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It's an amazing place to hang out. Arrow.net ARROE.net because it's all about having a podcasting
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choice. It's not just one. It's 20 different podcasts. All level sports is one of them. In
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fact, just the other day I spent time with the writers and producers of professional wrestling.
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That is a story because we can all relate every generation. Where is it? All level sports on
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arrow.net ARROE.net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, it's me. That guy that's always asking questions.
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And the reason why is because the fun begins when you start doing the research. Imagine that.
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Like when it comes to professional wrestling, why is it called the squared circle? Plus,
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airline travel. It once featured wide open seating, any place, anytime. So what's changed here?
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My name is Arrow. I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I stand on the sidelines and do
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nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate. I happen to call it the daily mess because it's a
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chronological walk through an everyday world. It is my morning writing. As a receiver of thoughts
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and ideas, we as people tend to throw things to the side because we are convinced that we're going
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to remember it later on. Yeah, okay. When a subject arrives inside of me, I know it's time to dig in.
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It's still keeping that daily journal. But by doing the research, that picture actually becomes
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clearer. This is the daily mess. Pro wrestling has always called their center ring the squared
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circle. What does that even mean? Well, in the 1800s, wrestling matches actually took place inside
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a circle. They were drawn in the dirt or surrounded by the spectators. Because of that circle,
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those associated with the sport of wrestling coined the phrase the squared circle. In later years,
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it eventually evolved into a square mainly because pro wrestlers and promoters took note of how
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the squared platform with ropes actually worked better. It was easier for crowds to see and much
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easier to create the stage. Although there was change, the name has still remained. The squared
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circle. But as a fan or innocent bystander, do you know the size of such a squared circle?
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It's 20 by 20 inside the ropes compared to the original circle, which was four feet smaller.
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The greatest thing to come out of putting up the ropes and raising the plane field still lives in
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the infamous turnbuckles, which according to insiders and professional wrestling, that's where the
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greatest story of professional wrestling still exists. Hey, coming up next, when did airplane
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travel move to a sign seating? What? What's, you mean we used to get to sit anywhere we wanted?
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Really? Hey, welcome back to the daily mess. When did airplane travel move to a sign seating?
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Well, the idea for such a question arrived while watching an episode of Rod Surlings,
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The Twilight Zone, which premiered on CBS in 1959. It's very important to bring this up because
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it opened up my mind as a viewer to see how we once traveled around the world. And yes,
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it involved first com, first serve seating. Between the 1920s and early 1970s, a sign seating
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was not part of the daily flight plan. You bought a ticket and sat anywhere.
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My goodness, flights were smaller and less crowded. This meant the airlines didn't have to put
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focus on crowd control. It was after World War II that airline travel increased. Operational
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efficiency became important due to balance. It also opened up the door for faster seating.
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Now here's the shocker. Not all airlines even today have invested in the idea of a sign seating.
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Say it with me, Southwest Airlines. They still believe in open boarding, which they started in 1971.
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That's when you physically got your ticket at the airport and not online like we do it today.
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So much change. And yet, not really, not really, but I hope you enjoyed your flight. We'll see you
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again, right? I'll see you next time on the Daily Mass.