Episode 2: Florida
7/10/20261 hr 3 min
Dan continues his exploration of America with a trip to Florida to investigate the alleged hometown of his favorite wrestler, and ends up launching into an exporation of community, mutual aid, and memories of Miami Bass.
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Dan· Host0:43
Today, I decided to see if I could immediately expand the format and visit a location that was important to someone who I've never met and someone who is dead. Anyone who has followed my past work will not be surprised to hear that my favorite professional wrestler is, and likely always will be, Bray Wyatt. He was truly the color red in a world of black and white, a character unlike any other, both in ways that he clearly intended, and in some ways that involved drastic overreadings in my head. The difficulty of creating a professional wrestling persona is figuring out why a particular character would be in a fighting league. It's easy to justify with some fairly standard characters that exist in that space,