"Conversations with Christopher Nowinski"
The Harvard club of Boston invites Chris to come talk about his job.

Chris starts out by saying many alumnus's wanted to get to know him on a personal level. Andrea O'Connor of the Harvard Alumni says they asked Chris to come because they felt Chris would attract younger members of the Harvard alumni, because of his job and being the only Harvard grad in the WWE. Frank Chandler a guest of the lunch says that "it takes a bright, articulate guy to make it in this business, and I'm not surprised that someone who bright enough to get into and graduate from Harvard would get to this point." Chris said "It felt strange to rejoin my Harvard alumni, I had to upgrade my verbiage a bit change the words that I use." Chris then describes an injury to a fellow alumnus saying that he had his septum crushed in four places. The confidential people decide it's appropriate to throw in a definition of the the word septum. Chris said "I had to speak in complete sentences for the first time in a long time instead of grunting in the locker room with the rest of thoes guys." "I think it's obvious the alumni are jealous of what I do" he snickered. One alumnus is shown holding a replica of the championship belt. Laughing, Chris says "Wear that with a tuxedo, you'd look great."

The following questions were asked to Chris:

"Do you feel or see any resentment from the older guys?"

" How much does a guy like Stone Cold Steve Austin make?"

"If you could wrestle anyone in wrestling who would it be and why?"

Chris's response "It would be great to wrestle a guy like Flair right now."

"What do you think about Goldberg and Brock Lesner?"

Chris's response "If you are smarter than them anything is possible, which is why you go to Harvard."

"What kind of e-mail do you get? Is it mostly men, women, hate mail?"

Chris's response "Honestly, I mostly get mail to my website that says "you suck" on them."

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

Chris's response "No! No...Trish Stratus is not my girlfriend."

Chris then says that when he got into wrestling he was sure Harvard grads would look down on him. He said "I get a lot of that actually but I was very shocked the people in this room are very proud of me." Chris is then shown posing for a picture with the guy with the Championship belt.

"I did get a taste of Havardness here, a girl about my age came up to me and said "You did a really good job, I thought that you'd be horrible tonight" and I tried to laugh it off I thought she was joking, then she said "no really, I thought you'd be a total schmuck."

He said what he wanted them to get from the dinner is that WWE is an acceptable vocation for someone with a Harvard degree and that is was probably the most challenging career of anyone in the room. "Harvard people don't recognize that because they're snobs, so I wanted to gain some respect for wrestling, cause it's a great career."

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