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Historically Speaking: Secret American History

From the Intergalactic Sports Network and Ember Media we bring you a new look at the history of Wrestling, Media, and Culture!Join us for deep dives into the subjects, humans, and spectacles of American Society Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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34:52

Demagogues, Demos, And Disgust: Joe Pyne, Bob Grant,...

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2025/11/04

With the New York Mayoral Election upon us, we look at the founding fathers of Conservative Talk as Bob Grant and his mentor Joe Pyne set the stage for our modern media landscape, and weirdly play into the backstory of the same racial and cultural animosity we've seen in the 2025 New York Mayoral Election, as the son of the man Grant brought down with smears, jears, and a catchy parody song, Andrew Cuomo, is caught playing the same game as the man who dispised his father, Mario, and Cuomo's

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1:09:55

Consultants, Blackouts, and Broken Backs or the Rise...

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2025/10/20

In this edition, we take a look at the first radio station and disc jockeys to play their own songs, the impact of consultants, and how much they kill creativity.Also, a look at the origin story of WNEW, how they seized an opportunity when another station failed, and the story of a guy who broke his legs working in a uranium mine and then became the biggest name in radio by being the first shock jock, Don

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16:41

David Sarnoff, The Titanic, And The Metatextual

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2025/10/06

The only way to tell the tale of radio in New York City is to look back... all the way back to over a century ago, as the concept of broadcast radio would be developed on the backs of a massive international tragedy, David Sarnoff being the reason we have culture and a culture war over the airwaves, and the philisophical question of how do you accurately cover a subject with a limited amount of worthwhile people?Become a Patron:

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4:58

Prologue: Avalanche Of A**holes

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2025/09/27

Before we kick off season two of Historically Speaking, Matt Ryan provides us with a bit of prologue ahead of our deep dive into the history of radio in New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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16:10

Hastily Put Together Wrestling Observer Hall Of Fame...

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2025/09/20

With it being Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame season, our resident favorite Wrestling Historian/Blabbermouth runs through his unofficial ballot for the 2025 class! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:21

A New Series From Matt Ryan: A Place For My Stuff

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2025/09/19

Listen to Matt's new monthly/bi-monthly podcast where he tells you stories that come from inside his mind!It's a literal place for his stuff! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:31

Nepobaby Vince McMahon Makes His Move As Wrestling...

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2025/09/15

It's the season finale of Historically Speaking, and Matt Ryan lays out the case for why we are where we are now was inevitable, setting the through line from the fall of the IWA to 1982 as the Wrestling Establishment began to topple over like a Jenga puzzle.ResourcesDeath Of The Territories: Tim HornbakerCapitol Revolution:Tim HornbakerThe Solie Chronicles: Robert Allyn, Pamela Allyn, Scott TealNational Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story:Tim HornbakerInside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed

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24:39

Johnny Powers, The King Of Thebes, and The Death Of...

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2025/09/01

In our penultimate episode of Season 1, we return to Johnny Powers as he touches down in the Carolinas to try and put out the fire that is the International Wrestling Association, as the Pro Wrestling Establishment becomes the Bacchae for the God known as the Status Quo, while at the same time one old God was cut down the expense of a newer and flashier model down in Tennessee.Plus Matt breaks down what comes next for Historically Speaking as we line up our next TWO Seasons of Historically

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49:23

When It Rains In Jersey City, The IWA's Stand In New...

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2025/08/23

In what is sure to be our longest, most detailed, and most use of our production resources to date, we bring you the war as it sat between the IWA and the Pro Wrestling Establishment.From the return of the 1956 Consent Decree, to Sam Muchnick crying poverty amid massive houses at the Kiel, the WWWF looking to combat Operation Hairy Hail Mary with Operation Molotov Cocktail, and it working... kinda?Accounts and insight into the NWA's battle plans against the IWA in Florida and Georgia, as those old

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9:57

The Battle Of New York And Suspend Your Disbelief...

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2025/08/18

We go deeper into 1975 on the 13th edition of Historically Speaking, as IWA's TV continues to be a burr in Vince McMahon's heel and both sides play games in the press or politically on the road to the IWA's northeast debut inside Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey.We also debut "Suspend Your Disbelief Theater" as we go back to what we think may be July 5, 1975 as George "Crybaby" Cannon tries to convince George "The Animal" Steele to jump from the WWWF to the IWA and debut one day before he battles

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25:05

How did we not see it coming | The Seeds of National...

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2025/08/12

After 11 episodes, we finally discuss matches and television that aired from IWA, spanning nearly three decades of context and over a dozen scenarios, brawls, and pseudo-national territories. Eddie Einhorn's dream becomes a reality.From stealing TV Stations from Vince McMahon, Ted Turner's more than curious involvement, Thunderbolt Patterson's war on Jim Crockett Promotions, Jim Crockett Promotions saying he died, YES, THEY SAY HE DIED, and more in this edition of Historically

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26:31

Koloff, Ladd, Mascaras, and the mystery man tapped to...

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2025/08/01

With 1975 upon us, we look at the three wrestlers tasked with leading the top of the card in the IWA, along with some of the other burgeoning stars, regional icons, and longshot supernovas that would launch the first national wrestling promotion.Plus a look at some of the territories that the IWA looked to take aim at, and some of the stars either ripe for the taking or waiting at the gates for the impending

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25:00

Power Vacuums, Garden Envy, And The Men Who Tried To...

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2025/07/25

Our return to Secret Wrestling History takes us to 1975, the end of Johnny Powers' run as a promoter... for now, as the Martinez's and Eddie Einhorn's IWA begins to take shape in a time where pro wrestling was in the midst of change, evolution, and for Vince McMahon Sr., a rare time of peace on top of promotional

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25:31

Three Rings, Riots, and the secret history of New...

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2025/02/18

Our deep dive into the secret history of pro wrestling continues as Johnny Powers goes from top guy to top promoter in this chapter of the "first" national wrestling promotion. At the same time, Matt gets nostalgic about a "backyard" wrestling company that was just teenagers fighting on some random Brooklyn beach.From Buffalo, To Cleveland, To Tokyo and beyond we look at the rise of Powers and Pedro Martinez' first joint effort, Powers putting on the first "Super Bowl" of Wrestling at Municipal

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25:00

The Secret Wrestling History Of The WWE Superstar Who...

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2025/02/08

The story of the International Wrestling Alliance takes us to 1964 and 1965 this week as Johnny Powers goes from up-and-coming wrestler to main eventer to the hottest free agent in wrestling, much like someone else we know.He also...refuses to do jobs.All of this plus a secret Crockett-McMahon Wrestling War of the mid-60's, payola scams, and Johnny Powers in his own words on Historically

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26:20

Nothing Works In Cleveland, Buddy Rogers Heart Gives...

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2025/02/01

Fun times in Cleveland seems like a misnomer, but this week we head to The Land and get a look at some of the secret wrestling history that played into Bruno Sammartino becoming WWWF Champion!This plus Bruno's path to the title, Buddy Rogers final act in Capitol Wrestling, Johnny Powers and how he connects to not only these two, but our story, the comparisons between this situation and the Montreal Screwjob, Bruno and Buddy being the proto-CM Punk and Cody Rhodes, along with Powers being an early

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34:29

Football, The FBI, and the True Story of the WWE Title

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2025/01/25

This week, we look at how the National Football League, their rivals, the American Football League, and the Department of Justice set the stage for not only Johnny Doyle and Jim Barnett's last act as a tandem in the United States but for Vince McMahon and Toots Mondt to keep Buddy Rogers as their World Heavyweight Champion without the NWA and the Federal Government looking breathing down their

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27:34

Alternate Universe WWE Rises In Midwest As NWA...

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2025/01/18

We return to the Johnny Doyle saga as he's now partnered with Jim Barnett to slowly take over the United States with their revolutionary brand of pro wrestling in the wake of the NWA's Consent Decree and an investigation by the Department of Justice.Despite Barnett and Doyle's former partnerships with Fred Kohler, Vince McMahon, and Toots Mondt, don't expect those partnerships to be sustained as Barnett and Doyle would see unlikely allies amidst their renegade siege across the United

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19:45

How the Federal Government, Lack of Vision, and TV...

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2025/01/10

Our look at the first national wrestling promotion brings us to when the NWA was at the peak of its powers but would see Toots Mondt's lack of success at the track and at the gate, kneecapping of nationally televised cards, and the Federal Government create major cracks that would not only lead to the IWA in 1975 but to the creation of World Wrestling

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18:59

Toots Mondt Meets a Fist At Madison Square Garden

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2024/12/28

We continue our look at Pedro Martinez and his road to the International Wrestling Alliance and the role he played in New York Wrestling in and out of the city, a look at NWA's power structure, a mini-wrestling war, and we finally talk about Toots Mondt getting punched out at MSG.Subscribe to learn more the secret history about pro wrestling and how we went from the carnivals to AEW and WWE on Netflix and Max!ResourcesTim Hornbaker: National Wrestling AllianceKeith Elliot Greenberg: Too SweetJim

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