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Holy foreshadowing

For fun I went back and watched what I beleive now to be the beginning of the end - where Vito banned the chatters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_Ik1XnfGM

Watching back I was blown away about the amount of foreshadowing:

  • Vito smugly calls it a 'new era' - Dick calls it a 'death spiral'
  • Dick says banning people who bought the comic will turn on him. Vito says that's fine and it's funny to just block people and there's nothing they can do it about. Dick says they will tear apart SuperKiller when it comes out. Vito says that's fine. (It wasn't fine). Dick also mentions the second kickstarter which Vito says "we'll see what happens, I don't need to make a lot" - on the most recent episode Vito concedes the next kickstarter will fail and the pressure from people on it failing has been getting to him.
  • Dick says he will be labelled as 'a guy who can't take criticism' like Eric July. Last episode superchatters said he has become exactly like Eric July.
  • Vito talks about how if he has to kill the show he will. Great work Vito, you seemed stoked on how it's dead while being on the edge of tears giving soppy monologues over the titanic song and and in the last episode.
  • Dick tells Vito banned fans won't back down - they'll escalate. Exactly what happened with people coming to Vito's house.
  • Baldur talks about getting banned for calling vito a bus funnily enough in this episode but also last episode.

Whole episode is Vito being very smug and Dick listing a whole bunch of reasons it's not a good idea. It's interesting to see his demeanor change over the time period, but I don't expect any reflection on this from Vito

Also interesting is going back to the big fight episode after Vito was kicked out of studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2QwsJLGzw

Also lots of contradictions and 'Vito vs Vito's' in here where he has rewritten history since then. The biggest being him talking about he doesn't know where this narrative came of having a thin skin - after banning people for making pig jokes about him and admitting they got to him originally

u/elvoggo — 20 hours ago

What proposal would you agree to?

Let’s have fun with this, let’s see if there is something they could actually agree to.

Me I thought 25% of where the money is now but if the patreon gets bigger dick is still only getting 25% of what it was before he left. So say if dick left at 5k it would be 1250, but if they are making 10k down the line dick is still only getting 1250.

It makes sense to get 25% of an audience you both built but none of the money from an audience Vito brought in himself.

Anyone got better?

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u/Jbrojo — 19 hours ago

A few problems for Vito to bring in to see off his beloved cohost in the final few episodes

“Cohosts who ban you from the studio so you have to talk over each other due to the awkward internet latency, ruining the comedy dynamic”

“Cohosts who blame you for wrecking their ears because you laugh too loud and not their decades of alcoholism”

“Cohosts who tell you you’re too low energy every week while you’re banned from the studio for being too loud”

“Cohosts who publicly accuse you of harassing their wife by contacting her when you were regularly texting for years prior and she came over to help you look for your lost cat”

“Cohosts who won’t let you contact them to plan anything for the show”

“Cohosts who tank every show airing out personal grievances and act like they’re speaking for the entire audience regarding stuff no one cares about”

“Cohosts who end the show while continuing to do their own worse podcast that’s been dead since they lost their audio engineer, and put out audio of tiktoks for a half hour of every show”

Just a few ideas off the dome

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u/DickBot_628 — 1 day ago

do yu guys like the original host

ive never listened to this podcast, but i hear there was a cohost at the beginning from way back, are you guys fond of them

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u/soul_huntre — 1 day ago

This might be the end, in more ways than one....

In the Hero's Journey you have to go down into the deepest blackest BBC pit of despair, the dark night of the soul, and conquer it before re-emerging as a new actuated individual of renown. His mentor Dick Masterson, the sage archetype, is now gone from him and he is on his own to figure things out for himself.

Will Vito be able to brave this trial, or will he be one of the many who have left their bones in the labyrinth...

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u/BeckeredCheese — 1 day ago

Wishes for the last episodes

The final episode should be in Dick's studio.

Vito should do a final weigh in to win all of Vito's booty, but he needs to lose 50 pounds.

​Vito needs to recite the entire "Vito the gay team guy" jingle or Dick ups his percentage to 50%.

What else?

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u/FigBatNerdyDigger — 1 day ago

I hope Vito tries to make the last four shows funny and not whine like a woman for an hour

The last hour was painful to listen to. No accountability. Mental gymnastics because he can't do real gymnastics I guess.

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u/FigBatNerdyDigger — 1 day ago

Vito,.you would be an absolutely idiot to not take the 25% deal

There is a 0% chance that you launch a new podcast that would have nearly as many patrons or eyes as you have now. Unfortunately for you, you were too fat, lazy and attracted to children to launch something in the last year where the writing was on the wall regarding biggest problem, so instead of having a reliable show to promote to your audience, you now have to scramble to get something going.

Go ahead buddy, go make "le largest issue in the multiverse" or whatever and get a patreon started. You probably won't make even $1000 a month. Take the deal, give podawful the first guest co-host part to stick it to Dick and then use a revolving door of guest co-hosts whom you pay per episode and keep it going until you can siphon enough guys on to another show, like you should have been doing this whole last year.

Of course you're too stupid, proud and lazy to actually do this so you'll just reboot corn boys and then wonder why you lost 95% of your viewers. If you were as smart and talented as you think you are, you'd listen to this.

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u/Autismoses_Jones — 2 days ago

Why don't you wanna make comedy with Vito, Dick?

I know he

Lied to your fan base

Stole from your fan base

Stinks

Is fat

And also a pedophile

But I'm sure you can sit down and have a laugh with him once a week

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u/braphoofer — 2 days ago

As a reminder

If I've blocked you on Twitter and it really genuinely bothers you and you want to be unblocked, all you have to do is send me a message literally anywhere saying "hey dude can you unblock @@username?"

This constant hand-wringing about the evil Vito banning beloved fans on Twitter is bizarre to me. Yeah, if you tweet "where's my comic, fat boy" I assume you want to be blocked.

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u/vitogesualdi — 3 days ago