*Nostalgia* with John Riggs

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1323502478080438273

WWE had a house show comes to town in ’96. We had ringside seats. Unbeknownst to me, they were doing a month’s worth of Saturday TV tapings so I could watch myself sitting ringside with my friend and brother for a month. In this screencap from TV, we’re chanting “Burger King!”

And there’s a picture of a young John Riggs at a WWF taping wearing a..Sunny t-shirt? He always had an eye for the ladies, I guess. He says in a later comment that they were handing out t-shirts randomly and he wanted a Vader t-shirt but let’s be serious. He was all about Sunny.

Hey guys! Remember Sunny? One of the more inexplicable sex symbols for me. I just never got it. She doesn’t do it for me at all. Marilyn Monroe is another one that I don’t understand.

But yeah. Burger King. Remember Jerry “The King” Lawler? I never got that either, but I think I was in good company. I know now that he was big in the Memphis territory and wrestled then but I didn’t know anything about the territories in 1996. Did the territory system even still exist in 1996?

I only knew Lawler as an announcer. So why is this fat old announcer wrestling?

Wait a minute. 1996? How old is John Riggs in this picture? He looks about 16. But that would make him younger than me. I always thought that he was like five years older than me. Oh, this is a scary thought.

Oh. I found his alleged age on some random site. According to this, he’s only about a year older than me. It’s unsettling.

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1322578303987769348

Me. 1983 gremlins

And there’s a picture of John Riggs (I guess) in a Gremlins costume.

He later corrects the date to 1984.

Hey guys! Remember Gremlins?

Umm…not really? I was in like kindergarden when it came out. John Riggs was maybe in the first grade.

I remember kids talking about it in school a few years later. Maybe fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade. Maybe they saw it on videotape by then. But I never saw it. To this day I never saw it.

The guy I remember talking about it had parents who I don’t think looked after him terribly well. He and his brother were kind of feral. They were free to do their own thing. I remember that they were really into heavy metal by like the fifth grade. It’s just kind of weird. Most kids aren’t even listening to music in the fifth grade, are they?

If it was merely a little devil’s music, this wouldn’t be a big deal. But I lost touch with him for a couple of years and then saw him again in the 10th grade. He was a big time stoner. He’d talk about all the girls he was fucking. And he wasn’t a good looking guy. I assume that it was all drug-related.

I remember that I helped him cheat on a test. We had to read Animal Farm and I was the only person in this remedial class who actually read the book so I just told him the answers and the teacher was a lazy fuck so didn’t notice and/or care.

I don’t remember if he graduated or not. But when I was like 22, I saw him working at a fast food restaurant. He was looking really rough.

When I was in my late 20s, I started looking up classmates on Facebook. I found him and he was bitter as fuck. Left a lot of messages about how none of his former classmates kept in touch with him, nobody cares about him, whatever. By this point, he had been paralysed on one side of his body from a gunshot injury. He talked about how he broke up with his girlfriend because she was just using him for drugs and he was trying to get clean so wasn’t associating with drug users any more. The gunshot injury was presumably drug related.

Then I just went about my business. I was doing my own thing. I was in London. Next time I do my former classmate stalking, a few years later, he had killed himself.

So yeah. Gremlins. Why do I associate it with this guy? Oh. I remember now. It was his nickname for a short while.

But yeah, the movie isn’t suitable for children and any parent who lets their children watch that shit needs to accept responsibility for their poor parenting. Your child could end up like my schoolmate here or like John Riggs. So the very idea that there’s a child’s Gremlins costume doesn’t sit right with me.

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1319308008350834688

If you didn’t know. I really should promote it more. It truly does help the channel.

And it’s a link to his Patreon.

Hey guys! Remember when men used to work for a living?

He has 113 people paying him at least $3/month. Pretty low numbers. Kind of surprising. These gamer grrls, who have lower Youtube subscriber numbers, all have more Patreon subscribers than that. Why is that? Riggs has bigger tits than most of these women.

But yeah, being a “patron” doesn’t help the channel, you fat bastard, it helps YOU. It helps you not to go out and look for a job.

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1317288146782990336

My buddy seriouslyclara isn’t lying- the number of YouTubers and even people on Twitter who have active channels but don’t have a business email (or any email or way to contact them) is slightly staggering. I’m just trying to hook people up with free stuff. It’s making it hard.

And he links to some young Asian woman’s Twitter. Fucking unbelievable.

Hey guys! Remember when married men didn’t creep on every young woman they could find?

https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1315090821113237504

Been a hot minute since I’ve seen these guys.

And there’s a picture of some vintage candy.

Hey guys! Remember Alexander the Grape? Mr Melon?

No. No, I don’t.

Oh. These are from the same people who made Lemonheads. I remember those. They weren’t good but I’d eat them if I had them.

Wow. What a memory. Shitty candy. Thanks for the *nostalgia* trip, Mr Riggs.

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Nostalgia with John Riggs

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