I am back! It feels so good to finally speak at normal speed and not have to worry about debate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I promise I will crank out episodes at a much furious rate than ever before.
It really is amazing how stupid we can be sometimes. I started this show because I wanted to know more about the psychology behind something as competitive as wrestling, and the day to day struggles of being an athlete. I'm certainly not asking anyone to spill their entire life story, but my hope was to at least gain a little more insight than the average podcast. I'm not joking when I say this, I had Grant eyed up from the day I started this show, like let's keep it real, the dude literally has a bionic body at this point and by ordinary means should have quit wrestling a long time ago. I told my parents half of what Grant had gone through, and my mom, who has been a registered nurse for almost 15 years now, made a grimace that I've never seen her make. Just from talking with him for 60 minutes, he is anything but ordinary, he the living example of what I call f**k it mode. At some point in time whether it is through personal or third party experiences, you get sick of being judged and you realize that others opinions don't matter. There comes a point in life, where you have that moment, that you are the only person that matters. Some may call it arrogance or selfishness, and Grant even admitted himself that he has isolated a portion of the wrestling community, but until you have that moment that's when you can truly begin to start living your life. I'll leave you with this, before I start every episode, I always remind my guest that I send them a file of the interview before I ever post anything, given the nastiness on the internet nowadays I feel obligated to do such a thing, and I didn't even get to finish my sentence before Grant cut me off. "I don't care, you can post anything" I was taken aback and that threw me off for a sec, and now come to think about it a couple days later, that little detail meant a lot. Granted there were no inappropriate or controversial questions in the interview, but still he had never seen them before, and given how much we judge one another nowadays, it is so refreshing to see someone who is seemingly immune to it all and has truly entered f**k it mode. In this time of chaos, uncertainty, and fear that is something that we can all learn from.
Now onto the sad part. If this interview was so good, then where is it?, you see...... that's where ego and sheer stupidity come in. Grant was the first interview that I had ever done through Facetime, and I just dismissed the idea that Quicktime could literally screen record, even though I had googled it, and every single search result said Quicktime was the way to go, and despite me barely ever using a mac.... I decided that I knew better. so instead of prepping for the interview, I went down a rabbit hole in the App store trying to find a third party app that could do the recording for me, and I actually found one. Except what slipped my mind in this chaos was I forgot to check if there were any restrictions on this glorious new app I had found, and it did not dawn upon me until after I had hung up with Grant that the app had only recorded 1 minute of our conversation, and to be honest if it was anyone of my other guests I probably would have caught it before the interview went too far, but I seriously went 60 minutes without even batting an eye to the fact that our conversation was never recorded, that's how engaging the conversation was. As the old cliche goes, If your not a fan of Grant Leeth, I don't think I can be a fan of you(I will hunt the haters down, and we can debate it out, just keep in mind that for all the hours that you spend in the room training to wrestle, I learn how to argue.) Sometimes fate just does not go your way, of all the interviews for this to happen to, it was the golden one that I had been looking forward to before I ever released my first episode.
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