Remap Radio 10 - Behind the Video Store Curtain
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The Economics of Video Rental
In the 90s official rental movie releases were way more expensive than the retail version. Porn would need to be rented over 20 times to break even porn on the other hand only required to be rented a couple of times to do the same that's how yeah why the porn section was the most profitable. A Protestant pastor came in to rent the jody foster classic now the next day the pastor's wife called the store to tell us that when they watched the movie with the family they noticed it wasn't about a young woman who had to face other people for the first time after being raised by her mother in isolated cabin. There were plenty of awkward moments when friends of my parents would come in for
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