Dark Side of the Ring: Daffney Review & Discussion
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🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Karen Peterson and Kate from MTL review Dark Side of the Ring: The Scream Queen, Daffney — VICE’s interpretation of the career and legacy of Shannon Spruill.
In this podcast, Karen & Kate discuss:
- DSOTR’s approach to sensitive topics like bipolarism, suicide, and the impact of the internet
- Participant involvement in the episode
- Spruill’s advocacy for mental health, on the job injuries and employee rights
- Thematic parallels to our previous Luna Vachon documentary review
Recommended Media:
- Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women's Wrestling - By Pat Laprade & Dan Murphy (2017; pps 238-240)
- Crazy is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts & Breaking the Rules - By A.J. Mendez (2018)
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| 0:44.6 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:45.9 | Welcome to a very special edition of the Post Wrestling Cafe. |
| 0:51.0 | Once again, I am your host, Karen Peterson, and join with me as always is our |
| 0:57.4 | Canadian Queen of Collision Course in the North, Kate from Montreal. |
| 1:02.0 | We were kind of joking before we got started that we kind of get like the sad topics that |
| 1:07.4 | we're kind of the sad girls club here at post wrestling. |
| 1:10.4 | But today we've come |
| 1:12.5 | together for the first time gosh in about two months because we last talked in March uh this time |
| 1:18.4 | we're getting together to talk about the dark side of the ring episode about the screen queen |
| 1:22.9 | herself uh... Daphne and Kate, how you been? |
| 1:36.3 | I've been okay, as I'm in weather hell right now because it got very, very warm last week in Montreal. |
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