One New York Life

In a couple months, Inside Pulse will celebrate it’s fifth anniversary since the brand separation from 411mania. Four-and-a-half of those five years were one headache after another — from people flaking and turning martyr to incredibly terrible service and constant crashing from our former four-figure/month, no-service webhost who couldn’t keep up with our traffic to our contracted-out server guys who thought it was perfectly reasonable to “upgrade” our server and put us down for days at a time to one-third of the ownership group not understanding that you can’t be an unreasonable dick to people who are writing for free stuff. About a year ago, we came thisclose to calling it a career and shutting the doors for good. It was approaching “not fun” and becoming an unbelievably-expensive hobby.

Then, Radio Exile‘s own Shawn M Smith convinced us to switch the whole thing over to WordPress to take all the development off the table. Then, we found the awesome Media Temple hosting service and a bunch of WordPress caching plug-ins that solved the hosting and database issues. Suddenly it became a slightly-less unbelievably-expensive hobby. The last six months *knocks wood* have been awesome. With the hosting issues and development issues largely solved, we’ve been able to go back to what we wanted to do in the first place. Content. That’s led to the new niche Food TV Blog and commercial review blog and The Beer Blog. It’s also let me start side-development again and I wrote up a cool little wrestling news aggregator that’s still alpha but, once finished, will be able to index all the current wrestling websites and, hopefully, be a launching point for people who want to get all their news about a fake sport in one place.

All of that leads up to something Jon Widro and I have been tossing around for about a year. He’s hosted PPVs for about three years and we thought it would be fun to podcast our post-PPV discussions. We finally bit the bullet and did it so I present the first Post-PPV Rewind Podcast. The first episode features myself, Widro, the aforementioned Shawn M. Smith, and long-missing Joshua Grutman. The volume is a bit, uh, temperamental and Grutman’s fidgeting was picked up in the microphone as a weird bass pulsing — but, production aside, I think for a first try it came out OK. On the upside, my recorded voice didn’t sound nearly as bad as I expected.

So, if you have 20 minutes and have any interest in wrestling, give it a listen. Just keep the volume low and turn the bass down.