Wrestling audio or podcasts

[KingPK]

I tried listening to Austin's call in podcast but that first caller was like everything I hate about "smart" fans.

 

[FLAM]

I really enjoyed Colt's last two (after being really disappointed by the Ambrose one) with Sharpe and Quackenbush. But, I have to say... I respect and admire what Quack is doing with Chikara, but that shit sounds way too avant-garde for me. I can't imagine enjoying a promotion that was running shows like that.[/color]

It really isn't that avant-garde. You just can't go in there expecting 5 star "work rate" or traditional wrestling. I love Chikara but have been following it only casually for the past 6 or 7 years. You don't need to know every little detail or watch every show to get the gist of their storylines. Quack made every Chikara fan sound like a diehard interactive never miss a show type during that interview, but it's really easy to just watch here and there and enjoy it for what it is. It's just fun in my opinion.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

You don't consider the notion of secret shows and scavenger hunts and paid actors pretending to be security officers for a non-existent corporation, going to fans' houses, to be too high-concept for professional wrestling? That sounds like something Sascha Baron Cohen would do.

 

[alkeiper]

I thought it all sounded ridiculous too.

 

[FLAM]

To me, that's all a minimal part of it.

They did all of that during the 8 or 9 months Chikara was "shut down" but a very small group of people actually followed any of that or knew it was even going on. You don't have to take part or follow all of that to enjoy or understand Chikara. That group of super hardcore dedicated Chikara fans does not represent the majority of fans who attend those shows. It's not what Quack would like people to believe, but I'd bet most people who follow Chikara to some degree don't dig too deep.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I think the stuff Chikara has done, like the scavenger hunt and the fake closing, is fucking brilliant.

 

[FLAM]

I consider myself to be a Chikara fan and didn't even know about the scavenger hunt until the interview. Definitely dig Quack's approach to wrestling, but he sells the idea way bigger than it is, understandably to create buzz. And it's been working for them in recent weeks. I'm looking forward to be at the return show.

His first interview with Colt a few years ago is also pretty good. Talks a lot about the independent wrestling scene in the 90's.

Colt's new interview with Sonjay Dutt isn't bad either, but Colt comes across so ignorant and self centered in a bunch of these.

 

[Angle-plex]

I feel like Stone Cold's podcast is getting worse than it was when it started. He's way overplaying the "Working man" shit lately and his southern accent has gotten ridiculous in the last few.

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

I like the behind the scenes WWE guys he's been bringing in lately. I enjoyed the one with Jim Johnson and the new one with the guy who designs the championship belts.

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Don Callis/Cyrus is on Jim Cornette's latest podcast. Pretty interesting. I never knew much about the man's career until now.

 

[Hektik]

Good interview. I didn't know that Joey Styles & Don Callis were going to be the commentary team for the Fusient owned WCW. It makes me think that Bischoff probably wanted to pick best parts of the ECW carcass for the new WCW.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Renee Young is apparently hosting an official WWE podcast.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Renee is pretty funny so that could be pretty good even with all the hoops she'll have to jump through to stay on the companies good side.

 

[Angle-plex]

Cena is up on Austin's podcast and its an awesome interview.

 

[Youth N Asia]

I don't watch the product anymore, but I couldn't agree more when Austin was telling him about his STF. "You gotta snug that thing up for me"

 

[Smartly Pretty]

JR's first podcast went up today. Starting it now. It has Stone Cold style advertisements. So funny. "Hey y'all...have you played Deer Hunter 2014? It's on the, uh, y'know, App Store! And also on, uh, Google...Play?"

 

[Youth N Asia]

I listened to the new Jericho with Darren McCarty yesterday. It went

Commercial
Commercial
A painfully unfunny bit of banter
Commercial
Guest
Commercial
Commercial
Guest
More banter

I bailed out before it ended entirely, but it wouldn't have shocked me had it ended on a commercial.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I like how Bauer and Pollock keep referring to Sam Shaw as a Dexter rip-off when he's pretty obviously Patrick Bateman.

 

[KingPK]

WWE dropped the hammer on OSWReview

 

[Youth N Asia]

Regal was on Austin's latest show. He mentioned liking Savage/Steamboat at Mania 3 but his feelings changed on it after talking about the match with Steamboat. Austin understood and cut the story off there. Anyone know what that is all about?

I didn't know until a while back, but Austin has two shows. Just one called The Steve Austin show, which is PG-13ish. And the Unleashed show. I didn't know about the friendlier show until recently.

 

[Robert]

Regal was on Austin's latest show. He mentioned liking Savage/Steamboat at Mania 3 but his feelings changed on it after talking about the match with Steamboat. Austin understood and cut the story off there. Anyone know what that is all about?

I didn't know until a while back, but Austin has two shows. Just one called The Steve Austin show, which is PG-13ish. And the Unleashed show. I didn't know about the friendlier show until recently.

I think it was the fact that Savage made Steamboat walk through the match a whole bunch of times before Mania.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Has anyone listened to Garcia on the Austin show? I feel like that's one that could be super interesting, or she could just bore me with her personal story.

JR's podcast so far has been spotty. It's a slam dunk when you have Austin on for your first two, but it doesn't seem to flow that great yet. And his volume at the beginning is a bit much "HEY, EVERYBODY! IT'S GOOD 'OL JR!" And in the first two before shooting to his sponsors he spends a minute or so telling you how great they are... But he would send to a sponsor, and then it would come right back to him. There was no mid-show ad

 

[KingPK]

The Garcia one was super interesting since she talks about getting Montezuma's Revenge the day before her debut and how she wrote cue cards for the show (since she knew nothing of the product) and was told 20 minutes before the show she can't use them. Plus, she and Austin have a tremendous rapport.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I didn't think I'd be interested in the Mike Bennett episode of Colt Cabana's podcast but it opens with five minutes of discussion about how wacky Brutus Beefcake is backstage at indy shows.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Does it get to the point where they discuss why Bennett is hated by ROH fans (being bland and dull and not because he doesn't do a thousand flips)?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah, they talk about it, albeit in sort of veiled terms.

Also a good story about John Cena threatening to break Bennett's fingers after Cena mistakenly thought Bennett did the "U Can't See Me" during a Sunday Night Heat match Bennett did with Cryme Time in the mid '00s.

 

[FLAM]

Yeah, I liked the Bennett interview. People are way too hard on the guy. Wish he would have talked about the pretty good Lance Storm feud (unless I just wasn't paying close enough attention)

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I'm a new regular watcher of ROH but I think Bennett would be accepted fine by the IWC if he were a WWE midcarder but he just seems like an odd, odd choice for ROH main eventer.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

That's why he gets the X-Pac heat in ROH, for the most part. He works a WWE style and doesn't have the charisma or grasp of psychology to really pull it off, so he may stand out in ROH but it's for the wrong reasons.

 

[FLAM]

Is he really a ROH main eventer though? The guy was featured prominently at first, but he's pretty much always been a midcard guy with an occasional upper midcard angle. His detractors really exaggerate his spot on the card.