Billy Kostecki was Johnny Castle's Wingman

This is the third in a series of three articles.

The first article was Baby Houseman's Walk of Shame.

The second article was Johnny Castle's Alibi That He Was Alone and Reading.

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Johnny Castle was an extremely attractive man who was able to seduce many women, but he still benefited from having a wingman. When women socialize, they usually are in a group that includes at least one so-called cockblocker who interferes in men's seduction efforts. The Return of Kings website defines the following common types of cockblokers:

The deck is stacked against men getting laid by a prevailing culture of cockblocking. .... On a day-to-day basis, we’re more likely to face the more visible types of cockblocker: actual people who do things to your face — intentionally or not — to salt your game, and in the process, scare off your prospect, extinguish your hard-earned rapport, or rattle you enough that you drop the ball. ... Cockblockers break down into traditional taxonomies. ...

The Wrist Grabber
The classic cockblock move that remains as effective as it is simple. She drops in deus ex machina and extracts — often physically — your prospect from the conversation. The excuses range from a rushed, ambiguous “we have to go” to a more elaborate “we’re meeting our friend.” They’ll often fool less experienced players with the promise of going to the bathroom and coming “right back.” The goal is to “rescue” your girl whether or not she actually wants to be rescued.

The Snarky Color Commentator
This is often a problem in group settings where you’re outnumbered by her friends. You’ve successfully entered their group and captured everyone’s attention with your scintillating observational humor. But this girl, often on the uglier and fatter side, is accustomed to getting the laughs and loud-mouth attention in this hen house. She will compete with you for the group’s attention, interrupting you with bitchy remarks, resorting to inside jokes in an effort to exclude you, or lob thinly veiled insults at you in a passive-aggressive tone.

The Curtain Puller
This is one of your more hostile types. This is a sideline observer—often one of your target’s friends, but not necessarily — who’s taken up the mission of “exposing” that you’re hitting on your target. She will say rude shit like “Is that your line?” or “Do you always hit on girls here?” in an effort to rattle you and “warn” your “innocent” would-be “victim” that you have intentions. Given that you’ve done this before, you’re not phased by being outed, just likely irritated. More importantly, it may embarrass your target and ruin the interaction.

Even an extremely attractive man has to deal with cockblockers, and that is why he often benefit from having a wingman. The Urban Dictionary website defines the word "wingman" as follows:

A Wingman is a guy you bring along with you on singles outings (like to bars) that helps you out with the women. Typically in these ways :

• The Wingman will always be there to “occupy” least attractive girl of the pair so that you may engage in the “hotty”.

• Often, when an attractive girl is out with an ugly friend, she often feels restricted to not leave that ugly friend alone, thus making the hot girl, un-touchable.

• When the wingman technique is used, both girls are approached by the men, and the Wingman automatically engages in conversation with the ugly girl. ...

• The Wingman then offers the ugly girl to dance, (which rarley happens to her) so she wont be able to resist.

• At the end of the night, after you have worked your magic, the Wingman, AND ONLY THE WINGMAN, offers the girls to comeback to his place for a little ‘after-party’.

• Once everyone arrives, the Wingman “occupies” the ugly girl IN ANOTHER ROOM, leaving yourself and the sweet sweet little hotty alone so that you can bang her, bang her like a drum....

Learning and practicing the Wingman support system is an unbelievable asset if done right. Your wingman is an invaluable assistant for you so don't underestimate the value of finding a Wingman that can work with you.

The following two videos portray the wingman's role.

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The movie Wedding Crashers portrays a pair of successful pickup artists who were each other's wingmen.

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Johnny Castle was extraordinarily promiscuous, which was why Penny Johnson did not become his romantic mate. Johnny seduced a large number and variety of women at the resort.

Johnny was forbidden to romance the female guests, and he well might be fired if he were caught doing so. Therefore, most of the women he seduced were non-guests:

* The hotel's female employees -- maids, waitresses, hairdressers, receptionists, counselors, etc.

* Bungalow bunnies -- women who lived in rented rooms outside the resort grounds.

* Local women who lived in nearby towns.

* Girlfriends and wives of male staff members. (For example, Baby Houseman was the girlfriend of Neil Kellerman.)

* Visiting girlfriends of the above women.

Many of the non-employee women surely were able to get into the "dirty dancing" parties in the employees' bunkhouse.

Johnny was able to seduce many of those women -- often with the help of his wingman, who distracted the cockblockers while Johnny was trying to isolate his preferred women in a group.

The wingman's reward was that he too was able to seduce many women in the circumstances.

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I suppose that Johnny Castle's primary wingman was his cousin Billy Kostecki, who had the following personal qualities:

* Good-looking

* Sociable

* Self-confident with young women

* Loyal to Johnny

Billy recruited young women to become stooges for the magic shows. This task indicates that he was able to persuade and manipulate young women.

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As stated above, a wingman sometimes facilitates a another man's seduction by inviting a pair of women to an "after-party" in the men's apartment. The two women feel safer going together to the apartment. Later in the apartment, each man isolates one woman in a separate room.

Johnny's cabin certainly was large enough to include two separate sleeping areas. Therefore, in some cases Billy slept in Johnny's cabin when they were collaborating to seduce two women.

On some occasions when no women were involved, Billy might have spent the night in his cousin Johnny's cabin merely to keep Johnny company. On most occasions, of course, Billy slept in his own cabin with the ordinary employees.

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Another wingman task that Billy perhaps did was to drive the women home afterwards. If two women had spent the night in the cabin, then Billy drove both of them home if they needed rides.

Even in cases where just one woman spent the night with Johnny, Billy might have accompanied or driven her home in the morning. If the woman were a hotel guest, then Johnny could get into trouble if he were seen accompanying her in the morning. If the woman had to be accompanied or driven home, then Billy should do so instead of Johnny. Billy's being fired was less of a potential problem.

Johnny or Billy could have arranged a signal that would communicate to Billy that he would have to accompany or drive Johnny's lover home in the morning. For example, Johnny might place a flower pot at a particular location on the cabin's porch if Billy was supposed to come to the cabin in the morning.

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Based on the above reasoning, I think that that sports car in the following screenshot belongs to Billy.

A sports car waiting outside Johnny's cabin one morning. 

On this particular occasion, Baby did not sleep in Johnny's cabin overnight. Perhaps the sports car belongs to some bungalow bunny who did spend the night with Johnny.

I prefer to think, though, that the sports car belongs to Billy, who is waiting to drive Johnny's lover home. Perhaps the woman is a hotel guest, and Billy will drive her closer to to her hotel room so that she will not be seen with Johnny.

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If my speculations about Billy are true, then there is an explanation of the absence of Baby's book from Johnny's cabin when the cabin was searched by the Kellermans after Moe Pressman's wallet disappeared.

When Billy arrived in the early morning, he went to the cabin door and knocked on it. Johnny came to the door and gave Billy the book and purse that Baby had brought the previous night. Billy took the book and purse into his car and waited there until Baby came out and kissed Johnny goodbye on the porch stairs. Then Baby got into Billy's car, and he drove her closer to her family's suite.

In other words, Baby's walk of shame was only from Johnny's cabin to Billy's car.