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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Cyber is a show covering a diverse range of topics. We’ve covered everything from crypto to AI to online cults. If it touches technology or online culture, we’ll talk about it. That’s how you get an episode like today’s, which is both a deep dive into professional wrestling’s latest scandal and a discussion of the latest existential threat: nuclear weapons in space.
Vice features editor Timothy Marchman can do it all. First, Marchman walks us through the newest allegations against WWE boss Vince McMahon. It’s a civil case that may have wider ramifications for how the U.S. handles non-disclosure agreements. Then we get into a bit of Congressional kayfabe: the reports that Russia wants to put nuclear weapons in space.
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0:00.0 | Hey there, cyber listeners, Emily here. Just a heads up that this episode discusses topics including sexual violence and suicide. If you want to skip those parts of the discussion, you could head to the 40-minute timestamp where we begin our discussion about nukes in space. So, yeah, on to the show. |
0:27.6 | Thank you. in space. So, yeah, on to the show. Tann, it's got the code. It's going to launch. |
0:32.2 | It's a unit system. I know this. |
0:36.6 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:38.8 | It tells her everything. |
0:40.5 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:43.3 | Eagle one. |
0:44.1 | The package is being delivered. |
0:49.3 | So, Cardi is a slur in the wrestling community? |
0:55.2 | Yeah, you hear it from usually younger wrestlers who are talking about older wrestlers. |
1:02.3 | They'll say they're carnies. |
1:03.9 | It's a pretty flexible word. |
1:05.4 | It can be a noun. |
1:06.2 | It can be an adjective. |
1:07.9 | And it goes to in older days, wrestling was based out of carnivals. And a lot of it would be |
1:19.1 | wrestlers would, they were basically conning people. They would do things like have a, they would have a bit where a wrestler would stand in the |
1:33.3 | ring and he'd say, anybody can come out of the crowd and challenge me. |
1:36.5 | And if you, you know, you last five minutes with me, you get X amount of money. |
1:41.7 | And then, you know, toutouts in the audience would gather bets on this sort of thing. |
1:49.7 | And the wrestler could let the guy go five minutes or not let him go five minutes, |
1:53.5 | depending on where the betting action was. |
1:56.9 | These days, obviously everybody knows wrestling is a show, |
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