POST INTERVIEW: John Arezzi, “Mat Memories”
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock speaks with John Arezzi from Pro Wrestling Spotlight: Then & Now about his new book Mat Memories: My Wild Life in Pro Wrestling, Country Music, and the Mets. The two discuss his distinct careers, covering the early ‘90s sex scandal in the WWF, his journalistic approach to the industry, and working with Greg Oliver on the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, our guest today has lived several lives, all of which are documented in his new book, |
| 0:05.2 | Matt Memories, my wildlife in pro wrestling, country music, and with the Mets. |
| 0:10.1 | He is a former executive in baseball, country music, a pro wrestling journalist, and now adds |
| 0:15.6 | author to the resume, a pleasure to welcome John Arezzi to post wrestling. John, how are you doing today? |
| 0:21.4 | I'm doing great. Doing great little, I had the first game was canceled because of COVID, |
| 0:32.4 | other than that I'm doing all right. Yes, this is the COVID world that we are currently |
| 0:37.5 | experiencing now a year in and yes, start an opening day for Major League Baseball is certainly |
| 0:44.3 | up in the air for some teams, and it's funny because given that we are based in Toronto, |
| 0:50.8 | I found this to be such an interesting intersection of you being roommates with two people |
| 0:56.4 | that were pretty key architects for the Toronto Blue Jays organization of the past 20 years, |
| 1:02.2 | in JP Recharity and John Gibbons that you go way back with these two individuals that this |
| 1:08.5 | city is very well familiar with. Yeah, we're really a really close friends to this day, but |
| 1:16.6 | we were all kids back then in 1981 when we were all with the Shelby Mets baseball club. |
| 1:23.7 | I was an executive for the team and John was the number one prospect catching wise for the team |
| 1:29.7 | at the time, and JP had a promising early career, but he turned that into a great career as an |
| 1:37.0 | executive. I mean two great guys to this day, I love both of them. As you were going into this |
| 1:44.0 | project, tell me a little bit about your thought process because I mean it's a very interesting, |
| 1:50.5 | I will say plural, careers that you have had not just limited to professional wrestling. |
| 1:56.1 | I found it to be really fascinating the way that you pretty much took the different past |
| 2:00.7 | throughout your life. Was that at all difficult just to present in a book that you have these |
| 2:05.6 | very divergent past? Was that always the intention to kind of shed a lot of light? This is hardly |
| 2:11.2 | just a pro wrestling book. Yeah, and that's what really compelled the co-writer, Greg Oliver, |
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