Special Report: The Death Tour (2024)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As part of our Slamdance Film Festival coverage, Mike spoke with directors Stephan Peterson & Sonya Ballantyne about their documentary, The Death Tour (2024), in which a group of wrestlers cross the barren winter lands of Canada. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Andrew! The death tour is the hardest tour there is in sports.
0:46.3	If you want to be a wrestler, the death tour is a definite way to prove to yourself and to others that you have what it takes.
1:00.0	The problem is to get there. It's not easy.
1:03.0	The Duc Demi block in the road.
1:06.0	Instead of being there at 2 o'clock this morning.
1:09.0	When wrestling does arrive to these very remote, isolated, indigenous communities,
1:14.5	just getting there now.
1:16.0	It's like WrestleMania, you know, in the reservation.
1:20.8	We've got to perform every night.
1:24.0	After three weeks of it, a couple of them, all of them, will crack.
1:32.3	You all ready?
1:35.3	We are off.
1:37.3	No alcohol. No drugs.
1:40.3	Do not break those rules.
1:42.3	You're probably not going to have cell service up there.
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