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Post by Paco on Mar 23, 2017 1:42:52 GMT -5
Bobski is like 99% Ed Whalen from Stampede Wrestling
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 23, 2017 1:47:17 GMT -5
Just listened to Talk is Jericho with Clint Bobski. Lethal Leap Year ended up happening on march the second but due to the confusion of the date, only 135 people ended up showing. The fact that nobody bothered to check a calendar killed the company. We NEED a special WWE Network Event of Southpaw Regional Wrestling filmed in the Performance Center. It will draw more attention than Mania...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 2:55:14 GMT -5
The biggest pop on this rewatch: Tex Ferguson's pathetic "what am I gonna do?" blubbering.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 23, 2017 3:37:02 GMT -5
Couldn't make it past 30 seconds of Talk is Bobski. People interviewing themselves as other characters is like nails on a chalkboard to me anyway, and I also like my podcasts kayfabe-free. Reminded me way too much of that cringeworthy time Bray Wyatt "phoned in" on TIJ.
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Post by Chainsaw on Mar 23, 2017 3:51:58 GMT -5
Couldn't make it past 30 seconds of Talk is Bobski. People interviewing themselves as other characters is like nails on a chalkboard to me anyway, and I also like my podcasts kayfabe-free. Reminded me way too much of that cringeworthy time Bray Wyatt "phoned in" on TIJ. Yeah, that's what kinda turned me off of TiJ initially, his cringy attempts at doing multiple characters talking to himself. I tried doing that once when I was doing college radio, and it was so unfunny and taxing after a few attempts that I decided not to do it anymore.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Mar 23, 2017 4:14:11 GMT -5
Couldn't make it past 30 seconds of Talk is Bobski. People interviewing themselves as other characters is like nails on a chalkboard to me anyway, and I also like my podcasts kayfabe-free. Reminded me way too much of that cringeworthy time Bray Wyatt "phoned in" on TIJ. Hell it didn't even add anything besides explaining the jokes for the most part. Also his Bob Barker interview annoyed me with how he was always ready to fake laugh when Barker was chuckling to himself recalling a story. And neveer mind those stupid ad break transitions
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Post by Dave the Dave on Mar 23, 2017 4:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 5:08:12 GMT -5
Bobski is like 99% Ed Whalen from Stampede Wrestling The look, the direction and attachment to the mic: that's Ed in a nutshell.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 23, 2017 5:39:23 GMT -5
Couldn't make it past 30 seconds of Talk is Bobski. People interviewing themselves as other characters is like nails on a chalkboard to me anyway, and I also like my podcasts kayfabe-free. Reminded me way too much of that cringeworthy time Bray Wyatt "phoned in" on TIJ. Yeah, that's what kinda turned me off of TiJ initially, his cringy attempts at doing multiple characters talking to himself. I tried doing that once when I was doing college radio, and it was so unfunny and taxing after a few attempts that I decided not to do it anymore. I would watch it if it was a Tex Ferguson interview or something, which would be entertaining as heck. Jericho interviewing himself is pretty meh though, but I hope them saying the SRW event actually did happen means they could actually DO an event if given the nod...
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Post by Chainsaw on Mar 23, 2017 7:19:23 GMT -5
Bobski is like 99% Ed Whalen from Stampede Wrestling The look, the direction and attachment to the mic: that's Ed in a nutshell. Meanwhile, it seems like that jacket was straight lifted from Don Cherry.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 23, 2017 7:33:11 GMT -5
Bobski is like 99% Ed Whalen from Stampede Wrestling The look, the direction and attachment to the mic: that's Ed in a nutshell. Voice too. Especially when Ed got hyped up.
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Post by Ricky Nightshade on Mar 23, 2017 8:14:12 GMT -5
I feel like Tex Ferguson is still out there. Living in a trailer and working shows in a t shirt. Being in conventions more depressing than the one with Randy the Ram and the guy with the colostomy bag. Apparently he has this one match with Da Maniac that was so bad, the only one with tape of it is Maffew and refuses to even look at it to this day.
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Post by MAGGLE on Mar 23, 2017 10:35:23 GMT -5
John Cena was on the tonight show last night and gave Fallon a Southpaw Regional Wrestling Shirt
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 23, 2017 10:40:08 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching it and...didn't care for it.
Cena's spot on in his role, but otherwise, nothing comes off as genuine. Even in parody form, it doesn't feel like Memphis or any other 80s regional show.
Cena did good though. The rest, not so much.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 23, 2017 10:45:00 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching it and...didn't care for it. Cena's spot on in his role, but otherwise, nothing comes off as genuine. Even in parody form, it doesn't feel like Memphis or any other 80s regional show. Cena did good though. The rest, not so much. To be fair, you're someone more familiar with that stuff and the history than, say, I would be so your view is fair enough completely.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 23, 2017 11:25:54 GMT -5
Tex Ferguson looks like the type of guy that opens a wrestling school then skips town the next day with all the money and the students never see him again.
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Post by cabbageboy on Mar 23, 2017 11:37:14 GMT -5
I dunno, the bits from the farm felt like stuff straight out of a Mid South episode to me, maybe not the over the top banker character but the way it was filmed and the cows, etc. And the big Sea Creature reveal felt like the wacky Kevin Sullivan stuff from FL where Purple Haze and the like emerged from the sea.
The lack if an actual ring and audience hurts this, but I think they were just doing some skits for fun and if they seriously expand the show it would have to have the actual audience interaction. Shows of that sort really didn't have backstage interviewers, they just interviewed guys there at the announce table. And of course no promotion would ever pay a guy to go out and be clearly drunk on the air the way Chetterfield was.
I showed these clips to my mom and she cracked up at them, especially liking Cena's deadpan delivery and Rusev's off the rails performance. For what it's worth my mom and dad used to go over to my grandparents's house every Saturday (before I was born) and watch Memphis wrestling with them. They all loved Memphis wrestling aside from my grandmother...she thought it was just common, haha.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Mar 23, 2017 11:44:30 GMT -5
Bobski is like 99% Ed Whalen from Stampede Wrestling No, Clint Bobski is a piece of sh
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 23, 2017 12:25:54 GMT -5
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 23, 2017 13:00:03 GMT -5
I dunno, the bits from the farm felt like stuff straight out of a Mid South episode to me, maybe not the over the top banker character but the way it was filmed and the cows, etc. And the big Sea Creature reveal felt like the wacky Kevin Sullivan stuff from FL where Purple Haze and the like emerged from the sea. The lack if an actual ring and audience hurts this, but I think they were just doing some skits for fun and if they seriously expand the show it would have to have the actual audience interaction. Shows of that sort really didn't have backstage interviewers, they just interviewed guys there at the announce table. And of course no promotion would ever pay a guy to go out and be clearly drunk on the air the way Chetterfield was. Well Jeff Hardy performed under the influence of drugs in a tna ppv lol
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