Episode 2 - Eric "Panther" Pleasants

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Bunkum and Ballyhoo

Patrick W. Reed

17 episodes

6 days ago

A podcast about bullsh*t - join your host, author and professional wrestling historian Patrick W. Reed, as he takes a look back at the lives and lies of some of history's greatest showmen, con artists, grifters, hustlers and bullsh*tters of all kinds, from pro-wrestling to politics, and from sideshows to pseudoscience.

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Episode 2 - Eric "Panther" Pleasants

Bunkum and Ballyhoo

17 minutes 38 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 2 - Eric "Panther" Pleasants

Episode 2 of Bunkum and Ballyhoo once again looks at an intersection between professional wrestling and dubious politics, with the stranger than fiction story of how Norfolk professional wrestler Eric "Panther" Pleasants went from wrestling in Jersey to fighting for Hitler.

Audio Sources:
The Brits Who Fought For Hitler - History Channel
Harwich Newsreel: Britons Freed From Russia (1954) - British Pathé

Selected Sources:
The Traitors: A True Story Of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit by Josh Ireland
I Killed To Live: The Story Of Eric Pleasants, Professional Strongman by Eric Pleasants & Eddie Chapman
Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia by Eric Pleasants
Agent Zizag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman by Ben Macintyre
The Frank Falla Archive