The Greatest Showman (Revisited)

The Greatest Showman (Revisited)

A couple years ago, we covered The Greatest Showman as a pre-release episode. In other words, the podcast episode came out before the movie did. In that episode, we learned about the life of P.T. Barnum. In this episode, we're going back to Barnum's life as this time we give The Greatest Showman the typical Based on a True Story treatment -- comparing it to history.


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