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"J.T.S. Brown Bourbon; Wrestling"

• Matt Sommerfield & Phil Stokes • Season 1 • Episode 52

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Ever wondered how whiskey and wrestling could possibly go hand in hand? Join us for a lively session as we share some laughs and whiskey with our friend Terry Edwards, the generous provider of our tasting barrels. We kick off with a lighthearted chat about peculiar scents, leading us into the flavorful world of JTS Brown Bottled in Bond. With its robust 100-proof strength crafted by Heaven Hill, this whiskey sparks a spirited debate on the charm of vintage bottle designs versus their modern counterparts. We also celebrate the timeless aesthetic choices in the whiskey industry, all while appreciating Terry's crucial role in making this tasting experience possible.

As the whiskey settles, our conversation takes a nostalgic turn back to the days of wrestling fandom. We reminisce about the iconic WCW lineup, sharing fond memories of Thursday night events and legendary figures like Goldberg, Sting, and Ric Flair. Reflect on the cultural phenomenon wrestling was, as we humorously explore how our understanding of terms like "prepubescent" has evolved. Despite our waning interest as The Rock rose to fame, the joy of reliving past wrestling memories never fades. Join us for an episode that blends whiskey, wrestling, and a good dose of nostalgia, as we toast to the unforgettable moments that have shaped our interests.

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Speaker 1:

surprisingly adequate. What are you smelling? I think you. I think you tailwinded that fart over, did I? Yeah, I'm kind of surprised, though. No, I didn't, are you sure? I think I don't think so. I'm totally putting that in the beginning. I know, oh, I don't care when the things start rolling, just go with it. Yeah, I'm, I'm. I'm a natural performer. That's a natural gas, is what that is? It's a natural gas.

Speaker 1:

I feel like I'm one color right now. I feel like I'm just blue. You know what you look like? You look like a, your body looks like a blueberry and your head also looks like a blueberry. That isn't blue, that's like pale. It's like I'm, uh, either, winter frozen. You're like. I'm like the blueberry that was left on. You're like you know how the you know blueberry at the top of it, it's kind of like split open. Yeah, that's my head, that's this, that's that. And your head is I'm the. You're the fruit of the blueberry. I'm the flower. The blueberry is the freaking fruit. You more, you can't be like. You're the fruit of the fruit. You're the fruit within, within the fruit. Like it went, there might be a fruit within. We don't know yet, we're not sure. Well, time will tell. I think we already know. I think, well, time will tell. I think we already know. We know there's some fruit within there somewhere.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to whiskey bits with matt and phil, where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives. Well, you know what that sounded like. It sounded like you were singing the name of today's bourbon selection, which, which is JTS Brown hey, soul sister is JTS Brown, jts Brown. I heard JTS Brown, jts Brown, jts Brown, bottled in bond. 100 proof. Because it's bottled in bond, because it's Bottled and Bond Because it's Bottled and Bond Aged. For, let's look here, bottled and Bond has to at least be aged for four years. Correct, okay, nice work. Okay, man, I really put you on the spot there. That was scary. I think I peed myself, you know.

Speaker 1:

So this one, that's what I think we're going to like, this one, just because of this part that I read here, which is distilled by If you say Heaven Hill, I will touch your thigh. Can I do that? Is it Heaven Hill? If you touch my thigh, I'm punching you in the throat. I can tell by the look I'm punching you right the throat. I can tell by the look I'm punching you right in the blueberries, hey, hey, look, we're talking like prunes. At least, wait, hold on a second. I want to go back.

Speaker 1:

Plums, the non-shrimmled version of that. Ah, forget it. Who am I kidding? Yeah, it's just a couple of different, distilled by Heaven Hill DSP, ky1, kentucky, 1. But bottled, jts Brown Sun Company in Bardstown, kentucky, okay.

Speaker 1:

So bottled and bound under US government supervision Good Straight. Which administration, though? Trump? Great question, trump. Okay, government supervision, good Straight. Administration. Which administration, though Trump? Great question, trump, trump. Okay, oh my gosh, is everything okay Libertarian?

Speaker 1:

So this is a fun bottle that you look at and you think there's no chance that's gonna be any good. Well, hold on a second. Look at the colors. As a designer, I would have said the same thing, correct? However, my longtime friend, mr terry edwards hello, terry. Who, terry, has gifted us to use these barrels actually. Thank you so much, terry. Thanks, terry. Well, I don't think he listens. Friend of the show, unbelievable. Uh, no, he might, but that he used to do, used to do like he did design back in the day, and a lot of the stuff was like that. And so, yes, I, in my ignorance, one time, was like, oh, it's not updated and he goes. Well, this is how we did things a lot, and it was considered pristine back in the day. Sure, considered pristine back in the day. And so I think it's it's the eye of of, of the, to understand where art has gone. Sure, but yes, you got to know. Typically you would look and go, oh, it looks whatever, but it. I, I, as a designer, I can really appreciate it, but I will say it reminds me of heaven Hill stuff. That's why I guessed heaven hill no, that's a good, that's really good, because it is heaven. Well, but like, look, heaven hill does a ton of bottles. Are we just gonna reach through all these and find all the heaven hills? Well, mellow corn. Here's another example.

Speaker 1:

Again, we've talked about this. When we did this one, we did, yeah, the the label is is. It's just, they have like more of an old-fashioned um design. Yeah, this is old fitzgerald, this is not kind of 30s, 40s, 50s design. Yeah, this is not the same distillery, no, but heaven hill. But then you look at, we'll pull out that jw dance right there, because that's another one. That's right here in the front, right here, right, your hands on it, that's the one.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I thought that's what you were yeah, see, this is interesting, right, I actually got these bottles together, not this one. This is yours, my recommendation, I believe. But this is Heaven Hill as well. Yeah, no way. Yes, shut up, distilled by Heaven Hill. That's why I thought you were telling me to grab it.

Speaker 1:

Distilled by heaven hill distilleries. Well, that's probably why their freaking designer needs a shout out, because he's good. Yeah, I mean, it's all. It all is the same and uh, it's all. I bought these together while I was in kentucky, so that's how I learned about this one was. Then they put this out. Well, and look at that, so nice, and that's bottle and bond again. Right, but this premium, like you could never find this stuff, and now obviously you're finding it Isn't the Pikesville's?

Speaker 1:

Not? Pikesville is also I was just telling somebody about this the other day. Heaven Hill is freaking. My favorite, I think. Yeah, heaven Hill.

Speaker 1:

Shout out to Heaven Hill. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. So Shout out to Heaven Hill. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. So JTS Brown. Hey, I got my loafers on again. What are the chances? Go ahead, jts Brown. Jts Brown, bottled and Bond. Nothing special about the bottle, as we've talked about. Sorry, don't know if you hear that creaking, but nothing special about the bottle. No cork on this one. This is a plastic screw top. Yeah, same Up there. Yep, that's how they do. But the Heaven Hill one is a nice.

Speaker 1:

This one comes in at about 23 bucks, between 23 and 26.

Speaker 1:

And it's everywhere. You can find this stuff anywhere. Anywhere you go, you can find this. See, I'm not, I don't want to say anywhere, because there are definitely some that I've learned they're not going to sell it like a preschool. Phil, I mean, you can't say anywhere. That assumes any place you are physically at, you're not going to find whiskey at a preschool. If you do, what? If you went online and ordered it online, would you have bought whiskey from a preschool? If I worked at a preschool, oh for sure, enough, said you preschool. Oh for sure, okay, yeah, enough, said okay, you can find this good point just about any liquor store in the country, as far as I know. Okay, uh, but if you can't, there's probably a jw dance or pikesville or heaven hill or something else, that's. That's there for you to try, um, and so, yeah, 26 bucks. I don't think you can go wrong. We haven't even tried it and I don't think you can go wrong. Okay, I'm getting a different.

Speaker 1:

It's not a sour mash, is it? Oh, great question, is it a sour mash? There's so little on this bottle. It is just Look, it's bottled and bond, straight Kentucky bourbon. We just know that it's more than 51% corn. That's all I can tell you. Oh, man, it isn't as overpoweringly sweet that you'd normally catch on some bourbons, right, it has a little bit of a tinge to it when you sniff it and it could be like a malted barley or one of these other pieces that's in there. Because, again, 51% corn, aged four years, like all bottled and bond, hunter proof, like all bottled and bond. And then, because it's bourbon, it has to follow the bourbon rules as well. Oh, right, right, right. Nothing but water added to it, added to it.

Speaker 1:

Made in, made in the US of A US, of A USA, usa. New oak barrels, new charred oak barrels. I don't know if they have to be charred. I I don't know if they have to be charred, I think in order to. I don't know why you wouldn't char it. Oh, really good, exactly.

Speaker 1:

I mean, it has a little more flavor than I was kind of expecting, you know, but I am getting the sour. I am getting the sour mash that you're talking about, um, especially in the back, like the back, yeah, and that's just from memory of like other sour mashes, I think, like I don't know that's literally when I took the nose it was like, oh, sour mash. But I'm shocked in my own experience that I can actually say that it kind of surprised me too. Right, if I could be so honest, is this a Sour Mash? I don't know, let's just pour them all together. Yeah, genuine Sour Mash.

Speaker 1:

Maybe there's something to that, maybe there's a similarity between them. I mean the same distillery, different bottling JTS Brown versus JW Dam Really good. Yeah. Bottling jts brown versus jw damn really good. Yeah, I really, I like it. I mean, I like, I really like it. I do too. Yeah, it has that.

Speaker 1:

You remember, a while back I was like, oh, it feel it tastes cold even though it's not chilled, like it has that, and maybe it's more of like this fresh, like you ever have a good, uh, like bottled spring water, that when it's in glass versus plastic it just has that fresh kind of, or it's in like a clearer, harder plastic, like yeah, yeah, and it's like, oh, it just feels there's like a fiji water, fiji, yeah, yeah, like a silkiness to it. That's the apple fuji apples, but, uh, and also the, the mount fuji fuji band, the fujis, oh okay, oh, that's not a real band. Is it real band? Wow, they named themselves after an apple, amazing. But um, what were we saying? Refugees, refugees, refugees. Yeah, gosh, it's sure that's what it's short for. Yes, wow, I am learning a lot today. We're way under cultured. I have no clue what's happening. It's okay.

Speaker 1:

I watched barney as a kid. That was a thing that's about as much as I know about. Is that where you get the blue? Yeah, no, he was purple moron. Oh, sorry, he's the color of your shirt. You're about halfway there, phil. That seems really rude. What the actual crap are you doing? A purple shirt? You're halfway there. Also, you're actually, uh, who said it? Was it? Selena gomez, I think, said yeah, I'm pretty sure it was her. She said that the guy that played yeah, it was her. Uh, the guy that played Barney underneath was like a stud, a muscle stud. Oh, so I am halfway there. That's what I'm saying, man.

Speaker 1:

I was just trying to say, because underneath these flabs of steel, underneath that shirt there's a stud, there's another shirt, there's another shirt. Because the chafing? Because of the sweater, because of the sweater, because the sweater this t-shirt is a sweater is a sweater. You know what that would be? That would be an awesome tagline for, like a wrestler oh yeah would be.

Speaker 1:

I freaking love wrestling. Did you ever like rest? Did you watch wrestling? I loved watching wrestling when I was a kid. I remember it being such a huge thing and like I just don't feel like I hear about it as much anymore, but I still in target. I see, no, I loved watching wrestling when I was a kid. I remember it being such a huge thing and like I just don't feel like I hear about it as much anymore, but I still in target. I see, no, it's definitely still a thing. I know there's a lady, there's a girl that goes to my gym. That is a legit wrestler, hmm, and I don't. I don't know who she is.

Speaker 1:

I don't know where the popularity sits amongst prepubescent males Right now, today. Yeah, but that's really what it was when we were oh yeah, goldberg man 8, 9, 10, 11 years old. It was just. It was wrestling, right, I loved it. I think it's the same. It's just we're not prepubescent, we're not really that concerned with it. I mean, I mean, speak for yourself. No, I'm speaking for both of us. Oh, okay, we both have beards, that's true, I guess I'm out of that stage. Plenty of pubic hair. I don't really know what prepubescent did. We just say pubic hair and whiskey bits. We did. Yeah, I love it. Also prepubescent, that's where that comes from.

Speaker 1:

Pre-puberty, I get it now. I thought public. I thought it was like you're going public, like, hey, it's actually when I am now pubescent, public because you're like I don't want to be like I can't go public now. Yeah, I did you really think that pre-pubescent or? I didn't put puberty and pubescent together? No, until right now. Okay, yeah, this is a. This is interesting to me. Oh, huh, that makes sense. He does it. It's the same word. Great, I'm glad you approved. We'll call this one jts. What is it? Jts brown, puberty? Oh, the poor folks at jts brown. Gosh, that's two episodes in a row. What can jts brown do for your puberty? Okay, do for your puberty, uh, wrestling.

Speaker 1:

I remember goldberg, yeah, as being my favorite. Okay, every time I hear goldberg, I think I'm goldberg, the goalie from mighty ducks. No, goldberg, he would do the spear and when that guy would come out, yeah, we would just go nuts. Yeah, and it was with, like I think, ddp diamond dallas page. Um, sting, right thing was sting was around undertaker, I went, I went as thing for halloween one year. Really. I Really Pink leotard and everything. He's a Chris Pink. Yeah, he wasn't pink, yes, he was. He was black, black and white. No, his face was black and white, but he always wore neon colors. Really, he always had the pink leotard and Sting pants. Yeah, hulk Hogan, I was way more into WCW than WWEF, wwf we're going to be able to call it that, sorry, wildlife Federation, yeah, not World Wildlife Federation.

Speaker 1:

Whatever, it was WWE, for me it was WCW. Wcw, which was all those guys we're just talking about. Well, goldberg did start off in WCW, yeah, but Sting, ric, flair, the Four Horsemen, sid Vicious, Arne Anderson, do you remember back in the day? Like my dad, I remember when I was little he always talked about there were these two.

Speaker 1:

They were like twins, the brother something, brothers, the Steiner brothers no, they were like man, the Steiners are so cool. They were like the steiners are so cool, they were like goofy. Uh, I mean, there were a bunch of them, but, like you had the heck, you had the bushwhackers, yeah, from australia, and they, yes, yes, yes, those guys, yes, yes, this is the bushwhackers. Yes, I remember that as a kid. Oh my gosh, yeah, dude. But let me ask.

Speaker 1:

So I saw, I saw this clip recently of rick flair and he's coming out and he's doing his big thing. Oh, macho man, randy, yeah, you did him, but that. But like they were, they kind of all did that in vain popping and he like had a heart attack right like in the middle of doing it. Yeah, and they took him out on a stretcher.

Speaker 1:

But I was like, is it a bit or is it? Was it real? Some of it is, some of it's a bit. I mean, you can kind of tell, but was that specific thing, I don't know, the thing that you're talking about, having a heart attack on? I don't think so, because usually when it's real, they cut away from all of that. You would think they do, because, like when what's his face fell, oh, in heart, yeah, they didn't. That was scary and that was real and that was the people were wondering is this a bit or is this real? Right, right, right. And the fact that they didn't show anything was like oh, I think that was probably real. Like oh, that's what makes me wonder what the heck was going on.

Speaker 1:

But like let's talk about this for a minute, because the rock well, of course, the rock, which I love, the rock was the rock got popular right after. I must have kind of stopped. Yeah, no, I was like, I was like the, because the rock was. There was some stuff that was trying to hang on, to Like we're now into I'm definitely out of high school at this point. Yeah, and he was, I think, at this one. Like I had met Amy and like that's when the rock she's like, if I'm going to be with you, you're On the rock. Yeah, well, I have a huge crush on the rock. Well, that's between you and the rock. Well, there's a little bit of fruit in there. How can you? It's a rock.

Speaker 1:

No, I like him as a business guy. I like him as a person, as a dad. Just today I saw, no, he's a great dad. Just to you, to me, yes, personally to me as a father. No, he's just his energy drinks freaking good. Like his, his, his motivation. He's a marketing machine. He's a genius. And like marketing machine and like, yeah, he's very similar in the roles that he does. But like I like him, yeah, he's just good. Anyways, I never really saw him, though, as a wrestler. I never saw any of his shtick. I mean I remember the eyebrow and all that, but some of the tail end. He was so good in the ring, yeah, his mic skills, next level.

Speaker 1:

I liked Goldberg kind of that era whenever he was in there and I think that was WCW, I think it was. Well, I remember Goldberg as a wwf wrestler. I mean that's what I remember him as, because I I think that was goldberg and the rock were kind of the same watched era. We watched kind of the same era. But, um, yeah, you know, like I mean stone cold again, next level, mick Foley, yes, and when all those guys would be in movies, like movies with Jean-Claude Van Damme and I would watch all those movies, I was always like, oh my gosh, I think Goldberg was in what's the series that Jean-Claude Van Damme did, ultimate Soldier or something.

Speaker 1:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, what is that called? And Goldberg was in one of them, okay, and uh, universal soldier, yeah, universal soldier, yeah, yeah. And goldberg was in like universal soldier three or something like that. Okay, and I was like, oh, that's so freaking cool. Yeah, goldberg, what was it so like? Wasn't um hulk hogan was in the rockies rocky movie, was he? I thought he was in Rocky three, I don't know, didn't he wrestle, didn't he wrestle Mr T? Well, well, he fought Mr T, rocky fought Mr T in one of them. No, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I thought, yeah, I don't know, it doesn't matter, but yeah, that was always a, that was always like kind of an interesting crossover.

Speaker 1:

But I said the guys on wcw didn't get as much play in that stuff. So, right, like you said, goldberg, but that was a little bit later on in his career, not in his heyday, right, right, right, right, a little bit later on. But I love, I love those guys, like, like, um, uh, oh, what the heck was his name? I was just thinking, uh, lex luger, yeah, luger, yeah, yeah, because lex luther. But right, yeah, lug, yeah, and like, yeah, because he was a part of, he was a part of the four horsemen, for so, no, he was not a part of the four horse.

Speaker 1:

So, what's the thing? Because there is obviously this idea of, okay, they're stuntmen, they're actors, obviously, they're athletes, they're athletes. But like there was, I remember, and I think even still today, there's this like is it real, is it not real? What's going on? I mean, obviously it's a performance, but like there's elements of it that are obviously dangerous, obviously real, I mean you can see times where they are hitting each other, where they are doing things. I mean you can't fake, you can't fake a suplex, or like bashing somebody off of the ropes onto a table, onto the ground. But you're talking like you can't fake that, no, but like it's a stunt, right, yes, I mean the the tables are a little bit pre-cut, but these guys are also 250 pounds, you know of all muscle, so they go through a regular table right and that sort of thing. So like those parts of it are real.

Speaker 1:

But I think all the other stuff around it is is is pomp and circumstance. Like if you, if you try to tell like a wrestler, like this isn't real, it's like no, it's real. I wasn't, maybe wasn't getting actually punched in the face, right, right, right, right, right. There are parts of it that are absolutely real, but like I just like the drama of it, you know, like it's like the world's best soap opera. It's exactly what it's soap opera for teenage boys. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, it's soap opera for teenage boys. And, but I boys, um, and but I think I was convinced it was real when I was younger. Oh for sure, like what I remember being like. This is definitely like. No, this is like they're actually mad at each other.

Speaker 1:

He's bleeding. Yeah, like goldberg's a real. Like he's coming in in his undies. Yeah, like he forgot, like it's so serious that he forgot to wear pants. He was was getting dressed and was like, look, I need to go out there now. I'm about to go out to dinner, but I have to drive to this stadium, go out there in my underwear and spear the crap out of this guy and then leave, and then I'll go back and get dressed. Yeah, but this needs to happen. I mean that's what I thought. You believed it. I kind of still. But do you know? Like there, I mean they would like use razor blades and like kind of pre cut their heads. So then when they would get hit with chairs, really they would just start bleeding and it was like, oh, this is so, this is so crazy real. But like you, look at his head, you're like, oh my gosh, what's with all the? He's got scars all over his head. Did you have like a really bad cat? Ric Flair was a bleeder, so like. So Ric Flair was in a plane accident. Did you know that? Is he still alive? Yeah, he was in a plane accident In the seventies. Oh, and broke his back, oh, back, oh, and continued wrestling like got fixed up and continued wrestling but uh, but yeah, he had a, he had. He was in a plane crash and and broke his back.

Speaker 1:

Dude, I gotta tell you this funny story real quick. So I had met rob schneider years ago when I was in high school. Yeah, and uh, we were so star struck because it was a bunch of me and my theater buddies and one of the I thought you meant you and rob schneider, me and rob like together. We were like wow, I was like you're rob shanahan meme. Yeah, and he was like you're matt summerfield, the kid that no one knows. I was like I am and you're rob schneider and you're rob. Everyone knows the guy that only adam, that only adam sandler knows. No, dude, and I remember we were just I saw I ran into rob schneider. Was the first time that I saw him. Sorry, rob, please join our show. Freaking love Rob Schneider. He's awesome.

Speaker 1:

And we were so starstruck that we thought everybody was a celebrity at that point. Yeah, that we would see. And so we went the next day. We all went to. It was in the wintertime and we went to the what is that called? The ice skating rink out in Millennium Park. Oh yeah, and there was this dude that it may have been Ric Flair. He looked just like him, had the hair, everything Like the face, the hair, and he even was like whoo, yes, and we went up to him because we were starstruck, we thought everyone was a and we were like, are you the nature boy? And he goes. I'm Ric Flair, woo, and he skates around in circles around. Like is Ric Flair ice skating in Millennium Park? Is this what he does in his time off, by himself? He wasn't with anyone, it was just this guy in an ice rink. I was like and I still don't know if it was him or not today, and I saw the video of Ric Flair yesterday and I was like it might have been him actually. So we don't know, could have been. You never know. You never know. I do know that this is good.

Speaker 1:

Who's your favorite wrestler. I mean, I grew up like idolizingizing, I guess, would be the word, yeah for sure, mimicking every moment that I could Sting, sting, sting was my guy. That was the guy that I was, you know, kind of looked like Ultimate Warrior. He had like similar face like paint. I remember him, dude, ultimate Warrior.

Speaker 1:

I remember all the video games. Oh yeah, I'm going to have to go rent one of those games, like I, yeah, I didn't get into the wwf stuff. That was my thing, that's true. Like I was give me the wcw and like the the thursday night, like they didn't do it. It was diamond dallas page wcw. He started off in the yeah, the w the, yeah, uh, nwa was the first one that turned into the WCW. Yeah, but like WCW would have like these mini, like mini pay-per-views that weren't actually pay-per-views on Thursday nights. Yeah, um, thursday night, raw, no, that was something else, that was a different thing, but it was on, it was on TBS, it was on, you know anyways, so they would have those. And, uh, man, you know anyways, so they would have those. And, uh, man, I just, I remember I got one pay-per-view, one pay-per-view when I was a kid, actually two, I remember two.

Speaker 1:

The first one was halloween havoc. Oh, I remember that 1996 halloween havoc 1996, which was, I think, was filmed in chicago, if I remember correctly, but I could be wrong. So that was one. The other one was I was so into boxing around this time, yeah, mike Tyson was Mike Tyson, and so we got Mike Tyson Buster Douglas. Oh, like, maybe one time that he lost, wow, that's the one that we got, that's the one you paid for.

Speaker 1:

Sorry about that, oops, but yeah, I remember watching Halloween Havoc and going through, like I'd watch it over and over and over and over and over again, like, absolutely loved it. Was this Diamond Dallas Page. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh man, I mean, who did this this? Ah, oh, that was dx. So that was sean michaels. There he is. Um, yeah, that was sean michaels and one of his tag team partners. But like there was, there was sean michaels and marty genetti were the original, and then when he joined uh d, generation x, um, there was another, there was another one that he would do that with, but I can't remember.

Speaker 1:

I'm so glad that you like wrestling. I kind of want to watch it again. It's fun, like it's fun to go on right, it is like I don't like the stuff that's out there anymore because it's it's like I don't. I don't really get into it, but I love going back and watching the old stuff and like the old documentaries and like what these guys went through and what they did and like you hear all of these other stories about their time on the road, because they're they're traveling athletes and entertainers just like I mean I I don't mean to put it this way, but like disney on ice that goes around city to city and they have pre-cards and postcards, like when you learn about how the entertainment part of it works.

Speaker 1:

Like they have dark shows that people would pay and go watch. They weren't ever televised so you wouldn't have any major things happening, but like you would get some of the backstory to some of this stuff and it would just be them going out there putting on a show and having fun at this dark show and then the next night would be, you know, or later on in the day they would clear everything out, bring it in and that that's when they would record the show. And it was like some of the bigger wrestlers. But that's where these guys would kind of, like you know, cut their teeth, wrestling against other guys in these dark shows in front of other people get a following. So like it's weird, because you would. You would go like you'd watch it on, you'd watch like raw, or yeah, you know, monday, nitro, monday, nitro, nitro with wcw, right, yep, their answer to that. And you'd be like you know, how are these people know about these, this guy that they're cheering for, like I've never seen him. This is his wcw nitro debut. And're like how do they know? Because he's been on the road, because he's been on the road in these circuits, and it's just wild how much information Sting for you, goldberg, for me, who wins?

Speaker 1:

I mean the Stinger Splash is the spear man, yeah, but I mean, what's the other one? He would lift him up and then turn. And Goldberg, I don't know all of Goldberg's moves, I know the stinger splash, but he also had a version of the figure four leg lock, which was Ric Flair's finishing move, but he would do something similar. That was the scorpion, because remember he had the scorpion on the side. Yeah, dude, so he would do the figure four leg block, but then he would turn it over. He looked like the crow.

Speaker 1:

That was when he became part of NWO. That's what I'm talking about. That's the Sting I remember, that's the Sting you remember. So I'm pre-NWO Sting. Okay, yeah, oh yeah, nwo sting. Okay, yeah, oh yeah, I gotta look that up. Yeah, alright, like I'm gonna look up the recipe for this. We should do it right now. Let's do it. Okay. Well, that was fun, I guess. Oh, cheers, cheers. You already drank it all. I'm gonna finish Next time on Whiskey Bits.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, wonderful family, you guys are very good people. Could you excuse us? I had no idea that we were going to be talking Aledo here. How about it? I had no idea either. And as soon as you said the Quad Cities, I was like, okay, that's interesting, I still know where the Quad Cities are. Yeah, it's getting closer, you keep going, take a left on 67, and I'm like we're doing this, we're going there, we're doing this. And then you landed there. You're landing in a little town called Aledo Illinois, home of a. There's a semi-famous country star that came from Aledo Illinois. That's true. Yeah, his name is Brooke. Oh, sorry, it's not you. No, it's Susie Boggess. Right, it's Susie Boggess. What Boggess? That's bogus. Susie Boggess? Yep, from Aledo Illinois. That's not a real question. No, it is. I don't know. No, it is 100%. Does she sing, yeah, beautifully, yeah, her sign. She got a big sign on the soon to come into Aledo. Wait, like Susan Boyle, stop. Oh, okay, remember that lady. She's like, oh, she's like. Share and subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts.

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