I'm an Escape Artist One

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I'm always wondering about your dad, watching these videos. Does he know you more than ondr, how prept is your dad? What's about the unf not not atall. I will bring out, i will bring him in and say on camera for the first time, and then dass my legs with ta as welldo you really want to do this? All right, dad, this is what we're gang to do. And in half the time, jonathan will fail to escape from an elaborate situation he's put himself into,. He will have his eyebrows torn off ord land in a bath tub full of thumb tacks for a scorpion will sting the inside of

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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