{"id":159326,"date":"2020-07-03T22:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T02:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=159326"},"modified":"2020-07-03T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T03:30:27","slug":"this-is-riveting-riveting-i-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=159326","title":{"rendered":"This is riveting. RIVETING, I tell you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvSySR8RdzY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<big>&#8220;I gotta ask you&#8230; when you was going into them early fights, when you first started coming up, you walk into the ring &#8230; what is that shit like?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s really orgasmic. It&#8217;s almost like &#8211;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Like, did you feel part of you nervous, like tense, but the other part, like you gonna kill somebody?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not nervous. I&#8217;m scared.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ah.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m scared.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Cuz I&#8217;m a scary guy. I been picked on all my life. I been abused all my life. People did anything they wanted to me, so I have natural fear of not being safe.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Eminem appeared on Mike Tyson&#8217;s podcast (which is a great podcast, by the way). The two men have a very &#8230; <i>soft<\/i> conversation. Not as in volume, but as in &#8230; energy. Gentle energy between them, and curiosity about each other. Open. Lots of talk about their self-esteem and their self-loathing and their crazy self-destructive behavior and their defensiveness when attacked, and how their chosen careers are a blessing and a curse and a trap, and they also talk about how they learn and change and grow. I mean, for real. This is how they talked to each other. Mike Tyson says something absolutely brilliant about what all great men have in common: wait for it. It&#8217;s not what you think. Honestly I&#8217;d never thought about it before, not like that. There was a missing piece there somehow for me, even though I spend so much of my time thinking and analyzing great men (or, at least, men who are great &#8211; i.e. the best &#8211; at what they do), and when Tyson said what he said, a light bulb went on. It struck me: YES, that is exactly RIGHT, how have I MISSED that? I think I missed it because I did not grow up in the nightmare Tyson grew up in. Or Eminem. The perspective is different. When Tyson said what he said, of course I thought of Elvis. I&#8217;m going to use Tyson&#8217;s quote in what I&#8217;m writing. Eminem is star-struck by Tyson. And he actually laughs spontaneously a couple of times which, yeah, is rare. He seems very open, which is not really who he is in public. I found this relaxing to watch and listen to. I found Eminem and Mike Tyson relaxing. What country, friends, is THAT. Is it the quarantine getting to me? But this is a conversation between soft sensitive men, with hard exteriors, who can be gentle with each other. lol like what. People can be surprising and beautiful and I love it when that happens.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you have a free 40 minutes &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Eminem doesn&#8217;t give interviews. Eminem does not promote himself. Eminem barely leaves his house. Which is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=157369\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his stalker knew he would be home<\/a>. The man is a recluse. But he came out for this. I&#8217;m very glad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I gotta ask you&#8230; when you was going into them early fights, when you first started coming up, you walk into the ring &#8230; what is that shit like?&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s really orgasmic. It&#8217;s almost like &#8211;&#8221; &#8220;Like, did you feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=159326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159336,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159326\/revisions\/159336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}