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Did the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio feature a record number of Dave interruptions?
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Aug 18, 2011 12:10
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Possibly, yes. Either way the first 25 minutes or so was loving horrendous. Bryan and Dave stumbling over each other and doing the worst sort of pussyfooting around the subject of steroids. Constantly going "but there are guys who..." and then trailing off or waffling back and forth. It's as if the mere word "steroids" could kill them or something.
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Aug 18, 2011 13:09
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Beeswax posted:Possibly, yes. Either way the first 25 minutes or so was loving horrendous. Bryan and Dave stumbling over each other and doing the worst sort of pussyfooting around the subject of steroids. Constantly going "but there are guys who..." and then trailing off or waffling back and forth. It's as if the mere word "steroids" could kill them or something. I don't know if they were having the same problem but I find guys in the business do everything possible to avoid accusing a guy of being on the juice. I never had that problem because if a guy wants to use steroids, in my mind go ahead. It's a travesty these guys can't have doctors watching them and supplying them and have to get it on the streets. Then again, I'm a dirty lefty.
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Aug 18, 2011 13:45
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^^ 100% with you there. If they can juice in a safe way and under a doctor's supervision, then play on playa. Really though, it's the somas and other painkillers that are the bigger problems in the business, and that's tied to the grueling schedule they work and the culture of 'working through it'. Personally I'd be happy to see more Miz/Subway promos if the extra revenue meant that they could cut back the house show schedule, but this probably won't happen. When the WWE is flush, Vince gets another vanity project brainstorm and then WBF.
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Aug 18, 2011 13:54
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Lone Rogue posted:I don't know if they were having the same problem but I find guys in the business do everything possible to avoid accusing a guy of being on the juice. I never had that problem because if a guy wants to use steroids, in my mind go ahead. It's a travesty these guys can't have doctors watching them and supplying them and have to get it on the streets. Then again, I'm a dirty lefty. It's not the fact that they want to it's the fact that Vince wants them to so they're forced to take them as a matter of course.
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Aug 18, 2011 14:02
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Lone Rogue posted:I don't know if they were having the same problem but I find guys in the business do everything possible to avoid accusing a guy of being on the juice. I never had that problem because if a guy wants to use steroids, in my mind go ahead. It's a travesty these guys can't have doctors watching them and supplying them and have to get it on the streets. Then again, I'm a dirty lefty. It's not that they can't accuse certain guys of juicing, it's that they seem unable to, even in general terms, say something as direct as "people juice". It's a constant stream of "And there are clearly guys who... well I shouldn't say clearly, but clearly... you know. It's like... Let me put it this way, I see a lot of guys at the gym who are clearly on stuff and you can tell. But...". On and on and loving on.
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Aug 18, 2011 14:09
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I just want Dave to take an etiquette class or something so he finally learns how to have a proper conversation.
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Aug 18, 2011 14:13
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's not the fact that they want to it's the fact that Vince wants them to so they're forced to take them as a matter of course. True, that was a rampant problem. WWE was one of the top dogs (and is now the only) and if you wanted to work for them, you had to be willing to artificially enhance yourself, man or woman. I always remember the story of how the WWE had zero interest in Louie Spiccoli until he got on the gas.
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Aug 18, 2011 14:17
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flashy_mcflash posted:^^ 100% with you there. If they can juice in a safe way and under a doctor's supervision, then play on playa. Really though, it's the somas and other painkillers that are the bigger problems in the business, and that's tied to the grueling schedule they work and the culture of 'working through it'. Personally I'd be happy to see more Miz/Subway promos if the extra revenue meant that they could cut back the house show schedule, but this probably won't happen. When the WWE is flush, Vince gets another vanity project brainstorm and then WBF.
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Aug 18, 2011 14:46
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SWF read out my smarky pro-Punk email. Made my afternoon at work and I name dropped the PSP 
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Aug 18, 2011 15:26
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Listening to Art of Wrestling with Tracy Smothers right now and it's awesome. I love listening to Tracy talk about stuff, he just sounds like such a cool old guy who has been having fun his entire life. It's like sitting down with your grandpa and listening to him tell stories.
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Aug 18, 2011 21:17
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Rankine Over Gash posted:SWF read out my smarky pro-Punk email. Made my afternoon at work and I name dropped the PSP You did! They of course didn't get it but still.
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Aug 19, 2011 00:31
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Phenix Rising posted:Listening to Art of Wrestling with Tracy Smothers right now and it's awesome. I love listening to Tracy talk about stuff, he just sounds like such a cool old guy who has been having fun his entire life. It's like sitting down with your grandpa and listening to him tell stories. Bit of a derail, but I heard a story from my brother's friend who ordered a pizza in the area Tracy resides and the delivery man shows up and it's loving Tracy Smothers.
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Aug 19, 2011 00:40
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ChampRamp posted:Bit of a derail, but I heard a story from my brother's friend who ordered a pizza in the area Tracy resides and the delivery man shows up and it's loving Tracy Smothers. He talks about that in the interview! Apparently he has two jobs right now ("to pay for my wrestling habit"), one of them being pizza delivery guy.
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Aug 19, 2011 01:02
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Lance Storm. Holier than thou? Of course! Still entertaining? For sure. Edit: Jesus. The end of Bryan and Vinny. 
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Aug 19, 2011 02:39
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LordPants posted:Edit: Jesus. The end of Bryan and Vinny. Are you referring to the Dave Meltzer Story drop?
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Aug 19, 2011 14:19
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Someone put a song together of Bryan ringing someone on the podcast to Abba's "Ring Ring." They then spent the rest of the episode playing Dancing Queen and singing along. While Vinny made Abba album title puns.it was awesome edit: spoilers for spoilers.
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Aug 19, 2011 15:18
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Does anyone know where the "free money" for Granny's lotto segments came from?
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Aug 19, 2011 17:41
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Euthyphro posted:Does anyone know where the "free money" for Granny's lotto segments came from? They found it on the ground on their crazy Vegas adventure
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Aug 19, 2011 17:50
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LordPants posted:Someone put a song together of Bryan ringing someone on the podcast to Abba's "Ring Ring." This times a million. Quote of the show: "I remember my sister playing ABBA nonstop as a five year old in 1980. However, I have no idea who the TNA Knockouts Champ is."
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Aug 19, 2011 17:57
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I would listen to mash-up album with GnR called ABBAtite for Destruction.
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Aug 19, 2011 19:35
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Is it just me or has Todd been awesome lately? He's been so much more lively, it's like he's a totally different person. Edit: Also, on a humorous note I was listening to an observer live from the early 00's and I recognised one of the callers voices, it was the guy from the LAW who always calls up to talk about the Diva's doing the very same a decade earlier to Dave Meltzer. I laughed. Unsurprisingly Meltzer was much more professional about his interest for that particular facet of pro wrestling. Sue Denim fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Aug 20, 2011 |
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Aug 20, 2011 20:46
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Sue Denim posted:Is it just me or has Todd been awesome lately? is it jim from virginia?
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Aug 20, 2011 20:53
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Just listened to the B&V show featuring Abba. That ending is up there with the one where they got rickrollled by a shout-out and Bryan decided he was just gonna play the whole song and live mix it with Khali drops.
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Aug 21, 2011 22:54
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Eye-pads, Roll Out The Barrel-Rolls and "it was OK" ratings. Granny rules.
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Aug 22, 2011 10:43
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I read some Granny hate on here, so I was worried I'd hate the first Bryan and Vinnie show I listened to. Three minutes in, Granny's definition of an iPad makes me question everyone in this thread.
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Aug 22, 2011 22:25
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Rodney the Piper posted:I read some Granny hate on here, so I was worried I'd hate the first Bryan and Vinnie show I listened to. Three minutes in, Granny's definition of an iPad makes me question everyone in this thread. Granny is awesome for the first 6 months or so. Eventually you've heard it all before and for many people you start skipping her segments.
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Aug 22, 2011 22:34
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Pretty much, yeah. It gets pretty repetitive.
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Aug 22, 2011 22:50
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Rodney the Piper posted:I read some Granny hate on here, so I was worried I'd hate the first Bryan and Vinnie show I listened to. Three minutes in, Granny's definition of an iPad makes me question everyone in this thread. An eyepad!
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Aug 22, 2011 22:56
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Does anybody know what happened to Who's Slamming Who? Last time I heard Tommy was getting married/other commitments so he didn't really have the time to continue it. That's not really important though, I just want to know if there is any recent Jim Cornette stuff out there.
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Aug 23, 2011 15:48
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Rodney the Piper posted:I read some Granny hate on here, so I was worried I'd hate the first Bryan and Vinnie show I listened to. Three minutes in, Granny's definition of an iPad makes me question everyone in this thread. yea basically what mrp said. she is real funny and old. but then bein old gets old.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:36
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The Shaman of Cum posted:is it jim from virginia?
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Aug 24, 2011 11:57
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I sometimes try to give the callers on The Law a chance because, hey, they're wrestling fans like me, maybe they have some interesting opinions to share. But something inevitably happens like this week, where the very first guy that called decided to ask the hosts if they could tell him how to get free tickets to Survivor Series and whether they remembered a sign he took to a WWE PPV in 2006, or something, and I go back to skipping straight to the Dave Meltzer segment.
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Aug 24, 2011 14:58
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Yeah, I hope LAW understand how valuable that Meltzer segment is, I'm sure without it their audience would be a lot smaller because there wouldn't be enough redeeming features about the show to justify listening to it. Saying that though, LAW is by far the best free news orientated wrestling pod cast I've come across, although that's not saying much when you look at their competition. At times it seems like Wai is the only reason I listen to LAW's podcasts, I do enjoy the Mouth a lot too come to think of it and appreciate the role he plays in acting as a counter point and dampening the vivid odour of rear end in a top hat that Agnew emanates. I'd be quite happy to do away with Agnew and Pollack. Agnew is just a ridiculous, ignorant man-child and although Pollack is a decent guy it seems and a hard worker he just tries too hard to be Alvarez 2.0 and has unfortunately not realised yet that he does not have the charisma to pull it off. Oh and concerning Granny: I've been a subscriber to the Observer since the start of this year and I still enjoy Granny segments, I think Bryan just needs to be more conscious of how to bring out the entertaining aspects of Granny's persona. Doing stuff like the lotto every week is not a good idea if you want to get Granny over with the audience.
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Aug 25, 2011 13:03
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Review-A-Wai is usually pretty alright. Pollock isn't amazingly hilarious, but Wai is an amazing straightman for him and the material they review is usually interesting and/or humorous enough to make up for any deficiencies in their act. That said I don't listen to the LAW/Review-a-RAW/Review-an-Impact
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Aug 25, 2011 13:09
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Fun episode this week of Smart Wrestling Fan.
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Aug 26, 2011 00:39
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dshban posted:Fun episode this week of Smart Wrestling Fan. Supportin dis. The Boogerman fanfiction is the funniest poo poo.
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Aug 26, 2011 05:31
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Granny accepted my friend request on facebook and the sun is a little brighter today. I can't wait to hear B, V, and G destroy my name.
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Aug 26, 2011 13:57
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Karl Stern is doing a series on the History of Wrestling. His first two shows have covered the entire pioneer era up to Gotch/Hackenschmidt. This is a period in wrestling that is only rarely covered and most fans have literally no clue about it. Definitely check it out.
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