The I Do Not Wake Up - I Want to Watch You

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i watch and i'm completely riveted. Bcause it just flies in the face of everything that you've ever seen an escape artist do. Jonathan says, take some one like david blaine. And they take what should be ani ably dramatic art form and make it kind of a cleche but because jonathan's escapes are totally real, you really have no idea what's going to happen. Dyou know, i mean, it's like nobody else's gong to do this, so i'd better do it, so it happens.

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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