La Mancha Screwjob | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: We push through the fourth wall to unmask our obsession with authenticity.
All the world’s a stage. Or, sometimes it feels that way, especially these days. In this episode, originally aired in 2015, we pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling and explore the infamous Montreal Screwjob involving Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels and Bret "The Hitman" Hart.
And then we travel 400 years into the past. Did our obsession with authenticity and the desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy actually begin with Miguel Cervantes's "Don Quixote"?
Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
1:45 A Reality Escape Artist
7:07 A Real Screwjob
41:12 Don Quixote Inception
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Guests in this episode include: RUclips escape artist Jonathan Goodwin; DJ Peter Rosenberg; Andrew Marantz from The New Yorker; writer David Shoemaker; WWE writer Vince Russo; clips from Fresh Air and Paul Jay's documentary "Wrestling with Shadows"; and language professor Bruce Burningham.
Thanks to Nick Hakim for the use of his song "The Light."
Video by Kim Nowacki, Andrea Latimer and Anna Rascouët-Paz.

[@cruikshank]

Heard this just today on a repeat on Nov 19 2022. I’m not even a fan of wrestling and found this riveting, fascinating and in the end very sad. Great Radio show.

[@JoeyGDude]

Me too! And I listen to NPR all the time.

[@adriansan212]

Listened to this episode a decade ago give or take and it’s always stuck in my head. Thank you for uploading it 👍🏽

[@superklutzygirl]

This is one of my favorite episodes

[@amyeckel964]

Thank you for posting this!! This is my favorite episode and I play this to people when I want to introduce the show

[@AdventuresofTim-Tim]

Fantastic episode

Hi. Could you upload the subtitles on RUclips (instead of fixed subtitles on the video)? This would help to translate them. Thanks.

[@juronin6636]

No Audio

[@bjnslc]

Nope.