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Part Five: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

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The Rise and Fall of Richard Belzer

In March of 1984, there's this episode of a show called Hot Properties, which is a talk show hosted by conspiracy theorist and beloved TV detective, Richard Belzer. The way my dad explained it, it would sound like a lot of obstacle courses, which is just confounding for a bouncer competition. Someone's doing cocaine in the bathroom. I want to tell Hollywood if you guys want a free unscripted reality show, launch a bouncing contest where every week, a new group of bouncers has to stop me from ruining some people's nights. There aren't going to be winners. We are in the middle of a writer's strike. Vince got his head busted open. He had

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