So far I have enjoyed the Bruce Prichard podcast very much. He has good stories and he seems to mesh with Conrad really well. I just took both of Austin's podcasts out of my list so this one should fit in nicely.

While I do think that he is truthful most of the time, there are way too many coincidences for Dusty, Red Rooster, and Virgil all not to be ribs. I don't buy it, and I'm pretty sure Conrad doesn't either. He just seemed to drop it after a while, but you could tell he wanted to call BS on it.

As for his commentary on current wrestling today, I would be fine with or without it. It's just one man's opinion.

Prichard is a shill for the era. He just tows the company line. The stories make it worth it, though his defenses of some things get pretty accidentally funny as well e.g. the Red Rooster. Perhaps the reason Taylor didn't embrace the gimmick was because it was terrible and made him look like a jackass?

I think Honky had more heat than Butch Reed in 1987. Reed was a much better in ring worker but WWF had a ton of new fans at that point due to the rock and wrestling connection and the exploding popularity of wrestling who didn't really understand and/or care about in ring work. Honky got quite a bit more heat after he won the belt though because the fans wanted Steamboat to have it.

Macho Man was a big success as world champion as he drew nearly as much as Hogan so giving it to Ted at that time probably would have been a mistake. Plus the WWF champion usually looked good in comparison to the NWA champion at the time because of the clean wins while Flair was being a chicken ****. As good as Ted was, put it on him, suddenly the NWA champion looks like the real world champion again because Ted is nowhere near Flair and wasn't going to pick up clean wins against top faces. High level faces basically never lost clean then in WWF.

Only Koko and Tito ever seemed to get beat clean. Virgil later.

I still don't have any idea why the Dream Team went over in the match they were breaking up in at WM III.

Listened to the first two TLF podcasts and WrestleMania I. I have enjoyed them quite a bit so far. My two biggest gripes:

1) the obvious that they are always dying laughing instead of mildly chuckling or whatever. The only time this reaalllly annoyed me is when they were doing it b/c Gorilla called someone a 'fountain of misinformation'. JFC Gorilla said that every two weeks for 10 years, and it's a good line, but worth a 90 second crackup here, on what has to be the millionth time you heard it?

2) they kind of position themselves as having background/insider knowledge even though sometimes it is clear that they are kind of pulling it out of their ass on some of it. I loved that they added Meltzer for the WM series which should alleviate this issue.

All in all, good add, and looking forward to the rest.

The "laughing way harder than the moment deserves" is definitely never going away, and works in tandem with "go off on a tangent of jokes where the first one wasn't funny and the spinoffs are progressively worse."

But it's nothing that puts me off of listening.

You know what you would appreciate then?

The Room

I wasn't saying that either of those qualities were in any way good.

They run about 15% on my agreement to their humor. But that 15sec skip button solves a lot.

Listening to Survivor Series 88 again and wanted to mention something somewhat funny. When they first posted the show, it wasn't edited well, and was taken down a ~hour after being posted. When they posted Grimes' shoot remake e-mail, they were seriously talking about not putting him in the hopper and in general just bashing him more than they were on the show. So they certainly didn't rig it in his favor.

Also in the bad editing they left in that not all jokes are spontaneous. They accidentally left in Jack saying "you say that and I'll come back at it". tsk tsk as they take pride in being spontaneous. I'm sure that quite a few are, though.

I recommend PWTorch wade Keller interview with Matt Morgan from yesterday. Really good discussion and particularly liked the chat about Ambrose

Really enjoyed this week's Something to Wrestle With Bruce Prichard. They got into Lex Luger's run with the WWF. Thry also previewed next week's show which will be about Ultimate Warrior, which I am looking forward to. For those of you who cringe at his take on the current product, I can inform you that it was very short and the bulk of the show was dedicated to Lex.

The Luger and Warrior podcasts with Prichard were both quite good. Although Prichard doesn't want to oppose the company, he isn't afraid at all to criticize wrestlers. Conrad is so good at standing up Prichard rather than just accepting everything he says at face value.

Thanks for mentioning. I gotta get to those. TLF is pretty much all I listen to so relistening is finally becoming meh. Though the latest episode with Thunder in Paradise is pretty fun.

For those who were turned off from the Bruce Prichard podcast because of his views of today's product, good news. Starting with yesterday's podcast they have decided to scrap that and just focus on the "What happened when.." part.

With that said this week's cast was about The Montreal Screwjob. I know it's been done to death by now, and they even admit as much during the show, but I thought there was just enough of personal recollection from Prichard that made it entertaining. And somehow I actually learned a couple things a didn't know about.

Loved that Terry Funk story from the Brawl for All episode of Prichard's podcast, and the Jerry Jarrett impression from the steroid trial one.

Seeing this bumped reminds me to mention: Latest TLF on 92 SummerSlam. Everyone and their mother should listen at 2:18:30 on Part 1. JP reading Diana Hart's book. Just amazing. Both parts are great.

Jericho with that jobber guy was what to be expected. Not very good IMO.

This would have been funny even if they had just read the book in monotone. Incredible.

I'm listening now, and it is fantastic. I really need to get this book.

I actually thought the same thing but could only find it for $50 so said nevermind. I may have gotten it for $30 but $50 is just lol. I'm sure it's great, though.

Prichard was on Cornette's podcast the past couple episodes. Some really good stories and debates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHu_duOHPl4

This basically looks like nine podcasts over a documentary, with bells and whistles to call it an "Expansion Pack". Not saying it's probably not good as the film was great, but lets call a spade a spade.

Next on TLF (prob out Saturday) is Anarchy Rulz 99. Can't wait to hear this one. I rarely bought PPVs but I got this one. At the time, I'd easily rate this as at least 9/10. This was the card:

Lance Storm vs. Jerry Lynn: Solid ***1/2+ affair as you'd expect from these guys.
Jazz vs. Tom Marquez: I believe this was an inpromptu match.
Chris Chetti/Nova vs. Simon Diamond/Tony DeVito: Nova was a great prospect relatively new in ECW and ended up suffering a terrible knee injury during the match which kept him on the shelf for months
Tajiri vs. Super Crazy vs. Little Guido: Elimination style match. Very good match.
Justin Credible vs. Sabu: Crazy grudge match which featured some nasty looking hard way blood after a table breaking spot.
Taz (c) vs. Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka: World title match. Awesome was an impromptu addition to the match. Amazing match back then for various reasons not the least of which is this is Taz's last ECW match until he debuts in WWF @ RR 2000.
Dreamer/Raven (c) vs. Rhino/Corino: Tag title match. Typical Dreamer match really. Gave the fans what they wanted but I'm not sure how it holds up today.
RVD (c) vs. Balls Mahoney: TV title match. IIRC, this match wasn't scheduled prior to the ppv or RVD had a match and his opponent got injured prior to the event. Match was whatever but shows how popular RVD was to close out a show. imo, the world title match should've main evented.

Typical ECW show really. It flowed really well. Had some good-great promos and some mediocre-great matches and the couple of duds only combine for < 5 minutes. Show's definitely recommended but with the original music ofc. You'll be sports entertained.

Listened to Austin's podcast for the very first time tonight. As a huge Austin mark, I've never watched because I just thought too many ads and perhaps I found a bad episode when I tried before and couldn't make it through.

I listened to the kid friendly version w/Kurt Angle. So ****ing good. Angle goes into his pill addiction and describes withdrawal when he can't get any. It gives me the chills because of how true it is. I've been on pain pills for a while and every month for a ~year, I'd run out a few days before my appointment and withdraw. Pretty stupid, but I didn't have enough. I think I've gone 4 months without a withdrawal episode which is nice. There was more I wanted to note but I forget atm (being on pain pills and having no thyroid does that to people). Worth a listen.