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Papa Was A Video Toaster posted:pro tip: enable posting in your feedback threads I was, uh, just making sure everyone had enough time to prepare their thoughts. Yeah. (thanks and sorry)
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gently caress, if Robert gets much richer he’ll need to be a subject of his own show. Or maybe pay his guests?
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Snuffman posted:Insta-subbed. I can't stand the ads on iHeartRadio. So is there no way to give them money if you don't own apple products?
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Remulak posted:gently caress, if Robert gets much richer he’ll need to be a subject of his own show. Knives budget just got a bit higher!
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Remulak posted:gently caress, if Robert gets much richer he’ll need to be a subject of his own show.
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Robert still has that weird issue with patreon that he is worried he will be taking the very last dollar a poor leftist has, right
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Maybe he is avoiding Patreon so he doesn't indirectly fund Pomplamoose
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Zugzwang posted:Maybe he is avoiding Patreon so he doesn't indirectly fund Pomplamoose God please free me from this fact that I essentially brought upon myself.
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Was that clip they put in around 1:13:30 completely missing for y'all too? Apparently it was hilarious based on the laughter afterwards
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blunt for century posted:Was that clip they put in around 1:13:30 completely missing for y'all too? Apparently it was hilarious based on the laughter afterwards Suspect it was this https://youtu.be/V7yZUohJ8gg
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Remulak posted:gently caress, if Robert gets much richer he’ll need to be a subject of his own show. I could've sworn Evans said at some point that he does pay the guests. Was it in this thread?
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I can tell you one thing Robert has done with his wealth... https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1662234369581535232
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Wanderer posted:I could've sworn Evans said at some point that he does pay the guests. Was it in this thread? It was on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...nt=share_button. It's a Cool Zone Media policy to pay all their guests an appearance fee.
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Yeah they have been getting a lot of those ads, and boy howdy they got snippy and lovely towards people trying to say “hey yall have ads that seem contrary to the political positions you tend to take, that doesn’t seem good” Almost like iheart/clear channel is a hosed up corporation trying to appeal to all markets at once or something
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May 31, 2023 14:40
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I love it when corporations are dumb.
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Remulak posted:I love it when corporations are dumb. This has been my favorite part of an otherwise totally meandering episode 5 - pointing out how dumb the reporters and commissions are continually trying to gotcha pro wrestling with "isn't it fake?  "
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I finished the last episode of the McMahon series and it really feels like he ran out of time They didn’t get into anything about the hush money and him leaving the WWE and returning, or the XFL, or Trump other than a couple of small mentions
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Yeah, from the way they were talking at the beginning it felt like we were in for a ride. But he just comes off as kind of a mid-tier bastard compared to their other subjects? I still have about an hour left in the final episode but overall I've been underwhelmed.
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It's a fun series due to the wrestling lore digressions and the guests, but the first episode drawing a bastard comparison between McMahon and Kissinger is nuts.
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Robert skipped over a ton of info to meander in wrestling lore. I haven't listened to the final episode yet, but it sounds like he never even touched on the Ring Boy scandal, among some of the others already mentioned. e: just saw in another thread they did cover it. My bad. But my greater point still stands. Dango Bango fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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As someone who knew next to nothing about wrestling going in I appreciated that it meandered and covered a range of stuff.
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fishing with the fam posted:It's a fun series due to the wrestling lore digressions and the guests, but the first episode drawing a bastard comparison between McMahon and Kissinger is nuts.
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Grand Fromage posted:As someone who knew next to nothing about wrestling going in I appreciated that it meandered and covered a range of stuff. Yeah, I'm not a wrestling person, and I really appreciated the context. I wish it hadn't gone out on a story I did know, and I'd have liked if it had gone into this century. I like a 'fun' bastard getting the massive series treatment for once though.
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Considering all the hype, yeah, this was a letdown. It was also highly entertaining because of the guests and the types of people covered. I imagine that most owners of major sports franchises are bastards on an equal or worse scale, correcting for the fact that not all sports inherently destroy the players' bodies like pro wrestling/American football do.
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Zugzwang posted:Considering all the hype, yeah, this was a letdown. It was also highly entertaining because of the guests and the types of people covered. I think the difference between Vince and say, a Dan Snyder, is that for all of Snyder's awfulness, he hasn't warped American football in the same way Vince warped pro wrestling. Snyder can be divorced from football (in fact, he just has been!), but Vince and wrestling are forever linked, and you can't talk about one without the other. There's no denying that Snyder is a gigantic bastard worthy of his own episodes, though
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I said this when i heard that Robert was doing a vince episode, and i feel justified in continuing to think that robert should have let a wrestling fan do the storytelling and he should have been reactions Yes, that episode could have become bogged down in minutiae, but the episodes already did. This was fun but it was like listening to a true crime podcast try to cover the chris benoit murders. You miss a lot of context if you don’t know that, for example, benoit would do a move every night where he falls off the top tope and lands on his head. Maaaaaybe that had to do with the shoddy state of his brain, or all the chair shots to the head. Vince took a shitton of chair shots, never learned to wrestle, landed on his head a lot, and perhaps ruined american politics/democracy thanks to the pro wrestlingization of the republican party.
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I’m enjoying the hell out of this, but for me the most interesting thing about pro wrestling is that it’s just about the only live theater left. Even musicals are barely a draw and serious theater is an afterthought. For most of history live entertainment was common and everywhere, now it’s limited to sports, a few musicians and comics, and wraslin’.
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I mean it’s a national accomplishment that musicals are dying I would prefer serious theater to that any day
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FlamingLiberal posted:I mean it’s a national accomplishment that musicals are dying What is it like living a joyless and grey existence?
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rotinaj posted:What is it like living a joyless and grey existence?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Cool and good, thanks Maybe people could be allowed to enjoy things that you do not particularly like, if it isn’t going to affect you one way or the other, then?
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rotinaj posted:Maybe people could be allowed to enjoy things that you do not particularly like, if it isn’t going to affect you one way or the other, then?
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Has there been a gag where two feuding wrestlers get mad and then went back stage to beat up a writers’ room?
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One of the bigger wrestling heads can tag in but I think Hulk Hogan in the WCW had a weird meta-plot arc where his creative control powers were ruining things in universe.
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Listened to the last episode of the Vince series and just baffled, did he report on anything Vince has done in the last 15 years? I don't think the WWE's massive blood money propaganda deal with Saudi Arabia or him briefly being forced out of the company for paying tons of his sexual harassment victims hush money were ever even mentioned. I know there's so much to cover with Vince and you couldn't cover everything but those seem like pretty big things to omit.
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Fentry posted:Listened to the last episode of the Vince series and just baffled, did he report on anything Vince has done in the last 15 years? I don't think the WWE's massive blood money propaganda deal with Saudi Arabia or him briefly being forced out of the company for paying tons of his sexual harassment victims hush money were ever even mentioned. I know there's so much to cover with Vince and you couldn't cover everything but those seem like pretty big things to omit. I feel like they could have done two more episodes at least
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I have a feeling that much like L. Ron Hubbard, we may get more episodes down the road. I mean hell, I knew Vince was a piece of poo poo for more recent things and I’m not a huge wrestling person, but I didn’t know there was so goddamn much. Good lord.
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Shinji2015 posted:I think the difference between Vince and say, a Dan Snyder, is that for all of Snyder's awfulness, he hasn't warped American football in the same way Vince warped pro wrestling. Snyder can be divorced from football (he just has been!), but Vince and wrestling are forever linked, and you can't talk about one without the other. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the episodes on NYC real estate developer, star of The Apprentice, and failed Reform Party presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump that end in 2007. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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