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Ladies & Gentleman I Present You With Exile on Badstreet Episode One = The Life & Times of The Fabulous Freebirds


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Kris is joined by Will from Pro Wrestling Only and Pete from the Titans of Wrestling podcast to discuss the legendary career of The Fabulous Freebirds (Terry “Bamm Bamm” Gordy, Michael “PS” Hayes, & Buddy “Jack” Roberts.) We discuss the beginnings of the group and how they evolved into one of the most legendary acts in wrestling history. Listen to us pontificate on the guys from Badstreet U.S.A.​

 

http://placetobenation.com/exile-on-badstreet-1-the-life-times-of-the-fabulous-freebirds/

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It's a cool name for sure. I echoed the same thing on Twitter earlier, Parv. We've always been fortunate to have Kris be an active part of the site with the reaction shows, and numerous guest spots on the PWO-PTBN feed. Then Pete shoots me a message last night that he's wrapping a Zellner (!) show on the Freebirds and, well, that was pretty exciting all around. Welcome aboard my friend.

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This and the news of an upcoming NWA Classics network has made this day pretty damn awesome. Cant wait to listen.

What's this?

 

Essentially a New Japan World, WWE Network type service. No idea what type of footage will be on it although most think a lot of 70's/80's Houston.

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You should just do a show called Exile On Badstreet from now on just about The Freebirds. Do a half hour to an hour show on just one match and segments with guests. Basically, The Freebirds Podcast. There's a wealth of footage and things to talk about. It could be a running series. Shit, I listen to a show called Star Wars minute where guys do a podcast where each show they talk about one minute of screen time from a Star Wars movie.

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You should just do a show called Exile On Badstreet from now on just about The Freebirds. Do a half hour to an hour show on just one match and segments with guests. Basically, The Freebirds Podcast. There's a wealth of footage and things to talk about. It could be a running series. Shit, I listen to a show called Star Wars minute where guys do a podcast where each show they talk about one minute of screen time from a Star Wars movie.

 

My first couple of posts in this thread was assuming that this was the case.

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45 minutes in and I love it. Couple questions:

 

1) How much prep / research went into getting ready for this show?

 

2) What topics are you considering for subsequent episodes?

 

Show prep for me was about 30 minutes....a lot of this was by memory.

 

Other topics will be historical and current...not giving away my secrets :D

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Great show Kris. I can't remember it exactly now, but when we did the GCW Titans shows, I worked out the timeline of the bookers. They had a series of very short runs. It's something like:

 

Ernie Ladd in 1979 (under Ole)

Ole in 1980

Watts / Buck Robley for 8 weeks in late 80 (booking UWF same time)

Robert Fuller in 81

George Scott actually had a little run in here in 81 after Fuller

Ole Anderson from late 81 till the end (booking Crockett at same time until Dory in 82-3)

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