Wrestling Mayhem Show 165: Monkeys With Shirts

The Mayhem Crew is here and we have Spring Fever! We're hot off of Backlash, Remedy's Yahoo exposure, DJLunchbox's birthday (with surprise birthday wishes), monkeys with shirts, who is WWE's audience, what is happening with the younger talent, and much, much more!!!

Remember, DJLunchbox called out for fans to email or Snapvine their stories of why they got into wrestling, and we will be having a former writer for WWE Smackdown on the show next week, so please send your questions to goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com!

This is Episode 165 for Tuesday, April 28, 2009. You can get the episode here on Talkshoe, subscribe, and as always, stay tuned to www.wrestlingmayhemshow.com for the latest! The Wrestling Mayhem Show is recorded live and can be heard/viewed from 8 PM to 10 PM Eastern on Talkshoe.com and BlogTV.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and your thoughts on the wrestling world by emailing us at goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com! Don’t forget you can find links related to the show’s news stories and more at our Delicious Links Page for Episode 165!

Rae & Christian
"Play On (feat. The Jungle Brothers)" (mp3)
from "Raiding The Vaults"
(Yes King)
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Rodriguez
"Sugar Man" (mp3)
from "Cold Fact"
(Light In The Attic)
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CunninLynguists
"Don't Leave (When Winter Comes) [feat. Slug]" (mp3)
from "Strange Journey Volume One"
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It Brings a City Together

This evening, a good portion of Pittsburgh sat down to watch their beloved Penguins hopefully finally put away the Philedelphia Flyers in their opening series of the playoffs.

Maybe halfway through the first period, we had a glimmer of what was coming. A blast of Twitters proclaimed that Comcast had a bit of a hiccup during the commercials.

Then it happened. Fresh into the second period. We went dark on my Dish Network based television. The Twitter verse exploded and I think I heard crying echoing through the hills of Beechview...

Even Bijou hangs her head in shame...

Was it Comcast? Was it FSN? Is this another dastardly NBC plan to piss off Pittsburgh?

Soon, Twitter had answers...

itsonlyjim Lightning strike hit FSN transmission site in Atlanta. Comcast CAN route VS feed on air but is apparently choosing not to.

Everyone responded, and retweeted to their unconnected friends. The screen was confirmed to still have the feed. So the expected downtown riot did not happen. Though I'd be interested in the stats on bar fights during the outage.

At least Mike Lange didn't fail us.

Nor did the internet.

I MAKE hockey happen on my TV...

Soon, there was another flurry of these "grey area" feeds of the Versus coverage of the game, which was not available to area subscribers thanks to blackout rules with FSN.

burghbaby @unclecrappy I've got a quote for you. "Twitter came through for me when FSN was busy sucking big hairy donkey balls."

FSN was called everyting from an embarrassment to the reason the Pens lost what should have been a shoe in series. (Lets be honest. It is almost karmic...) But they werent' the only ones to get caught up with the digital scuffle...

ChachiSays @comcastcares if you really cared reroute the effing game!

comcastcares @ChachiSays We are not permitted. We do not own the rights to the game. It would be a big legal issue

So props for that rep to stand up to a pissed off city when I hear they weren't even able to start to respond to the angry phone calls...

It's one of those events where you can see how this new medium comes through when our conventional means don't. Rather than sitting here, staring our our blank TVs, speculating what happened for maybe 20 minutes, information got around. Instead of calling one or two friends, of which I received from a coworker not in the loop, everyone passed along info, asked questions, and got answers. And in the end, all of the speculation was confirmed by FSN themselves as they apologized well into the third period.

I was here first.

Over the years, I've been involved in music scenes, online communities, and something called "micro-blogging" that I didn't even know I needed, there has been some constants. Today, Justin Kownacki twittered the results from herebeforeyou.com:

@JustinKownacki was here 822 days before @Oprah http://herebeforeyou.com #herebeforeyou

Now, I'm not saying that Justin's vain enough to tout this fact (I'm not denying it either), heck, I did the same thing, just for comparison...

#herebeforeyou @sorgatron was here 637 days before @oprah http://herebeforeyou.com

Ever since I first discovered music, and went to shows, people seemed really interested in telling me how down they were, usually measured in time. The Insane Clown Posse was around for 8 years before MTV and Disney made a big stink that catapulted them into infamy, and exposed them to millions of new fans. Right off of the bat, there was that divide between people who had just discovered them with the Great Milenko, and those that had discovered them years before in the "underground". Today, we see the same issues between those of us that have been down since even that era, and the new teenagers just getting into the group on the online communities.

Now, with Twitter and Facebook blowing up all over media, letting the rest of the world in on our dirty little digital secret, the same seems true. The old standbys that have beeing Twittering and MyFacing for years now find Oprah and Ashton Kutcher exposing our corner. We notice more and more of the last people we expected to show up appearing in our new followers emails and friend ads. Many, who use these online outlets as, well, an outlet, for their personalities to a focused audience of their friends that are in on the joke, are finding it uncomfortable, and self censoring to have to realize who's watching.

It's always an interesting social perspective when we find ourselves presented with these situations. As more and more internet societies and technologies progress, we will begin to reminisce on when our beloved networks were ours to rule before someone "ruined it".

And such is the pain of the early adopter...


Oh, and for the record:

@sorgatron was here 630 days
before @aplusk

Eat it, Mr. Demi Moore....

Wrestling Mayhem Show 164: "There will be deaf people around me"

The Mayhem Crew is joined by George Rutherford, a former writer for WWE Smackdown to share with us his experiences with Vince McMahon, JBL, Chris Benoit, and others during his time with the company. Rizz brings up an exchange with Debra in fanmail, we can’t stop laughing at MMA with Dawn, what’s Bobby Lashley doing, Sorg and Mad Mike plead to give TNA yet another chance, and a look forward to Backlash this weekend!

Remember, DJLunchbox called out for fans to email or Snapvine their stories of why they got into wrestling, and we will be having a former writer for WWE Smackdown on the show next week, so please send your questions to goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com!

This is Episode 164 for Tuesday, April 21, 2009. You can get the episode here on Talkshoe, subscribe, and as always, stay tuned to www.wrestlingmayhemshow.com for the latest! The Wrestling Mayhem Show is recorded live and can be heard/viewed from 8 PM to 10 PM Eastern on Talkshoe.com and BlogTV.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and your thoughts on the wrestling world by emailing us at goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com! Don’t forget you can find links related to the show’s news stories and more at our Delicious Links Page for Episode 164!

Rodriguez
“Heikki’s Suburbia Bus Tour” (mp3)
from “Coming From Reality”
(Light In The Attic)

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Blackout Sands
“Cement Flowers” (mp3)
from “Who Killed Jiminy Cricket?”
(Clocktower Collective)

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CunninLynguists
“Never Come Down (The Brownie Song)” (mp3)
from “Strange Journey Volume One”
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