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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 27, 2021 13:24:24 GMT -5
I've never read the book. Can somebody catch me up?
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Apr 27, 2021 13:32:39 GMT -5
I've never read the book. Can somebody catch me up? A tape Jericho was handed by a fan in his SMW days. On it was some hillbilly family doing weird stuff like farting and slapping each other's butts. And they had a picture of the Rock N' Roll Express on the wall right next to a picture of Jesus. That's basically the gist of it.
You should really read Jericho's 1st book though, easily a top 5 wrestling autobiography of all time.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 27, 2021 13:38:27 GMT -5
I've never read the book. Can somebody catch me up? A tape Jericho was handed by a fan in his SMW days. On it was some hillbilly family doing weird stuff like farting and slapping each other's butts. And they had a picture of the Rock N' Roll Express on the wall right next to a picture of Jesus. That's basically the gist of it.
You should really read Jericho's 1st book though, easily a top 5 wrestling autobiography of all time.
Thanks for the information. Now I really want to see this video. 🤣 I've heard that about this book several times. I'd love to read it when / if I had the time.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 27, 2021 14:16:39 GMT -5
I've never read the book. Can somebody catch me up? Transcription via: www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/22u9hc/has_anyone_ever_seen_the_strange_kentucky_people/Here is the story in full- From page 199 of Jerichos book, chapter 27 "I was hanging around between matches at another of our regular towns, Paintsville, Kentucky, when a girl came up to me and gave me a videotape. She stared at the ground while she stuttered and spit out "Chris Jericho, I love you. I made a tape of your matches just for you. It's got all your matches that you ever had in SMW." Then she turned tail and split. I was honoured that she'd put them all on one tape as a present but when I watched the tape, it didn't contain any matches. What it did contain however, was much more entertaining. The tape featured the girl and her hillbilly mountain family performing for me...and what a show it was. It began with her looking into the camera like a deer in headlights. She resembled Chris Farely dressed as Meatloaf circa 1977 and was wearing a shirt with a rebel flag on it that said "You wear your colors, I'll wear mine." She began her dissertation and said, " I made this tape for you, Chris Jericho (She always called me by my full name). We love you Chris Jericho. You're my favourite rassler, Chris Jericho, and I really love you Chris Jericho." She wiped the snot out of her nose. Then she became Annie Wilkes from Misery and started speaking gibbersish like, "Well look. Here's a white googleberry. Fleezin Fibble Foo!" She began dancing as the rest of her family came into the frame like Oompa Loompas. They were all smacking each other's butts and doing the most bizarre version of the Electric Slide, while chanting in Unison, "Electric Slide, Electric Slide, Electric Slide" Like some kind of disco cult. Then a kid who I'm guessing was her brother or husband-or both- explained how much he like watching rasslin', then farted twice. Then his mother or wife-or both-who literally had NO teeth, patted him on the butt and commented on his fragrance. There was a bed in the middle of the living room and on the wall behind it were two pictures : One of Jesus and one of Ricky and Robert. Both photos were at the exact same level, which I'm sure was a huge honour for the Savior. Farleyloaf wandered back in a gave a shout-out to Lance. "I like you too, Lance! Here's a wheelbarra", and then she started to push around a child's toy wheelbarrow while performing a massive booty shake. The camera panned to her left, only to find the fartster walking like a crab for no apparent reason. Then the camera panned into the yard where there was a battalion of rusted old vehicles, each housing a sad--eyed dog. In the background trying his hardest to stay out of camera range but failing miserabley was an old American Gothic-looking farmer who I'm assuming was responsible for the whole mess. T The camera spun back around, passing the Amazing Crab Boy tm and settling on a lady with a worse Lloyd Christmas Dumb and Dumber haircut than Jim Carrey. She stayed in the shot long enough to say, "I love the Thrillseekers. I want to have two kids called Chris and Lance and have a dog called Storm" It was much creepier than it sounds, beleive me. These people were either the greates actors of our generation or complete lunatics and I don't think they were thespians. Nor do I think they knew what thespian means. I still don't know why she gave me the tape. Did she think I'd watch it and become so enamored of her family that I'd come over for farts and crabwalks? If I wanted to impress Jessica Simpson, I sure as hell wouldn't give her a tape of me picking my nose and doing the Electric Slide. But then again maybe it's just crazy enough to work..... Somehow the video got around and became a cult classic on the tape trading circuit under the name "Strange Kentucky People" Look for it wherever fine hillbilly videos are sold, and if you act now, you get a free Rock n' Roll Express/Son of God portrait package! I was also semiresponsible for another tape-trading classic known as "Jim Cornette vs. The Drive Thru."
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Post by chazraps on Apr 27, 2021 14:17:14 GMT -5
I don't recall Jericho playing this up? He wrote that if you wanted to see this tape, you'd have to go to Kentucky and really search for it in video stores. Not sure if I'm remembering it right though. He did call it a "tape trading classic" on par with Cornette at the drive thru.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 27, 2021 14:20:08 GMT -5
Corny at Dairy Queen was all over the place. Bob Barnett added it to the end of one of his Lucha Looneys tapes I got from him.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 27, 2021 14:30:28 GMT -5
I don't recall Jericho playing this up? He wrote that if you wanted to see this tape, you'd have to go to Kentucky and really search for it in video stores. Not sure if I'm remembering it right though. He did call it a "tape trading classic" on par with Cornette at the drive thru. I read into it as self-deprecation. In reality it's so obscure may as well say its well known
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Post by chazraps on Apr 27, 2021 14:31:52 GMT -5
He did call it a "tape trading classic" on par with Cornette at the drive thru. I read into it as self-deprecation. In reality it's so obscure may as well say its well known But, as Ultimo Gallos posted above, the Cornette Drive Thru was a legit tape trading classic.
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Post by nickcave on Apr 27, 2021 14:42:05 GMT -5
Yeah like I said there's been stuff that's much more famous than this that has been lost to the time, I think it's just something that he showed people at SMW at the time.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 27, 2021 15:36:12 GMT -5
I read into it as self-deprecation. In reality it's so obscure may as well say its well known But, as Ultimo Gallos posted above, the Cornette Drive Thru was a legit tape trading classic. Thanks for the excerpt - "Somehow the video got around and became a cult classic on the tape trading circuit under the name "Strange Kentucky People" Look for it wherever fine hillbilly videos are sold, and if you act now, you get a free Rock n' Roll Express/Son of God portrait package! I was also semiresponsible for another tape-trading classic known as "Jim Cornette vs. The Drive Thru." Well re-reading it after many years, it does read like Jericho bigging it up. On first reading I interpreted it as tongue in cheek bravado that isn't true, but hey ho it's Jericho.
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