This week, we’re welcoming our friends Danielle Matheson of With Spandex and Kieran Shiach of the Have a Nice Day Podcast to talk about our less-than-stellar feelings about this Sunday’s Wrestlemania 31 (aka Play Button). Also, a special message from Chris.
The Rundown:
- Follow Danielle and Kieran on Twitter!
- Go read Danielle’s article about the future of women’s wrestling in WWE. Seriously, go read it.
- Go listen to Kieran’s Journey Into Misery podcast, too.
Shameless Self Promotion:
- For all Chris’ stuff, check out his about.me page!
- For all Matt’s stuff, check out his about.me page!
- Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
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Chris, I read your column sometimes and I heard & appreciated your statement. We’ve all made mistakes but most don’t acknowledge them publicly. We don’t have to.
Please keep your head up and maintain perspective. Thinking about it now, I wish the worst thing I ever did was talk shit without considering the effect it would have on people. I wish that was the 10th worst thing I did!
Guys,
I wanted to thank you for being so forthright on this topic. I started reading your work and listening to the show thanks to comics alliance and have always respected your stances on diversity and equality in comics. As far as I’m concerned the man who made those comments no longer exists. I admire Chris for being able to own up to his mistakes, to apologise for what he did, to recognise his faults and work to improve himself.
You still have a listener in me.
Alan
I think I might send you guys an email rather than commenting at length here. I realize, though, you’re probably getting tons of unsolicited advice already, most of it unhelpful or irrelevant. You have more than ten thousand twitter followers – one more or less email isn’t going to be all that helpful amid all that.
But your entire public personas are based around being entertaining guys who’d be fun to hang out and argue with. So I think a lot of people’s instincts will be to react as if a friend of theirs had screwed up.
I was really disappointed when I heard of this, because I have been following Chris’s work for many years and I would have thought he knew better. Then I realised that I read some of the stuff in question at the time it was posted and had probably laughed, and I was pretty disappointed in myself. I hope we have both gotten a bit wiser over the years.
I don’t blame Valerie for hating Chris’s guts, but if I refused to like anyone who had ever done something super shitty and hurt another person, it would be a lonely life, and it would be tough to look in mirror.