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Speaker 1: It's an amazing place to hang out. Aero dot Net

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a r r oe dot net because it's all about

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having a podcasting choice. It's not just one, it's twenty

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different podcasts. All Level Sports is one of them. In fact,

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just the other day I spend time with the writers

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and producers of professional wrestling. That is a story because

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we can all relate every generation. Where is it All

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Level Sports on aero dot Net a r r oe

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dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, it's me that guy

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that's always asking questions. And the reason why is because

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the fun begins when you start doing the research. Imagine that,

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like when it comes to professional wrestling, why is it

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called the squared circle plus airline travel? It once featured

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wide open seating any place, anytime, So what's changed here?

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My name is Errow. I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf.

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That means I stand on the sidelines and do nothing

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but watch, listen, study, than activate. I happen to call

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it the Daily Mess because it's a chronological walk through

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an everyday world. It is my morning writing as a

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receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as people tend to

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throw things to the side because we are convinced that

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we're going to remember it later on. Yeah, Okay, when

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a subject arrives inside of me, I know it's time

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to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but

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by doing the research, that picture actually becomes clearer. This

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is the daily mass. Pro wrestling has always called their

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center ring the squared circle. What does that even mean? Well,

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in the eighteen hundreds, wrestling matches actually took place inside

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a circle. They were drawn in the dirt or surrounded

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by the spectators. Because of that circle, those associated with

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the sport of wrestling point the phrase the squared circle.

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In later years, it eventually evolved into a square, mainly

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because pro wrestlers and promoters took note of how the

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squared platform with ropes actually worked better. It was easier

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for crowds to see and much easier to create the stage.

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Although there was change, the name has still remained the

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squared circle. But as a fan or innocent bystander, do

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you know the size of such a squared circle? It's

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twenty by twenty inside the ropes, compared to the original circle,

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which was four feet smaller. The greatest thing to come

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out of putting up the ropes and raising the plane

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field still lives in the infamous turnbuckles, which, according to

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insiders in professional wrestling, that's where the greatest stories of

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professional wrestling still exist. Hey, coming up next, when did

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airplane travel move to a sign seating? What what you mean?

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We used to get to sit anywhere we wanted. Really, Hey,

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welcome back to the daily mess. When did airplane travel

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move to assigned seating? Well, the idea for such a

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question arrived while watching an episode of Rod Serlings The

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Twilight Zone, which premiered on CBS in nineteen fifty nine.

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It's very important to bring this up because it opened

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up my mind as a viewer to see how we

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once traveled around the world. And yes, it involved first come,

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first serve seating. Between the nineteen twenties and early nineteen seventies,

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assigned seating was not part of the daily flight plan.

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You bought a ticket and sat anywhere. My goodness, flights

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were smaller and less crowded. This meant the airlines didn't

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have to put focus on crowd control. It was after

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World War Two that airline travel increased. Operational efficiency became

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important due to balance. It also opened up the door

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for faster seating. Now here's the shocker. Not all airlines

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even today have invested in the idea of assigned seating.

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Say it with me, Southwest Airlines. They still believe in

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open boarding, which they started in nineteen seventy one. That's

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when you physically got your ticket at the airport and

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not online like we do it today. So much change

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and yet not really, not really. But I hope you

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enjoyed your flight. We'll see you again, right, I'll see

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you next time. I'm the daily mass