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I was trying to save money, but now it sounds like I need to resubscribe to the Observer. 
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Mar 15, 2011 08:05
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OK, as someone too poverty stricken to get the Observer, which wrestling podcasts are worth it? I currently get: I Want Wrestling Art Of Wrestling Smart Wrestling Fan Are there any others that are worth it? I tried Live Audio Wrestling and couldn't get into it although I may have chosen a dud episode. I'm more into interviews with people in the business and general wrestling discussion than I am into recaps of RAW or that kind of stuff (I already have SWF for that). Anything spring out as something I should try?
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Mar 15, 2011 10:55
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WOR yesterday was great because it was basically Bryan trolling Dave by trying to get him to explain the reasons behind the stupid bullshit TNA does. And Dave has that kind of personality where he has to try to apply logic and reason to everything even when there plainly is none, so he just goes for it and the results are hilarious. B&V tonight should be awesome as well.
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Mar 15, 2011 11:42
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Lamuella posted:OK, as someone too poverty stricken to get the Observer, which wrestling podcasts are worth it? I currently get: When I don't have the means to pay, I just go with the free podcast feed from WOR because it's usually two good shows a week for free. LAW sadly to say was probably the best free show which sucks because it is pretty terrible. Although the segment where they review old poo poo is usually pretty good.
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Mar 15, 2011 12:50
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Borh posted:And Dave has that kind of personality where he has to try to apply logic and reason to everything even when there plainly is none, so he just goes for it and the results are hilarious. Bryan clearly plays on this intentionally sometimes, and it always works. Dave has to at least TRY to find a logical explanation for things.
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Mar 15, 2011 18:47
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I decided to check out the Observer podcasts. Bryan: "Since there was one giant Pangaea, nothing has been worse than this." Okay I'm in.
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Mar 16, 2011 04:33
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Alvarez has a great Victory Road meltdown in this week's newsletter, actually far better than the one on the radio show.
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Mar 16, 2011 04:35
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jeffersonlives posted:Alvarez has a great Victory Road meltdown in this week's newsletter, actually far better than the one on the radio show. I hope he and Vinny review it on the next B&V show. That's where I really expect him to go off.
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Mar 16, 2011 04:41
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Rick posted:When I don't have the means to pay, I just go with the free podcast feed from WOR because it's usually two good shows a week for free. LAW sadly to say was probably the best free show which sucks because it is pretty terrible. Although the segment where they review old poo poo is usually pretty good. I didn't realize they had a free feed. On this.
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Mar 16, 2011 11:04
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I'm thinking about subscribing to WO. Are the newsletters in PDF format that I could read on my iPad at the gym? I'm trying to debate on whether or not I want to do it and the podcasts seem worth it but I think being able to read the newsletter on my iPad would push me over the hump.
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Mar 16, 2011 16:04
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sportsgenius86 posted:I'm thinking about subscribing to WO. Are the newsletters in PDF format that I could read on my iPad at the gym? figure four weekly, yes. observer, no
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Mar 16, 2011 16:14
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sportsgenius86 posted:I'm thinking about subscribing to WO. Are the newsletters in PDF format that I could read on my iPad at the gym? I know that F4W comes in pdf, I'm not sure about the Observer
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Mar 16, 2011 16:17
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on Lagana's "Press the press" podcast, Alvarez was actually expressing his amazement at people who still got f4w delivered by post. He was saying that he puts the PDF of the issues up online the moment they're finished for subscribers to download, and yet he still gets this fairly solid core of people who paid to get it mailed to them. He was also talking about people he knew who no longer watched wrestling but still got and read f4w. Kind of a "You don't need a TV if you've got a TV guide" moment.
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Mar 16, 2011 16:18
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Thanks guys. Is the WO newsletter in a downloadable format?
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Mar 16, 2011 16:22
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sportsgenius86 posted:Thanks guys. Is the WO newsletter in a downloadable format? I don't think so, but I know there are PDFs that get circulated on various pirate sites. If you really want them you could subscribe to the site and download them from there I guess. Just don't do the latter without the former Alternatively you could just copy and paste into a txt
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Mar 16, 2011 16:32
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I don't think so, but I know there are PDFs that get circulated on various pirate sites. If you really want them you could subscribe to the site and download them from there I guess. Just don't do the latter without the former Thanks! I have the Instapaper app for the iPad and iPhone so I can just pull the text into a word document to read when I don't have internet access. I appreciate the help from everybody.
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Mar 16, 2011 17:06
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Lamuella posted:OK, as someone too poverty stricken to get the Observer, which wrestling podcasts are worth it? I currently get: Weekly they have the LAW show which is news and discussion for the week in wrestling and a bit of MMA (even though I'm not an MMA fan I don't mind at all, it's just the big stuff and it's interesting to hear about how it functions as a business compared to wrestling), normally an interview on which they've had guests like Scott Hudson, Jim Cornette, Stone Cold and Dave Lagana, phone in questions from listeners to the hosts and a weekly call in with Dave Meltzer for the hosts to ask him some questions on whatever the news items for the week are and for any interesting information about current angles. Then there's Review a Wai who's podcasts are available with LAW on I-tunes, they used to be part of LAW but they've ended up splitting the two up because of the length recently, however it's all available under LAW on I-tunes. They do three shows a week, one on which they review a Wrestling release like an old PPV, a documentary or a historic Raw or Nitro, another which is a review of the weeks Raw and another of Impact (which is fantastic, I listen to it instead of watching to keep in touch with what's happening with TNA while they do the chore of watching for me). The hosts are really funny on this, they just have a dry sarcastic sense of humor but aren't overly cynical so it's fun to even hear them review the bad stuff. On Review-a-Wai the show where they review Wrestling related media they often have guests who are people involved with whatever event or release they are reviewing. So that's 4 different free weekly shows available from LAW all of which are of a rather professional quality and are fun but interesting and informative at the same time. If you're after something a little dryer which is more information based there is the Pro-Wrestling Report produced by ESPN that's been around for over a decade. The host can get a bit annoying in a 'I'm a serious journalist' way but he does the show with David Hero who is the booker and promoter for Great Lake Championship Wrestling who often has some insider information and is much more fun to counteract the host and Frank Cozstantino who offers a more fan like perspective, so the three balance out each others faults. They have a weekly show that is all news and phone discussion and more often than not they will have a guest on for an interview. They have a weekly show and have a post-show for every TNA and WWE PPV. It's produced by ESPN and broadcast so it's pretty professional, the only draw back to that however is it's like a typical radio show with a soundboard which is annoying at times, but I think the good out weighs the bad with this show and it's a good contrast from LAW in some ways. Those are the two I listen to, they are completely free and all up it's 5 pod casts a week, so it's more than enough. Sue Denim fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Mar 16, 2011 |
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Mar 16, 2011 17:26
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sportsgenius86 posted:I'm thinking about subscribing to WO. Are the newsletters in PDF format that I could read on my iPad at the gym? You can absolutely download the Observer in PDF. There's a little icon next to the header of each newsletter that lets you do so. It just runs the html through some sort of converter and spits out a PDF, so the formatting isn't stellar but it should more than suit your needs. For F4W you can either get that or download a full colour PDF.
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Mar 16, 2011 17:47
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Lamuella posted:He was also talking about people he knew who no longer watched wrestling but still got and read f4w. Kind of a "You don't need a TV if you've got a TV guide" moment. I subscribed for F4W for a long while without watching much wrestling. It's mainly because I find the behind the scenes side more entertaining that what happens on TV most of the time. Also there is no way in hell I'd ever order a TNA PPV or watch Impact every week, but I still enjoy listening to Bryan bitch and rant about them. It reminds me a lot of Joel Robinson/Mike Nelson being forced to watch bad movies until they crack.
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Mar 16, 2011 18:48
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I am surprised that the hardest I laughed during the Bryan and Vinny show wasn't the burial of TNA, but instead Vinny's burial of DGUSA.
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Mar 16, 2011 20:26
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MassRayPer posted:I am surprised that the hardest I laughed during the Bryan and Vinny show wasn't the burial of TNA, but instead Vinny's burial of DGUSA. I don't subscribe to WO, please elaborate on the DGUSA incident.
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Mar 16, 2011 20:27
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:I don't subscribe to WO, please elaborate on the DGUSA incident. He basically just said that the matches are two guys or two groups of guys doing random moves for no rhyme or reason for 10 minutes until one guy is pinned. It was very matter of fact and it made me laugh since it was exactly how I felt.
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Mar 16, 2011 20:31
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Am I the only one who wishes Bryan Alvarez would shut the gently caress up about his stupid cats?
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Mar 16, 2011 20:52
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Karmine posted:Am I the only one who wishes Bryan Alvarez would shut the gently caress up about his stupid cats? I like the cat stories  but I do get why people would dislike cat stories and Granny
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Mar 16, 2011 20:53
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Luckily all the cat & granny stuff is on the B&V show, so people can avoid it if they want to. I wish the F4W app didn't completely suck. I just want to be able to read the newsletters on my iphone without having to manually download PDFs and such, is that so much to ask?
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Mar 16, 2011 20:57
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triplexpac posted:Luckily all the cat & granny stuff is on the B&V show, so people can avoid it if they want to. Exactly. The Bryan and Vinny show is always the one that's less serious and way more frivolous than the others. Granny, cats, songs, and all the other goofiness is part of the charm EDIT: and besides, if Bryan never talked about his cats, the line "you can't just lock kids in a room Bryan, they aren't cats" would have been nowhere near as funny 
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Mar 16, 2011 21:00
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Exactly. The Bryan and Vinny show is always the one that's less serious and way more frivolous than the others. Granny, cats, songs, and all the other goofiness is part of the charm The songs are loving awesome, and Granny is all right, but for gently caress's sake I wanna hear them talk about wrestling! It's especially annoying when Bryan talks about his cats for 20 minutes and then yells at Vinny for taking too long to recap a PPV.
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Mar 16, 2011 21:02
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Exactly. The Bryan and Vinny show is always the one that's less serious and way more frivolous than the others. Granny, cats, songs, and all the other goofiness is part of the charm R-E-A-R R-E-A-R rearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearearear. That's my new favorite song.
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Mar 16, 2011 21:04
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Karmine posted:The songs are loving awesome, and Granny is all right, but for gently caress's sake I wanna hear them talk about wrestling! It's especially annoying when Bryan talks about his cats for 20 minutes and then yells at Vinny for taking too long to recap a PPV. Yeah, but to be fair today was the first time he'd talked about his cats in a long time. Plus they'd recapped the PPV on WOR already Capsaicin posted:R-E-A-R I preferred "you say 'Dan Gable', I say 'Kurt Angle'". I had to stop myself laughing on the bus
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Mar 16, 2011 21:05
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Cat Chat is the best part of the B&V show. I could live with them eliminating all wrestling content for just Cat Chat.
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Mar 16, 2011 21:15
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MassRayPer posted:He basically just said that the matches are two guys or two groups of guys doing random moves for no rhyme or reason for 10 minutes until one guy is pinned. It was very matter of fact and it made me laugh since it was exactly how I felt. I loved that because it's how I felt the one or two times I saw a DGUSA event. I understand that people like that stuff but I just can't get into it.
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Mar 16, 2011 22:37
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Deadpool posted:I loved that because it's how I felt the one or two times I saw a DGUSA event. I understand that people like that stuff but I just can't get into it. That's how I felt when I went to the first show. I knew it just wasn't for me but it would probably be enjoyable to most. Although Gabe re-using Homicide trying to cut out someone's tongue is just dumb. That is one of the worst angles in ROH history, don't use it again! Does anyone here listen to the Todd Martin shows? I cannot stand his voice and he has the worst opinions on everything. He also gets things blatantly wrong, especially about MMA. I cannot understand why Bryan has him on every loving week.
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Mar 16, 2011 22:41
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MassRayPer posted:Does anyone here listen to the Todd Martin shows? I cannot stand his voice and he has the worst opinions on everything. He also gets things blatantly wrong, especially about MMA. I cannot understand why Bryan has him on every loving week. I avoid those because I hate his articles and reviews so much. Looks like I made a good decision.
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Mar 16, 2011 22:43
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I put the Todd Martin shows on when I can't sleep sometimes. Great cure for insomnia.
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Mar 16, 2011 22:46
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MassRayPer posted:I am surprised that the hardest I laughed during the Bryan and Vinny show wasn't the burial of TNA, but instead Vinny's burial of DGUSA.
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Mar 16, 2011 22:46
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I preferred "you say 'Dan Gable', I say 'Kurt Angle'". I had to stop myself laughing on the bus This song was loving rules. I don't mind cat chat, and I used to like Granny but not in a long time. She's been acting like a total rear end the past few months and I'm not sure if it's senility/dementia or she's just being a dick for no reason. I just fast forward through her parts because I love the rest of the B/V show.
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Mar 17, 2011 00:52
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Capsaicin posted:R-E-A-R Yes, This! The first song on the show was great too.
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Mar 17, 2011 02:13
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todd martin loving sucks and is fat
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The Shaman of Cum posted:todd martin loving sucks and is fat Todd Martin likes PWG so if the Shaman says this about him you know he is terrible.
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They have a PDF version of the Observer too, although the link isn't super noticeable. But click the little grey PDF picture that blends into the background near the title.
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