Going To The Mat (2004)
Content Warning: Due to topics within the film it is discussing, this episode contains topics relating to eating disorders and bullying people with disabilities. Listener discretion advised.
Hey there! Thought we forgot about you, huh? Don’t worry, we may have been delayed for quite a while, but we are finally ready to go to the mat with you all! Although by “being ready” I actually mean we are woefully unequipped to cover most of this movie’s subject matter. Luckily for you all, that has literally never stopped us before. So come on and listen in to us try and do the best we can…and still probably failing pretty hard!
Emma refuses to acknowledge “Fly” and finds her new political platform
Lucas definitely has a film degree and doesn’t get the weight classes.
Talking Points: Wrestling Does Not Cure Blindness, Our Family Shame, WE DON’T KNOW ANYTHING, New York City Baybee…Actually We’re Goin’ to Utah, We Start A New Podcast, Why Does No One Know About Blind People?, His Mom Should Have Gone In With Him, Wayne Brady Destroys A Child, A Man Trying His Best, Whose Wayne Brady Is It Anyway?, Angry Cane Acting, John Is No Bueno At Español, A Convenient Yet Harrowing Fire Drill, The Blind Jokes Aged Horribly (But Were Also Never Good), The Weird Airport/Tea Room Scene, The New Alt-Right Movement: Wrestling Is Woke Now (And Also Blind Kids Should Go Back To New York), We Are So Great At Recapping Wrestling, The General Prohibition Sign, Wrestle Dancing?, Mean Girls Style Parents, The All-Access Press Pass For High School Sports, Gross Wrestling Faces, The Least Disney Channel Kiss Ever, The Third Act Drop Off, The Ultimate Sign of Popularity: A Jeep Full of Dudes, The Dark Eating Disorder Plot, Sexual Silly Glasses, Balling The Coach’s Daughter, None Of Our Family Can Listen To This, A Main Character Commits A Crime, The Weird Final Shot
Music: “Going To The Mat” by Russell Kunkel and Katisse Buckingham