Episode 31 - That's Not My Dad

### Episode Etymology

A hilarious line screamed by a small child directed to by Roddy Piper from a Roddy Piper endorsed Child Safety video on 'stranger danger'.

## Timestamps:

**0:00:00 - Superuniverse Top Ten**

* 10. Bulk Denim

* 9. The Hangman (Bruce Pobanz)

* 8. Sue the Shooter

* 7. Disappointed Lance Russell

* 6. Santo Gold

* 5. Hot Bruno

* 4. Yomamba the Jungle Savage

* 3. Black Scorpion

* 2. Denim Fritz

* 1. Rasslin' Glen Goza

* ***STILL* CHAMPION** - Marc Gullen (def. Orgasmic Larry Nelson)

**0:40:37 - Here and There (GODBOLD follow-up; The Superpod Rumble; Jerry Brown shooting up Bill Watts' house)**

**1:08:55 - Dennis of the Week (w/ Brian Tramel)**

**1:14:46 - Wild Bull Curry stories**

**1:22:22 - Bobby Fulton**

**1:58:42 - Jim Cornette on the passing of Gypsy Joe and the demolishing of Cincinnati Gardens**

**2:21:12 - THAT'S NOT MY DAD!**

**2:24:58 - Book of the Week**

**2:35:36 - What If? Follow-Up: Austin Idol as 1984 Hulk Hogan**

**2:45:55 - Polish Joe Ciupik (Part 3)**

**Polish Joe**: Yeah. First of all, that Jesse Ventura did,
indeed, happen. I was editing a show and Verne and Greg walked into the control
room with Jesse and it was the one and only time that I ever shook “The Body’s”
hand – didn’t have a conversation with him because they were busy talking and I
just respected the business part of it and didn’t want to say to him that I
grew up hating him as much as I hated Nick Bockwinkel, so I never had THAT
pleasure. But, yup – that did indeed happen and I do not blame him. The other
person that did it but it was sort of in a reverse mode was Curt Hennig. So –
before Curt went to the WWF and became Mr. Perfect, for a year – and this would
have started, would have been May of ’87 – he defeated Nick Bockwinkel at the
Cow Palace in San Francisco as a part of SuperClash II with the help of a roll
of Dimes from Larry Zbyzsko. So – Curt signed a contract with the Gagne’s, and
as Curt told me at the time, It was for $120,000 a year - $10,000 a month. Curt
and I were out one night having a little fun, and so I asked him: I go “So has
Vince contacted you yet?” and he goes “Yeah – they contacted me a few months
ago,” and I go “So what the hell are you still doing here?” He goes “Well, I
thought about it and I’m still young – I’m gonna have another shot at the WWF.
But, Verne’s paying me $10,000 a month to be able to stay at home, to see my
wife and kids, and travel-“ I wanna say at the time “working 7 or 8 times a
month.” He goes “Signed a one year deal, it’s a guarantee – if he doesn’t pay
me, then I can call Vince back up.” Well, the year goes by and Verne didn’t
have the money or – in actuality, a very smart business move at the time – to
re-sign Curt; he couldn’t afford it. Again, with the personal lawsuit, the
money he had already put back into the AWA: he just couldn’t commit to
continuing to do that. So – Curt ended up becoming Mr. Perfect. Did Curt get
more money at that time? That I don’t know, but, Curt used the WWF as leverage
against the AWA to get HIS deal in 1987.

*- Joe on the financial downturn of the AWA in the late 1980's and the multitude of wrestlers - Jesse Ventura, Curt Hennig, and even the rumors of Hulk Hogan coming back - trying to use the AWA as leverage to get better deals with the WWF*