1.4 - How Wrestling Explains Will They or Won't They (feat. Darnell Mitchell)

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 Darnell Mitchell -- of Capitol Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Iowa -- on to talk about the history of the Will They Or Won't They trope and how wrestling inverts it, why male friendships are so hard, the evolution of representation in wrestling and what the future may hold for LGBTQ+ fans & performers.  
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1.3 - How Wrestling Explains Post-Structuralism

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 cover Vince McMahon, the auteur, televison character and huckster, through the prism of post-structuralism. Come for the Barthes references, stay for the Derrida references. 
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1.2 - How Wrestling Explains The Venture Bros.

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're back, but the argument is out as to whether we are "better than ever," but given the amount of audio clips we had to cut to drop into this episode -- from our topic, The Venture Bros. -- we sure hope so. This episode'll focuses on Venture Bros.'s use of kayfabe, the dangers of nepotism in a world without real consequence and what professional wrestling can learn from Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick. 
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1.1 (Part 1) - How Wrestling Explains The Cold War

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: It's our first real episode, or at least the first part of our first real episode. Turns out there's just too much wrestling in the Cold War to cover in anything less than a soul crushingly long time to listen to a single podcast episode, so we split it into two separate episodes:
 
This one, which focuses more on how using wrestling as a way to look at the Cold War helps clear a lot of things up, while Friday(Tomorrow!)'s Part 2 will focus on how the Cold War informed wrestling as it barrelled towards unprecedented popularity. 
 
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1.0 - Is ___ Wrestling?

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: It's our pilot, so we're spending some time going through the most and least wrestling things in the world, from electoral politics to abstract expresisonism. Which is to say: Come from the audio drops of CM Punk and Donald Trump speeches, stay for scorching hot Jackson Pollock takes. 
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