How Wrestling Explains the World
79 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe podcast which answers the question: What if How Soccer Explains the World and Stuff You Should Know had a baby who was super into wrestling?
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1.27 - How The Dangerous Alliance Explains Wrestling
September 17, 2018 09:12 - 1 hour - 103 MBThe 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 The Dangerous Alliance , the eleventh entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick look at the most stacked stable roster in wrestling history, why it didn't take over the industry -- Barry...
1.26 - How Wrestling Explains Slobs vs. Snobs
September 10, 2018 11:50 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBThe 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 ...
1.25 - How Jim Cornette Explains Wrestling
September 03, 2018 11:15 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBThe 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 Jim Cornette, the tenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick look at the way the Louisville Lip broke into wrestling, how that shaped his philosophy on the industry and what role he...
1.24 - How Wrestling Explains Enron
August 27, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MBThe 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 Enron: it's a story that fits right into the strange turn of the century world that caused WCW, Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo to self immolate at nearly the same time Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay and Andy Fastow's byzantine plans keep their company going star...
1.23 : How The Fall of WCW Explains Wrestling
August 20, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBThe 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 the Fall of WCW, the ninth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick's breakdown starts with the Fingerpoke of Doom and weaves its way through the Russo era, try to determine whether Buf...
1.22 - How Wrestling Explains Paul Thomas Anderson films
August 13, 2018 12:32 - 49 minutes - 68 MBThe 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 ...
1.21 - How NJPW Explains Wrestling
August 06, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBThe 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 New Japan Pro Wrestling, the eighth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick break down what made New Japan a revelatory experience for many American performers, why the stories they te...
1.20 - How Wrestling Explains Fake News
July 30, 2018 09:00 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBThe 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?...
1.19 - How Dirt Sheets Explain Wrestling
July 23, 2018 07:15 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThe 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 w...
1.18 - How Wrestling Explains Mystery Fiction
July 16, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBThe 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 wondere...
1.17 - How Ladder Matches Explain Wrestling
July 09, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBThe 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 Ladder Matches, the sixth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss how the gimmick has changed over time, where it went wrong and how it's made its way back to glory over the past few year...
1.16 - How Wrestling Explains Cover Songs
July 02, 2018 10:27 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBThe 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 musici...
1.15 - How the DDT Explains Wrestling
June 25, 2018 04:30 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBThe 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 The DDT, the fifth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss what made it work, how it informed Jake's career as well wrestling in general and who (if anyone) comes close to Jake in the rin...
1.14 - How Wrestling Explains The Golden State Warriors
June 18, 2018 04:54 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBThe 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 the two-time defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors: We start off talking about Draymond Green as High Chief of the Midcard before shifting our focus to Oakland's basketball legacy, the community's incredible support of the franchise over the last...
1.13 - How the Four Horsemen Explain Wrestling
June 11, 2018 09:05 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBThe 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 The Four Horsemen, the fourth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss the original four, what made the group work, the fundamental differences between being a franchise and a team, and mo...
1.12 - How Wrestling Explains Slasher Films
June 04, 2018 10:14 - 1 hour - 106 MBThe 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 Mas...
1.11 - How Big Van Vader Explains Wrestling
May 25, 2018 13:11 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBThe 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 Big Van Vader, the third entry to our wrestling compendium and a mutual favorite of ours. We'll cover what made Vader work as both a monster and a heel from the sumo halls of Tokyo in NJPW to I...
1.10 - How Wrestling Explains Songwriting
May 18, 2018 12:21 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBThe 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 ...
1.9 How Bash at the Beach '96 Explains Wrestling
May 11, 2018 14:43 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBThe Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their first ever intentional minisode, a 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, Bash at the Beach '96 becomes the second entry to our wrestling compendium. We talk about the nWo v. T-Pain, Hulk vs. Hollywood and, ever so briefly, Steve "Mongo" McMichael vs. Joe ...
1.8 - How Wrestling Explains Nature Documentaries
May 04, 2018 13:41 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBThe Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar'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 professional wrestling's long lost English cousin, Nature Documentaries. We'll get into the limits of kayfabe in the natural world with a CBC exposé called "Cruel Camera," whether or not David Attenborough is just an animal wrestling promote...
1.7 - How Wrestling Explains The Music Man
April 20, 2018 11:49 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBThe Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Juice Make Sugar'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 Nick's favorite single piece of entertainment, The Music Man: Between Iowegians wanting to be lied to, to the striking amount of similarities between John Cena and Harold Hill, and the importance of a good lie, we're here to tell you th...
1.6 - How Wrestling Explains Disappointment
April 08, 2018 12:03 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBThe 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. If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the...
1.5 - How Ultimate Deletion Explains Wrestling
April 02, 2018 10:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBThe Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are BACK 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 THE ULTIMATE MINISODE. Actually, this is the opposite of true, as we will be doing regular pods to supplement our actual episodes -- the ones that are mostly pop culture references -- but you get the idea: We talk about Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt's ...
1.4 - How Wrestling Explains Will They or Won't They (feat. Darnell Mitchell)
March 09, 2018 12:15 - 1 hour - 109 MBThe 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...
1.3 - How Wrestling Explains Post-Structuralism
February 23, 2018 15:20 - 1 hour - 109 MBThe 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. If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah B...
1.2 - How Wrestling Explains The Venture Bros.
February 09, 2018 14:25 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBThe 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 Ve...
1.1 (Part 2) - How The Cold War Explain Wrestling
January 26, 2018 11:09 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBThis week: It's the second 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: Yesterday's Part 1 focused more on how using wrestling as a prism through which to view the Cold War. today's Part 2 will focus on how the Cold War informed wrestling aand its storylines as it barrelled towards unprecedented popularity...
1.1 (Part 1) - How Wrestling Explains The Cold War
January 25, 2018 12:59 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBThe 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, ...
1.0 - Is ___ Wrestling?
January 23, 2018 20:10 - 1 hour - 114 MBThe 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,...