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Hoss Corncave posted:This is something that might have been answered earlier in the thread but I don't remember reading it nor do I feel like reading 47 pages to do with Jim Cornette, but who actually is Brian Last? I've no idea who he is or what he's done or if he's anyone who has actually had any importance in anything. He started the 605 Superpodcast with bix a few years ago and created a podcast network about classic wrestling off the success of the 605 Superpodcast. He's known Jim for like 25 years because he went to SMW fan week back in the day.
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Hoss Corncave posted:This is something that might have been answered earlier in the thread but I don't remember reading it nor do I feel like reading 47 pages to do with Jim Cornette, but who actually is Brian Last? I've no idea who he is or what he's done or if he's anyone who has actually had any importance in anything. Last is a music industry flunky and wrestling fan.
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May 10, 2020 22:31
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a money mark with no money
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mariooncrack posted:He started the 605 Superpodcast with bix a few years ago and created a podcast network about classic wrestling off the success of the 605 Superpodcast. He's known Jim for like 25 years because he went to SMW fan week back in the day. And to flesh it out a bit more: When Alice Radley quit as cohost/producer, Jim did a couple shows with Brian as his "anger management therapist" because his 6:05 appearances were so well-received. (A lot of "you were having so much fun and weren't angry!") So Brian became the new co-host, which made a lot of sense: Unlike Court Bauer, MSL, or Alice, he knew what stories Jim had told before in what venues and has a deep knowledge of wrestling history, so he could steer Jim in the right direction to get a breezy show full of cool historical stuff out of him. Then AEW launched and their audience exploded when Jim went off on poo poo, and we're where we are now.
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So he's pretty much just a friend of Cornette who agrees with him and laughs at his jokes but has nothing to do with wrestling in general. Thanks guys.
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Hoss Corncave posted:So he's pretty much just a friend of Cornette who agrees with him and laughs at his jokes but has nothing to do with wrestling in general. Thanks guys. I think you just described every single cohost of a wrestler podcast that people don't know at first Why is it that every time someone tries to flagwave for Cornette and say what a brilliant booking genius he is, it requires you to listen to a thirty minute podcast to understand fully? That's what Jordan Peterson fans do, a- Oh...
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Mr. Carlisle posted:As much as Russo hates women I'm surprised he lets her out of the house to work  .The guy made at least a cool mil from his WCW tenure and he worked for TNA for-goddamned-ever. What the gently caress did he blow it all on?
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Hoss Corncave posted:So he's pretty much just a friend of Cornette who agrees with him and laughs at his jokes but has nothing to do with wrestling in general. Thanks guys.
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I find it endlessly amusing that a man who can't hold down a job whose wife has to support him believes that women can't succeed in leadership positions because Donations to republican presidents and cocaine I'd imagine
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May 11, 2020 02:49
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Dude smokes weed with a butane lighter. Like wtf bro.
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I find it endlessly amusing that a man who can't hold down a job whose wife has to support him believes that women can't succeed in leadership positions because He lost a lot of money on his CD Warehouse store and I think one other failed business.
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May 11, 2020 03:58
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Imagine opening a CD Warehouse after Napster.
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:Imagine opening a CD Warehouse after Napster. (The normally exhaustive Georgia Corporations Division website doesn't have a hit for anything with "Vincent Russo" as a company officer that looks like a fit for the CD Warehouse in question, for whatever it's worth.)
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with 0 research, I'm gonna say the CD warehouse thing was an affiliate gig. IIRC there were dudes that cold called you and sold you subscriptions to those monthly CD music lootcrates for $12.99. I kinda remember getting yelled at by a guy w/ a big thick accent when I went to go cancel my membership after doing the monthly trial.
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coconono posted:with 0 research, I'm gonna say the CD warehouse thing was an affiliate gig. IIRC there were dudes that cold called you and sold you subscriptions to those monthly CD music lootcrates for $12.99. I kinda remember getting yelled at by a guy w/ a big thick accent when I went to go cancel my membership after doing the monthly trial. It wasn't, it was a brick and mortar store.
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Maybe it's just because I'm older, but I kind of miss going to music stores and browsing through the CD's But anyway, yeah, it was really dumb to open a CD store in 2002
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MassRafTer posted:It wasn't, it was a brick and mortar store. pre-financial meltdown america was another world.
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Is a CD Warehouse one of those places that buy sell and trade CDs? Most of the similar places that are still open pivoted into records, video games, movies, and ICP merch. I don't know if the ICP merch is just an Ohio thing but every time I've gone into a used CD store they always have a ton of ICP shirts and blacklight posters.
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bartok posted:Is a CD Warehouse one of those places that buy sell and trade CDs? Most of the similar places that are still open pivoted into records, video games, movies, and ICP merch. I don't know if the ICP merch is just an Ohio thing but every time I've gone into a used CD store they always have a ton of ICP shirts and blacklight posters. The one near me when I lived on Long Island changed its name to CD Island and went full indie fairly early on. It closed a few years ago. They appeared to pretty much be using the store as storage for their eBay store, so I suspect they had a sweetheart rent deal and the lease finally ran out. But yeah, these days, most of the used media stores are used book, record, and/or video game stores where the other stuff is secondary.
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Places like that which changed into media focused-thrift stores I still see open a lot, especially if they got in on the retro game market. Back in Louisville we have Book and Music Exchange which seems to be doing okay and here in Chicago we have The Exchange, which does very well. Those kinds of stores seem a lot more equipped to survive the times than GameStop, funnily enough.
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GameStop is getting hosed by both their investors and regulatory bodies. It’s a miracle their doors are as open as they are now.
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coconono posted:GameStop is getting hosed by both their investors and regulatory bodies. It’s a miracle their doors are as open as they are now. It's whatever the exact opposite of a miracle is. A nightmare?
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Gamestop should get hosed. It's a terrible company run by terrible people.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Gamestop should get hosed. It's a terrible company run by terrible people. every company ceo with mall frontage deserves to burn. While I'm fond of gamestop's services, they don't pay those poor kids enough to deal with my high anxiety rear end just tryin to get a game on the cheap.
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yeah if anything gamestop isn't getting hosed by ENOUGH outside parties
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Anyway, the idea of Vince Russo owning a physical business is ludicrous. Which is why it probably happened because this timeline is on ketamine and barbasol.
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coconono posted:every company ceo with mall frontage deserves to burn. While I'm fond of gamestop's services, they don't pay those poor kids enough to deal with my high anxiety rear end just tryin to get a game on the cheap. But you've seen the stories coming out in the last couple years about gamestops ridiculous management and practices I assume It's not just your typical store bullshit it's like next level manager threatening you until you want to go home and end yourself level verbal abuse
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Mr. Carlisle posted:But you've seen the stories coming out in the last couple years about gamestops ridiculous management and practices I assume Ooo the Radio Shack model.
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There are lots of 'why i left gametop' videos on youtube from former employees sharing all sorts of lovely practices, intimidation tactics, verbal abuse to customers and employees and everything else that goes on at a huge portion of their stores due to unrealistic sales pressure from above. A few of them had panic attacks and breakdowns from being there a short time. My favorite story is how one regional manager was given orders to force all of his stores to claim they had no new consoles even though they had stacks of them in the warehouse areas and to inform their salespeople that if customers won't buy a used console they can go elsewhere. It's beyond a bad retail environment to work in. Anyway sorry for the derail but people underestimate how badly that company needs to go out of business. Then again it's a thread about an old hateful piece of poo poo so I don't feel that bad talking about something else. Orange Carlisle fucked around with this message at 01:52 on May 12, 2020 |
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jim cornette ran his gamestop really well and efficiently and never lost money on it
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Cavauro posted:jim cornette ran his gamestop really well and efficiently and never lost money on it
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Jim Cornette wants Final Fantasy games to go back to featuring real men instead of these effeminate pretty boys playing warrior of light.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Jim Cornette wants Final Fantasy games to go back to featuring real men instead of these effeminate pretty boys playing warrior of light. jokes on him, thanks to yoshitaka amano the warrior of light has been an effeminate pretty boy since the very first final fantasy. every wrestler should dress like gackt to give corny an aneurysm
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the first time cornette ranted about grown men playing videogames because of kenny omega, brian would meekly speak up and say that he liked playing videogames, and jim would just ignore him and keep ranting about how pathetic a grown man playing videogames is. ever since then brian just stays quiet and then waits to move on to the next thing. kind of like how early on brian would talk about how he liked kennys matchse but now just agrees with every bad thing jim says and parrots the Carried By Okada line that they all love.
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Do we know for sure that Russo's CD Warehouse actually sold CDs? Maybe he swerved his customers by selling home decor or something. "You want Venetian Snares, you piece of poo poo? Have some Venetian blinds!"
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coconono posted:every company ceo with mall frontage deserves to burn. While I'm fond of gamestop's services, they don't pay those poor kids enough to deal with my high anxiety rear end just tryin to get a game on the cheap. I worked at Gamestop for all of 3 weeks. I was told I was going to get paid a certain amount which I wasn't and instead of doing direct deposit or giving me a check they gave me a prepaid card. To get the money off the card I'd have to go to an ATM which would cost money to get my money. And they would not stop getting on my case about doing anything I had to do to get someone to reserve something or buy used. I hate that place so much - not to mention it's basically obsolete now. On the other hand I really miss video stores.
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The prepaid card story is new. That’s a special kind of lovely.
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I've worked places where they will offer a prepaid card if you don't have a bank account instead of cutting a check but never had one require it and not let you direct deposit. That really sucks.
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coconono posted:The prepaid card story is new. That’s a special kind of lovely. Books-A-Million did that to me because I didn't bring my bank details on my first day (they hadn't asked me to)
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coconono posted:The prepaid card story is new. That’s a special kind of lovely.
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