Muscles & Mayhem

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators,” out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews Dan “Nitro” Clark and Lori “Ice” Fetrick. In the days before reality TV game shows, one television program invited viewers to win money completing athletic challenges. The catch: they’d have to beat a team of pumped-up, sexy spoilers known as the American Gladiators. The country went wild for the rock’em sock’em action of everyday men and women facing off against characters like Laser and Gemini. Behind the scenes, the troupe of performers dealt with injuries, steroids, and the perils of being young and famous in Hollywood. But resentment grew as the Gladiators were locked in a modest contract while the production company got rich off of merchandise. Muscles & Mayhem takes us behind the scenes of “American Gladiators.” All the broken bones, screaming groupies, and wild stories of the pioneering television show that was - literally - a hit. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched “Muscles & Mayhem" yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your
0:17.8	favorite Netflix documentaries and films. On today's episode we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series
0:25.8	Muscles and mayhem an unauthorized story of American Gladiators.
0:30.4	Nothing was
0:35.0	real.
0:36.0	real. There was nothing else like it on TV.
0:40.0	It was barbaric.
0:42.0	We learned quickly. We're going to need more than bad days, dear folks.
0:46.0	Today we're talking to series subjects, Dan Nitro Clark, and Lori Ice Fetrick.
0:52.0	In the days before reality TV game shows,
0:55.2	one television program invited viewers
0:57.9	to win money completing athletic challenges.
1:01.2	The catch, they'd have to beat a team of pumped up sexy spoilers known as the American
1:07.0	gladiators. The country went wild for the rock'am-socum action of everyday men and women facing off against characters like
1:16.0	Laser and Gemini.
1:18.2	Behind the scenes, the troop of performers dealt with injuries, steroids, and the perils of being young and famous in Hollywood.
1:26.6	But resentment grew as the Gladiators were locked in a modest contract while the production
1:31.7	company got rich off of merchandise.
1:35.0	Muscles and mayhem takes us behind the scenes of American Gladiators,
1:40.0	all the broken bones, screaming groupiesies and wild stories of the pioneering
1:44.9	television show that was literally a hit. My favorite part about being
1:49.9	Nitro was the idea that I could go out and I could enact violence on people in a
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