Ep. 365: The Lapsed Funk: 'Into the Ring'
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 221 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. You know good for nothing, egg sucking dog. dog. Isn't me his man. We did it our way. |
| 0:55.0 | We did it our way because we love it that way. |
| 1:01.0 | We love it that way |
| 1:03.7 | it that way |
| 1:05.7 | I have this wonderful gut feeling and I've had it all my life when it's time to go |
| 1:11.4 | I think it's now it's time to go. Son of a gun. |
| 1:33.0 | One sunny afternoon in May of 1962, three powerfully built men paid an unusual visit to the |
| 1:39.8 | offices of the Lubbock, Avalanche Journal. |
| 1:45.3 | They looked strangely out of place as they strode through the editorial rooms, feverish with |
| 1:50.1 | the clacking of typewriters and teletype machines. |
| 1:55.0 | But editor Charles A. Guy was expecting them. |
| 2:01.1 | The trio, Wrestlers Dory Funk and Ricky Romero and promoter Nick Roberts, a former |
| 2:08.9 | Grappler, Hartley shook hands with Guy. Then Funk, spokesman for the group, fished a check out of his wallet and handed it over. |
| 2:18.0 | Here, he told Guy, is the 1,000 we promised to donate to charity from the $5,000 winings of our last match. |
| 2:29.6 | Give it to whatever charity you think best or divided among several. |
| 2:35.3 | We prefer not to make the decisions because we're not familiar with Lubbock's needs. |
| 2:50.0 | Guy smilingly accepted the check and gave them a receipt but said he couldn't do as they had asked. The Graflers were surprised. |
| 2:51.0 | Why not? |
| 2:52.0 | Funk said. We aren't worried about. The Graflers were surprised. Why not? |
| 2:52.5 | Funk said. |
| 2:53.9 | We aren't worried about what you'll do with the money. |
| 2:56.6 | Well, it isn't that. |
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