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Bret hart is the manifestation of everything that brett despises. It's prerecording of him singing. That's an approach. They're going at each otherwith a sort of real ferocity. Pretty quick they're outside the ringbrett kicks up jan, chucks him over the security railing into the ha. Then there's this moment where bret picks shan atot so that shan's legs are straight up in the air, and then bret just slams him on his backr And all this e descriptive, yet everything i know about it is like they're following the narrative art,. Like they know, ok, we’re going to fight out

All the world’s a stage. Or, sometimes it feels that way, especially these days. In this episode, originally aired in 2015, we push through the fourth wall, pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling, and travel 400 years into the past to unmask our obsession with authenticity and our desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy.

Thanks to Nick Hakim for the use of his song "The Light".

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