Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 198: "The Oldest Rigged Wrestling Match (That We Know Of), and Wrestling Uniting Chimpanzees And Gorillas"

This is the bonus show for Episode 198! (Wrestling)

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topics of the oldest sports bribery contract in the world, and an astounding social phenomenon among young great apes.

RESEARCH SOURCES:

Wrestling Was Fixed, Even in Ancient Rome: New analysis of an ancient document reveals classical roots of fake wrestling (Smithsonian Magazine)

Antinous and Hadrian (National Museums Liverpool)

Bust of Antinous as Dionysos (The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge)

WWE founder Vince McMahon is under federal investigation surrounding sex trafficking allegations, sources say (NBC News)

Vince McMahon is taking vacations and in touch with Trump as WWE tries to move on from scandal-plagued ex-CEO (CNBC)

It turns out that chimpanzees and gorillas can form lasting friendships (NPR)

Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild (Scientific Reports)

Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests (Science)