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Loved the their trawl through Wrestlemania, now theyve kicked off their journey into every Starrcade starting today with the 83 event

be interesting to compare these early Starrcade reviews with Chad and Parvs

Theyve got Meltzer on board again sharing his insight

Any fans of these guys in here?

Lapsed fan soundcloud is where I access their material

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I listened to some of the Mania stuff. I think they got better as they went along with less laughing and literally every comment they would make. However, I will say that while I certainly don't mind long shows, seeing some of the run times for their podcasts can be a barrier of entry for me.

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I listened to some of the Mania stuff. I think they got better as they went along with less laughing and literally every comment they would make. However, I will say that while I certainly don't mind long shows, seeing some of the run times for their podcasts can be a barrier of entry for me.

 

Hopefully they do what they did with the WM shows, and upload the Meltzer segments to Youtube. There's some really cool info in those 10-minute bits for each show.

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The Lapsed Fan's pros: they simply spend more time and effort to do deeper, more detailed coverage of the individual shows than pretty much any other podcast on the net. Bringing in Meltzer (and occasionally some archived interviews with other people, along with frequent excerpts from printed quotes) adds an extra level of fact-checking on the proceedings. And the one guy's impressions are pretty good and their utterly irreverent sense of humor lend an edgy, fearless gilding to everything.

 

The Lapsed Fan's cons: their podcasts are literally longer than the shows they're reviewing. The "irreverent" humor sometimes comes off as trying too hard, if not downright offensive; I've lost count of the number of times that they've made jokes about Vince bringing Bret back only to hurl Owen's corpse out of the rafters at him. They also spend way too much time digressing into the impressions, sometimes literally half the show is dedicated to that shit. And finally, they seem REALLY self-satisfied and rather arrogant about the quality of their own show, as if they believe their own goofy hype.

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I've seen their podcast referenced here & there. If you had to sell someone on it, what would be the pitch? I'm always on board for new stuff, but there's already SO much great content out there - and only so many hours in a day.

just great depth of research and bloody entertaining banter

Starrcade 84 has just gone up, holy shit the backstory is intense

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My "masturbatory tripe" comment was a bit much, so I apologize. To each their own. I'm just not a fan of pods that put hyping themselves over the content. But what do I know, I only listened to the first 10 minutes

I have to apologise as well, the tone of your posts pushed me over the edge and I kinda went heel. I listen to a lot of podcasts and I appreciate the lengths people go to to put them together and the guys at Lapsed do a good job as you guys at Titans do. Parv the podcast is fine, I went for a reactive bushwacker bite

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