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EXCUSE ME WITH VICKIE GUERRERO 04/09/20: SURVIVING AND THRIVING WITH TAELER HENDRIX
Taeler Hendrix on her view of the women's revolution: "I don't believe the women's revolution happened over the last 10 years. I think it's been slowly building a big bon fire through the '70s and '80s. Somewhere it got a little lost along the way and then it started picking up again, you know, you know, these women that started out as eye candy, and they will admit it, we can admit it, it wasn't a bad thing, it's just what it was. However, at the time, it turned into something more and that is what is so inspiring because I got to watch people like Victoria and Trish Stratus turn something that was meant to be one thing and turn it into something completely different and because of them and because of the people before them, we can see all the amazing things, and all the amazing opportunities today that we are seeing. These women today that are excelling in those opportunities are indirectly and directly both creating new opportunities for people that are going to happen, one, five, and ten years from now. I think people like Sherri Martel and Velvet McIntyre and women like that deserve so much more credit because they are not talked about as much as they probably should be because without them, there would not be people like me."
Taeler Hendrix view of bullying on social media: "I've been bullied my entire life. The only way to play the game is not to play. I've got lost for a very long time. I was around people that didn't always have my best interest and incidents and things like that and then one day, I was like, what happened to me, where did I go, this isn't me. This isn't the adult I needed as a child. I can't look back at my younger self and give myself a high five and say, hey kid, we got this, everything is going to be ok. So, what am I going to do to change that? If I can look back at myself just long enough to tell the kid that I used to be that made way for the adult that I am right now. What am I going to do right now so I can look back at that kid and say, hey, I got your back, and this life thing, don't even worry about it? What am I going to do so I can say that in complete earnestness? That completely changed my life and then finding people that were also like minded who were trying to help me be the person that I always wanted to be when I look myself in the mirror and realizing that I have to start bidding on myself first because I was putting everybody else first. I don't want to be just a good hand. I don't want to be that; I want to be a good soldier in the storm. Somebody you can always count on and someone who has integrity. I realized, wow, you know, how did I get so far off track and let's not dwell on that too long because all the time we are dwelling on that past, is derailing us from getting back on track to where we want to be in the future."
WOMEN'S WRESTLING WEEKLY 04/09/20: SALINA DE LA RENTA
Salina on her first interest in wrestling: "I didn't grow up watching any wrestling. I only came across wrestling when I was 19. I moved to Florida to study film and one of my film assignments was to study reality TV. I came across Total Divas. I have heard of wrestling before and I knew what it was, but I had never seen hot women doing it. This was the first time that it popped into my head, and I said, wait, they are making a living out of that. I look like that. I want to do that and that was the first thought."
Salina on how she became executive producer of MLW: "It wasn't part of my plan in wrestling. I always had a passion for writing and ever since I was in 8th grade, I was writing plays and it was a talent I had that I thought was a normal kid thing. When I first got a chance to work with TV, I started writing my own pitches saying why don't we do this, why don't we do that. I started writing my own different scenarios that we could do on TV and I brought them to Court Bauer who is the COO of MLW. He would look at it and not say a word and just say, hmm, ok. Then the next time I was like, hey I wrote this too. He would say, interesting. One day he said, Salina, how would you like to be executive producer of an episode of MLW? I think you really have good ideas and I would like to see what you would do if you were in charge. I started writing down how I would do the show and he said, we ae going to go with that. We are doing it. That was the first time opportunity for me to produce anything It definitely established my career."
