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FYI, I forget what the name is now, but that place in San Antonio still exists in the same form of a night club.

It should be noted that this was recorded the night of CM Punk's final match, and possibly the last time Batista would get cheered.

Though, fortunately for reviewing purposes, it appears Superstars goes away, in terms of original content, once Shotgun becomes a more traditional wrestling TV program. Sadly there doesn't seem to be any new WWF content shows until Heat debuts in 1998.

Sadly, or maybe fortunately, Shotgun Saturday doesn't have very much longer to go in that concept. I don't know if Hammerstein Ballroom counts since it is still being used to this day as a wrestling venue (this year for both TNA and ROH), not to mention the NYC home for ECW and Raw's NYC home for many of its first episodes, but I guess it kind of closes out the "non typical arena shows" in late February (aired 3/1) following the previous week in the Nashville Arena.

The All Star Cafe was run by the same folks who run the Planet Hollywood "franchise" and when the All Star Cafe ceased to be, the spot became a Planet Hollywood, and is still there to this day, though an Olive Garden wannabe franchise tourist trap with a Pizzeria flare of a decor, I guess since I've never been in it yet (maybe I'll venture in for a brew next time I'm in the area) is in the same building space. Oddly enough, ESPN put a Sports Zone themed restaurant about a block down the same Times Square strip, which incidentally was across the avenue from where the WWF would put WWF NY/The World. The Sports Zone would last about 10 years there before closing up shop a few years ago. And incidentally, the Hard Rock Cafe moved from their iconic home in NYC, off of the East Side of the Theater District (since IIRC the early 1980s) to replace The World in 2003ish, and is still there to this day. That's more info than you ever wanted to know about a Times Square Tourist Trap Sports Themed Franchise Restaurant...though if you ask me, Buffalo Wild Wings, without the Tourist Trap aspect and "unique" memorabilia on the wall, was able to nail the concept of a Sports Bar as a American Themed Chain Restaurant that liters both the suburban and urban landscapes.

How do you discuss Annie Hall for an hour and 20 minutes without a reference to her catch phrase? Well, to quote Chris Farelly, WELL LA DE FREAKING DA!

A great quip making the rounds of the wrestling boards that I frequent was watch for Rick Bognar to take the stage either with, or in place of Scott Hall at the HOF inductions the night before WrestleMania when it was announced that the gimmick "Razor Ramon" was to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (presumably "Scott Hall" will be in a group induction of the nWo). Also, after Bognar and Jaccobs' Diesel disappeared from WWF TV, they did angles with the characters in Memphis to pretty much kill off the stench of the "impostor Razor & Diesel" gimmick. Which reminds me of a funny "guy trying way too hard to be a smark" story, but remind me when you guys hit October to tell it, since it involves Kane =

Another example of "see how long ago this was recorded" with the quip of no minis blood feuds in today's WWE. Of course not that Tortino and Hornswoogle is on the level of even a long standing mid-card feud, but it was a multi-PPV feud that is still kinda, sort of ongoing on the WWE's YouTube show The JBL & Cole show.

For an internet project that I started about a year ago, and it may still happen, I'm not sure, I wanted to conduct some research on The Mirage but it doesn't appear to "exist." Or at least ones that I got on Google searches were ones in Brooklyn and out in Long Island. Further research, including a wrong number call to a place way uptown on Manhattan Island in Washington Heights, found that it in fact closed due to shady dealings, fights and the usual crap that closes venues, BUT I did find that the location did reopen as a concert/dance club venue a few years ago called Terminal 5. The funny thing about all of that legwork and whatnot (it really wasn't all THAT long if I added up the time, I mean this isn't a project I'm being paid for), but it was seemingly fruitless until figuring out the new name of the venue, is that after I finally located Terminal 5, I was talking to a friend who lived in Lower Manhattan for a number of years in the late 1990s through the very early 2000s about the project and The Mirage. Well, I ask her if she had ever been there and she said "Oh yeah, a few times I saw some concerts there." *FACE PALM* Could have saved a couple of hours and not have gotten so many dead ends if I had just ASKED HER BEFOREHAND! Ah well...

Is anyone having download speed and timing out issues besides me? I'm not using iTunes BTW, making a break from Apple's Evil Empire.

It did get flack though for not even being orginal, as it was used for the Robin Williams comedy biopic Patch Adams.

A few days late but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHNSrl9KsU =

In regards to Star Trek "collectibles" and merchandise. Say what you will about LucasFilms and the toyeticness of certain alien species and whatnot from Jedi on, but their iron grip on their licence and decades long relationships with certain companies (i.e Topps Trading Cards, Marvel and then Dark Horse Comics, and Kenner/Hasbro toys) that there isn't the crazy mass of Star Wars crap and paraphernalia as there is from other franchises that are controlled by monolithic production companies like Paramount. I mean the toy licence for Trek bounced around so many times, I don't know who has it at this point without doing an internet search. Now while yes, there were a lot of Star Wars crap out there, and who still knows what will happen under Disney's control, but it did seem that there was more quality control with Star Wars licence than most other franchises.

My name may, or may not be Captain America, depending on the whims of Marvel and or Marvel Studios, and I approve of this message! =

Finally listened to this, and this comparison came to mind when discussing the dance scene in Jabba's: The original: Any scene at The Badda Bing Club on The Sopranos. Special Edition: Something you'd see in a Damon Runyun "Wacky Gangster" story.

Funny thing about Threepio being...well...Threepio is that there is a national sports radio talk show host who decided to make a running gag out of former baseball firstbaseman for the Blue Jays, Mets, Mariners and Yankees, John Olerud because of several things. One was that due to a brain anyersum Olerud had in his pre-professional days had to wear a batting helmet when he played the field, and second Rome found that Olerud didn't seem to be the talkative, or expressive type in interviews, and usually made a gag that he'd walk into a room, say nothing, then leave. In other words very robot like. So, Rome's moniker for John Olerud? C3POlerud! Quite possibly the least deserving robotic character to ever use to hang a nickname over someone you deem to be stereotypical "robotic!"

One funny "response to the haters" from the pro-Jar Jar crowd was actually "look at how Yoda was at first!" Which is silly since, well for one Yoda was only played for LOLs in that very first scene and then...or should I say, became the character everyone knows and loves he did hmmmmm, so its not like he could have gotten THAT much fan backlash, unless Empire existed in a weird time vortex where you'd could see the movie and somehow be able to like live tweet watching it, in the theater. Second, Yoda speak is very much understandable. Frank Oz spoke in a clear voice and not in an impression of a dialect or foreigner trying to speak English. And his...or should I say, perfectly understandable is Yoda's backwards grammar. This is not the case with Jar Jar's dialogue, especially when he is making up words as he goes along.

I honestly forget which brand it was for, but as bad as THAT THING was, the kid one was probably worse. Its this kid who I guess they were going for looking like Jake, and he was about as wooden as Jake was (says "I love my mom" while standing stock stiff with no emotion or expression at all) and goes on to say the character he wants to be is Obi-Won. And I'm thinking "BASED ON WHAT!?"

It would help if I said simply putting them on intead of lacing! Ah well...there is an entry for it in Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Put%20his%20boots%20on First I heard about it was at a Trek Trivia night at a bar earlier this year. Sent a message to the guy who ran if about where he got it from, haven't heard back yet. OE: From an interview with Roddenberry himself

Oh, and something else hit me during the discussion of Rand. One, I wonder if we won't see a male Yeoman be an assistant for Kirk until a time traveling Ben Sisko steps into the final scene of Mirror, Mirror. And when I thought about that question, it made me ponder about the overall diversity among the Enterprise crew BEYOND Uhura, Sulu and Spock. Yeah, that would be way too much to keep track of, but I'm suddenly wondering if that was it in terms of other ethnic nationalities and races beyond Caucasian (so that's where Scotty, Finnegan and other European characters would fall in) humans in the TOS era Star Fleet before the movies and the cartoon series.

Just wanted to expand upon my cast appearances "stat" since I just thought it something interesting to look at, since Trek was never an ensemble officially in the way the other shows were when you see only Shatner and Nimoy in the opening credits, and Kelley joins them in Season 3, and my assumption that the reason for the "Gang of Four" being elevated to "starring" status was based on stuff after the fact, like being on the convention circuit, etc. Granted Scotty, Sulu, Uhura and Chevkov do comprise the top positions on character appearance charts (there was a site called Deep Space Franchise that looked at that, and this was in the VHS days, but I don't know if it exists or if it can be seen through the Internet Archive), and are pretty much the only ones to be used on an extremely consistent basis, and yeah probably since the 1980s when main casts for dramas did tend to expand like crazy they probably would be in the main credits, but it is interesting that for as much as the Gang of Four tends to be considered part of the main cast of the show (enough so to be major characters in all of the TOS and reboot films), despite the reality bearing out that they were more reoccurring characters (though again that could be me assigning practices used today as opposed to nearly 50 years ago) than actual main cast regulars. BTW, as an FYI, I honestly don't know if this is real or part of the urban legend of Kirk's romantic escapades, but it was used as a bar trivia question on TOS, but apparently a shot of Kirk lacing up his boots was and indicator that the Captain had just *does Adham Fisher's Bond Shag Count whistle* so I don't know if that was known to Mike as he does his stats on Kirk's getting the girl.

Where do you fall on binge podcast listening? Especially catching up on long running segments of a long running podcast? = I like the comparisons between watching the old Hollywood serials. I've heard a review of the Batman one basically say that there is no way you should look at it the way you'd look at movies today, or even the classic TV show's weekly cliffhangers (though those were meant as over the top cheesiness) and basically look at them as artifacts of their time.

Just realized something, granted it was early in Bigger on the Inside's run, but a conversation was had over what the 50th should be, and I think Mike had the idea that it should center around The Doctor believing that his current body was his last (whether it was still Smith at the time or not) and then being surprised that he had regenerated. Not QUITE how it ended up, but hey, it was an idea that Mike had that came to pass! =

Did you guys think of putting the clip of The Doctor's farewell to Susan for the end? Would have fit with the end of this part of the BotI journey.

I'm listening on Good Friday 2014. Unfortunately it won't be three days until the podcast is resurrected... Sorry, joke entered my mind while attending service...had to say it, no matter how groan worthy