Posts and podcast episodes from Wrestling With Heels On.
One of my favorite audiobooks of 2023 was Matt Singer’s Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. As a lifelong fan of the two film critics, I geeked out on learning about the humble and somewhat shaky origins of their groundbreaking film review show Sneak Previews. It was also fascinating to learn how much the show’s … Read more
The most common regret expressed by people before they die is: “ I wish I had spent more time with the people I love.” That’s a sentiment echoed throughout 350 DAYS, a film by Fulvio Cecere and Darren Antola, focusing on the toll pro wrestlers endure on their bodies, families, and psyches working all year round on the road. For … Read more
The NEW YOU ASKED FOR IT, a show that ran in syndication from 1981 to 1983, was a revival of the original 1950s YOU ASKED FOR IT. Like the original, the NEW YOU ASKED FOR IT had field correspondents traveling to the ends of the earth to answer and fulfill viewer questions or requests, an … Read more
As far back as I remember I always wanted to be six foot ten. That’s right: six foot ten. Not seven feet, not eight feet, but six foot ten. All of my heroes back then were six foot ten: Ted Cassidy, Richard Kiel, Dave Winfield, and Big John Studd. If you don’t know who any … Read more
I was struggling to write this episode so I turned to poetry for inspiration. The poem was Maya Angelou’s CAGED BIRD. It is a poem that sounds like an allegory to the victims of morbid jealousy–the kind of extreme jealousy I can only assume Elizabeth Hulette struggled with for years; the kind of jealousy I grew up … Read more