After a few weeks off, the gang returns this week with Adam Qutaishat, Milwaukee-area theater artist and teacher, to deep-dive into their lifelong passion for the art of professional wrestling, its impact on society, and on their work and practice.

This will go down in history as the only podcast episode ever to hint at the work of French philosophers Roland Barthes and Guy Debord, commedia dell'arte, and also namecheck Milwaukee legend Bobson Dugnutt.

Review of 2021 Work Group launch (2:00), How does one get from collective impact to pro wrestling? (6:46), Adam joins the show (18:54), Easter Egg (1:22:15)

Follow http://www.adamqutaishat.com/ (Adam): https://www.facebook.com/allinproductionsmke/ (All In Productions) | https://www.sexyhackers.tv/ (Sexy Hackers) | https://www.mtmadison.com/ (Music Theater of Madison)

S209 Ephemera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcfPF4mTFQ (2021 Work Group live stream video)

https://www.imaginemke.org/our-work-groups/ (Sign up for a Work Group meeting)

http://web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/readings/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf ("The World of Wrestling," Mythologies), by Roland Barthes, 1972

https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/professional-wrestling/ (Encyclopedia of Milwaukee: Professional Wrestling), UWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py4aMK3aIU ("Hard Times,") Dusty Rhodes

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KOP4mNAX5R0N_dODE6j2gHTK2oTXCIrhAQ0dEniaYFw/edit#gid=0 (Which city did Bobson Dugnutt play for in the 1994 Fighting Baseball game)?