RJ City started his “Hey-EW” YouTube series on the AEW YouTube channel a while back before Revolution weekend. The show consists of RJ interviewing AEW talent and asking them very unique and obscure questions. One of his recent guests on the show was Arn Anderson, which you can see here.
RJ City sat down with Alison Rosen recently to speak about Hey-EW. He let us know how it all came about, and AEW trusting him with the series.
Tony Khan, who owns AEW, was a fan of my work online. He just knows everything about every wrestler, he has his finger on the pulse, knew all my stuff and trusted me enough to pretty much come in and let me do, understanding the circumstances, what I wanted. No one has ever looked at my scripts. I don’t know why, I don’t understand that they’re just like, ‘okay,’ until I read them out loud, including the guests. I don’t run anything by anyone and it’s a credit to Tony for being so trusting, and it’s a credit to the guests. People are like, ‘How do you do it?’ I’m not doing anything. It’s the courageous guests who are like, ‘Sure, I’ll roll with these questions that I’ve never heard that are about my life and career.’ I’m lucky because wrestling is full of inconsistencies and things that don’t quite make sense. I get lucky in that regard that I enjoy poking around there and using certain analogies and metaphors and nicknames that are stupid. For anyone who is a logical person, they don’t make any sense. I enjoy going there. I enjoy researching things about people that they have probably forgotten. Everyone has wrestled under a different stupid name at some point, have had matches they are not proud of or forgotten they existed. I also like asking dumb questions that sound like smart questions. I also leave it up to them. I don’t script them. ‘Here are these questions you don’t know, there are a bunch of them, take them however you want.’ Some people get upset, some people laugh, some people play along.
– RJ City via Alison Rosen
RJ was also asked if any of his guests got upset over any thing he’s asked or said, which brought up Arn Anderson & RJ disagreeing over “Mauve”
I don’t know if they get for real upset, but they get angry in their own way if I’m attacking something that is theirs. I did one with Arn Anderson, who is a wrestling legend. I think he’s from Georgia. It’s two people who should never be in the same room and that’s what I loved about it. We disagreed on the pronunciation of mauve, which I never anticipated happening
– RJ City via Alison Rosen
Of course, RJ City would be the one to get into a disagreement over pronunciation with Arn Anderson.
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