Bix Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Get it here. Call Somebody! hinghe Mothership has landed and the Superpodcast is back with another packed episode! Lots of great stuff on the program this week, including: Part one of our conversation with Donny Laible. Having done many things in and around professional wrestling, from being a photographer to being a manager, Donny shares stories of how he first got involved in the wrestling business and what the New York fan scene was like in the 1970’s. We also hear about the inner workings of the wrestling magazines and how well, or not well, they paid photographers. Donny also shares the tale of the frightening incident with an ECW wrestler that made him walk away from the wrestling world. We have the story of Dick The Bruiser’s son’s quest for a Liberace autograph. And when we say “Dick The Bruiser’s son” we mean a complete fraud pretending to be Dick The Bruiser’s son. Another dose of listener questions and “What If” suggestions. Plus, The Top Ten descends into more mindless (or mindful) wrestling talk than usual, the history of Marc Gullen’s Superuniverse title rein and much more! Book of the Week: Wrestlers Are Like Seagulls: From McMahon to McMahon by J.J. Dillon (UK) (CA) Time Stamps: Top 10 (0:00:00) Here and There (0:52:38) Listener questions (1:21:04) Book of the Week (2:13:11) Don Laible (2:31:18) Follow the show on Twitter at @605pod as well as Bix and Brian at @davidbix and @GreatBrianLast, and also make sure to like the official Superpodcast Facebook page. To support the show, please consider using our Amazon referral link (CA) (UK), which doesn’t cost you anything extra, as well as doing a free trial of Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited through us, which we still get a referral fee for even if you cancel right away. You can also make PayPal donations to David and Brian. Subscribe by adding 605feed.com to your preferred podcast app, or our iTunes link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indikator Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 The Balls Mahoney story is saddening. But I am not sure if that was the exception rather than the norm. I just recently read a bit about Len Denton's rookie days in his book and the behaviour of a Killer Karl Kox is not that far off. In fact, those rookie hazing stories never really differ too much. I've had my fill of post war European stories and while they weren't on those new, fancy and hip drugs the wrestler's certainly weren't normal people either, you might wanna use the euphemism that they were "characters". The hazing was of course appalling. There is a reason why so few "normal" people were in the business at one point in the 80s. We will probably never really be able to appreciate the influx of skinny wimps in the business, I would probably prefer to be in a CHIKARA backstage setting (even at their most passive aggressive moment) compared to ECW or pretty much every 1980s territory. Donny might have fun at those shows Tom Burke is somehow involved in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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