{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 007 \u2014 This Is Real","description":""\u201cPeople want to see good overcome evil, even though that\u2019s not always the way it plays out, that\u2019s what they\u2019re coming out to see.\u201d --Shane Hanson   Who should you be and what should you do? Escape all the worries of life with a quick trip to Hoodslam, a wrestling outfit based in Oakland, Calif. It\u2019s an adult wrestling show where other people make that decision for you. At least, you submit yourself to believing in everything around you, like someone getting hit in the face with a chair, seeing the ghost of Charlie Chaplin jump off the turnbuckle or a drug-addicted bunny snort lines off a championship trophy. You don\u2019t mind that what is fake is actually real and you begin to ask, \u201cIf I was a wrestler, who would I be?\u201d (Answer: Super Self-Aware Man, a sure-to-be fan favorite) This is the story of an alternative wrestling show that boasts slogans like \u201cFuck the Fans\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Bring Your Kids.\u201d Why did it start, who goes to its shows and who are its wrestlers? More at thisissomenoise.com\/ep-07. Show Notes: [02:00] \u201cWeathervane\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [03:20] @AJkirsch as @BroJoeBrody [04:35] An article on who likes Nickelback? (Wall Street Journal, 2016) [04:40] \u201cPhotograph\u201d by Nickelback [06:15] \u201cSeamless\u201d by  Blue Dot Sessions [07:50] A worthwhile  story about the WWE by @davidshoemaker (Grantland, 2015) [08:00] WWE Tough Enough Season 5 (Wikipedia) [08:35] \u201cCobweb Transit\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [09:35] Wrestling in old chinese texts (Wikipedia) [09:35] Wrestling in Islamic culture (Bakkah.net) [09:50] \u201cHidden Tiles\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [10:00] On the rise of the American Circus (U.S. History in Context, 1997) [10:35] More on the Gold Dust Trio (Ourwwereviews.wordpress.com, 2011) [11:05] More about the wrestling territories (Basementgeographer.com, 2011) [11:10] Kirk White of @BTWrestlingCA [12:00] On the size of the National Wrestling Alliance (Wikipedia) [13:00] \u201cNo Chance in Hell\u201d, @vincemcmahon\u2019s wrestling intro music since 1999. [14:30] On Ted Turner and the WWE (Bleacher Report, 2011) [14:35] On the WCW (Wikipedia) [14:45] One of wrestler Bill Goldberg\u2019s entrances to the ring [15:05] Brett Hart, Ric Flair and Macho Man Randy Savage [15:15] New World Order WCW promo [15:40] @TheRock\u2019s intro, known also as Dwayne Johnson [15:55] D-Generation X Intro [16:25] @steveaustinbsr | Stone Cold Steve Austin\u2019s entrance [17:30] 2015 WWE Company Financials [17:35] Sports Illustrated's @richarddeistch [19:05] \u201cDenzel Sprak\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [19:50] The Undertaker chokeslams Mankind (@realmickfoley) off the top of the Hell in a Cell. [21:40] Sam Khandaghabadii [23:00] \u201cSeamless\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [23:35] Superman & Mythbrawl [25:25] On gigging. (Bleacher Report, 2009) [27:10] Pooh Jack | Inspired by ECW wrestler New Jack [27:15] Cereal Man [27:55] The Stoner Brothers [28:50] \u201cThread Indigo\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [31:40] Shotzi Blackheart [33:30] An unrelated video worth watching about practice [34:55] Shane Patterson, who also wrestles as Scorpion [35:30] Anthony Lucido who wrestles as @HighruleHero [36:10] \u201cJavan\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [44:20] Shane Hanson as Doc Atrocity [45:45] \u201cHere Comes the Hotstepper\u201d by Ini Kamoze [47:10] Michael Johnson, who wrestles as @DrugzBunnyFTF [52:35] \u201cHelmer Sprak\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions ","author_name":"Some Noise","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thisissomenoise.com","html":"