Contesting Wrestling

We talk about the Undertaker some more. Here are links you should check out if you want to donate money to protesters on the front lines, or if you want to further educate yourself about the current uprising.

NYC Black Mutual Aid: https://twitter.com/NYCBlackAid

Free PDF from the great Angela Davis, "Are Prisons Obselete?": https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

Unicorn Riot, independent media collective doing important work: https://unicornriot.ninja/donate/

Minneapolis-based collective dedicated to Black, Trans and Queer liberation: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

Nationwide LGBTQ bail fund: https://www.lgbtqfund.org/donate-1/

We finally delve into pro wrestling's resident mythological archetype, The Undertaker. We watch him fight Giant Gonzalez, Yokozuna, and then his greatest enemy, HIMSELF.

We talk about the uprisings against the police state, with some wrestling thrown in.

PLACES YOU SHOULD DONATE:

https://nationalbailout.org/black-mamas-bail-out/

https://brooklynbailfund.org/

List of bail funds by city: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI/edit?fbclid=IwAR0jBZscOEY5myTxn-0gxkUncHsj1l1wnj5WKlpNW4U_I7rvBI75tZxGZDs

THINGS TO READ:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing (FREE EBOOK)

https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

SOMETHING TO WATCH:

On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdg4dqBMyk&fbclid=IwAR3hbJtNMvajJpc9TWM-4LeBIelJPrIsxy3r46Qc8ePufTjhkSYXoMtW400

Jordan Olds from the fantastic Two Minutes to Late Night joins us for a discussion about why anyone should like wrestling, and if they do, why they should check out Lucha Underground. There is some discussion of metal. Also Lesnar/Orton from Summerslam '16.

Please donate to any and all of these organizations doing the important work:

https://brooklynbailfund.org/

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

Doc and Ben bring along old friend and puroresu expert David Kim to wax poetic about his favorite match ever, a tag team match featuring Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue.

We review our week of the Empress of Tomorrow, mourn the tragic passing of Hana Kimura, and wax rhapsodic about a certain posse of clowns who may or may not be in full possession of their faculties.

We celebrate the Empress of Tomorrow, Asuka, an unrelenting psychedelic kabuki energy being who once ran a graphic design firm. We watch a classic match from her former persona Kana, then some highlights from her NXT reign (with Nikki Cross/Ruby Riot, and later with Ember Moon).

We reflect on Orange Cassidy. What does pulp represent? Who it is FOR?!?!

We delve into the freshly squeezed career of the enigmatic genius known as Orange Cassidy.