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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

WKPWP Interview Classic with ECW "Barbed Wire City" documentary producer John Philapavage talking ECW history, controversies, movie making

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Interview Classic episode from ten years ago (9-7-2012), PWTorch editor Wade Keller and Bruce Mitchell interview John Philapavage, a documentary maker raising funds to finish his ECW documentary featuring an unprecedented number of interviews with ECW wrestlers, promoters, behind-the-scenes workers, and reporters shortly after ECW folded over ten years ago and in recent months catching up with where key people are today. He talks about the journey he's been on for the past dozen years and where he wants to go with the project including hopes it'll be the type of documentary to get widespread attention outside of the wrestling fan audience.

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her

0:09.6

oversized tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.0

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.0

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.0

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.0

All aboard, Miss I finally got plans out the group. a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard, miss, I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.6

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.0

P and O'Ferees, there is another way.

0:30.1

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:40.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection

0:46.0

Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:53.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:56.0

Piando Ferries, that is another way.

0:59.0

One benefit of the VIP membership is access to our back issue library contemporaneous in depth inside a reporting on pro wrestling in real time over the past 30 plus years.

1:11.5

And throughout the year of 2022,

1:13.1

we're gonna begin our March through the year 2002

1:15.9

with back issues posted each week in PDF

1:19.5

and all text formats.

1:20.9

You can read it in a PDF format

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