Ep. 135: How wrestling can save and end lives w/ WWE Films’ Daron Jackson

Tights and Fights

Maximum Fun

Comedy, Wwe, Danielle Radford, Arts, Hal Lublin, World Wrestling Entertainment, Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Aew, Society & Culture, Lindsey Kelk, Raw, Dynamite, Smackdown

4.6 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Happy #MaxFunDrive! For our second episode of the week, Hal, Danielle and Lindsey are joined by Daron Jackson. He’s a production attorney for WWE Studios and a lifelong wrestling fan. He’ll recount tons of details about his fandom throughout the years from making snow angels with CM Punk at an ROH show to crying at the Undertaker’s WrestleMania 29 entrance. Plus, he’ll explain what it’s like to interact with Stephanie McMahon and Triple H during the film-release process, how he managed to land a job in the WWE machine and how the new film Fighting with my Family signals a change in the creative direction of WWE studios. This show is dedicated to our Max Fun Members! If you’d like to join them, sign up at maximumfun.org/donate as part of the #MaxFunDrive to support this and other Maximum Fun shows you listen to for as little as $5 a month. You’ll get all sorts of gifts, including bonus episodes of every show, including Tights and Fights! Hosted by Hal Lublin, Danielle Radford, Lindsey Kelk and Daron Jackson Produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun. If you want to talk about more wrestling throughout the week be sure to join us on Facebook and @TightsFights on Twitter and Instagram. If you liked the show, please share it with your friends and be sure to leave us a quick review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.

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0:00.0	Tides and Fides Podcast is the perfect wrestling podcast.
0:08.0	There's a guy named Hal and there's Daniel, and this guy my giggle is there as well.
0:19.0	Tides and fights podcast dyes and fights welcome everyone to another special bonus episode of tights and fights i'm how
0:34.9	lovelin joined by my fellow members of the Nation of Conversation, Daniel Radford,
0:39.0	and Lindsay Kell. Hello. And our special guest, he's a production attorney who works for
0:44.2	WWE Studios. It's Darren, watch your back, son, Jackson. Get him. Welcome. Welcome to Tides and
0:50.9	fights, Darren. Thank you very much. So nice to have you here.
0:57.8	Tell us as a production attorney for WWB Studios.
1:01.5	First of all, how did you come into that job?
1:03.1	And what does that job entail?
1:05.3	So we were, I just mentioned this.
1:07.4	I have lots of stories about myself and wrestling.
1:08.1	Great.
1:13.5	I got into this job because I was previously a trainee of sorts at Sony Pictures and I've had a tab open in my Chrome browser, among my mini tabs in my Chrome browser,
1:19.3	that was the WW Studios, the job listings that I've been refreshing just daily for five years,
1:27.3	literally, just in case something ever opened up there in the legal field that I could possibly shove myself into.
1:32.3	And it just so happened that once I had just about the right experience in the legal film world, that a job came open.
1:38.9	And because this is Hollywood in film, everyone knows each other.
1:41.9	And my mentor at Sony worked with the people at WWE, and they were
1:46.7	able to send an email on the spot. And here I am. That's awesome. So you've been a fan. You were a fan long
1:51.9	before you were working there. Tell us a little bit about your wrestling fandom. So the earliest memory I
1:56.7	have in my entire life is looking at a WBF magazine with Animal and Hawk on the cover.
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