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Brian Gewirtz on Talk Is Jericho - EP254

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Brian Gewirtz spent 12 years in creative at WWE before leaving to join The Rock's production company, Seven Bucks Productions. You're gonna hear about the gig that landed Brian the writing job at WWE, what it like writing for The Rock, Mick Foley, Edge & Christian, and even Y2J. Brian has great stories about Wrestler's Court (yeah, it was a thing, and yeah, The Undertaker was judge & jury), spending a day with Mike Tyson, musical chairs, the one celeb idea he had to shoot down, and what happened when he was put in charge of Piper's Pit at Wrestlemania 21 with Hot Rod and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Brian's also talking about his current gig at Seven Bucks Productions and why he still loves being The Rock's personal writer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

TALK IS CHERICO BABY TALK IS CHERICO TALK IS CHERICO TALK IS CHERICO MAMA TALK IS BABY

0:13.5

Welcome to TALK IS CHERICO. It's the part of Thunder and Rocket role and listen. There's

0:17.8

a lot of so-called XWB writers that are on podcasts, you hear them all the time and

0:22.7

maybe they work for the WB for a few months, five months, six months, maybe a year. Some

0:27.0

of them are writers assistants. Some of them are in charge of getting Vince coffee, but

0:30.6

today I have got the X former Senior Vice President of Creative, the head of RAW for 10 years

0:38.8

Brian Gowert's is here. That's right. He was the head of WB Creative for years, head

0:43.4

writer, senior vice president of creative, wrote so many angles, worked closely with Vince,

0:49.2

Triple H, Stephanie. He spent 12 years in WB Creative and is sharing some of his more memorable

0:54.1

stories, including the time he had to go to wrestlers court with edging Christian, a

0:58.4

ridiculous story when you think about, especially in this day and age. Brian also works closely

1:02.2

with the rock to this day. He originally left the WB to go work for the rocks production

1:07.1

company, seven bucks productions, but you hear how he first met the rock and how that

1:11.6

meaning ended up landing Brian a job at WWE. One of my favorite writers I've ever worked

1:16.1

with came up with so many great things, including edging Christian's five second pose.

1:21.4

He's also time at Roddy Piper, one of his favorite wrestlers of all time, and the Piper's

1:25.4

pit he did with hot rod and stolen Colessey Boston for WrestleMania 21. Brian's got favorite

1:30.1

celebrity guest hosts from his days, writing Ron Smackdown, and what it was like spending

1:34.1

the day with Mike Tyson. It's going to be one of your favorite episodes I guarantee

1:37.1

it. Brian is a great guest with so many ridiculous stories about what it was like to be on

1:42.2

the inside of the WWE for 12 years. He is going to blow your mind, I guarantee it, and

1:48.4

we're going to get to Brian, but first we want to talk about the new collector's edition

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