International Object Podcast
Episodes:
Joe Drilling and I cool down from Jason’s Starrcade series and discuss WWE’s distribution arms, comparisons to sports and SNL, wrestling education compared to other arts, wrestling psychology, and why Sting was not quite like the Crow.
Season 2, Episode 4: Cewsh & Commentary
Cewsh from Cewshreviews.com and K Sawyer Paul debate the usefullness and best practices of announcing and commentary in professional wrestling.
Season 2, Episode 3: Year of the Villain
“What the public is looking for here is the gradual construction of a highly moral image: that of the perfect bastard.” - Barthes
Season 2, Episode 2: Brandon Stroud
Brandon Stroud and I talk for nearly two hours about expecations, wrestling humor, camp, The Rock’s wrestling style, and The Best & Worst of Raw. Click above to listen directly.
Season 2, Episode 1: This is Your Life
A Keynote presentation of three articles: Breaking Canon, Managing Expectations, and This is Your Life
Nathaniel and I talk about Randy Savage’s legacy, the tribute art show in Toronto on November 12, the current landscape of titles, and Royal Rumble championship matches. Show notes
My guest this week, Alexis Wilson, reports from a fan fest full of legendary wrestlers. We also talk about belt designs, HHH vs Undertaker, and Eric Bischoff. Show notes
My guest this week: David Shoemaker of Deadspin and Grantland. We discuss our favourite writers, his upcoming book, CM Punk, creativity in the ring, wrestling journalism, and shaky fantasy worlds. Show notes
This week, Mikey Llorin and I talk about Summerslam, MMA, and whether winning is more important than having a good match. Show notes
This week, Tom from Tom Watches Wrestling and I talk about men in tights (and suits!). Show notes
Jen from This Fire Burns (http://thisfire-burns.tumblr.com) joins me for a chat about Beth Phoenix, WWE.com, Colt Cabana, Wrestlemania XXVII, and way more. Show notes
The 26th episode of the International Object podcast is all about sexuality in wrestling. Garcian Smith and I dig deep into the sexual problem in wrestling, from straight to gay to Big Dick Johnson to Scott Steiner’s eharmony profile. Show notes
Razor and K Sawyer Paul talk about the end of the WWE Off Season, Money in the Bank, Raw, HHH, K Sawyer’s prediction skills, WWE’s stock, people who still think wrestling is real, what the Raw GM does now, and movements in popular culture.
Rachel Davies and K Sawyer Paul talk about Stephanie McMahon, wrestling injuries, and soap opera hooks.
Episode 23: Miranda and Isabella
On this episode of the Aggressive Art podcast, K Sawyer Paul and twin wrestling fans Miranda and Isabella from Confessions of a Wrestling Fan and Life of a Wrestling Fan talk meeting and befriending wrestlers, The Main Event Mafia, and how two perfectly nice girls ended up loving such an ugly industry.
Bill Bicknell and I discuss the life and career highlights of the recently passed Randy Savage.
Thomas Holzerman of The Wrestling Blog comes on to talk Chikara King of Trios, Japanese Style, “fighting spirit,” UFC, blood and blading, Jake Roberts, Dying in a wrestling ring, where’s randy savage, taking a bow for your performance, and fan reaction making a difference.
Aaron Glazer and I talk about Aggressive Art & Inside Pulse.
Episode 19: Virginia Wiglesworth
Virginia from Written Wrestling joins me for a discussion about Divas, Edge, the motivations for becoming a wrestler, live TNA and Wrestlemania.
I cull Jason Mann’s bookmarks in order to present quality wrestling websites for fans at every level.
Trey from Wrestling Theory and I talk Hart and Hogan on Twitter, Miz’s photo from Raw, Dave Lagana’s I Want Wrestling, multi man matches, and why neither of us can cheer Randy Orton.
The Rock’s return to wwe has made Wrestlemania 27 instantly more interesting. Derek from the excellent On Wrestling talks with me about how WWE might take us to wrestlemania, Dolph Ziggler’s 2011, and the idea of an evil Rey Mysterio.
Mitch from Pizzabodyslam and I talk about the difficult mechanics of writing for professional wrestling, characters, and people, and we praise WWE creative for doing their best with an impossible position. After that, enjoy a dissection of the WCW world title picture in 1999. Also, this is far and away the most Canadian episode yet.
In the 13th episode of the Footnotes of Wrestling podcast, Prowrestling.net’s Chris Shore joins me to discuss preferences between art, theatre, and sport in professional wrestling.
This week, Paul from Turnbucklezine and I talk about pride in wrestling fandom, something you may have read about on this blog recently.
Jason Mann from Wrestlespective and I talk about a whole wack of things, including growing up as wrestling fans, Shawn Michaels’ 8-year apology, wrestling podcasts and journalism, and when to come out to your significant other that you like pro wrestling.
Tim joins me in a talk about TNA’s awful year, the WWE women’s division, and what winning the TNA and WWE championships do to wrestlers.
This week’s episode of The Footnotes of Wrestling co-stars the lovely Mirandaaa. We talked about Replays, Kevin Nash, The Hall of Fame, and then replays again, because we’re nothing if not ironic.
This week’s podcast is a very unique one. I interview The Raw GM. He/she is the one with the robot voice. We talk about the Raw GM’s role on Monday night Raw, the mystery of the character, and comedy in professional wrestling.
Garcian Smith and I talk about Goldust, Ironman matches, Vince McMahon, Fuck Yeah Scott Steiner, and the IWC. At the onset, you’ll hear us decide to go half an hour. You’ll also see that we were incorrect.
This week, Paul from Turnbucklezine comes on to talk about Racism and stereotypes in wrestling, and then I go on a long rant about the Tumblr Wrestling Community.
This week, Cliff Rushing of the Ringside Review came on the show to talk about his merchandise collection, WWE photography, and wrestling comedy, among some other things.
Last week I spoke with Minako (her Tumblr) for over an hour and a half about tag and women’s wrestling. It’s a great talk and the fourth episode of the still-not-quite-a-podcast*-because-I-don’t-want-to-jinx-it that you can still totally subscribe to if you want.
Inside Pulse’s Aaron Glazer and myself talk Bragging Rights, Brand Split, Fantasy Booking, and if Dolph Ziggler is the worst name in the history of wrestling. Show Notes
I’m still not 100% on whether I can keep up any kind of schedule, and to be honest I wasn’t even trying to make a podcast episode with Mikey Llorin, but we talked for the better part of an hour about the brand split and Bragging Rights, HHH and when (or if) he’ll return, and the broad differences between professional wrestling, MMA, and real sports.
On the very first episode of the International Object Podcast, I talk with Miranda King about Chris Jericho and photography. Show notes
