BigBadMick

Just out of curiosity are you planning to go with these until March '01? Seems a bit misrepresentative to keep calling it a war if so....

Something I really should be paying more attention to. I'm roughly equidistant from Dublin and Belfast.

Very entertaining show lads. Always nice to have very distinct accents to help with getting to know the participants in a new show.

Kinda/sorta related, but the 'same time exits' in cage matches with Undertaker/Batista in May '07 and the SNME Hogan/Orndorff had a bit of fancy editing on replays....

It's only briefly mentioned on the podcast, starting at the 2.05 mark if anyone wants to check it out. Sounds like Bruce (Prichard) spouting off second hand information though.

The Houston episode - bullshit about nwa on demand then?

Very enjoyable episode. Kelly fit right in.

Listening to the Wwf and WCW sections here reminded me of the poor use of talent in Wcw and the poor talent in Wwf around this time. I always thought the Radicals/Booker/Raven defecting g ould have evened things up nicely around the time.

That Funk v Race review was an absolute delight.

Conrad claiming that the Billionaire Ted skits were one of the reasons Nitro came into existence was sloppy. More positively, I'm glad they're forcing an old school chat by offering 4 Crockett era topics for next week.

Just finished up the Top 100 matches. Really enjoyable listen. Do you have your list available anywhere?

Count me as another who will miss these shows. Hell of a run, fellas!

Caught up on four of these back to back on Friday. I really like the way you draw on your own late 70s - early 80s memories and allow the conversation to veer - gently - into politics and history at appropriate times.

Really interesting discussion with Chad about the different generations of fans, keeping up on twitter and pwo2k.

Listened to the Goldberg show, quite good. It seems a shame they don't have a better interviewer than Conrad though. Not looking forward to more 'read from the Observer and await response' episodes.

I'm curious about something that was briefly remarked upon here. You won't be watching angles and promos as part of pwo2k. When do you feel they really fell off a cliff enough not to be worthy of discussion? Was 2000 that much worse than 1999, for example?

The crowd are replacing gold with 'bro' whilst singing. Pretty funny stuff.

First thing that came to mind with this was Lesnar/Cena at SummerSlam. Just shocking, statement-making stuff. Enjoyed it while it lasted.

I know. Your affection really shone through. Sounded like you had a blast doing it.

Geez Pete, I just listened to your interview with Stutts on Clotheslines and Headlines. Get a room.

Anyone interested in discussing this?

If we're discussing current day Smackdown, doesn't WWF tv from approximately Feb-Sep 2000 deserve a mention? The product was red hot, with great main eventers in Rock, HHH and Foley, and great strides being taken up the card by Benoit, Jericho and Angle. As well as a tag team revival (granted, a lot of that was stunt ladder matches etc, but it was hot as hell at the time), and solid to exceptional work up and down the card. Wasn't the head writer at the time praised for his sense of continuity and storyboarding each character's interactions to maintain order? The only possible drawback in all this was match length - weren't they still operating a no-matches-thru-commercial-breaks system on Raw and Smackdown?