Socialism, Wrestling and WCW

The Greatest Podcast in the History of Our Sport

We live in interesting times. As social progress struggles to avoid backslide in the US at the hands of one of the most repressive and unpopular cryptofascists to ever take office, the UK is being reimagined as a battlefield between working class people, and the elite and the media they control. It’s terrifying to watch as freedoms are stripped away; and it’s exhilarating to watch as previously unassailable public figures are suddenly within reach, eminently fallible and flawed, and that chaotic mix of greedy without a sense of self preservation. Make no mistake, we have spent 2017 watching the government structures that control and limit our lives crack, rust and bow at the hands of people who were nowhere near as smart as they thought they were. Because of this, at the midpoint of the year that was supposed to finish us off, we now find ourselves laughing a lot longer and harder than we probably should be, but fuck you, because we weren’t supposed to be laughing at all right now. In this climate, we decided to have a free-form, no-notes sorta discussion about the nature of wrestling after the end of capitalism. Because sometimes, the prey doesn’t know it’s prey unless you speak plainly about it as such. And as some of us know, hunting’s no fun when the prey doesn’t know to run. Tonight, on what will surely go down as the Greatest Podcast in the History of Our Sport, just why is it that scary clown gimmicks can turn babyface and the fans just go along with it?