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Chris Maverick

Chris Maverick

Teaching professor of Digital Narrative and Interactive Design and Chief Technologist in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh; host of the VoxPopcast podcast.

Sep 1, 2026

0:46
We've had some professional wrestlers on the show, and of course, the producer of this program, Mike Sorg, is a great aficionado and a... streamer videographer of professional wrestling so you went into good pay it'd be a great idea to get some immersion into this experience to learn how to write a paper what kept you with it for uh the next seven years
1:09
it was i enjoy it uh i mean i i did it regularly from 2008 three till i think 2010 and then sporadically for the next three years after that and then i've gone back a couple of times just for special events just because i have friends friends of mine you know since then in the last you know five years or five ten years um it was it was mostly when i started i think i was 28 um 28 29 and i had been a wrestling fan since i was a kid since i was you know 10 11 i don't know a kid kid a little kid um But I I enjoyed it.
1:54
I'd taken martial arts classes before I, you know, I and I enjoyed working out and I realized I'm almost 30.
2:02
And if I don't get if I get any older, I will be in my in my mind, I was going to be too old to start.
2:10
So this was my chance to, like, learn it.
2:12
And it was my chance to do something with it.
2:15
And my goal when I started, I remember thinking, if I can wrestle one match ever, that's worth it.

8 MINS LATER

10:30
so what type of double takes did you get when here's this person this studious person in intellectual intelligent doing coding right doing these websites and that somebody would say well mav look what do you do for fun he's a i'm a despicable professional wrestler in the evenings
0:46
We've had some professional wrestlers on the show, and of course, the producer of this program, Mike Sorg, is a great aficionado and a... streamer videographer of professional wrestling so you went into good pay it'd be a great idea to get some immersion into this experience to learn how to write a paper what kept you with it for uh the next seven years
1:09
it was i enjoy it uh i mean i i did it regularly from 2008 three till i think 2010 and then sporadically for the next three years after that and then i've gone back a couple of times just for special events just because i have friends friends of mine you know since then in the last you know five years or five ten years um it was it was mostly when i started i think i was 28 um 28 29 and i had been a wrestling fan since i was a kid since i was you know 10 11 i don't know a kid kid a little kid um But I I enjoyed it.
1:54
I'd taken martial arts classes before I, you know, I and I enjoyed working out and I realized I'm almost 30.
2:02
And if I don't get if I get any older, I will be in my in my mind, I was going to be too old to start.
2:10
So this was my chance to, like, learn it.
2:12
And it was my chance to do something with it.
2:15
And my goal when I started, I remember thinking, if I can wrestle one match ever, that's worth it.

8 MINS LATER

10:30
so what type of double takes did you get when here's this person this studious person in intellectual intelligent doing coding right doing these websites and that somebody would say well mav look what do you do for fun he's a i'm a despicable professional wrestler in the evenings

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