’Heels’ Season 2, Episode 2 Review

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Wrestling, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

David and Ben return as they recap the second episode of this season titled, ‘The Journey Is the Obstacle’ (03:25). They discuss Jack Spade’s continued struggles with balancing his wrestling career and personal life, the hope for Staci’s character to remain independent, where Crystal’s story line will go from here, and more. Also, they take a step behind the curtain as they are joined by the episode’s director, Peter Segal (42:38). They discuss how his past work in comedy contributes to the series, the wrestling lingo, the difficulties he faced while shooting the show, as well as the process of shooting the episode’s match with Jack and Crystal. Hosts: David Shoemaker and Ben Lindbergh Guest: Peter Segal Producer: Jessie Lopez Additional Production Support: Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Danny Heifetz, host of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show, me, Danny Kelly and Craig
0:04.4	Coralbeck are coming to you every Monday Wednesday and Friday before the
0:07.6	NFL season so you can crush your draft and win your league or at least make sure
0:11.2	you don't come in last place and have to do your league's punishment. Follow the
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0:30.3	Welcome to The Ringer Wrestling Show. Heels season two, episode two. What's this
0:36.4	episode called Ben? It's called The Journey is the obstacle. The journey is the
0:42.8	obstacle. That's the voice of Ben Lindbergh there. My co-host on this journey
0:47.2	chronicling the entire second season. I can't remove the show from this card
0:52.0	on a technicality. I'll be back every week. Well, we'll see how things go. We have
0:57.9	a big interview with the episodes director Pete Siegel who directed a ton of
1:01.7	season one as a huge driving creative force in the show. It was amazing to
1:05.8	talk to him. So that'll be after Ben and I have a little conversation about this
1:09.8	episode. Before we get into it, I do need to mention the comments that Star of
1:15.0	Heels, Steven M.L. has made about the actor strike over the past several days.
1:21.6	The first quote that came out was, I support my union I do and I stand with
1:25.6	them, but I do not support striking. I don't. I think that's a reductive
1:29.3	negotiating tactic and I find the thing incredibly frustrating. He went on to
1:32.8	clarify in I think a video and a post what he meant. This is obviously we're
1:40.4	not a part of the strike and shouldn't claim that any inside knowledge. I know
1:46.0	that a lot of people associated with the show were just frustrated that they are
1:49.0	because the strike not allowed to promote the show. They can't do interviews on
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