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Watched this last night. Admittedly I have not seen the other episodes so I went into the series cold by going straight to this. Funny intro, annoying voice-over guy, silly editing and overall a childish approach which I guess is appropriate. It gives the briefest overview of wrestling's popularity before settling in during the Rock & Wrestling era, and the first WWF toys. Someone referred to those big bulky things as dog toys which made me laugh. I recognized Cody Rhodes (who only has one line in the whole thing), Justin Roberts and that's it. Zack Ryder was interviewed and his collection was shown off, but his stuff didn't make the cut.

Probably harder to determine a bad AA match than a good one.

No matter how out of step he gets, or how many times people 'cancel' him, we need his perspective. If just to provide a balance and a sense of history to everything, he's maybe better at it than someone like Meltzer who has always been on the sidelines, no matter how close he got he was never in it.

I haven't listened to it in quite awhile frankly. Last one I remember was the Hogan episode. Nice to see him going from has-beens to a real, genuine never-was.

He had a non-wrestling guest this week, name escapes me but he wrote a book about Miami in the Cocaine Cowboys days. I like the idea of him mixing it up a bit and not being a purely wrestling show, because as I said this format is perfect for his conversational style.

Where do things stand now?

If it's true, and forgetting about everything else for a moment, but Vince showed some real balls by cutting off the feed.

Today's episode is about his neck injuries and retirement, including the NWO parody of his retirement speech and all of the fallout from that.

Edi Patterson on HBO's The Righteous Gemstones would be a perfect model for a Sherri/Sunny-type female valet character today.

I think my favorite quote from the show's entirety (from what I have heard at least) is when talking about how brave TNA was for going head-to-head on Monday nights, that "he respects the balls". It's actually him repeating what Conrad says first, but the exchange is like something out of Seinfeld.

It's on Stitcher

Schiovane had a good quote about it on his show, saying that for it to be successful we need to hear Marty Lunde come through. That's true of any podcast, of at least this kind where there isn't guest at all, that it's important that you hear the real person instead of a carefully constructed persona be it through the media or in this case a line of work where character is so important, even if it's not entirely true to the person playing it. I'm way behind on Conrad's stuff, haven't listened to Bruce's show since spring basically and only listened to a few that he did with JR, but will probably jump back in soon. Echoing Tony's sentiment I hope it is successful but I hope there is more out of Arn here than I saw in his RF shoot, where he goes between being pretty forthright and also sticking to kayfabe to a degree as well.

His recent interview with Big Show is pretty good, talking a lot about him growing up and his new Netflix show.

Hearing good things on Twitter about the Yokozuna episode

Enjoyed the Conrad interview. For someone who probes the minds of a few professional bullshitters for a living, he seems to be as straight-forward and honest of himself as they may seem crooked. I also listened to Oliver's intro and while I understand his concerns about the podcast format, I think his conversational style will translate well for him if he keeps at it.

The crossover from winning an Olympic gold medal (with a broken freakin' neck) It's definitely a tough choice given all of what Jericho has done, but I have always found Angle more compelling to watch. Not just in the ring but in those skits. He pulled off looking like a clown without softening his image.

I remember taping that one. The match that stuck out for me was seeing the Thunderdome match from Halloween Havoc 89.

Did they do one in '94?

MSG 8/29/77 and Boston 2/8/86 They have been adding lots of episodes of WCW Thunder today. They added the Clash of the Champions from June '90 recently, too.

There were also connections to college basketball

Kurt Angle, for the crossover factor. Bret Hart, mainly for Montreal but also influencing so many workers who came after him. Big Show, for being able to last as long as he has and to have kept himself in good shape compared to Andre and other big men who broke down physically later in their careers. Scott Hall, for his first Nitro segment and being one of the guys who changed how the money game was played.

Larry Zbyszko told a story that one of Bruno's fans was Frank Sinatra's driver, who was very mobbed up apparently.

They added one MSG show from 77 and a Boston show from 86 a few days ago

I find it curious we haven't gotten the USA PPV specials from before 1993 though.

I remember that vaguely, but I feel like that might be the end of it's run too.