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Six Feet Underground plus AEW Unrivaled figures finally hit stores.....kinda
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Wow what a week! Marty Jannetty confesses to murder, AEW Unrivaled figures hit shelves, the debut of RAW Underground, and much more!
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Transcript
Welcome Back and Co-host Introductions
00:00:17
Speaker
Well, summertime in full effect. Welcome back to the Chick Foley show. Miss you guys. It feels like it's been a while. It's only been a week. What's up? This is Phil Gentillo, the hot take kid in the Jimmy's famous seafood studios. And, uh, welcome back. Thank you guys for listening. Thanks for tuning in. We got a great show for you. We have, uh, my lovely co-hosts, my favorite Ninja Turtle, Sheena Phelps, Virginia. What's going on, Phil?
00:00:44
Speaker
Not much. We have the president of the Latin Kings Boston chapter, Marco Denton. What's up dude? What's going on? Not much man. And a special guest co-host, Mike Lanham is in the house. He's got a bunch of fun stuff to do with us. What's going on Mike? What's happening guys? Not much. Just another hot August day.
Wrestling News & Marco's Announcement
00:01:07
Speaker
Man, we have a lot to talk about. Before we get into the week of wrestling, before we get into some figure news, Marco has a big announcement. We have to do our cheer wine, soda tasting, and Mike Lanham sends us all a mystery package.
Mystery Package Unveiling
00:01:23
Speaker
So I'll let Sheena pick which one we do first. I think we should do mystery package. I like it the way you think. Yes. Mike, do you want to give us any backstory before we open these up?
00:01:37
Speaker
No. Okay. All right. Excellent. It's called a mystery. It's like opening presents on Christmas. Exactly what it is. If you look in the closet beforehand, it ruins it. Okay. Wait, where did Sheena go? We're like a minute into the show. She's already gotten up and left. She wasn't prepared. She wasn't ready. I wasn't ready.
00:02:02
Speaker
Alright, is everyone opening their package? Yes, mine's open, I'm just haven't looked in yet. Feeling... Well, feels like some sort of... I'm open, dog. Are you open? Yep. Uh-oh.
00:02:15
Speaker
I'm going to have to remove my blue light glasses. Dude, I'm going to wear these to the beach. You're real open. Nice, man. Yeah. Now you got to tell us the story. Where did these come from? It's like Macho Man for the people that aren't watching us. These are like Macho Man style Chick-Foli sunglasses.
00:02:35
Speaker
Dude, I'm going to rock these on the beach on Saturday. I know. I cannot wait to wear this with my Macho Man robe, you know? Like, I'm totally going to walk around the house just like rocking this in my Macho Man robe. I'm going to feel like such a G. Dude, thank you, Mike. That Macho Man robe that Phil still doesn't have? I know. I can't believe that. Come on, Phil. What inspired this, man? I came across somebody on, I have to look it up, an Instagram maybe. Somebody had ordered a pair or something, and then I tried to get a hold of the guy, and I couldn't.
00:03:06
Speaker
and
00:03:21
Speaker
show logo with, with Sheena on there with the color. So yeah, I love it. So we have, we have like a red frame, uh, which is like the chick Foley signature red, you know, the red Buffalo plaid. And then we got like a pinkish, uh, metallic chick Foley across the front. So yeah, totally rocking these with all my new, uh, chick
Pro Wrestling Tees Sale & Cocktail Plans
00:03:39
Speaker
Foley gear. It's going to be coming. We had a pro wrestling tease sale this week. So if you haven't picked up, I think it's today's the last day. So ended at noon today. So, Oh, well, nevermind then I ordered, I ordered three. I ordered three today.
00:03:50
Speaker
And that's early. You think they'd let people make it to payday or something? Right. Yeah. You got to do Friday. They're going to cut it off before Friday. They're like, no, no, no. They can't handle the influx. I decided next week at the beach, I'm going to do some like, every day I'm going to do a video on the Facebook page, like a cocktail. I'm going to make some cocktails and do a live video. And I'll be wearing these during my video. So thank you, Mike. Appreciate it, brother.
Cheerwine Soda Tasting
00:04:12
Speaker
All right. Pumped.
00:04:13
Speaker
and a
00:04:35
Speaker
Baltimore and I don't know why but cheer wine is like a southern thing and he sent it to all of us So I don't know what like how he became like the cheer wine expert, but I've never had it Marco's never had it And Mike has never had it either. So so super pumped. Yeah super pumped to try this It's a cherry flavored soda
00:04:53
Speaker
And I think it originated in North Carolina from that mistake. It was big in South Carolina when I went to school down there. And for some reason, only Wegmans up here in Maryland carries it. I don't know if they got a deal to carry it nationwide. But I mailed you guys all yours. Mike's broke in transit. But he
Custom Hasbro-style Figures Collaboration
00:05:11
Speaker
was able to buy some there where he lives. So cheers. Wow. Cheers. Just tell me if it's better than Big Red. That's all I need to know.
00:05:23
Speaker
Oh man. Is that good or what?
00:05:26
Speaker
Everything tastes good in a, in a glass bottle. That is true. That is true. This does come in a can as well. Oh really? Yeah. I saw, I saw those eyes. I was doing a little bit of like backstory research. I saw that it does come in like the regular like boxes and cans and stuff. I've never seen it obviously, but, um, yeah, it's pretty good. It's not super sweet. It's like a milder, like Dr. Pepper, big red hybrid. Yeah, there you go. I could see that. It's, it's, it's very like not syrupy, but it's very like after like one or two, you feel like your teeth are going to fall out though.
00:05:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You know what it kind of reminds me of? Do you guys remember that soda flavored bubble gum they had when we were kids that actually had like the goo in the middle? Yeah. Like the doctor, the doctor pepper flavored gum of that as it was what this reminds me of. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's doesn't have like that same carbonation as like cherry Pepsi or cherry Coca-Cola, but it still has that, that flavor. Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:25
Speaker
I agree, though. I love soda bottle. I can see why people like it, yes. Yeah, even though Phil Kraft on our soda recommendation, Big Red, I'm not going to do the same. I'm actually going to show some love to the Cheerwine. I like it. That was just a personal taste preference. I don't like cream soda things, vanilla type of things.
00:06:47
Speaker
Okay, good. Anybody else wants to send us? Somebody said the next one we should do should be the Faygo that the ICP fans drink. I don't know where that's sold. Do you have like Save-A-Lot where you're at? That game arts where I used to see it. Some of the gas stations still sell it like around here in their freezer.
00:07:14
Speaker
I have never walked into a save a lot. They're probably the most depressing looking stores. Yeah, they definitely are. I've been in a lot of save a lots in my childhood. But yeah, they really are very depressing grocery stores. Especially now, I don't even really like grocery shopping as an adult unless it's in a bougie grocery store. When I just have to go to regular old grocery store, I'm like, god, this is the worst. But when I get to kick it around like Whole Foods or like Wegmans or somewhere, I'm like, oh, yeah.
00:07:42
Speaker
This is the best, you know? All right. Last but not least, Marco, you have a big announcement for us that you wanted to save for the show. So I'll let you have the floor. Yeah, so there's been a war for a little bit. So I've been trying to do this behind the scenes. I had to get some help. I had to do a hot tag to a couple other people to help me get this going. One of them was like a last minute.
00:08:11
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ditch effort because I asked the other person and they said, yeah, let's let's do it. So I I recently have been in contact with a gentleman you guys may know as extra cooler. Right. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, he's he's famous for his his artistry.
00:08:30
Speaker
And all that type of stuff. We love all things extra cooler around these parts. Yeah. So I got to talking to him. And I wanted to do a commission on myself. I did like, I had him do, actually, I'll let you know what I had him do. I had him do the Ultimate Warrior Series 3 Hasbro. Oh, nice. As the Ultimate Warrior. Oh, cool. Cool. But then in the back of my mind, I was like, you know what? I was like, you know what I have to do? I had to, everyone has to be a Hasbro figure along with myself. So.
00:08:58
Speaker
I'm going to share my screen right now. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. You ready? I'm ready. Let me see this. Let me know if you can see this, if it pops up already. If nothing. This is not the time for technical difficulties. Oh my god. Oh my god. Holy joy. Go back. Go back. Go back. That's fantastic. What did I know? Did you see it? Do you want me to go back? It was there for a split second. Go back. Oh my gosh. I have like.
00:09:29
Speaker
goosebumps i like chicken skin i love it oh my god is it sharing right now or no no it's a black screen it's a black screen oh so from what i from what i remember oh oh my god so marco marco is the mouth of the south i'll send it to you guys in the chat so you can see it holy shit so good that is so good that's good work dude that looks like me too
00:09:54
Speaker
Let me actually send you the file, because I have the original files for it. So he sent me all the originals. So I'll just continue on. So I went back to him. I said, hey, I was like, can you do this for me? He was like, sure, sure thing. So he ended up doing it. And I'll send you this one. Did you guys get it yet? I'm looking at the original. So for those of you who can't see, obviously, this is an audio platform.
00:10:19
Speaker
It is us as has bros,
Women Empowerment in Wrestling
00:10:22
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Brett and anvil. I am obviously Brett. Why are you obviously what you could be? I mean, those are, those are Brett's boots and the hearts on the pants. Um, and
00:10:33
Speaker
Bill is the anvil. And then we got Marco, the MVP, as the mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart. It is with the megaphone and everything. It looks so great. We have to use it. We have to put this on shirts and everything. This is on the shirt. It's like, oh my god. So here's the kicker. So with my body, obviously, there's no Jimmy Hart, Hasbro. So he goes, I have a quick question for you. What are we going to do for Jimmy Hart? Because he doesn't have a Hasbro. And I was like, damn. So I'm looking through it.
00:11:02
Speaker
easy honky tonk man because he's holding he has the open hands we can hold like a accessory yeah so that's actually the honky tonk man's pose right there wow the other part of this too is there's another part of this that I actually connected to a gentleman named mr. heel husband
00:11:21
Speaker
Oh my gosh. He actually I sent him these files and they are being they're going to be uploaded to PWTs. Oh my god. Oh man. They don't want us to keep in secrets. I know. What's going to happen? Like it works for the government or something. Yes. I go. I go. He has a top secret security clearance. Exactly. He goes, dude, you got to keep this. He goes, he's like, I work Intel. He's like, I'm pretty sure I can keep a secret.
00:11:47
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So those would be up on a pro wrestling teaser. Dude, soon. I think you guys are going to love this so much. I cannot. Marco, you are the man. I'm so happy. Like this is just like, yeah, it gave me a good hairline too. Like I don't have like a receding hairline or anything. That's awesome. I'm going to send you guys. He said he made us individual pictures as well.
00:12:17
Speaker
This would be perfect if we can get this printed on like some glossy Paper and like get it mailed out to all the the Foley family folks. That would be cool Yeah, we need this stickers. I want it as everything Phil can get it as a mousepad and
00:12:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah, there you go. Yeah, definitely. Because it's all, like I said, they're all individuals. You can do your own individual stickers. You could have a fill sticker. You could have a sheet of say I could do my own thing. The other the other fun conversation was trying to figure out how to create Sheena's attire.
00:12:50
Speaker
for Bret Hart, because obviously he has the same attire as he did. You didn't want it to be inappropriate or what? I could upload that Hasbro figure to my OnlyFans, OK? Oh, Jesus. He comes back and he goes, oh, yeah. So he's like, we have to figure out Sheena's attire, because obviously, I was like, damn it, you're right. He was like, yeah, I'll figure it out. No, it still looks so great.
00:13:19
Speaker
It is the best. Thank you so much, Nick. Nick's from Extra Cooler. You need to follow him at Extra Cooler on Instagram. He does so many great designs. He's done so many t-shirt designs for us. He's done commission work for us. He's the best. My wife has one complaint. Well, what? She said yours needs a bigger bulge on mine. Mine needs a bigger bulge. So we'll talk to Nick. Get that. Thank you, sweetie.
00:13:48
Speaker
I don't know if she means my stomach or my crotch. Dude, that's cool. That's cool as shit. What a way to kick off the show here. We got to get this up. And we'll put it onto the Facebook page and onto social media as soon as we can. So people listening will be able to see what we're talking about. Good stuff, man. Marco, thank you so much. I loved it. And I'm not even one who really likes surprises because I get nervous. But this was awesome.
00:14:13
Speaker
I was nervous too, yeah. Speaking of Pro Wrestling Tees, they just had a sale. They always have sales every once in a while, but you can pick up our shirts at ProWrestlingTees.com slash Chick Foley, and you can follow us on social media. I run the Twitter account at Chick Foley Show, and Sheena is on Instagram at Chick Foley.
00:14:32
Speaker
So hit us up there if you want to support our show you can do that by going to chick Foley show.com and becoming a patreon subscriber It starts at $1 per month.
Community Engagement & Giveaways
00:14:43
Speaker
We have some I think five new patreon subscribers Adam Sambor Rick Cabral Jonathan Burgess Tony Barker and pale Joker
00:14:57
Speaker
Shannon right the pale Joker who who jumped into him, you know Welcome to all those folks. He jumped into the Facebook group last night and like he'd already like offered some poop He was at like Walmart and saw a bunch of masters and universe figures. I was like, dude, this is awesome You're like you've been in here for like an hour. You're already like, you know blending in so uh, I
00:15:16
Speaker
Pretty cool a dollar starts with five dollars. You get all our bonus episodes and Everybody who gets in gets a shout out here on the show, so we appreciate it. That's the best way to support us there. Let's um Anything oh we need some giveaways to talk about she know we have that too We have a lot of giveaways to talk about right now
00:15:34
Speaker
Yeah, actually we're doing a giveaway right now for an extra Ringside exclusive, a little bit of the bubbly. Chris Jericho comes with, you know, the table, all of the, you know, catering set with the champagne and the AEW title, all of that. All you have to do is send us a, um, if you use our code CHICKOLY at ringside collectibles between, uh, anytime from January 1st,
00:15:56
Speaker
until next Wednesday. You can send us the proof to the Chick Foley Show Twitter DMs or to Chick Foley on Instagram and you'll be entered to win the giveaway. So we're just giving one of those away sponsored by Ringside. So we're super excited to, you know.
00:16:13
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Give that to one lucky winner. It's a super awesome gig. Do we say July or January? July. Okay. You said January, but I think I know what you meant. July 1st and on. Even if it doesn't say our name in the code, if it just says 10% off and you honor system here, folks, I know sometimes people in DM and be like,
00:16:31
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I used your code, but it just doesn't say which code I used. Not a big deal. Send that over to us. And our good buddy that we're partnering with, I've actually bought some figures from on Instagram, is doing a giveaway with us too. He is buy, sell,
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00:17:39
Speaker
And we have more and more giveaways coming in the coming weeks. So I have another one we'll announce later on in the show from our good buddy, Alan Day, who wants to do a huge charity giveaway with all of our Patreon folks. So we'll talk about that a little bit later. Let's get inside the squared circle. This is brought to us by our friends at Chalk Line. Use code CHICK for 15% off of your order there. Let's start with SmackDown.
00:18:09
Speaker
Yeah, so Marco, you want to take us through what happened on SmackDown and I will chime in because I think we're really only one major thing really stood out from for me on SmackDown.
SmackDown Highlights Discussion
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah, obviously, we'll definitely talk about that. But yeah, Gran Metalik had his, I think it was his first intercontinental title match in the company, if I'm not mistaken, against AJ Styles. Really good match. Obviously, it was going to be. He's the king of the rope. So that went really well. But he obviously lost the match. He came up a little bit short, but had a good outing. So hopefully, he gets some more title shots in the near future.
00:18:49
Speaker
My favorite biggie biggie's for not as real I put for a solo match but not as his first solo match since Right broke up. So I love his entrance when he just rolls down the ramp. That's the greatest thing ever Yeah, he obviously had a good outing he he won he faced the miss and John John Morrison did some crazy like
00:19:12
Speaker
Parkour like move off the steps. Did you guys see that they're like no Spinning sideways. I don't even know what the hell it was. I can't even describe it I can't even pull that off, but I could pull up a lot of parkour moves myself. Oh Just to continue on a shorty G. I actually collected the Kings ransom it took out a
00:19:36
Speaker
Matt Riddle, which was pretty amazing. Yeah, he planted it with that German suplex that rolling German suplex He does which is pretty awesome. So glad shorty G's getting some shine So it looks like he's turning. He's a hill now. Maybe you lose that that that angle Maybe we lose this the shorty G gimmick. Yeah, can we just yeah? Can we just get rid of the shorty G thing? That would be the first move. That would be amazing to be the he's gonna be his court jester That's what's probably gonna happen. He's a king and
00:20:05
Speaker
Also, going back to the Big E thing, the announcers were making it a big deal like Big E has never had a solo match before. Wasn't he NXT champion? He was. Wasn't he an intercontinental champion? That was before NXT was like the NXT that we know now, though. You know what I mean? Those NXT days don't really count. I think we've forgotten about all that.
00:20:28
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I mean, they never, they never really talk about Seth Rollins being the first ever NXT champion, you know, because like that was like back in the dark days. I mean, it was good stuff still, but you know what I mean? It wasn't like its own brand and stuff like that. So yeah, nobody remembers Biggie and NXT.
00:20:44
Speaker
And we just had Kofi Kingston go solo and literally win the world title. And Big E is just basically a bigger, stronger version of Kofi in that threesome. So I mean, I don't know. I mean, he was wrestling Miz. What do you think about the new finishing move for Big E? It's kind of like a, I don't know what you call it.
00:21:03
Speaker
It's like a submission move or something, like his finishing move. I forget exactly what he did, but it was like a guy as big as Big E could just do whatever you wanted in the ring. And like, it was just a little underwhelming. What was it, Marco? My brain escapes me. Yeah, me too. I don't know. What the heck was it? Somebody's probably yelling at their radio. Yeah, I feel like it's this. It's called this. Mike Lanham probably knows.
00:21:29
Speaker
Yeah No Obviously we're not we're not big on biggie. No No, we're failing. We're failing for the big news. We pull for big dude season and what are we doing here? I do I love biggie So I'm hoping you know, we get something big out of this So we'll see and then the filing say the final segment Marco was it was the talk of Smackdown though. Oh Yeah, the little cheetah jump into but uh, yeah, definitely the
00:21:54
Speaker
We had the main event had Bailey and Nikki Cross going. Another title shot for Nikki Cross, which is awesome. I'm not complaining because if anyone should get title matches, it should be people other than the same people you see every week. But she came up short. No pun intended.
00:22:13
Speaker
And she obviously was a little frustrated with the with the outcome and you know Alex is trying to console her and you know be the good friend She is and you know Nikki just pushes her down and leaves her in the ring and just walks away Unexpectedly lights go out red light turns on the feed appears And she you have a better even better detail on how he like kinda
00:22:40
Speaker
what has had his way with lots of blessings. That's one way to put it, I suppose. Yeah, to me, it just seemed like it was a totally different, you know, nothing that Bray Wyatt does is not calculated. Do you know what I mean? Like there's a reason for everything that he does. Every movement that he makes, every like thing that he says has meaning, right?
00:23:02
Speaker
So the fact that he didn't just like jump on her like he did like Seth Rollins and you know all everybody else you know and just like attack her it was very slow and very methodical and like it looked like there was a little bit of care taken even though he did like end up taking her down. It looked like it was a little bit more like it was a little softer right and it was almost like it was almost like like I told you guys earlier in the week it was like sexual like he's like presented his hand and like you know brought it down into her face. Yeah it was very creepy.
00:23:30
Speaker
Yeah, it was very creepy and you know I heard it was like kind of polarizing people were like oh my god Alexa Did so great in that segment other people were like what the hell was she doing? She literally just sat there and like you know stared off into the distance And I kind of mix I'm kind of a mixed bag because I love horror movies And I expect people to do stupid things when they're in danger like that You know I'm like oh, why are you like literally hiding behind the door and the killers right there? You know I mean like get the hell out of there
00:23:55
Speaker
Um, so to me, I was just like, okay, it's just another horror movie trope. Um, but then other people were like, oh, she was just like, um, it's like hypnotized by his presence and everything. And I just, I don't really know. What do you guys think? How did you interpret that? And what do you think's going on here? And how are we using Alexa?
00:24:13
Speaker
I don't know. I hope they do something cool with this. A lot of people on Twitter and Facebook were kind of hinting that we could get kind of like a Joker and Harley Quinn type of relationship out of this and you turn over here. I think you definitely need to keep her and The Fiend off of TV for a while. Make something out of this and have it culminate at SummerSlam. True. But this is The Fiend's first appearance since
00:24:36
Speaker
before Mania. You know what I mean? He was at the, uh, uh, the swap match. Come on, Sheena. He wasn't on, he wasn't on smack down. He hasn't been on smack nuts before WrestleMania. I mean, like he, he appeared at super showdown and then he appeared at WrestleMania, but that's been it for smack, you know, TV appearances.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, which is good. I think keeping Alexa off and I mean, they're really doing nothing with her right now. I mean, what is she going to feed with Nikki Cross for the next three months or, you know, like just just keep her keep her out of that and give her something fresh and new and like, I don't know, make her like not hypnotized by the fiend, but like under his power or something. And like, I think it would be cool, like, you know, for six months or something. And then then we turn our face again.
00:25:17
Speaker
I know, but how do you come back from that? These are the types of things that are kind of like jump the sharky, right? You're like, oh, you were like a minion for the fiend forever. And then all of a sudden, you're just back. Now you're feeding with Naomi. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. Yeah, that's true. She can't pull off the supernatural gimmick for the rest of her career. She's just like this little bubbly five foot
00:25:40
Speaker
Five feet of fury type of chick, you know, but anybody can pull it off Alexa will be able to pull it off I mean, she's the queen of like I love Alexis promos. I love her like Her facial work in the ring, you know, I mean she's very very good as far as like her acting and stuff But I just don't know where they're even going with this. Is this trying to like like bait? I mean bronze been missing too. You know what I mean? It's not like we're trying to bait brawn in bronze like floating around the swamp somewhere. I
00:26:05
Speaker
True. He might be dead, honestly. Yeah, he's possibly dead. So where is this going? He can't feud with a woman. I don't think that's going to be a good look in 2020, right? I think he's trying to get his family back together, sort of.
00:26:21
Speaker
because he lost all his brothers and sister Abigail is no longer there so maybe he's trying to make it so he replaces sister Abigail with Alexa Bliss so that he's keeping like Braun captive so he has his brother back or one of his brothers back at least because obviously the other two aren't around anymore so maybe it's kind of like a thing like he's just trying to recreate
00:26:42
Speaker
What he wants has been lost without his family and stuff like that. He built that front house because of all the bad things that happened to him. But now that maybe he's trying to bring his family back together so he doesn't have the front house anymore.
00:26:57
Speaker
I'm here for that. I think that could be a really good way for him to build people, like have his like, you know, a quote unquote, like disciples around him or like cult around him. And it would kind of help protect him too, because he wouldn't have to be on TV fighting every week. He could have his people fighting his battles. And then like, you know, the fiend is like the boss battle. You know what I mean? So, um, I don't know. We'll see. I mean, obviously like WWE, you can't expect a lot out of it these days. So you can kind of take what you see with a grain of salt, but we'll watch anyway, right?
Alexa Bliss & The Fiend Storyline
00:27:26
Speaker
What I don't want to happen is Alexa Bliss just to show up next week like nothing happened And then just like go back to like wrestling with you know against Sasha Banks or something like to do something with this I don't know what you do like just do something cool. This is a cool opportunity to make her like a you know a minion of The Fiend or something something you know even if it's for just until summer slam so bronc and rescue her you know
00:27:52
Speaker
Well, moving over to... You could do that though, like with her. Like you could have her be her normal self and then every once in a while something like snaps or causes her, kind of like her normal Bray character and then her Fiend character. So maybe she's normal Alexa and sometimes she turns to this dark Harley Quinn type character maybe. Like maybe this continues the Nikki storyline until she turns on her maybe.
00:28:17
Speaker
Oh, I can see that. Yeah, I can. So just so she's not just with Bray, like maybe it has more to it. That way she has a way to turn Hill. But yeah, you're right. You have to slowly transforms over time. You know what I mean? Like it could be a progressive thing where she slowly starts to become more and more like part like part of the fiends universe. You know, she has like flashbacks in the ring to like the attack. Like she just like wigs out or like a like a bob back on the back. Yeah.
00:28:44
Speaker
Yeah, I could see him doing something like that just to make it more than just hey he he put her in the mandible claw and now she's just one of his minions like I feel like they might build more story than that. I hope so. I hope I hope that we're right on that because that that would be good. I like when they take their time and build those storylines and make it like come to a fever pitch, right? Like they don't just like give you the payoff right away. They make you kind of like guess what's going to happen. So yeah, I'm here for that.
00:29:11
Speaker
All right, let's move over to Raw, which is probably the most polarizing show of the week. Maybe the oddest episode of Raw we've had in several years. I don't know if that's good or bad. Don't know where to start here. Let's start with before Raw even aired, we had social media buzzing because we were told it was going to be the return of Shane McMahon, who's been gone for quite a while.
00:29:35
Speaker
and the debut of a new faction on Raw. Not sure why we need to know that ahead of time. Ratings, pal. Yeah, yeah. So the ratings, that didn't really help too much. I think it went up like 100,000 from the week before. Also, what faction debuted on Raw this week, Sheena? Retribution, right? Isn't that what happened? Yeah.
00:30:01
Speaker
So, yeah, so you're referring to the hooded people in black masks that try to destroy a generator and were messing with the show the entire night. Why would we be promoting that they are debuting if they're going to just try to... Recavic? Try to, yeah. Made zero sense. But let's fantasy book this a little bit. The name is interesting, Retribution.
00:30:28
Speaker
What do you think that means? Who do you think this is going to be? Is this going to be NXT folks? I've heard some people talking about Champa and Dijakovic since they got destroyed by our buddy Karrion Kross. Maybe they're here or is it just people that, I mean, I think it would be cool to have some people that were fired or let go. The name Retribution would fit them. What do you think this is going to be and what do you hope it is?
00:30:54
Speaker
who's fired and hasn't shown up on impact or... Yeah, not many. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, very little people to choose from. And I think a lot of people said one of the characters looked like the hide or maybe they even talked was a female.
00:31:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah Yeah, there's a pretty big dude, too. So they could be right about Dominic Chelsea Chelsea green and chomp Chelsea green chomp. Oh, yeah, I mean it's a possibility I can't think of any other like NXT
00:31:29
Speaker
Unless they just pick some like random utility people from an exceeded to do it that you'd never heard of before Yeah, that would not make sense but I think everything that's a cool idea I mean when you look back on how the the Nexus debuted with like Coming down and like just beating the hell out of everybody and destroy the ring. I mean that was a cool way to debut a faction I don't know where this is gonna go. We'll keep an open mind, but I
00:31:57
Speaker
again, telling us beforehand that it was gonna happen. Why do we even need to know? Just let it be, let us see it live. You asked as if you're surprised, like have you been watching from the last three years? Because. He's watching WWE. Definitely not surprised. They ruin the biggest pops of all time. The only thing I think of is they're trying to swerve you with the new faction, which would have been like the hurt business, but they've been talking about the hurt business for like the past three weeks.
00:32:25
Speaker
So that's really not a new faction. I mean, they formally announced it as their hurt business on Monday, so maybe that's how they got away with it. But yeah, they kind of just left that. And supposedly what I've been reading is going to be like a long, long drawn out storyline with the retribution thing. So you're not going to find out who all these people are like right away. It's going to be like a continuous thing and then like hopefully a big payoff.
00:32:53
Speaker
But I mean, if it's retribution, it's got to be people that have something to like get revenge for. You know what I mean? Like some people that like. So I mean, who who is like, you know, like Samoa Joe, you know, I don't know. And if it's NXT people on Raw, that kind of gets a whole different storyline. How do you how do you cross that? Right.
00:33:14
Speaker
Yeah, if you hate it so much, why are you showing up on right? Why didn't you just stay in NXT? You know what I mean? What was it gonna say? What if you said something? Unless they show up on SmackDown also or NXT if they hit all three shows maybe.
00:33:30
Speaker
Yeah. We'll see. I mean, long drawn out storylines is what they do best. We'll probably forget about this when they're doing these vignettes like two months, three months from now, but we will see.
Raw Underground Debut
00:33:42
Speaker
And you did talk about the hurt business who kind of proclaimed themselves as a new faction and then proceeded to lose both, not one, but two titles on Raw, which is, you know, really makes them look strong. Yeah.
00:33:54
Speaker
Awful. And then the biggest thing of the week was the debut and maybe the last episode of Raw Underground, Tony Hawk's Raw Underground. What do you make of this? I understand what they're trying to do here. The ratings suck, okay? And they want to get a little bit more edgy and kind of throw back to the attitude era, right? Is that where they're trying to go here? This was like Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood meets Fight Club.
00:34:24
Speaker
Like this was like the most ridiculous, like soft thing. I don't know. It was just, it was a mess to be quite honest with you. It was a total mess. I feel like Shane, I don't know why, but Shane always gives me those vibes. Like he's like trying to be the cool dad. You know what I mean? And this, and this like whole raw underground thing, like being his like baby really like sets that in for me. I'm like, Oh, he's trying to be like the cool dad right now. Like, Hey, look at me. Like I have this like gritty,
00:34:54
Speaker
You know, fighting that I'm going down here with, like, you know, women dancing on tables. Like, it just did not cook with me at all. You know, when he came on for the first time before they even showed it, he was like, all right. Yeah. Roll underground. Coming up later tonight. Be there and watch. Like, what are you talking about? We don't know what this is. Yeah. He's like he's like trying to be like Carson Daly or something. You know, saying like early early into the day. I mean, whatever happened to Carson Daly. Jesus. He's still around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:23
Speaker
Um, so what do you think happens with this? Where are they gonna go with this now? I don't think we ever see it again. You don't think so? I think it's one of those things that's gonna just like be like, okay, let's just forget this ever happened. You think so? One more week maybe and then, unless it's totally different next week. Like the way it was shot was fine, but there just wasn't enough explanation and
00:35:48
Speaker
But I mean, it made the Viking Raiders look probably their best. They've looked in a while. Oh, yeah, that's true. Like those those like hard, like hard nose, like I'm going to kick the crap out of you guys will flourish in that. I think you'll stay. Definitely. They'll take all the guys that are like the hard hitting dudes. And it just, you know, I love Roadhouse, that movie. And that's what it reminded me of. Well, you guys know I'm pro mask.
00:36:13
Speaker
But if you were like a gritty underground fight club and you've got like the people in the audience like wearing masks like, you know, fight, fight, fight. It kind of takes away a little bit of the fight. But be safe. Well, maybe they don't. Maybe it's so underground. You don't want to be know that you are actually there. So like maybe you have to you have to wear a mask because you don't want your identity to be seen. You want to be a part of that that crowd at all. That's true. You think they are cooler than like little like medical masks. Yeah. He's like where like a ski mask.
00:36:44
Speaker
I could put up with this a little bit. If we didn't have Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Lashley, keep this thing completely separate and make it guys that we don't know. At least make it somewhat realistic. Don't have the guys that are already... This is obviously downstairs from the actual performance center or something. This is in the basement. This is not somewhere different.
00:37:09
Speaker
What I'm guessing is seems like it's like the guys that actually have like not that they're not all athletes Like those are the guy all the guys that you've seen had backgrounds in something
00:37:18
Speaker
like wrestling background, a MMA background, like, um, Dolph Ziggler was a top tier, um, athletic wrestler. These weren't just like people off the street, you know, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley, like all those guys that you see all the horrible fighters at some point. So if your roster is already stretched thin due to the situations that we have in America and across the world, why are you trying to incorporate yet another
00:37:46
Speaker
the the
00:37:59
Speaker
Also, would you like the thing with like Thatcher and Riddle was so well done. Like, are they just thinking the realistic wrestling thing is something in the window every show? I didn't even make it. You're trying to you're trying to break things up and add something different. But I mean, as much as we hate on it, they just had a eye for an eye match. So it's like they're trying something different. Everybody's complaining about every raw Smackdown being the same thing every week.
00:38:27
Speaker
they're thinking outside the box. It just, it didn't, they didn't execute it the way it needed to be. I can, I can buy that. Yeah, I can buy that that, you know, they, they did, I give them credit for trying something like you said, outside the box, but yeah, it just, it just didn't, it just didn't hit. So they're going to either have to like totally revamp it next week. Um, and why didn't it just like have its own segment? Like I felt like we kept cutting to it and it really helped. Like it really made the show like disjointed.
00:38:50
Speaker
You know, like I didn't like the way that the flow of the show went. Yeah. So the other thing, too, is if you watch Lucha Underground, it has that similar type of feel to it.
00:39:01
Speaker
And a lot of people are saying that like on Twitter was like oh, I just copied Lucha Underground It has like the same type of like cinematic feel to it and the grain No, but it was that was like a wrestling man like it was only kind of a warehouse feel yeah, yeah Like they kind of like Jack the name of it as well So a lot of people are drawing comparisons to it. You couldn't have found three uglier looking strippers That's the that was my biggest takeaway from yeah those yeah, I don't know what that was I
00:39:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's a pandemic. You can't get the top of the line. All the top of the line are on Onlyfans right now. These girls were at Golden Corral or something, and they pulled them in. It's a PG show, Phil. For the record, I thought the strippers were just fine. At least you still refer to them as strippers. The entertainers.
00:39:52
Speaker
the entertainers they didn't take their clothes off they weren't stripping it was they were the you know just dancers or go-go dancers did you did they say a name for the big guy the baba tunde guy from uh nxt uh baba what was it baba duke baba something it was not baba duke if the baba duke came in it would be game over it would be like that okay this was about this was a baba duke that would be that that would be like the horror show part two okay
00:40:19
Speaker
I forget what they call him, but I mean he's I mean if they can make someone of it They can at least legitimize the Viking Raiders from this or make this this one dude like a new monster He'll like that's fine like if this if this vehicle creates one new thing on the show that's worth watching They've done their job. I guess you know it's a way way to look at it does it does it end as like a champion and then he becomes like Shane's next
00:40:44
Speaker
like project that he manages and goes after McIntyre, goes after Orton, whoever the champion is, something like that. They didn't say what it was. Is there going to be a title for this thing or is it a tournament? They didn't have no details about what any of this was. It was just dudes fighting. You're going to have to pay for your subscription of Raw Underground and they're going to put all these people on there. Yeah. AEW Underground. But you also can't have
00:41:12
Speaker
the Viking Raiders on there, kind of like the bliss thing. Like you can't have them fight street profits as, or do axe throwing. And then the next week they're back on the underground. So I think you have to choose one or the other. Yeah. Underground needs to be like the freaking cruiser weights or something. Like it has to have its own like cast of characters, right? Like you can't be crossing back and forth.
00:41:33
Speaker
Agree, can't cross streams. Nope. All right, that's it from, was there anything else from Raw we should touch on besides that? No, Montez Ford got poisoned, apparently, and they think it's Selena and her band of hot Latinos. Okay. Yeah, so we'll find out more about that. But yeah, Bianca Belair was about to take out, you know,
00:41:58
Speaker
Oh, I did like the appearance from the girl from The Bachelor. That was not robotic at all. Hi, I'm Danny from The Bachelor.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yeah. What's up with freaking Angel Garza, dude? He's he needs to chill. Cars just hits on everybody. He doesn't need to chill. I mean, I felt like I'd be so horned up. That guy's so horny. He's a good looking guy. But I mean, you would think the women would be like, oh, yeah, I just saw you hitting on this other chick like, you know, five minutes ago or last week.
00:42:28
Speaker
last week you were given so-and-so a rose and then like they're just all like swooning over him i'm like that that's insulting you know like ladies you just stand up and be like hell no you know because he towers over them and he's just like so imposing and he gives a rose and he has that smile and they just totally forget that he talked to 30 other girls before he got to them so that's true women that's how they are
00:42:53
Speaker
I know all women are like that. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they don't know anything. They don't care. They want those bad guys. Yeah, they love the bad guys. They don't like the nice guys, you know? Nope. You're the bad guys, a chance. All right, let's move on. Just sit on the sides and cry.
00:43:12
Speaker
Let's move over to the Wednesday night wars. I had a free night away from the kid. So that took the wife out on a little date night last night. So I missed all of Wednesday night wars. So fill me in here. It sounds like both shows were pretty good, but it sounds like AEW.
AEW Highlights & Debate Segment
00:43:27
Speaker
I feel like I missed a really good episode. I did come home, turn the TV on and saw Matt Hardy get hit right in the face with a chair. Yeah, like like, you know, like wasn't even like a work throw, like literally threw the chair at his face.
00:43:43
Speaker
It's it was crazy because yeah, so he got hit in the face with the chair But it looks like he blocked it You know what I mean? Like from like when you see it in full speed it almost looks like he blocked it But I mean it got through there and I mean it it gashed him He busted open the hard way and it was it was not pretty They hit the post beforehand, but the chair definitely looked like what split him So that was kind of scary I did see Matt Cardona's debut and look pretty good. I
00:44:09
Speaker
Yeah, he got a big entrance for the broski. He got some pyro and the whole thing. They're high on Matt Cardona. Me and the heel husband were going back and forth on ... He thought that Matt was going to turn on Cody. I was like, dude, they've already done that gimmick with MJF. They're not going to have him turn on Cody right away.
00:44:28
Speaker
Cody's gonna be like the modern-day sting like everybody's just gonna turn on him, you know, so But I think they're gonna do a slow bill I mean, I think it could totally happen eventually, you know the whole Matt versus a Matt yeah Matt. How is it one comes back Matt versus Cody? But I think it's gonna be a slow build this time. I think they need to make it more more meaningful. I
00:44:50
Speaker
Your, uh, your boy, uh, Scorpio Scott did make an appearance though, as, as Cody went to the back. So it looks like they're kind of pushing for a second, a second match between them. Oh, it's already scheduled for next week. Yeah. No, no reason to surprise us. Uh, Mike, let's just tell it, tell us ahead of time. So we don't have any kind of cool surprise. That's how you get eyes on TV. You announced it beforehand. Well, he did cut a awesome promo on a AW dark.
00:45:18
Speaker
about how they're calling him the king of a king of a w dark or something like that or the king of dark um he said he appreciates it but he wants to be on the main show he doesn't want to be on aw dark anymore which good for him he should be on the main show i'm not sure why he's just relegated to that but he's one of the better talents that they have there so hopefully maybe he wins the title i don't know no i'm gonna save that for i'm gonna save it for something big but i would love to see him i would love to see it
00:45:46
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know who you know Some you know whoever WWE fires next probably when it you can't you can't give it to Cardona because then everybody will be Shitty about giving it to the the fire WWE guy. Like I can see them. I can see them fighting and Cody wins and then Cardona turns on him if you want to make Matt a hill but I Don't think he's gonna win the I don't think he's the one to win the belt
00:46:11
Speaker
Yeah. How was this Jericho Orange Cassie debate? It was awesome. It was great. So it was great. It was 100% awesome. So they had Bischoff kind of like be the, what do you call the guy? The moderator of the debate. And it was just so good. And then all of a sudden, so they go back and forth and Jericho was just laying it on thick, talking about all of the things.
00:46:37
Speaker
Um, then all of a sudden freaking orange Cassidy just breaks and just like freaking lays the smack down on him before Not not after though after he talks about global warming which like made my heart just like skip a beat I was like, oh my god, orange Cassidy's my new favorite Since Daniel Bryan's not doing the planet saber gimmick anymore now I have to like, you know, I have to love orange Cassidy because he's educated on global warming But yeah, it was it was freaking awesome
00:47:02
Speaker
Yeah, it was literally the scenes from old. I remember you see the movie Old School. It was literally the same thing that Will Ferrell just like pops up and he just like says that and they're like, the hell? But yeah, he was just beating up round after round with the with the questions. And obviously Orange Cassie doesn't speak. So he's not responding to any of the the questions. And then that question of the global warming came up and he just spat off some like facts.
00:47:27
Speaker
And Jericho's like staring at him like, because they had the split screen. I saw that. I had a debate. He's just like staring at him like, what the hell? Just dumbfounded. Yeah. So good. My favorite part was I heard Bischoff and he's like, I hate you, Eric. He's like, I hate you for 22 years. And after Eric Bischoff was like, it was 24 years. Yeah. And he said, I know exactly how you feel.
00:47:48
Speaker
I was surprised surprise Jericho shook his hand when he come out when he came out just because Jericho always talks about when he left the company how they weren't ever gonna put him over and stuff like that, so I Think he's done. He's done fine for himself since then. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sure Grudge, but it first storyline lies. Yeah, I could seem just walking past Bischoff and not saying anything. I
00:48:10
Speaker
True. Yeah, but it was it was really good. I thought Orange Cassidy really showed up as like a force. I mean, as as imposing a force as you can be at like, you know, one hundred and forty five pounds or however much he however much he weighs. But yeah, he definitely showed up and like got the last word on the on the promo. Jericho kept talking about the stained jacket and Orange owes him the seven thousand dollars and Hager's out there holding the jacket the whole time. And then Jericho makes.
00:48:35
Speaker
I was like, what kind of orange juice do you drink? I mean, seriously, because it was like these bright orange stains. I mean, I've spilled orange juice on myself before, and it does not stain like that. But Chris Jericho was like, he's like, I don't know what kind of orange juice you use, but it keeps getting more orange every single week.
00:48:51
Speaker
And then he made fun of Cassidy for not dressing up for the occasion. So Orange breaks out the clip on Ty and just throws it on the t-shirt. That was excellent. Just fits him so perfectly. We can talk about this in the outside of the squared circle or even in the quarantine and chill. But there was a great episode on the Major Brothers podcast feed. They did like an hour interview with Tony Khan about how he, you know,
00:49:19
Speaker
It wasn't really about AEW, it was more about what he collected as a kid and he was a big tape trader. I have a newfound respect for Tony Khan. It's a great interview. The dude is the hardcore of the hardcore wrestling fan. Well, we've known for a long time that Tony Khan was a mark, but I thought it was cool that he actually collected wrestling figures. It's always good to have the
00:49:39
Speaker
the head of a wrestling company. Yeah. In your corner. That is a figure, that is a figure fan. You know what I mean? So that means like he's going to be trying to pump out these figures, uh, just because he himself is a collector and a fan. So I thought it was awesome. So yeah, definitely listened to that. Wow. I didn't say anything bad about AEW this week, man. I should maybe watch it. But everything I did hear was that was good. You know, um, it was good, man. I, you know, I, I, I arrived, like I'm a,
00:50:05
Speaker
I love NXT, I think it's some of the best wrestling on the planet.
00:50:11
Speaker
But AEW has been stepping their game up so much. And I feel like everything just looks better. It just has a better vibe. The storylines feel more important. There's more crossing of characters. And I just feel like AEW is crushing it right now. I mean, you can say what you want. I mean, they're about the women's division. I think their women's division is crap. And they're obviously not making it any better by taking them and putting them on a whole separate thing, which we'll talk about.
00:50:39
Speaker
But sometimes they have new people on there that you're like, who the hell are you? And they do a bunch of WCW finishes. But dude, overall, they just have a more aesthetically pleasing and more easy to follow show.
00:50:53
Speaker
For sure. No, the look is way, I mean, aesthetically, it's much better to watch AEW and it does feel like a bigger product. They've done a much better job. NXT just feels small potatoes. Even if it's in the same place as Raw on SmackDown, it just doesn't feel as important. Did you notice that Kenny was wearing the same gear that he's wearing on his figure?
00:51:16
Speaker
Yeah, that is cool. Let's go outside the squared circle here. This is brought to you by our friends at Carla and Elbow. You can use code. We didn't even talk about NXT. Oh, shoot. Am I bad? Am I bad? OK. Oh, yeah. Because both of you need to talk about how Pat McAfee and Adam Cole are going to get into the next big feud in wrestling history here.
00:51:41
Speaker
I mean, they're probably going to go to jail. I mean, you can't just like show up and be. I mean, that's assault. That is. Yeah. I mean, it's it was like completely unprofessional that they showed that on television. You know, like nobody like we're all about spinning our disbelief and sports entertainment. But when you have a real head to head that is like a shoot.
00:52:01
Speaker
fight like that like you need to cut that from the from the you know i'm saying the viewing audience yeah the viewing audience does not need to see that you know i mean triple h even lost his cool gave uh pat mackafee a shove you know i'm sure he didn't want to be seen in that light so uh yeah no definitely not yeah um he's a professional athlete is he shouldn't be and he's a kicker he shouldn't be kicking people yeah
00:52:28
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. He should definitely been arrested on the spot, handcuffed and walked off the premises. We're gonna start a petition for him to be removed from all of WWE programming because of what he did to Adam Cole.
00:52:45
Speaker
I will never watch another pre-show again, as long as it's not. Wow. Strong words. Strong words. We saw Damian Priest qualify for the ladder match at TakeOver XXX, Vin Diesel style. Yep. Karrion Kross. And I mean, I guess Karrion Kross, is it official now Karrion Kross gets a shot at Keith Lee's NXT title at TakeOver?
00:53:12
Speaker
Yeah, they're like, I mean, apparently they're fighting. I mean, this, this, this segment was freaking awesome, dude. The whole, the whole thing. Um, yeah. So Keith Lee's in the ring and then all of a sudden like, you know, the lights go out and like you see carrying, come on. Well, actually you hear, um, Scarlett speaking some sort of foreign language that I'm not familiar with. Um, and then she, then all of a sudden carrying comes on the screen.
00:53:33
Speaker
and he gives this promo and then it kind of like pans out a little bit and he's like laid waste to like everybody backstage. I mean it looks like you know it looks like it's something out of a horror movie like or like you know when like Anakin killed all the younglings you know like that's the kind of that's like the vibe that it gave me um of course Mike Lanham wouldn't know that reference but uh no um but um but yeah it was really freaking awesome dude I thought it really got me hyped for Keith Lee versus versus Keirian Kross
00:54:19
Speaker
They're starting to. Yeah, we don't know. We don't know what they're doing. It's true. It's a lot of the air that could be could be a crowd that might not. I guess when I was reading, since we're outside the square circles, Vince McMahon's adamant on having like people in attendance. So we don't hold it in an outside area. That's the only thing you can really do is because there's a lot of like standup comedians doing outside like comedy shows and stuff like that now. So
00:54:21
Speaker
anything else?
00:54:44
Speaker
It can be done, so we'll see what happens. They definitely need a live crowd, especially for a summer slam. Just taking advantage of it being on a beach would be amazing. WCW did it. Why not? Space people out. One row, four people in a row. I think any sound will be better than nothing.
00:55:07
Speaker
So, so far we got Bronson Reed, Damian Priest, Kushida, Cameron Grimes qualified for
NXT TakeOver XXX Preview
00:55:12
Speaker
that ladder match. We still have three more names there. Io Shirai defending against Dakota Kai, the match of the century, Adam Cole versus Patton McAfee. And we're assuming we're going to see Keith Lee defending against Karrion Kross. So yeah, pretty, pretty good card shaping up right now. I love to. Yeah. In all, in all seriousness though, we were joking obviously about, you know, it,
00:55:35
Speaker
Uh, Pat McAfee versus Adam Cole being a shoot. Um, I don't know if Marco's joking. No, I know. I'm sorry. No serious business. First of all, I want to give my, my fields on this because I, I do not like this at all. Like I don't know why Pat McAfee deserves to come in. Like I don't know where out of left field and freaking, um,
00:55:59
Speaker
get a get a match with Adam Cole, who is the longest reigning like champion of all time. You know what I mean? Like this just seems like like for all intents and purposes, Pat McAfee is a podcaster. You know what I'm saying? Does pre shows like he's a kicker, right? And so here we have the kicker. He's a punter. She know even worse than even worse than the kicker. He's an all pro and all pro punter. All pro punter. So you have this all pro punter comes in and
00:56:26
Speaker
Like Lay's, I wouldn't say Lay's waste, but he like literally puts your longest reigning NXT champion who has been like going head to head against the best in the freaking business. I mean, think about all of the incredible matches that Adam Cole has had during his tenure at NXT. And Pat McAfee comes in and with one kick puts like just freaking Lay's waste to him. Like what? Are you joking right now? Like I can't, like this does nothing for Adam Cole.
00:56:56
Speaker
Yeah, I mean he's a he is a pro athlete, so I do have. Some hope that he might be able to do some kind of performance in this match, depending on how they how they do the match. If it's pre recorded and they edit it really well or or if it's I mean, it's not going to be like cinematic or anything, but. Yeah, I just I don't know how the match is going to go, because Adam coach should be able to beat him in like mere seconds, but it definitely sounds like they're trying to make Cola face,
00:57:26
Speaker
Yeah, McAfee was just like, Oh, yeah, to like turn it up to 11, like trying to to be a hill during like the whole match and Cole looking over him and back and forth and stuff like that. So, I mean, the build is fine, but it's just a it's just a when you put a random athlete like that, like I get why people aren't going to be super excited for it and not expect a lot of things, but then
00:57:51
Speaker
I mean, we've seen it with other people coming in and surprising us how good they might be in the ring and people and I think Cole or Cole, uh, McAfee's been training with some people for a while. So there's potential. I just, it's not going to be. He's a huge fan too. I'm sure he wants to look good. I mean, but Adam Cole is literally, I mean, he's like one of the best wrestlers that WWE has right now. And that may be why the match might be decent because you're going to put him in there with somebody who can work. That's true. Compared to putting him in there with,
00:58:20
Speaker
konor reeves imagine him against konor reeves that's what's up yeah right
00:58:25
Speaker
Yeah. But I just, I didn't also didn't like the way, I mean, obviously they did that thing. They like, you know, showed like, Oh, we made up, you know, we, we, you know, all the water under the bridge. Right. And then they had freaking Tegan Knox and Indy Hartwell come out and just have like a meaningless match and then had Pat McAfee on commentary. And I was like, Oh, well, I mean, why are we even, why, like, why do we even have this match? You know what I mean? Like it literally means nothing. We're just waiting for Pat McAfee to piss off Adam Cole. You know what I mean?
00:58:51
Speaker
And Beth Phoenix got upset and left the commentary desk. I missed that part. They kept talking about it. You're in the match. I'm like, wait, why did that believe? So I guess I missed that part. Flipping back and forth. Yeah, I don't think I saw that either. I don't think I didn't see Beth leave. I guess you didn't need four people on commentary. Well, that's true. Yeah, that's true. But storyline, you just had to, I guess, have Beth be upset about how he was talking down to Adam Cole. Yeah, I can see that.
00:59:16
Speaker
Women always get upset about stuff, man. They're so moody. They get upset. They're so emotional. Just go watch one of those reality shows and leave me alone. You know what I mean, guys? Go watch some Real Housewives. There you go. I couldn't think of the name of it. Yeah. Yeah, watch some 90 Day Fiancรฉ. Yeah, go make me a sandwich or something. Jeez.
00:59:43
Speaker
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AEW Heels & Female-focused Wrestling
01:00:05
Speaker
I'm going to start us off here. It's not on the list, but AEW recently announced a subscription service for their female fans called AEW Heels, which is $50 a month. And it was completely shit on by everyone on the internet this week. So I wanted to start with that since we do have a female member of our team here. And let me talk first before we get to Sheena.
01:00:34
Speaker
I understand what they're trying to do here, okay? If you watch a pay-per-view from 20 years ago, 10 years ago, the crowd is very diverse. If you watch wrestling from the last year or so, it's fat white guys with glasses and black t-shirts. And I'm a fat guy with glasses, so I can say that.
01:00:53
Speaker
They're trying to include more different aspects of their fan base and expand their fan base, which makes sense because they haven't done much with women's wrestling on their television show. But to make people pay upfront for an entire year for something that we don't know exactly what it is, I think you get some virtual meet and greets with some of the female talent. And I don't know if you get some bonus matches or something. It's a community that, we've set up our own community through our Patreon group.
01:01:22
Speaker
That has been the best part of our podcast. So we understand you know that but I just it was just I mean not taken well by wrestling fans and then people were tweeting at Brandy about it and she had not a very good response to them. This was her response to one of the tweets She said it's for female wrestling fans. Many female fans don't like women's wrestling. You don't have to be a member of
01:01:50
Speaker
She said many female fans don't like women's wrestling? Yeah, yeah. So basically, if you don't like women's wrestling, don't sign up. To be inclusive for women is great, but to have them on a separate platform and charging them extra money for something that they should probably get for free definitely is not, I would say, what needs to happen here. What do you take away from all this shit?
01:02:16
Speaker
I mean, as the token female here, I don't like that you have to pay for it, first of all. And I'm not a cheapskate. I'm not a cheapskate.
01:02:27
Speaker
I pay for all AEW pay per views. I'm here for all that. But to buy into a separate platform that is specifically for women. So what does this mean for the women's division that is currently on TV? Is it going to decrease the time that they're on TV? I know they're getting bonus content. I'm actually reading up on it. And it says you're going to get Q&As and virtual meet and greets and video conference discussions and customized merchandise and all this stuff. And it's $49 for the year, which
01:02:55
Speaker
It's not a lot of money, $49 for the year for extra wrestling content, but I just don't...
01:03:04
Speaker
I don't like that it's all females on a completely separate platform, you know what I mean? You have WWE that arguably, I mean not even arguably, WWE has the best women's wrestlers in the world. And they're like main eventing show, like main eventing pay-per-views, like main pay-per-views, Wrestlemanias, and like doing all of the things. And then you have AEW that's taking their
01:03:27
Speaker
already like not great women's division and like Separating them and putting them off TV on a separate platform that people have to pay for During the financial crisis of all things right so I don't like it
01:03:41
Speaker
I think we should raise it. 50 for the year, right? Yeah, 50 for the year. Okay, Phil said 50 for a month while ago. Oh, I'm sorry. He said $50 a month. $600. No, my bad. He did a lot of things with $600. Yeah, but still to make people pay for an entire year, if you told me it was $5 a month and you get the first month free, so women can check it out.
01:04:03
Speaker
I do think we should have we should raise some money in the Facebook group and get Sheena a membership to this thing so then she can report She can report back to us every month and you know I Mean to me that's another thing like so now you're adding another thing to the mix that I have to watch Which we could we've talked about here before like more wrestling is not a bad thing, but like I
01:04:22
Speaker
Personally, I'm not watching Impact Wrestling. I don't get to watch AEW Dark. I'm definitely not going to tune into AEW Heels, you know what I mean? I'm going to watch the weekly AEW show, the weekly NXT show, and then whatever WWE's got going on. I'm not going to add like 50 other platforms to the mix, just because, I mean, simple time. I just don't have the time for that. Yeah, so just to jump in real quick. So it has nothing to do with a wrestling format.
01:04:52
Speaker
the heels so they're not doing they're not doing any wrestling it's literally just like um like a community yeah it's like a so it's basically a community where you can do like there's different events like there's virtual meet and greets there's special promotions there's theme parties so like a promotion would be something like um they'd have a guest speaker come in and talk about like um inclusion and empowerment amongst women and stuff like that
01:05:16
Speaker
Oh, well, that changes everything. For whatever reason, I thought they were taking their wrestling matches to a different platform. No, no, no. It's even worse. They're not even having wrestling on this thing? What is the point? No, it's basically for women. So women that are fans of wrestling, they have a community where they can talk to other women. OK. Let me chime in on that, because now I have a completely different perspective on it. I do agree that women do need a safe space.
01:05:44
Speaker
To be able to talk to one another like with female wrestling fans where they can talk to one another and not you know Be talked to the way that some male wrestling fans Yeah, talk to women and I can speak from personal experience like the amount of creeps that are in my DM weekly Just saying like the most of like crazy stuff and then like the stuff that people say to me like all my posts and all that stuff Yeah, it's just like it's it's
01:06:10
Speaker
I feel like women do need a safe space. Not that men don't need a safe space. I mean, I'm not saying that women are delicate or whatever. I mean, we can definitely stand up for ourselves. But I feel like that is a great idea to have a place where they can go and talk about wrestling, talk about, you know, all that kind of stuff. So and not feel intimidated because I mean, a lot of women are intimidated. They don't want to be a part of a male wrestling forum. One, I mean, they may just feel like they aren't as knowledgeable. I mean, women
01:06:38
Speaker
We have problems with confidence, if you don't know that. Years and years of being suppressed and oppressed and all that stuff, women have a lot of confidence issues. And they may not feel equal or as important as their male counterparts. So OK, now that it's. Yeah.
01:06:56
Speaker
I feel like you're creating a community to try to bring in people who are either afraid to speak up or every time they do speak up in like a Facebook group or Twitter or something, they get bashed because it's like, you're a female, what do you know? And stuff like that. So I think they're just trying to get more eyes on the product. The $50 thing, I get it's not a lot of money, but it's
01:07:18
Speaker
it still seems like why are you charging for this true but but i guess also maybe if you're trying to make sure it's all females like what guy is spending 50 to get in a group to pretend he's and i think and also i think it um
01:07:34
Speaker
You know, like we've talked about before, it ups the quality of people in the group, I think. I think it takes somebody who's really serious and wants to participate in the group and actually wants to be involved in the group and like, you know, engage in the content. Like if you pay 50 bucks, you've bought into the group, right? If it's just a free-for-all, I mean, you're going to get all the riff-raff in there, too. You know what I mean?
01:07:56
Speaker
By having that paywall, I think it eliminates a lot of the trolls or the people that would get in there and try to cause havoc. You break that fourth wall of the separation of this as a career or a job and not just, hey, these are female wrestlers. So if you have
01:08:13
Speaker
Brandi in there talking about how she is the what is she the CBO or something of a w and yeah so like you're talking about empowerment in the workplace and stuff like that and you'll have something like like Nyla in there talking about like how she has like
01:08:29
Speaker
been able to change perspective of wrestling and stuff like that. So it's definitely could work and open a lot of eyes. It's just getting the right crowd in there and how they promote it and stuff like that. But then you also, I think when you have your females on TV, you still have to kind of have it show out. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want it to
01:08:50
Speaker
to talk about all this female empowerment and then downplay them when they're on TV. And then give them two second matches while they're out there. And as women too, it's hard to find other women that are into wrestling. It's a very small population. So I think this is a great way to bring all of those people into one community where we can find one another. Because I would say 90% of my following on Instagram is dudes. And that's just the sheer,
01:09:18
Speaker
Math ratio, right? Yeah, 90% is gonna be guys and there's women in there and there's some hardcore women's fans I mean like there's some women that go harder than me in there and You know, they're the they're the small my local minority Yeah a group like this is probably gonna create a lot of friendships and stuff with people online that you'll never meet like look at our our Facebook group the way we've all met become friends, but we only have a
01:09:42
Speaker
what, three, four females in the group. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Marco, you were going to say something while ago. Oh yeah. So the other thing about this too, is you're going to get the, you're going to get other women wrestlers involved in this as well, not just a w ladies. You're going to get like the independent ladies involved in this too. So, and especially I think this is, I think this is a, this derived from like the whole, like the speaking out movement that happened where women didn't have a voice in wrestling.
01:10:11
Speaker
and now there's going to be a community where they can actually speak their mind and be able to share their stories and stuff like that amongst other women and then try to empower them and help them out as well. So I think it's a good thing now reading that, like the actual description of it. You're getting access to all these people for $50, so you get access to
01:10:31
Speaker
and the roster of females in AEW, as well as, like I said, potentially some indie women wrestlers, too. Like you said, there's not a lot of ladies out there that are willing to say they are wrestling fans first and foremost without getting
01:10:51
Speaker
right you also have to think too it's not just fans i mean there's a lot of women out there that aspire to be female talent on you know in wrestling right so this is a great way for them to have access to people who have done it and who have you know like crushed those freaking glass ceilings and like broke through those barriers and done the things and like they can learn from them and you know learn from their experiences and stuff and i think that's really
01:11:13
Speaker
Super cool. So yeah If it was all their wrestling on one platform not here for it the fact that it's like a you know Wrestling female community where they're gonna like give content and like awesome out like I'm reading here it says AEW makeup artist Stella Kay is gonna go in there and do like, you know tutorials and stuff Which I think would be cool if you're like if you're trying to be a wrestler and like knowing how to do like your face like your makeup and your face paint and all that kind of stuff like that's super cool stuff to know, you know and
01:11:37
Speaker
Yeah, it says there's a Q&A with Britt Baker tomorrow. So I think that would be interesting if she talks about going to school and having this career and then also doing wrestling at the same time and stuff like that. So, but also on the other end, like immediately I see how this makes wrestling fans look terrible because the backlash that they've gotten this in 24 hours, like Brandi shutting down her Twitter, like,
01:12:07
Speaker
the the
01:12:26
Speaker
exclusive for females or female empowerment, you've got all these trolls or there's a cost to it. You know what I mean? Like people like to be like, oh, because there's, you know, you have to pay for it. I'm like, not everything is free. Not everything in this world is free. You know what I mean? Like in the majority of the people that are given a backlash were, guess what? Dudes. White dudes in their black t-shirts. Yeah. And they've got that women's tag tournament going on and stuff right now. So they've got a way to
01:12:56
Speaker
Use it and build their female platform at the same time. So I'm here for it as long as they do it right and they don't turn it into something that it's not. Yeah, I like it. I like it.
01:13:08
Speaker
We didn't talk about this on last week's show because I think we get the news after the fact. But that whole women's tag team tournament is not even on Dynamite or Dark for some reason. It's on their YouTube channel, which was shocking to me. I think it was a great idea to like the Mae Young classic to kind of like kickstart their women's division a little bit. But that'll be only available on their YouTube page. And I think it's starting in the next week or so.
01:13:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's the one thing. Gotta get that ad revenue, pal. Yeah, it makes sense, but that's the one thing AW doesn't really done well. I mean, they've killed it with the tag team division, obviously, but they have not gotten off the ground with the women's division, so we'll see. They're creating more content. They're giving you more to watch than just their two-hour Wednesday show, because if it went to three hours, everybody would grow a bit, right?
01:13:58
Speaker
So, and then it would be like, well, you extended it three hours to showcase females that don't even work for your company. So if you want to watch it, here's where it is. And they're giving a lot of people. Yeah, I think that is so funny. We're here. We're here tonight. We're going to fight. You guys are shutting me down here. I mean, what's wrong with like cutting out some of the bullshit on dynamite and putting some women's wrestling on there?
01:14:23
Speaker
I don't feel like there's a lot of BS on dynamite. I feel like it's a pretty good flow, good flow to the show. I feel like all the promos are fun. I like, I like the segments. The wrestling is fine. I don't think there's a lot. There's not a lot of fluff. Yeah. I mean, right now there's three hours on there. Yeah. You're building towards your big pay per view of the year. So you can't have a bunch of fluff. You have to have storylines and interviews and stuff like that. Like you can't just have the little BS in the middle.
01:14:50
Speaker
What's funny is that if they did, so if they did do a three hour show, like people, like you said, I mean, people would complain. I would complain because I don't want to watch a three hour show, but people are watching like way more than an extra hour of content on like their YouTube page. You know, they're going, they're watching being the elite. They're going to be watching this tag team tournament. So it's so funny that they're still watching like AEW content. But if the show went to three hours, they would be like, what the hell is wrong with you? You know? And that, well, now like everyone's got,
01:15:17
Speaker
Wednesday dedicated to their night of wrestling because they don't care about Raw, they don't care about SmackDown, it's NXT AW, and now the NBA's back, so AW's gotta kinda move.
01:15:27
Speaker
their schedule around over the next month. That's right. I think I think it's two Thursday shows and the one Saturday show, which it'll be interesting to see what the ratings are for that Saturday show, because it could be really big numbers because everyone's at home and it's the weekend or it could be really bad because it's not the night that you normally sit down and watch.
01:15:48
Speaker
watch wrestling because you're off work and that's when you go to the beach or hanging out with your friends and stuff like that. So yeah, social distance. So you should be home watching wrestling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's Bill goes to the beach. Yeah. Now hot with, with short hair on Friday and you'll be like, Oh, there went that she looks good.
The Rock Buys XFL
01:16:09
Speaker
All right, let's start it off with The Rock and ex-wife slash current manager, Danny Garcia, purchasing the XFL for $15 million. It was set to be on auction, up for auction, because I think Vince McMahon and company declared bankruptcy or whatever. So we'll see if we get a third season of the XFL, guys. It wasn't too bad. It was pretty good, you know, pretty entertaining before COVID started. They had to shut down.
01:16:39
Speaker
What do you think the rock buying the XFL means for the future of the company? I think this is like art or life imitating art. We got like some Spencer stress more action going on here from ballers, you know, like that was my first thought immediately like said they're like the rock buys the XFL. I'm like, wait, is this going to be on HBO? What is happening right now? You know?
01:17:02
Speaker
Um, I mean, it can't be a bad thing. I mean, let's just be real. I mean, obviously, you know, everything the rock touches turns to gold, right? I mean, he's made a bajillion dollars off those crappy movies that he does. So, you know, crappy movies. Hey, hey, hey. Wasn't it like the tooth fairy? Didn't you have like tooth fairy movie or something? That was 20 years ago.
01:17:24
Speaker
and didn't he have Jumanji? Like who watched Jumanji? I didn't watch Jumanji. That was pretty bad. What about the one where the earthquake happens? That was bad too, when he had a fake leg. She had Andreas. Yeah. Hobbs and Shaw was pretty good. I like that one. I mean, yeah, being part of the Fast and Furious franchise, that's never a bad move. You know what I mean? Well, that's just it. Like $15 million to the Rock.
01:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's not much. So he keeps that in his like in his like glove box of his car. It's less than one movie. So like they may end up making money if they turn this XFL thing around and maybe it gets a little bit more fan perspective with a guy that played in the league compared to Vince McMahon, maybe.
01:18:05
Speaker
Yeah, don't forget about Moana. Oh, my God. You got the right name behind it. So yeah, I mean, it's I mean, the rock is the biggest star in the world. You know, so many people are people that have absolutely no idea what wrestling is are going to be interested in what the rock is. Oh, yeah, true. You know, so I mean, this is going to bring new eyes to this to this product. You know, like there's going to be people watching this that have no idea that has it has has or had any affiliation with wrestling, you know?
01:18:34
Speaker
That's probably another question for another time. But did he did the rocks are past Hogan yet as the most known wrestler in the world? No, I don't mean the most known wrestler. I think there's a lot of people that probably don't even know that the rock was a wrestler. Yeah. There's no I mean, yeah, I think I think if you're talking about the most known wrestler, it's it's Hulk Hogan. Like that's the most stone cold Steve Austin or Hulk Hogan. I mean, those are the two like they come to mind right away. If you're talking about the most
01:19:02
Speaker
known period no period then yeah it's probably the rock Jesus number one and then the rock number two probably yeah Jesus never wrestled but he surprised everyone knows him yeah maybe crossfit Jesus
01:19:20
Speaker
Gina Carano, I haven't heard that name in a long time, wants to attend her first WWE event. Stupid, sorry. They're not letting people in. But Sasha Banks wants to kick her ass. This is a story that I didn't think we'd be waiting tonight.
01:19:38
Speaker
15 years ago. She's gonna say yeah, it would have been a big deal. Yeah, she could She was before Rousey and stuff like that. So she's good-looking to like her. Yeah Yeah, she's just she destroyed everyone until she stepped foot in the cage with cyborg Yeah in a real match and it was the end of her career. I think she like quit after that match I don't think she did another fight after at the cyborg, but I was a I was a huge fan of Gina Carano back in the day. She was I
01:20:07
Speaker
She was awesome. But, yeah, Sasha Banks did not take too kindly of another MMA fighter seppeted the world of wrestling. So you already have Shana there. And you had Rhonda, who's who don't who knows what's going on with Ronda Rousey right now. But it'll probably happen. They'll get her in there with a wide crowd. Yeah. I don't mind it. She might be part of the the female underground.
01:20:33
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, there you go. I like speaking of that. Well, let's let's jump to Renee Young when she was on that when they were doing that watch along. She said she wants to fight Bailey at the raw underground. Did you guys see that? No, Renee. Yeah. Trash talking on on backstage was always the best part. Well, yeah, she she's all that. So she's like, yeah, see if I was. Yeah, you should fight Bailey on the underground. She goes, I'll fight Bailey. She's like, she's always calling me out. She's always talking crap to me. She was like, I'll fight on the underground if she wants to.
01:21:01
Speaker
I think Bailey is probably like one of her best friends and they just... Bailey plays that hill so well now that it's like well let's just do this because obviously Renee's not really on WWE TV anymore or very little.
01:21:17
Speaker
So the best feuds are always between people who are like real life best friends. I mean, look at Champa and Gargano, you know what I mean? Like the camera is just there. So it just makes it a lot more fun. And like, I think they have, they're a lot more loose with one another. So yeah, I believe, I believe that they're homeless in real life.
01:21:32
Speaker
Like Pat McAfee and Adam Cole, they're besties of real life. No, I think that's the complete opposite. I think they actually probably do hate each other in real life, so it's going to make this match like unbearable to watch. One half of AW tag team FTR dash Beachwood is injured. Wait, that's not right. I wrote that down wrong. Oh, God. Rash? Beach? Lash? No.
01:22:01
Speaker
Crash Bandicoot. No, Dax Harwood hurt his knee on Dynamite. I don't know how long he'll be out for, but I know they're having... Next week on Dynamite is a tag team appreciation week, which I thought was every week on Dynamite. I mean, they started the show off with like a 12-man tag team. I saw the screenshot of that, yeah.
01:22:24
Speaker
You pretty much had half the roster out there. Three tag teams on three tag teams? What is that? Yeah. Oh, my God. Not to go back, but we didn't talk about Naomi trying to do a Canadian destroyer on the outside on SmackDown. What was that? And then she tried to say it was a blockbuster. Yeah. It was a blockbuster. Terrible. Terrible. She needs to spend $50 a year to talk to women about how to do it. Oh, boy.
01:22:54
Speaker
Oh, God, never mind. Also, with some other injuries, Dexter Lumis has an ankle injury, so I don't know how long he'll be out for. And Austin Theory, which we thought was an injury, our buddy Dave Meltzer, friend of the show, says, Austin Theory has been suspended. No idea why, though.
01:23:18
Speaker
And last but not least, let's get into this a little bit.
Marty Jannetty's Confession
01:23:22
Speaker
Apparently Marty Gennady killed a person several years ago.
01:23:26
Speaker
1973, to be exact. Oh, 1973, yeah. Oh, OK. Did I say seven? I meant several years ago. And he admitted to it on Facebook, and now the Georgia Police Department is investigating him. This guy, I know you've met him before, Marco. Seems like a salt of the earth kind of guy.
01:23:49
Speaker
the fuck guy he's uh yeah he seems like he's just loving drugs and alcohol but um it is kind of sad uh i don't know what kind of state he's in it whether he has cte or what but um he admitted to something on his facebook page basically of making someone disappear
01:24:04
Speaker
And the way he worded it almost sounded like it was not the only, you know, that he said something along the lines of it was the first person I made disappear or something. Yeah. First one. Yeah. It said that that was the very first time. That was the very first time. First time. Yeah. That might be he might be a serial killer or something.
01:24:22
Speaker
That's that's kind of I don't know I'm gonna need I'm gonna need an epic like a whole series of up and banished on this I need to know Have you seen the meme of the guy of the dude like the black dude like licking his like licking his lips and like Dark side of the moon producers
01:24:44
Speaker
This would be a perfect our side of the moon episode for sure The story was it was at the seven. It was like seven in the 70s and yeah, he's like 13 years old when it happened
01:24:57
Speaker
Eddie, I guess the guy was like a try to assault. Yeah, he worked at the Victory Lane's bowling alley. And then he said that he tried to he tried to assault Marty Gennady, Marty Gennady. And so first of all, Marty Gennady, he's not new to writing crazy crap on his Facebook. He literally asked Facebook a while back if it was OK to sleep with his daughter. Like he's he's literally got a daughter like that, right?
01:25:24
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. And Facebook is a person, you know, if you're going to ask someone that question, might as well ask people. Yeah. It's tons of degrees. Lots of, lots of degrees. Lots of quality, quality humans that are hanging out, that are hanging out on Marty Gennady's fan page.
01:25:41
Speaker
but yeah so he I mean he's not new to this right and we all know that he's crazy like if you've ever like heard anything that he's said or done I mean he's like a space cadet right um so this came out and then it got immediately deleted from his twitter and it was like the first post on reddit and I think Phil posted it in our group chat I think Phil was the first person who posted it yeah
01:25:59
Speaker
Um, and I was like, I didn't even think it was real. I thought it was like shocked. And I was like, Phil, where did you find this? You know, like, like what Twitter person like just like wrote this out. But I mean, the more I read it, the more I was like that, I mean, why would they make it sound like that? Like it just sounded too real and like to be.
01:26:14
Speaker
like Photoshop from somebody else. Um, but then he doubled down. He went on somebody's podcast and like told, like, like retold the story and like, like, I mean, like told it from a first person perspective and was like, you know, he hit him in the head with a brick. He didn't mean for him to die. He never meant for anybody to die. Oh my God. I didn't know. I didn't know all this. Oh, you didn't, you didn't read the, Oh, I posted the article that, uh,
01:26:38
Speaker
Yeah, double down on it. You can listen to it. You can listen to it. Yeah, you should have got him on this podcast. I would have been great. Fessing the murder. You'd have to give him one of those those bowling alley hot dogs to get him on the show. Oh, definitely. My question is, how do you get a job at a bowling at 13? That's crazy. The 70s. In 1973, I don't think you didn't care. They were checking. I just just getting jobs and murdering people. You know, it's the 70s, you know.
01:27:08
Speaker
Yeah, but my thing is, okay, so I mean, I remember when I was 13 and I was probably bigger than most of the girls my age, but I still don't think I could drag a full-sized human. I guess it didn't really say what size. I thought you were about to confess to a murder, Sheena.
01:27:25
Speaker
How does a 13 year old just throw on my basketball team? The only thing I murdered when I was 13 was snack cakes and Doritos. Yes, that Doritos. I don't know how old the guy was that worked at the bowling alley. I mean, maybe he was kind of a minor or a kid too. I don't know. But I'm thinking like, how did this 13 year old like drag a human or drive a human body?
01:27:53
Speaker
Down to the Chattahoochee River and throw it in you know yeah, yeah, and no one no one was like where's this missing? If he was 13 working I'm assuming the person probably would have been like much older than him and apparently he was a Weed dealer as well the person that he made disappear so Yeah
01:28:20
Speaker
this is like it was a crazy read it was a very long read like it was really detailed so I was just like maybe this israel if it's like that long of a confession that he that he did bring up a one of his the girl with some like girlfriend that he had at the time that he really loved yeah that's why he kept it a secret because he didn't want to like
01:28:38
Speaker
bring it up to her. Winnie, the girl in these pics, I like I likes you so damn much. Probably my favorite. But I promised myself way back then, nobody would ever hurt me again. That includes you. I loved you. But you hurt me. You're effing Jamaican jealousy. You go your own way. I don't need you. God. Yes. Cocaine is a hell of a drug. So we're checking on her to see.
01:29:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's bizarre. I mean, I don't know if I believe that it actually happened because there's just too many, I mean, oh, also the GBI, their records only go back to like 1977. So like all of their missing person ads only go back to like 1977. So they can't even like, I mean, obviously the cops are looking into this. What happened? Did a raccoon get into the police department and eat all the files or something?
01:29:26
Speaker
I know. I'm like, what was the cut? I mean, I don't know. Maybe the new technology, maybe new technology came out in 1977 for them. Like, you know, they're recording or maybe the, I don't know, maybe the Georgia police department or whatever burned down between 1970s. I don't know. It killed like a random homeless guy or somebody. Maybe you were talking about this.
01:29:45
Speaker
you have to assume somebody is like hey Gus Gus from the bowling alley is missing it is it is pretty interesting there has to be other people who are like I remember when he went missing so is he just making up a person that went missing and he's claiming it so he can get
01:30:05
Speaker
some more claim to fame or get some eyes on him. A while back, he admitted that he was really scared that his like legacy was going to go down as being like the guy who like wanted to sleep with his daughter. So maybe he wants to be known as like, instead of that, he's trying to overshadow it. We forgot all about that now.
01:30:25
Speaker
the guy who killed a guy at a bowling alley. He's got some head trauma. Sean tried to throw him through a window. Oh my gosh, yeah. And he's just never recovered. Hashtag blame Sean. I'm all for hashtag blame Sean. It's amazing. Blame Sean for everything. He did get a murder confession, homophobia, and racism into like a one paragraph post. So that is pretty cover all the bases, you know?
01:30:51
Speaker
pretty impressive so at this point uh like he was never going into the hall of fame while he's alive do the rockers go in even after he dies or they pass that and shawn just has his own inductions and they're good with that if he gets convicted of this if it's like an actual thing then he's probably not going in i mean it's like just like uh chrisi chrisb is it going in anytime soon so yeah if it's a real if this really happened he
01:31:21
Speaker
I mean, even if not, like him just saying that that happened, like should just be enough for Vince to distance himself for all time. I mean, WWE loves to rewrite history and change things around. That's very true. I mean, I never.
01:31:37
Speaker
Yeah, I never thought that I would like see like, you know, China's name back in the in the WWE. And you know what I mean? So I mean, that that that happened. And I was just like, well, you're not you're not putting that guy on stage or on TV. So he would he would have to do that anyways. But I just I'm starting to doubt if he ever gets that. Yeah, there is no world in which Marty Gennady has anything to do with WWE proper like like before he's deceased.
01:32:06
Speaker
A.W. might have him like unveil a new belt or something. Oh, I feel the tag team appreciation night. There you go. Yeah. Tag team specialist. Yes. Yeah. Two tag teams using the rockers and the new rockers. All right. I don't know how we can top any of that. Let's move into our go figure segment. Here we go.
01:32:38
Speaker
Oh Shane, thank you for welcoming us into the Go Figure segment. This is where myself, Marco, Sheena, and Michael Anum tell us, tell you what we bought this week. Whether it's wrestling figures, memorabilia, bowling shoes.
01:32:59
Speaker
No, it's really not funny. Let's get into it here. This is brought to us by our good friends at Ringside Collectibles. You can use code Chick Foley for 10% off of your order there. And if you don't feel like going to every stinky Walmart in your town to find the new AEW figures, you can just order them there and they'll actually be cheaper. I think that's 124 for the whole set. And you get 10% off.
01:33:25
Speaker
And you get to enter our contest to win the Ringside exclusive Jericho Bubbly figure. So it's a win-win-win, you know?
Charity Raffle for Gary Sinise Foundation
01:33:35
Speaker
Before we get into that, I want to talk about our buddy Alan Day, who is an awesome member of our Patreon. He's done a bunch of giveaways on our page before. He wants to do a huge giveaway. He's redecorating his collection, he's told me.
01:33:50
Speaker
and has a bunch of stuff that he wants to give away. And we're going to do a huge giveaway on the Facebook page. So I'm going to read this off to everyone. This is going to be run for the entire month of May. So here it's going to be called the Foley Family Raffle.
01:34:06
Speaker
And here's what he sent me. I've been trying to find a way to show my appreciation for the awesome members of our group. All of you I have been interacted with have been truly tremendous. And I believe this is the best figure group going on the internet today. For being the best figure group in the community, let's do something that not only rewards members, but also helps a tremendous cause in the process. I've been taking inventory of my collection and realize I have several figures I have that could use a new home. So we're going to do a raffle.
01:34:34
Speaker
in the Foley Family Group. All the proceeds, yes 100%, will be donated to the Gary Sinise Foundation, which helps military and veteran families. Entries will be $1, with no limit to the number of entries in the group. There will be 10 winners. Okay.
01:34:49
Speaker
The grand prize is going to be five elites. These are all mint on card elites. And this will be available in our Facebook group. If you're a Patreon member, you can sign up now. This is going to run for the entire month of August. All the money. And Alan does not want any money from any of these figures he's giving away. He wants all the money to go to charity.
01:35:09
Speaker
You can just consider yourself donating to charity and you get to win possibly some free stuff. The grand prize is Adam Cole, Roddy Strong, Pete Dunn 75, Rick Roode and Visera and a basic Alistair Black along with some additional prints and collectibles. Prize number two is a Pete Dunn 64 and the Usos with a diesel pop vinyl.
01:35:31
Speaker
Number three is a Pete Dunne 75 at a basic Bret Hart. Number four, you get two elites, a Gerald Briscoe and an Edge Elite figure. Prize number five is one Elite, the big show, from I think it was 73, and one basic Drake Maverick. Prize number six is an Elite, Ray Mysterio, and a basic Seth Rollins.
01:35:52
Speaker
Number seven is an elite Lin State Dorado. Number eight, a retrofast Shawn Michaels and a loose figure. Number nine, elite Rusev. Number 10, elite Berserker. So 10 prizes. If we raise $100 as a group, he'll throw in an elite ringside collectibles, dead man's revenge.
01:36:12
Speaker
If we raise $200, he'll throw in Elite Johnny Gargano. If we raise $300, he'll throw in Elite Fiend Figure to the second prize winner. And if we raise $400, he'll throw in Elite 71 Drew McIntyre to the first prize. And if we raise $500, he'll throw in a San Diego Comic Con 2019 Slim Jim Macho Main Elite to the first prize winner.
01:36:36
Speaker
He's donating all of this stuff. I'm going to throw in a bunch of money. Anything I win, I have most of these figures. I'm going to divvy them out and give them away or do something cool with them too. It's an awesome cause no matter what. He brought up the fact that him and his wife work for the military and the heel husband does as well, so it's just a perfect fit. We will get his PayPal info and everything posted onto the Facebook page.
01:37:03
Speaker
Alan is just one of the most genuine dudes I've ever, you know, I've never met him, just known to our Facebook group, but he's done so many cool giveaways for us, and this is like, I mean, how many things did I just read off there? 30 figures he's giving away for free? What was the cost per person?
01:37:20
Speaker
Uh, so you can, it's a dollar entry. So I mean, you can, for, for a dollar, even if it's just out of the goodness of your heart, you might win at minimum something $20 figure up to probably 200 plus dollars worth of figures. Yeah. So everybody insane. Yeah.
01:37:37
Speaker
And we've done work through my work for the Gary Sinise Foundation, so that's really cool of Alan. I've sent him some figures in the past, so good dude, Alan. It's the first I've ever heard of that foundation. He's actually one of my favorite actors from back the day from Forrest Gump, and it was a bunch of good stuff. Oh, of course. But a great charity for helping veterans.
01:38:00
Speaker
And, you know, just all around wins. So I know that was a little wordy. I wanted to get that out there. We'll put the details onto our Facebook page. And if you want, I mean, perfect time to sign up for the Foley family. All that money is going to go right into charity. And I plan on donating a good amount because it's an important cause to him. So I feel like I definitely want to support that.
01:38:21
Speaker
Good stuff Let's get into you have here on the list the biggest news of the week AW Unrivaled series was supposed to show up at Walmart on the third which I believe was Monday They have not shown up in most places people on the internet are taking it very well. They're not freaking out at all Everyone's cool-headed
01:38:42
Speaker
Yeah, which is good. The best way to do it is the BrickSeek link that we'll put into our Facebook page, so it's brickseek.com, and the SKU number is 7373 69577. Then you search by your zip code. Make sure this is just for Walmart specifically. They haven't showed up in any of my stores. I did not want these figures, but I have been looking for them. I know a lot of people in our group do want them.
01:39:10
Speaker
I know some of you guys are the same way. Yeah, it's been tough. Yeah, I think they messed up when they really just nailed down a date. They should not have said April, sorry, August 3rd. August 3rd, yeah. They shouldn't just say coming in August, right? I mean, just like any other figure. People would have known just starting in August, I need to start hunting, and it wouldn't have been such a
01:39:32
Speaker
freaking like riot when they went to the stores on August 3rd And I don't know who thought like the Walmart employees were gonna be back there and be like, oh, yeah We've got these you know, I mean like that. They don't care. They're not collectors are not like they don't know, you know Yeah, and so I just feel like they really like screwed the pooch whenever they said like August 3rd They should have literally just like made it though the month of August looking for a
01:39:57
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, even without a pandemic, it's stupid.
AEW Figures Release Confusion
01:40:01
Speaker
I mean, the Walnut employees are awful. Just the worst. Sorry to any of our fans that work in Walnut. Not the worst, but they don't care about what we care about. They have a whole job to do. The person in the toy department has a whole toy department to organize. They don't worry about one specific
01:40:21
Speaker
And chances are they don't even care about toys. Well, they're not even there yet. I mean, if you can check bricks, they're not even at the store yet. So even when you get to the store, they probably won't fill them right away.
01:40:32
Speaker
No, you know, I will say about Walmart. I don't know if you didn't say that last week. They're good. I mean, the areas that I've lived in, I mean, Walmart, I mean, they want to get their crap out. You know, they're not like Target where they're like intentionally holding it in the back of some sort of like power play. You know what I mean? Like I feel like Target's always like nana boo boo. Like I got these figures in the back. I'm not going to give them to you. But Walmart, I mean,
01:40:53
Speaker
I've seen Walmart literally just have cases, like they'll have so much crap on the shelves that the cases will be sitting on top of the shelves, like the high shelves up on top. You know, they're just like, let's get this crap out of the back, you know, somebody will buy somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For somebody that's worked in retail as long as I have them and you have what's called street dated, uh, like material. Yeah. Or merchandise. So it's like, I don't think the boxes, those AW figures are coming in, have like,
01:41:21
Speaker
a big sticker on the side that said August 3rd or anything like that. I think it was just, this is the earliest stores are going to see it. You won't see it on the second. You won't see it. Whatever. So it's not like they were just going to put them out automatically and stuff like that. Like like a video game or, but like the comic con stuff is, is street dated like that. Like they can't put it out or like people have ran into target where they'll find a figure early and they scan it and it won't scan or it'll tell you it's street dated and then they won't sell it to you. So.
01:41:50
Speaker
Right. And I think it's a little bit different. You know, I mean, like for me, your perspective, like GameStop is a very niche store. So it's like, you know what I mean? Like, and I would I would say most people that work at GameStop are familiar with like what's going on and like the collector community gaming community. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like they have a lot a little more, a little more specialized interest.
01:42:09
Speaker
And it's easier for them to be like, Oh, this pop is coming out. It's such and such day. But like, like I said, the people at Walmart and the people at Target and the people at all those bigger stores, like they, they don't know. It's here's, here's a palette. It's for this aisle or this section of the store. And here's the planogram open the box. You'll scan it. It'll tell you exactly where it goes, but they don't like no one, unless they're just a fan, like you get those guys maybe at target or Walmart that like wrestling and stuff. Most of them are just like,
01:42:39
Speaker
which boxes it like that. Yeah. They're just there to put it on the pegs. They don't know exactly. Exactly. Like that. Especially if it's like 90 year old Sue who's just doing her job. Yeah. No. People are harassing those retail employees.
01:42:53
Speaker
who are probably working insane hours and having to deal with all kinds of shit. Yeah. We forget that these people were essential employees when like, you know, it feels a little bit different now because the regulations are like lean, like a little more lenient than they were before. But like we forget these people have literally been working all year while the rest of everybody's been like, you know, like quarantined and all that. And they've been out there dealing with all the people, like cussing them out about toilet paper and hand sanitizer, you know? Yeah.
01:43:21
Speaker
My thing would be for merchandising standards, like coming from a big box retailer where I used to work, not Wal-Mart. Just from a merchandising standpoint, it irks me all the time when I walk down an aisle and I see empty pegs. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's a, if I'm a district manager and I'm walking to your store,
01:43:45
Speaker
You're probably going to be firing everyone that works in that department. For us, we say we don't sell Slatwall. There should never be empty spots. Find something to put there. It doesn't matter. If there's no product, whatever's on the top, that top stock, just throw it in there for now. If you know something's sold out, you're not going to get it for a month or something like that, take it down. Just fill it in. Don't leave it empty. I don't care what it is. Get it out and sell it. Get rid of it. That's my thing.
01:44:12
Speaker
if not now that you know that mentality when I'm walking down like any type of island I see empty pegs are like nothing's laser-lined which is basically you have to everything on the shelf not on the peg or the shelf like lined up with the shelf and it's like all skewer there's stuff behind it and I just I don't fix it I just
01:44:29
Speaker
Yeah, Seth used to always joke. He'd be like, I would just want them to hire me. They don't even have to pay me, but I just want to like be in charge of like their toy section and like putting stuff out and like, you know, merchandising stuff so people will buy. He's like, you don't have any more toys they would buy if they just took like five minutes or toys they would sell if they just took like five minutes to like, you know, keep their stuff straight and like put stuff out on the pegs and like, you know, stuff's not going to sell from the back.
01:44:53
Speaker
But like I get people complaining because there was a hard date of when they would start showing up in stores. But it'd be different if everyone didn't have a way to get these figures. Like we literally have a website that will ship them to your door. You don't have to go to Walmart and you'd already. Well, at this point you'd already have them instead of. Yeah. Yeah. Now you have to wait. Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's a peg that says a W whatever they cost more than the elites currently.
01:45:22
Speaker
And no one has them, but if you're just ordered them and you're guaranteed to get the ones you want, I mean, you could walk into Walmarts and you could only find brandy figures. You know what I mean? Like you could like all the other ones may be gone. Um, so you could literally order from ringside, get the ones that you want and they would just show up at your door, right? Like to me, the extra four or five bucks, whatever it is, is like so much more worth it than having to drive around and like go into every Walmart and like get my dream shot down.
01:45:48
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it sounds like that's one figure, one of each figure per box. So yeah, it's like, yeah.
01:45:54
Speaker
if you walk in and you wanted the bucks and the first person bought them, but likely your store is only going to get one or two cases and somebody's going to buy a whole set. Yes. Then they're gone. The, the major brothers brought it up last week on their show that like, you know, if the, the baby like, uh, rash cream runs out, they just ordered another case of it. Like why, when the wrestling elite figures, like they get one case and like some of my stores, I'll get one case and then that'll be it until the next elite line comes out. Like,
01:46:23
Speaker
Well, I think I think you under you don't think about like baby rash cream is a consumable product Like that's something that people are using every single day and it's like once it's gone you need more and there's always gonna be babies being born that need more But there's only there's only a limited audience for bucks figures. There's only a limited audience of people that want Kenny Omega so they're not trying to be in a you know, Tito Santana situation where it's like, you know, you have a
01:46:48
Speaker
thousands of extra figs just like hanging around the stores that you produce and like cost money and now they're just like you know they're not so I mean it sucks for us as collectors because I feel like we do see a little bit of more more supply than there is demand but it's funny because people only bitch whenever it's like there's not enough but when something's sitting on the pegs forever they're like
01:47:08
Speaker
Nobody's complaining that that figure didn't sell out. They're not thinking about the freaking toy store or the, sorry, the toy creators that like are losing money because they created 5,000 Titos, you know, or 5,000 extra Charlotte's.
01:47:21
Speaker
We'll get into it in a minute, but Sheena, you got the ringside package of all six of the unrivaled figures. You open those up on your Instagram. Tell us what you thought, what you liked, what you didn't like. I've heard some really good things about them. I've heard some other complaints about them, so I want to get your take.
01:47:40
Speaker
Um, I think they're, I think they're really good figures as far as like, um, the actual sculpts are really good. Some of the paint apps that I've seen haven't been the greatest. I have a feeling, I mean, as they produce, I mean, this is their first.
01:47:51
Speaker
series so i'm not just gonna like rake them across the coals um you know but some some of the paint apps have not been great but the ones that are good look look really good um i love the packaging it's kind of like jack's a chase like it's like um looks like the old like classic superstars packaging but it's like more modern like a little bit smaller i love the size of the packaging like you know elite packaging is kind of like big and bulky i feel like um and this is a little bit trimmer which i actually which i actually like but the the freaking
01:48:19
Speaker
Bucks gear and Jericho's jacket and all of that like looks so damn good Yeah, I need to grab those bucks for my son. He's been reading that young bucks book and he's like obsessed with them now Does the does the packaging have photos on the side? Like you can't display them like
01:48:38
Speaker
The way you know, it just says right. Yeah, it just says AEW on one side, I believe. And then on the other side, it's like kind of like a, you know, like little like slant and it's got their name. But I don't think I don't think either. So you either got to basically let them breathe or you've got to face them out. Yeah, they have a lot more space.
01:48:56
Speaker
Yeah, they have photos, but they're kind of like they're kind of like wrapped around the front of the of the packaging, you know, the actual photos of, you know, the Cody and Brandy and Kenny and all them. Yeah. I'm sorry to interrupt you. Go ahead, Marco. Oh, no, I was going to say, yeah, I opened up the the little bit of the bubbly Chris Jericho and the figures feel about I mean, just mine. Nothing was wrong with it. I was great. The the material felt like it
01:49:25
Speaker
For some reason, it looked like they were going to be, I don't know, hollow for some reason or kind of like flimsy like taste. But when you actually take the figure out of the pack, they seem like this solid. They're like really good material, like whatever, whatever they use on it. They kind of like they almost have like the ultimate edition type of like movement to do. Yeah, they have they have a lot more articulation. Yeah. Yeah. The elite figures. Yeah. So I mean, the Jericho obviously is it's awesome, like the
01:49:53
Speaker
Even like the bending of the elbows and like the hand movements and all that stuff. It's nice. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. I mean, they did a good.
01:50:00
Speaker
Job with that first one. And they can only get better from here. I mean, you know what I mean? That's what we keep forgetting is they can only get better the more they produce them. If you go back and look at series one elites, you're going to be like, oh my god. What? Exactly. You would think this isn't even the same line of figures. It's only going to get better. And it's only good for us as collectors that there's more figures in the game. I mean, I don't know if it's good for us or not. I mean, Jesus. It's good for us as a podcast. That's true, yeah.
01:50:26
Speaker
I think you can snap off the master of the universe. You can snap off the arms and legs and the head and it's going to be really good for customizers. So that's good. A couple of the gripes that they talked about in the Major Brothers was that the peg hole on the bottom of the feet does not fit. It's too big for the
01:50:45
Speaker
like those ringside stands that a lot of people probably have and also the crotch piece is like not painted like it's like almost like a skin color so if you're like the young bucks you're gonna do like the super cake you're gonna be able to see like a
01:51:00
Speaker
like a bear spot. So, you know, nitpicky stuff. But, you know, like you said, it's their first wave. Overall, you know, I didn't touch them, but they look pretty good to me. I like the packaging, so we'll see what happens. The series number two is on pre-order right now from Ringside Collectibles.
01:51:18
Speaker
Yeah, avoid this whole clusterfuck and just order them there and get them sent to you because you do not want to be going to a We're three weeks away from the start of flu season So you do not want to be going to a Walmart in the next couple of months. Yeah, just say that You have here on the script Marco elite collectors editions will be on ringside I guess that's talking about like the Classy Freddy Blassie the the Billy Graham and the Rocky Johnson and
01:51:47
Speaker
Minus minus the rock sorry the undertaker the undertaker will not be on RSE. That's the one I want Yeah, so that's it going forward. They'll be on there, but yeah the undertaker is Exclusive so yeah, you would see the undertaker on RSE, but who knows might change what as of right now They're Undertaker you have to go travel and try to find it yourself, which is which is a fun part and
01:52:13
Speaker
of it all, right? You want to go with that figure too as well. Just a quick backtrack. I actually looked up the boxes and there is a small picture on one of the side panels of the box at the very bottom. It says like series one and it's got the figures are numbered like one, two, three, four, five, six, and it's got a picture of each character.
01:52:35
Speaker
on the outside box. That's good to know. I want to give a shout out to some of the folks that have been using our Ringside code. Kyle Hoss, Paul Klein, ordered that Unrivaled Series 2. Our buddy Thomas Montalo ordered, I think, basically everything. You show me a screenshot of the ordering, like, everything that's on preorder from Ringside. Our buddy Adam Sambor and a bunch of other folks. So Jordan Wells too, he sent a screenshot to me.
01:53:04
Speaker
Definitely make sure you let us know if you use that code on Ringside to be eligible for that giveaway from Sheena. So we want to get as many people taking that offer as we can. There was a big post San Diego Comic Con, kind of, I don't know what you would call it, conference call or something Marco, with the guys from Mattel and Ringside Collectibles.
01:53:26
Speaker
So we can run down these real quick. They touched on a bunch of topics here. So anything that you guys want to talk about, just stop me, interrupt me. I talked about Angel Garza and Rob Gronkowski are both going to have soft good clothings that were not seen in the prototypes during San Diego Comic Con.
01:53:44
Speaker
Keith Lee will have a chase variant. I want to stop right there. I'm really hoping. I think Marco brought this up to in our group chat that it's that Black Lives Matters, uh, alphatic war. Was that, was that in your house, Marco? Yeah, that was in your house. Yeah. If they, yeah, I mean, that was, uh, like you said, that was a, uh, the one of the questions that that was asked. And yeah, he, he has ever chased variant. I'm hoping it is that one. Um, cause all his gear looks pretty similar. So I'm not sure how much,
01:54:13
Speaker
You could change it up and let's say do different colors, but if they go that route, that would be pretty monumental. So, so Gronk gets soft goods, but not a Bray Wyatt. Yeah.
01:54:25
Speaker
No. Just checking. Just checking. Also, Grunk, it's a 24-7 title, which the one they included with R-Truth is just awful looking. And the one that I'm assuming the one they put with Grunk is going to be like a nice, finished version of it. Yeah. So that'll be a main reason. I'm telling you, that figure is going to be hard to find. People are going to want that. Yeah. Grunk's a big name. Is that a Walmart or a Target? The Grunk. I think it's Walmart.
01:54:54
Speaker
Mega Power. Somebody asked about the Mega Powers. There's possibilities of future Mega Powers figures, which would be awesome. Somebody asked about non-wrestling personnel. It's not realistic for them to have their own line. A lot of the employees do not have merch deals either. If they become available, they'll try the best to do them. I'm really surprised they don't have more referees
01:55:14
Speaker
with people doing figure photography. I mean, that seems like a no-brainer. I mean, I know they did the Danny Davis, but why Earl Hebner and some of these other guys that were around for a while never got a figure. Earl Hebner still, I mean, I remember when AEW first, you know, the all-in thing, he was like the referee. Is he still with AEW at all? Was that a one-time thing? I want to, maybe he's a consultant, because I think at his age, it's just not viable for him to be a ref in every match now.
01:55:43
Speaker
So and I'm I'm sure WWE doesn't want to give Ebner anymore. No. Merch money than they have to. Yeah. He's still listed. He's still listed. What do you mean? He's still listed as working. Yeah, it's still listed as working for them. Damn, you pulled that up quick. Yeah, it makes. Yeah, it makes. There was a lot of people asking if Bischoff was going to stick around kind of like how they've used Jake Roberts and Vicki Guerrero. Like, do you just keep him around just to be another personality?
01:56:13
Speaker
to pop up every once in a while. You've got four of the five Conrad Thompson podcast folks now. Just wait until Bruce Pritchard is fired, he'll be the fifth one. They hired everybody else, might as well. Somebody asked about Shotzi Blackheart, her tank, they're going to work on that, blah, blah, blah. Double jointed elbows, it sounds like it could be a standard feature in the future, but this is not guaranteed right now.
01:56:39
Speaker
Somebody, of course, asked about the retro line. They're advocating for the line to return. That was me. I knew it was you. I don't see that happening, but of course they're going to say that. What are they going to do? Cinematic matches. Mattel is open to making some playsets with them. He's very toyetic. I would love to see some of those and some nice cool box sets.
01:57:03
Speaker
Dominic Dijakovic, nothing announced for him, but possibly down the line. WWE Legends, they would love to re-release guys like Harley, King Kong Bundy and Martel, but there's some limited, some of them don't have contracts to be made anymore. I think this is an awful idea. As much as I would love to have a King Harley figure, I think that would kill the value of some of those figures that have been out for a while. So just my two cents.
01:57:29
Speaker
Celebrity figures, Mattel is working with WWE to attain the rights to make more celebrity figures, which we've seen with the Mr. T. I wanted to pick your brain, you guys. I mean, there's been so many people. The first one that comes to mind is Mike Tyson, who has a working relationship with AEW right now. But anybody else that you'd really love to have as far as a celebrity? Of course. I mean, Donald Trump, of course. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, yeah. DJT?
01:57:58
Speaker
But you put Pete Rose with Kane in a double pack. Definitely Pete Rose. Definitely. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Definitely. He would have thrown him there at some point. Oh, man. That'd be great. How about Jonathan Taylor Thomas from WrestleMania 10? KTT. Yeah. Pam Anderson and Gina McCarthy. Oh, man. The whole pack with James. I don't want to know what people would do with that pack. Oh, yeah. You know what they would do with it. Yes. Who else?
Celebrity Figures in Wrestling Toys
01:58:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'd love to see a Lawrence and BAM BAM like oh, yeah WrestleMania flashback or however they want to do it
01:58:49
Speaker
You could do a line of all WrestleMania memory, two packs between Big Show and Floyd, and then you could do like the Macho Man one, you could do the Mr. T, yeah, Busted out Mr. T.
01:59:06
Speaker
with Roddy Piper and make that the first one. There's a ton you could do. You know, Burt Reynolds with the Kevin, Kevin Federline, too. Oh my God. Yeah. At this point, you would have to make your collectors or ringside exclusives because that would cause them to sell. Otherwise, if they're just.
01:59:26
Speaker
in the line type stuff. Oh my God. I got it. Who knows how well celebrities do. We, we need a boys to men four pack. Oh yeah. That's right. Okay. I mean, can we just talk about how that's probably the best America, the beautiful ever? That was very good. You got Aretha, you got John Legend. I know.
01:59:48
Speaker
Aretha. Aretha. I mean, I guess you can't. I guess you can't mess with her. But I mean, I guess you guys beat. How about the DX band that did it one year? Remember?
01:59:59
Speaker
Oh, the fake. Do you remember that? The guys that did the DX song, like, are you ready? They had them sing the national anthem one year. They don't sing the national anthem. They sing America the Beautiful. Whatever. Same exact De La Rocca, dude.
02:00:19
Speaker
Yeah, fake Zach De La Rocca. All right, let's get back to the list here. Collector playsets, nothing announced currently. You'll be able to use the Mattel Creations website until bots buy all those in five seconds. Mattel's working for more ways to make exclusives as easy as possible to obtain. I feel like they've done that already. I mean, I feel like with Ringside, how much easier can it get? It was so complaining.
02:00:44
Speaker
That Rocky Johnson is still on there right now. Billy Graham and whatever. NXT UK figures. Mattel is working really hard to do this. Is NXT UK still happening? It's on a hiatus right now. I was going to say, I haven't seen anyone talk about it at all. NXT UK is really good. I just don't have enough time to watch. It's so good, but it's just another thing.
02:01:13
Speaker
Now, do you like always see people in the group that are from like the UK who don't get a lot of product over there. So.
02:01:20
Speaker
with the UK figures release there, and then it would be hard for us to get them. No. I don't know, but are there targets and Walmarts in the UK? No, I think they just have tea places, like where you want tea. Oh my god. Yeah, tea and crumpet shops. Yeah, crumpets, too. There's a lot of pubs. Yeah. I mean, I get like- Don't listen to him to all of our UK followers. Crumpets. What's a crumpet?
02:01:46
Speaker
like a chimney sweep like they they clean chimneys there probably probably sell well here but I just feel like if you just did a whole NXT UK line instead of like one figure how well would they sell here compared to we won the war so we we we beat the UK so we could
02:02:13
Speaker
Yeah, like Joe, Joe coffee and freaking Mark coffee. There's a Joe coffee and a Mark coffee. Yeah, they're brothers. Oh, really? OK. Dave Mastiff, another big dude season. I love Dave Mastiff. Dave Mastiff, man. Yeah. Yeah. He should be on an underground, raw underground.
02:02:33
Speaker
Destroy everyone. Dude, Dave Mastiff would murder on Raw Underground. I don't know, actually. Don't even make me act like I'm going to like this Raw Underground thing. I'm not even going to entertain. I saw Dave Mastiff being in play. It's marching. They were so good. Oh, man.
02:02:50
Speaker
Yeah, Jordan, Jordan Devlin. Yeah, there's so many. No, I'm dark. So many good. A few of those names are not to be spoken currently, it seems. Yeah, he done. Oh, is it like a spoken out stuff? OK, yeah, there's some guys are a part of the speaking. I haven't. Not massive. Not massive.
02:03:12
Speaker
It's all the skinny dudes man, they think they can do whatever they want the big dudes like, you know They're very respectful. Yeah, let's get into our quarantine and chill You know just weird figures that you know, yeah undertaker figures All right, we're back. We're back live and we're live pal
02:03:30
Speaker
All right. What else did you pick up this week, Sheena, besides those ringside unrivaled figures from the Latin? So today, we actually went to an antique mall here locally. Saw that. Yeah. No, it was freaking huge. I didn't get to go in. We had both the kids, and they were sleeping in the car. So I stayed in the car, and Seth just ran in because he wanted to see what they had. He ended up grabbing some Hasbro bushwhackers, and timely enough, he grabbed a set of rockers.
02:04:00
Speaker
Hasbro, so we got those and then from our good buddy Mike Lanham We got retro cane and fin in the mail. So that's what we picked up this week. I Gotta get the name in the address of that place because it's not on my was that in Virginia Yeah, yeah, it's a I think it's just called Virginia Beach antique mall. Okay. Yeah It was it was all they had a ton of it like loose elites in there. Jesus. Oh, yes, so many loose figures he said there was tons of
02:04:27
Speaker
Like stars it was like bunch like lgns has bros like you know all kinds of stuff Good stuff Marco you pick up anything this week wait, she knew you got a bunch of ninja turtle stuff was that last week or That was last week. Yeah, you're always yeah looking for ninja turtle stuff or adding the tutorial Yeah, we oh we actually picked up tonight We got the slash and leather head, but we know we just ordered it off target tonight So we were able to snag that with money and
02:04:55
Speaker
Yeah, you got on that before, because that stuff sold out quick. I saw everybody posting it, and they were like gone. Shout out to our buddy, our long time Chick Foley follower, Hipster Norm. He sent the link directly to the Chick Foley DM, and I was like, dude, on it. And yeah, we got it. A target link for a new product. I couldn't believe it, yeah. And I was like, oh my god, we just snagged a NECA product from Target online. So I feel like I just defeated the freaking boss man, you know?
02:05:24
Speaker
They've learned from their mistakes. Mm-hmm Marco. Yeah, I think uh, yeah, so I acquired the Razor bone that actually came to the mail from a from a Sheena and Seth so nice. Thanks a lot for that. I have the razor slash
02:05:45
Speaker
We I will send you the end all night hard Come in for views. Yeah, I still have that tomorrow. I'm been totally lazy on that I'm gonna tell you I met that right here in the show Obviously those that we that we all shared acquired also the
02:06:06
Speaker
the musical mutagen tour finally the neck of figures yeah so with the set too with the t-shirt and the all the accessories yeah other than that everything's on order so the only thing I think I'm gonna get from AEW are the obviously the little bit of the bubbly I also have the authentic scale ring pre-ordered
02:06:32
Speaker
with Kenny Omega, the Kenny Omega figure that's in there when he's wearing his gear that he actually wore this past Wednesday, which is pretty cool. It's a ringside exclusive that's still on pre-order. It's not back-ordered, which is awesome because I feel like that's going to get back-ordered at some point. I try to get the Cody, but it's on the second back-order already. So it's back-order two for the Cody figure as well as I think Matt Jackson.
02:06:58
Speaker
This back ordered as well. The second order. Yeah, just one of the not Nick. Yeah, that's kind of. Yeah. Which is kind of funny, but other than that, yeah, just mostly orders and just waiting for stuff to to roll in all the stuff from our ringside. So. Nice. It's pretty much it. Oh, actually, you know what? Actually, I lied. MVP shirts coming from the retro MVP show from WWE shop. Oh, nice. They're actually so one of his retro ones says MVP across it.
02:07:28
Speaker
and then on the back of his bones. It was old. It's red. It has white lettering. It's pretty sick. It has a head with a star on the sleeve. What are you wearing right now? Is that a Cody shirt you're wearing right now? Yeah. It's the American Nightmare. Nice. Yeah. Listen to Phil. He's like, what are you wearing right now? I can see the top of it. Yeah. Actually, off of another, off of the Phelps's, I got the MVP. I think it's Elite Series 8. Yeah. Oh, I saw that. You bought that? Yes. Nice.
02:07:57
Speaker
Yeah. Family discount. Those early elites look pretty nice, man. I mean, I was never collecting back then, but even... It looks like good condition. I mean, hopefully they kept it out. I know. She didn't set that. I know it's a good deal. But I mean, just the design. All the accessories and everything, too. Yeah, we ain't sitting out no Bobo Joe figures, you know what I mean? Bobo Joe. Yeah, it's like eBay for MVP figures and stuff.
02:08:27
Speaker
Loose ones that none of the accessories are with like the headbands gone or the the chains So I see that I was like, yeah Well, I got a bone to pick with both of you last week I told you I bought the GI Joe classified Snake eyes and you guys I said I'm not gonna get into this collection and you guys said yeah, right so This week I bought the beach head GI Joe
02:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, it was the next day after we recorded the beach head. I think it's a target exclusive It's not supposed to it's not supposed to be available in stores until the 14th, but I saw a case on the floor I Send our buddy Jared Colby one and I bought one and then on
02:09:09
Speaker
For some reason, I must have posted on Twitter that I recommended people to join Makari, which is, I still recommend people. You said that on the show too, yeah. And I got 20, like, I guess two people signed up and then I guess bought something, so I got $10 from two different people, so I got 20 bucks.
02:09:26
Speaker
as a credit because I think when you sign up with my link, you get $10 and I get $10. So I had $20, so I bought the Destro GI Joe Classified. So that's on the way here. So that'll probably get here while I'm on vacation. I know. It's disgusting. You did say, you're like, oh, we're going to get the bad guys. We'll get the heels.
02:09:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's gone down the tubes. I think last week I told you I'd gotten the Razor Ramon Legends, and then my son saw it. For some reason, my son has no idea about, you know, obviously he's five years old, he doesn't know who Razor Ramon is. It looks cool though. Yeah, it's an awesome figure. So yeah, he wanted it bad. So Sunday morning we woke up, we watched the Shawn Michaels Razor Ramon ladder match, and I don't know if I told you guys, he was like, Daddy, why is nobody wearing masks?
02:10:10
Speaker
I felt like, I felt so bad, like, yeah, felt so bad. But like, I was like, so I checked, I checked Pop Finder and they had them there. So I was like, okay, let's go. And because he had money in his bank, like from doing chores and stuff, you know, he's only five, but he gets an allowance.
02:10:27
Speaker
the switch
02:10:45
Speaker
I mean, is that wrong? I basically bought it for him, because what chores does a five-year-old do? Wipe his ass. My Bobby Heenan came in from target.com, and a lot of people have been complaining about their target orders and making videos on Twitter about them. Mine came in in great condition, and it had insulated bubble wrap in it, so that was nice.
02:11:15
Speaker
I don't know if maybe people got two of them instead of one. They didn't have space for bubble wrap, so they just kind of threw them in there. Maybe I only got one, so that came in nice. What else? I think that might be it. I'm trying to slow down a little bit. I'm getting rid of some stuff over the next couple weeks. I know Mike Lanham says I say that every week here on the show, but
02:11:37
Speaker
With the ultimate additions coming out, I gotta keep some space for those and all kinds of stuff. So I'm still, oh, did I talk about my Legends Macho Man that I got in? I don't know if I got that in in time last week. I think I did. Legends Macho Man, I got from somebody from the Major Brothers Patreon group. So I'm two Macho Man Elite figures away from having every Mattel Elite Macho Man figure ever made. And yeah, so that's been pretty fun.
02:12:07
Speaker
And that's about it. Still been on the hunt. I don't want the unrivaled figures. If I find them in the store, they're going to go to somebody in our Facebook group. So hopefully I can find those soon. I'm going on vacation next week. Have you guys decided what you're doing without me next week? Are you going to record without me? We don't know. We will hash it out and figure it out. We'll do a separate group. If you call me, I can do like a drunk guest, like two minute guest spot. That would be fun.
02:12:37
Speaker
Listen, you never know. The wheel's got to keep on rolling. I mean, you know, you step out. I mean, things are going to keep going. And Wally pips. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. I do. I am looking forward to a week without any wrestling or thinking about work or wrestling figures. I want like a full week to like not look at
Nintendo Lego Set Demand
02:12:57
Speaker
my phone. Honestly, do you get that update on your iPhone about how many hours you use your phone a day? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
02:13:04
Speaker
Yep, I have it right over there. It's the worst. You're like, that's my life. Seven hours. Seven hours is what I average per day on my phone between work and like posting for the Facebook group and on our Twitter. It's like a third of the day is I'm on my phone. It's disgusting. Oh, yeah. Crazy. So that's about it. Mike, did you grab anything? Yeah. How about you, Mike?
02:13:31
Speaker
I sewed some figures on the Facebook page and then turned around and spent that money on the
02:13:39
Speaker
the Nintendo Lego set that came out Saturday night at midnight. Oh, that's right. Order ordered that. And then it showed up Tuesday on my doorstep. So Lego was all about getting those out. And of course they sold out pretty much immediately because I hesitated to even buy it at first because I've got like three or four sets that haven't been put together. Um,
02:14:04
Speaker
And then I could have just driven like two hours to the Lego store and bought it there, but free shipping and the tax in Tennessee is three cents more a dollar than it is here. So yeah, let it come to my doorstep, save me a trip. And then Tom Sliney found one of the Casey Jones Raphael two packs at Walmart. Tom of the run in podcast, if you have it.
02:14:29
Speaker
rated, reviewed and subscribed. Everybody should do that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He sent that to me. So I got that in the mail this week.
02:14:38
Speaker
I think that's it. I don't think I grabbed anything else. I've been out looking. I found some fiends. I found a Freddy Blasi. I shipped those out to three or four different people in the group. I think everybody's already gotten those. Mike, can you do a time lapse video when you build that Ninja Turtle? It might be fun. I know it'll probably take a while, but at least go live while you're making it. I love seeing it. That thing looks really cool. Yeah, if I can figure a way to do it or if I can
02:15:07
Speaker
the the
02:15:26
Speaker
fucking expensive. Yeah, dude. I had no idea how much Legos were cause like Legos weren't like my thing. And then I went to like one of my really good friends, her son was into Legos, you know, and I was like, Oh, I'll just get him like a Lego set. And then like all the license sets and everything. I was like, what the hell? Yeah. We went to like $70. Are you kidding? Yeah. Anything worthwhile is like between 50 to 80 bucks. Like I want to say we were, we went to the Lego store and
02:15:53
Speaker
maybe Orlando during that WrestleMania and I was with a buddy and he like like one of the Batman sets it just came out like that day and he was thinking about buying it and putting in his luggage and it was like $300 and I was like holy shit it's like for Legos? I had no idea I mean I you know I always tell Seth I'm like I hope Brett doesn't get into Legos I know there's like so much educational value there and like all all the things right
02:16:16
Speaker
But holy freaking balls, man, I did not know, especially all the cool sets. I mean, I don't want generic Legos. I want like, you know, the freaking Millennium Falcon and like, you know, Harry Potter's freaking, I want Hogwarts, you know, like that's the kind of stuff I want Brett's put together, but that's just like a freaking hundred dollars. I'm like, and if you lose a couple of pieces, then you're screwed, you know? So yeah. Yeah. On the, uh, the AW figures, not to get back off that subject, but so there are like a chase of Cody and.
02:16:46
Speaker
as a Jericho
02:17:06
Speaker
Walmart putting those out. They said it was only gonna be in stores to chase figures. They didn't say they were gonna be at the time anyway Like so few I'd hate to see what those figures end up fetching on or something I'm not selling one of those if I get one of those I'm gonna trade it for you It's a dollar trade it for like a Harley race or something or
02:17:29
Speaker
when they re-release it though, you gotta wait for the Harley race to re-release a venue. I did find the, and I've seen it in a lot of people's, their hunts, looking for the AW figures. I did pick up the ring and the belt, the AW, cause I've seen a lot of those. I picked those up for my brother and, uh,
02:17:46
Speaker
I saw Matt maybe put up on the Major Brothers a comparison to like the $20 WWE ring, like how much bigger the AEW one was. So it seems like you're getting pretty good money for your purchase. Very nice. That's good. Yeah, then the belt looks really like legit. I mean for $20, you know.
02:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little bit smaller than I think people probably thought because of how big that build is, but it runs along with those WWE play toy type belts. Somebody had a good display of like with the detail if they put the AW ring up in like vertically in the back and like had the figures in front of it look pretty nice. So that's a good way to do that. Let's get into our quarantine and chill.
02:18:27
Speaker
This is brought to you by our friends at Omage. You can use code CHICK for 20% off of your order. Let's get into any non-wrestling recommendations for TV. Have you guys started listening to that Save by the Bell podcast I recommended last week?
02:18:45
Speaker
Yeah. And actually it's funny because, um, you recommended it last week and then all of a sudden, um, Seth this week was like, Hey, I've downloaded a new podcast you should listen to. And I was like, what is it? He's like Zach to the future. I was like, did you not listen to the chick Foley show? And he's like, well, yeah, but you know, I didn't know, I guess they didn't know that I had already subscribed to it, but yeah. Um, I had listened to the first like episode and it was good. I enjoyed it. I thought it was cool that he's like never watched saved by the bill because I feel like I've watched every episode over and over and over again.
02:19:15
Speaker
The other guy on that show is super annoying, like the way he talks, it's getting on my nerves. But other than that, I mean, Zach Moore seems like the coolest dude like ever, like Mark Ball Gasler or whatever. Seems to be fun as hell to hang out with, just seems down there. He did throw a jab in there about...
02:19:33
Speaker
the
02:19:56
Speaker
what when you're an iconic character like that like that anybody's gonna look at you as anything but that character yes but like that franklin and bash show was on for quite a while so yeah yeah and then um our buddy jj toy giants always coming in with the uh you know uh he makes little videos for our our facebook group and he made us say by the bell like intro video for our facebook group and it was freaking awesome yeah
02:20:25
Speaker
I have a TV recommendation. I think it debuted actually tonight, so I haven't actually seen it, but it looks pretty funny. It's called American Pickle, and it's with Seth Rogen, I think his grandfather from the 1920s or something gets
02:20:43
Speaker
thrown into a vat of pickles and brined for 100 years, and then he wakes up, which sounds like the most ridiculous thing ever. So he wakes up in present day, and Seth Rogen is there, meets his great grandfather or whatever, and has to show him around present day. It was pretty funny. So he's like Pickle Rick, huh? Yeah.
02:21:02
Speaker
OK, Seth Seth is playing both characters. Yes, he's playing both. Yeah. And and his grandfather. So it's a lot of like split screen filming and stuff like that. So HBO, HBO. Yeah. Yeah. Max. So I mean, it is wrestling related,
Talk Shop A Mania Recap
02:21:17
Speaker
but I did watch. I don't know if Marco's watched it or not. The talk shop a mania. I have not seen that yet. Yeah. Oh, amazing. Really?
02:21:26
Speaker
It's about it's about an hour and a half. It's so bad that it's good. And there's I don't want to like ruin it for anybody, but there's so many like random cameos of like blasts from the past, like wrestlers and just people you hear the name, you're like, I know who that is. And they poke fun of everything. But like,
02:21:45
Speaker
gallows and anderson are both like it's no disrespect to like the boneyard match and aj and taker and stuff like that but like they make fun of that and they just they basically are just having fun uh at gallows house and and film like a whole wrestling show on like a shoestring budget but uh yeah it's i think it's 15 bucks on the on the fight app
02:22:05
Speaker
Um, but yeah, it was, it was really enjoyable. And even they came out and they're like, you should really get wasted and watch this because otherwise you're not fully enjoying it. But yeah, I think it came on Saturday. So yeah, really good. Marco, you watched it, right?
02:22:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was obviously it was bad. It wasn't like it's like you said it's so bad. It's good But it was it was bad. It wasn't like a really good show, but it's entertaining Who was the biggest like guess put guess guess star on there? You're trying to spoil it for people Phil yeah, there's a few other ones that pop up that you're like oh well like oh
02:22:47
Speaker
Yeah, so they not have do they not work somewhere they couldn't and the fact that they all showed up his house But they talk about social distancing and wearing masks and all this but those guys was just drunk shit I'm sure they I'm sure the way they edited it They probably filmed all day out in somebody's back in his backyard. Yeah, so they probably are all like fried from the Sun and
02:23:09
Speaker
for sure.
Wrestling Podcasts Shoutouts
02:23:11
Speaker
We'll skip the random merch and the retro wrestling recommendation of the week. We'll put those on next week's show. Shout out to our friend. We didn't do this the last couple of weeks, but I want to give a shout out. We talked about the Run-In podcast, a great partner podcast with us if you want.
02:23:28
Speaker
Not only wrestling figures, but sports and other kind of wrestling talk. Our buddy's at the Wrestle Geddon Podcasts, at WrestleGeddonPod on Twitter. And if you want some old school wrestling talk, it's at OVP Podcasts, that's Retro Wrestling Podcasts, OVP, Our Vantage Point. A great listen. We talked about, of course, our buddies at the Major Brothers. Everyone listens to them already, but if you haven't, you should.
02:23:57
Speaker
They're doing have you listened to their new episodes? You know that they're doing like a fig fed with they drafted like all kinds of old WCW And then yeah, I'm crunchers and ECW figures. I Haven't listened to it yet, but I'm subscribed. Yeah, I'm ready to listen to it
02:24:15
Speaker
I was
02:24:35
Speaker
You can't feel bad. These people are insane. These people are next level. I can't compare. Brian and Matt, you can't feel bad as a collector, and you can't compare yourself as a collector to them, because they have this encyclopedic knowledge. The only other person I know that has that type of knowledge is Seth. And I don't even compare myself to him. I can't even remember what I ate for breakfast sometimes, so I'm not even trying to keep up with him on all the shit that he knows. So don't ever feel bad for not collecting all the shit that they collect.
Upcoming Events & Podcast Plans
02:25:04
Speaker
Okay, good. I was in high school trying to get laid. It was not getting laid, but at least trying. A for effort. Yeah. So I will not be here next week. It will be some amalgamation of Markoshina and maybe
02:25:22
Speaker
uh, Seth or Mike or whoever else wants to jump on, but I will be in, uh, at the beach with the family and I will be jumping onto our Facebook group and doing some live videos. I have some, some fun cocktails I'm going to make and I may be doing some, some cooking live on the, uh, the Facebook live videos. Uh, so I will be in touch with you guys, but, uh,
02:25:42
Speaker
Like we said, follow us on social media. It's at Chick Foley Show on Twitter, at Chick Foley on Instagram. We have a bunch of giveaways going on right now. So that'll be fun and a bunch of cool stuff coming down the pike. And next week, when is the next, when is SummerSlam? That is not until the end of August or when is SummerSlam? I think it's August 23rd.
02:26:06
Speaker
23rd, really? Oh shit. Okay. So next week we won't have to do it. The week after we'll do a preview of summer slam, uh, on the 20th or whatever. Wow. That's coming up quick. Can you believe next month is September? And yeah, we have, so you have, um, summer slam and then like the week after summer slam is payback. Payback takeover. Yeah. Isn't payback, um, the week after what's payback? Is that a WWE pay-per-view?
02:26:33
Speaker
Oh my God. Phil payback. What's payback? It's August 30th. Yeah. What is what is payback? Back to back weeks. Yes. Wow. Payback will take place August 30th. Um, it's scheduled, which is only one week after the summer slam pay-per-view. How would, how would that even work? How's that going to work? How's that going to work? Yeah, exactly. All rematches. What day is, what day is all out?
02:27:01
Speaker
Ooh, all out. She doesn't know. She doesn't know, Mike. She just made fun of us for not knowing the date of payback. September 5th.
02:27:09
Speaker
Okay, so three weeks in a row that you guys are going to have to do predictions. Those are the toughest. She does belt is in danger. It's three weeks in a row that we're going to not only have to do predictions, but we're also going to have to do pay-per-view recaps for the show. Oh my gosh. Does anybody want to turn this into a food podcast? There you go. We need to go back and recreate the Extreme Rules card because
02:27:35
Speaker
Uh, we picked, we picked the winner of Apollo Crews and MVP. That match happened this week on Raw. Uh, should that, should that be retroactive or? No, because they're always going to have rematches on the Raw's after paper. It's not a rematch. The match never literally never happened. Yeah, that's true. So I'm champ basically. I'm champ.
02:27:56
Speaker
I don't think so. OK. Let's roll out of here before Phil takes the title MVP style. Yeah. So thank you guys for listening. We appreciate you so much. And we'll be in contact. Definitely hit us up on social media. Good luck hunting the AW figures this weekend.
Host's Vacation Plans
02:28:11
Speaker
We posted all the info onto our Twitter and our Facebook to search brickseek.com for the SKU number. Definitely do that before you head out to Walmart and check stuff. But anything else before we get out of here, guys?
02:28:26
Speaker
Take it easy, be safe, be safe, Phil. Wear a mask while you're down in, you know, wherever the hell you're going on, Bay Cave, Florida. Yeah. No, I'm just going to Ocean City, Maryland. This is a quick drive. Oh, quick. Okay, then yeah. I'm not leaving the place. I'm going to the beach, the pool, the fridge, doing maybe some carry out, take out some crabs, order some crabs. Nice. I had enough alcohol with me to feed a whole nation of people.
02:28:54
Speaker
So that's good. So this is what the family Yeah, my parents a kid my wife not not just you and the wife and the kid No, it makes it in his family. Well, they're my parents are paying for it. So that's nice Some figures while you're down there
02:29:12
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Yeah, I don't know if they have, I mean, I'm sure they have a Walmart or something, but I'm going to go to some breweries and definitely make the most of my time just getting away from life.
Fantasy Football League Announcement
02:29:22
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And oh, we are doing a second fantasy football league. The first one filled up last week when we talked about it. So I'll get the details to everyone out about that. We'll do a second league. And I was wrong about the amount. It's $20 to get in. So the winner would get a $280
02:29:39
Speaker
ringside collectibles shopping spree, right? Is that right? 14 times 20? Yeah, $280. So I think last week I said 120. So $280 right around the holidays, having a $280 spending spree on ringside. I mean, you can't go wrong.
02:29:59
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Thank you guys for listening. Definitely stay tuned to our Facebook group for all the details on that Alan Day raffle contest that we're doing for charity. And I guess we should probably start the details for the holiday toy drive pretty soon. I mean, since it's almost September.
02:30:16
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, Jesus. It's so, I can't believe this year is already halfway gone, but yep, you're probably right. It's going to be a weird holiday. It is. A lot of places not open on Thanksgiving this year. I'm here for it. I've been calling for that for years. Yes, please, but it'll be interesting how actual Black Friday goes because you can't have
02:30:38
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10,000 people in a Walmart at once. Yeah, they'll be at Black Friday probably. Yeah. Going to be a lot of online sales. We'll see. That's why you just order for Ringside Collectibles. But all right, that's it. That's it for us here. Thank you guys for listening. Stay classy. We will talk to you next week. And appreciate you. Talk to you soon. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Riley. Auto Parts.
02:31:09
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