Hey now, we are getting over, and I am the Silver King, Adam Silverstein,

welcoming you to a special edition of the Getting Over wrestling podcast.

No, this is not a WWE week in review, a recap of NXT and AEW, an ultimate preview for a pay-per-view, or an instant analysis that we do

once pay-per-views go off the air. It's not even a normal interview show. And by the way,

for first-time listeners, we do all of those

things. So don't forget to subscribe. Today, I bring you a conversation with long time

WWE talent, cookbook author, podcast host, and mother-to-be Renee Paquette, who many of you

know better as Renee Young. When I sat down to plan how we wanted

to end 2020 here at getting over, and that's the first year, by the way, this podcast has existed,

I knew I wanted to do a series of special shows. And Renee is someone who I have always found

uniquely interesting, considering her

background, the way she got into the wrestling business, and how strong of a force she became

in WWE through her tremendous work ethic and her passion that just shines through whenever

you watch or listen to her. So I knew that when we spoke,

I did not want to just interview Renee, but rather sit down and have a conversation with her.

And to my surprise, true surprise, she was down from the very first moment that I asked.

We really cover it all, as you will hear in a few moments. We discuss what her life has been like

since leaving

WWE, what led to that big decision, what it's like to be married to John Moxley. We also talked

about what went wrong during her stint on raw commentary, the cancellation originally

of talking smack, whether WWE tried to keep her when she recently told

them that she was going to leave. We get into the scripting of promos and interviews for talent,

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