So I've been doing a lot of thinking and I need to make some changes in my life. Change #1 is I have GOT to do something drastic about my health, I've got to find a way to lose weight and get my diabetes under control before it starts causing me more health problems than it already has......I've been ignoring it and I've gained a lot more weight and feel 10 times worse than I did this time last year. That being said that is going to have to take priority in my life right now.
Along with that I've decided in order to focus more on that (and other things) I think it's time to put Cheap Heat Radio to bed for good this time. I brought it back because a lot of people were asking me to and I thought it would be fun.....and don't get me wrong, it has been and I do enjoy doing the show but I don't think people realize how much time goes into do the show......there's so much time spent emailing back and forth trying to book guests for the show, and then doing research for the interviews so they don't suck....and it really is a lot more time consuming than most people realize. Then after all that time is spent the sad truth of the latest run of Cheap Heat Radio has been that most of the shows are getting less than half of the listens/downloads the old shows did back in '07/'08 when I was doing the show regularly. I contribute that to a couple of reasons.....#1: There's 10,000 of these damn shows online now #2: More people were aware of it because of RRONews.com, that site got thousands of hits per day and despite my efforts we were not able to bring all those people over to www.cheapheatradio.com, hell I don't think we got a quarter of them over there honestly. So I really don't see the sense in putting all this time and effort into a show that not that many people are listening to.
I'm gonna keep the website up and running for at least the year that I own the ".com" because even though nobody posts there frequently, the stuff that is posted is usually pretty good so I'd like to give the guys a place to post their columns, and when we post links to Facebook a lot of people read them. I will continue to post stuff about wrestling off and on but I have to say another factor in all this is just my heart isn't in it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I love wrestling and have my entire life, but I love the old school wrestling I grew up on.....It seems crazy for me to do a radio show on wrestling when I don't even watch it anymore.....I watch old tapes, I watch the DVDs that WWE puts out, I watch a rare indy show here and there, but I don't watch WWE, TNA, or Ring of Honor and I don't follow ANY indy shows regularly enough to be an authority on any of them.
As for my "return" to the ring the past two years.....it's been fun and I'm thankful to all the promoters who have given me the chance to do it, especially my friend Tony Dabbs.....but the last few times I find myself standing in the ring realizing that I'm 34 years old with a bad back and knees that are only getting worse to drive 4 hours to throw myself down on plywood to entertain 60 people who would be just as equally entertained if I wasn't there. It's sad to say but independent wrestling is dying and I hope someday someone can fix that, but me being in the ring certainly isn't helping either way...so why do it?
Pro wrestling has always been my first love, it moved to 2nd when I met my awesome wife Rosey......right behind wrestling and Rosey is comedy.....I've loved it all my life and always wanted to do it but I felt I knew wrestling better....but the reality is I'm never gonna make it ANYWHERE in wrestling.....hell hardly anyone is at this point. I would like to do something more with my life than work in retail so that's why I've decided it's time to make a real serious attempt at comedy...not saying I'll be able make a living at it but if I can at least learn to do it well and maybe make a few bucks and entertain some people I'll consider it a successful attempt....so look for more on my new endeavor soon and for those that will miss Cheap Heat Radio, I'll miss it too but it's for the best and thanks to everyone who ever listened to it.
GENE
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we'll miss ya gene
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