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#189 - Funkadelic Toothlessness - The Flyness of James "Fly" Williams

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James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

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4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

This week, we check out a legend of the New York City playground basketball scene, who made it all the way to the pros, before his interesting personality, and flair for the dramatic got him banished back to the playground, and eventually to a much worse place than that. He seemingly cleaned up his act after recovering from a gunshot wound, and some time in prison, by helping kids, and becoming a role model... until the police came breaking down the door, accusing him of being a drug kingpin! Super Fly!

Be an icon of the playground, lose half of your bodily organs from a shotgun blast, then become the king of New York, drug style!! It's James "Fly" Williams!!

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0:36.0

You folks so much for joining us. Good God are we excited for today. We have a crazy episode. We had a week off. I don't know if you can tell by my voice, but I spent my week off being ill and still holding some lingering effects here. So I apologize for sounding like shit today.

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It's insane. It's a saver. I've been saving it for a while. We've had a couple of stories in a row that were pretty dark, pretty heavy, which were awesome. They were great stories. This is going to be a paste changer right here. This is a wild, crazy 70s. This whole story has a big giant afro on it, man. Let's have a ball with that shit. Before we get to that, we do have to do a little bit of house cleaning.

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People you guys are sending us like Christmas donations. You guys are so nice to us. And we are just blown away. Thank you. We're so appreciative of it. Thank you guys so much. And let's get down to this business here of the show.

3:36.0

Because it's crazy. It's a lot of crazy. And it's a new year's Eve show. The show's going to come out on New Year's Eve. So we feel we feel like it needs to be a party. I can't have something that's going to bring people down. Oh my God. What did it buried her in the desert? Jesus Christ. That's depressing.

3:51.0

It's just like the lights and this regard covered by campers with her, you know, half dismissed. Oh God. Surfboard bag. Jesus Christ. No, none of that shit. We're going to go just as crazy. But wow, just an entertaining different direction. Okay. This week. So let's get down to it with our. He's a star boy. Let's get our star of the week. Right.

4:12.0

James Williams. No, you don't know who he is. Right. Never heard. And it's he sounds very. One of the mill. Yeah, James Williams. Yeah.

4:20.0

It could be anybody. Everybody knows one. My insurance agent James Williams told me. Yada Yada. And you could fill in the fucking blank. And you never doubt it for a second. Right. But what if I gave you his nickname? Also, oh boy. Then it's going to be different. James fly Williams.

4:36.0

It's all he got. Oh fly though in the 70s. Then we have one already in the 70s. That was fly. Yeah. He's a fly Williams. Yeah. No, no. Yeah. No. We had fly with the aggressive anal war. Right. Didn't hear that. He had aggressively nasty anal war. He called into basketball.

4:55.0

You don't hear you people call it in the work. But you don't hear guys call it into the game much. He called in the basketball. Sick one day because of quote aggressively nasty anal war. That he couldn't get rid of it.

5:07.0

He said on the bench. I just can't do it, man. And they're like, wow. So if you listen to that episode, by the way, it's back on Jesus. I don't even remember in the 40s. I think her 50s of episodes. So we've got fly Williams and fly Williams.

5:19.0

Now man, this fly is a legend. Fly is a New York City playground legend. Yeah. And also kind of a legend of the ABA of the 70s here. And his style. He's an icon. This guy put it that way to earn the nickname fly. If you're the fly, you know, in New York, then it's that's a good thing. And we'll find out why how he got these nicknames and everything else. He's born. And by the way, I think he's a junior. Oh really? Yeah. I tell you why later.

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