TMPT Feature Show: Greg Oliver

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week TMPT welcomes to the show for our Feature episode, the return of famed author, Greg Oliver to the show. Greg's new book is The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Storytellers (From the Terrible Turk to Twitter). In this latest addition to the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series, Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson explain how the sport’s unique take on storytelling has fueled its remarkable expansion. Hundreds of interviews and original accounts inform this exploration of the imaginative ways in which wrestlers and promoters have used everything from monkeys to murderers to put butts in seats and eyes on screens. From the New York City Bowery in the 1890s to a North Carolina backyard in 2017, readers will encounter all manner of scoundrels, do-gooders, scribes, and alligators in this highly readable, heavily researched book that inspires a new appreciation for the fine (and sometimes not-so-fine) art of storytelling.

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0:00.0	The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production.
0:10.0	And now for something completely different.
0:13.5	Hey, I was, I'm a Hall of Fame. I'm in three halls of fame. For the young fans, they don't give a damn.
0:18.2	They just give a damn about themselves and what they're hearing now. And I got no problem with those rules. I know the rules going in. I'm happy to play the game that way. And when Ivan came off with that knee drop on the top rope and he bent me, I thought that something happened. I couldn't hear a thing. You could have heard the pin drop in that arena. It touched me so deeply that when I went in a dressing room, I really felt
0:38.6	depressed. I'll tell you that. I'd tell you right to his face. If Hogan and I, if he wanted to get in a real street fight with me, trust me, he would lose, and he knew it. You know, that's the other thing. They give you the belt, and they're like, okay, you're in charge of me. I was like, What?
0:34.1	You mentioned a guy like Harley-Rate,
0:35.8	that kind of legendary status.
0:37.7	It's obvious why people give me the belt and they're like okay you're in charge of me i was like what when you mentioned a guy
0:54.4	like harley raised that kind of legendary status it's obvious why people would get upset or as i'm concerned
1:00.3	roddy piper was not a wrestler he wasn't even a good worker if he had to go out and work his way to the
1:06.9	top and not have good friends like jim barnet i'm not, I'm not saying he's not a good guy.
1:12.1	He's just not a tough guy. Bro, I swear you, I don't have an ego. Like, I don't give a crap.
1:17.1	That stuff is not important to me. People don't know me. They have no idea of who I am.
1:23.3	They know of me as being a fictional character that they saw on people.
1:28.3	People didn't understand that, you know, the guy they saw in the ring that happened to be using his real name,
1:33.3	and happened to actually be the president of the company.
1:35.3	They really believe that that guy that they loved to hate was actually a pretty decent guy.
1:41.3	And I think many people have the perception that I really was that character.
1:47.8	They are
1:49.1	Primetime Pod
1:50.9	and Jazz
1:52.4	the two-man
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