The Mental Takedown Podcast

Me-asks open-ended question  Zach-Talks for 5 minutes Me-*visibly shocked that he is still talking Zach-Talks for 5 more minutes  Me-*Totally Shook Conclusion-Zach Sherman can't shut up Now, before all of you come after me for being a complete a**hole, I had been gone for 6 months and I was unmotivated to keep doing the show, with the whole season in limbo, the overarching theme with these interviews was COVID, COVID, AND FREAKING MORE COVID, every single freaking podcast had the overarching theme of beating a dead horse and asking about how the wrestlers improved over what feels like an infinite lockdown,  What I cam to the conclusion is that every single college wrestler is a motivated and fit machine that's going to be the .1% of the population that doesn't spend the lockdown period Watching TV and eating junk food until the cows come home, and even if they did, they sure aren't about to admit it with a camera in their face during an interview. I needed someone with ...

 I'M BACK! (and this time I don't plan on going anywhere...) Your favorite amateur writer and podcast host with way too many chess references that no one else understands is back. Man time flies faster than we can freakin blink... call me a one-hit-wonder, flash in a pan, or whatever other colloquialisms that suits you, but it's been 6 months since a naive 16-year-old booted up a computer, did some basic research, and caused a huge mess in the wrestling world for about 48 hours. Wrestling media has gone through a massive transformation, largely due to the increase in competition. That doesn't take a genius to figure out. One thing I have promised from day one is no BS, calling the action exactly as I see it. Although many of the long term structural problems with the way the sport is promoted have gone largely unaddressed and unsolved, we are at least seeing a short-term attempt to at least allow the top-level of wrestlers to survive making a living off their craft. We ...