Jack Sexsmith (part 1/2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #290
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 290 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Part 1 of an extensive 2 parter here for you with the wrestling phenomenon JACK SEXSMITH!
“I’ll be the sex guy, then…”
So much to talk about that Pip and Jack went in for almost two hours on this one! As you’ll hear, two hours barely even scratches the surface as there is just so much ground to cover… They begin at the end, Memento style, with Jack’s recent injury which resulted in his retirement, and so you will hear everything around that and what led up to it. A lot to get through in this first part, but it includes nom de plumes and pseudonyms, setting the scene of his career changing injury, working hurt all the time, Rip Tide, making amends with the occasionally troubling past of wrestling, his teen years as a devout Christian, his years in the Progress dojo (aka ProJo), meeting Edward Dennis and Sebastian, his brushes with a very different wrestling name altogether, how he indeed got his name (the story may surprise you), “Sexually frivolous, morally ambiguous”, his LGBTQ connections and lifestyles and all that entails, effecting change through character, winning over crowds with comedy, the joy of battle raps, and the eventual move to super strong style. How much more than that? TONS. You’ll see. Too much to just skim over here - go in and enjoy!
EPISODE LINKS:
• JACK vs DAVID STARR @ RIPTIDE
• JACK on LAST WORD ON PRO WRESTLING
• JACK on DEFIANT WRESTLING FANDOM
THIS EPISODES SPIRIT ANIMALS:
• DPP #222 • Why I Love Wrestling (Roundtable)
• DPP #186 • We Need To Talk About Wrestling
LINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM
• NEW LISTENERS TAKE NOTE • You can find the full DISTRACTION PIECES episode list HERE!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 290 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, |
| 0:06.1 | and I'm joined today by someone I was delighted to chat to. He's a wrestler, but if you're not a wrestling |
| 0:12.9 | fan, then don't go turning away, because I think you're going to love this one. I mean, before I get |
| 0:20.0 | into it, I'm joined by Jack Sexmith, but before I get into it, huge love for the response |
| 0:26.4 | to the recent episodes, the Louis Thoreau episode, the K-no episode, the Frank Turner episode, |
| 0:33.8 | the Sarah Pasca episode, the Joe Gilgur episode. There have all been some of the most popular |
| 0:39.9 | response-wise episodes I've done, so big love for that. But yeah, so Jack and I sat down, |
| 0:47.9 | and we ended up talking for two hours. So you know it's a good one when it goes on long. So I've |
| 0:54.8 | split it into two, the first part out now, and the second part will be out midday. So I'll tell you |
| 1:01.2 | a bit about the first part. I'll keep this intro brief, and then I'll probably keep the outro |
| 1:07.2 | brief then do this, I don't know, we will figure it out. But in this half we talk about essentially |
| 1:14.5 | Jack's life and his history, and the kind of first half of his career. I mean, we start with |
| 1:24.4 | sadly the end of his career. Jack recently sustained an injury that has meant he's had to stop |
| 1:31.0 | doing what he's put years and years into and got to a really good place in. So yeah, it's a really |
| 1:38.8 | interesting one for that, but we also talk about the importance, the reason, as a lot of you know, |
| 1:45.3 | I don't generally have wrestlers on anymore because of Tuesday night jaw. I don't have many |
| 1:50.7 | wrestlers on because a Tuesday night jaw is a wrestling podcast on the network, and I think that's |
| 1:54.8 | the perfect place for wrestlers. But Jack's story for me transcends wrestling because it's what he's |
| 2:02.5 | done for the LGBTQ community, and the work he's done there within wrestling, which as we'll get |
| 2:13.9 | onto in part two, isn't always traditionally an LGBTQ friendly arena as such. So I really think |
| 2:23.8 | the stuff he's done there is important. And then yeah, as said, we talk about his injury and how |
| 2:31.2 | that's all, how he's at to deal with that and how that's impacted him. So yeah, the first half |
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