Hey, it's Conrad Thompson, and welcome to 83 weeks.com.

We have some breaking news, and this is not something we normally do,

but in this particular case, I think it's warranted.

Today we'll be trying to pay tribute and remember the late great Sid, whether you knew him, Sid vicious or psycho said, the real life said, duty unfortunately passed away and I don't think a lot of people had

this I mean he's only 63 years old when he passed away Eric that's just awfully young like this is not the outcome I would have hoped

for by any stretch of the imagination just 63 years my goodness yeah Yeah, it's really, I want to say heartbroken because that, you know, paints a different picture.

I wasn't real close to Sid, we weren't good friends,

we didn't exchange texts and phone calls

and things like that.

But man, I really like Sid.

And I had nothing, nothing, but great interactions with him on every level whether it was negotiating his

deal creative issues were always easy with sit because he was the ultimate team player and to your point about being so unexpected in him being so young I saw said I think about two plus two years ago maybe maybe a little

longer at a convention and just he looked great he was happy, and then, you know, to realize yesterday that he was gone,

it's just, it's hard to wrap my head around because you know, you remember people the way you saw them last and what I saw last was a healthy, happy, engaging, man that just loved what he was doing.

It's really sad, it really is sad.

We've heard from a lot of wrestling luminaries about what Sid meant to them and we're going to share some of those because, you know, listen, I'm sure we're all going to do tribute episodes and talk about

his career and what happened in the ring and our favorite said matches and certainly our

favorite said interviews and i'm going to share some of those personally today.

But you know at the end of the day it's that old cliche you know it's not what you say

it's not what you did it's how you made people feel and boy he sure did leave an impact in a big way and there

were some controversies along the way but you know and I know like when I was doing a

podcast with Arne Anderson you know we got that question all the time about his circumstance with said

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