CompUSA
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Oct 7, 2026
Ron JohnsonGUEST
Really tiny, located in, you know, unusual locations.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And about, you know, CompUSA, but then Sears of all places.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And Sears was on the way out, but that's where you'd go to buy a Mac.
Vijay DamojipurapuHOST
Oh, wow.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And so, or what if it breaks? And most people had hid that.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
So stores like CompUSA at the time would put the customer service of their repair in a closed glass box behind a window so no one saw it because they didn't want to let people know they had a problem.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
Well, I said, well, if that's one of the biggest fears to get someone over the hump to buy a computer, let's celebrate service.
Ron JohnsonGUEST
And let's create a bar and let's let's create a place like I love going to a bar.
Myke HurleyHOST
Yep
Jason SnellHOST
... were either Circuit City or CompUSA, where there, you know, where there was, there was a store within a store for Apple, but it was d- it was kind of dusty and nothing.
Jason SnellHOST
Or they were like computer stores-
Myke HurleyHOST
Yeah
DJ SwinCORRESPONDENT
Okay.
Mz ShynekaHOST
Sade, before streaming, what store was famous for letting you rent movies and video games and return them later? Was it A, Circuit City, B, RadioShack, C, Blockbuster, or D, CompUSA?
DJ SwinCORRESPONDENT
Blockbuster.
Yung JocHOST
[laughs]
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I'm not calling for anybody to pick up a gun.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Apex says, hey, back at CompUSA, we would refer to cheats as jeebers because they would always say GB, like, do you have 100 GB hard drive? That's funny.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
They would try to haggle on the price of $100 Black Friday laptop, like, bro, it's trash, and this ain't a bazaar.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
fracking cracker says once you understand why they were brought here you start referring to them as enemy combatants yeah I mean and also bioweapons is correct because if you bring in like lower IQ people you're the native population is probably going to be lower their IQ is going to lower over the next
Pete QuiñonesHOST
generation
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Working at CompUSA was great back in the day, though.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Awesome high school job for a bunch of years.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Black Fridays and the aughts were nuts.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I'm not calling for anybody to pick up a gun.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Apex says, hey, back at CompUSA, we would refer to cheats as jeebers because they would always say GB, like, do you have 100 GB hard drive? That's funny.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
They would try to haggle on the price of $100 Black Friday laptop, like, bro, it's trash, and this ain't a bazaar.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Frack and Cracker says, once you understand why they were brought here, you start referring to them as enemy combatants.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Their IQ is going to lower
Pete QuiñonesHOST
over the next generations.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Working at CompUSA was great back in the day, though.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Awesome high school job for a bunch of years.
Myke HurleyHOST
Yep
Jason SnellHOST
... were either Circuit City or Comp USA, where there, you know, where there was, there was a store within a store for Apple, but it was du- it was kind of dusty and nothing.
Jason SnellHOST
Or they were like computer stores-
Myke HurleyHOST
Yeah
Tom PerskyGUEST
Go to Egghead Software and buy a floppy disk.
Tom PerskyGUEST
Go to CompUSA and buy a floppy disk.
Tom PerskyGUEST
Some little guy in the corner would never sell a floppy disk.
Tom PerskyGUEST
We could never compete.
Mat MarquisGUEST
Well, I go ...
Mat MarquisGUEST
Well, and before that at CompUSA, and I was a line cook a bunch of times, and I was a carpenter for a lot of years.
Mat MarquisGUEST
Uh, this was ...
Mat MarquisGUEST
I, I was the, um, I don't know if you know this, but I was the future.
Mat MarquisGUEST
Uh, took, like, two, two and a half months just drifting around, crashing on couches, sleeping under trucks.
Mat MarquisGUEST
Um, got down there, and I will phrase this part of the story carefully, and he was seeing someone who needed a website for her professional modeling career that had just started up.
Mat MarquisGUEST
And she was like, "You know computers and stuff, right?" And I was like, "Well, I worked at a CompUSA for a while, so, like, kinda."
Steve FaulknerHOST
Mm-hmm.
MikeAUDIENCE
They...
MikeAUDIENCE
Those are the small businesses that, you know, we need to support, not these big, uh, CompUSA stores and Best Buy.
MikeAUDIENCE
You know, go to your-
William CooperHOST
Yeah.
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