Bonus: Dark Side of the Ring

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🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Waypoint's Austin Walker sits down with Evan Husney, producer and co-creator of Dark Side of the Ring, VICELAND's new docu-series that digs into the human stories behind six tragedies of wrestling history. Evan previously worked with Waypoint on documentaries like our behind-the-scenes look at Superhypercube and our Waypoint Presents episode on Magic: The Gathering. Today, he talks to Austin about the inspiration and process behind the new show, and the remarkable response it's received so far.

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0:00.0	What's good internet it is Austin Walker here for a special episode of Waypoint Radio.
0:21.9	I am here to talk today with Evan Husney.
0:24.4	Husney?
0:25.4	Is that right?
0:26.4	I've never asked because of a bad friend.
0:30.6	You already be sure if that's right.
0:33.4	I probably did the first time we spoke.
0:36.7	I was like, Husney, I read it on email.
0:40.5	You are a producer and the co-creator of Dark Side of the Ring, a new docuseries that's
0:45.8	running currently on Weisland.
0:47.2	I think by the time people hear this, the first three episodes will have come out.
0:53.7	It is a series.
0:54.7	I'll let you pitch it because Evan, you have been pitching me this series for literally
0:59.9	18 months on and off to two years we've been talking about this thing.
1:04.6	I'm super excited for people to be watching it now, but I want you to tell the audience
1:10.1	what it is.
1:11.1	Yeah, well, thank you.
1:13.6	This has been a documentary series passion project for me for several years now.
1:20.1	Basically, what it is, it's a six-part documentary series that kind of uncovers a lot of the
1:26.9	most infamous stories in the world of 70s, 80s, 90s professional wrestling, as well as
1:34.0	some extremely under-reported controversial stories.
1:37.9	Some are even true crime in nature.
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