Chris Jericho of AEW and “Talk Is Jericho”

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 167 of the Sports Media Podcast features Chris Jericho, who currently works as a professional wrestler for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), hosts the popular podcast “Talk Is Jericho,” and is the lead singer of the band, Fozzy. The next wrestling PPV he will perform in comes at “AEW Full Gear” on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. ET at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this podcast, Jericho discusses the concept of professional reinvention and his ability to change his character over multiple decades for multiple companies; what he’s learned about reinvention that can be used by everyone; his approach to doing media; whether the media companies he has worked for dictate the press outlets he speaks with; how much he reads the people and publications who cover the business of professional wrestling daily; the importance of television viewership in professional wrestling and the 18-to-49 demo that advertisers want when they buy television time; if he follows how WWE does in viewership on Monday and Friday nights; why AEW has worked; the cool factor of the company; Chris’s role in bringing wrestlers such as Jon Moxley into the company; the success of Talk Is Jericho as a podcast; interviewing a variety of subjects from star musicians to paranormal experts to wrestling colleagues; facing criticism for some of his guest choices; the art of wrestling promos and how he prepares and approaches them; navigating the line of realism in promos and why sometimes that’s not a smart play; the prospect 0f Chris transitioning to broadcasting following his in-ring career and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Our guest this week, if you are a fan of professional wrestling, he really needs no introduction. Chris Jericho is now working for all elite wrestling, AEW.
0:23.6	He hosts the popular podcast Talk is Jericho, lead singer of the band Fazi, a New York Times best-selling writer, La Champion, the Demo God.
0:35.6	Chris Jericho, one of the most, quite frankly, one most iconic pro wrestling figures in the last three decades.
0:44.8	He, he's doing this podcast right before he performs at AEW Full Gear on November 13th at 8 p.m. at the Target Center in Minneapolis. That's pay-per-view.
0:56.7	So basically go to any of the providers that you usually use for pay-per-view and you can see Chris
1:00.7	and seeing Chris what he does best, which is perform in the ring. This was just a fascinating
1:06.8	podcast for me. Obviously, I think people know I'm a wrestling fan, but you don't have to be a wrestling
1:10.8	fan to enjoy this because we talk about professional reinvention. Chris's ability to change his character over multiple decades for multiple companies and how just, you know, you can use that in your everyday life. There's basically few people in Chris's business who've been better at reinventing himself than Chris Jericho. We get very deep into sort of
1:29.0	how he approaches media, how he chooses the people he speaks with, what he consumes. And for
1:36.7	Chris, he consumes quite frankly a number of daily wrestling outlet publications. So to keep up on what's going on, we talk about television
1:47.8	and speaking of the demo guide, we talk about viewership of AEW and the importance of the
1:54.0	18 to 49 demographic, how Chris looks at that and how he looks at that in relation to the
1:59.5	WWA. Talk a little bit about Chris's
2:02.6	rolling bringing in wrestlers such as John Moxley into AEW. Get into the podcast. Chris's podcast
2:09.5	is incredibly successful. Talk as Jericho is not just one of the top sports podcasts in the
2:14.6	country, but frequently on the top 100 lists in the United
2:18.5	States and Canada.
2:20.2	Get into a little bit of how Chris chooses his subjects and what he's interested in when it
2:25.4	comes to a podcast guest.
2:26.6	And then finally, we finish up with Chris goes pretty granular on his promos.
2:31.1	That's always something interesting to me, how he approaches them, does he practice them beforehand,
2:35.6	why they've become so realistic,
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