Posts and podcast episodes from Wrestling With Heels On.
There’s a reason there’s never been a mainstream movie about Drill Instructor training school. A movie like that might humanize them and ruin their mystique. We don’t want to sympathize with the drill instructors. We want to hate, fear, and worship them. We don’t want to see how they’re assembled. We want to believe they’re born that way. Even … Read more
I am a big fan of the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre. The film stars Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory as fictionalized versions of themselves. They play old friends who haven’t seen each other in five years and agree to meet for dinner. Andre is a theater director and Wallace is a playwright. The … Read more
A few weeks ago I found an Instagram video of Ric Flair having a heart attack on a live WCW broadcast and it blew my mind. Of course, with all things wrestling you have to see these things for yourself to tell if they’re real or not, but this one looked very real. A red-faced Flair, … Read more
INTRO (JINGLE): AMERICAN TOP 40 CASEY KASEM (IMPRESSION): You’re listening to AT 40, coming to you from Hollywood. Now we’re up to our request and dedication, and it comes from a 53-year old man in Brooklyn, New York, who hosts a podcast named WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON. The podcast is about the classic bad guy … Read more
INTRO: A CHORUS OF CRUNCHY HEAVY METAL GUITARS ANNOUNCER: Welcome to another head-banging, rocket-fueled, monster-filled episode of WRESTLING with HEELS ON. Now let’s take a rock and roll stroll down Vanillalane… SFX: Record scratch ANNOUNCER: Hey, Mr. Recording Engineer! There’s a typo in the copy. It says Vanilla Lane but it’s supposed to read Villainy … Read more