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Producing your host from New York. Here is Sam Roberts. Sam.

451. Welcome to the show everybody. Hope it was a good weekend. Lots to talk about today.

Here we go. Here we go. Yes. Oh boy. Welcome to Not Sam Wrestling. A big episode to get into today.

Lots to talk about. Thank you all for being here. Hope you're all subscribed. Hope you're all

ratings and commenting and liking and doing everything Black Mirror has told you not to do.

Welcome to the show. I think that the only place that we can possibly start this week is by

talking about the legend that we lost over the week. Rest in peace to the Iron Sheik who at a

reported 81 years old, although if you ask the great Keith Elliott Greenberg who I believe wrote

the Iron Sheik's biography that never came out. He would tell you that the Iron Sheik was never

fully concrete on exactly when his birthday was, but 81 is a is a is a bout right. We lost him and

he's one of these legends that I'm so glad his legend was able to grow over the years and as

just this character meant so much to so many people and that's the thing that pro wrestling can do.

It blurs that line. That suspension of disbelief can just continue to expand and exist in ways that

no other form of entertainment can give us where this character from your childhood can just

continue to exist all these years later. And it's really interesting. I talked about it a little

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