I have another audio podcast of “Wrestling Reality” courtesy of the Pittsburgh Podcast Network which distributes the show on a variety of platforms. Here’s some of what I had to say:
Transcription courtesy of @PeterBahi
On the Snowflake Treatment in Professional Wrestling:
I know it’s winter, but I am tired of this special, snowflake treatment. It is driving me nuts. I don’t know if you heard about this; a mom took her seven year old son to a WWE live event up in New England. They sat front row; Kevin Owens spotted the kid; he stayed in character and proceeded to knock the kid for wearing a Roman Reigns shirt. He told him to keep wearing the Roman Reigns shirt. He didn’t want him to own any Kevin Owens stuff. He goes on and on and then walks away. The mother goes on to Facebook and is disappointed that “Little Johnny” (I don’t know if that’s his real name), but we’ll just call him “Little Johnny” got heartbroken. He’s a fan of everyone; oh, WWE how could you let this happen? Look, if Owens would have made fun of the kid, and took a personal attack on him, I can see the argument, I am a parent, I could see the argument there; but he did nothing of the such. He stayed in character; he belittled Roman Reigns, the good guy, his opponent, and that is part of the fun of being front row at a Pro Wrestling show. It’s to get that personal, one on one interaction. Look Mom, he’s seven. When he gets older, he will laugh at it, it’s a great story. Today, with the internet, it will live forever. He might be listening to this on the eve of his High School graduation and think to himself; damn, that good looking, Justin LaBar talked about me at the end of 2016, I’m a Rock Star. Put me into college. Look, truth is, I’d be more pissed if Owens would have broken character; that’s me. Okay, he’s at ringside, he’s in his office. You do what you have to do. His job is to entertain in his office in the Kevin Owens character. That is what his job is, so whatever makes you or “Little Johnny” so special to make him stop doing his job in his office, this is the whole problem we have right now. Everybody has to be nice, everybody gets a trophy. There’s no last place, we don’t keep score; S-A-W-F-T, Sawft, Sawft, Sawft sweetheart, get out of the arena.
On Shad Gaspard Preventing a Robbery at a Gas Station:
Shad Gaspard, who used to be part of Cryme Time, along with JTG, were in Florida and stopped at a gas station. Shad has gone on to do bodyguarding for Mike Tyson and Britney Spears; he can handle himself. So wrong place, wrong time for the would be robber, who tries to walk into a gas station, and apparently goes up to Shad and tells him, “you’re going to buy me a beer!” Then plans to rob the gas station, and in Shad’s quote he gave to Ryan Satin of ProWrestlingSheet.com, he told the story of, “I’m not dying in Florida.” Then Shad proceeds to stop this would-robber, and if you watch the surveillance, for the first 20 seconds it’s kind of boring. I don’t really know what I’m looking at. I just see vehicles and pump station; then all of a sudden you see a body moving fast, you see a bigger individual following “said” individual and proceeds to grab him by the neck and swing him 180, like a sack of potatoes. I don’t know if you’ve sling a sack of potatoes often, but trust me, if you’re slinging a sack of potatoes, this is what it looks like, except this sack of potatoes had 4 limbs, until he applied a choke hold, until those sack of potatoes went limp. Hilarious, awesome stuff.
I also talk Del Rio getting in another fight, Cody Rhodes with the Bullet Club, WWE Roadblock and answer fan questions on Twitter. Hear the whole show below or CLICK HERE to go to the show’s home page and download it from another audio platform.
