Jonathan Coachman on The Rock, the prank Vince McMahon pulled on him, going from WWE to ESPN

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Mental Health, Sports, Wrestling, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Jonathan Coachman aka "The Coach" talks to Chris Van Vliet from his home studio in California. He talks about his current job with The Golf Channel, how being in the crowd at Over the Edge in 1999 when Owen Hart died lead to his job with WWE, his introduction on TV with The Rock, his relationship with Vince McMahon, and the best advice he ever gave him, going to jail after a prank that was pulled on him, why he decided to leave WWE for ESPN and much more! If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.2	Let's do this thing.
0:46.6	Welcome to Insight.
0:47.8	I'm Chris Van Fleet.
0:49.1	If it's your first time here, I'm an Emmy Award-winning TV host, and I'm obsessed with finding out what makes successful
0:56.4	people so successful. And on each episode, we have in-depth conversations and reverse
1:02.1	engineer the habits and techniques of the world's top athletes, celebrities, entrepreneurs,
1:08.6	broadcasters, you name it. If they are the best at what they do, I want to get their insight so we can apply it to our
1:15.6	own lives.
1:16.7	And there are so many great takeaways from this conversation with Jonathan Coachman.
1:21.2	Although I feel like he'd be mad if he just heard me call him Jonathan Coachman, because
1:25.7	everybody just calls him coach.
1:29.0	You'll know him from his time with WWE as a backstage interviewer and commentator, but how he got the job with WWE is so crazy.
1:37.0	It's hard to even believe it's real. It actually started with Coach being in the audience for the
1:42.0	over-the-edge pay-per-view in 1999 when Owen Hart died.
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