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DON TONY AND KEVIN CASTLE SHOW

Flashback: Minority Report Webcast 6/25/07 (Chris Benoit Tragedy) w/Don Tony, Kevin Castle, Joey 9:24 and Smoked Out

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 227 minutes

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Summary

LIVE Real Time Coverage Of Chris Benoit Tragedy Recorded June 25, 2007 Right After WWE RAW Chris Benoit Tribute Show

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The following synopsis was originally written by Don Tony immediately following the live recording of this episode on June 25, 2007.

Monday night June 25, 2007 at 11:15PM EST, we commenced our Minority Report Webcast. The show ran almost four hours and was one of the most surreal, emotional experiences we have encountered live in real time.

Yours truly (Don Tony), Kevin Castle, Joey 9:24 and Smoked Out originally planned to stream a tribute episode for Chris Benoit, and pay our respects to wife Nancy and son Daniel. However as the show went on 'in real time', so many details started to emerge surrounding their deaths. Ultimately during the show, the Double Murder-Suicide was confirmed.

As it happened, the emotion from over a thousand fans listening live, chat room visitors, and us the hosts turned to anger. Then WWE started to remove tributes from their website. Then a huge debate sparked on the show. Should we be paying any type of tribute to a murderer. How the f*** do you murder your 7 year old son? Noone celebrates OJ Simpson's football career anymore. He is labeled simply as a double murderer. Sadly, I have to treat Chris Benoit the same way.

You cannot find fault with WWE airing the 3 hour tribute. They had no clue at the start of their show that it was a double murder-suicide. I'm sure some had that possible scenario in the back of their minds. It was too coincidental that Benoit stays home for a 'family emergency', and then they all end up deceased?

Speculation ran rampant Monday night as to why this occurred. We came up with the possibility of extra marital affairs. Medical issues with the family. One thing is for certain. There isn't any good ending to this story. Nothing whatsoever that could even remotely explain what led to this tragedy could allow me to nod my head and say 'yeah, I can understand better why one would do this'. There is no excuse to commit murder. And that innocent 7 year old child bothers me more than anything.

Chris Benoit was a great wrestler; he is in the top 5 during our generation. He was a champion at wrestling. But he jobbed out to life. No matter what, it is disgusting what he did, and all respect and appreciation for Chris Benoit went out the window.

I cringe reading comments on how he was a great family man. You dont get 'credits' for being a family man up until June 23, 2007 then commit double murder. He murdered his family. For me, all respect and family man references go right out the window.

Major news organizations have picked up this story online and in print. However TV News channels will ultimately sensationalize this story. It has all the aspects of one that will be covered quite a bit on television. And of course there are others in the news field that are chomping at the bit, waiting to learn if Benoit had any substances in his system.

Like many, I am floored as to why this happened. Especially why someone who was truly looked up to by so many and perceived as such a family man can do this.

Every single person should listen to this episode. I assure you at one point or another, every emotion that every person has felt about this tragedy was brought to the surface. Countless numbers of fans all throughout the world vented. And those who downloaded this show early have sent an overwhelming amount of appreciation for this show. It seems many want us to be the voice in their ears on this matter.

We addressed every single question you all will have, I guarantee it. Should WWE still air Benoit matches on WWE.com and 24/7? Should any tributes still take place? Is it wrong to watch Benoit matches? Should he be inducted in WWE Hall Of Fame? Could this have been premeditated? Did he murder his son so he wouldn't have to go thru life knowing his father killed his mother? Could there have been warning signs? Will some try to humanize Chris Benoit's actions? Will WWE be blamed if steroids are discovered?

It's an episode I will never forget personally, and one I wish we never have had to do.

Anthony 'Don Tony' DeBlasi

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0:00.0

How's it going, everyone? Don Tony here of the Don Tony and Kevin Castle show.

0:06.0

And I am recording this brief memo on June 25, 2024.

0:12.0

Exactly 17 years ago today, Monday Night Raw had just gone off the air.

0:19.7

And yours truly, Kevin Castle, Joey 924, Black

0:23.1

Moses and smoked out, recorded our Minority Report podcast, immediately following Monday Night

0:30.0

Raw, which had just celebrated the life of Chris Benoit.

0:35.7

At 11 p.m. on June 25th, 2007, we all recorded what we believed was going to be a tribute

0:44.2

show for Chris Benoit.

0:47.6

However, almost immediately after we started our tribute show, we learned the truth as to what happened that

0:58.4

terrible weekend in the Benoit household. What you are about to hear is the real-time recording

1:09.1

of the Minority Report episode as news came out that Chris Benoit

1:15.7

Marred his family and took his own life.

1:19.7

Now, keep in mind that this recording was in 2007, way before podcasting became a thing.

1:27.6

At that time, I think we had 56K modem, sill, or maybe DSL.

1:35.0

We did not have the equipment for podcasting, our mics.

1:40.6

We were using cordless telephones and probably a headset. So the audio is very, very

1:47.3

primitive because it was recorded in 2007. So please keep in mind when you listen to that

1:55.6

that we did record this 17 years ago. I improved the audio as best as I could without butchering our voices.

2:05.8

It's a eerie episode, very surreal, and it's something that is legend in the wrestling

2:14.6

podcast community.

2:16.1

So for those that asked me to repost this, here you go.

2:21.6

June 25th, 2007, 11.05 p.m., immediately following the Chris Benoit tribute on WWE Monday Night Raw.

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