46. Stone Cold's Brother

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Wrestling Anonymous. Please hold Welcome toWrestling Anonymous pro wrestling hotline show where callers
call in their stories from in andaround the wrestling world, and I,
your host and pro wrestler Cold Cabana, curate them, added them, reduce
them, and present it and afun podcast that you can download wherever listen

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to your podcasts. The show itselfdoes come out when I can get enough
calls to put it out as anofficial podcast, but there's still has been
shows going on twice a month overon my Patreon and that has never stopped.
The first and the fifteenth of themonth, I'll take some of the
calls that didn't make the show,I grab a guest and we listen to

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them up right now, Hornswaggle andI had a fun time. But you
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podcast feed. I do hope youenjoyed my return to television. I hope
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subscribe to all the stuff. AndI even hope you have a weird or
fun or maybe even crazy story thatyou would like to send into this podcast
anonymously. If you do, there'stwo very easy ways to share that story

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with the world. Email a voicememo two eighty seven cabana thirty four at
gmail dot com, or pick upthe phone dial eighty seven cabana thirty four.
That's eight seven two two two twosixty two thirty four. Eighty seven
cabana thirty four is the number.Give it a call and leave a message.
After the Beatle Wrestling anonymous, pleasehold. I used to go to

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my grands every single weekend up tothe age I was fifteen years of age.
It's pretty sad, but when peoplewere gone at kissing girls, I'm
getting drunk. In Scotland, Iwas living with my grand Friday, Saturday
Sunday and in my head I createda character called Badass Myke Austin. He

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was Steve's brother and I wrestled forImpact Wrestling Federation in my grand's bedroom every
Saturday night. My opponents were mygrands pillows, and it was I took
it so serious. I mean,I really did a book myself to win
the Impact Wrestling Federation title. Ibeat Said Vicious one Saturday night, but

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mean Said Vicious for the rematch thefollowing weekend, and I thought to myself,
you know, I just wrestled andlike my jogging trousers and wrestling t
shirt, I thought, now Ineed to look like a wrestler. So
what I've done was I took apair of my grant, who was in
our LA eighties, took a pairof my grands black tights and thought,

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well, they look like wrestling tights, and so I would strip off,
go on my grand straws, takea pair of our black tights stockings black
stockings as they call them in America. And I wrestled topless against Aid Vicious
in the rematch, and then Ithought, the next week, I'm going

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to take it even further, andso I wrestled in my grands black stockings
and her tart and waistcoat. Becauseit was like I was the Scottish brother
of Steve Watson, so the tartanwaistcoat kind of looked like Steve Boston's leather
waistcoat, but because it was tartening, I was Scottish. I looked pretty
good. So the second week,I've got the tartened waistcoat, the black

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stockings, and I beat said viciousagain. The third week, I've now
entered a new program with Road Warriorwas an animal World Road Animals. So
this week I thought, I needto take it to another level. I've
got the stockings, I've got thewaistcoat. Now I need to get color
in my grand's bedroom against the pillars. And so this weekend I decided to

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go up my grand's back door.I took a glass bottle of iron brew,
smashed it in two out our backdoor, sneaked back through into our
bedroom, and I took a glassshad for the broken bottle of glass iron
brew and went most to coast acrossmy forehead. And I was fucking drawing

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blood out in my face, Idoing my belly or doing my stomach.
I'd in my grand's tights and thena tom drown and my uncle Jimmy had
walked in and caught his fourteen yearold nephew and his mother's black tights and

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his mother's tat and waistcoat were bloodstreaming ding my face and all our pillows.
That was a fucking sight. Andsadly I'm no longer after that,
Uncle Jimmy died. Yeah, i'dasked my Austin. I dropped the title
a couple of weeks later, twoDustin Runnels. Of course, all of

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these calls are anonymous. You willnever know who the collar is. And
I just want to remind you ofmy good friend from Atland, Grado,
who's on a show called two DoorsDown, and I think he just signed
a new deal for a new show. He's got a podcast, a radio
show. He's killing it over inScotland and the UK and one of my

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favorite people ever with some of thegreatest stories ever. And rest in peace,
Uncle Jimmy. I know the callerpainted a picture of just the idea
of catching him and all of thisstuff, but really, really let that
sink in. If you are aforty year old man or whatever it is,

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and you go and you see thiskid at his grandma's house who's in
your family, and he is bleedingall over the place in his grandma's pants,
just kind of naked. It's Imean that's like you have to think
he's a psycho, a serial killer, Like there's no other exploit like that,

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or like real, real hardcore punkrock like gig Allen type shit.
And I don't know, if you'rea fourteen year old chubby Scottish boy,
I don't think you're into gig Allen. I think there's something mentally wrong.
And we all know because we getit exactly what he was doing. I

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would almost say, out of context, not understanding, you would have to
be like, we need to takethis kid for psych evaluation asap, and
in our heads we're just like,yo, we're in the third week of
a feud here on impact. Youcan't just have basic matches against these pillows.
It needs to be brought up alevel that's booking one oh one,

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which you say in your head obviously. But Uncle Jimmy hasn't been reading The
Observer since he was twelve years old. So Uncle Jimmy just thinks this is
some psycho shit and maybe he's notwrong, but we know the other side
of it. But bless your heartfor this story, perfect story, exactly
what this show is all about.A world we all live in and totally

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understand but everybody outside of our world. I mean, it makes sense to
think that it's a fucked up world. I get it. I went to
high school with Kendice Larrey. Iactually used to train with her in her
backyard. Her and her brothers hada wrestling ring. Surprisingly, their parents
were actually cool with them having alittle promotion in their backyards. So,

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like once a month on some Saturday, they would run shows in their backyard
and it was mostly friends of oursfrom school, but there were a few
people that they knew in the localcircuit at the time that would come and
do matches as well. One ofthose guys was a local wrestler by the
name of Johnny Starr. I wasn'tquite ready for matches yet. They were

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letting me referee matches, and Johnnywas heavy, was supposed to have a
match that I was supposed to berepping, and we had a good amount
of people in the backyard that werethere to watch the show. They would
pass out flyers at school, andso Johnny's in the ring, I'm in
the ring waiting to rest his match, and Johnny's supposed to be cutting a

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promo on his opponent. Then allof a sudden threw the curtain of the
our little entryway that we have inthe backyard. This older gentleman who was
very inebriated came out and just startedtalking shit to Johnny. He just literally
walked out like he owned the placeand was just like this guy stocked Cara

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and start like walking down the entrywayand then goes and eventually goes to sit
down in the crowd. So Johnnystarts having him back and forth with him
where he's where Johnny's talking shit tothis old man, and then the old
man just keeps throwing shit back athim, and they're just having this five
minute kind of shoot battle promo.And eventually the old man like let up

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and Johnny got back to doing whathe was doing, and then the show
went on as usual. But itwas just super random, and especially since
after the show, like all ofus got together, we're all kind of
talking. We were like, yo, who was that old man? And
no one knew who he was,just some random drunk dude that just decided,
fuck it, I'm going to goto this house that's having a random

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backyard show and I'm going to talkshit to some of the wrestlers. I
mean, this story is specifically abouta backyard wrestling show and an old drunk
man seeing it and having an argumentwith the wrestlers, and that being the
funny interaction. But the lead,which we seem to skip a little bit,

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is that it was at Candice Larrey'shouse and Candice Larrey, huge mega
WWE superstar, was running a backyardfederation training backyard wrestlers and also deciding that
the backyard wrestlers weren't ready enough forbackyard wrestling so they could only be a
rev. Let's not skip right overthat, because that was happening, and

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I love that we could get acall about somebody who has a story about
something completely different. And also,yes, it was in a backyard fed
with a ww superstar who's on televisionright now at the moment and is wrestling
in arenas in front of ten thousandplus people. But beyond that, this
guy was weirded out that an oldman would come to their backyard wrestling show

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when maybe see it from the oldman's perspective of he's trying to walk around
his neighborhood and there's a group ofhigh school kids in a makeshift ring with
people cheering them around in some kindof weird front yard slash backyard fight club
happening because he don't know what backyardwrestling is. He just sees people attacking
each other and people cheering it on. So when you see it from his

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perspective, maybe it makes a littlesense. But from our perspective, the
wrestling fan, we know exactly what'shappening. We love a good backyard wrestling
fed, especially when it's ran andoperated by a teenage Candice Lurey Wrestling Anonymous,
please hold for sponsors. I guessthere's two thousand and nine cars.

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There's a guy by the name ofrock and Roll buck zoom Off, and
he's traveling around doing his rock androll wrestling show in different bars and small,
small venues. Anyway, we goto this small show and I have
a friend who was very riled up. We're at the bar and my friend

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has a little too much to drink. The wrestling show is going on and
he's getting into it, gilling affinitiesand whatnot. Rock and Roll buck zoom
Off comes out with his boom box. He's walking around the crowd and my
friend slapped him on the back,but he may have slapped him a little
too hard because mister rock and Rollgot offended and turned around and said and

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started barking at him. I believeit was something on the don't f and
touch me blah blah blah. Alot of the people got upset at rock
the Roll and it kind of ensuedinto like a big old bar fight,
man, and it was kind ofcool. And my friend actually ended up
being the one to pulled rock androll buck zoom Off out of the bar

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and into safety. So we allran through our cars and if you drove
out of there like that, outof hell. So your buddy started the
fight and then he became the tagteam partner and savior of the guy he
started the fight with. Very wild. I also like how you said a
whole barroom fight started, which waskind of cool, which I guess is

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kind of cool. If nobody getshurt, No, that's never cool.
But the idea that you can comeand tell the story and nobody got hurt,
somebody probably was going to get hurt. And if you do a deep
dive into rock and roll buck zoomOff, you would understand what that meant.
I recommend doing a little research onrock and roll, like I'll take
this story. It's a fun story. I know. Rock and Roll buck

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Zoomhoff would travel around the country withhis shitty little van and his little wrestling
ring and his family, and hewould put on shows all over the Midwest.
He was kind of an anomaly becausehe was kind of a big star
with the AWA and he was ona national television but he was never big
enough for good enough to go anywhereelse. So he was a real Midwest

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star. And he would do theseshows in bars and basically sell the bar
on a wrestling show and on himrock and Roll buck Zoomhof from ESPN and
the AWA, and he was akarney, a straight up karney. He
used to sell peanuts in a paperbag and he would do whatever he had
to do to make a couple ofbucks. Now, he was a horrible

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person, an awful person. Irecommend checking out the podcast Crime in Sports
to see what rock and Roll buckZoomhoff did. But this is a story
about starting a bar fight with aprofessional wrestler and then starting a bar fight
with the whole bar and then savinga wrestler. I could see buck Zumhoff
being a hothead and just going offfucking weird dude deserve to get the shit

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kicked out of him by everybody.I know you thought you did a good
thing. I know your friend thoughthe did a good thing. Reality probably
shouldn't let that bar beat the shitout of rock and roll Bucks above.
It's gotta be over ten years agoat this point. I'm walking through midtown
Manhattan, not far from Madison SquareGarden, going down the street, and

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I go by an adult cabaret,a gentleman's club, whichever you want to
call it, and there's a bounceroutside trying to drum up business get patrons
to come inside, and looking athim, I recognize this man. I
recognize this man as one of thepeople who had, in my opinion,

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the greatest ladder match of all timeagainst Loki. He's the former Ring of
Honor Champion, the all around thebest Xavier. And he looked at me
and he says, hey, man, come on in, no admission,
And I just threw up his exsymbol at him and just said all around,
best kept on walking, man.That's so cool. That's the right

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way to do it. And Isay it's so cool because you can look
at this in two different ways.You can look at it as like,
oh, this is the meaning,this is this guy's job. And I
guess you could say like you're kindof taking a shot at him, but
I don't think so. It's justlike you knew this guy. It wasn't
one of those moments where you're like, oh shit, what's his name and
what was his thing? It's like, nope, that's xavier catchphrase, all

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around best and this was his handssignal and I see him and I know
it, and I'm gonna make thissituation cool, and I think you did
exactly that. Rest in peace.Xavier has since passed and at that time,
you know, I don't know.I can't speak for him. I
would assume that might have to behard ring of honor. Was this upstart.
It's like everyone was going to gosomewhere and some people didn't. Xavier

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didn't. He was pegged to bea big star in wrestling. Sadly he
didn't make it. And guess what, you can't raise a family. I'm
being popular out of message board fiveyears ago, So you get a fucking
job And that's what he did.And I think you handled that perfectly,
and I'm sure that put a smileto his face and made him think that

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he was cool at the time,and he deserved it. Some went on
to be, you know, doormanat the Gentleman's Club, and some went
on to be you know, wW champions or whatnot. So we all
have different paths and that was his. But I think you did a good
thing on that night. My fatherlooks exactly like Nick Foley, other than

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you know, having all of histeeth and all that, you know,
non wrestling injuries all over the place. Looks exactly like Nick Foley. So
one day, many years later,I got a call. My dad is
in Vegas and he called me.He goes, who's that guy you always
say I look like? And Isay Nick Foley. He's like, yes,
everyone here is calling me Nickfoley andasking me if I'm Nickfole. And

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I said yes, What should Ido? And I told him, I
was like, I guess role isit? You know? And I told
him, if anyone asks you toput your stock in their mouth, it's
not weird, it's a MCFOLI thing. Just do it, kind of explained
to him, like the mankind characterand you know, catch his jack dude
love. And so the next dayI get a call back and I said,

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how was it? He said,I didn't pay for a single thing
last night. People were buying mefood, people were buying me drinks.
They just thought I was nicfole andthey didn't really ask me any wrestling related
questions. They were just cool tohang out with Nickfole all night. I
love that the dad asks telling mesome stuff, what do I need to
know? And instead of being likehe's from Pennsylvania, he was an easy

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w he was hardcore. Make sureyou talk about a hole in the cell,
make sure you talk about a matchat the Undertaker losing your ear in
Germany. He just goes. Someonetells you to put their sock in their
mouth. That's normal and you shoulddo that. So great advice son to
father. I love that the dadgot a glimpse into what the life of

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mcfoley is because I need to livethat life. Everyone just pays for your
drinks and food. It's one thingif it's drinks, but food, you
know, Mick wants that food.I want that food. Very happy for
your dad. I'm glad he gotto live that life for a little bit.
Everybody should be able to live thatlife for a little bit. I
think that's what they call fifteen secondsof fame. I've had my fifteen maybe

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sixteen at this point. It's prettyfun finally paid off your dad by looking
like one of the greatest hardcore wrestlersof all time. Wrestling anonymous, please
hold for sponsors. Probably in nineteenninety nine or two thousand, I was
a high school junior sophomore on SouthwestMichigan and went to a show at the

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Papaw High School put on by apromoter who was also a local used car
salesman by the name of Crazy Larry. At that show was a couple of
people I had never seen before namedCold Cabana and also Rock and Randy.
Remember him starting a chant Rock andRandy makes Me Moist, which we thought

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was hilarious at the time, andI still don't really understand what that's supposed
to me and other than the obvious. After the show, we enjoyed it
so much that two of my friendsand I talked to Crazy Larry told them
that we needed to have another showat our high school a few miles away.
You know. We told him thatwe have a giant auditorium as brand
new new school, even bigger thanPapa High School to drive even bigger crowd.

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He used to go to this bar, at this local bar where we
would go for Burger Knight. Sowe would meet up with Crazy Larry over
the next few weeks at Burger Knightto kind of plan this out, talk
about details and dates and things likethat, and he said he had it
all booked, and you may havebeen one of the people who were booked.
The problem is that we never hadpermission to do this or talk to

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school administrators or anything. So whenit seemed like it was to the point
not where everything was set and sown, finally got up the nerve to talk
to our principle and tell him ofthis great idea. And we were immediately
shot out that absolutely not. We'renot going to have a pro wrestling show
in our auditorium. What do youYou're crazy? So we had to go
back to Burger Knights the next weekwith our tail between our legs and tell

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Crazy Larry the bad news. Hedid not take it well. He wasn't
shy about yelling at a bunch ofyou know, sixteen or seventeen year old
boys in a bar. But it'swhat he says was true and you were
booked for this show and we tookit away from you. Send me your
venmote details and I'll send you thatthat twenty bucks that you probably would have
gotten from back in nineteen ninety nine. So this is kind of a story

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about me, but not really.This is a story about kids booking a
show in a high school before theyasked permission to have high school, which
is really funny and really fun.Now, this was a time period in
my career where I felt I hadtwo different worlds. I had the Chicago
and Wisconsin world, which was withRock and Randy, who the guy who

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gave me my first ever matches forthe NAWF, And then I had my
Michigan world where I was going tocollege, and I felt there were two
separate wrestling scenes. So when yousay Paw Paw Michigan, I don't really
remember having a show with Rock andRandy, who would be from the Chicago
Wisconsin world in the Michigan world.Now, I do remember as a fan

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going to a show in Paw Paw, Michigan while in college before I started
training. Iron Cheek was on theshow, so it was Mister Insanity,
Toby Klein and I don't doubt it, because I do remember Crazy Larry as
a promoter in Michigan, and Ido you remember Rock and Randy having some
kind of weird existential time in hislife where he would start the chant rock

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and Randy makes Me Moist, whichsummed up Rock and Randy as a performer
and a trainer and a wrestler.But the exact show I do not remember.
I don't doubt that it happened.And I totally get seeing wrestling in
a high school saying we should havethis at our high school, and then
booking it for the high school.I think I probably did that twenty different

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times in my own head, havinga show at Deerfield High School, especially
when I started wrestling. I waslike, well, I know the people
at Deerfield. I could put ashow here in the auditorium. I'm local.
I would get everybody to come.But my promoter brain just never let
it happen. Your promoter brain wenta couple steps forward, but just didn't
get that permission. And I don'tblame the people working at the high school,

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whoever was in charge, of course, why would they want professional wrestling
promoted by a man named Crazy Larry? Imagine you're going to this esteemed principle
and you're like, I have abusiness proposal. It's you on one side
and on the other side, theman bringing us this business, crazy Larry.

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So the Russell Reunions show in Augustmaybe two thousand and seven, two
thousand and six, Dusty Rhodes whowas a four way tag match, Dusty
Rhodes at the Blue Meaty and someother guys against like Steve Carino and like
Bink the clown got We got tothe show early and I had to use
the bathroom and walk with my greatuncle on my stepfan and Dusty Rhodes comes

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out of the bathroom and it looksat the bus and goes, I want
to go in there, Daddy.I just sunk off the joint. We
walk in there and it is sobad that my uncle faints and cracks his
head open on the floor and he'srushed. We had to leave the show
where else he can go to thehospital. So, yeah, my uncle
almost died from Dusty Rhodes taking thepoop. I would say that's not real.

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When he said that he fainted andthat he cracked his head open,
I'd be like, Okay, you'reover exaggerating. But then the story went
on and he was bleeding and hetook them to the hospital, Like,
you don't exaggerate that that if you'retaking some in the hospital, you taking
someone the hospital for a reason.And apparently the reason here is the smell
of Dusty Rhodes shit. Now,on this podcast, we have had had

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stories of fans interacting with wrestlers,and of course that's going to happen at
independent shows, but even an independentshow, if you're not used to it,
it's kind of mind blowing to belike, that's the wrestler I just
saw. We're sharing the same bathroom. So you have to remember at one
time, listen, everyone goes up, everyone comes down. I was doing
independent shows with Dusty Rhodes. DustyRhodes was doing these small, little crappy

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independent wrestling shows towards the later endof his career, and this match he
was in sounding like a doozy,I'll tell you that much. But some
people are going to have the opportunityto have that opportunity, and I was
gonna say, I'm glad you gotthat opportunity, but apparently it wasn't the
best one. But I'll say this, if you were to name a handful
of people and not tell me thename of the wrestler, I think Dusty

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might be on the list of peoplewho I would guess was that wrestler.
Maybe it has to do something withhis old WWF vignettes, just the way
he would carry himself around. Butit made sense, and I'm sorry that
that happened. But what a greatstory. A great story, Wrestling Anonymous.
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