Welcome to another episode of Q&A with Kola. the devil's nightmare. Today, today on the Q&A, this is extra special for me today because I have, well, I call him my peak performance partner. We have been accountability partners over the years. We have learned from each other.
We have encouraged one another. And if you're an avid wrestling fan, you might know his, gosh, my mind just went blank.
Well, let's just say that he was known as the Total Package. All right, I'm going to give you just 10 seconds to think about who I'm talking about.
Some of you have already figured it out.
Some of you have not, but that's okay. With me today, Lex Luger. Welcome to Q&A with Koloff, Lex Durer. Hey, hey, glad to be here. Thank you, thank you.
Well, great to have you with us. And, you know, Lex, there may be actually one or two people out there who don't know who Lex Luger is, believe it or not, you know.
So let's just give a quick synopsis. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, right? Correct. Beautiful Buffalo. Beautiful Buffalo.
And, by the way, your brother Barry still lives back in Buffalo. Is that right? Big Bear still in Buffalo. The Big Bear. The Big Bear.
I want to get him out of there. He loves it. You're trying to pry him out of Buffalo? I'd like to be nearby me. I'm down in Atlanta, selfishly, but he loves Buffalo.
I love Buffalo, too. But things are location-wise better for me in Atlanta. I make a long story short right now, but, yeah, he's born and raised. He's a Buffalo boy, Big Bear. And Buffalo, for those who don't know, it's really considered a blue-collar city?
Yeah, great folks. Great atmosphere there. City of Good Neighbors, it's called. It was a great place to go off. I love to go back.
I've got so many friends there. Just still have family there. Love it. Great place. And so you're down in Atlanta, and your sister is in Atlanta, correct?
Correct. Yeah, my family, good part of my family that's here in Atlanta now. Nephews, nieces, right? Yeah. And so it gives you the opportunity, really gives you the opportunity, really, to really enjoy a lot of the family down there.
Now, does Barry ever? Plus, you know, I still travel a lot. I'm an ambassador with WWE and do quite a few events with, you know, faith-based events, et cetera. and if you have to fly, Atlanta has those direct flights anywhere, which is nice. Yeah, Atlanta's a good hub for flying.
So Barb is in Atlanta, Barry's up in Buffalo, and does Barry, I think you told me in the past, when I said pry Barry away from Buffalo, like he doesn't travel much, right? No, I tell him he's a hermit. He comes down to Atlanta, and he wants to turn around and drive back the next day. My dad was the same way. My dad liked to sleep in his own bed, his own house.
My brother does not like to travel. No doubt about it. Which is the opposite of you. You love travel. I do.
I guess you might say it's in my blood. I predated the road warriors, I think, actually. And some don't know.
Now, Lex, you'll know, because when you came into the Carolina Territory, I mean, we were averaging, at least I was averaging, anywhere from 2,000 to 2,500 miles a week in an automobile back in the old Territory days. Oh, easily. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, you remember some of those roads.
Hey, I'm having a flashback right now. I'm having a rubber-on asphalt, man. I'm telling you. I'm having a flashback. I don't know where you and I were riding to a town together.
I'll never forget this, right? We're riding to a town together. We're actually just leaving Charlotte. You're driving, and so I'm in the passenger. I'm riding shotgun.
I'm co-piling. I'm in the passenger seat. And you may or may not remember this conversation, but we're in, and you were driving a Mercedes-Benz, and it was the big one. It's a tiny new one, top end. Yeah, like a five-six.
I'm going to say goodbye. Guess who my consultant was on that? Who? Mr. Image Enhancement.
Rick. For his life, Rick. Flair. That's your boy. I said, Rick, I want to go buy a car.
He goes, go here. I go, what should I get? He goes, nothing but the top-end Mercedes. Don't buy anything else. My gosh.
I walked in there, man, the car. I was like, I blew my mind how expensive it was. Then I asked Rick, hey, Rick, where do I take the windows? it's hot in the summer and Charlie goes, don't you take those winners, you want to see who's driving it. Rick is, man, people don't realize Rick lived it, didn't he?
Oh my gosh. Oh, he still does. He lived it, breathed it. But it was like a 560 or something, whatever the biggest, like you said, the biggest one, right? But here's the point.
Here's the point I want to make, though. We're driving down the road and I'm like, you know, I don't like to get in guy's business right like i really don't but i'm like the curiosity was killing me right like curiosity wanted to know i remember this now and i'm so i'm like lex if you don't mind me asking i just out of curiosity what the monthly payment on this car and and i don even remember what it was but that irrelevant right now because what I do remember is when you told me what the monthly payment was I was like, that's like more than my mortgage, like my monthly mortgage. And you go, got a style and profile, you know. Right, I've been captured by the best. It makes your boy.
Oh my gosh. If you can't buy it, you can't buy it, finance it, it mentions everything. Image enhancement. Image enhancement. What a great line.
Influenced by the nature boy. There you go.
So there's some inside baseball talk right here. Hey, I want to say one other thing regarding that, though. You mentioned the tinted windows, right?
Well, unlike you, you know, Ivan and I, Uncle Ivan, I mean, we had death threats, right?
So I tinted my Cadillac. I had a big Fleetwood Cadillac, the biggest you could pop. It was like a cruise liner ship. I mean, it was huge. And I had it limousine dark tinted, like beyond regulation.
But the cops never gave me a hard time on it because, one, if I did get stopped, most of them in those days, as you recall, knew who we were, or at least a lot of them, right? Big wrestling fans, all law enforcement, right? Cut you some slack. Yeah. Yeah, always kind of give us a break.
and somebody out there right now, oh, there you go again, favoritism, you know, whatever. But it was what it was back in those days. But we loved our law enforcement, though, because they protected us as well, right?
So they really did.
So we love our law enforcement. Nothing but respect. Nothing, nothing but respect.
Well, and, you know, you mentioned being an ambassador for WWE, and so you are still in a very high demand for autograph signings, and I know you love the fans, right? Absolutely. Great program. Get out there and mix and mingle with the guys we wrestle with and the fans. It's a blast.
Love it. And on that note, and, of course, we've had the opportunity. Of course, we've been on a number of autograph signings together, but we've also, to just kind of shift gears for just a moment, We've also done a lot of ministry work together. You know, there may be some out there who don't know your whole story. I want to just encourage people to go and find a book called Wrestling with the Devil.
It is Lex's life story. And I'm going to tell you, if you're not familiar with Lex's story, you will be blown away, you know, outside of his. It's a roller coaster. It's a roller coaster ride, Space Mountain, you might say. But go get a copy of that book because you're going to be blown away how Lex went from a professional football career to a storied professional wrestling career to suffering a spinal cord injury that has led to him being very involved, not just in legends, signings, and the wrestling world, but involved in a lot of ministry work.
especially there around the Atlanta area, right, Lex? Absolutely. I love Shepherd Center. I did my rehab. It's a special place.
I love to go down there and visit and encourage people. And I like to speak at a lot of local churches here and share my testimony and just shine the light. I'm so thankful for Jesus and what he's done in my life. From the sand to the rock. on just amazing how God rescued me.
From the slimy pit. From the sand, from a life built on sand, which is a very unstable foundation, to now a life built on the rock, April 23rd. April 7, 24, 25. Your life's built on the sand of the rock, the rock being Jesus Christ. Absolutely.
My life has never been the same, standing on the rock. Yep, since April 23rd, 2006, when you surrendered your life to the Lord. Of course, that's led you and I to do a lot of ministry together. We do a camp together called Man Camp every spring, every fall. And you're an integral part of both praying and interceding for that camp, as well as sowing and investing your life experience into men who come and experience Man Camp for themselves and are empowered.
and so many testimonies. If you go to those listening out there, go to mancamp.info, mancamp.info. Read some of the testimonies of men who have attended camp and how their lives, how their marriages have been restored, how families have been put back together from the experience of these men coming to camp. And Lex, you're an integral part of that. Just what would you say to a man or a wife out there to encourage them to consider coming to man camp one day?
Well, if you want to see a positive transformation in your man or a guy struggling at all, man, come to man camp because the transformations are incredible. It is powerful. Mind, body, spirit, they will never be the same. We do those in a little town called Royston, Georgia, home of baseball. Camp Little Light.
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Well, Lex, it is called Q&A with Koloff. I just want to give people an introduction in case they just for whatever reason and weren't familiar with the whole package, Lex Luger.
So let's segue. Let's shift gears here and give you the opportunity to ask me a couple questions and just see what happens here. Fire away. Wow. I didn't prepare for this, so I'm just going to wing it.
Now, we know our last meal won't be here on earth because Jesus, after the resurrection, had fish ready for the guys on shore. at the lake.
So we will be eating in heaven.
However, if you had a last meal, if you were on death row, which I hope you're never in, Nick, what would be your last meal you could pick? Wow. Well, I have... We both love to eat.
So I'm like, I'm interested to hear this one. I think I know what your dessert would be, but I'd like to hear what you would say. If you could combine it, what would it be? My answer is easy because I'm a carnivore, but what would be your last meal? Man, we do love to eat.
And you have treated me to some pretty good meals, by the way, over the years.
Well, you've done the same for me. Yeah, we both love to eat. And the dessert part is much easier than the entree, right?
So, because you know I'm going to say cheesecake for dessert, right? And if it's a treat day, Sunday morning, you like a good cinnamon roll.
Well, Cinnabon, Cinnabon cinnamon rolls are, yeah, depending on the time of day, because a Dairy Queen blizzard, boy, we're putting a lot of plugs out here for all these other companies. Oh, yeah, in the evening, we go with ice cream in the evening, usually, yeah. A good Dairy Queen Blizzard. I don't know if you remember, but one time I had your house, it was either Shake Shack or Dairy Queen. You didn't know which flavor to get.
You got three different large shakes. I was like, whoa, Nick, that's a good one. Man, I never thought about that. You were like sipping on each one. Couldn't decide, she got all three.
Hello. I mean, indecision leads to prosperity.
Well, maybe not. But, well, and hey, one of my fondest memories when we were living together, you know, back in 2015 was on Friday nights when you and I would go to the grocery store and walk the ice cream aisle and scour all the different flavors. And it was like, we were like two kids in a candy store, right? We're like, well. Oh, we planned our treat day for sure.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was like, and for the record, you listening out there, you heard what he said, right? Treat day. Don't call it a cheat day.
It's a treat day. That's right. But we would scour the end. Like two kids were like, what kind of flavor are you going to get? I don't know.
There's so many good flavors to choose from. I don't know. We had a blast. We did have a blast doing that. All right, all right.
Dessert, entree, entree, entree.
Well, you know, I've always been partial. You know what? Might be a little curveball for you, though. You know, I've become over the years really kind of prone to some really good ribs, barbecued ribs of course I live in the south you know I live in the south and of course porky pig is prevalent fall off the bone you like the ones that cling to the bone fall off the bone good lip smacking lip smacking fall off the bone sweet barbecued I'm not into the vinegar based or the dry rub and all that kind of stuff that's for somebody else sweet based fall off the bone full slab, not half slab. If this is my last meal, I've got to have a full slab.
Hey, I'm going for the full slab of ribs, and I'm getting a tomahawk rib eye. It wasn't like Fred Flintstone. I'm going for that too. I know I'm asking you this question. I shouldn't reveal mine.
Is that all you're going to have is a slab of ribs and a piece of cheesecake? No, no, no. What's your favorite size? You like mac and cheese? What's your favorite size?
Fresh fries? Are you ready? Mashed potatoes? No, no, no, no. Baked potato.
Not fully loaded because I'm not a sour cream guy, so I got to go with some cheese and bacon bits. And or sometimes the whole brown sugar and sweeten it up sometimes if it's a sweet potato.
Now, that's a loaded baked potato. Sweet potato, you've got to have the butter and sugar, you know, cinnamon sugar or brown sugar, you know, the mix, right, and really sweet. I'm going baked potato, though, but it's my last one. I'm choosing potatoes because it's my last meal. I don't have to go with the healthy sweet potato.
I'm going baked potato.
Well, you've got to point that. But listen, if it's going to be mac and cheese, it's got to be like a very tasty mac and cheese. It can't just be, you know, just any mac and cheese. It's got to be tasty. Absolutely.
Thick and cheesy. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. So, okay.
So, but I'm with you on the, you know, the ribs, steak and ribs. I'm with you on that as well. I do like a good steak. I do like a good steak. You're a kind of a little just like me.
Absolutely. Yep.
So, all right.
So, well, we got time for one more question. If you've got another spontaneous question to throw at me. I've got an easy one. It should be an easy one. Favorite movie of all time.
Mine's easy. I know mine's, I got a couple, but I got one that's my all time fave. Remember the Titans. Ooh, that's a good one. That up on my list too I a Braveheart guy My I from my parents my grandparents were from Scotland but I loved the movie the scenery and Braveheart my all fade probably But, yeah, remember, that was a good one.
Left side, right side, left side, right side. And I can really relate, and I know you can, too, because the reason I can relate so well, and by the way, you and I have a lot in common. We could do 10 shows together because of the Scottish background.
So I am a Braveheart fan. I am a William Wallace fan as well. But because of my football background... The greatest opening fight scene, I think, was the Gladiator. Oh, my gosh.
That opening scene? Yes. Man, the way they fought back then? Wow. Yeah.
Yeah, the whole lineup across from each other, that still kind of blows my mind, all those old-school tactics of war. The only opening war scene that might have come close to that for me was the Tom Hanks movie where they stormed Normandy. I'm not recalling the name of that movie, but oh, my gosh. Private Ryan? Oh, yeah.
Private Ryan.
Well, there's a bunch of good ones. And even the other one where he... What about the courage of those men who stormed that beach? Yeah, the one with the cliff where he saves all the guys. Oh, my God.
Hacksaw Ridge. I mean, boy, we're taking people without memory lane here. But back real quick.
So off of war for a moment, back to the war on the gridiron, the battle on the gridiron, because your football background, my football background and I vividly remember back in the days when they were you know busting busting us you know I grew up in the the the projects of Minneapolis went out to the suburbs but then when they were trying to integrate everyone and they started busting me from my neighborhood you know 10 miles away to a junior high school when when all my friends from elementary school went a mile away and I got separated from all my friends and had to make a whole whole bunch a new friend. But that's why, so I can really identify with Remember the Titans. Yeah, it almost really personalizes it for you. It really does. It really brings it close to home, you know.
That was a great movie, though, man. It was.
So, well, you have brought out some conversation that, I don't know that, honestly, of course, I'm not surprised, Lexter. You are a very insightful man, and your questions have brought a conversation that some of our listeners will have never heard before so thank you for your questions i appreciate you i appreciate you more than you know you know you have such a special place in my heart i just you know i just love you love your family and can't i'm grateful okay i'm so grateful that the lord reconnected us back together uh those number of years ago and all the things that we get to do now and in the future so love you too my brother All right, before I let you go, okay, I'm going to throw this out. Favorite scripture for those listening out there. What's your favorite scripture? I've got so many.
My gosh. I'll go. This morning, I'll go with Joshua 1.9. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be discouraged or dismayed, because the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. In other words, he goes into Joshua 1. Where you step, I step. And Joshua, he was kind of not scared, but Moses was gone. He had that leadership role.
He was a little nervous. And, man, God just gave him a big power hug and said, hey, don't worry about it, Joshua. I got this. Were you step by step? I love that verse.
That's a good one.
Well, that's a good note to end on for those of you listening out there. I brought a man up in a manly verse. yeah well that's a great verse for any man woman or child be encouraged be encouraged the whole package once the total package now the whole package body soul and spirit lex luger thank you for being on q a with kolov today thank you for having me bud love you thank you for all of you tuning in today go out and have a god-filled god-blessed day this podcast is made possible by the grace of God and your faithful prayers, support, and generous gifts. May God bless you for your continual contributions. Go to koloff.net and donate today.
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