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jeffersonlives posted:I understand why people who don't "know" Dave have trouble getting him, because he has bizarre syntax both written and verbal. After ~15 years I have a mental Dave to English filter, I guess. Dave's verbal stammering and repeated "you know"s didn't really bother me until I read the transcript from when they were talking about Fedor/Bigfoot, and "you know" was in a written paragraph 30 times. Also, I really love Dave's dry sense of humor in the Observer. If wrestling is going to be bad, it should be bad enough to give Dave ample material to entertain.
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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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Bryan's always referred to it as Undertaker's dong, and he and whoever else is on the show plays it completely straight.
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Mar 30, 2011 23:43
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Rick posted:I really love Meltzer's rant against the people angry over the change to "WWE" is really perfect. It's just such pointless anger. Wait, so Meltzer's FOR the idea of removing the word 'wrestling' from the product?
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Haller posted:I'm gonna try out Observer for a month and see if I like it enough to keep the subscription. Sounds like a promising amount of content from what was described. This is a great idea. I did it, and I ended up keeping my sub for almost a year. I should probably re-up for a month just to listen to the March/April stuff (Victory Road, Wrestlemania, I probably missed a lot of gold).
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Apr 17, 2011 08:38
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Refresh my memory: who is Jez?
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Apr 28, 2011 17:00
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Wow, rovert was finally banned? Good poo poo. And the video game guy was awful. His video game reviews were as long as some Observer newsletters. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Apr 28, 2011 22:20
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DC Sniper was my favorite troll poster there, and it's not even close.
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Apr 29, 2011 21:23
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Well this would explain the pros' vote from season 1 where Daniel Bryan was #1 despite losing all his matches.
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Jun 2, 2011 17:03
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HulkaMatt posted:BIG DAVE Big Dave is on every Wrestling Observer Radio though...oh you mean the OTHER Big Dave. BATTLE OF THE DAVES 
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Jun 13, 2011 23:21
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Akileese posted:Holy loving poo poo F4D with todd basically saying "all fighters can fight every three weeks." They argue this for a good 30 minutes. It's unbearable. Todd Martin argues a dumb point for an absurd length of time? Well I never. (never listen to his shows, that is) On the positive side, I was backing up some files on my computer, and I found that I had saved all the TNA Adrenaline Flushes and old B&V episodes (far from complete, just some 2009-10 shows that I liked) that I had downloaded. Good times.
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Jun 30, 2011 00:33
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Rick posted:I've never heard Bryan say that he's doing it to troll people. He just is doing it because he enjoys it and he says almost once a month "if you don't like it, don't subscribe." That's a pretty bad business mentality, but things like that are usually small bits of the overall product (one of his other comments about it is "if you don't like it, hit the fast forward button/don't listen to that show"), and he's obviously not hurting for subscriptions, so it doesn't seem to be doing him any noticeable damage.
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Sep 3, 2011 06:53
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Was it just because of the Sting/Flair match?
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Sep 17, 2011 06:59
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Is the Hall of Fame coming around again, or are they just talking about who they think will get in?
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Oct 7, 2011 05:15
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I'm not sure if this qualifies as a podcast but they are planning to release an audio-only version, but a (primarily wrestling) gaming stream that I follow is doing a weekly shoot-the-poo poo-about-wrestling show. They're not really professionals by any stretch, and it gets R-rated in a few spots, but it's alright for a first effort I think. http://www.twitch.tv/lagspiketv/b/296999766 That's their first show from TwitchTV, though you really don't need the video feed (they bring up a picture of Aksana and JoMo's new shirt at one point, but that's it).
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Oct 8, 2011 23:17
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The Shaman of Cum posted:i'm glad mark was only on for like three shows. i thought they were funny appearances but that poo poo would get old real fast, imo Agreed. Mark is a really good guest to have like, once or twice a year. I love the show where Bryan, Vinny, and Mark all slam December to Dismember.
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Oct 15, 2011 05:02
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Dynamite Dave Meltzer, in today's daily update posted:Just a note that the Hall of Fame issue of the Observer will be out on Wednesday. It will be the biggest issue of the year with several major bios. To get the speculation going, there were three people voted into the Hall of Fame this year. Who all was a first-time nominee this year? I think Dr. Death was really close last year so he might have gotten the extra push in, but I don't know who the other two might have been.
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Oct 17, 2011 23:36
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You ought to listen to at least one Christmas show, or at least parts of one, just to get an idea. Like when Bryan says "don't listen to this show, it's awful," your curiosity has to be piqued at least a little. Then you listen to it, and well, he was right.
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Dec 7, 2011 19:14
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LividLiquid posted:I miss James from Kentucky. One of my all-time favorite song drops was the Dueling Banjos with James from Kentucky clips spliced in. As Bryan would say, I HOWLED with laughter.
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I've seen only a handful of Alvarez matches, and he's not bad. He doesn't have an imposing physique, but for what he was doing (midcard-level matches maybe once a month for his local indy fed) he was good. As for cat talk, it is a little annoying, but on one level I completely understand. Our family has two cats, and any conversation we have with other cat owners involves about 40 minutes of back-and-forth "guess what OUR CATS did" stories. A supposed wrestling podcast isn't the best place for those stories, but sometimes it's good to break up the humdrum.
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Feb 14, 2012 22:09
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Lloyd Boner posted:Also cat and granny are strictly on the B&V show which is supposed to just be Bryan and Vinny shooting the poo poo and sometimes discussing wrestling. Also true. I think the best thing Bryan and Vinny ever do is review old bad wrestling, but I'm sure that gets tiring every week.
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Feb 14, 2012 22:14
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Goddamn, Cornette was right. He said that wrestling used to be that people would pretend to beat the poo poo out of each other, and everyone thought it was real. Nowadays, people really beat the poo poo out of each other and nobody believes it.
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Mar 24, 2012 06:22
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For some reason hearing about Lance Storm going off on steroids again makes me want to re-sub, even though I am currently poor.
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Apr 13, 2012 17:29
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This was several years ago, but back in like 2007 or so, TNA PPVs had fallen to about 20k buys, and Bryan commented on a B&V episode that their free episode had about 10k listens. I can't even begin to conjecture how that would have grown in the five years since, but there's a starting point I guess.
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Apr 14, 2012 05:55
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I'm probably going to re-up soon, at least for a month, if nothing else but to get updated TNA Adrenaline Flushes. Anyone know what volume they're up to right now?
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Apr 19, 2012 16:54
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Free Bryan and Vinny show today. I laughed uproariously at Bryan describing Overeem's situation as though it was an incredibly hokey pro wrestling angle.
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Apr 26, 2012 05:06
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That picture is five times funnier with surly Vinny. At least I think that's Vinny.
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Apr 28, 2012 21:50
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I have up to Volume 47, I'm a bit sad that they're only up to 52 by now.
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May 2, 2012 04:59
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Are the Observers or Figure Four newsletters available via Kindle? I'm probably about to resub, and Kindle compatibility would be great news.
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May 5, 2012 03:09
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CVagts posted:Are the Observers or Figure Four newsletters available via Kindle? I'm probably about to resub, and Kindle compatibility would be great news. Answering my own question, I do remember that Figure Fours at least are available in PDFs, which you can put onto the Kindle. Also a quick Google search showed that certain Figure Fours (from 2010) are on Amazon for 99 cents. So they're probably not available via Kindle explicitly.
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May 5, 2012 19:25
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What better time to re-up than to get a new Bruno show. 
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May 8, 2012 23:22
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Dave has the best sense of humor. For reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrryTEM5wBw
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May 10, 2012 00:28
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Akileese posted:Gonna be fun to see if Dave responds to Dana calling him out in his vlog. How did Dana call him out?
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May 15, 2012 03:22
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Also Dave apparently has a new gig on Grantland (Bill Simmons' ESPN offshoot). Not that they do MMA stories very often (Dave's one article there was about Overeem).
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May 15, 2012 03:32
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For anyone who hasn't been a subscriber to F4WOnline in a while: the Bryan and Vinny reviews of the Urban Wrestling Federation PPVs is worth the admission price by themselves.
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May 18, 2012 02:10
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I just re-upped for a month and found one of them exploring the backlog, and then I immediately tracked the rest of them down.
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May 18, 2012 05:20
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I liked Impact more than most people on this board seemed to, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as "excellent" or "awesome", the first two adjectives I heard used to describe it.
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Jun 1, 2012 15:39
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Lance Storm is officially a bitter old man of wrestling now (if he wasn't already). It's actually kind of funny.
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Jun 16, 2012 05:57
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Every once in a while they do a show which is worth your $10.99 all by itself. This is one of those shows.
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Gold Boat is at an advantage because it was on a free show, and I'd imagine it got them quite a few signups.
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