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Post by abjordans on Nov 1, 2018 20:28:26 GMT -5
The Lapsed Fan is doing one of their extended looks at the rise and fall of WCCW. The first 2 episodes are out, over 8 hours on the history on the Von Erich family. I have read the famous articles and watched both the big WCCW documentaries and still found it fascinating.
I kind of thought LAF fell off when Conrad and Bruce came around, but they have been better than ever lately. This will be an amazing listening experience, I encourage everyone to give it a go.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 20:57:03 GMT -5
I’ve only heard about the podcast but this sound interesting.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 21:00:28 GMT -5
I’m a minute in and I’m already mad at the hypocrisy of Fritz being presented as a great father and the family as having religious values...it was easier back then to fool the marks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 22:00:05 GMT -5
The Lapsed Fan is doing one of their extended looks at the rise and fall of WCCW. The first 2 episodes are out, over 8 hours on the history on the Von Erich family. I have read the famous articles and watched both the big WCCW documentaries and still found it fascinating. I kind of thought LAF fell off when Conrad and Bruce came around, but they have been better than ever lately. This will be an amazing listening experience, I encourage everyone to give it a go. TLF is entertaining and has longevity while the Conrad Casts burned bright briefly but the formula grew stale quickly atleast for me.
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Post by cabbageboy on Nov 1, 2018 22:13:05 GMT -5
The Fritz 180 has always intrigued me. How did a guy that was a career Nazi heel suddenly become a born again Christian with family values?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 22:14:04 GMT -5
I’m a minute in and I’m already mad at the hypocrisy of Fritz being presented as a great father and the family as having religious values...it was easier back then to fool the marks. Not even just fooling the marks also fooling the people that didn’t traditionally like wrestling but believed they were different & wholesome in a company riddled with drug use and incoming death it’s not shocking Texas was a dead area for pro wrestling for the next 15 years. I look forward to listening to this but I still haven’t finished their WWE Evolution PPV Review.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 22:34:55 GMT -5
Oh my f***ing god, the host’s Fritz impression is killing me.
“Hey can you help my boys? The lord will look down favorably upon you. You’ll be helping the community.”
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 22:37:35 GMT -5
The Fritz 180 has always intrigued me. How did a guy that was a career Nazi heel suddenly become a born again Christian with family values? Anything to make a buck. Preaching wholesome values on one side then allegedly paying the cops so they would look the other way when his sons f***ed up on the other. According to this podcast episode, Fritz had to pay a Doctor they attacked on the emergency room so he wouldn’t press charges.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 22:46:25 GMT -5
🎶HEAVEN NEEDED A CHAMPION!
Meanwhile Fritz was ordering a referee to forge David’s autograph backstage.
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Post by abjordans on Nov 1, 2018 22:46:34 GMT -5
The Fritz 180 has always intrigued me. How did a guy that was a career Nazi heel suddenly become a born again Christian with family values? You would love the first two episodes of this series then. They break that completely down.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 1, 2018 23:33:36 GMT -5
Hahaha Fritz had his wife put out a book of family pictures to portray themselves as wholesome, this was after Mike died.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Nov 2, 2018 0:03:29 GMT -5
Oh my f***ing god, the host’s Fritz impression is killing me. “Hey can you help my boys? The lord will look down favorably upon you. You’ll be helping the community.” Is it Jack or JP that does the impression? If you've never listened to the podcast, do yourself a favor and find audio of JP's Vince impression. It's what helped me turn the corner on the podcast. They've just created this incredibly dark take on Vince that's never not funny.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 2, 2018 0:15:44 GMT -5
Oh my f***ing god, the host’s Fritz impression is killing me. “Hey can you help my boys? The lord will look down favorably upon you. You’ll be helping the community.” Is it Jack or JP that does the impression? If you've never listened to the podcast, do yourself a favor and find audio of JP's Vince impression. It's what helped me turn the corner on the podcast. They've just created this incredibly dark take on Vince that's never not funny. It’s the one nicknamed “Boss”. Yeah I heard his Vince impression, “Vince” told “Pat” that he wanted Fritz and his family dead.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 2, 2018 0:24:18 GMT -5
Darkest and funniest bit of the episode.
“Fritz”: I don’t know what happened.
“We should leave that soundbyte, because Fritz Von Erich will repeat I don’t know what happened a lot when asked about his kids.”
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 2, 2018 0:32:20 GMT -5
The Fritz 180 has always intrigued me. How did a guy that was a career Nazi heel suddenly become a born again Christian with family values? They’re reading some kayfabe interviews from Fritz and other rumored stories. Fritz claimed that he grew tired of the gimmick and that he felt uncomfortable. Claims he has German blood, which is laughable because in the next sentence of the interview he claimed that the Von Erich Claw was insured for a million dollars.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 2, 2018 2:28:43 GMT -5
I’m on the second show, four hours of Fritz being an awful father.
They reenact a true story about Fritz buying Kerry steroids when he was fifteen so he could be better at discus throwing.
“Son, come here I got you something that will speed your hormones”
“What’s that dad? Drugs?”
“No! My sons will never touch drugs. This are steroids.”
“I’m not sure I can take them.”
“It’s up to you, I’m giving you a choice...to say yes. You can’t say no or later.”
“What if I want to run away from home?”
“Listen you little shit, I’ll put you on the claw hold!”
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Post by abjordans on Nov 2, 2018 5:44:59 GMT -5
Oh my f***ing god, the host’s Fritz impression is killing me. “Hey can you help my boys? The lord will look down favorably upon you. You’ll be helping the community.” Is it Jack or JP that does the impression? If you've never listened to the podcast, do yourself a favor and find audio of JP's Vince impression. It's what helped me turn the corner on the podcast. They've just created this incredibly dark take on Vince that's never not funny. It is JP doing Fritz.
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Post by realist on Nov 2, 2018 7:54:33 GMT -5
🎶HEAVEN NEEDED A CHAMPION! Meanwhile Fritz was ordering a referee to forge David’s autograph backstage. I literally opened this thread just to sing that song. lmao As far as the Lapsed Fan goes, it is amongst my favorite podcasts. The amount of research that goes into each episode is mind boggling. When I first saw the length of it, I was like "no way." But I had to make a very long trip across various states and loaded up the 3 or 4 part Chris Benoit story. Not even halfway through my trip, I was hooked, or lapsed, rather.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Nov 2, 2018 9:36:28 GMT -5
Fritz: You’ll be world champions and carry my legacy!
Kerry: Dad I don’t want to be a Von Erich, I want to be an Adkisson.
Fritz:....We don’t use that name in this house boy! You will be a wrestler and you with your brothers will be my heirs!
Kerry: Did you say errors?
Fritz: I said heirs...Chris was the only error!
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Nov 2, 2018 9:55:36 GMT -5
Oh my f***ing god, the host’s Fritz impression is killing me. “Hey can you help my boys? The lord will look down favorably upon you. You’ll be helping the community.” Is it Jack or JP that does the impression? If you've never listened to the podcast, do yourself a favor and find audio of JP's Vince impression. It's what helped me turn the corner on the podcast. They've just created this incredibly dark take on Vince that's never not funny. Patterson get in here His Hogan and Nash is damn good too
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