A Guy Named Tracy

I’m posting this excerpt from a Shane Taylor interview to hopefully put the Ray Rowe/possible white supremicst to rest. DailyDDT: You trained with Ring of Honor Alumni Raymond Rowe. Who we all know from one half of the tag team War Machine, now War Raiders in NXT. What was it like to have him as a trainer, and work alongside Rowe and Hanson? Taylor: It was incredible! Ray is one of the best men I’ve ever known in my life. Just about any story involving my career, it’s going to have the name Ray Rowe mentioned in it. He’s always been a great mentor, teacher, rival, friend, big brother and the lessons I’ve learned from him and continue to learn in and out of the ring, continue to help me grow as a performer, and as a man, his role in my career is invaluable.

Didn’t Dash Wilder tweet something about wrestling the Young Bucks in 2019? The Revival managed by Jim Cornette would easily be the #1 heel act in AEW.

Don’t forget about him confronting Mike Graham and Brian Pillman with a squeegee.

The BME should be a corner grapple. It looks strange starting from the 2nd rope facing the downed opponent.

There is no law in Butcher Creek. I was walking through town and one of their goats rammed me and knocked me down. In return, I kicked it. I suddenly have 10 angry hillbillies shooting at me. I took care of that group and went back into town. I started an argument, and I had another posse of hillbillies shooting at me. After about 30 minutes, I had killed about 60 residents. No bounties during the entire bloodbath. The best part, I didn’t earn a single penny while looting. No belt buckles, rings, pocket watches, nothing. They only thing I was able to loot were herbs like currant and violet snowdrop.

Agreed. I haven’t touched it since RDR2 came out. I should have just waited.

This week’s Red Dead Redemption 2 episode hit way too close to home.

Finally started the fishing mission. I couldn’t understand all of the love for the fishing mechanics. I spent a legit 20 minutes trying to reel in the first fish I hooked on the mission with Jack. I couldn’t bring the fish in no matter how long I wound the reel. THEN I finally realized I was spinning the control stick the wrong way the entire time.

You can cheat the system on some of the submission only matches in the current weekly tower by getting falls via countout. (The weekly theme is iron man matches.) It’s not until match #9 (Cena) that countouts are turned off.

Colt recently had The Kingdom on the podcast. Matt Taven talked about an incident where he accidentally moonsaulted onto George “The Animal” Steele. Colt previously used that clip in his live comedy show, and it generated heat between Colt and Taven. I tracked down the clip. How have I not seen this until now??

I wonder if Chicken regrets referring to himself as a white Bill Cosby.

Jenny Kickpads??

I can’t recommend Ron Fuller’s Studcast enough. He is such a great storyteller. His cadence, delivery, etc. It really reminds me of listening to my late grandfather tell stories about the old days. The difference is my grandpa would tell stories about farming, and Ron talks about wrestling. I knew nothing of Continental or Southeastern except the Top 10 lists in the old Apter mags. You really get to know these characters based on the way Ron tells stories. If you want to check out just a few episodes, give the Bahamas episodes a listen. There are three of them. They are fantastic.

Is that Brian Milonas next to the guy in the LaSalle University shirt?

A friend of mine lives on a farm in the country. She has a long, paved driveway leading to her home. The Township where she lives forced her to name her driveway, and therefore change her address. She ended up naming her new “road” after a family member. That got got me thinking. It’s not every day that you get to name a road. I was thinking what I would choose as my new address if I was in a similar situation. Dusty Road was my first thought, but then I came up with a keeper. I’d love to say that I live on Ravishing Rick Road.