{"id":3727,"date":"2019-10-07T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2019-10-06T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:34:16","slug":"episode-134-the-rock-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-134-the-rock-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 134 &#8211; The Rock Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/therocksays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3728 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/therocksays-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Says... by The Rock and Joe Leyden\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/therocksays-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/therocksays-145x220.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/therocksays.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As listeners to the podcast may know, we&#8217;re big fans of Dwayne Johnson, but slightly less knowledgable about his pro wrestling alter ego, The Rock. So we invited <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/treswritesstuff\">Tres Dean<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ViNPjZ\">For Your Consideration: Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson<\/a><\/em>, to read the 2000 memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MlceRY\"><em>The Rock Says&#8230;\u00a0<\/em>by The Rock and Joe Leyden<\/a>. We learned a lot about both Dwayne Johnson and The Rock. Arguably, more than we wanted to know? Put your MP3 player in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ftw\/2017\/05\/22\/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-recreated-his-cringeworthy-throwback-fannypack-photo\/102005556\/\">fanny pack<\/a> to listen to this episode on the go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-134-the-rock-says\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x39rvl8\">Gennifer Flowers Interviews The Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-hed standard-hed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/news\/a27193\/dany-garcia-dwayne-johnson-interview\/\">&#8220;Meet the Woman Who Built Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson&#8217;s Media Empire&#8221; by\u00a0<span class=\"byline-name\">Colleen Leahey McKeegan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2010\/09\/wrestling-legend-mick-foley-explains-how-tori-amos-changed-his-life.html\">&#8220;The Wrestler and the Cornflake Girl: Ring legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life&#8221; by Mick Foley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wrestlesplania\">Wrestlesplania podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idontevenownatelevision.com\/2019\/09\/02\/140-ace-frehley-no-regrets-a-rock-n-roll-memoir\/\">I Don&#8217;t Even Own A Television #140 &#8211;\u00a0 No Regrets by Ace Frehley and Joe Leyden<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy Pairing:\u00a0<\/strong> Kait says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/raw\/2011-07-11\/wwe-ice-cream-bars-punk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WWE Superstars Ice Cream bars<\/span><\/a>, Renata says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/35lNemu\">margarita Jelly Bellies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/324m1Cs\">Dark Angel by V. C. Andrews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<em>Worst Bestsellers<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_821\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3727-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/134TheRockSays.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/134TheRockSays.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/134TheRockSays.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/134TheRockSays.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=3727-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/134TheRockSays.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"134TheRockSays.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As listeners to the podcast may know, we&#8217;re big fans of Dwayne Johnson, but slightly less knowledgable about his pro wrestling alter ego, The Rock. So we invited Tres Dean, author of For Your Consideration: Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-134-the-rock-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1765,1766,6,1125,1764],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-joe-leyden","tag-podcast","tag-the-rock","tag-the-rock-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}