1.28 - How Wrestling Explains Parks And Recreation

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Parks and Recreation. If you ever wondered:
- When it's worth selling out your characters?
- Why Michael Schur is so great at building babyfaces (and why Vince McMahon is so bad at it)?
- Whether Leslie or Ron would make a better GM on WWE TV?
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1.26 - How Wrestling Explains Slobs vs. Snobs

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Slobs vs. Snobs movies. If you ever wondered:
- Where the intersection between Bill Murray and Hulk Hogan is and/or why it's somewhere in Europe?
- What former WrestleMania main eventer Adam Sandler most closely resembles?
- Which WWE Films-produced "Slobs vs. Snobs" movie Nick most wants to see made?
Don't forget to check out Dave's Follow-up Files on our Patreon -- this episode's edition will be the only one available without contributing -- to which if, for whatever reason, you like the people behind the show you can help us pay for hosting by contributing (you'll also receive a shout out on the show as a sexy wizard, so that's something to look forward to.) 
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1.22 - How Wrestling Explains Paul Thomas Anderson films

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Paul Thomas Anderson films. If you ever wondered about any of the following:
- Why we root for anti-heroes like Freddie Quell and Stone Cold Steve Austin?
- Which essential themes the Attitude Era and Boogie Nights share, however accidentally?
- How much PTA's California looks like Vince McMahon's America?
then, boy howdy, do we have a podcast for you.  
 
If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp
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1.20 - How Wrestling Explains Fake News

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Fake News. If you ever wondered about any of the following:
- Why Alex Jones is so effective at constructing a reality?
- How the WWE should really act if they care about equality as much as they claim to?
- What makes the Owen Hart voice so irksome?
then, boy howdy, do we have a podcast for you.  
If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp
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1.19 - How Dirt Sheets Explain Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
This week, we talk about Dirt Sheets, the seventh entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick breakdown the evolution of Apter mags into "dirt sheets" and how those begot wrestling beats, wrestling verticals and whatever the heck Pro Wrestling Sheet is.    
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1.18 - How Wrestling Explains Mystery Fiction

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Mystery Fiction, so join us as we investigate every Murder, She Wrote or game that's afoot we could possibly think of while spending an hour or so sussing out what makes a great mystery stay with us just as much as a great match. And if you ever wondered about any of the following:
- What Mike Hammer and Lex Luger have in common?
- Which trope Hulk Hogan's heel turn took from Dame Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"?
- How can wrestlers use Columbo to make themselves better?
then, boy howdy, do we have a podcast for you.  
 
Oh, and just one more thing: We're going to post links to our recommendations at the end of each episode whenever possible, starting this week.
Dave's Recommendation - "Death in the Clouds" by Agatha Christie 
Nick's Recommendation - "Disturbed" from Season 5, Episode 21 of Numb3rs
 
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1.16 - How Wrestling Explains Cover Songs

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Cover Songs: We start off with the DDT and successful post-Jake versions/why they work when so many others haven't, Ric Flair's "cover" of Buddy Rogers' Nature Boy gimmick, Buddy Landel's cover of Ric Flair's gimmick and why so very few bands and musicians can cover The Beatles in a way that resonates beyond the original work. Then we end the show with an extended conversation about how the WWE's women's division has transcended their "cover band" status in a way that the men's division has struggled to over the last twenty years. 
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1.12 - How Wrestling Explains Slasher Films

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth weekly discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world.
Because we live their lives on the end of a lightning bolt and do not apologize for that, we've decided to try something slightly different for this week's topic, Slasher Films: After we spend some time dissecting the finer points of Big Van Vader's Mastodon mask, Nick sits down with NYWC's Rich Kasin and Andy Miller to talk about slasher films and monster heels, before coming back to end the show with Dave's breakdown of the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl and its violent ramifications throughout wrestling history.
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1.10 - How Wrestling Explains Songwriting

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here twice monthly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world.
This week: We have Dylan Roth -- of The Hell Yeah Babies -- on to talk about the similarities between writing pop punk music and planning a match, how live performances can inform the final product, whether or not he's ever heeled out on a crowd and why we want to WALK WITH ELIAS despite his obvious musical deficiencies.  
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1.6 - How Wrestling Explains Disappointment

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world.
This week: We cover disappointment as a concept in the context of wrestling fandom, dissect the difference between it and outrage, what causes one or the other to happen and how to avoid inflicting it on yourself. 
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