"Glenn Jacobs had a pretty good look, but had the intelligence of an dressed up ice cube. I always thought Glenn was a nice enough guy, he’d always say hello and ask you how you’re doing. He brought a lot of calm, and sort of stability for the boys. Which in the locker room at the time was pretty needed, especially when you had troublemakers like Shawn around.But Glenn was one of those guys who you never really wanted to get into an actual conversation with. You sort of just wanted to have the quick hello and go talk about your match. With guys like Glenn as soon as you gave them more of an opportunity to talk, you really regretted it y’know. He couldn’t help but turn every conversation into a political one, usually against the socialist stuff. Which even as a Albertan in a pretty conservative province always struck me as funny.My dad Stu used to say ‘A worker against sharing anything has never tried working a program in a Saskatchewan winter’. Which is just sort of an old-school shooters way of saying that every circumstance is different, and ideology can’t trump reality.
I remember when Glenn was Issac Yankem, and we were working a bit of a program. I’d walk Glenn through how I saw the story of the match went. I’d explain it was important that he got an opportunity to get a few of his spots in, and really sell his abilities. Glenn would always insist he do so as an ‘transactional exchange of goods’ and not out of a need to ‘share’ the spotlight as he thought it was ‘a dangerous road to socialism’. Which as a Canadian I always got a pretty good laugh. I’d sort of say okay, and then walk through the finish again. I remember Owen used to get him going a bit, and sort of walk by and tell Glenn ‘Don’t hurt my brother out there. Otherwise he’ll have to visit a doctor in that socialized medicine hospital.” Which always got Glenn pretty heated. He’d right away try to cut a promo on the dangers of the left, and democrats. Which would always end up taking more time, so Owen would get a good laugh looking at me having to nod my head just to get us back on track y’know.
It started to get to the point where Glenn just started turning every conversation into an argument against socialism, the radical left, Bill Clinton, and the federal reserve. You’d finally just turn your head and sort of have to cut him off and say sorry Glenn I just needed to use the urinal. I think even Vince got pretty annoyed with it. I remember walking past Vince & Glenn in the hallway one time, and Vince looked pretty annoyed. Not in the way that Vince would get upset when Shawn threatened to leave, but more in the way Vince would’ve rather been anywhere else y’know. Glenn was explaining how he felt Vince needed to create his own currency to avoid the evils of the central bank. I always remembered that image of Vince’s annoyed look, and sure enough a few months later Glenn is being booked as a monster heel who can’t talk.”
