You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Ladies and gentlemen. The following contest is set for one fall. Introducing first, Lithuania, he weighs 123 kilos, the Russian nightmare, Nikita Kola. Welcome to another episode, QA with Coloff, The Devil's Nightmare.
Welcome back, QA with Koloff Questions and Answers. And these are so much fun. for me each and every week. And today today it's it's extra special. Why?
Because I have one of the finest in uniform on the line with me. Pat Scully, welcome to Q and A with Koloff. Hello, thank you for having me here. It's a great opportunity to speak to you and on your podcast and share everything with you.
Well, and man in uniform, 24 years in the Navy, in the military, a very decorated career. And I see where, man, you say you traveled all over the world. I mean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean, Kuwait. How do you say Bahrain? Is that how you say that?
Yep.
Well, I guess you can say Bahrain or Bahrain. Bahrain, okay. Yeah. And any favorite places while you were traveling in the military around the world? Any favorite places where you stopped along the way, Pat?
So I was on my Mediterranean cruise in 1986, and we just got done. bombing Libya. And we pulled into a port in Spain Um, it was uh Uh Benadorm, Spain. And that was a good port for some young twenty-year-old sailors, let me tell you.
Okay.
Well, we'll leave the rest to the imagination of the listeners right there, I think.
Okay.
Well, on that note, you went on to become a chief petty officer. Quite an accomplishment, yeah? Yeah, that's a very, very huge accomplishment for our Navy enlisted. um folks to uh make chief petty officer and uh You know, we go through initiation and we learn lots. And, you know, back in the day, initiations kind of be close to a man camp situation, maybe.
Okay.
Okay.
Of course, you're referencing the man camp, Lex Ulger and I facilitate every spring and fall. Of course, you attended that. We'll just touch on that in just a minute. But I know you said you loved every minute of your time in the military, huh? I love every minute.
I miss every minute. And I would not change one thing in my 24 years. That's pretty amazing. And speaking of 20, 20-something, 26 years now, married to your wife, Natasha. And congratulations on 26 years.
And take a minute and just tell us about family.
So Natasha and I met through a friend. She had a daughter, I had a daughter. We met and we wanted that family with the white picket fence and the caravan and everything. And we got married. The two girls were about the same age, and then we had two of our own.
And yeah, it's we we both uh went to uh church together. We still go to the same church today at uh James River James River Community Church in Suffolk, Virginia.
Well, I like what you say here about Natasha. She is the best, and she's your compass and your anchor. Those sound like good Navy words there, Pat. Yeah, yeah, they are, aren't they? Yeah, well, I'm just thinking: a compass and an anchor.
That sounds like Navy references right there. But that said, so you but you said she's your compass, she's your anchor, and she's the best. Yes, she keeps me straight and we were able to work through some challenges in our twenty six years. And I'm still here, Nikita.
So You know, God God's uh God's keeping us together.
Well, and he's not done with you guys yet, that's for sure. And and of course you're up in in uh in the in the uh Virginia area, uh the the state for lovers, as it says when you enter that state. Uh Virginia is for lovers.
So still trying to find s have someone explain that to me. But that said, you're up in the I guess uh Ches the Chesapeake, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, kind of up in that neck of the woods, right? Yes, exactly. Yep.
I live in Chesapeake, Virginia. And I know you got a little landscaping business that keeps you busy, but you also coach. Wrestling, or as they say here in the South, rasling. Yeah, I coach wrestling for Norfolk Christian. It's a small private school, and it's in the Independent League of Virginia Wrestling.
And I love it. My son got into it, and I just Kind of latched on to it and ended up assistant coach and head coach and And I'm s I'm not the head coach now, but I'm still Still doing that behind the scenes and just keeping everything rolling. And I just can't seem to lead it. Oh, that's that's amazing. Of course, you're right in the back backyard of where Magum T.A.
Magum T.A. grew up. One of my arch nemesis in wrestling. He grew up there in Chesapeake in 1977. When I was up, when I met you last fall, bought me a book that brought me a book that had a highlight in there of some championship that he had won, right, as an amateur wrestler.
Yes.
So Terry Allen went to Norfolk Collegiate, which is right around the corner from Norfolk Christian. And in nineteen seventy seven, he won the one hundred sixty seven pound weight class for the Virginia Independent Athletic Association. That's pretty cool. What a interesting connection we have there with you living in that area. Of course, Magnum and I still talk on a very regular basis.
In fact, recently teamed up at a And spoke together at another wrestler by the name of Lodi, wrestled as Lodi in the 90s, was part of Raven's flock. And at his personal gym there in Charlotte, he does these things called Weight Room Revivals. And Magnum and I teamed up and shared our hearts and our stories, our testimonies of how we came to Jesus.
So also. that same weekend when you enlightened me to that information, of course, you heard about Man Camp and you made a decision to come. And I know you more or less, I don't want to put words in your mouth, you said it was pretty life changing. Just take a minute and are you grateful that you came to Man Camp? I am so grateful.
That experience was epic, life changing, eye opening. I I think it's everything I needed to um you know, strengthen my relationship with the Lord and um get into the Bible more and just kind of understand more and really evaluate myself.
Well, it's pretty good. For those listening out there, you know, the camp experience, and that is what it is. It's an experience and it's different for every single guy. As you're hearing Pat just kind of touch on it, I do want to encourage you to go over to the Man Up Show and get Pat's full interview on his Navy career, his coaching career, wrestling as a wrestling coach, and of course, even his camp experience. But let me just say, for those listening out there, our goal when the Lord gave Lex and I a vision for this camp is to just equip and empower men with the tools that they need.
Now there's a lot we do in just a few days together. And a lot to chew on, you might say, a lot to absorb and take home with you. But the stories, if you go to mancamp.info and look at the website, you're going to see incredible testimonies of marriages being restored, relationships with dads and daughters and dads and sons. We've had fathers and sons actually attend together. We've had grandfather and grandsons attend together.
It's a pretty cool experience. And so, and I appreciate your testimony and your story too. And then you just recently said, of course, I've My l my life story is now on Audible book, and I guess you downloaded that and got got the opportunity to listen to that, and you've been enjoying that as well, right? I did. Nikita, the tale of Ring and Redemption, I had to get that because I have your books, but I'm not the greatest reader on earth.
So listening to the audiobook and bonus in your voice was very Real to me. I appreciate that. And of course, you know, you can go to any of the platforms, Amazon or anywhere else, and download that and get you might say a copy of that book, or you can go to my website, koloff.net, and get an actual autographed hard copy of it if you're interested in that. And so anything any surprising thing you learned about me as you listened to my life story? Yeah, a few things that we have a lot in common, more than you would think.
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So let's go ahead and segue over to your first question, Pat, that you might have for me today. All right.
So I just started watching some episodes of The Preacher's Daughter, which you and your family did back in like 2011, 2012. Yeah. And so the question is, how did you get involved with this show?
So, interesting story. And every now and then, it's kind of funny when people bring that up because, like, I'll meet sometimes a dad and a daughter together. And the daughter's like, I recognize that guy, dad. You know, where do I know him from? And then it kind of clicks, and she goes, Oh, he's that preacher guy from the preacher show that I used to watch.
And the dad, you know, typically goes, No, he's the wrestling dude, right? And I literally hear them go back and forth: like, she has no clue I was a wrestler. He has no clue I was a preacher, right? And then they finally kind of make the connection. Oh my gosh, we're talking about one and the same guy, right?
And so it's kind of funny. And, but it was my youngest daughter, Colby, you know, an 8x10. Her mother submitted an 8x10 photo of her to saw that they were looking for families or, you know, looking for daughters of preachers. And out of, I think, about 1,200 applicants, they narrowed it down to her and ultimately two other girls in that first season. And then once they saw Colby's sisters, they thought, oh my gosh, this is like the Christian Kardashians here, you know, because they're all beautiful.
You know, Colby. Kendra, Tawny, Taryn, they're all beautiful. And I'll say for the record, they have produced some beautiful children, of which I now have 14 grandchildren, Pat. 14 and county. Come on.
Holy cow. I know. A full quiver. And I can't keep all the birthdays straight. It's crazy, but I'm trying.
I'm trying.
So all that to say, they interviewed Colby, I think, like a video call. And then they interviewed some of the different family members. And lo and behold, they selected her. And she ended up participating in two seasons. They actually were looking at a third season, wanted her for a third season, and she kind of became, and I'm not saying this because I'm her dad, although I am a bit partial, the darling of the show.
And they wanted her for a third season. But when she saw kind of the direction it was headed, you know, it wasn't. quite staying on point to what they originally had said they wanted to accomplish with it that she respectfully to her credit kudos to her she declined you know where whereas you know many girls you know would have wanted to try to become a hollywood star maybe she declined and i believe the lord honored her with that pat and and just right after that uh a door of opportunity was opened for her to sign a professional singing songwriting contract there in Nashville, Tennessee. And so for the last 10 years, she has been a professional songwriter, got her own Pandora channel, Kobe Koloff, and a lot of original songs as she sings. And just amazing.
Yes, I heard her on one of your podcasts and it's like, oh, wow, she sings. And I immediately checked her and it's like, her music is beautiful. I appreciate it. And I don't advertise this. You probably don't even know this.
Like, I don't ever say you can confirm this. I don't ever say a thing at camp, but I play three of her songs at Man Camp. What? I did not. Oh, I'm going to have to check that out.
I play three of them strategically because of the title and what the lyrics represent.
So, throughout the course of time we're together there at Man Camp, there's three different songs I play that tie right into kind of the tone that we're setting for that session or for that time together. Yeah, I don't ever say anything to anybody, but yeah, if anybody ever picked up on it, the mat is amazing. I kind of figured that the. Pick of the songs Mental, and yes, there was some a lot of time and effort put into the songs that you chose. Yes, that's that's amazing that uh three songs of hers in there.
That's that's way cool. Yeah, it really is. And you are 100% spot on. Uh, uh, Matthew Hicks and Josh Oglesby, who kind of head up the, you know, our worship sets, our worship times together, uh, you know, they start praying, you know, weeks in advance for, you know, what songs should be played and when, you know, in certain times and whatnot. And, um, And so, and so Colby's songs, and I'll tell you, because you've already experienced it, but one of them was called Grow.
You won't even probably remember when we did it, but one of them is called Grow. And that's kind of, you know, it refers to, you know, really kind of growing in the Lord. Another one is called Free. And because one of the things we emphasize at camp is we want to see men set free, right? Whether it's from addictions or bondages or, you know, just broken hearts.
We want to see their hearts healed and see men set free. And so one is called Grow, one is called Free. And the third one, just in the moment, Heaven, I think. It slips me in the moment. But anyway, all right.
But uh all right, so Next question. Thank you for watching Preacher's Daughters, by the way. It's kind of funny. You watch that. I'm still watching it.
It's like, oh my goodness, I don't think I could ever do that. I watch a lot of reality shows. Yes.
But it's like, yeah, I'm never doing that. Yeah, because you really, you know, believe it or not, you really have to make yourself, you know, you can really expose yourself and really have to become pretty vulnerable in certain settings there if you're a part of these reality shows. And so, I will say this: for those out there, they've maybe never have heard of it.
Now they're going to go research it or look it up. Oh, yes, they are. Yes, they are.
Well, season one was, I feel, you know, a Overall, on point for what they were trying to accomplish. They watered it down a little bit in season two, and then season three, kind of thought they were pushing the envelope too far myself. But that said, I had, you know, and it was a little controversial for some religious people. But that said, I had many a pastor who had daughters and were going through struggling and challenging times and really said our family, you know, really ministered to them in a very difficult season in their own family. And so that really encouraged us.
That encouraged us.
So, okay. All right.
Got another question? I do.
So here's a wrestling question. In your seventh series, The last match. When did you find out? that you are going to win the championship.
So, when we set up the whole entire angle, as it is called, for those. wrestling aficionados. You know, we had already Determined, you know, everything from the contract signing and what would happen there to him being stripped of the belt and then us going into a best of seven series that it was going to look like I was just going to dominate this guy and just, you know, take the gold and take it home to Moscow. And so we kind of set the tone to go up 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, and just looked like it was going to be what they call a clean sweep, right? You know?
And then he inches his way back 3-1. He squeaks out a win for 3-2, you know, and he surprises me and catches me off guard for the, you know, win number three. And now it's 3-3. And now we come down to the seventh and final match. And we felt like if I won it, of course, and I think it's the first time a Russian, if you will, ever won the United States Heavyweight Championship.
And that would be just like, no, no, Russian cannot. Not have that title.
So we thought it'd get a lot of heat with the fans, and boy, did it ever. And so, yeah, so we kind of knew. I mean, early on, as we were setting up the whole storyline.
So, yep. And then the way we did it was: you couldn't have planned it any better. You just couldn't have planned it any better. Yeah, I think it turned out great. Yeah, people still talk about it.
I mean, thirty years, thirty plus years later, people are still talking about it and say that, you know, that was incredible. Concept and idea, you know, and I'm like, well, kudos to Dusty Rhodes, because you know, it was kind of his, you know, his process, his thought process that came up with that idea.
So.
Well, very good. Very good.
Now, do you have we could squeeze in one more, or are you good on your place? I do.
I do.
Okay.
So being we're both from the north. I I played hockey up to eighth grade.
Okay.
And then I got into wrestling. You're from Minnesota. Yes.
Did you play hockey?
So, so I tried. I mean, right, because you know, I'm thinking, you know, I like, like, I. I just, for whatever, I don't know, I just say I had weak ankles or whatever. But man, I could not stand up on that one single blade if my life depended on it as much as I tried. I joke, I say I was an ankle skater.
I just could not. I even put on like those, you could get these little special like braces to put in, you know, on your ankle before you put your skate on. And that didn't even help.
So we just swept off a part of a part of a lake and set up every winter. And we just ran around in our snow boots and played, you know, played on that. And that's kind of like basketball, Pat. Like I tried to play basketball, and man, I just could not, I couldn't dribble the ball without looking at the ball. Like if I put my head up and tried to dribble, like, I'm like, where'd that ball go?
Where'd it go? You know, I'd lose it, right?
So I'm like, all right, basketball is not my game. Hockey's not my game. I tried baseball, since we're talking about sports. I played Babe Ruth baseball one year, was deathly afraid of a curveball, true story.
So I taught myself how to switch hit. And in that one season, down to the numbers, I got an identical number of singles, doubles, and triples on each side of the plate. And anytime it was a left-hander, I'd bat right-handed. If it was a right-hander, I'd bet left-handed. Never hit a home run, but I came close.
But football was my deal. Football and bodybuilding. That was my thing. Yeah, yeah. Do I have to hide from one more question, real quick?
All right, well, a quick one. One quick question here. Go for it.
So, segue in from football: have you ever thought about coaching football at the high school or college level? Great question. If I look back on it, if I regret anything, it's maybe I had the opportunity when my daughters were going to, it was called First Assembly Christian School in Concord, North Carolina. And And the head coach at the time was a former Carolina Panther defensive back, Mike Minter. He played for the Carolina Panthers, and he coached there and won three straight High school championships for the you know the Christian college, Christian high school division, three straight.
And I actually even met with him, and my daughter was a cheerleader, my daughter Kendra. And I wanted to coach tight ends, and he wanted me to coach the defensive line. And I'm like, Mike, I don't want to coach defense, man. I want to coach tight ends, you know. And so I declined the invitation.
And looking back now, I really wish I had for a couple of reasons. It would have been fun to have been on the sidelines with my daughter cheering. But also, it would have been fun to win three state championships. You know what I'm saying? That would be nice.
Yeah. So, yeah.
So, no, never did officially coach, but had the opportunity and passed it up.
So, Pat Scully, you're amazing. I appreciate you. Thank you again for serving in our military. And thank you. for being on the show today.
Thanks for the opportunity to be here.
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