Adversaries: Joanie "Chyna" Laurer

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Joanie “Chyna” Laurer (1969-2016) was a mainstay in the WWE in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Billed as “The Ninth Wonder of the World”, she wrestled men and women and bested them both. In 2019, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

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This month we’re talking about adversaries. These women fought against systems, governments and – sometimes each other to break barriers in their respective fields. They did unthinkable and sometimes unspeakable things to carve out their place in history.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on I-Heart
0:04.8	Radio. I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people
0:09.7	you wouldn't be wrong to call monsters. But if Scooby-Doo taught us one thing, it's that there's a guy under that monster mask. The monsters in our political closets aren't some unfathomable evil. They're just some weird guy. So join me every Thursday for a look under the mask at the
0:24.4	weird little guys trying to destroy America.
0:27.0	Listen to weird little guys on the I-HeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:30.2	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womannica. This month we're talking about adversaries, women who fought for their place in history,
0:45.0	whether they fought to get to the top of their sport, against how society perceived them,
0:50.0	or fought with each other to be champions.
0:52.0	We're talking about women who broke barriers and some fought with each other to be champions.
0:52.7	We're talking about women who broke barriers and sometimes did seemingly impossible or
0:56.9	unspeakable things to carve out their place in history.
1:00.6	This episode of Womannica is brought to you by the all-new Toyota Camry.
1:06.0	Today we're talking about a woman strong enough to wrestle all her adversaries to the ground.
1:10.0	Let's talk about the ninth wonder of the world, Joni China Lawrer.
1:17.0	Joni was born in 1969 in Rochester, New York.
1:22.0	She had a tumultuous childhood. in Rochester, New York.
1:22.6	She had a tumultuous childhood.
1:25.4	Her father was repeatedly abusive,
1:27.2	and her mother kicked her out of the house
1:28.6	when she was still a teenager.
1:31.6	She found respite at the local health club.
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