It’s so, so hard. Not just from the fact that once wrestling gets into your blood, it rarely leaves and sometimes you just have that need to get out there in front of a live audience. But also from a financial aspect: There are some wrestlers I know who are wrestling in their 60s, because they can’t give it up. Some wrestlers would totally give it up if they could afford to — they wouldn’t sacrifice their bodies anymore. But the health care system in professional wrestling outside of “All Elite Wrestling,” which provides health care for its wrestlers, is atrocious. When they hear you’re a wrestler, your premiums go way, way up. It’s like maintaining another household, and I can understand why people have to wrestle into their 60s and 70s.

Like you, Tammé also deals with back issues. Is it surprising to you that there isn’t a health care plan provided by most wrestling companies, like John Oliver pointed out with the WWE?

It is. It’s appalling how much we’re asked to sacrifice. I cried [during that segment]. I was like, “I’ve got to send this man a basket of muffins because that was awesome.” [Laughs.]

Despite the danger, people keep wrestling. What’s so addicting about it?

I think there’s nothing like performing in front of a live audience. That sense of approval and validation has a lot to do with why people don’t quit. They stay and just need to hear that validation one more time.