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Capsaicin posted:I started listening to the Death of WCW audiobook, and is it just me or is it really not that....good? Like, it's great stories, but it's just written kinda...eh. They tell the Madusa trash can story twice in a short amount of time, and jump back and forth between time frames. It's not good. I think I posted about it before, but it's all over the loving place and glosses over some really important stuff. Like I don't think they bring up Pillman's worked shoots until the final quarter of the book. Bischoff's obsession with working the boys played such a large role in the downfall of the company, and the Pillman story both key and really interesting but I think it gets, like, two paragraphs? It's insane.
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Capsaicin posted:I started listening to the Death of WCW audiobook, and is it just me or is it really not that....good? Like, it's great stories, but it's just written kinda...eh. They tell the Madusa trash can story twice in a short amount of time, and jump back and forth between time frames. It's honestly an issue with how Bryan has to read everything as it appears in the book in order, whether or not it was originally meant as an aside that the reader could read if they wanted and not miss anything in the narrative.
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Jerusalem posted:It's on his latest unleashed show on podcastone. There's also a great bit where he just gleefully derides the concept of a Team Lunch, as well as a nice callback to his earlier mocking of Life Coaches when his guest says something profoundly stupid and Austin offers to be HIS life coach. Wait, did Steve Austin have Teddy Hart on his podcast because that's the kind of thing I wanna hear
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Yeah, it's a book that wasn't written with audio in mind, as it has a ton of sidebars. Any point where Bryan seems to suddenly jump to contemporary WWE or do the 'Lesson Not Learned!' stuff is material that was likely a sidebar in the print book, and not an actual part of the main body of the chapter. The part where they list off the varioues incarnations of the NWO jumps out as a particularly egregious example. I liked the audiobook, but part of that is having read the print version 3 or 4 times over the last decade and also having a sort of affection for Bryan's voice, especially once he settles in and starts sounding like himself. The part leading into the Russo title win was the best with his delivery. "Now, you laugh. Soon.... you will CRY!"
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wait, did Steve Austin have Teddy Hart on his podcast because that's the kind of thing I wanna hear Sadly not, it was his buddy Ted Fowler. Teddy Hart would be an hour and a half of that one bit from the Paige interview where she's laughingly telling stories of her childhood while he sits there going 
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exploding mummy posted:It's honestly an issue with how Bryan has to read everything as it appears in the book in order, whether or not it was originally meant as an aside that the reader could read if they wanted and not miss anything in the narrative. It's not so much the sidebar sounding stuff; it's the repeating things multiple times. Like, in 20 minutes I heard twice about how Giant debuted and was being booked as Son of Andre.
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As much as I love the original (still need to check out the updated version), I absolutely agree it doesn't seem like something that should have ever had an audio edition
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I wasn't sure if it was just me or not. I've been listening through the death of WCW too and I've found it really boring. I've listened to Bryan talk a lot over the years but I find it really dry. Maybe I already know most of the material by now. I've listened to a lot of wrestling podcasts since reading the first edition. Kind of in a similar tone, I noticed that the BIll Apter's autobiography is on audible. Has anyone listened to it? I was thinking about getting it.
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I think the best way to do sidebars is the way the Daily Show did their books. Since a lot of the time the sidebars were done by other correspondents, they would change the music and have that particular person speak it before moving on to the next section. It made it rather seamless and let people enjoy those asides without it being jarring.
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i enjoyed the death of wcw audio book as something to listen to while doing other things but the sidebars being read like any other paragraph is definitely awkward and it doesn't help that a lot of the book isn't that well written to begin with. it's largely just a collection of facts and stories with little cohesiveness, which works fine as a coffee table "pick up and read" thing, but less so as something to listen to continuously for hours at a time.
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I like the simple things in life. Like Dave marking out to New Japan while talking to Bryan.
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Dave blocked me for quote-tweeting his mark N-word tweet lol
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Luigi Thirty posted:Dave blocked me for quote-tweeting his mark N-word tweet lol Dave never used to block. He's obviously Mad Online at this point.
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LordPants posted:I like the simple things in life. "I wasn't supposed to watch anything tonight, I'm currently watching two shows simultaneously."
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Sep 25, 2016 22:01
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I still love how there's a bunch of people with nothing better to do than troll Dave on twitter.
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Sep 25, 2016 22:15
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This is kinda outta nowhere but after listening to a large number of Dragon King Dark's backlog I just had to track this down for my own sanity. Does anybody know what the "I'm just wondering about public reaction" quote is from?
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Sep 25, 2016 23:22
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Using this as an opportunity to remind y'all that Karl Stern's shows are the best of the WON shows by a large margin.
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BlueArmyMan posted:Using this as an opportunity to remind y'all that Karl Stern's shows are the best of the WON shows by a large margin. It took me a little while to get into them, but yeah they're really great and Karl truly is a National Treasure.
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bryan alvarez thought that TJ Perkins' "max health" was a sponsor jesus christ bryan
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BlueArmyMan posted:Using this as an opportunity to remind y'all that Karl Stern's shows are the best of the WON shows by a large margin. Karl is a gem but I will forever have a soft spot for Sin Limite
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Chris James 2 posted:Karl is a gem but I will forever have a soft spot for Sin Limite Okay, best shows of the regular contributors.
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beggar posted:I also am using my one month Audible trial on this, and I found speeding it up to 1.25x made it more listenable. At 1x it just sounded *too* much like Tobias Funke reading out loud. Oh my God
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Sep 26, 2016 15:09
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So Dave Meltzer and Debbie Malenko.
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Sep 26, 2016 17:54
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St Evan Echoes posted:Popped for Dave's fax going off Gotta get those results hot in from Japan!
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Sep 26, 2016 18:05
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Who hasn't Dave hosed at this point? Besides Manami Toyota of course
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Ostentatious posted:bryan alvarez thought that TJ Perkins' "max health" was a sponsor That, and Vinnie taking time out to point out Roman's smile after getting the US Championship handed to him. Is he gay for Roman? That would explain him being such a mark for him. AMReese fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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NienNunb posted:Who hasn't Dave hosed at this point? Besides Manami Toyota of course Rovert? Speaking of, Becky Lynch was on Cheap Heat and took an open-ended question to speak very highly of Charlotte, so I imagine he won't use every opportunity to make sure we're aware he doesn't like her anymore.
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The most offensive thing about the podcast was Bryan joking that, because ROBERTO loving CLEMENTE was featured, when is he going to get a spot? What an idiot. He also thinks that Hispanic Heritage Month ends when September ends, and not October 15th. Boy, he sure is proud of his heritage. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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i'm gay for roman, and becky edit: also I don't know who roberto clemente is
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Kids these days. Put it this way, he's the Jackie Robinson for Hispanics.
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AMReese posted:Also, Vinnie thinking "The Midnight Hour" was a new name for what their finisher. The hell? Do they take blows to the head after every podcast? That's something Cole said in the PPV. I remember people in the thread wondering if Cole just invents names for things.
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AMReese posted:That, and Vinnie taking time out to point out Roman's smile after getting the US Championship handed to him. Is he gay for Roman? That would explain him being such a mark for him. You're terrible
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AMReese posted:Also, Vinnie thinking "The Midnight Hour" was a new name for what their finisher. The hell? Do they take blows to the head after every podcast? Maybe he is a fan of a great worker.
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AMReese posted:Also, Vinnie thinking "The Midnight Hour" was a new name for what their finisher. The hell? Do they take blows to the head after every podcast? It's a beautiful smile coming from a beautiful man.
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Aren't we all 'gay for Roman' at one point or another?
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