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Questions and Answers, and such a fun show for me because I never know what you're going to ask. It's a completely organic conversation and questions that are thrown my way. And today I have with me the pleasure to have Dan Scott on QA with Kolov. Dan, welcome to the show. Russian nightmare.
It is great to be here. You don't talk like a Russian nightmare anymore, though.
Well, good English tutoring, Dan. Good English tutoring. I love it. I'm very grateful to have got the tutoring I got over the years. Either that or for those who still don't know, because occasionally I'll run into somebody who doesn't know the Russian nightmare's not really from Russia, which really bursts somebody's bubble along the way.
Can I tell you a really quick story before we start? Yeah, yeah. Because I know how those of you who spent your time in that profession hate that four-letter word, fake. Right. Because while it's scripted.
It's not fake. Correct. As you well know, because of all the bumps and bruises. But in my little hometown of Williamson, West Virginia, years ago, this would have been the early 1980s before he unfortunately passed away. Um the Georgia Championship Wrestling.
Came through and did one of their house shows at at the basketball field house. And you know, it was all the cast of characters.
Well, and you know how it is. The good guys and the bad guys, Nikita, they don't associate with each other until they have to ride a bus 90 minutes to the airport.
So they're on their way out of town and they stop at this little honky tonk on the side of the road because they want some adult beverages for that bus trip they have to take back to the to the airport. And as they were going in, one of the local boys in Mingo County, West Virginia, recognized who they were. and started in on wrestling being fake. Uh-huh.
Well, you remember Buzz Sawyer? Oh, yeah. I remember Buzz Sawyer. Yeah, well, Buzz wrapped said gentleman around the telephone pole and spent the night in the Mingo County Jail to show him how fake wrestling was not. Right.
Right. Wow. See, now I've never heard that story before. Of course, I've heard, you know, of course, the more familiar, Dr. David Schultz, you know, smacking the guy open-handed slap and busting, I think, John Stossel's eardrum to show him how fake it was.
And I think Hogan putting the chokehold on Andy Kaufman, the actor or something, and him passing out and showing him how fake it was. Right, yeah. If I can find the newspaper clipping, I've got it somewhere. I'll send it to you. It was pretty funny.
That is funny.
Well, and that's old school wrestling for those who maybe don't know who watch the news stuff today. That was old school wrestling. I mean, you were taught to protect the business. You know, it wasn't intentional to see the good guys and bad guys together most of the time.
Now, sometimes it just had to happen before or after the matches. But I was schooled on stay away. You know, even if I walked into a gym and one of the good guys is in there, you know, walk out, come back later or in a restaurant or whatever else.
So that's a great story.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well, Dan, you've got your own podcast, your own, your own media shows, the Dan Scott Show. And what's all give us a take a minute and get what's all involved with that? A radio show that's on forty one stations around the country, a couple of Internet stations or seven total, but two of them are international. And we just share stories of God doing amazing things in people's lives. Jesus is still in the saving business.
I can't tell you we've done 160 plus episodes and we've shared so many. Incredible stories. You know, five cultural, five atheists who've come to Christ, Nikita, three of them cultural Jews. Just as an example. Through the show.
Through the show. And it's that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So so so them so these five atheists coming to Christ by by listening to the show?
No, no, they they were they were interviews that we were able to get.
So they had and one of the one of them you you probably know pretty well, Lee Strobel. He was very, very famously an atheist until he had his experience with Christ and wrote the Case for Christ book. You know, four years ago. Yeah, then the movie. Yeah, then the movie.
Exactly. A Case for Christ. For those of you who aren't familiar with that movie or that book, if you're struggling with your faith out there or wondering if God's real, I encourage you to go watch that movie, A Case for Christ. Or, if you're a reader, pick up that book, A Caste for Christ. Speaking of God being real, Dan, let's take a few minutes in your full.
More of your story, we talked about over on its time. to man up.
So I want to encourage people to go over into the Perhaps the archives and look that show up, and you'll get more of Dan's story. But there's something you said over there that I just want to take a couple of minutes here, a few minutes here, and talk about. You talked about in your younger days having experienced sexual abuse, which You know, there's a lot of people out there, unfortunately, that have or maybe even are experiencing. sexual abuse. And God is not only still saving souls, but he also is healing people from things like that.
How how Dan, how did you overcome that abuse from those early days?
Well, first of all, I want to make sure that people understand it was not at the hands of anybody in my family. I grew up in a Christian home with a father who was a pastor and wonderful parents. My mother is still alive. But in the area where my grandmother lived, there were some older boys in that neighborhood. who did things to me on a regular basis for I don't know how long it was, a few months, maybe a year, when I was probably anywhere from six to eight years old.
Um and and the the first thing that I will say is is that it took one man. speaking up to put a stop to it. one man who found out about it. and spoke up. And as far as I know, that man never came to Christ.
But he he remains a hero to me because when he found out about it, He put a stop to it.
So that's the first thing I encourage anybody out there, if you know of something that's going on or even think of something that's going on. You got to say something. You can't just sit back and say that, well, somebody else will take care of it or, you know. You know, I'm not sure. There are ways you can do things if you're not sure.
that won't Uh, ruin somebody's life if it turns out not to be true, but you've got to do something. Speak up. That's the first thing. Yep, you've got to speak up. And then, you know, interestingly enough, after my parents found out what was going on, that's when my dad had the talk with me.
About what sex was supposed to be and what it wasn't supposed to be. And then Nikita, they just went about letting me be Just a normal little boy. And I don't know if there were any safety nets that they put around me. I don't know about. All I know is that those boys who were involved in doing what they did, I saw precious little of them ever again.
And I was allowed just to go be a little boy. They didn't wrap me in bubble wrap or try to keep me, you know, inside all the time or away from people. I went on about the business of being a little boy, and I think that helped, quite honestly.
Now, it came. you know, came with with some issues as as I grew older. I had a lot of issues with with um Self-confidence or lack of self-confidence to be more accurate. But um You know, they just encouraged me. They loved me.
They encouraged me to go on and. and and and do what little boys did back in the back in the mid seventies and into the early eighties when I got into junior high school. And that's just go out and play sports and roll around in the mud and do the things that little boys used to do. Uh back in the day. And then wha at what point did uh Uh did you Feel like you received healing and you overcome that trauma.
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Traynaut.com. That's T-R-A-N-O-M-T.com slash Koloff to learn more. I buried it for a long time. I buried it for a long time. And it's interesting how God will work because the story of kind of coming to grips with it is also the same timeframe.
that he was using to break down all of the The uh Roadblocks that I had put up to accepting Christ. It all happened in about a six or seven month period, but. If you remember back in 2011 when the Jerry Sandusky stuff was going on at Penn State. And what a horrible situation that was. And he ended up, thankfully, getting many, many years in prison.
because of the abuse that he had had uh done to numerous numerous uh boys and and young men apparently I was hosting a three-hour daily talk show in Limson University flagship station at that time. And the more that we heard about that, the more it was impressed on me that it might be time to talk about it. And so at the end of my show one day, in November of twenty eleven, I publicly told the story for the first time. I called my parents the night before, told them what I was going to do. With their blessing, I told my wife and my kids what I was going to do.
My kids had no idea it had ever happened. I don't even think my wife did. 'Cause I I never talked about it. But then I I I told the story at the end of my show. that day.
And I can't tell you the number of people Who responded to that, Tequila? the and not just were so sorry, but people who had never told anyone before that it had happened to them. And some who were kind of high profile people in the media in our area. At the time.
So that that's probably how I really began to deal with it. and healed if you want to use that word and of course In June of 2012, when I gave my life to Christ, that was the ultimate healing of everything. But that would be the start when I had the courage to stand up and talk about it and do it in a way that it ended up affecting a lot of people. No, that that's powerful, Dan. And that so i if I summarize that, you know, you come to grips with what's what's happened and and then and be willing to open up and talk about it when too often Too many people suppress or try to act like or pretend, you know, perhaps like it never happened or bury it, but it just never goes away until you bring it, as I would phrase it, into the light.
And then, and you remind me of James 5:16. You know, it talks about confessing one to another that you might be healed. We talk about, we talk, I share this with men all the time in our camps: that, you know, if there's something there, you got buried or hidden, or, you know, I'm going to encourage you to bring it into light so that, you know, that it can, God can bring the healing part of it. And certainly the forgiveness and the saving part, but also the healing part.
Well, that's that's a powerful part of your story. And again, I want to encourage people to go over to you. It's time to man up to get more of the story. We're old enough to, some of us to know Paul Harvey, to go over and get the Paul Harvey rest of the story with Dan Scott.
Well, Dan, let's shift gears if we can. And give you the opportunity to maybe ask me a couple of questions here before we would wrap the show up today.
So what what do you what do you got for me? All right, yeah, and it kind of goes back to something we talked about at the beginning. because I know from the time you and I spent together on my show that you I don't want to say accidentally wandered into the wrestling world, but you went from never being a wrestler to being a wrestler almost overnight. And anybody who knows your story, they know that you immediately shaved your head to get into character. You actually changed your name.
You did all of this stuff. But I also read that Even Away from the ring. You stayed in character when you went out in public. Is that true? That is uh very accurate.
In fact, um Not only during my wrestling career, the number of years during my wrestling career, three years post-wrestling.
So, because in my mind, I'm like, how do I phase out of this? I've been doing this for so long. Do I just wake up one day, walk out one day, and see friends, or just people like, hey, how are you doing today? Right. Or whatever.
Right. So I'm like, okay, how do I do this?
So, I mean, it's just like kind of slowly fade the accent away over time. I guess in my mind, you know, convince people that, you know, I just was learning English so well that I could just, you know, the accent would just vanish and disappear. And of course, my friends were great about it. They never called me out on it or anything because they already knew anyway, right? But I did.
Again, going back to old school, right? To what you were talking about earlier about, you know, guys, you know, jumping on a bus together. I mean, as much as possible, I never frat. Fraternized, if you want to say, with with the uh wi with my opponents or anything of that nature, and tried my best. To protect the business, even going so far as to do it three years after I retired from wrestling.
And so, yeah, so true story. What you read was true. If you were ever caught associating with a babyface, what would that have done for your character? I mean, come on, right?
Well, yeah, exactly, exactly. And, and, uh, and because, especially as a bad guy, as a heel, as they're called, you know, I was determined to be the baddest of the bad and just and wanted, you know, the Cold War era. I wanted people to absolutely hate me, which they did. They did. And part of it, because I even remember like there'll be times like back in the day, people would want an autograph, right?
And they'd shove a pen and paper in my face, and I'd just, you know, grunt or at them or whatever, and they get mad. You know, they get mad. They go to Ivan and like, Ivan, get him to sign our art. He goes, you get him to sign it. I'm not going to convince him to sign it.
And oh, my goodness. And I probably have in my attic somewhere probably a dozen Russian English dictionaries, fans who gave Ivan or literally handed one to me wanting me to learn English. Yeah. Dan gave me a Russian English dictionary so I could begin to learn English.
So I have those in my attic somewhere as well as memories, mementos.
So, all right.
Well, that just speaks to how well you carried out the mission. Yes. No, absolutely, 100%. Dan, still to this day, I will still occasionally run into somebody who goes, Where's your accent? Like, uh, not really from Russia, buy the book or go go online.
You'll find out more, you know.
So yeah, it's crazy, right? Crazy, crazy.
So all right, you got one more for me? Yeah, ha had you stayed with football Yeah instead of wrestling. What position were you playing, and did you have aspirations of going on to the NFL?
So I did, as a youngster, as a 12, 13-year-old, one day envisioned myself playing in the NFL and headed off. That was a mission. And in fact, my senior year in college was scouted by the NFL. I had a major injury, a setback that I had one my freshman year, but that didn't hold me back. I came back from that and played three more years of football only to have another major injury my senior year.
But I was still determined to come back and play. Tight end was my position. You know, I wasn't the prototype at the time, the prototype NFL tight end. They had Kellen Winslow and Russ Francis up in New England. But the Green Bay Packers had a guy who was 6'2 ⁇ , about 245 pounds, named Paul Kaufman.
And I'm like, that's it, because that was about me. 6'2 ⁇ , 240. Ish, you know, and I'm like, man, if Paul can make it, I can make it.
So that became my motivation was Paul Kaufman. But Russ Francis and Dave Casper with the Raiders, you know, the bad boys from Oakland. Casper was a motivated, you know, he was one of my heroes, and Russ Francis was one of my heroes. And so I was determined. I was determined to make it one day.
And I remember, I'll tell you this part.
So when the NFL scout came during the offseason in between my junior and senior year, right after Christmas, of course, you know, you go home for a couple weeks or three weeks on Christmas break. You know, you're not working out and training. And I didn't know he was coming. Man, he came and did all just a battery of tests. Everything from a, I mean, we had to take this like, I remember, I don't know, it was like a 500 questionnaire, like trying to see your mental acuity, you know, basically how smart you were, I guess.
You know, and these jumping, and of course, the 40 time and the whole deal. And man, let's just say I was not in shape. uh and or prepared for this tryout with this guy. I'll never forget, and I'm sure it's the first time you ever heard this, when we were all Done. I looked at this guy and I said You come back next fall.
I will be bigger. And I will be faster. I go, buddy, you can take all these measurements and take do all these tests, but you can't measure the heart of a man. I go, When you come back, you'll see the heart of a lion, you know, kind of thing. And I'm like, and he was very gracious to just listen to it, smile, and listen to what I had to say.
And I'm thinking, yeah, looking back, he's probably heard that a million times, right? You can't measure the heart of a man.
So, and for the record, For the record, uh when I came back that fall, I was bigger. I was faster. In fact, they made me, he was there, they made me run the 40 three different times. And my offensive line coach said in all his years of coaching, he had never never seen somebody shave three-tenths off of his forty time. And here's the irony.
I'll tell you this last part of the story. The irony is, I went home that summer.
Well, I went home that spring and I asked the, I wasn't a track and field guy. But I tracked down the track and field coach. And I said, Hey, do you got any kind of programs where I could increase my time? He goes, I do. We just got this.
It's a Russian downhill sprint program. True story. How ironic is that, right? A Russian downhill sprint program, an eight-week program. to increase your stride.
And increase your speed. I'm like, can I get a copy of it? He goes, absolutely. Dad, I did it to the T, man. I had a buddy in my neighborhood that was out there with me every time I was out there doing it.
And literally cut three-tenths off my forty time. The coaches and the scout. Like, thought, like, what it wait, what? Like, anyway, so how about that for irony? A Russian downhill spread.
I I was destined to become a Russian, Dan.
Well, you know, and I was just sitting here thinking to myself, too, you're telling that story. You're talking about all that inspirational stuff, and then knowing what I know about how close you came. To being in a movie with Sylvester Stallone, I suppose that saying that I heard the Rocky theme in the background probably would not be appropriate, right? That's right. That would be correct.
That would be correct. Well, Dan, where can people find your show and listen to the podcast interview that you and I did on your show? And where can people find out more about you? Danscottshow.org. That's kind of the one-stop shop for everything, and you'll find it there.
Contact info. It's all there. All right. And really appreciate you being on the show today, Dan. Thank you so much.
It has been an honor, Nikita. Thank you. Awesome. And for all you out there listening, land, here's my channel to you today. Go out today and just have a Godfield.
God bless them. Until then. If you are a business owner, And would you like to advertise your company or product on the Man Up Show and or QA with Koloff. Contact me directly, Nakita Koloff at Koloff.net.
