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Memorial Day Spectacular
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We break down the insane weekend of wrestling we have ahead of us, recap some figure news, and enjoy another wild edition of the listener mail bag!
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Transcript
Introduction and Weekend Plans
00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome to the Chick Foley Show.
00:00:23
Speaker
What is up foley fan? We are keying you guys up for what is besides WrestleMania possibly the biggest weekend of wrestling that we're going to have this year. We got some huge shows going down. We're going to discuss all the big matches. But first, let me introduce the stars of the show. Sheena, how you doing? Doing good. Got an ice cold beverage here. Got a weekend full of wrestling on the horizon. So I'm swell. Marco, how's life up in Massachusetts?
00:00:48
Speaker
Going good, man. Like I said, just getting ready for the weekend. It's obviously Memorial Day weekend as well. Got some places to attend to, so wrestling. It's looking like it's a perfect weekend for us here. All right. And Jordan, what's happening up in the Midwest?
00:01:08
Speaker
Uh, yeah, just same as you guys getting ready for a nice long weekend and lots of wrestling. And, uh, lucky for me, no grad parties ruin my weekend. I was about to ask if you had any, any grad parties on the agenda for this, for this long weekend. Nope. We got a lake day scheduled on Saturday, so I'll be watching, uh, uh, whatever the fuck we're watching this weekend on a delay. Yeah. You going with all the frat homies? No, no, no, no, no. This'll be a family environment.
00:01:36
Speaker
Why don't you just run an extension core down to the fucking boat dock or whatever, and you can just watch the show there? Jeez. Yeah, why don't I? We got to up your dedication level, bro. We're going to have to have a talk after the show, but we'll save it for that.
Dog-Sitting Adventures and Promotions
00:01:51
Speaker
Sheena, tell everybody what's new on the farm.
00:01:53
Speaker
Well, as far as the farm goes, we have a new face here hanging out with us for a couple of weeks. We are dog sitting for one of Cess co-workers. It's cute little poodle something. He's a good boy. His name's Obie and I've imprinted on him. I don't know if he can just feel the dog shaped holes in my heart, but he
00:02:15
Speaker
has just been like all like if I get up he gets up and wherever I go he goes if I leave the house and leave him behind like he's he's whining he's he's all over me and he's uh yeah he definitely has seen a shadow for sure so uh yeah so we got a new face on the farm he's been super chill it's been nice having him here so uh that's that's pretty much what's most new here on uh penny acre backyard farm
00:02:37
Speaker
It's crazy. It's my friend Day that we're watching his dog and his dog just got a shout out on an award winning podcast and he'll never even know about it since I keep the show completely secret from all my real, it's completely kayfabe to all my work friends. Yeah, they'll never even know. All right.
00:02:52
Speaker
We want to remind you guys use code chick Foley to save 10% on all your purchases at ringside collectibles and make sure to support the rest of the members of the pod foundation we have coming down the aisle with our boy j-bone john swallow the extra cooler show those guys put out an awesome show it was actually kind of a nice accompaniment to me and Jordan's pod wars episode last week with the best b shows ever they talked about the rematch from great american bash 1989 when rick flare
00:03:18
Speaker
and Terry Funk fought at Clash of the Champions. And then, of course, the workhorses of the wrestling podcast industry, the Turnbuckle Tavern. Those guys are just cranking out the content nonstop. I'm not sure if they have actual jobs, man. I think they need to be doing this full time with the amount of amazing content they put out. You would think there would be some quality drop with the amount of shows and YouTube productions they do, but
00:03:38
Speaker
Everything's on point and it's all got its own feel too, man. So really cool what they're doing. And of course they're going to be on overload this week with all the coverage of AEW Double or Nothing. That's what they specialize in. And we want to wish safe travels to our buddy Mike Bellcaster and of course the Hawk who are traveling out to Double or Nothing.
Wrestling Match Insights and Predictions
00:03:59
Speaker
I think that's all our plugs out of the way. We got some big shows we gotta get to, so we want to kind of go no huddle offense on the intro. Sheena, you got anything else to let the listeners know about before we get into it? Nope, let's roll. Fellas, you guys got anything you need to express feelings on before we start?
00:04:14
Speaker
No. Nope. All right. We're going to mix it up a little bit. She's going to kind of run point on the conversation, kind of teeing us up to go back and forth on a handful of the biggest matches of the weekend. She's going to be, you know, Nicole Yokich up at the top of the key, just dishing off Dom, so the rest of us to kind of spark the conversation. Let's get into it.
00:04:38
Speaker
Yeah, we decided since we have such a huge week of wrestling that we're just going to pick, we're going to pick the highlights. We're going to do a little bit of cherry picking here and then we'll do a speed round at the end because going match by match for three shows. Um, so there's a lot of filler out there. So we want to make sure that we give you guys, you know, the quality entertainment that you're looking for. So we're going to start off with night of champions. I'm going to start with Seth freaking Rollins versus AJ freaking styles. So this is a, a, um,
00:05:06
Speaker
or the, you know, consolation championship. And I want to know what your guys thoughts are. First of all, I want to know what your thoughts are on AJ kind of taking a little low key dig at the championship. I mean, he's not wrong. I mean, in an interview, he said that, you know, basically like this is like a second place prize. And so why is he why is he fighting for it?
00:05:27
Speaker
You know, you guys, Seth Rollins is my favorite modern wrestler by far. As much love as we showed Roman in the bloodline. Seth's still my dude. And if you would have asked me 36 hours ago, I was like 99% confident he was leaving with this belt. But then yesterday, I'm mowing the backyard, listening to our good friends over at EP.
00:05:47
Speaker
And they started planting some seeds of doubt because they said it's been so heavy handed and so telegraphed that Seth is going to win this thing. That, you know, maybe it's all set up for a swerve and AJ is going to win. But then I heard that same soundbite today that AJ came out and said that about it being a consolation prize. And I thought maybe that's him just trying to soften the blow when he ends up losing this thing. So yeah, that's got me back thinking Seth's going to win, but it has been. I can't imagine if you knew, I mean, you know, we don't even know if they know
00:06:11
Speaker
who's going to win at this point. But I feel like if you knew you were going to win, you wouldn't be taking shots at the title. Yeah. The build has been totally one-sided, man. Seth got this four-part dramatic interview on Raw, whereas AJ got the freaking, the Grayson Waller effect on SmackDown. I'm thinking Seth's winning this thing, man. How about you guys?
00:06:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going with Seth. I know there's a lot of talk out there with his, uh, you know, new found Hollywood career, but I just think you can always depend on Seth Rollins, man. I feel like, and we'll forget, like, you know, he, he did that heartfelt, you know, this isn't a part time championship. Like whoever has this championship is going to be fighting weekend and week out, blah, blah, blah. But I mean, we all know that WWE can just do the men in black effect and just pretend like none of that stuff ever got said.
00:06:57
Speaker
Even if he does end up going full mainstream Hollywood and go part-time, if he's got this title, what are they going to do? I don't know. I think the whole idea behind that was because Roman was going to go on a part-time or main event thing. If they're creating this title as a working man's title, why would you give it to somebody that is pretty much going to do the same thing, Roman?
00:07:21
Speaker
My, my thought was is that they created this title because Roman was going to go on like a little bit of a hiatus and be off TV for a little while with both championships. Then they created a new championship.
00:07:33
Speaker
And Roman still around. So it's like, well, what are we doing here? You know what I mean? Like now it really does feel like a consolation prize because if the, if Roman would have been gone, it would have felt a little bit more, it would have had a little bit more clout. But yeah, the fact that he's still around, still swinging both titles around. He's got the raw title, the smackdown title, and now they've put a new title on raw just because it feels kind of awkward.
00:07:57
Speaker
Yeah, I don't consider it a consolation prize simply for the fact that this was the perfect match to not make it feel that way because Roman has entangled with AJ at all during this run. Nope. And one time he fought Seth, Seth won by DQ. So I think they did it right if they want to make it not seem like a consolation prize to you. I don't know what AJ was thinking saying that. I mean, Jordan, you got any kind of reasoning why he would go on. Was that on radio or on social media or what that he said that, Shane?
00:08:25
Speaker
He, it was an interview. It wasn't on social media. He was in like a, I can't remember who he did an interview with, but yeah, it was an interview bite. I mean, I still think of it as a consolation prize. Like nobody can beat Roman. So here we'll make up this new belt for everybody else to wrestle for. I mean, it's not like Roman has not been part time since the beginning of last year. Like, I mean, what is he, he said like 12 tile defenses since the beginning of 2022. Um,
00:08:53
Speaker
I don't know, they definitely need to have a champion on TV more. So I get the point of that, but it's still a consolation prize to me. But I mean, having these two guys wrestle for it is, is definitely makes it feel bigger. Cause I mean, AJ, you can basically throw him into anything and same thing with Seth and they can make
Championship Title Debates
00:09:10
Speaker
it big. So.
00:09:10
Speaker
I'm so excited for this match. I just, I still see this match is going to be a banger, like no doubt. And I mean, I'm, I'm excited for whoever comes out champion on this thing. I mean, I'll be excited to see either of these guys holding gold, but that's what we talked about this and being the match that they need to have to set this title apart. It needs to be no shenanigans. We don't need to see the OC get involved. They just need to go out and give them 25 minutes to tear the house down and immediately legitimize this belt. Yeah. And I just feel like they could have done, they should have either
00:09:39
Speaker
just unified the belts and just gave Roman one belt so that that way it doesn't look like he's still carrying around the raw belt. I don't even know why we're calling this the raw belt because AJ is on freaking SmackDown fighting for this. If they had unified it to one belt, this new belt would make a lot more sense. But the fact that they're still, they've never really said that they're unified, man. Like he's holding two different championships. They kind of did. They always let the door open for him to
00:10:04
Speaker
What do you mean? Well, they call it. They call both titles. It's the undisputed universal champion. Yeah, they don't even. Yeah, they say the undisputed. Yeah, so it is technically. I mean, they're saying I'm not making it technically. Yeah, there's my name. I feel like they're kind of one foot in, one foot out on unifying them. I don't know if they want to keep both belts just because they like the visual or they want to leave the door open for splitting them back up down the road. But.
00:10:28
Speaker
I think it's we got a multiverse thing going on right now, trying to keep straight, like what lineage is on all these different titles. And I think I mean, I think it's more or less like I think the World Heavyweight Championship, because they used to we had this discussion on raw down a few weeks back. They used to call that the the black strap.
00:10:45
Speaker
They changed it from the WWE Championship one time and it was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship one time. Then it went back to the WWE Championship and then it went back to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. But now it seems I just completely got rid of that title for the Blackstrap and made it the Universal Championship. So it's not even a mention of
00:11:09
Speaker
the world heavyweight at all. The only world heavyweight that's mentioned is the new one. So if you go back and watch anyone, they call him the undisputed universal champion. They don't even mention anything about the WWE thing. I get that, but he's still toting around. Yeah. Two titles and it just looks like, you know, I don't know. I mean, obviously, WWE gets to write the history on this shit. I think that they should have just
00:11:34
Speaker
this new belt, they should have said that it's picking up the lineage of the big gold belt that got unified by Randy Orton when him and John Cena fought it. I think that was Royal Rumble, it was either TLC or Royal Rumble, TLC 2013 or Royal Rumble 14, whatever that was. I thought they mentioned that that was kind of like what the lineage was for this belt. I never saw that official. I know they were calling it the same, the belt's obviously a nod to the big gold and they were calling it the World Heavyweight Championship, but I never saw it like
00:11:58
Speaker
They don't need to do it on TV because it's so convoluted and confusing to try to verbalize it. Just throw up an article on www.vv.com announcing it and we'll accept it. There'll be people that will complain for a day saying it doesn't make sense, but we're wrestling fans. We get used to shit and we're pretty forgiving for the most part.
00:12:16
Speaker
So everybody, are we all unanimously going with Seth, is going to walk away as the new world heavyweight champion? I'm cautiously optimistic that Seth is going to win the championship. I'm going with Seth.
00:12:31
Speaker
Mm hmm. All right. Yeah, Marco sounds and I don't know what's up on this one, man. They might pull a swerve and have a it's been so heavy handed. Yeah. But you know, the other thing I'm thinking to just logistically, so whoever wins has got to go on raw. AJ's kind of already got some some coals in the fire for some storylines on SmackDown and he's tied with the whole OC. Remember, the whole OC got drafted. It was just AJ got drafted to SmackDown. So they're clearly invested in that. Yeah. And we're already faction heavy on raw. We already got the Judgment Day. We got Imperium on raw.
00:13:01
Speaker
Um, so I don't know man, we've still we've still yet to even change the women's title So the fact that they would like change people over from one show like factions over from one show to another one We still got ria carrying the wrong title for the wrong show and bianca carrying the wrong title Yeah, no, no one the draft doesn't mean shit if i'm still just kind of looking at the logistics of it I just feel like aj on smackdown makes a lot more sense to bring them to raw and you know, yeah, I just agreed it's they
00:13:26
Speaker
they would almost be doing set how they did cody if they had him lose this man is the builds been so leading towards him being the new champion monday night raul and speed speaking of that did you hear that apple and apple t or no amazon prime is looking to get monday night raw and smack down.
Wrestling Traditions and Scheduling
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah, I know there are contracts up in two years. I would not be surprised to see them. They'll probably split it. I imagine they'll do the same they did at this time, unless Amazon just... Yeah, and they were talking about moving raw from Monday night. Wouldn't that be freaking wild, dude? If they had been on a different night. It's still going to be three hours, but they've talked about changing the days around. I don't see any way they move raw from Monday night. Who said that?
00:14:05
Speaker
I was listening to Russell talk today and they were discussing how it was going to get moved around. Monday night, that's an institution, man. That's the reason why Raw has always been the A-show, no matter how much promotion they put behind SmackDown. I know. Nick Khan's all about the freaking money, dude. If the money's right, I feel like he would
00:14:23
Speaker
He would do it. I'm not saying they wouldn't let some company do it, but any company would be dumb to move wrestling for Monday night, man. Like weird wrestling fans are ingrained to know Monday night is wrestling night. Like no matter what, like no matter you could have your dynamite, your Smackdowns, your impacts, your collisions, your rampages, your heats. Dude, Monday night is wrestling time. That's going back to fucking the early 1980s. So it'd be foolish to take it off Monday nights, but yeah, like you said, money talks.
00:14:50
Speaker
All right, so Seth Rieke and Rollins got the nod from the Chick Foley show. Let's move on to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn versus the Bloodline, Roman Reigns and Solo Sequoah for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships. What are your thoughts, Seth? Do you think?
00:15:12
Speaker
I'm not going to bet against Roman. You guys know me. I'm not going to bet against Roman. I feel like a sucker not picking Roman in our Foley picks league in the Patreon exclusive Facebook group, which you can join at chickfoley.com. I still kind of kick myself for not going with... I've been talking cash shit all over social media to anybody that would listen that Roman was going to win that match and still pick Cody to kind of just hedge my bet a little bit.
00:15:35
Speaker
I didn't I got a lot and I won that shit Yeah, but you were speaking up nothing about you. You had your mouth shut all week about Roman winning. That's not true I was the only person listen. I Never I was never fully on the Cody bandwagon. Did I was or all signs pointing to Cody? Absolutely. Was I like riding hard for Cody? Nah, I'm just saying I was the one to put myself out there for Roman to win and he came through I
00:16:01
Speaker
So, I don't know, man. I'm kind of feeling Sheena's strategy. You just never bet against the bloodline. Yeah. It's hard for me to picture them walking out with all those belts, though. I'm thinking some kind of Usos involve Schmaz. I think maybe the Usos get them DQ'd or something like that. I think we get some sort of non-finish. That's exactly what's going to happen.
00:16:17
Speaker
Yeah, the non-finish is the most obvious choice. If we're just going to go straight up, again, I'm not going to bet against the bloodline. I would not put it past freaking WWE to give Roman all those belts. Why the freak not?
00:16:34
Speaker
I think Kaz was talking about, he had a good theory that I thought you guys might disagree, but he was talking about Roman winning the tag titles and then handing them back over to the Usos. Like, look, we had to go do your dirty work for you. And then Solo was like,
00:16:50
Speaker
gets pissed off because he's like, dude, I'm the tag champion. Why are you just going to give it to them? That furthers the dissension between Roman and Solo, you know? It kind of furthers that storyline. Yeah, that's not a bad idea, something like that, but I don't really know how the logistics would work on that. Just hand the belts over and I can't see him doing that. I mean, he's Roman Reigns. He can do whatever the hell he wants, dude. I mean, it's still wrestling though. I can't see him doing like a... Exactly. It's still wrestling. Can I talk? No.
00:17:18
Speaker
a throwback to the, uh, the finger poker doom type deal. I mean, it would, uh, it, I could see something like that though. Um, but I dunno, I feel like, I think this ends up with the Usos trying their best and, uh, and costing these guys the match. Yeah. That's what I say as well. I just, I find it really hard. I mean, I don't find it hard to believe cause anything's possible in WWE, but I mean, dude, they just got the tag titles too.
00:17:46
Speaker
the point where they hadn't been in a while with the main event at WrestleMania. Yep. I just, I just don't think Roman's going to defend those belts enough to make it a smart choice. So that's what are Sammy and KO doing though? I mean, they're not even a real tag team. I mean, but they're wrestling. It's a little bit prestigious cause they had that moment, but
00:18:06
Speaker
At the end of the day, they're still wrestling every week though. That's my point. The tag titles are on the show being maybe not defended every week, but they're still wrestling with those tag titles every week. I don't know. I just feel like if you're taking the two top titles out with the whatever universal and the raw title with Roman, and then you're also going to take all, all both sets of the tag titles out of the picture too.
00:18:33
Speaker
I just don't see it happening. There's definitely going to be a schmaz finish. The Usos are going to interfere one way or another.
00:18:39
Speaker
You know, I could almost see instead of, like Sheena was saying, the angle where Roman and Solo gets the belts, man, I could almost see somehow, you know, this schmaz happens and then the usos get them back in a couple of weeks and they're not throwing it back in Roman's face, you know? I feel like this is gonna be, I feel like Sammy and KO are kind of just scenery though for whatever happens with the next chapter of the Bloodline drama. They are. Yeah. But I feel like it has to start here though. Like we have to get this going.
00:19:08
Speaker
The other thing about the, you know, kind of just the logistics behind it, Sammy and KO kind of already got some coals in the fire with a bunch of, with some storylines for teams on raw. So we do, we are going to find a way to get some tag titles back on SmackDown, man. I don't know how that's going to work. They just, they've completely botched this title situation. Again, like Sheena mentioned, we still have the SmackDown women's champ is on raw and the raw women's champ is on SmackDown. We haven't heard shit about like a title swap or anything. Like, are we just going to,
00:19:37
Speaker
Is that how it's going to be going forward? Yeah, I don't know. And then, dude, I understood that you so is having both sets of tag titles. Why is this still going on, though? There's there's no point to this now. I mean, yeah, the bloodline story made sense. Sammy and KO having both sets of belts makes no sense at all. Like,
00:19:59
Speaker
dude, split the belts up. There's no reason to do this. Then again, though, WWE doesn't really care about tag team wrestling. So I could easily see him finally unifying these at some point and getting rid of those shitty titles. But yeah, I mean, I feel like that's what they should do, dude. I mean, there's, there's far too few legitimate tag teams in WWE.
Tag Team and Women's Division Challenges
00:20:20
Speaker
for there to be two sets of tag titles, one for each show, dude, like they they're gonna have to find some way to split this up. We've talked about this on the show so many times, like, just have freaking, you know, the men's tag on Smackdown women's tag, if we're gonna do women's tag on bra or whatever, you know what I mean? But they can't have two sets.
00:20:38
Speaker
of men's tag titles. It makes the division two water down and then you have these rag tag tag teams that are always getting thrown together just to like come in and do some jobs for whoever's getting the push at the moment. And then it ties up too many good wrestlers in these fucked up tag situations. Like there's good wrestlers that could have storylines elsewhere that are like stuck in these mismatch tag teams.
00:21:03
Speaker
Well, and then just imagine like Sammy and KO have the titles on Raw and then like Chad Gable and Otis have the fucking titles on SmackDown. Like, doesn't it make it feel like the SmackDown titles are like so devalued at that point. Like all the hype was with the Raw titles.
00:21:24
Speaker
If they do split them up, it better be a unification. That better be why they're splitting them up because yeah, they do not need tag titles for bull shows.
00:21:34
Speaker
They've been saying it for years and say it again. Put all the tag teams on one division, put all the women, I mean put all the tag teams on one show, put all the women on another show and you'll have stronger divisions. The titles will mean more and it'll make the two shows feel different. They could swap every year. If you want to swap them each year, you're like, hey, you know, this year from this WrestleMania until the next, all the women are going to be on Raw and the tag teams will be on SmackDown. But I feel like that would just be such a boost for
00:21:59
Speaker
for both of those divisions because they're both just so spread right, spread so thin right now. And the other thing is when you have them spread thin like that, there's only room for the storyline like, hey, let's chase the title. It's so rare. We've gotten a tag team storyline or women's storyline that doesn't involve somebody going for the championship. We have one right now.
00:22:17
Speaker
I know. And it stands out and it's been great, right? The Becky and Trish storyline has been great. And I think it stood out because it's two women that just got a personal issue and they're not fighting over, you know, the Raw or the SmackDown Championship. True. And it's been the kind of the resurgence of, you know, the man Becky Lynch, you know? I feel like that's been a good change of pace for Becky. No more big time Bex. Yeah.
00:22:39
Speaker
I think because we skipped a week, we didn't get to talk about how savage that was when Becky actually referenced Trish barking like a dog on raw. Jordan's not going to acknowledge that.
00:22:52
Speaker
Yeah, that make you hate. Do you hate Becky now? Did you want to like, were you like punching your TV screen? But I think it's funny. They had to bring Trish back to bring some like eyes to that division. That does suck for that division, honestly. I mean, dude, seriously, outside of Rhea and Bianca, who was moving the needle in that division at this point? I'm telling you, I think I'm not sure if I said it on here on raw down.
00:23:18
Speaker
Been freaking Sasha Banks and Naomi when they left They like they they put a hole in the women's division on TV There's no I love there's no like there's no other star power Charlotte's like gone every week now. She's like kind of has like that Roman schedule I mean you have Ria Bianca, but you need more than that you need at least you know at the time when you know Charlotte Sasha Bailey and
00:23:45
Speaker
You know, Becky, that was, you had at least four main event stars at one time. Now how many do you have like two? The problem isn't that they don't have enough women though. It's that they don't do anything with half the women. Like the talent is there. They just don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah. It's not like they don't have enough talented women. They just have the two champions and that's all they care about right now.
00:24:07
Speaker
Shane, you speak on it. They don't even care. They don't even really care about the two champions because they haven't even taken the time to be like, hey, can we just switch these fucking titles? Make sure that we have our appropriate championships for our appropriate titles that we're holding or shows that we're on. That really is just disrespectful to wrestling fans. They're just literally saying, we know you fucking idiots will watch whatever we ask.
00:24:29
Speaker
We're going to enter, we're going to hype up the raw women's champion, make an appearance on SmackDowns. Like, and we should really question what kind of decisions we're making supporting the stuff. Yeah. Well, the other day, you know, we're just on women's wrestling. This has nothing to do with WWE. But the other day I posted on Instagram about how, you know, Jade is just the freaking best dude and how her reign is just, you know, incredible.
00:24:48
Speaker
And so many people in the comments were just like hating on Jade saying like, no, she's so green, she's so this, she's so that, you know, she's not as good as, you know, what has she done? She just squashed a bunch of jobbers. I'm like, well, that's on fucking Tony Khan, dude. Bring some people. He hasn't brought anybody into the freaking division that's even could like be a freaking
00:25:09
Speaker
uh, contender for her at all. Like, it's just like, they don't even care anymore, you know? Like, and they don't, they can't put her against anybody that's got the, uh, women's title because then it'll make them look like shit, you know? So I blame, I blame the organization,
Beverage Break and Personal Touch
00:25:23
Speaker
not Jade. No, they have a big problem in women's wrestling right now. And that's why I mentioned the Trish thing is they have to bring someone in to get a reaction out of the women's division in both companies right now. So.
00:25:35
Speaker
AEW is doing no better than WWE and WWE is certainly doing the women's division no favors. It's, it's not good on either show right now. Pretty bad. All right. I think we should get a quick beverage break in before we move over to AEW speaking of which you guys down. Yeah, let's roll.
00:26:12
Speaker
All right, it's time for the weekly beverage break. We're gonna tell you guys what we are sipping on. I went super boring this week and just drinking an ice cold Miller Lite. We'll go around the horn though. Jordan, what are you drinking? So I picked up, I'm doing something a little lighter tonight. I'm doing some Trulis. It was a red, white, and true pack. Oh my God. You can tell Jordan's been hanging out on campus. No, dude. That graduation party really made an impression on you, huh?
00:26:38
Speaker
I really think my liver is floating in alcohol right now. Pickled. These last couple of months have been brutal for me. Hey, you know what? I got some cleanses. I can send you some coffee. I'm not doing any of that. These are good though. The two that I've drank so far tonight, one was cherry pop, so it tastes like a cherry pop signal. Then peach burst is the other one. I still got blue razz and lemon ice on deck.
00:27:05
Speaker
He's got the snow peach flavored boom. I feel like we need to just take a little like five minute digression and like talk about some guns or what kind of tires we're going to put on our trucks and Jeeps to kind of get the masculinity and the testosterone flowing back on here. This is the chick for the show. Hey man. After that truly close. Hey man, at least I'm not drinking. I mean, I'm still drinking, barely, but I'm still drinking. Fair enough. All right, Marco, save us.
00:27:30
Speaker
Um, I'm, I'm keeping it pretty light with the, uh, broken skull American lager. Um, it's a little, a little late over here. So I didn't want to go indulge too much in the, uh, alcoholic festivities. So, but I'm still drinking at least a beer. I will, I will bring the heat, literally. I'm drinking a heat wave. It's a sour ale with mango, artisanal ales.
00:27:54
Speaker
Can I speak? Okay, my bad. Damn. Now we're leaving. What's going on? Sour ale with mango, pineapple, and habanero. It's by Prairie Artisan Ales, as Seth said. It's a 6.7. Pretty damn good. At first, I wasn't getting the habanero, but it sneaks up on you. It kind of creeps up on you and gives you that little burn in the back of your throat. That's what she said. Good stuff. These guys ride at Oklahoma.
00:28:20
Speaker
Yeah, Oklahoma. They do some really, some really, really creative beers. I think you guys got them out there in Omaha, Jordan. I think you brought some to our house before. They do a lot of like the really creative, like fruity or like, you know, just experimental. Yeah, I think I've decided that very artisanal, prairie artisan. Oh, yeah, artisan. Oh, yeah. OK.
00:28:42
Speaker
Yeah, I think, uh, I think spicy margarita is going to be my drink of the summer, dude. I've really been on a margarita kick lately and this habanero has really gotten me wanting to like, you know, kick up my margarita game with some, with some habanero or some jalapeno.
00:28:55
Speaker
Um, so I think that's going to be my new drink. Oh, also by the way, this is probably something people have been doing for a long time, but I had the brainchild to make margarita mix ice cubes to go on my margarita so that it doesn't get watered down. We were going to our friend's house to swim and we were, had our drinks like on the side of the pool and stuff. And I was like, well, and I wanted to get watered down. So I had margarita mix ice cubes in my margarita and it was divine. So.
00:29:19
Speaker
That's a little pro tip for you for the summer. If you are out enjoying your nice margarita, just pour some margarita mix into an ice cube tray. And now that's now that's the alcoholic shit I can get behind right there. Now we're talking now we can get over my truly thing and you've really brought the heat.
00:29:37
Speaker
Yeah. Just do that and put, was it with the Cuervo margarita mix too? I just use the regular, I use the organic. By the way, Costco has some really good organic margarita mix. Very tasty. Not too super syrupy or sweet, but still got that Texas margarita feel to it. But yeah, you could totally do it with the, I don't know, the Cuervo might not freeze. I don't know. That's what I was wondering if you did it. It might. It might be low enough alcohol content because I think it's only like 10% alcohol. Yeah, it would definitely, it would get at least slushy.
00:30:05
Speaker
You can get some of those, just put some toothpicks in them, make these little margarita popsicles. Yeah. Wow. We're really good now. Yeah, I bet it would freeze, because I've seen at some of the little liquor stores, they have like the... It looks like a flavor ice, you know what I mean? Like the little popsicles, but they got booze in them.
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah, I bet that would freeze. Let's get creative, man. This summer, we'll figure out some new stuff. Yeah, I only... Ballast Point did a Habanero scope in it a long time ago, and I tried one of those before. That was just straight up, though, like IPA and Habanero, and I think it was one you wanted to split. Yeah, I think you could... It was cool for like six ounces of it, man, but I don't know. Have you guys ever had any sort of like Habanero or any sort of like spicy beer?
00:30:47
Speaker
Yeah, I've had a couple of them. They're good. But I mean, it's nothing like I drink all the time. But yeah, they're good. You guys like like Bloody Mary's and stuff? No, no, no, no, no, no. See, I love a bloody beer. Fucking beer with beer mix of Bloody Mary or mix. That's delicious, dude. Yeah, bloody beers are good. Bloody Mary's are freaking awesome, dude, especially super spicy with like all the fixants.
00:31:12
Speaker
You got all the pickles and the olives. You got to have a pickle and olives and celery. A mini slider. A big cocktail shrimp, a little mini cheeseburger, another smaller Bloody
Scheduling Conflicts and AEW Discussions
00:31:23
Speaker
Mary. You got to have all that shit on there. It's going to look like a total presentation. Bring the Bloody Mary to the table.
00:31:30
Speaker
Yeah, I saw dude. I saw a bartender get cussed out dude. It's quite silly enough This is one of the drunkest days of my life, but me and my dad The day before Christmas Eve 2018 we went to this beach bar in Hawaii to watch the Titans and Redskins game Got there like 10 o'clock and they had $5 pictures of Miller light and shit was ice cold So you can imagine how that went and my dad be my dad, of course by like third quarter He wants start doing makers mark shots. But anyways, this place we went to his restaurant 604 they were known for like the best Bloody Mary on the island and
00:32:00
Speaker
one of the bartenders was back there making it and I don't know if he was like the manager just like the head bartender or what but he came up and literally just went off on the dude because he wasn't making it right he was like that's what these fucking people pay for is all the fucking all the fix it yeah so if you're out if we had any bartenders listen to the show you're making a Bloody Mary machine make that shit right save yourself getting dunked on by your manager
00:32:23
Speaker
All right, we're ready. So we're going to get into battleground matches here in a minute. Real quick. I want to talk to you guys though. What the hell is, is trips and HBK thinking by putting this head to head with double or nothing? Why can't we get battleground in like the mid afternoon? Idiots. Ego. It's all ego, dude. All ego, eat them, Paige.
00:32:42
Speaker
Yeah, I mean I just I can't you know the AEW paper views are so precious man We're just for a year, and it's so easy to rewatch the stuff. That's on peacock I just you know I I suppose they really are trying to just like steal a few buy rates from AEW There's no other reason they would do this, but I just don't It just seems kind of petty almost like beneath them
00:33:03
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's ridiculous, especially because like you already know if you're gonna watch AEW or not. You already know whether you're gonna watch Double or Nothing, right? So you've already allotted that money and if you put that money down, there's no way you're not gonna watch that show and watch the show that you're already paying for that's already been, you know, deducted out of your account from Peacock, you know what I mean? And I feel like they could have piggybacked, man. I feel like more people are watching NXT. If they had timed it up to where
00:33:28
Speaker
You know, I think the pre-show for double or nothing starting at six our time. Let's start battleground at three our time. Have a run till six. Think about how many people, you know, whether you're chilling at your house or having your friends over, you're already in a pro wrestling mood. You're going to throw a battleground on, right? Whether it's whether you're sitting down and watching it dedicated or you just got it on the background while you're, you know, making your chicken wings or whatever else you're making for double or nothing. Like I feel like so many more people would watch it and it would be such a great showcase for all the great work that's been happening in NXT the last few months.
00:33:56
Speaker
And it's battleground against Double or Nothing. I mean, Double or Nothing is one of their like signature. Kind of is like their WrestleMania at this point. So it's like, why are you putting, you're putting, you know, battleground up against freaking Double or Nothing dude. Just, it makes zero sense to me. But again, I can only attribute it back to just straight up eco, man.
00:34:13
Speaker
Also, they already did this before on Tuesday night and we saw the results of that. Like, NXT was drawing less than 500,000 people a week. Like, I just, it's just stupid, man. And it is, it is petty. It's just the dumbest thing ever. I'm, I just, I don't see anybody like Sheena said, you know, watch this over double or nothing. If you had already planned on watching double or nothing, like, yeah, we can, we can watch this on Monday on our day off.
00:34:40
Speaker
It would've been better for the fans, it would've been better for AW, it would've been better for NXT, and it would've been better for all the wrestlers to just do it in a way where we could watch all of it. I would be pissed if I was the wrestlers, dude. I'd be like, damn, dude, you're really not setting us up to be in a position where we're gonna get the most eyeballs on the product, you know? Yeah, so... Yeah, Braun and Melo are gonna be going on like...
00:35:02
Speaker
I don't know, nine o'clock or right in the middle of the show, like nobody's going to be watching that. Yeah, definitely. That's it. That's the NXT battleground card. Definitely could have been like a card for like a different night. Not like that. Not that they're not pay-per-view quality things, but they could have definitely adjusted. I didn't realize it was happening at the same time until like two days ago, dude. I thought it was going down the afternoon. I was pumped, man. I was so stoked to just chill out Sunday and have like six hours of wrestling, man. Yeah.
00:35:29
Speaker
That blows my mind because they've done it before, you know, WrestleMania weekend, they'll put it in the afternoon. Obviously, they're not going to compete with WrestleMania, but I just don't know why they couldn't hook us up and throw us a bone. If they started battleground at three o'clock, six hours, dude, AW ain't getting over to 1130. You're talking eight and a half hours there.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yeah, or they could notice Saturday night, you know night of champions being in Saudi. That's gonna be an afternoon show for the state There's only six matches They're pretty I mean that there's gonna be some pretty good matches on there too. Like yeah, it's it's a solid it's you know, it's a solid little card but it's not stealing eyeballs away from at least for the hardcore fans, but uh, but yeah, alright Sheen hit us with the what matches are we gonna talk about from double or nothing and
00:36:16
Speaker
So Dublin Nothing, we are going to talk about the Blackpool Combat Club versus the Elite with a returning hangman Adam Page for an anarchy in the arena match. So this should be freaking balls to the wall, dude. It's gonna be cool, man. I gotta say, dude, I'm not the hugest fan of this gimmick, man, where it's just random brawling around the arena. I know there's gonna be some crazy spots. It's so entertaining though, dude. It's so fun. It is, it's fun.
00:36:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's fun. It's just not my cup of tea, man. I always feel for the live audience because I feel like, how are you keeping up with this shit? I feel like the matches should really be for them first and foremost of the TV audience. And I told you guys this whenever we had...
00:37:00
Speaker
That one, it was still during the pandemic era, but I think it was still the inner circle at that time, going against the pinnacle, MJF's faction. They weren't even in the ring at all. I always thought that one would have been cool if it was happening throughout the night. It could be the match to open the show, and then everybody kind of goes their separate way. You could have other matches start, and then you cut different parts, and then eventually it all comes back to the ring.
00:37:28
Speaker
Yeah, the fact that all those fans were sitting there for like 30 minutes with nobody in the ring, just watching the screens. I don't think fans were there at that time. Or were they? Yeah, they were there. Was that the first show back? Yeah, they were there. They were there. Yeah. But I'm sure this is going to be insane. You know, these are some tremendous performers and they set such a high bar with that last one with freaking Eddie Kingston coming out looking like fucking Leatherface, man. I'm carrying that can of gasoline, dude.
00:37:53
Speaker
I don't know what they're going to come up with, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Hangman back reunited with the elite. Yeah. Hangman opted for the premium materials on his eye patch. I have to commend him. He went with the full leather gimmick. He didn't just go with the straight up mocks, like Walgreens pirate special. AEW loves a fucking eye patch, man. All eye patch wrestling. Wow.
00:38:19
Speaker
That is their gimmick. I mean, let's not forget, at one point, WWE had Rey Mysterio lose an eyeball completely, so let's... That was the gimmick of the match, wasn't it? Wasn't it like a move? The eye for an eye match. The eye for an eye match, yeah. Like, let's... That's Samoa Joe saying, it's out.
00:38:38
Speaker
Those were dark times. That was such a disgrace. That was an awesome match, dude. Like, the work Seth did in Raywardon was great up until Seth just literally grinding Rey Mysterio's face in the corner of the set. And then Seth's going like, ah! Yeah, and then Seth puked, remember? Oh yeah. That was an abomination. He's got a puke.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah, it was, it was so bad. Um, I think this is going to be a nice comeback match for the elite. I can see the elite taking this one. They begin their ass kicking all the segments so far. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's, that's even more reason for them to win. Yeah. And Blackpool combat clubs and getting over on everybody. So you got to assume this is going to be their come down match. Dude, is mock seriously never going to take a break. He's just going to keep going and just
00:39:18
Speaker
He's a fucking workaholic, dude. You really thought Mox was gonna be like laying out on a beach somewhere, like, you know, sipping a virgin martini, you know, in a beach chair. I mean, he did just have a kid less than a year ago, so like, I wouldn't blame him if he did. Dude, he's all about the business. Not to mention- He's working so hard, he can't pay any attention to his gear anymore. He's got the most...
00:39:41
Speaker
the most horrible ring gear in wrestling right now. Man has turned into Mick Foley of ring gear. Dude's wearing sweatpants to the ring every night, some new balances. Disgraceful, dude. He's my favorite wrestler in AEW. He's about to lose that recognition for whatever it's worth because he looks so horrible, dude. Just go back to the fucking jeans, man. I look so much better than these fucking colored sweatpants you're wearing now, dude.
00:40:04
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what prompted the change to the sweatpants dude. The pajama jeans were always a butch better look for mocks. Sweatpants, hashtag dad life. So how many? Dad life. How many of those matches? Let's see for anarchy in the arena. Is this the second match or the second one in?
00:40:26
Speaker
I think this is the third one. Wasn't the other one with like Santana and R.T. I think Stadium Stampede was the elite against Inner Circle. And then I think it was also Stadium Stampede when it was Inner Circle was in that one. Inner Circle against the Pinnacle. Yeah. And then Anarchy in the Arena was the last one where it was like Blackpool, Combat Club and Friends against Jericho Appreciation Society.
00:40:55
Speaker
Yeah, same gimmick though. Basically anything goes fight all over the place. Yeah, so what was everybody going with? I'm going with the elite. Yeah, the elite definitely. They got away. Next we have the four pillars match, the AEW's four pillars match as it's called. We got Darby Allen versus Sammy Garara versus MJF versus Jungle Boy Jack Perry.
00:41:24
Speaker
My only, I don't see any way MJF leaves with the belt. My wish for this match is that Sting gets involved and either pisses off MJF or inadvertently cost Darby the match and we have Sting's last match ever main eventing all in, whether it's Sting versus Darby one-on-one or Sting versus MJF career versus title. I think that would be a great way to sell out every last ticket in that place if we know we're getting Sting's possible last match.
00:41:50
Speaker
But I think I don't see any of these three guys having a snowball's chance in hell, taking the belt off of. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm sleeping with the title, man. I think I'm Jeff's winning, but it is really cool for the other three guys that they're going to main event of pay-per-view. Like it definitely shouldn't go unnoticed that Darby, Sammy and jungle boy are going to main event of pay-per-view. They're not winning, but it's still pretty damn cool for all three of those guys. Do we think this is going to go on last? Do you guys think they'll put anarchy in the arena last?
00:42:19
Speaker
I think this is going to match the champion, dude. Yeah. AWS usually pretty good about putting the champion on last. Like I'd be pretty shocked if this didn't go on last honestly. Yeah. Yeah. I think the only two times I think it wasn't last that that inner circle against the pinnacle stadium stampede match went last and then mocks and Kenny Omega's unsanctioned match went on last. I think any other time besides that, I think the world championship has been the main event.
00:42:44
Speaker
Yeah. And then calling it the four pillars of a W like you'd be pretty shitty if you put them on before something else. I know these guys have heard the, uh, you know, the, the whispers and stuff online that, you know,
00:42:59
Speaker
These other three guys shouldn't be made of any of the pay-per-view and stuff. I have no doubt they're going to go out there and tear the fucking house down, man. All these guys can wrestle their straight asses off, dude. Like, it's just, I mean, yeah. Good. I was going to say, anyone that said that obviously hasn't seen any of one of those dudes wrestle at all. They're just looking at them as, like, on the outside looking and saying, oh, look how they look. They shouldn't be made of anything. They clearly haven't watched any AEW television or anything before that.
00:43:29
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's what I was gonna say is yeah, which one of these guys is undeserving? Like, dude, they all put it down every time they wrestle like
00:43:36
Speaker
And they've all been there like full time since fucking AEW started. Like none of these guys, like all of these guys had been there since day one. And, and dude, Darby, that's the one everybody's got a problem with is what I've been reading. I'm like, dude, this dude has done nothing, but I don't know, but this dude has done nothing but put his body on the line for the last three years for AW. He 100% deserves to be in this match. Darby's brought so much freaking create creative energy to freaking AEW man. Like,
00:44:07
Speaker
He's a crazy athlete too. Dude, he's super fast, man. Darby's just not getting enough credit for what a crazy... Everybody remembers the spots, but dude, he's an awesome athlete, just the way he moves in the ring even when he's not trying to break his spinal cord in half. Darby's the man.
00:44:23
Speaker
All right, we're gonna do something different now. So as you guys know, we kind of talked about the big four matches of the weekend. We're about to go. 44 minutes in, we only talked about four matches. So you can imagine if we tried to deep dive on every single match, it'd be like a three day podcast. For anybody that's a big Family Feud fan, we are gonna recreate fast money. All right, we have 18 matches left to predict. We're gonna take turns going in order of seniority on the show. So it's gonna go Sheena, Marco, Jordan. I'm gonna ask you guys the match. You guys give me the winner. We're gonna try to get through all
00:44:53
Speaker
18 Masters in a minute. Are you guys ready? It's ready. Yeah, we're going to get the even 45 minutes. We're going in three, two, one. All right, Sheena Cody Rhodes versus Brock Lesnar. Brock Marco Gunther versus Mustafa Ali. Good. Jordan Bianca Belair versus Oscar Bianca Sheena Rhea Ripley versus Nate Rhea Marco Becky Lynch versus Trish Stratus. Becky.
00:45:18
Speaker
Jordan Carmelo Hayes versus bra breaker. I'm sorry Carmela Sheena First Tiffany Stratton Tiffany Marco no, I'm dar versus dragon Lee dragon Lee Jordan Wesley versus Tyler babe versus Joe Gacy Wesley Sheena ill you dragon offers is DJ Marco gallus versus the Creed brothers Creed brothers
00:45:45
Speaker
All right, Jordan, FTR versus Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lee. FTR. Sheena Wardlow versus Christian Wardlow, Marco Blackjack, better oil. Dang. Yeah, I can't think of it. That's hard. That's hard. That's what she said. She said. So we we did pretty good. You guys had three had four matches left to go. We got the 14 matches.
00:46:16
Speaker
I would say you guys didn't do that. Yeah, we did. All right. Let's finish up anyways, though. Marco, do you think Orange Cassidy wins? We want to know who else in this man. Yeah. Literally anybody that's living on planet Earth with pro wrestling talent. But I mean, we'll go. I'll just we'll say Orange Cassidy. He's a workhorse guy. He's been killed every week.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, he's been doing like the thing where he's getting closer and closer losing it I see I could see him winning this then losing it Wednesday night to somebody yeah All right Jordan Jamie Hader versus Tony storm Jamie Hader
00:46:47
Speaker
Sheena Jade versus Ty of Alfred. So this is the kind of match like, dude, we don't need this. We could totally cut this, man. Yeah. Maybe this will be on the pre-show. I don't know. It doesn't say anything about being on pre-show. Ethan Page and the Guns versus the Hardy Party, which is Jeff and Matt Hardy and Isaiah Cassidy, and a six-man tag match where if the Hardy Party wins, Matt Hardy will own Ethan Page's contract.
00:47:20
Speaker
It's hard to predict Maybe the Hardy Hardy's in a win for me. Come on. Yes. Yeah, I can't see them losing Alright and Jordan last match your boy Adam Cole went up against Chris Jericho Adam Cole
00:47:32
Speaker
Baby. All right. That was fun, man. All right. Awesome weekend of wrestling ahead of us. If you drink while you watch wrestling, go ahead and prep your liver now. You need to start taking some, I don't know, what's something to take to get their liver ready for a weekend hard drinking? Activated charcoal. Give yourself a coffee, enema. Yep. Make sure you're hydrated. Put a sprinkle of Redmond's real salt in your water to give yourself some electrolytes, some minerals. Yeah. Nice and prepped.
00:47:59
Speaker
Okay.
Wrestling Figures and Listener Mail
00:48:00
Speaker
All right. Let's hit the figure four.
00:48:18
Speaker
Alright, it's time for the weekly figure four where we get you guys caught up on everything happening in the world of wrestling figure news want to remind you guys this segment is brought to you by our good friends at ringside collectibles use code chick Foley to save 10% on all of your purchases there so I'm using a wrestling figure news source on Twitter just kind of going through doing a quick recap of the big news from the week so first off, did you guys see the new Roman Reigns Funko that's on the way.
00:48:45
Speaker
It's a rag glove. Yep. Yeah, it looks awesome. Oh, double belts. Yeah. Double belts. Killer.
00:48:51
Speaker
Yeah, looks good. Definitely going to be the coolest Roman we've had so far. There's also going to be two Beth Phoenix's coming out. There's the regular ones in the green gear. Amazon. And then she's got a chase with the black gear. We've only gotten one blurry photo of this, which is kind of weird because we're usually pretty good about seeing Funkos before they drop. But this is the Twitter account Distrackers, DIS Trackers, all one word, posting them up, and then Resting Figure New Source retweeted. So new WWE pops on the way.
00:49:19
Speaker
Jordan, where are you at with your WWE pop collection? Are you 100% completionist? You just cherry pick your favorites? What's your WWE focal pop strategy? You don't get that macho, man. We passed on at the Superstore.
00:49:33
Speaker
No, I do not have that, but I am, I think I'm like five off from being a completionist. I think the only ones I'm missing right now is that macho man, uh, a seven 11, a seven 11 Ray Mysterio. Maybe that's that one. That's like 400 bucks. Yes. The CM punk. Yep. And then.
00:49:54
Speaker
one chase, which I can't think of which one it is. And then, um, I picked, Oh, so now I'm down to four. Cause I got the Paul Heyman game stopped the other day. That was the five I was missing. So are you like, are you still circling the other four? Like at some point you're going to find a way to grab them or are they just, uh, Oh, I have a, I have a watched, uh, um, eBay thing that alerts every time one's listed. So just waiting for the stars to align. Yep. If I ever find them all, I'll definitely complete the collection.
00:50:25
Speaker
All right, did you guys check out this music video that John LaHoy dropped? Yes. What are you laughing about? Carry on. What's so funny? Carry on.
00:50:40
Speaker
Anyways, the music video that he dropped for His new out his musical act wolf. He's just fine with the the ljns. Yes, I see that quality I don't know how he got the Hulk and Andre to stand up like that Those two were like two of the hardest area you can get stand up man So I don't know if they had fishing line or just perfectly balanced like even though we've seen like way more like Technically technologically advanced like figure photography and like figure animation or something about this. It was just so compelling. That was really cool. Yeah
00:51:10
Speaker
He probably just used AI. He probably said, make a cartoon of Andre and Hulk fighting, LJN style. Dude, that was a pristine fucking LJN collection also, man. I was looking at the whole audience, dude. That was a clean set of LJNs, but even with this perfectly
00:51:30
Speaker
you know, perfectly put together set. The Ted DiBiase still had the fucking LJN disease where you could see the black paint from his undercoat like coming through on the face and stuff, man. So yeah, it's the curse thing. LJN, hockey talk man, one man gang, those guys. It's just it's damn near impossible to find a decent looking figure for those.
00:51:50
Speaker
Alright, did you guys see that our good friend, Threadhead Custom Clothing, he's not letting the Nitro Stage die. He is 3D printing a Nitro Stage. It's a pretty damn close replica of the crowdfund. Did you guys see this? I've seen it now and I'm here for it, dude. Yeah, check out at threadheadcc on Twitter, man. You guys will see this.
00:52:10
Speaker
It's, I mean, at a glance, it looks like the crowdfund. And I think it's pretty much everything except the working lights. But I don't know, man, would you guys be interested in picking this up at all?
00:52:24
Speaker
I mean, it's got to cost less than $400, right? I'd say, I don't know. I mean, I'd say it's for at least $150. I think they said $200 last time I read or something like that. Those 3D printing materials are expensive, and it's not cheap running those 3D printers. Yeah, $200 is way cheaper than $400. It is expensive, though. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't really interested in the step before, but I mean, it looks pretty cool.
00:52:50
Speaker
I wasn't, I kind of wanted that stage with the lights and stuff just out of FOMO man. This not being an official release. I'm kind of good on, I'm kind of good on going out of my way to get a custom nitro stage, but for anybody wanting it, anybody that was freaking hard up for getting that stage dude, like had a, you know, a really cool WCW display in mind. Check out the red head CC. I want to say he's got details on how to order or coming shortly.
00:53:14
Speaker
This thing's gonna be cool. We've kind of started dabbling into the the 3d printed wrestling accessories game We got a couple steel cages We got a blue cage to go with the the ultimate edition ring from the last crowdfund and we got a black a black cage to go with the
00:53:29
Speaker
the attitude error ring that came with Kane and they both came out really, really good, man. So it's some crazy stuff being being done by these folks with a 3D printing. Did you guys see boss fight studios? The championship set that they're dropping this actually can come with a display rack for the titles.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yeah, I have not pre order this just because I don't have any faith that this thing's, it's not going to be like three years before this actually releases. But as soon as it's available, I'm definitely getting this man the belts look really good too. So that's going to be, it's definitely gonna be a cool piece to have and I think the display stand is a nice touch.
00:54:03
Speaker
I think it'd be pretty easy to modify that display stand to I don't think there's a ton of like hardcore MLW fans out there. I'm sure it'd be easy to get a sticker of whatever you wanted or just even some black electrical tape to black that out and that'd be a really cool way to display some of those nice custom belts from somebody like for Ben figurines or our friend Dan turnquist.
00:54:23
Speaker
All right, our buddies over at the major WF pod, you know, they're dropping the big rubber guys to go along with their major bendies. This is their homage to the LJN line. Supposedly from people that have held them, they say this is the closest it's come to like the size and feel of the original LJN figures. They're giving us kind of like the holy grail for an LJN. We're going to finally get the full set of demolition, man. Yeah, looks sick. These things look great. They're going to have removable masks. Like I can only hope that we're getting barbarian next, right?
00:54:53
Speaker
Hope so. Yeah, I'm not in on LJNs right now. If I was, I would be getting these, right? Either of you guys got any kind of LJN presence in your collection? Of course. I get a ton of them.
00:55:04
Speaker
I have, I have the ultimate warrior and that is my only LJN at my house. We have a ton of, we have a ton of LJNs. They're just like junk LJNs in the garage for play for Brit. Yeah. We got a bunch of play ones for the kids, man. It's just, that's an, it's expensive dude. And it's so tricky, like finding good ones, man. That's just, I'm kind of in.
00:55:24
Speaker
I feel like in my mind, eventually, I'm going to try to put together an LJN set. Are you against painted LJNs? No, I'm not. We've discussed that before. I'm not against, because there are services out there. Our boy Zorro Mendez, the LJN whisperer, he's put us on to some really good folks that will basically paint your LJN depending on the figure and how detailed it is and how much repaint it needs. I look at the same as getting a classic car restored. You know what I mean?
00:55:53
Speaker
You know, original is the best, dude, but I got no problem if you don't want something super scuffed up, man, like you got the figure and getting it somebody that could accurately repaint it. I got no beef with that. How about you guys? Oh, no, definitely not. I have a few that actually have one that I want to get restored, but actually two. I have the paper.
00:56:13
Speaker
the Piper LJN, Andre the Giant, Big Afro Andre the Giant with the blue tights and blue boots. That one I definitely need to rework. But yeah, I have like, I have a Terry Funk. I had two Hogan's when I gave to my son to like throw around and stuff. Macho Man, Warrior, and Joe Gardog did that rounds it out. But yeah, they're a heavy presence in my collection.
00:56:43
Speaker
Were you out on that, Jordan? You seem like you'd be a hard ass stickler, like original paint only. No, these ones are tough because I mean, man, these were just beat to shit when we were kids because they could take any amount of abuse. So it's really tough to find these ones completely clean. No, I don't mind the repaints. I don't think I would do it on like the higher end ones, though. Honestly, like the more expensive ones. I don't know. It just seems kind of sacrilege to have somebody paint over
00:57:10
Speaker
the really expensive ones. But I mean, the normal wine and stuff, if you're paying 40 bucks for an LJN and getting a resort, I have no problem with that. Yeah, like any of the black cards, you're better off just leaving those whatever condition you find them in. So that way, you know, if when you decide to sell your collection, you're going to be able to get your money back because you definitely got to be limiting your potential buyer state by making that controversial decision to paint. So
00:57:35
Speaker
that's it for figure news this week man we'll go around and you know anything interesting we added the collection for us big thing is we started a new collection this week i got the last piece of our wcwlsftm line is on the way right now found a really nice lex luger
00:57:51
Speaker
And I've started going after the WWE zombies, man. This was a line that I hated at the time that was on the pegs because I was still kind of early in my WWE Mattel collecting there in like 2015, 2016. And I had the misguided thoughts that, you know, this is just taking effort away from stuff that they could be doing in the, you know, in the elite line or whatever. Like, why are they wasting their time with these? And I was really, really hung up discriminating on them because they had basic articulation.
00:58:16
Speaker
Yeah, we passed on them like a million times. Did these become before the monsters or after the monsters? They were before the monsters, yeah. Zombies were first. Yeah, I remember these at the Kmart of our house. We had one of the last Kmart's in America of our house in Hawaii. I remember probably the entire line of these on sale going out of business Kmart for like $3.99. I could have picked them all up. They're still fairly cheap, but they've gone up a little bit, man. What were you guys' thoughts on the zombie figures back when they were dropping?
00:58:41
Speaker
Yeah, same as I wasn't a fan. I didn't really understand them, but yeah, as time goes on, they do look a lot more, uh, um,
00:58:51
Speaker
more like something you can put in your collection and not be, I mean, as not embarrassed as you could be to show a group of people your wrestling collection. They've aged really well, man. Like is dumb. Like I still say it was a dumb idea to do it right in the first place. Like it was, I don't know. I mean, they could have done, but they, um,
00:59:12
Speaker
There was so much like TLC put into the line, dude. Like there's so many unique parts used for it and just a lot of nice little details on all the figures. Yeah. And dude, that was like peak walking dead when that was going on. Like that was like the peak of like zombie hype in America. And I always liked the zombies. I thought they were cool figures. I mean, I didn't think we had a place for them because I already had a zombie collection of my own. I had the little zombie yard gnomes. If you guys haven't seen my collection, go back in the feed. It's there. It's pretty awesome.
00:59:40
Speaker
So I already had those kind of going on so I didn't need the extra set of zombies. But yeah, I always thought the zombie figures looked awesome.
00:59:47
Speaker
They were cool. They definitely didn't sell that well. No, they didn't. There was only 20 of them, man. So I put together my checklist for what I got to go get. In my mind, I feel like it was low 30s, but it was actually only 20 zombie figures that came out in the whole set. Is there any glaring omissions, like how we don't have the Seth Rollins and the zombie gnomes? No, not really. They got the whole shield. They got AJ. They got pretty much all the main eventers that were around that time.
01:00:12
Speaker
The only legends they did was like stone cold Steve Austin the rock and Triple H So, you know, it's kind of a touchy one You don't really want to mess with zombies when the guy might actually end up being dead Oh, no, I will never I will never forget I ordered the Roddy Piper zombie and it showed up the day after he passed away, dude I was like, well, that's awkward. Yeah Yeah, so now it was mostly all the almost all current guys But yeah, that was really it for me. I that was my only interesting stuff. I picked up Jordan What'd you get this week?
01:00:42
Speaker
Um, I got greatest hits to the whole set. Uh, the Paul Heyman Funko that I talked about. And then I think that's it actually. I didn't, I thought I got more than that, but I can't remember. Did your Batista, did it have elbow pads?
01:01:01
Speaker
Wish I could tell you, but I don't remember. Honestly, at the top of my head, I'll look at it when we get off and I'll let you know. Yeah, shoot me a text, dude. The people I've talked to that got it, it didn't have elbow pads. And dude, on Ringside, it shows Batista with blue elbow pads. So I can't figure out if there's a running change or maybe if Ringside just got one that was a mistake. But Ringside has MOC pictures of Batista with elbow pads. But I know mine doesn't. I talked to Dougie Nanya. His has no elbow pads. So I don't...
01:01:27
Speaker
Who else did we talk? We talked to Alice West, man. Yeah, his didn't have elbow pads. So I don't know. I mean, it ain't the biggest deal in the world, but I thought it was a kind of cool touch. Like the original Elite 33 would didn't have elbow pads and this one does, but we're supposed to, but yeah, no elbow pads. So yeah, let me know. Marco, what'd you get, man?
01:01:44
Speaker
I finally got the Seth Rollins Ultimate and Andre the Giant Ultimate Edition. They finally showed up today. As well as I finally finished out the Legend Series 18 with, I think I just needed, didn't need the Hogan. Really didn't need it, but just, you know, finished the rounds of kind of like the WCW crew that they had going there.
01:02:13
Speaker
Definitely couldn't, I couldn't find any Chase Fatu, so. But other than that, have everything. Samu Fatu, Paulie Dangerously, and Hogan. Nice. Yeah, it's a great set, man. I can't wait for the next Legends with that brother. Love to come out. Alright, that's it for Figure Talk. Sheena, do we got listener mail? You know we do. Alright, Sheena, hit us with it.
01:02:41
Speaker
All right. So our first piece of mail comes in from Tyson, Neil Trevino TNT. He says, do you really see Roman Reigns holding the tag titles was so low to me? I don't see him holding them. We've already kind of touched on this. I think when it comes to the bloodline.
01:02:57
Speaker
anything is possible. Our man JCC James Cody Canterbury, he chimed in with our thoughts saying that the Usos are going to interfere and cause some sort of like schmaw situation. But yeah, I can never bet against the bloodline. Famous words. Sambro, how do you like your steaks? I go medium rare. I traditionally been a medium guy, but Sheena is slowly but surely whittled me down. So I go medium rare.
01:03:23
Speaker
Yeah, I prefer medium rare. I'm not here to yuck anybody's yum. I know there's a lot of hate out there for people who eat medium or well-done steaks. But for me, if you're eating steak, I feel like you're on the right path. But for me, I'm a rare, medium rare gal myself. What about you, Marco? Dang. I jump back and forth sometimes.
01:03:48
Speaker
I go medium sometimes, uh, depending on the place, depending on the, uh, the steak house that you're at. That's another thing that a huge, huge difference, uh, depending on where you go. Um, but most of the time it's medium rare, but I have dabbled in a medium.
01:04:04
Speaker
That dabbled in medium Jordan. That's what she said. Yeah, it's only medium rare for me. And in the Midwest, dude, if I go out to dinner with you and we're at a steakhouse and you order anything over medium, I'm slapping the shit out of you. Why even get a fucking steak, get a fucking piece of leather then Jesus Christ.
01:04:23
Speaker
Gotta tell my wrestling steak story again this guy that I worked within the Navy at my first man. This is back in 2004 We're kind of talking wrestling. He worked at some fancy steakhouse in New York He was a line cook back there, and he said Goldberg came in their restaurant and literally walked They had he was so particularly he walked back into the kitchen They let him go back to the kitchen and tell the guy he said 30 seconds on each side then bring it out to me Oh, yeah
01:04:46
Speaker
Yeah. That sounds like my kind of steak, dude. A freaking steaming hot. Flash sear. Yeah, cast iron or griddle. Yeah, just flash sear that mofo on both sides. Salt, pepper, butter on top. Bro, imagine if you're a fucking 19, 18-year-old line cook and fucking Bill Goldberg comes back with
01:05:06
Speaker
all that intensity, looking you right in the eye, telling you how to cook your steak. I guarantee you, that was the best fucking cook steak that guy ever made. Yeah, freaking head butts the cooler while he's on his way out the back out to the dining room. Yeah. So yeah, medium rare all around here. Real quick question, do you use steak sauce? Oh God, no. Yes, no. No.
01:05:26
Speaker
Dude, you guys are crazy, man. I do not... I don't have any issue with if somebody just doesn't prefer to use steak sauce, but I don't get the hate for steak sauce. I feel like, dude, I've never had a steak where you put some A1 on it and you're like, man, you know what? This isn't as good as it was before, dude. It makes the steak better, dude.
01:05:44
Speaker
I don't know if it makes it better. It depends. It's just different. It's a different experience. I think eating a steak with steak sauce and eating a well cooked, well seasoned steak with some au jus or something. Yeah. It's just a totally different experience. I'm not opposed to, like you said,
01:06:01
Speaker
I think I love dips. I'm a sauce boss, dude. I love dips and condiments. So I'm all here for some steak sauce, but I prefer just a well cooked steak. I'll usually ask Sheena, anytime we're making steak, because Sheena's really good at getting creative with it. I'll ask her, what's the preparation going to be? If we're doing steak and fried rice, she's going to do some
01:06:20
Speaker
some Asian flavor, like some soy, ginger, whatever. I'm cool with it. But if it's like, you know, we're just burning some steaks real quick, man, for a quick dinner, like steak and fries. And it's just, you know, salt and pepper, like nothing special. I'll throw a little A1, dude. If I don't want to do A1, I'll throw this little Worcestershire sauce, man.
01:06:37
Speaker
As long as you're not doing it at a really fancy steakhouse, order a $70 steak and then be like, hey, can I get some steak sauce for this? No. Definitely. If you were to catch up
Steak Talk and Listener Questions
01:06:50
Speaker
in the back, Del Frisco's is a popular one. It's not a franchise, but obviously it's a very high end steakhouse. You definitely wouldn't dare
01:07:00
Speaker
asked for a one steak sauce. We've talked about this the last time Zach Hertzler brought up his abomination of eating like I think it was grilled cheese with ranch and talked about my cousin my cousin Olivia who I love dearly. I love her. She eats ranch on her steak. What's that? Why? What?
01:07:16
Speaker
I know. I don't understand it. I will never understand it. It's beyond me. You could even get ranch flavored salt. You could maybe get it some essence of ranch. Exactly. A ranchy seasoning. That's a little much for me, but yeah, ranch and beef just.
01:07:33
Speaker
You know what, Olivia is my next guest on open mic because I need to ask her why. We have questions. I have questions. I have many questions. Uh, Sambro also said you guys picking up the nitro stage by thread heads. We already touched on that. So, uh, we'll go to Sambro's next question. He said, uh, when for the love of God, will they change those dumb ass tag titles? We talked about that, you know, but I'm not, he said, I guess changing the design. Yeah, that's what he's saying. Yeah. But funnily enough, man, we, uh,
01:08:02
Speaker
That's a word. Funnily's a word. Funnily's a word. Funnily's a word. Wow. F-U-N-N-I-L-Y. Me and Brett wanted to watch an old Usos match when they were rocking the paint set. We watched them against Luke Harper and Eric Rowan from Battleground, coincidentally enough, 2014. Dude, the old school, the black ones with the copper logo, they do not look nearly as bad. They still aren't in my top five championship belts ever, but they look so much better than the red and blue straps with the silver, dude. The pennies were better than the nickels.
01:08:32
Speaker
Yeah, I think that the red and blue straps on any of the titles, I feel like take away, make them a little bit commercial and campy to me. Like I love a classic black strap and I'm all for like a custom title. Like if somebody gets it in there, they change the title a little bit. But yeah, the red and blue, it's played out to me. I can't believe we don't have tag belts that have custom side plates on them yet. Like you would have thought they'd be all over that just for merch sales.
01:08:58
Speaker
True, but they don't have any, I mean, besides the Usos, the New Day, and I mean, who- Well, they can do anything to do with the women, where they have like the mishmash teams, each one has their own side plates. Yeah, they do. True, yeah. And the NXT tag belts have the side plates on them. Yep, that's true. I don't know. I mean, those belts must be moving merch. That's the only thing I can think, man, because it's all about the bottom line, dude. If they thought he could make money off of it, I think they already have some new tag belts on the way. Yeah.
AEW Speculations and Comparisons
01:09:25
Speaker
Sam Bro says, do you guys think AW sticking to Chris Statlander taking the belt off Jade or an unknown debut? I think Jade's going to forfeit that belt. I think she's going to win the women's championship and forfeit the TBS championship. And I think that'd be a perfect way to legitimize that belt. Yeah, I think she's going to be the champ champ for sure.
01:09:44
Speaker
Um, ultimate question is punk re debuting at the first collision. What's the reception going to be? If for some reason it isn't in Chicago, damn, it's all, it's all but confirmed now. Yeah, they get it. I saw that today that yeah, they announced two shows in Chicago, one of the 17th and they're doing dynamite inclusion. Yeah. So inclusion. Who knows? Are you going Jordan? No, we decided against it.
01:10:14
Speaker
So we're going to Chicago in July and we just decided not to do a second trip the month before going to Chicago in the summer is fucking expensive as is. So now it's hot.
01:10:27
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's hot as fuck everywhere. She knows you act like it ain't gonna be hot as fuck on the farm. And but straight up Tennessee, like I thought when we moved from Hawaii to Virginia, I was like, Oh my God, Virginia summers are brutal, dude. Like the heat in Virginia and the mainland is crazy. Then I moved to free. Then I moved to Tennessee, dude. And Tennessee is like the fucking devil's butthole, dude. Like it is so hot. Like it is like, I mean, it's just unbearable. It's like, I can't, I mean,
01:10:57
Speaker
You know, I'm all for a hot summer, but damn dude, Tennessee is fucking hot, dude. Yeah. I've never lived anywhere that was this swampy and landlocked. Uh, Sam Bro says, who's a low or mid Carter that could hold the AEW big gold. I'd love to see Brody King in that spot. Jordan, you got any thoughts on, uh,
01:11:20
Speaker
Who would you be the AWB gold? I do love Brody King. I could definitely see him holding that title too. I wouldn't mind seeing anybody in House of Black hold the big title, honestly. Yeah, I love House of Black. Any of those guys would be fine with me holding the title.
01:11:36
Speaker
Seth, as a Navy man, how many bites does it take you to eat a banana? Is that like an inside, like, is that a Navy joke? Wow. I would answer that question with a question and ask Sambro how long he's been eating corn on the cob for the long way. All right. Wow. The mailbag sponsored by Sambro. Damn. Sambro, what's each of your dream cars? Oh, man.
01:12:06
Speaker
I kind of have my dream car right now. I feel like the minivan, the Honda Odyssey is totally, is totally my, I got the bang bus, is totally my dream car. But I think like an old school, like I would love like a Bronco, you know, just like wood panels. I feel like that's like totally my vibe or like a Volkswagen, like bus, I feel like, yeah, would be a good vehicle for me.
01:12:33
Speaker
I'm kind of a Sheena too, man. I love my 2009 Tacoma. It's perfectly fine. If I was going to get something else, I have no desire to do the maintenance and shit. It would need to upkeep it, but I'd love to get a 93 or 94 Ford F-150. One of the real boxy ones with the two-tone paint job, maybe like forest green with the cream stripe on the bottom. My grandpa had one of those. Yeah, those are pretty tough. Those are actually starting to become
01:12:57
Speaker
a true class and you're starting one up in value. I was looking a couple months ago just for fun and I've really well maintained one is up to the mid 30,000s where you could probably get one for 9,000. Those are the last cars that you could work on. They don't have a lot of chips and shit in them. You know what I mean? Now everything has to go through. You have to go to a dealership or a mechanic that knows how to work on all that stuff and order all your chips. Back then, your grandpa was just under there with a fucking wrench
01:13:24
Speaker
Yeah, that's dope. Marco, you got a dream car? Man, I was always a fan of the...
01:13:34
Speaker
Dodge Charger. I think it was like the, what year was that one that I used to- Sports car, man. Yeah, sports car. I'm not really, I just like the look, the sound of the- I can see Marco revving it up at the stoplight, like freaking Dom Toretto. Of course. Just like- I didn't even think of that. That's not actually- Oh, we need his family. That is the car that he- Oh, we need his family. We just need the Foley fam. Oh, we need his family.
01:14:02
Speaker
What about you, Jordan? What's your dream wheels? Honestly, I have my dream car right now. I was hoping they would put the Jeep truck back into production and I got one in 2020. I mean, dude, it's having a truck that you can take the doors and top off of. What more do I need?
01:14:20
Speaker
get a nice cool breeze on those swampy Nebraska summer days. The fucking breeze up the sack when it's a hundred degrees is just absolutely perfect. Hanging a leg out the door is just like a feeling you never thought you needed. That's great. Apologies anybody that was looking forward to some exotic. I know I was like the most.
01:14:38
Speaker
I don't think you could have gotten four straight more boring answers for No, I don't think those are boring. I think that's awesome. I was about to say like I think that was the best dream say because I think it was just so cool that everybody was like, yeah I heard so you had heard something cool. I heard four people who have given up on their dreams
01:14:56
Speaker
Like I just knew Marco and he said dodge he's gonna say dodge viper and I was like, yeah the viper was cool Yeah, I said my fucking oh nine Tacoma with the fucking I gotta give us I'm gonna step outside and the box. I'm gonna give us a thumbs down I'm not gonna give us a thumbs down because
Dream Cars and Food Favorites
01:15:15
Speaker
you know what? I'm not I'm not gonna hear to actively like crap on anybody that buys like brand-new or like luxury vehicles But like dude cars
01:15:23
Speaker
are depreciating AF dude. So like to me, it doesn't make sense to just ball out and buy like a brand new car, at least one. Sure. You know, but to go out and like buy a, you know, some bougie ass like sports car. It's just not for me. If it's for you, that's cool. But I don't make, it doesn't make sense to me. The crazy thing you just said is they're depreciating. They are doing the exact opposite. They are appreciating. True right now. Yeah. I mean, Tacoma has actually gone up since I bought it, man. True. Uh,
01:15:52
Speaker
But in general though, we're in strange times right now. We've been in strange times last few years. We're in the end of times. Yeah, exactly. Which is why everybody's trying to get the shit that you can work on because they're like, damn dude, I'm not going to be able to freaking afford to take the shit to a mechanic anymore. But no, it's definitely something to be said for just being content with what you have. So good question.
01:16:11
Speaker
All right, Sam, bro, how crazy is it that in 2023, double J is still in the best segments? I gotta be honest with you. I didn't know that he was in the best segments. I haven't been seeing the segments that were the best. I've been seeing some of the funny stuff he's done. It is cool that he's still staying relevant. I'm a little bit disappointed that two paper views in a row, double J is fighting for the tag belts. Yeah. Old slap nuts doesn't need to be in the tag picture right now.
01:16:39
Speaker
Zach Hertzer with a food question. What's on the menu for this weekend of wrestling? We haven't come up with a menu yet. We didn't come up with our food plan for this wrestling. Grilled cheese and ranch dressing. That's on Zach's menu. You got the brand new Blackstone out there, man. You need to come up with something you can cook up for us, dude. I know. Oh, I don't even think I mentioned. Yeah, I got a Blackstone for Mother's Day. I felt like middle class dad as fuck, dude. Why don't we do some redneck fajitas?
01:17:05
Speaker
Yeah, we could do that. We got one too. Actually, you know, that's funny. We got one too. All right. Yeah. Ari said she's like, we need to swap recipes. I know. I know my boy, dude. You got the one that's got like the air fryer built into it with like three different levels of shelf. No, no, just, just a normal 36 inch. I don't need all the air fryers and stuff. You can get one more Sam's club.
01:17:31
Speaker
Okay. Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. It was on sale at Walmart. It was cheaper. Me and Brett was going because we was going to surprise Gina for Mother's Day. Shout out to Ace. We love the Ace here in Oakland, but they were proud of their shit, dude. It was cheaper for me to go get the 36-inch griddle at Walmart than it was to get the 28-inch at Ace.
01:17:48
Speaker
You always got to get those x-rayed inches for less money. Especially for Mother's Day. Splurge for the x-rayed inches. Splurge for the x-rayed inches. I don't know. I don't know what's on the menu. I'll put it in that one. I think Redneck Fajitas. I think I just saw it. Maybe it would be Redneck Fajitas. Jordan, Marco, you guys got anything on your Memorial Day menus?
01:18:12
Speaker
Nope. Hot dogs, burgers. I'll be at a barbecue slash cookout, whatever you want to call it on Sunday. It's at my buddy's, so he'll have all the wrestling on repeat all night long, so we won't be missing out on that, but yeah, just having some barbecue food. Down in some glizzies. Yeah, of course. Eight-inch glizzies.
01:18:41
Speaker
Two at the same time. I'm getting just swallowing Glizzies. Two Glizzies, one bun. I'll never forget, my favorite part of me and Jordan's weekend trip to NWI was already, we were at the concession stand, Jordan gets two hot dogs, the little chick goes to hand to him and he says, no, can you put some nacho cheese on those? You've told me multiple times how genius that was of Jordan. I was jealous when I saw it. Yeah, he was like, why didn't I think of that, dude?
01:19:07
Speaker
just slathered in nacho cheese. It's so golden and gooey. Tony Barker, what is your favorite way to cook? Baking, grilling, air frying, et cetera. I mean, in general, if something can be grilled, that's typically going to be the best way to cook. Yeah. I don't know about that, dude. I will take a seared steak and a cast iron.
01:19:30
Speaker
over a grilled steak almost any day of the week, dude. I feel like you get a much crispier, buttery sear on- I feel like it needs to be somebody that knows what they're doing though, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. I feel like that requires a higher level of skill than just don't know- I mean, I got skills, dog. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, but I'm saying for general purpose, dude, average people, they're just thinking, what's the best way I could make this taste good? Probably don't know what a grilled bread is, but- I'm eating a lot of people's grilled food and a lot of people, it's dry and
01:19:58
Speaker
Yeah, not for me, dude. There's a lot of people out there that don't know how to grill for shit. She fully shoots hard on grillers. I'm one of them. I'm not a proficient griller, dude. I can't just relax. When I'm grilling something on a grill, I'm right there watching it the whole time. I can never just...
01:20:15
Speaker
Relax because I'm always like I'm gonna overcook this shit or like it's gonna get too done on one side Like I'm not a very proficient griller I have lots of friends that are excellent freakin grillers our friend Jesse in Hawaii has like six different types of fucking girls that he Girl shit on and like, you know smoke stuff on and does the whole nine and it's always excellent but I would just say a good old-fashioned like cast iron or like a braise like I love like a good braised
01:20:39
Speaker
meat like throw that bitch in a Dutch oven on low and slow and like with some broth and like just let it get super like tender like oh
01:20:49
Speaker
Delish. What about you, Jordan? Any favorite way to cook? I always prefer grilling. I just think grilling always reminds me of summer and warm temperatures and stuff, and there is nothing better than a grilled glizzy during summer. I love a grilled hot dog. Grilled hot dogs are superior to any other forms of hot dogs. Well, hold on. Bull Park hot dogs are still the best hot dogs ever. What about roller dogs, dude?
01:21:14
Speaker
Well, I mean, that's the same thing, really, like ballpark hot dogs really are roller hot dogs. But there's just something about going to a baseball game or football game, whatever, and getting a hot dog. It just, it's different. It's different than somebody going to 711 at two in the morning. Hey, man, what about those hot dogs? I waited in line for two hours for it. Summer slam, those things hit different.
01:21:33
Speaker
Dude, those things hit. I was needing that freaking hot dog. When Jordan came with those hot dogs down the stairs, I was already half asleep. I was like, dude, thank you for this freaking hot dog. Soak up some of this freaking beer I've been drinking. Tony Barker, what did you guys think of the NWO retros that just started shipping out from ringside? Did you add them to your collection?
01:21:53
Speaker
They were great. Yeah, I think that they were definitely the best since the line is relaunched, possibly the best Mattel retros there. I got no gripes with those figures.
01:22:03
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Why was the shipper so damn small? It was tiny dude. So Brett, we were out in the front yard playing with the kids and when she came by and dropped the mill, lady came by and dropped them off. Brett went out there to get the freaking box and he brought it back and it said ringside collectibles. And I was like, what the fuck is this? Like, what could this possibly be? Cause it was like the tiniest, thinnest little shipper I've ever seen in my life. And when I opened it up and saw it was the retros, I was like, wow, dude, like talk about efficient packing.
01:22:32
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Mm-hmm. Just say it hurts or ice cream sandwiches or popsicles Marco damn I'm an ice cream sandwich guy. I love a good ice cream sandwich. Yeah, I'm not really popsicles dude popsicles gives you such a more wide variety of Different I throw you you never met the Schwann man then because the Schwann man has like 30 different varieties of ice cream sandwiches Yeah, I mean how different could you get it's always like a chocolate cookie with vanilla ice cream in them
01:22:59
Speaker
No, they got strawberry ones. Like they got vanilla cookie with like strawberries on the ice cream on the inside. They got rocky road. They got like moosh tracks ones. They got like, they got freaking like dipped ones. Like you can get a dipped fucking, um, ice cream sandwich or it's like totally dipped in chocolate. Popsicles, ice cream, Sando all the way.
01:23:18
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That's what I'm talking about. I mean, no shade to popsicles. I love a good popsicle on a hot day, but, you know, ice cream sandwiches are supreme. David Brooks, do you think AEW will institute multiple world champs with the
AEW World Title Concerns and Closing
01:23:30
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split? I hope not, man. I mean, I would put nothing past him with his convoluted as this whole situation's got, but I'm hoping this whole thing about it being a brand split is even fake, man. But if it is,
01:23:42
Speaker
I don't know. I could possibly see them doing it just because they're like, Hey, WWE's got got two world champs, you know, and they definitely got this kind of like low key inferiority complex clone. So they might feel like they need two world champs also. And I hope not. You know, they're not shy about rolling out some new belts in AW, but I hope they don't. The AW world championship is still pretty dang prestigious. And I think it would take away from that. It would definitely take away and AW already has so many other belts on TV all the time. I feel like that. Yeah, they don't need any more.
01:24:09
Speaker
Yeah. Big goal. This is prestigious because there's no short title reigns in that belts lineage. Like there's no reason to muddy up AEW with another world title. Preach.
01:24:21
Speaker
Sam Rosenthal, what do you think about Jade's... Okay, let me read this again. Why do you think about 45 of Jade's 60 wins were straight up job or squash matches? Protecting her is one thing, but kind of making the latest wins lame or pointless, no? 60 and 0 was what, a one minute match versus a name you won't remember?
01:24:42
Speaker
We're not going to slander Jade Cargill on the podcast. I don't know if anybody else has anything to add, but that's one thing we ain't going to do. No, I just think, dude, a lot of it is, you can say whatever you want about the people she's wrestled. She is still really young and new to wrestling. So I don't mind it just because she needs all the work she can get, dude. I mean, we're not going to slander her at all, but I just feel like it doesn't matter to me at all. I just, I want her to keep winning.
01:25:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's part of the gimmick at this point. I know what you're saying, man. It'd be great to see her. She's ready. It feels like it's definitely time. I think if they're still doing this two or three months from now, I'll probably have a little bit more of a problem with it. I don't have a problem with it right now, though.
01:25:25
Speaker
Yeah. Brett Sharrow kind of contributed in to the conversation and said, you know, I see it more as protecting everyone else from her. She can beat the big names, but if she beat them several times, then it would, what would be the point of the main event women's title be? So I kind of feel that too. Like, you know, if she's beaten the freaking champ, then, you know, or all the women that are like, you know, in line to be champ, then it really kind of takes away from that title too. So yeah, we love Jade Cardinal. What was you going to say, Jordan? About.
01:25:52
Speaker
Such you so he's about to say something. I just I feel like I feel like Jade's kind of in She's just a little bit of a holding pattern right now And I think Montez Ford's got some of the same things going on on Over on David to be different situation but same kind of vibe like dudes clearly been ready to break out from the the tag team scene For a while now and I think they're just waiting to the creative lines up and I think the same thing for Jade I think you know TK
01:26:15
Speaker
For all his faults, he definitely knows a good storyline when he's got one. And he knows it's going to be money when they do Jade's like elevation to the main event scene. So I think they're just waiting to kind of, for the kind of some of the traffic to clear out and kind of just, you know, give some time to let that story blossom.
01:26:32
Speaker
Brett Sharrow says, haven't been as active on here because I've been on vacation this week and I've been trying to enjoy time with the family. Hope you're all doing well. What is your favorite vacation you all have been on? I'll start with Marco. Marco, what's your favorite vacation? Dang. Probably New Orleans, WrestleMania 30. That's a good one. That was a great time.
01:26:56
Speaker
I've heard, I mean, I've, I've known, I know people, multiple people who went to that WrestleMania weekend and they said it was one of the best times of their life. They're like, New Orleans is a freaking wrestling city, dude. That's Scott Toon. I've heard Scott Toon no less than a hundred times talk about how
01:27:12
Speaker
He wants mania there every three years. Yeah, he wants mania in New Orleans every three years. He's like, it's the perfect mania city. It is, yeah. It's definitely like, you know, just the, obviously the amount of people there. Just the festivities, like, yeah, you get to drink every day, which is pretty awesome. You get to see wrestlers just walking around all over the place, too. You get to
01:27:34
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it was great. Yeah. It's a good time. It's definitely a party place and I love how compact everything is. So speaking of Scott Toon, I do want to give a shout out to our buddies over at Fully Poseable. You can check out their podcast every Sunday, all the action figure talk you could imagine. So definitely check out our friends, good friends from Fully Poseable on wherever you listen to your podcasts. All right, Jordan, what's your favorite vacation?
01:28:01
Speaker
Hawaii, February, 2017. Not even a question. Zoe was four years old. It was just, I mean, that's just like one of the most memorable vacations ever. The day on why Manalo was like, that was just a top five day overall. It was just an unreal day. I was newly pregnant. I was newly pregnant. There was just a lot of like,
01:28:25
Speaker
I mean obviously the Super Bowl happened during that trip so we won't talk about that. I mean the fact that the Falcons even made it to the Super Bowl and you guys got to be there for it though. I mean that was still cool. I mean dude we got to... We were bonded by drama. I got to go with you guys when you guys made your announcement about being pregnant. Pregnancy announcement. That was awesome. Me and Seth we all sat on the beach the Y Medall of the day. Matt Ryan won the MVP. Sheena took us to the North Shore multiple times. At that Cajun guy like
01:28:53
Speaker
I don't know. Cajun guy. It's not even there anymore, Jordan. He had to move off island, man. That trip was unreal. That was just an unreal trip. Went to Kula Ranch, did like the tour there. Jurassic Park, yeah. Yeah. That was memorable. I would have to say my favorite is also Hawaiian vacation. We lived in Hawaii, but we island hopped over to the island of Kauai. The weekend Kauai was a blast.
01:29:21
Speaker
It was just magical. Brett was like what, like 18 months old? A year and change, I had that old. He was like a year and it was October. It was October, yeah. So he was like a year and two months old. We took Brett and it was just so chill. It was like we had a hotel like right on the beach. There was a pool, had like a little like swim up bar situation. The Kauai is just unreal. Like if you've... I can't even explain it. The natural beauty there is just unlike anything I've ever seen before. And I lived on Hawaii for
01:29:50
Speaker
six years. So yeah, that vacation in 2018 to Kauai was my favorite. All right, that wraps up listener mail for this week. Thank you guys for hitting us with all the great questions to get the conversation going. Want to remind you guys check out all of our pod foundation family at coming down the aisle turnbuckle tavern and extra cooler show. Just you know, really just a great well around the collective of wrestling podcasts use code chick fully to save 10% at ringside collectibles.
01:30:18
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Find all things chick Foley including access to our patreon exclusive facebook group at chick Foley calm It's time for the trivia question challenge. I'm gonna try to get another record-breaking streak on hit me with it Shane at The 1992 summer slam. Okay, who was crush his opponent Oh Demolition explodes it was repo man. Oh
01:30:43
Speaker
Repo man. Yep. Damn. That was right in my wheelhouse. I knew when it's like 1992. 90 to 97. I'm in there, dude. Attitude era, a lot of the events start to run together and it gets tricky, but 90 to 97. Yeah, that's a cakewalk, man. All right, that wraps up another great show. Sheena, hit us with some closing thoughts as we head into Memorial Day weekend.
01:31:04
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I want everybody out there to enjoy your more of the weekend. If you have a long weekend, spend it doing something that you love, something that you enjoy, something that brings you happiness. Be safe out there and watch the Vanderpump Rules reunion, which is what I'm going to do tomorrow. Oh my God. Gross. I can't believe you guys even had me here tonight on the night of the Vanderpump Rules reunion show.