About Last Night...

The Substack Meet Up Event was everything and more! Here's my story!

Jun 30, 2023

I don’t often tell myself that I am proud of me. It’s a different feeling when I tell people the theme of my newsletter and their face and spirit light up. Most tend to stop being a wrestling fan at around the Attitude Era. Some will argue that, that was the best era in wrestling - the 2000s. They then become the dormant casual fans that we need.

I believe in Substack. I believe in the independence to build from nothing and trust the process even if it gets frustrating along the way. Substack is a clean writer browser that the blank page is your canvas and you are the artist and all it takes is passion, words, proofreading, and send to readers.

I didn’t know what to expect at this event. Everyone is friendly. Every has cool newsletters that I admire. Supporting local New Yor City Music Artists that’ll have upcoming shows and help market them through a newsletter. Word of mouth is the best marketing tool we ALL have. Creating discussions around the inner working of comedy to provide a different perspective so fans can appreciate the art of comedy more. Writing about books because books are awesome. Talking about all things China, giving a different perspective on the foreign policies and such. Explaining how buses and their routes work and innerworkings of transportation opens your eyes to why certain situations happen. I met wonderful people. Found out Seth is an engineer for Substack. It did not say so on his name tag. In fairness, all I had was Marie on mine.

Aside from the wonderful conversations and Katie listening to me, there is one conversation I need to highlight. Never before has someone asked me questions about wrestling that almost left me speechless. I come from a bubble where the wrestling community knows it all. We all know almost all the same information - give or take - so when he was asking good questions, I still had an answer for him.

I would like to highlight the one question: Why Squared Circle? What does it mean?

I explained it like this: there’s a ring with four corners and the competitors in the ring circle around before locking up, similar to how animals with horns do, and have small test of strength before getting into the actual match.

Upon further chatting with him, I realized very quickly that the dormant casual fans asked super beginner questions - which is NOT a bad thing - made me remember a time where I promised myself that I’ll explain things to listeners and people in simple terms about wrestling. So, a light bulb turned on. I have a section in this newsletter - Squared Circle Society - called Ringside Ramble.

Ringside Ramble will showcase wrestling articles created by me or contributors who wish to have their own by-line get a chance to have a Substack readership behind them and share their thoughts to the world as well. It’s open to submissions - I just haven’t created rules and terms on how submit articles.

I was thinking of creating small, bite-sized articles describing wrestling terms - almost like a glossary - and more for people to read. I’ll try my best to not further expose the business even though wrestling is so super exposed. So, thank you sir, for that conversation and light bulb idea on how I can push the Ringside Ramble section.

Squared Circle Society and all the wrestling content is created because I want the viewer, listener, fan, causal fan, hardcore fan - whomever - to fall back in love with wrestling because it’s the purest form of theater that gives us multiple layers of story, how to overcome obstacles, and most importantly we connect in some way or another. We respect and follow the wrestler.

So about last night, it was the best. Thank you Substack. For all my new readers, thank you for signing up.

Squared Circle Podcast

Discussion about this post