Episode 17 - Papucho

### Episode Etymology

The name of an outrageous idea pitched by Antonio Pena to John Arezzi, in which he'd be on TV dressed in a cupid sash with a bow and arrow and a diaper.

## Timestamps

**0:02:25 - Follow-Ups (Sue the Shooter, Buzz Sawyer)**

**0:10:00 - Mispronounced / Misspoken Wrestling Promos (Mel Phillips, Nikita Koloff speaking garbled Russian, Demolition Blast)**

***TGBL***: (laughing) Now, after he says “junk”, he goes to get his cards – because he
remembers ‘junk’ but he can’t remember ‘yard dog’. That is just embarrassing!
(laughing) How do you forget the name of the Junkyard Dog?!

***Bix***: Uhhh….Any joke I could make would be too inappropriate.

***TGBL***: Then you should definitely make it.

***Bix***: No.

*- a discussion of an infamous Mel Phillips ring announcing botch of forgetting the Junk Yard Dog's name, trailing his name off out of confusion.*

**0:25:11 - Celebrating Lance Russell's greatest moments on his 90th birthday.**

**0:51:56 - Stan Hansen going into the WWE Hall of Fame**

***TGBL***: Terry
Funk called him up one day – he was upset. Him and Hogan one day were hanging
out in New Japan and all of a sudden, Abdullah the Butcher walks in with a
bunch of press, and they’re like “what the hell” because Abdullah was the top
heel for Baba, and they’re thinking “okay if Abby’s here now, one of us is
going to be lost in the shuffle,” because Abby’s not coming here to be 3rd
or 4th in line because Andre was there too. So they’re both a little
peeved, and then a few months later – or maybe even less than that – Terry Funk
calls him up randomly and it was the first time he’d talked to Terry in a
while, and he said “listen, would you be interested in talking to Baba?” and
Stan said “Look, I’d talk to him, but you should know I’m very happy with New
Japan, they treat me good, I’m not looking at leaving,” and Terry said “Just
talk to him.” Stan said “I’ll do it under one condition – complete secrecy. We
need a location we can meet – I don’t want anyone knowing about it except me,
you, and Baba.” So they agree in June, Stan Hansen had a family reunion and he
agreed to meet with Terry and Baba at the – I think the Marriott – at the
Dallas airport because he was going to be there. So Terry Funk’s running late
because he’s at the funeral of Stanley Blackburn’s son – I think Ray Blackburn
– and Hansen gets there and in the meeting is Baba, Mrs. Baba, and an executive
from NTV and he was shocked that Baba spoke perfect English, and he said
usually Baba liked to have a Joe Higuchi as his translator, but Baba didn’t
need him – Baba spoke perfect English.

*- on Stan Hansen wanting to jump from NJPW to AJPW in the early 1980's.*

**1:13:03 - Ron Skoler (Part 1)**

***Ron***: Anyways– so Pena came up with an idea to create a Lucha Libre wrestler named Papucho.
Papucho is like – it’s like a slang term, I don’t think it’s an actual word; it
means something like “Cutie-Pie,” Adorable One. He was going to put Arezzi in a
3-way as a tag team – 6 man tag team matches, primarily. He was going to team
him with Latin Lover and somebody else, like two of the best looking guys
there, and then Papucho was going to come out dressed like Cupid. That was the
idea. It would have been a great idea, and John was considering it, but he felt
that it was going to take too much of a toll on him physically, so he wasn’t
really – he never really pursued it. That was Pena’s idea – I like John Arezzi,
you know; I miss him. He was always nice to me and stuff, and kind of helped me
get back into this world; he was my contact. Papucho would have been a real,
real, interesting concept – I would have loved to have seen that happen; at
least one match.

*- on Antonio Pena's desire to create a wrestling character for John Arezzi: Papucho.*

**2:00:39 - Dennis Of The Week (with guest Donnie B - Part 2)**

***Donnie***: But
the one night, it’s gotta be 3 o’ clock in the morning and my phone’s ringing
and I had the old flip-phone, cell phone, piece of shit. I’m looking at it and
the screen was cracked and I can’t read the number and I’m like “Who the fuck
is calling me at 3 o’clock in the morning?” So I open the phone – “Hello?” “Hey
dude, what are you doing?” and I’m like “What’s up, Dennis?” and a good friend
of mine, his name is Chris and Chris had long hair at the time and a full black
beard; the whole bit. Dennis says to me “Hey man, what’s your friend Chris up
to?” and I’m like “he’s an accountant.” “Listen, you think we can get him on
some shows?” and this is 3 o’clock in the morning and I said “for what? He’s
not a worker.” “Well listen man, I had this great idea – he has long hair and a
beard. We’ll put him out there in a white robe and he can come to the ring and
we can put on the posters “Appearing tonight – J.C.”” meaning Jesus Christ. And
I go “What the fuck is J.C.?” “Oh – Jesus Christ! But we won’t get any heat
from the fucking Catholics, so we won’t put the name Jesus Christ on there,
we’ll put his initials,” and I’m like “Wait a minute – are we saying that he’s
Jesus?” He goes, “No no no – in his mind, he thinks he’s Jesus, so we’ll make a
ton of money off of that,” and I said “Goodnight Dennis” and hung up on him and
then we never spoke about it again.

*- on his relationship with Dennis, in which Dennis would call at inopportune hours of the night and pitch ideas for upcoming shows with Donnie.*