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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The finest among you will remember this as the theme
song for the Junkyard Dog JYD Grabbed Them Cakes by
Captain Camellion and there's somebody out there. You cannot help yourself.
You are the ultimate quibbler. So it's going on. Uh,
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it was another one bout the death, Michael, there's another one,
but the death. If you got it wrong, we need
to know you got it wrong. That was his original
theme song. And then Captain Chameleon they commissioned a unique
theme song specific to the JYD and it was Grabbed
(00:43):
Them Text by Captain Cameleon. And the reason we're discussing this,
if you were wondering, is because my friends got Kutac
sent me a message unprompted.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Did I mention Junkyard Dog earlier? Did I okay? Out
of nowhere?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It sends me a picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a
black leather jacket with sparkles on it and kind of
cream colored piping on the wrist and a cream colored lapel,
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black leather, cream colored thick lapel and then in the
middle of the lapel on both sides black dollar sign
and it kind of looks like kind of a tuxedo
style deal because he's got a black bow tie and
a white shirt underneath it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's absurd. I mean, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And he wrote Junkyard Dog was the best man in
Ted Dibiassi's wedding, just thought you should know. And now
I can't stop thinking about that. I mean, let's say
you went to high school.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
With Ted Dibiassi and y'all, y'all remained friends over the.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Years, and and it's it's time for his wedding, and
you don't know if he'll invite you, because you know
he's kind of moved on, he's got a whole different life.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But but he.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Does invite you, and you're going to the wedding. Is
your old buddy Ted?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know you're not, You're not thinking of him as
as anything.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Other than your old buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ted, but you do know that he's on TV. You've
seen him there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And there you are, and you know you're expecting maybe
it's just gonna be the guys from high school or
or whatever that looks like. And then you look around
and you see the jy I D like, what do
you do when you wait until he's in line to
get his food?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And you slide right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Up there behind her. Oh, yeat pork chops? They got
they got pork chops here? Oh excuse me, Hi, how
are you? I'm Michael, you are a Sevester ritter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I thought you was the jy d Well. I am
the jy d.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't realize Ted Dibiossi's still alive, did you? He's
a preacher. He's only seventy one years old. How can
he only be seventy one years old? Wow? I thought
he had to be one hundred and fifteen, says. He
assigned to WWE as of twenty twenty four, where he
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works in their Legends program. He held thirty titles during
his professional wrestling career. You know what we're gonna do
real quick. Die those numbers. We're not going to do
it for long. We're going to I'm going to go
to you and you're gonna name your favorite wrestler. Now,
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the way this works, it's a high call volume. So
just assume you're on the line. If you hear anything,
I'll say your name and you say, you know, hug
hold unbrother or whatever that is for your favorite wrestler.
I'm fine, You're fine, Get right to it. Don't worry
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if we can hear you don't. We don't need a
time of day. You just it's like a roll call.
You just you just say the name of your wrestler.
It's it's not any polite exchange of how's the weather
going to go right to it?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Does that make sense? Jim?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, Jim. Because this is your first time to
screen in a while, you don't need.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
To write down what they say.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Just pick it up and put them on hold. If
you can just get their first name. But if we
fall behind, you can just put them on hold. Because
it's a high that imension is a high call volume.
Seven three nine nine nine one thousand. Your favorite wrestler,
if they've got a thing or whatever. The minute you
give your answer, you will be dropped to make space
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for someone else.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So don't call back and go, hey, I think y'ad. No, no,
you were dropped.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's the way this game works. And if it works perfectly,
then it's a beautiful thing. If it doesn't, then I
lose my mind. So please don't be a contributor to
me losing my mind. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three one thousand. The closest place.
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I don't know if they ever brought wrestling to Beaumont.
I don't think my mother entirely approved of me going
to wrestling. But my buddy Ben Wernig, his parents were
taking him and his brothers, and I got to tag
along and we went to Lake Charles and saw I
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see the Samoans were there that night.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Jay i did was there.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because he was my favorite. Well, those were some good times.
I don't watch wrestling now, but I'll tell you, I'd
love to see the numbers. But I'll bet you. I'll
bet you the numbers on the the vote totals. You know,
Trump won every swing state, every swing state, that's was
(06:24):
it seven?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That's one thing to win in one place because you
flood to market or you know something's going on with
a particular every.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Single one of them.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And part of how he got there is a coalition.
He picked up more black votes, he picked up more
women votes, he picked up more Hispanic votes. I think
some of that you get to by things like having
been involved with with with the wrestling candate.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
All right, your costs come up.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Gilbert writes the law should be amended to declare about
these rainbow markings at the intersection. That rainbow paid markings
at the intersection or any other section of a roadway
shall require all traffic to turn any direction it pleases,
but may not continue straight.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's funny, all right, your favorite wrestler, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Here the music, mister mud whatever that may be, all right,
be quick, be awesome, get right to it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Seven one three one thousand, Sendy, you're up, goat?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Sheepherders Rich Miller and Luke Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I do you exbout to get girls? We got two girls. Melanie,
you're up, Goat.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I got Rick Flair and the viper Randy Orton.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Jason, You're up, Goat.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He was the man of ours, the man with the power,
superstar Billy Graham.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
See I like that. He got into character on us
Fort and Barry.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You're up, got.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Stein nineteen eighties, blondhaired spikey Stein.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
He reincarnated himself later in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Caleb, you're up, Goat.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I'm John Cena.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You want some? Come get some?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You know, I do like the John Cena covering the
face motion whatever that is that he came up with.
Seven one three one thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Collar You are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Go Wayne Martin, three times national champion wrestler. I am
so impressed at all these girls calling.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I did not expect that Tim.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You're up, go Jacob Snake Roberts.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And I was wondering if he was going to get
a mention. Jimmy, you're up, go, Josh, You're up, Go.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Wahoo McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There's always a Wahoo McDaniel voter in the crowd.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Troy, who you got, Hacksaw Jim Diggan.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
There you go, ata boy, hacks Saw jea that puts
a smile on my face. The problem is that I'm
at an age now that every time I try to
do my hack Saw Jim Dougan, I say dugging, I
hit my elbow onto my hand in such a manner
that it it get a sharp pain.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So I had to kind of had to hold back
from my hack Saw Jim Dougan days. Shawn your up goat.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Basically saying one I wanted.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I wanted hat Saw Doom, dugging.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You can have more than one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Uh, Steve your turn brother.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Goat ritold Romero, old school.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's old school before my time.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
David, what say you, sir, Hey, it was old hack Saw.
Kim Duggin too, ain't no, that's okay, keep them coming, Greg,
your turn. Darren Williams.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I don't know that I remember Darren Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Did he have a nickname? Is that him or us? Huh? Okay,
I can't hear for crap.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Caller, you're up, go, Hacksaw, Jim Duggan.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm happy to see the hacks all getting so many votes.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Brad, what you got?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Jake the Snake Roberts, Roberts getting two votes today.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Caller, you're on go? Maybe that's Bill Who McDaniel wah.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Who's a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think he's more popular here for some reason. I
don't know why. Call her You're up, got, Doctor def
Steve Williams.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
They're going deeper than I expected.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I kind of like that. Larry, you're up go.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I think Putski.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Nobody Davis that is their favorite. Uh. There's got to
be some folks out there that are saying, well, I
grew up in the state to Washington, or I grew
up in Boston, so.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You're not going to recognize ours.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We want to hear them. James, you're up go? Whoa
I don't know what was the deal with the Astros
a few years ago or Josh Reddick. Yes, after the game, man,
it would be ear piercing. They'd be screaming so loud.
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That dude shows up at more plays. You know what,
I think he's on Kenny Duncan Junior's payroll at US Coins.
Katy Duncan Jr. Did a customized player's card, a coin
and all that. I think he's I think he's on
a full time payroll with with US Coins.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Cheryl, You're up, got Tylvie Rogers very technical. How did
you get into wrestling?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I watched it with my dad and then a friend
of nine, the Pom I went to wrestling match.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's what I wanted to hear that you you did
it with your dad. I think that's cool.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Is that tie?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yes, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant, there's a documentary
out on him that is downright tragic. The pain that man,
Jim and I were talking about during the break, How
different wrestling was back then. The money it wasn't the
money that they have today. And in order to make
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it a viable business, they had they lived on the road.
It was town to town to town twice on Sunday,
and it took a toll on their bodies.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kevin Europe, go.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ivan, Ivan Pusky.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
To Ivan Pusky, joke's answers today. I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Damon your turn.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Sir, i'man Putski Polish power.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, make that three are all these?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's interesting how little pockets of fandom arise for folks. Robert,
what say you?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Kamala?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Harris the Uganda headhunt?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
This?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Indeed? You know what was funny when when I'd get
people who would email and they go, hey, does nobody
remember that we already had one?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Come on and Harris, Deborah, you're up, sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Go yet?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Bill Maxgress?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And where did you watch wrestling?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
But that was a Sunday Night's stable with Paul Boss.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Back in the day, our family always watched Houston wrestling.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you remember seeing Mattress Mac on there?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I do remember seeing him on there. I did you know?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Uh, his face lights up when you bring up those days.
Call her from Rowing Oak, Virginia. You're up?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh, Ricky Steamboat actually got to catch him when he
passed out after a match.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There you go that's a memory. Alan, what say you?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Ivan Putski?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Goodness, that's like five for him.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Mike, you're up, go gorgeous, Gino, Hernandez Houston Wrestling.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Paul Bosh, Yes, indeed, Paul Bosh Boll. That's that name.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You can mention that name and people have flooded with memories. David,
you're up, Bruno, Sam Martino.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Uh, Kevin, you're up.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
American Dream Dusty Rhodes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Dusty Rhodes with his first appearance. I'm a little disappointed
that he didn't do better than that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Thomas go the Steiner Brothers.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I went to school with him.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh, well there you go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Jayu King says, I didn't go to high school with
Ted dB Ossi, but I went to college with his son.
The million dollar man lived in town. Used to come
out and work work out on campus. All right?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
One more seven, one three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Somewhere some drunk of sand. Why ain't talking about rastling?
Probably about something I want. We did quilting last week.
Just calm down, I'm doing rastling right now. Your favorite
make it quick? Extra points if you do it in
their character, or at least add some flare to it
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one way or another.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ron, You're up, goat Fritz Man Eric and his Iron Claw.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay, that's crazy. Jim and I were just saying we
couldn't believe that hadn't been brought up.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Wow. Okay, And just like that, Mark, You're up, goat.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
There is a difference in raffling and wrestling.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You need to make a distinction there.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
You called to tell me that, Yeah, I did, because
he keeps talking about raffling with an A and it's
wrestling with an E. Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You were listening to the show and you thought, listen to.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You every damn day. Okay, I better. I better move
on before I do something I regret.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Mike, You're up, go.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
The King.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Jerry Lawler, mid South Colisseum best fight, well one of
the most favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, sir, Wes, E're up go.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
My two men's going to get your Randy Savage. Oh
that's our first Randy Savage, isn't it. I think that's
our first Randy Savage. That surprises me.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Tony, You're up go.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
To Ray.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, I know. Jody, You're up go the Ultimate Warrior.
I like I like when they're just doing nicknames.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
They're like, you don't you don't need real I just
got give you any nickname?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Is it that?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That is who he is.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
David, you're up, Go, Dick the Bruiser, that's what my anyway,
Ken you're up, go, Johnny Valentine and peppergo Mass Senior,
Pepper Go Mess Senior. My goodness, Caller, you're up, go.
Bruce the barber, Beef Kake.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Jim, can you can you pot this? Not the background music?
Can you pot the callers up? Probably my own failings,
but I can't hear them.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mark, You're up go two.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Years a much man, Randy Savage.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So we had no Randy Savages and now we got
two in a row. Crazy Gerard or Gerald or something
with a G. You're up go.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'van Putski the Polish power was the security guard at
my high school.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Had a few run ins with.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Them, which was what high school.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Jackson Hayes High School, Austin, Texas Beta Actually.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Was he as big as you expected him to be
in real life.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not the tallest, but he definitely had some arms on him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Interesting, he has more votes than anyone else today. That
was not on my Bengo, card Gabriel, Europe's Meil Neil.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
M Meil mauskarras actor and wrestler from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Did he wrestle here?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, yeah, yeah, he was with Paul Bosh.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I believe he did a couple of a couple of
fights with Paul Bosh over there at the Stims.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Just I'll see him way back when.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Interesting, Okay. I people were sometimes surprised at my lack
of knowledge of what was going on in Houston before
I got here. But I didn't arrive till eighty nine,
so for people that grew up in Houston, we didn't
have the exact same upbringing. I wasn't watching Paul Bosher
on local TV, so I wasn't and I wasn't aware
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of what was Most of what I know of those
eras I know from conversations I've had with people here
who live through it, and from reading and researching it,
but that wasn't what came on the local TV and
out of kfdm Our Wrestling was mid South, out of
Lake Charles Don.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Go ahead, Wallhoo McDaniels.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
McDaniels with two votes. He normally does better too.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Troy go ahead, Scott Chersey, all right, Scott, you're up,
Go ahead, Victor Bruiser, Uh Darla, e're up?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Bull Curry?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Who Bull Curry?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't even know who that Jim?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I doesn't even ring a bell? Where did you watch wrestling?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Actually?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I watched wrestling when it was and I'm seventy one
years old now, so it's old.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
How old do you think you were when you were
watching that?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't I don't know. I would have been had
to been very young.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Interesting. I think Matt got involved in about eighty or so,
eighty eighty one, I believe that's right. I think that's
about when he started. Yeah, because last year was his
forty four year anniversary, So yeah, I think he started
in eighty. He might have started in late seventy nine
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or early eighty.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Nick, you're up, go Georgia, Animal Steel.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You gotta have nicknames. How does somebody just have a
you know, Aaron Williams. You gotta have a nickname, like
like you're a mafia boss, Sammy the Bull, gw Goat.
I love you, brother love, brother love.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I got a story there, I'll tell you later on.
Go ahead, Dory fulk senor with his spinning toe hold.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Don't remember some of these I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think they might have been Houston rastlers that just
didn't make it across my TV. Jeff, go.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Rowdy, Roddy Piper rowdy, right, I.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Think I think you're the first vote for him. Surprisingly,
call her you're up.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Go, pork Chop Cash, great name.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Call her you're up go.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Wret the hit Man Heart.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh sorry, try that again, Thomas Wreck to hit Man Heart.
I love it all right, Jim, don't let them give
you an opinion. Just get their name, Just what's your
name and put them on home. Dennis, you're up.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Go the Honky tonk Man.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Don't be cruel baby.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Aaron, you're up.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Go.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm disappointed Hacksaut did can get more votes. Russell go,
Professor Boris Malenko.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
See those days were so great.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
These these great hype man they're pure entertainers. They're Carnival barkers.
They're fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They got it. Roger go the joke Yard doll.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yes, there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's call the day.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Mary you're up go, Yes, Chief James Strobo and Bruno
Saint Martino.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That's two votes for Bruno. Call her you're up, Go.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I remember Bull Curry from Houston and I'm seven and
nine and uh, my uncle and Paul Bosh were good friends.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love it. Thanks for the call, my man, very show.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Ivan Putsky was born Joseph bed Narski at the nicknames
of Polish Power as a number of folks who called in.
I think we had eight called in for seven or
eight or the Polish Hammer. He was a WWF World
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Tag Team Champion with Tito Santana. Had a famous feud
with superstar Billy Graham over the WWF championship, which led
to many arm wrestling bouts and long matches between the two.
Other rivals included the Iron Shape, Ivan Cooloff, and Jesse Ventura,
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who would refer to Putsky as Podusky. Putsky was the
first Polish wrestler to perform in the WWF. Putsky was
born in Krackow, Poland immigrated the US at a young age.
He and his family arrived in Texas, where he began
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his professional wrestling career. He stood five ten and weighed
two twenty five. In his earlier days, he weighed in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
At two fifty.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He won the NWA Texas Tag Team championship with Jose Lothario.
What a great name.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I wonder how many people knew how clever, realized what
that meant when they did it. How about Jose Romeo?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No, No, Jose Lothario perfect. He was a fixture in
the Dallas Fort Worth wrestling scene and was one of
the most popular personalities. He was routinely the feature act
at the Sportatorium, a wrestling only arena in an industrial
section here downtown. His act consisted of being a happy,
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go lucky, often aloof buffoon who would miraculously pen his opponent.
He was often introduced as a former concentration camp survivor,
only adding to his sympathetic appeal to audiences of all ages.
I can believe.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean, what a time, What a time to be alive.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No restrictions on absurdity, ridiculousness, cringe worthiness. Nobody got canceled.
The first person I remember being canceled was Jimmy the Greek.
I remember Jimmy the Greek being canceled and thinking, but
(25:50):
but but he's Jimmy the Greek.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What are we gonna do now?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
How are we going to live without Jimmy the Greek?
Just doesn't make any sense to me. Now there's a
cancelation per week.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But then you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Funny when when when people come after you, as they
have for me multiple times, I suppose the healthy creation
thing to do is to forgive and forget and move on.
Um hmm, Nope. I remember there are people who, when
they least expected, I will find a way to get
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them fired, bankrupted, or some other bad thing come to them.
No violence, but I mean if violence happened to them,
I wouldn't have encouraged it or asked for it, but
I wouldn't feel bad. These are monsters of people, monsters
of people who go out canceling people. Yeah, anyway, it
(26:54):
really teaches you a lot about yourself though, and also, uh, well,
I'll leave that alone. I will leave that there. I'm
just really surprised by the Ivan Putski thing. That that
that's that's my takeaway from all of that. He did
from two thousand to two thousand and seven serve as
the head security guard at Jack C.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Hayes High School in Uh is it Buddha Butda?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I guess it's Butda Butta Texas. That's what the guy
that called in said that he was our our security guard,
and that he had argued with him as his security guard.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
His son is Scott Putsky. I kind of like that
name it. You wouldn't think that that was a that
was a stage.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Name, right, Joseph Bednarski. I don't know how about Ivan Bednarsky.
Bed Narski's better than Putski because it kind of sounds
like Chuck Bednarik. You know, you just imagine it's tough
Philadelphia eagle, ready to rip your head off.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
He pretty pretty hulked up there. There's there's a photo
of him. I'd forgotten how big dude he was. That'd
be a cool thing. We didn't have security guards at
my high school, did y'all? We had mister Gentry. Mister
Gentry was our principal and he'd played college football as
alignment at Lamar And most guys get smaller after high school.
(28:19):
He got bigger. Mister Gentry had a big barrel chest.
He had that kind of build that people don't have
anymore because he wore polyester pants. He'd wear like like
like brown dark brown polyester pants and then like a
button up, short sleeved shirt and a belt. But he
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was that build that men would have back then where
their lower legs be kind of a normal size. But
then somewhere around the fupah area, you know, like somewhere
below the chest and about three quarters way up the thigh,
there would just be there would just be this this
big like a barrel around him, right, and you didn't
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know where all. You didn't know if that stuff on
the top had dropped down or at the bottom was
being squeezed up like a push up bra some of
it was from behind and being moved over to the
front so he could sit down. And you didn't know
that he was a big, big man, big strong hands,
big arms. When we'd go to debate tournaments and he'd
you know, come out in the morning, he'd be in
his shorts, big old cash, just a big monster of
(29:25):
a man. And he was tough, little beady eyes behind glasses.
And we didn't have security guards because he would patrol
the halls and it was nothing for him to grab you,
bring you into his office and give you licks, and
you knew that he was putting what he had into it.
It hurt, I mean genuinely hurt. Didn't do any good
(29:48):
security guard. I can't imagine security guards at the school.
It was ridiculous,
The finest among you will remember this as the theme
song for the Junkyard Dog JYD Grabbed Them Cakes by
Captain Camellion and there's somebody out there. You cannot help yourself.
You are the ultimate quibbler. So it's going on. Uh,
(00:21):
it was another one bout the death, Michael, there's another one,
but the death. If you got it wrong, we need
to know you got it wrong. That was his original
theme song. And then Captain Chameleon they commissioned a unique
theme song specific to the JYD and it was Grabbed
(00:43):
Them Text by Captain Cameleon. And the reason we're discussing this,
if you were wondering, is because my friends got Kutac
sent me a message unprompted.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Did I mention Junkyard Dog earlier? Did I okay? Out
of nowhere?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It sends me a picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a
black leather jacket with sparkles on it and kind of
cream colored piping on the wrist and a cream colored lapel,
(01:25):
black leather, cream colored thick lapel and then in the
middle of the lapel on both sides black dollar sign
and it kind of looks like kind of a tuxedo
style deal because he's got a black bow tie and
a white shirt underneath it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's absurd. I mean, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And he wrote Junkyard Dog was the best man in
Ted Dibiassi's wedding, just thought you should know. And now
I can't stop thinking about that. I mean, let's say
you went to high school.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
With Ted Dibiassi and y'all, y'all remained friends over the.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Years, and and it's it's time for his wedding, and
you don't know if he'll invite you, because you know
he's kind of moved on, he's got a whole different life.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But but he.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Does invite you, and you're going to the wedding. Is
your old buddy Ted?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know you're not, You're not thinking of him as
as anything.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Other than your old buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ted, but you do know that he's on TV. You've
seen him there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And there you are, and you know you're expecting maybe
it's just gonna be the guys from high school or
or whatever that looks like. And then you look around
and you see the jy I D like, what do
you do when you wait until he's in line to
get his food?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And you slide right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Up there behind her. Oh, yeat pork chops? They got
they got pork chops here? Oh excuse me, Hi, how
are you? I'm Michael, you are a Sevester ritter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I thought you was the jy d Well. I am
the jy d.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't realize Ted Dibiossi's still alive, did you? He's
a preacher. He's only seventy one years old. How can
he only be seventy one years old? Wow? I thought
he had to be one hundred and fifteen, says. He
assigned to WWE as of twenty twenty four, where he
(03:37):
works in their Legends program. He held thirty titles during
his professional wrestling career. You know what we're gonna do
real quick. Die those numbers. We're not going to do
it for long. We're going to I'm going to go
to you and you're gonna name your favorite wrestler. Now,
(03:59):
the way this works, it's a high call volume. So
just assume you're on the line. If you hear anything,
I'll say your name and you say, you know, hug
hold unbrother or whatever that is for your favorite wrestler.
I'm fine, You're fine, Get right to it. Don't worry
(04:21):
if we can hear you don't. We don't need a
time of day. You just it's like a roll call.
You just you just say the name of your wrestler.
It's it's not any polite exchange of how's the weather
going to go right to it?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Does that make sense? Jim?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, Jim. Because this is your first time to
screen in a while, you don't need.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
To write down what they say.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Just pick it up and put them on hold. If
you can just get their first name. But if we
fall behind, you can just put them on hold. Because
it's a high that imension is a high call volume.
Seven three nine nine nine one thousand. Your favorite wrestler,
if they've got a thing or whatever. The minute you
give your answer, you will be dropped to make space
(05:05):
for someone else.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So don't call back and go, hey, I think y'ad. No, no,
you were dropped.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's the way this game works. And if it works perfectly,
then it's a beautiful thing. If it doesn't, then I
lose my mind. So please don't be a contributor to
me losing my mind. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three one thousand. The closest place.
(05:29):
I don't know if they ever brought wrestling to Beaumont.
I don't think my mother entirely approved of me going
to wrestling. But my buddy Ben Wernig, his parents were
taking him and his brothers, and I got to tag
along and we went to Lake Charles and saw I
(05:54):
see the Samoans were there that night.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Jay i did was there.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because he was my favorite. Well, those were some good times.
I don't watch wrestling now, but I'll tell you, I'd
love to see the numbers. But I'll bet you. I'll
bet you the numbers on the the vote totals. You know,
Trump won every swing state, every swing state, that's was
(06:24):
it seven?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That's one thing to win in one place because you
flood to market or you know something's going on with
a particular every.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Single one of them.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And part of how he got there is a coalition.
He picked up more black votes, he picked up more
women votes, he picked up more Hispanic votes. I think
some of that you get to by things like having
been involved with with with the wrestling candate.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
All right, your costs come up.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Gilbert writes the law should be amended to declare about
these rainbow markings at the intersection. That rainbow paid markings
at the intersection or any other section of a roadway
shall require all traffic to turn any direction it pleases,
but may not continue straight.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's funny, all right, your favorite wrestler, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Here the music, mister mud whatever that may be, all right,
be quick, be awesome, get right to it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Seven one three one thousand, Sendy, you're up, goat?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Sheepherders Rich Miller and Luke Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I do you exbout to get girls? We got two girls. Melanie,
you're up, Goat.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I got Rick Flair and the viper Randy Orton.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Jason, You're up, Goat.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He was the man of ours, the man with the power,
superstar Billy Graham.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
See I like that. He got into character on us
Fort and Barry.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You're up, got.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Stein nineteen eighties, blondhaired spikey Stein.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
He reincarnated himself later in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Caleb, you're up, Goat.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I'm John Cena.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You want some? Come get some?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You know, I do like the John Cena covering the
face motion whatever that is that he came up with.
Seven one three one thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Collar You are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Go Wayne Martin, three times national champion wrestler. I am
so impressed at all these girls calling.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I did not expect that Tim.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You're up, go Jacob Snake Roberts.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And I was wondering if he was going to get
a mention. Jimmy, you're up, go, Josh, You're up, Go.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Wahoo McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There's always a Wahoo McDaniel voter in the crowd.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Troy, who you got, Hacksaw Jim Diggan.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
There you go, ata boy, hacks Saw jea that puts
a smile on my face. The problem is that I'm
at an age now that every time I try to
do my hack Saw Jim Dougan, I say dugging, I
hit my elbow onto my hand in such a manner
that it it get a sharp pain.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So I had to kind of had to hold back
from my hack Saw Jim Dougan days. Shawn your up goat.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Basically saying one I wanted.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I wanted hat Saw Doom, dugging.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You can have more than one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Uh, Steve your turn brother.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Goat ritold Romero, old school.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's old school before my time.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
David, what say you, sir, Hey, it was old hack Saw.
Kim Duggin too, ain't no, that's okay, keep them coming, Greg,
your turn. Darren Williams.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I don't know that I remember Darren Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Did he have a nickname? Is that him or us? Huh? Okay,
I can't hear for crap.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Caller, you're up, go, Hacksaw, Jim Duggan.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm happy to see the hacks all getting so many votes.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Brad, what you got?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Jake the Snake Roberts, Roberts getting two votes today.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Caller, you're on go? Maybe that's Bill Who McDaniel wah.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Who's a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think he's more popular here for some reason. I
don't know why. Call her You're up, got, Doctor def
Steve Williams.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
They're going deeper than I expected.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I kind of like that. Larry, you're up go.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I think Putski.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Nobody Davis that is their favorite. Uh. There's got to
be some folks out there that are saying, well, I
grew up in the state to Washington, or I grew
up in Boston, so.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You're not going to recognize ours.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We want to hear them. James, you're up go? Whoa
I don't know what was the deal with the Astros
a few years ago or Josh Reddick. Yes, after the game, man,
it would be ear piercing. They'd be screaming so loud.
(11:25):
That dude shows up at more plays. You know what,
I think he's on Kenny Duncan Junior's payroll at US Coins.
Katy Duncan Jr. Did a customized player's card, a coin
and all that. I think he's I think he's on
a full time payroll with with US Coins.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Cheryl, You're up, got Tylvie Rogers very technical. How did
you get into wrestling?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I watched it with my dad and then a friend
of nine, the Pom I went to wrestling match.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's what I wanted to hear that you you did
it with your dad. I think that's cool.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Is that tie?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yes, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant, there's a documentary
out on him that is downright tragic. The pain that man,
Jim and I were talking about during the break, How
different wrestling was back then. The money it wasn't the
money that they have today. And in order to make
(12:21):
it a viable business, they had they lived on the road.
It was town to town to town twice on Sunday,
and it took a toll on their bodies.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kevin Europe, go.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ivan, Ivan Pusky.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
To Ivan Pusky, joke's answers today. I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Damon your turn.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Sir, i'man Putski Polish power.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, make that three are all these?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's interesting how little pockets of fandom arise for folks. Robert,
what say you?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Kamala?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Harris the Uganda headhunt?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
This?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Indeed? You know what was funny when when I'd get
people who would email and they go, hey, does nobody
remember that we already had one?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Come on and Harris, Deborah, you're up, sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Go yet?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Bill Maxgress?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And where did you watch wrestling?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
But that was a Sunday Night's stable with Paul Boss.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Back in the day, our family always watched Houston wrestling.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you remember seeing Mattress Mac on there?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I do remember seeing him on there. I did you know?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Uh, his face lights up when you bring up those days.
Call her from Rowing Oak, Virginia. You're up?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh, Ricky Steamboat actually got to catch him when he
passed out after a match.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There you go that's a memory. Alan, what say you?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Ivan Putski?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Goodness, that's like five for him.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Mike, you're up, go gorgeous, Gino, Hernandez Houston Wrestling.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Paul Bosh, Yes, indeed, Paul Bosh Boll. That's that name.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You can mention that name and people have flooded with memories. David,
you're up, Bruno, Sam Martino.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Uh, Kevin, you're up.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
American Dream Dusty Rhodes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Dusty Rhodes with his first appearance. I'm a little disappointed
that he didn't do better than that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Thomas go the Steiner Brothers.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I went to school with him.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh, well there you go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Jayu King says, I didn't go to high school with
Ted dB Ossi, but I went to college with his son.
The million dollar man lived in town. Used to come
out and work work out on campus. All right?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
One more seven, one three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Somewhere some drunk of sand. Why ain't talking about rastling?
Probably about something I want. We did quilting last week.
Just calm down, I'm doing rastling right now. Your favorite
make it quick? Extra points if you do it in
their character, or at least add some flare to it
(15:06):
one way or another.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ron, You're up, goat Fritz Man Eric and his Iron Claw.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Okay, that's crazy. Jim and I were just saying we
couldn't believe that hadn't been brought up.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Wow. Okay, And just like that, Mark, You're up, goat.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
There is a difference in raffling and wrestling.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You need to make a distinction there.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
You called to tell me that, Yeah, I did, because
he keeps talking about raffling with an A and it's
wrestling with an E. Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You were listening to the show and you thought, listen to.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You every damn day. Okay, I better. I better move
on before I do something I regret.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Mike, You're up, go.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
The King.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Jerry Lawler, mid South Colisseum best fight, well one of
the most favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, sir, Wes, E're up go.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
My two men's going to get your Randy Savage. Oh
that's our first Randy Savage, isn't it. I think that's
our first Randy Savage. That surprises me.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Tony, You're up go.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
To Ray.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, I know. Jody, You're up go the Ultimate Warrior.
I like I like when they're just doing nicknames.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
They're like, you don't you don't need real I just
got give you any nickname?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Is it that?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That is who he is.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
David, you're up, Go, Dick the Bruiser, that's what my anyway,
Ken you're up, go, Johnny Valentine and peppergo Mass Senior,
Pepper Go Mess Senior. My goodness, Caller, you're up, go.
Bruce the barber, Beef Kake.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Jim, can you can you pot this? Not the background music?
Can you pot the callers up? Probably my own failings,
but I can't hear them.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mark, You're up go two.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Years a much man, Randy Savage.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So we had no Randy Savages and now we got
two in a row. Crazy Gerard or Gerald or something
with a G. You're up go.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'van Putski the Polish power was the security guard at
my high school.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Had a few run ins with.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Them, which was what high school.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Jackson Hayes High School, Austin, Texas Beta Actually.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Was he as big as you expected him to be
in real life.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not the tallest, but he definitely had some arms on him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Interesting, he has more votes than anyone else today. That
was not on my Bengo, card Gabriel, Europe's Meil Neil.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
M Meil mauskarras actor and wrestler from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Did he wrestle here?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, yeah, yeah, he was with Paul Bosh.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I believe he did a couple of a couple of
fights with Paul Bosh over there at the Stims.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Just I'll see him way back when.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Interesting, Okay. I people were sometimes surprised at my lack
of knowledge of what was going on in Houston before
I got here. But I didn't arrive till eighty nine,
so for people that grew up in Houston, we didn't
have the exact same upbringing. I wasn't watching Paul Bosher
on local TV, so I wasn't and I wasn't aware
(19:01):
of what was Most of what I know of those
eras I know from conversations I've had with people here
who live through it, and from reading and researching it,
but that wasn't what came on the local TV and
out of kfdm Our Wrestling was mid South, out of
Lake Charles Don.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Go ahead, Wallhoo McDaniels.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
McDaniels with two votes. He normally does better too.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Troy go ahead, Scott Chersey, all right, Scott, you're up,
Go ahead, Victor Bruiser, Uh Darla, e're up?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Bull Curry?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Who Bull Curry?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't even know who that Jim?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I doesn't even ring a bell? Where did you watch wrestling?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Actually?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I watched wrestling when it was and I'm seventy one
years old now, so it's old.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
How old do you think you were when you were
watching that?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't I don't know. I would have been had
to been very young.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Interesting. I think Matt got involved in about eighty or so,
eighty eighty one, I believe that's right. I think that's
about when he started. Yeah, because last year was his
forty four year anniversary, So yeah, I think he started
in eighty. He might have started in late seventy nine
(20:33):
or early eighty.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Nick, you're up, go Georgia, Animal Steel.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You gotta have nicknames. How does somebody just have a
you know, Aaron Williams. You gotta have a nickname, like
like you're a mafia boss, Sammy the Bull, gw Goat.
I love you, brother love, brother love.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I got a story there, I'll tell you later on.
Go ahead, Dory fulk senor with his spinning toe hold.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Don't remember some of these I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think they might have been Houston rastlers that just
didn't make it across my TV. Jeff, go.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Rowdy, Roddy Piper rowdy, right, I.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Think I think you're the first vote for him. Surprisingly,
call her you're up.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Go, pork Chop Cash, great name.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Call her you're up go.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Wret the hit Man Heart.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh sorry, try that again, Thomas Wreck to hit Man Heart.
I love it all right, Jim, don't let them give
you an opinion. Just get their name, Just what's your
name and put them on home. Dennis, you're up.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Go the Honky tonk Man.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Don't be cruel baby.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Aaron, you're up.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Go.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm disappointed Hacksaut did can get more votes. Russell go,
Professor Boris Malenko.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
See those days were so great.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
These these great hype man they're pure entertainers. They're Carnival barkers.
They're fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They got it. Roger go the joke Yard doll.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yes, there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's call the day.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Mary you're up go, Yes, Chief James Strobo and Bruno
Saint Martino.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That's two votes for Bruno. Call her you're up, Go.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I remember Bull Curry from Houston and I'm seven and
nine and uh, my uncle and Paul Bosh were good friends.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I love it. Thanks for the call, my man, very show.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Ivan Putsky was born Joseph bed Narski at the nicknames
of Polish Power as a number of folks who called in.
I think we had eight called in for seven or
eight or the Polish Hammer. He was a WWF World
(23:18):
Tag Team Champion with Tito Santana. Had a famous feud
with superstar Billy Graham over the WWF championship, which led
to many arm wrestling bouts and long matches between the two.
Other rivals included the Iron Shape, Ivan Cooloff, and Jesse Ventura,
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who would refer to Putsky as Podusky. Putsky was the
first Polish wrestler to perform in the WWF. Putsky was
born in Krackow, Poland immigrated the US at a young age.
He and his family arrived in Texas, where he began
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his professional wrestling career. He stood five ten and weighed
two twenty five. In his earlier days, he weighed in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
At two fifty.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He won the NWA Texas Tag Team championship with Jose Lothario.
What a great name.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I wonder how many people knew how clever, realized what
that meant when they did it. How about Jose Romeo?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No, No, Jose Lothario perfect. He was a fixture in
the Dallas Fort Worth wrestling scene and was one of
the most popular personalities. He was routinely the feature act
at the Sportatorium, a wrestling only arena in an industrial
section here downtown. His act consisted of being a happy,
(24:52):
go lucky, often aloof buffoon who would miraculously pen his opponent.
He was often introduced as a former concentration camp survivor,
only adding to his sympathetic appeal to audiences of all ages.
I can believe.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean, what a time, What a time to be alive.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No restrictions on absurdity, ridiculousness, cringe worthiness. Nobody got canceled.
The first person I remember being canceled was Jimmy the Greek.
I remember Jimmy the Greek being canceled and thinking, but
(25:50):
but but he's Jimmy the Greek.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What are we gonna do now?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
How are we going to live without Jimmy the Greek?
Just doesn't make any sense to me. Now there's a
cancelation per week.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But then you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Funny when when when people come after you, as they
have for me multiple times, I suppose the healthy creation
thing to do is to forgive and forget and move on.
Um hmm, Nope. I remember there are people who, when
they least expected, I will find a way to get
(26:26):
them fired, bankrupted, or some other bad thing come to them.
No violence, but I mean if violence happened to them,
I wouldn't have encouraged it or asked for it, but
I wouldn't feel bad. These are monsters of people, monsters
of people who go out canceling people. Yeah, anyway, it
(26:54):
really teaches you a lot about yourself though, and also, uh, well,
I'll leave that alone. I will leave that there. I'm
just really surprised by the Ivan Putski thing. That that
that's that's my takeaway from all of that. He did
from two thousand to two thousand and seven serve as
the head security guard at Jack C.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Hayes High School in Uh is it Buddha Butda?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I guess it's Butda Butta Texas. That's what the guy
that called in said that he was our our security guard,
and that he had argued with him as his security guard.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
His son is Scott Putsky. I kind of like that
name it. You wouldn't think that that was a that
was a stage.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Name, right, Joseph Bednarski. I don't know how about Ivan Bednarsky.
Bed Narski's better than Putski because it kind of sounds
like Chuck Bednarik. You know, you just imagine it's tough
Philadelphia eagle, ready to rip your head off.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
He pretty pretty hulked up there. There's there's a photo
of him. I'd forgotten how big dude he was. That'd
be a cool thing. We didn't have security guards at
my high school, did y'all? We had mister Gentry. Mister
Gentry was our principal and he'd played college football as
alignment at Lamar And most guys get smaller after high school.
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He got bigger. Mister Gentry had a big barrel chest.
He had that kind of build that people don't have
anymore because he wore polyester pants. He'd wear like like
like brown dark brown polyester pants and then like a
button up, short sleeved shirt and a belt. But he
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was that build that men would have back then where
their lower legs be kind of a normal size. But
then somewhere around the fupah area, you know, like somewhere
below the chest and about three quarters way up the thigh,
there would just be there would just be this this
big like a barrel around him, right, and you didn't
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know where all. You didn't know if that stuff on
the top had dropped down or at the bottom was
being squeezed up like a push up bra some of
it was from behind and being moved over to the
front so he could sit down. And you didn't know
that he was a big, big man, big strong hands,
big arms. When we'd go to debate tournaments and he'd
you know, come out in the morning, he'd be in
his shorts, big old cash, just a big monster of
(29:25):
a man. And he was tough, little beady eyes behind glasses.
And we didn't have security guards because he would patrol
the halls and it was nothing for him to grab you,
bring you into his office and give you licks, and
you knew that he was putting what he had into it.
It hurt, I mean genuinely hurt. Didn't do any good
(29:48):
security guard. I can't imagine security guards at the school.
It was ridiculous,
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