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The Story of the Von Erich Family w/ Irv Muchnick | POST x Wrestlenomics

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston are joined by journalist Irv Muchnick to discuss the history of the Von Erichs and his 1988 feature ‘Born-Again Bashing’.

Pollock & Thurston also discuss the major stories of 2023, what we will be focusing on in the new year, and the key players in the industry.

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0:00.0

Brandon Thurston from Ressonomics is up next and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-Rufflin.

0:08.0

Thank you, Lynn. Good afternoon, everyone.

0:12.0

But we can't ignore the math. Thank you and good afternoon everyone.

0:15.0

But we can't ignore the math, okay?

0:18.0

We can't ignore the data. Go on Google Trend, type in your name, then type in mine.

0:22.0

You're a straight line. I'm a pyramid I like the very direct question on that

0:26.7

television ratings downward spiral fire rates plummeting the time is now to December the 20th.

0:46.0

This will be the final Pollock and Thurston, dot dot, until 2024.

0:51.0

We will be back in two weeks time if you are so generous to give us one week off for the holidays to recharge

0:57.3

But how are you today Brandon? I'm good. I know we're going to talk about the iron claw I will be joined by Ervin Mushnick in a little while, but I will be the only person who's not yet seen the movie, I understand. I am seeing it tomorrow, though, which is like, this movie's coming out on Friday, but it's apparently it's at a theater tomorrow near me, so I'm going to go see it.

1:15.6

Okay, well, I, about an hour ago I tweeted that Irv Muschnick would be joining us on the eve of the film's release and then realized oh wait a minute it's

1:23.8

Wednesday the movie comes up Friday but now you're telling me I was accurate all along so I don't

1:28.9

know when this movie's coming out I saw two weeks ago I might end up going to see it a second time at some point but if you have not

1:37.8

seen the movie which I imagine is most people we're not really going to be

1:40.9

getting into like the... Spoilers. Yes, I think people know how the story ends, but we won't be getting into the specifics of the film itself.

1:48.7

We will let you all go watch and judge for yourself.

1:51.1

This is more so a look at the Von Eric family

1:54.4

with someone in Erve Mushnick who was covering this family in real time back in the

1:59.4

80s and wrote a pretty well-known feature in penthouse magazine of all places in 1988

2:05.3

entitled Born Again Bashing and it was a pretty like eye-opening account of the Von Eric

2:11.2

family and sort of the mythology that had been built up by Fritz of his sons.

2:17.0

And the chronology of this article coming out was after Mike Von Eric had died.

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