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All right. Hey, guys. Sorry. We're here now. Peter. I'm Simon. Good to meet you. Simon, how are you, man? I'm doing well, and yourself. Good. Okay, who's who? Peter is a DJ, Peter Rosenberg from Hot 97. Simon Adler is a journalist. Our pal, Andrew Moranz from the New Yorker, is also in the room, and Robert and I are in the back. Good. Well, we have all gathered here today to talk about the wonderful world of professional wrestling.

My favorite world.

So, yes, we're going to talk about professional wrestling for the first half of the show.

And we realize there's probably a lot of you out there listening right now who are like, seriously guys? There are people like, you're 35 years old? Do you love wrestling? It's, you know, I get this a lot. If I'm tweeting about it a lot, I get tweets that go, you know it's fake, right? It's like, well, do I write you that when you tweet about your favorite movie? It's entertainment. The awesome thing about wrestling is, is that there are these random things that are a little

bit real.

And sometimes those moments of realness can just be like, boom.

They can change everything.

Now, if you're like me and you grew up in the 80s, you might remember wrestling as like, you know,

Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant, these epic matchups that were kind of great, but also sort of ridiculous and cartoonish.

Well, according to Peter Rosenberg, there was a moment where wrestling started to sort of tinker with reality in a much more nuanced and fascinating way.

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