, Like it's
not someone doing it, right, I just wanted. I want
it to happen all on its own, not someone dressed
up trying to scare me.
Speaker 1: Right. If I want diarrhea, I want to eat some
taco bell and have nature take its course. I don't
and not use an enema.
Speaker 2: That's right. I want the full effect. I don't want
someone to make it happen. I want it to happen naturally.
Speaker 1: All right. That is a fantastic story, and I'm sure
we'll make a great Movie of the Week on ABC
at some point in time. But now can we cover
this story?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, let's go wine Russian. You rushing me?
Speaker 1: All right, So we're gonna go back to May of
nineteen ninety two. After being a professional wrestler for several years,
Canadian Dino Bravo decided to give it up. Are you
familiar with that wrestler, Dino Bravo.
Speaker 3: I don't, but my husband probably does.
Speaker 1: He was really big in the late eighties nineties, back
when all the WrestleMania stuff and Cindy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah then ye, so he was.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, a little after but yeah. So Bravo was
not originally from Canada, that's where he lived. He was
actually from Italy, but he moved to Canada with his
family when he was like pretty His real name was
Adolph Breshano.
Speaker 3: Oh ouch.
Speaker 1: He got interested in wrestling when he was still a child,
and in the nineteen seventies he moved from being an
amateur to being a professional wrestler. So early in his
career he was part of the one of the teams
who actually would win the tag team title, so he
started to get some notoriety and then he kind of
went out on his own and he won the Canadian
heavyweight title. And in the eighties he went to the
WWF for a little bit and left, but then in
the eighties he made his return there and actually became
a pretty popular figure.
Speaker 2: Hm, I'm surprised I don't know him. Matt watches a
lot of wrestling, like I like, no more than I
want to know about wrestling back right, Well, he was.
Speaker 1: Very liked by pretty much everybody. But all good things
come to an end eventually, and after competing in several WrestleManias,
Bravo focused on some technical moves throughout his career, and
he had now pretty much developed into a strong man
of sorts.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, why do I feel like I know who
this is?
Speaker 1: Okay, as the story goes, you'll probably know who it is. Okay,
But he became a fan favorite. But for whatever reason,
WWF decided that Bravo didn't really fit into their future plans,
so he left the ring in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3: I was like three in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you probably don't remember him at his end.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't, Oh but I just googled them.
He does look fairly familiar.
Speaker 1: He started coaching some young athletes that wanted to go
into wrestling, and like many other athletes, he had a
really hard time adjusting to life outside of the sport.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that happens.
Speaker 1: So Bravo had actually spent his entire life up to
that point focusing on wrestling, and now it's just gone, okay,
going to a normal job. I know, I'm a little five,
nine to five job or whatever. That was going to
be almost impossible for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: He had done pretty good financially up to this point,
and he had a really nice house, some sports cars.
It's the kind of stuff you would expect somebody that
was an athlete and had money. Yep, he was married,
he had a young daughter, but he tried to continue
to live that luxurious lifestyle without that kind of money
coming in. Pretty soon, as you could guess, he was broke.
Speaker 3: Oh this happens to all of them, though.
Speaker 1: Yep. His debt became a very serious problem, so much
so that he had to borrow money from his mother
just to support himself.
Speaker 3: That's not great.
Speaker 1: Probably money he gave her to begin with. She probably
just did something smart with it, but Bravo had a
way out, and I'm gonna tell you what that was.
Speaker 3: Right after this quick break, Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: A family member offered Bravo a way out of his
financial problems. Jesus, his aunt had married Vincenzo Noah Chini.
He was a crime.
Speaker 3: Bossy, of course he was. He was.
Speaker 1: He was a crime boss and he was connected to
the five families in New York.
Speaker 3: Oh jeez.
Speaker 1: I also had a short lived wrestling career when he
was young, so they had that in common. Now he
was making money by more nefarious means. We'll say, yeah,
so conachoning. I probably said that wrong the second time.
Had offered Bravo a job multiple times after his retirement,
but Bravo said, you know what, I don't think that's
something I want to get involved with. But yeah, say,
desperate times costs for desperate measures. Right, Bravo gave in,
and he starts by smuggling cigarettes.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, wow, cigarettes, Okay.
Speaker 1: Hey, you guys start lowing to total Paul.
Speaker 3: Guests, I yes, cigarette Okay.
Speaker 1: So Bravo gives in and starts selling these cigarettes. Right.
He then quickly develops pretty much a monopoly on the business.
Speaker 3: It's like he cigarettes. All I guess it was the
nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm sure what he was doing was he
was he was smuggling them into Canada, where they were
more expensive from America, and then he was probably selling
them to stores at a discounted price, so the regular
tobacco companies probably couldn't even sell them to the stores.
That's what I'm assuming, all right, all right, he did
such a good job on this that his work attracted
some people that dealt in more substantial illegal services. So
Bravo agrees to work with these pretty influential people.
Speaker 3: Influential in the bad way.
Speaker 1: Yes, So everything began to go wrong on back in
March of nineteen ninety three, so where I look at it.
A year later, Bravo had left a package at a
warehouse for an associate to pick up. But that is
so we'll see, it didn't arrive for three days.
Speaker 3: What did he get? Did he get? You know?
Speaker 1: Well, but by the time that the associate arrived, the
police had already been and gone. Oh no, Now, of
course the mob was not happy about this.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, hold on, pause, You telling me if
this guy dies it's over fucking cigarettes.
Speaker 3: It's over.
Speaker 1: We're over the cigarettes. Now. Remember he's into the substantial.
Speaker 3: Now we're into the substantial stuff. Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: So the mob was not happy about this, as you
could imagine.
Speaker 2: Well, right, because now that's a problem. I guess, yeah,
you're right. Why would they care about cigarettes? But if
it's cigaweed, they have a problem, right, And it probably
was more than that, probably cocaine, but ciga caine.
Speaker 1: So Bravo of course says, you know, it's the associates
fought for not coming sooner. But you know, in the end,
the mob don't care about that.
Speaker 3: No, they don't want they don't want to hear mouth.
They just want the money.
Speaker 1: They want the money. So in March tenth, Bravo's wife
took their daughter to a ballet lesson. Oh no, Bravo
was watching a hockey game on TV. When his wife
returned home, she found Bravo still sitting there with the
remote in his hand, but his body was riddled with bullets.
Speaker 3: Oh that's horrible. Did did his daughter see it?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming no. There was no sign of forced entry.
There were no tracks in the fresh snow outside, so
it's believed that he obviously knew the killer because he
must have let them in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, then how come there's no footprints.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, he could have had a cleaned
off sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but even wouldn't you wouldn't there be something something indications.
Speaker 1: No, how they managed to escape without being seen is unclear,
and they left behind no evidence whatsoever. So let's just
say what we're all thinking. The mob killed him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an inside job. They did any They
were pissed off and they said boom.
Speaker 1: But the gunman or whoever put the hit out on
him has never been figured out.
Speaker 3: But that's why they're hit men. Yes, you could be
your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2: You don't, You don't know, you really don't could be,
you know, especially those people that you don't really know
what they do for work, but they swim in dough
and you're like, how what do you do?
Speaker 3: What is your professions there?
Speaker 1: And they always try to say they work for the CIA.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, like I own my own business, and
you're like and what and they're just like stocks and
I sell things on the internet and you're.
Speaker 3: Like, no, you you are. You are a.
Speaker 2: Criminal for sure, Like there's this part in Massachusetts, very beautiful.
It's I call it de luxebury, but it's Duxbury And
you should go google some of their houses, be like
Duxbury homes in Massachusetts is insane, and like I always
wonder like are they really lawyers? Like there's this one
house that's beautiful. It's got a little gated little house.
It's huge, it's like a mini mansion. And I've always wondered,
what do you do, sir?
Speaker 3: Like, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Maybe they maybe he supplements his income by selling things
on posh.
Speaker 2: Maybe he supplements his things by selling body parts on
the internet. Too much crime, because that's where my brain went.
I'm like, you know what, probably killing people in his basement.
Speaker 1: That's anyways, That's all I've got for today, unless you've
got something else to chime in on.
Speaker 3: I didn't really have anything. My dog ate a wish.
So do you know those?
Speaker 1: What's wish?
Speaker 2: I don't know what a wish flower is? You know,
you blow them when all the wishes.
Speaker 1: Go, those are called dandelions.
Speaker 2: Well I called those wishes, and my dog ate a wish.
He did, he ate some wishes and then.
Speaker 1: He shut out some dreams.
Speaker 2: Oh, he diarrhea had some dreams and I was just like,
you know, I wish you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did. He ate a couple of them.
Speaker 2: Actually, it was brought to my attention when I like
to see something out of the corner and I'm like,
what is the cat?
Speaker 3: And he had them? What? Hello?
Speaker 1: I lost you for a second.
Speaker 3: That was weird. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so he had wishes on his nose and
around his mouth.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I would like to say that.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it caught me off guard because
he was like sneezing and being weird, and I'm like,
what the fuck? He had like just wishes all over
his face, And I'm like, you know, my life with
this husky. He's a tree, He's a treat.
Speaker 3: Nice fucking dick. How is your papa doing, Papa, your puppee?
Speaker 1: She peed the other night on that comforter. She never
does that. She ran upward little steps to get to
the top of the bed and then she just sit
there and squatted real quick. I think she just got nervous,
and I yanked the blankets off real quick so it
wouldn't get to the mattress.
Speaker 2: Oh, what the hell you must want to murder? Stuff
like that gets me going.
Speaker 1: I did because I was so tired and I couldn't
wait to go to bed. And I had just walked
in the bedroom.
Speaker 3: And she peede and you just wanted to strangle her.
Speaker 1: I did, because then I had to pull all that off,
and then I had to get new blankets and sheets.
Speaker 2: And my dog is thirteen and that mofo. I'll take
them outside for fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Uncle the bathroom. Uncle.
Speaker 2: It comes in and promptly squats right on my floor.
I'm like, Wow, you're a real treat. I love you
so much. Sweedie yeap as I'm trying to pin then
he's stepping in it, and I'm like, you know, I
can really see this hend in real bad.
Speaker 3: If you don't get away from me.
Speaker 1: At least your dog's oh you know, like you'll get
a young dog and they'll poop on the floor and
it's like rip their nose in it. And I'm like, yeah,
that might be fine if you don't have like a
rot waller or a pit.
Speaker 2: I'm not rubbing, but first of all, like sometimes I
think they might be nervous like, I live right on
a very busy like street. It's technically like very busy.
It's a very very busy like area, and like trucks
go by, their heavy machinery trucks and stuff, and it
scares me sometimes, so I can only imagine like how
he feels. So like I'm like, all right, well you're
trying to shit in. This's a big giant eighteen wheeler
coming by.
Speaker 3: I get it. I understand.
Speaker 1: My ex wife, I can remember the dog would like
poop in the floor and she'd like look at the
dog and be like, did you poop in the floor? No, honey,
aunt Rose shit in the floor? Like no, you're asking
a question that's a redundant question, and the dog's not
going to answer you.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Sometimes my husband will say it and I'll pretend to
be the dog. I'll be like, no, it wasn't to me.
I always give him like a British accents. I swear
to god, he would be British and he'd also be
a pompous ass.
Speaker 3: But it's fine.
Speaker 2: I'll never get a husky again ever. Zero out of
ten stars. Very difficult to train. They get bored really easy.
They ruined like he has taken five steps forward and
five steps back. And this was a thing for the
longest time with him. I had to train him to
ring a doorbell. We got sick of the doorbell, so
then it was let me tar at the door like
it was just a lot.
Speaker 3: But now he's old and can barely sit, so I
don't really get too mad at him anymore.
Speaker 1: You can't get mad at him now, No, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Think it's a good boy. Here.
Speaker 2: Have this Charleston chew that you shouldn't have, like, you know,
Charleston che I had a freeze dried Charleston chew.
Speaker 3: Can I just tell you that experience?
Speaker 1: Yes, you ever have?
Speaker 3: Like ever have like space food?
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, it's kind of similar to that, But it
was a Charleston chew.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, it is so good.
Speaker 1: I dried candy all the time, but it's more like
skittles and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yep. No skittles, Nope, absolutely not. Nope.
Speaker 2: I had a freeze dried preppermint patty and I had
a freeze dried Charleston chew and oh, my Lanta the most.
Speaker 1: What is your problem with skittles?
Speaker 3: Do you know that they're terrible for your body? You know?
Speaker 1: My God. As much shit as you just talked about eating,
you're gonna talk about it. Skittles are bad for your body.
Speaker 2: It is terrible about for your body. Okay, it's terrible
for you. But Charleston chees, however, have calcium, vitamin A, zinc.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 1: Charleston chews have probably been banned in every country except America.
Speaker 3: Well, they're delicious skittles.
Speaker 1: Here's my philosophy. What if the only place you can
find that is it the dollar tree or the dollar store?
Speaker 3: Need it?
Speaker 1: It shouldn't. It shouldn't be bought.
Speaker 3: Well, do you also want to know something fun Nerds?
Speaker 2: Nerds clusters are just plastic. I mean, it's pretty much
a great above plastic. It's delicious, though, I'll eat all
the plastics.
Speaker 1: The nerds gummy clusters are phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Tell me about it. What's your favorite color?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Pink, blue, yellow, which I do too. I think yellows.
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a yellow.
Speaker 2: There is a yellow, and I found it. It was
our unicorn in the wild, and I found it and
I got it.
Speaker 3: I was a little disappointed.
Speaker 1: I think you just had a blue one that had
been in the sun too long and it bleached or something.
That's probably why it was bad.
Speaker 3: Bleached, bleached and bleach.
Speaker 1: We're just rambling now.
Speaker 3: Let's get off here, a right bye,