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2023 Wrestling Wishlist + Vince is back?!?
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We discuss the absolutely insane week behind the scenes in WWE and then dive into our personal wishlists for this year in wrestling. We pick our wrestlers we want to get gold around their waists for the first time this year as well as some other stuff we want to see happen in and out of the squared circle! Plus, figure talk, listener mail, and the debut of Bret The Babyface on the podcast!
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Transcript
Introduction & Returning to SmackDown
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Chick Foley Show.
00:00:23
Speaker
What is up, Foley fam? We are back with the first official episode of the Chick Foley show in 2023. Me and Sheena broke you guys off with a little quickie over the weekend talking about our trip to SmackDown Live, but we got the whole cast and crew here tonight for our first official recording. As always, let's start by introducing the stars
New Year's Resolutions Discussion
00:00:42
Speaker
of the show. Sheena, how you doing?
00:00:43
Speaker
Doing good. Happy New Year to all of our fully fam out there listening. I hope you guys started the year off strong and are staying true to your New Year's resolutions so far. If not, it's never a bad time to pick them back up. It's already the, what, the 12th? What do you think? 95% of New Year's resolutions are already down the toilet at this point? I don't think down the toilet. I think there may have been some bumps along the way. I don't like to say people flush their resolutions down the toilet, you know what I mean? Because you can always pick it back up.
00:01:11
Speaker
Never feel like it's too late. You guys heard it from Sheena. You can always pick stuff up out of the toilet. Of course. I wouldn't you? Marco, what's going on, man?
Wrestling Content Excitement
00:01:20
Speaker
Nothing much. Just chilling out. I just finished recording raw down or doing the live feed of it. So I'm primed and ready for you guys to spew some wrestling knowledge. Nice. Doing double duties tonight. Oh, yeah. And Jordan, what is going on out in the Midwest?
00:01:42
Speaker
Man, seasonal depression has already hit me. It's fucking second week of January. I made no resolutions because I think they're stupid. If you need to make a resolution to better yourself, well, I guess, I don't know.
00:01:59
Speaker
I hate winter. I really do. I don't know why I live in the Midwest. Well, let's be real. The actual new year starts in the spring. I don't know who invented this calendar January to December, where everybody's supposed to be up and at it in the middle of freaking winter. This is BS, dude. Spring is the real start of the new year. If you don't get your shit together till April, you're still doing okay. The only problem with getting your shit together in April though is, man, your summer bod's going to take a real hit with only two months to plan.
00:02:25
Speaker
Which my summer bond has looked the same for about 12 years, so I don't give a shit in these parts anymore. Big dude seizing you around. I mean, there's other ways to get your life together other than just getting your summer bond check, you know?
00:02:41
Speaker
All right, Shayna, remind the listeners they can find you on social media.
Social Media & Gardening Updates
00:02:45
Speaker
You can find me on Instagram at Chick Foley, Marco running the Twitter machine over at Chick Foley show. All of our links to all of our partners and podcast friends is at chickfoli.com. Make sure you're following all of our Pod Foundation brethren over at Pod Foundation. We have the Extra Cooler show, Turnbuckle Tavern, and coming down the aisle with all of the wrestling content that you need for the week.
00:03:07
Speaker
You got to break the listeners off with their favorite segment every week. Tell us what's new on the farm. I just ordered a bunch of new seeds. I just got them in today. Super exciting. I'll be starting seeds here in the next probably February, I'll start some things and then really go hard in March and April. You guys have no idea. She just spent two days on the couch, didn't move. There's a straight up imprint of her ass from sitting in the same spot for so long just researching seeds to buy.
00:03:32
Speaker
Yeah. Um, and you know, garden planning and all that and chicks. So I ordered, I ordered a new batch of chicks too, uh, which chicks are in high demand this year. Uh, so it was, it was a little tricky getting my chicks ordered, but I should have an order of chicks coming in June. Just been doing, like I said, some hardcore garden planning and I've been going around to my neighbors and collecting all of their trash. They've been keeping their
00:03:52
Speaker
They're gallon jugs for me. They're like the neighborhood hoarders. Yeah, like a neighborhood hoarder. I put a little thing out on my neighborhood page. Like, does anybody have gallon plastic jugs? Because I'm going to use them as little seed starting greenhouses. So everybody's been putting their jugs out for me, and I've been rolling around the neighborhood gathering those. Jordan's penciled in for coming out for WrestleMania weekend.
WrestleMania Weekend Plans
00:04:13
Speaker
Are you already putting together his work list for when he's here?
00:04:16
Speaker
Oh yeah. So we have a, we had the goat barn, the door of the goat barn. It gets a little sticky. So many Jordan too. Maybe like, maybe we can re hinge that thing while he's here. That thing's heavy, dude. It's like solid. It's Amish construction, like solid oak. Like there's no press board, no nothing. Yeah. And I would have, I wouldn't mind draping, uh, two more cattle panels over my, my raised beds to create two more trellises. So we can like, you know,
00:04:39
Speaker
stick those in the ground and bend them over. Man, this sounds like a great weekend. Your neighbors are all going to pull their jugs out for me. We're going to bend everything over in the backyard. Yeah, it's going to be tons of fun. It's going to be, you're going to be spreading seed everywhere. I always do. Take a door off the hinges.
Promos & Wrestling Rumors
00:04:56
Speaker
All right, and we want to remind you guys to use code Chick Foley to save 10% on all your figure purchases at Ringside Collectibles. We'll get into some figure talk a little bit later on.
00:05:08
Speaker
Let's get into the show. So we are. Well, I guess before we really get into it, did anything big happen in wrestling over the past, like seven days? No, I can't think of anything. No. Marco, you can't think anything, man. No, no, I mean, no, not really. Jordan, how about you?
00:05:27
Speaker
I really got nothing, man. I'm surprised we're even recording right now. We're actually recording a day later.
WWE Potential Sale Discussion
00:05:36
Speaker
So it's Thursday night at about 10 PM central time. As, as we're taping this, uh, we postponed taping by a day just cause we want to see how the dust settled. Obviously the, you know, one of the biggest stories during the history of wrestling could be unfolding right, right in front of us with Vince McMahon, making his hostile takeover of the WWE board of directors and.
00:05:56
Speaker
Tuesday night, it sounded like it was a done deal that they were selling to freaking Saudi Arabia. Jordan, you were right there. We were on, we just got done doing the long balls with the term vocal tavern crew, our NFL podcast on YouTube. Jordan got to see my live reaction as I'm discovering this news, like kind of take us through those moments here, Jordan, and just the look on my face, because I was honestly speechless.
00:06:18
Speaker
it was really something Seth was just like staring into the corner looking at his phone like I'm not kidding you I've never heard Seth that silent before he just he didn't say anything for like 10 minutes and then I finally said hey man you good we're watching like the death of wrestling for Seth right now and it was not good I mean nobody reacted well to it it just
00:06:41
Speaker
it's not
00:06:58
Speaker
Well, I don't think the shareholders would be pissed because the shareholders would get bank off of that. Now, if he takes it back private, they're not going to get any residuals off that stock. But I think I could see Saudi just, you know, from the numbers I've been seeing. It wasn't the talk that it was going back private? Yeah, that's the talk that he would sell and go back private. But they would still get the cash out off their stock and stuff when they bought it. And so a really good podcast listeners, The Town. It's a ringer podcast. It's all about like the business side of Hollywood. And they actually did an episode breaking down the sale
00:07:27
Speaker
of WWE. And they say it's valued between like five and six billion. I can see somebody like Saudi who has just bottomless pockets, like just coming in and blowing them away and offering like 10, 12 billion. You know what I mean? And you actually kind of have a responsibility to the shareholders to accept that offer if they do that, regardless of what else it comes with. But for the sacred wrestling fans, I hope that doesn't happen. I mean, what do you think, Jordan? What's kind of like your darkest timeline on this thing if Saudi ends up getting the WWE
00:07:54
Speaker
I guess my thing is, is I'm with Sheena here, like where there's smoke, there's fire. I don't believe that this was just put out just to be put out. I feel like if Vince really does want to take it private to keep his personal matters behind closed doors, I think Saudi would probably be the best bet because I highly doubt Disney or anybody like that would let him do that. Disney is definitely a public company. Like they, they are definitely open about everything and
00:08:22
Speaker
Um, so I don't know, man, I still have a bad feeling about this, that it's going to happen.
Speculation on WWE Buyers
00:08:28
Speaker
And I feel like if it does, I mean, there's going to be a percentage of the roster. That's for sure gone the minute this happens. Cause Sammy Zane will not work for this company. Clearly. Um, the women you got to really worry about if they're going to be allowed to be in the company at that point. I mean, dude, it has some ripples that could, I mean, W you would never be the same after that. Like.
00:08:50
Speaker
There's a lot of people I've seen on the internet. They're like, uh, it'll be fine. They're not going to let it completely go in the tank. Well, no one said that. I'm just saying like, it's going to have a lot of, um, yeah, like I said, ripple throughout the whole roster. And I mean, just basically the wrestling community as a whole.
00:09:05
Speaker
Yeah, my concern is really long term. I think there will be a handful of superstars that leave right away if this deal goes through. But honestly, like money talks, man. And I think Saudi is going to break the bank. I think short term, it could be like a little bit exciting for wrestling fans because we may see people who we thought would never come to WWE just not be able to turn down that paycheck to come over for short term. But my concern is like
00:09:27
Speaker
It goes private. Obviously, Vince is still running it. Vince passes away. I could totally see the Saudi... They call it the Saudi public investment firm, but it's really the Saudi government. I can see them just getting bored with this thing and letting it just end up fizzling out. Next thing you know, Tony Khan buys this sometimes on their own. He's coming in buying the $1.00. Yeah, we see the WCW sale all over again. My priorities are
00:09:52
Speaker
the old tape library, right? Like what used to be WWE Network now on Peacock. I still wanna have access to that. Tape trading will hit the freaking ceiling. Yeah, physical media prices are gonna go up big time. And then I worry about the figures, you know what I mean? I wonder how that would work with Mattel. Sheena, do you got any preferred buyer for the WWE?
00:10:11
Speaker
No, I just, I mean, I just wish it would just, I hate change, dude. I'm a person I'm like, no, things are going good right now. Let's just ride this thing out. You know, Triple H is doing a great job. You know, Stephanie's in charge. Like, why are we shaking shit up? But you know, Vince's ego, like he cannot.
00:10:28
Speaker
he will not let his ego die and just, you know, take the ill and walk away from WWE. Comcast, like NBC universal, that'd probably be the best one for wrestling fans because I think they would buy it and just keep things how they are, right? They already have the long standing relationship with them. I saw some rumors that were just popping up tonight that Tony Khan and Shaheed Khan are actually interested in putting together an investment group to buy it. Like how that's what that'd be. Wait, Barco, what do you think, man? Would they keep it as a separate brand or would
00:10:54
Speaker
Would they fold WWE into AW or fold AEW into WWE? How do you think that would play out if the cons actually ended up buying a WWE? I think they would fold it into... I think they would fold AEW into WWE because it's a bigger name. Unless they're just petty and they want to get rid of the WWE name and fold it in that way.
00:11:14
Speaker
Dynamite would become six hours long and they would just have all the WWE titles over to Dynamite. I want to kind of turn this around and stop this from being the Doom and Gloom podcast because that's what it sounds like for the three of you and say that I, for one, do you know where this rumor came from? The Saudi rumor.
00:11:39
Speaker
Twitter. It seemed like it was just from like some of the Twitter like wrestling reporters and stuff. Oh, they were all claiming that they were here in rumblings. No, it was Reddit. It was like some dude named Katie 22. Well, there's the there's Kermit 215 on Reddit that reported it sold. That turned out to be false. That guy has had some like really strange coincidental posts before he's predicted stuff. So he may have just been trolling.
00:12:05
Speaker
Here's what I said, I won't go too in-depth because we spent like, I think like maybe like an hour and change on the rundown talking about it. But I, for one, a sale wouldn't go through unless they've been working on this since like 2020.
00:12:21
Speaker
It doesn't you can't they don't just you can't just buy a company and then and that's it like the sales done i'm just from my experience working with working for a company that purchased another company it almost took them like two years actually finally actually engulf the company like they pay for it and they have to go through a whole bunch of legal.
00:12:42
Speaker
like things. If there's investors attached to it, if there's partnerships attached to it, if there's deals going on, which like the WWE, there's multiple deals. There's multiple licensing deals happening right now. Right. Yeah. I don't think anybody thought the deal was closing, but they definitely could have agreed in principle to a deal or something, or at least had a handshake agreement going. Well, even that the next day, if you watch the finance
00:13:07
Speaker
people like on CNBC and CNN and all that stuff. That wasn't an actual thing, that principle deal. That was rumored to be... Actually, WWE came out and said that was false, that there was no principle deal on the table. WWE would never lie. I'm pretty sure there were people out there that said WCW wasn't going to be sold and it was already sold. Well, that was Steph. Steph held a staff meeting with all the talent on Friday and said that nothing was going to change.
00:13:36
Speaker
Uh, management wise and then Tuesday night she resigned. I can't, I can't imagine a world in which people like the, the mainstream media comes out and you know, doesn't tell you the whole truth. I definitely think people were jumping the gun on the, uh, the Saudi deal Tuesday night. Yeah.
00:13:52
Speaker
I mean, the reaction is always overblown whenever something like that comes out. They just proved what happened was when all those analysts came out the next day, the actual business people that study sales and they study all that stuff, they came out and basically just
00:14:07
Speaker
like shit on every single dirt sheet writer, every wrestling journalist said, knows literally nothing about business at all. We have our own business major right here on the Chief Bullet Show podcast. You know, we have our own business analyst in Seth Phelps. The other part of that too is like, I don't even think, you know, why we talked about this on the rundown, why are people discounting Disney?
WWE as a Family Business
00:14:32
Speaker
Like, have you looked at the, like, I had to like, cause we were doing like research and stuff. Have you looked at like their financials for the past like few years? Like they have more than enough money to buy WWE if they wanted to. And some. Yeah. They definitely got the ability. I just don't know if Disney has the desire to bring WWE. I don't know. It just feels like.
00:14:52
Speaker
It's a weird fit to me. Yeah, I mean they could make it work I think that Disney would definitely be in the mix, but I'm so I don't see I don't think they're gonna have like a WWE wing at Disney World You know, I mean that would be lit. Yeah, they like give it a view world. I'm telling you They can make the WWE Universe. Yeah Comcast owns Universal. I feel like Debbie to be at Universal Studios Yeah, I mean imagine they had like an actual physical day to be Hall of Fame like at Universal Studios Yeah with like all the
00:15:20
Speaker
artifacts and stuff. All right. But again, we didn't want to get too bogged down because we are all kind of just throwing darts at the board right now, speculating on this, but it's definitely going to be something interesting to monitor over the next few months. I think if I had to put money on it, I'm still sticking with that. I don't think they even end up selling the company. I think Vince just used this proposed sale as a Trojan horse to put back in the door and start consolidating power.
00:15:46
Speaker
And I hope I'm wrong, but, you know, it's January 13th or January 12th right now, and I'm going to say that Vince will be back running creative before the Royal Rumble. Oh, you think so? Jeez. I hope I'm wrong. I pray I'm wrong. That's because I love Triple H's since he's been. It hasn't been perfect, but it's been miles better than anything I've seen in the eight years I've been back watching wrestling. So I hope I'm wrong. But I got a bad feeling that Triple H is going to be the next domino ball. That's some bad news for you. Yeah, I got some bad news. That was me, damn it.
00:16:14
Speaker
I had a weird crazy angle because you were talking about Vince McMahon, everyone thinking that WWE was a... For us fans, we always thought it was a family business. Once Vince dies, he's going to give it to Shane, and then Shane and Stephanie are going to run the company. But now looking back on it, no.
00:16:35
Speaker
WWE was never a family business. His father didn't give it to him. He had to buy the company from his father and build it from the beginning and work the way up. Now seeing how Shane was treated and how Stephanie was treated, I think it was a power move to get his kids out of the picture. Well, we already know Vince doesn't care about family.
00:16:55
Speaker
So not only, not only did his dad make him buy it as part of the agreement, if he ever missed one of the balloon payments on the company, it was going to get handed over to a trust of like Gorilla Monsoon and like Arnold Skoll and stuff like that. Like he was going to lose the company if he ever missed one payment. That's how like little faith his dad had in him. So yeah, so yeah, I don't know not to be armchair psychologist, but yeah, he may that may have like just feed into the way he treats his kids now.
00:17:21
Speaker
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe like he has, he wants, like, maybe he wants Shane, Shane 70 to pull their money together and buy the company from him. Who knows? Maybe it's like a, like a life lesson from, from, uh, from pop events. I'm telling you right now that if we see triple H resign in the next few weeks, that company is going right in the shitter.
00:17:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to just double down on my love for AW and just, I'll watch the old school. We're going to come for the Turnbuckle Tavern. We're going to turn this podcast into an extricly AW and we're going to ride with the Turnbuckle Tavern. Sorry, Turnbuckle, we're taking over.
00:17:58
Speaker
Yeah, we have to, first of all, you joked about this, first of all, the raw down gets canceled and we're going to change it to a Dynapage, a combination of dynamite and rampage. We're going to review those two shows instead of raw down. Yeah. The term bubble tavern is going to come in and buy the chick Foley show.
00:18:16
Speaker
All right, let's get into the real reason why we are here tonight.
2023 Wrestling Wish List
00:18:20
Speaker
We are gonna do our 2023 wrestling wish list. So, you know, we wrapped it up with the chickies, we wrapped up 2022, put a bow on that last episode. Now we are going to kind of just lay out the stuff we want to see in wrestling in 2023. You got it in a few different categories here. We're gonna start with who is a male wrestler you wanna see become world champion for the first time. Those could be WWE, AEW, New Japan, whatever you want.
00:18:44
Speaker
Sheena, you and Marco had the same pick. Tell us why you think Ricky Starks should be a first time world champ this year. I just think he's really shown himself as a performer. The Duke can cut promos. He can work heel. He can work baby face. We've just seen the evolution of Ricky Starks. I was not a Ricky Starks, you know,
00:19:02
Speaker
fan when he first came out i agree with him jf i used to tell seth like he's a freaking dollar store rock you know he's the pebble yeah he's the pebble he's like a little he's he gets all of his mannerisms and kinda like his his promo style and inflection everything sounds very very much like a you know dollar store doing.
00:19:20
Speaker
Um, but he's really kind of come into his own. I feel like he's, he's got the people behind him. I don't know if he'll win the world title right off the bat, but he's definitely shown that he's, he's a contender for 2023. And I would, I don't think that people are going to be mad if Ricky Starks wins the title in 2023. Yeah. He had a really good match against MJF. I could see him go away from that for a couple of months and then come back to it. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I could definitely see it being on the end MJF's reign.
00:19:45
Speaker
Jordan man, I know you're a sucker for the sentimental stuff I'm assuming you made this your pick right after his promo last night Adam Cole, baby Do you know what the crazy thing is? I actually picked this yesterday morning and then he came back last night Dude, I just kind of started thinking about people we hadn't seen in a while spoiler my second choice was riddle so I really was I was just thinking about people that
00:20:09
Speaker
we hadn't seen in a long time. And then Adam Cole just popped into my head. And I was like, dude, I know we make fun of him for being small and stuff all the time. But I don't Adam Cole, that promo he cut last night.
00:20:23
Speaker
It just reassured me that the choice I was making was right. Dude, that dude can capture a crowd so easily. I just think he is awesome, and I'm really happy he's back. I know he's still not over the concussion. He's not going to be wrestling anytime soon. But man, when he said he had some bad news, I was like, oh, fuck, dude. If this dude is done, it's going to be tragic, man, because he never got a world title.
00:20:49
Speaker
It is what it is, but yeah, man, I really think once he gets cleared, I think 2023 could be a really big year for him because dude, they're going to need more contenders for the title. I mean, it's just, it is what it is. I mean, I know Adam Cole is usually a heel, but dude, he could easily be baby face against MJF like, and I would love to see it. I think their promos together would be awesome.
00:21:12
Speaker
Well, the good thing is, physically, it's totally believable for Adam Cole to beat MJF also, right? Like, it's not that thing, like, when he was going against, you know, even Hangman, it seemed like he was, like, a little bit too, like, just, like, if Adam Cole doesn't have, you know, like, the undisputed error with him, like, it seemed like, kind of tough to believe he could beat Hangman, but...
00:21:29
Speaker
I could always see him beat MJF. And the other good thing is that he has basically like a 100% approval rating with the fans right now. The fans are ready to get behind him and root him on. So that could be a really good story once he's ready to come back. One critique, though, one critique about Adam Cole. Took all that time off and did not hit the gym once. So I don't see him as a title contender this year.
00:21:52
Speaker
He should've hit a little of the HGH. He did say his shoulder was like torn to shreds and he was having trouble waking up, not vomiting. Whatever. He was on Twitch every damn night. You know he was, dude. Jesus, dude. It was freaking heels. I thought I was the heel on this show.
00:22:09
Speaker
Speaking of heels, I have the the lone WWE pick on the list. I'm going with my man Austin Theory. It took me a while to come around on this dude. As much as people said that he was like Vince's pet project, it wasn't until Vince left that he really started to kind of win me over, man. I'm loving the new turn of character since he had the failed cash in.
00:22:27
Speaker
And dude, I really think that John Cena comparisons are there, man. I think this dude can end up being the next John Cena. And I think it'd be awesome seeing him get the belt. I don't see him beating Roman, but assuming that Roman loses the belt to somebody else in the first part of this year, I can see Austin Theory being the one to beat that person. What do you think? Where are you at on Austin Theory right now? I'm higher on Austin Theory than I have been in the past. Again, I was just like, I don't understand what people see in this guy.
00:22:55
Speaker
Much like Ricky Starks, he's just growing on me with his evolution and growth as a performer. I think doing the beard and not having the little like Randy Orton style pirate goatee helped a lot, man. Yeah, I agree. I don't think that facial hair works for anybody, even Randy Orton. No, dude. I don't know why Randy Orton is still sticking with that. It's the worst. What about you, Jordan? Where are you at with the Jack Sparrow goatee? Yeah, not a good look, but dude, I'm still not there with Austin Theory. I don't know, man.
00:23:25
Speaker
I still picture him as that sniveling shit last summer with Vince and stuff like
00:23:30
Speaker
Dude, you didn't get hyped when A-town down hit at SummerSlam. No, I was pissed. That instant moment, I was like, OK, I get it now, man. He looked like a big deal when he came out. I didn't get it at SummerSlam. I was more annoyed than A-town down. I mean, not that I didn't expect it, but I was a little bit annoyed. But beyond SummerSlam, his presence on TV and stuff, I feel like he's been good enough for me. Just good enough? Yeah.
00:23:58
Speaker
I like Austin theory. I think he's definitely a future world champ. I'm just not sure if it's going to happen this year or not. All right, let's move over to the ladies. It was a unanimous pick. Jordan, tell us why Jade Cargill, all four hosts, picked her to win her first Women's Championship in 2023.
00:24:15
Speaker
I mean, I don't know how the choice is anybody else. Honestly, like, we've said it numerous times on this show. She just has it all. Just seeing her have that moment, which I'm assuming is going to happen sooner than later. I think she'll have both belts at the same time. I just I think that moment is just going to be so big and she has she's gotten so much better. Her look is fantastic. I just she has it all man. It's just
00:24:42
Speaker
It's a matter of when they're going to give it to her, not if. Yeah, Tony Khan's pretty good at kind of giving the fans what they want. And I think it's so obvious that that's got to be the story that they tell, right? That she just becomes double champ and then vacates the TBS title, a la Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania 6. And I think that's a great way to establish the TBS Championship as a really important title. I think about the first person that held this title goes undefeated for
00:25:09
Speaker
over a year and rides it all the way to the main championship. Like, you know, AW loves the tournament, right? So you can start, you can go and drop the bracket and start your tournament on the next episode of Dynamite.
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah, I love Jade, man. I actually put her as, like, number two for female rest of the year besides Bianca Belair. Dude, imagine if she comes out with some tassels and some warrior face paint when she goes for the women's title. I would fucking shit up for it. What if she has the chest paint, like, Warrior WrestleMania 6? She's not going to wear a bra or anything. Just comes out with just chest paint. Oh, my god. You'll be adorable, Pop, for the warrior. Oh, damn it. Everybody will be popping for that one.
00:25:50
Speaker
Poppin' through jeans, poppin' through the denim, baby. Denim Dan over here is gonna have an oyster in the front of his shorts. Wow. All right, let's go over to the tag teams. Again, Jordan actually called me out the other night and said I was the ultimate WWE mark, and I guess I am.
00:26:09
Speaker
I'm the only person that had a WWE act on this one too. There's the three categories we have here. I was the only people that picked anything to be. I'm going with one of the, uh, what I think is one of the most valuable acts of NXT over the last year. Pretty deadly. I would love to see these guys go to the main roster. And again, I don't see him beating the Usos, but I can see them beating whatever team takes the belts from the Usos. These guys, they're super funny, which I feel like the tag team division is where comedy really has a chance to shine. Um, but when the bell rings, these guys can also wrestle, man. So I, one thing I'm kind of.
00:26:39
Speaker
I'm just hoping I can speak into existence. I think the one thing that would really help elevate their act, I think they need a manager to make it like a trio situation, like the new day. We need to bring Tyler Breeze back. Who better than Prince Pretty to work with Pretty Deadly as they go to the main roster. And you know, Tyler Breeze was a big Triple H guy, so I can see it happening, assuming Triple H stays in control for, you know, at least another few months. So Pretty Deadly is my pick.
00:27:02
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, you, you picked, uh, the place for tag team wrestling means the least. Yeah. That's a pretty shitty pick. No pun intended. I mean, you guys say it means the least, but I feel like the tag team champs and Debbie to be have been way more prominent than the tag team champs. And half the time the tag champs and AW aren't even booking like this is the first time since can we just say, honestly, like this is almost one of the first times since we've been back watching wrestling, the tag team, that the tag teams have been like a prominent,
00:27:30
Speaker
feature on like main right like TV bit like pay-per-views been in the like main main picture like I Can't remember a time and it was always like Usos new day Usos new day back and forth back and forth back and forth like yeah, you're right But still I think you know you got even credit the Usos are by far the most like I'm not disputing that I'm not arguing that at all when we talked about that in our Chicky Awards, but it's just I feel like I
00:27:57
Speaker
You can't use that as a blanket just because it's recency bias, you know what I mean? Fair enough. All right, so who's your pick, Shane? Well, mine is House of Black. I want Brody and Malachi to just like... I want House of Black as a whole to succeed and do something and get some gold. See, I feel like they'd be better going and getting the trio championship than the elite, you know what I mean? Yeah.
00:28:20
Speaker
And if they're the tag team, why would the tag team be Malachi? And then why is the tag team not buddy Murphy and Brody instead of Malachi? I feel like my Tony con, I don't have the answer. I'm just asking. I'm just trying to be devil's advocate. Well, I mean, well, first of all, I want, I want Malachi black to hold some gold. So if he has to hold it via the tag team championships, then that's fine with me. But, uh, I just feel like these two are like two big guys. Like they're really like, you know.
00:28:45
Speaker
I don't know, some of the first really big guys we've got in AEW on the tag team division, right? Brody is, Malachi's not that big. Malachi's pretty big, dude. He's beefy. You sure you think of Malachi Black? No, I'm not thinking of him. Jordan, would you describe Malachi Black as beefy? I mean, he's not a small dude by any means. I think he's like six. He's not like Adam Cole, dude.
00:29:08
Speaker
I guess he's like six feet or something like that. We need the listeners to six foot tall for a wrestler. Yes. What's his weight? 215 pounds. He's a cruiser weight. That's what I weighed in like seventh grade.
00:29:28
Speaker
5'11", 215 is what I got for his size. And Adam Cole was six foot, 200. So he's basically the same size as Adam Cole, yeah. No, he's not the same size as Adam Cole. Buddy Murphy is pretty beefy. Buddy Murphy's definitely swole up since he was on 205 Live. Buddy Murphy definitely got on the good guess. Yeah. Now, the Supreme Malachi Black was way oversized. Maybe that's throwing you, because that figure was so out of scale. Maybe you're just thinking about it. Maybe. Because that figure damn near looks eye to eye with an undertaker at least. I'm sure that's it.
00:29:58
Speaker
Yeah, my pick was I want House of Black to do something.
Beverage Break & Promo
00:30:02
Speaker
Trio's tag team. I don't care. Let's just let's just do something with House of Black before they fade away into the oblivion. It makes them when they have such awesome presentation and there's no entering success to go along with it. It just makes them seem like even like less than what they actually are. You know what I mean? Like yeah, it's like Karian Kross, dude. Yeah, exactly. It just doesn't hit. Karian. Yep.
00:30:24
Speaker
All right, Marco, you got another AW pick. I was very close to having the same pick as you, Marco, but I pretty deadly itched it out just a little bit. Tell us your pick for AW tag champs in 2023. Yeah, I put the ass boys, but obviously they're the gun club. I think they do. I think they do for at least not like a long title reign, but
00:30:45
Speaker
at least with the titles. I think they're probably one of the better, like, hail teams that they have there as a tag team. And I think just keeping them feuded with the acclaimed and then having them take the titles off the acclaimed and continuing on with that, I think will be good for them. But yeah, I think they just do for it. I mean, the genetics speak for themselves. I mean, their dad's like 60 and he looks better than pretty much
00:31:14
Speaker
everyone on planet earth right now. And I think it'll be, you know, it'll be a great thing for, you know, maybe he'll come back and manage them again, maybe he'll drop the acclaimed and go back and manage his boys as a as a as tag team champion. So, yeah.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like a title ring would really help to establish them is legitimate. They've been good, but I feel like the belts will really help elevate them. Some teams don't need it. I feel like they need to get a title ring underneath their belt. I can totally see them grabbing those belts from the acclaim.
00:31:48
Speaker
All right, Jordan, I think you got the most controversial pick on here, man. You got to defend this one, dude, and sell us on this. I like these. I like these guys a lot. So I picked private party. I know they've had some injuries in the past and stuff, but every time they've been given a chance to shine, they do really well. I know they're not like the biggest dudes and definitely not the most over people in the roster, but
00:32:12
Speaker
another homegrown AEW talent like I just I don't know man I think this is a good thing that three of us had AEW tag teams and none of them were the same kind of tells you how vast the tag team division in AEW is. I know these guys are kind of relegated to dark and they don't really get a whole lot of dynamite time or rampage time but
00:32:32
Speaker
I just feel like these guys can do a lot of stuff. I mean, they've definitely shown it before. So I guess this is more just me hoping that they get some more time because I do like watching both of them, but probably won't happen.
00:32:46
Speaker
I don't know. This is like when you tell your mom, you want street profits and your mom's like, no, honey, we got street profits at home. All right. So, uh, let's get the, let's, let's all have a drink and then we're all going to go around and share our wildcard pick. I want to, so I have to interject really quickly. Look at this picture of Malachi standing next to Brody, dude.
00:33:16
Speaker
I think that's, he's in front of him. Look at his feet, dude. Perspective. He's this whole step. He's like three feet in front of Brody. She's got a picture where Malachi Black is like all the way in the foreground and Brody's like 20 feet back. No, he's literally like a half step back, Seth. He's definitely back behind him. It's all about the angles. It's all about the angle of the dangle. All right, let's hear from the two bad chads at Turnbuckle Tavern and then we will take our weekly beverage break.
00:33:46
Speaker
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00:34:30
Speaker
All right, it's time for the weekly beverage break where we talk about what we're sipping on as we pod. Marco, you're on your second pod of the night, man. What are you drinking right now? I am sipping on some proper 12 that I got for a Christmas gift, proper 12 and ginger ale. Nice. You got a little lime in there or just straight ginger and whiskey? Straight ginger and whiskey.
00:34:57
Speaker
Okay, I like the little splash of lime. It's good. Yeah. I don't know about your Proper 12. Great choice though. Yeah, I mean, Proper 12 is good. I prefer Jameson, but yeah, you can't go wrong with Irish whiskey. I can't remember. We tried it one time. We did once. To me, it was... We've talked about this on the pod before, so sorry for having the exact same conversation again. But yeah, to me, I thought Proper 12 was good. I thought it was actually a little bit too smooth though. Yeah, it is. But a lot of people like the smoothness. I like to have a little bit of bite on there.
00:35:21
Speaker
Um, Jordan, what are you drinking, man? So I told you guys, I was having a little seasonal depression. So I decided to go with some Island brewery. So I went with a Maui brewing company, big swell IPA. Oh, good choice to love Maui brewing company. That's definitely the best of all the beer. Kona gets all the love dude. But if you look one, I think Maui makes better beer. And if you look on Kona, they also have a brewery in Colorado. So most of the Kona brewing beer that you're getting
00:35:46
Speaker
in the states is an actual Hawaiian beer, dude. It's actually brewed in Colorado, whereas Maui is straight up local Hawaiian beer. Maui has a bikini board, right? Guess what? Guess what? I'm about to really burst your bubble, Seth, because it's about to get bad for you. Brewing and canned by Maui Brewing Company, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of Maui. Damn, they sold out, bro. They used to not be sold out, man. Wow.
00:36:11
Speaker
I'll take back what I say, dude. Drink whatever the hell you want. Drink whatever fake Hawaiian beers you want. In their defense, it's probably a good thing. That means that they've gotten more successful. Because yeah, I know that used to be something that they took pride in, right? That all their stuff was brewed in Hawaii. So that just goes to show you, we were talking about that WWE Saudi deal. Money talks, bullshit walks, and it looks like now he's walked all the way to the top. Dude, I think one's COVID. Now he's walked all the way to the top. If I had to guess, they probably made this deal right around COVID time.
00:36:39
Speaker
getting this shit to the mainland during COVID time was probably really hard. So distribution was probably really low. I can see that. And beer sales were up during COVID too. So yeah, we got to get while the getting is good. I mean, no shame dude. It's just, I just always thought that was like something that was cool. That was cool points for them, right? That they were like true, like local Hawaiian beer, but I'm sure the beer is still quality. I mean, I never noticed a different, I was drinking Kona beer for years and I still love big wave. I still like Kona a lot. I just, that was one, that was like, you know, Maui brewing and Kona brewing are the two biggest Hawaiian beers and
00:37:08
Speaker
I always kind of gave Maui the nod, just because they were locals. I mean, I've drank a lot of broken school IPA, and I cannot tell the difference between the ones that were brewed in Virginia and the ones that were brewed in, you know, El Segundo. That was another discovery on the show. Remember, we discovered that during the podcast. We were looking on the cans, like, what the hell? Like, holy shit. Why does it say Virginia Beach on the back of this, El Segundo Brewing? So, yeah. Yeah, check your cans, folks. A lot of these fucking beer companies are fronting on us, man. Yeah. Make sure you always check your cans.
00:37:32
Speaker
You know, what are you drinking? So I'm about to bust open this. I was drinking a nooner. I was drinking a watermelon nooner. Um, but I'm going to bust open this woodchuck hard cider mimosa. So it's cider OJ and you're supposed to give it a little shake and enjoy. It says fermentation for fun. So you guys know my passion about, so we're going to get a, we're going to get a live review on the, or I just picked these up a couple of days ago for sure. Those are sparkling wine and orange juice inspired by your favorite brunch drink.
00:38:01
Speaker
Give it a slight shake and enjoy. I told Seth I'm going to freaking shake this thing. It's going to explode all over the microphone. So while Sheena is getting this teed up, are you guys big hard cider fans?
00:38:11
Speaker
I don't mind it. It's not my favorite thing, though. We used to be our core cider drinkers. I think the spot to get it at Buffalo Wild Wings, they usually have woodchuck on tap, and it's like the perfect complement for spicy chicken wings. All right, here we go. Yeah, I was a big woodchuck or like cider girl in my cross food. Remember, you got to sniff it first, Sheen. Give us your notes you're picking up. It smells like orange juice. You get that Tropicana note right off the top. This fermentation is about to have Sheena in a whirlwind.
00:38:37
Speaker
Oh yeah, you guys know. I think it's a six percent. No, it's five point five percent. So a little bit stronger than a normal white beer. Oh, that's pretty dang good, dude. So, you know, sometimes woodchuck can be really sweet, like the cider can be really sweet. The orange juice definitely adds like a little bit of tang. And you can tell like, you know, the fermentation gives it that extra crispy like bubbles. So down here for this. I like it.
00:39:05
Speaker
I'm drinking a ice cold Bush light. So she knows going about as off the grid as you can get. I'm going about as basic as you can get. It can't be the ice cold Bush light. So that's what I'm sipping on. All right, let's get into the fun stuff. Everybody go around with your wildcard pick of 2023.
Wrestling Predictions & Anticipations
00:39:21
Speaker
Sheena, you can get us started.
00:39:22
Speaker
So my wildcard pick, it was a close one between this one. And when I picked Ricky Starks, I think Eddie Kingston is Eddie Kingston's time to win a title. I don't know if the world titles in his future, but maybe the TNT, but, uh, it would be, it would be a cool moment for Eddie Kingston to like.
00:39:37
Speaker
the throne MJF. I definitely feel like he's earned it. He's earned the passion from the people. Even if it's a short run, I don't think Eddie Kingston's like a guy who's going to benefit from like a Roman Reigns style like title run, but I do feel like it's going to be a moment, you know? And if Vince McMahon creates anything and knows anything about wrestling, it's creating those moments is what's important. And I think when Eddie Kingston finally wins, uh, you know, wins the title, it's going to be, it's going to be huge. All right, Marco, what's your pick?
00:40:05
Speaker
Um, I picked, uh, nothing wrestling. I mean, technically wrestling related, um, mainly for us to have like a viral moment for the show. Just something like someone says something off the wall and it catches fire. And whether people love it or hate it, it just, it's out there in the open. Hopefully it's Sheena. Cause I know she loves, um, being the, uh, being in the public voice and everyone know, but, um,
00:40:34
Speaker
Yeah. Just, just something, just something fun. So people get, other people can talk about it and stuff like that. That's, that's what I'm wishing for. It can be anything you want. I don't know why I was thinking like one wrestling, which card? I was just seeing anything wrestling in the wrestling universe. Yeah. We should start going like, uh, like undisputed with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe and just like manufacture some controversy, you know, just make up some shit that we can have a really heated argument about and script out some sound bites and stuff and out there.
00:41:02
Speaker
I feel like our listeners are pretty chill though. For the most part, we have a pretty cool crowd that listens to the show. Like on Instagram, if you post anything, like the comment section will be like, you know, 150 comments deep, like people just arguing with each other over shit. But yeah, our, our, our audience is pretty good. We've been doing this show for.
00:41:18
Speaker
four years now, you know what I mean? And with the current, you know, the foursome we got right now, it's going on, you know, almost a year and a half. So I feel like it would just come off as so manufactured if we did try to argue. I don't think we can go with the argument angle because we've never really gone past, like, you know, good spirited debate on here. We'll have to come up with something else. Like, we'll make up just some crazy ass off the ball. I mean, if Angie'll stink ass pie, don't get the people talking. I don't know. I don't know what else we can do. What else we can pull out of our hat to get the people going.
00:41:46
Speaker
Then we can start a beef with Conrad. Conrad Thompson. There you go. We'll start a beef between our foundation. We tried to start beef with Conrad whenever we had to get fucked over at Starcast Walkout. We took our ball and went home from Starcast. Dude, ad-free shows versus Pod Foundation. Maybe we could get Jordan. We could start a Foley fans and Jordan could start putting out some spicy content. There you go. Oh, fuck yeah. I'm all about it. Big dude season, dude. All the damn time, dude.
00:42:15
Speaker
trying to get J-Bone to do it and call it bony fans. That's what I'm not angling for him to go for, but he's not going for it just yet. Yeah, I think Jordan's on board. I think that could be- He's already got the content ready to go. He's waiting to get the signal. These photos have been saved in my phone for months. I'm ready to roll. He's polarizing for wrestling fans, but I really want to see him
00:42:40
Speaker
get back on the main stage. Matt Cardona, AKA Zack Ryder. I want to see him go back to NXT. I think he would be awesome to come in and have like a nice heel run in NXT. I don't think it would, he's had a great run on the indies. I don't think it would hit the same if he went back to the main roster, but he could be like an awesome top heel on NXT. Maybe do like an extended version of what Dolph Ziggler was doing when Dolph went down.
00:43:03
Speaker
Yeah. I'd love to see Cardona get back in NXT. Uh, I know Jordan's a big fan of Matt Cardona. Well, they already signed Chelsea green apparently. So, I mean, it's, it's coming. Cardona's already signed, dude. I'm going to be shocked if he's not in the rumble. Yeah. I don't know. He went on, he went on Justin, uh, AKA the wrestling classics post when Justin posted about Chelsea being signed to WWE and Matt, Matt actually commented and said, Hmm, this is news to me.
00:43:26
Speaker
Cause who would care more about, like honestly, think about it, and it's already still fan, who would care more about maintaining his war, one of the most surprised pop than him? That's very true. He's right there with Cody, dude. That's very true. Yeah, there is nobody that cares more about
00:43:40
Speaker
And he's earned it, honestly. He's definitely, the run he's had since he got fired from WWE, he's definitely earned that return pop. Based on the amount of shit he gave us for ruining the surprise of the Ghostbusters figures, I can only imagine what it would be like if he ruined his, we're a Rumble entry. Yeah, so I'm just saying, I feel you, but him commenting about the Chelsea Green dude, that carries zero weight with me. Jordan, what's your wildcard wish?
00:44:07
Speaker
So mine is, this is an open letter to Tony Khan. Dude, stop with the fucking hokey shit, all the hugs and all that stuff. Dude, when you guys deliver a wrestling show like you did last night, just do that every week. That's all we want. And depending on what happens with WWE, we're going to need you.
00:44:28
Speaker
Dude, don't completely blow this for all of us. I think this should be every wrestling fan's wish for this year is, dude, AEW step up to the plate, do things right, stop with the hokey shit. We don't need any more brawl outs or anything like that. Just do wrestling, dude. You guys are the kings of just doing wrestling. If you're going just based on wrestling, AEW can put out the best wrestling content ever.
00:44:54
Speaker
Like they might not have the production value of WWE or anything like that, but just wrestling, they know what they're doing. I mean, they got forbidden door. They got all that stuff. Like, dude, just wrestle. That's, that's all we need to see. We don't need to see Tony Khan every single time that something big happens. Just make it stay out of the spotlight, dude. He loves it too much, man. I mean, even, even when you saw the freaking Jags game, dude, he couldn't be contained, man, jumping into grown men's arms. I love a good, I love a good Tony.
00:45:24
Speaker
Tony Khan hug with all this like this possible WWE implosion on the horizon like AWW is totally set to benefit off this so hopefully they're ready to capitalize man and thank god we have them could you imagine how bleak if all this stuff was going down five years ago with like you know impact or
00:45:44
Speaker
New Japan was our next best option. I know. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not rip on New Japan. I love New Japan. Don't get me wrong. New Japan's great, but it's definitely kind of tough. It's not as accessible as Aiden. Yeah, it's not as accessible. And I'm not shit on any indies. I think all wrestling is great. Even supporting, I think it was Kevin.
00:46:04
Speaker
went in the group the other day and was like, you know, support all your local, like indie. It was Eric, Eric, Kevin's best friend. Yeah. So I knew, I knew it was one of the, uh, I couldn't remember if it was Kevin or Eric, but yeah, Eric was like, you know, go, go, uh, support all your local people. And I totally understand that sentiment. Nobody's more local board than I am, dude, but we need to go to Memphis wrestling while you bring it up, dude. That's supposed to be pretty lit. I'm thinking Brett would get a good kick out of that. Yeah, that would be fun. Um, but I'm just saying like, you cannot compare.
00:46:33
Speaker
what we watch with WWE to any of that. Like it's two totally different products. It's apples and oranges. That would be like saying, oh, you watch Marvel movies and now you're gonna watch like silent films or something. You know what I mean? Like it's just two totally different products to be like, oh, you can just substitute one for the other. It's just, that's just asinine thing to say, you know? Like everybody's like, why do you care? You have, it's a good thing we have MLW and NWA and all these other promotions to impact and New Japan. And I'm just like, it's not the same.
00:47:02
Speaker
I mean, to me, the big thing I did would be like, I definitely could get more, I mean, I had more enjoyment from watching that GCW show we went to than almost any episode of Raw I've seen in the last five years, but it's that baked in history, right? All that history there is that's what gives you the emotional investment, right? Because what we're seeing, even though it's miles away, that's an extension of what Bret Hart was doing in the 90s. It's an extension of what Macho Man and Hulk Hogan were doing in the 80s, and that's why
00:47:29
Speaker
it's going to be so freaking heartbreaking if we see WWE crumble, right? Like you can, there's great wrestling everywhere, man. Like just go on YouTube, but you can find so many awesome freaking wrestling shows, big and small all over the world. But nowhere has that like unified history that we've had from the WWE going back, you know, over 40 years now. All right. Let's, uh, let's hear from extra cooler and then let's have some figure talk.
00:47:55
Speaker
Hey everyone, it's Nick, better known as Extra Cooler. Is there anything better than diving back into the wrestling archives and watching classic matches from the past?
00:48:04
Speaker
Yes, there is. It's doing that with your buddies while cracking jokes and enjoying some ice cold beverages. If that sounds like fun to you, then be sure to check out my new podcast, The Extra Cooler Show, where each episode, my Survivor Series team and I review an old school match chosen by you, the listeners. The Extra Cooler Show is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Wrestling Figures Re-releases
00:48:23
Speaker
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00:48:41
Speaker
All right, it's time for the figure for our weekly figure talk segment. I want to remind you guys, this is brought to you by Ringside collectibles use code chick Foley to save 10% at Ringside. So Elite 100 has come in stock recently along with the latest top picks set. And just today we went up for pre-order surprisingly, the best of ultimate editions. So we got the Bret Hart and Triple H ultimate editions coming back out. Jordan, you're a big MOC guy, man. You look at these things at investment. What's your thoughts on
00:49:09
Speaker
then re-releasing the Ultimate editions within basically three or four years. Well, real quick, let me jump in since we already have a listener mail. I want to give Randy Smith a shout out because he did this exact same question. What are your thoughts on Mattel starting to re-release Ultimates and also making better versions of other figures? Examples, New Vader with Detailed Mask and Purple Vest Razor. All right, I think Jordan's the guy to field this one, man. Let's hear it, Jordan. So I'm all for re-releases. I don't believe anyone should have to pay $300 for an action figure.
00:49:38
Speaker
I'm here for that, yeah. Here's my thing though. Dude, this line has only been going for like, I said, three years. Like, dude, we already need a re-release of these figures. Like, come on, man. At least give us five years or five to 10 years before you start re-releasing these.
00:49:56
Speaker
I don't know. I get why they're doing it because Ultimates do make a ton of money and Bret Hart is a great choice. I do not understand Triple H at all though. I wish they would have done like an updated scan on Bret or like the butterfly joints on both figures. It literally looks like it's just the exact same figure they really
00:50:16
Speaker
Yeah, why couldn't they why couldn't they re-release them and then also give us new figures? Like why does that why does it have to be either or? Some saying like they already have the scan so they're re-releasing those for pre-order But like is that taking the place of another a set of ultimate editions? I don't think so. I think they're just straight-up re-releases now I think what they could do to your point They could give us some chases just straight repaints right because actually for your attack That's why the chase model works probably do their elites, you know, they're
00:50:42
Speaker
The WWE chases are totally different from the AW chases, which are basically different figures. All the WWE chases are straight repaints. I don't know why they couldn't give us some repaints on these. I don't really know what you do for a Triple H, but you could totally just color swap the bread. Give us black pants and pink top and it would work. Yeah.
00:50:59
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you, Jordan. I'm cool with the re-releases, but let's dig into the archives, man. Let's do some older elites. I don't know how much of the budget it sucks up by making another batch of these. I assume it's not a lot. That's why they're just cranking them out. Because Action Figure Tech already came out and said they're not getting... Because the initial thing people were asking, are they going to have the updated butterfly shoulders and stuff? And he said, no, these are straight. Whatever articulation they had when they came out, that's what they're getting. Yeah, because I can imagine that the most expensive
00:51:27
Speaker
Part of creating a figure is like creating those molds for like, you know, the different figures and head scans and stuff like that. Yeah, the molds in the deco is where most of the budget goes to you. Go ahead, Jordan. I was just gonna say like, if they're really gonna do like that stuff, I feel like the first two figures should have been Brett and then the first ultimate warrior like,
00:51:47
Speaker
those are by far the two highest grossing figures as far as money wise on eBay, which that's, I don't understand the Triple H one. That one just kind of weirds me out because the last Triple H figure that, no, you're good. Last Triple H figure they did sat on Amazon.
00:52:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe they want to stagger out the Brett and Ultimate Warrior, like let Brett be the anchor of this first one and see how it does. And then Warrior could be the anchor of the second one if I'm putting my business hat on. But but yeah, like the Sean and Brock, those made sense because those two that was the way that was supposed to hit retail right when Covid hit and they'd never they were hardly even on the pegs. Yeah. Yeah. The Triple H one. You're 100 percent right. That's like just a puzzling decision. Like who I haven't seen anybody clamoring to for another opportunity to get in that Triple H. Yeah.
00:52:32
Speaker
I was going to say this too. I've seen a lot of people saying it's kind of like the death of that Grail figure, if you're going to just be able to get a re-release of it of a figure that you want to get. Do you guys agree with that? It seems like it is now.
00:52:53
Speaker
No, I've always been an advocate for like, I think people who get really upset, like if you're using your action figures as like an investment, like that's all on you, dude. Like I don't care how people collect, but like that, I think it's, I just think that's bullshit, dude. To be mad that other collectors are able to get an affordable figure of something that you already have. You know what I mean? And ultimately at the end of the day, no play on words intended.
00:53:17
Speaker
If people are true completionists and stuff, was it the cane figure that caused so much controversy when it got re-released a couple of years ago? Dude, they came in different boxes. It's the same figure, but if you're a true completionist, you're going to have to have both. You know what I mean? They're two totally different figures because they came out in two totally different ones.
00:53:39
Speaker
Phil Dunnett, our main man in the UK, in the Chick Foley Patreon group, you know, he gets every production variant. Like, he has, like, four different, like, the breads already, just because they have a different production code on the bottom. So he's probably gonna have to get these, too, if they got different codes. Yeah. Dang.
00:53:55
Speaker
Gina was exactly right. I'm all for everyone getting all the figs. I don't collect WWE figs for resale value or anything like that. But I'm telling you right now, if Funko fucks me over and starts releasing a bunch of old Funkos.
00:54:09
Speaker
I'm going to freak out because that is like a college slash retirement plan because, man, some of those Funkos that I have are worth like thousands of dollars. You better get on it, dude. Get on it now. It ain't time yet because I feel like they've gone so far with Funkos now. They're just releasing everything at this point, so there's just so much more stuff for them to release. I don't think they're going to go back and re-release stuff yet.
00:54:37
Speaker
I do I kind of disagree with you a little bit, you know, I do feel for folks because this rerelease thing like that really hasn't You know been a thing until here recently especially with Mattel like they it seemed like they were kind of like against in the releases for the longest and now all of a sudden like
00:54:52
Speaker
something shifted and they're just like all about it, right? Like cranking these things back out. I mean, whether or not they're doing it altruistically for the sake of the collectors or not, I can't know that. I don't think they give a fuck about the collectors. They're doing it to make sales. Exactly. They care about what the collectors want just because they know what the collectors will buy. That's what they care about. Exactly. I mean, I just feel like
00:55:13
Speaker
I don't know i feel like it's kinda like gatekeeping like oh i got this figure like nanana booboo like you like mad at my tail for releasing is because you're not supposed to have it you know i mean and i feel like especially for people who are coming into the game like so so lately newer collectors and stuff that missed all those earlier waves they missed all that like i think that you know it's kinda.
00:55:33
Speaker
I don't know why they can't make different figures, right? Let's take Harley Race, for instance. You still do another Harley Race, but you have to do an exact re-release of that King Harley that is one of the most collectible elites ever. See, that's the one I think that's actually the one that's really going to piss people off the most. Because I was the most coveted elite out there, and now it's going to be readily accessible for everybody. And I think that's going to be the one to turn the tables on everything.
00:56:03
Speaker
True, but at the end of the day, like I don't think King Harley Race is not one of those that like kids see on the pegs, you know, like, oh, man, I want this Harley Race figure. So they're not going to make a whole brand new scan or a whole brand new outfit for Harley Race whenever it's strictly a collector. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, I mean, that in your right, like similar to like the the J Strongbow, like that figure is only collectible because it was hard to get. He was widely available. I don't think anybody's really that excited about it. Yeah, I would say. Oh, God.
00:56:31
Speaker
I was going to say, since we're on re-releases, I don't know, Seth, have you paid attention to this Rikishi Greatest Hits on what's going on with this on sale on eBay and stuff?
Figure Market Trends
00:56:41
Speaker
No, what's up? Do that figure skyrocketing. The greatest hits figure is, I mean, it's the lowest it's selling for right now is $60. Why really? Why is that? I don't know. But music city toys put out something the other day that they canceled his order of a case of rakishi and a case of bam bam bigelow. So it sounds like those figures might be short packed. So they're not going to be like fully re released.
00:57:07
Speaker
Interesting. Okay. I mean, we already got some controversy with the greatest hits line. So so maybe I shouldn't have opened those up. Maybe not. All right. Well, quickly, let's wrap up for you in the figure news. Let's wrap up our our wish list. You know, give me your number one figure wish for 2023.
00:57:29
Speaker
So mine is a box set. I just want a like all packed together, even though I'm a loose collector. I don't know why I want this because I would be unpacking them anyway so they could come in different series and it wouldn't matter. But I do think a bloodline box set would be really freaking cool dude. Yeah. Just like, like everybody, all the belts, all the things, just like,
00:57:47
Speaker
it would just be so cool. I'm sure the packaging would be made. So yeah, I really want a bloodline box set. A five pack of Elise would be crazy, but it could work. It's not really. I think it's realistic. Here's what you gotta do to make it work, right? Don't give us a bloodline Sami, right? Because we haven't had a good Sami figure that even with a custom shirt would work as a bloodline figure. So don't give us a bloodline Sami and don't give us a solo Sakoa. Make that be the way to get solo Sakoa's first time in the line.
00:58:15
Speaker
and the first Bloodline Sami, and I think it could work. What do you mean put them in the box and don't package them alone? No, don't package them alone. Put them in the box set. You're buying this box set if you want Solo, Sokola's first Elite, and if you want Solo, Jane and the Bloodline. Yeah, you would definitely have to do that because remember all those multi-pack sets that just sat in Target for so long, dude, all the
00:58:34
Speaker
That's what I'm worried about this raw 30 set, man. I went fig hunting after work on Tuesday, and the two targets I saw were stacked up with that raw three pack. It's a great set. It's an incredible set, but I worry about that one sitting. They don't do well in stores, dude. The multi-packs, yeah. It's just expensive. The adult collectors, even though we're supposedly the fastest growing segment of toy sales,
00:58:57
Speaker
I still feel like we're a very, very small number of people, man. What do you think of the new Raw 30th anniversary? Do you think that thing's gonna move or do you think it's gonna set?
00:59:07
Speaker
I thought it was going to be more limited, honestly. Like I said, I saw like five or six of both the targets I went to. So the target that I went to, the entire 10 that they had were gone the day that they put them on the shelves. Hopefully they just get one shipment, man. Yeah, the target by my house went through them quick, but I know they're sitting on shelves at a couple other targets in Omaha.
00:59:30
Speaker
I don't know, man. I think it's a great idea. But yeah, like you guys said, how many people want to spend $70 on three figures? That's going to be the problem. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Look at that Four Horsemen set, dude. The Four Horsemen set was awesome, and that thing was Pegwormer Hall of Fame. Well, yeah. And then the one with Eddie and everybody, and it was even worse.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah, then we have a Heenan family too. The Heenan family one moved, I think that one, they had the distribution riding that one. I only saw that one on the shelf one time. I never saw that one on the shelf, so yeah, I don't know, it's just weird what people buy, honestly.
01:00:03
Speaker
I think, but I think, well, let's, let's, uh, this is the first, this would be the first like modern era multi-pack that we've had with the Usos and Roman and Solo and Sammy. Yeah, they've always been one for the collectors. So yeah, so this, this would be a good gift for kids too. Cause I mean, what would be cooler than getting like all freaking five bloodline members? You know, sadly I can see this being a basic pack.
01:00:26
Speaker
It's more believable for me to see this as a basic pack than as a basic pack. It's like 60 bucks. Like the Undertaker through the years pack. That's all basic. That pack is awesome. But I think if I was going to get an Undertaker figure signed, I think that's what I get. I'd get that basic pack. Toys R Us had some good ones, man. Toys R Us and Kmart had some really good basic group packs back in the day. Toys R Us had a couple of Legends ones and stuff that were really, really cool.
01:00:54
Speaker
But yeah, that's a good pick. So mine, it's a little bit more conventional. It's not too off the
Wrestling Figures Critiques
01:01:02
Speaker
wall. I just want the AW figure line to get back on track, man. I feel like, I don't know if they've gotten oversaturated or if they lost funding or what. It felt like the last year of AW figures were very, very underwhelming. Like there were some gyms mixed in there here and there, but I was just not impressed by and large with what we got from Jasper's AW last year.
01:01:22
Speaker
I feel like they rolled those sets out too fast. I kind of feel like at the Target by my house, like there was two sets back to back on the shelves within like a month. I just, they got to space them out better. I think that kind of killed them. Cause when they released that first set, that thing flew off the pegs. And then it was so exciting, man. And then it took us like five months to get set two on the pegs. And I feel like those still move decently, but then they overproduced them.
01:01:51
Speaker
I don't know, man. There's got to be a better way to do this. In that dark order set. Dark order set. Fuck this up, dude. It literally sent the whole thing into a spiral, dude, which was such a cool idea, but like we've talked about before on the show, sprinkling the factions into multiple series, that's the way to go because, yeah, that thing clogged up all the stores.
01:02:13
Speaker
But yeah, the first five sets of AEW were straight fire, dude. I still remember being in a driveway in Virginia when we got series five in the middle from ringside. Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy. Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy, Adam Page with the main event tights. It was awesome, dude. I was so excited for the line, and I want to get that feeling back. Jordan, what was your figure wish?
01:02:37
Speaker
Dude, me and Seth did podwares a couple weeks ago and it really made me think about this figure and how badly we need it. So my wish is for a Cocoa B-Wear or Elite to come out. Ultimate or Elite, I'd be fine with either one. I just feel like this is a really big hole in the Mattel collection that we don't have one. Like we talked about with the Hasbro, it's just such a cool figure and I just feel like this would be a great addition to everybody's collection.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Like I said, we had the tease, man. He was actually up for pre-order on ringside for about 45 minutes back with Elite 44, and then it got canceled for freaking Sin Car, so I agree. Now, I see when you're wanting classic LGN style Birdman Coco, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's what it has to be. I don't want high energy Coco or anything like that.
01:03:32
Speaker
See, I want the Birdman first, but I would- I wouldn't mind the high energy. Yeah, but not as the first one. No, you gotta have classic Coco, but yeah, I wouldn't mind a high energy. Yeah, give us high energy for, you know, once Hell freezes over and we actually get that high energy Owen Hart figure to go along with it. Once. All right, and Marco, what's your figure wish, man?
01:03:54
Speaker
I went with just to match the recent Ultimate Warrior WrestleMania 7 for them to release a Macho Man, a tire Ultimate Edition Macho Man WrestleMania 7. Just to have that because I have the moments for both of those figures for the Elite Line, so I like to get them to match the Ultimate Edition Line.
01:04:23
Speaker
Yeah, hopefully that I feel like that's got to be on the way, man. Like that's got to be here sooner rather than later. And there's room for improvement on that macho figure, too, because remember, he didn't come with the shirt. You know, macho man had a shirt on for like the first 10 minutes. That's where I took it off. So it was that. And then we need Liz. We need Liz. Yeah. The sparkly sweater. I love the star sweater. It's so epic.
01:04:44
Speaker
My friend Lauren, you guys have probably seen her on like Instagram. Suplex and stilettos is her name. She went as Liz one year and somehow she tracked down this like sparkly star sweater and I was like, Oh my God, where did you get that dude? It was like a vintage sweater. So it was like she had the Liz sweater for Halloween. It was awesome.
01:05:03
Speaker
All right. We'll get into some figure news. We already talked about the, uh, the kind of surprise. I don't know where best of ultimate edition series. Um, did you guys see the new super seven Andre, the giant figure? Dude, you mean, uh, under the giant body with John Favreau's face scan? It looks like, it looks like Fred Flint. Like what happened, dude? Like super seven is supposed to be like mega level premium figures, man. Like what is going on with this?
01:05:30
Speaker
Yeah. That is bad. That is very bad. I don't know. There's not really much success on this one. It's just bad. Let's move on and just it's the rare brick from Chella. Let's move on to something on the other side of the spectrum. Did you guys see the prototypes for Chella's demolition figures they're giving us?
01:05:49
Speaker
Yeah, I think they're awesome. Yeah, they look pretty sad. George, you see these? Yeah, I did see it. It's awesome. Yeah, these are sick, man. It's going to be the first demolition figures we've gotten since freaking Mattel Legends, man. So really excited to get these. And I think they're going to be a nice compliment to the OG Hasbros. We need Crush, though. I don't know. Even though people shit on demolition once Crush came in, I feel like we got to have Crush. Jordan, I know you're a huge demolition mark. What do you think, man? Do you need Crush in this set, or can you live with just Axe and Smash?
01:06:16
Speaker
I mean, if, I'm not gonna be picky if all we get is Axe and Smash, but I'm not gonna like cause an uproar for a crush, but I would love to have all three of them, obviously.
01:06:29
Speaker
All right. We need Fuji too, man. We need Mr. Fuji with the demolition pane also. Hopefully that's coming along with the... We need Fuji in general, dude. Yeah. Me and Jordan talked about that on our, if you want to go back and check out the Pod Warriors WrestleMania episodes. We saw some powers of pain prototypes from Chella. We also saw the Godfather, AKA Charles Wright, AKA Smoke Train in the new Grapplers and Gimmicks line. Jordan, are you in on this line or are you passing?
01:06:59
Speaker
Dude, that Godfather, I am not trying to be mean to anybody, but what is that? I'm not for that at all. Yeah, it's not the best. I'm all about more lines coming out. And that's an early prototype. It's a production sample. Hopefully we can get some improvements to it, but hard to get a recommendation on that one. Well, you know, you know, if Jordan's shitting on it, he's one of the biggest Charles Wright fans in the game. Yeah, exactly. Being the biggest Godfather guys in the biz.
01:07:28
Speaker
Papa Shango. Yeah, I'm the Shango King. All right. And last thing for figure news, the MLW line coming from, uh, it looks like it's from mass Republic, the same guys who made the, uh, the legends of literally break figures. Uh, so we got carrying cross hammerstone, um, Jacob fought to and Mads Krueger. Uh, Jordan, what's your thoughts on these?
01:07:54
Speaker
I mean the immediate reaction is, holy shit, they're doing a killer cross wide carry in is signed at WWE. That's the first thing that came to mind. Yeah, it's very ballsy. I hope you don't get sued by Vince because he's all about that. It's definitely cool. I mean, I don't really know Mads Kruger. I obviously know the other three, but I mean, we've talked about this. The more lines, the better. If we get cool figs, I'm all for buying them.
01:08:21
Speaker
For the figs, I'm all about the scale, man. And supposedly, these are going to be slightly smaller than Mattel Elite's and Jazzwear's. But the Legends of Lucha Libre, they were close enough that you could put them on the shelf with them and it worked, right? They were a little small. So I'm hoping these are the same scale and I'll get them. The thing I'm most excited for, did you guys see they're putting out a belt pack?
01:08:42
Speaker
I did not. Yeah. They're also really sitting there for 25 bucks. They're releasing a pack with every championship in MLW. So I'm hoping, you know, I'm assuming this is like a lot of the other new lines popping up that these pre-orders are really crowd funds in disguise. Hopefully people are spending enough to make it happen, man, for, uh, for this line to come to fruition. Cause I just want that belt pack. Yeah. Speaking of belt packs, we got an Epic belt pack from our buddy, uh, Dan turnquist. Yes.
01:09:09
Speaker
Yeah. Go back in the archives, listen to our interview with Dan Turanquist. Also, shout out to Dave. He made his return to the indie wrestling scene there in Illinois. Illinois, excuse me. He's just Illinois.
01:09:19
Speaker
Yeah, going to be fighting for the title this this WrestleMania season. If you check out his Instagram feed, you can see his big triumphant return. It was it was Indi-rific, but it was really, really cool because Dan's our friend and he's a great guy. Yeah. But yeah, we'll we'll be sharing it on social media here with you guys. And we got some obscure belts. Yeah, we got the AWE trios belts and some other stuff. But we also got like the the Southern Tag Team Championships from Ohio Valley Wrestling.
01:09:44
Speaker
We got some old school NWA belts, like some pretty crazy stuff from Dan. And they look awesome, man. Dan just knocked it out of the park, dude. With Forbidden Figurines taking a much deserved hiatus, I think Dan's the undisputed number one in a custom Fig Belt game right now. Let's go to weekly purchases. I guess we can kind of do monthly purchases since it's been a while since we've done this. Jordan, what's some interesting stuff you've added to the collection here lately?
01:10:08
Speaker
So I added obviously the Raw 30 set, all the legends except for the Chase Shamrock.
01:10:17
Speaker
I got some Funkos this week. I don't even know which ones they are. What Funkos did you get? I was just about to say, I don't know which ones they are because I didn't open it. It was a pre-order I did like six months ago. It was off of Entertainment Earth, so I don't even know which ones it is, honestly. Oh, I did buy Rob Van Dam and Paul Heyman finally, so I got those this week. I think that's it. Marco, how about you, man?
01:10:44
Speaker
Uh, just see the raw, uh, 30 set. And finally, finally after it felt like decades, uh, Supreme series two finally showed up in the, uh, the bill. I was on, I was on the backorder end of things. So.
01:11:02
Speaker
Yeah, and that Balochi Black is pretty gnarly. It's insane, right? It clearly fogged my memory. It was so awesome that it fogged my memory. Besides the scale, that's one of the best wrestling figures of all time, man. The Kenny's good too. The head scans of the Kenny figure are definitely way better than the ones in the regular line, so I was pretty stoked about that.
01:11:27
Speaker
We've got pretty much, we're basically all the way caught up on new figures out except for the Chase Shamrock, just like Jordan, we're still chasing Kenny. The most interesting thing we got, I had a lot of OSFTM, WCW coming today. So I got MOC, I got Wolfpack Sting, and the Giant, which is just an awesome figure, right? The Giant's first figure, it's great, it's gigantic. And then I got a Lucy's of Surfer Sting and Crow Sting in the old OSFTM, LJN knockoff line.
01:11:57
Speaker
Yeah, we were pulling him out of the box and we had the baby face Brett there with us and he said Seth was asking who everybody was and he pretty much got most of them. He knew everybody. He knew everybody and then he asked him who Surfer Sting was and Brett said, that's Cody Rhodes. It's pretty good guess with the beach going here because Brett really doesn't know Sting besides the crow sting. He does crow sting very well. He does not know Surfer Sting. He said it so confidently. He said, Cody Rhodes. I mean, Surfer Sting wishes. Wrong wishes.
01:12:27
Speaker
Yeah, for sick wishes he was Cody Rhodes. That's what I would have said to him. All right. We did get in Elite 100. I know we've kind of gone back and forth on this. Sheena, now that she had it in hand and seen it, give us your final review on Elite 100.
01:12:42
Speaker
I mean, I think the figures are fine. I think they're good figures, but I think just with it being Elite 100, it should have been something a little more. It should have been a little more creative. I don't know. I just feel like it was a little bit of a letdown as far as being the 100th series of elites. The figures themselves are fine. Figures are fine for set of elites. It was cool that they gave us six brand new belts, but I felt like it still should have been more, man.
01:13:07
Speaker
There was no way they were going to tick all the boxes for everybody. I feel like it should have been something more akin to basic 100 where you had just the main of energy. I think it should have been Hulk, Macho, Warrior, Brett, Sean, Austin. Give us those six, even if it's rereleases.
01:13:24
Speaker
Put them in just really, really nice packaging and call it a day. Like we talked about, they could have been like gold casted figures or something. Just something like totally off the- Give us chases. Give us six chases. So give us standard figures and then do some like, yeah, like some straight up like gold figures. What do you think, Jordan, man? What's kind of your final verdict on Elite 100?
01:13:42
Speaker
I mean, I'm just like you guys. I've seen all the inbox photos and everything that with everybody that's getting them. I just, I feel like this one should have been so much more than what it is. I mean, yeah, like you said, the figures are fine. The people that are in the line are fine, but we didn't want fine for elite 100. We wanted like out of the box stuff and something to just blow us away. And it just, it doesn't feel like they're celebrating a hundred
01:14:07
Speaker
Lives of always even just gold packaging dude, like just give us like all like gold foiled packaging I think would have been really cool You know, I think one thing that kind of killed the buzz on it I think they should have waited and debuted greatest hits after this I think they could have made a lean 100 Like the series one of the greatest hits line and give us like, you know Give us Brett hearts to finding moments figure give us put Harvey race in there, right? like just pick six and you're like
01:14:32
Speaker
most iconic or most highly coveted elites and re-release them and let that be the kickoff of the greatest hits line. I feel like that probably would have been the best way they could have celebrated it. Yeah, it would have been more received, yeah, too, like the re-release and stuff. I mean, what they did, it's definitely not a fail, what they did. It's cool, but I feel like it could have been more. Played it safe. I mean, John Cena, Becky Lynch, you know what I mean? Steve Austin on that. Yeah, Ray Mysterio played it real safe.
01:14:57
Speaker
All right, Shane, do we got listener mail?
Royal Rumble Speculations
01:14:59
Speaker
Yes. All right, we're going to hear from J-Bone, John Swallow coming down the aisle, and then we'll get into our questions.
01:15:10
Speaker
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01:15:27
Speaker
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01:15:48
Speaker
All right, Sheena, hit us with those listener questions from the Foley fam. I will take blame for this. I forgot to post a listener mail until like right before we started recording. Hit it with the botcha mania chant, Jordan. Botcha mania chant.
01:16:02
Speaker
Yeah, typically we have a good listener mail segment or lineup for you guys. We did already touch on Randy Smith's question earlier, so I'm just going to go ahead and jump to our only other listener mail that we got between the... Thanks a lot, Sheena. I know. It's my fault. Sorry, guys. Next week, I will make sure that Sheena gets listener mail out three days early. Maybe we'll do a supersized listener mail. Yeah.
01:16:24
Speaker
Anyway, be thinking of some good bangers for us. Remember, it can be wrestling related, life advice for everyone. If you got a personal situation you want to touch on. Yeah. Feel free to slide into the DMS and we'll read it anonymously so nobody knows who you are. We'll sort out your love life, real estate, anything you want. We can try to guess who it is. Maybe we'll do that.
01:16:43
Speaker
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01:17:02
Speaker
I don't know what that covered. Our listener mail comes in from Kevin Harrison. He says, top three Royal Rumble surprise entrants, male or female, that you would like to see. I already said Matt Cardona for one. I'm going to go with...
01:17:20
Speaker
Cody's got to be one, right? No, that's not a surprise. If you're surprised by Cody, like, hey, tell me you're watching your first ever wrestling show without telling me you're watching your first ever wrestling show. I mean, it did not announce. I'm going Matt Cardona. I'm going. What about Mandy Rose?
01:17:37
Speaker
Yeah, for the females, Mandy would be awesome. Actually, I mentioned that on the turn bubble sessions this week. I think she's going to be back at the rumble. And then until it happens, man, I'm saying Mox, dude. Nobody would have a more awesome WWE return than Mox. There's so much baked in story between him and Roman, him and Seth, so Mox is the pick. All right. What about you guys? What about you, Jordan? You'll go first. Now get Marco. I'm going to go.
01:18:02
Speaker
I definitely think Cardona's going to be one of the entrants. I think Trish is going to come back for the women. They always bring in a legend for the women's rumble. I think she would be a good choice. They're going to, they get, they get a D for the women. Jordan will always pop for Trish. Yeah, exactly. They're going to have Molly Holly and you know. Call me crazy. Call me crazy if you want.
01:18:22
Speaker
I think Austin is entering the men's rumble. I can see it. Looks like he's in the best shape of his life, dude. Yeah. And it's in San Antonio. Like he's definitely right down the road from there. So I feel like Austin's going to be in it. That'd be cool. Marco, you got any surprise interests you want to see?
01:18:40
Speaker
Yeah, that was one of them. I was going to say, everyone's still getting stoned closer to come back at Mania. I think it's going to be a lot sooner. It's probably going to be Royal Rumble. Probably not going to happen, but I'd like to see Riddle come back as a surprise entrant, but I'm not sure what his status is right now.
Trivia & Community Engagement
01:19:04
Speaker
Not too sure with the ladies. What if, what if, uh, what if Nick Gage, you know, with the rumblings of, uh, with the rumblings of, uh, you know, Jay white, um, ending his new Japan career. I could see that possibly happening as well. He doesn't seem like a WWE guy to me though. Like, I think, I think that's the opposite. Everybody, everybody's a WWE guy for the right price.
01:19:30
Speaker
You know, I always see, well, do you mean like just like he wouldn't go or like his style? I just don't think he would. I don't know where he fits in at. Yeah. He's kind of smaller, dude. He's on the smaller side also. And all of his boys are in AEW. Like I just, I think he's going to go where he's going to be the most happy. And I think with all his boys in AEW, I think that's where he's going to be the most happy.
01:19:50
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of creative stuff you can sink his teeth into if you went into. What about Andrade? What's Andrade been up to? Oh, he might still just be in disgruntled AEW employee. What about Rusev, dude? What if Rusev inserts the rumble? Still a disgruntled AEW employee. Alana could enter the rumble. Oh, God.
01:20:08
Speaker
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01:20:28
Speaker
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01:20:49
Speaker
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01:21:10
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going for number six. Sheena was already rolling her eyes when she drew the card out tonight. If I think, yeah, it's from 1995. So I'm already like, yeah, I'm already like rolling my eyes knowing that Seth is probably going to know this like right off the top, but we'll see there. You never know. So everybody cross your fingers that we can, we can sell. Why would you guys be rooting against me? You guys should just appreciate greatness. Cause me and Marco get like, who is the janitor at WrestleMania two? Rhymes with wet and wears black and pink.
01:21:38
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Dude, last time I had what city did Kerry Von Erich win his first intercontinental championship? So not only did I have to know the event, I didn't know the place was at all. I thought that was going to stump him. We get stuff like who installed the first doorknob at Titan Towers in 1988. All right, let's hear that shit. Yeah, and then Seth gets 1995 in your house. Perfect. At September 1995 in your house, who did Razor Ramon face?
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Oh shit. Oh shit. This is going to be an educated guest. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. December 9th, 95 in your house. I'm going to say Dean Douglas. God dang you. Yes. What is wrong with you? Yes. You are. That was definitely an educated guess. I was at like 57% confidence on that one day. You are an insane person. Yeah. Dean Douglas.
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All right, that's it. Hey, so we'll take you guys behind the scenes.
Family Appearance & Farewell
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Our Brett the Babyface, our beautiful five-year-old son, actually woke up about 25 minutes ago. He's been sitting in my lap for the last 20 minutes of the podcast. Brett, do you got anything you want to say to the podcast listeners before we sign off? Yeah. What do you want to say? I want to say about my karate. What do you want to tell them about your karate? What do you want to tell them about karate, Brett?
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Bye!
01:23:14
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He jumped he learned to jump switch kick tonight. That's what they were working on at karate tonight. Yeah, but he did awesome. So Well, we don't make your podcast debut. We can shut down the chick fully show. We've had the best moment now This is a moment. This is a moment. All right, she got any closing thoughts for us before we sign off this week No, just circling back to what I said earlier I kind of mentioned it on last week's episode when we did a cheeky quickie But if you're a person who only listens to our mainstream episodes, I just wanted to encourage you to
01:23:41
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Unlike Jordan, you should set some goals for yourself and. Jordan has goals for himself, but you say you didn't believe it in his resolution. Jordan just rolls around through life like a turd with no goals, like Jesus.
01:24:03
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Hey, this is gonna be on freaking YouTube. Chick-fil-A shoots hard on the Fig God. Unlike Jordan, you can set a resolution for yourself to do whatever the heck you want to do in 2023. Once again, guys, circling back. Happy New Year to you all. You want to say bye-bye to the listeners, Brett? Yeah. Bye-bye.
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Bye!