This is Either Going to be Good or Not Going to Be at All ft. Les Thatcher (pt. 1)
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03/01/22 • 53 min
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On this week’s episode, Logan welcomes his longtime friend, mentor and wrestling dad Les Thatcher to Fast Friends.
Join them as they talk about Les’s childhood in Cincinnati, playing baseball, basketball and football as a kid, driving a race car before he had a license, how he discovered wrestling while watching TV at a friend’s house, the adrenaline rush that drew him to drag racing, being forced to pick between drag racing and professional wrestling, how his initial efforts to get information about breaking into wrestling were fruitless, how he ended up in Boston training with Tony Santos, The Cousins faction with Roger Kirby and Dennis Hall, working wrestling territories NWA, Crockett’s Mid-Atlantic Championship, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and Smokey Mountain Wrestling, how a funeral led to his first chance at announcing, happenstance leading to milestones like a wrestling magazine, the first-ever wrestling t-shirt (available at the link below), the first independent wrestling show he ever attended, the origins of Heartland Wrestling Association in a side yard out in the country, entering a contract to be a WCW developmental territory, WCW hemorrhaging money and going under, WWE buying out WCW talent and sending the Cruiserweight roster to HWA & more!
Stay tuned for Part Two next Tuesday, March 8th!
Buy Les’s T-Shirts on Pro Wrestling Tees:
https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestler-t-shirts/originaltees.html
Promoters and trainers, hire Les for a weekend seminar:
Email [email protected]
Follow Les on Twitter
https://twitter.com/LesThatcher
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Fast Friends With Logan Cummins
Reach Out and Touch Us. In a platonic way.
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https://twitter.com/logancummins
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On this week’s episode, Logan welcomes his longtime friend, mentor and wrestling dad Les Thatcher to Fast Friends.
Join them as they talk about Les’s childhood in Cincinnati, playing baseball, basketball and football as a kid, driving a race car before he had a license, how he discovered wrestling while watching TV at a friend’s house, the adrenaline rush that drew him to drag racing, being forced to pick between drag racing and professional wrestling, how his initial efforts to get information about breaking into wrestling were fruitless, how he ended up in Boston training with Tony Santos, The Cousins faction with Roger Kirby and Dennis Hall, working wrestling territories NWA, Crockett’s Mid-Atlantic Championship, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and Smokey Mountain Wrestling, how a funeral led to his first chance at announcing, happenstance leading to milestones like a wrestling magazine, the first-ever wrestling t-shirt (available at the link below), the first independent wrestling show he ever attended, the origins of Heartland Wrestling Association in a side yard out in the country, entering a contract to be a WCW developmental territory, WCW hemorrhaging money and going under, WWE buying out WCW talent and sending the Cruiserweight roster to HWA & more!
Stay tuned for Part Two next Tuesday, March 8th!
Buy Les’s T-Shirts on Pro Wrestling Tees:
https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestler-t-shirts/originaltees.html
Promoters and trainers, hire Les for a weekend seminar:
Email [email protected]
Follow Les on Twitter
https://twitter.com/LesThatcher
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Fast Friends With Logan Cummins
Reach Out and Touch Us. In a platonic way.
Follow Logan on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/logancummins
Email [email protected] or call/text Logan at 872-267-2735
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2 RecommendationsOn this week’s episode, Logan sets out to make friends with scientist, author and one half of America’s favorite couple from Love is Blind Cameron Hamilton.
Join them as they compare their small town upbringings, share in disbelief over Cameron not being listed as a Notable Resident on his hometown’s Wikipedia page, Logan’s desire to record a comedy album at Carnegie Hall*, the worst rule growing up in Bill and Pam’s house, what Cameron wanted to be when he grew up vs. what his parents wanted him to be, singing Disney songs in a talent show, Cameron’s first girlfriend, his a capella audition gone awry, when he started rapping, why he didn’t respond to the initial contact about Love Is Blind, how cockroaches almost ruined filming the show, how they started dating 15 people and whittled it down to a few actual prospective partners, how he approaches every situation with the intent of getting the most from it, Cameron’s Nick Lachey impression, sharing a pot of chili with Vanessa Lachey, pep talks from Nick Lachey behind-the-scenes on Love Is Blind, how he and Lauren stay focused on each other under the pressure of the viewers, the question people should stop asking them, Lauren’s unpleasant surprises a few years into their marriage, lessons from his book Leap of Faith, Cameron’s go-to movie concession stand order, the one thing people don’t know about him & more!
The Fast Friends Fortune Teller determines that they’ll play a game of Truth or Dare before Logan sends Cameron a real-life Friend Request.
Follow Cameron on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/cameronreidhamilton/
Watch Keeping Up With The Hamiltons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcoTzuZUtK3Vs48Rexuw85g
Buy Cameron and Lauren’s Book Leap of Faith:
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Fast Friends With Logan Cummins
Reach Out and Touch Us. In a platonic way.
Follow Logan on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/logancummins
Email [email protected] or call/text Logan at 872-267-2735
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
This is Either Going to be Good or Not Going to Be at All ft. Les Thatcher (pt. 2)
On this week’s episode, Logan welcomes his longtime friend, mentor and wrestling dad Les Thatcher to Fast Friends.
Join them as they pick up where Part One left off chatting the balancing act of training HWA’s home-grown talent including while training WWE developmental talent, how he met Banks Tarver and became a part of MTV’s True Life: I’m A Pro Wrestler, the impact it had on the training program, why Nigel McGuinness was the icing on Les’s training cake, the idea of running a “small” show to benefit that turned into 4 years of Brian Pillman Memorial Shows and raised more than $120,000 for the Pillman family, what Les is up to in Knoxville, Logan’s embarrassing confession of his first meeting with Les, his response to Logan’s worst creative ideas, the thing that always makes Les laugh no matter how many times he hears it, his go-to Arby’s order & more!
Re-live the magic of the Brian Pillman Memorial Show:
Buy Les’s T-Shirts on Pro Wrestling Tees:
https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestler-t-shirts/originaltees.html
Promoters and trainers, hire Les for a weekend seminar:
Email [email protected]
Follow Les on Twitter
https://twitter.com/LesThatcher
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Fast Friends With Logan Cummins
Reach Out and Touch Us. In a platonic way.
Follow Logan on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/logancummins
Email [email protected] or call/text Logan at 872-267-2735
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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