David Bixenspan talks to friends and other guests from the worlds of pro wrestling and sometimes MMA.
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And yes, I’m going to try to do more with this site. At least as a central location for my stuff.
David Bixenspan (or is it David Kaleidoscope?) and Dylan Hales finally return for an all-new episode of The Trade Marks in which we discuss:
And probably more we forgot about.
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For the third episode of The Trade Marks, Dylan and I are joined by Kevin Kleinrock, currently the President of Masked Republic (which owns LuchaShop.com – Use coupon code BIX to get 10% off all items!) and formerly the Vice President of XPW and Big Vision Entertainment to talk about the rise and fall of DVDs in pro wrestling.
We cover a ton of relevant topics including lots of background on VHS and the home video market, what the move to DVD improved for everyone, the mainstream DVD boom, how WWE helped condition fans, ROH and Smark Video Video’s places in the market, how getting indies into retail worked, the collapse of the DVD market, and what the future holds. Lots of great discussion here.
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Follow us on Twitter at @davidbix and @DylanWaco.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio and TuneInRadio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
Josh Watko of JW’s Wrestling Memorabilia joins me to talk everything wrestling memorabilia, including lots of action figure talk covering rarities, AOL’s old WWF action figure message board, and more, vinyl records, autographs, oddities like press kits, home videos, random trinkets, holy grails including the George “The Animal” Steele “Mine” stuffed animal, and much more. Lots of fun going over decades of collecting experience. Make sure to check out Josh’s blog and Twitter account for tons of cool pictures and stories.
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If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow me on Twitter at @davidbix.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
Wrestling historian, Exile on Badstreet podcast host, and all-around good guy Kris Zellner joins the show to have a loose, sometimes disconnected conversation about old newsletters and other elements of wrestling fandom like radio shows, tape trading, the early days of the internet…and whatever tangents we go off on. Longer episode than usual, but this was a LOT of fun.
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If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow me on Twitter at @davidbix.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
Sean Wheelock, the voice of Bellator MMA, joins the show to talk about growing up as a wrestling fan in Kansas City in the ’80s, including seeing Ric Flair’s first NWA World Heavyweight Title win live at Memorial Hall. We also talk about MMA, including topics related to “Is This Legal,” his book with Art Davie about the creation of the UFC, as well as intersecting topics like the effects of the death of kayfabe on pro wrestling, shoots and double crosses, what pro wrestling moves work in reality, and more. Sean is a lot of fun and I can’t wait to have him back on. Also make sure to check out Let’s Get it On, his podcast with the dean of MMA referees, “Big” John McCarthy.
P.S. I know some listeners aren’t big MMA fans, but there’s a good bit of wrestling content first and most of the MMA content here has pro wrestling overlap.
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If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow me on Twitter at @davidbix.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
After some updates/follow-ups on topics from episode #1, like the status of FWE, WWN Live woes, and the WrestleMania bootlegging lawsuit, we look at everything going on w/ Pro Wrestling Tees including WWE sending a C&D, their new MMA brand, and their past takedowns sent to fan art print sites, then finally we go over the Doug and Tommy Gilbert’s lawsuit against WWE & ESPN.
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Time Stamps:
0:01:58 FWE Update
0:08:39 WWN Live pricing and customer service issues
0:29:15 WrestleMania 31 bootlegger lawsuit
0:43:24 Pro Wrestling Tees: WWE files C&D/launching a MMA brand/NJPW-related takedowns
1:13:20 Doug & Tommy Gilbert sue WWE & ESPN.
If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow us on Twitter at @davidbix and @DylanWaco.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio and TuneInRadio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
This isn’t going in the regular feed for reasons sort of explained on episode #3, but Patrick rejoins me to to talk this weekend’s UFC card, which I’ll be covering for WrestlingObserver.com.
Doug Gilbert, who’s been everywhere from Memphis to Bill Watts’ UWF to WCW to the Savoldis’ ICW to the Global Wrestling Federation to ECW to the WWF, joins the show this week. We cover everything from the Brad Armstrong Memorial Show to growing up in a wrestling family to who he learned from throughout his career to why Lance Russell is the best wrestling announcer ever among many other topics. There are some technical issues thanks to cell phone reception that hold us back for a few minutes, but that’s over with quickly and it turns into a really awesome conversation.
Doug’s upcoming schedule:
P.S. MMA fans stay tuned for some kind of ridiculous, time constraint free podcast thing w/ Patrick Wyman previewing this weekend’s UFC on Fox: Machida vs. Wyman that’ll be coming before Saturday.
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If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow me on Twitter at @davidbix.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
For the second episode of The Bix Show, we’ve got two different guests in separate segments:
We start off with the legendary voice of Memphis wrestling, Lance Russell, who joins the show to, among other things, get us up to speed on what he’s been up to lately, including the Memphis Grizzlies’ Wrestling Night, the Gulf Coast Wrestlers’ Reunion, sitting down for WWE’s Jerry Lawler DVD, and his upcoming appearance at PopCon in Evansville, Indiana. We also cover all sorts of historical topics including some of his non-wrestling broadcasting memories, wrestling content that got him in trouble as director of programming,rescuing a bad promo, his enjoyment of Tony Charles and other British-style wrestlers, the unveiling of Dr. Frank, and much more.
In the second segment, LaToya Ferguson, reviewer of Monday Night Raw (among other, non-wrestling shows) for AVClub.com joins me to talk about a number of topics including reviewing Raw as a TV critic more than a wrestling fan, how TNA’s Paprazzi Productions of all things got her back into wrestling a decade ago, and more.
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Time Stamps:
00:00:00 Lance Russell
01:11:05 LaToya Ferguson
If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.
Follow me on Twitter at @davidbix.
To subscribe, go to my iTunes podcast listing or use my Feedburner feed to subscribe in all other podcast catchers. The show is also available for streaming on Stitcher Radio, as well. Please take a moment to leave a positive review on iTunes and/or Stitcher if you enjoy the show.
