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Wrestle Me! addresses the nation! (after midnight on a pitch-black Thursday morning on BBC Radio 2)
🕑 Added 2025-09-04 00:33:34 +0000 UTCIn case you didn't know (you must, surely you must), we've got our big annual live show at the London Podcast Festival coming up this Sunday, 7th September at 2pm. Excitingly, the tube system looks like it's up the spout that day, there's a 50% chance of downpours and, absolutely madly, the government are going to send emergency warning test messages to all of your phones at 3pm, which should be in the middle of us talking about Capital Carnage 1998. It's is going to be genuinely thrilling to see which of us in the audience the government deems it important to alert, and those who the government don't bother to contact and feel are not worth bothering to save.
Anyway, many of the people of these sceptred isles have no idea about our live show (Pete calls them 'barbarians' and 'goblin people') so the London Podcast Festival asked if I'd go onto OJ Borg's early-morning BBC Radio 2 show to tell them all about it (full disclosure, the Chart Music podcast couldn't do the slot so we were only offered it once they'd said no.)
But despite me thinking it was madness and the possibility of anyone hearing this and then buying a ticket was zero (all of which are true), OJ was really nice, we had a delightful off-air chat when he was supposed to be revising for the quiz I had to set, and he treated wrestling with the respect it doesn't deserve (i.e. some).
Considering that, at best, three people were listening to Radio 2 at this time, here it is in full. They briefed me about two hours before to have a story to tell them about forgiveness, and this was the best I could come up, even though I had loads of time to think of something. It was a true story, but you'd definitely struggle to say it was a sparkling anecdote worthy of broadcast on the nation's most popular radio station. Even at 12.25am in the bloody night.
Hope to see a lot of you on Sunday! And as wonderful Patreonson Damien tweeted to remind us, you might want to check the tube on the day and alternative routes via the bus and overground just in case, as there's strike action going on (which we support, although we definitely would have preferred it to take place on the Saturday). King's Cross is pretty easy to get to in the main, but we're flagging it up so none of you have a rude awakening (not the finishing move - we've been expressly told we're not allowed to do that to audience members.)
Comments
M Haynes
Hahahaha
Rohan
Disappointed you didn't have a moment to mention you can also witness people sticking forks in their heads on ITV4. Good, clean family fun it certainly isn't!
Adam Watts
Marc desperately trying to get new people to come to the wrestling who dont know any of the chants.
