3234: Wrestling and Writing
The Black Guy Who Tips Podcast
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4.9 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Rod and Karen bare joined by Cameron Hawkins to discuss living in Texas, writing about wrestling, growing up with wrestling, wrestling interviews, the allure of wrestling, coaching in wrestling, how NIL has changed younger athletes having agents, the dark side of wrestling, the Me Too movement in wrestling, the cultural pushback to inclusion, Black wrestlers becoming champions, wrestling becoming bigger, hair in wrestling, their favorite wrestlers growing up, Cam’s favorite Wrestlemania moments and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | I listen to the Black Guy who tips podcast because Rod and Karen are hot. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey, welcome to another episode of the Blackout Tust podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Rod. |
| 0:15.1 | Join, as always by my co-host. |
| 0:17.0 | Hearing. |
| 0:17.8 | And we are live on a Monday, rush hour Monday. You guys are probably on your way home, |
| 0:24.9 | watching us on crowdcast on your phone, knowing you're supposed to be having your hands on 10 and 2, |
| 0:29.9 | looking straight towards the road. Pay attention. I saw a wreck today. It was crazy. I'll get to |
| 0:35.7 | that in a second. But we're not alone. We have a guest |
| 0:39.4 | guys, first time guest on our podcast, although I have hung out with this gentleman on the |
| 0:45.1 | MC University podcast, the Marvel Cinematic University for those that don't know. Today's guest |
| 0:50.8 | writes about pro wrestling, Blade 2, an obscure 90 sitcom for Yahoo Sports. |
| 0:57.4 | He writes at Uncrowned and Complex. |
| 1:00.0 | He's hosted as a South Congress podcast. |
| 1:02.7 | It's Cam Hawkins. |
| 1:03.6 | What's going on, Cam? |
| 1:05.2 | Hey, man. |
| 1:06.1 | Doing all right. |
| 1:07.3 | Happy to be on with you all. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm a big fans of what you do and what you guys are about. So this is really cool. Oh, man. Thank you, baby. It's cool to us too, bro. I'm not even going to lie. I have so many questions about wrestling because that's a cultural blind spot for me. I don't really follow wrestling like that. Yeah. And for me, I'm the opposite. I followed it when I was younger. And then I just got to a certain point where I just stopped. So if you get into like the 80s and 90s, I'm very familiar with like Andre the Giant. Like I can go way, way back for like some of those. But once you get to a certain realm, I'm not as familiar. But I want to start by asking you this, man. Are you from San Antonio? Like you born and raised there? Because I saw that was, I saw San Antonio's reference in the bio. I was like, is he just a Spurs fan or like this, you've, that you claimed them folk? Yeah. So I'm originally from Southern Maryland, as a matter of fact. Okay. |
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