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2. Rick Rubin Talks Rasslin'

Legendary music producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Public Enemy etc.) is one of the more famous wrestling fans out there and can often be seen sitting front row at major shows, particularly those in the Los Angeles area. 

Rubin - who was also the financial backer of Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the early 90's - was a guest on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast this week and discussed his love of the grap game: 

"I absolutely love it. I watch more than eight hours every week. There's a tremendous amount of pro wrestling on TV. It's a really beautiful, fine art form. It's storytelling taken to the next level. It's beautiful. It's American Opera.

It's definitely DIY crazy. The stories they tell are reckless in a way that you don't get to see in the mainstream. There'd be violence towards people in a completely inappropriate way on a regular basis, but it makes sense because you're setting up bad guys and good guys, so the bad guy has to do something really despicable to be a bad guy, so they do some things that are really despicable. 

It's like this hyperreal/not real. It's like that line, and the fact that they work reality into it — if a guy gets hurt, that becomes part of the storyline but then sometimes, they say a guy gets hurt and he didn't get hurt, it's only in the storyline. Sometimes one of the characters gets divorced and then, he might be getting a divorce but maybe it’s just a story, and you never know! It's like this parallel reality always going on and it never ends. It goes on forever. Its amazing.

I would say it's closer [than a reflection of life]. It is more honest. If the most honest form of information in our society. Pro wrestling is the most accurate representation of life, dude".

He's right, you know. 

I mean, I definitely remember watching WWE in the Attitude Era, as Satanic cults wreaked havoc and funerals were gatecrashed by evil policemen, and I thought 'this is just like watching my life on screen'.