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Busted Open

40 Years of Hard Times

Busted Open

SiriusXM

Wrestling, Njpw, Mark Henry, Wwe, Dave Lagreca, Bully Ray, Aew, Sports News, Nxt, Professional Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer, Sports, News, Leisure, Ring Of Honor

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the 40th anniversary of Dusty Rhodes' 'Hard Times', Dave LaGreca & Tommy Dreamer discuss one of the greatest promos of all time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

0:02.6

This is Dave Legreca.

0:04.8

On today's episode, myself and Tommy Dreamer talk about a moment in time that has been talked about for four decades.

0:13.7

That's right.

0:14.5

40 years since Dusty Roads, Hard Times promo, one of the greatest promos of all time.

0:22.8

Tommy and I talk about the historic value and what we think about 40 years after the fact.

0:29.9

And we do that right now on the Busted Open podcast.

0:33.8

This is the Busted Open podcast.

0:37.8

40 years ago today, October 28, 1985.

0:46.0

Maybe, if not, top three, the greatest promo of all time.

1:00.4

Tom. three the greatest promo of all time Tommy yes I'm waiting I thought you oh no I'm saying I'm asking you one of definitely top three

1:04.7

I seriously dude going back to our master's class that we did last week I loved

1:09.9

watching our audience.

1:11.7

And of course, they're all diehard nation members.

1:14.3

When they played the Austin promo and I said it, like, everybody was like verbatim.

1:21.7

I was like they were lip syncing the promo.

1:23.5

I thought it was amazing.

1:24.6

And I know that there's people that can do this promo as well.

1:28.3

Manunos, she's done it.

1:30.3

By word, by the entire, the entire hard times promo.

1:39.3

I can do that, I think.

1:41.3

I think I can say the hard times promo.

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