Episode 2: Coliseum CHAD #2: History & video store buyouts
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The journey back to Coliseum Video for Chad takes a direct route through the TMPT Empire and co-founder, John Poz. John and Chad's days of riding through New Jersey and the tri-state area get the episode #2 treatment as "The Chadster" looks at the second biggest phase of collecting, the college years. It was during a time that video stores began to scale back and close their doors that the direct purchases hit an all-time high, but how has the market changed since 2002/2003? Did eBay help collecting videos or did it make it tougher to find what you were looking? Also, a look at the history of Coliseum Video and the founders Arthur Morowitz and Howard Farber.
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | the Oh, man, I can't get enough of that theme song. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, this is Coliseum Chad, and you're listening to episode number |
| 0:56.5 | two of Coliseum Chad, the monthly installment here on the two-man power trip of wrestling's |
| 1:02.1 | podcasting Empire. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. Coliseum Chad, that's the name. |
| 1:08.9 | Every single month, we're going to take a break from the new generation declassified schedule, |
| 1:13.8 | and we're going to go back and talk about Coliseum Video. |
| 1:17.1 | A lot of it has to do with my journey on a recollecting journey, if you will, |
| 1:21.7 | to get back to where I was about, geez, 15, 20 years ago, |
| 1:26.7 | a huge collector of Coliseum video, a huge tapehead, I guess it |
| 1:32.9 | would say nowadays, where it was anything and everything having to do with it. I was trying |
| 1:37.9 | to bring it into the vault. I was trying to collect it. I was trying to bring it home, |
| 1:46.8 | but over time as the trends change and the ease of getting this footage got a little bit more, I don't know, accessible, |
| 1:56.6 | tapes went by the wayside. Everybody who had them started to unload them. And now as we're in a |
| 2:01.0 | different phase of life and pop culture and retro is the in thing, I'm jumping on the bandwagon |
| 2:07.2 | and I am on my recollecting journey, making myself aware of the past of Coliseum Video. And what better |
| 2:14.9 | way to do that than to bring it to the podcasting world and to the listeners |
| 2:19.7 | of the TMPT Empire and all the other shows that we have here on the TMPT Empire. |
| 2:25.7 | Today's episode is going to be a continuation of what we did last month. |
| 2:30.1 | So I introduced you to how I became aware of Coliseum video last month as a little guy, |
| 2:36.3 | as a four or five-year-old guy watching tapes with my uncle who was, you know, |
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