Terry Funk Interview | SRTU Classic | 8/24/2010

0:00 Put in the back fat an armchair quarterbread after Yeah, I know there's no backfat. I want to thank God. I want to thank the Lord God because it's not really up to me, it's up to him. Everybody likes to feel useful. Mecca the world go around. Next, this is the Wheelhouse. Welcome, Welcome, everybody. This is your Tuesday night edition. I tried to remind myself it was Tuesday night. It's your Tuesday night edition of The Wheelhouse. You're in blog Talk Radio and r FM Live. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Bower, I am the sweet Nasty Chris Cause and if you told me it was Wednesday, I'd probably agree. I was. I was unsure was Monday? I was complete? I might agree with that too. I was completely unsure of what today was. But welcome, Welcome to the Friday edition of The Wheelhouse. Oh then, never before her Friday edition of the Wheelhouse. Uh well, it's it's good to have you all with us. Coming up on the show today. I would have to say, the godfather of extreme wrestling, the godfather of uh, let me bust my head open while I'm in the ring, Terry Funk Terrence as he was born, also known by the name Chainsaw Charlie. Yes, brief sent in the WWF days there Chainsaw Cactus Jack. I'm gotta we gotta find out what names were turned down? What names? He just said, all right, that's retarded the cactus. Sorry. The Chainsaw Charlie character was basically Terry Funk with a pantyhoe over his head like he was like he was a guy

1:30 trying to rob a bank kind of a then basically yeah, and they had put some form of Freddy Krueger slasher flick character. Yeah, and he came down with a chainsaw, would it would well, it wouldn't be if he came down with a billy club, it wouldn't work. I don't know why they didn't go with Terry Funk. Everybody knew it was Terry Funk. They would refer to him as Terry Funk. It was his alter ego Wow storyline mode, but it was soon dumped after a while. There, Wow Charlie is He'll tell you. In preparation, last night I watched some ww WE raw Sorry to hear that. M M, well, so was that did you see my did you see my twin brother Shamus? I did? I did I was, really I was. I was rooting for him. It was root for him. I saw the announcement that at Night of Champions it's going to be a six pack match. Oh boy, Yeah? Is that gonna feature? Will that be guest hosted by the situation? Probably based on the amount of twittering he did today. Probably if they pay him enough.

2:25 As I know they can't afford j out to host, It's so probably not. Probably not. I did see. I do have a question for you before we get Terry Funk on the on the horn here, Jeff Peck, What is a miss? Miss? Miss? A wrestler? Is a miss? Miss? Is a wrestler? He was actually started out in Real World New York. When they went back to New York twenty years later or whatever it was, and I went through the Tough Enough Show. If you guys remember that the Real Boy Program, became a wrestler. Uh. Miss is basically the first three letters of Mike Mzannen's last name, which is his room name. He goes by the miss. The miss. Ah, I see, do you feel better now? Caused? Do you feel a little?

3:08 I can't say any of that helped. No, No, I can't say that. No, now, how many Tough Enough did they have? They had two on MTV and then they did one that was like part of SmackDown for a while that never really did well. I actually liked the Tough Enough shows. I thought they showed a little bit more of an inner insight to the wrestling rings. And now they have not only a women's champion, but a diva's champion. There's two ladies. Because there's two brands. You have two you have two world heavyweight champions as well, because you have the w WB champion and a World Heavyweight champs correct, and then on the other side, and they want to make sure that they keep those separate on each one of the two brands that they have. For no good, God damn, there at one time they had three brands I know, yeah, probably even four. Well yeah, you look at it, because wasn't there the ec W one as well, Because they keep kind of going back and forth on actually whether or not they want ECW, right, they haven't figured that part of it out. I guess they had it because then well, I mean, they had the WWE, and they had the SmackDown, and they had WCW and they had ECW. Gotcha, they had one, right, So they had all of those and then found a way to combine them and then split them up again. And now they're doing a show called NXT, which is for like younger wrestlers that are toddlers. Yep, they're toddlers. That's awesome. Look up, schoolers beat it in backyard. That's awesome. Se fifth graders just beating the Jesus out of each other with a baseball bat.

4:35 All right, are we ready to give Terry Funk a call? Sir? I believe now, didn't he his brother? He and his brother were one of the better tag teams. Tory Funk Junior, him, the Funk Brothers, the Funk Brothers all favors. There we go, the One and Only Terry Funk. Terry, how are you, sir? I'm doing okay. I'm not sure I'm the one and only anymore. I'm the one in lonely l O M E L W. Well, we were just talking about we were just rolling through memories of Terry Funk, and I was I was remembering you and the brother. First of all, I always remember the Funk Brothers as being for me, one of the first tag teams I can remember back in the day of just being the dominant coming to the ring, like We're just going to beat your ass. And that was that was the coolest thing at the time. Rather than have I don't know, go to some horrible gimmicky the Killer Bees or the Rougeaux Brothers or any of that kind of crap.

5:33 There was just the Funk Brothers. They came in and they were gonna beat your ass. Silly, done and done, you know. It was it was a wonderful time and a wonderful period in wrestling. And that it was amazing because there was so many regions in the country, you know, and it was so easy to play region against region, you know. And there was the Yankees up there and they would come to Texas, you know, and the Texans would go to New York and you know, it would just worked out wonderful. You And that was a wonderful time period in the world wrestling. It was thirty what thirty six different organization, wow, thirty six different groups and wrestlers around the country. And it was a heck of a lot of fun. Now, Terry, Terry, how I loved I loved it fan and uh and I'm sure the guys love it. Now and I think that they it's uh a bit different than it was before. And uh and it should be different. It's what the fans wanted to be.

6:31 Looking back now, I believe what are you? Are you sixty six? Now? Is am I doing a math correct on this? No? I'm one hundred and five one hundred and five. You know I knew it was somewhere in that forty year range. Yeah, you you were, you were close. I was close. I mean I was on I get as old as you peel, aren't you? I didn't my calculators and five is that? Is that like an insight? My one hundred and five is like I've had my body peep to hell, so new all it goes you there's in the ring. I got one hundred and five year old body. There you go. Numerically you're at sixty six, but your body if we did a bone marrow test, it would definitely be dust, is what you're trying to say. Oh it would be scary. Uh. Now, looking back, would you would you have said, when you're one of the first couple of times that you walked into the ring and you were wrestling, or the Funk Brothers getting there, would you say that, looking forward to age sixty six, that you would still be wrestling or is this something that you thought for sure you would have been done with a few years ago. Well, you know, as I'm not really wrestling at sixty six, I think I am nobody else. But no, no, I really haven't wrestled in about a year now, you know. And uh, I don't think that I would go back in the ring again. You know, I think I've got enough sense. You know. The last time, oh, I went over to Japan and had a great time over there and was in a six man tag and it was in December or something like That's that was the last time I'm going over there. I think the last time over here was whenever I was

8:03 in New York and I went up to New York for a show and it was ECWS show and I can't remember when it was, you know, And I think it was me and h somebody against Edge and somebody Edge and Foley and and myself and Tommy Dreamer. There you go, look at that Edge and Folly. But what was wonderful about it, though, was uh I was sixty five at a time and it was still the best match on the card. That night. Nice. That wasn't bad. That's gotta be a good feeling. I mean, you walk away from you walk away, So I have some good guys in a ring are contributed. Sure, Sure, that makes it a little bit easier to have some of those guys around you too, to lift you up on that left. Absolutely, do you do you still have as much passion for the entertainment of wrestling now as you did when you first got into the biz. I've got a minute passion for for wrestling as a whole, I really do, you know, and and and certain parts of it. I don't have compassion for, you know. I mean, uh, let me explain myself a bit as uh, I'm not in I don't have a great deal of passion. And this is not meant bad or anything, but I think that, uh, wrestling should always be an extension A wrestler should always be an extension of his own personality. Okay, And I think that uh, actors aren't wrestlers wrestlers, and wrestlers aren't

9:39 actors. Wrestlers are wrestlers. And uh, I'm not really fond of of of as much control as they put on their their product as they do in New york Uh. I think the individuals should be given a bit more control and be able to be themselves a bit more instead of portraying the characters they do. I think RLHS accomplishes that. Agreed. Agreed. I feel like there's i the different Ring of Honor events that I have been to. It doesn't feel forced, it doesn't feel here's this incredible gimmick we're gonna throw out with this guy dressed in a gold lamay one piece suit and has gold face paint on and is slightly gay acting, and we're just gonna run him out there because we think for some reason the part of the audience missing this and they need this. It just feels like and he's gonna say this and this and this, Yes, but what would you know? It really takes the identity away from you know, it takes what I've known through the years as a wrestler. It takes a bit of that identity away from you know.

10:50 Yeah, and cause, but you know that you've got guys too. You know, you've got your edges, and you've got your you know, you've got your undertakers, and you've got guys who can can perform so well you know, uh, and do and you've got your guys got you've got your guys in Roah. I think it's a little uh, you know, I like it. It's where it's not so U predicted as far as the company is concerned either, right, right, that's so predictable, you know. I mean the matches aren't nothing is you know, I mean go to Roah. It's the guy on a second match is trying to bust his ass and have a better match than the last match. Yes, you know, and that's true. And U and when you when you watch that that card and you're there for the entire show. First of all, you're getting it entire you're getting like really three shows in one show. When you're there, you get an incredible performance out of everybody that's there. They're there, they're busting their ass. But but the thing that I like best, I think this goes to what you're saying, Terry. Is it you it's believable. You believe in the people that are walking from the ring and into the ring.

11:54 It's not some over the top conceptualized sat down for the last six months and said, well, we've got to have somebody fill this character's void. Let's just throw it in there and see if it sticks for this guy, even though it may be nothing like him whatsoever. I'm in a hundred percent agreement with you. Gotchau So to the Sorry power Terry, to that point in today's wrestling. You've been involved for so long, do you think ultimately Vince McMahon and that brand is right for wrestling? In the costumes, the characters, the writing, is that ultimately good for wrestling? You know? I really don't know, you know, I mean it can it be? Is it the best? I think it's good for what they are producing. I think they put producer good show, I really do. I mean, you watch the thing and it's got it's got a pizzazz and a class to it, you know. But I mean then you look over at the other side.

12:54 You know, it's the other extreme and what is the other string, you know, the other stream as the UFCD n EM. Yeah, you know I mean that. Uh, And you watch these guys and uh and then you look at Roh and I truly believe our ohs are somewhere in between. I couldn't agree more. And uh, And I think it's a I think it's a wonderful tweener that everybody should take a look at. And I think that uh another thing that is that is very smart, which I predicted a long time ago. But uh, I don't know if you've watched newspapers in a way they have gone. But newspapers are in a great deal of trouble right now. Yeah, And the reason why is because they've become obsolete.

13:41 And what has made them obsolete is what internet, right, you know? And I think that again as I'm sounding like some kind of a pool up here trying to you know, give talk like our h has all of his ass and everything, but they've got I'm telling you that they've got good things going for them. And I think that whenever you can go ahead and put them on that Internet and go ahead and get a pay per view out of Internet, I think if that's smart. I think it's original. I think it's something that's uh has a new life to it, you know, I truly do, you know, And I think that uh, and I think that they are something special for going out there and uh traveling that road in that avenue. It's something fresh, it's something different, it's something new.

14:28 And I think they've got a great group. I mean, I don't think it uh by by any means, Can anybody go ahead and say, hey, these guys aren't going to make it, or hey, these guys are Hey, these guys are only going to go this far. They can't get any bigger than that. I mean, there is uh give it. Let's let's let's look back at five years from now, you know, and hopefully as we uh we see these guys and and given us uh and in a tweener terry you were terry, you were very interesting. Tween area is a tween area between the two extremes. One extreme is uh is a ww E and the other extreme is ufcn n M A terry. You were very instrumental in the beginning there of ECW in the mid nineties. Do you see any comparisons from ECW to roh what sure I do? Sure, I do absolutely, you know? And uh uh what happened to ECW though, is uh you know they forgot what what was meant by the word extreme just through evolving. But extreme at first was a bunch of guys out there busting their asses to give you the best match that they were physically capable of doing.

15:50 And it wasn't done with with garbage cans and pails and other stuff. And uh, but you know, I mean uh, and I don't mean unfortun and maybe they needed it or whatever. I mean, but they went the other route towards you end. And I think that that was the wrong road to travel, you know. I mean, we all have to have our extreme matches. You know that too, but you have to build it on a foundation. And that up there was built on a foundation of guys busting their asses in the rings. But it's just like wrestling this today. You keep on going with the stipulations, you know, I mean, all right, let's have this stipulation. All right, we're pretty soon you're drawing out of stipulations and you're not drawing with your right Well, and I know for you personally, you had been in I don't know how many, but I know of at least two or three that I can kund of one hand retirement matches that you were personally involved. And it seems to me, oh absolutely, I'm going to have as many more as I can't. It seems to me that's been the big one of the big draws. Let's have a retirement matchine called the end of the career. Here. But it never It's like kiss going on another reunion tour. It happens every single year. I know.

17:03 I often thought about going in the ring and turning heel by going ahead and go and say, all right, I'm tiring, you know this, This's gonna be my last match, and I'm passionate a hat uh huh. Anybody that's got a buck out there, put it in there for me, because I'm not gonna be back, you know, throw pass a hat around to say, jeez, you know, thirty seven dollars forty three shins? What the hell are you people? Matched? I can't live on that. That won't even get me home tonight. I won't even retire. I won't even that won't even buy me to the chicks pack of beer anymore. At the bar we are, we're talking with the legendary Funk. He will be signing autographs at the Ring of Honor Glory by Honor nine at the Manhattan Center.

17:48 Band there and looking forward you know, as uh it's been a long times. I was on a Rlah show and uh I am looking so word to it, you know. But I but I I I hear about their boys all the time, you know, and uh, they've got some great talent and uh continually you see him robbing that talent, yes, yeah, and then going to bigger you know. Uh and I shouldn't I shouldn't say bigger places. But they buy them out. Well I would say, well, well, we can all a grease bigger salary. That's right. I think that's great that they buy them out, you know. I mean, but uh, uh, they're becoming the the the life blood of the other of the rest of the industries. Well, Terry, let me ask you.

18:37 Let me ask you this a lie. I mean, they're they're the life blood of wrestling. If you look at wrestling and you look what's come out of ROAH and a lot of the guys, and not all of them, not all of them, but many of them have been uh formerly ROH stars. Yeah. Let let me ask you this. If you right now, if if you had the opportunity, you were in the Ring of Honor locker room and you knew that the word was that somebody that's in that Ring of Honor locker room is going to be getting an offer from the w w E and Vince McMahon tomorrow to come join their organization. What's the bit of advice that you give to that individual, whether you know it's them individually or not, you're just talking to the whole group. What's the bit of advice that you give to a young wrestler today working his ass off and ring of honor and here comes the opportunity there's going to be an opportunity around the corner for w W. What's the advice based upon your experience that you hand off to these kids? Son, don't burn any bridges. What goes around comes around, gotcha, ter we were talking about, you do it with dignity, you do it with honor, You do it you if it's better for you, then I mean, I'm not trying to you know, you have to look as a wrestler, what does uh you know, because you have a limited career and even much more limited now than whenever I was in it.

20:03 Seriously, I mean I'm not gonna try to, you know. I mean, I think absolutely we did more wrestling than what has done today. But the physicalness in the rain is just it takes its toll on you. In any of the organizations, you know, and uh, and I know our oh is uh damn, I mean they are very physical in anything, and they have to be. That is why oh is uh is And I say I would like to be looking at it in ten years from now because it's a very uh physical form of wrestling and I think it. I think it's uh very catching well and I like, I like, just like it's just like the measles. You know, as long as as long as you're in that locker room given out advice, you're bringing your tights, are you?

20:56 You're bringing your tides into the show, right, Terry, No, I'm not. Yeah, Cornett might want me to bring mine? How would I would have if I could get ahold of that? Lee? Allot go ahead and bring who was the guy Jeff the last one we went to who got his head smashed to the table that just didn't look right. Eddie Kingston was in a great match that we saw and he got his head plowed through the table that it looked like everybody was scared after that after the connection hit and I never did hear what happened to him if he was okay from the whole to switch. But you want to talk about a physical show, Ring of Honors got it front to back. They're gonna be September eleventh Manhattan Center of New York City. Terry Funk will be there as well. Terry, you were talking aboutfore about ECW. I'm gonna be rooting for those rooting for the guys. Yet he's not putting his head through it to any more tables.

21:45 He's done with the table head putting. You know, the only guy that I'd want to go ahead and beat the hell out. I used to hate that little pastor. Do you have any Do you have any good stories about James Cornette? What's that? Do you have any good stories about working with Cornette over the years? Do I have good feelings about him? Did I have? Fine? How could I have good feelings about Cornette? Tennis racket him, his gay little tennis. I love him. I think I think that I think that you know, as again, you know, as you've got to when you've got guys like Cornette with minds like he's got, you know, and and and what you get is you get a little bit of the Bolshevic, you know. And that's what I love about him.

22:33 He's a bit of a Bolshevic. You know. Cornett could be anywhere he wanted to, but he's picked out a place where he wants to be. He picked out a place where he feels fit, like he fits in there. And he also picked a place because he likes the product they're producing. Yeah, and he could he could be if he wanted to, He could be any place that he wanted right now, Jim Cornett and Nette has a wonderful mind. But again, is he's a bit of a ball for pick you know? Is he uh? I should go his own way and do his own thing, you know what? Sometime is absolutely ubsurd. Terry. We're discussing before about ECW, and a lot of fans want to know because recently Tena ran a ECW type of reunion show booked by one of your protege's, Tommy Dreamer. Was there any contact by Tommy Dreamer or TNA to you to come in for that one night only reunion show a couple of weeks ago.

23:29 Well, and I think that they, I think that they knew that I wouldn't gonna go. You know, I made statement before I'm not going down here, right you know, And there's no I don't want to go down here. And if I wanted to go, I'd call him up and tell him I wanted to be there. Got you, you know, and I think that they knew that if they made the you know, I mean and it wouldn't it would be about they made the gesture detending I wouldn't go, you know, and uh no, nar would I did? I want to go in a ring attack time? You know? So you know what am I gonna be some it is sitting around the ring side there are Let's get the spotlight. Let's look at uh well, Terry. Let's let's let me ask you a couple of questions here and then we'll get ready to see you September eleventh, in New York City, the Manhattan Center for the Ring of Honor, Glory by Honor. Okay, so here we go. Let's looking back on your long and illustrious career. Here, who would you say your your favorite match was against it? Maybe it's a Funk Brothers match or an individual match, your favorite when you got done that match, and it may even be the most the most recent and last US match you were involved in. But where you got done, you said, man, it really it's gonna be tough to beat that. Well, you know, I I you know, and this is why it is. And I, you know, I'm gonna just tell you the truth. You know. You can't.

24:56 You can't. I cannot put it in a favorite match. I gotta put it in matches because there's been so many different ones, you know, my favorite match, I mean going in the ring with luthes and wrestling Luthez, you know, going in the ring with Jean Kaninsky and wrestling Jean Kaninsky. You know, being in the ring with my brother, even with the brother versus brother probably one of the few times it's been done in the business. It has been done now, but at one of the few times at the time that's been done, you know, Going in the ring with Abdula the Mutcher and making uh why would I like to say, going in the ring with him because I made a ship pot full of money with him, use my language, you know, And that's the truth, you know. And going in the ring with Harley Race and yeah, but just so many things, you know, And and being in the ring with guys that like uh, you know that I can go back to, you know, with bern Gania, and being in the rings with guys like Iron, Mike de Biasi, who is a wonderful mentor and the father of Teddy. You know, and and just on and on and on and on and on, you know, being in the ring with all of the Japanese greats. You know, it's just it's it's uh, you know, to single one thing out and say, well, that was the best thing that I ever did. Being in the ring with my father. That was probably the greatest thing that I ever did, was be in the ring with my father and be in the ring with a six and a sixth man with my brother, myself and my

26:26 father in the ring, and uh, that was that was a pleasure. That that was beyond beyond all of the pleasures. I have to say that I like that. You know, well it watch what would you who would you say right now? And I'm sure that the list is probably equally as long, but I'll ask the question who right now? Would you never want to have to spend any time with again that you've met from the wrestling biz, meaning sit down and have lunch, have a coffee, sit down and discuss anything, or take a phone call from somebody that you just said last time you saw them, lasting me, deal with him, forget it. That's done. I'm not going to deal with him again. Uh not not really. I don't. I don't think, you know. I mean I would sit down with anybody if they called me up. Okay, you know, do I have to have people that I don't care for? You?

27:21 But would I would? I not want to sit down with him. I want to sit down with everybody at this time in my life. You know, if there was a hatchets to be buried, well, hell, I'd like to bury him, you know. I mean that's just the way I feel at this point in my life. You know, who who would you feel? Right now? There was there's probably one what was his name? My gosh, I'll think of it in a minute. He was, Oh, my gosh. He was from the East Coast and up there, and he was a promoter and he was going to take over the whole United States. And he was on the air plane and I was on the airplane and he got off, and I got off, and I went ahead, and yeah, you ought to make us a trivia question, and I went ahead, And trust me, right now, Jeff is racking trying to figure out he had television in our territory. And I snatched him on the airplane in Atlanta, Georgia. And whenever I snatched him as I grabbed him by the lapel and I shook him and I said, don't you ever ever ever put that TV in our territory again. You better get it off the air.

28:33 And he went ahead and went out to a place where you had come through. You know, well, you had an inspection there. I checked for the medal. And he came through there and he was a promoter on the East coast and he was promoting an organization up there, and he went through there and he tore his lapels on the way and he went ahead and he said that I kicked him in the testicles. And they were waiting for me whenever I came through there, and they put me in jail. Wow. So I would like to go ahead, and uh uh, that's the one guy I didn't like. I'm trying to think of his name, But somebody out there would be a question, who was that? Who was it? Yeah, we're Martinez, Pedro Martinez, Martinez, okay, Pedro Martinez.

29:19 Yeah. He had me drown in jail. Wow. And then he went ahead and sued me for eighteen million dollars. Oh yeah, I assumed me and I had to go to court in Atlanta, Georgia. I went better, and he said that I kicked him in the testicles, and he had a picture of one one side of his testicles. I don't want to use any first words on everybody. He had one great, big, huge testicle in the picture. You know what. They found me guilty. They found me guilty, and I did nothing to that, and so I settled for five thousand dollars out of court. So Pedro Martinez, you better be You know, he's not around anymore and still but somewhere the picture of his testicle is the day I might like to beat the shit ouel. I wish you the best, I hope here in heaven, but I would like to beat him. I just like that. Terry would also like to say, is he would like to beat the other testicle and have a shot at it.

30:17 And actually, if he's paying the five thousand dollars to give him shot the other that I was supposed to kick him. Oh, Terry, all right, let's let me let me see if if anybody else in the chat room has any more questions or if we're just gonna get ready to wrap this thing up here, cause if you've got anything otherwise, I'm gonna mention where you can see Terry and get autographs from Terry Funk. The legend, well about ten years ago was when Beyond the Mat came out. Terry, how I mean maybe over a little bit of time here or even at the time, how did you How did you like that movie? And how did you like how it portrayed you? I thought it was it was just it wasn't you know, I portrayed me as what it was me. I mean, it was a documentary. I mean, he came to my house. He's been a great deal of time with me, and after a while, as I forgot the Cameron was there, I'm very bloss seen as a wonderful individual in person. I liked him very much, and uh, he just kind of moved in with us for a while, my wife and I, you know, and it wasn't like there was even found him going on, you know.

31:33 And evidently it was that way with Jake too. Yeah, yeah, because he's evidently evidently he must have not thought her a found me going on pretty relaxed, pretty relaxed, relaxing high But you know, either case, Yeah, Terry, just want to get your your final thoughts on one. Vincec Man, what a what are your thoughts about the great vincec Man honestly and seriously, yes, is uh I actually uh, I don't like him.

32:16 And the reason I don't like him, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, is that he won, which which that will forever bother me. Uh. He made me a great deal of money. He's made a great deal of the people. Uh, in the world of wrestling money. I you know, I cannot uh you know, I mean, he's made more million Would I have made that many millionaires? I'm not sure I would have, you know. And what I have paid what he paid, I'm not sure I would have. So uh, you know, as you've got to remember that I called back a long time and that's hard to hard, too hard to saber, right, it's hard to swallow, you know. And uh, that's just that's just me. It's the way that I was raised is you're always to be a winner. And uh maybe, uh maybe, who knows, you know, if I don't think it could have been changed. But he won the ball game, and it's his ball game as far as wrestling as we know it is concerned. The last question that the last question I've got for Terry Funk here and that for answering you on that love it. That was a good answer and honest from the heart.

33:50 I appreciate that. And uh as as we're getting ready to wrap up the interview here and you're heading out for the Ring of Honor Glory by Honor nine at the Manhattan Center, New York City on septemb or eleventh, let me make it. You're gonna be You're gonna be meeting and you have I presume, over the length of your career met new generations and new generations and new generations of wrestling fans. Some of them may have seen your matches on television. Some of them may be referring to DVDs or old tapes of Funk Brothers or Terry Funk matches. The question that I've got for you is, through all of them, what is the way that you want Terry Funk to be remembered when it's all said and done. Like, I've got a daughter who's three right now, She's not watching any wrestling yet, but how how would you want to be remembered to even her generation? How do you want everybody to remember Terry Funk well, honestly and seriously and bottom line as I can be is are you there? Yeah? Okay, we're still here relisting for a minute, honestly and seriously and just as trade as I can be with you, as you know, as I it means more to me a great, great deal to me to be remembered as a good person. I mean, I want to go out of this world and be remembered as a good person. And that's not easoun do, no, No, There's a

35:25 lot of things to get thrown in your way. But Terry, what a great time talking with you. I've had such a great time talking with you. Look forward to seeing you at the Manhattan Center, New York City, September eleventh. Best of luck out there with the autographs signing, it'll sound like it'll be. I mean, first of all, I know this firsthand. Those Ring of Honor fans are passionate. That's gonna be a fun time for you. You're really going to enjoy yourself there, and it's good to talk with you. I'm a passionate person too, you know. I'm just looking forward to to be an out on behalf of ourself here at the Wheelhouse. Uh and uh and Jeff Peck and his friends as well, thank you for all the years of extreme wrestling. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be watching it. And thank you so much for that. Well, I don't know, hope, I don't hope it weren't for me. There was a whole lot of other guys. You've got to dance with. Somebody got you, Terry Funk. Thank you, sir. We'll look for you at the Ring of Honor event Ring of Honor, Ring Glory by Honor nine at the Manhattan Center, New York City on September eleven. Thanks Terry, we appreciate it. Okay, alrighty, take care. There you go.

36:30 The legend Terry Funk, it was great the times. What are the chances he's wrestling and Glory by Honor? Let me come on now. He was coming hard at Cornett. Yeah, he wants Cornette pretty bad. I mean, I just don't. Would you be shocked? No, You're gonna have such a wrestling legend there. I mean, how could he not do anything in the ring. He can't just be sitting there signing Honor have to not get called into the ring. I know doing going to former Row eight shows the past year, them invited that when they do the autograph events, it's it's well before the show starts, right, but it's different. It's Terry Funk. He's made a lot of history in the Manhattan Center of New York City, a lot of resting fans respect him. They got to put him the ring and have him do at least something. I mean when I mean it was ten years ago, the Beyond the Mat came out and they were I mean the big prominent part of that is his you know, retirement, another retirement match that he had. Yeah, and for him to have just said in the interview and it was like, I think my last match was last year, and I was like, I almost almost choked on my own tongue. It's like, wait a minute, that was that was like ten years ago, and I wouldn't exactly at least fifteen retirement matches. As anybody knows, when they talk about retirement and wrestling, they refer to Terry Funk, because Terry Funk, like in The Beyond the Mat, retired in like ninety seven ninety eight, had that match with Bret Harte unretired three months later, came back to the WWF his chainsaw Charlie wrestled in w c W wrestled a little bit of roh and you heard it from him. This last match was in oh six, right in the Hammerstein. Let me ask you this,

38:00 does he take a bump? I mean, does he get I don't. I don't know. If he and Cornette get into the ring together. I mean Cornette and him in the ring would be just really cool for old school fish sure, because there's both such good old school personas right, and you're going to use old and bold letters. He is just uh, he's just he's gonna do something. He's gonna it's kind of a slower match, I would imagine, right, Yeah, I don't. I don't think it's I think it's a yelling. It's somebody. Somebody takes a bump, and I don't know who it is. I would have to imagine Cornett would take the bump. I tell you what, man, Terry Funk forty, somebody else. What does he now he's got he's sixty six, sixty two. He wrestled I believe it was sixty two years old in two thousand and six, and the dude was was hanging in there with Edge and Tommy Dreamer and Mick Foley he got his eye hurt. They had a bandit to his eye up, and he came back out in barbed wire, flaming tables. Dude sixty two years old. I'm lucky at that time. Now he's just gonna other possible, that's possible. Just hey, if Rick muscle, it'll be a blow. I think Terry finding and I think Terry fuck knows he probably can't get back in there, but I'm sure if he's got one more left and he'll do it. Yeah, I and I think that'll probably all come down to. However, he's like right now, he's adamant that it's not going to happen. But once he's there and he meets the fans and he gets sort of that, he's gonnautograph. Terry gotta getting the rink tonight.

39:25 No, I'm not gonna get in the rink tonight. But you know they're gonna they're gonna have some sort of moment. You know they're gonna guess what he is. Tightser in that bag. Yeah, Terry's ready, tighter in the back. Yeah, you got it. You gotta right, because I don't know if you'll use them, but they are they're packed in they're packed in the bag right next to a few eight by ten. There's a guy that's been wrestling for five decades. Yeah, you know, former n W A E c W champion. I'm got some history. I mean, it's definitely the thought of five decades and flaming tables and if you think about that, I mean that that's just from what we can recall from what he did with wrestling here. But I mean he wrestled like crazy in Japan. So I mean that guy, bad guy has played some of the probably the shittiest houses that wrestling has ever been in. Well it's well, probably the biggest events. Yeah. Well, here's the thing with Terry Funk. In the sixties and then the seventies, he became MWA champion eighties, was still prominent big in the nineties. I mean, he's in his fifties, right, He's wrestling through tables, stump tacks in the Bingo Hall. HECW Arena in Philly, which is well known to be like one hundred and ten degrees on the marble wire around the ring, marble wire around the ring. He was going over to Japan and wrestling mcfolio and matches that included C four. These these guys were exploding themselves up. And he's in his late forties, early fifties and he still kick its a mass. I don't he's hardcore. He's hard would say that. That's the end of the list. He's from the double X Ranch, double x rands. That's all right, right, Armarillo, Texas double Cross double cross double cross Ranch. Good times, very funk

41:00 brothers. Well, listen, we'll take a quick break when we come back. I know there's some football talk that we should be discussing. Plus an opportunity for somebody who's listening right now to join the Wheelhouse, one of the three positions left in the Wheelhouse Fantasy football League. Here at the Wheelouse, some blog, talk radio and ERFM live. When sports starts to sound funny, we're there, at least in to here. I was supposed to be the frenchise player and were in here talking about practice. I mean, listen, we're talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, We're talking about practice the Wheelhouse. This is clearly nuts. Metro sexual moment moment in history. The dragon Slayer von Pardu, a man in Montgomery County, Texas, was attacked by a neighborhood pitfall recently. The dog bit hard into Pardue's hand and refused to release its clinch. The Pardu didn't complain that the dog had ruined his manicured fingernails and they're shiny, translucent nail polished. Why not, because he didn't have any girly nail polish on.

42:01 In fact, he doesn't even know what the word manicure means. He thinks it's when a guy gets better. With the snarling beast still digging into his hand, Pardu didn't pull some woosey crap and try to reason with the animal. He didn't say, let's compromise, let's pass a un resolution, let's talk about your problems. Did you have a rough childhood? Hell no. The Texans dragged the one foot tall, fanged monster a full block and a half to his house, where he then, according to police, choked it to death. No real man like Pardu is gonna let that pitball off with a warning. It's one strike and you're strangled to death. He's judge, jury and executioner, and more importantly, he's a real man and now dragon flayer. This has been Lee Camp for more funny crap. Checkout leecamp dot net and Sharkbaby dot com. Glory has only earned in battle, and on September eleven, Ring of Honor returns to Internet pay per view with Glory by Honor and I Tyler Cluck defends the ROAs World title against Roderick Strong with mart Cold Cabanda and El Generico battle Steve Corino and Kevin Stein. You a violent double chamber. The Kings of Wrestling battle Charlie hawsing Sheldon Venture to find out who is the best tag team in the world. September Up Go Fight Live dot Tv Laurie by Hunnard nine NFL running back to Rel Davis for funky chunky soup. Oh gah, baby, you shall fan where your hips packs show tightening booty shawns Damn baby, I can't wait to hit that, Oh

43:34 baby, keep working it. Yeah, I gotta take this. Hello Derail, Yeah, Mom, Trail. Are you taking care of yourself? Well? U not tonight, Mom. I'm not taking care of myself. I got some pizza, A wonderful woman of the Lord taking care of me tonight. Torayl Will you be hitting your funk sunk cream up chowder? I don't know, Mom, but if you give me about thirty seconds, I'll be sharing my childer with a real close friend here. In fact, I'm gonna share right about no no, when you want to share a little love with one of your really close friends. Damn baby, you took that like a trooper. Can I buy you a drink? Try Funky Chunky soup? Funky Chunky, the soup that comes out hot and goes down easy. Oh listen, Larry the cable Guy. Hey, this is Sami little desk Pats his lowest gripping from Family nine. And you're listening to them the Wheelhouse. And if you're not, get you at the country, you're a commune. Get it done. Welcome back to the Wheelhouse. Wheelhouse Radio dot com is our website. You will find the first ever true Blood podcasts, simply known as Bad Things with Cause and Power. It's available for download. Still real Toss a little bit later on this week the death will this show with Terry Funky up there later on this evening? Uh cause before we get to any of

45:05 the thoughts and stories and whatnot, here do we have nice twits ready to go this evening, ready to go. I was able to put it together despite the fact that Johnny Damon's a pussy. Thank you for that introduction. That's I listened to be able to relate two things that have nothing to do with each other. We were talking about it before. I mean, he's just I don't understand the us Why I don't understand it? The king, I would say, Kate, you don't understand my feelings. Don't understand. You don't understand what he doesn't. He doesn't understand what Damon's fucking problem is. It's just I said to Bauer, I said, that means he's a Yankee. I mean, that's what it is. He's not a he's not a Red Sox. He's a Yankee. Rather where he is little Red Sox.

45:46 Right, I don't get it. You have a chance to play in the playoffs. He also still thinks that Detroit's in the race, and oh god, no, I gave that truck, didn't I not give that up? At the halfway point of the season, it was already done. Fish can athmatically, we're still in it, just like everybody else is. See what kind of fire we have going in the last month. He also wanted to make sure that he got assurances from Jim Leland that he was going to still be in the lineup, so he felt his zoe. By staying there in Detroit, he's in much better shape than going to the Red Sox, who were five games out of the wild Card. Because how bad did it getting boss was? It really was? It like they wanted to kill Johnny Damon. That's what they're making it sound like. Here's the thing. No, it's what he's making it sound like. Okay, here's the thing.

46:30 We're really disappointed that he left to go to the Yankees. Right deal from the Angels if he went and he got a huge deal from the Mets, if he went he got a huge deal from the Cardinals, we wouldn't have given two ships. We would have applauded him, stood for him when he came back. When you come back in pinstripes, No, you're not getting a standing ovation. You're not getting the oh well, after all of the wonderful times we had together after that, and then you completely blew us off to go for a team to give you more money. That's our heated rival, historically, over one hundred years rival. Why on God's green earth would we applaud you for making that decision? Right, So, yeah, we're as a part of Red Sox Nation. Hurt. Yes, but hold on, let let me see, let me see if I can clear this up rather quickly. But here, with this offer and the picking him up on waivers, you guys would have been accepting of him coming back to the team and giving him another shot and said, hey, let's just let's see what you got, buddy, Let's see if you can kind of help this team make it to that World Series yet again. But it was him being the ultimate puss about it and saying that he had on his list the Yankees and didn't have the Sox. That kind of makes you go, you know what, buddy, fuck you even more. The poll that was on the Boston Globe website had sixty forty for the Red Sox fans accepting him with open arms.

48:00 I got a text from another buddy saying, I can't wait to see Johnny Damon back in Red Docks uniform. I mean, seriously, you go with the team that literally announced to everybody, nah, we don't want you. Yeah, thanks for the World Series, but good luck to you, but we've got Marcus. You'd rather have Nick Johnson. Yeah. I hated that they let Damon go see. But this is my point. He was afraid that if he went back as a Red Sock in some way, shape or formed, that Yankees fans would be mad at him. Then would you be mad at it for going back to the Red Sox right now, Jeff? Probably, well, especially the Yankees loss of the Red Sex exactly. Yeah, definitely no, he I understand that, But totally different circumstances, you'd say, right, yeah, definitely not him leaving New York reflecting the rival to go to Let me make this a little bit more applicable to Jeff Pack. So, Jeff Pack, oh, here we go. This should be good. You uh, couple of years ago, ended up banging causes girlfriend. Okay, all right, she stays with you for a little bit.

49:06 You guys are all moved in together. She makes a nice house. She I don't know, it's not important. You don't care about that part. You finally got vagina. That's the part you care about. Right, Let's forget so that you get you're getting. She's making dinners for you, keeps a clean house for a couple of years. You finally decide, you know what, there's more vagina out there. I don't need her anymore. I'm gonna let her. I put her on Vagina wavers her Vagina no longer needed here. You don't listen, you don't have to go home, you just can't stay here. So and she has a no trade clause. So and this which, by the way, if Jeff Beck, if you are not naming your fantasy football team Vagina wavers, I like that idea. I know I got a lot of hell for naming my team. And you know what, you got that hell before I even started it. I will, I will do it. So I started dating your girl, which is causes ex girl. Wow, she and I start dating for a little bit.

49:54 You're I'm very excited about the opportunity. It's totally cool with it. Okay, I'm very excited about the opportunity. Kim likes it because Kim can go work and there's somebody here to take care of the house. So it's great. And then what happens is I decide, listen, it's been real it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun. You kind of have to go and cause says, hey, baby, I'll bring you back into my life. I got plenty of room here. Why don't you come back and join us? And she says, I'm an even bigger house than I have before, and all of the extra money that I've made, right and even then, I don't even have you on my list of guys I want to come back to. Now is there on the front lawn? Hold on, Let's just let's just move forward. Let's say she does go back with cause, are you jealous that she's going back to the guy? Nobody? Now?

50:39 Well, I don't know, You're probably with some hot model. I don't. I have no idea. Or maybe it's a little bit more true to life. And it's just I would be upset if Damon went back to Red Sox. You would, I would be, Yeah, you would? I think so because I like Damon. You know, it took a while for him to grow on me as a Yankee fan, him being a form of red sock. But you know, I really enjoyed his work. I thought he should have been resigned. An I'm a big fan of Johnson Tim's I just don't get that. I do not get that. The team itself was the one who literally looked at you, Jeff Beck, and said, nah, we're not bringing Johnny. But I don't agree with a lot of the Yankee moves. Most of the time. I think I sounded the show and said, yes, that's very true. But at the same time, if the team didn't do what you wanted, how can you fault him for one in to go get a ring. I wouldn't fault him at all that sense. I would be upset that he went to the red Sock red Sock.

51:24 But I want to be up that upset at him. No, I want to be up that upset that he uh that if he did in the off season this past year. Let me try it this way. If he came back here later on the season. I don't even know if the Red Socks go to Yankee Stadium again or not. I don't even know. But if he came back and went to the Yankee Stadium moves dressed as a red Sock, would you boo? Probably? I don't get that. It's the same thing. I wouldn't get up a cheater. I don't cheer red sock players. You know, it's the same thing. I didn't say he had to cheer him. You know. It's like if I asked if you would boot, wouldn't be that loud get a clarification if he if I'd be disappointed if he went to Tampa Bay obviously another I think and Tapa Bay came to town. Would you boo him if you were in a Yeah, definitely, I mean Tampa neck and neck right now the al Yeah, I would you boo him for going to Tampa Bay. I think blew the player that the team didn't resign, Yes, purpose purposefully. It's not that he spurned the Yankees to go make more money somewhere else. Allah what he did the Red Sox. You'd rather because after Detroit gives up on him, essentially because they gave up on their season, they tried to get something. I'm not I'm not faulting the guy for wanting to ring. Want to win a ring, right, but I'd be I'd be disappointed. So yeah, i'd boo him.

52:42 Yeah, I'm not gonna go up to play standing ovation, so it would be a disappointment. Boom, It's it's anybody in the division. If he went to Toronto. I think the only time I had cheer from was if he was in an Oils Jersey. Okay, I just don't. I just don't. I don't get I don't get the booing him in this situation as a Yankee fan, but don't. Well, we may not ever come to an understanding or conclusion on that, but we do have an understanding conclusion that this show is going to wrap up in about eight minutes, and that we do have yet to get to Hayni's twits as well as giveaway one spot left, not one spot left, but one of the three spots left in the Wheelhouse Fantasy Football League. So here's what my thought is right now, if we can get everybody loaded up in calling three four seven two three seven fifty two oh three, what's going to happen is this Jeff Peck will be playing for one of you on the phone lines. I will be playing for the other one of you on the phone lines, will be hold on, I did pretty well last week. Will be We'll be winning a spot.

53:37 So one of the two lines that we pick up will be winning a spot in the Wheelhouse Fantasy Baseball Baseball Football League. So cause when we read it roll, let's give the intro once again, and this is open it agaybody, anybody and everybody, Like last night Outlaw called in not not what I would consider to be an old time Wheelhouse fan. Don't have to be. There's no trivia questions, there's none of that. If you're listening right now, be your first time, or you like fantasy football or the fifty first time. This week, I gotta cost your money. Just want to play in the fantasy football league. That also should be a crucial element. Yeah, we're not get a T shirt that says cause rape metes. We're not wagering here. There's no money involved at least as far as you know. So give you this from last week. Would be happy to dish that out.

54:22 Uh So, here's the deal. You gotta call that three four seven two three. That's all you have to do is call. If you call in, you've got a shot of being in the fantasy football league. Because Jeff is playing for one of you, I'm playing for another one of you. In this tonight's edition of Hey nice twits, twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter tweet twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter nice twits. All right, this is a game where Cause has been patrolling and trolling all of the intranets to get you the actual twitters made by celebrities, athletes, and other people that we don't care about and generally make fun of uh that said he'll give us an actual Twitter. The job of myself and Jeff Peck is to guess which celebrity out of the four possible choices said that Twitter. If we get it right, then the point goes our direction. Right now, nobody's calling in.

55:20 I tried to make this as easy as possible for everybody, did I not? Cause I said last night I would make it so easy. And it's not like nobody's listening because we had an awesome chat room tonight going for Terry Funk, right, adh L Jeter fan is gloating, Well, yeah, he's already in from last night. But he's already after last night. Yeah, so if this is a wrestling fantasy league, we would have been just rolling in people. Literally, all you have to do is fucking call three four seven two three seven point fifty two zero three one of the two of us, Jeff Pecker myself will be winning in this. And thus I've heard of listeners going to call our STFU line and sing, oh that has not shown up yet, necessary welcome to last week? Yeah, thank you?

56:04 All right, cause let's get ready to roll here with Twitter number one. I think we should we should have the ability to remove someone from the league. Now, is that is that we're gonna do just some random somebody who had nothing to do with the cold fall on anyone? Yeah? About and I could pick I pick eighty eight? Wow? All right, here we go. I was bitching because I had to get my Bentley fixed. Then I said to myself, how the fucking you bitch about fixing a Bentley? Yo? What's up? Is that Rampage Jackson, Iced Tea? Ludicrous or P Diddy? Wow? That's hey, welcome to the sweet nasty Twitter account.

56:52 P Diddy Wow? I like that? All right? So it's iced Tea, Rampage Jackson, P Diddy? And who was the other one? Ludicrous Luda? All right? Uh, Jeff Pack, I'm gonna go with Rampage Jackson. Do you think he's got a Bentley? Did make some good cash doing the UFC. You gotta figure he's got something, right, I say, one of the more reflective of the of that bunch is going to have to be Iced Tea. So we've got Rampage and iced tea, cause or either one of us correct on tweet number one. One of you is correct. As Michael Bower takes him one nothing lead. He's self reflective.

57:36 Well, you know, ice Tea has just been arrested recently, so I feel like he's trying to do look at the bright side of numerous things. He's a glass half full tea? What right? Now? That was that motherfucking iced tea? Yes? He has, by the way, an amazing job that he did as the voiceover to the other guys. I just want to highlight that I didn't another all right, stop giving stuff away? He would? You just want to say, all right, here we go. You're gonna hurt just feelings after you totally just stiffed him. Twit Twit number two? Are you gonna cry now? Just with this music? Twit number two? Does anyone without a country accent love America? Oh? Good?

58:19 Is that? Natasha Lagero, Sarah Silverman, Diablo Cody or chel Oh all right, I'm gonna go Diablo Cody on that one. Who's the first bitch? She's the girl who was the judge on last Comic Standing this year? That's her. Yeah, who's the first bitch? Very respectful? I wonder why you're not going man after Isaiah Thomas's part. I'm gonna go with Chelsea Chelsea Handler, Diablo, Cody Cause or either one of us correct a tweet number two, son of a big All right, I'm gonna go Natasha. You're gonna go Sarah? Yeah? Sure, okay, did I have a choice? No one of you is correct? Yes, we are so smart, and Bowers sweeps with the two nothing lead. Wow, Wow, amazing, isn't it? See it would have been that easy for somebody. If somebody had just called in, somebody could have been that would have been right there. Congratulations, you're taking up that eighth spot in the Wheelhouse Fantasy Football League. But no, no, now, you're just gonna make yourself work harder. I understand you want to challenge. Good for you. You got it. Tomorrow is what the fuck? Wednesday? Cause? Are you here?

59:31 Are you have softball? Softball? All right? Jeff Peck and I will be here. We will also be joined by Gary Cannon, comedian stand up comedy comedy, and he also opens for Mitch as well as Ralphie May A couple of other people are thanks to Terry the Legend for the champ, Jeff Peck for these sweet nasty Chris Cause, and myself, Bower. I say to you see