The Jericho Network on Westwood One.

It's not the best one. It's not the gray one.

You're speaking with the juices One.

Because the father would have called me up four or five months ago when he did and said,

look, Eric, we've got this

thing called TED Talk it's a lot of fun it's great opportunity you know some really

smart people you hear ideas you you gain experience but I don't want to do it the way we normally do it.

See what I want to do Eric is I want to format my TEDx

Naperville show or event to be like a professional wrestling event. I don't want people to think, I want people

to feel. Hmm. That would have been right on my alley because that's what I do or at least that's what I've done for the last 30 years

About 2006 I wrote a book

It came out. I think we made New York Times Best Seller List for about, I don't know,

45 minutes.

We barely made it at number 16, but we made it. And it sure as hell sounds great when I do something like this and I can

talk about being on the New York Times Best Seller list. I don't always tell

people that only lasted for about 45 minutes,

but I thought I'd share that with you.

The book really followed my journey

and what I learned in 30 years of being in the professional wrestling industry.

People don't realize just how enduring professional wrestling is in our culture.

One of the first people I ever worked for,

Vern Gagna.

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