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CascadeBeta posted:"So, uh, in the primaries after the debate, you have Trump up... 8. Cruz is dooown fiiiive. Jeb is- uh, where are my notes?" I really hate fascism. I mean, it's just.... stupid.
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CascadeBeta posted:"So, uh, in the primaries after the debate, you have Trump up... 8. Cruz is dooown fiiiive. Jeb is- uh, where are my notes?" You start out in 1954 by saying, “mark, mark, mark.” By 1968 you can't say “mark” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like "fans", "customers" and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about gate receipts, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] marks get hurt worse than smart fans. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the mark problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to book this,” is much more abstract than even the gate thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “mark, mark.”
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Sep 23, 2016 20:48
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Hace posted:What's the tweet say. I gotta know. https://twitter.com/zacxmahrouche/status/779393416304201728
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Sep 23, 2016 20:49
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I get what he was trying to say but holy poo poo that is a very dumb thing to say.
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Akileese posted:I get what he was trying to say but holy poo poo that is a very dumb thing to say. It's not all that bad. And anyone with half a brain could tell what he was trying to say. The people on his feed saying that he's saying the two words are exactly the same are just dumb as gently caress.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:07
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I'm still trying to work out what the guy Meltzer's talking to is trying to say.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:09
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Gonzo McFee posted:I'm still trying to work out what the guy Meltzer's talking to is trying to say. Dave's more worked about one than the other. Brandon Howard is a pro follow btw.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:26
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DrVenkman posted:It's not all that bad. And anyone with half a brain could tell what he was trying to say. The people on his feed saying that he's saying the two words are exactly the same are just dumb as gently caress. are you sure about this considering he's previously said 80s promoters using the N-word weren't necessarily racist and were just using the accepted industry term for black talent
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Sep 23, 2016 21:32
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DrVenkman posted:It's not all that bad. And anyone with half a brain could tell what he was trying to say. The people on his feed saying that he's saying the two words are exactly the same are just dumb as gently caress. Get a load of this guy
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Sep 23, 2016 21:51
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This manufactured controversy is ignoring real instances of racism in wrestling, like the resistance to Roman Reigns.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:56
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Spermgod posted:are you sure about this considering he's previously said 80s promoters using the N-word weren't necessarily racist and were just using the accepted industry term for black talent I don't remember him saying the latter part. I do remember him saying Watts wasn't a racist, which i do have a problem with, but not him saying they were "using the accepted industry term for black talent."
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Sep 23, 2016 22:15
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ICHIBAHN posted:I don't remember him saying the latter part. I do remember him saying Watts wasn't a racist, which i do have a problem with, but not him saying they were "using the accepted industry term for black talent." He's definitely said this more than once
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Sep 23, 2016 22:17
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Is there actually another argument in defending a racist promoter other than "it's an industry standard word"? I mean that argument is wrong but I can't even think of another one
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Sep 23, 2016 22:25
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don't defend them imo
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Sep 23, 2016 22:37
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Spermgod posted:the flagship VOW podcast has some of the better analysis out there but you gotta have a finger on fast forward for whenever they go on some non wrestling tangent or Joe goes on an obnoxious rant at nameless Twitter people
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Sep 23, 2016 22:42
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Vince McMahon, the most successful wrestling promoter in the history of the universe, once called John Cena (a flagrant appropriator of black culture) the n-word on PPV so clearly it's a good idea to be a racist promoter.
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Sep 23, 2016 22:57
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I don't think its unfair at all to assume that Meltzer is just as out of date on everything but fight sports and possibly bodybuilding as McMahon is. They are very very laser focused people.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:05
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Sep 23, 2016 23:11
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Spermgod posted:are you sure about this considering he's previously said 80s promoters using the N-word weren't necessarily racist and were just using the accepted industry term for black talent I definitely remember this and rolling my eyes out of my head
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Sep 24, 2016 00:38
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I always got the feeling that Meltzer was trying to not burn his contacts and people he had personal relationships with by avoiding labeling them racists. I'm thinking particularly of Flair here. Because you know Flair was pretty loving racist.
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Skinty McEdger posted:I always got the feeling that Meltzer was trying to not burn his contacts and people he had personal relationships with by avoiding labeling them racists. I'm thinking particularly of Flair here. This is probably the case thinking on it now. He's probably better off just not responding to questions like that if that is his concern, as engaging with the issue on their behalf is unlikely to ever have good results for him.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:58
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The best thing Dave could do is stop responding to 20 trolls online a day, but that would also decrease the fun of his twitter feed by about 98%
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Sep 24, 2016 01:16
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HA-HEY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AJtcnxX0ek
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I thought he was still coming in once his shoulder's healed?
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Sep 24, 2016 16:02
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Stone Cold cut a promo on a spider that bit his dog. It was cute
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I wish you could just hire people like Austin to cut promos on people you don't like. Sure there's a certain satisfaction in telling assholes off, but Austin's a professional.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I wish you could just hire people like Austin to cut promos on people you don't like. Sure there's a certain satisfaction in telling assholes off, but Austin's a professional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3FhDFuY_xE
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I wish you could just hire people like Austin to cut promos on people you don't like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_S8eIOrP4
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Dario the Wop posted:When Hogan was desperate you could hire him to cut promos on whomever you wanted. Case in point: I was hoping this was just Major Toxic
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Just found this excerpt from the Macho Man obitquote:The ICW started in Paducah, KY, with Randy Savage and Leaping Lanny as the two top stars. At about the same time, Bob Roop, Bob Orton Jr., Boris Malenko and Ronnie Garvin had started opposition to the Fullers in the Knoxville area after a tournament for a boat that Garvin won. The boat was purchased by one of the Fullers, and whenever Ron Fuller bought an expensive car or boat, he'd use it to draw a house, have a tournament for it, which he'd invariably win, so it would make sense that people would always see him with the car or boat they saw on TV. Well, after doing that a few times, he was afraid it was getting predictable, so put Garvin over. Garvin then left the territory, with the boat, wouldn't give it back and started opposition. This led to Fuller's legal attempts to get it back, which made the local papers and exposed the business.
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spinst posted:Stone Cold cut a promo on a spider that bit his dog. Where can I find this?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Just found this excerpt from the Macho Man obit Who was it that took a $5000 novelty check he won in a ladder match straight to the bank, pulled the DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? on the teller to get the money and skipped town? I like when Bryan asked Vinny if he had an intro song for his podcast and Vinny was immediately like "if it's 30 seconds of that B~! sound I'm not interested"
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Then there was the story Jim Cornette tells about a small time Southern territory that had a raffle with a pony as the major prize. The promoter's son won & it killed the town.
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I started listening to the Death of WCW audiobook, and is it just me or is it really not that....good? Like, it's great stories, but it's just written kinda...eh. They tell the Madusa trash can story twice in a short amount of time, and jump back and forth between time frames.
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dsriggs posted:Then there was the story Jim Cornette tells about a small time Southern territory that had a raffle with a pony as the major prize. The promoter's son won & it killed the town. That's great
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magnum_valentino posted:Where can I find this? It's on his latest unleashed show on podcastone. There's also a great bit where he just gleefully derides the concept of a Team Lunch, as well as a nice callback to his earlier mocking of Life Coaches when his guest says something profoundly stupid and Austin offers to be HIS life coach. "Teddy, let me be your Life Coach. Lesson one: If you ask a bunch of married men where to find hookers they're gonna give you strange looks."
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Capsaicin posted:I started listening to the Death of WCW audiobook, and is it just me or is it really not that....good? Like, it's great stories, but it's just written kinda...eh. They tell the Madusa trash can story twice in a short amount of time, and jump back and forth between time frames. I also am using my one month Audible trial on this, and I found speeding it up to 1.25x made it more listenable. At 1x it just sounded *too* much like Tobias Funke reading out loud.
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