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Sound Off Extra - JUSTIN ROBERTS Talks Backstage WWE and More!

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Sports, Tv Reviews, Wrestling

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this special SOUND OFF EXTRA, Solomonster is joined by former WWE ring announcer JUSTIN ROBERTS for a nearly 75-MINUTE INTERVIEW talking about his new book and the highs and lows of his 12 years working for WWE. We cover a lot of ground here, including:

*Meeting a young CM Punk on the independent scene
*Being a fan of the original GLOW show and thoughts on the new Netflix series
*The biggest misconception about the role of ring announcer in WWE
*Howard Finkel's influence on him in his early days in WWE
*Why he absolutely loved his time on the ECW brand
*The Nexus invasion on Raw and Daniel Bryan's firing
*What it was like being ringside when Undertaker's streak was broken
*The truth about the bullying culture behind the scenes in WWE
*What it's like working for Vince McMahon and all of his imaginary rules
*Triple H not liking him and how things may change when he takes over
*Stories about working for KEVIN DUNN!
*The "suggestion box" in the Gorilla position backstage
*Why the talent are really employees even though they're not classified as such
*Why he was relieved to get his WWE release

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0:00.0

This is Justin Roberts and you are listening to Sala Monster Sounds Off. Jason Beck here with you for Sound Off Extra. With me now is a man who spent 12 years in

0:22.3

W. W. W. W.E.

0:23.4

much of that time as the company's lead ring announcer.

0:26.8

He now has his very first book out called Best Seat in the House,

0:31.2

Your Backstage pass through my

0:33.0

W.W. journey, which is available on Justin Robertsbook.com,

0:38.0

on Amazon, and just a few weeks ago, it was finally made available on audible narrated by the man himself Justin

0:45.5

Roberts is here Justin how are you my friend hey jayor i'm great thank you how are you

0:49.3

today i'm doing very well i know it was a a journey in and of itself just to get the

0:53.5

audio book version up so congrats. Thank you yeah that that took a long time I

0:58.2

wasn't sure if we was ever going to be out. Now I saw you you had posted

1:01.9

something online earlier that I guess the updated audio version I believe is now up on audible

1:07.4

Yeah, it gets even better so not only did

1:11.4

Someone somewhere sit on it for a while you know from February to it finally

1:15.6

came out a couple of weeks ago but when they uploaded it nobody had ever

1:19.9

gone through and done an edit to make sure that everything was okay

1:24.0

which also happened with the book. When the book first came out it went to print

1:29.5

while the editor was on vacation. So that got fixed for the second run and then the audio

1:37.2

version is now updated, they edited it and updated that on Aud audible and iTunes.

1:44.0

Excellent.

1:45.0

Well, first of you know, I love the book.

1:48.0

You and I were in touch at various points over the last few months and I told you, know as I was going along and it it was it was a weird thing because

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