041524 430 Mr Dallas

 One of the most famous wife-swappers in history has passed away and he has ties to the Texas Rangers! 

Episode Transcript

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man. What about Ham. It'sthe speakeasy on ninety seven one the Freak.

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All right, let's see it isfour thirty five. This is ninety
seven won the Freak. You werelistening to the speaks. We'll have a
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I mean, everybody has things thatthat you know, you just can't
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somebody, A few things are better, I don't know, man. So
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on the talk back and we'll listento some of these in the next segment.
But right now here he is dutyduty, mister Dallas, Dallas,

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Texas. Mister Dallas, Dallas,Texas. Is Union Tower, White Rock
Lake, the Galleria, Dallas,Texas. Leave the Harvey Oswall Walker,
Ray Strip Gloves Dallas, Txon Dallas, Texas, Mister Dallas, Dallas,

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Texas. Mister Dallas, Dallas,Texas. Mister Dallas. Oh no,
man ox Hi, Hi, misterDallas. How's it going pretty good?

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Fine? Everything? All right,there's a little guy in there. Little
guy's doing good. You're talking aboutgreen By. Yeah, I'm mister d
Yeah, that's mister Denton. Okay, cool, Yeah, it's pretty dismissive.
You don't sound impressed. Well,I have a story for you today.
Taking some liberties here. Oh,because I'm mister Dallas, and we

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are here to discuss the death ofa noted baseball player who is a former
Ranger. Great, but he isfar far better known for another episode in
his baseball career, which we'll getto in just a little bit. Josh

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Hamilton. No, but it soundslike, uh, he's your kind of
guy, and me, Oh yeah, not the kid beating stuff but no
no, no drugs and partying.Oh yeah, running out of slock.
So I'm a party boy, youknow. Yeah, he's kind of the
original Rashi Rice. He was thefirst guy to run up the seventy five
service Road. Josh was oh getother things. Yeah, well. Frinz

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Peterson played only one year with theRangers. In fact, he finished his
career with them. He played fornumerous years in the major leagues. Made
his big league debut in nineteen sixtysix with the Yankees, and he played

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most of his career with them.Bounced around a little bit. I think
there was a stint with the Idon't want to say the Orioles, but
I'm not sure about that. Isee Yankees Klee. Yeah yeah, Clee.
That's right. Well, we coulduse Fritz on the team even dead

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three three e. R Man's betterthan what we got. The pictures probably,
no, they're alive. You know. He was a guy who had
who wasn't a star or anything.He had one really good year where he
was clearly one of the best pitchersin the league with the Yankees, but
for the most part, he wasa guy who would you know, if
he was your number three, numberfour started, then you probably had a

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pretty decent rotation. But he finishedhis career with the Rangers. However,
whatever he might have done on thefield was clearly overshadowed by some of the
chicanery that he got into off offof it. Why whatever do you mean?

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Well, they made known in Marchof nineteen seventy three that he,
Fritz Peterson, and another teammate,another Yankees pitcher named Mike Kekache were presently

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living in each other's house, witheach other's wife and each other's kids.
Wife swap the wife, swap swapkids. Now you can imagine I think

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just how much chaos this must havecaused up there in that New York where
they had the big media. Theyhave about four or five newspapers and everything,
and they got big TV, bigradio, big everything. Yeah,
you can imagine just what they didwith this everything, every big story that

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happened, like pre two thousand.I just wish Twitter was around. When
two teammates showed up to spring trainingand announced, yeah, we traded.
I'm with his wife, he's withmine. You're like, oh, I
guess that could happen. Yeah,his kids are at my house. My

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kids are at his house. Weswitched it all up. What The headline
in the New York Daily News read, two yank pitchers trade wives Peterson keck
it shurld changeup. Wow. Isee that is journalists, dude, and
that sucks for one of them.Change up because I got news for you.

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They did not have this happen becausethey just one day were like,
hey, bro, I was thinkingI like your wife better than mine,
I like your kids better than mind, and the other goes like me too.
No, it started because one ofthe wives and one of the players,
we're hooking up. Yeah, ithad to usually how it goes.
Then the other two just look ateach other and shrug. Right, It's

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like, well, I guess ifthey cheated on us with each other,
we should cheat. And it's likeand then the ones who did it first
are like, oh, hell yeah, you guys want to just switch that
and they're like, crap. Itjust happened with Amy Roeboch and TJ.
Holmes, the Good Morning America anchorsthat were cheating on their spouses, and
then they ended up wanting to betogether. Oh yeah, and then those

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are their spouses got together. Idon't know if they're still together, but
it happens, man, and Ithink it's probably a subconscious or not even
sub uh, like, oh yeah, well, then we'll date each other,
right, and the people who leftyou for each other, like,
we don't we don't care we leftyou. Guys, they're not hurting me

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like they're I don't know, they'renot as rattled by the first couple because
now they're hooking up. So it'slike telling the first couple what you did
was kind of okay, because we'redoing it too well. Now here's how
this was mapped out in the NewYork Times, the way it happened.
Okay, okay, I want itbecause I need these beats. The two

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men, who each had two youngchildren, had known each other since nineteen
sixty nine, after Kekech was tradedto the Yankees by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
So Peterson's already there. Kekch comesover in a trade, right,
They'd become close friends, had gottento know each other's wives, and by
the summer of nineteen seventy two,we're discussing the evident fact that Peterson and

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Suzanne Kekech had fallen in love.Okay, see there it is. There's
your first domino is my wife lovesyou and you clearly are into my wife.
You said, up a bitch,bud wait as had Kekech and Marilyn
Peterson, No chance simultaneously they allfall in love with the other one.
Nope, absolutely not. That's theway this is presented here. I predict

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that Fritz and Suzanne that really happened, and the other two went oh crap,
And I believe that evidence will beborn out later in this story.
The solution was for the men toswitch not just wives, but families,
with the kek Just daughters five yearold Kristen and two year old Reagan joining

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their mother at Peterson's house, andthe Peterson sons, five year old Greg
and two year old Eric moving inwith Kekech. So the kids were forced
to move houses. Yeah, seemslike the dad could just move into their
house. Yeah, it should havejust been a Well, it depends because

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it depends on the level of player. Because if I'm Fritz, who's probably
the better player, I probably havethe better head house, and I'd like
I'm keeping my house. Yeah,I ain't coming to your house. Yeah,
I think kek Itch might have beena former arranger. Great too,
let me take a look. Youhave to swim through here. Let's take
a look anyway. And interviews atthe time, the couples both said that

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the so called scandal was hardly scandalous. Kekitch said it wasn't a wife swap,
it was a life swap. Boy, they were almost rangers together.
Kekitch was a ranger in seventy five, Fritz in seventy six. Wow,
we're not saying we're right and everyoneelse who thinks we're wrong or wrong.

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It's just the way we felt.It's not the way everyone felt. There's
no way. Well, unfortunately,alas sometimes what you think is real love
turns out to be not so real. Oh and the relationship between Mike Kekch

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and Marilyn Peterson shortly after it wasmade public, see kind of like the
Golden Bachelor. See what happened isFritz and Suzanne we're into each other.
The other ones pretended to be intoit because they were defeated, and they
were like, I don't actually likeyou, and he's like me neither.
I was like I miss my hubby, Like I missed my wife. It's

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like, well, we're breaking up. Meanwhile, Fritz Peterson and Suzanne Kekch
we're married in nineteen seventy four andremained so and she survives him. Do
you think she'll go back to Mike? Now? Hold on, let me
see if is he alive? MikeKekch is alive? Do you think she

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finds her way home? I thinkshe does. That says is he married?
So I don't know. Let mechecked Mike kek Itch here, just
give me another shot here, Okay, I don't see anything about a spouse
when his wiki. Uh yeah,I think Ke is going to get his

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wife back in the end, she'llcome back. I'm confused who ended up
with who? Fritz ended up withMike's wife and they stayed together forever.
Okay, after the swap they okay, Mike Kekch and Fritz's old wife broke
up pretty much immediately after they'd swam, And we have no idea where she's

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at. No, she went outsideof the circle to find love. I
don't know if she's famous enough tohave a wiki page on the show.
I didn't know that was an option. I thought these humans could only choose
from each other. That's one aboutSusanne and Mike the seventies. Like this
kind of stuff was maybe a littleWasn't this kind of like normal swapping,

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swapping, swinging, mixing it up? I wouldn't say it was normal,
but I don't know. It's kindof when this sort of thing first really
became out there, you know,But I don't think you can say this
sort of thing like swinging. Yeah, slopping a family is extreme. Fritz

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stole that man's whole life, andMike had to pretend that he liked it.
That ain't my trust, Mike.All I can think about was just
driving by Wait, he's still inhis same house, right, the guys
stayed in their same houses. Yeah, so he's just driving by Fritz's house

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every night. Yeah, sad,pretending that he likes Fritz's wife but he
doesn't. Just missing Suzanne deeply,but he's gonna call her today. The
kid's okay? Out of all this. Oh that's I don't know where are
the journalists that are doing the followups on this? Maybe he's dead.
Someone needs to go because I can'tfind anything on the marriage that didn't work
with Mike Kekch and Marilyn Peterson.I can't find anything about her. I

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know he's alive, but they're nottogether. I think Mike gets Suzanne back,
and in the long rund, Ithink Mike right now is figuring out
when is Fritz's service. He's goingto take a dump on the grave as
soon as it's in the ground,and he's gonna go bone as old new
wife. You think he wants togo back to his old I think he's

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gonna get Suzanne back. I don'tthink he wants Susanne. I think he
just swing through and be like,yeah, you picked the guy who she
want him right after all that time. I mean they obviously weren't into each
other initially do the old swap,and now they're a little bit older and
everything. What does that mean?Yeah? What are you an old guy

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saying that you don't want to bangold people? No? No, not
at all. Okay, that's notwhat he said. No, they said
they're old, like that means theycan't get together. Well, no,
I mean it's I think it's afair question of whether or not they'd want
to. Yeah, you know,having already you know, plowed those grounds
and everything, okay. I meanit's been a while. Field is he

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could have changed crop six times.But no, yeah, yeah, he
could have. He got so boredover her he dated his or married his
teammate's wife and swapped. I don'tthink he wants to go back to her,
but I don't think these years,I don't think he got bored like
they're the ones that it didn't workalmost immediately. I think his wife fell
in love with his teammate and lefthim for that guy, and he had

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to take what was left to makeit sound like that was okay, and
then they broke up. And nowfifty years later, he's got another crack
at the love of his life.Hills heartbroken. Yeah. Following the exchange
of families, Kekage was traded toCleveland in June. Oh and then they
had to go to Cleveland and Petersonwas booed by fans throughout nineteen seventy three

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before also being shipped to Cleveland innineteen seventy four. Oh, No,
they were teammates again, because Ithink the they were friends, sage girls
were friends. I think that's alla lot that they were friends and what
I think, it's all a lot. I think the girls are like calling
each other to give each other tipsabout how to raise the kids. I

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don't know, I don't know.In his post baseball career, Peterson was
an insurance salesman and a blackjack dealer, and wrote two other books, Won
The Art of Deconditioning, Eating YourWay to Heaven and the Other Words.

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When the Yankees were on the Fritz, Oh god, see then see what
he did? Yeah? Yeah,yeah, if you if we could,
like the one serious angle about this, how do you just give up your
kids? Like when he got traded, When Mike Keketch gets traded to Cleveland,
but Fritz's kids are living with him, Mike really left town without his

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children and took someone else's kids withhim. Like, are these the worst
two dads of all time? Yes, it's pretty bizarre, pretty bizarre.
Wow, look at this. Sothis article that I'm looking at said that

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after at some point, I guess, after this happened, Kekch told the
New York Times it wasn't a wifeswap, it was a life swap.
It wasn't a sex thing. Petersontold this art of this newspaper that the
trade was Kekech's idea Kekch preferred awife with more education, while Peterson was
pleased that Suzanne Kekech could quote domany athletic things. Okay, okay,

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what's done? Just about everything?Haven't you sex? Well? It was
he talked about two feet behind thehead. Yeah, and was like,
I hate listen to her talk.And he's like, I don't care what
she says. If she can dopreferred a wife with more education, Then
why'd you marry this chick in thefirst place? Because it was the seventies

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and the seventies. If you weredating somebody in high school ended the rules
where you got married. Yeah.And then he's like, actually, you
can't hold the conversation different time,Jewels. You just had to have been
there child and her tricks had runtheir course. Fritz was like, I
ain't seen them tricks. My wife'ssuper smart bores the hell out of me.

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Take that all right, So Fritzand Suzanne are just stupid but fun.
Yeah. Well. The Fritz Petersonera coincided with one of the more
miserable stretches and Yankees, his Hall. They weren't even good. He played
eight full seasons in New York.The Yankees never finished higher than second,

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and we're over five hundred, justfour times. Mickey Mantle, the last
vestige of sustained Yankee glory retired attendance. Yankee Stadium slid to its lowest since
World War Two, just before GeorgeSteinbrenner and other investors bought the team from
CBS, which sold it at aloss. Yeah, that wouldn't have happened

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to their George's watch, No,no chance. He'd have been like,
go back to your houses or else. Rest in peace to the wife swapping
Yankee pitcher Fritz Peterson. Yes,and the former Ranger great. Actually,
Mike kekache is a former Ranger greattoo, as we find out. Yeah,

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back to back years. Boy,wouldn't have been cool if that would
have happened here. Well, they'veonly one couple was still together at that
point. Yeah, yeah, Icouldn't have I want to get Mike kekech
on. Jones would have a lotof good stuff to work. She would
have loved it to. This hasworked before. If anyone out there knows
how to get a hold of Mikekekech we sure would love to have him

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on. Yeah, DM me somewhereon social I want to get ahold of
Mike Keyes hit one of us.Tell him it's about baseball. Don't tell
tell him. I want to knowif he wants Susannah back or Suzanne.
I don't want to get to thebottom of all this, all right,
see you guys later. I gottago. Mister Dallas, good to see
you, miss. All right,coming up next, it's time for fun
drive on a Monday, and thename of the segment is I don't know

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