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Episode 123 - Backdrops in Backlots - Glow S1E1 · My Third Place Pod

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I made mention of this a while back.
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When I was younger. I used to wake up on Saturday
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mornings, not just to watch cartoons, but wrestling, double
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yeah, superstars. It would be the only time I
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would want to get up early on Saturday mornings and yet not
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want to get up early for school every day.
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The syndicated TV shows went as follows.
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Saturday mornings I'd wake up at 8:00 to watch Masters of the
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Universe, Thundercats, Gummy Bears, Gummy bears.
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No, not your gummy bears. The Real Ghostbusters are Back
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to the future and sometimes some GI Joe after I look for.
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Literally F superstars. This was what I used to like to
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watch. One day after watching WBS
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Superstars and searching for Gilligan's Island, I came across
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a channel that had other types of wrestling.
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I stopped. I decided to watch.
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This was women's wrestling. These ladies were gorgeous, a
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bit overly dramatic, and none of them could wrestle.
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Not the norm from watching Earthquakes smash some random
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jobber or the Ultimate Order having a 2 minute match.
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These were women who decided to wrestle without any inch of
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training. They were flopping around all
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over the screen. I was hooked.
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Imagine 8 year old. Me watching this and not
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realizing what I wasn't watching wasn't really wrestling.
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I said it. That's not the point.
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At least for another hour every Saturday, I was entertained in a
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house where I didn't wait to go out and hang out with my
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friends. I watched a show that got me in
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trouble. Nobody knew what I was watching,
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but they knew that I was laughing in my room.
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And it was at that moment when this gorgeous lady came on the
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screen. Her name was Godiva and she rode
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a horse to the ring. My eyes met her smile.
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Her smile met my eyes. Am I saying that right?
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When friends asked me who was my first female crush, I tell them
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Godiva from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
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They didn't know who that was. I went to school and asked
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around if they knew of this, and nobody did.
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My friends were all into wrestling.
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We just talked about every moment we got, but nobody wanted
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to admit that they watched GLOW. Enter Godiva.
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Beautiful long blonde hair. Her voice, her English British
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voice. They did promos in between
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matches, vignettes, and every week on Saturdays I would want
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to watch what this woman would say.
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I sometimes found the others funny.
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Colonel and Chaka, who was Russian and was head of the KGB.
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Yeah, KGB would have this Dick accident.
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And at times I would laugh because it was so cheesy.
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But when? Godaiva spoke.
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I would stop what I was doing just to watch her.
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Ever been in the trance? You're so focused, your eyes
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fixated on just one thing and don't realize what else is
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around you. That was me.
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Every time this beautiful British woman would show up on
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my screen. Done.
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I was done. I was done.
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So unfortunately, it's what got me in trouble.
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I keep saying this I it did. I'm watching.
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And of course, I usually keep the door to my room closed,
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locked. Don't want anyone coming in.
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This time I was careless. I forgot all about the lock
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Godiva, my beautiful crush, my beautiful female wrestler from
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Coventry, England. Her vignette and advice show and
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advice show. But the bad thing about this,
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that pervert keeps calling her pervert.
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Yeah, enter my mom. What the hell are you watching?
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And like a record scratching, my entire world just crashed.
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You might be wondering, how did this happen?
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I think it would have been OK if my step dad walked in instead,
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but she told him what I was watching and Needless to say,
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she wanted him on her side. So I wasn't allowed to watch
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this anymore. And obviously I got the talk, oh
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you know the talk. Just because I'm a certain age
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and I was watching this gorgeous woman talking a promo, blah blah
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blah yada yada yada. One of those times where I
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actually wish my stepdad would have stepped up.
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See what I did there? But instead she tells him and he
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sides with her. Of course.
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Of course it didn't stop me. I find out about it later
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through my next door neighbor. I tell about it, we try to watch
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it, but it's weird again. Why am I?
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Why is this weird? Why is this awkward?
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This is a show that nobody in my school wanted to talk about.
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Nobody wanted to admit it, not even my best friend.
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All right, so let me end this cold intro on a good note.
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It was one of my favorite shows, and once my mom got over to
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shock and awe, that's also wrestling, but with women and
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they barely knew how to wrestle, she let me watch.
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I became a fan of GLOW. The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
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has some of the best. Has one of the.
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A few of the. OK, only one of them was the
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Tina Ferrari letter. A decade later, we wrestled for
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the WDF as Ivory and became multiple time Women's Champion
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of WWE Hall of Famer. Totally, it wasn't all bad.
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This show was gorgeous. None.
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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to
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From the Under the Apron Podcast.
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I said I would get to wrestling soon enough, but I also said I
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would do TV shows and movies. A couple of months ago I put out
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a poll on Twitter and wanted to know what the audience wanted to
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hear more about the options. Where Darren Efernowski movie,
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The Wrestler. More heels, Possibly Season 2
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Fighting with my family, A movie about former WWE and current AW
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wrestler Soraya. Or we can talk about GLOW. 75%
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chose GLOW, but since then I've been putting it off looks like.
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Today is the day we're going to talk about the next show, so
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strap right into the DeLorean, get those popcorn buckets ready.
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We're going back to the 80s at a time when women's wrestling
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wasn't really the norm. All right, the first season
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consisted of 10 episodes and we're all released on June 23rd,
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2017. The series was created by Liz
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Flahive and Carly Manschu also doubled as writers and producers
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of the show. Liz is being a producer on Nurse
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Jackie and The Homeland. Kylie's Pascres included the
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show Weeds, also Nurse Jackie and Orange Is the New Black.
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So they already have a lot of experience in TV shows about
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leading ladies and conventional women.
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Executive produced by Genji Kohan, who was also the creator
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of both Weeds and Orange Is the New Black.
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So she's giving back and supporting her friends.
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Directed by Jesse Perez, who is a former music video director.
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Past credits include a bunch of Foo Fighters music videos
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including Big Me, Learn to Fly and the one, the Selena Gomez.
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Bad Liar music video directed by and directed 5 episodes of New
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Girl, 10 of Nurse Jackie, 18 of Girls and five of GLOW.
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The show was released via Netflix on June 23rd, 2017.
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The idea for the series came with five and mesh with this
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time we're looking to make a new female centric show.
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Came across the 2012 documentary GLOW, The Story of the Gorgeous
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Ladies of Wrestling. Before this, neither women had
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heard of the GLOW Wrestling promotion, and they became
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intrigued by the premise of producing A fictionalized
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version of it. They found a storyline
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intriguing as a way, exploring the aftermath of the 1970s
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women's liberation movement, with Flaheev telling Rolling
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Stone we wanted to look back on the 1970s coming out of the
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women's movement and into the 80s and asked the question.
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Did it work? Did things get better?
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To this end, it was important for the series to maintain
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attention between whether the league with exploiting women or
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empowering them. Ursula Hayden, the owner of the
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Globe Company, served as a consultant on series and helped
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flaheed and Mensch with creating the show.
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Hayden was also on the original 1980s promotion as Babe the
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Farmer's Daughter Chapel. Guerrero Junior of the famous
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Guerrero wrestling family also served as a consultant on the
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series and helped train the actresses.
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His uncle Mondo Guerrero also had served in the same role for
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the original series. Guerrero Junior also appeared in
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two episodes of the second season, including the season
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finale starring I'm going to say, their names and who were
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paying tribute from the original show.
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Alison Brie as Ruth Wilder or also known as Zoya the Destroya.
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Inspired by real life wrestler Colonel Nanchaka who was played
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by Laura Palmer on the original show in the late 80s.
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Betty Gilpin as Debbie Egan, Liberty Bell.
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He was inspired by Americana, played by Cyndi, Ferta, Scarlett
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and Tara. The Southern Belles.
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Also Sidel Noel as Cherry Junk Chain and Black Magic.
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Bang. Black Magic has roots in Big Bad
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Mama, one of the villains, one of the villains on the original
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show, who would use voodoo to cast spells to subdue her
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opponent in the ring. Big Bad Mama was played by Lynn
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Braxton, who died in 2013 from cancer at the age of 61.
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Brittany Young as Carmen Wade. Machu Picchu wrestler Mount
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Fiji, played by Emily Dole, was her inspiration.
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She died in January 2018 at the age of 60 after suffering a
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health problems for years with nationally ranked shot putter
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before she became a wrestler. Then we got Britt Baron as
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Justine Scabiagi, Kate Nash as Rhonda Britannica Richardson,
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loosely based on the original GLOW Wrestler Zelda the Brain,
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and Godiva GAIL Rankin as Sheila the She Wolf.
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The animalistic wrestling persona was based on D Bohur's
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GLOW character, Matilda the Hun. Sheila wore a lot of fur, just
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like Booher, and they both proclaimed their wild pharaoh
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like demeanor during matches. Kia Stevens as Tammy the Welfare
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Welfare queen, Jackie Taun as Melanie Melrose Rosen based on
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Jeannie Bason's in ring character Hollywood.
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Both Melrose and Hollywood clearly took style inspiration
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from Madonna based on the glitz and glam Sunita Mani as Aarti
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Beirut the Mad Bomber. Prem Kumar, one of the most
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controversial characters on the show, was influenced by Jeanine
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Jewett's GLOW character, Palestina, A derogatory villain
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known for stomping at the American flag.
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Baranapaska as Reggie Bicky, the Viking Walsh, based on the GLOW
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character Brunhilda, played by Deanne Marie.
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Like her Netflix counterpart, Brunhilda wore a Viking helmet
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as part of her gimmick, Kimmy Gate with us Stacy, Ethel
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Rosenblatt and Ozone Bestwick and Rebecca Johnson of Don at
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Rosenblatt and Nuke Rebecca. The duo is directly based on the
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Housewives, a real team from Globe, portrayed by Sharon and
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Donald Wesselinski. In GLOW Season 2, Don and Stacy
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transformed the toxic twins Nuke and Ozone, a nod to Sharon and
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Donna's other characters, the heavy Metal Sisters Chainsaw and
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Spike Heavy. The committee duo switched back
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to the beat down beat before the gals moved to Sin City, Chris
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Lowell as Sebastian Bash Howard. Like Lowell's character, McLean
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was an avid wrestling fan who recognized that there was a
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market for most wrestling that wasn't being met.
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In an interview with Vulture in 2017, McLean said that Netflix
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show was pretty accurate, representing his relationship
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with director Matt Simmer. He brought the comedy element to
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the show that I wasn't going to bring to the show.
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I brought the wrestling knowledge to the show that he
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didn't know. McLean left the original show
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after two seasons, but is still involved with women's wrestling
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today as a producer of WOW Women of Wrestling Marc Maron as Sam
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Sylvia, somewhat based on real life director Matt Simberg.
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Simberg was also AB movie director and is probably best
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known for directing the 1918 movie Butterfly.
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His relationship with the wrestlers on the 80s show was a
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fraught and complicated while many of the women regarded him
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and his vision as vital components for the show's
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success, they recall that he was extremely demanding, and often
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verbally. Abusive.
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In the 2012 documentary about the original show, Patricia
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King, who wrestled as jailbreak, recall that Cimber would
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publicly humiliate her. He goes, Your ass looks like a
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bunch of mashed potatoes, and I was just so hurt, she said.
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But he was just so mean. He just did that in front of
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everybody. Meanwhile, Lisa Moretti, who
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played Tina Ferrari Ivory from Adobe, compared Cimber
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motivational strategies to that of an abusive husband.
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Simba defended his tactics in an interview with VICE this past
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June. The key was discipline, he said.
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If anybody got badly hurt, I would feel guilty, so I came
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down hard. VICE also spoke to several women
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who said they faced sexual harassment or uncomfortable
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physical incidents on set, including Cheryl Rusa, who
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played Lightning. Rusa told VICE that when Simba
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invited her to a meeting to discuss her character, he came
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out to her and. Touched her butt.
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I couldn't remember pinching her ass and I wouldn't know why, but
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she says I did, Seinberg told VICE when asked to come in a
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ruthless allegations. Am I going to sit here and
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contradict her? He also denied having knowledge
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that any of the women were harassed by any male crew on the
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show. Critical Response Glow was
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praised by critics upon his release, and Rotten Tomatoes
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Season one has a 94% approval rating with an average score of
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7.66 out of 10 based on 107 reviews.
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The site's criticals consensus reads.
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Which spot on 1980s period detail knockout writing, and a
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killer cast, Glow shines brightly.
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The first season has a Metacritic score of 81 out of
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100, based on 37 critics indicating universal acclaim.
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Darren Frank of Entertainment Weekly gave the first season and
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a rating, calling it a silly, smart masterpiece with an
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ensemble cast entirely made-up of breakout characters.
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Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic said it's just a blast to watch
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women having so much fun. Glow fully owns this camping at
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the showy athlete Sophie Gilbert at the Atlantic site.
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It's just a blast to watch women having so much fun.
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GLOW fully owns its campiness and its showy aesthetics, but
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it's smart and subversive underneath the glitter.
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The pro wrestling committee response, however, was the
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series received mixed reactions from some of the original Globe
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wrestlers. Jeannie Vasseau, who wrestled
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the promotion as Hollywood, commented some of the training
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in the gym, in the office they get correct.
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Patricia Summerland, who played Sonny the California girl in the
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promotion, saw Marc Maron's character Sam Sylvia as a stark
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contrast to original Globe director Matt Cimber.
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Eileen Ohio, who was known as Melody Trouble, Vixen or MTV,
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felt that the series did not properly acknowledge how
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groundbreaking they were. Lisa Moretti, who competed as
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Tina Ferrari, would go on to the greatest fame among GLOW alumni
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as Ivory and the WE at the Three Time WEF Women's Champion during
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the Attitude Era, said that she was relieved that the series
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isn't documented because it was more entertaining to have a mix
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between fact and fiction. More positive reaction came from
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mainstream wrestling figures, including Kurt Angle.
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Eden Sapienza of Slate noted accurate comparisons between the
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series and the WWE, as well as the various regional promotions
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that made-up the National Wrestling Alliance during his
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Scary Tales and serials. Synopsis of the first episode,
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which was called The Pilot. Desperate to jump start her
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career, struggling actress Ruth Wilder heads to a casting call
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at La Jim and quickly realizes it's not a typical audition.
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The show starts off with the credits The Warrior by Standing
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in a Scandal featuring Patti Smith plays.
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The song went to #7 in the United States and #1 in Canada,
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as well as #1 on the US rock top track chart, and won the BMI
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Airplay Award in 1984. It was also a hit in Australia,
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where it peaked at number six, and in New Zealand and South
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Africa, peaking in both countries at #11.
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The music video for the song was directed by David Hahn.
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The opening songs of the shows changes throughout each episode,
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but the series features several songs from the 80s as well as
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tracks from the 50s, sixties and 70s.
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The opening team used for the full length opening titles in
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episode one of each season is the Warrior by Scandal, Quiet
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Riots cover. Come on, Feel the Noise was used
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for the season one trailer while Maniac by Michael Cimbello was
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used for the Season 2 trailer. And Listen to Your Heart by
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Roxette for the season 3 trailer.
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Songs covered by the cast include The Thompson Twins, Hold
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Me Now and Barbra Streisand. This is one of those moments.
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Ruth who is played by Alison Brie, you may know her very well
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as Annie on the hit TV comedy show Community.
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Apart from Scream Four, she has also done voice work on Robot
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Chicken, American Dad and it's the voice of unique Kitty in the
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Lego Universe movies. Ruth is auditioning for a part
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on ATV Show. She performs the part with
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gusto. In this world, there are good
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guys and they're bad guys. And we are the good guys.
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You see that name on my door? It's my father's name.
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Son of a bitch. But this isn't about him.
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This is about justice. This is about holding on to
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what's ours. This is about my company and my
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name, and I will not be bullied into submission.
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I just want to say thank you so much for bringing me in for
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this. There are not roles like this
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for women right now. It's really it's really great
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only to be told that she was reading the male role and that
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her part of a secretary telling her boss that his wife is on
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line too. She has sank for her time and
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leaves, but instead of leaving and going home, she hides in the
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bathroom for an hour until she sees Mallory, who was the
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casting director at the audition.
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Mallory is. Played by Amy Farrington, who is
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best known on the hit TV show SWAT and plays detective Piper
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Lynch, a tactical consultant to the SWAT team, Ruth complaints
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to Mallory that she is often brought in to read for a part,
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but is never cast. If there's something that needs
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to change, she wants to change it.
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Mallory explains that directors often tell her that they want
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something real, so she brings in Ruth to show them that it isn't
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what they want. She suggests to Ruth that she
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might be good for one of her experimental programs, perhaps
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erotica, if that's what she's something she's interested in.
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Ruth says she wants a real part. Not porn, not going up to the
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Valley. Mallory says that she's not
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suggesting she goes to have sex on camera unless it's something
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she's interested in. Ruth says what she's interested
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in are real parts and not secretaries, telling powerful
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men that their wives is on line 2.
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Mal requests of Ruth read the man's part on purpose.
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Ruth says yes, considering it's the better part.
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Mal walks away before revealing that they gave it to Steve
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Gutenberg. This is 1984, so Gutenberg is a
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big comedy star at a time starring such as Police Academy,
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franchise Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, and Short Circuit.
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Next scene, Ruth heads to an exercise class joining halfway
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through. This is the 80s.
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Nobody cares, so every movement seems over sexualized air
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humping, hip thrusting. If twerking was around, they
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would probably get away with it there as well.
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She chats up with a friend named Debi who was leaking milk from
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her boobs. Ruth takes off her jacket and
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hands it over to Debi. I want to stop it.
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I wanted to stop at this scene right here because I noticed
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somebody in the background. Heather Morris, who plays
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Britney Pierce on Glee, is exercising right behind them.
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I had to look this up. It's an uncredited cameo.
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Heather Morris is a dancer. She was one of the dancers on
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the Beyoncé Single Ladies Music video and even toured with her.
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Heather did the Single Ladies dance and also got to meet
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Britney Spears on the show when she did the womanizer song on
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Glee back to the show in the locker room as they're changing
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and taking off their clothes, Ruth is telling Debbie about how
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the casting director offered her porn, which Debbie doesn't think
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she should do unless it's porn. Shakespeare.
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Since Ruth is such a nerd, she would probably enjoy that.
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Ruth tells her that she doesn't even know if she can pay her gas
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bill. She has $86 in her bank account,
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having eaten Cinnamon Toast Crunch for her last six meals.
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But I'm going to do porn, so things are looking up, she.
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Says Debbie tells her a story of her own acting career and how
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she found a man who would support her, Ruth says.
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She chooses work. Debbie asked if she wants to
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have a family, but Ruth replied that to do that she would have
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first have to get a boyfriend. Debbie picks up her gym bag and
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is about to go, but Ruth thought they were going out to watch
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Witness at the Dome. Debbie says she can't leave her
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newborn son Randy with her mom all day because she'll feed him
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onions, fresca, and conspiracy theories.
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Ruth says it's fine, go enjoy your time with her son and yells
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Randy only loves Debbie because of her boobs are full of food.
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During an interview on a wrestling podcast, Alice and
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Bree joked that Glow's female nudity may have been included to
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gain male viewership for the female driven series.
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Betty Gilpin has sort of talked about that.
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The nudity in our bodies, she quotes that expectation, has
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been like the Trojan horse of the show, where we're smuggling
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in real intimate stories of these women's lives under guise
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of like tits and ass and women wrestling.
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Bree admitted that she thought the show's nudity was done well
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because it was realistic. I will say I like how they use
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nudity on this show and on Orange Is the New Black.
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It's women again taking ownership of the nudity and not
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doing it in a way. You sort of catch people in nude
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moments or changing their clothes or whatever, and it's
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not super. I look sexual and perfect in
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this moment of being naked. It's more sort of realistic
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nudity, which I like, a person changing a shirt and you see her
29:07
tits. Next scene, Ruth heads home and
29:12
starts to get ready for bed, then discovers a light blinking
29:15
on her answering machine. It's Mallory who tells her about
29:18
an audition, but she's running in.
29:21
She's not running it. Wanda is looking for
29:24
unconventional women, whatever the hell that means.
29:27
She says she'll have her girl follow up with the details and
29:30
that is not porn. She ends the call with a
29:32
warning. If Ruth ever costs her again,
29:34
she will be blacklisted from every casting call in Los
29:37
Angeles. Good luck.
29:40
Ruth chuckles with delight and goes to sleep.
29:45
That morning, Ruth heads out for the audition at a place called
29:48
Chao's Boxing Gym. Yes, Chao's Boxing Gym is named
29:52
after Travo Guerrero Junior. There, she finds a large group
29:56
of other women in the bleachers and joins the group.
30:00
She talks with another woman, Carmen Wade, and ask her if she
30:03
they've started the audition yet.
30:05
Then ask her if she's sag SAG and the woman replies that she's
30:12
part Cherokee. Ruth tells her it's not porn.
30:17
The woman behind them, Rhonda, buttons up her top awkwardly.
30:23
Another woman is dressed as a wolf and the woman next to Ruth
30:26
says she didn't know they were supposed to wear costumes.
30:30
Sam Sylvia joins the group and sits on the ring.
30:33
Apron greets the group, saying that the Heat do anything.
30:37
He tells him not to talk to, just look at him and smile.
30:40
A woman he knows, cherry ask him to tell him what they're doing
30:44
there. If it's another one of his
30:46
trashy vampire movies, he says that it's GLOW, a wrestling
30:50
television show. Sam is played by legendary stand
30:54
up comedian, actor, writer and producer Marc Maron.
30:57
Mark, who looks like he could be a younger version of legendary
31:00
marble writer Stan Lee, has been in countless of TV shows and
31:04
movies. Most recently, Mark voiced Lex
31:07
Luthor on DC's League of Super Pets and was in the Joaquin
31:11
Phoenix version of Joker. Cherry's played at actress and
31:17
former athlete Sidel Noel. She has appeared on countless of
31:21
TV shows like Everybody Hates Chris, Private Practice, Lincoln
31:24
Heights, Criminal Minds, Bones. Was on an episode of Smackdown
31:28
and played Samantha Watson on the show Arrow for eight
31:32
episodes. Sam says it's a wrestling show,
31:35
only Ladies lady wrestling, girl on girl and they will actually
31:40
have to wrestle on cable television.
31:43
Viewed by thousands of people, he says.
31:45
Just like the big guys, but Girls.
31:49
Arty raised her hand and asked if it's just like Hulk Hogan.
31:52
Sam says yes but. But if one of them turns out to
31:55
be Hulk Hogan that he's hit the fucking jackpot, he explains to
31:59
them that everyone's going to do tick grabs, cut punches, Shrinky
32:03
Dinks, that move that looks like a catfight by fancy.
32:08
And did he mention cut punches? He suggests that anyone with a
32:15
problem doing a wrestling show leave.
32:18
A large group leaves, but a fair few still remain.
32:23
Sam congratulates them on making it through the first round of
32:26
cuts. They will now give out their
32:28
head shots as well as sign a waiver.
32:31
Rhonda starts 1st and she's played by Kate Nash, an English
32:35
singer-songwriter and actress. Nash launched her music career
32:38
in 2005. Her 2007 single Foundations
32:41
became a hit and brought her to public attention in the UK.
32:46
Her debut album, Made of Bricks, peaked at #1 in the UK and was a
32:51
moderate international success. Aside from music, Nash has
32:55
appeared in films such as drama Greetings from Tim Buckley, the
32:59
comedy Powder Room in 2013 and the comedy drama Syrup in 2013
33:03
as well. Movies and feelings.
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Pop Pop, Bring Your Own Popcorn is a podcast that dives into
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people and the movies who love them.
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Let us preach to your choir or stoke your ire as we spiral down
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Up next is Carmen Wade, played by Brittany Young, who's been on
34:31
Crazy ex-girlfriend appeared in the 2017 Katy Perry music video
34:36
of Swish Swish. She presents a picture of
34:39
herself on her birthday. Sam asked why are her eyes
34:43
closed? She says she can blow candles
34:45
with her eyes open. Also, Next up is Cherry.
34:50
Sam tells her that her resume looks a little thin after 1979.
34:55
Cherry responds back with movies get a little white after 1979.
35:00
Sam seen her stunts. She can kick punch.
35:03
She can do horse work, car work. Sam asks her if she can act.
35:07
She pretends to hold a gun with her hand pointed at Sam and
35:10
tells him to freeze. Motherfucker, he says.
35:14
Next up, he says. Next and up walks Arty Premkumar
35:19
and he tells her he is going to need her to do the same.
35:23
Arty is played by Sunita Mani. She's Indian American actress,
35:26
dancer and comedian. She is best known for her
35:29
television roles as Trenton in the USA Network drama Mr. Robot
35:32
from 2015 to 2017, and was in the 2022 movie Everything
35:37
Everywhere, All at Once. Next up, Sheila the She Wolf who
35:43
hands Sam her resume and a crumpled up picture of a wolf.
35:48
Sheila is played by GAIL Rankin, a Scottish actress, and also
35:52
played Emily Dotson in the HBO series Perry Mason in 2020.
35:57
Her films include The Greatest Showman as Queen Victoria in
36:00
2017, Her Smell in 2018, Blow the Men Down and The Climb in
36:06
both in 2019. Rankin has joined the cast of
36:10
the HBO series House of the Dragon for his second season as
36:12
Alice Rivers. Next up is Mel Royce, played by
36:19
Jacqueline Tone. She is an American actress and
36:22
musician. She is best known for taking
36:24
part in American Idol Season 8. Making it to the top 36 the semi
36:29
finals. She also took part in the 2011
36:32
songwriting competition series Flattened hit on the Bravo
36:34
network. Her film include Deuces, Wild,
36:40
Return to Sleep Away, Camp Jam in the Holograms.
36:43
That's Rebecca, and currently she plays Courtney Fordney on
36:46
both the boys and Jen B. Moving right along, we meet
36:52
Reggie Walsh, who says she can throw things.
36:55
Sam asked if she can throw people and she says yes.
36:59
Reggie's played by Mariana Palka.
37:01
She is a Scottish actress, producer, director and writer.
37:04
She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick,
37:09
which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
37:12
Palka wrote, directed and starred in Bitch, based on a
37:16
true story from Scottish director Rd.
37:18
Lang of a mother acting like a dog after a psychotic break.
37:23
The film made it round in film festivals around the world.
37:27
After the world premiere at 2017 Sundance Film Festival in 2007,
37:32
she appeared on one episode of Drunk History at Martha
37:35
Washington, Drunk History Vol 3, featuring Danny McBride.
37:43
Sam meets two friends, two best friends who tell them a story at
37:48
exactly the same time. These two are going to end up
37:51
playing sisters to each other, so I'm going to tell you your
37:53
wrestling names. Instead, they are Ethel and Edna
37:57
Rosenblatt. Ethel is played by Kimmy
37:59
Gatewood and Edna is played by Rebecca Johnson.
38:03
Kimmy is Co creator of the Apple Sisters, a World War 2 musical
38:08
comedy trio. The group, which consists of
38:10
herself, Rebecca Johnson and Sarah Lowe, starred in 2007 in
38:14
New York City. They received critical acclaim
38:16
at the 2008 Montreal Just for Last Comedy Festival and moved
38:20
the group to Los Angeles, where they continue to perform.
38:24
Kimmy played a hairstylist in Smosh the Movie and was in five
38:27
episodes of Netflix drama A Typical.
38:31
Rebecca is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer from
38:34
Staten Island, NY. She was featured on Mt VS prank
38:37
show Boiling Point and has been performing with her musical
38:40
comedy group The Apple Sisters, along with her GLOW Co star.
38:43
Jimmy Kate winning Sarah Lewis in 2007.
38:45
She has also been on Crazy ex-girlfriend and an episode of
38:48
The Smack Down. Both girls finished talking to
38:52
Sam and he exclaimed that he's to them, that he's exhausted.
38:55
He can't anymore. Next up is a 19 year old Justine
39:00
by played by Britt Barron. She's appeared on shows like
39:03
Awkward, Chicago PD, Grey's Anatomy, Lucifer and voiced
39:08
Livewire on Young Justice. She was also the voice of Tifa
39:11
Lockhart in the 2020 Final Fantasy 7 video game remake.
39:18
Finally, it is Ruth Turn. He asked if she's a real actor
39:21
and she lays out her qualifications and claims she
39:25
has taken extensive clowning workshops.
39:28
Alison Brees supported herself as a clown before she was cast
39:31
in Mad Men. She asked how much actual acting
39:35
there will be on the program as opposed to hair pulling.
39:38
Admitting that she doesn't really know wrestling, she asked
39:41
if he's hiring actors to play wrestlers or if they're going to
39:44
be the wrestlers, to which he replies yes, yes to what?
39:51
He says that she has a phase that changes and he's not sure
39:54
whether or not she's pretty. He keeps repeating her name,
39:57
then says that's not a great name.
40:01
That night, she finds herself back home asking a friend on the
40:04
phone to wire her $200. She says she got a call back and
40:08
hangs up. Mark Egan knocks at her window.
40:11
She tells him to go, but he says that she didn't want anyone to
40:14
find out about them. As it turns out, he's cheating
40:17
on his wife and she no longer wants anything to do with him.
40:21
She tells him to go home to his family.
40:24
He pleads with her, saying that people like them, need attention
40:27
and sex to his argument works, and they get together and do the
40:31
deed. Marcus, played by Rich Summer,
40:34
best known for his portrayal of Harry Crane on the AMC drama
40:37
series Mad Men from 2007 to 2015, for for which he earned 2
40:45
Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the ensemble cast.
40:48
He is also known for his roles in the comedy drama film The
40:51
Devil Wears Prada in 2006, Celeste and Jesse Forever in
40:55
2012, The giant mechanical Man in 2012, Hello, My Name is Doris
40:59
in 2015, and BlackBerry 2023. As well as voicing Henry in the
41:05
2016 video game Fire Watch, he just starred in the number of
41:08
elementary episodes. More recently, he portrayed
41:11
Detective Dean Riley in the DCW crime drama television series In
41:15
the Dark. In 2019, Alice and Bree and Rich
41:19
Summer also worked together on Mad Men as Trudy Campbell and
41:22
Harry Crane, respectively. Alison Brie revealed in a
41:29
Playboy interview that there are huge group of fans who have had
41:32
a fixation with her boobs during her career, starting with the
41:35
show Community, and that many of them have posted online that
41:39
they wish she would do new scenes on screen so they could
41:41
finally see her boobs. But ironically, because of all
41:45
the fitness thing she did for GLOW, by the time she was ready
41:48
to film her first new scene, she was the most muscular she's ever
41:51
been, So her boobs are the smallest they've ever been.
41:54
She says. It's sort of like fuck you to
41:56
the booth fetish people. When she was asked if he's
42:00
trained to get ready for her very first nude scene in the
42:03
show, she replied. Oh absolutely.
42:05
I definitely did some push ups and sit ups in my room to bump
42:08
up the right muscles beforehand. I passed on a lot of projects
42:12
that had nudity, but I was obsessed with getting GLOW.
42:15
I hadn't been anti nudity. I just really took a strong
42:18
stance in wanting to find a project that I had felt merited
42:22
the nudity. It wanted me to do part of the
42:24
show and I had no hesitation. I loved the character.
42:27
I understood why they wanted getting naked on camera.
42:30
It's like ripping off a Band-Aid.
42:32
The hardest part is a transition from being your rogue to being
42:35
naked on set. Once I was asked, it kind of
42:38
reminded me of my nudist days from college and that feeling
42:40
of, Oh yeah, I love my body and this is fun and silly and it's
42:44
fine. She does have really nice boobs
42:49
though, and I remember watching her in Community.
42:54
What was that? They Annie's boobs?
42:58
That's what they called her. Oh, that's what they called the
43:01
monkey Annie's boobs. Next scene that morning.
43:08
Next scene that morning. Ruth returns for the casting.
43:11
Sam introduces Salty Johnson who is to present the basics of
43:15
wrestling maneuvers. Salty is played by professional
43:19
wrestler John Hennigan, better known as in the E as John
43:22
Morrison or Johnny Mundo in the Indies.
43:24
He is best known for his tenure in the E Impact Wrestling and
43:27
Lucha Underground. Hennigan currently makes
43:30
appearances for all the wrestling as Johnny TV, Lucha
43:33
Lever, AAA Worldwide as Johnny Caballero and Major League
43:37
Wrestling under his real name. He also makes appearances for
43:40
the independent circuit under various ring names.
43:45
As the women demonstrate the maneuvers, Sam starts cutting
43:48
some on the spot. Ruth, however, makes the early
43:50
cut. Ruth chats with Carmen,
43:52
suggesting that they come up with a back story, something
43:55
that is driving them. She says they have to go above
43:58
and beyond, though the women seem confused at best.
44:02
As they get up to perform, Ruth performs A skit about stolen
44:05
bread. Carmen's acting is stiff.
44:08
Sam says he's cutting them both, but she argues that with no
44:12
scenes, they improvised. He says he's feeling generous,
44:18
asking her why he should pick her over the other girl.
44:21
She replied that she's a real actress who will work her ass
44:24
off the other woman. Replies that her dad is Goliath
44:27
Jackson. Many of the others there seem
44:30
impressed by this, and Sam is too, saying that Ruth is out.
44:34
Ruth is unamused and he would cut her to simply because her
44:37
dad's a science teacher. He says he doesn't have to
44:40
justify himself. She leaves.
44:43
The back story Ruth and Carmen used during their in ring trial
44:47
involving Ruth dealing a loaf of bread and Carmen pursuing her
44:49
for her death is taken from Les Miserables.
44:57
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45:31
World that we all need to learn often times.
45:35
These things may seem. Trivial, but lessons.
45:38
Nonetheless. It's been many years.
45:42
And now it's time that I told you how it all began it.
45:46
Started with the virus. And no, not the one you're
45:49
thinking of. This virus came so quick, there
45:54
was no way we could have prepared for it.
45:57
Everyone. Was still focused on COVID. 19
45:59
when it struck. Some believed it was a variant.
46:04
But they were wrong before we knew.
46:07
It the world was thrown. Into chaos.
46:10
Riots broke. Out in almost every.
46:11
Major city looters began taking whatever they could in each
46:16
other's lives. People lost loved ones, they
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lost homes and some lost themselves.
46:26
After about two weeks. Civilization had crumbled into a
46:30
land of lawlessness. Everything seemed lost.
46:35
Until they found it. That's when we gained the One.
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Thing we all deserved. Hope on April 15th. 2022 My
46:52
heart began to beat the purpose once again.
46:55
This is the story of Raising Hope.
47:21
With you. Later that day, she is accosted
47:25
by a group of rowdy youth calling himself the Los Angeles
47:28
Death Squad. They talk trash to her, calling
47:31
her a foquad and ruining her Taco.
47:35
Then steal her purse and keys. Foquad Taco Oh my God, She cries
47:41
from them to give her the keys, but they take off.
47:44
Later that night she was picked up by Debbie.
47:47
Debbie's amused. She was jumped by kids, but Ruth
47:49
replied that they were feral and scary.
47:52
She curses and she tells her not to swear in front of her kid,
47:56
Debbie, but then notes that he's a baby, so it doesn't really
48:00
matter, she says. She has a spare.
48:03
She has a spare key to Ruth's apartment.
48:06
She looks for the key and notices she has a picture of her
48:08
family, which in turn is the reveal of Mark is Debbie's
48:11
husband and he's cheating on her with her best friend.
48:15
Debbie invites. Ruth over to dinner, but she
48:17
says she has a scene study class.
48:20
At the scene study class they are reading Cat on a Hot Tin
48:22
Roof. A man named Neil falls asleep.
48:26
She chastises him for falling asleep when she has nowhere else
48:29
to go that night. She watches a few wrestling
48:33
matches involving Hulk Hogan and Rick Flair.
48:36
This is 1985, so it must be the WWF World Champion at the time.
48:40
The Incredible Hulk Hogan feeding with Andre Giant and
48:42
many others at Madison Square Garden and Rick Flair was the
48:45
N.W.A World Heavyweight Champion going up against Rick Martel.
48:51
Ruth dresses up, imagines herself as a wrestler.
48:54
She practices move and some promos yelling to take.
48:57
Your vitamins and say your prayers, brother.
49:01
That morning, she returns to audition in costume, telling him
49:05
he's wrong about her. She stepped in the ring, toss
49:08
off her Cape and recites, lying from a sleeping study the night
49:10
before. A cat on a hot tin roof.
49:14
Then Debbie comes in, shouting at her with the baby in her
49:16
hand, asking if she slept with her husband.
49:19
Mark. Ruth nods, admitting that she
49:22
did. Tammy walks up behind Debbie if
49:25
she and asks if she could hold the baby while Deb goes in the
49:28
ring and slap Ruth. Tammy is played by Kia Stevens,
49:35
an American actress and semi retired professional wrestler.
49:38
She is best known for her time with Total Non Stuff Action
49:41
Wrestling, Impact Wrestling under the ring name Awesome
49:44
Kong. She also worked with Ring of
49:46
Honor, Shimmer Women's Athletes, All League Wrestling and With
49:49
the Lily under the ring name Karma.
49:54
Both Ruth and Debbie Russell and Sam seems into it.
49:58
Debbie slaps her, saying she doesn't know what she's supposed
50:01
to do. Ruth asked if they can go
50:03
somewhere to talk about it, but Debbie replies that she wants to
50:07
kick her ass and then never see her again.
50:12
The two fight the audience wondering if it's real or if
50:14
they should care. The scene becomes an imaginary
50:17
scenario from Sam and what the two are fighting before a live
50:20
crowd set the journey separate, ways world apart.
50:24
Crowds enthralled back in the audition.
50:26
Salty asked Sam if they should call it.
50:29
Sam says yes as Salty gets in the ring and the match is called
50:32
Root Pin on the ground by Debbie is Cows Counted Out 123.
50:42
Holy shit, that was a great episode.
50:46
Felt the slap. Felt so good.
50:49
Apparently first reaction was that I loved it.
50:52
I wanted to watch more of it that night, so I benched the
50:55
entire show. I might have missed a few
50:58
things, but that's what we're here to do, right?
51:02
Rewatch and see what we might have missed the first time
51:05
around. So the second time around still
51:09
holds up. I'm still interested in the next
51:12
coming months. We are going to rewatch all
51:14
three seasons and tell you what else was happening in the 80s
51:18
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51:21
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