La Mancha Screwjob

Radiolab

• Episode: La Mancha Screwjob
• Website: Radiolab
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab
• Duration: 00:51:37
• Published: 2015-02-24 06:00

All the world’s a stage. So we push through the fourth wall, pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling, and travel 400 years into the past to unmask our obsession with authenticity and our desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy.

Thanks to Nick Hakim for the use of his song "The Light".