The Harland Highway - 775 - Muhamad Ali's 1st boxing coach calls in. WOLF news.

Episode Date: June 16, 2016

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Well, well, well, look who it is. Look who it is. It's old nosy ears, listening in on me again into my private. Wait, no, this isn't private. This is for you. This is the Harlan Highway podcast. What am I talking about? Sorry about that. Welcome to the podcast, the Harlan Highway podcast. I am Harlan Williams, your host. Hi, would you like some crackers? What a show we have today. It's so exciting. Well, it's mixed. You know, Muhammad Ali recently passed away. way, and everyone's been scrambling for interviews with people from his past, and we were able to locate Troy Peterson, Muhammad Ali's very first boxing coach. He's still alive, and he is going to recount those early years when Muhammad Ali first stepped into a gym. This is going to be unbelievable. So stay tuned for that. Also, I'm going to be talking about nature and wolves and the ecosystem. system and how we all fit in together, how we all blend together, and how everything's a miracle

and a gift of life, and, oh, it's going to be so fun. And then also we're having one of my pissed off segments. Yes, there's something that I'm very pissed off about, and I go on a rant. I go on a rant, just a vent, and get it out of my system. Maybe you'll be pissed off at the same thing. But for now, we're going to be happy because it's starting. This is the Harland Highway. Where are I? What is this? Some kind of a joke or something? Welcome to the Harland Highway.

What you're talking about Williams? Son, you got a panty on your head. Shut up and sit down, you big ball fuck. Oh, God, what's happening here? What's happened? Hey, Harland, it's Shelby. You just made a wrong turn. On to the Harland Highway.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. That is fantastic. Yeah. What's wrong with everybody in this crazy place? The Harland Highway. What is it? The opening.

To what? To another dimension. This is Harland Williams. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man. That is fantastic. Yeah, that's the lonely cry of the wolf. I don't know if you guys are nature freaks or fanatics.

Do you like your nature? I think we all like nature on some level. I mean, you always get the odd person that's, you know, just a city bumpkin, you know? Every now and then you'll meet someone. You ever been camping, man? You ever been canoeing? Oh, God, no. I would never go.

Are you kidding? Is there a subway in the forest? Then no. I mean, is there a Starbucks when you're canoeing? Hell no. You crazy? and the forest where aren't there leaves there and stuff? So sometimes you get those people,

but I came across a very interesting little snippet that I think this thing's about two minutes long and I'd like to play it for you guys because it, you know, I heard this and I was reminded, as we all should be, how intricate the balance is, in nature and how sometimes we separate ourselves from nature and think of nature as animals and snow and mountains, but we're the human beings, we're over here.

You know, nature's cool, but, you know, it's like going to the mall. If I want nature, I'll go to nature. But you're in nature, even though you live in a city or a town. You know, nature is all around, and we're kind of occupying. nature space for now someday I'm pretty sure nature will reclaim all of it but for now we can pretend that

you know we're the top dogs and we're running the show and you know we we control nature uh uh uh but this was a there's a very interesting piece that not only made me think about how everything's connected but uh it also made me kind of think about how how intricate

and how everything is put together, almost like a puzzle, how one piece of the puzzle affects the other piece of the puzzle. And it does really make you think in broader terms, beyond the scope of nature. Hearing this piece made me think about God. It made me think about, wow, everything just fits so well. Could it be just a random biology and evolution that created this balance, this dance,

all the moving pieces that seem to fit together to make the planet and all the living organisms work? I don't know, man. And that's what I like about this piece. It talks about, you know, not just the world around us, but it makes you kind of question and think in broader terms of how everything living fits together. So have a listen and see if you get anything out of this piece that I enjoyed.

Here it is. One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades. A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom. And the classic example is what happened in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States when wolves were reintroduced in 1995. Now, we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we're slightly

less aware that they give life to many others. Before the wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years, that the numbers of deer, because there were nothing to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone park and despite efforts by humans to control them, they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing. They'd just grazed it away. But as soon as the wolves arrived, even though they were few in number, they started to have the most remarkable effects. First, of course, they killed some of the deer, but that wasn't the major thing. Much more significantly, they radically changed the behavior of the deer. The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park,

the places where they could be trapped most easily, particularly the valleys and the gorges. And immediately those places started to regenerate. In some areas, the height of the trees quintupled in just six years. Bear valley sides quickly became forests of aspen and willow and cottonwood. And as soon as that happened, the birds started moving in. The number of songbirds of migratory birds started to increase greatly. The number of beavers started to increase greatly. The number of beavers started to increase because beavers like to eat the trees. And beavers like wolves are ecosystem engineers. They create niches for other species. And the dams they built in the rivers provided habitats for otters and musk rats and ducks and fish and reptiles and amphibians. The wolves killed coyotes.

And as a result of that, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers. Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed on the carrion that the wolves had left. Bears fed in it too, and their population began to rise as well, partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs. And the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer. But here's where it gets really interesting.

The wolves changed. the behaviour of the rivers. They began to meander less. There was less erosion, the channels narrowed, more pools formed, more riffle sections, all of which were great for wildlife habitats. The rivers changed in response to the wolves. And the reason was that the regenerating forests stabilised the banks so that they collapse less often,

so that the rivers became more fixed in their course. Similarly, by driving the deer out of some places and the vegetation recovering on the valley sides, there was a soil erosion because the vegetation stabilised that as well. So the wolves, small in number, transformed not just the ecosystem of the Yellowstone National Park, this huge area of land, but also its physical geography.

Oh, excuse me, excuse me, uh, whew, you know, nothing like a good wolf howl. They should have studio, you know the way they have yoga studios and Pilates studio. A good wolf howl just, it releases something from the soul. It taps into the base of your stomach and up through your esophagus and out your throat. And it's, what a beautiful release. Oh, if you don't choke to death. But so I don't know if you guys enjoyed that little clip, but I found it quite fascinating.

And, you know, did the wolves really change the environment? Well, to a degree they did, but at the end of the day, it was really the vegetation that changed the environment. Because obviously with the trees growing up, they secure the banks of the rivers, they secure the soil, they inhibit the erosion that can, you know, take nutrients away from the land and erode the river banks and blah, blah, blah. But the wolves were the catalyst for this, as you heard. And it's just fascinating the way how one species can have such an effect on the whole chain. And this is stuff that these are nature's lessons that can never be forgotten and often are, and, you know, as we lose more and more species every year, it's scary and it's

sad to hear and sad to see. And so this was, I thought, a very cool reminder and insight into that world. And, and, you know, on the note, on the positive note of human beings, you know, kind of destroying nature, which we do. I know for a fact that a lot of the lumber companies that do go in and strip out many, many forests and trees in nature, they at least understand this process of how delicate riverbanks are. and that with riverbanks that don't have any support,

there can be widespread devastation, and it can affect wildlife, it can affect the whole geography of a region. And so because I worked in the lumber industry back in the day, I learned that lumber companies are required by the government when they do harvest a location. they, by law, have to leave a certain amount of foilage and lumber and trees on the riverbanks. So the lumber companies are not allowed to harvest all the way down to the river's edge.

They must leave a, you know, I think it's a 20-foot or 25-foot parameter on each side of the riverbed to prevent just such destruction of the environment. So that's good, even though you may oppose the lumber industry. It's something that us humans rely on. We need it to build our homes and things and to live. But at least there's a conscientious effort to take but not destroy. And in many cases, at least where I used to work, lumber companies were forced to pay for tree planting so that after they harvested a large area, they had to go back in and plant trees and

rejuvenate the area that they had cut. So anyways, you got to love the wolves and how they changed the behavior of the other animals that moved the grazers away and led the way to the rejuvenation of the plant life. And as you heard, down the line. Just cool stuff. I thought you might like that. And always respect nature, always love nature, and never forget. That's where we all came from. Don't piss me off.

This is Harland Williams. And you're really pissing me off. You're starting to piss me off, you little pigless son, bitch. You pissed me off. Shut up. Pissing me off These fucking assholes These fucking assholes

The fuck is their problem, man Oh yes As you can guess Another episode of what's pissing off Harland Here's what it is, man I don't know if you guys watch the news at all I know I do

And I enjoy watching the news I like the variety, I like I like the different stories. I like that they jump around from politics to world matters to quirky little fun stories, to social happenings, to, you know, the news. And I like to hop around. I'll go to CNN. I'll go to Fox.

I'll go to MSNBC. I like to get my news from all variations of outlets. And as we know, news is happening 24-7, and things are constantly changing and happening and erupting, and, you know, so you want to watch the news to be stimulated by things that are happening on our planet. And this is going to sound weird, but now I'm almost afraid, and this is where I get pissed off, I'm almost afraid of news happening. And you're like, what does that mean, Harlan? You just said you lack the news, and now you're telling us you're afraid of the news happening? I don't.

understand well here's what it is gang now sometimes when news happens these idiotic news stations are more interested in ratings than they are about continuing to deliver the news and so if a story breaks of what they feel is of greater significance than other stories they will cover that freaking news story like 24-7 sometimes for two three days days. Case and point recently, okay, there was another plane crash in Egypt. This was about, I don't know, three weeks, a month ago, probably a month ago now. And an Egypt airline, God rest everybody's soul, I think there was 60 or 70 people on board. This plane crashed over the Mediterranean and was gone. And so,

the minute it happened, CNN and Fox and all of them, they got on the news, and I'm not kidding, for three days, two and a half at least, nonstop, and this is in the middle of a heated, you know, presidential political racing in the United States. The news stations decide to follow this plane crash, and they did this with the Malaysian plane crash too. and for three freaking days it was talking head after talking head talking about the plane well where do you think it's gone what does it mean that it took a left turn

before it went off radar where's the black box what do you think aeronautics expert oh that's what you think okay well let's ask 12 more people just like you And by the way, none of you know what happened. So everything you're saying, you're just making up and guessing. And after, you know, 20 minutes of you telling us how airplanes work and what little black boxes do and all the shit we already know,

why don't you continue to talk to these people over and over and over and ask the same questions for three days? And God bless Muhammad Ali. We all love Muhammad Ali. But the minute that guy died, I went, uh-oh, here we go. And sure enough, 24 hours. You know, so-and-so, oh, Muhammad Ali was the greatest. Oh, what I wonder.

Can I tell you another story about Muhammad Ali? Let's show some footage of Muhammad Ali. Here's Muhammad Ali talking, and here's a clip of him fighting. Great. We all love Muhammad Ali. But, you know, tell the story in five minutes. and move on and then maybe the next hour

tell the story again for five minutes and so, you know, every hour dedicate five minutes instead of dedicating the whole hour for two days about Muhammad Ali. It's just so when I say now I'm afraid for news to happen

it drives me nuts if someone famous dies now if a plane crashes, if there's terrorist event or a shooting at a high school or a sniper. It's like, okay, I might as well turn off the news because these assholes are going to talk about the same thing over and over for three days. Everything else going on in the world just comes to a stop. And these guys are going to sit here and repeat themselves over and over and over and

interview the same person with a different voice over and over. Did you hear how pissed off I am? So can you just stop it? You know, in the old days before cable news, okay? You had the evening news. It came on NBC, ABC, and CBS. It was Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and these three guys came on every night

and they had a half hour to tell the news. And if Muhammad Ali died or a plane crashed or there was a terror, they gave each story about two, three, maybe four minutes if it was huge. they had to move on and finish the rest of the stories from all over the world. And nobody was the lesser. Nobody, you know, it was like, we got it. Hey, everybody.

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And so where I'm really pissed off, as you can hear, is, you know, having to suffer through this stuff. And we never like tragedy. We don't like bad news, but we get it. We also don't like to be beat into the ground with it, man. So while the networks think they're getting all these viewers and people watching, I just tune the hell out. So there you go That's what I'm pissed off about today And, uh, argue, arg, I'm mad,

Arg, I hope no news happens anymore So I don't have to watch it Even though I want to watch it Huh? It's 22 years later And Norman Bates is coming home I own a motel Not too far from here

And you'd be welcome to Spend the night in one of the empty rooms if you'd like Well, we were talking, you know, about the news cycle and, you know, me getting pissed off about the news. And obviously, as we all know, Muhammad Ali just recently passed away. And we thought it would be a disservice to not, you know, dedicate part of the show to him and his legacy and his life, his boxing career. And so Roger did some research. And we found, we dug up one of Muhammad Ali's earliest coaches. who worked with Muhammad from a very young age when he was 19,

right up until the end of his boxing career, professional boxing career. He was a coach, a mentor, an advisor to Muhammad, and I think we have him on the line, Roger. Troy Peterson? Yeah, put him through. Here we go. This should be very insightful and interesting. Uh, hello, Mr. Peterson.

Are you there, sir? Hello. Yes, sir. Uh, welcome to the Harland Highway, Mr. Peterson. Uh, thank you, Mr. Williams. It's just, uh, honor and a pleasure to be all such a wonderful, uh, broadcaster, such as yours. Well, thank you, uh, Mr. Peter. Where, where are you calling from today?

I, I'm out of Detroit, uh, Detroit, Michigan, and, uh, this is where I first met Muhammad. This is where I trained Mohammed and, uh, yes, uh, okay, great city and, uh, and so you started early on with, uh, with Muhammad Ali. You were his first coach? Uh, that is correct, sir. I, I taught, uh, Mr. Ali, uh, Muhammad Ali come into my, uh, bossing facility, my club. Uh, we got, we got a, we got a gym and a bossing club downtown and i'll never forget the day uh he walked in he was just a skinny a skinny little fellow and you know he had that big bright wide smile uh but the day he walked in

mr williams he just i can still he just stared at the man in the ring who was sparring at the He was mesmerized at the word that I could use. It was almost like I saw a light bulb go off in that boy's eyes. It was almost without me even ever to talk to him. He knew the moment he laid eyes on those men in the ring that he was born to be a puncher. It was quite a sight, Mr. Williams. Well, I can only imagine.

Wow, I wish there someone had a picture of that. You and me both, I wish I had taken a picture of that very moment, sir. Now, so you took him under your wing, and you taught him to box, you taught him to train? Absolutely. Mr. Williams, I have to say, what a wonderful student he was. I mean, he took the boxing like a bear to honey, just a natural. Yeah, it shows. I mean, this guy, he was a natural, right? Oh, absolutely. Even the holder boxes in the gym, they stopped to watch a Muhammad train. They couldn't believe the finesse that this young talent had.

Wow. And what were your techniques? What kind of training did you introduce into Muhammad's life to help? you know, compliment his skills, his boxing skills. Well, I took a very untraditional approach with Muhammad, Ali. Excuse me, Mr. Williams. I got a little bit of Pomon, you're not as young as I used to me now. I understand, sir. That's okay. And so, Muhammad, I can tell we're not going to be a traditional fighter.

And Muhammad, as you know, had a very kind. giving heart. He liked to do charity work in the community. Well, yeah, that is true. He had a very, very big heart. Are you okay, sir? Yeah, thank you if I missed

the way of the... Just, you know, I'm not as young as I used to be. Yes, sir. But, you know, in order to trade of Muhammad, I knew he was going to take a special technique that also played into, you know,

Mohammed's generous nature and wanted to give back to the community. Okay, that makes sense, absolutely. And do you remember in the movie Sylvester Stallone did back in the 70s called Rocky? Oh, yeah, everyone knows Rocky. Well, there was a scene in that movie where it showed Rocky training, okay? You remember him training Mr. Williams? He went to the meat block, down to the meat packing plant,

and Rocky would train by punching the sides of meat hanging down from the ceiling in the meat freezer. Do you remember this, Mr. Williams? Oh, that's unforgettable. I mean, he would go in, he was wearing his sweats. He got his little hat, and he was all bundled up, and it was such a graphic scene. He'd go in and he just literally started pummeling

the sides of beef hanging from meat hooks. from the ceiling and slap, slap, slap. That's right. That's right. Well, if you were to ask Slice Stallone about his inspiration for that scene, that came directly from the train and I did with Mohammed. Oh, really? Yes.

Tell us. Well, Muhammad was always, like I said, Mr. Williams, wanted to do community. Excuse me, wanted to do community. you know, corresponded and give back to the community

while he was traded. And so I was able to facilitate in the greater Michigan area. I was able

to come up with a list of all the seniors' homes across the great state of Michigan. You came across

a list of the senior homes, sir? Absolutely. And so I was able to take Muhammad around to

all these seniors' homes. Isn't that nice? visiting the elderly and inspiring them. Well, don't get ahead of the card here, Mr. William, now, I took Muhammad to the senior homes to train. Oh, he was training at the senior homes. Well, that's nice, too.

I mean, I'm guessing you put him down in the community center or the cafeteria, and he would hop around and keep the elderly folks entertained. Well, again, you're putting a horse ahead of the car, Mr. William. Now, Muhammad believed that people should go out when they wanted to go out. Now, you know, almost an early form of assisted suicide. Wait a minute, what does that mean? Well, as his way of giving back, Muhammad would find the weak and the elderly and the crippled and the people that, you know, were confined to a wheelchair, that look in the ride.

You know, they lived long enough and didn't want to carry on anymore. Oh, and so Muhammad was there in their final moments? Well, so to speak, Mr. Williamson, what we did is, Muhammad Ali was such a lethal puncture. It was such an accurate puncher, you know, the roped up. He just flew in, and his punches there resonated with so much power and so much accuracy. Oh, yeah, I have no doubt about that. And so we would find the elderly people that didn't want to go on anymore with life that kind of come to the end of the life, if you know what I'm saying.

Well, that is sad, yes. And so we would have read that the seniors' homes, would line these people up. Usually there was seven or eight per senior's home. And you and Muhammad Ali would put on a show for them, kind of like a dying wish. Well, if you know, if you let me fit it, Muhammad Ali, what he would do is he would, in essence,

put these people out of their misery. How do you mean by that, Mr. Peterson? Well, Muhammad Ali, as part of his trade, and similar to Rocky, when he punched that raw beef hanging from the meat locker ceiling, Muhammad Ali would do these elderly people of favor and punch them in the side of the head, you know, until they had expired. Uh, wait, what? Well, you know, he needed to train Mr. Williams, and so, uh, He would use the elderly people, just, you know, punch him in the temple or, you know, punch him repeatedly. He wore the boxing gloves, of course.

I mean, he did it humanely. Wait a minute. Hold on, sir. You're saying to me that Muhammad Ali trained, practiced his punching skills by punching elderly people in seniors' homes? Well, not. Mr. William, not just punching them, but by us helping them in the final moments of their life, and, you know, helping them to step into the other side and meet the maker, so to speak.

I mean, almost like a living angel. Wait a minute. Whoa. Hold on. You're telling me Muhammad Ali to train would... He would just dance in and around those wheelchairs, And, you know, people ask, how did Muhammad Ali develop his incredible footwork? And if you're dancing through a bunch of wheelchairs rolling around, a bunch of old people rolling around on the floor,

and you're trying to get your toes run over, you're going to dance, and you're going to be moving backwards and forwards, and you're throwing punches, You hit an old lady in the jaw that you back up and you smack an old man in the temple and whatnot. Hold on! You're telling me that Muhammad Ali trained to be the champion boxer that he did by punching old people to death? Well, Mr. William, I hear the emotion in your voice,

but everybody has the starting point. And I'll tell you. you what Mohammed Ali could not have been more happy to see these people, you know, at the end of their lives, move on to a better place. And, you know, with the big heart Mohammed had, if he could help facilitate that transition, he was more than happy to do it and in the same time work on his boxing. Sir, I don't know if many people knew about this. I mean, For a champion boxer to get his start and train by weaving and bobbing through those countless bodies of seniors

who are right one foot in the grave, and are you saying he punched them in the head? Right in the head. And you, you know, with a punch like Muhammad Ali, I mean, let's put it this way, Mr. Wood, they did not suffer long. Once Muhammad Ali wailed up. on side your, you know, 80-90-old skull, you know, it ain't going to take much to collapse it

and turn your brain into, you know, pudding. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is ridiculous, sir. This is unacceptable. Well, now, Mr. Williams, if Rocco Balboa can punch meat, he can punch a dead cow, I sure think the humane thing for Muhammad Ali to do is, you know, you know, help elderly people pass on to the next life. Well, that was a movie, sir. That Rocky Balboa was a movie.

It wasn't real life. No one really went in and punched raw beef hanging from the roof. And you're telling me that Muhammad Ali, the greatest fighter on earth, learned how to fight by going to seniors' homes and punching the living shit out of old people. Mr. William, as you say it now, you make it sound like it's a bad thing. Now, let's not forget that Muhammad Ali won world champion four times. You know, he came back, he lost it, he was a four-time world champion, Mr. Williams.

I don't care if he was a 50-time. You don't cut your teeth and train boxing by punching the life out of innocent, helpless old people. Well, now, Mr. William, let's be realistic here. I mean, these people didn't have much time left in. And the way Mohammed thought it, they might as well be, you know, do something useful before that... Now, don't say that, sir, useful? This is a shocking revelation here.

And I've got to tell you, Mr. Williams, sometimes we would do it on their birthday. I'll never forget there was one woman, Adi Warkin, and she was originally from Alabama, 111 years old, and I'll never forget the look on her face when Muhammad Ali himself, God bless his soul, brought her out a birthday cake, a big white birthday cake covered with candles, and as soon as she, he blew that last candle out, You know, Muhammad came up with an upper cut, Mr. William, that knocked her fake teeth right through a soft, you know, century old skull, and she blew right out the back of that wheelchair and hit the floor like a sack of,

you know, fucking, fat fucking catfish, Mr. Williams. All right, sir. This is very, very startling, and I don't know that we, maybe this ever should have been brought up. And I'll never forget, there were a pair of twin. They're two old twins. I think they're in their late 90s. And Muhammad Ali gave one of them a right hook and one of them a left hook simultaneously.

And their heads come together causing a major contusion and a skull fracture, Mr. Williams. And these two old bastards, well, I swear they died faster than a raccoon running across a 12-lane term park. Sir, this is really not appropriate. And one more thing, Mr. Williams. Have you ever seen a woman in a wheelchair get pumbled in the back of the head and the wheelchair fly down the hallway and get jammed in the elevator door?

And Muhammad... Sir, hang up on him, Roger. This is unbelievable hang up. I'll never forget the time. He punched the eye socket out of it. Get a hanger! What the fuck? Gee, God.

That is just crazy. Troy Peter. His first, where do you find these people, Roger? Good Lord. I think I'm going to wrap the show up. The visuals of Muhammad Ali dancing in and around wheelchairs, old people with the glazed look in their eyes, drooling. He's hammering them in the face and good night, Nellie Frittato. Anyhow, let's close it up.

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