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TWBG Presents: Disassociative Personality Theatre - Royal Rumble 1989
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Holy Cow! Harry Caray and Rick Reuschel make the perfect team as they watch Big John Studd, Koko, and The Hulkster - and others- Take their place among the stars. It's...
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Introduction and Royal Rumble Overview
00:00:01
Speaker
Hey, hey, it's Harry here. Can't believe I'm doing this shit. But, to you know, I heard the ah the old man, or the old fat boy from Chattahoochee on the the feed when I stole old Gabe's cell phone this morning.
00:00:19
Speaker
I thought to myself, let me show him how it's doing. So he got me here. And I invited one of my my oldest friends from from my neck of the woods, old Rick Russell.
00:00:30
Speaker
He's here with us as well. And we're watching the 1989 Royal Rumble. oh Howard Finkel, the ah the announcer there, he's giving people the rundown of the rules of this thing where I guess much these...
00:00:50
Speaker
jacked up wrestling types come to the ring one at a time and try to throw each other around. Now he's announcing the first, first answer and it's a demolition axe.
00:01:01
Speaker
Uh, got a face full of silver and black paint and looks like he bit his tongue. He's got a little blood in his mouth, think. but he's full of sparkles too. i don't know what the hell that's all about.
00:01:13
Speaker
ah I'll tell you, he didn't have any sparkles on him. Oh, Stoney. Stoney, uh, s Stoney refused to be even the slightest bit feminine, if you understand my meaning, you know.
00:01:27
Speaker
Well, um I'm glad you brought that up, how Howard, Harry. I figured I would step in here. Look at this. This is really interesting.
00:01:39
Speaker
These guys, I know from back in my playing days, we would watch wrestling in the clubhouse, you know. ah Oh, my time with the Cubs with you, by the way, Harry, was fantastic.
00:01:51
Speaker
ah Even though I don't know that our time coincided, but these two are our our tag team wrestling partners. This is Axe Demolition versus Smashing Demolition, and so far, it's a bit of a stalemate. They just went right at each other.
Crowd Comparisons and Personal Memories
00:02:07
Speaker
As you know, Harry, they they like to tell people that there are no friends or allies in the Royal Rumble, only only enemies in competition, you know. So the two of these guys, they just ah went right at each other.
00:02:23
Speaker
I'll tell you, the the crowd is awful well lit at this thing. You can see a whole lot of people out in the crowd that look a lot like the folks that used to come to baseball games, not like the the Cretans that you see in the wrestling shows now.
00:02:39
Speaker
You know, ah for the time that I was sleeping on Gabe's couch, The green one there in the den, not to not the one in the living room, because that's just too small for me. I mean, so is the green one, but, ah you know, the green one's softer, and I can stretch out if I hide underneath it and there's more room under there, you know.
00:02:59
Speaker
But anyway, I forgot where I was going with that. Oh, oh, how ugly people are nowadays. Yeah, yeah, I find that to be the case, don't you, Harry?
00:03:11
Speaker
Well, I'll tell you. What I know is that ah women used to be far more attractive. And I don't know if that's just because I didn't have too much problem with taking them home ah when I was younger.
00:03:27
Speaker
now that i'm Now that I'm dead, you understand, it's a little bit harder for me to pick up the ladies out in the the wild, as it were. You know, when I would go down to the Viagra Triangle, I'd have no problem.
00:03:40
Speaker
Me and Jack Brickhouse used to hang out at Russian Division all the time, grab a nice slice of Lou Malnati's, which, if you understand Chicago and Chicago-style pizza, you know, it's ridiculous for me to even say something like that because you can't pick up one slice and eat it like slice pizza.
00:03:59
Speaker
You burn your hands off, you know, and just cheese all over the place. Oh, Gabe, he loves that kind of shit, though. ah you just he's a He's a real foodie, you understand.
00:04:11
Speaker
Oh, look at this guy.
Reminiscing and Wrestling Analysis
00:04:13
Speaker
I know him. That's Andre the Giant coming in at number three in this 1989 Royal Rumble, you know. Led to the ring by the the greatest manager of all time. I met him three or four different times when I was calling baseball games there in Chicago. You know he's from there.
00:04:31
Speaker
a Great guy. Reminds me a lot of myself, if you understand. my meaning there, you know. Really interesting here. it looks like Axe and Smash going to work together, try to take care of the big man because he is the big man. Double clothesline takes him off his feet.
00:04:49
Speaker
And now they motion to the crowd that they're going to try to get rid of him in one swell foop, as they say.
00:04:58
Speaker
Well, you know, I used to, when I was living down in Effingham, I used to have a guy I went to school with named Andre. He wasn't a giant or nothing, but he had hair a lot like Andre's hair, kind of curly on top, and he big old mutton chops, and everybody did gang up on him the way these two guys seem to be ganging up on Andre.
00:05:24
Speaker
I wonder if if old Blake has some stories about about about Andre the Giant. I just love Blake's stories. he He has a lot of them, but he seems to lean real heavily on the ones about how, you know, he might as well be black or this or that because because he grew up in a black neighborhood. Yeah, we get it. You're hardcore. Thank you, pal.
00:05:47
Speaker
That's real good. um um I'm glad you you need you feel the need to explain that to everybody as often as you possibly can instead of just, you know, owning the fact that but you're a southern white kid and You just happen to have more advanced views than most of the people that you ah you went to school with or live around or things like that.
00:06:13
Speaker
Hey, look at this. It's Kurt Hennig. He's Mr. Perfect. He just showed up here at number four. He's taking his time getting to the ring. I can't really speak on Blake's, whether he he considers himself to be a of the African-American persuasion or not, but I can tell you this.
00:06:37
Speaker
Mr. Perfect's one hell of an athlete. Although I find it a little bit weird when I see him. He's not in his singlet, you understand. He's in a pair regular old tights, blue tights with blue knee pads, you know.
00:06:52
Speaker
And Andre just eliminated Smash with one hand. So we're down to three in the ring right now. It's an Axe and Mr. Perfect and The Undertaker.
00:07:03
Speaker
Oh, no, and not The Undertaker. It's Andre the Giant. I misspoke. You know, that happens more and more now that the boys don't seem to get together and record their podcast no more. It's like the sunglasses, the glasses, I mean, see, doing it again.
00:07:19
Speaker
like the glasses stop working their mojo, you know. So can't really get around as easily as I used to. and
00:07:30
Speaker
I mix up my words and things.
Cultural Commentary and Nostalgia
00:07:34
Speaker
we're doing this stuff, you know, Gabe and and Blake called on us to fill in every once in a while, because Gabe's going through a move, you know, looks like he sold the house, looks like he sold the house that but he and Bob got there and in Michigan, I forget what quadrant of the state they're in, but they're geographically they are in that state, that much I know.
00:08:01
Speaker
Andre just punched perfect right in the face. It was something. It was something to behold, I'll tell you right now.
00:08:09
Speaker
Well, it's interesting, Harry, that you bring that up. Now we got to Ronnie Garvin running to the ring. I remember rock rugged Ronnie Garvin back when he was the NWA world champion.
00:08:23
Speaker
ah He beat old Ric Flair for that belt. And, you know, I didn't even know he was in the WWF at any point. But they got they got Ronnie Garvin and Mr. Perfect and Axe.
00:08:37
Speaker
They got the the old Andre there tied up in the top rope, and they're trying to pick him up from the bottom and get him up and over. But the physics of that seemed like a silly try try way to try to do it.
00:08:51
Speaker
Because, you know, he's not going to turn completely around and over the top rope. and And if he did do that, he might break his neck and kill the poor bastard. money first one of ourre on loose Yeah, I got to tell you, i just, you know, ah matches like this, i I guess I can't appreciate for the the surprise of it all.
00:09:14
Speaker
trying to figure out who's going to come out next and whatnot and doing all that sort of thing. But I also, at the same time, really miss the ah kind of one-on-one competition of one man versus another and them getting to know the body of the other man, you know, slow caresses of the skin is as they they try their best to to to to pin him to the mat, you know.
00:09:44
Speaker
Those are the sorts of things I really appreciate. You understand, though, if you ever listen to the program along with Gabe and Blake, ah you understand where I'm coming from there.
00:09:55
Speaker
It's a... It's pretty easy calculus at the end of the day. We got five seconds left until the next one comes in. I'll tell you right now, it's a real a barn burner here so far. Axe is punching Andre and ain't nothing happening.
00:10:11
Speaker
Andre no-selling is what they call that. Oh, here comes a ah ah Greg the Hammer Valentine. Hey, hey, don't forget Jimmy Hart's along with him.
00:10:23
Speaker
I heard Jimmy Hart a little bit earlier today. He just ran out to the ring with him and then s scooted on back to the back. But ah earlier on today, it was Jimmy Hart and old Credence from Chattahoochee. We talked about a little earlier that fat tub of goo running his cock gobbler ah for an hour or so.
00:10:44
Speaker
Now you get to listen to may ah my penis poker ah and and old Rick here getting excited at all the different different words they used to the define and ah a talk about the the male male organ.
00:11:02
Speaker
you know Ronnie Garvin got eliminated by Andre the Giant there. It was kind of a mess, but he's gone. and Valentine and Perfect teaming up on Andre in the corner.
00:11:18
Speaker
Two big old hands around Greg Valentine's neck. Hey, you know, I remember the first time that I ever met Stoney. That reminds me. ah We were at te the corner of Lawrence and Kedzie up on the north side.
00:11:36
Speaker
and we were getting some... some Mediterranean food. Baba ganoush, one of my favorites. That's ah an eggplant dish that they just s mash up with some tahini and some sesame and the like, and you put it on bread. It's a real delight.
00:11:52
Speaker
ah But anyway, we were up there getting some kebabs and some guy baba ganoush, and I remember Stoney Got so upset at the waiter, he grabbed him by the neck and said, Hey, do you understand this is Harry Carey?
00:12:07
Speaker
This is the famous Harry Carey. You don't treat Harry Carey like this. Here comes was a snake man running to the ring. Blue tights going directly after Andre the Giant on this one.
00:12:20
Speaker
Caught his leg on the bottom rope. Looks like he might have hurt himself. I'm not real sure. I'd have to go back in time and ask him. He's dead now, isn't he? ah um I'm glad you brought that up, ah Harry. No, no, Jake ain't dead. He's still walking around and lying to people, smoking cigarettes with an oxygen tank hooked up to his nose and you know all those things. But no, he's not dead. It's ah it's the darndest thing. It's like everybody around him seems to die, but he doesn't, which you know I can relate to you pretty easy.
00:12:57
Speaker
you know Growing up with Dad the way I did, You understand, like, you know, he's bringing the girls to the girls home every, oh, every third day or so.
00:13:09
Speaker
I imagine we went through 70 or 80 of them in my time with Dad there
Surprises and Humorous Exchanges
00:13:13
Speaker
and the ranch in Effingham. God rest its soul. I mean, I don't know that a place can have a soul, but I think you understand my meaning.
00:13:22
Speaker
The fact that it's gone is really hard, but at least I found, uh, found Steven out of the thing. and know Blake's a big fan of Steven. they They hung out one night a couple weeks ago, and I got a great little report card on their activities from Blake. They went over to ah one of them local hamburger spots there and in Wichita that that Blake loves so much. So I'm really glad they got that time together.
00:13:53
Speaker
Andre, a couple of minutes ago, just stomped directly on Jake's belly. And it looked like he hurt him real bad. And now he he's choking old Jake with a tag rope in the corner.
00:14:05
Speaker
Looking like he's just draining the life out of him. And now somebody new is going to come out here. Who's that? It's the outlaw Ron Bass. Boy, oh boy.
00:14:16
Speaker
um He doesn't have no hair no more because Brutus Beefcake chopped it off here you recently, from what I can tell. And Andre just eliminated Jake the Snake. Holy we cow.
00:14:29
Speaker
I expected Jake to be one of the ones that'd be in there to very end, do you understand. Everybody loved Jake the Snake Roberts. I loved him. I know I did. Anyway, the only other Jake that I knew was... ah ah Jake Arrieta, young kid.
00:14:47
Speaker
I don't even know what words I'm saying anymore. It's fine. Everything's fine.
00:14:54
Speaker
You know who Outlaw Ron Bass reminds me of, though, from a baseball player perspective? You look at him, he's got the bald head and he's got the the black tights and the the big build there.
00:15:06
Speaker
Reminds me of old Steve Balboni. Obviously, outlaw Ron Bass ain't no Italian, but I almost said a word I shouldn't say, so you should be glad I didn't do that.
00:15:18
Speaker
But he doesn't look Italian or nothing, but... Boy, oh boy, he's got the same build as old Balboni does. he's and He's an archetype of a man, you understand. that's That's the way I figure it. is he's just ah ah He's a guy who's the right size ah to hit hit hit to home runs pretty regularly.
00:15:41
Speaker
ah but a little bit sloppy at the same time, you know. Not like all these athletes today. You know, I miss the John Crux of the world and the the Rod Becks of the world and the Steve Balbonis, maybe even Bob Horner.
00:15:56
Speaker
Maybe we can get Bob in here at some point. I don't know. I don't think he was too much of a wrestling fan, but I know I was. We're down to one second left here. Who's coming in now? Let's find out.
00:16:09
Speaker
Who we got there? Is that? Oh, it's the Heartbreak Kid. Before he was the Heartbreak Kid. One half of the Rockers, it's Shawn Michaels wearing and purple trunks with a zebra belt and zebra boots and some tassels there down at the bottom looking looking quiteer quite like a child, if I'm not if
Tension and Resolution between Hulk Hogan and Macho Man
00:16:33
Speaker
i'm not mistaken here Hey, it looks like Axe just got eliminated by Mr. Perfect there. So number one is out of the Royal Rumble here.
00:16:44
Speaker
And Hennig just ah threw Shawn Michaels over. But Shawn Michaels, he skins the cat, as they would say later on. And he pulled himself back in over the top rope with a little flip and and gets himself back in there.
00:17:04
Speaker
uh drop kick's perfect and he flips over the top rope but flips right back into the ring it was it was an unbelievable looking drop kick i'll tell you they're really uh mr hennig really gave his all to make make old sean look real good there i'll tell you what you could even see here how much they really wanted uh this this man to come out and and do more than he did with uh with old marty jennetti there You know, I wonder about Marty Jannetty and how his leg's doing.
00:17:38
Speaker
They showed that that that foot of his on that Dark Side of the Ring show. Gabe watches a lot of real dark television these days because he needs to escape the pain of his own reality.
00:17:51
Speaker
And so I watch along with him. But they showed old Marty's foot on that show. It looked like that damn thing been down an alligator's mouth and puked on out. It was bad.
00:18:02
Speaker
Bad-looking leg, foot sort of thing. I wonder if Sean feels bad that he's the one that got the the good side of things and Marty has suffered so much. Hey! hey Look who's coming to the ring now.
00:18:16
Speaker
It's a bushwhacker, one of them. I think this is Luke, if I'm not mistaken. This will be old Luke coming to the ring, doing his little bushwhacker strut. Now what's this?
00:18:29
Speaker
Jake is back. Jake's back and he just threw that snake in the ring. Andre got ah got a ah whiff of it and just threw his damn self over the top rope. what What a turn of events.
00:18:41
Speaker
You gotta believe that Andre was the favorite to win this thing before this happened, but he just basically eliminated himself from this thing. You know, this is a this is from the the time before they were giving away...
00:18:58
Speaker
world title opportunities ah to the winner of the Royal Rumble. So really all this is for is bragging rights at the end of the day. So at this point with no Andre, this is this is anybody's game.
00:19:12
Speaker
Nobody really knows what the hell is going to happen now. Least of all me, because I didn't read any spoilers on this bad boy. And I i was too damn busy doing... doing a spring training in the summer, in the the the the late winter of 89, you know, so I wasn't really following the product the way I would in the future, so so we'll see what happens now. Odds are pretty much even across the board here as far as I'm concerned.
00:19:42
Speaker
got Luke and Greg Lehammer Valentine going at it, and Shawn Michaels recovering, and ah perfect, and Outlaw Ron Bass kind of going at it a little bit. Double noggin knocker from Sean to Mr. Perfect and the Outlaw Ron Bass in three seconds till we see somebody new here in the ring.
00:20:07
Speaker
Buzzers going off and who we got here?
00:20:12
Speaker
Oh, it's my turn. Oh, this is one of my favorites right here. Here comes Jimmy Hart, who I've yet to meet in person, really.
00:20:23
Speaker
ah But I do look forward to the time that I get to as as Jimmy runs to the back again. But we've got the Honky Tonk Band in the ring here.
00:20:35
Speaker
Tag teaming right now with Outlaw Ron Bass, taking care of Luke. Now he's he's getting some shoulders in the corner from for Mr. Perfect. But I've got to tell you,
00:20:47
Speaker
Honky Tonk Man's my kind of man, if you understand my meaning. and he He's got that full head, a shock of dark hair and them sideburns on the side.
00:20:59
Speaker
You know, I always was partial to Elvis Presley, and he resembles him quite a bit, if i'm not if i'm not if I'm not being silly about the whole thing. I think that's probably why they decided to have him carry the guitar and put notes on his butt and on the tights and whatnot.
00:21:20
Speaker
So I'm just real glad to see Honky in this match. I was um i always i underestimated his his abilities. And I think at the time when I was watching, I didn't really care much for him. But now in retrospect, like with Gabe, I find him to be far more entertaining.
00:21:42
Speaker
Hey, can someone explain to me why the the big purple banners that say Royal Rumble up in the the the cheap seats there, they're flying back and forth like there's a fan on them.
00:21:56
Speaker
Back and forth and back, like some kind of earthquake happening. Mr. Perfect about to throw Honky Tonk Man over the top, but gets his eyes raked in return.
00:22:08
Speaker
Keep himself in the ring. Ring is getting real tight there, and we got... Arriba! It's Tito Santana coming to the ring now. ah he's ah He's got those trunks with the sombrero on the butt again.
00:22:23
Speaker
I gotta tell you, I'm not a real big fan of that. I think it's it's borderline racist, if I'm being honest. Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Harry. i I don't find it to be all that terribly terribly racist or nothing.
00:22:40
Speaker
Well, I got to tell you, you're wrong about that, Rick. that's ah That's about as racist as it gets, you know. ah Diminishing an entire race of people just down to one cultural touch point.
00:22:54
Speaker
It's kind of the definition of it, if you get my meaning.
00:22:59
Speaker
Well, I guess that could be true, but hey let me ask you a question. Do you guess about just about everything? Or do you know anything at all?
00:23:10
Speaker
You just run that cock
Tension, Humor, and Cultural Reflections
00:23:13
Speaker
gobbler, as old Creedence said this morning, and run that mouth of yours around, and you don't say much of nothing, do you? No, I didn't think so.
00:23:23
Speaker
You don't have much ah ah gumption about you. Can't decide what way you like to do things. Can't decide how hard things are easy they are. Just kind of, I guess this and I guess that.
00:23:37
Speaker
Why don't you do this? Why don't you read a book or two and come back and we'll talk about it, all right? Once you know something, then you can come and broadcast with the big dogs.
00:23:50
Speaker
Well, I understand your meaning. I just, I never claimed to be much of a broadcaster, Harry. um I'm just here because Gabe invited me to come and do this thing so that the two of you could, the two of us rather, could could fill in a little bit for Gabe and Blake and them Patreon folks, they they were demanding demand and some ah some content, and they liked the Royal Rumbles, and so I think we're just doing them in order, you know, and we're filling in for old Gabe and Blake doing this. That was bad news. Brown came into the ring.
00:24:29
Speaker
For a second, though, I thought it was Blake because, you know, he looks like a badass black guy. And that's that's how Blake fancies himself, I think.
00:24:40
Speaker
Oh, that's a real shame. Honky Tonk Man just got eliminated by Bushwhacker Luke and Tito Santana. ah hopefully yeah Hopefully we get some some more studly guys in there.
00:24:55
Speaker
Ones that I like to look at a little bit better than than the rest of these guys that are in there now, you know. Hey, I like that you stood up for yourself, but do me a favor as we continue down this road whatever the hell this is, just be a bit more forceful about what you like and what you don't like and what you do and what you don't do and less maybes and sortas and less passive language, you understand. You got to be a real man here, right?
00:25:27
Speaker
I don't care who you like, if it's Steven or Stephanie, But just ah just be more forceful in your language, okay? Or else I'm going to go fucking insane.
00:25:43
Speaker
Well, I suppose we can make that work. Shawn Michaels just came up off the top rope with a double axe handle. And Gorilla Monsoon, the commentator here on the program,
00:25:55
Speaker
said that was a very high-risk maneuver because if you're up above the top rope, you could very easily find yourself over the top roping out of the match completely. You know?
00:26:08
Speaker
Buzzer's going off. Looks like we got somebody else coming out now. Oh, look at that. It's Shawn Michaels' tag team partner, Marty Jannetty.
00:26:19
Speaker
Before his foot was hurting so bad, you know, he might have been in some pain here. I don't know, but But now they're leveling the playing field and we got another another rocker in the the Royal Rumble. And those signs up there that Harry mentioned are still flying back and forth like they're on some kind of a trajectory. Like they got a propeller attached to them. I don't know what's happening.
00:26:44
Speaker
It's the darndest thing I've ever seen, though. I've got to tell you. Double back elbow from the Rockers to ah outlaw Ron Bass. And then a double drop kick to eliminate him from the match all entirely.
00:26:58
Speaker
Marty Jannetty and Kurt Hennig now lock up. and Marty gets the best of Kurt in the corner there. and Here comes Greg Valentine to get him some. and Marty unleashes couple of big punches to the jaw of the the hammer.
00:27:14
Speaker
And then a double noggin knocker to the Mr. Perfect and the hammer at the same time. I always used to love that double noggin knocker because I used to pretend that I was one of the guys getting noggin knocked.
00:27:27
Speaker
And I would pucker up and accidentally, accidentally kiss the other guy. You know? that's I mean, just the part homosexual of me, though. You know, you understand. Not the not the the the part that's not homosexual.
00:27:44
Speaker
You guys get it. This is why I love doing the shows, because I know all you listeners out there, all you you you fellers that that listen to the show that you get. You understand old Rick Russell. You understand Big Daddy better than just about anybody could.
00:28:02
Speaker
Hey, what in the hell is going on? You started talking about kissing other men, and here comes the macho man running as fast as he can to the ring, sprinting, straight up sprinting, if you believe it.
00:28:20
Speaker
Goes right after Bad News Brown and just lets him have it. Knees to the face, crowd going wild. Macho throws him to the corner, back elbow, takes off the bandana and the sunglasses, and big stomps to old Bad News Brown here.
00:28:38
Speaker
Greg the Hammer Valentine cuts him off there and gives him some big old forearm blows to the back of the neck to bring him to his knees. But boy, oh boy, Macho Man always was one of my favorites. Him along with the Hulkster, old Hulk Hogan, rest in peace. You know, I saw him the other day up here and he was going on and on about how all these people on earth keep trying to channel him to talk to him in the afterlife and how All I wanted to talk about while he was on Earth is about his racist nonsense. And I told him, I said, Hawks, here's what you got to remember.
00:29:18
Speaker
If you don't act like a racist, people won't treat you like one. You understand. You get it. Double axe handle off the second rope to the hammer. That was that was old macho man, Tito, holding the hammer for macho.
00:29:36
Speaker
Big elbow to Mr. Perfect. Get out of the corner for Macho Man. Macho Man wearing the orange trunks with yellow boots. One of my favorite combinations for this guy. i think i think mr workbreaks lasted all Jesse Ventura
Alliances and Reflections on Honesty
00:29:53
Speaker
chiming in. The governor looks like ah Mr. Perfect's been in there longer than anybody else.
00:30:02
Speaker
Which doesn't surprise me, man. It's fantastic specimen. Quite the condition, wouldn't you say, Rick? Yeah, I mean, blondes just aren't my type. That's all.
00:30:14
Speaker
You'll understand. Here comes a Bobby the Brain Heenan and Arne Anderson running to the ring. um This might be ah only the only Royal Rumble Arne Anderson was in.
00:30:28
Speaker
I'm not real sure. But he just got super kicked by Shawn Michaels. And while I was talking about Arn Anderson, Macho Man gave a back body drop to old Greg the Hammer Valentine and threw him out of the ring.
00:30:44
Speaker
and now you got a real weird combination here. Macho Man and Arn Anderson just double back elbowed Shawn Michaels out of the match. Strange bedfellas in a match like this one, you know.
00:30:57
Speaker
Not real friends near nothing. But Arn Anderson and Macho man doing the thing there. I don't know that that that's ever happened since.
00:31:08
Speaker
My goodness. Maybe in WCW. I was a big WCW fan. I really liked the New World Order. It's because they were the bad guys, but they were cool, so you wanted to cheer for them.
00:31:21
Speaker
That was like 97, 98, the New World Order, NWO. the new world order the and w I really liked him a lot. It felt like you were doing something you weren't supposed to do.
00:31:32
Speaker
And, you know, I like that. I like that sort of thing.
00:31:38
Speaker
Hey, hey, you know what I like? Arn Anderson reminds me a lot of me. You want to know why? Well, yeah yeah, I do. I would like to know, Harry, why does Arn Anderson remind you of you?
00:31:55
Speaker
Because he never quite looks his age, you know. Here he's got to be, gosh, early 30s at the most, you know. Looks exactly the same as he does 20 years later in his early 50s.
00:32:10
Speaker
Man never seemed to age. And hey, look at that. Out comes the other half of the brain busters, old Tully Blanchard. think this definitely is the only Royal Rumble Tully Blanchard was in, but now we got another full tag team in there. Shawn Michaels is gone, so ah Marty Jannetty's on his own, but we've got the Brain Busters in there together now.
00:32:33
Speaker
That seems like a bad news, no pun intended, because Bad News Brown's in there too, you know, ah for the rest of the competitors. I gotta tell you, Rick, yeah I can't help but notice there's a slightly similar twang to my voice and your voice, and I really wonder if that's just ah because the guy that's doing the voices does them similarly, or if it's because we share some sort of a regional dialect.
00:33:06
Speaker
Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Harry. um I imagine it's probably a little bit of both, but
Introspection and Competition Reflections
00:33:13
Speaker
i am from Effingham, Illinois, which is, i don't know, about $150.
00:33:19
Speaker
hundred 120, 130 miles from the state line with Missouri. And if I remember right, you were from southern Illinois as well. So we have a very similar sort of slight southern twang, but still a lot of Midwestern sort of colloquialisms that we use in our in our speech and what have you.
00:33:44
Speaker
um Like I think we both you pronounce program, program. Because it's just a little bit easier to say. Like, I know, you know, Gabe once told a story about his mom.
00:33:58
Speaker
His mom really loved her ah to pronounce things with a sort of Midwest twang to him. We got Marty Jannetty here hanging by his toes, the top rope. And finally, he gets eliminated by Tully Blanchard.
00:34:11
Speaker
But anyway. Gabe's mama, here comes the Hulkster. Oh, here comes the Hulkster. Hulkster's running to the ring. I'm so excited. Oh, my goodness, he's got his bandana on and everything.
00:34:22
Speaker
Kurt Hennig getting a couple of punches there, and Hulkster saves his buddy, Macho Man Randy Savage. And out goes out goes Kurt Hennig. Out goes Mr. Perfect.
00:34:32
Speaker
Big punch to Arn. Big punch to Tully. Arn and Tully, double noggin knocker from the Hulkster. My goodness gracious, Bad News Brown now getting choked by the Hulkster's bandana and big old punches.
00:34:47
Speaker
Oh, my goodness, he came in like they would say a house of fire. Hulkster trying to pick up Bad News Brown and get him over. Looks like Bad News Brown is having none of it.
00:34:58
Speaker
Anyway, as I was talking about, ah Gabe used to tell the story about his mom when ah when she would say the word window window. Instead of saying window, she would say window.
00:35:11
Speaker
Would you open the window? Or if she was playing pinochle, she would call it a widow instead of a widow.
00:35:24
Speaker
Right? so So, yeah, they they the Midwest, they really like to cut off the ends of those words and pronounce the vowels improperly. You know, that's why I say program.
00:35:37
Speaker
Hey, that was a lot of inside baseball. I guess I should expect it from a pitcher, journeyman pitcher like you, Big Daddy. So thanks for all the in-depth sort of sort of phenomenon there.
00:35:52
Speaker
Is that the right word? See, there it is again. ah It's not because it's late at night when this is getting recorded. No, sir. It's because I'm just... I'm just out of it because the glasses are losing their luster.
00:36:07
Speaker
You understand. Next up here, coming into the ring, who do we got? We got Bushwhacker Butch running on down in his Bushwhacker style. that's That's two tag teams in the match now. You got the Bushwhackers and the Brain Busters.
00:36:24
Speaker
And, of course, we got the Mega Powers, so I guess in a way that's three tag teams. And and then you got Bad News Brown. Doing things in there as well.
00:36:35
Speaker
ah Looks like the Hulkster and Bad News just teamed up to get rid of Bushwhacker Luke. We got Arne and Tully over there trying to get rid of Bushwhacker Butch.
00:36:55
Speaker
Arne just punched Hogan in the kidney from behind. Kick and a punch in the corner. My goodness, what a melee this is turning into. you Savage and Bad News Brown going at it.
00:37:08
Speaker
Arn with Hogan in the corner. Turns his attention over to Tully. Picks him up. Tully kicks checks Hogan in the gut. and Bad News stomps Macho Man right in the face.
00:37:21
Speaker
Tully Blanchard, hangman's noose on the top rope by the Hulkster. Guerrilla press style, you know.
00:37:29
Speaker
Bushwhacker Butch just gave Hogan a nice punch to the face and a double, double chop to the throat.
00:37:38
Speaker
If you know anything about razzling history, you know, the bushwhackers used to be the sheep herders. Sheep herders were a little more, uh, Oh, Violin. You see a little bit of that coming out of Butch here with that double throat chop to the Hulkster. And we got Bushwhacker Butch and Tully Blanchard teaming up on the Hulkster until he gives them a double noggin knocker and then goes after Arne with a big old elbow, sends him off the ropes and a big boot.
00:38:08
Speaker
Gorilla says size 16 right to the kisser.
00:38:14
Speaker
Oh, here comes one of my favorites. I really did appreciate this one. this is It's Coco Beware. Now, I got to tell you, I'm a little bit upset if I'm being honest.
00:38:24
Speaker
I would have loved to have seen Frankie come along with Coco to the ring, but Coco's in there by himself. And interestingly in red and yellow, just like the Hulkster here, which I find to be something that that the Hulkster might not have loved too much, you know given his disdain.
00:38:45
Speaker
uh, for the African-American community.
00:38:50
Speaker
Speaking of which, we have some black-on-black violence in the ring right now, which Blake would really, really, yeah be upset about. It's, uh, it's, uh, Bad News Brown and Coco Beware going at it, you know.
00:39:05
Speaker
It's kind of an even deal right now. Bad News taking a slight, slight, uh, sort of, uh,
00:39:14
Speaker
Topping Coco in that way. Inverted atomic drop from the macho man to Arn Anderson. And then the Hulkster gets Coco on his shoulders and throws him right over the top rope.
00:39:28
Speaker
Which is, again, no surprise given his predilection to racist thoughts and things. And now Bushwhacker Butch is out of the match too because the Hulkster has had enough of that nonsense, you understand.
00:39:45
Speaker
Now the Brain Busters, Tag Team and Hogan here, got them in the corner. And we've lost audio on the show here. Oh, it came back now. That's good. So we got Hogan, the Brain Busters, Bad News Brown, and Macho Man in eight seconds till we see the next participant here in this 1989 Royal Hey!
00:40:14
Speaker
hey It's the Warlord. That's a tall drink of water, isn't it? The hulks are just a doublebble double clotheslined. Both the brain busters right over the top rope. That's the end of that.
00:40:28
Speaker
And Bad News Brown is doing his best to get rid of... The Macho Man, they're struggling over on the other side. Warlord was in the ring for all of a second or so, and he like got gets eliminated by the Hulkster. And then the Hulkster eliminates Bad News Brown and his best buddy, his supposed best buddy, Macho Man Randy Savage. And there here is trouble in paradise, my man.
00:40:57
Speaker
The Hulkster tries to call time out. Macho Man sticks his finger in his face and we got a full-on shoving match. Here comes Elizabeth. Boy, oh boy, that's a beautiful woman if I ever saw one.
00:41:11
Speaker
I just find it to be a big shame that the but two of these boys couldn't work out their differences. I mean, look, Macho Man's real upset, but... who can blame And who can blame him, really? But who can blame the Hulkster, too?
00:41:26
Speaker
It's every man for himself in the Royal Rumble. They knew the score were here. And Miss Liz here's trying to keep the peace, trying to keep the macho man from being upset, and Hogan trying to explain it wasn't about you. It was about him, and you just were collateral damage.
00:41:49
Speaker
If you ask me, that's just a bad friend, if I'm being honest. And now the Macho Man says, let's let bygones be bygones and shake hands and we'll move on.
00:42:00
Speaker
They got 10 seconds left before someone else comes in. Macho Man and Hulkster hug it out in the middle of the ring. What a beautiful thing. My goodness.
00:42:11
Speaker
What a great moment for the Hulkster and Macho Man. Macho Man headed out. And here comes the big boss man. Hey, you know, Harry, you know, if if Gabe ever wanted to do a Halloween costume, big boss man would probably be the best bet because he's big and fat and got a big old head and he's got facial hair so Gabe wouldn't have to shave nor nothing.
00:42:44
Speaker
He could really pull that off. But what a beautiful display, I gotta tell you, of camaraderie and sportsmanship between the Hulkster and the Macho Man with probably no future problems in there ah in the in the near future. I can't imagine there being any issues at all as the Hulkster just lays waste to Big Boss Man, just shoves his head into the mat.
00:43:10
Speaker
Big body slam on the big man and
00:43:16
Speaker
My goodness, what ah what a match we've got here. There's just two men in the ring now, just the Hulkster and the big boss man. travel Hey,
00:43:27
Speaker
you know, I met Ray Traylor once. You did? I did. ah i was I was in, ah and ah what's that town in South Dakota ah where all the motorcycles are?
00:43:44
Speaker
Sturgis, Sturgis, South Dakota. ah Why I was there, I could never tell you. Here, I'll tell you. It's because me and Phil Rizzuto's wife took a little trip to Mount Rushmore, and and on the way home, we saw all these motorcycles, and And she's a, Cora's a big fan of a motorcycle, so she asked me to drive that direction.
00:44:07
Speaker
And when I said, I don't want to go out of my way, she took her pinky finger and stuck it inside in my butthole. And from that point on, and it was it was her decision exactly where we were going, you'll understand.
00:44:20
Speaker
Anyway, Hogan's got the boss man on his heels. And here comes Akeem the African Dream, which... Again, ah with Hogan's predilection ah to not like the Africans, ah I'm guessing Akeem's going to feel the brunt of his upsetness.
00:44:41
Speaker
You know who Akeem reminds me of? It's that Blake character. Thinks he's black or something. I don't know. Might have something to do with his upbringing and that community of his down in Saxton where...
00:44:55
Speaker
You know, he was ah ah victim of circumstance, as it were.
00:45:01
Speaker
Yeah, we got the Twin Towers here teaming up on the Hulkster. It's got to be a real difficult time in there for Hogan. And you got one guy who looks just like Gabe and the other guy ah who's, you know, got to be confusing for the man because, you know, he keeps saying he's African, but he looks white, so I gotta imagine that that the Hulkster's real confused about what's happening in his brain and how he's feeling about everything because I'm sure he would love he would love to team up with Hakeem, the African dream, if if ah if only he wasn't from Africa. you know
00:45:42
Speaker
My goodness, both of them smashed into him in that corner and just my good but just a big old man. And It's the end of that. The Twin Towers just eliminated the Hulkster.
00:45:55
Speaker
But what's going to happen here? Because these are a tag team. Hogan pulls the boss man under the bottom rope.
00:46:05
Speaker
There's ten seconds left until we see the next one. And Akeem came out and is taking care of business for Hogan being such a sore loser.
00:46:18
Speaker
hey here comes the bar rope. Buddies with Hogan, you know, in real life and everything. You know, I remember back in Florida when I'd be down there for spring training and I would go to the, go to Tampa and I'd watch, uh, I'd watch Ed, Ed Boulder, Eddie Boulder and Terry Boulder. They were a tag team for a while. That's, that's, uh, Hulk Hogan and, and, uh, Brutus the barber beefcake. They've been friends for longer than, uh, well, hell longer than I can remember. That's for sure.
00:46:51
Speaker
Oh, and the Hulkster does it again. You know, he's got a habit of eliminating people from Royal Rumbles when he's already been eliminated. lot of heel tactics in this mega over babyface, if you understand my meaning.
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's ah it's hard to ah figure ah exactly why what happens happens with the Hulkster. in terms of why people love it when he does things that are like what a heel would do.
00:47:24
Speaker
I mean, look, at the end of the day, though, I understand it because I'm a pretty good guy. you know I made my living throwing baseballs and and all the while I have all of this darkness in my past. you know Dad did what he did.
00:47:45
Speaker
And I had to be a part of it, you know, a party to it in a lot of ways because I was born into it, you know. I didn't have much of a choice. They just threw me into it and made me believe what I had to believe to get through. And, you know, they're not a day I don't regret those girls and the things that we did to them.
00:48:10
Speaker
Juicing them, you understand.
00:48:15
Speaker
Hey, what a dark, dark moment. Oh my goodness. I don't know Gabe and Blake put me together with this dipshit, but ah i'm I'm feeling pretty depressed, if I'm being honest. And now you got a Royal Rumble.
00:48:30
Speaker
Towards the end of the thing, I got to imagine, I don't know how much time's left, but we've been going at it for a while. And you got Akeem, the African dream. You got ah Ed Boulder, Brutus Beefcake, who was a male stripper and then turned into a barber somehow. I don't know.
00:48:50
Speaker
And Terry Taylor, the the red rooster. My goodness. You got to Conrad, I mean, Credence, excuse me, Credence.
00:49:02
Speaker
Credence. You got Credence talking about his cock gobbler, and then you got a cock in the ring walking around like the cock of the walk in the Red Rooster. And now you got them Beefcake and Rooster tag team and Akeem in the corner.
00:49:19
Speaker
This is just bad business, man. Got ah one leg over the rope here, but Hakeem's having none of it. The big man says, no, sir. no No Terry Taylor, no Brutus Beefcake going to get me out of this match.
00:49:36
Speaker
You know, earlier today, ah Jimmy and the other guy. Who was the other guy? Jimmy and... ah Gosh, who did Jimmy do that?
00:49:49
Speaker
Oh, Creedence. Jimmy and Creedence did a ah version of this. Creedence and Akeem look an awful a lot alike is what I was getting at there.
00:50:00
Speaker
ah thanks the hope My goodness, what ah what a world we live in.
00:50:09
Speaker
Looks like we're they're going to try to get him out again and by flipping him over the top rope with his arms underneath. Might kill him like they tried to do with Andre earlier. And here comes the Barbarian, the tag team of the Warlord.
00:50:23
Speaker
He's on the way with Mr. Fuji. ah Another one of the the racist stereotypes they like to use here in the nineteen eighty s w wf you know.
00:50:38
Speaker
Well, see, ah I don't understand why the barbarian came in and just tried to help Akeem the African Dream by beating on Brutus and then kicked Akeem in the belly.
00:50:52
Speaker
That seems like a pretty bad strategy. And I think Jesse Ventura mentioned the same thing there. I don't know. I don't know why that happened the way that it did, but boy, oh boy, those signs, they are flying around like crazy up there.
00:51:10
Speaker
I don't understand. Why are they floating around like that? Do they not strap them down adequately? Is it the air conditioning in the the arena? I don't know, but it is very distracting. I got to tell you,
00:51:26
Speaker
as Akeem, he lets the red rooster have it, and the barbarians giving it to Brutus the barber, beefcake in the background. um I will say this, man, barbarians got a real fine physique, you know, almost as fine as Elizabeth earlier, you know.
00:51:46
Speaker
Big splash there from Akeem onto the red rooster, My goodness, the wind's got to be completely knocked out of him. That's what Gorilla said. I don't disagree with him if I'm being honest. And then you got Akeem, Credence, Akeem or Credence, whichever one this is, dancing in the middle of the ring about it.
00:52:06
Speaker
Seems like a silly waste of time if you ask me. Why not just pick him up and throw him out, you know? Down to one second. Where we got here? We're almost to the end, I got to believe.
00:52:18
Speaker
Oh. My goodness, that is a big man. What's his name? Hey, I think that's Big John Studd.
00:52:31
Speaker
here He and Andre the Giant came in and and they they they would body slam each other and take money from each other and things. He's a big man, gotta be 6'6", 6'7", something like that.
00:52:46
Speaker
Just a massive human being. He ah comes in immediately and throttles the Red Rooster out of the way and is giving Akeem the what-for there in the corner, throws Akeem's leg up over the top rope, and he's going to try to get after it and get Akeem out of there pretty quick, it looks like to me, which is probably easier said than done even for a man the size of Big John Studd.
00:53:16
Speaker
Well, Stud sure does say it all, doesn't it? My goodness. Between that John Stud, that flowing blonde hair, and that big old barrel chest, between him and that barbarian looking all slick and oiled up, I...
00:53:37
Speaker
I'd hardly know who to root for. was Was this John Studd guy a good guy? Because the fans seemed to like him a lot, but he was being awful mean when he came in there. Like, he beat the heck out of Terry Taylor.
00:53:51
Speaker
But I guess that's par for the course, especially in a match where it's ah every man for himself, right? troking about on the road Excuse me, I had to take a drink. I've been doing this for nearly an hour.
00:54:12
Speaker
So John Studd was number 27 of 30. Number 28 of 30 is on the way now, and it's Hercules. My goodness. Even more big muscles and slick bodies. I've got to tell you, this wrestling thing seems like it was made for me.
00:54:31
Speaker
Hey, you got that right. the I don't, I gotta tell you, I might not ever come back and do anything with these assholes ever again after they tied me to your dipshit ass.
00:54:44
Speaker
My goodness. I know you said earlier that you liked your time with the cubbies. Here's the thing. You also said that we worked together. i didn't start with them until after you were gone, you dummy.
00:54:57
Speaker
So, uh, just stop talking let me take over here and I'll do the rest of the show.
00:55:08
Speaker
We got Hercules perched on the top rope and Terry Taylor doing his best to get rid of him. Two former members of the the Bobby Heenan family, which is wild to me.
00:55:19
Speaker
Both good guys going after each other because it's every man for himself. You still got Akeem in the corner and Big John Stud doing his best to get him up over that top rope the way ah Sammy Sosa gets a home run ball over the center field fence, you know.
00:55:36
Speaker
And then you got Brutus the Barber Beefcake and the Barbarian. Here comes the Red Rooster doing his best to help out Beefcake get rid of the Barbarian and make things easier on themselves, you understand.
00:55:50
Speaker
Hercules helping out Akeem in the corner there seems like a silly thing to do with a man as big as Big John Studd. And Big John Studd stiffly reminds him that this is not the place to try to assert yourself, you understand.
00:56:07
Speaker
And we got number 29 headed on out here in a matter of seconds. Three, two, one. And there's the buzzer. Who we got? Who do we got? Who's next? The model, Rick Martell, the other half of that tag team with Tito Santana.
00:56:25
Speaker
You know, what I noticed is they have those mashing tights where they got lightning bolts on their butts. And Tito's got a sombrero, but Rick Martell, does Rick Martell got a, I don't know, ah ah ah played a plate of poutine?
00:56:43
Speaker
No, he doesn't. He's got the Canadian flag. Tell me it's not racist now, you dipshit.
00:56:52
Speaker
Well, I tell what did I tell you? I said, don't start talking. I've got this the rest of the way. All right, you just sit there and ah Stroke your wank. I don't even know what that means, stroke your wank. That seems like a silly thing to say. Again, it's these glasses, you know.
00:57:10
Speaker
they They become uncalibrated when the boys don't get together enough and do things on their own. But that's okay. I don't mind.
00:57:22
Speaker
You know, earlier Blake was talking a lot about being intellectually honest and not lying to people. The way I figure it, Rick, is is you've had a lifetime lying to yourself, and that's that's why you find yourself in the position you find yourself making love every night to a man who worked in a freak show on a bed of nails and sleeping under a slovenly overweight man's house ah under his couch while you slowly watch him die. That's that's what I figure
00:58:01
Speaker
You might be right about that, Harry. I don't, I don't. What'd I tell you? i said you shut your damn mouth. We're up to number 30. It's three seconds left. Three, two, one Here's the buzzer.
00:58:15
Speaker
Last entry in the match. Who do we got?
00:58:20
Speaker
Who do we got? ah It's the million dollar man, Ted DiBiase. I bet you, ah bet you anything that he paid for his number. I bet he paid for number 30 because everybody's got a price, you know?
00:58:37
Speaker
Excuse me, I got to get a little drink here. I've been doing this for almost an hour now, you know?
00:58:44
Speaker
online Million Dollar Man going right after Hercules. he and He and Hercules used to be good buddies, not no more. ah Hercules figured out that money can't buy everything and certainly can't buy happiness.
00:59:00
Speaker
And so ah he left ah the employee of the Million Dollar Man and they they broke things off a bit. DiBiase just raked him in the eyes, sent the Red Rooster off. a Red Rooster comes back with a big ol' flying a forearm off of the ropes.
00:59:19
Speaker
to the one screen you said we reallylog Virgil's the only manager at ringside right now. Of course, Ventura made it clear that he's not a manager, he's a bodyguard. So there's a big difference as far as the rules go, from what I can tell.
00:59:39
Speaker
DeBiase sent him into the corner. He did a flip over the rope and that's the end of that. No more Red Rooster in the Royal Rumble. DeBiase seems to be dominating right now.
00:59:52
Speaker
ah And and that's that's the way I remember it. yeah You had the Million Dollar Man, you had the Hulkster. ah You know, Creighton's earlier, he was talking about the Million Dollar Man and and uh the referee the the the the referee getting the uh plastic surgery you know and uh that's that's where he started talking about that uh that honesty piece where you know it's real easy to fool somebody who trusts you you know what i mean and that's uh i think blake told that story on the
01:00:30
Speaker
the program before, you believe it because why would they lie to you? They never lied to you before, so why wouldn't it be the truth, right? Fool me once, shame on you.
01:00:42
Speaker
Fool me twice, shame on me. You understand. I've always felt that way about my dad, you know. Hey, listen here, dipshit.
01:00:54
Speaker
If you open your mouth one more goddamn time while I'm trying to do this thing, I'm gonna punch you square in the testes. You're a 79-year-old man. I don't give a shit. I will end you, and I'm already ended.
01:01:07
Speaker
Okay? Goddamn it. Big Daddy, nothing.
01:01:14
Speaker
Hercules got the big old bear hug on Brutus and gets the double double ear clap, and Brutus slaps on the sleeper hold.
01:01:28
Speaker
Herc crawling around the ring and, oh, DiBiase, I think, is about to eliminate two men at once. Yep, he sure does. DiBiase and the Barbarian get rid of Brutus and Hercules at the same time, you know.
01:01:42
Speaker
the project Five men left in the match. DiBiase, Martell, Barbarian, Akeem the African Dream, and Big John Studd, who seem to just be hugging each other in the corner.
01:01:58
Speaker
Haven't been doing much over there, if I'm being honest.
01:02:03
Speaker
Reminds me you of something I saw one time outside of La Pazadita, my favorite taco joint in the city. two old Two big old men just holding on to each other in the middle of the night, not really doing much, but kissing on each other's necks, you know.
01:02:21
Speaker
You see that a lot, ah but more especially in Boys Town. La Pasadena is in a different side of town. You didn't expect it. That's why it sticks in my memory or the way it does. you know
01:02:33
Speaker
can be roll mars that like Barbarian bounces off the ropes coming after Martel. Martel ducks. Barbarian loses it, jumps to the rope, and Martel ends the ah the match for Barbarian here tonight.
01:02:51
Speaker
We're down to four. Rick Martell, Ted DiBiase, Big John Studd, and Akeem the African Dream. And Rick Martell is just giving it to the Million Dollar Man, you know.
01:03:12
Speaker
Gotta feed my wi my vocal cords, you know, because it's a long night. Long night of... Talking like this and doing this thing. You'd think I i didn't do it for 35 or 40 years near nothing.
01:03:28
Speaker
Akeem catches Martell off the ropes and dumps Martell over the top. We're down to three here. Akeem, Big John Studd, and the million-dollar man, Ted DiBiasey.
01:03:41
Speaker
it's all Stud punches Akeem back and forth between DiBiase and Akeem. Big forearms to Akeem. Double axe handle from DiBiase. The Big John Stud. Axe handles to the front from Akeem.
01:03:59
Speaker
DiBiase on the ropes. Double axe handle off the second rope. And Big John Stud is still on his feet but dazed at best.
01:04:10
Speaker
at the at best
01:04:13
Speaker
you talking my favorite chuck Debiase giving Hakeem instructions like he paid him. I don't know if that's the case, but that's the speculation, you know.
01:04:25
Speaker
have to the baby another man yet not only this is his body or a of park My goodness. The governor talking about not just using his body, but using his brain.
01:04:39
Speaker
Uh. Avalanche splash in the corner by Hakeem on to Big John Studd. He's going to do it again here, I think. DiBiase saying, we're going to give you money, and John Studd pulls DiBiase in front of himself.
01:04:55
Speaker
And that's the end of that. Studd, forearm to the back of Hakeem, and we're down to two. It's Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and Big John Studd.
01:05:09
Speaker
Who's it going to be? I got to tell you my money is on D.B. I see.
01:05:20
Speaker
He's a bigger star. He's not a bigger man, but he's a bigger star. But I could be wrong. You know, every man for himself and all that. Hey, dog, what are you doing? Get out of there. Tinley, Tinley, get over here.
01:05:35
Speaker
Come here. I'm out in the basement, you understand, watching this thing on the big old TV. Gabe's dog went into the the unfinished part of the basement.
01:05:48
Speaker
He likes to take dumps in there, and we don't like that. Especially now that we sold the house. You want as little dog poop in the house as possible once the new owners pump in. You understand.
01:05:59
Speaker
I'll hide it in places, but not out in the open. None of that, you know. Big John Studd with a big old right hand to the side of DiBiase's head. Tinley, get over here.
01:06:11
Speaker
Quit walking around. Sit on your butt, please. Thank you so much. Big body slam from Big John Studd. for time yeah Double underhook.
01:06:22
Speaker
Looks like we're going to get a little suplex. Yep, double underhook suplex to the million-dollar man here. Big John Studd smiling something fierce here.
01:06:34
Speaker
Looks like this might be the end of it. Gut-wrench, Suple. What a gorilla says he threw him away like a piece of garbage. You understand.
01:06:47
Speaker
Big clothesline. as brave as it looks when a gri dollaran Hey, Harry, can I could i mention something? Hey, i don't see why not. I'm in a good mood.
01:07:00
Speaker
That's the end of it. Big John Stubbs the winner. Virgil just came in, started punching on Big John Studd after he won the thing. Big John Studd's having none of it. Grabs him by the collar.
01:07:13
Speaker
What's he going to do? Big ol' punch to the top of the head. Throws him off the ropes.
01:07:22
Speaker
And just ah
01:07:26
Speaker
pops him right in the chest. another Another body slam for Virgil, and Virgil's going to take a Take a powder here. I got to understand. I got to believe. Now, what did you want, Rick? What is the problem here?
01:07:40
Speaker
Well, I just wanted to tell you, you were right about everything, about me, about the reason I am the way I am. body character I'm not going to bother you much or no more, but I did want to say and I thank you for letting me be part of this. and I'm sure I'm glad that beautiful man with the blonde hair won this thing.
01:08:06
Speaker
Holy cow.