Wrestling - Is That What You Call the Good Guy?

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Pro wrestling became a reinstantiation of the baroke movement of the sixteenth century with the post mountern dest. The montreol screw job was above anything else that had ever happened, because it was utter reality transpiring right there in the ring. Bret hart is seen by many to be the greatest in ring performer of all time. He was my favourite wrestler as a kid. I didn't understand why at the time, but now i do. It's because he did everything so well.

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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