0:00.0	It is our pleasure on this month's edition of Book Club to be joined by the author of a decided
0:06.1	novelty, The Essential Guide to Black Pro Wrestling History, covering the years from 1880
0:12.9	up into 1950.
0:14.5	It's a pleasure for Neil and I to welcome author Ian Douglas.
0:18.3	And Ian, thanks so much for taking some time to chat with us. Me and Neil,
0:22.5	we both thought reviewing this book would be great, but to have you on itself, we thought that
0:27.4	would be the best way to kind of go through this because this really is, you see the award
0:32.3	essential in a lot of books. This one really lives up to it. Like this is, I would call a must read for a lot of people that, quite frankly, cover a lot of books. This one really lives up to it. This is, I would call a must read for a lot of people
0:39.3	that quite frankly cover a lot of figures that I would think even your ardent wrestling followers
0:44.2	would be learning about for the first time. So I know that's a bit of a mouthful, but there's a lot
0:49.0	to take away from this book. So thank you very much for sitting down with us. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
0:56.3	It's an honor to get the invite, and I hope I can live up to your lofty expectations.
1:00.5	When it comes to your use of the word essential, honestly, I wanted to fill in all of the gaps in my own wrestling knowledge that, quite frankly, I felt ashamed for not
1:14.6	knowing and like glossing over or looking past in my own writing, and I didn't want to make
1:22.0	any further assumptions. So I just went back and step by step, figure by figure.
1:28.8	I determined who were the essential black pro wrestling figures from the eras that you
1:35.0	mentioned and got it all down on paper.
1:37.9	So really, I was just looking to write a book for myself to satisfy my own curiosity.
1:45.7	And it's nice to hear that some other people have benefited from it as well.
1:50.7	When it comes to covering an entire history of a culture and its contributions to pro wrestling,
1:58.4	is it almost like just a completely different type of task than
2:02.4	some of your individual projects that you have put together where you're working on one
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