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Barbecue Is Overrated and the Von Erich Wrestling Family

from Episode 149 - Ron Bennington (Live from Moontower) · #149

2 min

Tim declares barbecue overrated, likening it to eating a log while crouched like a raccoon, then Ron and Tim discuss Florida drug stories, meth with alligators, and the tragic Von Erich wrestling family legacy.

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  • Tim describes barbecue as eating a log that makes you sweat and burp mesquite for hours.
  • You wait seven hours for a pit master, then eat it crouched by a garbage can in a field while everyone insists it's the best thing you'll ever have.
  • The barbecue experience just turned him vegan—now he'll eat small salads and go back to doing coke.
  • Tim smoked meth with alligators in Florida because there are no laws there.
  • His drug dealer in Tampa was Dusty Rhodes, the professional wrestler.
  • The Von Erich family was the royalty of Texas wrestling until Vince took them in, named one the Texas Tornado, and killed him.
  • Tim saw the Von Erich wrestler in Madison Square Garden as a kid in one of his last matches before he died.
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Von Erich familyVince McMahonDusty Rhodes

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