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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Phil Schneider is a widely respected wrestling historian. Nick Bond is a useful idiot.
And at least once (sometimes as many as twice!) a month, they get together to talk about professional wrestling the way it was meant to be discussed: each picking a match from wrestling history, presumably as a way to work out feelings about their childhood and the never-ending creep of time. Or, like, talk about how much fun it is to see people beat each other up.
For their fourth episode, Phil and Nick two of their favorite matches:
For Nick, it's Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard against the Road Warriors at Starrcade '87 and from Phil Los Brazos vs. Super Astro/El Dandy/Popitekus (Arena Coliseo, 5/3/1991) .
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Phil Schneider is a widely respected wrestling historian. Nick Bond is a useful idiot.
And at least once (sometimes as many as twice!) a month, they get together to talk about professional wrestling the way it was meant to be discussed: each picking a match from wrestling history, presumably as a way to work out feelings about their childhood and the neverending creep of time. Or, like, talk about how much fun it is to see people beat each other up.
For this inaugural episode, Phil and Nick break down a BattlARTS tag team match featuring Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs. Carl Greco & Daisuke Ikeda from April of 1998 (Phil's pick) and WrestleMania I's main event between Mr. T and Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (Nick's).
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Nick Bond and Andy Miller kick off the next cycle of How Wrestling Explains with a discussion of How Bret Hart in Canada Explains Wrestling.
This week’s edutaining banter features discussion of...
- How did the New Hart Foundation and Bret Hard in Canada "soft launch" the Attitude Era?
- What made the Canadian Stampede match so effective?
- Was Bret Hart the last WWE performer to become as big as the brand?
- Did being a god in Canada ruin Bret Hart?
- Where have all the Canadian heroes gone?
- Who is the best Canadian wrestler, non-Bret division?
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Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Andy on Twitter: @AndyMillerJMS
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Nick and Mark Macyk kick off the next cycle of How Wrestling Explains with a discussion of Infinite Jest & David Foster Wallace.
This week’s edutaining banter features discussion of...
- What kind of universe(s) do the Teleputer and WWE Network create?
- The self-torture of Bret Hart and David Foster Wallace
- The weight of influence on future generations
- How does palpable greatness works to warp our understanding of a person's legacy?
- Who is WWE's Don Gately?
If you dig the show, be sure to follow How Wrestling Explains on Twitter at @HWETWPod and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, How Wrestling Explains the World.
If you could find it in your heart to rate and review the show, that’d be a mitzvah as well!
For those who are just discovering the show, check out our previous episodes in the archive: https://howwrestlingexplains.podbean.com/
Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Mark on Twitter: @MarkMacyk
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Nick is joined by a very special guest this week: Dylan Roth, member of The Hell Yeah Babies and writer of the Gotham City Book Club series of critical essays on the Caped Crusader's catalog.
Dylan and Nick dissect the connections between Batman and Shane McMahon, discuss the intersection of art and commerce and try to decide how much Batcontent is too much Batcontent.
(Spoiler Alert: this podcast and Dylan's blog are all the Batcontent you could ever need.)
Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Dylan on Twitter: @DylanRoth
Friday May 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Nick is joined by two special guests this week: NYWC's Rich Kasin and WWE Studios' Daron Jackson to attack the Hobbs and Shaw trailer from every angle.
Rich and Nick breakdown the connections between last week's topic, Cesaro, and Deckard Shaw himself, Jason Statham. Then Nick spend some time with Daron to dissect the trajectories of WWE's Hollywood hopefuls and the future of the studio after the success of Fighting With My Family. Then we bring back around with recently-single (wrestler) Rich to discuss the concept of "Can they Co-Exist" and the pure joy of the hot tag.
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Follow Rich on Instagram: @Embrace_The_Kasin
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Nick and Dave finish out this infinitely diverse cycle of How Wrestling Explains with a discussion of Star Trek featuring (Deadshirt.net founder) Dylan Roth of The Hell Yeah Babies. WE ALSO HAVE A MAJOR, EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!
This week’s edutaining banter breaks down ...
- Why was the Ruthless Aggression era so bad for both WWE and Star Trek?
- How does the act of fans making the product change the product?
- What do CM Punk's #pipebomb promo and the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies have in common?
- The parallels between the kinds of stories both rely on to articulate their worldviews and achieve their narrative goals
- Who but Q could be Vince McMahon?
- Which Star Trek character would be the best manager?
If you dig the show, be sure to follow How Wrestling Explains on Twitter at @HWETWPod and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, How Wrestling Explains the World.
If you could find it in your heart to rate and review the show, that’d be a mitzvah as well!
For those who are just discovering the show, check out our previous episodes in the archive: https://howwrestlingexplains.podbean.com/
Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Dave on Twitter: @DaveWritesJunk
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Nick and Dave finish out this sensational cycle of How Wrestling Explains with a discussion of A Fish Called Wanda.
This week’s edutaining banter features discussion of...
- The parallels between Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Sherri Martel, as femme fatales and physical performers
- How does Otto (Kevin Kline) relentless shit-heelishness helps to define the central themes and values of the movie?
- Why is his comeuppance so important to the movie?
- What did John Cleese do to "pop smart marks" of comedy?
- Who are the best physical comedians in the history of wrestling?
If you dig the show, be sure to follow How Wrestling Explains on Twitter at @HWETWPod and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, How Wrestling Explains the World.
If you could find it in your heart to rate and review the show, that’d be a mitzvah as well!
For those who are just discovering the show, check out our previous episodes in the archive: https://howwrestlingexplains.podbean.com/
Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Dave on Twitter: @DaveWritesJunk
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Nick and Dave kick off the next cycle of How Wrestling Explains (sponsored by One of the Greatest Heroes in the History of Our Pod, Michael Montalbo) with a discussion of the seminal animated film The Beatles: Yellow Submarine.
This week’s edutaining banter features discussion of...
- The importance of knowing your audience
- Liverpudlian accents
- The oddness of voice actors playing "The Beatles" playing ""The Beatles""
- Why Ringo works so well as a babyface
- What "Only a Northern Song" has to do with Will Ospreay and Ricochet
- Which wrestling promotion comes the closest to Yellow Submarine?
If you dig the show, be sure to follow How Wrestling Explains on Twitter at @HWETWPod and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, How Wrestling Explains the World.
If you could find it in your heart to rate and review the show, that’d be a mitzvah as well!
For those who are just discovering the show, check out our previous episodes in the archive: https://howwrestlingexplains.podbean.com/
Follow Nick on Twitter: @THEN1CKSTER
Follow Dave on Twitter: @DaveWritesJunk
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here bi-weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject wrestling explains in ways you may not have realized.
This week, we're looking at the MCU film Black Panther. The boys start off with a focus on the history of positive representation for black performers in professional wrestling history, the parallels between NXT and Wakanda as well as the role both played in the development of, respectively, the New Day and T'Challa. On the back half of the episode, they break down T'Challa's battles for the throne against M'Baku and Killmonger, what makes the latter such a great heel and what wrestling can learn from the success of Black Panther from a business and cultural perspective.
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