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Ron Fuller wrote a novel about a bear loose in the Smoky Mountains, and I believe he’s writing a book about wrestling next. Are there other wrestlers besides him and Mick Foley who have written novels?

Good match, Slaughter was a hell of a heel.

They must be announcing the whole class at once, instead of one a week like they did forever

How is this doing ratings-wise?

He had a really good match with 123 Kid on Superstars at some point in 93 https://youtu.be/ih6IC1whujg

How many wrestlers were on Carson? Hulk, Jesse Ventura and Andre off the top of my head but I wonder if there were more

Not that I would ever want to see it become violent at any point in the now 4-decades running on and off feud, but in the current media landscape everything like this is now fair game to be booked.

The actor who played Healy on Orange is the New Black is Bill Mercer, and was in among other things two of the more disturbing episode of the first season of True Detective. Nobody is listed on IMDb or Letterboxd as playing Manning.

Just Jake now and has been for awhile. How is it?

I wonder if Rush goes face after this. Hook and him would have a good match.

I did the Amazon route through the first four seasons of Better Call Saul. Paramount not getting their biggest show on the flagship is the kind of two step forward one step back I feel like WWE is in now. Which reminds me of their annual spring cleaning after WM.

I like this clip especially Sean doing some followups on topics discussed in their shoot interviews. I can dig wrestlers talking about virtually anything else. So this for me is just clips rather then whole podcasts which to be fair my intake of them on the whole is not as regular as it used to be.

The gimmick of The Beverly Brothers and The Genius remind me of Willy Loman’s sons and their neighbor, from Death of a Salesman.

I like Luger getting in. seems like a long shot for Rock this year. All I hope is that whenever it happens Kevin Hart inducts him.

This night rings pretty deep in Bret’s book. Said Kerry Von Erich came up and gave his condolences, saying that his brothers were looking over Dean. Some wanted Bret to go over but it was planned out for Ted to win to be in that match of survival gimmick (surprised they never revisited that), so instead we got the clinic as it was in the end of really solid work by both with that great ending where Bret looks up and says “fuck”, all but looking at the camera. In the back he said him and DiBiase embraced and had a good cry about it. I’d always known the story about Teds father dying in the ring but wasn’t until recently I learned that Harley Race, out of instinct tried to save his life. Bret said all he saw Vince and Pat do was just ignore him and engage in whatever hysterics they were in that night. Later on, learning that The Undertaker’s brother died the night before his last performance really puts the whole match in a new light for me. In addition to what I realized later, was the significance of Dusty “doing the honors” for a guy in his first major appearance in this classic character, in what it meant to guys who worked for him and ranged from silence in deference to what he had done for their careers, or in protest to the point which Arn and Tully left and others later in the shoot interview generation made their feelings fully known. Mostly a lot of love for him, and even from a young age in which he was done doing the grind and being a family man again, he still made the most of that tv time Turner and even Vince again later, gave him. Of all the sort of unspoken things about him I believe, is that Triple H is more entirely a disciple of Dusty then even his father-in-law.

Rock seems obvious because WM is in LA, but there are clearly other factors that have to come into play for it to happen. Namely if he feels it’s time to do it, and retire or just go on and end on a less bombastic note.

How many took place on April Fool’s Day? 6 I know but I think it has to have happened again since

Roman/Sami one night, Roman/Cody the next.

To me one of the funnier and moments I can relate to on Something to Wrestle With is when Bruce is asked about Hilbilly Jim’s music being overdubbed on the Network and he immediately says he hates it. The downside to the way music is used and overdubbed eventually is kind of a bummer to whatever nostalgia is happening. This is a topic I’m interested in exploring more directly with you guys since I’m guessing you’ve watched a lot more wrestling then I have. With AEW bringing in classic rock songs for some of its top talent was an encouraging sign to me that they are of the world rather than of their own universe so to speak. For me, and this shifts every so often but I’m still impressed at the ECW November to Remember videos using Guns n Roses’ “November Rain” as the hype package for the show.

Yeah I don’t sense him as a guy looking for that kind of attention

I haven’t cried this hard since Up

Timing of this sure is funny

Netflix ceased production on that doc awhile ago

They’re doing the whole out with the old in with the new thing next week, updating the look of the show somehow. That’s somehow a natural progression with wrestling companies that was catching on in the more competitive local territorial markets and the WWF itself finally when they moved their tv tapings into small arenas and out of the unorthodox-looking places they largely did their tv from in the 70’s and 80’s. This feels desperate on their part and this is the first time I felt this about the company.