Listener Picks: America's Love Of Professional Wrestling
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The sale is one indication of many of the continued prominence and popularity of professional wrestling.
The movie "The Iron Claw," starring an all-star cast of Zac Efron, Lily James, and Jeremy Allen White, opened in theaters in December. It tells the story of the Von Erich brothers, pro-wrestling stars from the 1980s.
For this installment of our "Listener Pick" series, we discuss the popularity of professional wrestling in America.
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| 0:14.5 | Learn more at concur.com. Every year we put together a series of conversations suggested by you. |
| 0:30.0 | For today's show, the topic is professional wrestling. |
| 0:33.4 | Here's Ray who listens to W FYI in Indianapolis. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey 1-8, I actually was kind of joking when I suggested pro wrestling is a topic for your show |
| 0:44.8 | and I was surprised to hear that you had chosen this as a topic but I'm so glad that you did |
| 0:49.6 | I've been a wrestling fan since I was six years old and pro wrestling is extremely misunderstood. |
| 0:57.6 | Like Ray, millions tune in to watch vicious beatdowns, including on the first day of the new year when a surprise guest showed up at |
| 1:04.4 | W. W.E.'s Monday Night Raw match in San Diego. |
| 1:07.7 | If you're some mow! What the Rock is cooking. |
| 1:18.5 | The crowd was electric. |
| 1:19.9 | The wrestler turned actor to |
| 1:21.6 | The Rock Johnson traded blows with another wrestler, Gendur Mahal. |
| 1:25.7 | But wrestling is about so much more than just the physical. |
| 1:29.1 | Why you so angry? |
| 1:30.1 | Angry all the time. |
| 1:31.5 | If the Rock had to guess why you're so angry it's probably |
| 1:34.0 | because nobody likes you and you're not funny. As a matter of fact if you were |
| 1:41.0 | one of the rocks movies you would probably be Baywatch. |
| 1:44.0 | Thankfully, I've never seen Baywatch. |
| 1:48.0 | Well, nobody else did either. |
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