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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 178: The Curious Life of Count Dante
Description: Last week, I interviewed Bob Calhoun who called him self ‘Count Dante’ in the underground wrestling outfit Incredibly Strange Wrestling. This week I talk to documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb about John Keehan, the man who originated the Count Dante moniker. To most, Count Dante was a fixture of the comic book advertisements, offering ‘The World’s Deadliest Fighting Secrets’ to those ready to send a quarter to the address on the page. To the ones who knew him, Count Dante was a polarizing figure. He was either a crusader for civil rights by openly teaching martial arts to black students, a tw...