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Welcome to a very special Busted Open Podcast.

I'm your host for this special episode.

Keith Elliott-Bringer going to be joined by the one and only Dave LaGrecca,

founder and host of Busted Open Radio, which has become an American institution,

an international institution, and certainly something very near and dear to proponents of the

one true sport. And speaking of the one true sport, we are in the midst of a very special weekend

in the annals of professional wrestling. Not only do we have all in in front of a record crowd

in London, England, but Dave LaGrecca is you, the host and founder of Busted Open Radio,

is being inducted into a very unique Hall of Fame. Could you tell us about that?

Yes, and thank you, Keith, for this. I appreciate it. It means a lot having this conversation with you

today. And it is a great honor. I'm going into the International Pro Wrestling Hall Fame, which is

an actual physical Hall of Fame in the MVP arena in Albany, New York. So Seth Turner,

who runs the Hall of Fame, called me up back in April to ask if I would be a part of it.

And I am, and it means a lot to me. And it really, you know, it really, I think even more so for me,

but for the Busted Open Nation, I've supported me over, you know, the last 14 to 15 years.

Yeah, and that's an interesting thing to bring up. 15 years. You know, growing up, I used to

occasionally get a remote static station on my radio, where someone would be doing this

fringe wrestling radio show. And I later learned from Bill Aftert, those people were generally paying

for their time. This has really become an institution. And this was not an idea that was enressed.

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