How Magnum T.A. Turned Into Wrestling’s Biggest “What If”

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever tuned in to watch Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the Download before, you might have noticed some professional wrestling action figures in the studio backdrop. On this week’s episode, Dale Jr. has the opportunity to sit down with the likeness of one of these figurines: the legendary Magnum T.A. Dale has often shared his love for professional wrestling while growing up, watching on Saturday mornings after cartoon matinees had concluded. It was through this programming that he took notice of Magnum and Dusty Rhodes, as well as the other icons of the 1980s independent scene. Magnum, whose real name is Terry Wayne Alan, explains that although he was a semi-successful wrestler on the collegiate level, he never dreamed of being a professional

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0:00.0	The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.
0:06.7	You're Dale Jr.
0:09.9	Should I say it?
0:11.3	It's Dale Jr. podcast, I got to say it.
0:16.2	Hey, everybody.
0:17.0	It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download here.
0:20.0	It's the guest segment on Wednesday, and we got a great guest coming in to the studio. I posted on social media about how excited I was for this. But thanks for joining us here in the Arby studio. Arbys has their new meat and three box, and you get more meal for your money at Arby's. So make sure you go over and check it out.
0:37.6	Arby's, we have the meets, and we also have the great guests here today.
0:42.0	This is stepping outside of the racing industry for a minute.
0:47.4	Terry Wayne Allen, also known as Magnum T.A.
0:50.8	Was a wrestler and great friends with Dusty Road.
0:54.6	You see the figurines over my shoulder sometimes here on the show.
0:58.6	But I was a huge fan of Dusty, and Dusty was sort of bringing Magnum into the NWA and sort of helping coach him up to become eventually world champion.
1:14.9	And he was right on the threshold of doing just that when he was involved in a car accident
1:21.6	and his career as a wrestler ended.
1:25.5	It affected me.
1:26.7	I was really upset about that back when I was a child. I me. I was really, you know, upset about that back as a, you know, when I was a child.
1:30.9	I mean, this was, I was 10, 12 years old when this went down.
1:35.0	I excitedly woke up every Saturday morning to watch these guys.
1:41.7	They would come on after cartoons was over and and um just some things that i remember
1:45.7	about my childhood um and that i miss and dusty was an incredible character magnum t a was
1:53.8	an incredible character i've never met terry i've always wanted to tell him at least that i was a
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