Those Moments Are the Best. You Have to Save Em

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i just think there's a part of the human brain that wants to be confused between those boundaries. i feel like that's why jimmy fawlon was so successful on saturnight live, not because he was the greatest sketch comedian but because he broke a lot. And you can't do that in wrestling, cause those moments are the best. You have to save them.

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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