How Wrestling Explains the World

2.4 - How Wrestling Explains the Super Bowl

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, Nick and Dave are with Kaboom (&K2B22M) author and friend of the show Mark Macyk deconstructing the biggest shows of the year for professional wrestling and professional football, how the sausage of sports coverage is made and whether or not football has turned into sports entertainment. 
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2.3.EV - How the Royal Rumble Explains 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.
In honor of the newspeg provided by this weekend's Royal Rumble, the boys have made it the 19th entry into their ever-expanding wrestling compendium. In Part 2, they'll be breaking down must-watch matches from the PPV's storied history.
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2.3 - How the Royal Rumble Explains 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.
In honor of the newspeg provided by this weekend's Royal Rumble, the boys have made it the 19th entry into their ever-expanding wrestling compendium. For today's Part 1, they'll be taking a look at the Rumble's place in the evolution of the battle royal, what the WWF actually got right with the event and all of the things that have went wrong whenever variations have been tried elsewhere. 
In Part 2, coming out tomorrow, they'll be breaking down must-watch matches from the PPV's storied history.
If you like the 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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2.2 - How Wrestling Explains "Stop Making Sense"

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 look at the concert film Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads (and directed by  Jonathan Demme). The boys break down the tricks of making taped performances seem alive, the importance of having fun and the brilliance of the Tom Tom Club.
Don't forget to check out Dave's Follow-up Files on our Patreon later this week for all the news that's fit to print. 
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2.1, Part BB - How Arn Anderson Explains Tag Team 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.
Today is Part BB of our Season 2 Premiere, which we're ending truly the greatest multi-part episode in the history of our sport: our look into the tag team work of Arn Anderson, the eighteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick breakdown must-watch matches from Arn's legendary tag matches -- including their consensus best match ever essentially viewed -- and the differences between the NWA and WWF's treatment of the quintessential professional wrestler. 
Then, as a special surprise, we have @TheMagnumCK to talk about retirement speeches and the influence Arn's work had on him as a wrestler, actor and person. 
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2.1, Part AA - How Arn Anderson Explains The NWA

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.
Today is Part AA of our Season 2 Premiere, which we're starting off with truly the greatest multi-part episode in the history of our sport: our look into the career of Arn Anderson, the eighteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick breakdown must-watch matches from Arn's early run in the industry and some quintessential professional wrestling title defenses from the quintessential professional wrestler. 
If you like the 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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2.1 - How Arn Anderson Explains 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.
Today is our Season 2 Premiere, which we're starting off with truly the greatest episode in the history of our sport: Part 1 of our look into Arn Anderson, the eighteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick look at the Enforcer's role in the founding of the Four Horsemen, the ways in which he is the quintessential professional wrestler of an entire generation and his importance to the day-to-day working of one of the hottest territories in wrestling history. 
In Part 2, coming out tomorrow, they'll be breaking down must-watch matches from Arn's early run in the industry before looking at the transcendent tag team and top-of-the-card work he did with Ole in Crockett, Tully in the WWF and as a stalwart of WCW on Friday. 
If you like the 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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1.40 - How Wrestling Explains Hallmark Movies

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 our lives on the end of a lightning bolt and do not apologize for that, we've decided to return to something slightly different for this week's topic, Hallmark Movies: After we spend some time dissecting the finer points of the differences between Hallmark and Lifetime movies, Nick sits down with Dave and Jeb Aren't Mean's Jeb Lund to talk about Hallmark movies and the magic of Christmas as a marketing tool, before coming back to end the show with Dave's breakdown of the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl and its legal ramifications throughout wrestling history.
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1.39 - How Kayfabe Explains 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.
Today we take an in depth look at the concept of Kayfabe for the seventeenth entry to our wrestling compendium. It's a real barnburner as Dave and Nick break down the denotations and connotations of the term through a post structuralist lens. 
If you like the 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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1.38 - How Wrestling Explains Frankenstein

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 look at the story of Dr. Frankenstein; Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (along with the stories/controversies behind its publishing) and its many, many adaptations through the lens of Stephanie McMahon's role in the WWE Universe (and the criticism that springs forth from it), the rise of the Four Horsewomen, why WWECW failed and what the Universal Studios version of Frankenstein's monster has to do with the WWE. 
Don't forget to check out Dave's Follow-up Files on our Patreon later this week for all the news that's fit to print. 
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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