 The Michael K Show 98-7 ESPN and yes and while Michael is finishing up his duties with the Yankees Nationals game By the way, John Carlos Stanton has put one of the bullpennets 5-4 Nationals. We'll get Michael in a while But listen you leave me at the helm. You know what I'm gonna do Bring on someone amazing like the 16-time world champion the two-time Hall of Famer Maybe the greatest to ever lace up a pair of boots Proud to call him a friend the nature boy Rick flair Rick. How are you? Great, man. How are you Peter? I am doing well. I was I was obviously Super bum to hear the news about Terry funk yesterday and much like you. I just feel he's someone who deserves his time He's the kind of guy who could get overlooked by the mainstream But man Rick he's one of the absolute greatest to ever do it And I just wanted to give you a moment to share some of your thoughts on the late great Terry funk Well, you know everybody got mad Not mad at me, but I'm not I shouldn't say that nobody got mad but people I knew I pointed it out last night and to ESPN and when we put it we said that you know, it's It's just to me. It's like a Lack of respect. I wasn't Slingling out football players or baseball players or whatever, but it's just if they always are not always But it seems like you always want to talk about the negative things That makes sense. I mean, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then and then when you lose someone like who's a legend like this I understood you point you like hey, let's take a minute to celebrate someone Yeah, and in our world in our world, it's You know, he's Mickey Mantle, you know, doesn't make sense. Oh, yeah, yeah, he would that's a calculator I played the decision video I played today. Yeah Yeah, which one when you posted the forever one No, they're not a combination of stuff, but it's uh So all of our I quit matches and we had some classic bad We went to war. I used to hit him to them It was a war. It was a real The blade either was I What which one which one stands out the most is wrestle war 89 what you think of the most like what what is your main memory? when you think of you and Terry funk, I it's a tie between rest of war and The I quit match. I don't know. They're both a damn good. I look back out of down. I go You know, nobody was doing moon salt. It's he put man It was a war we were slugging it out and He enjoyed it too. I mean I get people now which they got damn you guys are still But also, can you tell me this if people don't know The the spot that you guys did back in 89 where he pile drives you through a table That was not a thing and the table didn't break. Yeah, it wasn't through you're right I was very almost broke my neck So did you I said, what are you gonna do it? What's the physics? What's the exact they call physical and I said, what are you gonna do with me? So I just trust me so he threw me out in the floor Went over and cleaned up the table. Oh god, here we go again And he threw me up with a ball. He said oh just hang on. I got you. I go That's the rest of what we can do and blew me dropped on his ass In the table did not break. He almost broke my neck and that's the idea It was oh my god. I couldn't turn my head for a week Now can you can you tell me just quickly like I I never knew I never got to know the man Oh, I know I mean that's someone called up yesterday and asked me, you know Where he stands in terms of the most hardcore. I said well, he's the king of it I mean, there is no Mick Foley as as Mick would tell you any moment. He gets there. There is no Mick Foley without Terry funk. There's no Sabbath. There's none of these guys could have existed without Terry funk Yeah, and the the thing that people have forgot Is when you're not that character in 89 was completely different Um Was completely different than um The Terry funk that was the world champion. Does that make sense? Yeah, of course Terry funk the world champion There's more regular tights than where the long boys. It's like it's like he had two different careers And uh, I mean that's what I learned on his job Because I was watching Terry funk will work one night and somebody had his arm right and he started shopping The guy was right here with his left hand And I said dad that looks that looks pretty cool. And that's basically where I learned that from Terry. I mean there was so much to learn He could make you laugh I don't know if you'd be watching me do today that one day, but it's not really hard If he turns around in a circle And walks right back and do another one I looked at He cracked me up in the ring. You just walk over the fault Oh And rick was he was he was he is lovely a guy as he seemed to be because I didn't know I only saw beyond the mat and he just seemed like the most lovely man Oh my god, the press we had more fun. I mean traveling up the dollar over there a lot I'll give you a classic classic story And he'll we won't mind me telling him So I lived in Charlotte at the time He's the world champion Greg Valentine are the world tag team champions And Jimmy Crockett's the holder, right? so We bought a bottle of uber clear and one of australian people fostered leger beer, right? so We were chugging both right and boundine had that long hair And Let his hair on fire And you get it out. We drive there five miles and he laid his hair on fire And We can't we stopped at a stop like it's late at night. No cars or anything. I don't maybe a few He gets out of the car Picks up all those the puts on the world belt and he stood out in the middle of the road like he was wrecked in traffic It wasn't traffic Valentine to turn left so Well, I took him back to my house with me and my my wife was gone Leslie and So I had a pit bull and half pit bull half bull massive Was really It was really it's really good with the family, but it wasn't good with strange people there, right? No strange man. Sure They jumped over the privacy fence and he bites terry in the house The terry goes into my house Takes it and he's got his clothes off, right? He puts a knife with his teeth like he's a pirate, right? And he's crawling up in the backyard But then they get said And my wife watching the door with her girlfriend and I'm passed out on the kitchen floor if not ever clear will kill you, right? and She goes oh my god This is my uh, oh, I put the baby sir Was with me getting in a bedroom. I wasn't me. It was not alone and uh This that's my husband unfortunately and that's that's the world champion Crawling around in the backyard with a knife in his mouth Yeah, yeah, so she took all my clothes threw him out in the front yard to me and terry picked up My clothes threw him in the trunk of my old lotto And I don't even remember driving to the downtowner. I woke up in the morning And this is the way the world's you hadn't been traveled. I mean, this is this was an average day Or you even like meeting the whole day Me I I thought it was even worse But I woke up in the morning. I didn't know where it was. I couldn't remember any of it and funks it on a plane to an undercount Wow, I mean listen there are a lot of things in that story that are surprising You getting your throws your your clothes getting thrown on the lawn by a woman not surprising Terry funk on on all fours with the knife in his mouth. Oh, that is something That wasn't the first time I know nor was it the last Nates They make me laugh. These are the kind of things that terry like I just love riding with him I bet I asked him at five times a day. They call me a world champion They call me a world champion. I mean I I drove him nuts He said, yeah, I'm gonna be your time kid. It'll be your time kid Stocking to be like you'll be five years older than me Yeah, 70 79 years old when we lost him rick. Thank you. I just wanted to pop you on for a few minutes Yeah, I'll be 75 man. Uh, no, I'm sorry. So Yeah, I don't think I will think about that. I'm gonna do one right rick You got to have you got to have a something I I hope you do with something and I want an invitation to a 75th birthday party for the nature boy Oh, I'm gonna have you you get it. I'll throw my own I'm throwing my own party Nates, you got to do it. We celebrate you every day. Thanks for jumping on with us. We appreciate you Uh, take too much respect to you sir. Okay Always rick. Take care All right, there he is the nature boy rick flair. And listen, I know there's some people I'm gonna be real with you guys I know there's some people who are very confused They went why did we just hear a story about a man crawling on all four on all fours in the backyard with a knife in his teeth And I understand you didn't get it But I'm gonna explain to you that trust me when it's all said and done getting to get stories like that from someone Like rick flair uh to talk about someone like terry funk is a cultural moment that must happen And I'm proud to be the conduit of that moment