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BrianB

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Fantastic show, and some major episodes the past weeks since the end of the Starrcade memorial journey, and this show has kicked off. Lots of wrestling pods have upped their game since TLF came onto the scene. But, imo, nobody has come close to maintaining the consistent quality that they do for each episode when you consider the time allotted. (I'll give a shoutout to Between The Sheets, though, as they're awesome and all the 3+ hour pods they dish out, but Jack and JP consistently are going 6, 7...even up to 9+ hour eps.)

 

Here's the recent episode list so far.

 

-SummerSlam 1992

-Royal Rumble 1998

-Royal Rumble 2000

-Thunder in Paradise

-Saturday Night's Main Event - 10/14/89

 

catch-up on i-tunes or on soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/thelapsedfan

 

plus, in the interim, after starracade and before patreon request series 2, there was the Uncensored 1995 cast as well as the all-time episode of Over The Edge 1999.

 

SummerSlam 1992 has been especially exemplary. inb4 we got a cuppa haters.

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Summerslam '92 is likely their crowning achievement (outside of the 30 week journey and the Memorial Tour) up to this point. About the only show I can imagine them surpassing it with is Survivor Series '97 when they eventually get there.

 

Could be, it was great. Over The Edge was a totally different vibe but right at the top too. 1997 definitely could be too...still, I'm looking forward to Survivor Series 2002, the next show, hopefully dropping early next week.

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Why would anyone pay for more of any show that is always too fucking long in the first place ? Not just this one but any show?

Dummies, dummies everywhere.

 

Yeah, I definitely hate it when Between The Sheets runs close to 4 hours for a week of wrestling that I fondly remember or am jazzed up to hear more about. oh wait....

 

I actually do love BTS too and am a patreon donor there too.

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Yep, even if you count the "bad" shows, they still have some strong qualities, and I'd rate favorably, especially compared to the other wrestling podcast landscape.

 

King of the Ring 2001 next. I don't think there's been much coverage of this period yet on TLF, so it'll be interesting to hear their perspective on this show and the time period. Heel Austin, Kurt Angle and Shane, the Invasion started but about to kick into full gear, DDP as the stalker...Edge wins KOTR, etc.

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Slamboree 1998 up next. This one could be really interesting. KOTR 2001 was real strong. I'm wondering how many unintentional parallels we may get. 1998 and this time for WCW was good business, but lots of the writing for the decline was definitely on the wall. Even though WCW was more competitive around this period and after this until around October than people tend to remember.

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Great episode this week on Slamboree 1998. Creating a top 10 episode list for this show would be really, really difficult. Maybe this is a sneaky one in the mix? Anyway, it's always awesome to hear takes from people in attendance. I've always wondered if the audio was screwed up for this show, as my friends who saw it live always said the turner video sound seemed off. I recall the Massachusetts nitro being loud as hell too, so the VHS reactions surprised me a bit back in the 90s. I know everyone doesn't love the impressions, but there's some great stuff this week from Dusty and Bulldog. Plus, we get more lapsed Nash which always = $$$.

 

 

I probably haven't watched this show since it aired live. Looking forward to watching it before the pod comes out.

 

 

It's a middle of the road PPV, maybe a weaker one for 1998. I didn't see it until later, but lots of the air was out of the balloon already for Raven vs. DDP, after their awesome matches and feuds earlier that year involving Benoit. This ppv kicked off the Benoit vs. booker best of 7, I believe. Malenko and Jericho was truly an amazing feud, though they walked back this payoff. 1998 Jericho was truly a treasure. Considering Savage's ACL tear and Bret's rough personal life at the time, that match was way better than it had any right to be, especially with Piper as guest ref--always a bad guest ref. But it was definitely really underwhelming. I hardly even remembered that Piper and Savage had a program right after this until I started going back through WCW on the network. It's definitely a show imo, sympomatic of how WCW screwed up 1998, despite having a banner business year.

 

 

 

 

The number of panic moves WCW made in in the Spring of 98 is amazing, Bret/Giant/Hall/Luger/Sting were all worse off for turning heel/going nWo, you also get Hogan putting the brakes on the Nash feud which made the Wolfpac directionless for months.

 

 

Luger worked ok I thought. He lost a lot of steam after Hogan cut him off, and then losing so much vs. Buff. The woflpac only ending up slightly helping Sting briefly because he was treated so terribly aftr Starrcade 1997. It definitely hurt Giant, Hall, and Bret. I only figured out what they were going for with Bret years later. They didn't convey that Bret was angling for a title program vs. Hogan well at all on TV. Plus, they did it in a really undermining way, since longtime WCW fans and most fans hated Hogan's guts, so even if I recognized Bret wanted to only wreslte and beat Hogan for the title, I wouldn't have sympathized with him at all because my mindset was fuck Hogan. Similarly, when Hogan started to screw people trying to beat Goldberg, it probably only hurt Golberg, and it just made me dislike Hogan even more. Then, of course, he had to start pretending to run for president because that Ultimate Warrior program was so atrocious.

The number of panic moves WCW made in in the Spring of 98 is amazing, Bret/Giant/Hall/Luger/Sting were all worse off for turning heel/going nWo, you also get Hogan putting the brakes on the Nash feud which made the Wolfpac directionless for months.

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I finally listened to this podcast, because I was interested. I was hoping it would be a new thing to fall in love with.

 

I turned it off, I got about 2 hours or 90 minutes into Slamboree 98 and they had talked about two different stories back and forth with no rhyme or reason and briefly mentioned the first match, before going back to one of those two stories. They brought up the arena and attendance twice, like they were starting to go through the show, only to ramble on again. The impressions weren't funny or well timed.

 

I had enough.

 

I was hoping this would be good, but damn this meandering around various topics with no focus is not for me.

 

Calling this a deep dive seems like bullshit. Being long is not a deep dive. Where the Big Boys Play is a deep dive, this is just casually talking about bullshit and joking.

 

The worst part, that put the end of it for me, was when they talked about the best of 7 series history and completely left out Koloff-TA. What kind of bullshit deep dive is this?

 

Unsubscribed with disappointment.

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Sorry it's not for you. Anybody who hates schtick, even though I think it's awesome schtick, is unlikely to be a fan of this pod. If people just want to hear the show recap, to dip your toe in, that's usually about 3 hours or so in for the last 50 eps in. It's always after the emails have been read and the death toll. And it's always part 2, if there is a 2 part episode.

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