Decorated APHoV guest, Professor Tim Gill joins us to talk about the exploitative working conditions in a favorite form of on-screen violence: Professional Wrestling. We talk about the efforts to unionize wrestling, 'carnie language', the recent death of Bray Wyatt, Vince McMahon, and the nature of reality in the 'reality era', man.Link to Tim's 2022 article in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/10/wwe-vince-mcmahon-wrestling-unions-healthMusic: Thanks as always to Komakino for our opening/closing theme. The interlude theme is from the original score to The Wrestler by Clint Mansell featuring Slash.
