Tom Crewe: Wrestling Days

‘Courtroom encounters present you with only a fragment of a person’s story, from which you may or may not be inclined to infer the rest,’ James Lasdun wrote recently in the LRB. Last October, he set out on a road trip across America, with the aim of attending as many different ki ...  Show more

When commenting on the power and influence of the Catholic Church, Stalin is supposed to have asked: ‘how many divisions has the pope?’ Donald Trump has yet to question how many F35s Leo XIV has, but he may as well have done in his angry response to the American pope’s criticism ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, oftentimes when the topic of professional wrestling (think Hulk Hogan) comes up, it’s almost guaranteed that someone will scoff and say that it’s “fake.” Here’s Riley Evans, sports writer and CEO of RealPodcasting.com, to tell the real sto ...  Show more

This week on That Peter Crouch Podcast, Crouchy, Chris and Statman Dave sit down with global superstar Jason Sudeikis, star of Apple TV's Ted Lasso, as they discuss all things football (NOT soccer) related. Jason talks about why he thinks the show has been such such a runaway suc ...  Show more

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WARNING: this episode contains references to murder and suicide. In professional wrestling, you don’t know where fantasy ends and reality starts. But Chris Benoit was a method actor. He liked realness. And after years of drugs and injuries, that had deadly consequences. If you’ve ...  Show more