Haystacks has been thinking…

Map of the territorial era of professional wrestling:

George Santos' wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos

Episode website:

52. Kayfabe Part 2 2026.05.31 | Patreon

The trip I talk about was reported on in this episode:

39. Haystacks Update #5 (OTG, and preceded by an interesting, existential snapshot) 2026.02.23 | Patreon

Refers to:

38. On Scaling Human Connection (OTG) 2026.02.06 | Patreon

Refers to:

37. Some Practical Information 2026.01.19 | Patreon

Apathy and attention are discussed in this episode:

7. Mallard Dandies and Pink Speedos 2025.06.21 | Patreon

Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the phrase, "the willful suspension of disbelief", and John Keats had "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water" engraved on his tombstone.

The current President of The United States gives Vince McMahon a clothesline in this YouTube clip:

Donald Trump Attacks Vince McMahon

Triple H (Paul Levesque) at The White House:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/01/trump-triple-h-presidential-fitness-test/85472129007/

I think I talked about a collective lifting of the suspension of disbelief in this episode:

24. Loose Ends Tied—Methods of Protest 2026.05.07 | Patreon

P.S. Collective lifting of the suspension of disbelief wasn’t mentioned in the above episode, after all. I’ll look it up in the transcript database I’ve proposed, and link to it, if/when listener contributions pay for the cost of the transcription service I prefer to use for making such timestamped transcript databases😉

[It's at 00:10:18 of 19. Loose Ends Tied—Drive and Shine 2026.04.22. The database works, btw👍 -HK 2026.09.03]

P.P.S. The grandpa said that he didn’t want the fish in the water to eat fish brains, because then they’d become too smart to fall for the bait that he and his grandson were using to catch them. Sorry, forgot the punchline.

Episode website:

51. Kayfabe (probably Part 1 of 2) 2026.05.22 | Haystacks has been thinking… on Patreon

Don't start here!

Start here:

20 Questions 0 Introduction 2026.01.25 | Patreon

The concept of other people really feeling your sincerity is discussed somewhere in this episode:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/12-art-of-non-07-134440823

“Decoy”, not “placebo”, btw😉 ~HK

Refers to:

36. Haystacks Update #4 2026.01.07 | Patreon

Scholarly papers at openalex.org

Alternative to YouTube, among other things, at archive.org

Refers to:

35. Some Methods I Use to Keep Tabs on The Zeitgeist 2026.01.01 | Patreon

Refers to:

34. Telling Somebody Else’s Story 2026.01.01 | Patreon

Refers to:

33. Some OTG Thoughts About Competition(s) 2026.01.01 | Patreon