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Wrestling Anonymous. Please hold Welcome toWrestling Anonymous. This is the pro wrestling
Hotline show where the caller calls ina story that has affected them in some
way having to do with anything professionalwrestling. I'm your host. I'm also
the curator. My name is ColtCabana, and I am a pro wrestler
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of many years. I edit andproduce and make everything happen in order to
hear this fun little call in podcast. Another slow week of phone calls.
I did get enough to put ashow together, and it might be a
while till I collect enough to makeanother show, but I do encourage you
to keep the calls coming. Idefinitely have enough to give two bonus shows
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a month over on the Patreon.Sign up and support the show. It's
just five dollars a month and you'llget new calls and new shows on the
first and the fifteenth of the month. Please rate, review, and subscribe
on Apple and Spotify. Spread theword via social media. Tell your friend
to share their story, have themcall it in. What about you?
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Did I meet you at the GloryPro show in Saint Louis's past weekend?
Did you bring so much meat andfood and cook it all for the wrestlers
to eat, because your kid wasa wrestler for a couple of years,
and you just want the wrestlers tobe able to eat because you know what
it's like for a young struggling wrestler. And do you have stories based on
that Papa Kenway. You're amazing,by the way, and if that was
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you. There's two very easy waysto share a story with the world.
Email a voice memo to eighty sevenCabana thirty four at gmail dot com,
or pick up the phone dial eightyseven cabana thirty four. That's eight seven
two two two two sixty two thirtyfour. Eighty seven Cabana thirty four is
the number. Give it a call, leave a message after the Beatle Wrestling
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Anonymous, please hold it was thesummer of nineteen ninety one. I was
at a WWF Superstars taping in Sacramento, California, at the Arco Arena.
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We buckled down as a kid.I did not know that this is going
to be five hours of enhancement matcheswith a whole cocing match as the main
events in this all of them happyas the show's going on, I look
over and I pull on my dad'sshoulder and I'm like, look, Dad,
there's Dave, my baseball coach.We look a section over and there's
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my baseball coach, Dave and histwo sons that played on my team.
We all sort of meet up atthe top of the aisle. My dad
and my baseball coach share of beer. I talked to his two sons that
I did not know we're wrestling fans, basically thinking that you like wrestling.
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I like wrestling. I have nowa new best friend in this world.
We go back to watching the matches. As the night goes along, the
Mountie comes down to the ring.He's cutting a promo on the city of
Sacramento. He's calling us all Woosie'sand nobody has the guts to come up
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and get in the ring with him, and he can beat anybody from this
town. I start pulling on mydad's sleeve again and I'm like, Dad,
there's Dave. Yeah, yeah,yeah, No, Dad, Look
there's Dave. I think my dadthought I thought I saw Dave a section
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over in his seat, but mybaseball coach Dave had actually jumped the bear
Kate and had three WW agents onhis back. Holding him back from getting
into the ring with the Mounty.My baseball coach wanted to go one on
one with the Mounty. I couldnot believe what I saw. They ended
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up throwing him out for the night, but they let his two sons sick
with us for the rest of thenight. I mean, I love a
story about people running into the ring. As a wrestler myself, I mean,
nobody really likes it, but Ilove hearing those kind of stories.
I was the person who loved goingto a baseball game and watching somebody run
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into the field. I would encouragethe drunk people around me as a kid
to go and run on the field. And for some reason, I love
seeing that kind of mayhem. Ithink it's the jackass and the reality TV
and me, I fucking love it. We've had callins about people watching people
get the ship kick out of them. So rare is it that you know
the person that does this, andthat's what happened right here? Such a
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great call, a wonderful call.I loved it all seeing somebody you knew,
your baseball coach, their kids arethere. Next thing you know,
in the ring they go and thekids stay with you. So what did
the dad do just took a taxihome and assume that you would take the
kids home. We're not going tofind the answers now, but I just
hope that was a conversation you hadat the next baseball game. There's so
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many questions to be answered, We'rejust not going to get them. And
that's part of the fun of theshow. We have to make up the
answers in our own head and assumewhat they are. We'll never know.
The show's anonymous. It is whatit is, but it does bring us
these beautiful stories, just like thisone where you're baseball coach wanted to fight
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the Mounty beautiful. My first ae W show in Chicago, Illinois,
me and the wife were lucky enoughto drop the kids off at Grandma and
Grandpa's so we could have a nightalone, childless in Chicago. This February
second was that really really big snowstorm. Originally we were planning on driving to
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Michigan City and taking the South shorelinein and then taxiing around Chicago. We
saw the storm coming, so wedecided to switch to the Amtrak. So
we are from West Michigan and sowe were going to take the Amtrak from
Kalamazoo to Chicago, and because thesnow was so bad that day, we
miss our first train and then wehad to reschedule it, so we got
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the afternoon train, which was stillfine. We still would have gotten Chicago
plenty of time. As we werewalking into the train station, I see
another guy with an aw shirt,so I too sweet him and encourage them
to sit next to us. Well, as the train takes off for about
a half an hour into our trainride, and it breaks down in Niles,
Michigan, the train conductor came overthe speaker and said, I'm sorry,
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there's something wrong with the engine.This train's not moving. They have
another train coming from Chicago with awhole new engine. You guys can either
take the train from that's coming fromChicago back to Kalamazoo, or wait until
we get the train hooked up thenwith the new engine and take it to
Chicago's the rest of the way.Well, we would have completely missed the
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show if we would have taken thisoption. We couldn't get refunds on any
hotel stays or tickets, and sowe noticed that there's an enterprise that's about
a thirty minute walk from where thetrain was in Niles. We're telling the
guy, our new wrestling friend,our plan, because you cannot leave any
fan behind. So we start trekkingthrough this snowstorm to this enterprise and I
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randomly see this guy dusting off atruck and I look back at my life
and say, hey, give metwenty dollars, and so she does.
And I walk up to this guyand say, man, here's twenty dollars.
Can you please take us to thisenterprise that's like just down the road.
He luckily, he does, andthe people at enterprise give us this
little Mishibishi clown car and we endup driving the rest of the way to
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Chicago. It's terrifying their semis onboth sides of us, and amazingly,
this little clown car makes it.The guy that we picked up at the
train station, his hotel is rightnext to ours, so we dropped him
off. Knowing that our transportation wouldbe limited, I booked a hotel right
next to the arena. We onlymissed the entrances from the John Moxley Wheeler
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you to match. The next day, we found out that all of the
Amtrak trains were canceled from Chicago toKalamazoo. So fortunately for us, me
and my wife and our new foundwrestling fan friend had a ride back,
and our ride back was a lotsmoother because by that time the roads had
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cleared and it was nice and funny. I related so much to the story
as somebody who grew up in Chicagoand went to college university in Western Michigan
at Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, andI remember one specific winter break while going
back to Kalamazoo, having to takethe amtrak because the snow was so brutal
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that it was impossible to get yourcar there. And people who live around
the lake know exactly what I'm talkingabout. This person included it, myself
included, and hopefully a couple otherslistening to this podcast. So I remember
having to take the amtrak, gettingdropped off of the amtrack, having no
way to get to our dorms.This was nineteen ninety eight. There were
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no cell phones, and I thinkme and my roommate found some random guy
to just drive us to the dorms. Like that's how it was done.
You found some random guy slipped hima twenty. We didn't have a twenty
at the time you slipped him atwenty and you got your ride to the
enterprise. Is the joy in Thiswas the adventure taken to get to see
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a wrestling show, and your adventurewas very much movie like, including picking
somebody up, and you really didn'teven get into that story. There's probably
a whole other story, or ifthat person has that story, I would
love for them to call and hearit from their perspective, because that's a
wild one too. It shows whenyou wear that wrestling shirt, it's a
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secret handshake. It's letting the othersknow, hey, we're in the same
club and take care of me.I'll take care of you. And that's
what you said, leave no wrestlingfan behind, and you didn't a true
wrestling adventure. Glad it went wellfor you. I take for granted sometimes
when I'm like, oh, Ihave to drive ten minutes to go see
a comedy show fifteen minutes and Igotta pay for parking, But I forget
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about these long, long treks ittakes for some people. Aw is not
coming to Niles, Michigan anytime soon, So of course you got to make
the trek down to Chicago, andyou did. It's not always going to
go right, and it didn't,and you persevered, and you have a
story to tell. Wrestling Anonymous,please hold for sponsors. Growing up in
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the city of Youngstown, Ohio,there's not too much to do around here.
So as a kid when WCW cameto town and my dad said,
Hey, we're gonna go, Iwas pretty ecstatic. From what I remember,
a pretty good show. I wasrather young at the time. What
I do remember is Lex Luger comingout. As a kid, was a
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very big fan of Lex Luger.So he comes out and we rush to
the guardrail. This is back whenthey had the metal guardrail still. For
me and a bunch of other littlekids up there, we're trying to shake
the guardrail like the wrestlers would do. Lex sees this, comes up and
shakes the guardrail himself, only hetook it completely off the ground instead fairly
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using it like the kids were.The stuardrail struck me in the nose and
bost of my nose up pretty good, had a pretty good bloody nose go
and it wasn't broken but bloody.At the time, I took it as
a fun little souvenir from the show. The best part about that is I
could totally picture it happening. Lexwas like that lovable dufus, like,
you know, his heart was inthe right place, especially as a baby
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face, but he was just kindof a big meat head. It just
probably didn't know and then just bloodiedyour nose. It's the ultimate souvenir.
You're correct, And if it wastoday, you could probably make a quick
little fortune off of Lex Luger,or at least the company. But I
feel that's kind of like an oldschool part of wrestling thing is it's part
of being a fan. You getto cheer, you get to come up
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close, but you might get aguardrail shoved up your nose by the total
package Lex Luger. All fun partsof going to the wrestling. This one
happened to be a little bit bloody, but it seems like you have a
fine memory of it and it turnedout okay. I guess to be a
part of the first ever Chris Jerichorock and Wrestling rader sc My sister and
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I were returning from the excursions onone of the days we had gone to
pet Dolphins, and so we werewith my mom in an elevator and we're
discussing with a handicapped gentleman who wastaking the elevator at the time. Of
all the pilers that we had seenover the course of the weekend and all
the talent that we got to haveexperiences with. So my sister started listing
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out all the people like Penny Omegaand the Jumbos, saying Cody Rhodes that
we got to see over the weekend. When a mysterious figure from the back
of the elevator questions, did youmeet Raven? My sister turns around and
stares up at this very tall figurebrooding in the corner of the elevator.
It was ravens. This led tomany questions that I had, but for
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the sake of the experience, wejust figre we get out of there because
we had already been pretty exhausted fromthe excursion. But as we left and
stepped out of the elevator, mysister yelled back to Raven, Hey,
I got a hamster named Raven too. You get to share an elevator with
one of the greatest wrestlers that thereever was. I know that's disputable by
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some, but hey, ecw Champgreat run in wcwwwe been all around the
world, great and you want tolet him know that you also have a
hamster named Raven. I said itonce again. I think we got a
call once where the same thing kindof happened with Billy Gunn on this show
at the Jericho Cruise. You're alwaysgoing to be around somebody and you never
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know when or where they're going tobe. In this time, they happen
to be in the elevator with you, and of course Raven wants to stroke
his own ego. He's Raven knownfor that. Had to throw it out
there. I probably would have donethe same thing. To be honest,
I would have used humor to coverup for ego, But it's probably ego
at the end of the day orself confidence. One of the other Raven
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will never know whether they met himor not, but they do know that
there's hamsters out there who share thesame likeness. It was twenty thirteen,
after a weekend away in Adelaide,Australia. I was at the airport preparing
to catch my flight home back toMelbourne. My friend and I had just
finished getting a bite to eat,and as we stood up from our seats
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to head to the gate. Amongstthe many newly arrived passengers, I spotted
an individual wearing a Cactus Jack WantedDead T shirt heading towards the baggage claim
area. I don't usually see manypeople wearing wrestling shirts in public, so
saying this shirt was kind of cool. As by I's focused on the shirt,
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I thought to myself, Hey,cool a Micfoli T shirt. And
as I saw the goatee of thisindividual, I thought to myself, hey,
this guy even has a goatee thatlooks like mcfoli's Looking at the face
of this individual, and then Irealized to myself, hey, that is
Mick Foley. I approached Mick andhe was nice enough to have a quick
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chat and to take a photo withme. Truthfully, I probably would have
never even recognized a MIK at theairport, but thanks to him wearing his
own cactus check T shirt, Inow have a memory I'll never forget.
I think I played this because weall hear about the instances where wrestlers just
don't want to be bothered at theairport or anywhere they want to be hid
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in, especially someone the size ofNick Foley. And I don't mean physically,
I mean in terms of superstardom,one of the greatest in our profession
of all time. So in mythoughts, just wants to be left alone,
wants is alone time. When he'sat the shows, that's when he'll
turn it on. But otherwise he'sturning it off. But nope, he's
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wearing his own shirt, letting everybodyknow, Hey it's me mc foley,
Come on up, come say hi, I have my own T shirt or
done. And this was proven bythe fan who said they wouldn't have even
known that one of their heroes wasright next to them had he not been
advertising himself on his own body caller. You never know when you're going to
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see anybody. That's always the fact. Case in point, when I was
in Australia just a couple of monthsago, I saw a fan at seven
eleven and they were like, whatare you doing here? And I'm like,
hey, we gotta buy diamundo andprotein cookies somewhere. Might as well
be at your seven eleven on thebeach, and hey, you got to
fly from town to town mcfoley doestoo, might as well be at your
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airport. I will never be awrestler who wears my own stuff. I'm
pretty proud of that. But whenI once made fun of the young bucks
to their faces about always wearing theirown gear and they got super defensive,
I will never ever again take ashot at anybody wearing their own merchandise.
So here's to you mc foley WrestlingAnonymous, please hold for sponsors. Bobby
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Heening was a manager for Blackjack Lineswho was in the ring against Pepper gome
As. I think I'm walking aroundringside and telling pictures, and fart way
through the match, here's some noisethat I looked, and Bobby Heenan pulled
something out of his shirt and pitchedit to Blackjack. You know, he
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threw it a little too hard andit went over his head, bounced on
the other side of the ring andonto the floor, actually close to where
I was. And you know,while somebody throws you something and it drops
and you just pick it up andfling it to them without even thinking,
well, that's what I did.Never even gave but the second thought,
I guess now. Fortunately it landedin black Jack's hand. Happened to be
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a chain, as I learned afterwards, and he wrapped it up and racked
Pepper with it and went on tothe wind back in the dressing room.
Afterwards, Pepera looked at me said, who side are you on. I
didn't even realize what I had done, but I apologize profusely into Jeff said,
yeah, I understood, no problem. That really ended it. But
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I thought, oh boy, that'sfun. And they go into the other
side, into the heels dressing roomto bring the pictures in your kfame,
and of course I didn't know whatthat was. And Bobby Eating comes up
to me says, good boy,good toss. Now get out of you.
There he is wrestling Grandpa calling inwith the great stories wrestling. Grandpa
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used to sell pictures basically the Awaterritory in the Upper Midwest and in Canada.
He traveled all over the world tosell those pictures. He has so
many stories, and this is agreat one. I wonder if you were
a heel in the building. Iwonder if all the fans started booing you
were able to go out the nextmatch. We're able to go out the
next show. Did they know youas the person who was helping the heels
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throwing the chain back? Unbelievable?I probably would have done the same thing,
and I totally understand your reflexes andhow fun is it to look back
years later and know that you tookpart in that match. I don't know
if we've had a Bobby Heenen storyfrom you. We hear all the old
time legends that you talk about,the scrap Irons, the pepper Gomezes,
the black Jacks, but Bobby Heenansomebody that I grew up watching specifically,
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so always kind of cool to hearthose names and those stories. Wrestling Grandpa,
we appreciate you, even if youare a no good, cheating heel
sympathizer sixty eight sixty nine. Iguess a wa and Lars, I need
me. Lars Anderson was there,was in the dressing room getting my stuff
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together, any some pictures. Hesaid, actually to anybody that if you
see a girl out there named Linda, that's his girlfriend, and just director
to the corner and inside of thisarena there it's an area on the side
where the challenge could get quietly withany one of the girls. So I
went out, I saw the girl, which assumed was the correct girl,
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and directed her there, and Itold him the attendants going into tell Large
his girlfriend was there. Five minuteslater, ten minutes later, all of
a sudden, there was a bigscreaming match. Two girls were having in
a cat fight. Apparently there wasanother girl looking for Lars and someone had
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directed there and both of them metjust as Lars got there. Needless to
say, he was mattered than us. Cornet screaming and yelling, said who
told her? Nobody else spoke up, and he kind of looked at me
and he says, get out,get out and give me a picture.
You're done. All I went andI was kicked out of the Heels dressing
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room for probably two or three shows. Eventually the I smelted and Large on
his way to another promotion. Lookat that, we're dubling down on the
wrestling Grandpa. I'm glad Lars wentto another promotion and you were allowed back
into the locker rooms and allowed tosell those pictures. Full disclosure, the
wrestling Grandpa did use a term forthese ladies trying to hang out with the
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wrestlers, and I edited it out. We don't use that term anymore.
It's a derogatory term. And we'llmake this a learning experience for you,
and know that we still love youand you're always learning. In this situation,
wrestling Grandpa did a little faux paw. He was trying to hook up
the wrestler and Lars was a bitof a ladies man. I think it's
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Lars's own fault. I think we'dall agree with that, and you were
just trying to help and I couldappreciate that. I would think we could
appreciate that. But that one blewup in his face. And I'm sure
that kind of thing happened so muchback in the day, but it's fun
to hear that you were a partof it and on the wrong side,
but you're here to tell the story. Wrestling Anonymous. Please hold for the
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Wrestling Anonymous. Please hold Welcome toWrestling Anonymous. This is the pro wrestling
Hotline show where the caller calls ina story that has affected them in some
way having to do with anything professionalwrestling. I'm your host. I'm also
the curator. My name is ColtCabana, and I am a pro wrestler
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of many years. I edit andproduce and make everything happen in order to
hear this fun little call in podcast. Another slow week of phone calls.
I did get enough to put ashow together, and it might be a
while till I collect enough to makeanother show, but I do encourage you
to keep the calls coming. Idefinitely have enough to give two bonus shows
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Did I meet you at the GloryPro show in Saint Louis's past weekend?
Did you bring so much meat andfood and cook it all for the wrestlers
to eat, because your kid wasa wrestler for a couple of years,
and you just want the wrestlers tobe able to eat because you know what
it's like for a young struggling wrestler. And do you have stories based on
that Papa Kenway. You're amazing,by the way, and if that was
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you. There's two very easy waysto share a story with the world.
Email a voice memo to eighty sevenCabana thirty four at gmail dot com,
or pick up the phone dial eightyseven cabana thirty four. That's eight seven
two two two two sixty two thirtyfour. Eighty seven Cabana thirty four is
the number. Give it a call, leave a message after the Beatle Wrestling
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Anonymous, please hold it was thesummer of nineteen ninety one. I was
at a WWF Superstars taping in Sacramento, California, at the Arco Arena.
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We buckled down as a kid.I did not know that this is going
to be five hours of enhancement matcheswith a whole cocing match as the main
events in this all of them happyas the show's going on, I look
over and I pull on my dad'sshoulder and I'm like, look, Dad,
there's Dave, my baseball coach.We look a section over and there's
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my baseball coach, Dave and histwo sons that played on my team.
We all sort of meet up atthe top of the aisle. My dad
and my baseball coach share of beer. I talked to his two sons that
I did not know we're wrestling fans, basically thinking that you like wrestling.
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I like wrestling. I have nowa new best friend in this world.
We go back to watching the matches. As the night goes along, the
Mountie comes down to the ring.He's cutting a promo on the city of
Sacramento. He's calling us all Woosie'sand nobody has the guts to come up
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and get in the ring with him, and he can beat anybody from this
town. I start pulling on mydad's sleeve again and I'm like, Dad,
there's Dave. Yeah, yeah,yeah, No, Dad, Look
there's Dave. I think my dadthought I thought I saw Dave a section
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over in his seat, but mybaseball coach Dave had actually jumped the bear
Kate and had three WW agents onhis back. Holding him back from getting
into the ring with the Mounty.My baseball coach wanted to go one on
one with the Mounty. I couldnot believe what I saw. They ended
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up throwing him out for the night, but they let his two sons sick
with us for the rest of thenight. I mean, I love a
story about people running into the ring. As a wrestler myself, I mean,
nobody really likes it, but Ilove hearing those kind of stories.
I was the person who loved goingto a baseball game and watching somebody run
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into the field. I would encouragethe drunk people around me as a kid
to go and run on the field. And for some reason, I love
seeing that kind of mayhem. Ithink it's the jackass and the reality TV
and me, I fucking love it. We've had callins about people watching people
get the ship kick out of them. So rare is it that you know
the person that does this, andthat's what happened right here? Such a
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great call, a wonderful call.I loved it all seeing somebody you knew,
your baseball coach, their kids arethere. Next thing you know,
in the ring they go and thekids stay with you. So what did
the dad do just took a taxihome and assume that you would take the
kids home. We're not going tofind the answers now, but I just
hope that was a conversation you hadat the next baseball game. There's so
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many questions to be answered, We'rejust not going to get them. And
that's part of the fun of theshow. We have to make up the
answers in our own head and assumewhat they are. We'll never know.
The show's anonymous. It is whatit is, but it does bring us
these beautiful stories, just like thisone where you're baseball coach wanted to fight
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the Mounty beautiful. My first ae W show in Chicago, Illinois,
me and the wife were lucky enoughto drop the kids off at Grandma and
Grandpa's so we could have a nightalone, childless in Chicago. This February
second was that really really big snowstorm. Originally we were planning on driving to
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Michigan City and taking the South shorelinein and then taxiing around Chicago. We
saw the storm coming, so wedecided to switch to the Amtrak. So
we are from West Michigan and sowe were going to take the Amtrak from
Kalamazoo to Chicago, and because thesnow was so bad that day, we
miss our first train and then wehad to reschedule it, so we got
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the afternoon train, which was stillfine. We still would have gotten Chicago
plenty of time. As we werewalking into the train station, I see
another guy with an aw shirt,so I too sweet him and encourage them
to sit next to us. Well, as the train takes off for about
a half an hour into our trainride, and it breaks down in Niles,
Michigan, the train conductor came overthe speaker and said, I'm sorry,
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there's something wrong with the engine.This train's not moving. They have
another train coming from Chicago with awhole new engine. You guys can either
take the train from that's coming fromChicago back to Kalamazoo, or wait until
we get the train hooked up thenwith the new engine and take it to
Chicago's the rest of the way.Well, we would have completely missed the
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show if we would have taken thisoption. We couldn't get refunds on any
hotel stays or tickets, and sowe noticed that there's an enterprise that's about
a thirty minute walk from where thetrain was in Niles. We're telling the
guy, our new wrestling friend,our plan, because you cannot leave any
fan behind. So we start trekkingthrough this snowstorm to this enterprise and I
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randomly see this guy dusting off atruck and I look back at my life
and say, hey, give metwenty dollars, and so she does.
And I walk up to this guyand say, man, here's twenty dollars.
Can you please take us to thisenterprise that's like just down the road.
He luckily, he does, andthe people at enterprise give us this
little Mishibishi clown car and we endup driving the rest of the way to
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Chicago. It's terrifying their semis onboth sides of us, and amazingly,
this little clown car makes it.The guy that we picked up at the
train station, his hotel is rightnext to ours, so we dropped him
off. Knowing that our transportation wouldbe limited, I booked a hotel right
next to the arena. We onlymissed the entrances from the John Moxley Wheeler
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you to match. The next day, we found out that all of the
Amtrak trains were canceled from Chicago toKalamazoo. So fortunately for us, me
and my wife and our new foundwrestling fan friend had a ride back,
and our ride back was a lotsmoother because by that time the roads had
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cleared and it was nice and funny. I related so much to the story
as somebody who grew up in Chicagoand went to college university in Western Michigan
at Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, andI remember one specific winter break while going
back to Kalamazoo, having to takethe amtrak because the snow was so brutal
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that it was impossible to get yourcar there. And people who live around
the lake know exactly what I'm talkingabout. This person included it, myself
included, and hopefully a couple otherslistening to this podcast. So I remember
having to take the amtrak, gettingdropped off of the amtrack, having no
way to get to our dorms.This was nineteen ninety eight. There were
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no cell phones, and I thinkme and my roommate found some random guy
to just drive us to the dorms. Like that's how it was done.
You found some random guy slipped hima twenty. We didn't have a twenty
at the time you slipped him atwenty and you got your ride to the
enterprise. Is the joy in Thiswas the adventure taken to get to see
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a wrestling show, and your adventurewas very much movie like, including picking
somebody up, and you really didn'teven get into that story. There's probably
a whole other story, or ifthat person has that story, I would
love for them to call and hearit from their perspective, because that's a
wild one too. It shows whenyou wear that wrestling shirt, it's a
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secret handshake. It's letting the othersknow, hey, we're in the same
club and take care of me.I'll take care of you. And that's
what you said, leave no wrestlingfan behind, and you didn't a true
wrestling adventure. Glad it went wellfor you. I take for granted sometimes
when I'm like, oh, Ihave to drive ten minutes to go see
a comedy show fifteen minutes and Igotta pay for parking, But I forget
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about these long, long treks ittakes for some people. Aw is not
coming to Niles, Michigan anytime soon, So of course you got to make
the trek down to Chicago, andyou did. It's not always going to
go right, and it didn't,and you persevered, and you have a
story to tell. Wrestling Anonymous,please hold for sponsors. Growing up in
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the city of Youngstown, Ohio,there's not too much to do around here.
So as a kid when WCW cameto town and my dad said,
Hey, we're gonna go, Iwas pretty ecstatic. From what I remember,
a pretty good show. I wasrather young at the time. What
I do remember is Lex Luger comingout. As a kid, was a
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very big fan of Lex Luger.So he comes out and we rush to
the guardrail. This is back whenthey had the metal guardrail still. For
me and a bunch of other littlekids up there, we're trying to shake
the guardrail like the wrestlers would do. Lex sees this, comes up and
shakes the guardrail himself, only hetook it completely off the ground instead fairly
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using it like the kids were.The stuardrail struck me in the nose and
bost of my nose up pretty good, had a pretty good bloody nose go
and it wasn't broken but bloody.At the time, I took it as
a fun little souvenir from the show. The best part about that is I
could totally picture it happening. Lexwas like that lovable dufus, like,
you know, his heart was inthe right place, especially as a baby
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face, but he was just kindof a big meat head. It just
probably didn't know and then just bloodiedyour nose. It's the ultimate souvenir.
You're correct, And if it wastoday, you could probably make a quick
little fortune off of Lex Luger,or at least the company. But I
feel that's kind of like an oldschool part of wrestling thing is it's part
of being a fan. You getto cheer, you get to come up
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close, but you might get aguardrail shoved up your nose by the total
package Lex Luger. All fun partsof going to the wrestling. This one
happened to be a little bit bloody, but it seems like you have a
fine memory of it and it turnedout okay. I guess to be a
part of the first ever Chris Jerichorock and Wrestling rader sc My sister and
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I were returning from the excursions onone of the days we had gone to
pet Dolphins, and so we werewith my mom in an elevator and we're
discussing with a handicapped gentleman who wastaking the elevator at the time. Of
all the pilers that we had seenover the course of the weekend and all
the talent that we got to haveexperiences with. So my sister started listing
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out all the people like Penny Omegaand the Jumbos, saying Cody Rhodes that
we got to see over the weekend. When a mysterious figure from the back
of the elevator questions, did youmeet Raven? My sister turns around and
stares up at this very tall figurebrooding in the corner of the elevator.
It was ravens. This led tomany questions that I had, but for
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the sake of the experience, wejust figre we get out of there because
we had already been pretty exhausted fromthe excursion. But as we left and
stepped out of the elevator, mysister yelled back to Raven, Hey,
I got a hamster named Raven too. You get to share an elevator with
one of the greatest wrestlers that thereever was. I know that's disputable by
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some, but hey, ecw Champgreat run in wcwwwe been all around the
world, great and you want tolet him know that you also have a
hamster named Raven. I said itonce again. I think we got a
call once where the same thing kindof happened with Billy Gunn on this show
at the Jericho Cruise. You're alwaysgoing to be around somebody and you never
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know when or where they're going tobe. In this time, they happen
to be in the elevator with you, and of course Raven wants to stroke
his own ego. He's Raven knownfor that. Had to throw it out
there. I probably would have donethe same thing. To be honest,
I would have used humor to coverup for ego, But it's probably ego
at the end of the day orself confidence. One of the other Raven
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will never know whether they met himor not, but they do know that
there's hamsters out there who share thesame likeness. It was twenty thirteen,
after a weekend away in Adelaide,Australia. I was at the airport preparing
to catch my flight home back toMelbourne. My friend and I had just
finished getting a bite to eat,and as we stood up from our seats
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to head to the gate. Amongstthe many newly arrived passengers, I spotted
an individual wearing a Cactus Jack WantedDead T shirt heading towards the baggage claim
area. I don't usually see manypeople wearing wrestling shirts in public, so
saying this shirt was kind of cool. As by I's focused on the shirt,
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I thought to myself, Hey,cool a Micfoli T shirt. And
as I saw the goatee of thisindividual, I thought to myself, hey,
this guy even has a goatee thatlooks like mcfoli's Looking at the face
of this individual, and then Irealized to myself, hey, that is
Mick Foley. I approached Mick andhe was nice enough to have a quick
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chat and to take a photo withme. Truthfully, I probably would have
never even recognized a MIK at theairport, but thanks to him wearing his
own cactus check T shirt, Inow have a memory I'll never forget.
I think I played this because weall hear about the instances where wrestlers just
don't want to be bothered at theairport or anywhere they want to be hid
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in, especially someone the size ofNick Foley. And I don't mean physically,
I mean in terms of superstardom,one of the greatest in our profession
of all time. So in mythoughts, just wants to be left alone,
wants is alone time. When he'sat the shows, that's when he'll
turn it on. But otherwise he'sturning it off. But nope, he's
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wearing his own shirt, letting everybodyknow, Hey it's me mc foley,
Come on up, come say hi, I have my own T shirt or
done. And this was proven bythe fan who said they wouldn't have even
known that one of their heroes wasright next to them had he not been
advertising himself on his own body caller. You never know when you're going to
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see anybody. That's always the fact. Case in point, when I was
in Australia just a couple of monthsago, I saw a fan at seven
eleven and they were like, whatare you doing here? And I'm like,
hey, we gotta buy diamundo andprotein cookies somewhere. Might as well
be at your seven eleven on thebeach, and hey, you got to
fly from town to town mcfoley doestoo, might as well be at your
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airport. I will never be awrestler who wears my own stuff. I'm
pretty proud of that. But whenI once made fun of the young bucks
to their faces about always wearing theirown gear and they got super defensive,
I will never ever again take ashot at anybody wearing their own merchandise.
So here's to you mc foley WrestlingAnonymous, please hold for sponsors. Bobby
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Heening was a manager for Blackjack Lineswho was in the ring against Pepper gome
As. I think I'm walking aroundringside and telling pictures, and fart way
through the match, here's some noisethat I looked, and Bobby Heenan pulled
something out of his shirt and pitchedit to Blackjack. You know, he
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threw it a little too hard andit went over his head, bounced on
the other side of the ring andonto the floor, actually close to where
I was. And you know,while somebody throws you something and it drops
and you just pick it up andfling it to them without even thinking,
well, that's what I did.Never even gave but the second thought,
I guess now. Fortunately it landedin black Jack's hand. Happened to be
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a chain, as I learned afterwards, and he wrapped it up and racked
Pepper with it and went on tothe wind back in the dressing room.
Afterwards, Pepera looked at me said, who side are you on. I
didn't even realize what I had done, but I apologize profusely into Jeff said,
yeah, I understood, no problem. That really ended it. But
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I thought, oh boy, that'sfun. And they go into the other
side, into the heels dressing roomto bring the pictures in your kfame,
and of course I didn't know whatthat was. And Bobby Eating comes up
to me says, good boy,good toss. Now get out of you.
There he is wrestling Grandpa calling inwith the great stories wrestling. Grandpa
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used to sell pictures basically the Awaterritory in the Upper Midwest and in Canada.
He traveled all over the world tosell those pictures. He has so
many stories, and this is agreat one. I wonder if you were
a heel in the building. Iwonder if all the fans started booing you
were able to go out the nextmatch. We're able to go out the
next show. Did they know youas the person who was helping the heels
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throwing the chain back? Unbelievable?I probably would have done the same thing,
and I totally understand your reflexes andhow fun is it to look back
years later and know that you tookpart in that match. I don't know
if we've had a Bobby Heenen storyfrom you. We hear all the old
time legends that you talk about,the scrap Irons, the pepper Gomezes,
the black Jacks, but Bobby Heenansomebody that I grew up watching specifically,
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so always kind of cool to hearthose names and those stories. Wrestling Grandpa,
we appreciate you, even if youare a no good, cheating heel
sympathizer sixty eight sixty nine. Iguess a wa and Lars, I need
me. Lars Anderson was there,was in the dressing room getting my stuff
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together, any some pictures. Hesaid, actually to anybody that if you
see a girl out there named Linda, that's his girlfriend, and just director
to the corner and inside of thisarena there it's an area on the side
where the challenge could get quietly withany one of the girls. So I
went out, I saw the girl, which assumed was the correct girl,
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and directed her there, and Itold him the attendants going into tell Large
his girlfriend was there. Five minuteslater, ten minutes later, all of
a sudden, there was a bigscreaming match. Two girls were having in
a cat fight. Apparently there wasanother girl looking for Lars and someone had
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directed there and both of them metjust as Lars got there. Needless to
say, he was mattered than us. Cornet screaming and yelling, said who
told her? Nobody else spoke up, and he kind of looked at me
and he says, get out,get out and give me a picture.
You're done. All I went andI was kicked out of the Heels dressing
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room for probably two or three shows. Eventually the I smelted and Large on
his way to another promotion. Lookat that, we're dubling down on the
wrestling Grandpa. I'm glad Lars wentto another promotion and you were allowed back
into the locker rooms and allowed tosell those pictures. Full disclosure, the
wrestling Grandpa did use a term forthese ladies trying to hang out with the
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wrestlers, and I edited it out. We don't use that term anymore.
It's a derogatory term. And we'llmake this a learning experience for you,
and know that we still love youand you're always learning. In this situation,
wrestling Grandpa did a little faux paw. He was trying to hook up
the wrestler and Lars was a bitof a ladies man. I think it's
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Lars's own fault. I think we'dall agree with that, and you were
just trying to help and I couldappreciate that. I would think we could
appreciate that. But that one blewup in his face. And I'm sure
that kind of thing happened so muchback in the day, but it's fun
to hear that you were a partof it and on the wrong side,
but you're here to tell the story. Wrestling Anonymous. Please hold for the
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credits. Hey, thanks so muchfor listening to this week's episode of Wrestling
Anonymous. Today's show was edited andproduced by myself in my studio apartment in
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