EP23 Boxing with Ghosts

it's hardcore history I have threatened for a long time to introduce a bunch of sort of Niche subjects into the Hardcore History addendum feed it's why we established this alternative uh feed to begin with right so instead of having to have a show that could you know hold one's attention for four or five hours or multi-parts in a series something we could just do as a throwaway you know sort of uh it'll be somebody's favorite show someday kind of show but not necessarily a broad appeal show when we release it and I think today's might fit that bill I've been threatening to do a show unboxing for a long time and this is a show on boxing but I think the way we're gonna frame it might drag a bunch of you non-boxing fans into the conversation also and I was trying to think of The Logical starting point to this and I'm going to say maybe the middle 1990s where I had one of those conversations that every one of you out there that's a sports fan has probably had at one time or another it just happened to be with somebody who I thought was particularly well suited to explain to me the intricacies of the situation in the middle 1990s I was um I had a radio show that bumped up against a sports show right afterwards and the sports show right afterwards was hosted by a former NFL football player who played in the 1970s and the 1980s and this is as I said was the 1990s uh the football player's name was Russ Francis And Russ was a tight end with the New England Patriots and then with the San Francisco 49ers and he won a Super Bowl with the 49ers and Russ and I would often just sort of Chit Chat between the shows a little bit and then one day we got into this subject and he became so heated and so into the conversation that he just said because his show was about to start and normally we would have cut our conversation off by that point you just need to come on and we just need to continue this discussion from where we're having it because he was so worked up over it but I understand why especially because it it literally was questioning whether or ...