Posts and podcast episodes from Wrestling With Heels On.
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
I was shaving my face a few weeks ago, listening to old Jean Shepherd radio programs on YouTube, when I thought about something Bobby Heenan said about ringside commentating. He said he learned how to do it by shaving in front of a mirror. Shaving in front of a mirror allowed him to practice his … Read more
This summer I was totally enthralled by the audiobook BLOOD, SWEAT & CHROME by Kyle Buchanan. The book is about the rigors of filming MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. I’m a big fan of the MAD MAX movies so I still can’t believe I almost passed on listening to the book just because I read a few reviews that came down hard … Read more