Introducing: The Patron Saints of Sick Sons of Bitches
Colette launched a podcast with Orchid Cugini. First episode is out now, and it's about Goldberg.
Hey y'all,
I don't often plug outside projects in this space, but since it's about wrestling and features myself and one time BIG EGG contributor Orchid Cugini, I figured, what the heck? This week, we launched a new podcast, The Patron Saints of Sick Sons of Bitches. You can listen to and subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the button below.
We took the line from a Cactus Jack promo, and the premise from a series of essays I wrote for Fanfyte wherein I came to the conclusion that every wrestler was the Greatest Wrestler of All Time and made arguments for a roster of guys that included, off the top of my head, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, Razor Ramon HG, all but one participant in the WrestleMania X7 Gimmick Battle Royal, Toru Yano, and a plethora of more traditional picks for the honorific. It was a fun project, something I always wanted to return to in some form or fashion, and I'm thrilled to be doing it with Orchid, who I've known for over a decade as a poet, editor, publisher, and so on.
Our first episode is about Goldberg, who is simultaneously one of the least and most complicated wrestlers of all time. People — fans, wrestlers, promoters — often don't like ol' Bill, though, at least so far as my experience of him is concerned, most of those people have no reason to complain about him. Bret Hart? Sure. Some dork on Twitter? What, did you build the Firefly Funhouse with your bare hands or something? Vince Russo? Shut the fuck up, company killer. Goldberg fucking rocks. His matches are dope, his promos have a straight-line simplicity to them, and when you spear a guy in WCW/nWo Revenge, you the SFX are a bunch of bowling pins falling down.
He rules to such a degree that Orchid and I had to make our first episode a two-parter to fit it all in. This time we make it through to Goldberg/Hogan. Next time we cover the rest of Da Man's career. If you want to watch the matches Orchid and I talk about, she also went through the trouble of making a playlist. Taiyo Kea, Jim Duggan, La Parka, The Sandman — all the stars are here.