Ep. 368: The Lapsed Funk 'Funkin in Japan' (Part 3)
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The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 279 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 Ahh, isn't me his man. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a special lesson. |
| 0:38.0 | We did it our way, because we love it that way |
| 0:45.0 | love it that way |
| 0:47.0 | I have this wonderful gut feeling and I've had it all my life |
| 0:51.0 | when it's time to go |
| 0:52.0 | and I think it's now it's been a refrained throughout the course of this series a look back on the life and times |
| 1:15.0 | the legacy of Terry Funk that forever forever right boss yes heard it a bunch of times heard |
| 1:20.7 | it even during beyond the Mat, did we not? |
| 1:24.0 | Uh, yes, we did. |
| 1:25.6 | It's there. |
| 1:26.6 | It is there. So what is the story of that? |
| 1:28.2 | Why did Terry Funk find himself in the middle of an all-Japan ring in 1983, tearfully screaming whatever to what we're |
| 1:34.5 | learning is a hyper-adoring Japanese public. Well, as we conclude our Funkin in |
| 1:40.2 | Japan installment of the Laps Funk here this week, we're going to connect with that exact moment in time. |
| 1:46.4 | All right? And the first of what would be several, almost a comic amount of retirements of the funker over the course of his decades in the business. |
| 1:58.0 | And nobody was better about joking about that than Terry Funk himself. |
| 2:01.0 | He was very much self-aware that he called it quits for reasons other |
| 2:06.4 | than actually feeling like he was prepared to retire. |
| 2:08.8 | Well as we heard him say, you know, when the bank accounts getting low, the knees start hurting a little less. |
| 2:18.8 | That's exactly right. |
| 2:20.6 | And as we've also heard him say, |
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