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Hibernation Chamber
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Chick Foley and The Hot Take Kid are back as we crawl slowly down the Road to Wrestlemania. They discuss Dean Ambrose returning to form, Sasha Banks crying after every match, Becky Lynch's suspension, and much more from RAW and Smackdown. They also talk about their recent figure purchases, and Sheena lets the listeners know how to find NXT Elite Series 4 in the wild.
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Transcript
Introductions and Patreon Shoutouts
00:00:00
Speaker
What's up, everybody? Before we start the podcast, I want to give a shout out to our three of our new Patreon subscribers, AJ Sawyer, Dustin Sadik, and John Mazzafaro. We appreciate the support. We will go through the details of the Patreon account, but if you want to sign up, you want more information, check out patreon.com backslash Chick Foley show. Now, Alexa, who is this? Who are you? That's AC3.
00:00:46
Speaker
I'm gonna take over this interview now, okay? I got some rapid fire questions. Who are you? What does EC3 mean? Where are EC1 and 2? Who does your hair? Are you a Creed fan? You look like a Creed fan to me.
Hosts' Locations and Personal Discussions
00:01:22
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Chick Foley show. I am Phil Gentile, AKA The Hot Take Kid. I am in the in-laws suite here at the on location at the in-laws house. And Sheena Phelps, Chick Foley is a across the country. I'm Honolulu. How are you Sheena? I'm good. I am not in my in-laws suite, AKA the parents' basement. So how's it going over there?
00:01:52
Speaker
Not too bad. I got some some home cooked meals. Got the commute is a little bit longer, which isn't fun, but everything else has been pretty good.
Setting Up and Discussing Patreon Content
00:01:59
Speaker
Got help with the young in and was able to go out and watch the Super Bowl at a buddy's house and have the have the mother-in-law watch the kids. So that was cool. So it's got some perks. It's it's going to get old in a couple of weeks, but you know.
00:02:12
Speaker
Yeah, they're making some good progress on the house on the steel class. It's looking good. It's looking good. The, uh, the Mark cave 2.0 hasn't started yet, but, uh, you know, the kitchen's looking like it's almost a getting there. So yeah, it's, it's, it's coming along.
00:02:26
Speaker
priorities, priorities. You got to have the kitchen first. You can move back in without the Mark Cave, but you got to have a place to fry some eggs. I know, I know for sure. I got the detail ready to go. We got a pretty cool show here. Let's give a shout out. We set up a Patreon account about a week ago. We've been working on it for about a month or two, me and Sheena, and we released the details on the show last week.
00:02:48
Speaker
And nothing with the show that we currently record is changing at all. We're still going to do a free episode for you guys each and every single week. But we're going to do some cool extra content for people. We've had a good number of people sign up, which has been awesome. And we give them a shout at the beginning of the show. We'll get to their names in a minute. But we just want everyone to check it out. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley show, Sheena.
00:03:09
Speaker
A lot of cool stuff. You recorded a unboxing video and put it up there on a YouTube link and I'm working on an article for my WrestleMania dream card for WrestleMania 35. So we're going to have a bunch of cool stuff on there. It's going to be a pretty fun spot for people to kind of hang out and check out some extra content.
00:03:27
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I'm excited about it. I've recorded the Unboxed Mania. We used to do it live on the Instagram stories, but it's actually really nice to record a full video and put it on YouTube. We've had so many people ask us to do unboxings on YouTube. So if that's something that you're into or something that you're interested in, head over to Patreon, man. We're going to start cranking them out because you know the Foley fam, we get figs all the time over here.
00:03:49
Speaker
For sure. I had some cool ideas of some future shows. I went to the Patreons and asked them what they want our first exclusive episode to be, and it's going to be our first bracket. We're going to do the 32 best gimmicks in wrestling history, and we're going to do a March Madness style bracket with 32. We're going to pick them out, and me and you are going to go match up by match up. It's going to be pretty fun, and we're going to let the Patreons pick what we'll do every single month.
00:04:17
Speaker
I'm excited, man. I had an idea for some ideas for a WWE Network potential show. So I want to do an episode with you on that. I want to see that new page movie coming out and we can do a movie review. So there's a bunch of cool stuff, but like I said, nothing's going to change with the current podcast. It ranges from $1, $5, $10.
00:04:36
Speaker
all the way up to 50, uh, definitely check it out. If you're a friend of the show where this is not me and Sheena are not going to buy a Gucci shoes with this money. We are using it for, you know, equipment for the, uh, the podcast, uh, speak for yourself. Well, yeah, I can. Uh, but, uh, some figures to give away some shirts and stuff, but yeah, anything to help create the, uh, you know, grow the podcast bigger is going to, is what we're going to use it for.
Merchandise and Listener Engagement
00:05:00
Speaker
So it'll be pretty good. Yep.
00:05:03
Speaker
And we want to give a shout out to those folks right now. So we did the beginning of the show. Mike Lanham is one of them. John Mazzafaro. Yeah, buddy. Dustin Sadak, who I just started following on Instagram. And he actually should be hosting the show with you because he has a sick collection of all kinds of not just wrestling figures. He is on Instagram. It's a Dustin underscore WWF, I believe it is.
00:05:28
Speaker
And he's got lots of, he's into horror too, which is right up my alley. So yeah, he's killing it. I thank God every night I'm not into that NECA stuff because I can see it's a slippery, the more and more I see you posting stuff about him and AJ posting stuff about him, there's some pretty cool looking figures. And AJ is another one, AJ Sawyer, you can follow him on Instagram. Big Mouth. Yeah, Big Mouth AJ. So, and Johnny I believe is,
00:05:55
Speaker
You can follow John on Instagram at SuperNerdyToys and then you can follow Mike at Mike Lanham, L-A-N-H-A-M. Those are our four Patreons so far. We hope to get some more. If you listen to the show, definitely check it out and we won't bug you about that anymore. But yeah, we definitely have some cool stuff in the pipeline for that. So check that out there.
00:06:16
Speaker
Check us out and shoot us any questions or thoughts, concerns at AskChickFoli at gmail.com or slip into the DMs over at ChickFoli and always use the hashtag AskChickFoli for any listener questions. We have some shirts available at ProWrestlingTease.com and right now I'm going to send Sheena a email with our newest design.
00:06:40
Speaker
Done by our buddy Jason Wolf. Before I let the cat out of the bag, we're not going to post this to any social media yet. I wanted her to see it. I reached out to him. He's Jason WLF on Twitter. He does some cool work for the Fully Opposable podcast. I wanted to reach out to him and see if he could do something for us.
00:07:00
Speaker
Man we have it. We have some live reaction here. This is new. I have not seen this yet. So you have it pulled up Yeah, I'm the only one I've seen this me and Jason He did all the work. I just came up with the idea. Oh Man I am digging it how sick is that right? Oh
00:07:18
Speaker
It is the sickness. I cannot wait to buy it. I'm going to buy like 10 shirts of that and that's all I'm going to wear. I'm already envisioning all my action figures wearing this shirt. Oh, there you go. Yeah. We're going to post this photo onto the Patreon so those folks will be able to see it first and then we'll get it up onto Instagram and Twitter and all those places probably in the next week or so. So check it out.
00:07:40
Speaker
for there. And our shirts are available on ProWrestlingTees.com. So that's all the plugging that I want to do right now. Sheena, you have a couple of things you want to touch on before we get into Roland Smackdown? Oh, yeah, for sure, man. We have our buddies over for the title. I don't know if you guys, I mean, I've talked about them on the stories and stuff, but I love, I love their stuff. I have their championship edition of their first comic and it is just so mage. So
00:08:07
Speaker
They have a Kickstarter going on for their incredible webcomic for the title. And like I said, I've been a fan of these guys for a long time and I, they are just, I cannot wait to get my hands on the complete series. So that's what they're putting together with their Kickstarter is every single panel that they've ever put together on their Instagram.
00:08:24
Speaker
in one place for you to just, you know, and just take all in and I'm super pumped. So make sure you go over to app for the title and check out their stuff and then go to, they have a link in their bio for their Kickstarter page and they have all kinds of different amazing tiers with all kinds of different prizes and things like that. And I love them just because they like, they support all kinds of other Mark artists and let people draw panels for them. You can get drawn into a panel yourself, which I think is super cool. So definitely check those guys out and support them.
00:08:51
Speaker
Nice, yeah, we'll post the link onto Instagram and Twitter in the next 24 hours or so, so check that out there. We also wanted to let everyone know to check us out on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and give us a review. If you do listen on iTunes, give us a five-star review if you can. We are doing a Dean Ambrose Memorial Elite giveaway at the end of this show.
WWE Raw Analysis: Dean Ambrose and Becky Lynch
00:09:12
Speaker
What are the qualifications that people have to do for that?
00:09:15
Speaker
So in honor of Dean leaving the WWE, we decided that we had to give away the Elite 63 Dean Ambrose figure to one lucky mark. So what they had to do is send us a DM or an email at AskChickFully at gmail.com and let us know what they think Dean's going to do after with all of his newfound free time now that he's no longer going to be on the road with WWE all year.
00:09:38
Speaker
We got some amazing responses We picked our top three that we're gonna be reading at the at the end of the show and we're gonna be announcing our winner But guys, thank you all so much for participating some of these got some of these gave us literal lol So I'll see what I can do about getting all the different ones posted in the story So you guys can can read all the ones that we got but we will be announcing the winners and our top three Here on the show today
00:10:01
Speaker
Very nice, we had Dean Ambrose at the intro of the podcast this week with his appearance on Raw, who since he's an announcer, since the WWE has announced that he's leaving, he seems to be turning a corner, man. He's pretty entertaining and one of the few bright spots of Raw this week. Give me your overall thoughts on this episode of Raw as we're kind of in the, we're on the road to WrestleMania, but we're still at the wah wah, getting some snacks before we get on the highway.
00:10:29
Speaker
Oh man. Um, I thought overall, okay, overall raw was pretty lackluster in my opinion. Like nothing really happened. It was kind of boring. Um, you know, I hate to come on here and just like trash and be negative. There were some like really, really high spots. So, um, I don't want to like crap all over it because there was, um, the Becky stuff at the top of the show was really amazing. Um, but other than that, I just felt like,
00:10:55
Speaker
I mean EC3 and Dean Ambrose fought which like you said I thought that was pretty cool like they were clowning on each other and then there was the whole Alexa Bliss EC3 like sexual tension awkwardness that I didn't understand. But yeah, I think Dean's lost all his give a F's and he's just kind of like he's pretty awesome right now even though he's losing all the time.
00:11:17
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it is interesting because I, you know, I thought this was a total, and I don't know if it's still a work or not because it's, it's interesting. It's, they're kind of blurring the lines here, but if he was off, if he was going to be off television, if he was, you know, they would probably just sit him on the shelf and not use him. So for him to be on the show prominently, like he is, I got to feel like he's maybe just taking a break or, you know, kind of taking six months to rest up, but that doesn't make sense either because he just came back from an injury where he was out for, you know, almost a year. So, uh,
00:11:47
Speaker
Either way, I think it's I think it's real man. I think he's gone I think literally it's just a matter of they're gonna use him until Until it's over and then you know, I think I think he's gone after that I first I was wondering whether I was getting worked because I have to admit sometimes I get worked like I hate to admit that but after all these years sometimes I still get worked and That's a good thing. That means they're doing something right if they can work somebody who's been watching the product for that long, you know, I
00:12:14
Speaker
True. True. But sometimes I feel like a mark. I'm like, Oh God, I totally got worked, you know? Um, but I, like I said, I try to keep things like on a surface level and watch for enjoyment. So I think that's probably why I get worked. But I think this is legit. Um, because like you said, like we said last week, like this is unprecedented. Like we've never had WWE just announced someone out of the company before their actual release, especially months in advance, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:38
Speaker
It's kind of weird, but I'm really afraid of what they're doing with Becky Lynch because I'm about 100% sure that now Stephanie McMahon is going to be inserted as some sort of special referee for this match. Now that they're going to be honoring Ric Flair next week, I know Charlotte's going to be there on Raw and I really hope we're not getting a triple threat. I was really hoping to see Rhonda and Becky as
00:13:01
Speaker
Charlotte's probably my favorite wrestler in the WWE, so I'm not shitting on her there. But I just wanted to see that one on one match and I don't like where this is going. I know we have 60 days until it happens, but still.
00:13:14
Speaker
Yeah, you know, Becky, for both shows, Becky was single-handedly the best thing on both shows this week. I mean, her moment with Stephanie and all that was awesome. The moment with Triple H was incredible. And you know, my knee-jerk reaction was kind of the same as you, right? It was to hate the suspension angle, because I knew, once that was happening, I knew exactly what they were doing. You know, they were trying to find a way to slide Charlotte into it. But after giving it a while to digest,
00:13:42
Speaker
I really do like where they're going with it. You know, when Triple H was talking to her about being afraid of Rhonda and like clawing up and kind of like self-sabotaging, I loved this buildup for the match. But what I'm afraid of is, like you said, like they're gonna insert Charlotte and the payoff is not gonna be as satisfying. Exactly, yeah. But I think they're just going to,
00:14:08
Speaker
They're going to protect Rhonda. I mean, I love Rhonda. I think she should be protected because she is a legitimate fighter. But I do think this is Becky's moment. As much as I hate to like, you know, I would hate to see Rhonda get beat on the grandest stage of them all. This is Becky's moment. And my in my opinion, they're going to have Charlotte come in, be the sacrificial lamb kind of like how Roman was at 31. So they still protected Brock because
00:14:31
Speaker
Seth got the pin on Roman. I think it's going to be the same situation. They're going to protect Rhonda. Becky's going to get the pin on Charlotte. Then Becky will still have her WrestleMania moment. It doesn't degrade Rhonda at all.
00:14:47
Speaker
That's not what I'm there for. I've seen Charlotte and Becky fight before. I know they can beat each other. I've seen that Charlotte can dominate Rhonda. I'm there to see head-to-head Becky versus Rhonda square off.
00:15:05
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. That's what we've been kind of led to believe for so long. And what I don't want to do is then we get a Rhonda-Becky match at extreme rules in some throwaway thing, which they do way too often. If they're going to do this, then still save that nut until SummerSlam or something when we get the one-on-one.
00:15:27
Speaker
but they need to do it now they need to do it now because the thing about the WWE is like you never know like the audience is fickle fickle you know so you you have no idea what's gonna happen by you know SummerSlam I mean
00:15:42
Speaker
There could be a whole new landscape of injuries by summer. Yeah, exactly. You never know what can happen. Who's going to get called up. So you have to capitalize on this right freaking now while it's red hot. You know, if you don't give it to us at mania, it's never going to be the same. It's, it's like the, the shield reunion, you know, they kept dragging it on and something kept happening, you know,
00:16:01
Speaker
roman got suspended and then there was injuries and it just never quite came together and we never got that satisfactory moment i mean we got a shield reunion but it wasn't what we all anticipated the the shield reunion to be like you know um and i think that's what what will happen if they just don't give us becky and ronda head to head at at mania you know and initially when we were doing our tlc preview you know i was thinking remember i was like
00:16:22
Speaker
you know, Becky's gonna win the Rumble, Charlotte's gonna have the SmackDown title, and then, you know, Becky's gonna go for both titles. And I thought, like, that would be a cool angle for that, you know? But now that Asuka's the champ and it doesn't seem that that's gonna be the case, like, I think Charlotte just waters down this whole feud. Like, she's kind of like a wet blanket on this, like, burning hot coal, you know? I totally agree. And I was kind of puzzled why Sasha Banks cries after every single match now.
00:16:51
Speaker
Oh, God. I mean, she's done that for years, Lord. She can't keep it together. And I love Sasha. Like, I think she's a great athlete. And I think she's a great, you know, I think she has a great character. But God, I'm so tired of women crying. So this was a throwaway match on Raw. This wasn't like they didn't win the tag team titles or something. This was just a regular match on Raw. And she's like getting emotional and hugging, you know, they're hugging after the match. That just, you know, kind of ruins it.
00:17:19
Speaker
Kurt Angle was gonna make some sort of announcement. I guess we were led to believe he was gonna retire and then he ends up wrestling in a tag team match with Braun Strowman against- I don't even wanna talk about this. That literally, I am so over this. I can't even take it. What is it doing for anyone to beat up old Kurt Angle? You know what I'm saying? And why Baron Corbin? Why is Baron Corbin? I like Corbin, but why is he still in this
00:17:49
Speaker
the front and center of Raw.
00:17:51
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, and I was hoping for bigger things for McIntyre after the Rumble and doesn't seem like getting that. And Strowman is just, you know, Strowman a year ago was, was the hottest thing in wrestling and now we're kind of treading water. So I guess the best match on Raw was, was that Leo Rush match against, uh, that was a really good match. And it seems like every episode has that one, that one, you know, besides that, I can't think of another match that stood out, but that was a really good match.
00:18:20
Speaker
Yeah, it was surprising. But again, I don't like anything that has to do with Bobby Lashley. I do love Finn Balor and those white boots, though. I like that look. I didn't even notice. I guess I was working out while Raw was on. So I was just tuning in. I wasn't even paying attention to Finn's boots. But now I'll have to go back and get you. You wore the same ones for Royal Rumble. Just changed his look up a little bit.
00:18:45
Speaker
Let's see, what else is it? There wasn't too much to talk about. I mean, the EC3 thing was weird. He's still kind of not talking and Dean Ambrose came out. And then it's just another weird segment with Naya and Tamina coming out and then Dean Ambrose coming. I just don't know where they're going with all this stuff. Are we getting closer to inner gender tag team matches or what's the end game here?
00:19:07
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know either. Well, and I mean, they're going to have, I think moment of bliss is just going to have to go. I had really high hopes for it, but it, every time I see it is going to be on raw. I'm like, Oh my gosh, like get this off my television. And Alexa is so amazing in so many ways. And she is like, you would, you would think on paper that moment of bliss is just going to be incredible, but they have like totally F'd it up. I mean, having like Otis come out and be like a weird perv,
00:19:34
Speaker
And EC3 come out and be grunting and whatnot covered in Vaseline or baby oil or whatever. I don't know. Not for me. I sat on those white seats. I was like, oh, man, don't sit on that white stool with just your man panties on. Yeah, put a coat on or something. I know. It's going to be totally brown when he stands up. He's got on so much fake tan, fake, fake.
WWE SmackDown Recap and Criticisms
00:20:01
Speaker
Is there anything, there was nothing really from SmackDown, good or bad? I did like the promo from Daniel Bryan at the end, we just kind of went off on everybody, but other than that. Yeah, Daniel Bryan, let me just say, obviously you guys know I'm all in on the new Daniel Bryan, but I just loved how he was like,
00:20:23
Speaker
home you know he was the hometown boy um so he was getting cheered and Daniel Bryan is so brilliant that even though he is a like hardcore heel he managed to cut a baby face promo for the home like the home crowd because they were cheering him and still turned it around to like a heel promo because he was like
00:20:42
Speaker
I know you guys understand here. You guys know we need change. But unfortunately, I have to present to a global audience these idiots. And I was just like, God, Daniel is so freaking good. Yeah, that was really cool.
00:20:57
Speaker
Yeah, he was really good and obviously the Triple H thing, I thought Triple H freaking nailed that segment in the beginning of the show with like coming out and telling Charlotte like this has nothing to do with you, like go back to the locker room and whatever and then just like basically like setting everything up and like elevating, I thought he did a really good job elevating the Becky and Rhonda match to make us just like blood thirsty for it.
00:21:24
Speaker
Yes, but is he a heel now because this wasn't he just telling Seth Rollins that he wanted the old Seth Rollins back and kind of like pushing him to be you know To win and then now he's you know doing the exact opposite to Becky. I don't think no I don't think he's a heel because he came out to try to like make peace like he basically came out and was like Becky like, you know You're suspended because you wouldn't go to the doctor. Well, then Becky I mean if you're gonna call someone a heel in this situation It was definitely Becky because Becky was just like poking the bear, you know He tried to leave the ring and then she provoked him by saying like
00:21:54
Speaker
Well, is Stephanie medically cleared or how is Stephanie, you know, so yeah, you know She took a shot at his wife after you know, she had basically like, you know attacked Stephanie the night before So yeah, he had to he had to step up and like show his dominance So I don't necessarily think it was like a heel move I think it was just like a power move like, you know, all right Like you want to play hardball like this is what I think And I thought it was brilliant and I thought she played it off brilliant like her facial expressions are just like
00:22:23
Speaker
I don't know, like that smug smile and like she was like literally like an inch away from Triple H's face. And I was just like, Oh my gosh, this is so intense. You know, this, uh, this elimination chamber is going to be awesome. Um, I mean, I don't think they're going to take the belt off of Daniel Bryan after just giving him a brand new, you know, planet eco safe, uh, championship belt, but, uh, you got some six, six bad-ass guys in that match. It's going to be fun to watch.
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah and you know what's cool about this elimination chamber is that like all of these guys have like intermingling storylines that I think have just really played into this actually meaning something and like the title means something you know like Daniel Bryan like he is like that he stands for like that title represents everything about him so it is important to him and like you know these people are coming to try to take it away and I think that's what makes matches so interesting is because there's something to lose like
00:23:17
Speaker
For me, Brock Lesnar, with the Universal title, it's basically just like he doesn't care about the Universal title. It's just like a prop. He's had a million championships, right? He's like, ah, it's whatever. I'm just another champion in WWE. Versus Daniel Bryan, I feel the passion there. I'm rooting for him and I want him to win.
00:23:40
Speaker
I guess they're going to keep Asuka off the show to kind of have people forget that she beat Becky Lynch, which makes sense to me. She hasn't been on SmackDown since the Rumble, I don't think. It makes no sense to me. I'm thinking to myself like,
00:23:56
Speaker
I get it, whatever, if there's not room on the card for her to have a match, because SmackDown is really, all the women are already in the elimination chamber, so they're kind of limited on their female roster on SmackDown anyway, and all the good women are in the elimination chamber. But at least show her backstage, at least show her coming in contact with Becky or Charlotte or somebody, just set something up, have her walking with the title over her shoulder. She beat Becky clean.
00:24:26
Speaker
At the Royal Rumble and then just like disappears like I I can't understand it. That was weird. Yeah Did we see another Rey Mysterio? Andrade match in this on this on Smackdown?
00:24:42
Speaker
No, it was a promo. They didn't actually fight, but they did a, but, um, Selena Vega came and cut. Like she did like a backstage promo segment. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hoping they can save that for, for WrestleMania, but I mean, they've, they've fought, you know, handful of times now, but still that, that feels like a WrestleMania worthy match.
00:25:00
Speaker
Yeah, I think I think both that that's always gonna be good I mean it's always gonna be exciting even if you don't care about either one of those guys Or they don't have anything on the line like that's gonna be a damn good match Can we talk about how all of a sudden rusev and shinsuke are a tag team like yeah weren't they just fighting for the US title?
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah, they were. Speaking of the US title, it wasn't even on television this week. Our truth was nowhere to be found. So we didn't have the women's title on TV and we didn't have our truth on TV. The Elias heel turn and the Rusev heel turn both were confusing. I mean, Rusev is one of the most over guys
00:25:40
Speaker
out there. I mean the Rusev Day thing was huge and still without eating English it's still over big time and now turning him heel I guess I don't really know what the deal is there. I was hoping to see, I was hoping Rusev would get a push after losing the title and I feel like, I'll give a spoiler alert, I'm making that article for the Patreon account, my dream WrestleMania 35 card. I would love to see Daniel Bryan defend the belt against Rusev. I think you could do something fun with that and
00:26:08
Speaker
Rusev can be like, hey, I came to this country. I used to hate the US, and now I love it here, blah, blah, blah. You're shitting on it, basically. It could be a cool thing. And you could elevate someone like him to main event status pretty easily. But the tag team thing, I guess they just need, they don't need another tag team on SmackDown. Right, exactly, exactly. I mean, I guess they're trying to maybe shake up the tag team division on SmackDown, but why wouldn't you bring in an actual
00:26:34
Speaker
tag team from raw or something. You know what I'm saying? Like bring over tag team that is legit instead of just like throwing these two guys who were formerly enemies a week ago, um, together and just calling, like calling them a tag team. Um, so yeah, it's like this week was very confusing. I was like, you know, like I said, both days I was doing my workout while I was watching it. Cause I was like, there's really nothing happening here. I'm not going to just like sit down and take all this in. So, um, I,
00:27:02
Speaker
I mean, other than the Becky stuff and then the Daniel Bryan stuff, you know, that's pretty much all there was going on. But hopefully next week, maybe we'll get a nice set up for next week.
00:27:12
Speaker
It's going to be interesting to see how they get all of these people on to WrestleMania. There's always at least one triple threat or four-way title match.
Review and Analysis of Halftime Heat
00:27:23
Speaker
I don't see that happening this year. Maybe with the US or the Intercontinental titles they'll do that. But I think all the main titles, the championships are going to be a one-on-one match except for maybe the women's
00:27:35
Speaker
Match so well, there's so many titles now. Like, how do you decide what's getting what's getting defended on mania? You know, I mean, there are so many with women's tag and then, you know, both brands sets of titles. And then, like, you know, do you have like, I don't know, it's it's it's just crazy. It's going to be like a 12 hour show and it needs to be broken up into two days.
00:27:56
Speaker
Yeah, if people say that, I thought it would be stupid. But that would be pretty awesome. I don't know how you would keep the hype going for two days. It would be like a music festival or something. Yeah, I've heard that too. And part of me is like excited about that. Hopefully they don't run out of water. Yeah, like the fire festival. Yeah, that's what it would be like. It would be like a total fire festival situation. Like, what? I'm here for the first day of WrestleMania and there's no matches?
00:28:25
Speaker
But yeah, I think I could be down for that. But then part of me is like, why don't they just make it a really good show and cut out all the fluff? Why do we have to be here for eight hours? True. Yeah, put it on a different night or put something on. Do a build-up show the night before or something. I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of things you can do. But yeah, Raw and SmackDown were kind of a letdown. But I think this is building to the elimination chamber. And we'll see what happens there.
00:28:55
Speaker
Yeah, I had some good thoughts on halftime heat. I think if you did not watch that and you watched that awful Super Bowl and you didn't want to be the nerd and ask your friends to change the channel to a WWE Network, you missed out. It was pretty fun. It was a spot fest 100%, but I think in that scenario, it's basically an exhibition match, you know? And it felt like it wasn't, you know, it was spotty, but it was
00:29:21
Speaker
you know, exactly what you wanted in a 25 minute match with all those guys. It was fun. It was really fun. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it was definitely fast paced. I mean, all of those guys are awesome. The crowd was the crowd was super into it. I mean, there was lots of like, this is awesome chance and fight forever chance and all those things, which I thought was awesome. And they actually filmed it at the performance center. So I guess Seth told me that they were doing tours of the performance center and then just like told everybody, like, hey, we're going to have a show like come in here and you know,
00:29:49
Speaker
Yeah, so I thought that was pretty cool that they filmed it there instead of filming it at full sale. And then we had Shawn Michaels and Vic Joseph on commentary, which was interesting. I thought they did a good job. Oh, you thought Shawn Michaels did a good job? That was one of my notes.
00:30:07
Speaker
Go ahead and give your thoughts. His voice is not suited for commentary, I have to say. No, it's not. It's very husky. But he's a very knowledgeable dude, so he's down there with those guys pretty regularly. You always get the nostalgia feels, even seeing Shawn Michaels, even someone like myself, who's like Team Bret Hart versus Shawn Michaels. You always still get the nostalgia feels anytime you see Shawn Michaels.
00:30:30
Speaker
The whole time I was watching that, I was thinking, man, I wish this was on NBC or USA because this is what, if you want to get people to subscribe for the network and know who these guys are before they come up, get this in front of as many fucking eyeballs as you can. I mean, how many people were somewhere where they could watch this during the actual Super Bowl? I wasn't. I was at a buddy's house and not everyone is watching it by themselves at their house and can switch over to the WWE network at the
00:30:59
Speaker
Well, true. They were streaming it on all their social platforms, too. So I mean, if you had you if you were on their Facebook, OK, that's good, whatever. Yeah. So they were streaming it on all those platforms, too. But yeah, you don't want to be like the nerd in the corner, like watching, you know, halftime heat, which I wouldn't give a crap. I mean, if you're a nerd, if you're sitting there watching that, like.
00:31:17
Speaker
I was going to say, yeah. Maroon 5. Speaking of botchomania, like that was serious. Trust me, everyone I was with would have much rather watched this wrestling match, and none of them were wrestling fans, because that was awful. Yeah, I didn't even watch it, but I just watched the backlash of it, you know? And then you didn't have Drake come out. There was only like, you know, it was just bad.
00:31:36
Speaker
Bad, bad, bad. I've talked about it before on the show, Sheena. I love when I watch a wrestling match and there's something I've never seen before. And there was a move where Ricochet launched Gargano into Champa, and Champa had Gargano under his arm. And then we saw Ricochet reverse bulldog Champa, and it caused him to basically DDT Gargano all in one move. And I was like, what is this? This is so cool. Why have I never seen this before?
00:32:04
Speaker
And then Ricochet, who I've never been a huge fan of, he always starts the match out with those like bouncing across the ropes, kind of like flippity doo moves. But by the end of the match, he had won me over. He did that Panama surprise, which I think that's what it's called.
00:32:22
Speaker
To Adam Cole Adam Cole jumped off the top rope and he kind of caught him and did like a I don't even know I had to rewind it like three times I couldn't understand how physically it was able to happen and shout out to my buddy Zach Eagle off who said the same thing we were talking about the match and He was the star of this thing for me besides Alistair Black and and and he's the guy who's ready We've talked about in the show. I mean get this guy up onto the main roster ASAP. I
00:32:46
Speaker
Yeah, Alastair is definitely ready for the main roster. But yeah, I thought halftime heat was cool. I wish they would do more stuff like that, just kind of give us those little one-off shows. Because it wasn't anything that was meant to completely further any storylines. I mean, obviously, Velveteen Dream won and got the opportunity to challenge for a title shot. But it was just meant to be a really good
00:33:11
Speaker
Good fun match and also did you notice they had a chick referee which I was super pumped about I was like, you know, her name's Jessica Carr But yeah, she was refereeing and I was like, oh man. Love this. Yeah, I noticed her at the Royal Rumble I think she was one of the refs outside for a lot of the for the both of the Royal Rumble matches Like just making sure people's feet hit the hit the mat. But yeah, I remember hearing reading an article about her She's like the first ever woman referee, which is pretty cool.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yeah, it is cool.
Discussion on Action Figures and Collectibles
00:33:40
Speaker
I
00:33:40
Speaker
What about dreams football gear? I totally popped for that. That was cool. Yeah, I was so there for that. What a push for him and you win the world's collide tournament thingamabobber before Royal Rumble and you get the pin at halftime heat.
00:33:54
Speaker
And I guess that means he gets a title match of his choosing on NXT coming up. Yeah, they are definitely strapping the the rocket ship to to Velveteen Dream, which he totally deserves. I love Velveteen Dream. So I'm excited to see where he goes and what he does with it. And, you know, whether it's just whether it's strapping the rocket ship to him in NXT or whether it's going to be like shooting him up to the main roster to see what he does there. But either way, I'm there for it. I love Dream.
00:34:22
Speaker
Cool. All right. Well, we recap Ron Smackdown. We talked about that halftime heat. Let's get into our weekly go figure segment.
00:34:42
Speaker
All right, folks, this is our weekly go figure segment. This is when Sheena and I talk about the weekly purchases we've made for action figures and whatnot over the last week since we last recorded. So this is, we're going to get into it now. We'll start, I don't know, let Sheena start here. I feel like I always let her start, but let's go with Sheena here. Awesome. So we had a good week here. It was light on quantity, but it was definitely some quality. So we got Elite series.
00:35:12
Speaker
to Triple H. Wow. I know. Way back. Throwback. So we got Elite Series to Triple H. So he comes with like the the stylized like King of Kings like cloth t-shirt. He's got like the black trunks with the Triple H logo, you know, elbow pads, knee pads, wrist wraps, the whole Triple H, you know, gimmick. And then he's got his sledgehammer and a water bottle that it comes with, too, which is pretty cool.
00:35:37
Speaker
Um, yeah, and he's got like the goatee and the long blonde hair. Um, it's, it's just a super, a super dope figure. I'm super pumped to like add it to the collection. Um, and then we also got the WrestleMania 35 Charlotte, uh, the, you know, gold gear and for a base, it's a basic. So for a basic, it was just like such a nice figure. I mean, she looks amazing. Um, but I feel like most all Charlotte figures pretty much come out awesome. Um, so we got that. And then.
00:36:06
Speaker
We got the ECW ringside exclusive CM pump. Oh, I saw that on your IG. That looks better than the S. Yeah, it comes with the ECW championship, a microphone, the molded skeleton shirt. It comes in the red box. It is freaking amazing. So I'm super pumped. And all you guys, if you are a Patreon subscriber, we are going to do an unboxing over there. So if you are an MOC, because this is a
00:36:36
Speaker
you know, harder to find figure. Um, so it's going to be kind of like a snuff film for you guys. So I don't want you to be like heartbroken when you see me like break this guy out of his plastic prison. So, um, you know, just know that we're going to be doing that this week over on the Patreon. So if that's going to be something you're sensitive to or something that's going to trigger you, um, you have been warned.
00:36:55
Speaker
Hashtag triggered. Yeah, I like that and I'm not as nice to look at as Sheena is but I am doing an unboxing of retro series 7 this weekend and I'm gonna Unlock those bad boys and pull those out. So yeah, that's not my purchases But I just want to let everyone know that so if you haven't gotten the hint already sign up for patreon and we both have young children to feed and And all that
00:37:20
Speaker
And figures to buy for you guys. Exactly, exactly. I picked up, just in the last 24 hours, I picked up Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose retro figures from GameStop for like six bucks and chains on clearance. All the clearance stuff at GameStop is 50% off right now, so head over there if you can. And I didn't have either of those guys loose, so I have them on mint on card. So I'm going to pull those guys out of their plastic prison and add them to the fray.
00:37:48
Speaker
And I went on a little bit of a Hasbro bender. Well, first I want to give a shout out to, I talked about this last week, Christopher Dean, a listener of ours, sent me an elite Isaac Gankham DDS figure on the house free of charge. He has a buddy out in California, Anthony, who runs Frank and Son Collectible Show.
00:38:07
Speaker
which is, if you Google it, it looks like a toy paradise. It's just a giant warehouse full of like, almost like a flea market setup of just different stalls of toys and wrestlers. You've heard of it? Oh, we've been, yeah. We went to WrestleMania, we went to
00:38:26
Speaker
Or no, no, no, no, it was a win over to WrestleMania. I went to visit Seth when he was in San Diego, that's what it was. I went to visit Seth and we drove down and went to Frank and Sons and oh my gosh, like it is, like you could get lost in there. And if you're like a collector, oh my gosh, it is insanity. I mean, someone like ourselves, like we were just like looking at everything, like holy smokes. Cause even stuff you don't collect, like it just like stuff that you had when you were a kid or stuff that you didn't even know existed.
00:38:55
Speaker
I mean, it is just like stuff that you can't even I mean if you've ever heard of it, it's there Yeah, I'll post the picture to the Twitter account at chick Foley show But it looks like I could spend like two days in this place and I would I would probably have to mortgage my house But yeah, they sent me this, you know, that's the cool thing about the fake community Just sent me a Isaac gankham on the house didn't ask for any kind of you know plug or anything but shout out to those guys I did pick up a nails
00:39:24
Speaker
Rick Flair and Macho Man with the full entrance gear Tassles Hasbro's from my boy Hastell Toy. That's H-A-S-T-T-E-L-T-O-Y on Instagram. If you collect Hasbro's, you have to hit my boy up because he's got all these things. They look like they were just made like six months ago. These things are in like mint condition.
00:39:48
Speaker
and definitely a reasonable price for them ships them out and I got it like less than two days I think it was like I think it was exactly two days when I bought them so super fast shipping and then a friend off of a Facebook group Andy Brown shout out to Wrestling Figures Anonymous on Facebook one of the
00:40:07
Speaker
the Facebook groups I belong to, Rick Martell, Virgil, El Matador, Tito Santana, and Sargent Slaughter. So in the course of a week, I drained the bank account a little bit, but I picked up close to eight Hasbros. I'm circling in Sheena. I have almost all of everything except for the final series, which is pretty pricey.
00:40:30
Speaker
Hey, but listen, like we talked about last week, you're getting that Xfinity money. Or was it Xfinity or DirecTV? Xfinity, yeah. Yeah, you got that Xfinity check that you don't got to spend every month now. You got that in-law television. There you go. Yep, yep, yep. That's what's going on. So just some news and notes from the figure world. Not too much going on. I've been to stores up and down
00:40:54
Speaker
Walmart's targets, I've been trying to find these retro series eight. They haven't been out yet. The NXT series four you have here that they were found in California, which I haven't seen them anywhere else, but looks like people are finding them now, which is good.
00:41:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, they've been spotted. We stopped at our targets around here, obviously a no go for the island. But for all you people who are looking for them, you guys are in luck. I don't know, most of you guys, if you know about BrickSeek, but it is a inventory tracker where you can go. We had talked about it on the show before, but you can go and check Walmart, Target, their stock of things. And for Target, there's the DCPI code.
00:41:34
Speaker
Is what you need to look up? But what's super cool about NXT series 4 is this is the first time that? Each individual figure has had its own DC PI Before you would know like like NXT like this series NXT has a DC PI, right? So you got it in you didn't know like what like What series NXT it was or what figures it was because it was all just under that one stock number But wow
00:41:59
Speaker
Yeah, so this time they've actually given each figure its own DCPI. So I'm gonna give you the guys the number so you can get out and get to hunting for them and you can track them down at your local target. So you just go to brickseek.com and you go find your zip code and put it in your local target and then you're gonna put the DCPI in. So go to the target info tracker.
00:42:18
Speaker
And so what we usually do is like, we'll just check it like five o'clock in the morning, you know, each morning. It's just part of your morning routine. Check, check target. See if they got in, um, got in the NXT elites. Um, or, you know, you can do this for other figures as well. It's not just NXT. It's obviously they're all of their, their toys, but, um, uh, Alistair, you guys get your pen and paper or your nose app on your phone. Um, the Alistair black figure is a 0 8 7 0 6 1.
00:42:45
Speaker
266 is the DC PI for that for target. Um, drew is 0 8 7 0 6 2 5 7 4, uh, Ruby is 0 8 7 0 6 3 8 6 9. And then Killian is 0 8 7 0 2 5 5 0. Um, so.
00:43:09
Speaker
Definitely be checking for those. Happy hunting, you guys. I'm super pumped to get this series. This is one of the best series that's been out. And I'm super stoked to get these figures in hand. So I hope everyone who's looking for them can cop them.
00:43:23
Speaker
I was up in, uh, right outside of Philadelphia over the weekend for a, uh, a buddy of mine, his, uh, kid's birthday. So that me and the family went up there, spent the night and, uh, I made a quick trip to target the next morning after checking brick seat. They had, I didn't, I didn't check these individual numbers, but I, somebody had posted a link and I checked that they had eight NXT elites. And, uh, went in there and they were all Alexander Rusev's. So I was looking, I was trying to hook you up, Sheena. I was trying to hook you up, but, uh, it didn't happen.
00:43:53
Speaker
I noticed that too. A lot of Alexander Rusev just showed up out of nowhere. I'm like, what warehouse did these figures come from? These were not here, unless they were just hanging out in the back unnoticed, and then some poor stock person put them out. But yeah, we're flooded with Alexander Rusev. We have an Ember Moon too, I think. That's a cool thing. Yeah, that figure is freaking major. And the Rusev figure is cool too, but it's just like, why so many?
00:44:22
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, they definitely need to go to five below. Send those all to five below. Come on. And my targets still have some of the, now they have like the new day retros still like just kind of hanging around. And I don't, I don't know. I mean, we've, we've talked about the distribution issues. I mean, it's, uh, inconsistent. Yeah, it's definitely inconsistent. But sometimes I feel like
00:44:46
Speaker
You know, maybe that's just the thrill of the hunt it is our buddy thrilled a square circle photography was I saw was watching his Instagram stories the other day and he was He was talking about the Walmart tracking and I guess you know He gave her a number and she said that you know They can no longer look up individual numbers or whatever and he's like we got to go back to old school Just pounding the pavement, you know store to store, you know
00:45:09
Speaker
I just thought it was so funny because we get so spoiled being able to like look stuff up. On that note, if you do see those DCPIs in your target and they are not on the pegs, don't be afraid to ask a target associate to do their job and go to the back and get the figure for you. Um, you know, that's what they're there for. Um, don't be rude to them. Obviously, you know, lead with kindness, but I feel like, you know, if somebody's like, Oh, I don't want to ask somebody or if it's not on the, it's not on the peg, like, no, go make them walk their butts back there and check for you.
00:45:39
Speaker
Dude, and also, if you are worried at all, there's a Starbucks in like every Target, at least by me, offered to buy the dude like a cup of coffee or something, you know, for $3. I guarantee they're gonna move their ass and find that case of elite figures. Sometimes you gotta spend money to make money, baby.
00:45:58
Speaker
Exactly. This is not Black Friday. This is the middle of February and nobody out scavenging the toy sections. It's not a crazy time, right? They have the time to go look for these figures for you. As a former retail manager myself, believe me, I'm not just saying go out and harass your retail people. I can speak from experience. Just be kind and people will help you out. But like I said, don't be afraid to at least ask.
00:46:26
Speaker
For sure. We saw the first images of our retro fest, Mr. Perfect, which is going to be, I'm pretty sure this is going to remain a GameStop exclusive. It is. And it looks pretty badass. I bagged on the hacksaw Jim Duggan with the venom mouth, but I like this Mr. Perfect. This is with the Survivor Series 1992 getup.
00:46:50
Speaker
like it yeah yeah I was a little at first I was a little disappointed cuz you know mr. perfect like he's got all these like neon ish brightly colored singlets and stuff and I was kind of like oh it's like black and white but I mean it is a pretty iconic
00:47:05
Speaker
you know, look because it is the survivor series 92. Um, so you know, you can, you, when he can, it was when he can his comeback, right? Team with macho man to take on Rick flair and razor Ramone. So, you know, I, I give it to him. I'm, I'm, I'm definitely going to grab it. I'm definitely going to get it. But yeah, upon my initial like knee jerk reaction, I was like, Oh, black. What?
00:47:26
Speaker
Yeah, I was feeling the same way, but yeah, I came around. It's a clean look for sure. I do want to touch on the Retro Fest Macho Man and Shawn Michaels, which I paid like 30 bucks for, are now $10 at GameStop. So if you need that Macho Man, the USA outfit, yeah, 10 bucks. Anything clearance is 10 bucks at GameStop now.
00:47:50
Speaker
A lot of my stores still have those. I almost pulled the trigger on the Honky Tonk Man. He's 12 bucks. Oh my gosh. Why did you not pull the trigger on the Honky Tonk? That figure is awesome. I know. I just don't have any emotional tie to Honky Tonk Man. I'm doing a new generation collection. I'm doing the retro collection.
00:48:11
Speaker
you know my kid doesn't know who he is there's really no reason for me to own a honky tonk man figure i mean that is it is a badass looking figure though i'm if it's if it's 10 bucks it's nine dollars eventually which it's gonna be you know i mean it's three dollars it's a three dollar difference i know i got that what am i telling me get the next fin of the money baby i'm rolling in it man i'm gonna fur coat right now
00:48:34
Speaker
Oh man, you went to Burlington Coat Factory like Michael Scott. Exactly, yeah. Oh man. Good stuff. That's awesome. All right, well that's it right now for our Go Figure segment. I know they did release the images of some new pop vinyls. We can get into that next week. I'm not much of a pop vinyl guy. I don't know if you are at all. Yeah, well we collect WWE pops. I used to be hardcore into collecting pops. Okay, so I lie. I collect horror pops.
00:49:02
Speaker
and I collect WWE pops. And I used to collect like all kinds of different things. Star Wars, I mean you name it, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones. But man, it just, pop collecting is like, that is a rabbit hole that I mean you cannot, you just, you gotta, you gotta get out. You gotta get out of the pop game cause you're never gonna keep up. And I was collecting pops for a long time. Like my first like,
00:49:23
Speaker
Sheldon pop I had Sheldon from Big Bang Theory and I mean I had that thing for I think it was like 2012 and so that's how long I've been in the pop game but yeah the pop game moved faster than I ever could keep up and you know they just keep coming out with all these chases and stuff so we have we have it limited we have our horror pops and we do get all all the WWE and this this Funko said is actually pretty nice it's got the clear John Cena and then the Charlotte yeah it's dope
00:49:53
Speaker
I've made the decision to anything my son is interested in, like, you know, he's almost about to turn four. I'm going to grab a pop vinyl of everything. So he was into the Smurfs for a little while. I've got a pop of Smurf. He was in the Toy Story. He was in, you know, he's a John Cena fan. So I'm going to like, you know, from his entire, you know, childhood up, I'm just going to grab like whatever three things that he's into that year, I'm going to grab a pop vinyl and just have him like, you know, all displayed in his room.
00:50:19
Speaker
Yeah, that'll be, that'll be cute. And you can find anything. I mean, there are some obscure pops out there, like stuff that I've never, and I'm pretty knowledgeable about a lot, a wide range of things. And there is stuff that I've never even heard of, like the most like nichest of the niche people. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, there is a pop for everything. Um, but yeah, these WWE pops, there is a Ric Flair in the red and silver robe. Uh, and then there's a Charlotte and her green, like peacock gear. Um, and then there is Batista.
00:50:48
Speaker
And Randy Orton, um, are all part of it. Then there's a chase or an Amazon exclusive John Cena, which is pretty brilliant. Like I said, it is a clear, like completely clear figure playing off of the whole, like you can't see me, um, angle. And we had a follower, I think it was a follower who was like somebody, they should just have sold like an empty box. I'm just going to say, I saw that on Twitter for the, uh, for the, um, for the John Cena, but there's also a chase or no, it's not a footlocker exclusive of Charlotte that is in blue gear and.
00:51:15
Speaker
It's, they're both pretty awesome. So yeah, we'll be definitely getting all of those. Hopefully we'll be able to get our hands on the, the chases as well or the exclusives. Um, but yeah. Very nice onto our random merge of the week. And this is, this is pretty cool. This, this gives me a throwback to my high school, uh, Marlboro light days.
00:51:34
Speaker
Oh yeah, you were a smoker back in the middle days. Unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately I could pack a day and I quit that around right after college. But, uh, yeah. Marlboro, those are, that's a man's cigarette. Well, yeah, I was like, I'm Maryland. You weren't smoking those Virginia slams. Yeah. Yeah. So the random merch of the week, uh, is this set of three Sable
00:52:03
Speaker
cigarette lighter so I guess they're not cigarette lighters anymore they're just lighters but back in the day you still like cigarette lighters um and I mean it is like it's sable in like all of this like provocative like white wife beater tied up in the middle like with water pouring water on herself like yellow like string bikini and then just like this black like dominatrix get up on the lighters and I can't help but think to myself like I'm just like I almost want to buy it just to see if they're those type of lighters that like
00:52:33
Speaker
you can rub with your thumb and her top comes off. Do you remember those? No. Or like the heat of your finger, kind of like a mood ring type of thing. Is that what you're talking about? Oh my gosh, yes. I don't know if this was just like a southern thing. That sounds like a Kentucky thing, yeah.
00:52:49
Speaker
Yeah. Um, so there's these lighters that were like, you know, women in bikinis and you could get them at like, you know, I don't know, like wherever, like gas stations and stuff. Um, and you, if you'd like touch it with your thumb and like rub it, the heat of your thumb would like cause the woman's top to like, you know, invisible. It would like go away. Oh my God. That is classy.
00:53:09
Speaker
Oh, it's the, it's the classiest of the classy. Um, and they had like coffee mugs and stuff that too, like when you poured like hot coffee in them, it would like take the chicks, bikinis off with the heat. Yeah. So thermo, thermo technology is they definitely don't use thermo technology enough these days. Um,
00:53:27
Speaker
But yeah, I'm wondering, is this legit WWF merch or is this some sort of carnival fodder that came up?
Wrestling Match Recommendations
00:53:35
Speaker
We'll post a picture of it on the Instagram feed so you guys can look at it. But they're $5.75 with $3.99 shipping. I don't know if they work. I don't think it mentions if they work. But my question is, what are you going to say when the lady at the post office asks if you have anything like liquid, fragile, potentially hazardous?
00:53:52
Speaker
No, I'm just sending these like, you know, 21 year old lighters. Yeah, I saw the picture that you sent me and that was the most roll tide of Sable ever. That was a very defining moment of my teenage years when Sable was introduced to me. So I won't get into any more detail than that.
00:54:15
Speaker
Yeah, I always liked Sable. I don't know. Were you, in the Sable versus Sunny contest, who were you? Were you team Sable or were you team Sunny? I don't remember. I mean, I was definitely hardcore Sunny. I remember printing pictures of Sunny off on my parents' computer, like, you know, where it was just like, can't, can't, can't, can't, you know, just having like, you know, I was like, what am I gonna do? I don't know what I did with them.
00:54:38
Speaker
You hang them in your closet. That's what you do with them. There you go. Yeah. So yeah, I was a fan of both of them. Sunny for sure, probably for longer.
00:54:46
Speaker
Yeah. Well guys, if you're looking for a, um, you know, last minute Valentine's gift for, for your girl, we will, we will be posting up. Oh, actually, sorry. We missed out on this item. So you can't get it. It's sold or just ended. It's sold. So, um, well actually we'll have to go look and see if it, if it, nope, time left. It just ended. So maybe he relisted them. Hopefully he relisted them for you guys. And if there's a, if you have someone you love in your life,
00:55:10
Speaker
You can give them these sable lighters, and they can smoke their Virginia Slims. Or light their Yankee candles, whatever. There you go. Yeah, yeah. Give it to your grandma. She can light her candles on them. If you find any random merch on eBay, definitely hit us up at AskChickFoliAtGmail.com. If you do, we'll give you a shout out on the show. We love to hear from you guys on stuff like that. Let's go to our retro wrestling recommendation
Listener Feedback and Contest Winners
00:55:33
Speaker
of the week. I will start this one off.
00:55:35
Speaker
I wanted to do something February related and I went with in your house 1990, I think it was in your house six from it was from February 1996. This is Shawn Michaels versus Owen Hart. This was a great match. Two of the best, you know, pound for pound wrestlers as Grillemont soon used to say. And Shawn Michaels won this match to move on to WrestleMania and main event.
00:56:01
Speaker
And it was just a good classic wrestling match. I loved Owen Hart back then. He was such a whiny, sniveling, shitty heel. And he could just wrestle his ass off. And these two, they went at it pretty well.
00:56:13
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I love I love that version of Owen to just like this like sniveling little brother like yeah, I just got he's so he was so amazing. So yeah, definitely good choice. I have again, I went with the February theme as well because yesterday was the 21 year anniversary of
00:56:33
Speaker
this Saturday night main event. But even though it happened on a Friday, so it wasn't a Saturday night main event, but it was it was part of the main event series and it's the most watched wrestling event ever. It's from February 5th, 1988. It's a rematch between Hogan and Andre from from WrestleMania. Hogan finally loses the belt to Andre after a four year reign. And it's just a freaking like it's chaotic. Ted DiBiase had paid a ref
00:57:03
Speaker
to get surgery to look like Dave, to look like Dave Hebner. So there's like this twin controversy when both Dave and Earl are both in the ring and Hogan is just like so confused and so baffled and he's so jilted that he, you know, he got swindled out of his belt and everything. And in the backstage interview after the match, Hogan was going like, how much did they pay for the plastic surgery? How much did they pay?
00:57:29
Speaker
so it was just it was just incredible and then you know Andre sold the the championship to Ted DiBiase so you know it was just it was just great so you should definitely check that out it's main event from February 5th 1988 good stuff nice very nice we have one listener mail to get to who's that from
00:57:51
Speaker
It is from fan of chick Foley. It is from a big mouth AJ loyal fan. Let me pull it up really quickly. I had it saved here. Oh, here we go. So this is, um, from big mouth AJ and the subject is for Phil. He says, dear Phil, I love the podcast. Keep it up guys. However, the reason I titled this quote for Phil is because I think that you have some wrestling mental disease.
00:58:21
Speaker
It's called, quote, Smark. This disease would cause you to have extremely horrible opinions based on wrestling. I don't know the cure, but maybe someone like Sheena who has correct opinions could help you. Much love, AJ. P.S., this is obviously a joke, although I do agree, although I don't agree with some of your opinions.
00:58:39
Speaker
that's okay AJ thank you for being a listener thank you for donating to the patreon account i think it's good that you know you wouldn't want to listen to me if i had all the same opinions as you you know it's it's fun to have different opinions and some and i i i you well i guess i used to host a ravens podcast i still hosted i don't know i don't now that i started doing a wrestling podcast it doesn't seem as fun anymore to talk about the ravens but it's a different story for a different day
00:59:02
Speaker
Um, but people always accused me of like trying to just make up opinions, you know, just to be controversial and, and I don't do that. I just, you know, I tell people my opinion on stuff and if you don't like it, you don't like it. And, uh, you know, I never try to change for anybody, but I, I definitely understand where you're coming from. I've, I've been, I've hear, I hear that quite a bit, but, uh, yeah, man, I mean, that's what makes specific. I think this, this email came in, um,
00:59:28
Speaker
During the rumble so yeah, there was something that was said during the rumble. I shit all over that women's Royal Rumble I'll tell you what I use the I use the Twitter account for bad that day. Yeah, people did not I think that's what I think that's what hashtag triggered AJ
00:59:45
Speaker
He loved the Alicia Fox hat thing, I think. He was all about that. He was. I think he probably has an Alicia Fox hat at his house. He was really offended that you did not appreciate the mastery that went into Maria Kanellis and Alicia Fox's Academy Award winning performance there.
01:00:06
Speaker
You know, I always try to find something good to talk about. I want to always talk about negative things. And I know the last couple weeks of Raw and SmackDown haven't been the best, but you know, we're still wrestling fans. You know, it's like, listen to Sports Talk Radio. No one calls up to say good things about their team. They all want to like, you know, shit on anything. I'm sure there's Patriots fans right now that are
01:00:27
Speaker
Tom Brady didn't look very good in the Super Bowl. He's got to retire after he's got six Super Bowls now. So no one's ever happy. That's what makes the world go round.
01:00:37
Speaker
Yeah, people are always really quick to post their negative opinions, right? It's so much easier just to spew your negative opinion out there than it is. Most people who are happy with stuff, they're the quiet minority. They're like, OK, I'm content. I'm not going to say anything. But the people who are pissed off about stuff, they're the ones that lash out and make sure that their opinions know. Not that we're saying that about you, AJ, just in general. We know you love the show. We know you love the show. We know you love all things Chick-Folly and myself and Phil as well.
01:01:07
Speaker
Yeah, it's just it's funny that I always go into like when I'm reading reviews, I go into that with that mentality. Like if there's bad reviews or a few bad reviews, I'm like, you know, like those people really took time out of their day to like, you know, bitch about something that was that was bad, you know, like on Amazon or wherever, you know, so.
01:01:25
Speaker
Well, funny story, my wife has been doing all the research for all our new appliances for our kitchen. So she's on Lowes.com looking at all these different dishwashers. And I have to pretend that I care about different dishwashers. But she's reading the reviews for dishwashers. This one has bad reviews. I'm like, honey, who the hell is writing fucking dishwasher reviews? Who goes to Lowe's website, first off? Who buys a dishwasher and writes a review on it? I mean, come on.
01:01:53
Speaker
Yeah, I like to have my own experiences. I do take some of those things. Like if it's like a stream of negative reviews and they're all like the same, then I'm kind of like, okay. But sometimes I just like to, like I like to form my own opinions and you know, their experience, I'm not going to let their experience be my experience, right? Like, you know, so any who, but I still love you. Yeah. But now I'm going to get into something that was super awesome was our Dean Ambrose contest. And you guys like,
01:02:23
Speaker
Like I said, you guys delivered and it was so funny. So just to give everyone a reminder at the top of the show, we we held a contest earlier in the week and we were asking people like what Dean was going to do with all of his new newfound free time since he's going to be, you know, not on the road all the time with WWE. And we had you guys send emails or DMS to Chick Foley with with what your predictions were. And we there was a lot of them and a lot of them were really great, but we narrowed it down to our top three. So we're going to go in order the third place
01:02:52
Speaker
was from, let me pull it up here, the name, from Ulti, U-L-T-I, underscore Matt, underscore Warrior, big fan of Chick Foley, and he says, as a major Ambrose fan, this feels like a heartbreaking acceptance, a heartbreaking acceptance of his leaving, but I think in his spare time, he's going to master some titties. Oh, man. So he's going back to being the titty master. That was third place.
01:03:23
Speaker
Let me pull up the second place. All right. So this comes into us from Blake writings nine at Blake writings nine. Um, he says, I personally think he will use his time off to become Mitch, the potted plants, personal manager. He'll organize his meet and greets, schedule TV appearances, et cetera. I forget all about that plan, man. That was good. That was what the, uh, that was at the Chris Jericho feud.
01:03:45
Speaker
No, that was yeah, that's when he had his Ambrose asylum show. Do you remember? Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He had his Ambrose asylum show and he had Mitch the plant was always on there. Um, so that was, I thought that was really good. Um, because I hadn't thought about Mitch the plant in a very, very long time. Um, our winner, this one, okay. Let me preface this by saying I laughed out loud at just the thought of this. Um,
01:04:11
Speaker
I don't want you to think I was laughing at like the actual content. So this comes into it. This is our winner. It comes into us from is that Chris young at is that Chris young? He says Dean Ambrose will work to perfect the Pym particle.
01:04:25
Speaker
which for all you guys who may not know, I had to look that up and it's the little, it's the particle that makes the ant man like go down to the size of ants. Oh God, I know there's a lot of like comic marks out there that are like pulling their hair out with that description. But anyway, it says, Deed Ambrose will work to perfect the Pym particle so he can shrink himself down in order to go inside Roman Reigns and fight, fist fight his leukemia himself.
01:04:50
Speaker
That is the best. I'm just imagining like Dean Ambrose like shrinking down and like fighting these like leukemia cells, like fist fighting them. Like it just is like
Signing Off and Future Plans
01:05:01
Speaker
the best. I just love it so much. So congratulations. Is that Chris Young? You are going to get that Dean Ambrose figure sent to you. So make sure that you send your information to the Chick-Fully DMs and we'll get that mailed out. And thank you to everyone who sent in
01:05:15
Speaker
Your suggestions will be posted a few of those on the Instagram stories and things like that. So I'm super stoked to let you guys read all the different ones.
01:05:23
Speaker
Very nice. Awesome. Check us out on Instagram and Twitter. You can follow Sheena on Instagram at Chick Foley and the Twitter account is at Chick Foley show. I am I hate JJ Reddick on both Instagram and Twitter. So you can find us there. Check us out at prowrestlingtease.com. And when you listen to this, sign up for our Patreon. We're going to put some cool stuff up on there in the next week or two.
01:05:47
Speaker
Constantly have new things posted. I think we're gonna do some watch alongs. I wanna redo the 92 Royal Rumble. I wanna rewatch the first episode of the WWE redo of ECW, which was pretty awful and great at the same time. So we'll have some cool stuff going up there very shortly. So definitely check it out. Anything else before we get out of here, Sheena?
01:06:13
Speaker
I just wanted to give a quick shout out to one of our winners from our Royal Rumble contest at Wrestling underscore Fig underscore Nation. Kevin is his name. He posted an unboxing of his Uso's figures that we sent him. So I thought that was super cool. He posted it on YouTube. So yeah, so you can look it up on YouTube. You just type in Chick-Bully, it should come up. But yeah, Kevin posted the Uso's unboxing and gave us a shout out. So awesome job, man. Thank you. Very cool. All right. Well, next week we'll be back. We'll be getting closer and closer to Elimination Chamber.
01:06:43
Speaker
We'll hopefully have some new figures in our stores that we can purchase and talk about here on the show and all kinds of good stuff. We won't even see that new page movie, which she came on to both shows this week and showed the same trailer that they've been showing on TV for the last six months. I thought they were going to maybe show a new trailer. Nope, still showing the same old trailer, but that's okay. I'm not going to complain, AJ. I'm not going to complain.
01:07:09
Speaker
Keep it positive, Phil, geez. I like Vince Vaughn. He's in the movie. He's good. And the fat guy from Hot Fuzz is in it. He's really funny. So I'm excited. I'm sure that's what it says on his IMDB page, the fat guy from Hot Fuzz. I don't know his name. He's really funny, though. Yeah. Awesome. That's it for this week, folks. Stay classy, Marx. We will see you next week for Sheena Phelps. This is Phil Gentile signing off. See you guys.
01:08:24
Speaker
By the hour, Rousey was just dominant.