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🗓️ 11 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Many people have drawn parallels between Donald Trump and the WWE. |
0:04.6 | Trump, of course, is long-standing ties to the WWE. |
0:07.9 | But if we're talking about a society and a politics that is sort of descended into spectacle, |
0:13.5 | I think in a very bipartisan way, |
0:15.5 | WWE is a very fruitful terrain for discussion. |
0:19.6 | And that might not have even been what you had in mind well when you suggested we talk about this documentary. |
0:24.9 | But that's kind of where my mind went in watching it. |
0:27.7 | There were a lot of things in this Mr. McMahon documentary that I found very stimulating. |
0:32.8 | That is the title of the documentary series, Mr. McMahon, a six-part, I believe, Netflix documentary series |
0:40.0 | about The Man, the Myth, The Legend, the founder and former CEO of the WWE Vince McMahon. |
0:47.8 | America's dad, they're calling him. |
0:49.8 | Oh, my God. |
0:50.7 | It covers his life and career from his early days as a poor, abused child, to the man who |
0:56.5 | consolidated, one might say monopolized the wrestling industry in the United States, to his recent |
1:03.1 | fall from grace amidst a trillion allegations. |
1:08.1 | He's one of those guys whose allegations tab on Wikipedia is longer than in search of |
1:13.9 | lost time. I mean, it's even more extensive than that. He's a guy who I just, I'm on, I have his |
1:18.4 | Wikipedia page open. Not only is there a tab that's detailing all the different sexual misconduct |
1:23.7 | allegations, but then there's a separate article. See also Vince McMahon sex trafficking |
1:29.5 | scandal. So, and that's a whole article in and of itself. So got to say, probably some of the |
1:36.1 | least surprising revelations of this kind given, like if you know anything about Vince McMahon, |
1:42.0 | but this documentary, which appears to mostly have been filmed and cut together, |
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