Episode Details

This week, “The Grizzled Vet” Michael McCurdy sits down with a man who didn’t just become part of his podcasting story, he helped push him into the world of video podcasting in the first place.

“The Podfather” Trey Mack looks back on growing up in Texas, becoming a wrestling fan, attending WrestleMania IX, getting his first real taste of the business, and learning some very painful lessons after discovering that professional wrestling wasn’t nearly as “fake” as people liked to say.

The conversation also dives into Trey’s family history in the music business, his own wrestling career, the birth of the Offshoots Network and Offshoots TV, how the “Podfather” name came about, and the evolution from wrestling podcasts into a much broader creative outlet.

There are plenty of old stories, a few detours into football and pop culture, and even the story of how Michael once got bombarded with messages asking why he supposedly hated the Von Erichs.

More than anything, it’s a conversation about following your own path, staying creative, and finding new ways to tell stories, even when that path takes a few strange turns along the way.