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Extreme Rules & Fight For The Fallen Preview!!
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Wow what a weekend of wrestling we have coming up! Sheena and Phil preview Extreme Rules, Fight for the Fallen, AND the Evolve 10th Anniversary Show! Plus they talk about their favorite figures from the first half of 2019 and so much more!
Patreon: www.patreon.com/chickfoleyshow
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Transcript
The McMahon Family and Fan Promises
00:00:00
Speaker
didn't get me anything. So you know what? A while ago, I watched the entire McMahon family come out in this ring and say, hey, right now, from now on, we're gonna listen to the fans and give the audience what they want. But the only thing that's happened since then is Shane McMahon has gotten more power, more authority, and more TV time than anyone. And trust me when I say that nobody watching ever wanted that.
00:00:31
Speaker
And now we have to sit back every week on every show and listen to Shane McMahon call himself the best in the world.
Upcoming Wrestling Weekend Excitement
00:00:50
Speaker
We might have the biggest weekend of Wrestling of the Year coming up. It's the Chick Foley show. It's the hot take kid here in the Jimmy's Famous Seafood Studios. Fucking flying here will not leave me alone. It's been here for like a week. Jesus Christ. Sheena, help me. I can't help you. Yeah, I can barely help myself at this point. So, you know, helping helping others right now is is not happening.
00:01:19
Speaker
You're flying solo. I'm recovering from a long holiday weekend. Hopefully everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July. I had a damn good time. And now we're here to talk about a weekend full of wrestling action. Sheena, I'm pretty pumped.
00:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's going to be a good weekend. You know, I mean, it's nothing that's like, you know, it's not one of the big four pay per views or anything like that. But we just have an exciting and exciting week.
Patreon Content and Social Media Interaction
00:01:43
Speaker
You know, we're really kind of seeing the competition like kind of fuel up a little bit, you know, seeing that we have so much going on. Right. I mean, like literally we just had fighter fest.
00:01:52
Speaker
and AEW's like, you know, they're like, well damn, we can crank out more shows. So they're doing Fight for the Fallen. We have Extreme Rules and we have the 10th Anniversary Evolve Show coming up this weekend. So lots of, lots of stuff to watch and we'll have lots of stuff to cover on next week's show. So I'm pretty pumped. I'm sad. The heel husband is gone. He's my, he's my wrestling buddy, you know, wrestling watching buddy now, you know, and he's always been, but especially now like we get to watch wrestling sans the baby face. Like we get to put him to bed and then watch wrestling, which is like a whole, whole new,
00:02:22
Speaker
thing for us you know like we were so used to having him and entertaining him and having one person watching him and you know yeah having having nap time somewhere in the middle of a pay-per-view you know but now it's like we get to like chill and kick back and like watch watch uninterrupted but he is unfortunately out to out in the middle of the ocean on a ship so he's gonna be missing all the all the fun this this weekend
00:02:45
Speaker
Well, hopefully he's listening to
Social Media and Merchandise Promotions
00:02:47
Speaker
us. Hopefully he's Wi-Fi out there because we have dropped a couple new things on our Patreon page. You can find that at patreon.com slash Chick Foley show. I wrote an article with my dream AEW versus WWE card and the top 10 worst wrestling shirts of all times. I've been busy on the internet this week, Sheena.
00:03:08
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah. Not only have you been, you know, doing that, you freaking been fighting off all the Twitter trolls. So, man, I commend you for all the work that you've been putting in. Oh, God. Don't get me started on those people. For sure. The salt of the earth. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, it's patreon.com slash chick Foley show. Sheena has a bunch of unboxing videos coming up soon as she hinted on her Instagram today, a bunch of stuff that she needs to unbox.
00:03:32
Speaker
Yeah, I put a unboxing video for retro series 10 at least half of it because I got a phone call halfway through so I'm trying to post the other half tonight and We have a bunch of new content articles videos and new episodes going on up there. So check it out It starts at a dollar per month. You get our show notes sent to your email inbox every single week and
00:03:52
Speaker
And yeah, we have a cool community on Facebook that you can join where people can buy and sell figures and we kind of do some wrestling chitchat all throughout the day instead of doing a real job. So it's been pretty fun, Sheena.
00:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, I love the Facebook page. That was definitely a great addition to the, you know, to the Patreon fam. I think it's just a great way for all of us to stay connected. I mean, because even though like, you know, Facebook, I mean, I don't feel like it's like a dying social media platform. I feel like, you know, there's, I mean, everybody has a Facebook, I feel like. But, you know, I think more people have navigated to different platforms, but Facebook is just so easy to keep up with. It's so user friendly. It's so just like streamlined and it's been a lot of fun over there, just like kind of like getting to know those guys and
00:04:35
Speaker
just talking all the wrestling things with them. For sure.
Wrestling Figures and Collectibles Discussion
00:04:38
Speaker
For sure. You can follow us on social media. The show is Twitter account is at chick Foley show. You can follow Sheena on Instagram at chick Foley. And the best place to send us a question or a comment or concern. It's ask chick Foley at gmail.com. Ringside collectibles is a proud sponsor of our show. You can use now code chick Foley for 10% off.
00:05:04
Speaker
And, you know, you can actually get, you know, I'm not very good at math, but you can get 30% off. You do three orders and you get 10% off each order. That's 30% off. So, you know.
Extreme Rules Event Preview
00:05:14
Speaker
I don't think that's how it works. No, that is how it works. Yeah. I don't think it compounds like that. You're doing some, some Steiner math, some Riffle math. Yeah. I went to private school. Trust me. I know my shit. I know my shit. But yeah, they have a bunch of, you know, ringside collectibles doesn't deal with, you know,
00:05:31
Speaker
Barbie dolls and all the other kind of toys that are out there. They're strictly wrestling figures. They are the best place to get stuff. I mean, they're on, what, Elite 70? And we still haven't seen Elite 67 in stores. So, I mean, you're going to pay a little bit extra, but trust me, if you want something, if you need it, use their 10% off code and make sure you get it. They know their stuff.
00:05:54
Speaker
Uh, our friends over at Collar and Elbow are the same way, uh, but for apparel and we love them. It's collarandelbowbrand.com. It's a code CHICK for 10% off there. So check them out. We love their, uh, stuff. And then our shirts are available on prowrestlingtease.com. We have a new one dropping in the next couple of weeks. Oh, I can't wait.
00:06:16
Speaker
Our friend Extra Cooler is putting that together for us. Hopefully I can get him to do that before he goes on vacation, but no promises. That's a higher priority than making a wrestling shirt for a podcast. For sure. The Extra Cooler has a lot of irons in the fire. He does a lot of things. He has a well-deserved vacation, I'm sure.
00:06:36
Speaker
So let's get into it. We have a huge weekend of wrestling and we're not gonna do our normal raw and Smackdown recap Sheena like we normally do because That number one not much happened number two a lot of that stuff will come up as we now Preview extreme rules this weekend and it feels like we just left stomping grounds but the car yeah the card here for extreme rolls is shaping up pretty nicely and
00:07:02
Speaker
Yeah, I actually, I mean, I like, I'm really into it, you know? I mean, Extreme Rules is just one of those pay-per-views that we, you know, we have every year. Nothing, you know, I don't want to say nothing crazy ever happens, but it's just one of those that kind of comes and goes and then you're like, okay, like, let's get to SummerSlam, you know? But we do have some really, really interesting match-ups here, you know, and I'm excited to break these down.
00:07:23
Speaker
All right, let's start at the beginning here. And this is a tag match we've been wanting to see for a long time, the Revival and the Usos. Wait a minute, am I on the right thing here? Yeah, I'm on the right thing here, yeah.
00:07:36
Speaker
Why does it say defeated? Why is this already giving me the results of the show? Freaking Wikipedia. OK, never mind. We'll cut this out. We'll cut the sound. That's why we need to get the intern. We need to make it. We have an announcement coming a little bit later about the new intern for our show. He has been named. He or she has been named. And this is where we would help us. But yeah, Wikipedia is messing me up here because it says. I think you just had too many beers and hot dogs in the Fourth of July weekend. They're still coming off that, you know.
00:08:05
Speaker
off that high, so yeah, we got revival versus Usos. Hope, I mean, we do know as wrestling fans, hold on, cover your ears if you're a kayfabe only, that the outcomes are predetermined, but I mean, I don't think Wikipedia's gonna be updated just yet with the current results.
Braun Strowman vs Bobby Lashley Match Discussion
00:08:22
Speaker
You know what I mean? Yeah, but this is a match we've been wanting to see for a long time, and I'm hoping that the revival, hold on to these belts for a little bit longer, because it's been like a hot potato mess over there on Raw. What do you see happening with this one?
00:08:35
Speaker
yeah i i see uh the revival retaining i i mean i think they're you know like i said i just think they're kind of primed to be those like long-term champions the usos have had you know several title runs um i love me some usos don't get it wrong um and i mean if they become the the new raw tag team champions i'm not going to be mad at this is one of those matches that
00:08:54
Speaker
Either way, it shakes out. I'm going to be stoked. But I do, in my heart, I believe I'm picking the revival for this one. But yeah, it's going to be a banger of a match. I'm just excited to see these four guys go head to head.
00:09:09
Speaker
Yeah, me too. And I'm hoping, like I said, I'm hoping the revival holds on. I think they will. I think beating the Usos would really legitimize them as a top-notch tag team in the eyes of the common fan. I think most hardcore smarts already know that these guys can go from Washington and NXT. But I'm going to go revival here. You feel the same way?
00:09:29
Speaker
Yeah, think about how far these guys have come. You know what I mean? It was like not in the too distant past that these guys weren't even on our television screen at all. And now they're the champs taking on the Usos. So that's super exciting. And like I said, I'm pumped for this match. I'm going with the revival, picking the revival on this one just like you. So yep, that's who I got.
Anticipation for Ricochet vs AJ Styles
00:09:51
Speaker
After that, we have a Last Man Standing match between Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley. I feel like we've seen this a thousand times now, but I don't know what they're gonna do in this match to kind of take it up another notch. This is gonna be a bathroom break match after maybe the second match on the car, but still, I have no interest in this match at all.
00:10:18
Speaker
I mean, I think it'll be okay. Um, it's just, it's just one of those matches. I mean, these are two big guys. These are two behemoths. You know, it's not going to be anything like super crazy. Like, I mean, if Brian goes off, like, I don't think he's too banged up and he's not going to go off the top rope or anything like that. I think it's just going to be one of those things where they just like literally beat the hell out of each other. Um, and, uh, you know, I mean, they are in Philadelphia where things tend to get extreme. So we might, you know, we might see some interesting stuff come out of it.
00:10:48
Speaker
Um, I mean, there's, there's no stipulations. There's no, um, titles on the line here. So I think I'm going to go with Braun Strowman to win this one. I don't know though, but I mean, they had, did you see, they had Bobby Lashley come out and like freaking squash Ray Mysterio. Uh, I just couldn't, what was that?
00:11:09
Speaker
Ray Mysterio comes out and says- Coming back from injury. Coming back from injury, former champion. Let me just remind you that before he went out on injury, he was the United States champion. He was a champion and a highly decorated member of the WWE superstars. Let's freaking be real here. Bobby Lashley just came out and squashed him like a bug.
00:11:33
Speaker
You know, and it was just not a good look. It didn't do anything for Bobby. It didn't do anything for Ray. Um, it could have been any jobber or any other superstar in that position. Um, so why they chose to do that to Ray Mysterio, like, I don't know if they thought it was going to give Bobby some momentum going into
Finn Balor's Championship Journey
00:11:51
Speaker
extreme rules, but to me, it was just kind of like, I was just confused. I didn't know why they did it. I thought it made Ray look like shit. Um, and, uh, you know,
00:12:01
Speaker
I mean, maybe they're, maybe they're kind of telegraphing that Bobby's going to win, but I'm going to go with Braun on this one. Yeah, I'm going Braun too. I got to think whoever wins this, they're going to try to position as like kind of another big time challenger for Seth before, you know, as kind of, uh, you know, some, some are not, are you kidding? Who, who, who is Seth? I mean, he can't keep fighting Baron Corbin. Who is he going to fight next on raw? AJ.
00:12:27
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it can't be one of these guys. I mean, I would prefer him to keep fighting Baron Corbin as opposed to fighting Bobby Lashley and Braun Strowman. Seriously, that is a strong statement for me.
00:12:46
Speaker
I just, I don't have, these guys do not do anything for me. Like poor Braun. I just feel like he, he's not the, the beat or the monster that he once was. Um, he just does nothing for me to eat. Neither one of these guys have great mic skills. Um, other than just being like physically impressive, like, you know, as far as like just being physical specimens, um,
00:13:07
Speaker
There's nothing there. These are the guys that need a manager. These are the guys that need someone to talk for them. Bobby needed Leo Rush. Braun needs Paul Heyman. Alone, these guys, I don't want to see them anywhere near the main event picture.
00:13:27
Speaker
But Selena Vega with Bobby Lashley, just do something. I mean, yeah, we've talked about this ad nauseam on the show. Braun Strowman was white hot a year and a half ago. And they did nothing with him as far as
Mid-Card Titles Losing Clout
00:13:39
Speaker
getting him in a title picture. And now he's almost on the pre-show in a match that's going to be the slow-mo match of the night. And no one gives a shit about it, which is a shame.
00:13:51
Speaker
He can still go and he can still be, you know, what Big Show was in his prime. It just a shit kicking big ass heel. But I don't know, you know, I don't even think he's like kids don't share him anymore. It's just, you know, no, he just he just needs to be a big brooding. Like, like you said, he does need to be a big silent.
00:14:11
Speaker
monster like that's when he like he when he just looks at you and stares at you and intimidates you like that's when bronze at his best when he's saying like you're gonna get these hands i'm gonna take you out like that i mean i i'm just like oh my god like shut up you know what i mean so he needs someone to speak for him and he just needs to be the force that like comes out and does the dirty work
00:14:36
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I think a heel turn for him would be well accepted. Maybe even throw these guys in a tag team together and let them run roughshod or something. I don't know. Yeah. Kind of like the bar did before they joined up together. They were feuding back and forth. Ricochet defends the US title against former world champion AJ Styles, which we got this match last week on Raw, and it was damn good. But I think this should take it to another level, and this should be
00:15:05
Speaker
I was hoping they would hold this for SummerSlam, but I'm interested to see what they do here.
00:15:11
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I wish they wouldn't have had them fight the other night. I wish they would have just saved it and had them meet up for the first, you know, for the first time truly, you know, in this, in this new situation where AJ is the heel and Ricochet is a face on extreme rules. I would have been more excited to see it. Obviously this is going to be a killer match. Both of these guys are incredible. There's no, there's no denying that both of these guys are going to put on a freaking show. But, um,
00:15:38
Speaker
Again, I wish the first time we were seeing this new, this new version of AJ. Well, not new version. I mean, I love, I love heel AJ. Like, can I just say on the record that I'm so happy to have heel AJ back. Like, it's so refreshing. It's had to happen. I think it was, you know, perfect timing. Yeah.
00:15:56
Speaker
Yeah, it was perfect timing and I like that not only did they turn him heel, they realigned him with, you know, Gallows and Anderson. You know, now I'm just waiting for that fin heel turn because I've never seen a heel fin. I don't know if in other promotions if he had a heel gimmick, you know, but I don't think he did. I think he's always been a face, you know, but yeah, I'm excited to see what comes of
00:16:25
Speaker
you know, the AJ Styles faction, the new and improved Bullet Club, obviously they can't call it the Bullet Club, but. Do we not have a Finn Balor Nakamura match on this card? I thought we were going to. We do, yeah, we do. Okay. Yeah, it's for the Intercontinental title. Fuckin', Wikipedia's two strikes now, Wikipedia. Actually, maybe it's just a prediction. I thought maybe they, I mean, I thought they had set it up, but maybe I'm rocking. I thought so too, yeah. But I mean, they wrestled on Tuesday, too.
00:16:54
Speaker
Well they definitely should because Finn Balor, we'll just go ahead and get into that. Finn Balor has not, he hasn't had any meaningful feuds since becoming Intercontinental Championship. Like he's just kind of been like floating in the background. So he needs to do something with it. And I think having him and Nakamura on Extreme Rules could definitely be the start of something amazing.
00:17:16
Speaker
Yeah, the guys over at our Vantage Point podcast, we've talked about them before. If you don't listen to their podcast, you really should. I highly recommend it, but they do kind of a top 10 and a bottom 10 rankings, you know, every like 10 episodes. And right now they're doing the best and the worst intercontinental champions of all time. And it's an awesome,
00:17:35
Speaker
It's an awesome list in every couple of weeks when they add a couple new names to the list. And there's some guys that you would think had a great run as the Intercontinental Champion, but they didn't face anybody. And that's what's going on right now with Finn Balor. We talked about after recapping with Marco, after recapping WrestleMania, man, this is going to breathe some life into this Intercontinental Championship. And they have done less than zero with it, right? Yeah. Nothing.
00:18:01
Speaker
It's been, it's been pretty crazy. Um, honestly, like, cause I mean, you, like you said, you kind of brought up a good point there that, you know, you see Finn and you see Finn with the title and you just kind of like in your mind without really thinking about, you know, the, the actual statistics or, you know, the numbers or anything like that, or the match ups. Like you're like, Oh man, like he's a good champion. You know, like he, he makes for a good champion, but then you're like, but what does he actually really done? You know? And I think that that's.
00:18:26
Speaker
That's a big thing with fan. And I think that's a big thing with all of the mid-card championships right now. Like, you know, the, the us title and the intercontinental title, they really, they've really lost a lot of their cloud because.
00:18:38
Speaker
They've just been hot potatoed around. No one's had meaningful feuds. No one's had meaningful, um, you know, title reigns. And like we talked about on, um, one of our Patreon episodes, like that's one thing that WWE needs to be better at is just making these titles matter, right? Let's get rid of some of the excess titles, right? Um, and make the titles that we have meaningful.
Cesaro as Aleister Black's Opponent
00:19:01
Speaker
And I think just by eliminating like a set of
00:19:04
Speaker
You know, having one WWE tag champion, one women's WWE tag champion. There's no need to have a SmackDown and a Raw, especially now that it is like, there's no, there's no wild card apparently anymore. And there's no like, you know, technically there's no brand split anymore. Um, why do we have separate tag titles for each show? You know, why do we have separate women's championships for each show? I think it's, I think it's ridiculous.
00:19:30
Speaker
Yeah, if you go back in the archives on our Patreon account, we did a top 10 ways to improve the WWE product, and that's what we talked about. I mean, how often do we see the IIconics on television? How often do we see Finn Balor defending the Intercontinental Title? It's just, you know, there's- I know. It just makes them meaningless at some point. When the Intercontinental Title isn't defended on every pay-per-view, you know, it's like,
00:19:56
Speaker
What the fuck? Why even have it? What is it? What is even what is even the point is even defended on on Smackdown? I think I can't even I can't remember but I like the thing about it is is I don't even think it has to be like you said I don't think it has to be defended on every pay-per-view, but you have to do some title defenses on
00:20:15
Speaker
regular weekly television, you know, they, they save all of that. Like they'll, they'll have all of the, you know, non title matches and the buildup matches going up into the pay-per-view. And then, you know, it's, it's for the title at the pay-per-view, but at the same time, like.
00:20:29
Speaker
Make it make the product interesting to watch and have title changes on the weekly television You know I think that's so that's so so important in making people Tune in and making people stay tuned in right because you're not gonna watch that third hour of raw before extreme rules because you know
00:20:45
Speaker
Nothing's going to happen. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, like, okay, well, you know, nothing, we're just going to have more of the same. Um, and it was exactly that, you know, I felt like for the go home shows before a pay-per-view, both of these shows kind of fell short. You know what I mean? Um, there was nothing that was like truly made me like hooked in to watch extreme rules. Um, I mean, overall they were okay shows. They've been, they've been better in the last couple of weeks and they've been God, you know, all of 2019.
00:21:12
Speaker
But I do feel like for you know, if you're trying to promote this pay-per-view that they kind of did a poor job like, you know Besides Kevin Owens and we'll touch on him in a little bit because Kevin Owens brought the effing house down at Smackdown just for the record Yeah, that was the intro on the the show this week and he he brought it Yeah, I checked WWE comm the Finn Balor matches not on the card right now. So I
00:21:35
Speaker
Well, I mean, if it's not on there now, I mean, I guess. Yeah, we're days away. So let's keep it moving. Aleister Black finally has an opponent. Oh, man. He's facing Cesaro. And people were on Twitter just praising this skit from Tuesday night where Cesaro shows up. He's the one that's challenging Aleister Black, which
00:21:56
Speaker
don't get me wrong this is gonna be a badass match these two are two of the best in this company and in the ring but Cesaro in a white suit and pulls his
00:22:09
Speaker
Slobbery mouth card out to talk. Dude, dude. It didn't, it did nothing for me. Okay. Zero crowd reaction. Zero. Oh my gosh. It felt like they just sucked the energy out of the room because you saw, you know, like he was like, you know, you're like, maybe the person won't show up and we'll just have to find out at Extreme Rules, right? Which I thought would have been better.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, that would have been so much better. Even if Cesaro had showed up at Extreme Rules, I think it would have been a better reaction than what happened. You know, I think him showing up on Raw was just like such a, like, it was such a wet fart. You know what I mean? Like, I had to get it in. I had to get it in.
00:22:51
Speaker
But it literally was. I feel like if Cesaro's music had just hit and he came out and thought Alistair Black at Extreme Rules, it would have been much
00:23:01
Speaker
much more well-received.
Cesaro's Solo Potential
00:23:04
Speaker
I got a lot of shit on Instagram for posting that I was underwhelmed by it. And people were like, oh, you know, Cesaro, everybody clamors for a Cesaro main event push or a Cesaro push. And then when he finally gets pushed, people want to say that it's underwhelming or this is going to be a great match. I never said it's not going to be a great match. Both Aleister Black and Cesaro are incredible wrestlers.
00:23:29
Speaker
I just feel like with all of this build up that they've given us, I mean, Jesus Christ, how long has Aleister Black been doing these ominous promos backstage? You know what I mean? I feel like Cesaro was just not the most exciting choice for that. You know what I mean?
00:23:49
Speaker
probably don't want to put him you know with someone like Bray because Aleister can't afford to lose and neither Bray can't afford to lose either so they put him with someone like Cesaro so really they're gonna put on an amazing match Aleister Black's gonna be able to show out because he's gonna be able to step up to the level of Cesaro and Sara's gonna be able to step up to the level of Aleister Black and they're they're both gonna be amazing it's gonna be a great show from both of them and I'm sure Aleister Black is gonna win
00:24:12
Speaker
It doesn't take anything away from Cesaro. It doesn't take anything away from Aleister Black. And it makes Aleister Black look good. But at the same time, the unveiling of it all, like you said, he comes and he's wearing a suit. He's wearing that goofy-ass mouth guard that still says the bar. Are you still a part of the bar, bro? Because the bar's the thing anymore. You know what I mean? And God forbid me, God forgive me, I guess I should say. The braces, man.
00:24:42
Speaker
I can't take him seriously with those braces. I know he had some, you know, dental issues. He hit the turnbuckle and crammed his teeth up inside of his head and I have all this empathy for that. But you couldn't get some Invisalign, bro. Like you are on TV every single week. You know what I mean? Or even like the clear braces is that sort of thing. Like those are like the braces that I had in 1995.
00:25:05
Speaker
Do you know what I mean? They were cool because you could pick the different color bands that you wanted. You can go with a green band. Oh yeah, I had turquoise and purple. I had some Charlotte Hornets ass teeth when I was in sixth grade. But I mean, you're a grown man. And to all the grown men out there that got braces, listen, this is not a shade. This is not a dig against you. If you're out there and you got braces and you're trying to get your grill right,
00:25:30
Speaker
It's okay, right? I totally respect that. I know Invisalign is expensive. It's not in everybody's budget to get their girl fixed with Invisalign, but Cesaro has the money and he's on TV every week. You know what I mean? So dude, don't be trying to make me feel all serious when you're out there looking like freaking Dustin from Stranger Things. You know what I mean?
00:25:53
Speaker
I just thought it was horrible. And then he then he proceeds to put the mouth guard back in after he like, you know, he's sitting there looking all dumb and then he's like, you know, he goes, like put some mouth. This should be a saltwater taffy on a pole match. You want to really fuck those braces up, you know? Oh my God. Yeah, dude. Oh my God. Eat some shit with some seeds in it. Um,
00:26:17
Speaker
That's freaking hilarious. Um, but yeah, I mean, it's going to be a good match. I got a lot of shit for saying it was going to be underwhelming. Let me just clarify. I thought the reveal was underwhelming. I feel like I would have been more excited to have a mystery, you know, reveal at, at extreme roles, but it was just on raw the night before. I mean, he's been, it's not a guy that were, you know,
00:26:38
Speaker
We see him wrestle every single week and he's, you know, he's great in the ring. This is going to be a great match. I'm sure it's, they picked him for Alistair to go over. I don't know who the heel or the face is in this match because Alistair has been, been pretty heelish in his promos. I don't know if it really matters, but, uh, I don't know who the fans are going to cheer for. I mean,
00:26:58
Speaker
They're going to chill. I think they're going to cheer for Alistair. Um, you know, I think they're going to chill, cheer for him, but, um, I'm going to, this is probably going to be a hot take. I've said this before, um, on multiple platforms that I can't remember if I've ever said on this podcast before, but let me just say everybody like Cesar was an amazing wrestler. I already put that out there, but he is not a main eventer as a solo star. Everybody's like, Oh, he deserves to be, you know, world champion and stuff.
00:27:24
Speaker
Cesaro, Cesaro is good, but he just doesn't have the it factor. Like he does not have it.
00:27:34
Speaker
Do you know what I mean? Like he does not have the AJ Styles or the Seth Rollins or the Roman Reigns. That's okay, Sheena. It's okay to not be like, you know, there's only a handful of those guys in the world. Mr. Perfect never won a world title. Uh, Scott Hall never won a world title. They can still be a, uh, you know, not everyone is going to be a main event guy. I mean, Kevin Owens is probably, and I wanted to talk about this later.
00:28:00
Speaker
I can't think of anyone better than Kevin Owens as far as on the mic and in the ring and you know Cesaro can go but he has nothing on the mic and you know Enzo Amore was the opposite he can go all day on the mic but he was just awful in the ring so you got to have a balance and Cesaro just doesn't have it he's been around long enough and he's just he's a great guy in the ring he's a great wrestler
00:28:24
Speaker
But if it was gonna happen, it would have happened by now. Do you know what I mean? If it was gonna happen. The borrower is the best thing that ever happened to him. That was perfect. Yes. And him and Tyson Kidd, he excels in the tag team scene. Him with the tag team partner, he is incredible. Like that is his sweet spot. You know what I mean? If he's gonna be a solo star, he's never gonna be anything more than a mid card guy. And he can be at the very top of the mid card. I'm not saying he's like a bottom mid card.
00:28:53
Speaker
guy, he could be at the top of the mid cart, but he's, he is not going to break into that main event scene.
Mid-Card Titles and Bryan/Rowan vs New Day vs Heavy Machinery
00:28:59
Speaker
Like you said, he doesn't have the, the smoothness on the mic. He doesn't have really anything interesting about him other than the fact that he can, you know, wrestle pretty good. You know, there's nothing interesting about Cesaro. Um, I mean, maybe he could be the first world champion with braces. I don't know. I don't, I would have to look back in the history books and see if there's ever been a, uh, a world champ. What was a kid that, uh, Braun Strowman tagged with?
00:29:23
Speaker
Nicholas. Yeah, he might have had braces. Nicholas. Yeah, I don't even think Nicholas had braces, to be honest with you. Cesaro is also perfect if you need another guy for a Money in the Bank ladder match, because he's going to go out and steal the shell. It's no shade on him, man. No.
00:29:43
Speaker
not everybody can be freaking Mike Trout or or or Aaron Rodgers you know it's but it's okay like you don't need to be the best the the very best i'm not the very best at what i do and you know that is yeah and that's one of the biggest problems with wrestling fans is that everybody feels like their favorite guy should be the guy and when he's not or he or she i guess i should say when he or she is not then they're so but her you know i mean they're so like oh my gosh he's getting buried i'm
00:30:11
Speaker
And it's just not true. It's just that this guy is legitimately a mid Carter. Like that is his, that is his ceiling. You know, maybe he could drop down to a smaller promotion. Like, you know, if he goes to AEW or ring of honor and he could be a champion there, but when he's in the big, the big pond, he's not, you're he's a small fish, you know? And I think, um, people just need to accept that and like accept that.
00:30:37
Speaker
Sometimes your favorite guy is not going to be the guy or the man as it were
00:30:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, totally. But I guess we both have Aleister Black here. I think this is the beginning of a nice push for him. Yeah, real quick, I'm going to interject this Extreme Rules preview. You brought up Enzo Amore, which I thought was funny, because right before I jumped on the show, I saw, did you see that him and Joey Janela got in supposedly a shoot fight at a Blink-182 Lil Wayne concert?
00:31:08
Speaker
Well, I knew it was a Blink-182 concert. Little Wayne and Blink-182, what kind of concert is this? First of all, who goes to a Blink-182 concert in 2019? Yeah, I mean, it would be fun because I'd probably know the words every song, but I don't know if I'd pay to see them at this point.
00:31:28
Speaker
I mean, besides like all the small things, I don't even know that, you know, what, what, whether Blink 182, I'm so, I'm sorry. If Seth is listening, he's going crazy. Cause I know he's a, he's, he's probably, what's my, what's my age again? That whole album, that whole album was fire and they've had some good songs since then. Can I, can I remind you that album came out in 1999. That was 20 years ago, Phil. Yeah. You know what I mean?
00:31:56
Speaker
20 years ago the guy in the main event that's when he was good, and he's still fucking wrestling Sheena, so
00:32:03
Speaker
Oh man, you got me. If you haven't seen that, anyway, why Joey Janela and Enzo Morrie were at a Blink-182 Lil Wayne concert, that's their own business. But apparently after the show let out, they were in the parking lot. That's what it looked like. They were in the parking lot and Joey Janela was wearing these obscenely skinny skinny jeans and Enzo Morrie's telling him he's going to punch his
00:32:28
Speaker
punches drunk ass out and beat his drunk ass up and all this stuff and I don't think they ever really hit each other from the video that I saw they never even really like locked up or anything so which makes me feel like
00:32:38
Speaker
I feel like I'm getting worked here. I mean, Enzo Moray's already done this once, so I feel like I'm getting worked. So anyway, I just wanted to jump in. If you hadn't seen that and you're interested in those types of things. You gave a hot take earlier. I'll give a hot take. I hate concerts. I hate them.
00:32:58
Speaker
If I never went to another concert the rest of my life, I'd be perfectly fine. Now, when I'm there, then there's an outdoor pavilion type of concert arena, and 20 minutes away from my house, and I'll go there if my wife wants to go see a concert. But I can never, I'll go years without even thinking about a concert. The only thing I would think about, and this sounds lame, but if Elton John came around, because I think he's on a farewell tour,
00:33:25
Speaker
Yeah, that would be something I'd want to see or like the Rolling Stones or something something you couldn't see like ever again But like yeah, I'm just not I just don't listen to much current music to even make me care about You know going to spend a hundred dollars on that
00:33:41
Speaker
Yeah. I don't, I don't dislike concerts. I mean, you know, he'll husband and I've been to like, you know, we've been to several concerts through over the past few years and stuff. How many warp tours have you been to with Seth? Zero. You guys never went to the warp tour?
00:33:57
Speaker
No. Oh my God. Are you kidding me? No, I did not go to warp tour. That was like the like the emo sky. I thought he was in all that kind of. I was. I was. No, we were not emo kids. We were athletes and like jocks and like, you know. Well, he was telling me he was a real big fish and money, money ballstones more.
00:34:15
Speaker
well no seth let me tell you let me tell you a little bit about heel husband heel husband is like the most as far as like his interests and stuff like that he can tell you about any freaking thing i told you he has an encyclopedic memory and he loves music like the man can tell you what album who produced it when it came out where it went on the charts like the man is like a
00:34:35
Speaker
My own personal Wikipedia and he is into a lot of different styles of music. I would never consider him like even if he did like that type of music. He was not never an emo kid. You know what I mean? He may have he may have listened to that genre of music but.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, but to get back to your point, concerts, yeah. If I can have my own seat, an assigned seat, I'm not going to a standing room only concert. At 33 years old, F that. If it's standing room and I can't go get a beer and come back and sit in my own seat where I was sitting 20 minutes before, you can F off. I'm not doing that. I'm not pushing through people to try to get to the stage. I'm too old for that business.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah, if I'm going to a concert, it's got to be I got to have a I got to have a seat. OK, good take. Good take. Yeah. Drew Gulak versus this is the most disjointed pay-per-view preview ever. But I'm digging it. I'm digging it. Drew Gulak defending the cruiserweight championship against Tony Nese. Gulak the night before is battling Matt Riddle at the Evolve show. So we'll get to that in a moment.
00:35:49
Speaker
I like Drew Gulak. I think he's, I don't know, just an interesting character. He's different than all the other guys on 205 Live. I think he keeps it here. I don't know if there's a person, but last time we talked about this, we thought Tony Nese was going to keep it for quite a while and Drew Gulak stole the title from him. So I don't know.
00:36:08
Speaker
True, but Gulak is the hometown boy, so I believe that, you know, they're gonna let Gulak keep his championship in Philadelphia, so I'm going with Drew Gulak. Plus, I mean, the man is put in the work. Let him keep the damn title, you know what I mean? He's been hustling down there for a long time, so let's let this guy have a nice little title reign.
New Day's Title Potential
00:36:30
Speaker
And according to a good brother, Brandon, uh, who met Drew Gulak after the NXT show a couple months ago, he was the nicest dude of all time. So I gotta, I'm pulling, I'm pulling for him. Yeah. Just another reason to root for him. Daniel Bryan and Rowan against new day against heavy machinery and a triple threat match for the Smackdown tag team championships. We're almost all the way through this match, this card. What the fuck is extreme about this card?
00:36:56
Speaker
Um, well, we did have that last man standing match. Philadelphia is, you know, ECW is rolling in their grave when they see this. Like what we have a no holds barred match, which, you know, I don't know what the difference between that and extreme rules is, but, uh, that's coming up, but.
00:37:14
Speaker
What what why why even do why not like we said was this last week we talked about doing like a bash to the beach and all those Yeah, all right. Yeah, that would be that would be much better is just do a summer themed pay-per-view here instead of extreme rules because this is You know, this is gonna be a good car, but there's nothing extreme about anything happening here Yeah
00:37:38
Speaker
It doesn't make sense, I mean, to be quite honest with you. So yeah, there's not a lot of extreme things happening. And I mean, we're leaving the PG era behind, apparently, so why can't we just kick it up a notch and get a little bit extreme? Not so extreme that we're taking unprotected headshots and like throwing people down on tacks, like I don't feel like we need to go that far. We don't need attention, no.
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, we don't need all that. Every match should have a stipulation of something, like a cage match or something, even something small, chairs match or something. They've done that in years past. I think they've done a table ladders and chairs and stairs match. Yeah. Give me a freaking coal miner's glove on a pole. You know what I mean? Judy Bagwell's painting is on a pole or something. Yeah, something, dude. Give me something. But yeah, this is just straight up
00:38:30
Speaker
a tag match. It's going to be fun. I mean, all these guys I think are a lot of fun to watch. I mean, I love me some freaking Otis and Tucker, even though Tucker gave kind of over a pug, a promo on Tuesday. But other than that, yeah, it was very, it's going to be this when heavy machinery and the street profits split up at some point, how, how, how, who lasts longer? Tucker or D'Angelo Dawkins?
00:38:59
Speaker
Both of those guys are repub. They are awful. I don't think Dawkins is that bad. I'm going to go with Dawkins. Dawkins is going to last longer. I mean, obviously Montes is the is the freaking star of those two. But I would say if anybody's got staying power, if I'm if I'm voting, if I'm voting Tucker and Dawkins, it's definitely going to be Dawkins.
00:39:22
Speaker
Because Tucker just I think he's he's just a little bit. He's a little bit more limited But yeah, you know, I love my man Otis I mean I did I did like how you know They were doing the whole like, you know making fun of the new day and saying where they're gonna be the new tag team champions I thought that was good but uh, you know, I think I think this is gonna be an exciting match despite not having any sort of extreme stipulation and
00:39:46
Speaker
I think we see a title change here. I'm kind of leading heavy machinery. I feel like Dana O'Brien is destined for bigger things.
Women's Championship Match Predictions
00:39:54
Speaker
Maybe he fused with Rowan for a little bit. We get a Rowan face turn, and then we head into SummerSlam, get Dana O'Brien back in the title picture. I mean, we need somebody in there against Kofi. I mean, I like Samoa Joe in there. We'll get to that in a minute.
00:40:10
Speaker
True. I feel like I do need to see though. I feel like the New Day have earned it. I need to see the New Day with all the titles. I think that would be a really cool just visual to see. Yeah, to see Xavier and Biggie with the tag titles and then Kofi with the world title. I think that's just a really cool moment. I mean they kind of alluded to it saying like you know made some sort of like you know dick joke that they were going to touch there.
00:40:35
Speaker
You know their tips of their championships or their titles together Which Big E was cracking me up by the way when he was talking about when I they said I was gonna be in a Three-way on Sunday. This is not what I expected I was like you realize that Xavier actually wasn't a public three-way right like you realize that you know That's a thing yeah, but I just thought it was I just thought it was funny, but yeah, he was he was cracking me up I love Big E
00:41:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's gonna be a good match. Who do you got in this one? Are you guys New Day? I'm going with New Day. Okay, I'll go Heavy Machinery, so. Yeah, I mean Heavy Machinery is a good shout too. I mean, I can't, if they win, I'm gonna be super happy for them, but I do want that moment because I feel like Kofi is, his time is coming to an end and I don't know if he'll get that opportunity again, so I do want to see them with all the gold, like the undisputed era was supposed to have that we still haven't seen yet.
00:41:31
Speaker
Uh, Bailey versus Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross in a handicap match for the Smackdown Women's Championship. What's this all about? Oh my God, my God. Um, I don't know. Literally they, they put this on both shows this week. I could not believe that they drug this boring ass, stupid, like no storyline feud.
00:42:01
Speaker
To both shows and then they had that the contract signing on smackdown. It was just Horrible and it is horrible. I don't know why alexa is not on tv. I don't know what's going on with her I haven't really looked into seeing like if she's got a you know injury or if she's sick or if it's just a made a conscious a conscious decision
00:42:22
Speaker
not to have her on TV. Um, but what do you think is going to happen here? Like what, what's the outcome of this? Because I feel like it's going to be a title change and I feel like Alexa is going to get the title and then she told Nikki that they were going to be co-champions. I think this is where it splits, right? I mean, that's the logical answer.
00:42:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Something leading to a match between Bliss and Nikki Cross. And I can't stand listening to Nikki Cross talk. Just straight, straight off the boat. Yeah. It's just grating on my ears. Yeah. I have to listen very intently to like what she's saying because it's very, she has a very strong accent. Um,
00:43:10
Speaker
And yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely distracting, but I mean, I like her as a wrestler. I just like her. I like her as psycho Nikki. I don't like her as like, you know, single white female best friend, Nikki. Yeah. She's, this is the old Mickey James routine, like from, from 20 years ago, but even the, even the not so distant past, wasn't Mickey James and Alexa Bliss, weren't they like, you know, like besties with like, you know, a little contention around them.
00:43:37
Speaker
I could see them winning the titles Nikki Crosses like holding it up and then Alexa just jumps her from behind takes it and just walks you know walks out. Yeah Nikki getting the pin to win and then yeah that I could totally see that scene so Nikki gets the pin she's holding the title up and then Alexa just beats her down and takes it because they had the contract signing where she represents her then there's nothing that Nikki can do.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah, I can see that. I wouldn't mind that. I wouldn't mind. I'm just ready for, I'm just ready to not see so much of Bailey. There's a rumor that we have a imminent return of Sasha Banks. Do you think we could, we could have Bailey on the mic and saying, this is not going to be a handicap. No, she wouldn't say that. I should say this is not going to be a handicap match. This is going to be a tag match now.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yo, you nailed it. For a moment, for a moment, I was like, am I watching raw again? What's happening here? But no, I think the best case scenario for Sasha is for them to bring her back.
00:44:40
Speaker
and just start something completely fresh. She does not need to be attached to Bailey. I mean, whether they do it or not, I mean, that's a whole other story, but she does not need to be attached to Bailey. I feel like that is the worst case scenario. Um, just bring her back, have her do something fresh, have Bailey, you know, do something different. Um, I mean, like we could even bring back, let's run back.
00:45:02
Speaker
Sasha versus Charlotte, you know what I mean? But I mean, not that we haven't seen that a bajillion times, but at least it would get Charlotte back on TV and, you know, give Sasha something to do that's a little bit meaningful. Yeah.
00:45:15
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I just want to see Billy versus Sasha Banks, please. Just because that's going to put both of them on a rocket ship to the moon. Because once you see those two, those two had some of the best matches in NXT when they were together. And they've just been floating in the ether ever since.
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like anytime you put best friends against each other, they're going to have really great matches. That's why Seth and Dean always have really great matches. That's why Kevin and Sami always have really great matches. And Bailey and Sasha always have really great matches. When people are real life friends, I feel like there's just that chemistry there that you need in the ring. So yeah, they have put on some amazing matches. I just... I...
00:45:57
Speaker
I just don't want Sasha and Bayley to be a thing right
Undertaker and Shane McMahon's Roles
00:46:00
Speaker
now. I mean, I know it's inevitable because they've made it such a public thing that they're besties and that they were the first women's tag team champions and all that stuff. But I think it's in Sasha's best interest just to separate herself.
00:46:17
Speaker
totally agree. I'm hoping we see a Samoa Joe championship run here. Kofi Kingston putting the title on the line. Um, I don't know what else to say about this match. It's going to be good. I think I love heel Samoa Joe so much. I feel like we need to go in a completely different direction with what we've seen from Seth Rollins and Kofi Kingston. Like I need like a shitting, like angry heel champion. Like we saw with Daniel Bryan,
00:46:48
Speaker
True, I do love a heel champion. Whether they're going to pull the trigger on Samoa Joe or not, that is TBD. I don't know. I don't know why I can't imagine them doing it. I just feel like this is not that moment.
00:47:11
Speaker
And like I said, I hope Kofi wins just because I want him and new day to all win. But if the new day loses, then yeah, I'm down for Samoa Joe to get, to finally get his, uh, you know, his spotlight. All right. You got Kofi. I got Samoa Joe, the undertaker and Roman reigns against Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre and a no holds barred tag team match. So none of the holds will be barred in this match. Um, yeah, this is, I think, I think it's going to be,
00:47:40
Speaker
just run of the mill, what you would expect from, I mean, what the hell is Undertaker even going to do? He's in this match for less than a minute total, I would say. What's longer, his entrance to the ring or the amount of time he spends in the ring? His entrance for sure. 100%. But I mean, how weird is it going to be just seeing Undertaker standing
00:48:05
Speaker
on the side of the ring waiting to be tagged in at this point in his career. I know he paired up with Kane for a brief moment for Saudi Arabia, but for him and Roman Reigns to be on Extreme Rules as tag team partners, I think this is going to be so awkward. I feel like
00:48:26
Speaker
There's no way that the Undertaker is losing this after the Saudi show and that whole watch performance with Goldberg. There's no way that Undertaker is not coming out victorious in this match. So I'm going with Roman and Undertaker on this one. Can we talk? Oh my God. Can we talk about everyone hating like Shane McMahon and him getting the ultimate heel heat. And that's like the entire purpose of this Shane McMahon character. Like do people not realize that they're getting worked? Yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker
I mean, I'm sure people realize that they're, you know, that they're getting worried. It's like the Baron Corbin effect. You know what I mean? It's, it's, it's go away heat, right? It's, it's not, I feel like, I mean, he is getting heat and he does get reactions and he does get the, you know, Twitter verse and you know, all these people abuzz, but at the same time, like it's not good.
00:49:16
Speaker
I mean, it's not like they're like, oh man, like I'm so, you know, he, he cut such a wicked promo. Like I hate this guy. You know, it's, it's like, dude, I just don't want to see you on my television. And Kevin Owens freaking roasted him on smackdown and it was a thing of beauty. I just, I loved it. You know, cause it, it was one of those moments for, for like a brief moment. You're thinking to yourself, like,
00:49:41
Speaker
I'm wondering if he really got this script approved or if he's just like speaking from the gut.
00:49:47
Speaker
You know, it was kind of like that pipe bomb moment where you were kind of like, I don't know if this is real or not, but I mean, obviously like everything gets run through Vince or whoever's running the show, right? It got run through him. I don't see KO going rogue and doing his own thing. But it lets you know that WWE is so aware, they're so in tune with what people are saying, the feel of the locker room, the feel of the WWE universe.
00:50:17
Speaker
and they're just acknowledging it, but it's like, okay, well you can acknowledge it, but does that mean it's gonna, are you gonna change anything, you know? Like acknowledging it is one thing, like we were like, oh hell yes, Kevin is speaking for the people, you know? But at the same time, you're like, but nothing's gonna change. Can we talk about how Drake Maverick still hasn't consummated his marriage yet? I know, I feel like he's like, Yeah. Come on, three weeks now.
00:50:46
Speaker
I know his he should be he should be ashamed. I mean, I guess to each their own, you know, I mean, I don't want to be in anybody's anybody's bedroom business, but dude, come on man up. That's why that's why.
00:50:59
Speaker
You have so much trouble winning the championship. Get a man up, dude. Like, do the damn thing. Yeah. I feel like you see the picture on, I forget where it was, on Instagram or Twitter, where he's just holding the belt in front of his wife's face. Oh, no. In front of his wife's face, and they're in front of one of those fake hanging shark things. Oh, my god. No. The jaws thing. And he's just holding the belt over her face in the picture, so you can't even see her.
00:51:27
Speaker
No, I did not see, I did not see that, but I saw one where he was like laying in bed with the belt, just like snuggling it. Um, I love him as 24 seven champion. I think, I mean, I hope that he keeps it for a while because I think he's super entertaining with it. Um, and it gives him something to do, you know, he's, he's on TV and I think he's super entertaining. I love truth kind of like, you know, trying to get it back. Um, I mean, I've actually really, really, really enjoyed the 24 seven title. Um,
00:51:56
Speaker
So that's another hot take. I really love the 24-7 stuff.
00:52:02
Speaker
Oh man. Yeah. I'd rather talk about that than this undertaker Roman reigns match. Obviously at some, at some point though, Shane, Shane and drew have to win a match. I don't know if it's happening here, but I don't think you can make the undertaker and Roman reigns lose. That's like the two biggest faces in wrestling right now. So those guys, Drew is not going to beat Roman at a, at a pay-per-view. You
Mixed Tag Match and Relationship Humor
00:52:26
Speaker
know what I mean? Like it's just not, it's not going to happen. Um, so I'm going with Roman reigns and taker on this one.
00:52:31
Speaker
Moving on. Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch versus Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans. Now, before we get into this match, I need to explain these rules to you, Sheena, because Michael Cole didn't tell us enough that if Seth gets pinned, Becky loses her belt, but if she gets pinned, he loses his belt. Did you know that? I did know that, but I was wondering if you knew, did you know that Becky and Seth are dating? Oh my God, no way.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah, I know. I was like surprised. Like they've hidden, they've hidden it so well. You know, typically you can kind of read those things. Um, but I feel like they, they did a really good job like pulling the wool over our eyes, but yes, they're a thing. I was starting to wonder why they were like working all these matches together and why she was like coming out and you know, saving him and stuff. But yeah, there are a couple. Did you see, he has a the man's man shirt on www shop.com.
00:53:28
Speaker
dude, I posted that on Instagram and it got some of the most like, like horrible reactions. Like people were just like horrified at this shirt and I don't blame them. And I went on to explain, I was like, listen, I love both of these. These are two of my favorite wrestlers in the entire company. Um, but this whole storyline, so if you want to read what I said, just go to Instagram. Um, because I felt like, I feel like I had a pretty good take, you know? Um, but yeah, people hated,
00:53:54
Speaker
hated the shirt. And I don't blame them because it is legitimately just so cringy. But I mean, I'm sure somebody will buy it.
00:54:05
Speaker
you know, probably be in like 10 years that are probably worth like 200 bucks, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So it's so bad. It's good. Like some of the shirts that I was like, I wrote that article for Patreon, like the top 10 worst wrestling shirts of all time. I go back and look, I'm like, man, now I want that shirt. Like there's like a Poon Tang pie shirt that the rock wards, like, Oh my gosh, it's so awful. It's like, I need to own it now. Yeah. I have feelings like that about a bunch of, um,
00:54:31
Speaker
a bunch of stuff I'm like man it's so bad but I just want it I don't want it because it's so bad um but yeah this this match um first of all
00:54:41
Speaker
I don't see any way that Seth and Becky – because they've invested so much in this. Obviously, we're joking about not knowing that Seth and Becky are a couple because Michael Cole tells us that Seth Rollins is Becky Lynch's boyfriend every five minutes. If there's a commercial break and they come back from a commercial break, they're going to let us know again that they are boyfriend and girlfriend.
00:55:03
Speaker
But I feel like they've invested so much into them as champions and their relationship and obviously they got the man's man shirt and like all this stuff that they're not going to Let them both lose because then what then what do they have? You know, like I feel like the only thing making this angle interesting is that they're their boyfriend and girlfriend and they're both champions, right? like if they're not both champions, then where did they go from here and
00:55:30
Speaker
I think the best case scenario is they lose and Becky Lynch beats the shit out of Seth Rollins and we get the man again. I remember when we used to like Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch. I don't dislike them now, but this has just sucked the life out of both of them.
00:55:52
Speaker
Yeah, and it's just been convoluted ever since they came out as like a couple, right? So they'd been facing Baron and Lacey. Then they paired them with the god-awful Maria and Mike Kanellis thing. Like they rolled them into that, which was just horrible. By the way, if any superstar wants to get pregnant and be the new WWE pregnant representative, I would really appreciate it because Maria Kanellis cannot represent the pregnant women and the pregnant
00:56:20
Speaker
female wrestling fans of the world because I will I do not accept that so if
AEW Event Lineup and Impact of Wins/Losses
00:56:26
Speaker
Oscar wants to get knocked up or you know somebody Just just do it. I mean even you know, I don't care who it is Paige. I'll even take you Paige
00:56:36
Speaker
Go ahead and do that. But yeah, then they had them fight Andrade and Selena, which I thought was good. But they had like the stipulation on the match. It was an elimination match and it was a mixed tag match. So once Becky pinned or once Becky submitted Selena, they were both out.
00:56:53
Speaker
Which is so stupid, right? Like the purpose of an elimination match is to get the one up, right? You get one of your opponents out of the ring, then you have a handicap match on your hands, right? So you have the advantage. But once she tapped out Selena, it was like, oh, well, I mean, obviously they're not going to have Andrade fight Becky. So it didn't make any sense. So it's been convoluted from the beginning.
00:57:20
Speaker
But I mean, also, this will be Lacey Evans' what, like third or fourth pay-per-view loss? Yeah. Yeah. Like, and Baron Corbin, too. Like, come on. I did this with Elias. I'm like, you have to give these guys a win at some point.
00:57:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I hope not. Um, I hope Seth and Becky retain, but again, like you said, I mean, like this is, this is getting to a point where it's like, well, if they don't win, I mean, obviously Becky's already establishing, if they don't win, they don't get any more chance, any more chances. And I think that's like real life. Like if they don't win, then that's it for them. I feel like that's like the end of the line because you can't just lose on like five, four or five straight pay-per-views and be like, Oh, okay. Well, you know, what's next, right? Like you just got to kind of fade into the background for a little while.
00:58:03
Speaker
I guess, I guess so. I don't know. I mean, they've, they're still, I don't, I don't know what the plan is for summer slam. I don't know. We've had Paul Heyman come out and kind of tease that. That was horrible too. Yeah, that was bad too. Brock Lesnar was going to come out and just remember that, you know, that, uh, I still represent. Yeah. Yeah. And I could be lying like, you know, okay, Paul, like go away. Keep, keep, keep making raw awesome and get the hell off my TV screen.
00:58:31
Speaker
But yeah, that that wraps up our extreme rules pay-per-view. Oh, I'm who you got on Seth and Becky. I'm going with Seth and Becky
00:58:41
Speaker
Lacey Evans, yeah. Good Lord, what has happened to this podcast? I don't want it to happen, but I feel like something, maybe they're going to win, but it's not going to be for the titles. I don't, I don't know. I mean, I have to think it has to be some kind of twist here to make us really invest. And then Monday, then, you know, Seth and Becky keep the titles or something, you know? Yeah, maybe the win by, maybe the win by, um,
00:59:08
Speaker
I don't know, I mean it's an Extreme Rules match, right? So that means no disqualifications. I was gonna say maybe they could win by disqualification, but anyway. We have an Extreme Rules match and a No Holds Barred match on this card. I don't know what the difference between the two is.
00:59:25
Speaker
Long as they just kick each other's ass, that's all I'm looking for. I just want to see some good spots. Anyway, I'm excited for this card. I think it's going to be entertaining. I don't think it's going to be anything that blows us out of the water, but I am interested to see how this kind of sets up the scene for SummerSlam and whatnot.
AEW's Sustainability Without TV
00:59:45
Speaker
Let's move on because this is not the only wrestling on the block this weekend. We have Extreme Rules on Sunday, but we also have AEW Fight for the Fallen on Saturday night. It's going to come on at 8.30, so the buy-in pre-shows at 7.30. Obviously, you can stream it live from BR Live, Bleacher Report Live.
01:00:05
Speaker
Make sure you have that set up so you don't have any issues when it comes time. If you have an account, if you have the Amazon Fire Stick, it's an easy app to download. Don't do like I did last time. I was going to get your take. What if all Elite Wrestling just did every two months a pay-per-view or every month a pay-per-view and charged $25? Would you even need a TV show? They're operating right now pretty much fine without a TV show.
01:00:33
Speaker
I know TV show you get like advertisers and all that kind of bullshit, but it's a lot of, you know, setting up stages and booking people and selling tickets and like, you know, they're doing a good job with how they're operating things now. Like as a wrestling company, did, did TNA ever do that? Where they just, did they just didn't do TV shows? They just did pay per views. I feel like they're maybe the ones that would have done it. But what do you, what do you, what do you think with the current model with what they're doing?
01:00:59
Speaker
Um, it's got a shelf life, man. It's got a very short shelf life. Um, because even, you can see with this fight for the fallen card, um, there's really not any, like it's, it's basically just wrestling for wrestling sake. Like there's not a lot of buildup. Obviously we have, um, you know, they're, they're teasing Chris, Chris Jericho is going to show up. Um, you know, so obviously I think he'll, he'll have something, you know, I don't think he's going to wrestle, but he's going to show up and stir stuff up to kind of set things up for
01:01:26
Speaker
Um, for all out. Um, and, uh, Brandy Rose is doing, you know, she's fighting. What's her name? Allie from, uh, you know, the chick that fight the
01:01:36
Speaker
at Fighterfest Alley thought Levobates and Brandy was ringside. So they're kind of continuing that but honestly like this is just like a thrown together charity show. There's not a lot of storyline build up. You don't really you know you're just gonna watch this show to enjoy it. Young Bucks and Cody and Dustin. I mean the Young Bucks and Cody are boys so why would they be fighting? You know what I mean? Like this is just kind of like a
01:02:00
Speaker
exhibition type of an exhibition. Yeah, an exhibition type match, you know, and also freaking MJF and Sean Spears are in a six man tag match on the pre show and I'm like shots or MJF was like pissed off at Sean Spears.
01:02:18
Speaker
So why would they, so why would they partner together? You know, so it is, it is one of those things. Like I feel like they do need a TV show to create storylines and to give you more investment in the characters and in the, in the wrestling and all of that stuff. Obviously people are still, they're still, they're still high on AEW, right? Like people are still just like, you know, like.
01:02:40
Speaker
Shunning WWE and like going to the AEW so AEW can do no wrong right now, right? But that that again that's got a short shelf life eventually it's gonna be like okay guys like what does this
AEW vs Evolve Weekend Preferences
01:02:52
Speaker
mean? I mean we haven't even seen I mean they were so adamant about wins and losses meaning something and it being like a real sport and we haven't seen that at all like what would have the wins and losses meant that
01:03:02
Speaker
for anything at all so far, you know, nothing. What does that even mean? Like this, this So Cal uncensored guy, these guys, they're going to lose every single match. They're, they're fighting the Lucha brothers who have to win because they, they keep losing. But like, what does it, what does it mean wins and losses matter? What the fuck does that even mean? You don't even have any titles yet.
01:03:25
Speaker
True. Yeah. So they have, you know, women's match, but they don't even have a women's, a women's title yet. So you have an announcer. Is Bernie Rhodes even a wrestler? She, no, I mean, she, she is, she's trained as a wrestler. Um, so, I mean, I guess, I guess you can't call her not a wrestler. You know, I mean, she's definitely been doing training. She's wrestled, but like, where does she wrestle before? Does she wrestle in, with, with, in new Japan with Cody, like?
01:03:50
Speaker
I mean, I think she did some, like she did some stuff, like some spots, but I don't think she like had singles matches or anything like that. But I think she trained when she was at WWE, but she never did anything in ring. I would have to go back and like stat check that, but I don't think she ever did anything in ring other than just announcing.
01:04:13
Speaker
But yeah, I remember when she left WWE, I saw all kinds of like Instagram videos and stuff of her, you know, doing in-ring training and stuff like that. Um, so I mean, I'm not going to shade anybody for wanting to be a wrestler and pursuing wrestling and, you know, I don't know. But if Stephanie McMahon did this, she would get shit on by the entire internet. You know what I mean? Like Stephanie McMahon does do that. She, she, what is it? When does Stephanie man ever had a singles match on a pay-per-view summer slam against Brie Bella?
01:04:41
Speaker
Yeah, but she's had one in her entire career.
01:04:45
Speaker
Is that the only one? Are you sure? I don't, I don't think that's correct. I need it. I need the attitude era back on the day, but it's not like, you know, if they're, if they're trying to build up a company, not like, not like executive Stephanie McMahon. Yeah. And they're trying, they're trying to be different than, you know, WWE, like, come on, like give us, like, if you're trying to make this a real deal thing, I don't know. Yeah. I can wrestle. I don't know. I don't, you know, I honestly don't do not know. So.
01:05:11
Speaker
I don't, I don't think she can wrestle that well. Um, but you know, maybe she's just trying to, you know, she's got, she's got the power to pull the strings. So why not? You know what I mean? If I had the power to like make myself be able to like do things, I would give myself the best opportunities to succeed too. I mean, I'm not going to lie, you know, I'd be like, shit, put me in the pay-per-view. You know, I want to fight. Um, and this is a free show. So it's not like she's getting like a huge payday off of this. Right. Um, so.
01:05:36
Speaker
I am mad at it. I do think she, she's like cheesy and corny and cringe to me. Like everything she does, I'm just like, oh, Brandy, you know, um, but again, you know, she is married to the visionary of the company. So if she's got the, she's got the leverage.
01:05:53
Speaker
freaking use it. But let's just run down the card here. We won't go too deep into this, but I just wanted to let everybody know what the matchups are. We got the Young Bucks versus Cody and Dustin. They set that up at Double or Nothing after the Cody match. He said he wanted to fight with his brother, fight with the fallen, yada, yada. They were going to fight the Young Bucks. Shouldn't be a good match. It's
01:06:15
Speaker
two totally different styles of wrestling. So I'm interested to see how the young Bucks and like, you know, Cody and Dustin kind of like go together. I mean, Cody can go with those guys, I'm sure, but like Dustin, I mean, he's kind of long in the tooth. So, um, I'm interested to see how, I mean, I'm kind of scared too, to see how he takes some of those, some of those bumps. But, um, we got Kenny Omega versus SEMA. We got SoCal Uncensored versus the Lucha Brothers, Hangman Page versus, uh, Kip Sabian.
01:06:43
Speaker
And we have, I mean, I can only assume that Jericho's going to interrupt the hangman match, right? I know Jericho is fighting shit. Am I mixed up? Jericho's fighting Kenny, right? No, he's fighting hangman for the time. Hey man. Yeah. Oh, hey man. You're thinking of Dean Ambrose going to interrupt the Kenny Omega match. Yeah. Cause Dean's not on this card, is he? Yeah.
01:07:05
Speaker
freakin no he's not um so yeah so we got hangman versus kipsavian we got brandy versus allie um and then we got joey janella jimmy havoc and darby allen versus shawn spears mjf and sammy gravara uh in the on the pre-show so it's gonna be a pretty you know straightforward show i mean what is this one two three four five six
01:07:26
Speaker
six matches on the card. So it should be, it should be good. It's starting at eight 30, but you also have on Saturday night, the evolved 10th anniversary show that starts at eight o'clock. Um, I don't think there's any, any coincidence that they're streaming that at 30 minutes earlier than the, the AEW show, but you do have, um, well, a couple, a couple of things about the AEW show.
01:07:50
Speaker
I don't know why I do love that they're doing this for you know They're at least donating part of the proceeds to victims of violent crimes, which is nice. You know coming from Jacksonville Makes sense. I don't know why this Darby Allen Joey Janela MJF matches on the pre-show again Why do you even have a pre-show for a free event makes no sense to me? I
01:08:13
Speaker
just put this on the show because these are some of your biggest, you know, not biggest names, but guys, you're, you know, yeah, guys are trying to build up. Yeah. Do you know anything about SEMA? SEMA fighting Kenny, Kenny Omega. He's, I got, he's from New Japan, I believe. No, I'm not. I'm not super SEMA. He, he fought at a fighter fist. Um, let's see.
01:08:38
Speaker
He was he was on the he was on the race. Yeah entertainment, which I think is a competitor for New Japan. He's 41 years old. So this is not a young You know, this is not like hey, this is a cool young guy. You need to be watching like he you know He's he's basically AJ Styles
01:08:57
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, but AJ Styles can still go. Yeah. No, no, nothing against him. I'm just saying like, you know, he's, he's a little bit of an older guy, but you know, if he can, if he can go, he can go. Um, I mean,
01:09:11
Speaker
But yeah, but this is the problem. This is the problem. Like you don't have you don't have a weekly show to build these guys up So it's just like I said It's just fighting just to like watch some good matches and to see what what kind of develops and sees and kind of I guess we're kind of trying to build a history here right now, you know So that that way when they do have TV they can refer back to these things and back to these feuds and back to these matches So they're kind of like maybe building that building the foundation that they're going to create storylines going forward, you know, so
01:09:40
Speaker
Who knows, who knows? I think it's gonna be a good show. I'm definitely gonna be tuning in. Honestly, if I had to pick one or the other, if I wasn't gonna watch both, I would definitely watch Fight for the Fallen instead of the Evolve show. I have way more interest in seeing these guys than the Evolve guys. Obviously, we have some guys going down that are WWE talent, NXT talent that is gonna be going down to
01:10:05
Speaker
the Evolve show, we have Akira Tozawa and Adam Cole. You have Drew Gulak and Matt Riddle. So I mean, you are going to have some, you know, I don't want to say big names, but you know, bigger names fighting
Weekend Plans and Wrestling Shows
01:10:19
Speaker
at this show. But yeah, I'm definitely more into the fight for the fallen.
01:10:23
Speaker
I agree, and I would not be watching either of them live. I think I have a work company picnic baseball game at a minor league baseball team nearby here, so I'll be taking the kid to that, and the kid and the wife will come with me to that. And I'll probably watch both of these at some point on Sunday. I'm excited for both of them. You're going to watch that, plus Extreme Rules on Sunday?
01:10:45
Speaker
I don't know. I'm gonna fit it in at some point. Yeah, I'm just gonna lock myself in a room like Howard Hughes and just like Oh my gosh. Well, yeah, make sure you just have like, you know, some pizza delivered or something cuz you're gonna be on your ass for a long time. Do some squats.
01:11:01
Speaker
during the ad breaks like keep your I don't want you to get a blood clot or something so you know keep the um keep keep the blood flowing no no pizza for
Keto Diet Debate with Humorous Commentary
01:11:09
Speaker
us because we're on this fucking uh bullshit keto thing where I can't have any bread or anything oh don't get me don't get me started it's just cauliflower rice all the time listen I love cauliflower rice I do too Sheena but at some point it tastes like shit I think
01:11:28
Speaker
I hate keto. I'm not going to lie. People who do keto, they never last. We're not hardcore. We're not counting carbs and trying to stay in ketosis. We're just basically cutting out carbs. Listen, I think there's merit to this. I'm on my third beat of the show.
01:11:47
Speaker
You know beer is just liquid bread, right? Listen, let me just do it a quick aside. I won't go on a health tangent because you know. Listen, if you watch my Instagram stories, you know I love to go on a good health tangent.
01:11:59
Speaker
Keto, come on, bro. I'm not gonna adhere to any diet that tells me I can't have fruit and certain things. Come on, you can't eat bananas and stuff. Give me a freakin' break, man. But I do think cutting back on your carbs and making sure you're eating. That's really what we're doing. I don't wanna call it keto because we're not by the
Healthier Food Swaps and Beer Enjoyment
01:12:21
Speaker
book. We don't eat sandwiches. If we have burgers, we'll just wrap them in lettuce or cut them.
01:12:29
Speaker
We don't have sandwiches. We don't have cereal Yeah, I mean that's that's basically what we're doing I mean like we'll have pizza on maybe like a Friday or something, but you know it's I'm all for that. I'm all for making healthier swaps, but I hate that
01:12:44
Speaker
I hate putting labels on what you're doing because I feel like if you're not doing that all the time like you said like you're making healthier swaps you're you're cutting out the carbs but if you're not if you're not peeing on sticks and you know monitoring your ketosis then can you really say that you're your keto and I hate when people like then they feel like they feel like such failures because they can't stick to this crap you know I'm like dude just
01:13:06
Speaker
Live your life make healthier choices like do what feels good listen to your body if you feel like shit make changes But I will tell you anybody that I work with I don't I don't label anything because I feel like That really puts a lot of pressure on you and the world is full of enough pressures other than like being orthorexic about what the fuck we eat you know so just
01:13:29
Speaker
I'm proud of you guys for making, you know, making those swaps because those are easy things to do. Like you said, wrapping your burger and lettuce and, you know, putting cauliflower rice into the regular rice. I do that shit all the time, but you don't got to label it because that that puts too much pressure on you and makes you feel like like you said, like you can't have beer and stuff. And I've never
Anticipation for Upcoming Match featuring Adam Cole
01:13:45
Speaker
had. I have a beer fridge now in the in the fake cave. So nice. And I have it fully stocked. So, yes. You know, I try to cut back on that too, but it's just making, you know, just trying to make, you know,
01:13:57
Speaker
I'm all for that.
01:14:16
Speaker
good way to see Adam Cole just wrestle and against the guy who can go into Zawa. Uh, there's a Colby Carino, who's the son of a Steve Carino, who's five seven taking on Babatunde who is I think six nine. So, uh, that's a, uh, pretty big height difference. I don't know if you do remember Babatunde. He was in, in one of the first Saudi Arabia shows when they had like, uh, that the greatest Royal Rumble.
01:14:44
Speaker
Baba Tuna. I don't know. That one got by me. I don't know how. He is a former, I think a former NFL player or something or formal former something, but he's Polish. He's a big motherfucker. I'll tell you that. He is a good look. He has a cool look like he looks like. Yeah, he does look like he does look like a badass. Yeah, but he's not even on like like he's on the next team, I don't think. I mean, you know, you watch it more than me.
01:15:12
Speaker
Now,
Wrestling Events and Comic Con Reveals
01:15:14
Speaker
Babatunde, interesting. But yeah, that's going to be interesting to see how those two guys work together. Yep. So a great weekend of wrestling. And I think the BR Live thing, if you end up watching, or if you don't watch either of them, you can watch all of these on demand. Obviously, that's how the WWE Network works. But same thing with BR Live. This is going to be a free show. So the fight for the fall, and you'll be able to watch
01:15:40
Speaker
whenever and on Sunday night we have Extreme Rules so it's a pretty cool weekend of wrestling action but I'm even more excited Sheena about next week because we got San Diego Comic Con.
01:15:57
Speaker
Yeah, they always bring the heat. I'm excited to see what gets unveiled, what's in the works. Some stuff that we don't even know is on the horizon that comes out. So yeah, I'll be covering the coverage on Instagram. Phil will be covering all the stuff on Twitter. So stay tuned. Anything we find out, we're going to let you guys know ASAPossible.
01:16:22
Speaker
And next week,
Mattel Wrestling Figures and Retro Line Continuation
01:16:23
Speaker
we will be recording on Thursday evening for a Friday show because we want to have all the updated information from San Diego Comic Con, our buddies from the major Wrestling Figure podcast, Zach and Zach Ryder and Brian Myers. Kurt Hawkins, I like how I did it. I love how you call him Zach Ryder and Brian Myers.
01:16:47
Speaker
I went one shoot name and one real name so but yeah they're hosting a panel there so they're gonna unveil a bunch of new stuff and we want to be able to record but you know I hate when I listen to podcasts they give you news from like you know six or seven days ago and it feels like it's from like a month ago so
01:17:04
Speaker
Instead of recording on Wednesday, we'll record on Thursday next week. So we'll have all the news from San Diego Comic Con. Just off the top of your head, what are some things or some superstars that you want to see featured? If we see Elite 71, 72, who are some names you'd love to see coming down the pike as far as Mattel Elite's? China. Oh, man, the crowd would pop.
01:17:33
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely got to be in the works, right? I mean, there's no way that yeah, man, it has to be. China is not is not in the works. So yeah, I'm definitely down for a new China. What about a China a Mattel China? What about you?
01:17:49
Speaker
I'm really just hoping that we see a continuation of the retro line. I've been a huge fan of those. We haven't seen any announcement about Series 11 or Series 12, hopefully with the Major Brothers going to be there. They're big supporters of that line. Hopefully we see some updates on those because we haven't seen Series 9 or Series 10 in stores. They've only been available on Ringside Collectibles as of so far.
01:18:15
Speaker
Series 8 was only in around stores for a hot minute, so I'm just hoping we see some more of those. I really want to see a Matt Riddle figure. I'm going to buy three of those if they announce that. Yeah, Matt Riddle with the removable slippers would be amazing.
01:18:32
Speaker
Yeah, I'm all for that. I wouldn't mind seeing a new Heart Foundation. Obviously we got the Anvil inducted this year, and I think a Heart Foundation. I think a classic Heart Foundation. They did the battle pack of them with the blue tights, because we got the pink and black Heart Foundation,
Weekly Figure Purchases and Amazon Packaging Issues
01:18:51
Speaker
but I would love to see an elite form of that battle pack with the early days of Jim and Brett, young Jim and Brett in the blue and black.
01:19:03
Speaker
What should we do a first year, our weekly purchases or our, uh, our top five figures of the year so far? Well, I'm going to let you go ahead and crank out your weekly purchases because I did not purchase anything this week. Um, I know, I know the heel has been leaves and I'm just like, things are, things are awry here at the Phelps house. Um, however, our homies over at ringside did hook us up with some freaking major
01:19:31
Speaker
freaking ultimate figures. We got the ultimate Shinsuke Nakamura and ultimate Bret Hart. They went to the in-laws house, so she mailed them out. I have tracking for those, so they should be here as soon as they get here. I'm going to do a full unboxing for you too and take some really great pictures and talk about the head scans and stuff. I'm excited to see these in person because I've obviously seen them
01:19:54
Speaker
Online and all those things I hate I went on record as saying I hate that like the hair is in the face in all of the in all of the Brett Head scans, which is a little bit disappointing But I'm willing to get over that because I have a feeling that the figure is gonna just be super mage And we got like shinsuke so pumped to unbox those so I guess those are my those are my purchases even though they were you know, we got blessed by our homies over at ringside with those and
01:20:22
Speaker
Oh, by the way, ringsidecollectibles.com. Chick Foley
Challenges and Joys of Collecting Action Figures
01:20:26
Speaker
is the coupon slash promo code there for you guys. I love that coupon code. Yeah, if you got the coupon code for all you people on Twitter who want to buy your ringside collectibles
01:20:42
Speaker
Figures, make sure you use Chick Foley as your promo code. So I'm deep, I'm neck deep in this Kurt Angle Shrine collection, I guess you're going to call it at this point. So I've gotten all the current Kurt Angle Mattel figures. So now I'm going back.
01:20:58
Speaker
you know dipping my toe and I've never never bought a Jax figure in my life now I have a bunch so I bought a WWE flexums Kurt Angle 2002 Jax which you know I'm not opening it but I'm assuming it's like kind of like a stretch Armstrong type of bend them type of Wow and a new mint on card pump and flex Kurt Angle well basically you like like
01:21:25
Speaker
push the arms down and the chest gets bigger and expands. My prize purchase of the week, though, was I found this app called Mercari. I think the Major Brothers talk about it all the time. I don't know if you've used it since you've been back on the mainland. I know what it is, but I've never used it.
01:21:45
Speaker
I found a Kurt Angle invitational ring. So this is like a standard like, you know, basic ring, you know, not, not huge, but it's, you know, it's from the attitude era or shortly thereafter. Comes with a Kurt Angle figure. And basically the ring is dead, you know, decorated all Kurt Angle red, red, and blue. And I guess it's to commemorate when he,
01:22:09
Speaker
challenge those NXT guys or whatever. Wasn't NXT back then when Daniel Putter came in the ring and made them tap out and whatever that was. So I found this on McCarrie for 40 bucks and I was like, man. Do you have it? I have not received it yet. It should be here tomorrow. I was gonna say I haven't seen any pictures of that or anything.
01:22:25
Speaker
No, no, no. I've been worried because I've never bought anything on this app before. I'm so worried it's even going to show up. But I'm pretty pumped about it. It has like the little three-tiered podium we would see at the Olympics and has an Olympic ring and all this stuff. So I'm pretty excited about that.
01:22:44
Speaker
And my final purchase was a, I did a social experiment. I wanted to buy a elite figure from Amazon because everybody keeps talking about, you got a couple of figures in there. They arrived in great condition. They got there in less than 24 hours. So I'm like, okay, I want this Velveteen Dream elite figure. Let me order this. Got here pretty quick. It was 1999, free shipping, obviously, because I had Prime. You know, not to brag, but I am a Prime subscriber, you know.
01:23:12
Speaker
got here and I was like, okay, let me open up this box. And the box is all fucked up. I mean, the actual box itself was okay, but the box of the, you know, the elite box was all messed up. There was a rip on the front of it. And, you know, I was like, I tweeted at Amazon. Luckily they directed me to someone who could help me out. And long story short, they were going to send me
01:23:41
Speaker
They're allowing me to keep the Elite and send me a new one mint on card. So thank you to Amazon for making it right. But you know, you're paying less for it from Amazon, but there is no packaging in the box. It was just a cardboard box with an Elite in it. Well.
01:24:00
Speaker
Let me be devil's advocate really quickly here. Obviously, I hate that for mint on card collectors. Open your toys, people. You want that problem. But I do respect people. If you want to have it mint on card, you bought it. You can display it however the hell you want to.
01:24:16
Speaker
Amazon was in a lot of hot water a few years ago for over-packaging everything. Literally putting one thing in a box and putting paper and bubbles and all that stuff in there. It's bad for the environment. People were going off and all these things about how much packaging Amazon used and the obscene size of the boxes that they were using to send these little things.
01:24:39
Speaker
So, you know, Amazon was like, okay, well, we'll cut back on our packaging. And now we're seeing the repercussions of that, you know, and especially for the people who are, don't want their cards bent or their figures dinged up or anything like that. Yeah, it does suck. But I mean, that's a pretty common thing with Amazon. I've never worried about it because again, I don't collect men on cards. So I've never even really paid attention or noticed because I don't examine my boxes and stuff like that. But
01:25:08
Speaker
It is pretty well known. You are taking a risk when you order any sort of action figure, whether it be WWE or otherwise, from Amazon, because they're just gonna throw it in a box and literally ship it out to you. I mean, you can't expect to get overnight shipping or two-day shipping or whatever, and they're gonna take the most precise care and wrap it in bubbles and do all these things. No, literally a machine's gonna drop it into a dam.
01:25:33
Speaker
box and like tape it up and send it your way, you know. But just know that ahead of time, order your stuff from someone reliable like, you know, people on sellers on eBay that have good ratings, or ringside collectibles. Obviously, if you're buying newer stuff, they'll make sure that your packages get to you, you know, in decent shape. So
01:25:52
Speaker
One of our Twitter followers had an amazing idea that he basically orders three of, if he orders a figure from Amazon, he orders like three of them and just keeps the one that's in the best condition and sends the other two back, you know, cause they'll, they'll just send you a label via email. You print it out, put it in the same box, bada bing, bada boom. And I thought that was brilliant, you know, because, uh, you know,
01:26:17
Speaker
That's pretty cool, but I hate the freaking post office. So I hate going to the post office. So for me, I'm like, yeah, I guess, I guess if you're, I guess if you like have scheduled pickups from your house or something like that and you know, all you gotta do is go online and schedule a pickup from your house. Like that wouldn't be a big deal. But if I had to like drive those things to the post office every time I wanted to return them, I would be like not worth it. Yeah. I mean, I mean, free shipping, free returns. I mean, you can't beat that either. You know,
01:26:43
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, it's true. I mean, it's great that the selection on Amazon is better than what we're seeing in a lot of stores as far as Kmart and Target and stuff like that. But you do realize though, if you buy figures on Amazon or any online marketplace that it does disqualify you from being a
01:27:03
Speaker
like, classified as a collector. That is true. I forgot about that. Somebody on Twitter told me that today. Yeah, they said that you're not a real collector if you buy it from a website. So... Yeah, I didn't know that. All this time, I've created this massive collection of over 800 figures thinking that it was a collection and that qualified me as a collector. Yeah.
01:27:27
Speaker
But holy shit, now I got to go back and separate the ones that I found on pegs and in stores versus the ones that I bought online. Holy crap, I may not be the collector that you guys think that I am. This is a new segment. It's called Bimbo of the Week. And our Bimbo of the Week goes to at Rowdy Johnny Piper on Twitter. I tweeted a picture about my damaged Velveteen Dream figure from Amazon. He said, that sucks.
01:27:55
Speaker
Your other option is to become a quote unquote collector and not order stuff. Collecting, quote unquote, is going out when you have time and, quote unquote, hunting for what you like. Please don't take this the wrong way. But buying what you want on Amazon is not collecting. It's just buying. Yeah. OK, cool, man. Yeah, interesting.
01:28:19
Speaker
I literally, when I looked up collector in the dictionary, it did not have that qualification on it. So I didn't know, but you know what? Thank you. Um, Samoan John or Samoa John is his handle, you know, at, at, at Rowdy Johnny is, or that's his name. Samoa John is what he has. And then at Rowdy Johnny, J O N N Y, um, no H. So thank you for keeping us, you know, keeping us straight because.
01:28:42
Speaker
Shit, we didn't know what we were doing here. We didn't know. I mean, if you want to go and look at like empty pegs all day, I mean, that's totally, that's totally on you. You know, if you want to, that's how you want to spend your time. But I mean, it's 2019 and you know, God gave us the internet and e-commerce. So I'm.
01:29:00
Speaker
Gonna take advantage and you know have just shit have the mailman bring stuff to me and you know Enjoy enjoy my life and not spend it in Walmart and Target if you if you want to know if you're a real collector Ask this guy he will tell you if you are not and he's the old he's the gatekeeper He will tell you if you're and then I told and then somebody chimed in on our Twitter feed at chick Foley show and said I
01:29:25
Speaker
You know, this is, you know, the stores have been awful, man. This is blah, blah, blah. And he said, well, fake collectors, quote unquote, are buying all the all the figures in the stores. So, you know, all those fake collectors in the store. So now he's mad at people that buy from the stores and he's mad at people that buy from websites. So I guess he wants you to buy from like I don't I don't know where he would want you to buy from. But ask him. But yeah.
01:29:51
Speaker
Yeah, I mean it's just it's I can't do anything. I've had I've had the same I have $80 in my wallet since before The fucking Game of Thrones season started Wow, I'm like, this is this is the money I'm gonna have this is like my money I've set aside from I forget what it was from but it's like this is my play money when I see figures in the wild I'm gonna I'm gonna spend this money and and buy whatever I
01:30:16
Speaker
I've had it in my wallet for like three months and I haven't seen anything on the pegs at any store that's been worth buying. Right, that you haven't given to others, that you needed. Yeah, yeah. I know you've given stuff to our Patreons and the Baltimore Leads, like we figure hunting for each other and stuff, but yeah, anything that you personally need. Exactly, for me. I forgot to mention during the segment there that I went back to big, no, Ollie's
01:30:43
Speaker
I found those SummerSlam elites and Kenny Dinkins, one of our buddies on the Patreon page, needed the SummerSlam Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, so I bought those for him. So I found them in other places, but it's been like, you know, I've seen more figures at other stores like Big Lots and Hollies than I have at Walmart and Target. So I don't know if they're gearing up to get some of these new SummerSlam elites with the Mabel series or what, and they're just kind of clearing out stock.
01:31:11
Speaker
I don't have time to wait around, man. I can't, you know, yeah, it's come to the point. Me and my buddy Daris have decided, like, you pay a little bit more from ringside, but the amount of money you're spending on gas going, you know, every day to one or two Walmarts or Target, that shit adds up.
01:31:30
Speaker
It's not even, to me, it's not even about the money. I value my time. Like I go to, I go, I go to Walmart and Target. I like, I go there for things that I need, you know, toilet paper, toothpaste, all of the things that you need to get through your life. When I'm there, I always check the figures, right? It is just part of what my ritual is. If I'm at a Walmart or a Target, I cannot remember the last time that I went
01:31:51
Speaker
specifically to a Walmart or Target just to figure hunt. I used to do that all the time. Heel husband and I used to go to Toys R Us, we used to go to Walmart, we used to go to Target, you know, Walgreens, wherever, right? Just to check the figures. Like we would spend like an afternoon driving around town just to see what figures were out there. And now we know that legitimately there's nothing out there. So I'm not gonna specifically set aside that time to go figure hunting. If I'm at that place, I'm gonna check the toy section. If I'm not at that place, I'm not even thinking about
01:32:20
Speaker
the toy section at those places. Yeah. So it sounds like Ringside is, people have already received some of these ricochets and ollies. That's Elite 69. When do you think those are going to hit stores? Like were those were hitting stores beginning of June from Ringside and different websites, you know, the holidays, maybe like I think November, December.
01:32:45
Speaker
Maybe Black Friday, if you go shopping, you might be able to find a... If you're going to buy it, just do it and get it over with and save yourself. It's nice right now. I have nothing that I'm waiting on. A pre-order to the Vince McMahon from Ringside Collectibles.
01:33:02
Speaker
Yeah, and this isn't even, let me just be clear, I don't care where you buy it from, whether you buy it from Ringside or Amazon or if you go online somewhere, eBay or wherever. We've been talking about Ringside before they were even sponsoring our show. Yeah, I don't care. You've been ordering from them for years. Yeah, you don't have to use a coupon code, you don't have to use a promo code, I don't give a shit, you can use whatever coupon code, promo code you want.
01:33:23
Speaker
But like I said, just think about the time that you spent. I know, listen, I love the hunt. I love to find figures on pegs. That's one of my favorite things is when we walk into a store and you're like, oh my God, that's a good feeling. But I can't remember the last time I had that feeling. So at a point, it just gets frustrating to where you're like, you don't even enjoy it anymore. So
01:33:42
Speaker
Do yourself a favor if you really want these figures you know and there's certain ones that you want order them online like that's what the internet is there for right like use what the what the freakin universe gave you right use the freakin powers to bring your dreams to life. She know we barely leave on this episode we have to give away our ringside collectible ringside exclusive.
01:34:11
Speaker
party boys yeah we're about to announce the winner right now a little drumroll plan i already got it i don't even need you you just you just relax take a drink of whatever chai tea you're drinking
01:34:31
Speaker
Rob Gorman, that's Rob G329. Rob, you are the winner of the Hardy Boys Brood Ringside 2-Pack. I will send that out to you as soon as I hear from you. If you know Rob, let him know. Are you saying Rob like Robert Roode? Or are you saying Rod like Roddy Piper? Oh, I'm sorry. Rob, R-O-B. Rob, what up, Rob? Congrats, dude. Those figures are dope.
01:34:57
Speaker
Yes, they are pretty badass. And I have I've only seen them from outside the package. You did an unboxing video on our Patreon. That was really well received. And, you know, it's we're in July now. We're already halfway more than halfway through the year, Sheena. So we thought this would be the perfect time for me and you to do a top five list of the top five figures of 2019 so far. So I want to hear your list. I'll give you my list. I'm sure we have some of the same ones.
01:35:25
Speaker
Yeah, so these are in no particular order. Again, we'll do our top 10 figures of the year at the end of the year, but just kind of like doing a quick halfway checkpoint kind of thing. I think my top five, again, in no particular order, I love the Ultimate Edition Ronda. I think we finally got Ronda in her ring gear. It's a women's figure with double jointed elbows and all of the articulation. It is just super awesome.
01:35:53
Speaker
The scans on that were incredible. So I definitely have Ultimate Edition Ronda on there. Those brood hardy boys that Rob just won, those are on my top five. I have them lumped together as one. So we're just kind of not going individual figures, but yeah, those brood hardies are so sick. They really just kind of like capture that period of time with the hardies and the details are incredible. So Elite 68 Mabel,
01:36:21
Speaker
Um, love, love that figure. Um, definitely one of the best, the best figures of the year. I'll be unboxing that soon. So stay, stay tuned for that. Um, NXT, Aleister Black, that figure, it just like oozes like.
01:36:37
Speaker
I don't know if it's machismo or what but it oozes something and it really it gets me going because all the tattoos and the details on that are just unreal and everything about that figure I just absolutely love and then my man the guy who set the figure world on fire earlier this year the target exclusive Pete Dunn I think I think that that figure was
01:37:00
Speaker
So super mage again, like I think they highly underestimated the demand for that And I just think overall like they just they just captured him wonderfully I do wish the the face the mouth scan was a little less Elvis Presley ish But other than that, I love everything about that figure
01:37:20
Speaker
That's a great list, Sheena. It's very similar to my list, but I'll run through mine here. I had the Maple Elite 68. I'm also looking forward to unboxing that when I do my new generation video for the Patreon, because that's one I'm going to... It's a completely new scan. It's a totally new figure. They have body sculpt. Yes. It's an awesome looking figure.
01:37:42
Speaker
I love that Alistair Black NXT Elite. I love the Pete Dunne Elite. Those two are on my list. I also had the Hardy Boys two pack ringside exclusive. Damn, we're four for four, dude. Do you have a different fifth figure? I do. I have the Big Daddy Cool Diesel Retro because I feel like that was 20 years in the making. Yeah. A great figure, a great packaging. I have a couple honorable mentions though. Good shout. Good shout. Okay. What you got?
01:38:10
Speaker
AJ Styles Elite 66, I feel like if you just, in your mind, think of AJ Styles. Yeah. That Elite 66 is perfect. And the Bludgeon Brothers, I always group them together. As the Major Brothers would say, they're very toyetic. They just look the part. They're cool looking figures out of the package. They're nice, heavy, sturdy figures. And they definitely looked really nice unboxed.
01:38:38
Speaker
It's been a cool, you know, first six months of the year, we have a bunch of, you know, Elite 67 and 68 are starting to hit, 69 starting to hit. So I'm excited about this list once we get to, you know, New Year's. Yeah, for sure. And also I will say about that at AJ Elite, we got the custom figure clothing to make us like a cloth shirt for that. Because, you know, like the clamshell shirts just don't do
01:39:05
Speaker
those figures in any justice. So if you really want to take your figures to the next, the next level, just, um, you know, hit up custom, custom figure shirts, because dude, they, they really, they're the official figure outfitter of chick Foley. So that's custom underscore figure underscore shirts. Um, and they'll make all cloth cloth gear for your, for your figures. And it really just sets them off. And, uh, I'm so glad that we found them.
01:39:30
Speaker
It's funny, you said that I've actually been slipping into his DMs asking him to make me some of these club shirts, the ones that they're wearing now with the kind of the old New Japan logo on them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, super sick. So yeah, definitely hit him up and see what he can do for you. I mean, like I said, they had the Velcro back. They're made, I mean, pretty durable material. It's stretchy, but it really does. If you have those figures, some of the figures come with cloth.
01:39:59
Speaker
accessories, but most elite figures I feel like come with the rubber sculpted like, you know, clamshell shirt. So yeah, take your shit next level and get you some custom figure shirts. There you go. If you feel free to hit us up with your top five list, you can just probably the best thing is tweet us at chick Foley show or at chick Foley on Instagram. Yeah. Like I said, we'll be back here next week.
01:40:22
Speaker
Uh, with a full rundown of every, all the news from, um, San Diego Comic Con, there's a bunch, uh, a bunch of new, uh, unveilings about to come down the pike here. Uh, before we get out of here, though, let's do our, um, so our retro wrestling recommendation of the week.
01:40:39
Speaker
Actually, no. Do we have a random merch? We do have a random merch. Yeah, I do have a random merch. I didn't necessarily find this on eBay, but the MVP Marco Denton, he showed up in the Patreon Facebook page this week and he had purchased this Hulk Hogan Rockin' Wrestling sticker.
01:40:57
Speaker
sticker album book thing. Um, and it was like, it was, it was still sealed in the package. It came with like multiple packs of like stickers and all these things. It was so, so super cool. Um, and I was like, you know, the, the collector part of me was like, oh my God, like, you know, don't open it. But then like the mark part of me was like, open it. I want to see what the stickers are. You know, each pack has seven, um, full color stickers.
01:41:21
Speaker
And so I found this thing. I'll post a picture of it on the Instagram when we, when we post the episode, but, um, I found this thing. I haven't found one that's in the package with the stickers. I mean, Marco, like he, he, I don't know where he got that, but I already said he got it at a local comic shop. Um, but I did find on eBay that the book, the album, and I was looking at the album and it's so cool. Like it just hits me right in the field spot, even though this was 1986 and this was kind of like before, you know, I was like into wrestling. I was born in 1985. So obviously it's a one year old. Um, you know, I wasn't,
01:41:51
Speaker
into the rock and wrestling era but obviously I know about the rock and wrestling era and they have this secret decoder in there so it's like this little red piece of like you remember the 3d glasses that were like the red and blue and it's like a red piece of film and there's like these little red
01:42:06
Speaker
Things with like you know comic strips underneath them and you put the the red piece of film over them and then it unveils the comic And you like put that through the whole like little comic book, and it's super neat So that's only it was only eight nine other six people watching it, but it's eight ninety nine or best offer with three dollars and thirty eight
01:42:23
Speaker
Since shipping. So yeah, if you just look up Hulk Hogan rockin wrestling sticker collection or whatever it will it will come up and you'll see a bunch of different albums and stuff But one of them actually comes with the little red decoder. So that is the random merch of the week So thanks Marco for hooking that up and you know showing me something that I had never seen before and
01:42:43
Speaker
Yeah, this looks like brand new out of the box. I can't believe this is from like 25, 30 years ago. This looks like totally, I don't know where Marco found this, like you said, at a comic book shop. Yes, he went to a local shop. Yeah, a local shop. Yeah, it's completely unadulter. Like, I mean, it doesn't even look like old, you know? Yeah, it looks brand new, like you said.
01:43:03
Speaker
I actually have a, I've never done this before, I have a random merch of the week as well from one of us. Whoa, whoa, whoa, what? Yeah. Yes, from a brother, a brother from another mother, Chris Anayanes, who is actually a Patreon subscriber as well. He found the, um,
01:43:22
Speaker
Slim Jim Macho Man display unit and he asked me some questions about it and I don't know if you know the answers to these but he has a buddy who's I guess his uncle was getting rid of a bunch of stuff he was a big collector and found one of these and like you know all wrapped up saved away and it's the same one I'll post the picture to it he sent me the picture and it was the same one that you're looking for
01:43:47
Speaker
Are we sure that these are old these are like new a new display because the one he showed me He said it had a bunch of mold and kind of rod on the bottom of it. He scrubbed it up and made it look nice but it's like You know kind of an old-looking thing. You can follow him on Instagram C e a 1 2 8 4 if you don't already but he posted a picture of it and
01:44:09
Speaker
and it's pretty legit looking, it's a pretty cool looking display and I kind of understand why you want it now, but yeah, he's wondering if this is a new thing or if this is old. I'm kind of wondering the same because I don't know if they're able to make macho man stuff after he's passed away.
01:44:28
Speaker
Well, the new ones, I mean, the new ones, well, they've made macho man figures, you know what I mean? So why wouldn't they be able to make, and they've made merch, you know what I mean? Like, um, you know, that when he was inducted into the hall of fame and everything, I mean, they sold like, you know,
01:44:41
Speaker
freaking boatloads of merch and I mean it hot topic I mean I feel like that year everybody had that purple macho man shirt with the glasses like that you know the signature macho man shirt so yeah I mean it definitely can make macho man merch but the the ones for the the slim gym displays that just came out I mean those are those are new but
01:45:00
Speaker
They may have been modeled after an older vintage version. You know what I mean? Like they, they could just be reproductions of the old slim gem, um, display. So I would have to take a look at it. That's pretty freaking cool. I mean, obviously not cool. It's got molds on it, but, um, that is, that is pretty cool. I mean, obviously the new ones, they don't look new in, you know, I mean, it can totally be a reproduction, right? Because they don't look like.
01:45:25
Speaker
They're not like, it's not like a new concept or they don't look very modern. Don't look very modern. I guess that's what I'm trying to get at. But yeah, that's really cool that he found that. I've seen a couple people that have found them and I'm super jealous. So I'm hoping one of these years, you know, they'll want to just show up somewhere in an antique store or something.
01:45:44
Speaker
actually reached out to one of my bigger liquor stores and said, Hey, who sells you guys Slim Jims? And he said, what the fuck? Why do you want to know that? Like the most random questionnaire I'm like, I'm looking for something. Can you give me, you know, he's like, well, this is the guy he works for this, like, you know, it's a distributor that sells like, you know, potato chips and all that kind of stuff. So like,
01:46:02
Speaker
I'm just like texting them about like, God, I need to find out who sells you Slim Jims. I'm like, this is what my life has become. I'm like begging someone to find out who sells a store Slim Jims to find out if they have this display piece. But you know, you know. Yeah, they need to make you remember the old Jeff Foxworthy. You might be a redneck if they need to say they need to make a new version like you might be a fake collector if you might be a mark if I feel like I feel like those could really get over.
01:46:31
Speaker
But yeah, so, um, that is the random merch. I do have a retro wrestling recommendation of the week too. Um, and we're taking it all the way. Yeah, we're taking it all the way back to 2006.
01:46:46
Speaker
Uh, it was ECW, WWE, ECW one night stand. Um, and specifically the main event, which is John Cena versus RVD. I thought this match was appropriate because we are rolling into extreme rules. Extreme rules is in Philadelphia. So why wouldn't I pick?
01:47:04
Speaker
You know, this, this ECW one night stand, um, the crowd was just raucous at this event. I mean, there was like, I mean, chance of Cena swallows same old shit. I mean, they were like, not going to be quieted down. Um, the match itself was really awesome.
01:47:20
Speaker
It was definitely an ECW crowd and you should absolutely go back and watch this. When I told him that this was going to be the retro wrestling recommendation of the week, he popped a little bit. So I'm curious to see what's your affinity with this match? What's your connection with this show?
01:47:39
Speaker
It's just a perfect clash of like the ECW hardcore fans like cheering for Rob Van Dam and like the exact polar opposite with with John Cena. And John Cena throws his shirt into the crowd three or four times and they throw it fucking back to him. And the pops just get louder and louder. I mean, it's the ultimate like everyone in that arena just was like wanting blood. It's just like, oh, my God.
01:48:08
Speaker
And our buddy Daris is going up to that Evolve show this weekend. It's going to be in that ECW arena. And I would, I mean, fuck the Evolve show. I don't care who's wrestling on it. I would go to a wrestling show just to go to that ECW arena. It's probably, you know, I've watched so many shows just from, you know, on YouTube and whatever from there. It's probably so cool to be in that small smelly little place with a bunch of guys that don't wear deodorant.
01:48:37
Speaker
But yeah, this match, I've watched this match maybe every two months or so. I just can't get enough of it. It's so good. Rob Van Dam is one of my top five favorite wrestlers of all time. John Cena is probably not too far behind him. And it's just like, man, it's just so good. They're just hating on the Cena and being shoved down your throat. It's just the perfect crowd for this match.
01:49:04
Speaker
Yeah, it is awesome. Let me just tell you, we saw Rob Van Damme, you know, you think of Rob Van Damme, I like literally walked right behind him. I have a picture of me like arms distance walking right behind him at WrestleCon, you know, because it was like the first
01:49:18
Speaker
like WrestleCon at WrestleMania 31 and it was like a shit show. And there was like, there was like legends and super like, you know, just running around everywhere. Like, you know, you could just run up on hillbilly gym, like, you know, sitting outside on a step and you're like, Oh dude, you know? And then like, yeah, like I said, Rob Van Dam was like just walking right in front of me and I just looked up and I'm like, Holy shit, that's Rob Van Dam. Um, but anyway,
01:49:39
Speaker
So I saw him there. And then when I saw him at WrestleMania, um, it was at WrestleMania 34. Uh, no, no, sorry. 33. Um, we were at wrestle con and he was like, you know, you think of Robin, Robin dam is like this like stoner, like bad-ass, just like, you know, hardcore guy. And dude, he was giving this like spiel on like classic filmography.
01:50:04
Speaker
And nobody knew what the hell he was talking about. Whoever was interviewing him, asking him a question, he was just like, yeah, I'd like to spend my time.
01:50:10
Speaker
You know, watching like classic films and he went down this fucking rabbit hole for like 15 minutes. Like the guy kept trying to break in and like, you know, um, like get on another question, but like he was just on a roll, man. And me and Seth were looking at each other like, what the hell is Robin damn smoking? Because he has going on a freaking tangent about some damn, you know, like classic films and stuff. So, um, it's funny just to see like, you know, the people that you see on TV, like when you watch this match and just know that this guy's like at home, like watching, you know, like Turner classic movies.
01:50:41
Speaker
It's just like, it's pretty crazy. But yeah, so that is your retro wrestling recommendation of the week. And yeah, let's go ahead and get into some listener mail. So do you have anything in the mail bag? While I pull it up, Sheena, you have one from our good buddy Marco. So I guess I'll make the announcement now. I should have done it earlier. Marco is going to be our intern here on the show. But I think there's a caveat to it. I got a bunch of requests from folks.
01:51:11
Speaker
Yeah, I have some too. Yeah. So I think we're going to do a rotating cast of people. So Marco is going to do it for maybe a month and we'll see who else wants to do it and things like that because I want to get a bunch of people involved, a bunch of listeners involved. But Marco is going to jump on with us. He's going to be kind of silent in the background. He'll fact check everything we listen to and talk to him. We'll ask his opinion on stuff when we
01:51:34
Speaker
when we need it and it'll be pretty fun so Marco Denton the MVP will be our starting next week he'll be the official intern of the Chick Foley show Sheena but you know if you're interested in joining us we're still taking applications man I think it's we have something fun to do I'm excited about it
01:51:53
Speaker
Yeah, I have some in my DMs too that I need to get back to again. It's just been a crazy week. So, um, you know, like I said, and just know like, you know, we're casual, but if you're gonna, if you're gonna intern, you gotta come correct. You gotta be ready on your Google pad just to like, you know, bring the facts. You're not here just to drink beer and, uh, you know, let it, let us sound like goons, right? Like you got it. You gotta make sure that we're on our P's and Q's and that our audience is getting the, the top of the tip top of the information. Right. So, um, anyway, I'm going to read this email from,
01:52:22
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from Marco. It says, Hey, my favorite people. I know you have a lot of questions from other fully fan members, so I'll keep it short and sweet. My question this week pertains to stranger things. Sort of.
01:52:31
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A portion of the show is about being a teen, having different experiences, and going through life, not knowing what's next. So my question to you guys is, and I hope you answer, what was it like during the day, what was it like during the day in life of young Sheena and young Phil in middle and high school? As always, you guys are two of the most electrifying hosts in podcasting entertainment today. If you smell what the MVP is cooking, peace out.
01:52:56
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Um, so do you want to go first or you want me to well, I do I do want to say the the newest season of Stranger things is so fucking good. Have you watched it? Oh, yeah, I thought you were about to like bury it and I was gonna roast you because oh No, she the tone the tone of your voice was like going really sideways now. It's like if he says it's garbage I'm about to school him because I
01:53:21
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it was so it was the opposite it was so it was so good but the first two seasons like you can ask me right now what happened I don't remember anything about them they were good I don't just like them but I just feel like they just didn't like it was kind of more convoluted and this you know everything was done well I think they had the storylines that kind of came together at the perfect time if you know if you don't watch it I would go back and watch from the beginning because it's a great show but I
01:53:50
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The third season is definitely where it's at. Yeah, it really comes into its own and the kids are getting a little bit older. It's really that coming of age season where they're kind of just coming into their own and I absolutely love it. I won't spoil anything for you. Maybe we'll talk about it later after, you know, we feel like more people have had a chance to watch, but I just finished it last night and I was on a binge and dude, I didn't realize it was the finale and I was not ready. I was not ready. I was just like going through like all the episodes are playing and then all of a sudden I was like,
01:54:20
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Oh my God, no, this is the end. Wait, I'm watching the finale right now. So like halfway through the finale, I kind of realized like, oh my God, this is the last episode. Um, and it just, it was so awesome. I feel like it was a much more, um, it was a little bit, it was a lot more graphic this season than in previous seasons. Do you think like, I felt like there was a lot more like, like stress and suspense
01:54:42
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in this season than in seasons prior. Yeah, episode four. The final episode is great, but episode four had me almost ready to take some more blood pressure medicine. I was super, super stressed out. I don't know. I'm trying to remember back what happened during it. I need to look back. Do you remember the title of the episode? Because I can't differentiate. Because I was literally like, I was laying on my couch. I told you heel husband's gone. So I've just been total couch potato. Netflix is like, are you still watching? I'm like, stop asking, asshole. Of course I'm still watching.
01:55:12
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Of course I'm still here, you know? But yeah, if you haven't watched Stranger Things, you need to get on it because this season is really, really good. But back to Marco's question at hand, the life of Sheena Phillips, or Sheena Sadler, I don't think I've ever unveiled my maiden name. Sadler, S-A-D-L-E-R. Sheena Sadler was my maiden name. That was me back in the day. I was just very,
01:55:42
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It's, it's, I guess that I played sports. I was, I was an athlete, but I grew up in such a super, super small town. Um, so the day to day was like literally, I rode the bus. I was a bus riding kid. My, both my parents worked, so I had to get my ass up and get on the bus. You know, I didn't have, I didn't have parents to take me to school. Like now everybody in 2019, like if you don't take your kids to school, that's basically abuse in 2019. Um, but, uh,
01:56:07
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I rode the bus to school and go to school and, you know, do my thing there. I was always a good student, like, you know, A's and B's. I was a class clown, Phil, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if my humor comes across in, you know, this show or not, but I'm a freaking goof, dude. Like, I will do anything. Like, I love a dare and I love to just like, you know, like show out. But yeah, I was total class clown status when I was growing up.
01:56:36
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And I was the same way. I was a total class clown. That's funny. If you couldn't tell already from listening to me on the show. I don't know. I talk in high school. Middle school, middle school, high school. Yeah. Middle school, high school.
01:56:53
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Yeah, I made a carpool with some kids, and I was a huge wrestling fan. Not the most popular, but definitely not a dork, kind of like right in the middle, right in the happy spot. I had some good friends. I went to private school for high school, so a lot of my friends kind of went like half and half. Some went to the same private school, some went to public school, so I was never like totally like in the same clique as everybody.
01:57:20
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Um, I did not like high school, that's for sure. Oh really? See, I mean, I loved high school. I mean, I was that person. I was nice to everybody. Like I had friends from all. Which ad experience do you prefer? Obviously like in high school, it's very clear. There's different clicks. There's different like social groups and things like that.
01:57:36
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Um, I feel like there's like a clear delineation. I don't know how it is now in high school, but when I was in high school, it was like, you kind of see in the movie, like you got the jocks, you got the band nerds, you got like, you know, the weirdos, like it's, it's, you got those like clear, clear lines of delineation. I was one of those people that I could like meld to whatever group of people I was around and I was friendly and kind to everybody I was around. I was never like, I was never a bully.
01:57:58
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Anything like that, but I definitely ran with like the popular kids, but I felt like I was not a Popular kid does that make sense like I felt like I was it like the low man on the totem pole with the popular kids Right like that I've always felt like they were more popular than me Maybe it's because like they just like you know have more money and their parents like you know I was like total like middle look like lower middle class and
01:58:21
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type of type of life, you know, and I felt like they were always like had nicer clothes and nicer, you know, houses and stuff like that. So, but they all liked me, you know, that was inviting me to their slumber parties and to their birthday parties and all of those types of things. So I was right in there with them, but it's just funny how you perceive yourself versus like your peers, you know, like I always thought like I was like the
01:58:43
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you know, lesser, lesser than and I was like lucky to be hanging with like the cool kids, you know, but I also like I could go with a group of band nerds and be like just like fit in like a freaking round peg in a hole. If I had like three wishes that one of my wishes would be to be have like all my memories back from like when I was young because I think I've just forgotten so much stuff. I don't know. I have the worst memory for stuff like that. But I started working when I was like 14, I started dishwashing and then became like a cook.
01:59:12
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I was working 40, 60 hour weeks when I was in high school, so my good friends, I still hung out with them, but a lot of my good friends became guys I'm still hanging out with today as guys I worked with in the restaurant business. You get into some bad habits during doing that stuff, maybe smoking a little and drinking a little.
01:59:34
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Oh, the restaurant, the restaurant industry coming from someone whose family owns restaurants, I've worked in the restaurant industry, it's very, very conducive to being a alcoholic and getting yourself into trouble and things of that nature. So it definitely puts on some bad habits, even if you don't go to the extreme. Being in the restaurant industry really tries your...
01:59:52
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your health and your moral values. You do learn some good how to work hard and stuff like that. Yeah, and some great life lessons, definitely. You appreciate things a lot more when you've worked in the restaurant industry. But yeah, I didn't have a babysat in high school, but I didn't have a real job.
02:00:13
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like that you know we lived way out in the country so I was like a country girl too like riding four wheelers I was it was funny because my heel husband if something was getting sold the other day or on like American Pickers I can't remember what we were watching at my in-laws house and I was like he's like what the hell is that and I was like it's a shotgun shell reloader and he was like how the hell do you know that because I was like I used to reload I used to reload shotgun shells like my dad shot clay pigeons and I he we had a reloader and like one side of it had powder one side of it had
02:00:42
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you know the shot and you like reload the empty shells you know and it's just like it's funny how like we talked about last week how like multifaceted people are you know like I grew up in the country like feeding bottle calves and helping my friend you know at our chicken houses and things like that and then I also like ran with popular kids and played sports you know so I was just kind of like that that kid that was in all all things I'm still kind of like that I have I have friends
02:01:06
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from all different groups. Like if you got, like we talked about with the social situations, like if you got all of my groups of friends in one place, you'd be like, what the hell, how the hell do these people know each other? You know, so.
02:01:16
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Yeah, that's a great question, Marco. Hopefully we answered it and gave you some good insight about young Sheena, young Sheena and Phil. But you got an email back? No, no. I think that's good for now. If I think of some good stories from my younger days, I'll bring them up when Marco's on the show next week on his first interning gig. But Marco, you get to ask a question in real time next week.
02:01:39
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And we'll be here, we'll record Thursday night for Friday morning next week. We'll do a complete recap on San Diego Comic Con. And of course, recapping Extreme Rules and all this stuff going on this weekend. Enjoy the wrestling, folks. And just know that there's something for everybody out there. So if you're watching something you don't like, just wait till the next match might get better. Yeah, for sure. And don't be an asshole on social media. That's another thing.
02:02:06
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Yeah, especially Twitter. Come over to Instagram. See the light. Oh, man. Instagram. There's so many great people on there just putting out some cool pictures of stuff. It's like, you know, no bullshit. It's nice. But if you're if you're still listening, you're two hours plus here of me and she. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry, guys. Like, I feel like I'm I feel like I'm like Bruce Prichard and you guys like I'm like, holy shit. I looked at the timer and it was like two hours. So, yeah, we'll
02:02:32
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You know, we'll give you some compressed episodes as we move on. But yeah, we've had a lot of stuff with AEW and WWE and trying to cover it all. I mean, damn, it's a lot of stuff. Well, stay classy, Marks. We'll talk to you next week and enjoy the wrestling. Have a good one.
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I ain't got time
02:03:49
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