Episode 15 - Slip House Boys

### Episode Etymology

The name of a supposed tag-team that Brian's dad thought he'd heard in a sleepy stupor during his watching of GWF on ESPN Classics.

## Timestamps

**0:01:41 – Mr. Last’s recollection of “The Slip House Boys”**

***TGBL***: My father doesn’t really care for wrestling, you know, like, his favorite
moment ever going to wrestling with me was when Roddy Piper pulled down Rick
Rude’s pants in the cage; he thought that was hysterical. He was drinking
(laughing) and he thought it was the funniest thing ever, but he called me up
the other day and he’s like “Brian, I saw some wrestling on TV,” and I was like
“Oh really? What did you see, pop?” He said “I saw two things: one called ‘Roughhouse
Wrestling’ – and it’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen-“ and I said “Ok, well
what’s the other one?” He goes “Global Wrestling on ESPN?” I go “Oh yeah, sure,
that used to be on every day when I got home from school at 4 o’clock.” He goes
“Yeah, I watched Scott Putski?” “Yup, that’s Ivan Putski’s son” “And he teamed
with some guy – Luscious Gary?” “Probably, Gorgeous Gary Young, I would
assume,” and he said that their opponents were (laughing) – this can’t be right
– the “Slip House Boys”.

***Bix***: What?!

***TGBL***: He said “The Slip House Boys” – he thinks their names were “Son” and “Fun”
Who could he be possibly be thinking about?!

**0:04:41 - Follow-Ups on Funny Fan Moments**

***TGBL***: I had mentioned last week as part of the segment about Funny Fan Moments that I
remembered being in 1995 in Lenore, NC and there was a woman there with a
couple of children and she was chanting something along the lines of “Tra-cy,
Uc-y!” or something along those lines…actually, in one of the more stunning
revelations that have happened since we started doing this show, I don’t know
if the person wants his name out there – and quite frankly his twitter name
isn’t his real name anyway – but someone got in touch with us, and if you’re
listening out of respect for you I’m not saying who you are just in case. He
said “Yeah, that was my mom. We regularly went to shows in Lenore, NC, and she
couldn’t think of anything that rhymed with Tracy so she just made up the word
Ucey. And another thing – my dad was Ricky Morton’s connection.” Whatever you
think that may be, it probably is.

**0:20:04 – Larry Nelson’s exuberant groaning to the most racist match stipulation in wrestling history**

***TGBL***: This is extraordinary for a few reasons. One – Derrick Dukes doesn’t really
seem too worried about anything-

***Bix***: He’s nonplussed.

***TGBL***: Nonplussed to the max. The second is Larry Nelson absolutely seems like a
Slip House Boy here – he is reacting like I’ve never seen any announcer react EVER.
It’s a visual thing – we’re gonna play the audio because the audio is funny
enough – but visually when you see this, his eyes get wide at the high spot of
the interview, and he makes a groan that I’ve never heard an announcer ever
make in wrestling, but my favorite part may be- actually I won’t say anything.

***Bix***: He looks like he’s Vince McMahon looking at striations.

***TGBL***: This is Larry Nelson on the verge of orgasm.

***Bix***: …I hope not.

**0:33:15 - Unheralded "Mark-out" Moments**

***TGBL***:
I’ll give you another one – and I recognize there are major holes in the
booking, but still – at the time I loved it and in many ways I feel it’s the
epitome of Paul Heyman’s ECW before the first PPV in '97. It was supposed to be
Terry Funk against Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hughes gets jumped going to the ring by The
Bruise Brothers, Terry Funk doesn’t have an opponent, Paul E comes out and says
“I have someone you can fight – Sabu!” Before Sabu gets out there, Terry Funk
beats up Paul E, Sabu comes out; they have great match. Sabu has masked
handlers along with 9-1-1 around the ring, and after the match, one by one
Terry Funk beats them up and one of them finally gets the upper hand on Terry,
he beats up Terry, goes to the top rope, hits a top rope leg drop, pulls off
the mask, and it’s “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton and obviously the leg drop was the
Alabama Jam. The place in ECW goes nuts – they’re popping because it’s Bobby.
All of a sudden, out of no-where, Arn Anderson comes running in from the back;
now the place just goes completely apeshit, to the point where whoever was next
to the camera yells “HOLY SHIT! IT’S ARN ANDERSON!”

**0:49:15 - What If?**

**A) Shawn Michaels goes to WCW in early 1993 as rumored?**

**B) The Bruise Brothers (Porkchop Cash and Dream Machine Troy Graham) go to Mid-South as scheduled in early 1984?**

***Cornette***: You know, I don’t know if it’d got that far. I think that just because they
were big events and big shows that, you know, Watts wanted to bring some new
talent in and some different talent, and also, they were always looking for
either Tags or Singles – especially in the wake of JYD leaving – that would
appeal to the black audience in Mid-South, and definitely because, I’ll tell
you: Dream was blacker than Porkchop! So, I think they would have been a big
hit down there, and probably maybe have taken the spot that later on Norvell
Austin and Koko Ware had later on that year as the PYT’s. I don’t know if there
was a big angle or big program planned with us, but it probably would have
happened if both teams had been in the same territory at the same time, because
we did do a run with pretty much every team there. I gotta correct you – one
thing: it wasn’t a broken leg, it was a broken ankle. He was doing that
baseball slide spot out under the rope and his foot got caught on the ring
apron that was, you know, that has a cable that’s stretched tight from post to
post to keep the ring apron skirt on, and it got caught in that and just
snapped his ankle, and it was a bad break.

*- on whether or not The Bruise Brothers would have slotted in a feud with The Midnight Express during this time.*

**1:33:56 - Dennis Of The Week (with guest Dave Prazak)**

***Prazak***: But
anyway – when they came back down, (laughing) it was the weekend that Princess
Diana had passed away in the horrible car accident. I don’t know why – this
doesn’t really make any sense (laughing) if you really think about it – but,
hey, Princess Diana dies in England, so let’s – we have an independent
wrestling show in Louisville, KY, let’s do a 10-bell or a moment of silence for
Princess Diana before we start the show. Of course – why not? Because she took
so many bumps over the years and contributed so much to those Wrestlemania's.
Yeah. So, okay, we had a “moment of silence” and everybody stood up like – we
start the show, everyone stands up, takes off their hats and bows their heads
in a moment of silence for Princess Diana, and Dennis Coralluzzo had a live
microphone behind the curtain, and I couldn’t find this tape – the tape does
exist and I’ll try to dig it up so you guys can post something on YouTube – so
I may have the exact wording wrong but it was something along the lines of “Yo,
fuck that BITCH!” (laughing) and this booms across the sound system and
suddenly everyone’s booing as he makes his way to the ring (laughing) and he
says something along the lines of “they wouldn’t have crashed if she wasn’t
performing oral sex on the driver as they were driving,” and then proceeds to
go on his tirade about pro wrestling and IWA Mid-South. The moment will always
stay in anybody’s mind who was there that day, that everyone had a moment of
silence for Princess Diana and Dennis just interrupts it in the most obnoxious
way possible.

. . .

Another thing that popped me that I mixed together with that
first appearance and the second was, there was this whole section of the
bleachers at the IWA shows that consisted of either just plain old rats, or the
girlfriends of the wrestlers on the shows. It was very much a community like
that; much like most territories. If you knew who all the wrestlers were, there
were probably the same girls around every show too, so there was a whole rat
section in the bleachers. On the first show – I watched this before we recorded
– Dennis and Marc are cutting the promo on Ian and Les Thatcher and everything
and then they start talking about the fans, and then they start singling out
the rats and they explain what a rat is “hangs around wrestling just to have
sex with the wrestlers and spread disease! All you girls right over here are
nothing but a bunch of rats! So you know what? Here’s some cheese!” and he digs
into a bag and starts throwing hunks of cheese into the bleachers which they
catch and start throwing back at Dennis and Marc and Gino Moore inside the
ring. I thought that was great – throwing cheese at the rats!

*- on Dennis and Marc Coralluzzo's "NWA Invasion" of IWA Mid-South in 1997.*