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Snap Into Stomping Grounds With The Chick Foley Show!
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This week Sheena and Phil discuss their trials and tribulations preordering the Slim Jim Macho Man figure plus their preview Stomping Grounds and discuss their biggest pet peeves!
Check out our patreon page! www.patreon.com/chickfoleyshow
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Transcript
Hosts Reunite and Time Zone Talk
00:00:12
Speaker
We're kicking ass, we're taking names, it's the Chick Foley show. Back home, I'm back home. In the fig cave, an empty fig cave, but it'll do for now, Sheena. I'm Phil Gentile, the hot take kid. I'm here in Jimmy's Famous Seafood Studios and Sheena Phelps is, every week it's different, so I don't know where the fuck she is. Where are you at Sheena?
00:00:36
Speaker
Um, I am actually in Norfolk, Virginia. So you and I are in the frickin same time zone for the first time ever. For the first
Sheena's Move and Living Adjustments
00:00:45
Speaker
time ever. Can you believe that? Oh man. I know you're like one state away. It's crazy. I know. It feels really insane. Um, you know, driving back to Virginia, we've lived in Virginia before, so it just kind of felt like, I don't know. It was really like deja vu from like, you know, years past. Um, you know, a lot, a lot has changed, but a lot has really stayed the same. So,
00:01:04
Speaker
It's exciting to me back in Virginia, but, uh, yeah, East coast time, it was so weird watching like raw and stuff at like eight o'clock. I could, I was like, Oh my God, I'm an old lady. Like I can't stay up. You got spoiled. You're watching paper reviews and like three in the afternoon, then you can have like dinner afterwards and have a normal life. Yeah.
00:01:22
Speaker
Oh my God. Like I don't know how, like when NFL season rolls around, we used to like make breakfast and watch football games. And like you said, like we would have lunch and watch, you know, a WWE pay per view. Like the Hawaii time zone life is so good. Um, cause you can still have a life. Like after you watch all of your favorite things, you know, like if you're watching Monday night football and like it goes into overtime, like you're burning the midnight oil. You know what I mean? Like you're, you're like, you're struggling at work the next day. But for us, it's like, Oh yeah. Well, you know, we're going to be watching it at six o'clock instead of five o'clock.
00:01:51
Speaker
Yeah, it
New House Excitement
00:01:52
Speaker
is weird being back here on the East Coast where everything comes on at zero dark 30 I Bet yeah, it's it's a probably huge change, but you guys settled on a new crib You guys are moving in this weekend. So congrats that happened pretty quick. I
00:02:07
Speaker
Yeah, we looked at a house today and they called us and told us that they accepted our, you know, application and everything. And, you know, you know, fingers crossed, knock on wood, everything goes as planned. Cause we love the house. It kind of like, you know, met all of the, met all of the criteria and hopefully we get to move in this weekend. So, you know, our stuff won't be here probably for, you know, until next week, but we'll be living in an empty house, kind of like you, you know, living in your empty basement right now. We'll be living in an empty shell of a house for a few days, but it'll be nice just to have our own space and our own place. Cause right now we're in a hotel.
00:02:37
Speaker
Um, and sharing walls with people when you get dogs and babies and all that stuff. It's just fricking stressful. And my wife's so pissed off at me that, you know, we, she decorated the whole house and like, I, you know, I had minimal input on things, but then like, now that this basement's done, I drove to Ikea the other day by myself and got these big, they're like six foot long shelves.
00:02:54
Speaker
Just like a floating shelf and I bought like two of them I'm gonna put all my mint on card figures on I got the detail set up the other night got some stuff in that Yeah, it's gonna be cool, but she's like goddamn it you like you one day to like start decorating your basement It's been makeup for lost time I guess
00:03:13
Speaker
She's been asking you for weeks, like, honey, how did these picture frames look? How do you, where do you want this art? You're like, it's fine. You're good. It's good. You know, then all of a sudden you get the, the detox. You're like, Oh my God. I got to put it right here under this window. Yeah. Of course. I brought out the old Hasbro's and my son's start wanting to start playing with them. Cause you know, it's just a box of wrestling toys to him, but I'm, you know, I have like, you know, the, the crush and atom bomb, like $200 Hasbro's and they're like, Oh God, why are you playing with those? Please don't chew on these.
00:03:38
Speaker
Yeah, he's picking the most expensive ones to play with, of course. He doesn't play with the Dean Ambrose. He's got good taste. Yeah. We've got a pretty jam-packed
Show Preview and Listener Engagement
00:03:47
Speaker
show. At the very top here, we're going to do our Aleister Black figure giveaway that we've been talking about for a couple weeks. We are going to preview Stomping Grounds. Kigastake Names, I think, is the full name of it, which they are having some trouble selling tickets to.
00:04:01
Speaker
And we'll talk about the Macho Man pre-order over the last couple days and what figures we've picked up and a lot of other cool stuff. Sheena, what should we start with here? Let's start off the top and tell people how they can reach out to us. You can email us askchickfoli at gmail.com.
00:04:17
Speaker
and slide into Sheena's DMs on Instagram at Chick Foley. And of course our Patreon page is live and running. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley show. So we have that up and running. Tell the people a little bit about that Sheena. What are we doing over there?
00:04:33
Speaker
Oh man, on Patreon we have a lot of good stuff. You know, while I was home, Heal Husband and I did some, you know, we did a little nostalgia feels and went back and went through Heal Husband's old action figures from when he was a kid and we talked about those. We do unboxing videos. We have lots of good stuff over there. We do exclusive episodes. We're about to do an exclusive top
00:04:52
Speaker
I'm super excited for him to
00:05:07
Speaker
Again, this is just for Patreon, so we've had a lot of people hit us up and request access, so just make sure you are a Patreon. You can join for as little as a dollar a month. You do get access to that. We do a lot of bigger buying, selling, trading, a lot of talk about, you know, wrestling and all things. It's just a really interactive community. It's been a lot of fun so far, so just make sure if you are a Patreon and you're not a part of that yet, you do request access. Hit myself or fill
00:05:32
Speaker
where the heel has been up and we can give you the link to that and then if you do request access and you know all your info don't match up if you got like different aliases on different platforms let us know who you are over on you know make sure your patreon name matches your facebook name and we'll get you added to that.
00:05:46
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, honestly, the Facebook group was the best idea we ever had. That's worth a dollar itself. We got people selling and trading figures on there. We just, you know, during the paper views and rolling, we're going back and forth. We all talked about the Macho Man pre-order. So it's a cool place. You know, it's kind of Twitter's fun, but this is like a concealed place where we can like
00:06:05
Speaker
Not concealed, but it's like you don't have to go search people's tweets and go back and forth. It's all kind of, that's the one good thing about Facebook. It's all one place. We do weekly figure face-offs. We'll pick two random figures. We have a really awesome member that does that. Pretty much every week he'll pick two random figures and post them up and we all vote who we think is the best. It's just a lot of fun. We get to talk a lot of wrestling with people who actually care. You find that niche of people who actually enjoy wrestling as much as
00:06:35
Speaker
and it makes it a lot of fun, especially when the product is not as great. When you have a group of people who are awesome, you know, it really makes it a lot of fun. Yep, it's patreon.com slash Chick Foley show and be sure to hit up our friends at Collar & Elbow. It's collarandelbowbrand.com. We've been raving about their shirts over the last couple months. You can use code CHICK for 10% off.
00:06:58
Speaker
you will not be disappointed. And check out our shirts, our Chick Foley show shirts at ProWrestlingTees.com. Just search Chick Foley there, you'll be able to find them. And that's all the plug-in we have. Let's get into Raw and SmackDown this week, Sheena, which was a lot better than we've seen over the last couple of weeks. It gives us some help.
00:07:17
Speaker
Yeah, it was really exciting. Before we do that, I want to give away that Aleister Black figure. Oh, good call. Good call. Yeah, you guys have given us some amazing reviews on the show. You guys have really shown us some love over on iTunes. So for all of you guys who took the time to rate and review the show, it means so much to us. You guys don't realize how much it helps the show and helps us get seen and heard by more people. And so we're going to go ahead and pick here live on the show a review.
00:07:42
Speaker
In case you don't have your Twitter name on here, I'm going to read your iTunes name and make sure you hit myself or fill up and let us know that you won the contest. Um, but here we go. Let me just get a little quick drum roll here. All right. And the winner is. All right. It says, um, this, it says, uh, fix for life. Love this show and everything about it. Um,
00:08:10
Speaker
I found it. Thank you for everything you do for the big community. Keep up the great work. This comes into us from Ryan Bellile. So thank you so much for that five star review. The title was Fig Life. So make sure you contact us and claim your Aleister Black figure, dude. That's freaking dope figure you just went through. It is. That name doesn't sound familiar. Hopefully he's a listener because I don't know if he didn't put his Twitter name in there.
00:08:40
Speaker
He did not put his Twitter name on there. Um, but in case, you know, we will, we will pick another winner. If Ryan doesn't claim it by next week's show, we will pick another winner, um, live on air. So stay tuned for that. Um, Ryan, you have until next week's show to claim your Alistair black figure.
00:08:53
Speaker
Countdown starts now. Congratulations, Ryan. Hopefully you're listening to this. If you do, hit us up and we will ship that out to you. Congrats,
R-Truth and Carmella's Antics
00:09:01
Speaker
and we're gonna continue to do some cool giveaways. I know our buddy Marco is doing one on his Twitter account. He's giving away a Killian Dane and a Ruby Riot mint on card in the name of our podcast. If you just go to his Twitter account, it's EngloriousGent, G-E-N-T, and it's the very first tweet on his profile.
00:09:20
Speaker
You basically just have to tweet back at him and tell him what you liked about this week's show, and you'll be entered to win. He's actually going to pick the winner tomorrow, so if you're listening to this on Thursday, hit him up, and you can win a pretty cool couple figures there for not really doing much work at all. So, MVP Marco coming through again. That's what we do, the Chick-Fully fan, man. We're here to give you all of the things, so we all work together.
00:09:45
Speaker
All right, let's get into Raw and SmackDown for the folks at home as we're heading into a pay-per-view that people aren't too excited about, but they tried on Monday and Tuesday to get us a little more pumped up for it, that's for sure. Yeah, you know, I was actually really surprised with Raw, you know, the last couple of weeks, we've had a really hard time here on the show just kind of like making, you know, making lemonade out of lemons, you know, we try to stay positive here and, you know, watch the product to, you know, just be entertained.
00:10:15
Speaker
When it's like, hey, can we watch the NBA finals or are we going to watch this crappy, you know, second, third hour of raw? Um, you know, we're going to change the channel and you know, just catch up on the, catch up on the highlights or catch the, uh, the Hulu review. But this week was actually very, very entertaining. We had a lot of stuff go down. I was really entertained by the whole.
00:10:34
Speaker
Seth Rollins just kind of like attacking everyone with a chair. I don't know why I found this joy in that, even though that's, you know, he's, he's a baby face, but I find that that was like a super heel thing to do. Just like attack everybody that, um, you know, Corbin like gave the opportunity to be the guest special guest referee. Um, but something about it, like, you know, I still felt like, yeah, go Rollins, even though it was such a heel thing to do.
00:10:56
Speaker
No, that's what I mean. I felt the same way is because he was so great as a heel, you know, and that that reign as a champion is really, you know, kind of what defines him for me. And it kind of harken back to that. And it made me like he has that edge that we saw so much when he was, you know, a J&J security. So, yeah, I really love that. Just coming out of nowhere and just beating the hell out of people on both shows, actually, you know, did it on did on SmackDown against the B team, which I don't know why he was upset about if they were the guest referee. I don't know what he was worried about them doing, but
00:11:26
Speaker
it didn't matter it was it was anybody yeah anybody if you even if you even let the words like Corbin come out of your mouth you were getting freaking melee'd with the chair and what you think about ricochet winning the fatal five-way and getting a shot at the US championship at stomping grounds a little early but I like some you know it's a fresh matchup for sure that'll be pretty fun to watch
00:11:49
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I, I'm, I'm pumped. I think it was, I thought it was really good move. You know, I, I thought I was like, Oh my gosh. Like when it was just Ms and Ricochet left, I was like, Oh my gosh. Like I just knew the Ms was going to win. Um, but they surprised me and they gave Ricochet the over on this one. And I'm really excited to see.
00:12:08
Speaker
Ricochet versus Joe for this. I don't, I don't know who's going to come out on top. Um, I would love to see Ricochet as the U S as the U S champion. Um, but I don't know. I mean, you know, Joe kind of just got the title back and hasn't really had a chance to really do anything with it yet. So, um, I don't know if this will be a few that kind of carries on over the course of like, you know, the next, the next couple of paper views, you know, with a Ricochet and Joe kind of fighting for the U S title.
00:12:34
Speaker
Yeah, it would be pretty cool to, I mean, I don't know if they didn't plan on this, obviously, because after the raid, Mysterio got hurt out of nowhere, so they had to kind of scramble. But, you know, it'd be cool to have some fresh blood there. And it was a fun match, that Five Way was pretty fun. Even Strowman looked good. You know, I'd love to see Cesaro go a little bit further, but he looked good. And then, you know, it was fun watching them all beat the shit out of Elias, which he seems to be kind of the punching bag lately, and just get the shit beat out of him after he makes fun of the crowd. But, you know, it was a good match.
00:13:03
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't have thought a match containing Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley would have been something that I would have enjoyed watching. If you would have heard me a couple weeks ago, if you would have told me a couple weeks ago I would have enjoyed that match, I would have been like, oh my God, you're crazy. But it was a lot of fun and I thought all the guys did a great job.
00:13:20
Speaker
Viking Raiders returned after beating the tag team champions like two months ago, uh, and just disappearing. And they beat the, the, the awesome duo of Russ Taylor and Randy Taylor, the ultimate jobber names, uh, you know, the Taylor brothers.
00:13:38
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what that's going to mean for them, but I guess it's good to see them back. It is. You know, we had just talked about last week about jobbers having their place. And, you know, this is this we're getting what we ask for. So I can not complain that the Viking Raiders came out and, you know, squashed a couple of jobbers. I think it's the perfect thing to.
00:13:56
Speaker
To gain them some momentum, we know that they have a huge future ahead. Hopefully, fingers crossed, if WWE doesn't screw it up, they have a huge future ahead. And hopefully, they kind of redefine the tag division and really add some spice there. Cuz there are some good tag teams right now if we just give tag team wrestling a chance.
00:14:14
Speaker
Yeah, we saw that with the Good Brothers coming back and having a really good match against the Usos, even though they lost. I guess those guys are sticking around. I had heard rumors that they were kind of on their way out and that we hadn't seen them on TV in so, so long. But this was a night where it was a good flowing night of matches for three hours. And we saw some guys like the Good Brothers come back, the Viking Raiders.
00:14:36
Speaker
I saw EC3 in a little bit more of an elevated role. The best part for me was after that Viking Raiders match, panning into the crowd and seeing R-Truth and Carmella dressed up in the most ridiculous outfits I've ever seen in my life. It just popped me so hard and then Renee's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, go back, go back, go back. Tell the cameraman to go back and Carmella's dressed like Charlie Chaplin or something. It was hilarious.
00:15:00
Speaker
I love our truth and Carmela together. I don't know what it is about them, but their chemistry, I just love it so much, whether it's like dance breaks or, you know, them doing this 24 seven championship together. Um, I don't know where it's going. I don't know what the, you know, if it, I don't know what the reason behind, you know, having truth continually be the, um, the 24 seven champion, like always winning it back, but I love it so much. And like, you know, I like to see our truth on my, on my television screen every week. He is.
00:15:29
Speaker
Like we've talked about before, he just does the best with what he has and he's always freaking entertaining.
00:15:35
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, this 24 seven belt is probably made to like, just jump around to a bunch of different people and just kind of be chaotic, but they're probably kicking themselves. Like, God, would they probably just want to keep it on our truth as long as they can? Because I mean, he's been gold, man. He's been killing it. And, uh, I'm not taking anything away from any of the other guys that have wanted over the last couple of weeks, but man, I'd love to see him, him get it back after losing it on smackdown. But, uh,
00:16:01
Speaker
I am I am really excited to see where that SmackDown angle goes with because Drew Maverick, you know announced that he's getting married and I'm like, oh my gosh Like if they like if they kind of said they talked about that a couple times now Yeah, I'm sort of wedding, you know and then like they come and pin pin Drake Maverick and his wedding like I think I would pop so hard That would be so amazing. Well, you see three is in the wedding. So that would be a good like way to get him, you know Get him over and get him a belt I guess. Yeah
00:16:27
Speaker
I don't know. He's probably still recovering from those, uh, Seth Rollins chair shots. True. Yeah. He took the brunt of those things. Jesus Christ had knocked him totally out. Like weekend at Bernie style.
00:16:38
Speaker
If we don't get the revival and Shane and Drew McIntyre pulling up to Raw next week in a limo with suits on it, they're doing themselves wrong because they can make an excellent heel stable here. They're so close. They're so fucking close to making this work. They're backstage eating shrimp and shit and drinking champagne or whatever.
00:16:59
Speaker
And you know, rains comes in and breaks it all up. But I mean, they could put together a pretty fire heel stable here if they just kind of tweak it just a little bit. We talk about it every week, but yeah, it still rings true.
00:17:12
Speaker
Yeah, I think so too. And you know, um, I think even if they pull back on Shane just a little bit, so like they could, you know, Shane could just be like direct acting traffic. I mean, just kind of be, yeah, just kind of be in the background. Like, you know, just kind of like, um, puppeteering these guys, right? Like getting them into, um, you know, new feuds and new things and like, you know, setting, setting them up and, um, not having to be the center of attention or, you know, the best in the world. Um, I think, I think it could really, really work.
00:17:39
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. What else do we see on Raw? We saw another Firefly Funhouse. This thing continues to keep going and as entertaining as it was, we've talked about how this just needs a payoff eventually. Do you think it happens on Sunday?
00:17:55
Speaker
I mean, dude, I felt like, you know, honestly, this is the first time, um, that I felt like this was like the end of the firefly fun house. Like the, um, you know, like this was the last time we were going to see the firefly fun house without actually seeing Bray Wyatt. So.
00:18:10
Speaker
He may appear on Sunday, but my question is like I don't know where it would be appropriate, where I would feel like it would be worthy, right? Like I've mentioned several times before, I want him to come in and have like a meaningful feud for a title right off the bat because I feel like that's the only way that they're gonna capitalize on this character.
Bray Wyatt's Return Speculation
00:18:29
Speaker
Um, and all of this buildup and all of that. And really there's nothing here that would, that is worthy, right? So maybe have him come back on Monday. Um, I just hope they don't announce it. I hope it's not like we're going to see Bray Wyatt, you know, like live here tonight. I hope it's a surprise. Um, even though we're all kind of waiting for it, I hope it's not one of those things where they just use it to draw ratings, um, on Monday. And they're like, they announced it like way ahead of time. Like, you know, Oh, Bray Wyatt will officially.
00:18:59
Speaker
I hope he just shows up and then starts if you'd right there because I really don't feel like there's a place for him on Sunday. Do you agree? Yeah, I mean I don't I think I mean it would be cool to have a show where people are kind of shitting on it and not giving it a chance and we see like whoever this guest referee be be a big name or we see the debut of this new Bray Wyatt character or something big that was gonna get people talking like oh man I should have watched that show god damn it why did I not watch stomping grounds?
00:19:24
Speaker
But yeah, I think you're right. I think it'd be better. I just I agree I hope they don't announce it ahead of time It's not that character is not like gonna tell Vince McMahon. He's coming to Raw this Monday Like he's just gonna show up and you know wreck shit basically. So yeah, you know what I will say about WWE is they really do a good job of
00:19:42
Speaker
of giving sometimes giving us these cards that are like a little bit underwhelming where we're just kind of like meh and really making it a good show i mean when you look at the matchups like individually like like there's not bad matchups on this card it's just like they're not exciting these are all runbacks from things that we've seen before right these are all rematches
00:20:00
Speaker
Um, and you know, the, the buildup for these, these matches hasn't been that great. So that's why it's underwhelming. It's not because the talent pool, because, you know, you mean you have Dolph and Kofi and you know, Seth and Lacey and Becky and like all these people that are amazing on this card. Um, but it's just like, for some reason, it's just not popping. It's just not exciting.
00:20:19
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. We'll get to the card in a little bit. Let's go over Smackdown real quick. Anything you want to touch on there? Noteworthy? I mean, we saw kind of the feud. I mean, it's, it's the only thing about this now wildcard thing. It's in Smackdown just becomes kind of a rehash of what happens on raw whereas Smackdown was its own kind of living thing, which was fun. And hopefully that happens once it gets onto Fox, but you know, I just wasn't, wasn't popping me.
00:20:43
Speaker
Yeah. I was, you know, on, I mean, I liked smack down. I didn't, I thought it was better than smack down a week's past. But, um, again, like you said, this wildcard rule is really just kind of like, um, I mean, it's, it's muddy.
00:20:56
Speaker
muddying the waters a little bit and we're kind of getting back to that like you know where we're seeing the same superstars like you know monday and tuesday fighting talking about the same things talking about the build up to you know whatever pay-per-view it is um and yeah it's just kind of like come on like let's do let's do something different because even though they're not fighting um like they're still showing
00:21:18
Speaker
up and still cutting promos and doing all those things because we got we got some you know different matches we got Andrade and Apollo Crews and um like all these you know they didn't fight but they got that backstage segment and then um you know heavy machinery and the B team and all those things but it just wasn't you know wasn't super exciting but I did like it I loved the which is let me just
00:21:38
Speaker
preface this by saying I have been so down on a moment of bliss because it's been terrible. Every single segment that a moment of bliss has been terrible. And I love Alexa Bliss so much. And I was so disappointed that our little TV show segment was just so sucky. And when I saw that Bailey was coming out for another episode of moment of bliss, I literally, I looked at his husband and I said, are you freaking kidding me? He's like, you should go, you should go live and talk about how mad you are about that. Cause I just kept going on and on about it.
00:22:07
Speaker
And then it ended up being one of the best segments on SmackDown. For a few minutes, I was like, I feel like Alexa may be really unleashing some deep dark feelings that I feel like she was shooting on her.
00:22:22
Speaker
Yeah, talking about Peeking and NXT and all that kind of stuff. It was definitely hit close to home, I'm sure, for Bailey. But I think that's what you needed to do. Because before this, the gimmick or the fight was just about Alexa Bliss's love for coffee or whatever the hell this stupid gimmick is. But this was a way to kind of inject some life into that. So it was good. Yeah, I'm pumped. I still don't understand why
00:22:48
Speaker
Alexa, who is a Smackdown superstars, you know, or, um, is a raw superstars fighting for women's championship. But I mean, who it's, it's a wildcard baby. I mean, it can happen, but again, it's just like, what does that even mean? You know what I mean? Like, let's just get rid of this wildcard. If we're just going to have raw superstars fighting for Smackdown belts and vice versa. Um, but I love, love, love that segment. And I was very surprised that I did.
00:23:12
Speaker
For sure. Yeah. Uh, Aleister Black cutting another promo backstage about, you know, wanting someone to fight him. Wow. You really took it to a complete 180 of segments. Sorry. Sorry. You were getting too positive there for a second. I had to like knock you down a peg. Yeah. Well, that's it. That definitely did it because again, on a positive note, love Aleister Black. I think he's amazing.
00:23:36
Speaker
hate this backstage Bray Wyatt-esque promos. They gotta be making him a heel, right? There's no way people are going to cheer him after these awful promos, right? This is to make us hate him, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. No, literally when he came on, I went, oh, you know, and I've never felt that way about Aleister Black, but like to me, like he's so whiny right now.
00:23:59
Speaker
And so like, and he's just trying to be all cryptic. And I'm like, you know, he was like talking about, you know, changing. I can't remember what the, he was like changing the energy or something like that of a man. I'm like, or changing the essence of a man. And I was like, oh my gosh, like shut up. Like it was, cause I knew it wasn't going anywhere. That's the thing about those segments is like, I just, you just tune them out. You know, nothing is going to happen. It's just like, okay, come pick a fight with me. Come pick a fight with me. And what I'm afraid is going to happen.
00:24:29
Speaker
I'm afraid they're going to have, um, Bray Wyatt be the one to like knock on the door. And as cool as that would be like Bray Wyatt and Alistair Black together. Um, again, it's not big enough for me. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't mean anything. It's not going to give Bray any clout.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. It's definitely odd. I don't know what they're building to here. Somebody was kind of hinting that they should just have him show up and just do this in the ring and then have RKO out of nowhere and kind of build that as a feud and have Randy Orton put him over and have Orton as the face or something. But I don't know, where is this going? Unless they do one live backstage
00:25:12
Speaker
You know, at, at Smackdown one week and he comes out and he's like at the arena or something and then gets called out or something. I don't know, but, uh, it's definitely made us dislike him. You know, when he came up, he was, you know, super fan favorite for everybody. So I guess that's what they want us to do. And that's where, that's where it's going. So for sure. For sure.
00:25:33
Speaker
Other than that on SmackDown, we did get to see Drake Maverick win the 24-7 championship dressed as Carmella with actual fake breasts. That was cool. With actual nipples on them. I don't know how they got away with that. What's the purpose of those? I don't know. It's PG-13, right? Even those PG-ers.
00:25:55
Speaker
We're toting into PG-13. Yeah, true. Yeah, so congrats to Drake Maverick for winning the belt, and we'll see where that goes. We'll see if they defend it. Well, they haven't had a pay-per-view since introducing this belt, except for the Saudi show. So I don't know if this is going to be a TV-only thing. We'll probably find out. But it'd be cool to see it backstage at Stomping Grounds. So let's get into Stomping Grounds while we're on the subject.
Stomping Grounds Build-Up
00:26:24
Speaker
Overall thoughts on this show because we've kind of touched on a little bit here. It's how it's just a kind of a rehashing of some of these matches. But yeah, you're right. When our expectations are low, it's kind of when they kind of pull the wool over our eyes and put on a really good show. So hopefully, you know, glass half full, that's what's going to happen here.
00:26:42
Speaker
Yeah, I'm thinking, I mean, if Ron's SmackDown or any indication of the energy that they're trying this pay-per-view, I think we might be surprised, even though there hasn't been so much hype around this. It hasn't been like one of their top selling pay-per-views, you know? I mean, they had problems like selling out the arena. I think we could be surprised. But again, if I had to just choose one word to describe this pay-per-view, I would definitely say just underwhelming, you know? Like again, it's just, it's just rematches.
00:27:11
Speaker
stuff that we've seen before, stuff that really, you know, I don't feel like it has any, I don't know, it doesn't have any like meaning, if that makes sense, right? Like, I mean, we have a special guest referee match, like that's supposed to get us like super excited. Um, and I mean, the only person that it makes sense for it to even be is like Brock or Paul Heyman, right? But I mean, that doesn't even make sense. I don't even know how that would work, right?
00:27:36
Speaker
I mean, I would love to see it. That would be cool. You know, see Brock Lesnar in a referee shirt. But it's probably going to be somebody like Shane McMahon or somebody that we've already seen before Elias.
00:27:49
Speaker
I mean, they put on a good, they put on a good match in the last couple of times they fought. I just don't, I just, I'm ready for this to be over. Obviously we both are going to pick Rollins to win this thing. But yeah, I mean that guest referee kind of puts a little bit of a different slant on it, but I think, you know, Rollins is still leaving with the belt here. Yeah. I think, I mean,
00:28:10
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's got to leave with the belt, but I mean, at the same time, like, I mean, they just, they've just put so much energy behind Corbin. I just can't see them having him just continue to, to lose. You know what I mean? So, um, hopefully Rollins comes, you know, comes out of this squeaky clean, you know, no cash in, no anything. Um, but.
00:28:28
Speaker
Obviously they're, they're trying to throw some sort of wrench in it by this special guest referee. And again, the only person that I can even make sense of it being that it's not just going to be a complete dud. Anybody other than Brock or Paul Heyman, I think is just going to be like, well, more Ambrose, but that's not happening. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine the roof would freaking blow off that place? Yeah, that's a good way to get some ratings. Um, but again, yeah, I'm going, I'm definitely going with Rollins for this one.
00:28:56
Speaker
Still cage match between Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler should be a damn good match I'm excited for that one. I think Kingston still retains here But it should be a good one and again, it's another match We've seen you know pretty recently last couple weeks at it's a Saudi show, but I'm gonna pop for it. It's gonna be good. I love I love Ziggler in the ring I think he's gonna go down as one of the more under he's definitely one of the more underrated guys in the roster right now I mean always has always puts in a good match. I
00:29:24
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I think this, I think this match is going to be incredible. I mean, you know, Kofi and Dolph in a, in a steel cage, I think is awesome. Um, I'm not loving Dolph's character right now. Um, I think Dolph has, he's had better, you know, characters in the past. I think this whole, like, it should have been me type thing, um, is just kind of like, again, I hate whiny, you know, like with Alistair Black, I just hate whiny, like stop whining and just do something about it. You know what I mean? Like,
00:29:50
Speaker
Um, just say what you're going to do and freaking do it. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm going with Kingston for this one. Um, but I do think it's going to be a freaking hellified match.
00:30:00
Speaker
I loved him with McIntyre, I wish they would have kept that going for a little bit longer. Built that up more. Bailey versus Bliss, for the SmackDown title you touched on it, it's kind of confusing as Bliss is a Raw superstar. I'm assuming here, then you tell me if I'm off base, that Nikki Cross is gonna cost Bliss the match here. Bailey's gonna retain, then we're gonna see some sort of Bliss versus Nikki Cross thing, and Bliss just go off on her and turn mega heal.
00:30:26
Speaker
because she's kind of an in-between thing right now. I'm just, I think Bliss is made to be just the main heel. If she's 100% ready to go and she's been medically cleared, she obviously must be if she's wrestling here for the title on a pay-per-view. I think you just gotta make her just the total, total badass bitch that she is. Yeah, I love me some heel Bliss. And I hadn't even considered that about, I was thinking the other way. I was thinking Nikki Cross gets involved in,
00:30:56
Speaker
causes Bailey to lose but I was like that does make a lot more sense that they would have Bailey retain and then continue the feud like start a feud with Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross because I mean the the all the signs are there do you know what I mean like Alexa and Nikki are not true friends right like this is not a real friendship this is totally like a Nikki or an Alexa using Nikki situation so it is means to an end I think that would be this would be the perfect time to
00:31:23
Speaker
to start that feud and we know Nikki Cross can go so I would be excited to actually see Nikki Cross get some shine and you know get some time on screen like fighting with Alexa Bliss. This will be also the perfect time for Sasha Banks to return and costs you know maybe cost Bailey the title then we see a Bailey, Bailey Sasha Banks build up for SummerSlam but that's I think wishful thinking on my part but that would be the ultimate you know situation if you want to make women's wrestling kind of back to where it's been
00:31:53
Speaker
You know, Charlotte's kind of taken a backseat since WrestleMania here. I think that would be Bailey and Sasha Banks. You know, we, we touched on it last week. That was your, what was your retro match of the, of the week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was, you know, they've had some, some burners down in a NXT and I think, you know, a big time matchup at SummerSlam, even if it's not for a belt, it would be, you know, pretty awesome. So hopefully that, that happens. Yeah, for sure. Um, who are you going with in this one?
00:32:20
Speaker
Man, I just went back and forth on like three different predictions here. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with bliss, but, uh, there's, there's some possibilities here. Um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to go Bailey. I apologize. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with bliss. I think, I think after Tuesday, I think bliss has got some fire behind her, dude. I could totally see Alexa pulling this one off.
00:32:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Billie's had the belt for just a month or two, but the way they change belts now, I don't see it being a slight toward her if she loses the belt. Roman versus Drew McIntyre, a rematch from WrestleMania, which I don't know if we really needed to see. Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's any doubt that Roman is going to
00:33:03
Speaker
is going to win this one. I mean, it only took him one Superman punch at WrestleMania to beat Drew McIntyre. So I mean, what's it going to take it stomping grounds? Like two.
00:33:12
Speaker
you know maybe maybe maybe a superman punch and you know a couple spears it's a shame because you could build up mac and tire and rome you know roman separately and have them hold off and meet you know at a later point as a kind of a rematch uh because mac and tire i mean in this world of like in betweener type of guys mac and tire is a full him and corbin are just you know full-blown shitty heels and oh yeah you know i think mac and tire has done really good i hate to see him job out again to roman but
00:33:41
Speaker
I'm assuming that's what's going to happen here, unless we get some sort of interference from Shane and the crew. Which is totally possible. Yeah, I'm still going to go, Roman. What say you?
00:33:52
Speaker
I'm going to go with Roman. Um, I, I totally agree with you. I think if this match was for something, I would be more interested again. It's like, it's not for a title. There's, there's no stakes. There's nothing to keep me interested in this match. Um, I don't, again, I don't think it was something that we needed to re-see, um, here at stomping grounds. We already saw it at WrestleMania. Um, and we, you know, we've seen it a couple of times since like, you know, in different, different variations. So yeah, I'm going with Roman on this one.
00:34:21
Speaker
I don't know what made me think of this, but Jimmy's famous seafood is doing a bus trip up to Philadelphia for extreme rules. If you and your husband, you know, you might have to find some sort of babysitter situation, but, uh, we could make it a, could make it a, uh, Chick Foley road trip, you know.
00:34:36
Speaker
Oh man. Yeah. I'll have to discuss that with the Hill husband. We're already itching to like, you know, we were talking about like the, um, the Hampton scope or whatever that, whatever the, I can't even remember what the name of the place is here. Um, but it's like, I'm like, Oh my God, that's where we're going to be watching raw. We drove by it on our way in. We're like, Oh my God, it's going to be so exciting when rock comes around. Nice. That is cool. Yeah. Cause you guys have been away from it for so long. I haven't been able to see live events. Yeah, it's cool for sure. So yeah, I'm pumped for that.
00:35:05
Speaker
Becky Lynch again against Lacey Evans for the Raw Women's title. As much as I love Lacey Evans, I just think Becky Lynch has just become, I don't know, it's my short attention span or what, but I have no interest in what she's selling anymore.
00:35:28
Speaker
I, you know, I don't, I don't, I wouldn't take it that far. You know, I still think she's amazing. Um, you know, and I'm, I'm, I'm getting more interested in Lacey Evans. My thing is with this, this particular match is that they have put so much energy and so much time and so much effort behind Lacey. I don't know what would be like, what would be the point.
00:35:51
Speaker
of having her get beat clean as a sheet like twice, you know, like I think I could really kill her momentum and really kind of just put her in a weird spot. Cause like, where does she go from there? You know what I mean? She was challenging, um, you know, the, the top dog and she gets beat twice. Right. So I think as much as I hate to see it, I think Lacey is going to freaking walk away with the raw women's title on Sunday. Oh my gosh. That's crazy. I know. I know.
00:36:18
Speaker
Wow, you heard it here first. I'm gonna stay conservative and go with Becky Lynch. I do agree, though. You can't have all of these matches as rematches and give us the exact same results as the first one. It would be pathetic, and that's the one that I could see something changing hands here as for the title. Yeah, good call. I'm gonna go with Lynch, but we'll be split on that one. I would love to see Lacey Evans get the belt. I think she's over the last couple weeks. I mean, I love the women's right.
00:36:48
Speaker
You know, sometimes the southern accent is a little over over over the top, but I think that's the that's the point, you know Yeah, for sure. I do think she does she overdoes it a little bit especially as a woman who is like from a southern state You know, I know a lot of people from southern states. It's just so like she said it's such a stereotypical representation of like the southern woman, you know what I mean and I
00:37:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little overdone, but again, I mean, the whole gimmick is kind of overdone. I mean, she's got like that, you know, her like pinup esque, um, debutante look. So, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm okay with it. Okay. Uh, US title match we talked about earlier, Samoa Joe versus Ricochet. Nice opportunity for him after only being on the roster for, you know, six months here. I'm torn. I want to hear your thoughts. Um, man, like I said, I,
00:37:40
Speaker
I can totally see them just letting Joe retain simply because I feel like it could be the start of a Joe and Ricochet feud. Cause we haven't really seen a Joe, you know, Joe and Ricochet, they're not really feuding. It's just kind of like Ricochet won the opportunity. Obviously Joe, Joe attacked him afterwards, but like, you know, Ricochet won the opportunity. There's no really like underlying, um, you know, beef there. So I could, I could see Joe retaining and then Ricochet just like being like, you know, I want my rematch, even though technically, you know, WWE, we don't do rematches anymore.
00:38:10
Speaker
Um, I think this could be the start of, of that view that we see kind of go, go through the summer and really make that us title picture kind of like interesting and meaningful. That would be cool. Yeah. I mean, we haven't had a real, I guess the Samoa, the Samoa Joe Ray Mysterio thing was kind of overdone a little bit. It's just with the dominant situation. It was just, yeah, it was just when it was just squashed. You know what I mean? Like with, with the injuries and stuff like that, like it wasn't interesting because
00:38:36
Speaker
Like Joe just squashed him, you know, and nobody wants to see that. Yep. Uh, all right. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Joe here. I'm going to go with Joe on this one too. Okay.
00:38:45
Speaker
New Day, the what's left of them, Elijah Woods and Big E, you know, against Sami and KO. And I don't think KO is, or I don't think Sami Zayn has won a match since coming back. So I got to think they're going to do something dastardly here and win, but I think this is something fresh. And I think these four will, you know, put together a badass match, probably a good opener for the show, I would say.
00:39:11
Speaker
Yeah, I am here for the new day and Sammy and KO. I think it's going to be really good. I think the new day are going to win this one. I think it's just going to be one for the good guys. And, you know, Sammy and KO just kind of be like sniveling whining. Something happened. It didn't go their way. Give them something to bitch about for the next few weeks.
00:39:31
Speaker
True. Uh, raw, sorry, SAS SmackDown Tag Team Champions, the eco warriors against heavy machinery. And, uh, I don't know what to make of this one either here. Um, yeah, yeah, this kind of got thrown on the card like, you know, last minute, but, um, I'm excited for it. I'm excited for heavy machinery to actually get like, you know, some, some prime time pay-per-view viewing. Um, and you know, I love, I love me some Daniel Bryan and some eco warrior action. So, um,
00:40:01
Speaker
I'm going to have to say that the eco warriors take this one, but I think it's going to be, you know, as we know, I mean, heavy machinery can just freaking put on an incredible show.
00:40:10
Speaker
And it is cool, this is Daniel Bryan's kind of home crowd here, so I'll be interesting to see what they let them keep the belts. They make guys take the L if they're in their hometown. Cruiserweight match, Tony Nese defending against Drew Gulak and Akira Tozawa in a triple threat match for the Cruiserweight belt. What say you here? Who did you pick between Eagle Warriors and... I'm going the Captain Planets.
00:40:40
Speaker
Oh, you're going with Captain Planets. Okay, cool, cool. Um, let's see for the cruiserweight. I think Tony Nese is going to retain. Um, you know, it was kind of like a, like a botched up, uh, you know, number one contender match and then, you know, Akira Tozawa and Drew Gulak got to be, you know, got to be in there. And so I think Tony Nese is going to retain.
00:41:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. We've seen kind of him against Sal. I like the addition of Gulak here. He's a fun, like, you know, not a high flying cruiserweight, but he's kind of like the strong style type of guy. But yeah, I think they're riding nice high on this one. So I'm going nice. And that's the end of stomping grounds. I feel like they added a match recently, but it must have been that SmackDown tag team match. They just added, I think, Tuesday. Yeah. Overall, a decent card, but
00:41:30
Speaker
We'll see. We'll do a recap next week on the show. If Sheena is not available to go, we will, uh, make other arrangements. She is moving into her house. So, uh, the, I don't know if they have Comcast or Xfinity or what the situation is out there, but, uh, probably take a couple of weeks from them to get out to you. Oh my God. A couple of weeks. Don't say that Lord have mercy. What would you do? You know?
00:41:53
Speaker
Dude, I can't live without Wi-Fi. I mean, my job requires Wi-Fi. My life requires Wi-Fi. Like, I can't go unplugged. If you tell them you work from home, I bet they'll probably put you on a higher list, you know. I hope so. I hope so. Like, listen, I'm going to like, you know, murder everyone in this neighborhood if you don't come and put in some Wi-Fi. Tell them you host the most successful Wrestling Figure podcast.
00:42:18
Speaker
out there, tell them your name's Zach Ryder, they'll come out. That'll do it, they'll be like, what's raslin'? What's raslin'? Yeah. Baby toys. Let's get into our weekly purchases. This is our go figure segment. Hit it.
00:42:47
Speaker
Everybody's favorite part of the show is Go Figure, where Sheena and I discuss our weekly purchases of wrestling figures, wrestling memorabilia, and everything in between. Before we get into this, we forgot at the top of the show to announce our newest giveaway, Sheena, and this is for Patreon subscribers only, but all of our Patreons will be eligible for it.
Patreon Giveaway Announcement
00:43:07
Speaker
The great Hal Haney, who you can follow on Instagram, and if you haven't already, you definitely should. He just hit 10,000 followers. He is making some...
00:43:21
Speaker
How Haney it's how Haney art that's H-A-L-H-A-N-E-Y art A-R-T and he's making some fire prints of just basically every wrestler you can think of kind of a split screen look where it's like you have you have the demon cane and you have the corporate cane and you have like kind of the
00:43:40
Speaker
The Macedon Vader mixed with the regular Vader, you have surfer sting and scorpion. What am I talking about? I can't even think of what I'm saying. What's the other sting, crow sting? Yeah, just kind of check him out. He's on Twitter and Instagram. We're partnering with him and we're giving away one of his prints to one of our lucky listeners. And we'll probably do that on the first show of July, I would say. Maybe we'll give it a couple weeks here.
00:44:06
Speaker
And if you win, you just get to pick which one of these prints he'll make one for you. He has every wrestler imaginable you can think of. He's got the Hollywood Hogan and the Hulk Hogan, everything, Stone Cold and the Steve Austin, everything on his page. Go check it out. And all you have to do is be a Patreon. You don't have to go like anything or follow us or give us a review. If you're a Patreon subscriber, you're automatically eligible.
00:44:32
Speaker
Whether it's $1 or $100 so sign up now, and this is I mean once you see his work, man I mean I showed it to you I don't think you'd you never followed him before but He's doing some badass stuff. He's you just got a commission from Sasha Banks to make To make her a macho man print, so he's doing some pretty big things man, and he's super talented
00:44:53
Speaker
Yeah. So make sure, make sure you do follow him at Hal Haney art. That's H-A-L-H-A-N-E-Y-A-R-T. Even if you don't, you know, um, you know, buy anything or, you know, do anything, I always believe in just supporting artists, like giving them follows and building up their credibility and just showing them love on their posts and everything. Um, you know, we got to support the makers out there because
00:45:12
Speaker
You know, all these guys that are putting all this creative juices out there, they're the ones that are giving us the good stuff. You know what I mean? Like, we want more options than just WWE shop merch. We love WWE shop, but you know, we like new, creative, fresh ideas too.
00:45:27
Speaker
And it's really cool to see people that are so creative that they can do stuff like this. I mean, there's so many people out there making shirts and logos and all these kind of prints. And it just boggles my mind because I'm so not talented in that kind of aspect. So it's a check him out and yeah, does some cool shit. Sheena, what did you what did you pick up this week as far as wrestling figs?
00:45:47
Speaker
So the heel husband has done some Facebook purchasing this week. Uh, there was a guy selling his whole whole collection and we were able to grab some things that, you know, um, you know, yeah, going through hard times baby. And I had to get rid of his collection. So we were able to grab the ringside exclusive, like the unmasked cane.
00:46:05
Speaker
Um, so, which is really exciting for us because now we've officially completed our ringside exclusive figure collection. It's going to continue to grow, but yeah, now we have every ringside exclusive figure, which is super exciting. Um, we, he grabbed an elite eight all the way, throw it back all the way to elite eight, Evan Bourne. Um, I wasn't, Evan Bourne was kind of like the time that I was like out of the product, like kind of like that 2008 era. Um, so I'm not super familiar with.
00:46:35
Speaker
Evan Bourne's catalog of wrestling. But, you know, he was, you know, he is a figure that we did need. He'll husband obviously knows more about him than I did. And so he grabbed that and then he got elite 14 undertaker, which this, this, this undertaker is really cool. It's not like a late late era undertaker and he's got like, you know, his like cloak on and he's got this like, almost like like Knights armor looking thing, like on the front, it almost looks like dragon scales or dragon skin. It's a really super cool figure.
00:47:05
Speaker
So he was able to grab that and then, Oh, build a figure announcer Booker T. So, you know, that's cool. Yep. Those are the, those are the things that we grabbed this week. Oh, obviously. And then we're going to talk about it a little bit more, but we got the, uh, macho man, the, uh, San Diego comic con exclusive.
SDCC Exclusive Figure Chaos
00:47:24
Speaker
Okay, let's get into that real quick because that was on, was it Tuesday, Tuesday morning? It went on sale at noon. Entertainment earth. Yes. I was going to make a joke on Twitter that the, like just complaining to them and just, I was going to tweet them and just say, Hey, it's fucked up that the people on the West coast get at 9 AM. We have to wait till noon to get this and just see how many, see how many people just shit on me. And now I just, I was like, Oh, I can't, I can't, I can't do this. I can't bring this negativity in my life for,
00:47:50
Speaker
Yeah, no, because you know, I mean, no, but half the people wouldn't know it was a joke. No, they did. They do not read sarcasm very well. I see it every day on chicken fully when I'm like, I mean, I'm like, should I have to put ha ha after every caption that I write? Because people are like, oh, that's not right.
00:48:08
Speaker
And I'm like, oh my god. And then when I say, I'll be like, dude, it's a joke. And they'll be like, oh, it's a joke, huh? Yeah, you're just stupid because you got called out. I'm like, oh, OK. Block master. There you go. There you go. So yeah, I was in my car and in between stores. And I was watching my phone, watching the clock. I was like a hawk. And I walked into the store 20 minutes before noon. And I was like, OK, let me just bang this out, go in here, see what they need.
00:48:36
Speaker
And this dude was asking me like a hundred questions. I was like looking at my clock. I was like 11 56 and I like cut them off like mid sentence. Like, all right, man, I gotta get going. I'll talk to you later. Like the cartoon where like the little cloud of smoke is still there, but the person's gone. Uh, so get into my car and it's like 11 56 or 57. And one of the good brothers from the Baltimore lead squad said, Hey, it's live. It's live. It's live. Go, go, go. So it was live like a couple minutes before. And I had, um, done my due diligence to set up an account on the website like the night before.
00:49:07
Speaker
and I was able just to go in and click the link. I grabbed a couple of them and I checked out and it sounded like people had some problems. Oh, yours truly. Yeah. What happened with you? So we were, we were obviously traveling on the road. We said alarm everything again, you know, this isn't our first like big drop. We were sneaker collectors for many years. We know, we know how these things work, right? Like, you know, you gotta be on there. You gotta be hitting the refresh. You gotta be like, you know, fingers ready.
00:49:36
Speaker
Um, to kind of grab these limited exclusive things. Um, so we were on there again, same as you, we saw it went live a couple of minutes early and we're like, holy crap. So we get it. We click the link. We get it in the cart. We get, you know, all of our stuff, like, you know, everything's filled out payment information and whatnot. And then I hit place order.
00:49:53
Speaker
And I get the freaking R2-D2 of Doom. Like it was like, it was like, it was like error. You know, this page is unavailable. And I was like, Oh my God. So I kept refreshing, kept refreshing. Um, and we're driving through like the mountains of West Virginia. So I'm thinking.
00:50:10
Speaker
any moment we're going to go into a service hole where like we're not going to have any service for God knows how long, right? So anyway, I kept refreshing, kept refreshing, kept pulling it up. I was going on Twitter to see what was going on and whatnot. Thankfully, good brother, Chick Foley, megafan, Mike Lanham, love, love, love Mike Lanham for this. He was like, hey, I got a tip. Don't use the, when you go to Entertainment Earth, don't use the Sandia or the Macho Man link that's like posted on the homepage.
00:50:38
Speaker
go to the San Diego Comic Con banner at the top, click that and then click the, um, what are you popping over there? Jesus Christ. Sorry, it's a Hasbro. I'm sorry. Oh my God. It was like piercing. I hope you guys at home did not hear that. Um, so I clicked the San Diego Comic Con, um, uh, link and then it added into the car and I finally freaking checked out with it.
00:51:02
Speaker
Lo and behold, we didn't realize we had like added like, you know, in the process of like going and adding to the cart and getting locked out and getting the site crash, we had added like five of them to our cart. So we checked out and I was like, holy shit, we just ordered like five of these things. Um, so did you get, did you get all five? Did you get like the email confirmation?
00:51:18
Speaker
Well, we got email confirmation. Anyway, we went ahead and placed a single order and called and like canceled because they're going to go to my mother-in-law's house anyway. So like, you know, if they were coming here, you know, if we had a house here and like we could send them out, but I'm like, dude, I'm not trying to deal with all this, like getting those five figures shipped out here and then ship, you know, whatever we're trying to do with them or whatever. So we went ahead and called Entertainment Earth and like canceled that order and made sure that we had everything figured out. The guy on the other line, like the customer service guy was super helpful, super friendly. So I have nothing bad to say about them except for their website needs.
00:51:47
Speaker
better servers if they're going to be doing shit like this. Yeah, I think I called it on this show like when they announced that it was going to be on this website because I had never heard of this website. I got a bunch of people saying, oh, it's a big website. They sell all kinds of stuff. Yeah, of course. It crashed like in four minutes after like 12 or four crash. And luckily a lot of people were able to grab them. I think there was like a, you know, if you clicked on the direct link, it took you there pretty easily. But if you went to their main page, it was messing up. Like you said,
00:52:13
Speaker
Um, and then there were some people on like Twitter that were, they got the figure and they were still complaining about like, you know, having to do this, like, come on, man. Like what you can't just, like just walking into the store and getting everything is not fun. Like this is like, you know, if you didn't get it, Oh, well, it's a fricking toy and, uh, you got one. So stop complaining, you know? Yes, dude. I mean, I, like, I get, like I said, I'm so primed for this because like, I, you know, over the past decade, I've done so many, like,
00:52:41
Speaker
limited releases and things, whether it's sneakers, whether it's action figures, whether it's toys, whatever.
00:52:47
Speaker
Um, that I've just gotten so freaking good at it. Um, that usually, you know, usually it pays off in my favor, but when it doesn't, I'm like, dude, I can't be mad. You know what I mean? I mean, there's so many. Outlying factors. Like, I mean, people have bots, people have all of these things, right? That you're, you're just hoping that you, that you get in there and, you know, and some people don't set their stuff up for success. You know what I mean? Like, like you said, you went in the day before you created an account, you put in all your information, you put in all your billing information. Like if you're sitting there typing out your address while you're trying to order these things.
00:53:16
Speaker
You're done. Yeah, you're done. Thankfully, I feel like there was a, there was a quite a bit of stock in this a lot more than I thought originally was going to be there. Like they, they stayed live for a while. Um, I thought they were going to sell out like almost immediately, but they say live for a while.
00:53:31
Speaker
Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah, like people that were ordering later, because yeah, it was crazy that they were still up there for a while. And people like later that night, I got an email like, I'm sorry, your pre-order has been canceled because we don't have enough stock. So yeah, it just wasn't handled well. The minimum is like eight. So people could order up to eight. I don't know who was doing that.
00:53:51
Speaker
Sure, there's some scalpers or people that have stores and things like that that might be ordering that many I don't know but you know, I mean I didn't do anything besides just set up the guy I just went in there the night before, you know that morning I just luckily I saw you know, one of my buddies saw before before noon. I think it was good brother Brandon and
00:54:08
Speaker
And we got it. So we have a couple coming and one of my buddies couldn't get in. So I'm just going to give him the extra one. I don't know why, but maybe order two. I was like, yeah, let me just get two. I know you would need it. You were Seth when needed or somebody, you know, there's always going to be somebody that's going to need it that I'm going to want to give it to.
00:54:23
Speaker
Oh, I know. Well, I was like panicking cause you were like, Oh, got mine. And I was like, son of a bitch. I was like, get back in there, get another one. Um, because I had gotten that message from you as we were like struggling to get, to get everything done. But, uh, yeah, like I said, we got it. Lots of our chick bully fam got it. I was looking at the Facebook page. Um, and lots of people were like, got my eye and got mine, you know? And I think there's going to be another drop. Um, you know, ringside I've, I've heard is getting, um, is getting, uh, some of them for after San Diego, Comic Con. So.
00:54:49
Speaker
you know stay on the lookout for that and there were so many of them like I said guys I mean the limit was eight so these things are going to be out there so just keep checking your resale market and things like that let it cool off a little bit but you know keep checking it's not all hope is not lost if you did not get this pre-order well I do have some breaking news on that uh subject because I reached out to I did my I put my investigative journalist hat on and I reached out to uh ringside collectibles aka I just sent them a DM
00:55:15
Speaker
And I said you guys can you confirm that you're gonna be selling the slim Jim macho man? And they said we cannot confirm that right now, so that doesn't mean they're not selling it or they will sell it I would assume Yeah, if they're not gonna say maybe it just depends on how much you know this this website sells And how much they sell it comic-con so I don't know if that's a guarantee or not I would assume they are because they tend to get everything so we will see yeah, but I
00:55:41
Speaker
They're on eBay now. If you want one, spend a little bit more for it. They were $30. If you can get one for $60 on eBay, it sucks. Or if you can be patient and wait two months, maybe they show up for $30 again at ringside. We'll see.
00:55:57
Speaker
For sure, and if you missed out on that, didn't you have some news about Chase Mabel being back on the market? I did. One of the good brothers from the Baltimore Elite Squad just sent a message while we were prepping for the show here that it was back up on ringside collectibles for the Chase Mabel. I think it was like 34 bucks. Nice. So a little bit more than their normal elites, but probably because they know it's going to be a pretty hard figure to get.
00:56:23
Speaker
Yeah, I have the normal one. I like the normal one. So I don't know the, you know, I think the normal one has the M on the chest, whereas the, the chase has the lightning bolts, but, uh, yeah, I mean, you
Figure Pre-Ordering Tips
00:56:35
Speaker
know, rings. I just got my order from a ringside today. I guess I can go, you, you've done all your stuff.
00:56:42
Speaker
I got my pre-order from Ringside, the Retro Series 10, got those delivered today. I got two of the diesels and one of each of the others, so I'll be opening that up for the Patreon subscribers on the unboxing video in the next week or so. They look beautiful.
00:57:01
Speaker
Yeah, so get that done. And my good brother Daris ordered some pre-orders for me as well. He got the Ali and the Ricochet pre-order for me. He did like a big order on ringside. So that's always good. Awesome. If you've got buddies that are going to put an order in, we always just kind of tag team on stuff because you save on shipping. And then when you put a promo code in, you get 10% off 200 is a lot more than 10% off 100. For sure. I took Algebra. I know that shit.
00:57:27
Speaker
But I got so I got Ali and Ricochet from the elite 69 I think it is and the Smackdown pop-up stage and the Jeff Hardy summer slam basic for the for the kid So I have all that coming in a little bit
00:57:42
Speaker
I'm going to start doing this more often, not just because Ringside is partnering with us or sponsoring us or anything, but people complain about the stock in the stores and waiting for stuff and not seeing stuff land. I've had pretty good luck with everything, Sheena, but if I know I want these, I'm not going to bother spending an extra 10 bucks. I know some people can't do that. That's fine. It's not a big deal. If we could all drive Lamborghinis, we would, but some of us like me, I drive a CRV because I'm a poor piece of shit.
00:58:12
Speaker
But I got enough money for wrestling figures and I knew I would want to buy these too, so I went ahead and pre-order them. First of all, never talk crap about a Honda. Honda's are the best car, hands down. You can say you want to drive a Lamborghini. They're not sexy, but they're definitely reliable as shit, that's for sure. Hell to the yes. I'm a Honda fan for life. But yeah, same, same, same. At this point in my life, especially, I mean, shoot, I'm about to have two baby faces.
00:58:40
Speaker
So, you know, my days of trolling Walmart at midnight, just kind of like going on a random fee hunt, um, are probably good and few and far between. So if I can just order it and have it come to my freaking mailbox, um, that's what I'm going to do, you know? So again, I love to figure hunting stores. I love to see what's out there, but
00:58:58
Speaker
You know, we all know distribution kind of sucks right now. So, you know, take what you got while you got it and don't complain about it. You know what I mean? Like if you, if your figures are available somewhere and you really, really want that figure, pull the trigger on it. Cause you're going to be pissed when it's gone. You know, you're going to, I'm telling you right now, you're going to be so much more pissed that you didn't just like spend the extra when it's gone and it's only available on eBay and the freaking, you know, after market. Then if you had just spent a little extra money upfront, you know what I mean?
00:59:23
Speaker
Oh, 100%. Yeah. I don't mind it at all. I mean, if, you know, if there's something that I'm like kind of torn, like, eh, I don't know if I'm going to get this or not, I'll wait to see it. Like the velveteen dream, I'll probably end up buying, but I'm going to wait for that to show up in stores. So, you know, it's, it's just, you know, like you said, if you really want something, you go ahead and go ahead and get it. So, uh, I also got the, uh, Jeff Hardy elite 67, the, the regular, the, the orange and blue face paint for the kid. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:59:52
Speaker
Good brother Brandon had bought it and had an extra and I was like, he's like, do you want this 20 bucks, man? I was like, God damn it. Yeah, I'll take it. What am I going to say? Because I'll probably end up buying it anyway. So I took that off his hands. We had a new Ollie's open up here. Big news in Baltimore, another Ollie's opening up.
01:00:11
Speaker
One of the, uh, one of the Baltimore lead squad brothers, good brother Chris was there in line like an hour before they opened. And, um, he, he found some cool leads. They had the entire summer slam elite set with the, uh, the Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, edge and Matt Hardy. They were like 9 99. So I was like, dude, grab me one of each.
01:00:27
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I can't remember where, where were you? I guess it had to be in Bowling Green. Um, where I, we saw our first Ollie's and Seth, I went to the, I went to the grocery store while Seth was going, he was like, let me run into Ollie's real quick. And, uh, he came back and he was like, that store is garbage. It's so garbage, but if they didn't have rustling figures, it would be like, you couldn't give me, you couldn't let me do like a free like shopping spree in there. It's just awful.
01:00:52
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I wish, like after hearing him describe it, I was like, man, I wish I would have just went in there just to like, it's like poor people, like knockoff food and like nothing name brand, like, you know, all like the worst, like, like books. Like, I mean, you can find some like books for the kids, like, you know, just like superhero books and stuff, but like, it's all like knockoff crap. It's yeah, it's not even worth even going in. That's pretty, and it's pretty random that they have
01:01:17
Speaker
wrestling figures. Like that just blows my mind that a place like that has action figures. Yeah. I don't know if they're partnered with like, uh, depart, like, you know, once target and Walmart get done with stuff, if they send it there first or five below or thrown by the same company, I don't, I don't know how that works. But, uh, yeah, I mean,
01:01:34
Speaker
The one by us the one there's like two or three other ones that are a bias and they each have like a hundred Kamalas and a hundred Sid psychosids So if you anyone listening needs those I will buy them for you if you want like a case of Kamalas if you're building like a Kamala world order or something I will I will take care of you, dude nice
01:01:54
Speaker
Um, uh, for some reason I saw a pop up on my Amazon app, the elite defining moments USA sting for 1299. And I bought, I mean, I need no desire to buy that, but I just thought that was a good price. So I bought it. And, um,
01:02:10
Speaker
What else did I get? Oh, I finished up my, hopefully finished up my Kurt Angle collection. I think I have a couple more things to buy, but I wanted one Jax item, so I got a Jax Kurt Angle Sunday Night Heat Series 11. And I just, you know, I just did a search Kurt Angle Jax and looked like a cool, I've never, I had never owned a single Jax figure in my life. This is the first Jax figure I'll ever own. Skipped that whole period of time. I don't know, I was super into wrestling during the Attu there, but I don't know if I was just,
01:02:39
Speaker
Too cool for wrestling figures because I had all the Hasbro's I must have just taken a break. I don't really remember Yeah at that point in time like it wasn't like it is now you know I mean like at that point in time like I don't think being a nerd was quite cool yet You know I mean I wasn't there, but what if it wasn't cool? Yeah? Yeah, you don't I mean like you know now like now being a nerd is kind of like in you know people like try to be nerdy and I'm like back then it was like you kind of hid your you didn't you didn't wave your nerd flag super high you know and
01:03:06
Speaker
Uh, so I, uh, it's funny that you just mentioned Jeff Hardy, sorry to interrupt you, but it's funny that you just mentioned, uh, elite 67 Jeff Hardy, because as I'm sitting here, a notification popped up on my Amazon, it says that my elite 67 Jeff Hardy and my elite 67, uh, Randy Orton that apparently he'll husband order will arrive on Friday. So it's funny that, uh, those will be, we'll be getting those. So we'll be talking about those probably on the next episode.
Unexpected Amazon Shipments
01:03:30
Speaker
Yeah, we it's we talked about this me and my buddy Brandon over the weekend Like I think the Amazon Amazon is gonna ship these before they end up in stores and he got his you're gonna get yours Yeah, which is crazy like they were they're usually like a month behind on that kind of stuff So the fact that we haven't seen these in storage yet, and they're still on here I mean I'm looking at them right now the one the two that you got they're 1999 free shipping like You know yeah, don't know why I mean
01:03:59
Speaker
Be here on Friday. You can't don't get much better than that, dude. Yeah. I mean that's the series with Ray Mysterio, right? Ray Mysterio and Cedric Alexander. Yeah. Yeah. Elite 67. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled on there too. I can't, can't beat that man. I mean, they don't have the best shipping method over at Amazon for wrestling figures. They just kind of throw shit in a box and ship it out. But, uh, you know, if you're like, if you're a Lucy collector like you, you know, you're in heaven.
01:04:27
Speaker
Oh yeah, for real. Yeah, you don't have to worry about like, I'm not worried about the boxes getting messed up.
01:04:32
Speaker
Yep. Uh,
Life Hacks and WWE Wall Walkers
01:04:34
Speaker
so that was it. Well, I also stopped into, uh, I don't know if I've talked about this life hack on the show here. I think I have, but I'm, it's, it bears repeating that, that, uh, they have dollar tree has like hallmark greeting cards for two for a dollar. So I got two father's day cards for a dollar. Whereas I would usually go to like a Hallmark store and spend like four 99 on, on fucking greeting cards, which is,
01:04:58
Speaker
This is my biggest pet peeve in life is buying a car that someone reads for 15 seconds and spending $5 on it. And I'm not cheap, but I mean, that's like, God, this is the worst. This person doesn't want this card. I know. But they had these legends, wall walkers, WWE figures that I picked up and they have like nine different people.
01:05:23
Speaker
Rick Flair, Sting, the Macho Man, Stone Cold, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, the Ultimate Warrior, Undertaker, and Kurt Angle. So they're basically like a little sticky person that you can throw against the wall and they kind of like slowly fall down the wall and stick to them. Oh wow. My son loves them and like they had the Kurt Angle. I was like, man, I gotta get one to add to my Kurt Angle collection and just like have with all the other figures. So like I bought like a handful of them, like five or six of them. I was like, oh, they're a dollar each, whatever.
01:05:51
Speaker
Hopefully like I'm getting I'm gonna get the Kurt angle on this six. The first one I open is Kurt angle I'm like, oh fuck now we have five of these random wall walkers. So I'll probably next time I send somebody a figure off of Twitter I'll just package a couple these in with it. But don't worry. It'll be D covered in cat hair in no time. Oh, I'm sure well Yeah, the cat is the cat is you know cat update. It's coming. The cat is coming home this weekend I guess so we'll see how long it stays here. I
01:06:20
Speaker
Yeah. I just remember all those like sticky, um, those sticky things. Like remember the little sticky slap hands and all those things. Like every time like you, they would get like dirt and like hair and all those things on them. And you're like, Oh, this is disgusting. Uh, so that was my haul for the week. Um, pretty, pretty good stuff. And, uh,
01:06:38
Speaker
I want to hear from you guys. If you have anything cool that you pick up, we'd love to get tweets and Facebook posts from you guys. If you pick up a nice haul of stuff from a thrift store or a yard sale or from Walmart or Target, hit us up. You know, post it to our Twitter. We'd love to hear from you. Also on the flip side, if you go to a Walmart or Target and they have just like one random Nakamura hanging on the pegs, just do the hashtag do better Walmart or hashtag do better Target. And we'd love to see that stuff. And we always,
01:07:07
Speaker
Tweet those stores and tell them how bad they suck because they're losing out on money.
1990s Handheld Game Nostalgia
01:07:13
Speaker
For sure, for sure. Sorry, you tapped out? I'm tapped out. Come on, that's an off, right? Jeez.
01:07:21
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, that was a pretty good weekly hall. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. But, um, speaking of, you were talking about the slap hands that like, you know, brought back all the nostalgia feeler, like little sticky wall walkers. Um, this random March of the week brings back a little bit of nostalgia feels. So the random March of the week is this 1998 energy entertainment, WWF stone cold, Steve Austin. Drowning else, the handheld game.
01:07:48
Speaker
Um, do you remember these guys? Like all, I mean, they didn't wear all the wrestling and there was several different wrestling bratty ones. I mean, they had like, you know, Kane and like all these different ones are like from the mid to late nineties. And I mean, they were like the crappiest little LCD games. Like, you know, it was like wanted to be like a game boy, but it only had like one game and it kind of sucked.
01:08:06
Speaker
Um, but they came out in like all different themes. I mean, there would be like a bugs life or just like a generic soccer game. I had a bunch of them, man. I loved it as a kid, you know, like long road trips and my parents had like the shinobi or whatever, you know, like little baseball game. I never had a wrestling one, but that's yeah. So they had several different WWF branded ones. Um, but this one specifically is, you know, branded stone cold Steve Austin. It's got pictures of stone cold Steve Austin on it. I mean, they literally, it's just got a D pad and like a joystick.
Introducing a New Podcast
01:08:33
Speaker
is all you have on these type of games, but you guys who are living in the Xbox One, PlayStation era, you guys are so lucky because this is what we were dealing with, these little 8-bit
01:08:47
Speaker
LCD games, they would like crap out on you. And sometimes if you like hit the screen too hard, like the ink would break. It would make like those little ink, ink blots across the screen and stuff like that. But I just remember getting these like, you know, not necessarily wrestling ones, but just like different ones. And like my Christmas stockings or like somebody would always get one from like my birthday. It was like the thing to get a kid in like the mid mid nineties. Cause they were fairly cheap, fairly inexpensive for like, I mean, for a handheld gaming device. Um,
01:09:15
Speaker
So yeah, and this one is only 1789 plus free shipping. So you can get, uh, you can get that in these 30 day returns. So if you get it and you realize, you know, you don't really like it, you can return it within 30 days.
01:09:27
Speaker
1789. Is it, is it a picture? Like, does it have a picture of Goldberg? I mean, uh, stone cold with sunglasses on the left side of it. Yes. Okay. And it says, okay. I just put an offer on one. There was one on here for 799 and I, I did a, I did an offer, make an offer for 599 free shipping. So I mean, Hey, listen, the kid will love it if it still works. I mean, it's from the nineties. Yeah. I don't know if it'll work, but, uh, that's a, that's a pretty good deal.
01:09:55
Speaker
For sure. It probably cost him more to ship that than he's definitely. He's definitely in a bubble wrap mailer. He's not sending that FedEx. He's not doing the Marco. Absolutely not. Um, but yeah, I thought that was a pretty random, like, like I said, when I saw it, I was just like, Oh my God, that brings back so many fields because I had so many of those different games. And then back when I was a kid, we had Tamagotchis. Um, you know, I think it was more of a girl thing. You probably don't remember Tamagotchis, but like they were like,
01:10:23
Speaker
Yeah, they were like little creatures, like electronic creatures that you had like feed and bathe and you know, keep alive. And they're the same type of thing. I forgot to mention at the beginning of the show, our buddy Marco Denton, MVP Marco Denton was a guest on a podcast.
Welcoming Patreon Members and Future Plans
01:10:41
Speaker
Dan Man figures YT on Twitter started his own podcast. And I think it's just Dan Man podcast. There's no space between Dan and man.
01:10:50
Speaker
And he was the very first guest of the Dan Mann podcast series. And I think he's just getting random, like, you know, fig community folks onto his podcast. And it's a pretty good listener. I mean, you know, we've had Marco on the show before. We're going to have him again.
01:11:05
Speaker
But it was cool to hear Marco out there, you know, interacting with somebody else. So, uh, if, you know, you know, give, uh, give Dan a listen. He's a local, I think he's like 15 or 16, a little high school kid, but, uh, you know, he's deep in the fig game and he, you know, he's the next generation after me and you move on and, uh, start collecting homo figurines or something. He'll still be here. That's so true. That's so awesome. Congrats Marco on being the guest and congrats for
01:11:30
Speaker
starting your podcast dreams, man. You never know what can happen. And I decided to do a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of work, but you know, it's a labor of love for us. You know, it's always fun. It's one of the highlights of my weekend to talk to you about, you know, wrestling toys.
01:11:45
Speaker
Uh, and I forgot to mention at the top of the show, we have two new Patreons and both of these might be the two hardest Patreon names that I've ever had to read. So bear with me. I don't want to butcher these too much. Uh, there's Chris on a Yanis. That one, that one's probably pretty good. I probably nailed that one, Chris, if I didn't tell me. Yeah. And, uh, the Greek superstar, Chris, I, uh, yeah.
01:12:10
Speaker
Oh, I messed it up the second time. Oh my god. Christian Tolsny. Tolsniski. Tolsniski. Tolsniski. Tolsniski. Tolsniski. Wow. That could be like a wrestler, like a schnitzki's brother, Tolsniski. They would just get rid of his last name and he would just have one name. Christian? You already have a Christian. You can't do that.
01:12:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah, they would just give him a name. He would just be Chris. Christian 2.0. Yeah. So Chris and Christian, thank you guys. We appreciate you. Hope you enjoy the stuff we're coming out with. We have some more boxing videos coming. We have that special. Me and Seth are going to do that top five best wrestling video games of all time.
Iconic WrestleMania III Match
01:12:52
Speaker
So stay tuned for that. But let's get into our retro wrestling recommendation of the week.
01:12:58
Speaker
And this is what some people might call the best match in WrestleMania history. What made you pick this one?
01:13:06
Speaker
So I guess I'll go ahead and spill the beans. It's a Macho Man versus Ricky the Dragon Steamboat from WrestleMania 3. Iconic match. I mean, if you've never seen this match, you just need to go check it out because it's just incredible. I mean, you cannot go wrong with Macho Man and Ricky Steamboat. But since Macho Man was kind of like the talk of the figure world this weekend with
01:13:32
Speaker
Yeah, with his release of, uh, you know, the San Diego comic con exclusive, I was like, man, I got to pick a macho man match. And what better macho man match to pick them. One of the most iconic, um, you know, my iconic matches of all time. I mean, this was just like, this just kind of like redefined what it, what a midcard title match could be. Do you know what I mean? And what it meant to, to fight for those, you know, if you weren't in the heavyweight title picture, like what it meant to fight for those, like the intercontinental championship. And it's just.
01:14:02
Speaker
It's just a clinic and like he said, among wrestling fans, it's noted as one of the best WrestleMania matches of all time. So get on your network, go watch it. It's amazing.
01:14:15
Speaker
Yeah, if you haven't seen that match, it is one of the best, it's definitely one of the top five WrestleMania matches of all time and probably one of the better matches you'll ever see. Definitely go check that out. And I'm on the WrestleMania III Wikipedia page. This will show you how different it was back in 1987. You know how they have like the chronological order of pay-per-views, like what came before this, what came after it. So this is WrestleMania. The pay-per-view after this is Survivor Series in November.
01:14:44
Speaker
Yeah. It's like, it's like the back in the, back in the day, you know, I mean, there's like, you know, that's why they call them the big four pay-per-views, right? Like, I mean, there only used to be like four pay-per-views per year. Um, and I mean, granted, I mean, I love having, I like having more frequent pay-per-views, but I do feel like we could stretch it out a little bit further and, you know, build some storylines, um, you know, to, to back, like, like back in the old, the good old days.
01:15:09
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. But yeah, this was a golden time for wrestling. This is, you know, Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant, the main event, you know, the Pontiac Silverdome, you know, 93,000 fans. This is quite a show. And this is kind of the pinnacle of kind of the Hulk Hogan era. I feel like this is like late 80s, you know, still 12 matches on this card. But, you know, it's really highlighted by. Yeah.
01:15:35
Speaker
Steamboat and Savage then Hogan versus Andre and you know Savage was the longest match on the card I mean only only thing that was you know even close was Hogan versus Andre at 12 minutes and Ricky Ricky the dragon Ricky the steamboat and Randy Savage was 14 minutes and 35 seconds You don't have anything over 15 minutes on this
First Figures and Collection Stories
01:15:54
Speaker
thing Dan. That's a short show pretty crazy, right? Yeah No, no 25 minute Triple H match. That's for sure
01:16:02
Speaker
We got plenty of those though in the old vault. Let's get to our listener mail. We have two questions this evening from the listeners. Yeah. So we got one coming in from our home mate, Cody Baker. He says, I'm somewhat new to figure collecting game. I really enjoy your show every week and the awesome stuff you guys do. My question is, what was the first figure that started it all for your guys collection? Much love.
01:16:30
Speaker
Phil, do you remember the first figure that got you into, and I would even say take it back so far as a little bit. It's not even a wrestling figure. What figure got you started with toy collecting?
01:16:42
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. And this is kind of a weird story. And when my son was born, my good buddy Billy, who I've worked with for a long time and good friends with, he bought my son the Defining Moments Undertaker. And I had totally been out of, I was watching wrestling pretty casually. This was like obviously five years ago or so. I was still watching, but I don't know if he even had the network or
01:17:07
Speaker
You know, it's pretty kind of just sticking to pay-per-views. Wasn't watching Raw or SmackDown. But yeah, we were both huge Undertaker fans. He bought this for my son. And, you know, just as like kind of a joke gift. You know, obviously a baby's not gonna be playing with a fucking Undertaker toy. But he still has it now. And it was like, I just remember like, this is like a cool ass like looking like the package. Like this is not how I remember like wrestling figures looking. This is like badass. This is so like realistic looking.
01:17:35
Speaker
and i just had it like in his room as a kid like you know i would just look at it like oh man i forgot about this you know then we eventually and it was one or two years old we opened it up and that was his first wrestling figure and i pulled out some of my old ones and then you know we started buying him some and now it's like you know gets home from daycare and the first thing he wants to do is
01:17:53
Speaker
either wrestle with me on our bed or play with his wrestlers or play with the wrestler video game or draw wrestlers and it's like you know it's just consumed his life as as now it's taken over my life so in a good way obviously but that was you know that's what got me back into things I would say that's what kick-started it.
01:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, that is a super dope figure. And like you said, it's just one of those things. Like when you see something like that, you're like, man, yeah, these don't look like they're wrestling figures from, from my childhood. Um, so, you know, if you guys have been listening to the show very long, you'll go, you will know that when, um, he'll husband and I got into figure collecting, I mean, obviously he'll husband goes way, way back. I mean, ever since he was a child, well, you know, obviously we talked about it on the, you know, in heel husband's house, um, segments that we did while we were home in Kentucky, but, um,
01:18:38
Speaker
I mean, he's been collecting action figures since he was a child myself. I mean, I was always grew up in a family of boys. There was always, you know, wrestling action figures around. I wasn't like, I didn't specifically, um, collect wrestling action figures as a kid. But when heel husband and I got back into collecting, we collect, we collected Jack's classic superstar. So when we, when we got back into the product, um, we were like, you know,
01:19:00
Speaker
collecting collecting figures again and we got into Jax classic superstars and we got that series one Brett Hart that was probably I think that was the first action figure that we got when we got back into collecting and you know we built a pretty good little Jax collection in a short period of time and then we realized like
01:19:18
Speaker
You know, if you want to know the figure that started it all for our Mattel, our current expansive Mattel collection, it was the Elite 28 Bray Wyatt.
Pop Figure Collecting Challenges
01:19:28
Speaker
Um, we only got that because it was, it was the Bray Wyatt figure. We were going to WrestleMania. We were going to meet Bray Wyatt at, um, at access. You know, his heel has been had him and my, our friend Jordan had a, you know, signing that they were going to go to and he wanted it. He wanted to get a figure signed. So he got the Elite 28 Bray Wyatt super amazing figure. I love, love, love that Bray Wyatt figure.
01:19:48
Speaker
Um, and then once he had the Mattel in hand, cause he'd always said, you know, the Jax were better than the Mattel and whatnot. But then once he had the Mattel elite in hand, he was like, Oh my God, like this is an amazing figure. Like these are actually really dope. Um, and so after that we sold off the entire Jax collection and then started from square one collecting, collecting Mattels. And obviously like you, as you guys have known, if you've seen the Mark cave, like it escalated pretty quickly.
01:20:16
Speaker
That's an awesome story. Yeah. I mean, you guys kind of went all in from there for sure. But, uh, yeah, it's cool to hear about how people got into stuff like this because, you know, we definitely, most of us anyway, collected his kids and probably took a break around, you know, when puberty started and, you know, unlike the major brothers who were collecting and playing with figures in high school and stuff, props to those guys. Yeah.
01:20:38
Speaker
but i mean i had you know i had toys and i love toys as a kid i didn't i guess i didn't have specifically like wrestling figures my brother had wrestling figures but i mean i had like tons of different toys i mean you know obviously i had i had barbies and all things that you know most most normal girls have and then i i had a ton of
01:20:54
Speaker
I'm kind of ashamed to say how many Happy Meals I had eaten and how many Happy Meals toys that I had over the years. I love to collect each one. You would go each week and they would change the Happy Meal toy. That was something that I was really into. Then as an adult, I collected Pops. That was the first thing that I collected was Pops. I got a Sheldon.
01:21:15
Speaker
I shelled in pop from Big Bang Theory. Um, that was the very first pop that I ever got. And that really kind of started my pop collection. That was like 2012, I think. But then yeah, then we started our collection and we kind of just, we kind of just really went all in on that.
01:21:32
Speaker
Yeah, I've, uh, I've been, I've dabbled in pops here and there. I have, I think four, I have like, uh, I'm trying to do like a Mount Rush more of wrestling. I don't want to get too far into it, but I have a Hogan Savage warrior and Bret Hart. I think I'm going to think I might get a flare and just stop there and just do like a top five. Yeah.
01:21:49
Speaker
But yeah, well, you know the thing about the thing about pops is I really had to I really had to like cut my pop collection Like because it's a rabbit hole there is like there's no way that you can get all the pops You know I mean like it's not like they're not like Pokemon like you can't collect them all like you really have to Narrow your interest and somebody like myself who's into so many different TV shows so many different movies so many different things It's impossible to keep up and they come up with so many different variations and the chases and you know the little
01:22:16
Speaker
the little sets and the accessories and all of the things. So then I just cut it off and I was like, I'm only going to collect horror pops and WWE. Like I got rid of most all my other pops. I sold them at a yard sale. And then, you know, I was like, I got to stick to two lines because beyond that, like it's a freaking rabbit hole.
Hosts' Personal Pet Peeves
01:22:34
Speaker
Oh, 100%. Yeah, it's definitely tough. And I feel like every TV show, I mean, I saw like they're coming out of the office once now, and they have like everything you can think of, and you can never just get like everything. So it's tough. No, and they're also awesome. Like I said, I mean, I love so many things. I'm like, oh my god, lucky.
01:22:53
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. They're fairly cheap. You can find them every freaking where and then when you love stuff like Game of Thrones where there's like 18 million characters or like Star Wars where there's like so many freaking different characters. Oh my god, the possibilities are endless. So yeah, all you guys are out there that are like diligent pop collectors like I feel like those are gonna be like the beanie babies of this generation. You know what I mean?
01:23:15
Speaker
All the, all the beanie baby hoarders of the nineties. I feel like all, I feel like pops are going to be like that. Like at some point we're just going to be like, holy shit. Why did we collect all these plastic bobblehead figures? You know what I mean? Like these like bubble heads. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like if you have one that's worth something now, you'd rather just sell it now than hold onto it. Hell yeah. Don't, don't wait for it to become like baseball cards. Um, go ahead and unload that shit right now. Um, we have a, um, email come in from the MVP himself. He says,
01:23:44
Speaker
Hello, my favorite people. I want to continue the trend of getting to know the hosts of this fine show. We're all human, first and foremost. There are things that we love and things that we can't stand. I asked you guys a while back, what are some things that make you happy besides wrestling and fig collection? So my question for you both this time around is what are some, if any, are your pet peeves? Thank you for being your true selves and as always,
01:24:05
Speaker
podcast theme in all space and time. Peace out. So Phil, you already touched on one of your, one of your pet peeves this episode. So you have any other pet peeves that like stand out to you? Uh, off the top of my head, the number one is people that wear sunglasses inside. I cannot fucking stand it when people do that. That is my least favorite thing of all time. It's the doucheiest thing you can probably do.
01:24:31
Speaker
That is so random, but so freaking hilarious. Oh, my gosh, pet peeves. I know I have so many, but not like like we think off the top of my head. I hate when when old people like walk into a store and just stop right in the middle of like wherever where everyone's walking. That's another thing that people do at Walmart all the time, just like get two feet past the door and just like stop and like, you know,
01:25:00
Speaker
Oh my God. Oh, you know what? Uh, one of my, okay. So one of my pet peeves is when people do not follow like parking lot protocol. Do you know what I mean? Like people who are like going the wrong way up the one up a one way, like parking lot or people who are like back into these like impossible spaces or like they put their big ass car in a compact spot.
01:25:19
Speaker
Like that is like a pet peeve to me. I'm like parking lots are not that hard people. Like let's just, and you know, parking lots are also a trigger for my anxiety. I don't know why, but like I get like super high anxiety and like parking situations. It's very strange. It's yeah, it's very strange. But, um, so when people don't follow parking lot protocol, that really bothers me. Also, you know what bothers me? Like this is like more on a deeper level. People that lie, you know, like I fucking, I fucking hate people that just like lie for no reason.
01:25:46
Speaker
You know, like, I'm like, why, why are you lying right now? You know? Um, and I know a lot of people who just like are just such bullshitters and I'm like, okay. You know, and I'm pretty good at like, like, like reading when people are lying. So I'm like, and I'm not an ass and I'm not an asshole, you know? So I'm like, I try to just like not let it, let it ride. Yeah. And not like call them out, but I'm just like, oh my God, like you're not my people.
01:26:13
Speaker
Uh, another one I thought of is when, uh, people like play music on their phone, like they're just walking around somewhere and they just have like music on their phone, like on a speaker phone, just like blaring. That's big up here in Baltimore. Oh my God. I cannot freaking stand that. Like, or people that talk on speakerphone in public places.
01:26:33
Speaker
Like why do you, why are you talking on speaker phones? FaceTime, just walking around FaceTiming, like, you know, why are you at the grocery store? Like what do you, why do you need to see each other right now? What are you doing? Yes. Oh my God.
01:26:48
Speaker
So true, oh my god, I could probably think of a million more pet peeves. Let's start a secondary, like a spin-off podcast where we just talk about all the things that we hate. I could probably do that for quite a while. Exactly, yeah. I'll be posting some in my Instagram stories, so be on the lookout for that.
01:27:05
Speaker
How about when you're hungry but you can't decide what you want to eat and then you're just like, I get so frustrated and hangry at the same time and my wife is like, no help, she's the most indecisive person ever. So I'm like, I just want to eat something but nothing is jumping out at me and then I just get more and more frustrated.
01:27:26
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Speaking of frustrating, hangry situations. Another pet peeve of mine is when he'll has been asked him, I'll go to the grocery store and I'm like, is there anything you want me to get you specifically? Like anything you want to snack on or, you know, cause I know after I fixed dinner, like there's going to be a time, a period of time where he goes to the refrigerator and he's like, cause he stays up late. Like he's a, he's a night now and he's going to like want something to like snack on.
01:27:48
Speaker
And I'm like, you know, but I don't like to just keep like random shit in the house. Like if we're not going to eat it, you know what I mean? So I ask him specifically, like, what do you want as far as like snacking and like things like that? Oh, nothing. I'm good. I don't need anything. I'm good. I'm like, are you sure? No, I'm good. I'm good. And when I don't get anything, he'll go to the refrigerator at night. He's like, what do we got in here to eat? And I'm like, you motherfucker.
01:28:09
Speaker
I'm like, you, you just told me you did not need nothing to eat. And so then I'm like, well, what do you want me to fix? You know, I'm fine. I don't need anything. I'm like, you just went to the, you got up, you walked to the refrigerator and you had enough, you were hungry enough to like look in there and see if you wanted something like, and now I'm offering to make you something and you say you don't want anything. Like.
01:28:26
Speaker
A rule, a hard and fast rule in our house is to say what you want or take what you get. Like I'm not, don't expect me to read your mind and I don't expect him to read my mind. Like you have to say what you want or if you don't get it, like then you can't be mad about it. You can't complain about it. You know what I mean? You can't hold an underlying resentment. Yeah. If you don't say what you want, then you can't expect the other person to know, right?
01:28:45
Speaker
Yep, yeah, I have the reverse. I go to the grocery store to grab, like, if I need some stuff to make dinner that night, and I go there, and then my wife finds that, I went there, like, why don't you tell me you went there? I need this, this, this, and this, and this. I'm like, oh, god. Happens every single time, or every time. Oh, my gosh, see. It never learns how to actually text her and ask her what she wants, but I probably should start doing that.
01:29:08
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. But then you get tasked, and then that kind of sucks too, because you're like, oh my god, I just wanted to go in and grab a bag of chips. I didn't want to go for like. I love going to the grocery store for some reason. I fucking love it. Like, of all the chores I have to do, like, I would go to the grocery store every day. I love going to the deli. I love like, you know, especially if it's like a Wegmans, and they have like, you know, a bunch of like, I don't know, cool shit. I guess it's like from working in a restaurant and being around food. I just like, you know, there's so much like, all the different cheeses they have and stuff. Not even just to buy stuff, just like, you know.
01:29:38
Speaker
If I have to go to any store, the grocery store is not a bad place to be in. I like to go to good grocery stores. I hate going to crappy grocery stores. Grocery shopping is probably one of my least favorite activities. But if I'm just casually going to a grocery store, like you said, look at the kind of cheeses they have or what kind of this, fancy grocery stores, I freaking love that stuff. But when I'm just going to get the basics, like stuff for meal prep, I'm like,
01:30:04
Speaker
This is the worst. Yeah, it's nothing fun. Yeah, it's just, you know. Yeah, just all the necessities.
01:30:10
Speaker
All right. Well, that's good. Yeah, we won't let let's hear your pet peeves What's what's what's grinding your gears you guys let us know we want to hear from you. Yeah, let's have a bitch a bitch Yeah, right we can have us up before some before stomping grounds we can have just bitch fest, you know Get it out in the universe just like, you know, then we'll be positive for the rest of the night cool exactly
01:30:35
Speaker
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01:31:00
Speaker
apps for your Android device will work. It helps us out. We reached what we get to like 140 something last week. Um, yeah, on the sports sports charts for the podcast. I randomly, we were probably a little bit higher earlier in the day because we had so many reviews from the contest, but
01:31:18
Speaker
And then somebody accused me of photoshopping the ranking. I was like, Oh my God, if I had enough time in my life to photoshop iTunes rankings like that. Oh my God. That doesn't mean shit to me. It was just cool that we were that high up. We were, we were above like, I forget what podcast we were above, but it was like pro football talk or something or, you know, it was like some well-known podcasts.
01:31:45
Speaker
We don't, we don't get a bonus or we don't get paid because we're number 141 in the freaking sports sports and recreation podcast. It's just a really freaking cool when your podcast like charts. So yeah.
01:31:58
Speaker
Screw those guys. Screw anyone that thought you'd Photoshop that. Fuck them. Good job, Buffett Bridge. Yeah, check out our Patreon. Our t-shirts are on ProWrestlingTees.com. And like I said, we got a bunch of cool stuff coming for Patreon now that Sheena is selling her house next week. I'm down here in the Fig Cave. We're going to start doing some, I don't know what we'll call them, Sheena, but me and you are just going to watch some matches live together on the network and we're just going to
01:32:24
Speaker
crack jokes on them or the opposite. We'll just kind of do some commentary for some pretty well-known matches. That Macho Man Ricky Steamboat match comes to mind. I haven't watched that match in a long time. But some good wrestling and bad wrestling will be fun to do some reviews of. So that's something we can bang out. If we have some time one evening, half an hour here or there, that's some cool extra content we'll start doing for folks.
01:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, that's about it. Well, next week we'll do a recap of the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view and hopefully Sheena has internet hooked up at that time. Yes. Send me all the good vibes. Hey, congrats on finding a house and you don't have to be in a hotel. Does the hotel now have a good accommodations where you are in Norfolk? Oh yeah, like the hotel we have now is amazing.
01:33:17
Speaker
Oh, the breakfast kind of sucks, but, um, it does have a, uh, it does have a, you know, we have a suite. So we have a sleeping room with, you know, two queen size beds. We have a sitting area. We have living room, kitchenette, giant bathroom. Couldn't ask for better accommodations, but yeah, breakfast kind of sucks. We do get a good breakfast at our hotel in West Virginia. Those people know how to eat in West Virginia. It had biscuits and gravy and eggs and sausage and like.
01:33:39
Speaker
all the cereals. So yeah, man, you know, continental breakfast. I love me a good, good continental breakfast. Now that you're back in the States, you got to, got to hit up Chick-fil-A breakfast. I don't know if you've ever done Chick-fil-A breakfast. I don't know if they had that when you lived here before, but. Oh yeah. Chicken minis, chicken biscuits. Are you kidding me? Good. You're familiar. Yes.
01:34:02
Speaker
Oh, very familiar. I've eaten many, many a chicken, many, many, many, many, many, a chicken, many. Nice. All right. Cool. So, uh, we will be back with you guys next week for, for Sheena Phelps. I am the hot take kid. We are signing off and, uh, we will talk to you next week. See you later.
01:35:10
Speaker
I'm smiling, bitch, cause I always get my word on. I've been on so many different stages, graced a couple of a hundred magazine pages, made people smile. Everywhere that I went, I even put it on the first black president.