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[99STROWNS77]

Well Victor did out himself as autistic a few months ago, so I can see why his calls consist of annoying stream of consciousness crap.

WAIT WHAT?!? What episode was this?

[Skatz]

http://www.facebook.com/AnthonySkatz

[Magicallystoopid]

I have a suggestion.

Rather than voicemails can we just have a classic promo from yesteryear? It will allow for a break for the hosts and be more entertaining.

I would also suggest take all of the voicemails and have a "Call of the Week."

Loved the show.

This, just pick the best two or three and then move on.

Honestly this is always the thing about Will I felt like was his weak point as host. The inability to keep the show moving. Now I'm not talking about when things get off topic, because no one can argue that's produced the show's best moments. I'm talking about when callers come in, and basically highjack the show for 20 minutes before Will finally gets things back on track. I remember a few episodes back when the two little girls called in, and were handing the phone off to one another. Will shouldn't have let that go on as long as he did. It wasn't going anywhere, and was clearly just wasting time.

Love you Will, but the callers are not the be all end all of RBR.

[TheHunter]

I just finished listening to to show.

Will,

Would you just like to host a new Tech based show on FanOff? I'll even host it with you. We can talk about Ice cream sandwiches, tablets, Japanese toilets, whatever. No one will listen to it, but you can at least vent your thoughts on these things and answer all of your phone/tech related emails.

Think about it.

YES! YES! YES!

But if Matt want's to take it personally each time one of us sends a tech-related question, then it's better to hear him destroy shit around him.

[MarSolo]

Honestly, and I've said this in the past, the bad callers outweigh the good anymore. At this point, scrape it. I really don't think you guys are going to lose any listeners over not being able to call in.

Besides, phone calls are outdated, everyone texts and e-mails.

[jaffabgood]

When you get good callers in i think they help the show along, some of the newier people who call in are just trying to be funny and failing awfully!! That being said there are a few new callers who have called in and have been quite good, they guy who was talking about Dora the Exploder(i forget his name think it was about 3 ep's ago) i though he was good. Coherent at least

Id rather, instead of the voice mail bag maybe have Skatz come on for 2mins and read poetry??

[BrokenCycle]

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/sad/rape-poems.asp

[seaniewrw]

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/sad/rape-poems.asp

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/forever-changed

Holy shit. This is Skatz's new homepage.

[jaffabgood]

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/sad/rape-poems.asp

ahahahahahhahahaa bravo sir! the opening paragraphic in itself is just Skatz all over

[ohno]

I've been skipping the voicemails so far, looks like I'm not missing out on much.

[Barrylad]

I really understand Matt's position on RAW and feel almost the exact same way. I'm working an unpaid internship currently, and also doing freelance work, and there are only so many hours in the day - so this weird "watching RAW out of habit" thing I and many others do is just not an option right now. In the spare time I have, I will watch shows that are actually good and worth a two hour investment. Such as Impact for example. Smackdown is also on wafer thin ice, as it has the issue of not being particularly good but also being almost completely irrelevant. I think it's kinda telling for me going forward that when I have an actual busy schedule and not a lax college timetable, WWE these days just does not make the cut. I watch RAW and just skip entire pointless segments like, say, a Kofi and Truth tag team match. But when the "relevant" segments are John Cena and Michael Cole related, and also have me skipping forward - it's like, why even bother if I cumulatively watch about 20 minutes of the show?

Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, Im not done with the show yet but obviously it's another good one and it's great having everyone back. I gotta +1 the current caller roster hate though.

[seaniewrw]

I really understand Matt's position on RAW and feel almost the exact same way. I'm working an unpaid internship currently, and also doing freelance work, and there are only so many hours in the day - so this weird "watching RAW out of habit" thing I and many others do is just not an option right now. In the spare time I have, I will watch shows that are actually good and worth a two hour investment. Such as Impact for example. Smackdown is also on wafer thin ice, as it has the issue of not being particularly good but also being almost completely irrelevant. I think it's kinda telling for me going forward that when I have an actual busy schedule and not a lax college timetable, WWE these days just does not make the cut. I watch RAW and just skip entire pointless segments like, say, a Kofi and Truth tag team match. But when the "relevant" segments are John Cena and Michael Cole related, and also have me skipping forward - it's like, why even bother if I cumulatively watch about 20 minutes of the show?

Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, Im not done with the show yet but obviously it's another good one and it's great having everyone back. I gotta +1 the current caller roster hate though.

Simple solution.....watch MinPACT!

But yeah I totally agree. I have a feeling we are all going to be laying on our death beads wishing we used even just half of the time we put into watching wrestling on a weekly basis doing something else.

EDIT: And by "something else" I mean anything else.

[ohno]

If there are any segments that I want to watch from RAW, I usually just watch them on WWE's website after the show. I never watch the show live anymore from start to finish; there's far too much garbage to sit through. Sure it sucks missing out on the live atmosphere at times with genuine mark-out moments (Brock's return being one of them for me), but those are so infrequent that it doesn't matter.

Something I'd recommend Matt or anyone else doing if they can't stand having their intelligence insulted for 3 hours straight. If you watch only the more important segments online, then at least you're only having your intelligence insulted for the length of those segments.

[KyleIAM]

Finally got around to listening to this and, man, for the first time ever I was getting really aggravated by Matt. Virtually every topic in the mail bag he didn't like he had to interrupt and talk about how awful it was and how stupid the other person was for liking it. I felt bad for Felipe for sounding so excited responding to that e-mail that was written ONLY TO HIM about that gaming convention and Matt kept interjecting about what a scam it was.

Normally I quite like Matt's grumpy rants but this episode seemed a bit overdone. Perhaps he was moody. And I'll agree with everyone else that the callers SEEM like a great idea but generally are pretty awful. Don't go thinking it's your fanbase either; virtually any call-in show has its share of time wasters who talk forever and say nothing that hasn't already been said.

I know this was largely negative but this was another great episode otherwise!

[Matt G]

Some people don't like keeping it real, I guess.

[MarSolo]

I'm so sending an e-mail to Will that asks him to tell me why he loves Android, Biggie, and Tupac, an e-mail to Felipe tell me why he loves Irish Airborne and video game competitions, an e-mail to Paul on why he thinks he has more Twitter followers than Matt and why he loves fish tacos so much, and then an e-mail to Matt asking why he hasn't seen the Avengers yet.