How Wrestling Explains the World

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 h...

The 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 a...

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 trop...

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 referen...

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 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 C...

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...

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...