La Mancha Screwjob

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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All the world’s a stage. Or, sometimes it feels that way, especially these days. In this episode, originally aired in 2015, we push through the fourth wall, pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling, and travel 400 years into the past to unmask our obsession with authenticity and our desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy. Thanks to Nick Hakim for the use of his song "The Light". Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. Plus, find other cool things we did in the past — like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. Take a look, explore and subscribe!

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.4	Hey, it's Latif. This is Radio Lab.
0:21.9	A few nights ago, I was watching television.
0:26.0	I'm not going to tell you what show.
0:28.2	Fine, I will tell you what show.
0:29.9	It was Station 11 on HBO, it's a great show.
0:33.6	It's a show about a fictional global pandemic.
0:37.3	And there's this scene in the first episode where it's not even a major scene or anything, but there's like a, there's a doctor, an ER doctor. She like exits a room and goes into a hall in the hospital and she takes off her mask. And then she starts coughing. She has like a coughing fit. And just for like a split second, I got very
0:57.3	mad because I was like a doctor in a hospital, like not wearing a mask, coughing. And then,
1:01.7	and then I just got confused because I was like, wait, wait a second. Like, when did they shoot this?
1:05.0	Was this shot during the actual global pandemic? I just got confused in a way, like my brain short-circuited. And the place it took me
1:14.6	to, exactly to this old Radio Lab episode from 2015, called La Mancha Screwjob, which is about
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