{"id":1972,"date":"2025-07-04T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcadampod.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:05:18","slug":"episode-367-rubber-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcadampod.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/episode-367-rubber-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 367: Rubber Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on STICK TO WRESTLING, we party like it\u2019s 1985 \u2014 because it is the 40th anniversary of the original Great American Bash! We break it down like Dusty Rhodes booking a scaffold match:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nikita Koloff was barely out of wrestling school. But thanks to Ric Flair he looked like a monster who\u2019d been wrecking babyfaces since the Nixon administration.<br \/>\n\u2014 Buddy Landel had the talent, the timing, and a baby-girl pink robe that screamed \u201cI\u2019m better than Flair and I know it\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2014 Around this time Arn Anderson ditched the beige and became must-see TV.<br \/>\n\u2014 Jim Crockett Promotions had a loaded card\u2026and no national distribution. This show screamed closed-circuit, but Crockett missed the bus.<br \/>\n\u2014 Paul Jones: legend in the ring, meh as a manager. We revisit his heel turn in 1979 and ask the tough question: who would want his \u201carmy\u201d on an actual battlefield?<br \/>\n\u2014 Magnum T.A. had one job: apply the belly-to-belly suplex to Kamala. But could he actually execute the move to this giant of a man? 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Download and listen to this wicked good podcast today!<\/p>\n<p>STICK TO WRESTLING\u2026give us sixty minutes and perhaps indeed we\u2019ll give you a rawboned weekly classic pro wrestling podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Produced by Lou Kipilman<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam is a production of the Arcadian Vanguard Podcast Network<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8532\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1972-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sticktowrestling\/mcadampod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/McAdam369.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sticktowrestling\/mcadampod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/McAdam369.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sticktowrestling\/mcadampod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/McAdam369.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sticktowrestling\/mcadampod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/McAdam369.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/mcadampod.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/sticktowrestling\/mcadampod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/McAdam369.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"McAdam369.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/mcadampod.com\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on STICK TO WRESTLING, we party like it\u2019s 1985 \u2014 because it is the 40th anniversary of the original Great American Bash! We break it down like Dusty Rhodes booking a scaffold match: \u2014 Nikita Koloff was barely out of wrestling school. But thanks to Ric Flair he looked like a monster who\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcadampod.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/episode-367-rubber-chicken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 367: Rubber Chicken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"","timeOption":"","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":""},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,42,8,60,219,4,40,66,3,6,260],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-1980s","tag-42","tag-classic-wrestling","tag-dusty-rhodes","tag-great-american-bash","tag-john-mcadam","tag-nwa","tag-ric-flair","tag-stick-to-wrestling","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Episode 367: Rubber Chicken - Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/mcadampod.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/episode-367-rubber-chicken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Episode 367: Rubber Chicken - Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week on STICK TO WRESTLING, we party like it\u2019s 1985 \u2014 because it is the 40th anniversary of the original Great American Bash! 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