Wrestling

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After the match, bret heads back into the locker room looking for vinc ma wavigstot. Bret tells the cameras to shut off, and then, to make a long story short, he clocks vince in the face, knocks him out. Now the w w f has a real problem on their hands. Vince has a black eye, and the fourth wall has just been torn down,. They need to figure out how or if they're going to build it back up. And e the next day. This, again, was the head writer at the time. Sa, we had a television taping right after the ie. You have roar on monday. So they

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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