Episode 663: Count Dante Part II - The Dojo War of 1970
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There's no place to escape to. This is the last podcast. On the left. That's when the cannibalism started.
Who's that? All right. Do you want to start? Are you practicing death? No, I practice death. when I sleep. Oh man, it's good. It's good. I do that when I stop breathing every night. See, well you do that. I work really hard on it. Medically. For so many years I've been working on it. I get my neck fatter and fatter and fatter and it presses on my larynx when I sleep and so sometimes I don't breathe And I'm still here. You see?
Can't stop me. Can't kill you, dude. Can't kill me.
Can't kill me, dude. Can't imagine, in my mind, Count Dante should have a martial arts solution to sleep apnea. Because of any martial artist groups of henchmen had sleep apnea, it's guys in Count Dante's crew. I don't know how he died, but I think that sleep apnea is high in the running.
Oh.
sleep apnea was his mortal enemy it would be count dante trust me it's a fat man's death he's not a fat man himself but it is well let's say it's an unhealthy man's death yeah he lived a fat man's life he did by himself still being quite the martial arts expert welcome to last podcast on the left ladies and gentlemen my name is marcus parks i'm here with what Henry Zebrowski.
That's me. I'm ready for karate noises.
Yeah, and Sleep Apnea's best friend, it's Ed Larson.
That's right. Cal Dante went from martial arts to martial farts. That's right. That's right, because he got fat. He got fat. He is unhealthy. Also, he did, which has only ever been seen before by Artie Lang, in which he got fatter on coke than off of it.
Yeah, that does happen. It's special. It's the Coke bloat. Yeah. Coke bloat's a real bad problem. And you know what? A lot of really healthy people, real farty, because they're vegetarian.
Oh, yeah. All right, so everything I said sucks.
That's why I love the women around. That's how you know where the healthy girls are in Los Angeles.
Oh, man. Follow the vegan farts.
I can see that. If I did cocaine, I'm sure I would just be like, well, I want a sandwich.
Give me a sandwich right now. I want a fucking sandwich.
Just power through it. Yeah, some people do it to keep drinking. I do it to keep eating cheese steaks.
Yeah, and to keep talking about eating. And you got to eat when you're talking about eating.
My restaurant owner at the poor house, he loved cocaine.
Yeah. A bar owner in New York City loved cocaine.
You know, there was a brief time there where he wasn't doing it, and then all of a sudden I knew he'd gotten back on it because I got a call at 4 a.m. telling me the soup sucked.
So when we last left Count Dante, the martial arts master of Chicago had just begun taking out full-page ads in comic books in order to hawk merch for his Black Dragon Fighting Society. Now this, of course, was using a mail-order business that was run by local nuns under Dante's control.
Doesn't get better than that.
Besides the t-shirts, sweatsuits, and nunchucks all branded with Black Dragon Fighting Society logos, Count Dante also sold three separate mail-order pamphlets called World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets, which could be obtained by any angry comic book nerd for a mere 25 cents each. Count Dante had also fully given in to his status as a local character in Chicago by modeling his image and personality after the Satanist Anton LaVey, who was just starting to make headlines out in San Francisco as the head of the Church of Satan in the late 1960s.
I feel like every once in a while I just have to remind myself I don't like this guy.
Yeah.
I feel like last week, you were really trying hard to be like, you know, he's an asshole, but it's so hard, man, because Count Dante is one of my favorite Americans that have ever been born. Except for the fact that I don't like his behavior towards women.
Of course not. No, he's an absolute asshole. He's a fucking bully. He's inherently violent. He is a bully, but he's a fucking character. He is an American character. But all this added up to Count Dante basically billing himself as a sort of anti-hero.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–11:01
2
What events led to the infamous Dojo War of 1970?
11:01–12:04
3
How did Count Dante's marketing strategies influence his reputation?
12:04–18:35
4
What role did the Dragon Lady play in Count Dante's life?
18:35–34:59
5
What was the significance of the karate tournament organized by Count Dante?
34:59–1:18:31
6
How did the Dojo War escalate into violence?
1:18:31–1:20:39