Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

This is Dave Legreca.

On today's episode, we talk about the life and career of Barry Blaustein and the documentary Beyond the Matt.

His love letter to professional wrestling and what it means to us fans.

We talk about it right now on the Busted Open podcast.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

We lost a big part of our community, the pro wrestling community, and that's Barry

Blowstein, has passed away.

He passed away yesterday.

And for those who don't know Barry,

Barry was a big influence on the early 80s version of Saturday Night Live.

He wrote a lot of the historic skits for Eddie Murphy.

I'm talking celebrity hot tub.

I'm talking Gumby. I'm talking Mr. Rogers. I mean,

he did a phenomenal job on early 80s Saturday Night Live. Also, a screenwriter for Eddie Murphy,

the nutty professor, coming to America, coming to America, to America the sequel and what we know him for here on pro wrestling

nation 24 7 and our community of pro wrestling is the beyond the mat documentary from 1999.

And I know that a lot of people have probably seen that documentary a hundred times.

I know I have.

I actually went back and watched it again last night.

And just the icon, like when you've seen a movie as many times as I have seen beyond the bat,

like you could almost word for words say some of the dialogue and some of the iconic lines and moments from that documentary.

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