Jonathan's Escapes

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Anter, i'm so sorry. He's an escape artist. I sort of, no, jonathan had a shauffor while on the discovery channel. It was called one way out here. But he actually started doing these home videos that you can see in ou tube. And they are nothing like any escape artist video we have ever seen. Here a minute. E, just as an example, the first one we saw a, he it starts, he is in his bedroom. If the room is messy. The whole thing is super awkward. Now, the thing about jonathan's escapes is he doesn't have a knife up his sleeves, a trick rope

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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