International Object Podcast 30: David Shoemaker
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:
- Grantland
- Dead wrestler of the week
- Avoiding the question of sports vs entertainment
- Chuck Klosterman
- Dave Eggers
- Instapaper
- Grantlands footnotes
- David foster Wallace footnote style
- The broom of the system
- McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McMcahon and a Whole bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
- David is writing a book on wrestling
- CM Punk and Timing at Grantland
- Giving every wrestler the freedom of speech
- Rick and Scott Steiner on the mic
- Giving wrestlers credit for being creative
- Glossophobia
- CM Punk is the transgressive character
- Dolph Ziggler’s awful name
- The writers and audience working together
- Pay-per-click journalism
- Children’s book style blogging
- The Wrestler in Real Life
- The new Muppet Show theme song by OK Go
- A little bit of crisis
- Threatened fantasy worlds
- Smackdown at peace
- When the brand split makes sense
- The three types of wrestling fans
- John Cena as the conflicted company man
- Why a heel Cena is impossible
- How MMA and sports have made wrestling better
- Nash’s role
- Fair to Flair ep 8 - He’s got great hair
- Cena, punk, hhh, and nash are the new Hogan, savage, dibiase and andre
- Mcmahon’s idea for archiving footage
- The WWE channel
- Fake Vince—The Long Stare
- Vince’s abandonment monologue
- A wrestling commons
- WWE Legends Panel Show