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Speaker 1: Oh brother, what are you gonna do when Hulclemedia comes

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Speaker 1: our one, the rare and appropriate homage, the eulogy to

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Speaker 1: the late Great hault Cogan. If you're around my age,

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Speaker 1: this is someone that you grew up with and someone

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Speaker 1: that was a big part of your childhood and has

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Speaker 1: the pearly gates. So what are you going to remember

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Speaker 1: about the life of the iconic wrestler hal Cogan? What

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Speaker 1: so many kids? And how much power did the Hulk

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Speaker 1: was beloved the babyface I We'll go over all of

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do, brother, when hulk media runs wild

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Speaker 1: gonna go off the reservation for a minute. Our lead

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Speaker 1: this hour is not the normal. Some douchebag in the

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Speaker 1: We're gonna actually do something we very rarely do. And

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Speaker 1: since I have editorial control, I have chosen this to

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Speaker 1: long as I have the bully pulpit, I can make

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Speaker 1: these decisions. And we're gonna start with a wrestling story.

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Speaker 1: I think you know by now, I'm assume you've heard.

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Speaker 1: It's really the biggest story I believe in sports, and

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Speaker 1: I assume you've figured it out. But the wrestling world

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Speaker 1: and the sporting world mourning the death of a legend

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Speaker 1: that transcended what was at that time the WWF now

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Speaker 1: the WWE. Hulk Hogan is dead. Died in Florida cardiac

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Speaker 1: arrest early in the morning hours on Thursday. I was

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Speaker 1: seventy one years old and was born Terry Bulla, and

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Speaker 1: he joined the WWF in the early nineteen eighties and

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Speaker 1: within a couple of years had become the biggest personality

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Speaker 1: days and even to this day, the day that Hulkgan

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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what are you going

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Speaker 1: to remember about the life of Hulk Hogan as we

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Speaker 1: knew him? So my thoughts on this. I got shag Carpet,

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Speaker 1: Prince Charming, and bulletproof, and we will combine all of

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make the gobagol so A. The main reason

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Speaker 1: I'm starting with this is it hits close to home, right,

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Speaker 1: A chunk of my childhood as growing up and not

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Speaker 1: knowing much about anything, like we all start out, A

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Speaker 1: twenty four inch pythons and the Fu Manchu mustache and

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Speaker 1: Now what do I remember? What do I really remember?

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and there I go on

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Speaker 1: there's no question Haul Cogan was a flawed man, There's

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But what I'm going to remember

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Speaker 1: is my youth. Hulkomedia right flashing back. I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: It's fired off man, haul Coke. Impact that he has

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Speaker 1: was next level on the culture in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1: This was a guy that stood in my head. This

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Speaker 1: captain America. Hulk Hogan was them, except he was real.

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Speaker 1: You said, no, he was, You're just a loser. But

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Speaker 1: we'll try telling that to ten year old Fat Benny,

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Speaker 1: watching Hulk Cogan become a national treasure. And I don't

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Speaker 1: do the whole Mount Rushmore thing. Other people do that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that, but in my head,

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Speaker 1: I know, But in my head, if I think back

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Speaker 1: to that era in my youth, the biggest names in

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Speaker 1: all of them, larger than life. Of course, those other

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Speaker 1: was a spectacle. It was the theme music, the real

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Speaker 1: You'd watch the cartoons, which was that's a whole different

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Speaker 1: and Macho Man Randy Savage. They're all gone now, they're

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Speaker 1: Oh Comania, two megap powers, mean It Air the Mine,

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Speaker 1: Oul Cogan, what has happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know me, Geane, we really don't know what

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Speaker 2: we're dealing with here, man, And I'm just kind of

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Speaker 2: a little worried about walking up here because we just

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Speaker 2: might pull the whole planet up. You know, everybody knows

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Speaker 2: that whole Comania is the strongest force.

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Speaker 1: In this universe.

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Speaker 2: But when I get that ring and I saw what

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Speaker 2: the madness was all about, I realized there was a

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Speaker 2: whole other universe out there, a whole nother frontier and

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Speaker 2: the power of the madness in the media.

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Speaker 1: Just boom on, twenty four inch guns out. You mean

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Speaker 1: to tell me there is another solar system.

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Speaker 2: Matos we student a state of shack right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, went on. I'm not going to sit here

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Speaker 1: and tell you they were all doing coke. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they probably were. But page two here, what was the

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Speaker 1: for Haul Cogan? What was the thing that made him

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Speaker 1: so special in the wrestling game? Well, the obvious thing

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Speaker 1: that you don't need me to tell you. This guy

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Speaker 1: was one of the great showmen, charismatic, He had this

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Speaker 1: and it was the age old battle between the good

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Speaker 1: all that, and the rivalries between what they call in

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Speaker 1: that business the baby faces versus the heels. That is

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Speaker 1: all that, but nobody did it better than the Hulkster,

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Speaker 1: and he was able to blur the lines between fiction

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Speaker 1: as a kid, I was like, this was Prince Charming, mesmerizing, captivating,

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Speaker 1: But going back at WrestleMania I think it was the

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Speaker 1: three million people that watched hul Cogan versus andre the Giant.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three million. And I put that in context. Our

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Speaker 1: FSR alumni member Klay Travis pointed out that that is

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Speaker 1: there were more people watching a staged wrestling match between

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Speaker 1: but back then, as a naive kid, I didn't think

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Speaker 1: You'd see Hulk Hogan there sweating like he was, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the righteous fury as as he could in those

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Speaker 1: And you know some loser villain guy, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Hulk Ogan. It is, you know, the end of the

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Speaker 1: life Big John stud Rowdy Roddy Piper. Now, if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're of a certain age, these are massive names.

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Speaker 1: So then Hulk had the leg drop the signature move,

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Speaker 1: Haulkogin did he get rich? Well, everything's relative, right. He

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Speaker 1: made a lot of money, made a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: He also lived very interesting life away from the ring,

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Speaker 1: Starting in the nineteen eighties, when hulk Amania took off,

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Speaker 1: I'm right there, man, that was great. I have fond

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00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 1: memories of wrestling and copying moves and it was glorious. Tacoma,

427
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: Drew says eight plus plus. Brendan writes and says, I

428
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: remember watching Paul Cogan later in his career. Yeah, he

429
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: went to I didn't keep watching, like my memories are.

430
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: I got to maybe the early nineties with wrestling, and

431
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: then I moved on and went out and started working

432
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: and that was that was that. But I didn't really

433
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: watch him when he became a heel. But Brandon says,

434
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: I remember watching Hogan later in his career. The good

435
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: things are that he made the WWE into what it

436
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: is today. Yes, he has his character flaws. There you go.

437
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: I won't judge him, because who doesn't, he says. King

438
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: Rory right soon says like you, I don't want to

439
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: speak ill of the dead. As a wrestling fan, he

440
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: was larger than the life and change in the industry

441
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,239
Speaker 1: forever rest in piece. The grill sergeanty you know, it's

442
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: a big night if the grill sergeants listening, He says.

443
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: I used to watch WWF on Mondays with my dad

444
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: back in the eighties during the height of hulkomany. Every

445
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: time Hulk wrestled a heel and said heel would cheat

446
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: and the ref I wouldn't see it. Yeah, that was

447
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: always a classic. And then somebody's going, oh no, they

448
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: don't see it. I don't understand. The ref would always

449
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: play dumb, you know, as part of the character. So

450
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: my old man would blow a gasket. Great memories, so

451
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: the grill sergeant. Yeah, looking back now, as an adult,

452
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: it's like, this is some of the most ridiculous stuff

453
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: in the world. But as a kid, you're like, oh

454
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: my god, why does the ref not see that. That's cheating.

455
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Just Josh and Cincinnati says. I remember

456
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: going to see my first WWF event as a kid,

457
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: and Bobby the brain Heenan was carrying a briefcase with

458
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars for anyone who could pick up Big

459
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: John stud and slam him. Needless to say, the Holkster

460
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: collected the money that night. All right, let's go to

461
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Speaker 1: the phones, and who do we have this page? Dan,

462
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's go to Landon. Who's in Washington?

463
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: Up first? It is the Ben Mahlers show, the Hour

464
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: of Hulk of Mania as he died this week, and

465
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Speaker 1: we're paying our homage. What's going on? Land Welcome? How

466
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: you doing brother? I took my vitamin salk. I did

467
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Speaker 1: take my vitamins.

468
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Speaker 6: Well that's good. So I generally only call in when

469
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 6: you when you start your monologue with the Bengals, But

470
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 6: you know what you said, hit me in the fields,

471
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 6: you know, and brought me back to my childhood. I

472
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 6: didn't really start watching wrestling until about the nineties as well,

473
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 6: because I was born in eighty seven, right, Oh, so

474
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 6: so I got to see the heel part of whole

475
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 6: Comania when it was w CW Monday Night, Nitro and

476
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 6: raw Attitude Area going at each other, right, and all

477
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 6: the all the movies growing up, I mean, even having

478
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 6: the I never had the pillow of Hulk Mania, but

479
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 6: I always wanted one because I had a full sized

480
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 6: Ninja turtle and what I would do is I would

481
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Speaker 6: wrestle with him on my bed. And you know, I

482
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 6: was lucky enough to have one of those plastic Ferrari

483
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 6: car beds and it had a spoiler on it. Jump

484
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 6: off of that like it was the top top rope.

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Speaker 1: Dude, you were you were spoiled Land and you had

486
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: a you had a car bed as a kid. Come on, man,

487
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: I really, dude, your parents spoiled you? Dude, you did?

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00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 7: Yep?

489
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Speaker 1: What happened? Yeah, Larina Loraina has a good point, Land

490
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: and what happened to that? Do you have kids now

491
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Speaker 1: as an adult.

492
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Speaker 6: Or because that's why I have I have I have

493
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Speaker 6: three daughters.

494
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Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't know our daughters in the car

495
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Speaker 1: beds or not. I don't know.

496
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Speaker 7: I mean I don't think so.

497
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 6: But car bed there was a there was a friend

498
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Speaker 6: of my dad's who had had a son and he

499
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 6: had turned four and I was probably I don't know

500
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Speaker 6: ten at the time, and he was like, it's time

501
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 6: for you to get a new bed, and it's time

502
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 6: for some other young kid to enjoy that bed.

503
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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, you know, yeah, yeah, well

504
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: you probably outgrow it, right, you eventually you get too

505
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: big for the car bed. But just the idea that

506
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: your parents I never had one, man, I we had

507
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: like bunk beds, and I was like, I was always

508
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: jealous of the kids that had the car bed. I

509
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: thought they were like rich, you know, because they had

510
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: the car bed and all that. All right, well, thank

511
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: you an great early yeah, hold on.

512
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Speaker 6: My earliest memory of Pulk Hogan was the first BHS

513
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 6: tape I had that I would play on my little

514
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 6: thirteen inch BHS TV player was I think it was

515
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 6: the nineteen eighty four WrestleMania when Holk Hogan picked up

516
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 6: Andrea the Giant and suplexta.

517
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I that was one of the iconic

518
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: moments of my of my youth for sure. All Right,

519
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: thank you, Ann, and good stories there, Lann and checking

520
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: in eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.

521
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: So this is another wild story about hal Cogan Cogen

522
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: started something with a five hundred dollars bribe that is

523
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: still used today. So in the early days at WWF,

524
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Speaker 1: Vince McMahon told hal Cogan, they said, listen, you can't

525
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: play music when you go out to the ring. Don't

526
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: do it right. So they didn't allow it. So Hawk

527
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Speaker 1: tells he told the story that he went to the

528
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Speaker 1: sound guy at the arena and said, listen, I'm not

529
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: don't listen to Vince. You know, play I of the Tiger,

530
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: crank it up, and and Hulk paid this guy five

531
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Speaker 1: hundred bucks. Now think about nineteen eighty three, five hundred bucks. Okay,

532
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: you can do the math on that. You get out

533
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: the inflation calculator. So let's see nineteen I'll do that.

534
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: I'll do it right now, all right, just barely.

535
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 8: I wish I was back in those days.

536
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Speaker 1: When five hundred dollars was a lot of money, or

537
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Speaker 1: when or when you.

538
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Speaker 8: Could buy a whole tank of gas for like three

539
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Speaker 8: dollars and seventeen cents.

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00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so for five five hundred dollars, let's do the

541
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Speaker 1: math on this. In nineteen eighty three today's money, that

542
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: would be sixteen hundred dollars. So Hulk gave essentially six

543
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: boy that two hundred and twenty three percent increase or

544
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: I guess decrease depending to look at it. But anyway,

545
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: so in today's money would be sixteen hundred dollars, but

546
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: back then only five hundred bucks. Yeah, so Hulk paid

547
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: this dude five hundred bucks. Played Ie of the Tiger

548
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: the the arena was apparently jumping right, you know, he

549
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: jumps in the arena there it goes crazy. That blew

550
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: the roof off the place. And he said, hey, Vince McMahon,

551
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: I said, man, you know they've been selling the merch

552
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,959
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And Hall claims that Vince realized,

553
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: like that was a dumb idea, and you need walk

554
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: up music, you need entrance music, and no like in

555
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: baseball batters have for years, there's been many years they've

556
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: had walk up music when they go to a baseball game,

557
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: big league game, they got music playing when they come

558
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: to home plate. Haul Cogan, that was the guy, his

559
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: own own tune coming in back in the in those days.

560
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: Who else do you obviously page down here a lot

561
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Speaker 1: of interesting story. Stevie Meatball's writes in from Florida says,

562
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: as a young ten year old meatball, I remember first

563
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: seeing Haul Cogan as Thunderlips when I saw Rocky three.

564
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, there was. I saw. I was reading

565
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: a story. All these stories pop up when someone dies.

566
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Speaker 1: You know all these things, and try to read as

567
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: much as you can. I saw one of the stories

568
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: said that the wrestling people did not want Hulk Hogan

569
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: to be in that move because he was a wrestler

570
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: and they thought it was bad. And obviously it turned

571
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: out not to be such a bad thing. Steven Meatballs

572
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: in Floridasa's I remember he called Rocky the Ultimate Meatball,

573
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: like it was a bad thing. He was great, rest

574
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: in peace, Thunderlips. So sadly no longer in the flesh, baby,

575
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: he says. Justin says, Hulk slammed Andre, but even in

576
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: his prime, no chance he could slam Robbie the Mariner fan.

577
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the phones. Let's say

578
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: hello to Mark the full name guy, who is next

579
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: in Well, he's no longer in Medford, Organ, so he's

580
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: somewhere in Oregon. Hello, Mark the full name guy.

581
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 7: Hahi. Then now yeah it's Asland, Oregon. Now you feeling

582
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 7: all right? You know why I thought I thought I

583
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 7: had the wrong station on. I'm waiting to hear the

584
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 7: nattering nap Bob of negativity, and here he is, watching nostalgic.

585
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 7: I couldn't believe it.

586
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: I know I'm doing old man radio. I've become an

587
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: old man. I'm doing all these people are dying? Why

588
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: is everyone dying? Mark the full name guy Man? I mean,

589
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: come on the last couple of years ago, why can

590
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: we can we stop? Can we just stop having the

591
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: people check out?

592
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 4: So?

593
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: I mean, man, Uh, everyone's bringing up to George Foreman.

594
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: Story Foreman passed away, not that long ago. He died,

595
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: not that long ago.

596
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 6: Uh.

597
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: You know the the kid from the Cosby Show drowned.

598
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: You know, he dead too, Ozzy Osbourne dead, Everyone's dead.

599
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess is that negative enough.

600
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: Or is that negative enough for you?

601
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 7: You know?

602
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's well, we all have a fatal illness. It's

603
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: called life. There's no getting out live, so we got

604
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: to deal with that. But that's you know, Hey, we'll

605
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: get there. I accidentally hung up on Mark. All right, Well,

606
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: Coop has told me he hung up on Mark, which

607
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: means I will get the wrath of Mark the full

608
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: name guy. That Mark will direct the fire at meat.

609
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 8: Do you think he will use your full name Ben?

610
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: He will claim that I am responsible for that, that

611
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: I am the one that fed him Mark. You're free

612
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: to call back. We are not trying to screw you

613
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: over Mark the full name Guy. It is the hour

614
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: of Hull Commedia as we celebrate the life of all

615
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: Kogan there and our memories. If you're having any wrestling

616
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: memories here, we don't normally talk wrestling because we spent

617
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: our time talking about some random football players or basketball

618
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: players or whatever happened to Lebron James. And that's kind

619
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Speaker 1: of how that goes eight seven seven ninety nine. On

620
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Fish we get a lot of good stories from dudes

621
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: on the social media. Parito writ sin, since I ran

622
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: into hul Cogan and Bubba Smith at the Sage brus

623
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: Cantina in Calabassa, I remember that place. Is that place

624
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: still there? I remember that that can't be there anymore?

625
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: I went there a few times back. It is definitely

626
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: still there. Is it really? Wow? I mean I hadn't

627
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: been there in probably literally thirty years. Anyway, popped a

628
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: few beers with them and got an autograph for my son.

629
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: I'll keep quiet now how I view him today? PARTO says,

630
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Yeah. But Bubba Smith's another one.

631
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: Bubba played for the Colts, the Baltimore Cults. I had

632
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: Bubba on my radio show and I was doing local

633
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: radio in LA and Bubba was a spokesman for Budweiser,

634
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: and so he did all these interviews on We did

635
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: remotes on Monday night when I was doing local radio,

636
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: and Bubba would come out there and Bubba swore We

637
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: did an hour one night with Bubba Smith and he

638
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: was convinced that super Bowl three, the Joe name of

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, was rigged, and he explained like how it

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Speaker 1: happened and all that, and I mean, he just had

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Speaker 1: great details and it was one of those things that

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Speaker 1: would have gone viral, but there's no way for it

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Speaker 1: to have gone viral because the Internet didn't really exist

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Speaker 1: in those days. It was just a conversation late at

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Speaker 1: night on the rad that kind of died at that point.

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Speaker 1: For those that heard it, it was wild that Bubba Smith,

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Speaker 1: and he said it to other people, but he just

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Speaker 1: had a couple of pops and was just letting it go.

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Speaker 1: It's letting it rip, just letting it rip. J Dot

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Speaker 1: writes and says, my brother and I would wrestle on

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Speaker 1: her parents' bed and wear a white tape on her

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Speaker 1: wrist like hul Cogan growing up his kids resting feat

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Speaker 1: of the legend, the Hulkster hull Comania. Yeah, man, how

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Speaker 1: many kids broke bones because the Hulk Cogan? How many

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Speaker 1: kids growing up broke their bones trying to be like

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Speaker 1: the Hulkster.

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Speaker 8: My brothers were wrestling on the trampoline when they were younger.

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Speaker 8: I wonder if they were doing Hulkgan because my brother

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Speaker 8: snapped his arm literally in half. Oh God, my brother

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Speaker 8: slammed him down like higher.

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Speaker 1: That's great. H Josh and Nebraska says, I watched Hulkgan

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Speaker 1: and all of them in the WWF and even when

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Speaker 1: Hogan did the nWo run in WCW and then back

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Speaker 1: to WWE, huge loss, rest in Peace. Halkster even watched

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Speaker 1: the movies. He was a nanny in one of them.

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Speaker 1: He points out, all right, Andy, Andy and Lionel Lakes,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota's ten out of ten of monologue. It was nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty before Hogan turned into the megastar, and he was

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Speaker 1: in the Awa with Mean Jean, I mean gene Oku.

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Speaker 1: Jean had a cabin on a lake in northern Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: and he used to bring wrestlers up to a bar

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Speaker 1: on the lake, and I met hal Cogan several times there.

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Speaker 1: That's cool, that's awesome. Get away there in northern Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: beautiful country, beautiful get away from everything. All right? Is

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Speaker 1: the Ben Mallor Show. It is since at the hour

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Speaker 1: of Hal cogeran as we pay our respects Hal Cogan dead,

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Speaker 1: Here's the who am I? Game? Before I became hal Cogan?

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Speaker 1: The guy named Terry Bala was working as a bodybuilder.

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Speaker 1: Who and he met me a professional wrestler who ultimately

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Speaker 1: helped Terry Buleya Ander wrestling and the rest. As they say,

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Speaker 1: it's history again. Before he came hault Cogan, the person

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Speaker 1: named Terry Boleya was working as a bodybuilder. How do

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Speaker 1: you work as a bodybuilder? You paid for anyway? Uh

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Speaker 1: met me a professional wrestler who ultimately helped Terry enter wrestling.

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Speaker 1: Who Who am I? That is the question? What is

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Speaker 1: the answer. We'll get to it. We will do it next.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show.

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Speaker 1: back to it we go, and it's the hour of

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Speaker 1: hal Cogan. So we had to have a who am I?

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Speaker 1: Game in that vein. Before becoming hal Cogan, just a

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Speaker 1: guy named Terry Boleya was working as a bodybuilder. He

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Speaker 1: met me. I was a professional wrestler who ultimately helped

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Speaker 1: Terry Boleya and her wrestling. Who am I? That is

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Speaker 1: the question? What is the answer? Gil and San Diego

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Speaker 1: going with cocoa. Beware alf the alien opinter says the

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Speaker 1: biggest fan of hal Cogan, the iron Chic unless he's

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Speaker 1: not a Nacho from Scrooge Wonder Twins from Sean in

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Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun. Mister nice guy paying no

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Speaker 1: attentions going with Jeff co nine. Mister Marlin ferg Dog

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Speaker 1: says mister America is the clearly the answer. Gorgeous Ladies

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Speaker 1: of Wrestling icon and sex symbol Matilda the hun from

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Speaker 1: Stevie Meatballs. Eloy from Compton says the Great King Kong Bundy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I met King Kong Bundy the Dodger Stadium one time.

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Speaker 1: He's not a good looking Harry Well he had clothes on,

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Speaker 1: but he very round, interesting looking dude. Nice guy is nice.

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Speaker 1: Late night drugtist says you are Bryce Young who is

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Speaker 1: twenty four today? Who else we have? Page Dan Let's

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Speaker 1: see here, can't read that WNBA, Firebrand Angel, Reese Axe

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Speaker 1: and Smash Demolition from Big Lou He's on number two.

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Speaker 1: Who else we have? Fellow w W Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: Bob Yucker the Yuke lost him too in the last year.

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Speaker 1: Bob Yuker the Junkyard Dog another legend from Jay Scoop.

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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Brutus the Barber, Beefcake. I

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Speaker 1: love these old names. Yeah, these are great names. That's

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Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel Lakes with that one Superstar, Billy Graham

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Speaker 1: from Milkman, Mike hack Saw, Jim Duggett. Uh yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about anyone else, but when I was a

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Speaker 1: little kid, I used to watch Hacksaw Jim Duggan. When

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Speaker 1: we would my dad would take me to like I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if it was called home Depot then,

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Speaker 1: like you know, one of those type stores back in

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Speaker 1: those days, and I would grab a two by four

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Speaker 1: and walk around like I was Dugget. It was great.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I was like the coolest guy in

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Speaker 1: that store. And I think it was called Home Devo.

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Speaker 1: I think it was called something else anyway, Big Daddy

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Speaker 1: Cool Diesel from mister Luciano brock Lesner from Robin, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: hans On Franz from The Nature Boy, Sky low Low

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Speaker 1: from Rich Uh wow, somebody, somebody actually got this right.

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Speaker 1: That would be JJ.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 1: You absolutely cheated, he admitted he cheated. I was like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's gorgeous, George. There's another good name, uh from Johnny C.

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Speaker 1: Bald Bull. If you played Mike Tyson punch Out, you

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Speaker 1: know who bald Bull is. Damn touton. Uh, mister Luciano,

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Speaker 1: Uh says. Unfortunately, me and my brothers broke about three

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Speaker 1: couches because of Haaul Cogan. So yeah, dude, we were.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything like that today and then the world's

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Speaker 1: so different now than then, I don't know, and it's like,

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Speaker 1: can't be anything really like that. George the Animal Steel

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Speaker 1: had a chance to meet him. I did a wrestling

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Speaker 1: bit with George of the Animal Steel years ago. He's

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Speaker 1: dead too, all right, Uh, Loraina, do you have an answer?

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Speaker 8: Yes, Ben, I'm gonna go with Rocky Balboa.

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Speaker 1: Rocky Bow Bow.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was actually Jack Briscoe who said the wrestler.

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Speaker 1: Jack brisco said, you gotta get in touch with Hero Matsuda.

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Speaker 1: And there was Hero Matsuda who taught Terry Bole how

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Speaker 1: to be a wrestler, taught him with the leg drop,

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Speaker 1: and so that's the guy, Hero Matsuda and Jack Briscoe