Waypoints 28: Breaking Kayfabe and Broken Policies

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🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Content Warning for discussion of drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, homicide, and death

Sometimes a new TV show launches and everyone likes it and wants to talk about it. Sometimes, it's even launched by your own company! This week we've been riveted by VICELAND's Dark Side of the Ring, a documentary series that revisits some of the more sobering, troubling stories in the history of pro wrestling. Sometimes they're stories about what happens in the ring, sometimes they're about what happens well outside of it, but we're fascinated by the ways that the performance of pro wrestling ends up impacting on the personal realities of its participants. We also end up talking about this review of George Packer's Richard Holbrooke bio, and what it reveals about centrist foreign policy, or the lack of it.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Rob here. Just want to let you know if we listen to this episode of
0:04.0	Waypoints that it carries a caution warning for details of drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence,
0:09.8	homicide and death. Most of that's tied to the first topic of the show, dark side of the ring.
0:30.0	Oh hello, it's Thursday and it's time to welcome you to Waypoints where the Waypoint staff and friends
0:42.3	take a break to nerd out and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment that's been
0:46.0	inspiring and provoking us lately. Gather around the table this Thursday we've got Patrick
0:50.4	Clepick. Hello, Austin Walker. Hey, Natalie Watson. Hi, hi. And we've got our producer,
0:59.6	Kato working the boards. So this week we actually had a couple of people reach out to me about this
1:05.8	even before you brought it up. Austin, you know, people like it when we talk about sports and a
1:11.1	few people started like, you know, messaging me, what you guys should really talk about is this
1:16.0	new wrestling documentary, Dark Side of the Ring, which nobody told me it was a vice-property by
1:19.9	I was just like, not only wrestling documentary, not only a vice-property, a vice-property
1:25.0	co-created and produced by Evan Husney who worked with us on multiple docs, what shot our
1:34.0	Superhypercube doc when I first got here. And then also was the shooter, the producer on the
1:39.6	Magic the Gathering episode of Waypoint Presents. And you're able to do a small interview with him.
1:45.8	Yeah, last week. It went up in the feed. You know, small by Waypoint Sanders, only an hour.
1:51.7	Yeah, it's a super interesting show. It is a show that's been airing on Vice Land for the last
1:57.0	few weeks now. I believe it's three episodes in a fourth episode, may have gone up by the time
2:01.1	you hear this, actually. No, I think about it. And Evan and the other creative team, or
2:07.5	rest of the creative team has done something that I think is pretty fascinating, which is
2:13.8	it is a look, you know, I guess on its face, it is a look at tragedy and crime and death inside
2:21.5	of the world of pro wrestling. But it's also a sort of tangential or like sideways entry into the
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