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Celebrating Triple H's Celebrations Plus How To Fig Hunt From Your Couch!
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Sheena, Phil and Marco recap the extensive Triple H tribute plus discuss how you can use that stimulus check to do some fig hunting from the comfort of your couch!
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts
00:00:20
Speaker
Ah, here we go. It's almost May. We're almost to summertime. Get this coronavirus out of here. We got beers to drink on the front porch. It's the Chick Foley show. I am the hot take kid, Phil Gentilla. Welcome. Thank you guys for joining us once again this week. We appreciate you. I have my lovely co-host, the lovely Sheena Phelps in Virginia. What's going on, Sheena?
00:00:45
Speaker
You know, just sitting here post bedtime routine, got a makers on the rocks in my hands. So, you know, it's been, it's been a night.
00:00:54
Speaker
Yeah, you're drinking like the dude from Mad Men. What's that? I forget his name now. Oh, yeah, Don Draper. I'm pulling my little Don Draper over here. Yeah, yeah. You got a cigarette from your finger. I totally do. No, he was an old fashioned guy. That's Don Draper. This is a Seth Phelps special right here, this maker's mark. He's like the freaking maker's ambassador and all that stuff.
00:01:21
Speaker
But he got a gift set for Christmas and it's the only thing we have with alcohol in the house that is not hand sanitizer. So, you know, we're making the best of what we got. There you go.
Beverage Choices and Trivia
00:01:30
Speaker
Marco, what's up with you up in your neck of the woods? Nothing much. I am just sipping on a local brewery around here. They call that Bentwater Brewing. It's a Dippa, so a double IPA. I forgot any of that tonight to get through the show.
00:01:49
Speaker
We'll see how that goes. You were a little, you seemed pretty loose during our trivia night the other night. Were you pounding a couple back? Oh, there was, I don't know, I drank one of those. Okay. Yeah, and it was a... Didn't he, he just seemed like kind of like a loosey goosey, you know? I think...
00:02:06
Speaker
I think maybe you were so loosey-goosey that you interpreted everybody. I did get loosey-goosey. Everybody was a little bit loosey-goosey. I wasn't, unfortunately. I was like, cheersing with my coffee cup that still had a little bit of cold coffee in it from the morning. Everybody was like, cheers. And I was like, oh, this is breaking my heart a little bit. Yeah. I'm drinking a Mylar Wizard, a hazy double IPA from Black Flag here in Baltimore.
Show Merchandise and Social Media
00:02:32
Speaker
that's
00:02:47
Speaker
We're going to run down raw Smackdown, the Wednesday Night Wars, and then we will get into some go figure segments and let you guys know some creative ways to help you spend some of that stimulus check while you're sitting on your couch since you can't go out of the house figure hunting. We brought the figure hunting to you. So first, Sheena Pimpa, tell them about our new shirts that we got up there. You posted a really good picture the other day of all the different designs you bought.
00:03:14
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So I just actually got in my pro wrestling tease order with all the new Chick-fil-A designs. They all look so freaking good. This is the first time I've seen them in person. So our buddy Nick from Extra Cooler design, some really awesome new designs for our Chick-fil-A show shop. And we have a Sunday or Saturday night main event.
00:03:32
Speaker
uh logo we have our dare you know drug-free and moc logo we also have an in your house logo that is my personal favorite and uh we always try to let you guys know when pro wrestling t's having sales but even if they're not having sales you should be over there supporting pro wrestling t's because they are a small shop doing their best to hang in there during all this pandemic madness so uh make sure that you know you you are supporting those guys because they like i said with our friends over at chalk line they
00:03:59
Speaker
have a big presence, but they are such a small mom and pop operation. Yeah, while you're at Pro Wrestling Tees, definitely check out the Brian Meyers store, the Matt Cardona store. Our buddy's over at the Major Wrestling Figure podcast. They got some shirts up there now as well. If you want to follow Sheena, you can on Instagram. She's at Chick Foley. I run the Twitter account at Chick Foley Show, and Marco is at Inglourious Gent on Twitter. We love interacting with you guys.
00:04:27
Speaker
Any questions or concerns or you want to ask us a question? it's ask at chick Foley show comm we are there and We talked about the very beginning of the show, but our patreon page is blowing up in this quarantine time It's rapidly becoming
00:04:46
Speaker
Probably my favorite part of what
Patreon Growth and Interaction Plans
00:04:49
Speaker
we do here. It starts at $1 per month. The other night, we had a trivia night on Zoom, which Kyle Nivelid won, and he gets a Chick Foley show t-shirt. He gets a random WWE Elite figure from Amazon. But we got a bunch of cool stuff on there. We're doing fig hunting videos, unboxing videos, all kinds of people buying and selling and trading figures without having to go through eBay, Sheena. So it's been pretty fun.
00:05:16
Speaker
Yeah, I love it. The Trivial was so much freaking fun. Our good buddy, Tom Sliney, he, he hosted it for us. Um, and we, it was wrestling theme. So, you know, it was all, all wrestling questions. And it was like, I don't know. It was just such a blast because even though
00:05:32
Speaker
I didn't do very well. I actually pulled up the rear and I think I didn't finish last but I was like almost last but it wasn't because I didn't get all the questions right. I got quite a few questions right but I just am not fast as fast as everybody else I've come to find out. I like to overthink a lot of things but that's neither here nor there. It was still fun even though I lost but Tom is awesome. You need to hit him up if you want to have like a um
00:05:55
Speaker
Trivia night of your own he does host like private parties and stuff So instead of just sitting around looking at your family being like, okay What are we gonna talk about next? Like you guys could actually do something fun and do zoom trivia or get all your buddies together You know like your friends and host a trivia. So he's at Tom Sliney on Instagram so you can hit him up there He's got a little link tree that's got like all the information about trivia and he does do some free like public Trivias, too So if you ever want to jump in on one of those he does those and they're on Wednesdays and Saturdays and
00:06:21
Speaker
$1 a month gets you into the Facebook group, gets you a shout out here on the show, and also gets you our show notes emailed to every single week. $5 a month gets you our weekly or what was monthly episodes or bonus episodes. Now, with everything coronavirus-related, we've been doing more and more. Myself and Mike Lannon recorded a Hasbro Fig Fed draft.
00:06:45
Speaker
Last week I interviewed Al Snow and hopefully this weekend I'm interviewing Conrad Thompson, the pod father of all wrestling podcasts. So a bunch of cool content on there. Check us out. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley or you can just go to chickfolyshow.com. We have some new Patreon subscribers we want to shout out.
00:07:08
Speaker
That is JP Doyle, Alan Kilburg, and James Melton. Thank you guys for subscribing. We appreciate you so much. With everything going on, Sheena and Marco, the only good thing with all of this is we have had a lot of good time of bonus content. We've just been at home all day, all week, and we can just crank out some cool stuff, and people have really responded to it.
00:07:34
Speaker
Yeah, well, I mean, you're cranking out cool stuff. I'm over here cranking out lunch and snacks and nap time. Cranking out apple slices and shit. Yeah, I'm cranking out all the cools. But you know, it's all good. I'll take a little break over the summer and you can take over. That's right. That's right. Once a big pop of pump comes home.
00:07:54
Speaker
So yeah, check it out, chickfolishow.com. And we have Marco, I guess we can talk about this here. We are going to come up with a way where you guys listening can watch us record the podcast. I'm not sure what tier we'll add that to on the Patreon, but
00:08:11
Speaker
Marco is the tech guru behind that. But I guess, Marco, they'll be able to watch us and interact with us in a chat situation while we record the podcast, which would be awesome.
Wrestling Event Highlights
00:08:22
Speaker
I think I would love that. And just going to get instant feedback and reactions to stuff we say. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, we can either do a video format so we can all be on camera at the same time if you want to be camera ready.
00:08:35
Speaker
Um, that's up to you. Yeah. That's totally up to you or we could go audio, but yeah, it's kind of like a live production. Um, so yeah. So one of us will be the producer or all three of us can be producers. We can field questions while the show is happening. We can, um, take questions of lifetime. We get, we could literally mess up in front of you guys and jump around and stuff like that. Yeah, no pausing. Just like go, like go straight full and
00:09:03
Speaker
You know, no editing. We don't have any editing capabilities here. I'm doing that. We saved the money on the editing, yeah. So yeah, a bunch of cool stuff. And I do want to get some stuff printed up for some other bonus giveaways and stuff for Patreon people. But a lot of those companies have been redirected to making stuff for coronavirus materials. So once all of that gets over with, hopefully soon, we'll be able to crank out a bunch of cool stuff. So definitely check it out. That's the last thing. Last time we'll say it. Check it out. It starts at $1 per month.
00:09:32
Speaker
Let's go inside the squared circle. We are sponsored in part, like Sheena said, by our friends at Chalk Line. Use code CHICK for 15% off of your order there. And let's start with SmackDown. Sheena, we had a couple new qualifiers for the Money in the Bank matches. King Corbin gets in and Lacey Evans, my girl.
00:09:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So it looks like as of right now, our Money in the Bank card is like Daniel Bryan, Alistair Black, Rae, Mysterio, Queen Corbin, and then we got two TVDs and then our women's are shaping up. We got Asuka, Shana, Nia, Dana, Lacey, and then one more, I believe. But I think it's going to be pretty, pretty good. Are you, are you excited about this upcoming Money in the Bank event?
00:10:17
Speaker
I mean, it's just a bunch of newer people that aren't kind of getting the shine. I like what they've been doing on Raw with some of these people. Apollo Crews had a ton of FaceTime on the show on Monday, which was nice. I haven't been watching SmackDown, but it seems like the same way there.
00:10:36
Speaker
Tamina getting a shot at the women's title. They're limited and they're working with what they got, so that's a good thing. It'll be interesting to see. That's the beauty of the network. My hopes aren't too high because I already have the network and I'm just already watching it. True, yeah. You can just enjoy it, yeah. I don't know what's going to happen. I think you were here the last couple of weeks when we talked about the
00:11:01
Speaker
AEW pay-per-view, which I guess they're still going to charge $50 for. They haven't really talked about it at all on AEW television, whether it's going to be free or a discounted price, Marco.
AEW Live Events and Triple H Anniversary
00:11:12
Speaker
Have they said anything? I mean, I hate to be jumping around all the way to AEW, but as we talk about these two pay-per-views coming up, people are home, but some people aren't working right now. So the WWE pay-per-views make sense, but the AEW one, I'm kind of hesitant as who's going to pull the trigger for that.
00:11:31
Speaker
Yeah, no. They haven't set a price point if it's going to be free or paid. It is happening. It is live. They announced it on their show last night. So it is happening. We just don't know if it's going to be free $99 or $50. What day is that going down? It's like May 23 or something? May 23, yeah.
00:11:52
Speaker
Oh, wow. So that's still quite a bit of time. There's always one. Yeah, there's still quite a bit of time. But still, you would think they would be announcing. I mean, when they talk about a pay-per-view, they're going to tell you where to watch it and all that, how to pay for it and how to order it and shit. True, true. They just say the day and that's it. They probably don't know. They're probably waiting to see, oh, shit, we can't charge full price for this. People are not going to be paying for that. Yeah, have they already pre-recorded that? Is that already done?
00:12:18
Speaker
It's going to be live. Oh, it's going to be live. Oh, it's going to be. That's what they're saying. So next week, they're live. They're going live next week. Their shows, everything's live. All for the rest of the month, I'm assuming they announced it last night on the show. So they said live next week is AW. So see how that all that goes. Yeah.
00:12:38
Speaker
If it works for them, it works for them. They're both in Florida, and they're essential businesses now. Yeah. We're in the midst of, I mean, we used to watch Shark Week all the time. Now it's like Triple H week right now, because. Oh my god, so much. So much Triple H. So much. Jesus. So many backbreakers. So many knee drops. Triple H's 25th anniversary, they've never celebrated any wrestler's anniversary like this before.
00:13:08
Speaker
We'll get to it in our quarantine and chill. There's a huge special on the network for him. But Marco, what happened with Vince McMahon coming out on SmackDown? Yeah. Oh, you didn't see SmackDown. Yeah. So Vince, they're going through this. So the whole like celebration was kind of like tongue in cheek. Yeah. I mean, they're kind of big in front of them. I think they're kind of like big in front of it. There's no crowd there to like play off of. So they kind of like, well, like this is kind of goofy that we're actually doing a
00:13:36
Speaker
anniversary with no one around to celebrate just pretty much Shawn Michaels and Triple H. So basically what everyone was thinking when they were watching it, Vince McMahon came out and was basically just like, this is awful. We're shutting this down. But the other funny part about it too is a lot of people thought he was like,
00:13:52
Speaker
A little tipsy. Did you get that, Sheena, when you seen it? I think he's just senile. I don't think it's tipsy. I think he was just literally senile and just doesn't know where he's at or what he's doing. I think at this point, he might actually not exist. And it's a robot McMahon that they just bring out on occasion. I think they may have silently buried
00:14:17
Speaker
Um, McMahon somewhere, like, you know, oh, we had a, had a funeral. Now we have to bring out robot McMahon, but yeah, this, this is the Vensitron 5000. Yeah. They, they bring him out. He was definitely malfunctioning that night because that whole segment. Okay. I liked the first part. I liked how they, they came out and they like acknowledged that it was weird, that there was nobody there and, you know, kind of ribbon on each other and whatnot. But, um, then they started calling people on FaceTime and.
00:14:45
Speaker
My god, they called Stephanie on FaceTime and she was having a back-and-forth with oh my gosh with Shawn Michaels and Shawn Yeah doing this like This schoolgirl thing where he's like one like got his little fingers doing the little crocodile mouth, you know Just like being all like weird and then he gets a call from with the road dog call right road dog called in and then freakin Rick flair
00:15:13
Speaker
OK, so let me let me just set the stage for you, Phil. They're all on FaceTime. So the cameraman is behind Triple H and Triple H is holding out his iPhone. And so Triple H is talking to the iPhone, which has either like Stephanie or Ro Dog or Ric Flair, whoever on it, and just using the audio from the iPhone. And they're just like having a quick like back and forth. And I don't even think they kind of put this up on the screen or something like figure this out ahead of time.
00:15:42
Speaker
fifth
00:15:59
Speaker
My god, yeah, so when he tried to like spit water out in the guide, you know, somebody grabbed the bottle from Yeah, it's very it's very like, you know self self-aware but the rest of it was was just terrible and then like Vince was like came out and shut it down like we just talked about and then they acted like it was like they're acting was like so bad like oh, so Vince is a
00:16:21
Speaker
kicking it kicking us out of here, huh? Hmm. Wow. And then the show just the show just ended like with the lights going down like the fiend was about to come out or something, you know? Yeah. Yeah. OK, well, so it's a happy anniversary. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, that wasn't the end of it. It's been it's been going. It was all over Raw. So Raw did the top 10 moments in his career, like spliced throughout the night. We saw Apollo Crews in a match, a really good match against some
00:16:51
Speaker
Andrade for the US title after the opening match is kind of a three on three between Zelina Vega's crew and the guys from the Money in the Bank match, which I think the highlight for me, I will keep watching Raw every week now if I know Zelina Vega is going to be wearing the things that she's wearing. I don't even know Sheena. I need you to tell me how you even get into pants like that. They weren't even pants. They were just like two pieces of fabric with like stitching in the front.
00:17:17
Speaker
That is uncharted territory for me, Phil. I don't even know how to... I've never worn pants like that. Even in my heyday when I was like, hey, I did not wear pants like that. You know what I mean? I was wearing my Abercrombie jeans with all the holes everywhere. That's about as bougie as I got. I was never...
00:17:39
Speaker
never into the JLo. I haven't seen those prom photos. I don't know. You're rocking in a little bit. Listen, I didn't know how to rock a two-piece prom dress. Yeah, you want two-piece on that. That's ballsy. That was ballsy. That was ballsy back in 2003, especially in a very conservative town where I grew up. It was almost like clutch of pearls. She was coming through with her hot pink, her hot pink two-piece dress and her spiky hair.
00:18:04
Speaker
uh... so we saw paul cruise in a great match and then i don't i don't know if this was i guess you guys can tell me uh... it felt like the injury to his knee was just kind of more kayfabe than anything because they played it up that when i was just like on monday i was called the twitter they were like oh shit paul cruz got hurt again blah blah blah
00:18:21
Speaker
I was like, oh, crap. But it seemed like more of a storyline thing on the show, because they played it up. He did a move. But then he was like, he did a standing moonsault at one point with a bad knee. I'm like, come on, this guy's fucking knee can't be that bad. He kept doing moonsaults. He kept selling the knee, but then he kept doing moonsaults. I was like, you would think if it hurt that bad, you would not do moonsaults. He was selling it pretty good. But then, yeah, he was doing moves like that, which like, come on.
00:18:50
Speaker
But I mean at the end like they were attending to him and then Charlie tried to get a little interviewing with litter and he was like choking up so I guess it's just a creative way to get him out of the match or maybe he's gonna do a run-in or something but I think this is I mean I think this is a good sign for Apollo Crews I think he's
00:19:06
Speaker
Hopefully with all of this extra time on TV, they're finally realizing, I mean, he's a great wrestler. If he can get some TV time, get some chops on the mic. Yeah, I actually kind of liked him a little. I liked him more because I've never doubted his talent. He's an incredible athlete, but he's one of those guys that's like, he's going to forever be a mid-carter because he doesn't have any personality. You know what I mean? But I saw some personality like sparks.
00:19:33
Speaker
this week because i was like oh okay like when he was kind of like playing like you know like he wasn't scared of um andrade and let me just tell you i can't believe he didn't sell that hand after he bitch smacked andrade like that that was like i mean like i was like i was looking down i wasn't even really paying attention to that interview segment and then i heard that smack and i like looked up like what the hell yeah i had to rewind it because i was like oh my god
00:19:59
Speaker
So, I mean, I don't think that's Cruz's first bitch smack. I'm like, he's I looked at that and I was like, he's done that plenty of times in his life. Yeah. He's definitely open hands to slap the shit out of some dude. Yeah, just just the hand placement. Like you had the openness of the of the class. Look too natural. Yeah. Way too natural. Hopefully. Hopefully he's been smacking men. Hopefully. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I was like, you know, let's just hope that it was me and he's smacking around. But yeah, that that sound quality on that on that hit was like, wow.
Character Developments and Storylines
00:20:29
Speaker
Uh, we saw Jinder Mahal return, which I'm excited about. I have no doubt. Are you? No, I am. Yeah. I mean, I think, I like Jinder. He's a, uh, main event, a Jace guy that can, uh, step in and get some good matches at a, yeah. The best thing about Jinder was the Bollywood boys.
00:20:48
Speaker
Like that was I think if you play it up and make him more of like a Alberto Del Rio kind of like rich Like when he was like, you know kind of like the rich like pompous like, you know guy riding in on cars and shit I think they try to do a little bit with gender with the with the outfits and stuff, but I'm sure And that's okay ginger he has a very like
00:21:12
Speaker
Like dominating presence like I mean the whole his whole entrance I love like the the carpet that comes down You know that lights up and comes down like that and like he I mean he looks like a million bucks I mean he has like 37 abs and you know like and he the way he holds the belt. I mean he looks incredible But to me he's just very what that's as far as it goes. He's very one-dimensional but they definitely there's definitely a push there because the curious as I was looked really good the last like I
00:21:39
Speaker
Few weeks and then all of a sudden gender just comes in like squashes him in a minute 35 like that to me That's saying something and I was listening to something the other day
00:21:48
Speaker
And I didn't even pay attention to this when I was watching Raw. But then they were like, yeah, they made sure to mention that he was the former champion. They kept saying that. You know what I mean? It wasn't just like, oh, General Mahal's back. Yeah, they're planting the seeds. This is somebody that you need to be aware of. Especially because they have the built-in angle with him and Drew McIntyre. I mean, that angle writes itself. I mean, he's a good, like,
00:22:13
Speaker
challenger for the ballot on like some kind of like crappy, you know, pay-per-view before SummerSlam, you know, kind of like a roadblock to like a bigger match, you know, so kind of like Seth Rollins is. Oh my God. See, that's why I'm so pissed off at Jinder is because he's coming in and he's like giving me the swerve. Like I thought for a minute, I'm like, oh, dude, they're actually going to like build this McIntyre Seth thing into something like really incredible. Like I didn't think that he was going to beat
00:22:41
Speaker
McIntyre at Money in the Bank, but I figured it would go on into like a big event, like it's SummerSlam, you know, maybe Rollins would become the champion again. But no, they're just giving us the freaking swerve and they're going to freaking bring in Jinder Mahal and you know, like, you know, swap him out with Rollins. Rollins is just like, you know, a red herring that we're all should be distracted by. Like, Oh.
00:23:03
Speaker
Buddy Kyle Niblett, who won the trivia we were talking about, has picked out his Chick-Fully shirt. And I don't know if you've seen him before, because he's ringside every single NXT show. And he says he's going to wear a shirt at the next time. Whenever we get back to normal, and he can go to NXT shows, because he's down there with him and Shane, Chef Shane are down there. So that'll be pretty cool. Can we get him a Chick-Fully show face mask? Of just your face?
00:23:32
Speaker
No, that would actually be kind of cool. That's what we need to be branding next. We need to be branding some Chick-Fully show face masks. Oh, like breathable face masks. Oh my God. I was thinking Halloween masks. I didn't even register. You were thinking like Corona masks. You didn't know about this freaking global pandemic.
00:23:54
Speaker
I blocked it out of my brain. Once I turn on the recorder, I block all that shit out. But yeah, that's good. We should find a company that'll do that for us, just like the face mask. I want one with a Bane mask on it. Joe Exotic Mask. Yeah. I got some Maryland Flag ones coming already. I pre-ordered from some company nearby.
00:24:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Not to brag. People wearing the face mask industry is booming right now. People are like sowing their asses off trying to sell these face masks. Oh, yeah. That's good. I mean, it's smart. My sister is a fashion designer. Of course, she's lazy as fuck, so she hasn't done anything. I'm like, why isn't Patrice just... I mean, it's probably $2 worth of fabric and you can sell it for $20.
00:24:40
Speaker
Yeah, I was like, it's not even $2 for the fabric. I mean, you could probably make a few masks out of $2 for the fabric. Yeah, so all these chicks walking around with these white hospital masks, I'm sure they'd want something with flowers on it, or I don't know. Let's be real. I want to end 95. I mean, a cloth is good, but if I had my choice, I would choose an N95 mask. That's what I've been working lately, yeah. I've been working. In 95. Snowjoe.com. I want that.
00:25:08
Speaker
Yeah, I want that real real and then then you can put something fancy over the top of it to make it look you know All bougie and stuff, you know shout out snow Joe calm. It's Robin get my math from Hashtag mass talk
00:25:22
Speaker
You won't be able to get them now. You don't let your secret out of the bag. Everybody's out. Yeah. Yeah. So we saw McIntyre Rollins do their contract signing. That was the only part I did not see of Rob because I knew what was going to happen. Oh my gosh. I thought you were about to crap on this segment. I was like, this is like the best segment of the night. No, no. I turned it off because I just figured it would be just somebody beating the hell out of somebody else.
00:25:44
Speaker
Oh, my God. So you first of all, you missed one of Rollins is like most epic looks of all time. I mean, he can't he came out and it was full body tingles. It was literally like like me me when I saw Zelina Vega kind of thing. Yeah, pretty much. Exactly. Exactly. So he comes out. He's wearing, you know,
00:26:05
Speaker
I've loved the jacket and the fur and the glove and the man bun and the no shirt. It's my favorite thing. Then he comes out and he's wearing a suit looking all dapper, still got his glove, still got his man bun, all cleanly pulled back. It was a thing of beauty if I've ever seen it. He looks very strikingly like Marty Skirrell lately to me.
00:26:35
Speaker
His style. I can kind of see that. Yeah, I can see that. Not totally, but why isn't he not recording? Why are they building more with him? Having them recruit people, kind of like CM Punk did with the Straight Edge Society. I know he has. I know he's got Murphy, but this is a perfect outfit. Somebody mentioned it on Twitter or maybe in our Facebook group, Sonya Deville would be a badass. If you're going to get one chick with him to be a badass side chick, she would be perfect. And she's not doing anything.
00:27:02
Speaker
that was me and i was you okay i said that yeah yeah she would be yeah she would be a perfect like faction mate like a person somebody to just like put in a faction like that um i think just i think mainly i think that's what they were doing and then um you know the pandemic broke loose and it kind of just put a put a halt on everything and then um one of the freaking
00:27:24
Speaker
AOP got which one a coma rays are one of them got hurt. So That kind of shut that down to never happens. Those guys are never hurt. Yeah, so they're always healthy those those poor big guys, dude They are the harder they fall. It's just like what it's just like one of those things It's like it's a gift and a curse to be to be that size. Yeah, trust me. I know
00:27:47
Speaker
Yeah, he gave a really he gave a really good they gave a really good back and forth promo I mean Rollins was just he just has a different vibe about him right now that I'm loving you know even when he was like face Rollins he was still like that Seth Rollins he kind of like
00:28:04
Speaker
Goofy laffy like character, but now he just has like a day. He's completely different than even when he was a heel before and I just love how he's evolved and really taken on this character that he didn't even like he didn't even want to do this character like this was just kind of like a
00:28:18
Speaker
Put on him and he took the ball and ran with it and he's made it incredible. Yeah, cuz he has that like shitty action hero like action movie like bad guy where it's like He thinks he's like he thinks he's the good guy thinks he's doing like yeah something good Which makes me you know, which makes it all the all the better. But yeah, I mean I'm digging it for sure and I think It's what he does the best so
00:28:45
Speaker
So let's move on from Raw. There was a couple other things that didn't really matter too much. But NXT and AEW, walk me through that since you are our AEW correspondent, Marco. Do we want to go NXT or AEW first? Let's go AEW first. All right. So did you watch it, Sheena? Did you see either show? I watched a little bit of NXT. I didn't get to watch AEW.
00:29:12
Speaker
All right. Um, I didn't put this on here, but, um, uh, it was a Brody Lee destroyed Marco son, which was obviously going to happen. Um, don't know why they actually had that match, but whatever. Um, so like I predicted, it's going to be Cody and Lance Archer on the, uh, uh, going for the, uh, TNT championship, uh, at, um, double or nothing. So, um, that match was actually real. Both matches are actually really good. Cody was on first, him and, uh, Darby Allen.
00:29:42
Speaker
putting out a pretty good show. Um, at the end, the main event was the Lance, Lance Archer and Dustin Rhodes. He obviously it's a Rhodes match. So someone has some bleed, right? Yeah. So Dustin was a bleed note. He just basically they made Lance, Lance Archer look like he was like the most dominant dude ever. He just like literally just kicked the shit out of Dustin Rhodes, the whole match and, uh, and made him bleed. And they had a spot where, uh, Brandy was going to throw in the towel.
00:30:09
Speaker
Cause Brandy walked out with Dustin when she doesn't walk out with Cody and Cody runs over, like takes a towel away from her and goes, no, no, no, don't do it. Don't throw it in. He could do it. He can hang on. And then he destroys him a little bit more and gets the pin. So I'm not sure what they're doing there. And they're trying to put it in where like, he's probably not going to win the match, the TNT belt. Dustin's going to come in and do something. I don't know. They might be doing something like that. Who knows? But there's your match for the TNT championship. Um,
00:30:39
Speaker
Dr. Brick Baker was on there. Did you guys see that, at least? So she was making fun of fat people and people with glasses. She made fun of fat people? Fat people with glasses. And people with snaggle tubes, too, if you have a snaggle. Oh my god. Don't smile. Don't smile at all. Wow. I mean, if I was a dentist, I would want people to actually have snaggle tubes. Yeah, that's what's her business. That's like, yeah, that's your business, doc. So I mean, if everybody came out with perfect teeth, you would be poor.
00:31:10
Speaker
But yeah, that was that was pretty funny that not the fat people part, but like the snaggle to because they're making like that. You tried it on that. No, that was Tony Schiavone. She was mainly making fun of. So he was he was like they're Photoshopping his picture to make him skinnier. They zoomed in on his snaggle tooth. Oh, glass suit. She's got a big problem with fucking Tony Schiavone. She hates it. Yeah. Yeah. What did he ever do to her?
00:31:37
Speaker
And he's Tony. She is a doctor, though. It is nice to see. Back to the Cody and Lance Archer thing, it's good to see them pushing a young 43-year-old upstart in Lance Archer. I like that a lot, because he's got a lot of years ahead of him. A lot of good years.
00:31:55
Speaker
Oh, come on. He's out of his prime. Well, according to Cody, a wrestler's prime is between 35 and 40. Oh, OK. So yeah, that's what he said when he was talking about Zack Ryder coming over to AEW. He was like, oh, did you guys hear that interview that he did? Yeah, he kind of brought up
00:32:17
Speaker
that that any brought the fact that I don't want this to be the friends. Yeah, all friends wrestling. Yeah. If I was if I was Zach, I'd be like, what the fuck? Like all your other friends are there. I can't. Well, that's what he said. He was like, you know, Brandi's here. My brother's here. Zach's is like he said is his best friend in wrestling. Oh, really? But yeah, I know. That's pretty high praise.
00:32:38
Speaker
Um, but he said that, you know, he, you have to be careful because he doesn't want, like once you put on a nightmare family jacket, it puts a target on your back. So he's still working. Like, I think that, I think it's a work dude. I mean, I absolutely 100% think that they'll make room for Zach. I mean, whether they're, I mean, they're a roster right now, especially right now in like pandemic times, like they don't need to be like bloating up their roster, but I have no doubt that they'll make room for Zach. If that's what Zach wants to do, you know, or sorry.
00:33:08
Speaker
Matt, Matt, Matt. Yeah. I'd love to see that. That'd be cool. Yeah. They had MJF made his injury update. Have you guys been following? No. What's been going on with him? So he hasn't been on TV because the first injury he subdued him was his hangnail. He had a very vicious hangnail. Hangnail had a page. Oh, wow. That a hangnail that he could not compete with doctor's orders.
00:33:38
Speaker
This week he miraculously, you know, they said it was the fastest time that anyone ever came back from a hangnail. So like, it was like a medical miracle that he actually came back, but he re injured himself because he was shaving earlier that morning and nicked his neck and he had a big brace around his neck. So he cannot compete still because he has a, he kind of self shaving. So that's the, uh, that's the injury updates of MJF, like best, best of wishes.
00:34:08
Speaker
Speed and recovery on that one. Is he really injured? What's he putting off for? You know what I mean? Why are they just not using any of them? He must have asthma or something. There has to be a reason he's not on TV. Yeah, I haven't read anything, but him and Dean Ambrose have not been on TV. They've been doing promos. I think the last time Dean Ambrose was at that empty arena match where it was just him. And that was literally it. They even pre-recorded the commentary.
00:34:38
Speaker
So there was just like him, uh, Jake Hager and the referee and like the camera. There's no one else there. So I'm not sure what's going on with that. But even before that, they weren't on TV really. Uh, they were just doing like promos, um, from different, you know, Dean, he's like had like staff infection and all that. Maybe it like compromised his immune system or something.
Show Comparisons and Interviews
00:34:57
Speaker
Um,
00:34:58
Speaker
Who knows? Yeah, that's true. Or maybe AEW is just not like WWE and like forcing their wrestlers to work against their will. Did you guys hear that? Like John, John wrote in and said that, um, you know, they were forcing him to, for forcing their employees to work. I'm like, okay. Who's John? Like a John Doe? Well, no, it wasn't, well, yeah, they say he didn't want to be referred to as John because he needs his job and he knows he'll lose his job if they knew that he came out, you know? Yeah, that's right.
00:35:29
Speaker
So other than that, I mean, they did they did a take on the don't rush challenge with the with the bubbly bunches. They're calling them the the inner circle. Have you seen these in a circle episode they've been doing? I haven't seen the inner circle episodes, but I imagine that they're great because yeah, it's really it was really good. So the Manitoba Bayley is basically a like a giant rumble, but through like using the don't rush challenge, like it's basically like people on their phones and they like punch it.
00:35:57
Speaker
And then the other person gets hit by the, it's kind of hard to explain to you to see it, but they had some like pretty cool, like people show up. Um, uh, Chris Jargo's father showed up in the middle of the melee, former hockey player. Um, and, uh, Jay and Simon Bob showed up in it as well. Cause it was like the inner circle guys are just like random dudes are showing up. It was, it was actually really good. Uh, take the time to watch it. It's, it's Jericho. He does no wrong at all. So.
00:36:24
Speaker
And that's pretty much a round up for AEW. Wasn't a bad show. I enjoyed it. These empty arena shows have been a lot better than actual crowd shows, because it seems like they can put more emphasis on the, oh, maybe you focus just more on the production and on what's going on, as opposed to what people are saying in the crowd and what people are chanting at and the signs that are going around and stuff like that.
00:36:47
Speaker
I guess so. I still am not used to it. I'm still just kind of like, oh, like it's it's it's a hard watch for me sometimes. Well, you know, AEW does. They have like people around the ring and they like they have like anyone that's there. They are the crowd. So they're reacting to all the stuff. So it's a little bit better watching AEW in that sense. But WWE, they have like no one. Well, I mean, then you could then you could make the argument about like who's who's being safer. You know what I mean? So that's true. Very true. It's true.
00:37:17
Speaker
There's pros and cons to both. NXT, who watched NXT? I watched some of NXT. I saw Candace's new do. It's funny, I told you guys, I don't know what it is about WWE that makes them think, just because a woman changes her hair color does not mean she is a heel. When she gets a job at a Hot Topic, she becomes a heel automatically.
00:37:40
Speaker
Yeah, it's like insane. It's like, oh, yeah, now that you have brightly colored hair, you're obviously a heel, you know? It's just like the Alexa Bliss thing. That's all she does when she becomes heel is just like as a meaner face when she comes down to the ring and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She always teeters back and forth anyway. She's always kind of right on the edge.
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, but I did like that when she came out, but then Johnny Gargano started yapping off on the microphone, and I turned the clip off. I forget what it was. What do you got against Gargano? No, no, he's kind of doing the same. He's yelling on the mic type of thing. Here comes the greatest wrestler, female wrestler, blah, blah, blah.
00:38:21
Speaker
You know, what are you supposed to do? I like him in that underdog good guy role. I don't really like him as a bat. I want to see him and Champa just switch back, just go back to how life was. Yeah. Heel Champa's my favorite. Charlotte made her NXT debut, I guess?
00:38:40
Speaker
technically yeah and ratings were down so what does that say yeah who knows um swerve and drake maverick move on in the cruise weight tournament i gotta think drake maverick is sticking around right because they got rid of him no wrestling no they're you i mean he's he's gonna lose i mean i definitely need to lose but i mean it's like they're i cannot believe they're used i mean i can't believe i don't know why i said i can't believe because
00:39:09
Speaker
I can totally believe that they're using something sensitive to make a storyline. Um, but there, I just feel like it's in such bad taste because it wasn't just him that got fired. It would be one thing if it was just him, they got fired and they were like using his storyline, you know, on this in his tournament. But like so many people lost their jobs and they're like, Oh, he's going to be fighting to keep his job. Like, I think it's a bad look.
00:39:36
Speaker
Yeah, because we know how it's going to end, I guess. Yeah. We'll see. So yeah, NXT, have we had the ratings already from NXT and AW come out from yesterday? Or are you just assuming that NXT lost the ratings?
00:39:52
Speaker
Oh, I didn't, I didn't assume NXT lost a rating. You said you said Koshina because Charlotte debuted and they still lost. I read that NXT ratings were down from the previous week. It doesn't mean they lost to AEW. AEW ratings could have been down too. Yeah, we've talked about this on the show. Like with everybody home, like how, how are ratings down for both of these shows? Even Raw, like
00:40:12
Speaker
I guess people really don't like the empty arena shows like that. That has to be it because everyone's home. Everyone can just watch TV at night. No one's doing anything. Yeah. I think people are probably finding more quality things to watch. They're like, you know, in this time I'm going to find something actually a little bit more, um, you know, quality to spend my time doing something. My neighbor, my neighbor across the street keeps baking. She's like baking every day and she brings over half the shit over to us. It's amazing.
00:40:42
Speaker
Oh my God. If there's, if there's one thing that's going to come out of this pandemic is like, everybody I know is going to know how to make sourdough bread. I'm like, was there some sort of, was there some sort of like agenda that we were supposed to like go on? Like what day were we supposed to learn how to make sourdough bread? Because every freaking friend I have is like, Oh, bacon, bacon, some fresh bread. Look at my starter. Oh, my starter's rising. I'm like, what the hell? Was this like something we were supposed to be doing?
00:41:10
Speaker
I know, a loaf of bread is like two dollars. Why are you going to spend four hours? That's why I've never understood. My other neighbor next door has like half of his backyard now. He's built these 10 big spots for a vegetable garden, but legit, basically like a little farm back there.
00:41:32
Speaker
and like he gives half of it to us for free because he gets like they all like bloom at the same time yeah and he's like so like but like also like a cucumber is like 75 cents why am I gonna like he spends every weekend out there fucking building this shit like
00:41:47
Speaker
Listen, listen, I'm just here to tell you, I'm no fortune teller, I'm no psychic, but I promise you this will not be the last pandemic that we ever, you know, cucumbers may be the next toilet paper and this guy's going to be freaking
00:42:03
Speaker
He's gonna be loaded. You know what I mean? Some people use cucumbers like toilet paper bowl. We're not that's a story for a different You can't set me up for stuff like that
00:42:18
Speaker
Let's get to outside the squared circle. This is brought to our good friends at Collar and Elbow brand.com. I just interviewed the proprietor, former WWF superstar, Al Snow. A great interview. You're not a huge Al Snow fan. I mean, the dude was around, wrestled an ECW, TNA, WWF, has his own clothing line now, runs a wrestling school, a promotion.
00:42:45
Speaker
So, I mean, he's done a little bit of everything in the wrestling business and he's a super entertaining guy. So, very fun interview on our Patreon page. So, check it out. But use code CHICK for 10% off. They literally have the softest shirts. He tried to use a, I don't know if you've, I know Marco listened to the interview because he listens to everything.
00:43:06
Speaker
I'll try to drop a, uh, uh, uh, Colorado elbow promo code on the podcast. I was like, whoa, bro, we got our own already. Okay. I want him to use chick for the salt salt salt t-shirts. He was like, what? He was like, Oh, okay. All right. We're a friend of the color and elbow man. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:24
Speaker
He's a good dude. So we talked about last week, WWD. I don't know if we even talked about this last week. It might have come out right after the episode. WW2K21 is not going to happen after so much backlash. I don't know if it's because of the backlash from 2K20 or if they're just using the coronavirus right now. I don't know if video game companies are even able to make games right now.
WWE Game Changes and Rumors
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:49
Speaker
Sheena did you ever get a chance to play this game before Seth went away? What 2k20? Yeah No, I mean I watched I watched him play it but if it gives you any indication as to what he thought about it He is he put it away and he's continuing his universe on 2k19. So Yeah He gave it a good shot, you know, so
00:44:19
Speaker
I'm sorry, I'm distracted from, I have in the background, my iPad is just this six hour Triple H tribute on the network. As you should. I'm just saying the evolution of Stephanie McMahon at Ringside. Oh my gosh. I forget which WrestleMania this is against Jericho. And she's just guns out, guns a-blazing.
00:44:42
Speaker
So but they did they did announce WWE 2k they're like they're coming off like an arcade game Yeah, it's called annihilation. I think maybe I might have just No, it's called battleground. Okay. Yeah Annihilation Yeah battleground and it's kind of like an NBA jam type of game like more cartoony yeah, I don't know if that's gonna be on platforms or if it's gonna be like a mobile game or what but
00:45:11
Speaker
I don't like those kind of games. I'm not much of a gamer anyway. I'm more of like, but if I'm going to play a game, it's going to be like a Madden or a WWE 2K or something more realistic. But I'm sure there's a bunch of younger kids that'll probably love those, that type of game. Yeah. I mean, those, those types of games are fun just because like, I mean, because they're just kind of like crazy. You know what I mean? The playability, you can literally do anything. I mean, did you see the, um,
00:45:37
Speaker
the trailer with like john sina getting thrown over like a ship and getting eaten by a crocodile like yeah that's a little excessive but yeah those those games are fun i mean do you guys remember playing like nfl blitz when you were like yeah nba street was a badass game
00:45:53
Speaker
Yeah, NBA Street. Like, yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly the kind of game that I mean, I don't know. Obviously, there's a lot of controversy here on this one because the graphics are kind of like whack and the the female superstars kind of look like Bratz dolls with they just they just look really bad, you know.
00:46:12
Speaker
Well, who knows? It could be an awesome game. We all love playing it and it like blows up. But right now the WWE Universe is like pretty down on it. The memes are pretty funny, though. And it's like, you know, it's like WWE Universe. We want we want a more arcade type game. And it's like 2K gives a presents trailer of it or WWE Battlegrounds. And then everybody's like, no, not like that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:40
Speaker
I mean, they did have like a THQ made a arcade game they did. It was called WWE All Stars.
00:46:47
Speaker
Yeah, that was Yeah, that game was it's kind of like in that same vein because I always go back to the macho man commercial That he he did it. Well one of the last commercials he did for that. It's an actual commercial He did for the game. He is a like a sea sport that like white gray beard But he still like still has the same energy as yeah as 80s macho man And I'm not gonna watch it cuz it doesn't make me tear I
00:47:15
Speaker
What could have been? So there are rumors that Vince McMahon is looking to sell the WWE, possibly to Disney slash ESPN slash whatever conglomerate they have. That's probably a bad time to sell. I'm sure he's not going to get top dollar for anything.
00:47:35
Speaker
As a WWE stockholder, I would love to see them sell to Disney and see what Disney can do with marketing them as their brand for sports entertainment. They have a bunch of properties, great social media, they have movies that they make, whereas
00:47:53
Speaker
I don't remember the last time they made a WWE movie actually, but what do you think, Sheena, about Vince McMahon possibly selling the WWE before he, you know, before he hands it off to his daughter in Triple H, like just selling? I mean, I don't know. Part of me like feels like I don't believe those rumors. I mean, I know that like Marco and I were talking about, like he was saying, yeah, there's rumors going around that Vince just doesn't care anymore. You know, after the XFL went under and like all this stuff and that, you know, there's no more live shows.
00:48:22
Speaker
But I mean, you just don't stop caring one day, right? Like after this long, you know, like if there's anybody out there that cares about wrestling, whether he's senile or not, or whether he's the Vince, Vince, a Tron, 5,000, like he cares about wrestling. And I just can't imagine him just like selling off, you know, selling off control while he's still alive. Well, yeah. I mean, the idea behind like the actual, like the article.
00:48:48
Speaker
Um, or articles that talk about, it's not like not the whole company, mainly like parts of it. So like the WWE network may be sold to like, to Disney or, um, like the properties, like the pay-per-view properties, maybe you kind of see it already with, um, with Fox Sports airing, like all the best stuffs and stuff like that. Like you kind of see it taking place sort of with them airing all these different WWE things. So it surprised me if they were just, he would just sell like properties under the WWE umbrella, not the actual company itself.
00:49:18
Speaker
So let it just be owned by different things. Like USA could probably buy raw and Fox can probably buy a smackdown and they'll own those brands, but it'll still be under the WWE umbrella.
00:49:29
Speaker
I just worry, I just worry about something like that, about somebody getting their hands on it that doesn't care about wrestling. Cause like the moment it doesn't do well or doesn't make them money or doesn't make them profitable, they're going to like just ditch it. You know what I mean? Um, whereas like, you know, Vince, I feel like he would hang onto his sunk costs for dear life, you know?
00:49:50
Speaker
True. Yeah, that is true. I'm torn, too, because I really wanted them to keep it in-house. But we'll see what happens. I think you're right. I think maybe they would censor it more. Maybe we don't get blood. Maybe we just end up being more of a cartoony type of feel. If Disney owns it, we'll see. But we had some more roster cuts. We saw Cain Velasquez, who I'm surprised he was actually under a contract. He got released.
00:50:19
Speaker
He could probably give back the money that WWE gave him and they could probably keep the whole rest of the roster on. What a disaster. Yeah, between him and Goldberg, yeah. Gerald Briscoe, who had to have been around for, what, 30 years now? I think it was like 30, 35 years. 35, yeah.
00:50:37
Speaker
And Curtis Axel, just earlier today, got the axe. No pun intended, I guess. Dude, Tom Slaney is the damn black widow for that. On our trivia night, he was talking about Curtis Axel getting cut, making a joke of it. And then all of a sudden, it happened. And then I'm like, if Odell gets cut, dude,
00:50:55
Speaker
You know, that's a bad look. The universe is sensitive right now. You can't put stuff out with the open. Yes, the energy. So like anything you say, yeah, the energy is off right now. You say something, it could happen. So everyone speak positive nowadays. It's true. Don't say anything negative. Nobody else gets fired at all. Yeah, damn right. But yeah, that's all the news we had outside of the squared circle. Let's go into our go figure segment. Here we go.
00:51:33
Speaker
All right, everybody's favorite segment is here. Go Figure brought to you in part by our good friends at Ringside Collectibles. You can get there by going to wrestlingfigures.com. You're stuck at home. You've got nowhere else to buy figures.
00:51:49
Speaker
That's the place to go. They got the new AEW figures. They have pre-orders and all bunch of new stuff. Always got new stuff dropping there on ringside. So check them out. Good sponsor of ours. Awesome friends of the podcast. So check them out and support them. They're back up and running now. I bought from them during their Easter sale and it was quick, you know, less than seven day turnaround to get that order into my hot sweaty hands. So check them out.
00:52:17
Speaker
I will go first on my go figure here. I don't know why I just feel like I never get to go first I'm gonna go first I picked up one of our listeners Josh Ellis sent me the current angle probe last week and then someone sent me a couple Gorilla Monsoon arms
00:52:36
Speaker
Extra the black arms and I actually bought the Fink Off of it was random. I want to get the Fink figure once he passed away I felt like I needed to have it for my collection But he only has that build a figure that came with a bunch of the flashbacks. Mm-hmm So I there was a listing on eBay for like 26 bucks for the for the head and the torso and the legs But no arms, so I was like oh fuck. Let me just buy this
00:53:01
Speaker
And then I just, I was like, oh, I'm sure the arms are just like universal arms. So I got someone to send me their Grilla Monsoon black suit arms. So I got the Fink all put together, you know? Awesome. A little bit of everything there. Yep. Nice. And during last week's podcast, I purchased the Steve Austin flashback figure from our buddy Dennis on our Facebook group. I can't pronounce his last name, but I can pull it up here and try to
00:53:27
Speaker
Maybe butcher it. Yeah, Dennis Votor, I think his name is. He bought that whole case of the flashback series to get the Canadian versions to get the King Harley race figure in. And so he was selling off a bunch of the other ones that came in the case. So I bought that Steve Austin and that came in nice and minty. So thank you, Dennis, for that.
00:53:49
Speaker
I signed up for pro wrestling crate my first ever Pro wrestling crate I signed up because The names are pretty badass this month, and we're gonna get a Matt Cardona micro brawler In that set so and then the next month is Brian Myers so uh fun fact fun fact I got the first ever Pro wrestling crate when it first launched with Mick Foley. Yeah, I was like I was an early adopter on that shit
00:54:20
Speaker
I was like part of their like jumping off point and I have like the first like four little cards that they sent with it you know to tell you what comes in the box like little contents cards and they had like my picture on them so yeah pretty pretty cool I posted the picture on the Facebook page but I should post it on Instagram too but yeah it was back like December 2015.
00:54:39
Speaker
Yeah, this sold out pretty quick. The names featured in this box, I don't know what's going to be what besides the Met Cardona figure. Moxley, CM Punk, Kenny Omega, Young Bucks, Cody, Zack Ryder, Adam Hangman Page, Mick Foley, and Marty Skirrell. So this is a top. Crazy. The theme is top seller. So yeah, it's a bunch of big names. So there'll be an autographed photo and some shirts and all kinds of stuff.
00:55:04
Speaker
I'm excited. I'm going to keep it for a couple of months to get those micro-ballers from the Major Brothers and probably cancel after that, but I'm excited to get it. I'll probably open it up on the Facebook page so people can see it. I was live messaging you during the eBay fiasco of 2020 where someone had a ticket from Survivor Series 2000, I think it was.
00:55:34
Speaker
which is, um, Kurt Angle's first ever match against Sean Stasiak. And, um, I put, I was like, Oh, let me, let me just like, I'm going to wait. I'm going to put one bit in right before it ends and I'm going to steal it from this guy. Ha ha ha. So it was at nine 99 for like a week straight. I put a bit in.
00:55:54
Speaker
I was like, oh, you're not the top bidder. You're not the top bidder. So I finally get the top bid at like $17. And there's like maybe five, six seconds left on this. I was like, OK, I'm the top bidder. Good. I'm fine. I'll just keep refreshing to see. And somebody puts a top bid in right before me and snipes me.
Collectibles and Sponsorships
00:56:11
Speaker
And I'm so pissed at myself that I didn't just put like $40 in and just like guarantee myself to get it. Yeah.
00:56:21
Speaker
I was like, so I was just like, it's just a fucking piece of paper. Like really, what's the big deal? We've all been there. Yeah. But, uh, you know, how many people kept the ticket stuff from some random fucking pay per view from 1999 or whatever it was? So freaking front row Joe or whatever his name is from, um, no, I talked about him like before last, but now I can't remember Charlie, WrestleMania, Charlie. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:49
Speaker
but I was drunk the other night, and that night, I think that was last night, I think, my days are running together, I was like, fuck it, I wanna buy something on eBay, so I bought the, it's like a Macho Man Randy Savage, I think it was like a Toys R Us exclusive, it was like a,
00:57:07
Speaker
a fan pack where it had like a DVD and a pair of Macho Man sunglasses and a Macho Man figure. So I bought that. It's called the Ultimate Fan Pack. So yeah, it's still in the box. So I didn't get to my Macho Man collection. I've decided I'm doing a Macho Man collection. I don't know if I told you that, Sheena. No, that's news to me.
00:57:29
Speaker
the
00:57:45
Speaker
Kurt angle fingers you one of their old Jack's figures is yeah sure I'll take him he is at lucha dad on Twitter if you want to follow a great follow and then he had a couple of the San Francisco towing makers macho man figures and I was like I'll take those two so those those were supposed to be here today according to USPS tracking but I guess they're they're held up somewhere so I'll get those tomorrow I was hoping to open them on the show here but that is my weekly purchases Sheena and
00:58:13
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't think I got anything. Obviously I got it in my pro wrestling tease order from a week or so ago, but I also got the heel husband. I haven't gotten it in yet. It's the wrestling retrospective. Wait, I'm totally butchering the name of this. Hold on. The wrestling figure retrospective book. Okay. So it's like from 90 to 94. It's basically like a look back at like Hasbro's and like the history of the Hasbro's. It's got like all the original artwork and all this stuff.
00:58:42
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like pictures like prototypes and our our good buddy Mike Lanham got the book in hand and I remember heel has been talking about this book when it like first came out but it like literally the kickstarter was like two years ago or something like that and it was just kind of off my radar and then when Mike posted I was like oh shit I remember Seth wanted that book um and so I went ahead and ordered it for him so super super pumped to get that in hand I know he's gonna love it
00:59:07
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Yep, it's a at WWF Hasbro book if you want to get it. A couple of the folks on our Facebook group have sung the praises of it and said it's pretty cool, so. It's like 200 pages or something like that. I can't remember if he said 200 or 400 pages, but yeah, it ended up being a lot bigger than what he thought it was going to be. That's what she said. That's cool. That's a good pooping book in the bathroom, you know, something to read in there. So yeah, that is a nice little pickup. Marco, anything that you picked up?
00:59:34
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Uh, yeah, so I received my uh, I think I spoke about this last week I ordered my uh, shaw michaels boyhood dream elite figure. Is he at wrestle media 12? Um, I think it was a series last week too. Oh, awesome. See look at that. It's good figure like the boyhood dream. Yeah. So I got that one there. Um, also I received my package from, I spoke about this last week as well. My, uh, my, um,
01:00:02
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War by Warzone 97 poetry slash illustrative book. Oh yeah the poetry book based on Monday Night Raw circa the year 97. So it's illustration slash poetry based on on that year and I thought it was pretty cool. It's a guy on Instagram his name is Jedi Jackie Eddy. He does a lot of illustration. He has a really really cool
01:00:26
Speaker
Holographic like stickers that he does he actually sent me I only ordered the book and he sent me the stickers too He has this really cool like Andre the giant one. He has a lot of wrestling ones and a lot of pop cult pop culture one, so Definitely go on his IG page and check out his artwork. It's really it's really really nice I haven't started reading the book yet. It's a little like kind of like pamphlet and
01:00:52
Speaker
I love reading about that type of stuff. Even though I don't collect them, which I actually think I am, it would probably
01:01:00
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jump into the game today, so I might have to join the Hasbro army. Speaking of that, yeah. The heel has been, I mean, it was like he was asking me if we wanted to have like another baby or something. He was like, hey, I got a question for you. And I was like, oh, OK. Like, you know, we're talking back and forth on chat. And he's like, what do you think about a Hasbro collection?
01:01:25
Speaker
I was like, okay, I guess I can get down with that. I was like, we got to sell off all like the rest of these elites. When you get back though, he can never really get in a good rhythm of selling them. And I ain't trying to mess with that stuff because he was in and out so much last year. But yeah, when he gets back to you, we have some serious fire to unload as far as elites are concerned. But yeah, he wants to get in the, in the Hasbro game. I'm like, Oh dude, you stepping up, you stepping up to the big dogs. Now it's like the big leagues. Yeah, it's crazy. Cause like I, I, I didn't notice I followed a lot of Hasbro oriented accounts on IG.
01:01:55
Speaker
Like I was scrolling through and I'm like it's one of those things are the big brothers watching So I give you speak of stuff and you just go to IG That's the only post you see and I see him just bunch of different posts and picture like what the hell's going on here I'm like, is this a sign do I have to start the collection already? I mean and then I thought about like what was what's the first? Figure I should go should I start with the first series or should I just go with like is it? You're just gonna have to find stuff as you get it when it comes available You know what I mean? Like it's not one of those things like
01:02:23
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and
01:02:38
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That's it speaking of Hasbro though real quick let me interject we found a guy on instagram mike speaking of mike he's a Hasbro collector he brought him to my attention it's a dot jones wwf customs on instagram he like has probably legitimately the best
01:03:00
Speaker
Hasbro display that I've ever seen. It is like in freaking saying he's got the Hasbro ring. It's like he's got it set up as as if it's like an arena set up and he's got these clear acrylic like bleachers that he's got like every all the Hasbro set up on. He's got some that are like MOC. I can't tell if they're like autographed or whatever.
01:03:20
Speaker
But he's got some of those up lining the top. And then he's got posters, like wrestling posters, along the bottom with lights on it. And I posted a picture on my Instagram, so if you haven't yet. Yeah, it's awesome. And it's almost like it's built in a little alcove or a little breakfast nook type of thing in his basement. I was going to say, send this guy an invite to the Patreon Facebook group. I think I want him in there, because I'm sure he's got some cool photos of his collection and stuff. Yeah, he's awesome.
01:03:47
Speaker
But Marco, I have a bunch of names as we get into our names here for people to check out on Instagram, for people to add to their collections. There's some people here that you need to check out. But first, we need to talk about our biggest pickup of the week, our newest sponsor,
01:04:05
Speaker
floefers. And I got three pairs of floefers in the mail. If you don't know what they are, they're basically like crocs. But for adults, they're foam loafers. And I was very skeptical of them before we got them in the mail. But they are
01:04:23
Speaker
They are super comfy. They feel like a bunch of little Asian lady hands that are rubbing your feet while you walk. They're super nice and they're super stylish looking too. They're cool like no socks wearing outfit with shorts like during the summer time. Their website is FLOAFERS and you can check them out for
01:04:48
Speaker
All your shoe needs, but they sent each of us a pair, and I want to give them some love, and they gave us a little promo code for all our listeners. I'm going to pull that up now. I think it's Floaf10? Yeah. F-L-O-A-F, yeah, Floaf, everyone uses that word. F-L-O-A-F 10 for 10% off.
01:05:09
Speaker
But definitely check them out. The shoes are super comfy and I hate wearing, after like June 1st, I refuse to wear socks ever. I want sandals or I want something I can just slip on. And these are perfect because you can wear them with like, you know, you can wear them with khakis, you can wear them with jeans, you can wear them with shorts. They're like super versatile. So check them out. We're excited to have them as a new sponsor here on the show. So Floefers, thank you for the free swag.
01:05:35
Speaker
But let's get into it here. So we can't go out shopping. We can't go to Walmart. We can't go to Target. I mean, you can, but I mean, the stores are dangerous places to be. Anywhere outside of your home is just not smart right now. And the stores aren't getting much stuff in. I mean, there's just not stock when I go and pick up stuff, you know, essentials. There's just not much stuff on the pegs.
01:05:58
Speaker
I want to have a quick segment here where we can tell people, Sheena, the best places to go online while they're home to fill in those holes in their collection, maybe start a new collection, do whatever you want, pick up some old stuff, all that kind of stuff, because people might not know. So number one,
01:06:18
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check our Facebook page because we have a great amount of people in there selling stuff all the time. I was just thinking to myself, we should do another one of those yard sale days where everyone posts stuff to a thread of stuff they just want to get rid of and that was a great way for me to pick up a bunch of stuff.
01:06:35
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of the
01:06:50
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Another one is WFC, wrestling figures and collectibles. If you type in WFC, it should pop up. Both of those are great groups. They're both easy access to get into. And there's a bunch of wrestling figure collectors like us just trying to sell stuff. So you never know what you can find on a group like that. And that's really the best way for me to buy something is just from someone who just has an extra, or maybe they're trying to unload their collection. There's always people right now trying to sell stuff.
01:07:21
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I mean, that's what, what was cool is like, somebody even said that about our group. I know you kind of mentioned it on the show last week. We're free. Anybody didn't hear it on the show last week. Like he was like, you know what, like buying from the people in here, I feel like super comfortable. Like, I feel like everybody's like legit in here and it just really made me feel good that that's how people feel about our Facebook group. You know what I mean? Um, that they feel comfortable buying and selling and trading and doing all the things from, you know, just, just some randos on the internet, you know?
01:07:48
Speaker
Yeah, we only have 150 people, but we all are verified. We all have interacted with each other before. It's when you put something out on Twitter where there's 5,000 followers, you never know who you're going to get a response back from. So it's nice to have somebody who's actually legit. There's a bunch of IG accounts. You should follow Instagram accounts. Marco, you probably follow most of these.
01:08:11
Speaker
If you're trying to add to your older, your vintage wrestling figure collection, number one, Zorro Mendez, Z-O-R-R-O Mendez? King of LJN. Yeah, so he's a whisperer. He's the LJN whisperer. LJN whisperer, yeah. I'm in talks with him to get one at the moment because I've been dragging my feet on it, but he's the guy to talk to.
01:08:34
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JS Warrior 12. He could sell you a good amount of Hasbro's. When he's posting pictures, he has boxes upon boxes of old Hasbro's. I've bought from him before. Totally legit guy. What was that?
01:08:49
Speaker
I don't know. It didn't come from my end. I heard somebody say, yo. Somebody's breaking in the feed. Yeah. We have a hacker. We have a hacker. Our buddy, Hastell Toy, we've talked about here on the show. I've bought, I would say, seven or eight Hasbros from him, H-A-S-T-T-E-L, Toy, Hastell. He is in our Facebook group. He's going to do a live sale for us pretty soon for all of our listeners.
01:09:16
Speaker
Figure Finder is another good one. JBToys1, good buddy of ours. Marco bought a nice winged eagle belt from him recently, right? Yep, yep, yep. Good guy. He also sells toys. Jay and Jay co-figures. He's also a member of our Facebook group.
01:09:34
Speaker
I just, oh wait, I forgot about that. I actually bought a Macho Man basic from him with like the red and yellow lightening on it, the newer basic that came out. I just bought that from him the other night. He posted a picture of like 30 figures he was selling and I bought one. Two Sweet Antiques, another good account on Instagram. Buy, sell, trade toys and someone just emailed me about this. KS Elite Stages.
01:10:01
Speaker
Ks elite stages for backgrounds for your displays and stuff like that So those are some good accounts that you know, it's just normal people selling that I've we can all vouch for How about some websites Shana? Give me some websites that people should check out if they want to add to their collection Whether it be new stuff or old stuff
01:10:22
Speaker
some websites. I don't buy from, what do you, I don't buy from websites like www.oldtoys.com. Yeah. I know nobody uses websites anymore. It's stupid to set up. But how about like, we talk about ringside all the time. We can talk about Amazon. People don't think about Amazon or Walmart. Oh, so you're just talking, you're talking about like the obvious. Yeah. Like Target, Amazon, Walmart, freaking, um, what's the one mega crapple list?
01:10:54
Speaker
I mean, the biggest one being eBay, of course, but also Mercari is a great app to download. M E R C A R I. If you want to, uh, it's basically like a buying selling app from people. So, uh, that's another advice is just always have recourse for your purchases.
01:11:15
Speaker
Make sure you have PayPal protection. You know what I mean? Don't, unless you know somebody, like our, our Facebook community feels pretty comfortable. Like, you know, a lot of times we'll just use friends and family or whatever, but like, because I would literally publicly drag somebody if they like screwed somebody over in our, in our Facebook group, but that's for another day. But I'm just, I'm just saying like, don't, don't mess with the fully fam, you know? Um, but if you're buying from like Mercari or like even individual people on Instagram, make sure there's like,
01:11:42
Speaker
you know, recourse if, for whatever reason, they are a, you know, Bobo. Mercari is nice because if you sell something on there, you don't get the money until the person receives it and they like go onto the app and check and say like, OK, I got this. It's in good shape. You know, blah, blah, blah. Check. And then you get the money because so it's basically like it's really it really benefits the person buying stuff. So yeah.
01:12:04
Speaker
Oh, cool. Yeah. See, I've never purchased, I mean, I've thought about it. I'm like, no, I'm not going to open my door to another shopping app. Yeah, that's good. Yeah.
Community Engagement and Quarantine Life
01:12:11
Speaker
I mean, it's like, you know, just another avenue of like people selling stuff. So also I found some good stuff on Facebook Marketplace, which is random. You know, you can search it by your local area. You can just pick it up from people. A lot of times it's people just like, you know, their kids are getting older. They're just selling a bunch of toys that they don't want anymore. So you never know. You could just have like a hidden gem there.
01:12:33
Speaker
Those are some good ways to explore. Obviously, we always love ringside collectibles for newer stuff, but those are some good ways to get some older stuff. I talked about, I mean, I have the Kurt Engle Collection basically finished as far as I want to. I've started like a Macho Man collection.
01:12:51
Speaker
We should say on the Facebook page, I just announced this today. I want to do something where each week, one of our people in our Facebook group kind of walks us through their collection, does like a live video type of thing. We pick a new person every week, kind of get to know them in their collection. We kind of ask them questions. So that'll be another fun aspect to this quarantine time for us to kind of get to know each other, get to know each other's collections.
01:13:18
Speaker
Our good buddy Ryan on our Facebook group suggested that. I was like, yeah, dude, that's an awesome idea, man. Good stuff. So, yeah, Ryan Belsley, who actually works in a bacon, works in a bacon factory. A bacon factory. Yeah, like a smokehouse for bacon. Oh, sweet. Just makes bacon all day. Oh, man, I bet he smells delish. I'm just going to say that it's the same thing. He probably smells, his armpits probably smell delicious.
01:13:46
Speaker
I know. I mean, I'm sure when you work there, you're probably like, Jesus Christ, I smell like bacon. You probably hate bacon. You probably just want to go home and eat a salad. Yeah, but then when you walk by, you walk by people and they're like, oh, what is that haunting aroma? You know? Yeah, like where all my liquor stores are, the McCormick Spice Factory is up right there. And you just drive around. It's like, oh my god, it just smells like an open can of paprika up here. It's so herby up here.
01:14:13
Speaker
All right, that's it for that segment. Let's get into our quarantine and chill brought to you in part by a yet unnamed sponsor who will sponsor this segment and give us free Netflix, possibly, looking at you Netflix. So what has everybody been watching? What have you guys been binge watching? I want to know. What are you watching, Marco? I mean, I've been watching that six hour Triple H.
01:14:43
Speaker
Extravaganza get the paper towels ready Yeah, it's like watching WrestleMania, but with all Triple H matches. That's what that's why I equate it to No, I've been watching actually a lot of network Obviously because we do the we do a show I'm not sure we mentioned it on here We it's called Monday night retro. We're actually going back to all the raws from 1996 So I've been watching a lot about older
01:15:11
Speaker
Monday Night Rawls and stuff like that. So that's what I've been binge watching, really. Not any TV shows, really. I'm in a relationship. I'm a married man. So any TV shows I have to watch with the wife, I can't watch alone. So other than that, Ridiculousness, I watch a lot, too, because that's always on MTV. If you just want to watch some mind-numbing people getting hurt constantly because it's on 24 hours a day, Ridiculousness is a good show to watch.
01:15:41
Speaker
Um, I think that dude pretty much owns MTV by now. How was his name? Rob? Rob Dyrdek? That dude? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he owns the company. He, yeah, cause they wrote that show all day. What was his show called Big and Rob? Rob and Big? Yeah, Rob and Big. And then he did, uh, The Fantasy Factory. Um, and now Ridiculous. It has been on for like 50 years it seems. So, but yeah, nothing too crazy. Like I said, I can't watch anything good.
01:16:07
Speaker
Well, I'm also married, but, you know, well, I get to watch whatever the hell I want to. I'm just kidding. I actually have to watch like, you know, the same shit over and over and over again. It's pretty refreshing. He we watched. We watched the what was the show onward? The new movie for Pixar. We watched that. Yeah. Yeah. I got a little choked up at the end. You know, I told that that's like I was like, prepare prepare your daddy heart because I don't think it's ready for onward.
01:16:36
Speaker
because it was just, it was a little, it was a little emotional. He, you know, goes on this like journey, you know, like trying to think, he thinks he wants something really badly. And then the end, he kind of realizes he had it all along. And, you know, it's just, it's, it's very heartfelt. So if you, if your kids need a new movie to watch onward is, is definitely one, it's a shame that didn't get to get seen in theaters. I wondered how much it would have made like, you know, um, not getting put just like on, on Disney plus, but
01:17:02
Speaker
that's neither here nor there i'm tired of talking about cartoons because that's all i get to watch anymore um i so i have been i listen to a lot of stuff because while you know brett is watching whatever the heck he's watching i will listen to podcasts and i listen to um
01:17:18
Speaker
new gym podcast i'm going back and listening to all those i've listened to them all before but if you if you guys don't know about this podcast i feel like it was like one of those like little like niche kind of like it kind of like hit the scene before like podcast like blew all the way up you know what i mean and it started before the network even started i think they started in like 2013
01:17:37
Speaker
And it's funny because in those early episodes, they're talking about going back and watching like matches on YouTube and like, you know, DVDs and all of this stuff. And it's so funny to hear that now because we have the network, which literally has everything, you know? But I'm going back and listening to the new gym podcast and kind of watching some stuff from like 93, 94. I'm watching King of the Ring, you know, Survivor Series, WrestleMania 10, that sort of thing. So that's what I've been binging on.
01:18:03
Speaker
A podcast recommendation I have over the new gen is if you don't listen to Crime Junkie and you like true crime podcasts, that's another one of my favorite podcasts out there. Try to find new gen on iTunes. Is it just new gen? It's called the new gen project or the new generation project. Yeah.
01:18:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's I mean, it's like they finished it. It's already done. I was I was so sad. Like when they do that last episode, it was like at the very end, they did like a best moments of new gen project. And it literally makes you laugh out loud. Like once you've heard all the episodes and you go back and like listen to the best of it is freaking hilarious. But yeah, you would love that podcast feel because it is so good. They're British guys and they kind of grew up like, you know,
01:18:50
Speaker
Uh, you know, an attitude era and that sort of thing. And they, they kind of missed like the golden era or sorry, they missed the new generation era. So they're going back and like watching a lot of this stuff for the first time.
01:19:00
Speaker
And it's freaking hilarious. I'll definitely check it out. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Marco talked about another reason to subscribe to Patreon. We have our new side project, Monday Night Retro, where me and myself and Mike Lanham and Marco and hopefully Sheena can jump on.
Content Recommendations and Nostalgia
01:19:17
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We're going to watch every episode of Raw from 1996.
01:19:21
Speaker
We're not doing it tonight because I haven't watched this week's, but we will record it this weekend. And it's been pretty fun so far through one episode. So we didn't get canceled yet. We're still doing good. So from the people who brought you Chick-Fully show bring you
01:19:37
Speaker
Um, I do want to say coming on May 8th to Netflix, the second season of Dead to Me comes on, which is, uh, Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate, which was a really good show, kind of like, uh, like a good, like, I'll watch with my wife type of show, but it's also pretty good. So, you know, good, good little kind of, uh,
01:20:01
Speaker
Right. You wouldn't recommend it to your guy friends, but it's cool. Sit down. Good compromise type of show. The miniseries from Waco about Waco. I have not seen that, but I've heard good things about that. That's on Netflix. We just watched that over a couple nights.
01:20:21
Speaker
It was really good, really good. What else did I want to say? Oh, my son is now into watching Power Rangers, which might be my least favorite thing on Earth. I never got into Power Rangers. I hated it as a kid. I hated it as a kid. Yeah, I did too. I just don't like the lip dubbing. I don't like the, you know, it's just so, it's just so shitty. So like, I'm like, of course I'm trying to like make him not watch it, but now it just makes him want to watch it even more. So that's, that's all he wants to watch while we put the TV on. So that's been great.
01:20:50
Speaker
Yeah, that was one thing I never I had some neighbors and like their their kids they were a little bit younger than me and they were twins and they were like obsessed with Power Rangers like hardcore and I just remember like sometimes I'll go over to their house and I'd be like Jesus Christ like I wish keep watching Power Rangers like I cannot take this
01:21:09
Speaker
There is a good movie coming to Netflix on May 22nd because it wasn't able to be released into the movie theater. It's called The Lovebirds. It's got Camille Najane from what do you call it? Silicon Valley. It's a good romantic comedy type of movie. The trailer was really good for it. The trailer was freaking hilarious.
01:21:34
Speaker
That's going to be a good movie. So yeah, hopefully a lot of the movies that were going to come out are now going to be on some of these streaming services. Our friends at Jimmy's Seafood, I guess, are the most innovative restaurant I've ever seen. They're building a drive-in movie theater in their parking lot. They're showing Frozen 2. It's like 30 bucks a car. And they'll have their full restaurant open for people that want to order food. But I guess they're buying a projection screen or something.
01:22:03
Speaker
Um, that's pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, it's a cool idea of, you know, it's good social distancing. It's also like, you know, restaurants now have to think of different ways to use, like, you know, to make money. And then, you know, if you can fit 50 cars in there, that's, uh, you know, 1500 bucks that you're making plus food you're selling. So, um, that's, you know, if you have any local drive-in movie theaters, maybe that's a, maybe that's going to come back now. There is one year. Is, um, is Maryland on the like early, early release?
01:22:33
Speaker
form of the government to let them open up or what's the deal? Are you guys about to crack the seal or what? My wife has been taking calls from people that need to get tested, blah, blah, blah, and today was the busiest day she's had in the four weeks that she's been doing it. I think most of the people are either people that work in hospitals or people that live in
01:22:58
Speaker
old folks homes that are getting, I think half the people in Maryland are like, I think all the nursing homes in Maryland have been hit by it, which sucks, you know? Yeah. Those are like the easiest targets for people to die from this thing. There is actually a really good documentary on Netflix about the coronavirus.
01:23:14
Speaker
I think it's by Vox Media. They do a weekly show called Explained, and they do a different topic every week. And this week, they did one on the coronavirus. And it's really good. So check it out. Yeah, I think my mother-in-law was telling me. I think that might have been the one she was talking about. She said it's not political. It's just very informational. Yeah.
01:23:35
Speaker
science facts based, it's not like trying to like, yeah, there's no sort of like agenda there or anything like that. So yeah, if you want to know more about like actually like just like the Corona virus, then that's a good, a good watch, I guess. Yeah. Uh, so yeah, it's a good quarantine and chill
Community Highlights and Conclusion
01:23:50
Speaker
there. So let's move on to our random merch of the week. This is from our good buddy Ted. Yeah. Ted from wrestling for sale. He's got, let me pull it up real quick. Um, he's got this hat that I'm kind of obsessed with.
01:24:05
Speaker
And I have a big noggin, so I don't know if vintage hats fit, um, you know, small, like vintage clothing, but he's got this, it's, it's listed as very rare vintage 1995 WWF, Brett, the hit man heart embroidered snapback. So it's an adjustable, um, hat and it's got an embroidered hit man, almost like he looks like one of those little, um,
01:24:29
Speaker
Oh my gosh, what's the little rubber figures with like the big heads, not the pops? Oh my god, like the mystery minis, you know what I'm talking about? It kind of looks like a little hitman heart mystery mini on this white hat. He's selling it for $145 or best offer. It is pretty freaking nice. And on the back, it also has embroidery along like the backside.
01:24:53
Speaker
It says Brett Hitman, heart in pink embroidery. So, um, check out wrestling for sale on Instagram. And that's for like the number, not F O R, but yeah, pretty, pretty freaking dope hat. Let's get into our retro wrestling recommendation of the week, sponsored in part by our friends at pro wrestling tease. We asked, uh, our friends in our Facebook group for some recommendations on a triple H match. And we get a bunch of responses. Sheena.
01:25:21
Speaker
Yeah. So we got a bunch of responses and you know what? I was just going to pick one and like, you know, whoever, whoever had the best one, like shout it out. And you know, we would talk about that match, but in true triple H fashion, I feel like we should just go ahead and like, like string this thing out and make it as long as possible as triple H segments. So I'm going to go ahead and read everybody's suggestion. So maybe if you want to pick one of these matches to watch this week, um, I'm sure it's included in that six hour
01:25:49
Speaker
Triple H documentary on the network. So you can probably skip around and find it to that. But the first one comes in from Tom Slaney. He says,
01:25:56
Speaker
After he mentions the 6-hour Triple H special, he says, after watching some of that 6-hour Triple H special, I'd say The Rock and Him from SummerSlam is pretty good. I had forgotten about that. So Marco, if you have anything you want to weigh in as our Triple H advocate over here, I know you're like extremely pro Triple H. Let me know. Do you give Tom's suggestions a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Thumbs up. That was actually the recommendation last week. That's one of that.
01:26:27
Speaker
Someone else picked, I believe, as well. So yeah, no, it's definitely a good pick, the latter match. We got Nicholas Jones, Triple H versus Jericho on an episode of Raw from April 17, 2000. I don't remember that. Do you remember that, Marco? I do.
01:26:43
Speaker
Do not at all. I go on WrestleMania, definitely, but I don't remember that. April, April 2000 from Raw. Nicholas Jones has a very vivid memory of this. Thumbs up anyway. This match with Jericho. Yeah. Patrick Harris versus Austin at Survivor Series 2000. The whole match is good, but the ending is awesome. An early cinematic ending done well. Marco, thumbs up, thumbs down. Thumbs up. Every match is going to be thumbs up. OK, OK. You don't even have to ask. You don't even have to ask. OK, so go. Three thumbs up if I could.
01:27:14
Speaker
So Brian Baker, Triple H versus HBK Bad Blood 04. We had David Brooks with Triple H versus Chris Benoit, the Iron Man match on Raw from July 2004. He says it was great to have Triple H tangle in the ring for an hour.
01:27:32
Speaker
Was there which was an added bonus of David was in the audience been while brought out the best in Triple H We got Christian Garcia. He says I know it's I know it's a more recent match But versus Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 30 besides the two Undertaker matches. I don't think Triple H is
01:27:49
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had a great wrestling match in years. Triple H can adapt with the times and could wrestle with newer superstars, which I believe he can have great matches with future NXT stars. That reversal Brian did with the pedigree and Triple H turning the pinfall back to the pedigree, I would do that spot with my figures years ago and freak out when it actually happened. So.
01:28:12
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Yeah, WrestleMania 30 from Christian. Josh Ellis says, my favorite Triple H match is from Royal Rumble 2000. Triple H versus Cactus Jack. Yeah. The buildup was great. Yeah. The buildup was great. Both guys were on fire here. The entire wrestling world loved Mick Foley. And at this point, Triple H was the top heel in wrestling. Also the rock saving Mick while Mick was handcuffed.
01:28:36
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and about to be hit by a car, a chair, about to be hit by a chair one year after the Rockhead mankind in the same situation was a great moment. Man, that maker's really getting, getting toasty over here.
01:28:52
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It's impairing my reading abilities. Joshua Smartmark says, it's an early one, but SummerSlam98, Triple H versus The Rock in a ladder match for the IC title. It's just really cool to see those two feud right before they became megastars. Plus, the Nation versus DX promos were priceless.
01:29:15
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winner of trivia, Kyle Niblett says, uh, versus Taka on raw. Do you remember that? That's a, that's, I don't know. It's gotta be a deep cut cause I didn't, I don't remember that. Yeah. So, um, yeah.
01:29:31
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Kyle Niblett coming with the deep trivia. He knows his shit. We got Joey, no comparison, Joey Harrison, Triple H versus Cactus Jack from Raw from 1997, September 1997. We have Triple H versus Cactus Jack at the Royal Rumble in 2000.
01:29:51
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Lawrence Soto says Elimination Chamber 2005. The crossing storylines between Triple H and Orton, plus Triple H and Batista. The bumps he took, how Puerto Rico went crazy for him the moment he walked out. It was his 10th title win. Awesome match start to finish.
01:30:08
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And then we have Lucas Weiser says versus Batista at WrestleMania 21. This was my first mania I watched and the whole card was stacked. Having the final piece of evolution and seeing Batista get the rub and making a run with the title was awesome. A lot of good stuff. Watch all those matches here. Yeah, you should watch all of those or you could just, you know, that's watch the six hour network special plus all those matches. And then we'll talk to you in like three weeks.
01:30:38
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yeah and then watch uh thy kingdom come the uh the documentary on triple h would take another three hours so get nine hours of triple h documentary really like freaking yeah it's like two hours and 30 something minutes around there two hours and 40 minutes i mean if you want to say it's bias because he works for the company i don't know i think he's just a great wrestler yeah that's why they spent so much time on him yeah
01:31:05
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forms of Triple H. Um, I do have one last recommendation. I want to see if I could find it. I was asking the heel has been what his recommendation was. And he says summer slam 97 steel cage match versus mankind. Um, he said, I think that was the first time he really looked like a future main eventer. So those are all of our retro wrestling recommendations of the week. Thank you so much to everybody who submitted those. Um, we so, so appreciate you guys participating and humoring us and, you know,
01:31:35
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being active members of our awesome community.
01:31:38
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Yes, next week we will be back with a full preview of Money in the Bank. Sheena will try to get my prediction title off of my waist. I'm about to freakin' drip it from me, dawg. Yeah, I'm going to be your Hernandez, and you're going to be Cody Rhodes, and I'm going to try to coach you to get that title back, because this is bad. We need to get that title away from Phil. I need Tully in my corner, I guess. I don't know. Phil is totally defiling. You're Sean Spares.
01:32:06
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01:32:34
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01:33:01
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