Ep 16 - P.S.Kayfabe - What Does It Mean?

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ Natasha(@ashesforfoxes) & Garrett(@comradegarrett) join me once again to cover why pro-wrestling is critical to an understanding of how American politics currently works, along with Linda McMahon's Senate campaigns, the feud between Andy Kaufman & Jerry 'the King' Lawler, and when Quentin Tarantino played Margaret Cho's boyfriend on her mid-90s sitcom. - The middle section has a few minutes of Marc Maron discussing how Roland Barthes made him understand wrestling, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGR1VRq0y8 · Andy Kaufman challenges Jerry 'The King' Lawler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGij4RgqLY8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o37-8TdqKW8&t · Vince McMahon introduces the Attitude Era in WWF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBeCwz2fXg · The ending to Jodorowsky's _Holy Mountain_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw27HhB4H4 · Macho Man Randy Savage's epic "Cream of the Crop" promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q · Quentin Taratino on Margaret Cho's sitcom from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQIXP0oRNwY · Seth MacFarlane on ST:Enterprise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKxeX0_oL4 · · · · Show Recs: · Thomas Frank - _Listen, Liberal_ · Ursela K Lequin - _The Dispossed_ · Robert Paul Wolff - "Ideology Critique" Lecture Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbU3yW2xIGE · the Crimetown Podcast - · Kalatazov's _Letter Never Sent_ · _Viy_ · _I Am Not Your Negro_ · Becky Bond & Zack Exley's _Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything_ · Michael E Goodwin & Dan E. Burr's _Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures_ · Zeal & Ardor - "Devil is Fine" - https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/ · · · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.