Crime in Sports - #43 - A Murderous Gentleman - The Selfishness Of Chris Adams

Episode Date: November 21, 2016

This week, we are bursting with crime, madness, general mayhem, as we discuss a man that couldn't help but give in to his demons. No good time was good enough for him to not end in violence. His crimes were almost always fueled by alcohol, and drugs, and their severity only got worse with his appetites. Let's just say that he didn't quite live up to his nickname of "Gentleman". He went from a promising life, at the top of his profession, to the depths of darkness, and depravity. So far, that not even his proper English accent could save him. You know, the kind of person we like to cover! Climb up to the top rope, drink until you don't remember your name, then attack the nearest human being with "Gentleman" Chris Adams!! Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman New episodes every Tuesday!!Please subscribe, rate, and review!Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!Head to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Crime in Sports!For merchandise: crimeinsports.threadless.comCheck out James and Jimmie's other show: Small Town Murder Follow us on social media!Facebook: facebook.com/crimeinsportsInstagram: instagram.com/smalltownmurderTwitter: twitter.com/MurderSmall Contact the show: [e-mail] on Patreon: patreon.com/crimeinsportsPayPal: paypal.me/crimeinsports See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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of a human hey what a terrible man he was a bad person surprising surprising I mean that's what we do it's odd that we would

cover a bad person but he was more than murderers I got like a thing where and a lot of people were like I don't like him

like people were very responsive like murderers are not that responsive anything else violent people, they're like, you know,

that guy was a scumbag. He was pretty funny. That guy, they're like, I don't like him. Right. It's a given you're going to hate a murderer. You're going to hate a rapist.

Yeah. But a guy that does that kind of financial robbery, theft, he's completely ruining people's lives. Ponzi schemes.

You're supposed to hate him, too. Yes. And we want you to know that that's why we're covering him, too. Because he's just as much of a scumbag. He's somebody that killed somebody because he ruined lives. He ruined hundreds

of them. That's the thing. Hundreds. You could fill a large big comedy club with the people probably for a whole night. Maybe a nice weekend. That's good. He can draw, Erksel Haven. He can draw with people that he draws. Do you hate him? Show up.

Good God. Excuse us if both of our voices are a little raspy. I just got done That's good. He can draw, Erk Slaven. He can draw with people that he draws. Do you hate him? Show up. Show on up. Good God. Excuse us if both of our voices are a little raspy. I just got done with six shows, and Jimmy just got done with one. But I did one sold-out show with the Hodge twins. They're on YouTube. They fucking sold out the club. Good for them, man. Good for them.

Packed it out. It was insane. I just had six shows with Pablo Francisco at the Tempe Improv, and I'm ready to die. So we just got done with that. Honestly, the only thing that could keep me from falling over right now from this exhaustion is the fact that this story is so awesome. It's just driving adrenaline through my veins. 20 minutes ago, I called James as I was leaving the club, and he goes, you're just leaving

now? Like, angrily. Come on. This is insane. And now he's excited again do you understand what we have for you tonight we have chris adams yes chris adams christopher adams let's get started here i love it born february 10th 1955 oh he's an old man and yeah now well he yeah well we'll find out what he is exactly uh he was born in warwickshire

england he's a very proper English boy. Oh, yes. He's very proper, yes, indeed. Proper indeed. That's your talent. You sound like a bad Beatles intimidation, impersonation. I'm a Beatles intimidator. It's like an impersonation of a Beatles impersonation.

It's like an impersonation squared. I don't even know what the hell that is. That's great. It's a pretty terrible ring. Is it Ringo that talked like that? It was Paul. I think you're doing Paul the hell that is. That's great. Pretty terrible Ringo. Is it Ringo that's talking like that? Or is it Paul? I think you're doing Paul. Yeah, I think it was. I think that they all are imitated pretty similarly, I'd imagine. They're all on the

Muppets. Exactly. But Chris is a nice English boy. His parents, oh my god. From where? From Warwickshire. Oh. Warwickshire. Yes, indeed. Is where he was born. Warwickshire. Warwick sounds like nothing. It sounds like somewhere in Connecticut or something. But you add the shire. Yes, indeed. Is where he was born. It's a very proper Warwick Shire. Warwick sounds like nothing. It sounds like somewhere in

Connecticut or something, but you add the Shire. Now it's sounding like something. Now you've got some Victorian homes. Sounds like a fucking dessert was invented there at that point, doesn't it? Like, oh, that's the Warwick Shire Fluffer. I like that one. That's delicious. They invented Ready Whip. They invented Ready Whip. Wonderful.

Chris, as a child, very athletic child, he starts out with, he does everything. He does cricket, rugby, all sorts of, all your English sports, basically. Everything English. Everything English. He boils meats at a young age. He's a very. So gross. He's a very, very proper Englishman.

That's the most disgusting thought on earth. And we love you, UK. Boiled ham. What the fuck are you boiling meat for? Why are you boiling it? Why? Stop. God damn it.

Sear that flavor in. We're wrong with you. Sear, sear. Bring a frying pan over there. Sear or fry. Is it going to dip it in some shit? Just not water.

Broil it, bake it. There's about eight different cooking methods you can do that are going to be better than boiling it. You guys are like, just throw it on there. It's fine.

Throw it in the water. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Ringo. Okay. So at age... I'm having so much fun. This is already good. God, this story's crazy. I can't wait to get into it. This is one of those. Chris started out doing judo at age nine. Him and his brother, his brother Neil. He's a fighter. He is a fighter. Everywhere in his life he's a fighter. It's ridiculous. His trigger is alcohol and his method is fighting. And drugs. He's a mess. Let's not pigeonhole the guy to just alcohol. He is also a drug addict. Anything that's mood altering and encourages fist throwing, he's in. Catch these hands, girl.

He starts judo at age nine with his brother Neil, and his brother Neil's three and a half years younger than him. They both started out at the same exact time. They ended up both when Chris was twelve and Neil was nine, they both won national judo championships in their respective weight classes.

So they're both really good. Their father was a judo guy, so they got it from him. So this, Neil ends up winning later on, his brother Neil is going to end up winning two Olympic silver medals in the 80 and 84 games for the UK in judo. And so he's a bad guy. He's a bad dude, his brother. And Chris was too.

Chris had Olympic trials in 76 and kind of hung around the team. Didn't actually compete, but had trials and that sort of thing. He was a three-time British national judo champ, though, Chris was. So this is a bad dude we're talking about. Yeah, he's not a pushover. No. He ends up being a professional wrestler, which we'll talk about. But he's legit, basically. He's not a guy that goes he's

not an actor that's going in there and going through the motions this is a guy that could kick your ass for real and he doesn't look like it too he's a very very handsome extremely handsome well-spoken man when he starts wrestling his nickname is gentleman he's gentleman chris adams that's not much of a fighter and he's got got his Union Jack gear on and his gentleman, a proper English accent and the girls are screaming. And a jacket and a pipe. And a pipe. Yeah, he comes out in a pipe

with patches on the elbows and he solves a murder. So that's what he does. His parents, Jean and Cyril, are the just prototypical, stereotypical, proper, nice English parents. Very supportive.

Oh, Chris was very nice at a young age. And they're just very supportive. And they're the sweetest people in the world. I love it. I got to see them. There's some footage of them. I found a documentary called Gentleman's Choice. It's about Chris Adams and his life.

Good title. It was nice. I got some good quotes out of that. You know, just some supplemental stuff. I got to see... Supplemental. I got to put faces to names and to quotes

which is good because I, you know, I'd researched it out otherwise and then I got to see these people and they are sweet, nice people, Gene and Cyril.

I feel for them. Her name is Cyril? I believe his name is probably Cyril and her name is probably Gene. Oh, gotcha. It's so interchangeable. It kind of is.

It's kind of a weird... Yeah. Quit boiling your meats and name your people fucking names that we can understand which sex they are at this point.

Stuff with your unisex names. Yeah. A bunch of theys. Neil says about Chris when he was competing, Chris is a very competitive guy. When he puts his mind to something,

he wants to do it and he's got his mind set to it and he's not taking no for an answer. Neil says about him, quote, he absolutely hated it something, he wants to do it, and he's got his mind set to it, and he's not taking no for an answer. Neil says about him, quote, he absolutely hated it that sometimes he wouldn't win it, and sometimes he wasn't the best. He's like, Chris couldn't handle that. He can't not being the best. He wants to be the best at all times, which is fine.

He studies architecture. He's smart, too. In the mid-70s. Oh, he's a smart guy. He studies architecture in the mid-70s. He was actually working in the architecture field for the local government while he was going to school and doing it yeah this is you know this is how he started out so he started out a proper nice english boy from

a dessert town yep you know from a dessert town with a spot of tea with with national judo championships and nice parents named gene and cyril And he's going to be an architect. And he's working for the local government. Heads up, it's going to go bad. And then in 1978, here comes the turn. I love it. He decides out of the blue, out of nowhere. He's always been a fan.

But he just decides out of nowhere that he's going to be a wrestler. Tells his parents, I'm going to be a wrestler. That's it. He's worked it out. It's my choice. He's already talked to people. He's already got in it. And he said they needed to watch TV next week because he's going to be on, by the way.

Wow. And so they were like, okay. I'm going to be a wrestler and I'm already on TV. And I'm going to be on TV next week. Amazing. And the parents were like, and he was on TV next week. Like, look at that. Like, wow.

You know, they said that's just what he did. They said if he put his mind to something, there was no stopping him, basically. He was just doing it. The way one of his friends in the thing said, in the documentary said, you know, when he put his mind to something, he was going to doing it. The way one of his friends in the documentary said, when he put his mind to something, he was going to do it. Whether anybody told him anything or not, he certainly wouldn't listen to reason. He said it like, you know. Sounds like a comedian.

That wasn't going to happen. I swear to God, doing research now, this is the third wrestler we've done. The lives of wrestlers and comedians are so similar. It's unreal. They go around. They're full of shit. There's no money at the top. They're doing the same thing over and over.

Seriously, they do the same match over and over again around the country. There's only money at the top. Everybody else is star. It's the exact same thing, and they have the exact same hang-ups and fuck-ups. It's a weird deal. They date shitty women. They date shitty women. They date shitty women. They do drugs.

It's alcohol. It's a disaster. Wild. It is. Now, Neil said, his brother, who's been competing with him in judo for years, said that it was strange at first to see him wrestling because it was hard for Chris to adjust to a fake competition from judo.

Because judo's for real. Really fighting. Yeah, really fighting in the national championship for judo. Yeah. Because judo's for real. Really fighting. Yeah, really fighting in the national championship for judo. Someone's trying to kick your ass. You've got to reason and goal. Yeah, it's a difficult thing. But he was on, right away, the World of Sport television show in the UK.

There's no ass. There's World of Sport. Like in America's wild world. Wild, wild, wild. Wide world of sports. There it is. Yeah, no, this was, the World of Sport was a wrestling program. That was their wrestling thing, was the World of Sports. There it is. Yeah. No, this was, the World of Sport was a wrestling program.

That was their wrestling thing, was the World of Sport. It wasn't a sports show. It was only a wrestling show. That's interesting to me that in England they call it sport. One like sports. Because there's only one. There's only one, yeah. Rugby.

Well, rugby or cricket or soccer. I guess there's three. Stop with your just making it one thing. Ah, you bastards. So, he meets a girl named Jeannie after a wrestling show. And this is going to be his eventual wife. And she's going to come back in the public eye a little bit later on, too. Because we'll get into her.

But he meets Jeannie at a bar. And she's nice. Good place to meet women. It's right after the show. She's saying exactly. That's where they are sometimes. They tend to be there. They had a wrestling show. One of her girlfriends dragged her to it she was a wrestling fan and they

got in there and uh they were hanging out at the bar afterwards and chris came over and chris really took the genie and gave him gave her his phone number and and you know begged for hers properly and took it oh yeah this is a very proper she was a proper nice english girl like a gentleman exactly he's gonna be a gentleman for a little while. And then he won't be. Okay. And then it's going to be a mess. And then he won't be.

He has one of the craziest crimes we've ever heard. Remember Ayan Krotoru blowing up the police station? We have something that's even stupider on this. It's amazing. You can't commit crime in an enclosed tube and expect to get away with it. Let's just say that for foreshadowing. So, anyway, he calls Jeannie.

He gets her phone number, calls her many, many times. Like, her mother finally says, like, will you call this guy back, please? He's driving me crazy. Yeah, I'm talking to him. You're not.

Please talk to him. I've gotten to know all about Jeannie and Cyril and I'm tired of it. His brother's going to be in the Olympics, you know. Yeah, get me a great recipe for boiling ham.

Now, Neil, his brother, said about wrestling and Chris's involvement in it, quote, Chris loved the adulation, loved the fact that he was on television. If he put his mind to something, he was going to make it. That's what everybody thought of him. So everybody had full confidence in Chris as a guy who could get shit done. He moves up the ranks very quickly. Within two to three years, he's a main eventer over there. So that's like, you know, he's become a headliner, basically. And he's, you know, he's in the big matches with the most famous wrestlers that have been

around for a while. And it's pretty interesting for him. It's a quick come up in wrestling, honestly. Most of the guys don't come up that quick. But if you're handsome and you're well spoken and you're athletic and a gentleman, you're going to advance. You've got time. And he keeps advancing. June 1981, he travels to Japan. Wow. He travels to Japan.

The big wrestling scene in Japan over there. Huge. Can you imagine getting a passport for your job? That sounds awesome. And wrestling is a real sport in Japan, too. They take that shit seriously. They have sumo. They have baseball. They have wrestling. Those are their sports. That's awesome. And wrestling is a real sport in Japan, too. They take that shit seriously. They have sumo. They have baseball.

They have wrestling. Those are their sports. That's it. That's what they're into. He works for New Japan Pro Wrestling over there. It's a big organization. Loses to some famous guys like Fujinami and Stan Hansen, which anybody who's a wrestling fan knows those guys.

Stan Hansen is an interesting character. I wish he committed crime because I'd love to do a story on him. He would go through the Japanese crowd. In Japan, you can't sue people for shit. Like if somebody punches you, you can't sue them for it. Stuff like that. Oh, I love that here. Oh, that would be great. So the wrestlers in Japan go after the crowd and the crowd has to run away or they're getting knocked over and no one can sue. Wow. Stan Hansen's a big, crazy cowboy guy that would have a thick, thick rope and at the end of it a giant cowbell and he'd be swinging it around in the crowd

scattering Japanese people like ants. Unbelievable. Run like he was Godzilla. Like cowboy Godzilla. Gone, yeah. He's swinging the thing. It's funny. It's tough to see some Japanese footage, but Tony Walsh was a British wrestler that helped Chris. Trained Chris. You know, Chris called him Dad, the guy said, Tony Walsh. a British wrestler that helped Chris, trained Chris.

You know, Chris called him Dad, the guy said, Tony Walsh. So Chris called him Dad because he was so much older than him and he trained him. It says he trained Chris in his backyard on his grass, basically had a wrestle and got him into the business. And Chris, at this point, decides that he needs to go to America, obviously, because that's kind of where the big money is in wrestling, especially in the early 80s, because this is the cusp of the wrestling boom. There was a big wrestling boom in 84, 85, 86. Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper was on MTV, WrestleMania.

That's when WrestleMania started. Big deal. So he came right before that. Good timing for him for a career. Tony Walsh says of the move, quote, I was very sad when Chris went off to America. I have a lot of regrets about Chris going to America

because every one of my friends who's gone to America in my profession has come back in a box in a wheelchair or a drug addict awesome so basically America is poison

America is poison and let's see if we can get the trifecta this time what do you say let's look let's see what we can pull off here see if we can get the trifecta of British wrestlers going to America with this fella. He bounces around the U.S. for about a year, 82-ish. He bounces around, works some independent shows and things like that in smaller federations.

1983, he lands in world-class wrestling. World-class is WCCW. They were a very big deal. They're based out of Dallas, Texas. Back then, they were one of the first shows to do a syndicated show everywhere so they were all over the world so if you were a star in world-class wrestling you were a star everywhere all over the world yeah these guys went on tours all over the all over the planet I mean everywhere all over the U.S. and back then this was when wrestling was regional so if you were a star in you know North Carolina you were a star in North

Carolina and people in New York didn't know who the fuck you were. And vice versa. Whereas here, these guys were becoming national stars and one of the first to do it, really. And then the Hulk Hogan's came later and WWF, that sort of thing. But Chris, everybody liked him. He's in Texas, this proper English boy. So the girls loved him because they'd never seen anything like him, I'm sure. I don't think there's a lot of him running around Dallas from dessert towns.

I don't think that's happening. There's a lot of manly men in Houston and Dallas. Absolutely. He gets in. Now, it's so funny. You can't mention Dallas and you can't mention world-class wrestling and Chris Adams without getting into the story of an even bigger tragedy here, the Von Eriks.

Now, if anybody's ever heard of the Von Eriks, they're a huge wrestling family. They ran this Dallas territory, world-class wrestling. Fritz Von Eriks came over after, or not came over, he's from here, but after World War II, he started wrestling in the 50s, and his real name's Atkinson, but he called himself Fritz Von Eriks and played a Nazi sympathizer. Oh my God.

A gimmick. That was his gimmick. Oh my God. And they would do that back in the 50s. There was Nazi sympathizer gimmicks. And then there was Japanese guys. And the Japanese guys were all sneaky. That's all of them were, that was their thing. They were all sneaky and they'd throw salt in your eyes or spit green shit in your face. That's awesome. That was the Japanese guys. Like, you're sneaky and you're, the Germans would have their chest pumped out and all that shit with a handlebar mustache and absolutely and now fritz

has three as if not more than three but three star sons uh that are wrestlers and they dominate this territory as the good guys basically there's carrie kevin and david those are the big ones and then there's later on mike and chris and they bring a fucking cousin in named lance or some horse shit but anyway it wasn't even their cousin but they did that's that's what's great thing about wrestling like he's your cousin now give him your last name and introduce him to the people it's the weirdest sport in the world so anyway these guys turn out to be the most tragic figures in the history of wrestling there was at one point five brothers I want to say there was Kerry, Kevin, David, point five brothers i want to say there was kerry kevin david uh chris and mike and there ends up right now currently there is one von eric brother still alive and none of them have been alive

besides him for 23 years so they died early drugs and booze suicide wow two of them suicide i think possibly i think three of them suicide kerry Chris, and Mike might have been all suicides. And then David died of some weird intestinal thing in Japan. They don't know if it's drugs or intestinal shit or something. Eating their fucking food. Yeah, who knows. But he had some issue over there. So you have to get into the

Von Eriks because they're the stars over there. And Chris attaches and becomes part of their group that they push out to the people. Gotcha. So he is automatically a huge star, a huge good guy. Women's screaming when he's introduced. It's ridiculous. So he goes with that for a little while, has a lot of success there. But then he realizes that he is never going to get anywhere if he's in these guys' shadows.

Yeah. Right? So he's got to become a bad guy. Oh, no. And this fits his personality much better. Because he's going to start fucking up real soon here. But this fits his personality. In 1984 or so here, early 84,

he takes on a manager named Gary Hart, who's one of the bad guy managers, so that makes him an instant bad guy. And he kind of turns on the Von Eriks, ends up in one match hitting Kerry Von Eric in the head with a steel chair and splitting his head open. Awesome. And then everybody hated him forever then.

They wanted to kill him from then on. That's kick-ass. So then he's this good-looking, well-spoken Englishman that's telling the crowd to go fuck themselves in so many words, which is hilarious, and I think one of the best gimmicks ever. Yes. It was terrific back then. And here's an in-their-own own words on turning into a bad guy here.

In their own words from Chris Adams, quote, when that first happened it was like, oh my God, what have I done? But after a few weeks

I really got into it. I really enjoyed it. I manipulated the crowd. It was a lot of fun. It really got me over and got me a lot more notoriety than if I had stayed with them. So yeah,

he realizes that this is great. It's better to be hated at this point. Absolutely. So he has some big matches with big people. September 3rd, 1984 he wins the world class television title, which is a belt championship from Jake the Snake Roberts, who

even if you don't know wrestling, you've heard of Jake the Snake Roberts, I'm sure. December 20th, 1984, things are going so well. What do you do when things are going so well? You party. when things are going so well you party you get married Jimmy Jimmy

crime and sports rule oh Jesus it's like number 14 things are going well for you or things are

going badly what do you do get married I can't believe this this is going to be his second wife he's already

married and divorced Jeannie by the way that's over with she still sticks around the wrestling business with Jeannie with Jeannie they do not yes they do have kids yes they have one child with genie yes because he ends up getting adopted late we'll get into that it's a girl okay she ends up getting adopted later on by somebody extremely famous that we'll get into

awesome uh but yes chris marries her december 20th 84 in in Hawaii. It's a woman named Toni Lee Collins. Toni Adams, she goes by after that. She kind of is a wrestling manager, valet, hanger-on type of deal, too. They have a son. Guess what they name the son? One guess, Jimmy. Is it a junior? What do you think he would name his son, Jimmy?

What do you think he would name his son? No! You think he would name him anything but Christopher Jr.? No! So keep an eye out for him in the future, old Christopher Jr., because if he's anything like his father,

good lord. The pride. The hubris. The hubris on you to give your son. Now, anytime I hear junior,

I'm like, you asshole. Doesn't matter. I'm mad at the father. I'm like, what have you done to that boy? What have you done

to him? It's fascinating, too, because you're named after your dad, but differently. Not junior. Right. And I'm named after your dad but differently. Not Junior. Right.

Yeah, exactly. And I'm named after my grandfather. Obviously I'm not Junior because you'd have to be I would be Junior had I been my father. Thank God I wasn't

because I would have been on just a road of crime and I'd just be a mess right now. Good God. I don't have it together but at least I'm not in jail. Basically the way he turned

another way he turned bad guy was cool, too. Like, he turns heel in this way. He does in an interview. I love that you just use the wrestling term. I've been, dude, I'm, never mind. I'm up to my ass in this shit, dude. I get so involved, you have no idea. It's hilarious.

I've been watching interviews and fucking countless clips of wrestling. And it sucks you in. It sucks me in. It happens to me every week. You understand I'm in a different world of insanity every goddamn week. I don't know who I am anymore. I can't wait until you say jabroni. It could be coming.

You never fucking know, man. You're never going to. But he ends up in an interview. He says that, because he would go to the ring and all the girls would rush to the aisle and they'd kiss him. And so he'd kiss all the girls on the cheek and shit and now they all liked him yeah and he basically said in an interview he said i'm not going to kiss fat women anymore on the way to the ring i'm tired of you people it's like this is amazing what a great character then you're not going to kiss wrestling matches sir yeah that's not at all that's's what shows up. Pretty well. No, back then, that's the thing.

The Von Erics were all like good-looking dudes. And the Chicks, oh my God. In the 80s in Texas. The Rock's just one sexiest man on earth. No, no. But these guys, when they came out, they'd introduce them. Just find a YouTube clip. Just put Von Eric world-class wrestling.

And just any of them that come in except for Mike and Chris. If it's Kevin or especially Kerry, listen to the high-pitched squeal. Von Erich world-class wrestling. And just any of them that come in except for Mike and Chris. If it's Kevin or especially Kerry, listen to the high-pitched squeal when they come out. I've heard it a hundred times this week. It's just... Women everywhere. I mean, it's insane. It sounds like when the Beatles came out on Ed Sullivan. There's an easy fat woman screaming like,

Peg's joke. But there's a lot of teenage girls and young girls. Yeah. If you look in the crowd, it was all young girls back then because they were young guys. That's fascinating. All these, like the Von Erichs were in their early 20s. And they were strapping good looking dudes. The chicks dug.

That's fascinating. Chris starts doing very well financially because he's making a fortune in this. He's a top level guy in a huge blowing up organization. Money's coming in. Money's coming in. Owns a home in the UK. Has a bunch of land in Texas. He's a top level guy in a huge, you know, blowing up organization. Money's coming in. Money's coming in. Owns a home in the UK. Has a bunch of land in Texas. Wow. Has a couple of condos. He's becoming an American just a good old fashioned American

douchebag right off the bat. Drives a Corvette like an asshole. That's like oh look at you. You're integrating. Isn't that nice? You know what I mean? You're turning into an American. You're becoming a real American. A total douche asshole. Unreal. So here's Chris on a little, in their own words,

on just his general feeling of wrestling here and how it made him feel. In their own words, quote, You can make people love you or hate you. It appealed to me. The theatrics mixed with the athletic ability. I thought it would never end. I lost it all through divorces, ignorance, and mistakes, though. I like that he put divorces first.

Divorces, ignorance, or mistakes. It happens, you know, either one. I think you can lump all those into divorces. Ignorance and mistakes are the same thing. I could have saved that quote for later, but let's get into the foreshadowing, because we're not going to have to foreshadow much more. The meat's coming.

The meat is coming right here. His tag team partner for a long time when he became a bad guy is a guy named Gino Hernandez. Gino Hernandez looks like if Scott Baio could kick your ass. That's what he looks like. If you look up Gino Hernandez, he looks like if Scott Baio was a badass. And Gino Hernandez was the biggest coke head on the face of the earth. And Chris is a big drinker and he likes his drugs and that sort of thing. But Gino's a legendary

cokehead. Legendary. And he ends up... Scott Baio's instrumental in ruining America right now. Yes, he helped. Thanks, Scott Baio. So in March 1986, Gino Hernandez dies of mysterious circumstances. Dies dies of a drug overdose, but... Wish it was Scott Baio. Yeah. Charles in charge would have been fucked at that point. Charles, that's it. Cancel

it. It's over. Cancel it. Oh, Scott Baio's dead. We found him. I didn't know he was dead. We found him in the playboy, man. Yeah, shit happens. So, Gino Hernandez, he dies of a drug overdose, and the medical examiner says he has like five times as much coke as it would take to kill someone. But they don't know if maybe his tolerance is so extremely high that three times as much as it would take to kill someone is just what gets him high. Right.

You know what I mean? Just gets him through the day. Yeah, exactly. We don't know that. Or there's also, Gino was involved with organized crime in the Houston area, and there's also, there's a lot of fishy circumstances. I watched a documentary on this, too. There's a lot of fishy circumstances. For a two-minute part of this episode, I watched an hour and a half.

Gino's life. So Gino ends up dying in mysterious circumstances. So that's the high-water mark. Right before Gino dies is the high-water mark. Chris is a star. Everything's good. Only one dead Von Erich. It was sort of mysterious.

We don't know. He didn't off himself after a bad drug debt. That's what happened to the one guy, Kerry. He was going to jail for fraud. He was going to end up going to jail for check fraud. He was just broke. He offed himself instead because he was gonna end up going to jail for check fraud and he was just broke and so he offed himself instead because he was a mess on drugs but uh yeah so gino dies that's the high

water mark and now it's gonna start to skid down now we're sliding now let's get to june 30th 1986 and one of the most bat shit crazy things that anybody's ever done that we've covered on this podcast. It's the one where I'm like, that's just not safe for anyone. You'll know what I mean here in a moment. It's June 30th, 1986. There's an American Airlines flight. They're in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They're in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

They're doing a show, and they're going to be flying back to Dallas, the whole crew. Chris doesn't have to wrestle that night in Dallas. He's just flying back. The whole rest of the crew has to wrestle, but they're just waiting around flying back. Now, there's a trouble with the plane. The plane, one of the engines goes out after takeoff. They have to turn back around and land. Oh my God. Nothing major, you know, whatever. It was enough to make me shit my pants off. Shit our pants. Yeah, but they landed. Everything was fine. And so while they're fixing the plane, they offer free alcohol in the lounge to all the passengers. Not a good idea. Not a good idea with a crew of wrestlers on board,

because these guys are lunatics, and they're all huge. Chris isn't even really a huge guy, 6'1", 230, which is a, 230 is a thick guy, he's a big guy, but he's not a, he's not a monster, he's not 6'8", he's not one of these guys. He's not the Undertaker. He's not the Undertaker, exactly. So they give these guys alcohol, which is a mistake. And let's get into how much of a mistake it is with some quotes about Chris here. Awesome. Here's a quote from a friend, Tom Lance, who's a wrestling hanger-on and an independent promoter, blah, blah, blah. One of these guys who just kind of hangs around.

He looks like a fucking thumb with legs, this guy. He's just like, he's got no neck. He's just a dumpy dude. It's a very sad man to look at tom lance says quote chris couldn't just have one drink he had to drink until it was all gone if it was a bottle of whiskey if it was a case of beer he did everything to the extreme oh my god he's a binge drinker this is the type of guy he is and also to uh another quote here from one of his friends this is a woman she says, quote, Chris Adams was an addict.

He was a drug addict. He was an alcoholic. He was a sex addict. Awesome. So he's a disaster. Yeah. He is right up our alley. My kind of guy.

My kind of guy. Champion of crime and sports over here. His friends, multiple friends, all use the Jekyll and Hyde term with him. Okay. When he's sober, he is Mr. He's a gentleman. Yeah.

They all say he is the gentleman when he's sober. And then when he's sober, he is Mr. He's a gentleman. We all say he is the gentleman when he's sober. And then when he's drinking, it is lights out, completely different person, attack the world. Everybody's an enemy. Violent lunatic, basically, with a goddamn extremely good judo background. He's a scary man. He's a scary dude. They're on this flight. Chris is drinking for three hours.

They end up getting back on the flight. Chris is drinking more, and he is hammered. Hammered to where the flight attendant cuts him off. And this is in 1986. You had to do a lot to get cut off in 86. I mean, Jesus Christ. So the flight attendant cuts him off, and he gets pissed, to say the least. Back then, cutting somebody off was insulting he gets pissed, to say the least. Yeah.

He gets pissed. Back then, cutting somebody off was insulting them as a man. Oh, yeah. As telling someone they can't handle booze. And he, we have a quote from him on this, and it's from a wrestler named Killer Tim Brooks, who was a wrestler back then, and he was there sitting right next to Chris and saw the whole thing extremely firsthand. And normally I only do in their own words. and saw the whole thing extremely firsthand. And normally I only do in their own words if it's a direct quote from a reputable source,

newspaper quote or something like that, I'll do, or I heard it, I saw an interview, I heard it from their own mouth. But I'm going to do in their own words for some hearsay here, just because it's fantastic and we need it. So, in their own words, through somebody else,

but still this was his words here, in their own words to the flight attendant on being cut off, quote, you fucking cunt. You can't cut the gentleman off. Do you know how much fucking money I make and you're going to cut me off? I make 25 times your salary. Awesome. End quote.

That is the, he's been insulted. That's it. He's been insulted and he's an egotistical maniac at this point. He's a monster. He's a monster of ego. I'm going to show you what kind of man I am. Yes.

He's an absolute monster of ego. So she fucking goes running off this flight attendant because she's scared shitless in this movie. Because in 86, calling somebody a cunt was not near as prevalent

as it is today. I don't know if, yeah, and the British culture wasn't as prevalent either. So I don't know if they knew that that's pretty common language over there.

But to call a lady a cunt, that's still strong in any culture. Yeah, like over there they call each other, men call each other a silly cunt, and that's fine. But to say, you know, to a woman, it's still strong and aggressive. It's not cool. So he sits back down while she's gone. He's fuming i mean he's sitting there just absolutely up to his eyeballs and boiling anger yeah anger and jack

daniels is bubbling bubbling and marinate percolating under the boiling like a leg of lamb oh exactly like a leg of lamb in an english countryside so a minute later the co-pilot comes out this is the co-pilot of the goddamn airplane. This is the guy. You've disturbed the flight enough to where the man that's backing up the man flying the plane decides he has to handle it. He comes out of his cockpit and comes up to Chris, and this guy overplays his hand a little bit here. Let's just say that. Overplays his hand.

He overplays his hand in life slightly because he thinks he is, I don't know what he thinks, honestly. I don't know if he thinks his exalted position as co-pilot is going to calm this lunatic down and simply intimidate him. But he gets in Chris's face while he's in his seat, points in his face, which is not the best thing to do to this guy in this state that he's in. Gets in his face, tells him, you might as well settle down because you're not getting any more drinks on this flight. Then tells him that, he says, I have the power to land this plane in Miami

and have you arrested. And the whole time he's pointing at his face. So Chris bursts up from his seat and grabs him by the lapels. Let me show you my power. And literally picks him up and says, quote, you think you have the power. I have the power. Like fucking He-Man, literally.

You think you have the power. I have the power. The power to grab him, keep him by the lapels and fucking headbutt him. Wow. Headbutt him. This guy goes down, obviously, because he's a normal human being. He's not used to getting headbutted

in the face. Breaks his nose, you know, chips a bunch of teeth, screws him up. Then he proceeds to jump on top of him and start choking

the shit out of him, trying to kill him. Oh my God. Now, they are at 30,000 feet flying over a fucking ocean at this point. There's nowhere to go down.

Suppose something happens to the pilot. Right. There's a reason that guy this point. There's nowhere to go down. Suppose something happens to the pilot. Right. There's a reason that guy is there. There's a plane full of goddamn people, and you're strangling the only man who can safely bring you to Earth if this one poor son of a bitch has a heart attack.

The only man that has the power. He has the power. Do you understand? The power to not crash into the fucking ocean. Right. This guy says, I'm going gonna kill that man because that's not good enough for me so insanity is going on right now kevin von eric who we

mentioned before who's one of the sons of fritz von eric who owns this territory and is chris's boss right kevin is the uh kind of he's the oldest remaining uh von eric boy and he's kind of he he oversees things for his dad, kind of. They look to him. He's the one kind of in charge, and his dad's not there. So it's that sort of thing. So a flight attendant runs back where Kevin Von Erich's sitting and says, Can you help us, please? Your friend is trying to kill the co-pilot in mid-flight.

You might want to do something about it. So Kevin runs up. Holy shit, Chris is a lunatic. He must have been drinking pulls him off of off of the co-pilot and he's like you know hey jesus christ takes him in the back of the plane now this is how dumb these two are now i'll give chris he's a blackout drunk but kevin von eric's a fucking idiot i've seen a lot of interviews with him he looks like he has the iq of burlap this fucking guy he's a moron i love dummies a

complete he did a lot of drugs i don't know if he's burnt out or what but he's a moron his bright idea to try to get out of this situation because you know this is pretty heavy yeah this is you know nowadays they put you in guantanamo bay for that shit if you attack a copilot on a plane on a plane yeah insane right so they says, here's what we do. Come here, Chris. Let's do something. Me and you, we're going to go in the bathroom together and switch shirts. They'll never know it's you walking off the plane.

He's got the co-pilot's blood all over his head. Right. He just headbutted it. And everyone watched as this lunatic choked him and then was dragged to the back of the plane. We're going to change your shirt. They'll think you're somebody else. They don't even look alike either. It's not like they're similar. No.

One has an English accent. One is from Texas. They're completely different. And Kevin talks like this, you know. Yeah, yeah. He talks like Matthew McConaughey, and this guy is proper. Yeah, I'm from Warwickshire. Yeah, I'm from Warwickshire.

I done head-butted that pilot. I got him good now. It's insanity, right? You can't get any stupider why do you want to trade places with the guy who's probably going to jail that's the thing and well i guess because it wasn't him so they they thought chris would walk out and they wouldn't even notice and then when he walked out they go there he is get him and then they'd be like it's not me and they'd be like oh it's not him never mind and everybody get away scott free that was the fucking plan that was seriously that's awesome that's the dumbest criminal conspiracy i've ever heard in my life right so he chris when he gets sat back down he goes over to

killer tim brooks next to him there and he's like you know when do you think it's gonna happen and he's like you're gonna get fucking arrested he's like when we land just go he goes take get he goes when we land put your hands behind take get but he goes when we land put your hands behind your back and get ready to get cuffed and walk out peacefully because it's bad enough already man like that's it don't make it worse yeah don't struggle he said his quote was they're gonna take you whether you want to go or not like you're going you can't headbutt everybody chris adams headbutting the world you can't headbutt anybody just in any i picture him in any situation where he's having a problem he just says i have the power and headbutt anybody. I picture him in any situation where he's having a problem. He just says, I have the power and headbutts something.

That's what he does. His car breaks down. He just starts headbutting its hood. I have the power. Doesn't work. Now, we have an in their own words on the flight incident. Chris denies that he headbutted him. Chris says that he shoved him.

Everyone else says he headbutted him. That was there. This friend that was next to him. The guy who had a broken face. All these people saw a headbutt. And heard the smash. Either way, he was trying to choke him. But anyway, Chris denies it.

And he says, in their own words on the incident, quote, I'm not proud of it, but I really didn't headbutt him. If I had, he would have been unconscious. He tried to choke him that way also. He said, listen, I have proof that I didn't headbutt him. If I had, he would have been unconscious. He tried to choke him that way also. He said, listen, I have proof that I didn't do it. He clearly would have been unconscious. He's still alert. It's fine. So he got a lawyer

obviously in this case. He's going to fucking need one. Yeah. Balin Bradley was his lawyer, which sounds like a silver-haired middle-aged white man if I ever heard of one. Balin. His attorney here, Balin Bradley, says, oh my God, in court. This is his statement to the court about Chris Adams, which you don't get any more silver-haired than this.

This is amazing. Quote, Chris Adams, as the court knows, is a good young man. He is not one who has a criminal outlook on life. His problem is that he tends to abuse alcohol. Well, no shit, asshole. And co-pilots. And co-pilots and co-pilots and anybody else that's around him and women that cut him off i love that he says as the court knows right like it's a fort you're not quite aware listen we don't even have to discuss the fact

that he's a good young man we're all we're all straight on that right okay he's a good young man everybody okay good now we can talk about the rest of it the funny thing here is he's having these legal troubles obviously just that the wrestling organization knows about it because the son of the owner is the one who pulled him off of him and tried to switch shirts with him so this is not a secret so you would say we have a loose cannon on our hands maybe we don't invest a whole lot of like you know resources and tv resources and TV time and, you know, just promotion into this guy. Let's not make him a main character. He could disappear at any point in prison.

And he could ruin our whole thing. Yeah. So you'd think that, right? But not quite. Because four days later, on July 4th, 1986, he wins the world-class heavyweight title. Let's give him the title. He beats Ravishing Rick Rude. Oh, my God.

It wasn't Ravishing at the time, just Rick Rude. But he beats Rick Rude for the title. It beats ravishing Rick Rude. Oh my God. He wasn't ravishing at the time, just Rick Rude. But he beats Rick Rude for the title. It was like his second year in wrestling at that point. So that's the kind of insanity we have here.

This is when world class is starting to fall apart. Maybe they're thinking if we make him a star he'll straighten up. Absolutely. Well, and he, after the flight,

he tries to get himself together. His parents said they called him, he called them and told them what happened and said that he's going to aa and he's so embarrassed about it and it's you know he's just shit works it's yeah clearly it didn't as we're going to talk about it here uh we have an in their own words about just the whole lifestyle and this whole thing here uh they were talking about now you know since you since you've... He was basically like, now I'm taking it easy.

Like, before I was crazy, but I'm good now. This whole thing could be broken down into, I'm good now, in a British accent. So, in their own words, he says, they're very different, talking about the things that are going on in his life. Quote, they're very different. Like I said, I realize what's important in my life, so I'm not whizzing around the world partying every night and ruining my relationship with my wife i think my values have changed his value absolutely right values have changed well they better change quickly because on september 16th 1986 a federal jury convicts

chris of misdemeanor assault how that's a misdemeanor, I have no idea. Yeah, no doubt. A vicious headbutt and a choking on a flight while a man's doing his job. It's not like the guy came up in a bar and punched him in the ear and then they went at it. In the ear? He came up to him reasonably and said, you called my flight attendant a cunt. I mean, you would think he would have

some attitude. Yeah, I have the power. If you call a waitress that in a restaurant, the manager will come up to you angry every time. And throw you out. And rightfully so. And if you headbutt him, I have the power. If you call a waitress that in a restaurant, the manager will come up to you angry every time. And throw you out. And rightfully so. And if you headbutt him, you're the asshole. So he gets convicted. So on October 25th, 1986, he's sentenced to three months in federal court. That's essentially what happened. The manager came over and said, look, I can't throw you out now because we're 30,000 feet in the air. But I will. But I will take you to Miami and throw your ass out. And he said, I'd like to have your teeth broken on my forehead. Let's do that. So he's sentenced in federal court on October 25th. Judge Eldon B.

Mahone says of this whole thing, quote, because he was in the public limelight, he was idolized by the community, either as an athlete or an entertainer whatever you consider that he had a lot of young children following him wanting his autograph this is not a very good example this is something like a wrestling fan this is not a good yeah he said whatever you consider that thing this is not a very good example you sir may fuck off for three months three months in federal prison and a 500500 fine. Pretty stiff. What is that horseshit? Yeah, he tried to maim a man mid-flight. Yeah. Unbelievable. Three months.

Apparently, yeah, that's a... The judge is silver showing a little bit there, too, in his hair. See what happens pre-9-11. Good God. Yeah, Jesus. Maybe... Yeah, nowadays you cannot attack the copilot like this at all. You'll probably get shot.

You'll probably be an air marshal. You'll be charged with terrorism. Yeah. Someone will kill you. So the world-class wrestling starts falling apart at this point as we've gone over this with Jimmy Snuka. All of the territories start to fall apart. WWF, now WWE, Vince McMahon starts just burying these people, taking all their stars, hiring them away,

and then they fall apart to nothing. And the WWF becomes national, and these guys become more local, and then end up folding, basically. So this is what happens. So 86, late 86, Chris goes to Mid-South, which is another territory run by another famous lunatic named Bill Watts, who was a crazy person, used to be a football player at the University of Oklahoma. And he's a lunatic, tough guy.

Cowboy Bill Watts was his name. And he would, just a legendary, ran his territory with an iron fist type of guy, find you if you were late a minute and a half, that sort of shit. Jesus. A lunatic, basically, yeah. Beat guys up for not doing shit properly in the ring. What? He'd say, that's not how you sell a punch.

This is how you sell a punch, and he'd punch the guy. Blossom in the face. And he'd say, see how you just did that? That's how you do it when someone pretends to punch you, asshole. So it was like, oh, OK. That's the type of guy he was, a lunatic. So anyway, he goes there. It's based out of Oklahoma, Louisiana, which is around Texas still.

So Chris Adams is a big name in that area. Gotcha. So he goes there. This is when Bill Watts is selling that territory to what would become WCW later on, Jim Crockett Promotions. Long story that doesn't need to be told. Anyway, he's successful in Mid-South,

which turns into UWF, which doesn't matter because it'll be out of business soon. But he wins the tag team titles with a guy named Terry Taylor, who becomes the Red Rooster. If anybody remembers the worst character in the history of wrestling, look up Red Rooster WWF,

Google a picture of this idiot, and it's a guy standing there looking totally normal with one red stripe dyed down his hair, kind of sticking up in a little mohawk. But the rest of him is totally normal. He would literally move his head like a roost, like a chicken, forward. It was he's back in the ground like he was a like you're i don't think you're supposed to be an actual rooster asshole like i don't think i think he

misinterpreted the character a little bit but anyway all he's got is a red stripe by the way that's it he didn't have a feathers or anything he just had red tights and red boots and a red stripe down his head and he'd come out and go cock-a-doodle-doo and start beating people up. It was ridiculous. Well, they would beat him up, really. Right. He was a loser. Right.

He's the jabroni. He is. He was. And, yeah, continued to be. 1988, Chris begins a wrestling school in Dallas. Okay. Right out of the Sportatorium, which is where World Class used to run all their events. Because those who can't teach.

Those who can't teach. And he's a good wrestler, though, Chris. He really is. Chris was a good guy to watch in the ring. He's real entertaining. He's athletic. He moves around. He was one of the first guys in America to do the super kick.

You know, Shawn Michaels, if anybody watched that kind of reverse kick to the chin thing that they do. They slap their legs so it's real loud. That thing. He was not the first, but one of the, I'm sure guys in Japan were doing it. But in the U.S., he was kind of the first guy to be famous with it. That's his finisher. That's his move. So he's training guys.

He releases this video that is hilarious. The promotional video thing is hilarious. It's called the ABCs of professional wrestling. And he makes a good pitch, too. I mean, he's a salesman in his English accent. He's claiming, you know, it's a nine-month to a two-year course where we're going to teach you the basics of wrestling. And you'll get in here and the gentleman is going to tell you what to do. So much time.

It's insane. Well, yeah, it's kind of a big, yeah, it takes a long time to learn how to fall and not break your neck out of magic. Nine months to two years. To not kill another man as you pretend to kill him. So, yeah, he's promoting the wrestling class. He's training a bunch of wrestlers. He, in fact, his most famous student in 1989 comes around, or 1988, but he begins wrestling in 89, is Stone Cold Steve Austin. No shit.

He trained Mr. Steve Austin. That's wild. And Steve Austin has some quotes about him. Really? Mr. Steve Austin. That's wild. He is Steve, and Steve Austin has some quotes about him. Really? He doesn't like Chris Adams very much.

It's odd. Steve ends up marrying Jeannie, Chris's first wife from England. No shit. Yes, because Jeannie was around the wrestling business too. That's bizarre.

And Steve meets her and Steve ends up adopting Chris's daughter later on also. It's a really weird thing. Is he still with her and still raising the kid no they are uh Steve and Jeannie got divorced and Steve ended up marrying Debra McMichael who was another wrestling manager who was Steve McMichael's wife the the ex Chicago Bear and ex wrestler so anyway uh so they get married Steve and uh Steve and Jeannie Steve Austin obviously becomes a giant star. And later on, Chris is going to be kind of angry at Steve's success and the fact that Steve,

he didn't think Steve was very grateful for Chris getting him into the business. And he wasn't. Because here's some, I have some quote here from Steve Austin on this whole deal. Steve Austin's a hilarious son of a bitch, by the way. He's really funny. He's a bad man, too. And he says exactly what's on his mind and he cracks me up,

this guy. Every once in a while I'll turn on his podcast just to, I don't know, it's just every once in a while I kind of want to channel this drunken redneck weirdo

and here is insanity. I saw him do a taste test on the internet of different beers and he was like calling him the most politically incorrect thing ever.

Oh I'm sure. Jesus, he's a maniac. It's a queer reader or some shit like that. He's a maniac, redneck, and he's hammered all the time. So you don't expect PC from him. This one tastes a little swishy or some shit. So anyway, Steve Austin has his first match on May 11, 1989. And he realized right then that Chris didn't prepare him enough for the ring.

And he's a little pissed off about it. Got his ass kicked. And he says later on in his book, well, he just didn't know what to do. He didn't know you were supposed to not actually beat the living shit out of the guy and have the guy beat the living shit out of you. So he was abusing people out there. Austin was, and they were like,

oh, calm down, big guy. Slow down, bald, crazy man. He's a big strapping. He had long blonde hair back then, too. He was stunning Steve Austin back in WCW, but this was before Stunning Steve, and he was just Steve Austin with long blonde hair. It was ridiculous.

But anyway, well he was a bad guy. He was supposed to be a prick so he wanted him. Anyway, he says about later on in his book, Steve Austin says

about Chris Adams, quote, Chris Adams had been real nice to me up until that point. Later, I would learn that he hadn't prepared me

the way I should have been prepared. At the time, Adams seemed charming and very intelligent to me. I look back at him now and realize he was a con man deluxe.

So that's what Chris is. Con man deluxe. A lot of people thought he was a con man deluxe, apparently, as it comes out a little bit later. He continues to have craziness

in his life here. There's an incident in Israel. This is what he... He does crazy shit in places where you don't do crazy shit. People have machine guns in Israel.

Soldiers are walking around. Fucking do nutty shit over there. It's another country for Christ's sake. Don't fuck around in another country. That's rule number one. Or on a flight 30,000 feet above the ocean should be rule number two. 1A really. It's close.

So they're in Israel and they're in a hotel because they were doing a wrestling tour over there. And apparently Chris used the phone behind the desk a couple of times, and the clerk wouldn't let him use the phone anymore. Chris went fucking ballistic and beat the living shit out of this guy. Horribly. The guy needed facial reconstruction surgery. He beat him mercilessly in the lobby of this hotel while the guy was working so I mean he's a lunatic

they get him out of Israel quick I guarantee he never went back to Israel I'm sure because they got him on a plane and got him the hell out of there Hotel concierge and co-pilots are who he's kicking the shit out of and also don't leave out

hey you know what it starts at home yeah it starts at home Jimmy because in February of 1989 he's arrested for domestic violence for beating the holy hell out of his wife, Toni. Beat her up pretty good. Pretty decent here. She said he was drunk and went crazy and just snapped and she didn't even know why. And that's what we're going to keep hearing. He gets drunk, he snaps, and let's follow the crazy from there on. You know what I mean?

It's wild. Late 1989, this goes on for the year, he gets one year probation for domestic violence for beating up Tony. So that's, again, it's off. Now he's beat up a co-pilot, a goddamn desk, all these people he's beating the shit out of, and it doesn't matter. He's just, no problem, guys. He'll beat the wife. He'll anybody this is what i mean like it's so weird when we do some of these guys because there's certain and i get it that like we talked about it before football players wrestlers

boxers fighters they all have this much more crazy violent streak to them and it's like what comes first the chicken or the egg? Because obviously they're fighters because they're not averse, or football players because they're not

averse to contact. They might like contact. They're not afraid. They need it. They're aggressive. But at the same time, at what point does it also,

you've been hitting the head 50 times and you're drunk a lot and it's the lifestyle that makes it like... Brain damage. Yeah, it just seems like a really bad cocktail altogether for these guys and they become crazy violent. Because when I look, I'll look at

different athletes and what they do, obviously. This is my fucking business, what we do. So I'll look at baseball players. There's not a lot of violent baseball players. There really isn't. It's odd. The basketball players, not a lot of violent basketball players either. They're laid back. They have a lot of violent baseball players. There really isn't. It's odd. The basketball players, not a lot of violent basketball players either. They're laid back. They have a lot of drug charges

and shit like that, but not a lot of like, you know, he murdered his wife and then killed the dog and buried it in the yard. That doesn't happen. Or killed his wife and fed it to the dog. Fed her to the dog. That doesn't happen there. See Bruno de Sousa. Episode 5. Or 6, I'm not sure. Soccer.

Amazing. And that was soccer amazing and that was soccer but that was Brazil that's a whole different world yeah it's a different culture I don't think we have many listeners in Brazil so they're just fucking nuts down there

we can just say that fuck them I don't care we can just say that not true probably I have no idea I've never been to Brazil I don't know any Brazilians

but close enough for me fucking crazy they all feed their you know what happens down there anything happens with your wife hey dad where's dinner it's not on the table at chopped up fed to the dog app every time that's just brazil i don't know it's a national i know that's it it's the national

national dog food so early 1991 chris is convicted of drunk driving now because he gets a drunk driving charge and kept tarrant county te Texas. He's out of control, basically. I can't imagine the drunk driving charge in that time period is very steep, though. It's actually not because we're going to get into it in a minute. The consequences and some more that he gets into as well. You think that's the only one he's going to do, Jimmy? Come on, he's a drunk. 1991, he's back into wrestling.

He was wrestling kind of around in Texas and doing the wrestling school mainly 1991 he wrestles for Global Wrestling Federation GWF which was on ESPN

in the early 90s it looked like shit I remember watching it as a kid it looked terrible it had some guys that went on it had like

Booker T was in there you know X-Pac whatever you want to call him Sean Waltman had him in there as the, that's cool. You know, X-Pac, Six-Pac, whatever you want to call him. Sean Waltman had him in there as the lightning kid when he looked like he was 10. Really? He literally looked like a 10-year-old who was running around.

Probably was. Kicking people and flipping around and shit. He was crazy. But he was fun to watch, actually. They did tapings out of Dallas. They used the Sportatorium, which is the same gym, the same arena that the world class used and that he trained his wrestlers in. So obviously he's going to be on this um he wins this is home he wins the world heavyweight title there

twice wow so he's a star there i mean that's one of their big gets because he's a well-known guy nationally and in texas he's huge to draw crowds that's your guy that's who you're going to draw with because the von erics weren't doing it carrie was in wwf at that time gotcha and kevin was who the hell knows being drunk and stupid somewhere and getting his matthew mcconaughey impression down so uh late 1991 while this is going on this is so funny he gets gets arrested they give him a heavyweight title he uh he gets now he's convicted again of drunk driving in Pittsburgh, Texas. Jesus. Unbelievable. He's given probation for both offenses.

They get both drunk driving offenses together because his probation had worn off from his domestic violence. That was a year probation. So now he's free for new probations. So two drunk driving arrests in one year warrants probation back then. And this is after you beat your wife drunkenly, drunkenly assaulted a federal... You know, it's insane. Yeah. I don't understand when someone...

Our laws now, two in a year, you're in jail for a year. Oh, Jesus Christ, you're in jail. I don't... I just don't understand what it's going to take for this goddamn guy to... To get it together?

Not to get it together for the rest of everyone to go, hey, he's an asshole. Stop this. Yes, he's got a very nice accent. We understand. Make an example of him. Yeah, we get it together for the rest of everyone to go, hey, he's an asshole. Stop this. Yes, he's got a very nice accent. We understand. Make an example of him. Yeah, we get it.

He's got a nice accent. He seems very charming. Everyone's like, he seems very charming because he comes off very, very charming. I'm telling you, when you see the guy, you'd give him money. I'm telling you, man, he could sell you something because he's very well- a very he's very well spoken and a handsome guy and a successful guy and he's a fuck up too 1993 kind of dips his toe

in the promoting waters he tries to promote some wrestling he promotes a tour in Nigeria with yeah the tour had a bunch of old wrestlers it was kind of like

there's money to be made in Nigeria I had no idea well no one goes there so if you have the famous wrestlers that It was kind of like a... There's money to be made in Nigeria? I had no idea. Apparently. Well, no one goes there. So if you have the famous wrestlers that are famous worldwide, I guess you could draw some people. I have no idea. Like the Iron Sheik was on that card. That makes sense.

That sort of thing. You know, he was a famous old guy. It was sponsored by Pepsi, the tour. Wow. So, legit. It's a big deal. Yeah, not bad. Now, at this point, too, he's also wrestling in Memphis for Jerry Lawler down there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The USWA. Oh, that guy. The Jarretts and that whole territory. Yeah, the legendary lunatic territory, Memphis. That's where Andy Kaufman went and did that whole thing with Jerry Lawler. Right. That's the territory we're talking about.

Lawler's awesome. Lawler's a crazy person. Yeah, he's nuts, Jerry Lawler. Super fat now. Oh, yeah. He's a fat old man now. I wonder how he has gotten in trouble multiple times for diddling. Yeah.

For not diddling, but actually having relationships with 14-year-old girls. It's never been substantiated, but I'm pretty sure he settled that a court a few times. I'm sure he did. Which, to me, is a little shady at that point. It signifies there's enough evidence to fuck you. Yeah, exactly. Or you can just

give her some cash. If hundreds of people sue you for fraud and you settle, guess what? You were full of shit. Right. And so was your university.

So moving on, August 15th, 1994, Chris and Tony divorce. Oh boy. So, you know, yeah. She's had enough of the beatings. She's had enough

of the beatings and the general, imagine the horse shit she's been through. So much. Imagine yeah. She's had enough of the beatings. She's had enough of the beatings and the general. Imagine the horse shit she's been through. So much. Imagine it. She's been with this man for ten years. So much. Married to him for ten years.

I can't imagine just from the physical abuse to just the emotional struggle of having to deal with the ups and downs of someone who can't keep it together and completely turns into a different person when they drink. Now, at this point, we're going to introduce a new character here. We are going to introduce, I love this guy's name. His name is William Parnell. But when they show his name, it's William, quote, Brent Parnell, which I don't know. But no one calls him either of those names. Everyone calls him Boo Ray.

What? Boo Ray. What? Boo Ray Parnell. Now, this guy is a shit kicker. This guy just looks like, you just take one look at him and you go, I don't even think it's a double wide. I'm pretty sure it's a single wide. I'm positive of it. I'll bet it's a travel trailer.

Holy shit, he's got an Airstream. I'm sure something drags behind a car. He's got an Airstream. Like, not even an imitation knockoff Airstream. Not even like a classic. He drags it Airstream. Like not even an imitation knockoff Airstream. Not even like a classic. He drags it behind an old Cadillac. Absolutely. At this point, Boo Ray, who's a, he tried to be a little, tried to be a wrestler.

He's a big guy who wasn't really good at it. And he's a hanger on. And these hanger on wrestlers that are kind of, they sort of wrestle. They referee a little bit. They do this, they do that. They kind of hang around these wrestlers and latch on to the stars. And that sort of wrestled. They refereed a little bit. They did this, they did that. They kind of hang around these wrestlers and latch on to the stars and that sort of thing. And Boo Ray had just got some kind of legal settlement. It's something with an oil company.

I don't know what happened, but he got a legal settlement from an oil company. And suddenly Chris and him are good friends. Suddenly they're buddies. It's weird. Yeah. Got a windfall of cash and new friends. Absolutely. Everybody liked Boo Ray, actually.

They thought he was a nice guy and Chris would borrow money from him. That sort of shit all the time, obviously. Boo Ray would also drive. He was basically Chris's... He said he was his best friend, but he was also his kind of second. As long as his wallet's full. And his chauffeur, too, so Chris could get completely shit-faced and not have to get drunk driving charges.

So that's what Boo Ray was... Everyone said Boore was always driving so chris was never coherent basically when he was around bourre because he didn't have clever and smart that's better than getting duis thank you for not killing people for a minute no doubt you idiot chris adams you jackass now 1994 soon after the divorce he gets together with another part-time wrestler named brandy Freeman. They get together. They end up being together for years and years. They never actually get married. Lucky for her.

But they're together for years and years. They have a daughter named Julia again. So he's spreading the seed. So it doesn't stop him from kicking her ass. We want his genetics all over the world. The kids seem really nice, too. I don't mean to say shit about the kids because I've seen videos with them and stuff. They seem like nice kids.

They've had a tough and they love their dad and there's no, I mean, they don't talk anything bad about their dad. That's nice of them. It's their dad.

I completely understand that. He didn't headbutt them and try to choke them to death. So they just see him as dad. So that's fine. I don't blame the kids for that. They didn't get hotel concierge jobs or pilot jobs.

No. Yeah, or they didn't marry him luckily for that. They didn't get hotel concierge jobs or pilot jobs. No. Yeah, or they didn't marry him, luckily, for them. So now, 1997, Chris begins wrestling for WCW, which was huge at that point. If anybody remembers, there was the Monday Night Wrestling Wars, they call them. It was Monday Night Raw and Monday Nitro. The two companies had a competing Monday Night Wrestling show on at the same time. And basically, WCW had a ton of programming. They had, like, three hours of Nitro, and then they had, like, another two-hour show on at the same time and basically WCW had a ton of programming

they had like three hours of Nitro and then they had like another two-hour show on Thursday called Thunder they just needed bodies to fill this time because you go through a lot of wrestlers like that so they were a scumbag and still be hired they're hiring anybody and if you were especially if you had a some kind of name at some point they'd really hire you because it's like maybe five people like that guy so they bring Chris Adams in because he was a name and he was a good wrestler

he actually wrestles Macho Man Randy Savage on the first Thursday Night Thunder show that they do and yeah he beats Macho Man Savage with some interference

from somebody I don't know some crazy horse shit fucking wrestling who knows but anyway so they use him decently for a while

and then they end up using him because he's a little bit of a name to get other guys over, basically. Like, they'll beat him and now they look better. So that's what they're doing with him. And at that point, he starts to get a little bit pissed off and he's unhappy with it. But the things with Brandy are crazy, too. The girlfriend. Like, a friend talks about a night when he hit Brandy.

Apparently, he beat the shit out of brandy all the time too one night when they witnessed him beat brandy and then drive away with her hanging off of his car oh jesus she's hanging out of the window like trying to hang on to it and he's fucking driving away like that's that's a dragging her basically like he's not a nice guy no at all at this point he's turned into a nut that's the thing he was and the whole time he's very loaded uh 1999 he requests and is granted his release from wcw i don't know why he'd want to get rid of the paycheck right i'm sure he's making 100 grand a year yeah but he's like no i don't like the way they're using me on television they're making me look like a jackass they're having shitheads beat me at least they're making you look like something not for nothing too he's about 44 years old at this point, and he's in an athletic field.

Still dragging women around the block on your car. Yeah, exactly. That's what you do when you're 16. That's the thing. In his head, he's 16. He's like, I can still wrestle. Yeah, you're kind of old, and we're going to go with younger guys. Did you see me drag Brandy? I beat her ass. I beat her ass. You have no idea.

I can fight Randy again. Let's go. Jesus, I'm on my third wife because I beat them all going to fight Randy again. Let's go. Jesus. I'm on my third wife because I beat them all. So I can beat. Beating is my thing. The champion of beatings. Have you been to Israel ever? There's this hotel there.

I want you to go talk to this one guy. Let me tell you something. So, yeah. Now, during his WCW stint, we're going to introduce this into the mix, and this is a major player into this mix, a major player. He begins, because alcohol obviously is not enough for him. Clearly, you know, that's not enough

to make him a fucking maniac. He needs to do something else to really bring it all together. Add another something to this recipe. I was just going to say, you throw a little salt, a little pepper, and he's like, I need a little garlic powder in here. Let's do this.

And his particular garlic powder was GHB. Oh, Jesus. He dug GHB. Really? During this period, he was well known to use GHB with crisps. The day rape drug. Yes.

I'll tell you, all the bodybuilders were into it, and I did way more GHB research than I needed to for this, but I really wanted to have a you know what the hell was it the bodybuilders in vegas the uh the husband and wife weren't they using that they were too and that's what i'm going to get into why here now he was known to be his buddy in this apparently his running partner in wcw using ghb was chris benoit who will definitely talk about it we're very familiar with him fucking idiot. We're very familiar with him. Just Google Chris Benoit and go, oh my.

And then strap in because we're going to do an episode. We'll definitely talk about him at some point. He's one of like a heavy hitter. You guys have heard a lot about it. So we're going to do some people you don't know. There's a lot of bodies in that wig. There's a lot of bodies in that wig. So he's known to do that.

Now GHB, from what I understand and from what I read, the bodybuilders all thought, bodybuilders started using this in the late 80s, early 90s when steroids became more clamped down on. This is hysterical. So they'd take this GHB and they'd pass out these bodybuilders and they thought that while they were sleeping, it was building growth hormone in them. It was releasing growth hormone. Now, scientifically, I can't believe I know this,

scientifically, apparently it releases a minuscule amount of growth hormone, but not enough to do anything. But they just heard that it releases growth hormone. They're like, well, I'll just take a bunch, and it's better than not taking growth hormone. But it's not the same as taking growth hormone. It's like taking a crumb or eating a cake. It's not the same thing. But hormone it would be you know it's like taking a crumb or eating a cake it's not the same thing but anyway so they all started using it extremely addictive

also ghb real addictive so then they get into it and then they do ghb all the time and they party with it and they drink and do ghb and that is i mean that's like just a disaster that's like pumping gas while smoking all day just like yep this is fine. Because GHB is one of these things where, and it's funny because I remember this from an old love line back in the day, the radio show. I remember Dr. Drew talking about GHB, and he's like, it's an interesting drug because if you don't do enough to hurt you,

it's kind of out of your system quickly and it's fine. But it's like, you do a teaspoon and it's a good time. You do a teaspoon and a drop and you're dead so it's like it's hard to dose basically it's very hard to dose you have to really kind of and they don't write that shit on the label either no they don't and and the dosing is going to be a problem for chris that we're going to talk about uh late 1999 chris and brandy break up g wonder why maybe she just got tired of getting the shit beaten out of her and dragging his drunk ass around.

Right. I don't blame her. And him dragging her around. And him dragging her around by the car. Maybe she'd like to ride inside the car. She's like, listen, Chris. We've got to have a talk. Our car seats five.

Listen, Chris. I understand that we have problems sometimes. I do. I get mouthy sometimes. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. But when we go to my mom's this weekend,

do you think I could ride in the car? Just in it. Just to my mom's. What if you stand through the sunroof? Okay, I'll hang off of it at the gas station

around the corner from my parents' house. Could I just get in so we pull into the driveway like that? It's just, yeah, you don't have to open the door. It's fine. Don't even slow down. I'll jump in. I'm getting good at this. I just run next to the

car. That's how they travel. She just runs next to the car. And he goes, you stupid cunt! And he keeps driving. Every half a mile or so, he calls her names. I'll climb through the window. So February of 2000, Chris O'Dea's on GHB as a nice overdose. And he does this a couple of times. And what he does, and this is ODs on GHB as a nice overdose.

And he does this a couple of times. And what he does, and this is the thing with GHB, is a lot of times, apparently people will overdose. And if they don't take a fatal amount, if they just overdose, it wears off in four hours. And when GHB wears off, it's gone. It's like it's here. It's gone. Boom, boom. Off a cliff.

You're fucked up. You're sober. Fucked up. You are 100 sober so basically you'll have people that overdose on ghb and when they hit the four hour mark basically of when they took it wherever they are they'll just pop up and be like okay feel fine and walk away they feel fine they don't even know what happened that's a weird they think it's fine they walk right away it's like and they don't know what they do that's why people do crazy shit on ghb they black out and we and the withdrawals of ghb are apparently very bad if you are an addict of it it's apparently not a good withdrawal it's very rough and very you get very violent you get

very irritable and perfect for this guy right yeah that's exactly what he needs yeah absolutely so he ods in 2000 here he's taken to a hospital in Denton, Texas. And at the four-hour mark, he just pops up, rips the tubes out of his mouth and nose and face, and just puts his jacket on and says, have a good one. Wow. They were like, ah, sir. And he was like, no, I feel good now. Bye.

You were dead to the world an hour and a half ago. Yeah, the tubes just ripped him out of his nose. Like, what's this in here? How did I get here? Literally, he's like, how did I get here? What happened? Like, he had no idea what happened. That's just unbelievable. I'm in the Literally, he's like, how did I get here? What happened? Like, he had no idea what happened. That's just... Unbelievable.

I'm in the hospital? What's going on? Strange shit. Maybe I should stop taking crazy drugs. Yeah, and have more questions. Like, how do I stop doing this? How the fuck do I stop doing this? Imagine he's like in the hospital room.

He's sitting there. He has the tubes and he wakes up and he rips the tubes out. I mean, at one point he's rich and he had a Corvette and a condo and a nice family and he's famous and now he's in a hospital things are going well he's in a hospital in denton and he rips the tubes out of his nose and just as that happens there's a knock on the door and he opens it up and it's the mexican pimp standing there guns blazing guns blazing and he pours him a drink not Not that he needs one. One drink. He's

even the Mexican pimp. He keeps his guns out too. You know he would keep his guns out. And he asks him. How is it? How is it you've come to arrive here? How is it you've come to be? Let me ask you a question. You had it all. You were a glamorous man. You had flowing robes and belts of gold. And now you are here with tubes ripping out of your face.

Why? Why you do it? Chris, why? Why you do it? How? So whispered. How is it you've come to arrive here? And then he's gone in the puff of smoke and chris is puts on his jacket and fucking leaves just fuck that guy and on the way out when they ask him

why'd you do ghb all the time here's chris's quote in their own words nobody asked him it but later on so what the fuck was up with the ghb? He says, quote, I like the high feeling and the sexual feeling. It was meant to be this wonder thing, but obviously it turned sour on me. That is a motherfucking understatement. Let's get into exactly how sour this turns. So Chris is single for a couple

months, which is odd for Chris. He hooks right up with people. He finds at this point a nice young lady named Linda Kapengst. Now, Linda is a nice lady. She's a nice young woman, very pretty. She's a secretary at an insurance company. She's not a crazy person.

Everybody around her says she's just a stable, normal person. She doesn't like drug addicts normally. She doesn't like lunatics. So they are wondering what the fuck she's doing with Chris who just OD'd two months ago on GHB but also too

she has friends that are like some scumbags this documentary had this one girl in it who was the tweakiest girl I've ever seen in my life

she didn't stop moving it was it was uncomfortable to watch somebody on that much that level of stimulants just that coked the fuck out

trying to tell a story like oh my god i couldn't watch it i had to fast forward through her shit uh anyway so chris is coming off this long relationship obviously of eight years with brandy or so six years with brandy uh friends say that chris is happier they than he's ever been he's super happy he's in love with her with linda shouting it from the rooftops in their own words on Linda. Quote, I thought she was an angel from heaven. I fell absolutely crazily in love with her. Wow.

So, I mean, Chris. She's totally riding in the car. She is in the front fucking seat, this Linda, man. He bought her some Corinthian leather seats. He took her to England to introduce her to the family. He's serious. He's not messing around they they would they would also go hang out at strip clubs together and shit like that

which is out of character for her she's fun she's fun he's a scumbag they both like the ghb apparently that's what he says they were both into the ghb they partied with it a lot at least 20 25 times he says all the time like i said linda's friends were like what is she doing with him like that's not her type like they thought she'd find a nice you know like a lawyer or something bad boy she's chasing this jackass so uh yeah insane so in april of 2000 uh they go out one night they uh linda and chris they go out for dinner. They have drinks. They play some pool. Going out for a night on the town, right? At 2 a.m., they call up Boo Ray. Now, Boo Ray and Chris are buddies.

Like I said, Chris would live with him sometimes when he was in between. When he broke up with Tony, he moved in with Boo Ray. And they're, whatever. He's his running mate. Fucking lackey. How? Yeah. He's lackey, for lack of a better term.

So they go to his house at 2 a.m. They call up Boo Ray. And they're like, hey, Boo Ray, what's going on here? And he's like, come on over. I don't give a shit. So they go over to his house to party more.

Basically, they start hanging out and they're kind of getting, basically he said they're getting close to each other. So he's going to go in the other room. We have a quote from Boo Ray in a minute here. He goes to bed, leaves Chris and Linda in the living room. We have a quote from Boo Ray in a minute here. He goes to bed, leaves Chris and Linda in the living room. They're partying, hanging out.

Chris is supposed to meet her parents the next day. They're in Texas and he's supposed to meet them. So this is a serious thing. Whatever, next day is a big day for them. Let's get fucked up. Let's get fucked up all night long. Then go meet your parents. So Boo Ray said, quote, I love quoting a man named Boo Ray, first of all.

Boo Ray Parnell, in his infinite wisdom said quote they were laughing and they had this little dog from taco bell if you squeezed it it said something she couldn't hardly talk from laughing they were loving on each other so i decided to let them have their good time she's a douche so she's a douche with a laughing at the yo quiero taco bell exactly which if anyone laughs at that, they better be high. Oh, you're a dick. They better be high on more than GHB. That's all I have to say. They better have a fucking needle of heroin hanging out of their arm.

While they're overdosing. She's laughing at that. And, yeah, I love the way he says it. They were loving on each other, so I decided to let them have a good time. Go on, hump in my living room, guys. Go on. His cock was out. She's laughing at the Yo-Kero Taco Bell.

Absolutely. Boo-ray's clearly a nice night for them. Hell of a running mate, Boo-ray. Come over to my house. Use my living room as your fuck den. Enjoy. I'm going to go to bed now. What a wingman. Hey, come on over. So, they apparently, Chris and Linda, mixed GHB. That dog wound up in her ass, by the

way, just so you know. Probably. Well, that dog probably ended up in evidence, as we're going to get into in a minute here. With some fecal stains they mixed ghb with orange juice and drank that chris says he remembers saying down the hatch and they're fucking drinking and having their partying with it that's what they did now boo ray comes back out he sees chris asleep slumped over in an armchair with his arm up on the you know thing and he sees uh more like passed. Exactly. It's passed out. Linda is on her back sleeping on the floor

he figures. So he tried to wake them up to say like the fuck out maybe or you want to lay down and you look uncomfortable. I don't know what the hell he's trying to wake them up for but he couldn't wake them up. They wouldn't wake up so he's like well they're probably just drunk. These are wrestlers. For someone to be blacked out drunk that you can't wake them up

isn't that abnormal. For someone to be blacked out, drunk, that you can't wake them up, isn't that abnormal? For Texas wrestling people, you know what I mean? That's just normal. So foreign to me. In the 80s, that's how they fucking partied, and that's where these guys are from. If I tap my wife, she sits up, she rockets up in bed. What? Get away from me.

Give her two bottles of whiskey and a bunch of GHB and she'll die, Jimmy. I'll tell you that much. She won't do much. That's the nightcap from now on. She'll probably be unresponsive like these two. Unbelievable. So Boo Ray calls Tom Lance, the human thumb I told you about earlier, because he couldn't wake them.

Now, rather than call an ambulance, you call some other dipshit redneck. Right. Hey, what do I do here? What's going on here? You know, see, see, see. Oh, my. What the hell? I don't know, C... Fuck it. I don't know.

I ain't breathing into his mouth. How do you spell CPR? Yeah, what's going on now? Now, Bure claims not to know that they were doing GHB, which I find bullshit. Chris has been doing this for a couple of years, and this is his buddy. You're well aware.

He knows what he's doing. So he thought Chris would be mad if they called an ambulance because of Chris's previous OD that he got a lot of bad publicity for. And at this point, he's still trying to promote independent wrestling shows. So publicity for him, bad publicity is not good. People aren't going to want to go support a criminal scumbag, basically, or a guy who's a drug addict. Because in Texas, because of the Von Eriks, that was a sensitive subject in the wrestling business. Gotcha.

So now while on the phone, basically, he's keeping this Tom Lance guy on the phone. And he's like, all right, hold on a minute. And he put it down. And he'd go do shit. And he'd come back. And he stays on the phone for the next hour and a half, which is crazy too. Wow. Basically, he's on the phone.

Boo Ray tried to wake him up again. They wouldn't wake up. Now Tom Lance on the other end of the phone claims to have heard Linda's labor breathing over the phone. Said she didn't sound right. Lance tells Boo Ray to call an ambulance. Hey, dick fuck, call an ambulance, obviously. An hour and a half ago. Dumb shit, yeah.

So Boo Ray attempts to do CPR on these two while he's on the phone with 911. And it takes them 20 minutes to get there. Oh my god. So, I mean, he's trying to do CPR on them. He's trying to revive them. And he's trying to do cpr on him he's trying to revive him and he's an idiot and then the whole time the paramedics are there attending to chris and linda tom's on the phone still he's still on the phone so he's on the phone hearing all this so he's like he remembers

them hearing hearing them say flatline about linda which is not a good sign uh but then they thought linda was going to make it so they took them to the hospital police thanked Boo Ray for calling you know Jesus you saved those guys lives good job they go Chris ends up

again waking up ripping shit out leaving the hospital takes off basically goes to see Linda the next day 12 hours later and he told her

her whole family was there and this is how he's meeting them at the hospital remember we were supposed to meet today? Yeah, instead of going to the Outback Steakhouse for a Bloomin' Fuckin' Onion,

we're at the hospital where your daughter is on life support because she's brain dead from doing GHB, and he tells them, tells the family they were doing GHB together, and they got out of control. Wow. And he doesn't even remember what happens, he said, because he was all bloody too. I think I gave her that drop extra. A little too much. Yeah. Damn it.

Teaspoon. Yeah. Gotta get one in measuring cup things. In an English accent. Right. Obviously. But he's so dumb, we're giving him the dumbest of redneck accents. Not even a, just a southern accent, because that's fine.

It's a dumb southern accent. A dumb redneck accent. Huh? So the family told Chris to fuck fine. It's a dumb southern accent. A dumb redneck accent. Huh? So the family told Chris to fuck off. They didn't want him around, obviously. We barely know you. You just got together with our daughter, and you've now basically killed her. Right.

Thanks. Have a good one. Nice to meet you. So he leaves the hospital. It's been a real pleasure, Mr. Gentleman. Yeah. They declare her brain dead, and the family decides to pull the plug. And that's it. Linda's dead the next day. 12 hours after they take her to the hospital she's fucking dead i mean

that's how shit that's yeah things turn sour with the ghb you think chris she's still got a fucking chihuahua in her ass yeah poor girl so now on the death of linda we have an in their own words in their own words quote it's the worst thing that's ever happened in my life. I don't think I will ever get over it. I can't imagine how her parents feel.

I have three children myself and it must be awful. I hate that quote because first he says it's the worst thing that's ever happened in my life. I don't ever think

I will get over it. Then he sounds like he's a good con man so he's like, oh shit, I'm too far on the mean. There's way too many I's. There's way too many I's. I can't imagine how her parents feel because my kids, I'm too far on the meat. There's way too many eyes.

I can't imagine how her parents feel, because my kids, I don't know how they would feel. That's amazing. Yeah, exactly. He's full of shit. He's too smart to even be that stupid. You know what I mean? Now, at this point, Jesus Christ, his wrestling career is fucked. It's over.

He's trying to be an independent promoter. It's all in the papers that his girlfriend just died of drug overdoses. Goddamn Boo Ray's house is a mess now. There's jizz everywhere. There's jizz and shitty Taco Bell dogs. And orange juice containers. Muddy paramedic footprints. It's a disaster area over there. Poor Gene and Cyril are sitting over there in England going,

what the hell happened to my nice little boy? Tony Walsh is going, well there's he's a drug addict that's one box that's one you know check that one he's got this check that one he's not in a wheelchair or a box yet we'll keep those his he's got children that are a complete fucking mess they never see him i feel bad for all these people jimmy i feel bad for all these people, Jimmy. Chris Adams. I feel bad for all these people. There's so many. Not as bad as I feel for these people. And I tried to find,

because there's a trillion Chris Adams. You can't throw a pencil out of the window and not hit a Chris Adams. So I tried to find the most upstanding Chris Adams I could find. The ones that have succeeded. Not as bad as I feel for Chris Adams, a ground officer with the U.S. Air Force from Duluth, Minnesota. Dr. Chris Adams, a ground officer with the U.S. Air Force from Duluth, Minnesota.

Dr. Chris Adams, a rheumatologist in Opelika, Alabama, which I love that. Chris Adams, a financial analyst at an investment banking firm, Harvey & Company, LLC, in Orange County, California. Chris Adams, a professor of internal medicine and endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Iowa. That man's successful. And finally, a man that he's going to need here, Chris Adams, criminal defense attorney

in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Call 770-676-1083 for a free consultation. Get yourself down there if you're a criminal in Georgia. Help our listeners out. You can go to GHB and have a body laying somewhere. That's right.

You kill your girlfriend on GHB, this is the man to help you. Holland. Chris Adams. That's our guy. So after Linda's death, needless to say, his mental state spirals out of control.

He's a disaster now way more than he was before. His life is deteriorating at a rapid pace. Imagine the drinking. Oh, God. It's got to be so gross. His rapid imagine the drinking and oh god it's got to be so gross his friends are worried about it oh no no he smells like sour mash oh he's finding the cheapest plastic jug shit that they have he's not even looking for the buzz he's just looking to

fucking feel normal to kill the whatever to kill the monster that lives inside of him uh he's hospitalized for depression at this point. He continues to see a psychiatrist. He moves to Florida for a few months to move in with this complete and utter scumbag guy from this documentary that I saw. I didn't even write down his name because he's worthless, this guy.

He was some, like, hanger-on, wannabe wrestler, manager, singer, asshole. He just looked like a douchebag. He's milking every aspect of anybody that has talent. He's trying to figure out if he can hang on with that. Absolutely, man. He's a jazz singer. He's not doing well.

He's not doing well at this point, too. He has not been charged with anything for Linda's death. Really? They're still looking into it. It's under investigation. There's autopsies. There's all these toxicology and shit. But the GHB gets out of your system very quickly also

so that's if your system's operating if it's operating at all it hasn't shut down late 2000 Chris calls a woman

named Pam now this woman Pam is a wrestling office worker she's apparently on the documentary they called her the webmaster

of a wrestling site actually a webmistress they called her it's a little creepy sounds like she's a dominatrix, and I've seen this woman, and I don't want to see her in that outfit. Some ball-crushing videos? Absolutely. Yeah, that's what it looks like, her and Sally

McNeil. No, she's a larger woman. Let's just leave it at that. Chris leaves a message on her answering machine. I don't know what the beef is, because they didn't get into it, but he was pissed. Really? He is screaming and yelling and calling her a fat bitch and a cunt and yelling and calling her a fat bitch and a cunt and this and that awesome and tells her that she messed with his business for the last

time because he was an independent promoter at this point and apparently she must have done something to piss him off gotcha and said that if she didn't stop she'd quote end up just like linda oh jesus yeah so that's not the thing you want to say. That sounds suspicious. That's incriminating. So she plays the tape for her friend Lacey, who's this other woman who knows Chris and knows all the deal. Lacey tells her that's pretty scary. Pam gets scared and tells other mutual friends. They all encourage her to go to the police with the recording.

The Lacey woman contacts the police for her and say i have a recording of chris adams saying this and they go well that sounds interesting we'd like to hear that thank you imagine this i just love to hear a completely angry british accent saying this on the phone too like a threatening very proper british accent just threatening that would be amazing i'd be like that's so cute he's from a town of dessert he's from it's got frosting oh that's adorable so this town has sprinkles after this with yeah after with the recording that must have been the cherry on top of the dessert of their case because collin county district attorney martin laco submits it to a grand jury at this point and they that's that's a rough one. Once you go to a grand jury, you can indict anything

in a grand jury. Now, this is Chris's... Chris on life, I'm going to call this, and in their own words from Chris here. In their own words, quote,

I thought I had paid my dues and that it would never end. It's like a roller coaster ride. It's six flags. It's up and down and then something comes along and makes it crash. Yes, you.

Yeah. You're the thing that comes along and makes it crash yes you you're the thing that comes along and makes it crash by choking the pilot to death in a short fuse in a short fuse

when you choke the pilot to death that causes crashes absolutely so yeah he's a fucking moron so anyway June of 2001

Lacey like I said after she gave the tape to the homicide and they did the whole thing Chris is indicted

in June of 2001 and turns into an indictment indictment one count of manslaughter which I mean you're not going to say he didn't cut her head off or anything

but it seems shady that could return 12 years yeah they turn the case over to the DA's office the whole deal in Texas a person can be convicted

of manslaughter for recklessly causing someone else's debt that's the only thing i looked it up because i'm an asshole but yes that's the only thing uh he is freed on 25 000 bail which i don't know where the hell he got that from at this point in his life i don't know boo ray put her put his mama's house up or what but uh yeah uh adam's defense attorney david j pyrere, a Dallas attorney, said, quote, Jesus, this is an asshole, quote. This is a, I want to punch this guy bad.

This is a silver-haired, middle-aged asshole here. Quote, if he had slipped or something, that would be one thing. But she was partaking in it. It's a tragedy that a young woman died, but I don't believe it rises to the level of reckless. The fact that she's dead means it rises to the level of reckless. The fact that she's dead means it rose to the level of reckless. He recklessly sprinkled too much GHB in her fucking

drink. That's what happened. So, yeah. What would be considered reckless at that point? Would he have to throw acid on her and have her melt into the floorboards? She was clearly enjoying herself. She was laughing at a chihuahua. Yeah, exactly.

She was fine. She was asking for it. She was asking for that. That's the universal sign for wanting to be killed with a drug. You'll kill her with Taco Bell. That is code for

give me tons of GHB. Kill me now. Just kill me now. I don't care how you do it. That was his chosen method. That's all. Now, we have an in their own words

on the manslaughter charge from this whole thing. In their own words, quote, I feel guilty, but I just don't think I'm guilty of what they're accusing me of. It was a tragic mistake. Yes, and when someone dies from your tragic stupidity, that's called manslaughter. When you cause the death. Let me read it again. When you cause the death, recklessly causing again when you cause the death could uh recklessly

causing someone else's death that's it that's that's the only threshold for it that's the law the law is very simple it's too long you just said exactly that's what you did exactly right so now late 2000 we're still going here boo ray says that this like while this was going on that chris wanted to have lacy killed the Lacey woman who turned the tape over to the homicide. Boo Ray said that? Boo Ray said that. Chris, that's all he was talking about. Chris was saying, I don't give a fuck.

I'm going to kill her. I want her fucking dead. And Boo Ray's going, hey, listen, if you kill her, who do you think they're coming to? You and me, too, probably, because I'm your boy. So maybe not a good idea. And Chris said, I don't give a fuck as long as she's dead. I want to kill her. I don't care if I go to jail for the rest of my life it's worth it if i go though

i would care for me personally as as boo ray right here boo ray doesn't want to go to jail no so let's not kill her he went as far as contacting a hitman and the hitman even refused to do it because apparently he wasn't fucking retarded and he knew that if, that they would get caught because it's gonna go, you know. They're coming right to you, They're coming right to you

and then you're gonna fold. You threatened her already. It's on tape. I don't trust Boo Ray. Boo Ray's gonna fold like a cheap table and then I'm going to prison. No thanks.

You have a friend named Boo Ray. It's not happening. Absolutely. So November 2000, Chris meets Karen, another lady. That's what he needs Absolutely. So November 2000, Chris meets Karen. Another lady. That's what he needs. Another woman in his life. They fall madly in love again. Of course they do.

Chris is a very passionate man. He's very charming. Chris, he's for lovers, this guy. So Karen says they're soulmates. Chris overdoses on GHB again. There's another incident, of course. The four hours, he rips the shit out. So awesome.

So your life's in turmoil. What do you do, Jimmy? You get married. He got married, Jimmy. On August 25th, 2001, you get married again. He marries Karen. She's seen him fucking overdose on GHB. Unreal. She's like, that's my man.

And in her interview, she's just like, I don't know. He was fine. He was just great. She will not say a word about him that's my man. And in her interview she's just like I don't know he was fine. He was just great. She will not say a word about him that's not I don't know what everyone's

talking about. I don't know. Yeah you've been dragged by a car you do know. So for the wedding Chris does a completely douchey thing

and dresses up in a Doc Holliday costume. Oh Jesus. Chris is obsessed with Doc Holliday. That's his favorite character of all time. Loves him.

Rents a Doc Holliday costume rents Karen a of all time loves him rents a Doc Holliday costume rents Karen a dress to match like an old west dress and they get married like that Boo Ray's the best man

so you're dressed like Doc Holliday with a guy named Boo Ray standing next to you Boo Ray Earp this is a fucking way of Boo Ray Earp

this is a white trash wedding Boo Ray Earp and Duck Adams over here Sipping on fucking Sassboro at a wedding. Now Karen had two

children from a previous relationship, a boy and a girl because you want to introduce more kids to this. Kids actually loved Chris.

That's one thing. No kid, they interviewed a lot of kids that were around. No kid ever had a bad word to say about Chris. They said he's fun,

he's a nice guy, he would do silly shit to make them laugh. He was a big kid basically. He's not an uncle bear and all that

shit. Absolutely. But yeah, he probably doesn't get drunk around the kids I would imagine would be the big thing here. he would do silly shit to make them laugh he was a big kid basically he's not an uncle bear and all that shit absolutely but yeah he probably doesn't get drunk around the kids I would imagine would be the big thing here it's funny when he

passes out for four hours yeah exactly now we introduce Dorothy Parnell who's Boo Ray's mother and my favorite character in this whole fucking thing she says that

Chris and Karen were at the house one time when she heard Chris berating Karen cursing at her calling her names threatening, telling her to get the fuck out. Karen says that Chris was nothing but sweet all the time. So she's like, I don't know what you're talking about.

That was fine. And this is a nice old southern lady going, he was saying awful things to her. And she said, I went to Boo Ray and I said, now if Chris doesn't stop doing that, I'm going to have to ask him to leave. That's how nice she was. Now I'm going to call the police. I'm going to have to ask him to leave. Now that's not polite to yell at that girl like that. I think he just backhanded her.

No, that's not nice. So this poor woman, after this incident here of the Karen thing, Chris apparently, they took off together. When Boo Ray said, hey, my mother's, whatever, Chris said, fine, threw her in the fucking car and passed her to the side. My mother said,

you've got to leave. Yeah, hooked her up to the trailer hitch and drove away. And that night, he gets arrested for a DUI on the way home. Oh my God.

And apparently, he was drinking then and they said he was drinking more and I think they had pulled over off the side of the road and they were drinking and a cop came up and arrests him.

Now, after this arrest and after all this, Chris goes way religious. Way religious. Really? What's rule number two?

Yeah. Don't find God. Never find fucking religion when you're an athlete in trouble. Stay away from religion, away from your hometown, all of this shit.

And he did not. He goes, and he goes religious in a, not just a, hey, I think I'm going to go to church once in a while. He goes religious in a, not just a, I think I'm going to go to church once in a while. He goes to a Pentecostal church where they,

and I saw the preacher in this documentary and he is talking some horse shit. He's going, I saw a woman with a tumor and it was a four pound tumor in her neck and the doctors cut it out and it fell right out of there and the wound closed and healed before my eyes.

God healed it. I saw it. I saw it. saw people are clapping instead of leaving fucking kidding me instead of leaving it should have been at least 20 people get the fuck out of here and i'm not this guy's an asshole it should have been nothing but the sound of footsteps walking out the door after he said that a parade of people unreal flipping him off as they leave. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. So Chris was trying to get out of the wrestling business

in late 2001. He was going to be a sales guy for a friend's limo company because he's a good salesman. He owed at least $50,000 to the IRS. Of course. And he also owed his ex-wife about the same amount of money. His ex-wife, Toni, from divorces in 1994. Good God.

I don't know how long he's owed this money for. He couldn't get work at this point. He was supposed to be on a wrestling card, a couple of wrestling cards. But the sponsors would tell the promoters, if he's on it, I'm not doing it anymore because he just killed his goddamn girlfriend. And there's charges. He's fucking indicted for manslaughter. He's got DUIs everywhere. And he's indicted for manslaughter. He's living with karen taking care of the kids at this point she's in

total denial to karen she thinks everything's bliss um october 7 2001 you know when a date comes up it's not great you betcha chris tells a friend the crackhead girl from the documentary whose name i don't care about she's a crackhead uh that he needs 20 dollars and can he borrow 20 from her because he needs to put gas in his car he says he has to go see his lawyer he's at a point where 20 bucks is a problem uh she didn't have it so he tells her okay he tells her he scraped up a dollar 50 and change from the couch cushions and around the house to get gas so this guy went from this is how to get gas. So this guy went from, this is how we've come to arrive here, this guy went from top of the world, douchebag, Corvette-driving, pilot-stomping lunatic to $1.50.

He's got 43 sticky pennies in his hand. Yeah, unreal. So he scrapes that up, gets gas, calls Boo Ray, tells him he'll be over around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Going to go hang out with Boo Ray. Apparently they'd both been depressed, Boo Ray and Chris, and they were just going to hang out. And they were trying to promote a wrestling show coming up.

So they were going to plan it and talk about it, whatever. Anyway, Karen was having a girls' night out that night. She was out hanging out with Cracky fucking from the documentary there. Chris doesn't arrive at Boo Ray's till 7 p.m. He's supposed to be there at 2. So they talk about the wrestling show. Sorry I'm five hours late. Yeah.

The sun's down. The sun's sorry. So they discuss the show for a couple hours. Somewhere Boo Ray had differing takes. First he said an hour and a half, then he said three hours. We don't know how long. Either way, it's almost tomorrow. So it's almost, it it's almost it's been

a while so uh they suggest uh chris suggests they watch a movie let's watch a movie let's just you know stop this we'll put a tape on we'll do something this is still bcrs at this point uh chris suggests frank and jesse which is a 1994 film about frank and jesse james it's a western he's really into that shit this sounds terrible by the way it's an hbo original usually they make good stuff but this is uh starring rob lowe as jesse james and bill paxton as frank james no lowe is jesse james are you kidding me he didn't even have a hat on he said his hair styled perfectly the fuck out of here it's got a 5.9 on imdb 5.9 out of 10 stars not real well that's a high rating for that piece of shit yeah It's got a 5.9 on IMDb. 5.9 out of 10 stars. Not real well. That's a high rating for that piece of shit.

Yeah, and out of 10, not that great. That's mediocre. Almost 6. So we're at Boo Ray's house in Waxahachie, Texas, which sounds nice. All of you overseas listeners, I'm sure you want to visit there. Anything with achy at the end of it is not good. That's the opposite of shire. Right.

atchee at the end of it is not good. That's the opposite of shire. Right. If shire means nice and deserty, atchee means swamps and shit fucking. There's a gator

in your front yard. Yeah, there's a sewage plant there. So Chris, like we said, into the old Westia, the duck holiday thing. So he's into the movie. An hour into the movie, Boo Ray asks Chris

to close the door. They're in Boo Ray's bedroom. They're grown men. These, Chris is damn near 50 years old. Right. Seriously. He's 45 years old.

Boo Ray's like in his 40s and they're, he's, Boo Ray's living in his mom's house and they're in his bedroom watching a fucking movie like they're 12. It's ridiculous

how far these people have fallen. Watching a shitty western. Yeah, so he tells Chris, can you keep the door closed and kind of keep it down because my mom is asleep in the next room was like 75 years old now these people are so fucking white trash and dorothy was kind of charming i mean she she was like an old southern

lady i'll have to ask yeah old southern ladies are super charming when they're not saying the n-word they're super fucking charming at that point whenever that then it comes down you go that sounded a little harsh get to politics or religion they're great they're not saying the n-word they're super fucking charming at that point whenever that then it comes down you go oh that sounded a little harsh get to politics or religion they're great they're great boo ray calls karen and at midnight here and leaves a message on her machine saying that she needs to call chris because chris needs to talk to her chris was angry at her he was talking shit about her i wonder what she's doing out there he's been drinking he's pissed she's out fucking some guy he's feeling not great about himself uh yeah chris was getting belligerent in general now now boo ray doesn't understand exactly what happens next here uh but something provoked chris basically something provoked chris boo ray the only thing he could think of was the they said

what provoked him and he said the only thing I can think of is I told him to keep it down because of my mom he goes other than that he goes I don't know what happened

like he was belligerent over her but everything was fine Chris was drunk Jekyll and Hyde he fucking snapped starts cursing

at Boo Ray getting louder and louder and Boo Ray's like hey my mom blah blah blah Chris gets up shoves Boo Ray

across the room bourre crashes into a wall and you know over the car bourre is a 250 pound or two he's no small guy but chris knows what he's doing here i mean he's a judo champ threw him across the car bed throws him throws him across his car bed absolutely he falls over hits his head on the dinosaur lamp and you know bleeds out with the nightlight on him showing a really nice leg against the fucking this this playing against the light bright tag machine on his face yeah so he this is a he's got a four post bed in this room because they showed the room he's got a four post bed chris breaks off a fucking bed post that's? That's how out of his mind

insane and strong he was in this time. He rips up, as he's walking over to Boo Ray, he's just shoved, he rips a post off the bed and starts going

to attack him with it. Wow. Absolutely nuts. Boo Ray puts his hand up and blocks it and he said he broke a couple of his fingers and cut him open

and whatever to block the thing. But he finally wrestled the post out of his hand because he doesn't want to be beaten to death with a piece of wood so chris according to bourre then puts bourre in a sleeper hold like a real one though not a wrestling fake you know brutus beefcake he's going down this is like i'm gonna choke you to death right sleeper hold uh a real one here so these are two large 250 pound men fighting in a bedroom. Yeah. In a small, probably his childhood bedroom.

Right. So, I mean, insane. It's tiny. They crash into the... Nine by nine. Yeah, they crash into... I saw the room. It's tiny, man.

Yeah. And they crash into the window. They broke out a bunch of panes of glass. Bure had cuts on his side. Wow. It's getting real. It's getting real. They go from there.

Chris overpowers Bure, pushes him onto his bed and jumps on top of him and starts gouging his eyes out he says and he said he said he bit him boo ray said chris bit him this is a street fight yeah and then he starts choking him yeah he started choking him out on top of him on his bed so boo ray says quote i was at that point uh this is what's gonna sound weird but it's the truth i I swear on my daddy's grave his eyes were like glowing. It seemed like the exorcist. So he's a drunken redneck

who thinks this guy's eyes are glowing. Either way he's frightened. That's probably because you were seeing the light. You were probably close to death. He said quote he had the strength of three Chrises. Which is a lot of funny shit. Not three men, three Chrises. Now Bure has a handgun next to his bed on his nightstand.

Boo Ray grabs the handgun and hits Chris with the pistol a few times, quote, to try to knock some sense in him. Jimmy, I don't like the way you're doing that. Let me knock some sense in you. Clack, clack, clack. But he said, quote, heack, clack. You're at the 38. But he said, quote, he just kept getting stronger. Wow.

So Boo Ray said, I was at that point, I was about to pass out. I mean, he really, and I'm quoting him exactly. I mean, he really, he had my air cut off. I couldn't breathe. He just kept getting stronger and stronger. I knew it was either him or me, and I had no choice but to shoot him. So he shoots him with the.38. It was a.38?

It was a.38. He shoots him. Oh, my God. He shoots him. Chris goes down. He runs out of the room. He calls 911 right away. Cops and ambulance come.

When they show up, Bure's still on the phone with 911. He's, like, in the window with a gun in his hand, and then they instructed him to. So he said he came to the door, like, with the gun, like, holding it like that by the barrel. Yeah, and then they instructed him to... They dropped that shit? He came to the door with the gun, holding it like that by the barrel. So they took it from him. The old ladies didn't wake up. His aunt and his mom are in the house. They're like 80 years old.

They slept through a murder? They slept through a murder. Cops were surprised that they slept through the fight, because they've got two grown men in a room next to you. That would have been loud. He snapped a fucking post off. And they said, wow, I mean, Jesus, I mean, you'd think you'd be surprised in the gunshot,

and she went, I didn't hear any gunshot. She didn't even hear a gunshot, so she's useless as a witness at this point. The cops had to get them out of bed, basically, to go, hey, hold on, there's a murder scene. You guys are going to have to come outside for a minute. Can you come outside for us? Police find a ton of painkillers

and Xanax and Valium and shit like that, but these are wrestlers. I mean, this is normal shit for them. Police, of course, call Karen to tell her that Chris is dead because Chris is dead on the spot.

They can't... Hey, remember that message you should have called? You should have called. Chris is dead. Because you can't call him now. She freaks out. Boo Ray is arrested for murder.

They don't believe his story at first. Poor Boo Ray. I actually feel bad for him. I do, too. He's so dumb. He's put up with so much shit, too. He's gone through some shit. He's been such a pal.

If you watch the documentary, too, because you can hear his voice. He's sopped up so much jizz. He's like, oh, man. I don't know. I'm just, you know. Yeah, he's sopped up jizz and cleaned up shitty Taco Bell dogs. Right. He's held in the Ellis County bail.

His bail's set at $300,000. He's, yeah, he's fucked here. He's in jail. Chris is dead. We have some quotes on some of the people about Chris. We have his ex-manager, Gary Hart, who's a great heel manager. Eulogize him, Gary. He said, quote, he was one of the greatest people, a true dear friend.

But something about when he starts to drink, bad things happen. If it wasn't for alcohol, none of this would have happened. So you need to listen to this podcast. Yes. Steve Austin. He's not a great person. Steve Austin has a little different obituary and eulogy for him. Steve Austin says, quote, gentlemen, Chris Adams trained me and got my foot in the door

in this business at a time when he had to know somebody to get in. He was a pile of crap, though. That's why I didn't comment when Chris died and the Dallas Morning News called me. I wasn't going to run him down in the paper because the guy was dead, but I didn't think a whole lot of him. He was just a picture of insincerity to anyone he ever met. Nobody liked the guy. He was a con man, period. You, sir, may fuck off. That's the best fuck off i wanted to hear a judge say that shit to him unbelievable so i his services here october 10 2001 they held his services at donnelly's colonial funeral home in irving texas at the funeral the next day buried at oak grove memorial gardens in irving texas if you want to go check him out he's in the garden of faith section

lawn crypt a17 if you want to go find chris adams you can i don't know why you would uh boo ray they end up doing a whole trial for boo ray boo ray claiming self-defense the whole time and in the end boo ray is acquitted good for boo ray is out boo ray is doing well he's acquitted i mean basically said, we have a guy who's got drunk. He's got a lot of alcohol and drugs in his system. A history of just insane off-the-charts violence. From Israel to Miami to the air. To Texas to the sky.

We can go miles north above us and he's hurt people there. 30,000 feet above the Atlantic. Let's talk to Brandy and see how it feels to be dragged from a car after being beaten for a couple hours. Unbelievable. So, we could talk to Brandy,

but we really can't because she dies in 2003 because everything Chris touches turns to shit. To shit. Brandy dies in 2003 of a drug overdose,

of course. That's a mess. Now, June 24th, 2010, Tony, his ex-wife, dies at the age of course. That's a mess. Now, June 24th, 2010, Tony, his ex-wife, dies at the age of 45. Wow. Weird shit, too.

She had an abscess in her abdomen, and she went to the hospital and then went home and was back a couple days later and had a horrible cardiac arrest and died. Wow. 45 years old.

The abscess must have erupted. Everything he touches turns to shit. Everybody loses. You can check Chris out, some Chris memories out if you want. His children, all of them, launched from different relationships. They launched a website to him, a memorial website on February 26, 2011 called GentlemanChrisAdams.com. If you want to go there, he shows a bunch of pictures and highlights if

you guys want to see him like wrestle just look up chris adams world class and i don't want to see anything fucking death shots he's a there's a lot of crime scene photos is there i didn't see i saw one of him from the other room where you could see like his back he was like on he was like basically like hands and knees kind of on the bed. And you can see, like, his ass and his feet. But you couldn't see the top half of him where the gunshot was. So I saw that. Did they hit him in the head?

They hit him in the head. Nice. And they also showed, like, the gun was, like, next to the Frank and Jesse tape up on the thing, which was kind of funny. Just a mess of a scene. It was going to be a fun night oh my god so guys that's Chris Adams

he's a fucking mess of epic proportions goodbye Chris a goddamn disaster sayonara asshole salute fuck off friend him and call him a cunt

I don't know what else to say wow what an asshole I hate him it would have been better off if he would have stayed in England and done architecture no doubt and stopped drinking yeah hate him. It would have been better off if he would have stayed in England and done architecture. No doubt.

And stopped drinking. Yeah. A lot of people would have been saved. Stay out of the booze. Yeah. One where he killed his exes that he beat and maimed and everything else. Their kids have no fathers. He had a kid with Brandy, too.

That's an orphan. Yeah. You know? Both parents dead by 2003. They got for Stone Cold for wrestling the other one for a while. It's horrible. That's our story. We're going to do

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tweeted at him and told him to strap in because this is going to be his new favorite podcast. So welcome aboard Daddy Pop and Andrew Bailey and Nathan Bland. Thanks for being along for so long fellas. I have to say one thing. The Reverend, the good Reverend Jonathan Gilliard, started his Twitter account,

and his name on Twitter, not just his actual at, is JohnGilliardRev. We fucking love you. That's gorgeous. We love you, dude. You have no idea, brother. And Nina D. Hurd wrote me on Instagram.

She followed me, and I followed her back, because that's just what I do. And she wrote me some of the nicest things I've ever heard about the podcast. So thanks, Nina, for saying such cool things. We appreciate it so much.

Jeanette Kozad and a new one, Carl Rushdran. Thank you. Definitely. Aria Moore, Derek Hans, and Taylor Wilson,

Lee Brown, and Linda Bailey. Thank you guys so much for listening. Also to Michelle Shannon Grisso sent us from Boise, Idaho. She had sent us something before. Sent us another really nice message saying how she's going back and re-listening to all the shows.

Awesome. And just loves it. And we can't thank you enough, Shannon and Boise. Thanks for giving a shit, you guys. Because this is really fun when there's this many people involved. It's really fucking beautiful. Thank you, guys. It's really fucking beautiful. Thank you, guys.

We're trying to grow. We're trying to get more sponsors and more things and do better shows. And we have new stuff coming up that we're still working on. We'll keep you guys updated on it. This is not all we're going to be doing. We have more stuff coming at you. We're going to have a good time. But this is it, guys.

Thank you so much. We can't do it without you guys. Honestly, we still don't have a network. And we're gonna have a good time but this is it guys thank you so much we can't do it without you guys honestly we still we don't have a network and we're not really looking for one but we don't really have a network we don't have anybody pushing us i mean audio boom helps us when they can a little bit but they're not a network like that they can't push us to itunes and shit like that like all these other motherfuckers that put out a goddamn preview episode and they're like number fucking two on the charts are you fucking kidding me you put out four fucking are you they have fucking no reviews and one fucking preview episode of four minutes and they're number two on the fucking charts

there's ones that are number one jimmy number one we've been breaking our fucking balls for eight months we have more listeners than half these motherfuckers on their goddamn top 150 iTunes chart in America and fucking society and culture. Son of a fucking bitch. And these cocksuckers get fucking a four-minute preview episode telling you what they're going to do. What they're gonna do. Bullshit. What they're gonna do. And then have a bunch of people who work for their network write a fucking review saying, this is gonna be great.

I can't wait. Normal people don't fucking do that. And they get rated? They get rated. And then people will give them one star reviews going how the fuck are all these people giving five star reviews when nothing's come out yet. And by the way, you haven't put

shit out yet. How are you number one? And that's what it is. So you know what? Help us. Get us on the... We don't have a network pushing us to bullshit things. We're working our balls off for this. For half-assing it. That's not even half-assing it. That's not even giving it a tell. No.

It's just saying, one day I'm going to do some shit. I do more fucking work on this goddamn thing fucking Monday morning than these cocksuckers have done forever. That's fine though. You know what? Fuck them. You guys keep helping us. Keep listening. Tell your friends because it's all you guys. Crime and sports movement.

It's you guys. It's not us. It's out of our hands at this point. Thank you guys so much. Thanks for pushing us. That giant angry thing was to say thank you guys because you guys are real listeners that actually enjoy what we do and we thank you so much for listening each and every week.

Stick around. Stick around, guys. Jimmy, you want to give them your social media? I'm at WismanSucks on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. W-H-I-S-M-A-N sucks. And I am at JimmyPIsFunny. And you can find me on, look for my last name, Petrogallo. Good luck finding him.

It's a scavenger hunt to spell my last name. It's got an I in there somewhere. Best of luck following him. Good luck, fuckers. I dare you to make me successful. You can call me a cunt. I don't know. You can find my name through the podcast.

No big deal. Look us up, though. Thank you, guys. We love you so much. Just for you. Hey, Prime members. You can listen to Crime and Sports early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.

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