Episode 1: Dusty Rhodes in the WWF
Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard
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4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On the debut episode of Something To Wrestle with Bruce Prichard, Bruce and host Conrad Thompson takes us back to 1989 when "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes joined the WWF and rocked the polka dots. Plus, Bruce shares for the first time a hilarious story of him and Dusty on the road.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Conrad Thompson and man we've got something great for you today here on the MLW Radio Network. |
| 0:04.9 | It's the debut episode of Something to wrestle with with Bruce Pritchard. |
| 0:09.2 | And man, I'm excited about this one, Bruce. Getting to know you over the last year and just pick your brain |
| 0:13.9 | has been the highlight of my wrestling fandom. And now we get to share it with the entire podcast world. What's going on, Bruce? |
| 0:20.5 | Oh, hey, man. I don't think your half is excited as I am for me to re-enter into the world of podcasts. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm excited to bring you something to wrestle with Bruce Pritchard. |
| 0:31.0 | And we're going to get into some old stories. We're going to get into what's going on in the business today and have a little bit of fun along the way. |
| 0:37.9 | So our format for this show is unlike anything you've ever seen before with a podcast. |
| 0:43.2 | We're going to dig in real deep on one specific story a week. |
| 0:47.2 | And this week we've got a great one. What happened when Dusty went north? |
| 0:51.9 | And we're going to talk all about when Dusty Rhodes first left Jim Crockett promotions and went north to Vince McMahon and company in the WWF, |
| 1:00.1 | Polkadots and all that ensued after. Really probably the most in-depth discussion about that ever from someone who was there. |
| 1:07.5 | And that's what makes this show unique. Almost every other podcast out there is through the film or the filter of what a newsletter was or what a rumor was or what the in-you-indo was. |
| 1:17.9 | This is going to be the full story something you've never heard before and we're going to do one of these per week. |
| 1:23.7 | At the end of that talk today we're going to give you some insight on how you can shape the future episodes. |
| 1:29.6 | If you've got a specific topic you want Bruce to dig into, we're talking about the golden era of the WWF or the attitude era of the WWF. |
| 1:37.7 | Bruce was there for all of it. We can even go all the way back to Houston with that talk. |
| 1:42.6 | Decades of topics to cover you'll have your chance to contribute and help shape the show at the end of this show. |
| 1:49.6 | And we are back now on something to wrestle with right here with Bruce Pritchard and I'm excited for this portion of the show. |
| 1:55.7 | This is the main event. This is what you're really here for. It's our storytelling time and we call this segment what happened when? |
| 2:04.3 | So hey Bruce, what happened when Dusty came to the WWF? It's 1989 I believe. |
| 2:12.4 | Something has happened in Atlanta, Dusty's on the outs and now Dusty's looking for a job. Somehow he winds up in New York and everybody online, myself included, has always been led to believe. |
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