Renee Paquette and Shalise Manza Young

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Episode 125 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Renee Paquette, who worked for nearly eight years as a WWE broadcaster under the name Renee Young. She is the host of “Oral Sessions with Renée Paquette,” an uncensored and unscripted weekly in-depth conversation with a personality. She is followed by Shalise Manza Young, a columnist for Yahoo Sports and a former Boston Globe sports writer. In this podcast, Paquette discusses her pregnancy (she and the AEW wrestler Jon Moxley are having a girl); how the pregnancy announcement came to be on AEW; the shock of the death of Brodie Lee (Jon Huber); missing people in pro wrestling; whether we will see a woman at the main announcing desk of “Raw”; the creative freedom of AEW versus WWE; her upcoming cookbook, “Messy In The Kitchen: My Guide to Eating Deliciously, Hosting Fabulously, and Drinking Copiously” which will come out in May 2021; whether her husband practices promos in her house; if she thinks Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey will return to pro wrestling; the future of Roman Reigns as a heel or a face; missing out on being a heel commentator and much more. Young discusses her column on how Aqib Talib is representing Black Americans in the Fox NFL broadcast booth; how for decades we’ve been trained to believe that live sporting events must be broadcast a certain way; covering Talib while he was with the Patriots; cornerbacks as analysts; why it was Fox that hired Talib; why representation matters; how the coverage of women’s sports and women in sport as we head to 2021; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	hey everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Sherry. Two guests this week. First off, one of my favorites, Renee Paquette, who many people in the world know as Renee Young. That was her stage name for her eight years while working for the
0:55.7	WWE. She is the host of oral sessions with Renee Young, which is a new podcast that she's put out
1:02.7	where she interviews different people. So far, it's been a lot of wrestling heavy stuff.
1:07.9	CM Punk, her husband, John Moxley, have been guests, but check that out.
1:11.4	Renee's a very fun interviewer.
1:14.5	She also has a cookbook coming up soon.
1:17.6	Messy in the kitchen,
1:18.6	my guide to eating deliciously,
1:20.2	hosting fabulously,
1:21.2	and drinking copiously.
1:22.4	That's out in May of 2021.
1:24.1	And Renee and I basically just do a little bit of a catch-up session here where we talk about
1:28.5	how things are going with her pregnancy, how that announcement became public, the death of
1:34.0	Brody Lee, which is just awful news in AEW world. And then we get into a lot of fun stuff
1:38.9	in wrestling. So if you like Renee's work and if you like wrestling, I think you'll enjoy that
1:43.4	conversation.
1:50.5	She is followed by Shalise Manza Young, who's a columnist for Yahoo Sports and the, and a former Boston Globe sports writer.
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