mike altman

mike altman

@miketheprofessor.bsky.social

co-host of Cult Favorite podcast about cult documentaries, professor of religious studies, writing about pro wrestling, kayfabe, and society

503 Followers 1,073 Following 210 Posts Joined Aug 2023
2 weeks ago

Pictured: Nothing hurts more than when Bret Hart asks for the mouse to help you make game graphics.

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1 month ago
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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1 month ago

For each gimmick I'm hoping to also have the rough years they were working, where, and were they a face/heel/both. Thanks for any help with this!

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1 month ago

I'm definitely thinking about Brother Love and The Sheik but also any other more obscure gimmicks like "The Mormon Giant" Don Leo Jonathan. They don't have to be explicitly religious either, they can be sort of "religion coded." Like, I'd consider Lord of Darkness Undertaker as counting.

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1 month ago

Hey #wrestlesky and #prowrestling folks, I'm working on a research project about the overlaps between religion and pro wrestling. One of the chapters is on gimmicks and I'm trying to get a list of as many "religion" wrestling gimmicks as possible. Who should be on the list?

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4 months ago

A Duke win and a Dabo loss at the same time is a beautiful thing.

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4 months ago
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney embracing the L.

It never gets old.

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4 months ago

LET’S GO DUKE!!!

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4 months ago

Jon realized that his efforts as an anti-woke comic were lost on his liberal cat.

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

Tip from my partner who is executive director of one of the biggest food pantries in our state:

Donating food is great, especially if you have extra or clean out your kitchen. But money goes further. They can buy food cheaper than you can so they can stretch your money to feed more people.

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4 months ago

Oh, so when Zohran Mamdani calls his father's cousin his "aunt," it's fine with you people, but when *I* call Knuckles the Echidna my "biological son" and post Sora-generated videos of me giving birth to him, it's somehow "disgusting"

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4 months ago

CFB26 is a turn-based RPG

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4 months ago

a chat bot for answering my kids dumbass questions

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4 months ago

this thread is funny to like three people on this app so I hope they find it

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4 months ago

“Reception, Receptions, Receiving”

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4 months ago

To paraphrase J. Z. Smith, it’s not that one came define a “catch”, it’s that one can define a “catch” more than 50 ways.

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4 months ago

scholar’s of religion who think there must be a definition of religion have never encountered what counts as a “catch” in college football

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4 months ago

As a Duke fan I am very much enjoying the Darian Mensaj experience.

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5 months ago
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5 months ago

Baller chyron though and absolutely sounds like the name of a Tyler, The Creator song

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5 months ago

every time these folks show up at the white house I get messages from my non-wrestling friends like “did you see this!?!?” and I’m like “no but did you hear Yoshihiko is injured?”

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5 months ago
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a bald man in a white shirt and tie is screaming into a microphone .. ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and tie is screaming into a microphone ..

just turned on the new Young Thug

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5 months ago

amazing

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5 months ago

maybe the rapture was actually one of Ryan Grubb’s pre-snap motions

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5 months ago

This is my favorite Alabama offense since I came here in 2013.

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5 months ago

Ryan Grubb is in his fucking bag tonight

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5 months ago

LA County: You get that statue of Abraham Lincoln we commissioned?
Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
LA County: what

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5 months ago

Comcast-ass rapture.

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5 months ago

me an hour into every faculty meeting

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