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Vengeance Preview + A Gigantic Batch Of Figure News
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It is a big week in the world of professional wrestling and wrestling figures. We recap the "HOLE" week with a special focus on Nia Jax, Seth Rollins return, and preview Vengeance including the latest round on the Chick Foley Show Prediction Championship. Plus, we discuss all the reveals and latest news in the wrestling figure game!
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Transcript
00:00:01
Speaker
Bye!
Introduction & Episode Highlights
00:00:27
Speaker
What is up, Chick Foley Nation? We are back with a action-packed episode of the Chick Foley Show. We got so much to discuss this week. We got an NXT takeover going down in about 48 hours. A ton of new action figure reveals. It is going to be an amazing show for you guys. Let me start by introducing the stars of the show,
Weather Tales from Massachusetts & Texas
00:00:45
Speaker
Sheena. Hello, hello. And Marco up in Massachusetts. How's it going, man? It's going, it's going. How cold is it up there right now?
00:00:53
Speaker
Um, not, it's cold. I mean, I'm used to the winter around here. A lot of people say it's freezing, but I mean, I'll walk outside with a t-shirt. I don't know if I have to, but, uh, yeah, I mean, it's pretty cold. It's not, it's not as freezing as it was last week. Last week was like minus degrees, but this week it's, it's, it's pretty cold, but.
00:01:10
Speaker
Yeah, pretty crazy. The weather's been nuts. A lot of my friends in Texas, they just got a lot of ice and stuff. They had a huge ice storm and stuff, and people just don't know how to act. I mean, I don't even know how to act. If it iced over here, I'd be like, what the hell? We've lived on an island for the last six years. So I feel like this cold weather, all this cold weather crap is not for me. I'm ready for the spring.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah, cold weather is definitely wildly overrated.
Tom Brady's Super Bowl Legacy
00:01:35
Speaker
Before we get into all the action inside the wild and wacky world of pro wrestling, we got to talk about Super Bowl. You know, I said it last week that I thought it was going to be WrestleMania 24. Excuse me, WrestleMania 20. Yeah, 24 Ric Flair versus Shawn Michaels. It actually turned out to be Super Showdown.
00:01:53
Speaker
Uh, 2020 fiend in Goldberg, you know, we saw the old guy come back and straight up squash the young up and comer with, uh, Brady going over, uh, my homes in pretty convincing fashion. Uh, Marco is a long time New England resident, big Patriots fan. What was it like seeing Brady actually win the championship with another team?
00:02:12
Speaker
Obviously bittersweet on in these parts I can I could probably speak for a lot of a lot of Patriots fans around here But at the same time I was actually talking talking to my wife about this. It's like You kind of wanted to see him win. It's like it's we've seen him win so many Super Bowls You kind of like root for him. Anyway, I wasn't even rude against Tom Brady because he gave he gave the city of Boston a
00:02:33
Speaker
enough. Yeah, there's no way you guys should be mad at him. You know what I mean? That's the thing. The thing like, I mean, the thing I'm proud of is, you know, he's coming from the, you know, from the AFC, moving over to the NFC and then knocking off all three Kings while at the Super Bowl, like Breeze, Rogers, and then Mahomes, like one after another.
00:02:57
Speaker
So that was pretty crazy to see. Pretty impressive. The other cool thing about that is he now joins Peyton Manning. They're the only two starting quarterbacks to win Super Bowls with two different teams. So that's pretty neat. We all know the legendary rivalry those two guys had. So that's a pretty cool footnote piece of trivia that they're sharing now. So always a bummer when the Super Bowl comes and goes. That means no more NFL for about seven or eight months. But the good thing is it's WrestleMania season. So we got something to tide
Community Engagement & Social Media
00:03:22
Speaker
us over.
00:03:22
Speaker
For at least the next couple months Sheena remind the folks where they find you guys out on social media
00:03:27
Speaker
So you can find me over on Instagram at chick Foley. Marco's running the Twitter machine over at chick Foley show. Most importantly though, you can join our fully fam chick fully show.com. Join our Facebook group. We have an amazing group of guys and gals over there, you know, buying, selling, trading figures. You know, you can get all of our bonus content over there and just talk figures with some really cool, some really cool people. Um, we actually got a really nice compliment today from our buddy Shane Tanis here. And he said, you know,
00:03:52
Speaker
I really love having this community. He's in a lot of other figure groups and he's like, it's just, it's just a different vibe in here. You know, he was talking about what's different about our group. So thank you so much, Shane, for that compliment. And yeah, come see what all the hype is about.
00:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, we got some great content coming out
Upcoming Content & Video Plans
00:04:07
Speaker
last week. We posted up the unbox of mania episode with the undertaker reckon cycle and a few of the new first time in the line basics gets another episode of unbox of mania drop in here in the next day or so and we're gonna have a special we're gonna do kind of like a test we're gonna do a video version of the podcast so we're gonna do a special black history month episode all about you know african-american
00:04:30
Speaker
Action figures, you know some of our favorite black wrestlers throughout history going back all the way from LJN up through the Mattel line And so we're gonna do episode just about that to kind of celebrate black history month But we're gonna do it in audio and video that's gonna be exclusive only on patreon So we're testing it out the platform that we use to record our podcast just launched a bunch of new features and we're gonna do a little bit of a test run on patreon before we dealt before we
00:04:55
Speaker
release that out to everybody. But yeah, here in the future, expect to start seeing the Chick-fil-A show video format on YouTube, as well as all your favorite podcasting platforms. Speaking of the Patreon, there's going to be a Patreon exclusive giveaway this week. We're going to be giving away the Elite 82, Finn Balor. This figure represents Finn when he first came back to NXT, there towards the end of 2019. Very cool figure.
Patreon Giveaways & Events
00:05:17
Speaker
It's going to be Patreon exclusive. All you got to do to join is be a member of our Patreon and the higher tier you are, you're going to get bonus entries.
00:05:24
Speaker
into the giveaway. Also, Chick Foley Rumble, that's kind of one of the favorite events for the Foley fam. You got to join the group to get the details on it, but I'm telling you guys, it's a ton of fun. Even if you're not in it, it's awesome just to watch. And it's going to be going down next Saturday night before Elimination Chamber.
Guest Appearances & Collaborations
00:05:42
Speaker
Sheena, tell them a little bit about our appearance on the Fully Poseable Gang coming over last week. Yeah, so if you guys didn't listen to the show last week, we had Jeff and Celeste from the Fully Poseable Wrestling Figure Podcast. They came over on their show. Typically, they always joke that they're not a wrestling podcast, they're a wrestling figure podcast. So they don't really get to talk about the ins and outs of the business and the current product and their fandom and stuff like that.
00:06:06
Speaker
They came over to our show and got to share all those details. And we're really excited to go to their show next week. And we're going to get to talk about action figures and our history with action figures and stuff like that over on the Fully Poseable podcast. So we're doing a little bit of an invasion angle here. Super excited. We had a lot of fun with Jeff and Celeste last week. And so if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen to the top of the show last week and you'll hear that interview with them. And then next week,
00:06:30
Speaker
We're going to join forces with them over on the fully poseable wrestling figure podcast. Oh, yeah, we're rolling in like the NWL, you know, it's going to be Hogan hauling Nash and up and taking over the big boys play, huh? I've been waiting. I've been licking my chops waiting for this. I'm talking to action figures for two hours. So Jeff, Scott, Celeste, you guys better be ready. You know, this is where the big boys play. We're coming to check it out.
00:06:51
Speaker
We'll be there next week.
Discounts & Partner Promotions
00:06:53
Speaker
Make sure you guys go and subscribe so that way that podcast will automatically show up in your feed. Remember, at Ringside Collectibles, use code Chick Foley. They got their Valentine's Day sale going down right now. So that will always save you an additional 10% over some of the good prices they got going. And make sure whatever platform you're using, check out the show notes. We have links to all of our partners right there. Make it very easy for you guys to support them.
00:07:17
Speaker
and support the show. Let's move inside the squared circle. So this segment is brought to you by Amage. Again, hit the link on Sheena's Instagram profile or in the show notes to get you a very nice soft tea. They are the softest teas in the biz and help support the show. We have a funny Amage story coming up later in the podcast just to give you guys a little bit of a tease. So stay tuned. Stay tuned for that. It's funny that this segment is brought to you by Amage.
00:07:39
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to actually start up a lot of dust over in the Twitter world with Marco and a WWE Hall of Famer.
Seth Rollins' SmackDown Return
00:07:46
Speaker
But before we dig deep into it, about 20 minutes ago, we saw Seth Rollins come back on SmackDown. I immediately popped when we heard Burn It Down come back. I was not digging the Messiah music. I thought we were going to get a different character, but then he comes out and
00:08:00
Speaker
cuts a promo where he's basically like Messiah, I wouldn't even call it 2.0 call Messiah 1.1. He looks like he's working the same, the same character style. He has a new tagline embrace the vision, which to me is just Oh my God, like, yeah, that set this definitely still my favorite. Nothing's ever going to change that he is my favorite of all the
00:08:19
Speaker
the current day superstars, but I, you know, first impression, I'm, I'm not digging the direction he's going in right now. Cause it looks like he, you know, it's one degree different from what he was doing before he took his break. Marco, what did you think of Seth's return? Um, I liked the fact that he like had the whole locker room surrounded the ring for his return. Yeah. I thought, I thought we were going to get a parents from, uh,
00:08:40
Speaker
from Roman Reigns, I thought he was going to cut him off and be like, hey, this is my show. I don't know what you're doing or that type of thing. That's kind of the dynamic. I'm curious how they're going to play with that, with two just mega heals on SmackDown. So yeah, we'll see how that plays out. Who knows? They might team up. They might have a divide and conquer type of thing.
00:09:00
Speaker
The tribal chief in the messiah. Yeah, just you know, just he'll be a part of the uh, the tribe. Go ahead. Their uh, their tag team name could be the higher powers, you know. There you go. There's mega powers. Yeah, the higher, that's actually. The higher powers. That'd be pretty sick. They probably will end up doing that uh, little uh, little shield reunion there. Yeah. Throwing Apollo. Uh, try to get our Murphy back in there, do like a little foreman.
00:09:23
Speaker
My thing is, is I think they just definitely need they, you know, they tried to get this whole thing going on with Austin theory and, um, you know, Murphy and, you know, they had the AOP and then obviously, you know, um, I can't remember which, which one, but it got hurt and then it like totally knocked the AOP.
00:09:37
Speaker
Out of out of the freakin disciple tribe and I think that just kind of killed the whole thing because I love the messiah gimmick when Seth was you know getting his disciples together and building this like mega faction maybe faction and when he came out at number 30 at the Royal Rumble last year He was number 30 and he had buddy and aop come out with him and they just started kicking ass that yeah Yeah, it was awesome And then you know like I said it just kind of like you know crumbled and fell apart and then we had you know the
00:10:05
Speaker
Everything that happened and you know, he left never ending Mysterio the never ending Mysterio Yeah, the eye for an eye debacle and all that kind of stuff So I feel like maybe they could just reset that, you know, I'm cool with the Messiah gimmick I was totally here for the Messiah gimmick the way they were running it but then it just he like he like Seth said he got tied to Ray Mysterio and it just drug and drug and drug and just made me really kind of loathe You know seeing them on my TV. So
00:10:29
Speaker
Anyway, if they get him together with, you know, a badass, you know, disciple faction, I can get behind the Messiah, you know, but I am glad that they did give him back his his burning down music. You guys know I hate to break kayfabe but I will break kayfabe for a moment. I think Seth's return may end up being a casualty of the Thunderdome and the pandemic because
00:10:50
Speaker
I got to believe they couldn't get away with what they did tonight. There was a crowd there. I feel, I feel like, you know, from the vibe I get just on social media and stuff, the fans want to cheer set, you know, everybody, everybody at their heart, regardless of what he's doing on screen, they love Seth for all the great moments. He's going to several years. They love Becky. The fact that they have a kid, I think set their own behind the scenes has got just a ton of goodwill with wrestling fans. And I think he would have been, I think it would have blew the roof off the place.
00:11:12
Speaker
Yeah, when Seth came back tonight, you know his first time back since having his daughter If there were actual fans there, but since it's a Thunderdome, you know They can kind of manipulate the crowd to whatever they want and get the exact reaction they're going for so We'll see where it goes. I'll keep an open mind if it does end up being Seth and Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania Which you know, we saw Daniel come out to to help Cesaro. I'm sure that's gonna be a hell of a match, you know Put on a awesome match at WrestleMania. I'm
00:11:38
Speaker
I was, I was still holding out hope as much of a long shot as it seemed like it was going to be. I was, I was holding out hope that we'd see Seth come back as the good guy. But we didn't get, we didn't get the worst case scenario, which you, which you laid out, which I thought I'm like, I was thinking when he was given that Messiah promo, I was like, Oh no, my, my dark timeline. Cause I only ever mentioned on the show, my darkest timeline I laid out was that Seth comes back, gives a big promo.
00:11:59
Speaker
about how being a dad has changed him and it was exactly how he started out. And then he invites Rey Mysterio to the ring to apologize to him. And then as soon as Rey accepts his apology, Seth clotheslines him and we just restart that whole feud from from square one. Yeah, the first time Seth told me that I was like, I cannot believe you even put that out into the universe. It definitely sounded like something WWE would do. I could so picture it and I thought that's where we're heading there for a
Nia Jax's Viral Moment
00:12:23
Speaker
second. Yeah.
00:12:24
Speaker
Um, so let's move on to the story that has really ignited wrestling fans around the world this past week. Um, before we hear from Sheena Mark on this, let me just play this one more time. Okay. For those that may have missed it on Monday night or weren't listening real quick, very clearly one more time.
00:12:51
Speaker
That is Nia Jax. She's not like most girls. After missing a leg drop onto the apron, she stumbles around ringside and says, my hole. It is the hardest part of the ring, though. It is the hardest part of the ring. We know that. And that's one of the most sensitive parts of the body. But still, I've been watching wrestling for over 30 years. And I think that's the first time I've heard that one, my hole.
00:13:17
Speaker
So again, we're going to break kayfabe for a bit on this one also. What do you think, Sheena? Was that was that planned? Is that some sort of rib that, you know, they happen to just go live on national TV? Like, did she mean to say it? Was it a reflex? What do you think was going through Nia's mind? Honestly, she screams out my hole. So I think.
00:13:35
Speaker
you know, like I said, breaking kayfabe here. I think it's some sort of inside joke, maybe between her and Lana, maybe between her, you know, maybe something that she jokes about backstage or with the with the girls or whatever. And she just said it to kind of be funnier, maybe to like, you know,
00:13:52
Speaker
make Lana laugh or something and then it got caught on camera and maybe she didn't mean for it to get caught on camera like that or to get picked up on the mic like that. That's all I can imagine cuz I can't imagine she said my whole cuz I mean they say so much stuff that we don't hear you know that I can only imagine that she probably
00:14:10
Speaker
wasn't anticipating it to come across that clearly for her to say my whole because everybody was like, Oh, maybe she just said it to go viral or whatever. But I mean, how would you ever know that that would go viral? If anything, I would think saying something that ridiculous would get you like mega heat and people would be like, Naya so ridiculous. She's so stupid. You know, why would she say something like that? Instead,
00:14:32
Speaker
She went viral and it was literally like everybody's like this is Nia Jax this crowding moment Week where we saw Kinta debut in AWW, you know freaking New Japan. Yeah Yeah, the US tide are that we saw the new Japan. Yeah the IWGP US title on AWW the biggest story is Nia Jax screaming out my hole Marco what's going to your mind when you when you saw this on raw man?
00:14:59
Speaker
Um, so, so she did actually say, uh, my butt first, which he first hit and then she said my hole later on. So it was her butthole. She was talking about, I think so too deep into the anatomy lesson, but there's a few different choices down there. So yeah, we think it was a butthole. There's like, yeah, there's like three choices you can go with.
00:15:27
Speaker
They actually did some watching us smacked on the side here and they actually she she in Looks like we're seeing the same bump again. I see you're holding her butt So they they replayed that from wrong and they I got to watch it again It did look like she like landed like
00:15:45
Speaker
like one leg on the apron one leg hanging off so like yeah it could and it should I mean the corner the corner of the ring went up her crack yes and knocked her and knocked her booty hole yeah but I'm gonna say she hit the tailbone area and uh it just it just shockwave right up there seeing her watch enough ridiculousness where they had those uh those accidents happen where people are hitting their tailbone and they the immediate reaction is so like grab your back
00:16:12
Speaker
like you get back and just like scream so I'm thinking it was it might have been real I don't know I thought I thought it was hilarious I thought it was so funny you know and normally something I'd be like what the hell you know but I don't know why it just tickled my funny bone it tickled yeah oh I was gonna say something else but never mind it was a tickless area
00:16:36
Speaker
But yeah, I thought it was funny. But you know, the crazy thing is, they deleted it from all their YouTube footage and the Hulu replay and all the different things.
WWE's Media Decisions on Nia Jax
00:16:49
Speaker
They've completely went mid and black on the whole. The whole went forever. Yeah. That's a black hole. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, pretty
Nia Jax's Career Highlights
00:17:02
Speaker
much. Did you guys think this is the biggest moment of her career so far?
00:17:05
Speaker
I mean, I think it's definitely her biggest babyface moment because, you know, she's gotten a lot of attention before, but it's usually for injuring someone or doing something bad. I think it's three moments for Nia Jax so far in the five years that she's been on the wrestling landscape. Busted Becky's nose. You got her when she busted Becky's nose, but she was really kind of just in a supporting role in that one. She did get a big pop. She almost killed Oscar.
00:17:30
Speaker
And she did get a huge pop at WrestleMania 34 when she beat Alexa Bliss for the title. She was the baby face on that one, hit that awesome Simone drop off the second rope. And then this one, you know, I think this is the one that's gonna live on forever. I think that, you know, the Becky moment was iconic, but
00:17:45
Speaker
You know, I don't think people even remember that it was Nia Jax to bust your nose at this point. They should remember Becky up in the stands with the bloody face. Yeah. Who knew that this ongoing Lana and Nia Jax, you know, tables debacle would give us this great moment in wrestling history? Yeah.
00:18:03
Speaker
It's finally paid off after the months of seeing Lana go through Taylor and Lana got the big win. You know, that was a pretty good bump that Lana gave her when she knocked her through the, uh, the table there. That was pretty solid. Um, we need to, if, if, uh, action figure tag Steve Ozer, if you're listening right now, let's bring back the tough talkers. Uh, that series has been gone for about three years at a target. I think we need, we need a one-off, make it a ringside exclusive. Hell, make it a Chick Foley show exclusive. Give us about a hundred of them. We'll sell them right here on the podcast. I need, I need a Nia Jax.
00:18:31
Speaker
tough talker that just has one line and all it's gonna say is
00:18:43
Speaker
rhythm and blues, Greg Valentine. Watch out. I think that would be the most valuable wrestling figure of all. Well, this was this was a very, like you said, this is a very attitude era week for the for the women of WWE.
Charlie Caruso's Nickname Blunder
00:18:55
Speaker
Charlie Caruso, if you have kids listening, definitely like hit the 30 second plus video. We're going on sanctioned right now. So if you guys know what's in behind the scenes, I put together the format. I did not put this in here because this is
00:19:07
Speaker
We're about to go into the R-rated territory. This is like an R-plus, so keep going. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to get too deep, but what I will say is Charlie Caruso was interviewing Damian Priest in R-Truth and she was like, you know, given, was she given Damian Priest a nickname? And she said,
00:19:32
Speaker
and she said yeah dp i like that i like dp it's got a nice ring to it and you saw our truth head whipped around i thought he had i thought he had broke his neck and he said she gets a little confused sometimes even our truth has a kind of like break break as uh his character go yeah she uh
00:19:52
Speaker
Our truth was like, are you kidding me right now? And I felt like Charlie, like, and she's like, and she doubled down on it too. It wasn't like she said it. And then was like, Oh crap. Like, I can't believe what I just said. She said it. And then she like doubled down. She's like, yeah, you know, DP, you know, DP. And then, uh, our truth was just like, Oh yeah. She gets a little confused sometimes. Um,
00:20:12
Speaker
So yeah, I thought the women of WWE did not disappoint this week with my whole, and yeah, I liked DP. Those were the wins of the week. All right, speaking of wins of the week.
00:20:27
Speaker
Marco actually had a near flawless victory over a WWE Hall of
Twitter Spat with Sean Waltman
00:20:34
Speaker
Famer. We had a dark match. We had a tweet on a pole match. Yeah, and Marco went over in a squash. Marco, I'll let you take this one away. Tell us about this kind of bizarre, super aggressive interaction that you had with Sean Waltman, aka the123kid, aka Six, aka XPOC on Twitter. Tell us how that went down.
00:20:56
Speaker
Oh man, it was fun. It was a fun time. Got the victory, got the easy win over at X-Pac. No, I'm joking. So normally I obviously run the Twitter, and from time to time I like...
00:21:12
Speaker
kind of, we have to promote stuff. So like we have, we have, yeah, we have ringside. We have anytime they're posting stuff, I retweet it or I put my own little spin on it. Um, so, uh, I think Sheena posted on, on the chick Foley. Yeah.
00:21:31
Speaker
Yeah, like a thing for Vomage. And it was a picture of the 123 kid shirt. That I actually own. Yeah, we have, yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. It's a great shirt. So I was like, oh, I'll use that. I'll do the same thing on Twitter. That's what I do sometimes. I usually, if I don't have any ideas really floating around, I'm just scrolling through. I'm like, I'll just use that. Just copy and paste. Yeah, because I like to kind of keep it the same as an IG account a little bit.
00:22:01
Speaker
So I post it. I put my own little spin. Hey, you know, click the link below, you know, support the show and, you know, I'll read it to you. I have it right here. It says hit the link below shop at homage to support the Chick Foley show. Get yourself something nice like this beautiful one, two, three kids shirt. And then you posted the link to our, like our personal show affiliate link.
00:22:23
Speaker
Um, right there. And I'll, I'll read back what, what Sean Waltman deeply, when he threw this freaking, you know, uh, right hook at you, he says, Sean Waltman, official Sean Waltman, the real X-Box says, weird that you don't realize this is basically stealing from me or do you? And you just don't give an F. So, yeah, face palm emoji. Yeah. Face palm emoji.
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah, I mean obviously have the you know, the fans are gonna come out and support You know as rightfully so as they should yet. You had a few other people jumping in on you. Yeah So it turned in like a battle royale then. Oh, yeah It was like it was like a it was like a handicap match for me So people saw his tweet and we're like chiming in like you're stealing from the one two three. Yeah, like I
00:23:14
Speaker
He had a couple of tweets from it. He had a bunch of likes from it and stuff like that from the tweet. I was like, oh, man, this is bad. So obviously, I go right to the comments to see what people are saying. Someone's like, oh, that's wrong, man. Sean doesn't work for free. You shouldn't do this. And then all this stuff. So I casually just went to WWEshot.com.
00:23:34
Speaker
search one two three kid screen cap that exact same shirt because there's a partnership with WWE shop and homage and i went back to actually licensed merchandise yeah it is yeah merchandise yeah so that's why yeah that's what i think he thought it was so uh went back and it is i guess it was hey this is the same exact shirt as a partnership with that WWE shop and immediately actually no before that someone came to my defense and was like it was like oh it's not it's not their shirt it's uh
00:24:02
Speaker
That company makes that shirt, it's like they don't own it. And then there was the moment where it was like, oh my God, is that Amaj's music? And they came in and waited. Yeah, they stepped on it. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, they're here, they're here. But Amaj is cashing in. They helped Mark go out.
00:24:18
Speaker
So he really goes, so when I post that he goes, uh, something like, I figured he wrote like, Oh, I'm sorry. He said, nevermind. He said, nevermind. I'll delete. Yeah. And he did end up delete the tweet though. And then he went back. We'll go later on and I'll kind of like wish that was good luck. He did. He did soften the stance in his defense. There is a, a metric butt ton of.
00:24:38
Speaker
You know unlicensed merch out there, you know, I own some of it cuz there's some there's some really really cool shit out there They just have to be unlicensed. Um, you know, it's probably not the most ethical thing to buy the stuff But yeah, you know, I'm a fan and at the end of the day, you know and we support artists and small businesses and all those things Yeah, and I bought enough licensed merch that you know, I'm not losing any sleep over paid enough for WrestleMania tickets. Yeah
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, I've done enough that you know, I'm not losing a sleep off the unlicensed merch I get but in Sean Waltman's defense Even though he could have you know, two seconds of research would have shown him that we were like a legit, you know Promoter of legit licensed stuff. There is a lot of unlicensed shit out there so I know
00:25:19
Speaker
I totally yeah I wasn't I wasn't I didn't take any offensive like shock at first I was like holy crap I got tweeted by X-Pac I was like awesome I seen I seen X-Pac quoted your tweet I was like oh sweet
00:25:36
Speaker
It's funny because he actually, um, you know, Amaj stepped in and then he said, Oh, didn't realize you guys were doing official officially licensed stuff. Sorry. And then, you know, he should be thanking you and, you know, kissing your, kissing your hole, dude, because he says, yeah, Amaj wrote and said, Hey, Sean, no problem, man. Would love to send you guys some, or would love to send you some gear if you're into it. Nothing but respect. So he's getting a free gear package, you know, with all kinds of, with some WWE shop stuff because of, uh, because of your tweet. So like I said,
00:26:04
Speaker
Also, I think it's a little bit of a compliment to homage because like we said, a lot of the coolest wrestling merch is unlicensed stuff and that shirt looks so good that it doesn't look like the typical WWE shop product. It looks like something that some artist or something would have drew up and released. Pretty cool. Marco, I appreciate you standing on your ground and not backing down against the 1C3 kid or the member of the DX Army. We got to ask, man.
00:26:33
Speaker
If something happens between now and April, man, this feud gets kind of rekindled. What's the gimmick match, man? What are you calling? What's going to be the match at Mania if Marco and X-Pac go one-on-one?
Speculation on a Gimmick Match
00:26:42
Speaker
I mean, since Homage stepped in and they want to offer that gear up, I think it's only rightfully so. We have a gear and a pole match.
00:26:50
Speaker
I was going to say a merch check poll or a merch check on a pole match. Yeah, there we go. Merch check. If he can reach it, he can get the gear. If not, I mean, he's SOL, as they like to say. But no, that was a legend's contract on a pole match. Yeah, the funny thing about that night was in the Facebook group when she was like, you guys are over here watching AW and NXT. I'm over here watching this dark match.
00:27:25
Speaker
One-on-one with a WWE Hall of Famer and live to tell the tale. Yeah, so funny happenings in the world of chick-fil-a this
00:27:53
Speaker
All right, it's time for the weekly beverage break.
Drinks & Humorous Anecdotes
00:27:57
Speaker
This is where we go around and talk about what we're sipping on as we record the show each week. Sheena started us off. We got something special this week. So what are you drinking? So I'm drinking a combat spandex from friend and fully fam member Zach Hertzler. He sent myself and the heel husband a couple of these combat spandex brews from hoof-hearted brewing. Pretty cool. I mean, the can has like, you know, cheeky baby got, you know,
00:28:22
Speaker
Hogan in the camel clutch. And so that's actually the artist from, you know, the match that started. Speaking of unlicensed merch. Yeah. From the match that started the whole rock and wrestling era, you know, with Hogan won the world championship from the iron sheet. So really cool artwork. Yeah. Really cool artwork on the cam, which, you know, again, I'm a sucker for a cool can. And like, you know, even if the, even if the, you know, beer isn't that great, I'm like, oh, I got to have the cam, which is why I bought the Snoop Dogg wine, you know, but ended up actually really loving the Snoop Dogg wine.
00:28:52
Speaker
So this is a sour triple India pale ale with mango, kiwi, vanilla, and milk sugar added. Yeah, it is 11.4, so I'm going to be Tom Brady wasted by the time this is... Oh, man. It comes out like staggering.
00:29:09
Speaker
I'm going to be staggering. I mean, that's going to be walking me to the to the bed like, you know, like Tom Brady's, you know, helping hand that he had off as a post Super Bowl. So, yeah, eleven point four percent. It's really freaking good. It like it's tastes just like mango juice.
00:29:26
Speaker
Yeah, I had one earlier tonight, and it was awesome, man. I was a little bit nervous, because to be honest, we got it off the Canart. You know what I mean? We saw the Canart mug. OK, we got to try this. We love breast and we love beer. Let's try this thing. Read the description. It's got a lot going on. It's triple IPA with kiwi, vanilla, milkshake. Sour. Yeah, sour. A ton going on, but it's awesome. It really even tastes like IPA. It tastes like a sour ale. It doesn't have any bitterness to it at all.
00:29:52
Speaker
You can definitely get bombed off of these things. On a hot day if you're out like drinking these. I thought I could do like a six-pack of these things. So yeah, if you got a chance to get your hands on combat spandex, definitely grab it. Yeah, so thank you Zach for this beverage. Yeah, we sent up Zach a couple local brews from here in the Tidewater area. They're actually from Norfolk. Yeah, here in Norfolk, yeah. Smart Mountain Brewery.
00:30:19
Speaker
I'm doing the the basic bitch thing and just drinking some Miller white Marco. What are you doing? I'm doing the I think it's basic as well as some Guinness I don't think you've ever drinking a drink a Guinness on the show here with us before No, yeah, if I do if I do stuff that's usually the
00:30:40
Speaker
But I felt like I wanted a smooth Guinness. You got a bottle, can, what form factor are you working with? I'll say I got the can. I'm not drinking all the can, you gotta put it in the glasses. You gotta tip it, you gotta let it simmer, you gotta let the foam settle. You gotta get a nice little head on it, yeah. I've never had a, you know, I'm a pretty moderate drinker. I've actually never had Guinness out of a can. The only time I've ever had Guinness is
00:31:08
Speaker
Um, like on draft, man. Yeah. So I really like Guinness, but only if it's like cold enough to hurt your teeth, it's got to be like, you know, sub sub freezing temperature. Um, like just ice cold. That's the only way I can really handle Guinness. Cause it is, it's a thick beer. Oh yeah. I like stout. So I'm not a huge, not a huge Guinness fan, but I do like a good stout.
00:31:29
Speaker
All right, let's get back into inside the scored circle. Let's just do a little bit of Wednesday night wars roundup.
Cameron Grimes' New Gimmick
00:31:36
Speaker
We saw Cameron Grimes with a slight tweak of his gimmick. Everybody knows over the last month, the, the game stock.
00:31:45
Speaker
the GameStop stock story. It's pretty crazy. A bunch of guys off Reddit basically teamed up to get the GameStop stock. Geez, it's hard to say. Whoa, say that five times fast. Yeah, it's a tough one. I started calling it GameStock from now on because that's already the slang word for it. Basically, for those that don't know, GameStop stock went from about 10 bucks a share up to almost 500 bucks a share at one point earlier this month.
00:32:08
Speaker
strictly off of a lot of kind of intricate market variables going into place. But what it was was a bunch of people I've read it teamed up and just started buying up all the stock and then simple supply and demand took over and the value skyrocketed for about a week or so before it came crashing back down. So if you're able to buy and sell at the right time, a lot of people made some serious cash off of it. Supposedly Cameron Grimes actually made a pretty decent chunk of change off of it. And that's where they got the idea.
00:32:35
Speaker
to have this gimmick. Marco, what'd you think of Cameron Grimes being the face of the Reddit stockbroker movement for NXT?
00:32:42
Speaker
I loved it. I love that gimmick. Sometimes you got to bring out some type of realness into wrestling. You can't escape. You watch wrestling for an escape, but you want to see some real-world stuff in it. Usually, it's the fun stuff that's happening. It brings another element to his character too, because you never see him tossing money around and doing all this fancy stuff. Well, not really fancy for the camera grounds.
00:33:09
Speaker
in that sense. Yeah, because he's like your old hipster style, you know what I mean? They typically don't like carry wads of cash in their pockets, you know? Yeah. I'm not going to say he represents the people involved with that, but he's probably represents a few of the people involved in that game stock.
00:33:30
Speaker
thing that happened. I follow it too on Reddit. I've been watching it and stuff like that and see what people are doing. It's still going. They're still buying up that stock. Right now, what they're saying is not to turn this into a financial pod. They're saying if the guys... Because a lot of people sold once it started going down a little bit. They're saying that you just hold right now. Eventually, it's going to go back up. Yeah.
00:33:52
Speaker
We'll see how it goes. I don't know. I'm a little bit too fiscally conservative to dive too deep on that. But I do wish, if I could go back, I think I would have just took my stimulus check from Uncle Joe and just bought a bunch of GameStop stock there on January 1st. I know. Where were you on that? You normally got your ear to the ground, that stuff, dude.
00:34:09
Speaker
Like I said, it's just, it's risky. And a lot of people actually lost a lot of money. Like unless you bought or sold at the right time, you ended up kind of getting screwed, but it's cool to see them jumping on this right away. Cause typically when WWE does try to capitalize on the, uh, on like the normal pop culture modes, they're usually about six months behind. So, um, we'll see where this goes. I'm a huge fan of Cameron Grimes. I'm like, this came out. I'm still waiting again. I'm going to break kayfabe for a moment. I'm you guys resident kayfabe experts. So I do feel the need to give that disclaimer in time. I'm going to,
00:34:39
Speaker
gonna break kayfabe i'm waiting for the moment when camera grams loses and then get serious because i think the guy could have an awesome main event around it's just a kind of badass uh country boy um but you know it looks like he's gonna still work the comedy stuff here for a little bit um lance archer uh let's move over to aw he looks freaking awesome on wednesday night you know he looked
00:34:59
Speaker
amazing in that main event. Marco, you want to talk a little bit about your thoughts on Lance Archer's performance as Jon Moxley's tag team partner? Yeah, he definitely showed up and showed out on that match. I wasn't expecting out of all the star power in that match for him to be kind of like a standout person, but after I watched it again, I think that was kind of like the point is to get him back in that
00:35:27
Speaker
Like that made event pitcher cuz yeah, it started off hot and heavy when he first came and then he kind of like dwindled out He was supposed to get that title shot against Moxley Was it last year? Yeah, they kind of just fizzled out. Yeah, so like on the babyface Yeah, I'm ready to see him McKinney Omega go one-on-one now. Oh, yeah, he was he he's doing some especially with the potatoes like him grabbing the box of potatoes and
00:35:52
Speaker
In Kento with it double choke slam he hit. Oh, yeah, it was he was uh, like I said he him and I think as far as like for the past like month or was it last month moose like for the big men like Just seemed like the big guys like
00:36:09
Speaker
take it over. The little guys are always going to be around. They're always going to be the show sailors and do all the cool moves and stuff like that. But when you see guys that size pull off different types of movesets and move as fast as the little guys, it brings a different element to it. I think he's definitely in the main event picture at some point.
00:36:29
Speaker
Yeah, also Jeremy Padour, if you're listening, when are we getting our Lance Archer figure, dude? The guy is so freaking toyetic, man. I was really hoping he was going to be part of my arrival before, yeah. Yeah. So instead of getting our ninth Cody figure, give us a Lance Archer, dude, because that guy looks awesome, man. But yeah, he really showed out. That's another thing that Mox has been awesome about, even back in his Dean Ambrose days, the dude is so humble, man. He's so down to earth. He's always cool to let somebody else kind of take over and get the star and roll for a little bit, you know what I mean?
00:36:59
Speaker
Even though coming in like Mox was kind of a high character, that match was definitely set up to let Lance Archer shine and get over and kind of level up in AEW. So hats off to everybody involved. That was a wild ass match, man. A lot of stuff going on. Yeah, it was awesome. Everybody involved came out looking better for it. And AEW is just on fire right now. Keeping it with AEW, we saw Sammy finally leave the inner circle.
Sammy Guevara's AEW Departure
00:37:28
Speaker
What do you think, Marco? Is this going to be a good move long term for Sammy, or is he going to end up regretting this one? No, I think it's a good move on his part. I think it's just time to shine and be that star. I think I said him and Darby Allen were like their biggest stars or homegrown stars. I think it's best for him to split away from the inner circle and let that whole group implode, because that's what's pretty much probably going to happen at some point.
00:37:56
Speaker
Do you think that they're going to like follow, you think they're just going to shift and start following or like shift power to MJF and then the inner circle is going to follow MJF or do you think it's just going to completely dissolve? I think they're going to shift power. And I can see, I can see Jericho probably, you know, disappearing at some point, them attacking Jericho and have slowly taken over. It's going to be a slow build. It's not going to be fast. It's going to be MJF just like slowly taking over the inner circle little by little.
00:38:27
Speaker
And, uh, and eventually maybe we'll see every unit of less sex gods. Honestly, like, you know, it's time for them to do something with the inner circle. You know, as much as I hate it, because I do love the inner circle. Um, I mean, this is like the OG. Yeah, this is like the OG faction, you know, and, and kudos to dynamite for just hanging onto them and allowing them to just thrive and, you know, continue to like build and just be the hottest thing on, um, on dynamite, you know, each week in and out. And, um, like, you know, WWE would have broken them up.
00:38:57
Speaker
months and months and months ago. They would have already been broke up. I think that's one of the best things about AW is they're very, very patient in their storytelling. It's probably a little bit of a product of only having five paper views a year, but they're very good at telling a slow burn story.
00:39:14
Speaker
like monthly events. Yeah, they do a good job. They do a good job of sprinkling in the special edition dynamites. But but yeah, I think because they don't have, you know, a network special or whatever, every three or four weeks, it gives them the luxury of being able to kind of draw these things out and tell the stuff in a lot more shades of gray instead of kind of rushing through stuff like it seems like WWE has to sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, I could see. I could definitely see like
00:39:37
Speaker
After a while, Jericho obviously leaving, Samuel will be his own guy, and then maybe Jake Hager leaving as well. Maybe they reunite at some point just M3, and you'll go against MJF and Santana Ortiz. I think they're going to be the ones to stay if anything, if they completely dissolve.
00:40:00
Speaker
It's going to be Santana Ortiz, MJF, and Wardlow, essentially, be like the inner circle. And then Jericho and Jake and Sam would be kind of like the outcast and probably do their own solo things for a little bit, then maybe reunite, that type of thing, which would be pretty cool. See, Jericho's face at some point in AEW would be good as well. I think that's due. That's definitely what we need for his last run. Whenever it's time for Jericho to finally hang it up, we need to see Babyface, Lionheart, Chris Jericho come back. That would be awesome.
00:40:31
Speaker
Alright, Sheena, you're gonna have to break this one down for me. Out of the country when this thing all, you know, when this guy blew up, I really have like very limited, as much as I'm into music and stuff, I got limited essay on this guy. Bad Money has apparently just set WWE's bank account on fire. He's been selling all kinds of merch.
00:40:50
Speaker
generating TV ratings, tons of social media interests, whereas, you know, I really couldn't care less. When the guy's on TV, I'm like, let me change the channel. They've basically handcuffed him to Damien Priest to help get Damien Priest over on his debut. Take it away, because I don't get it. So I'm looking for one of you guys, basically explain the
Bad Bunny's WWE Impact
00:41:07
Speaker
appeal of this guy.
00:41:07
Speaker
So I don't know what the appeal is, honestly, like, okay. So, you know, I'm a mom and I can't keep my ears to the ground. I mean, I'm not like hip and cool anymore, I guess. You know what I mean? So I'm not on all the new music and whatnot, like I used to be prior to having kids. So, um, Bad Bunny, I just feel like, oh, the only reason, the only thing I ever knew about Bad Bunny is I would always see Ted, um, you know, wrestling for sale. I would always see Ted posting stuff about Bad Bunny, you know, cause I guess they're friends or he knows Bad Bunny and, uh,
00:41:37
Speaker
And it was just like, that's how he kind of came on my radar, right? However, this guy, while I was like, you know, completely oblivious is, you know, the most streamed artist globally, like has 8.3 billion streams in 2020, 8.3 billion, right? Like, think about how how fiercely
00:41:58
Speaker
I mean Taylor Swift dropped new albums in 2020, Billie Eilish was the hottest thing in 2020, you know, love Billie Eilish, right? He beat out all of them, you know, like Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande beat out her like 8.3 billion.
00:42:16
Speaker
This guy is doing, he has, he has mainstream appeal out the freaking wazoo. Um, and the craziest thing is, so he, you know, he came on the rumble and now he's going to have a WrestleMania match of apparently he's training at the performance center. So apparently he's, you know, he is going to take some bumps and he's taking it seriously and whatnot.
00:42:34
Speaker
So he's gonna have a match with Damian Priest, with Miz and Morrison. But get this, this is what just blows my freaking mind. So you realize he had, after his appearance on The Rumble and then the following Monday Night Raw, he had out of all WWE merch sales, he had the top four spots locked in. His men's shirt was number one, his pullover hoodie was number two, his women's shirt was number three, and then the youth version of his shirt was number four.
00:43:03
Speaker
The stuff is all sold out right now, so the Bad Bunny's WWE Shop page pulled up. All the world members for them, so they did a poster, a pullover, and then a men's women's and new t-shirt all sold out, which you guys know how hardcore we are wrestling. I've never seen anything straight up just sold out on here.
00:43:20
Speaker
Yeah, that is wild. So the report that they're giving is that it has driven over, like his merch alone has driven over $500,000 in sales for WWE. And so the fifth spot, get this. So the fifth spot was Roman Reigns and his items that he sold, Roman Reigns, sold less than 5% of what the top selling Bad Bunny item sold. So like Bad Bunny is a freaking merch machine. You know what I mean? Like what the hell?
00:43:47
Speaker
Yeah, he's one of the biggest, not just Latin music artists, like biggest artists in the world, like he said. Globally. Yeah, globally. Top top artist in the whole world. Yeah, you thought like, you thought everyone thinks like, you know, Drake, the Drake's of the world and stuff like that when it comes to kind of like, like hip hop influenced music and stuff like that. Bad Bunny's Bad Bunny is it definitely with the
00:44:09
Speaker
especially with his love of wrestling. So one of my favorite things is when a artist or a celebrity is also a fan of wrestling because then it doesn't make you feel as like, you know, so that thing you're a wrestling fan, it's like, oh, you still watch that stuff. Well, yeah, Bad Buddy watches it. The biggest artist in the world loves it. He's actually doing it. And he actually had that Booker T song that he named
00:44:33
Speaker
He named it after Booker T. But he also had a video, I think it was either last year or the year before, Stone Cold was in his video, one of his music videos. Yeah, he did a cameo, beating some dudes up in a Bad Bunny video. So this was a legit wrestling fan. And I'm here for it. I mean, it is kind of crazy that he's like outselling actual superstars.
00:44:57
Speaker
It definitely didn't I mean the the numbers for raw are still pretty pretty crappy So it definitely didn't draw numbers to like TV But the the YouTube segments that he's been in stuff had been like blowing through like, you know They're their numbers are like through the roof. I think that's more important on TV ratings at this point also I mean not so that not to the network providers It's not you know, I mean the freakin Fox don't care people are watching on YouTube. You know what I mean? Well, so you're gonna think too like that like all those channels have a YouTube channel and
00:45:25
Speaker
That's true, that's true. So they can still get those numbers. And I think Triple H brought this up, I think earlier in the week he did an interview, he was just answering questions and stuff like that. And he even said it, which I kind of agree, he said like,
00:45:37
Speaker
He thinks nowadays with TV, he thinks it's pretty naive for people to just focus on TV ratings. I feel like Dave Meltzer is the only person that even really is making a big deal of that stuff nowadays. Yeah, just because you got to think there's so many different avenues. You got to think kids of this generation aren't really watching TV. They're watching
00:45:57
Speaker
YouTube clips they're watching Twitter clips we have a weekly podcast where we talk about wrestling and a lot of times I will catch up on what happened in the week of wrestling on YouTube and like you know via like all kinds of different media outlets like Instagram and stuff like that Twitter Because you don't have time like nobody has time to sit down and watch three hours of raw on Monday two hours of SmackDown on Friday Nine hours of live wrestling every Wednesday night wars and that's not even get into a w dark. Yeah new Japan
00:46:26
Speaker
NXT UK All of the all of the bonus content like you know AEW also has like you know being the elite and all that kind of stuff Yeah 205 live all the stuff that we don't even think about you know
00:46:40
Speaker
But yeah, it's, it's pretty freaking crazy. I know there was some talk and rumors and stuff that there was some, you know, a backstage bad blood, you know, with a bad bunny coming in. Cause a lot of the guys like those mid Carter's and stuff are thinking like, you know, well if bad bunny is going to be on the card, then that's going to take my spot, you know, which I get it. They're trying to draw, they're trying to draw eyes to WrestleMania, but there's also been talks of like Cardi B having, um, you know, I don't know if it's like a musical appearance or like she wants to have an actual appearance.
00:47:08
Speaker
Bow wow. I'm like, bow wow. I think Cardi B would actually happen. Bow wow just said he won't do that. They're not going to bring bow wow. I was like, when was the last time bow wow was realized? You know? I don't know. But yeah, Cardi B, I could see her coming on and like doing, you know, hopefully she wouldn't sing WAP. I don't know with the, maybe she can just change it to my whole, you know? Yeah. Maybe she could get away with it nowadays. That's right. Who knows?
00:47:36
Speaker
All right. On that note, it's time for the latest showdown in the hottest rivalry in the entire world of pro wrestling. The Chick Foley show prediction championship.
NXT Takeover Predictions
00:47:50
Speaker
Sheena has been holding it down. Did you get it back at Survivor Series? Is that when you want it back? Was it Survivor Series? Yeah, I think you want it back at Survivor Series because it was coming down. The only way you would have lost, I think, is if the feed run in. I don't know. Yes. You guys need to keep up with it. It's something you ought to. I know. I think Survivor Series, when Sheena want it back, we got Takeover Vengeance Day, which I'm just going to call it Vengeance. I don't know why they felt the need to throw in Day on there, I guess, because it's Valentine's Day. Yeah. I'm going to call it St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
00:48:16
Speaker
That was no good option. They had that or they had vengeance. I don't know how they kind of sell in this middle ground. I'm going to call it vengeance though. It looks like it's going to be a very awesome show. You know, five matches. It's our typical lean mean NXT takeover. We'll get right into it. Sheena is going to get to pick first. We're going to start with the women's dusty roads cup.
00:48:38
Speaker
the first ever finals. It was announced this week also that the winner of this match will be getting a shot at Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler for the Women's Tag Team Championship. So on one side, we got Raquel Gonzalez and Dakota Kai, and they are going to be going up against Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart. Shayna, what's your pick? All right. I am going with Ember and Shotzi. I think they are going to win the Dusty Classic.
00:49:06
Speaker
Okay. That's some deep insight there. Marco, what's your take on this match? Man, I do love, everyone knows my love for Chauncey Blackheart. I think she's a fantastic performer. I do love Ember Moon. She's great as well.
00:49:23
Speaker
I'm not picking them, I'm picking Raquel, Big Mama Cool herself. Big Mama Cool. And Dakota Kai, because I just think they're destined to win. They're already doing the comparisons to Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash with them too. So I think they're destined to win. They were together way before Amber and Shotzi were a tag team. Yeah. I'm going with them too.
00:49:50
Speaker
I like it you guys going in opposite directions on the first match. I actually agree with Sheena. I think that Shotzi Blackart's been on such a roll and this is Ember Moon's first really kind of big showcase mat since you returned to NXT. I think Ember and Shotzi are taking this one. If you guys remember the first men's Dusty Cup, it was Finn Balor and Samoa Joe. Back when Samoa Joe was still a good guy or baby face for the Smarks out there and they won it. So I think it's gonna be a parallel to that. I think we're gonna see Ember and Shotzi win it
00:50:20
Speaker
And then maybe get a little ember in shots He went on one action down the road to see who's gonna end up kind of being the star out of those two Marco you're gonna get first dibs on the next one The North American Championship match there were some rumors earlier this week that this match might be off But it turned out to just be a work Johnny Gargano was trying to fake his way out of it. He's gonna be Defending his North American Championship against Kushida Marco what's your pick? I do love Kushida. I think he's a
00:50:50
Speaker
That's going to win a title, just not on Sunday. Too many shenanigans, too many outside of the fairances with the Way hanging around there. I can go with Johnny Gargano retaining and being the longest-rating North American. Yeah, I'm going with Johnny Gargano too. Like you said, I think with the Way and Austin Theory getting involved, I think it's going to be a
00:51:12
Speaker
you know, a bad day to be Kushida, even though I do think Kushida is deserving of the North American title title reign. I think it's going to be a lot of hijinks because it's been a lot of hijinks up until this point. And it really to me, you know, breaking KFA wouldn't make sense for them to pull all this stuff, you know, with Johnny's broken arm and, you know, all this stuff. If they were just going to have him lose on on Sunday, I feel like it's just going to carry this feud even further and we'll get an even better match in the in the future.
00:51:39
Speaker
I actually disagree with you guys. I think Kashida is going to win. You know, he's been in NXT for a while now. I don't think they, I don't think he, I think he's going to be feeling a little bit of desperation going into this match. You know, if he loses, he's going to kind of be in that spot where it's like, all right, I'm kind of just spinning my tires here. And their thing is the way has been, they've been so goofy, you know, I feel like they're going to get involved and they're going to end up costing Gargano the match. I can see that too.
00:52:02
Speaker
Austin theory is awesome. He's a talented dude, but I really think you know something goofy is gonna happen and they're gonna be trying to help but end up costing Gargano the match and I think Kushida is walking away with a belt to get his biggest win to date in NXT I'm toss it back over to Sheena for the first pick on our next match the Finals of the men's dusty cup grizzled young veterans are in the finals once again after making it last year They're going against the newcomers MSK Sheena. What's your pick?
00:52:29
Speaker
Um, I feel like it's, it's a good move. Um, I think MSK is going to win. Um, I love, I love the grizzly young veterans, but I feel like they introduced MSK. They've allowed them to look dominant throughout this, you know, entire, uh, dusty classic. And it's really the good move to let them go ahead and win this thing and establish them as a new like tag team force in, in NXT. So I'm going with an MSK.
00:52:52
Speaker
And we still do not know what that stands for. So maybe if they win, they'll cut a promo and let us know what MSK even stands for. Marco, what's your pick? Yeah, definitely MSK. I think it's the right move, just piggybacking off of what she just said. It's definitely the right move. And they're bringing them in the way they did to have them with the tournament.
00:53:16
Speaker
The other thing too is you want to have a tag team like that on Wednesday night to go up against all the amazing tag teams that AEW has and that kind of do like the same type of move set. So I think it's the best move for them to, you know, for them to win and then showcase those abilities every, every Wednesday. So both of you guys think Grizzled Young Veterans are going Buffalo Bill style, losing in the finals two years in a row. Yeah.
00:53:40
Speaker
All right, interesting. I got to ask a question, you know, it's going to happen on NXT next Wednesday, but why in the hell can we not get carry on cross versus Santos Escobar on this show? You know, we only got five matches. I think you get a sixth one in there, especially because those tag team matches are going to be totally different flavor from
00:54:00
Speaker
I'm so intrigued by this match because I think the one cool thing, I think the thing that you got to do to really get the cruiserweight division over is occasionally let the best of the cruiserweights go out and fight some heavyweights. Santos Escobar has had what's turned into a pretty significant run with the cruiserweight championship and I think
00:54:17
Speaker
Even if he came out on the losing end against Karrion Kross, it would give that whole division so much legitimacy to see him take Kross to the limit in a one-on-one match. So what do you guys think? Would you guys be down to see this added to the show? Do you think it was a mistake having it on a regular episode of NXT? I've stunned both of our stars into silence on this one. I mean, I would say, I mean, yeah, it does look like it could be kind of like a pay-per-view type of match.
00:54:47
Speaker
At the same time, not taking anything away from Santos Escobar, but I think that match does belong on NXT television.
00:54:56
Speaker
Um, just cause it's kind of like a, like you said, you're intrigued by it. And I think a lot of people are myself included. Um, so I think they're going to get a lot of eyes watching it. And I think it will definitely help out of the, uh, in a ratings boost. Yeah, that's true. AEW is cranking out pay-per-view quality matches every single week. So yeah, I guess they do got to keep, leave a few rounds in the chamber for, for Wednesday nights. Yeah. What about you, Shane? Are you, are you, how high are you for this match?
00:55:20
Speaker
I'm hyped, dude. I've liked Kyrian since the beginning. Yeah, Kyrian. I'm excited to see him, you know, back and better than ever. So yeah, what better way to start picking off, you know, picking them off one by one, start with Santos Escobar, you know.
00:55:37
Speaker
All right, let's move to the women's championship match. It's going to be a triple threat match. Io Shirai, in my opinion, the best women's wrestler in the world right now, defending against former NXT UK champion Tony Storm and Mercedes Martinez.
Debate over Io Shirai's Title Reign
00:55:51
Speaker
Marco, you're up first. Oh, man. This is tough. Because I kind of want them to do something for WrestleMania weekend, but obviously that's probably not going to happen. It's kind of like a one-on-one match.
00:56:06
Speaker
Are we even getting an NXT event on WrestleMania? So there's no take up because remember WrestleMania is two nights this week, Saturday and Sunday, but it's been speculated on the dirt sheets that there's going to be some sprinkling of NXT matches on WrestleMania. Like I think for sure, I think I would definitely expect Finn to have a match. And then, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw maybe the women's, the NXT women's match on WrestleMania also. So NXT is going to have a presence on WrestleMania, but no.
00:56:33
Speaker
We're not going to have our traditional WrestleMania weekend takeover. Yeah, because I'm trying to go off of that if they're actually going to have like a women's match. Because I would definitely like to see like Toni Storm and Io Shirai one-on-one. Nothing against Mercedes Martinez at all, but man, this is a tough one. I don't know if I want to pick Toni Storm, but I think I can't go against Io Shirai at all. She's definitely in a role. She's going to be like one of the longest reigning
00:57:01
Speaker
women's champions in that company's history, so. True. So here's my thing. I am with you. I think, you know, you can, it's, it's hard to pick against Io Shirai because she could absolutely win this match hands down, you know, no problem. Um, but I feel like maybe we're ushering in a new, she's had the title for a while, right? You know, the problem with Io Shirai, she, she's, her title reign is kind of lacked some like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who
00:57:32
Speaker
Yeah, there's no holes. There's no holes in her. Yeah, she just likes a little bit of storytelling, I feel like, in her feuds, you know what I mean? I can see that, yeah. I mean, the main appeal of her is definitely the in-ring. Yeah, just her in-ring. And me, I love a good build. I love a good storyline. I love a good history between the people that are feuding. You like to be sports entertained.
00:57:53
Speaker
I like to be sports entertained. What can I say? Nothing wrong with that. That's really the only drawback with Io Shirai. Everything else I agree with you guys is perfect. I love her. From her interest music to her movesets. To her presence, everything. She seems like when you hear that theme music hit, it seems like a big deal. Yeah, but her and Toni Storm definitely have a history between the two of them from the Mae Young classic and all of that. So I think
00:58:20
Speaker
I think I'm going to go with, I'm not, I don't think I'm going with Tony storm. I think Tony storm is going to leave vengeance day. The new NXT women's champion. Um, she, you guys heard that sound that you can actually hear the championship, like whooshing off and rushing over to Marco. Cause I'm gonna tell you guys right now, Io Shirai.
00:58:41
Speaker
Yeah, I love her man. I think she is by far. I don't think it's close. I don't think there's argument She's the best women's wrestler in the world. She is not gonna lose that championship in a frickin triple threat, you know She'll come up with some kind of I can see that being the only job That it is a triple threat and it's been and to break kayfabe for a sec. It's been such a
00:58:59
Speaker
Significant run with the title. I just don't see I see it in in a one-on-one match, you know It'd be a shame to see her lose it in some kind of triple threat where she's not even involved in the finish But should be awesome awesome match either way Definitely a bold call, you know, I definitely think I don't see Mercedes Martinez. I don't see any scenario where she walks away with the belt I think it's it's it's a two horse race. I
00:59:18
Speaker
Yeah, between EO and Toni Storm. But yeah, I just, I think EO is winning. I mean, Toni is a former champion, dude. We act like she's just like, you know, like just some Joe Schmoker off the street. Yeah, she's legit. If this was EO Shirai versus Toni Storm, I'd probably be a little bit more nervous about seeing my girl walk out of there with the belt. But you know, I think triple threat match, I think EO Shirai is going to come up with some sort of strategy to be able to cancel out.
00:59:43
Speaker
what Tony and Mercedes do and walk away with a belt. But, but both call, you know, definitely respect China going on on a limb and predicting the title change here at vengeance was Tony storm winning. With that, let's move to the main event. This should be awesome on paper this year. I think that this is this.
01:00:02
Speaker
This could end up being the match of the year. You know what I mean? If they hit the, if they maximize the potential of what this looks like, this could be a match of the year contender for sure. We're going to see Finn Balor defending the NXT TA of a ship against the bruiser weight, Pete Dunne.
Finn Balor vs. Pete Dunne Preview
01:00:18
Speaker
Sheena, what's your prediction?
01:00:20
Speaker
So this is really hard. Um, that's what she said. Um, I just feel like, so we have two freaking mega forces here. You know, Pete done longest reigning NXT UK champion, just one of the longest reigning champions period of the last, you know, 10 years.
01:00:37
Speaker
Yeah, the bruiser weight, Pete Dunn. I love him. I've loved him since day one. You know, we've also, and you got Finn Balor, you know, former universal champion. The first universal champion. First, you know, yeah, the inaugural universal champion. Longest reigning NXT champion. Longest reigning NXT champion. I think, or did Adam Cole break his record? No, maybe Adam Cole broke his record. He's probably got the most combined days as NXT champion anyways. I think it is two reigns now, so. Yeah. Mr. NXT, Finn Balor. Yeah, so this is really tough.
01:01:07
Speaker
My gut is telling me that maybe they're going to with, you know, breaking kayfabe, the ratings are so bad. Maybe they're going to bring Finn Balor back up to the main roster. So maybe this would be an opportunity for them to give Pete Dunne, you know, his rightful reign as NXT champion, but also like, I mean, Finn Dunne, Finn Balor has been kicking ass since he's been down there. So, um,
01:01:39
Speaker
Should I go two branches in a row and just go out on a limb? I'm gonna go with Pete Dunne who's gonna win the NXT title at Vigence, dude. You're going against the prince. I know, I'm going against the prince. That's upsetting. It's a very tough call. There's no wrong answer to this. As much as I love the fact that like,
01:02:05
Speaker
You know, Finn Balor could, if he lost the title, could possibly go back to the main roster. But at the same time, if they lose Finn Balor on NXT, that, that there's no coming back. There's no coming back from that. But now they got Karrion Kross back. You know what I mean? They're building, they're building themselves back up, you know? I mean, do you still do that marquee?
01:02:26
Speaker
guy that everyone knows or gal either one but no it's definitely no he's he's keeping that title he's going into WrestleMania he's definitely going to be in WrestleMania not sure what capacity maybe Edge might pick him who knows
01:02:39
Speaker
We don't know. Being so close, I mean, that kind of makes me feel like, oh crap, you know, I made the wrong call because being so close to WrestleMania season, like, yeah, they're gonna want Finn to be a part of WrestleMania. I can already tell you guys what, or go ahead, Mark, I'll let you make your bold prediction first. I have a really weird bold prediction that I'm not sure what's gonna happen, but WrestleMania is two nights. What's to say that Edge doesn't fight twice on both nights. Picks one champion to face that if he loses,
01:03:09
Speaker
goes another one. Why would he get that benefit to just like, cause he's edge and he can do that. So I'm not going that bowl. Here's my prediction. Here's, here's what I think is going to happen. I think then baller is going to beat Pete Dunn in a hard fought match. And you know, NXT loves to give us a good ending on the takeovers. I think, so we've seen Imperium starting to show their face again in the last few weeks on the next team, but there's one guy who's been very conspicuous by his absence. I think we were going to see Walter come out and confront
01:03:37
Speaker
a victorious fin baller to intake over. And we're going to get Walter versus fin baller for the NXT championship at WrestleMania. I can't think of any more amazing match that NXT can put together right now. Marco just got HARD. Yeah, I did. You imagine the NXT UK champion going to the NXT champion at WrestleMania. I mean, that's, that's definitely the biggest match they could put on.
01:03:58
Speaker
Walter's been, because his own, you know, his personal preferences, he doesn't like, he didn't like traveling to America anyways, and then, you know, the pandemic happened, that, there's another monkey reach into it. So the, kind of one of the positive byproducts of that has been that anytime we see Walter, it seems like five stars, like big deal, like this is important, you know what I mean? And the dude's already kind of got that presence anyways. People that didn't even know who he was saw him when he debuted on NXT UK after one of the UK takeovers, and he was just immediately over.
01:04:28
Speaker
So yeah, that's what I think. I think that's where we're heading. I think Finn's going to find a way to get through Pete Dunn and then it's going to be Finn and Walter at WrestleMania and I'm so down for it. You can make that the WrestleMania main event. Yeah, that'd be better. Either way, it's going to be an awesome show. Stick with the Twitter and the IG accounts. We'll let you guys know. I know we're still piecing together our menu, but we always put together an amazing meal for all the takeovers.
01:04:54
Speaker
We should be sharing that with you guys, whatever we do. And we'll be posting spoilers, so I'm sorry, dip. Yeah, dip or see if you're listening, stay off the account. Yeah, dip or see if you're listening. Takeover still is as awesome as AEW has been and as great as Dynamite's been. Takeover is still the gold standard for wrestling shows, and I'm sure this one will be no different. So it's going to be an awesome way to celebrate your Valentine's Day. Speaking of which, Marco, you got your wife anything for Valentine's Day?
01:05:19
Speaker
I can't say that. Oh yeah, she listens to the show, brah. Yeah, she listens to the show. I can't say anything. We'll say it's going to be a good weekend. Do you have your wife anything for Valentine's Day? See, I don't need Valentine's Day. I show my wife love every single day of the year. So I don't need a special day just to show her love. I wish this was on video. I wish we were doing the video right now so you could see my face. All right. Let's move on to everybody's favorite segment, Go Figure.
Wrestling Figures & Collector Demand
01:05:48
Speaker
Here comes the money! Here we go!
01:06:00
Speaker
Go Figures, where we bring you guys the latest in wrestling figure news, talk about the stuff we've been picking up, and everything that's going on in the world of wrestling and wrestling memorabilia. This segment's brought to you by our good friends at Ringside Collectibles, the number one worldwide retailer in wrestling figures. Remember to use code CHICKFOLY on all your purchases there to save 10%. Marco, take us away with figure news. Marco?
01:06:32
Speaker
Yeah, so I was gonna say if you guys are trying to stay away from micro brawlers They're not even making it easy for the people who are hardcore micro brawlers fans I mean even myself I was like, you know, should I jump in on this and then I'm like, oh hell no The both micro brawlers things together cuz
01:06:56
Speaker
You know, there's a lot going on. So earlier in the week, actually no, last week. Was it last week? Yeah. No, it was earlier this week. I think it was like Monday or something. It feels like it's been like a week ago, but yeah, it was February 5th. Yep. So you had the Macho Man, micro brawler madness, as I call it. Just all day long, PWTs are just for two hours throughout the day, they were just posting these exclusive Macho Man micro bars that you'll never see again.
01:07:25
Speaker
Pretty much every variation of Macho Man you could think of was being sold throughout that day. And like you said, it was really hard, especially if you weren't a micro brawler's collector. And even if you were, they definitely made it super tempting that day to just either get them all or even when you did miss out on one, you're like, damn, I should have got that one. Yeah.
01:07:45
Speaker
He was, it was micro brawler madness, dude. I feel like we were apart. I mean, not we, because I didn't purchase any micro brawlers, but all of you micro brawlers collectors, I feel like you were a part of like the biggest micro brawler experiment in the history of mankind. Yeah. Right from the present, he's actually said it, you know, this was an experiment to kind of just gauge the overall demand for
01:08:05
Speaker
Micro brawlers. I think he's just trying to test the supply and demand of these things. Yeah. I mean, the thing, true. And the thing is, is like, you know, the, the people who are completionists, like it, like you can't not get it. You know what I mean? It's a sickness. It's a sickness. Yeah.
01:08:22
Speaker
Because I mean, what if you missed out on the red, white, and blue macho man? You got all the other five macho men, and then you missed out on that red, white, blue. You'd be sick. You'd be like, shit. I should have just got it. Yeah. It was orange trunks macho, black and white trunks machos, green trunks macho. It's literally just repaints. It was six repaints of this macho man. Same sculpt, same everything.
Collector Advice & Budgeting
01:08:45
Speaker
A quick PSA for the completionists out there. I was a hardcore completionist. I'm talking Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, keeping track of every single thing that came out. About a year and a half ago, I made the decision to scrap that philosophy and just start getting the stuff that I was excited to get and was actually going to add something to my collection. Made it a lot better, huh? Yeah. I'm only adding things that are really going to add something to my collection stuff. I still get a shitload of stuff, so don't get me wrong. I'm still buying.
01:09:11
Speaker
you know, doesn't, you know, I probably average anywhere from 10 to 15 wrestling figures every month. So still getting a ton of stuff, but I'm only getting stuff that's really going to bring joy, you know, to quote the Marie Kondo. Yeah, to quote Marie Kondo. I'm only getting stuff that's going to bring joy and add to my collection. And it's made it such a more enjoyable experience because I'm no longer just, you know,
01:09:31
Speaker
Not to be overdramatic, but I'm not a slave to whatever these guys are pumping out. I felt like I had to have it. Just a little word of advice from me. Long time collector of multiple different things. Sneakers, basketball cards, wrestling figures. Don't feel like you have to have every single thing. Get the stuff that's going to make you happy. Exactly. Our fully family member, Darris Johnson, he instituted a... He calls it the FBI. It's the Fig Budget Institution. This year, he said he's doing a strict, big budget for the entire year.
01:09:59
Speaker
Um, and then he's going to like a buy buy. And I was asking him, I was like, so if you sell a figure, does that mean that that money gets added to the, to the budget? And he was like, Ooh, yeah, I like that. You know, so, you know, he's got, he's got like an overall, you know, figure budget for the entire year. So he's being very, you know, judicious with what he adds to, uh, to the collection. So yeah, it's crazy. And then they announced, I won't sip on Marco's toes. Go ahead about the AEW micro bras. Oh no, you could have. Yeah, I know. Definitely.
AEW Microbrawlers Pre-order
01:10:26
Speaker
Uh, so yeah. So later in,
01:10:27
Speaker
Actually, this week, running until the 18th, I believe, you can pre-order the AEW Microbrawlers Wave 1. There are going to be more of these popping up. Right now, it's Hikaru Shida, Jon Moxley, Brodie Lee, Chris Jericho, Orange Cassidy, Dr. Britt Baker, finally, with a figure. Finally, getting a figure. Before Jeremy, and then Darby Allen rounds out that
01:10:56
Speaker
that set there. But yeah, it's a pretty, actually, it's a pretty cool set. If you're gonna get the whole thing, if you are completionist, there's not a bad one there. I feel like I could just, I could commit to, like, if I could just tell myself, like, hey, since there, since this is wave one, I could just commit to only collecting AEW micro brawlers. Yeah, it's pretty tipsy. This is, you know, I've looked at the Instagram post a couple of times because if you haven't been collecting these things and, you know, you don't want to go back and be a completionist, this is a perfect time to jump in and kind of just cage your collection and be like, okay, I'm going to get all the AEW waves.
01:11:26
Speaker
of uh of micro brawlers but you know the thing about the thing about micro brawlers is it's really frustrating for i mean i'm sure for all collectors but like they do so many exclusives with like you know different crates and different companies and stuff like you're gonna have to like subscribe to different you know things to get and then you're gonna have to determine like okay if it came out in a crate is it part of the actual aew micro brawler line like right yeah
01:11:49
Speaker
Another thing is, we love pro wrestling teams. They've been a great partner for us, but 18 bucks for a micro brawl, that's a lot. When I can go to the store and get an elite for $20. They haven't always been that expensive. They haven't. They just know. In their defense, they're just an independent business and they got bills to pay. They're trying to make money. They make their money off selling this stuff, so people will pay more power to them.
Collectible Pricing Comparisons
01:12:12
Speaker
They're charging those prices because that's where the demand is at. And I'm a business major. I'm a big proponent of capitalism. So if people want to pay it, I say keep raising the price until people say no. Well, and I mean, you know, pro wrestling teams is seeing the resale market on these things. So they're like, well, damn, we're charging, what, like 10 bucks for these things. And people are reselling over 50 bucks. So like, you know, they're going to raise their profits a little bit to just kind of kill that resale market a little bit.
01:12:39
Speaker
That's something I said in the sneaker game a lot because a lot of times in the really highly coveted sneakers you see they sell out instantly and then the resale market's like three times as high. I always had said they should just raise the price on Jordans like 60 or 70 bucks price amount to where at least it's the people getting them or buying them from Jordan brand for whatever the actual value of them is instead of having to deal with going to the secondary market.
01:13:02
Speaker
It's just a hassle, causes a lot of frustration. So I don't know, micro brawlers are definitely a hot topic in the figure collecting world right now, because they're so red hot. And it's just, you know, pro wrestling tees, I think they're still kind of trying to figure out exactly what the best approach is to market in these things. Yeah, like he said, he's trying to see if like the pre order model is the best or whether it's like the limited to, you know, 1000 or 5000 or whatever, you know, I mean,
01:13:25
Speaker
There's no right way to do it because no matter what you do, somebody's going to miss out or somebody's going to have an issue with it. So I think they're just kind of like testing the waters with what process is going to be the best overall process for ordering these things. Shout out to Dougie Nunnia. He's kind of our resident. Micro brawler expert. Micro brawler expert in the Foley fam. His bank account took a pounding on last Friday when these things dropped. I think he bought every single one of these. He did. He did. Yeah.
01:13:52
Speaker
You are my brother madness and say yeah i'm going to talk about the rest of your database. Oh yeah definitely yes so you know on twitter they were talking about their starting a wrestling figure database i have to pull up and see that the exact week but yeah it's gonna be.
01:14:09
Speaker
a database online for every single wrestling figure and they're trying to find people you
Online Wrestling Figure Database Project
01:14:14
Speaker
know with with catalogs and photos and you know complete histories of these these figure lines and stuff to kind of like you know um compile this website you know so i think it's going to be really really cool if they can get it off the ground and get it going because what better way to like you know we have all the collector's guides and things like that that are coming out that are super cool tangible ways
01:14:34
Speaker
for you to have you know your collector's database but to have that website readily available when you're looking to like you know complete your collection or see what's out there like I think that it is going to be so freaking badass so make sure you go on twitter um Marco do you have the um his twitter handle so make sure you go on and share and you know
01:14:50
Speaker
Contribute a lot we'll throw the link to the website in the show notes this week. Just look for it there. Yeah. Yeah. Yes wrestling figure database It's got photos. It's pretty well organized. I didn't get super deep into it. I did a couple you guys know me I actually have an Excel spreadsheet doesn't got photos on it. So it's not super like user friendly or you know, it's not Aesthetically pleasing I have a spreadsheet that basically has Mattel's entire inventory on it That's what I use to track what I have and what I need to buy
01:15:18
Speaker
And I did a couple I went to the website, I did a couple spot checks to look for some obscure items to see if they were on there and they are. And there's photos so pretty cool. It's got my thumbs up and I'm super OCD about stuff like this because there's been a couple people that have tried to do these and it always ends up just fizzling out because
01:15:36
Speaker
You know, it's such a, yeah, it's a really, you know, it takes a Herculean effort to really put this thing together because there's been so, even if you just did Mattel, there's been so many different figures from Mattel over the years. The Jax years were crazy because Jax was just flooding the market with stuff. This guy is going back to the LJN days, Remco, all that stuff.
01:15:54
Speaker
And so not only is he doing the, he compiling the complete history. I mean, now there's what nine companies doing figure. Yeah. So keeping up with all the stuff that's coming out. I mean, we just had like this huge micro brawler launch, you know, just on a freaking Friday, all, you know, like on a February Friday, right? So what's going to happen in the next.
01:16:13
Speaker
You know 10 12 weeks as they're compiling all these things like more stuff is gonna come out more companies are gonna get involved It's it's it's a wild time to be a they talked about it on fully poseable last week how crazy it is to be a figure collector a wrestling figure collector because So many companies are in the wrestling figure collect like action figure game right now and like not that many companies are making Star Wars figures not that many companies are making you know master the universe figures or you know the
01:16:39
Speaker
Ghostbusters or whatever but not like there's like nine or ten Companies now and brands that are producing wrestling action figures. Like how wild is that? Yeah, so wrestling wrestling figured it's at wrestling fig DB on Twitter and wrestling figure database comms the address again We'll get it in the show notes, but check it out It's got our stamp of approval and we look forward to seeing this thing, you know get get to 100% completion and
01:17:05
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. You mentioned the microbrawlers thing too. He's also looking for help. If you have anything to add to the website too, just reach out to him and he'll add it. I'm pretty sure if he's going to add the microbrawlers, he's definitely going to need help with that. He also has checklists too. He started to throw up checklists, so I think he has them for the elite. That's only what I really looked at. It's pretty legit. It's all the way up to what's out now, so I think like 84.
01:17:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's got all of the special sets, everything on there. Yeah, it's pretty intense. Yeah, definitely take a look at it. I spent a few, maybe 15, 20 minutes just looking through all the different types of figures and stuff like that, and it's pretty awesome.
01:17:52
Speaker
Real quick, Legends 9, if you pre-ordered, it's shipping. I didn't pre-order myself because I kind of lost faith and targeted their pre-order ways. I'll get it some other way if they start popping up in stores.
01:18:08
Speaker
They are shipping right now if you did pre-order it. I've seen some hits and misses on the social media. I'm not sure if you guys have seen anything different, but I've seen a couple of figures coming and some of them being delayed and stuff like that.
01:18:24
Speaker
Yeah, the only one I'm actually looking for in that set is the silver Ted DiBiase, and I think that's gonna go for big money. I saw one pop up on eBay so far, and I jumped in. So I got mobile alert set up, so I'm getting a text every time a new DiBiase legend set comes up. This is the silver chase figure.
01:18:40
Speaker
I threw in a max bid of 50 bucks on there because that's about as much as I could stomach spinning for that figure. Yeah. And I got outbid within like three minutes. So this thing still got six days and 18 hours ago. Let me see what the high value said. This is the only one on Twitter right now.
01:18:58
Speaker
But yeah, it's setting at 51 bucks with six days, 17 hours to go. So I'll keep you guys posted throughout the week on what this figure is selling for. But yeah, that silver de biase is so perfect. It's going to go perfect with the Elite Virgil that came out a couple of years ago. Yeah, I really, really want that figure. Yeah, Kyle Peterson posted it in the group today. And I was like, oh, man. I said, if you don't need that chase, you know, because I know he just unboxes them. I was like, if you don't need that chase, you have a good home too. I got you. What's your what's your most wanted figure from this set, Marco?
01:19:29
Speaker
Definitely either that one or Tatanka. Tatanka looks pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So yeah, I barely remember Tatanka being in the white tights like that either, man. Was that his debut? Yeah, it was his debut. Yeah, the long tights instead of the trunks.
01:19:45
Speaker
Yeah, someone posted a picture of it on Twitter out of box. It looks pretty sweet. They actually said like this is probably one of the best depictions of Detonka in figure form. So yeah, definitely that one of the Ted DB obviously probably my favorite. The Undertaker, kind of seeing that Undertaker.
01:20:05
Speaker
throughout the years that same purple undertaker. So that wasn't too enticing, but yeah, definitely the silver DBIC and the Tatanka figure.
01:20:15
Speaker
If you pre-order the Legends of Lucha Libre, Phoenix and Penta, they're shipping soon, which I'm super excited for. I did pre-order those like a while ago. I think it was maybe last year. Was it the year before? Yes. I can't even remember. It might have been the end of 2019? 19. Yeah. So super excited for that. I actually did pre-order that back then in the hardcore sets that they had with them as well.
01:20:44
Speaker
Yeah, so we got lucky ours actually already we got our shipping notification today on those man Yeah, I think the people that jumped in right away are already starting to see those I uh, I was messing with Jeff from fully pose Well, I think he got his shipping notification too. So yeah should be by this time next week We should be able to give you guys a review on these they look awesome. You know, I was actually planning on passing on the jazz wares
01:21:08
Speaker
Pinta and Ray Phoenix because I just really like the black and red colorway on these guys more than the black and white that they can be fixed came with So it would be awesome because now we can be kind of a live comparison But it looks like mass Republic is putting a ton of TLC into these figures and I cannot wait to to get these guys in hand Hopefully sometime this week. Yeah, you could do the you do the NWO version of each one Yeah
01:21:34
Speaker
Why not? But yeah, also the, well, it ended today already. So UK, their pre-orders for the Legends of Lucha Libre, Phoenix and Pentafigures, they ended today. So if you didn't get it, then I don't know. I don't have to tell you, sorry. Sorry, our friend's over at UK. We do have some news for you though. Some good news for UK fans over there later on when it comes to the random merch part.
01:22:02
Speaker
Some other awesome news. Everyone loved this tweet. I put fans of We Want Retro's Rejoice because we are now getting a Dino Bravo and a Dynamite Kid retro
Retro Figures Excite Collectors
01:22:15
Speaker
figure. And I believe Dynamite Kid's daughter actually tweeted about it too as well.
01:22:21
Speaker
They teamed up with Achela Toys and they are now making a dynamike head retro figure. Zombie Sailor is doing the Dino Bravo figure. I know, that's going to be so freaking rad. Yeah, so everyone rejoice. If you wanted retros, they are coming back. Obviously not from Mattel, but they're coming back from
01:22:41
Speaker
I mean, that's just that it's even cooler because we're getting guys from, you know, zombie sailor and Chella that, you know, I can guarantee that we wouldn't have gotten from Mattel. So I'm all I'm totally here for this. And maybe with them, you know, diving into this retro game, it will show Mattel like.
01:22:57
Speaker
that there is a hardcore market for this. So if you guys want retros back, if you want like legit Mattel retros back, you need to support these ventures from Zombie Sailor and Chella for sure because it's going to show them that there is a market for these retro style figures. So yeah, if you have the means, get out there and support. If you don't have the means, share on social media. It's totally free for you to do that. But yeah, Zombie Sailor and Chella are killing it right now. Yeah. Like she said, the real cool thing about this is that
01:23:24
Speaker
Um, you know, with them going out and they're not so much restricted to kind of like the, the PC guidelines, um, they can release these guys, but it might make it socially acceptable for Mattel to go out and do a Dino Bravo dynamite kits. We get these guys in a lead cause they could say, Oh, well, you know,
01:23:40
Speaker
These guys have already been released. They were warmly received. These guys didn't need backlash from it, so it'd be awesome. But in the meantime, we do got our amazing Dynamite Kid custom from Alex Piersk. So we're all set anyways. But yeah, I can't wait to see what these guys... I really like that Bruiser Brody that's dropping. That thing looks amazing. Yeah, the Bruiser Brody looks awesome. Obviously, the major bros, their retro figures look great from a zombie sailor as well. Yeah, they do. So yeah, no, the retros are looking good in the future.
01:24:10
Speaker
to see when they drop. Next up, Decade of Domination 2 popping up at Walmart in shipper form. I've seen some end caps too, some pictures of that as well, but yeah, they're popping up and I know a lot of people are scrambling for these ones here. Yeah, we've checked out Walmart. Yeah, we have not seen any. We literally have zero
01:24:33
Speaker
elites at our local more. Yeah, it's been at least a week since we're going to lead. So the good thing is that tells me that that shipper is still about to hit and we'll be able to hook up the Foley fan when it shows up. I'll probably ride over tomorrow morning as soon as I get up and see if it's there or not. But yeah, nothing so far.
01:24:47
Speaker
Yeah, same here. Pretty empty in these parts. They did some reorganization and changed the aisles that the elites were in, so they kind of moved stuff around. So hopefully they'll pop out at some point, because I definitely need to get my hands on some of those. Not all of them, but a big show I'll probably leave behind. But everyone else definitely is right for the taking.
01:25:12
Speaker
We also had the huge reveals, a lot of picture reveals over last week too, that we didn't get to talk about on last week's show. We'll start off with the Ultimate Edition Edge and Macho Man. Edge more so because of the sexy edge picture that they had. Let me tell you. The seductive edge this year. That edge picture got me...
01:25:37
Speaker
kind of hot. I was like, Oh my God. You remember when the, the Mandy Rose figure came out? We were talking about all the dirty things that, you know, all the, the margin with their Mandy Rose figure he had lust in his eyes and the way they, it's funny because the way that they had the, um, the pictures posed, he had his like hands in his hair and he was like, his head was kind of tilted down and he had like these piercing eyes and we're just like looking at you. Yeah.
01:26:04
Speaker
He was trying to look sexy as hell in that freaking Action 54. So yeah, it's funny compared to like the contrast of his other head sculpt, which is just like a crazy looking head sculpt. But yeah, he's got like his sexy man edge head. I was like, wow, wow. What'd you think, Safa, the lusty edge Ultimate Edition figure?
01:26:27
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's a cool figure. I don't know why they went with that pose because it was kind of weird. I guess they were having flashbacks to the live sex celebration he did with Lita. Yeah. But yeah, it's yeah. I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know if that's action figure attack or who, but probably need to work a little bit on that one. And he actually actually posted. Yeah, but the it was just funny, the pose that he was in. Yeah, I figure I figure what I wrote on Twitter. I figure what the I posted the picture and I wrote something like
01:26:56
Speaker
I figured what it was, but he actually liked an action figure attack. He liked my Twitter pose, so it probably had something to do with the lusty edge look. But yeah, I know that, and we can't forget about the Macho Man. That figure looks amazing as well. Yeah, that's gonna be an awesome figure. I saw a lot of people hyped to add that to their collection.
01:27:16
Speaker
can't wait for that soft goods jacket as well which is always good kind of read kind of like the ultimate edition kind of takes you back to the uh um the dm series so the defining moments with the with the like two sets of about legends and stuff like that so super excited about that um another reveal was the triple h and jeff hardy elite two-pack from smackdown the intercontinental championship match um but you gotta think of that i like the uh jersey addition to it the uh
01:27:46
Speaker
the Jeff Hardy jersey that they have the soft goods. The jersey was cool. I wasn't super into wrestling like during this time period that that was going down. And then we already have that mesh shirt. We got that from custom figure shirts when I made a custom WrestleMania 17. Yeah, Jeff Hardy myself a couple of years back. So this one's not super high on my wish list. It is a great set though. I love the packaging on it too. It looks pretty dang cool.
01:28:12
Speaker
Real cool set and Jeff Hardy figures are always going to sell so I definitely understand why Mattel's won this one Yeah, I like the old-school Smackdown logo and stuff like that. I wish I did like the ringside exclusive and have kind of like a fold-out Smackdown set with the fists and everything that'd be pretty cool if they did that but uh, Maybe that maybe next go around What do we have next Oh fan take over a series to realize
01:28:40
Speaker
I really liked that X-Box too. NWO X-Box. Yeah, NWO with the cane mask, which is pretty cool. A lot of people forgot about that where he had Kane's mask and he's like wearing it and stuff like that. I think like Kane came back with the different mask after that during that feud. But yeah, you have Gargano with the Wolverine inspired.
01:29:04
Speaker
Christian with the world title as well as Randy Orton with the Intercontinental Championship, right? I forget which tights he has on it though. I think when they did the voting, it was literally the same picture of Randy Orton with different color tights. Yeah. Yeah. I think Christian and Randy Orton are both going to be passes for me, but that Gargano and X-Pac got to have both of those in the collection. They're just really, really cool figures.
01:29:27
Speaker
I was actually, I did ask you guys, I was like, should I start just like an expok like collection out? Cause I think you need to kind of do a collection. Yeah. Go back and get the, uh, so you're going to have to get that one, two, three kit Hasbro. That's going to be the big boy purchase in, in a group. But yeah, get the, get the bindums, get all the BCAs. Um, and then yeah, go back and grab the WCW toy base figures too.
01:29:49
Speaker
I got to collect my kills as I, as I kill legends, I have to start collecting their figures. Yeah. Yeah. If you just had like a boneyard, you know, like you could just like put all of your, uh, you know, figures of, oh, no, I was going to get like,
01:30:06
Speaker
I thought I was going to get like, I thought Nash was going to, Kevin Nash was going to come out with like, see that tweet and say something. I was legit prepared for it. I was like, I was like, Oh no, all the clicks going to come after me now or some of the click anyway. I was like, damn, I'm not sure if I get that. That should just be the new thing. You should just like shamelessly promote, um, you know, awesome things about the superstars and see if they'll just like, you know, mindlessly attack you.
01:30:31
Speaker
And then shut up now. And then shut up. And then collect their figures and show my gold yard of legends that I've killed. Oh my god, that'd be funny. I'm probably not going to collect these, but these look pretty cool. The loyal subjects, garbage pill kids. Yeah, they look awesome. It's definitely not a rabbit hole that I'm going to go down. But man, these kind of things, when they do these collaborations, it really kind of gets me itchy because I'm like, oh, dude, these are so awesome.
01:31:01
Speaker
I'm a fan of the subjects. We talked about the little vinyl figures that they had a couple of weeks back. They're very, very, very cool. So we'll see if they come out with a Brett or a Seth Rollins. I may have to grab one of one of those to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This series, they started like they did like the legends of Macho Andre, also a warrior and so cold, which is pretty cool. It's surprising to do like like the rock or something like that or. And it'll be a wave to. Yeah.
01:31:30
Speaker
Probably Next up this is kind of random. Do you guys follow this the Beast Beast Kingdom? Not a fan dude. I've seen them I I don't really get it man. It's not for me I don't know if this for little kids or collectors or what the Beast Kingdom figures are supposed to be. I
01:31:46
Speaker
Yeah, it looks kind of, I mean, they kind of look like almost like elites, like the picture that they show, they're coming out with a rock figure, the rock, they're coming with a figure, but they're not sure if it's like a wrestling figure, or it's from like one of his movies that are upcoming, or something like that. But I mean, from the tease that they show, it looked like it had like the articulation.
01:32:09
Speaker
set aside, so who knows? Can you guys have any guesses of what type of, if it's not a wrestling figure of The Rock, what kind of figure they would even? I think Scorpion King, man. That's what I always go to. To me, that's still The Rock's most iconic movie role, man. You think, oh yeah, that's fascinating. I mean, obviously, I think Hobb's Fast and Furious is probably his biggest moneymaker, but I feel like that's kind of just The Rock and Street Gear. Scorpion King was the one where he really turned into a character. No, dude. His most prominent role in Hollywood is Maui.
01:32:40
Speaker
from Moana. I don't know, I don't know who Bad Bunny is, but I can sing every word to your welcome.
01:33:00
Speaker
Yeah, I know way too many Disney songs and now the Trolls. Yeah. Because my kids love watching Trolls, so they know all the... I mean, they're all like hits anyway, the songs that the Trolls sing. Oh, yeah. I can sing Trolls songs too. Yeah. We're going to do a Patreon exclusive. This will get all the people to come join the Foley fam. Marco and I just sing all of the Disney theme songs. We're going to kill the Brandon one night.
01:33:28
Speaker
I'm down for that. Let's do it. I'll do hello from trolls. Do you want to build a snowman? I do love Olaf, the summer song.
01:33:43
Speaker
Oh, that's one of the best songs. Oh, my gosh. The fact that there's a song about a snowman love summer is like the cutest thing in the history of Disney. I just love it so much. South hates us right now. So we're going to move on. We're going to move on to the ringside news.
01:34:05
Speaker
So I'm going to put these all together, series 118. So basic series is in stock right now. That's Finn Balor, Jeff Hardy, the Viking Raiders. Not in a two-pack, obviously separate. And Austin Theory first in line, which is pretty cool. I think he's a Chase as well. Yeah, he's in the regular ones in the black pants. And then the Chase is in the red tights. Really pops. Looks pretty cool for a basic. Yeah.
01:34:33
Speaker
That's series 117, I'm gonna jump around. And then is also in stock, that's Tony storm, obviously. The regular is in black and blue and then the chase is in red. I was actually thinking about buying that chase figure tonight, but I just, as much as I love ringside, I can't quite bring myself to drop 24 bucks for a basic.
01:34:51
Speaker
Yeah, I'm waiting for the elite Tony Storms coming soon. I can feel it. I think that may be the first time we get the NXT Women's Championship belt, or the UK Women's Championship belt also. Yeah, probably. Yeah, then you have an Undertaker, Roman Reigns, and Heavy Machinery, who is no longer Heavy Machinery anymore, but... Got some prayers. Yep.
01:35:13
Speaker
And then up for pre-order series 119. That's Lacey Evans Randy Oran John Cena Triple H and Dominic Dijakovic now that was interesting So to me it sounds like we're getting an NXT version of Dijakovic. Is that is yeah, we can Marco Yeah, we're not you know, I get a t-bar definitely don't get a t-bar again. I get a Dominic regular NXT Version, so I'm waiting I can't wait till this drops because I can't wait until I'm hoping he posts it as t-bar and like doesn't like
01:35:43
Speaker
cool joke about his figure or something like that because I don't know what's going to happen at some point. I'm actually waiting for the retribution line to come out because people used to obviously make it front of them and how they look and stuff like that, but they're definitely going to be toyed. I can say that much. Yeah. If we can get an elite four-pack of retribution, I think that will shatter all wrestling figure cells ever. You got LJ and Hulk Hogan.
01:36:10
Speaker
Hasbro macho man the You know the the San Diego Comic Con exclusive macho man Jack's exclusive Ultimate Warriors all that stuff's gonna fade away once we get that box set of Retribution elites all together, you know greatest recipe set of all time bar none. Oh, yeah, of course definitely
01:36:29
Speaker
shattering the records. Save the, actually, not the second best to last. So Elite85 pre-order, we see the pictures for these as well for the figures.
01:36:42
Speaker
That's Becky Lynch, Liv Morgan, Boneyard Undertaker, which is pretty sick. Another Aleister Black, Bray Wyatt with Huskus, great. Karrion Kross, first time in line, and then Kama, which is a Target exclusive. What are you guys looking to get out of this series? It looks like the whole series is probably
01:37:03
Speaker
Purchase we gotta get the braid because we gotta we gotta have husband even though that's not my my preferred braid Um, I think you can't not have huskies in the funhouse. Yeah for me. I gotta have comedy I love that figure so much, you know, I'm a generation kid that comma figure just pops They really nailed that super bright red single it Looks awesome. And then what's once we get him the only one left to do is nation of domination and we'll be all set on comma Yeah, definitely night. Yeah
01:37:32
Speaker
Yeah, definitely Boneyard. The Becky looks pretty cool with the money at the bank briefcase. I think Liv Morgan's pretty sick as well. She should come with a pregnancy test. You know what I mean? That'd be pretty cool. Yeah. That's right. You open the belt. You open the briefcase. Yeah, there's a belt and a pregnancy test.
01:37:53
Speaker
Oh my god, geez. No, they should have done a two-pack, an elite two-pack with Asuka and Becky Lynch, which she presented. That's right. The Deltar. Yeah. Missed opportunity. Maybe it'll be a ringside exclusive. No, a huge missed opportunity is that they haven't given us Muscle Man Bray yet. We've gotten, like, three versions of Ben Noss Bray yet, but we have not gotten Muscle Man, and I need the Muscle Man Bray for my collection. Dude, it was Muscle Man Dance. Yeah. No, of course. Definitely need that.
01:38:16
Speaker
Last but not least, this was quite a surprise. I didn't see this on the radar anywhere. Yes, speaking of the Funhouse. Yeah, Ringside exclusive. NWO John Cena, Elite, pre-orders up now.
01:38:33
Speaker
I think it's going to go. I haven't checked recently to see if it's sold out or if it's on its second or third or fourth or fifth pre-order, but this is unexpected. John Cena always sells, and especially for the MOC collectors, this is a really, really cool figure. If you're a loose collector, you could probably go ahead and kind of make this figure more or less on your own, but for the MOC guys, very cool figure, so unique.
01:38:59
Speaker
It comes with a little back, the little backdrop. Yeah, the intro set backdrop. And it's cool because for the Smarks, you know, for years we've been wanting John Cena to turn heel. And kind of the model people always looked at was when Hulk Hogan turned heel was Hollywood Hogan. So that's really what they were kind of alluding to during the Firefly Funhouse match. It's cool that we're getting this in figure form. And if I was an MOC collector, I would really be all over this thing. Yeah. I do need a,
01:39:25
Speaker
Since this is what I do need a Bray Wyatt, Eric Bischoff version with the leather jacket rolled up on his forearms and stuff like that. I think we need that to complete this set. So if you're listening to action figure attack, make it happen. Eric Bischoff, Bray Wyatt, let's do it. That's it. That's the end of the fake news.
Weekly Purchases & Prizes
01:39:50
Speaker
That was a lot. It was a lot. What did you purchase this week, Marco? Oh man.
01:39:56
Speaker
Only purchased one thing and it was like a pre-order I did like a while back. It was for, it's not wrestling related. It was the movie They Live.
01:40:08
Speaker
made famous by Ronnie Piper. So I have his, yep, I have John out of Figure already, but they actually also released Frank, I can never say his last name, Armitage. He's the black dude that helps him take down all the aliens, played it by Keith David, that's his actual name. So he has a figure out as well from NECA.
01:40:34
Speaker
So I got that. So I have both John Nada and Frank, as well as the, I already had the set of the two, they had the set of the newscaster. If you've seen the movie, he's watching the news and he puts the glasses on and he sees the newscasters as a man and a woman, they're aliens. There's a two pack of that. I actually already had that. So I technically have all the they live characters. So that's one of my favorite movies of all time.
01:41:04
Speaker
Super happy about that. What about you, Seth? What did you purchase? Oh, no, I have some more. I thought you said you owned it one thing. Oh, never. Not really purchased, but I won a prize pack from another podcast. I saw that. The Shining Wizards podcast. They're friends of the show on Twitter. We always go back and forth and we're always retweeting our stuff and
01:41:32
Speaker
We like and retweet everything that we do, so they're pretty cool. I was actually surprised that I won. They actually sound like a cool care package. It's a t-shirt from their show, as well as a bunch of stickers from their show, a couple of packs of wrestling cards as well. Those get impact wrestling
01:41:53
Speaker
an open which is pretty awesome and two packs of wwf cards um a koozie which is pretty sick and then that was it and a couple of buttons too as well but yeah no thanks to yeah thanks to shining wizards that was pretty awesome i wasn't that was totally unexpected um
01:42:11
Speaker
Let me see. Oh, one more. So there's a, if you guys fall, I'm not sure if you follow this account on IG, it's called Russell botch. And there's another account called Russell daily. They kind of work together all the time. So Russell botch is actually a gentleman who lives in Rhode Island, which is
01:42:30
Speaker
stayed over from for me essentially So he has these t-shirts They call it's basically the Austin 316 shirt. Yeah, but it says COVID 316 right on the back It's the skull with the with the with the face mask over it. Well, it's pretty cool So I seen seen someone wearing it on his page and I hit him up. I was like, I was like, dude I was like, I was like, you saw these shirts. He's like, yeah, he's like, what size do you need? And I was like, oh large and then
01:42:58
Speaker
history was made, got that sent to me. He actually offered for me to go to his barber shop in Rhode Island because it's like an hour drive. That's pretty cool.
01:43:07
Speaker
which I would have, but I was like, yeah. I was like, it's three kids. That's a lot. I don't mean that with my two kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, yeah. I would definitely love to because I want to see. But yeah, if you check out his page, it's pretty cool. He has a lot of, obviously has a lot of edits with the, uh, the Nia Jax hole that he has a couple of, a couple of them on there. Uh, they're really cool edits. They're really funny. Um, a lot of, he was, there's a lot of Vince McMahon edits on there too, which is pretty funny. Um,
01:43:36
Speaker
Yeah, I got that shirt, I think. Oh, and I also, I keep on saying, one more thing, one more thing. This is the last thing. Got the two figures from the Phelps'es. So I got the Seamus figure as well as Jeff Hardy, I believe, too. Yeah, those arrived, saved in sound. So have those and I think that's it. That's all I have.
01:43:59
Speaker
That's all, huh? Fruit for a week last week, we'll say. You look heavy this week, man. So we are, I have a few merch pieces, but I'm going to keep it strictly with the, with the wrestling figures. So we got the Kane decade denomination, ended up scoring that figure, which is an awesome figure. I got, I pretty sure that one's going to end up on a lot of best of lists for 2021. It was just such an iconic moment and we never really had it perfectly captured in figure form. So, so hats off to Mattel for nailing that.
01:44:26
Speaker
Hopefully those shippers start showing up all over the place. We're definitely gonna be hitting our local Walmart.
01:44:31
Speaker
hooking up the Foley fan with anything we find. I got the Hasbro series one boss man. So this is kind of like the more heavy set. This is like the heel kind of fat big boss man with the nightstick that figures that Hasbro it's easy to find without the nightstick but tracking down one with the nightsticks pretty tough. I've had a safe search on eBay going for a few months waiting for one to pop that's in solid condition and at a halfway decent price and it finally showed up. So I added the Hasbro big boss man to the collection.
01:44:57
Speaker
And then I put a little bit of a Zack Ryder move. I've been about a year and a half ago, like I mentioned earlier in the show, I went away from being a completionist.
01:45:06
Speaker
And as part of that, I had about 300 figures that I decided, actually it was closer to 400, 400 figures that I decided that I don't need anymore and started selling. And so for the first time, some stuff that I sold, I went back and kind of gave a second thought and decided, you know what, I need to bring those back home. They say if you love something, let it go. And if it comes back, it was meant to be.
01:45:29
Speaker
Well, this week, the New Day Bootio set came back into our life. You know, this was the Toys R Us exclusive from the end of 2016, came in the big Bootio cereal box. It was the black and gold New Day figures from their WrestleMania 32 match against the League of Nations. And I just had to have it. I don't know. We did an unbox of Mania last week where we were unboxing the newest New Day figures in the blue and pink. And for whatever reason, as I was unboxing those, I started thinking back to these figures and I was like, you know what, that was really an iconic
01:45:59
Speaker
New Day moment as they ever took the stone cold stunner from from Steve Austin and I feel like I need to have these in my life and I was shocked when I saw The price on this set, you know, I ended up getting these guys for 40 bucks. MOC, you know beautiful box. Yeah, this isn't loose I would have been happy if you would have told me when I when I made the decision to get them back that I'd spend 40 bucks for these figures loose and get them I'd be happy but no this was 40 bucks with free shipping and
01:46:26
Speaker
and a perfect Booty-O's box. So look for the Unboxing Mania episode with these guys coming up here pretty soon. I'm glad to have them back in the collection. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I sold them, but sometimes you gotta let something go and then it'll come back to you. So yeah, the Booty-O's are back in the house. They showed up today and it put a smile on my face unboxing them. And that was it this week for us for weekly purchases.
01:47:06
Speaker
All right, it's time for quarantine and chill. This is where we give you guys a recommendation from outside the squared circle to check out for some entertainment since, you know, for the most part, we're all still kind of kind of stuck in the house, whether it's, you know, from the pandemic related effects or just from this damn cold weather, especially for us up in the east coast. If you're anywhere outside of the deep south, it's pretty damn cold right now.
Podcast Recommendation
01:47:29
Speaker
You're stuck inside without needing to watch TV. So we got some recommendations for you guys. And I think we started off with a podcast recommendation this week. So Sheena, take it away. Yep. We have so many amazing, amazingly talented people in our Foley fam. So I definitely want to highlight. I mean, all of them have, you know, their own ventures and hobbies and things that they do. And they put a lot of time and energy and effort into it. So I wanted to, you know, take a, you know, for the next few weeks, I want to take some quarantine and chill, chill time and highlight.
01:47:54
Speaker
some of our amazing fully fam and some of the things that they are that they're doing. So I want to start with our buddy John Swallow. He has a podcast called coming down the aisle. It's a really cool little hangout podcast. It just has a different feel. You know, um, he, he talks to people who are wrestling fans, aren't wrestling fans. Um, you know, just some, some show recapping and stuff like that, but it has some figure news. So I definitely wanted to give him a shout out. Um, listen, subscribe, give him a rating on his podcast. Again, it's called coming down the aisle.
01:48:22
Speaker
Um, so check it out. And like I said, I'll read you a little description here real quick to give you a synopsis of what his podcast is about. It says this podcast will explore the hilarious junction between crazy maniac wrestling fan, John Swallow, AKA J bone and his friends and family who hate or don't get wrestling. Uh, we'll also talk about the ins and outs of wrestling news, along with some figure talk, come down the aisle with John Swallow and experience some fun. So, um, definitely check out John's podcast. He's a really good, really good guy. Really cool. Uh, member of our Foley fam. So.
01:48:52
Speaker
Um, that being said, I want to get into the next quarantine and chill recommendation. Um, it's the new Britney Spears documentary. Um, I haven't sat down and watched it yet. It's something I've wanted to watch, but I always, it's called framing
Framing Britney Spears Documentary
01:49:04
Speaker
Britney Spears. You can get it on FX or Hulu. Um, but you know, Seth always save stuff, you know, until Seth, you know, we can sit down and watch it together because I like to like watch it, you know, the first time through with him. Um, so we made a date, hopefully tomorrow night, we'll be able to sit down and watch framing Britney Spears.
01:49:19
Speaker
It basically is a documentary taking you through like all the things that really happen because I don't know if you guys have been tracking. I don't know how much you know that what the Britney Spears wrestling crossover is out there in the world, but I don't know if any of you guys follow Britney Spears on Instagram, but the last year or so has been really really really
01:49:36
Speaker
strange in the world of Britney Spears and there's like the whole free Britney movement, you know, with her conservatorship and like this really dives into that and all the ins and outs of it and kind of like people were speaking up on behalf of Britney Spears and kind of like what all went on and it really just highlights
01:49:55
Speaker
all the things that you know you we glorify as you know celebrities and think like like celebrities have all everything going on and you know everybody wants to be a celebrity but you don't really see the darker side of of what's going on and to think about it now I remember when 2007 when all this was happening when she was like having her meltdown and
01:50:13
Speaker
Shaving a taxi with umbrella and attacking the paparazzi with umbrellas and stuff. I was thinking like oh my god She's so freaking crazy, but I mean to think back now, you know as a you know, 35 year old now She was 25 at the time and had already been in the business
01:50:28
Speaker
for 14 years. Yeah, pretty freaking crazy. At 25 years old, yeah, I would have a freaking meltdown too, thinking back on it now. A lot of celebrities now are coming out and apologizing and I know Sarah Silverman, she did a whole skit on the VMAs about
01:50:46
Speaker
Brittany and you know talking crap about her and her kids and so especially as being a mom It really hurts my heart now to think about you know as a mom what she must have been going through at that time So watch it. Um, you know, I think it's a really a really interesting watch even if you're not like a huge Britney Spears mark I think you know, she's a huge pop culture icon and it's definitely something that is worth worth your time to dive into but it's a whole series so she's just one episode on this whole series of Documentaries. So yeah the the episode she's on is called framing Britney Spears
01:51:17
Speaker
Mark, have you watched this yet? I watched a little bit of it. My wife was watching it. I didn't get to see the whole thing, but it definitely was pretty interesting. They interview a lot of people that are close aware.
01:51:31
Speaker
in around her at that at that time from I mean from the beginning when she first started the business all the way up until You know, she was crazy pretty much. But yeah, it seemed it seemed pretty interesting like the yeah, just like you mentioned is yeah a lot of the stuff that you kind of like made in front of or you know, I
01:51:50
Speaker
like, joked about stuff like that was, you know, she's, she's a human being, you know, first and foremost. And you think about now, I mean, social media, celebrities have a lot more control over their image and what they put out and they can immediately respond to anything that's bullshit. You know what I mean? Like if somebody came out and said something or
01:52:08
Speaker
If there's paparazzi that come out and say something that is blatantly not true, or a celebrity can get on their Instagram stories and clear it up. You know what I mean? Right away. Well, back then, I had a subscription to Us Weekly. You get the Us Weekly magazines every week.
01:52:24
Speaker
You know, it was just like headlines, you know, you know, and back then there was no social media. I mean, the internet was around whatever the media reported was the truth. Yeah, whatever the media reported was the truth and they obviously they sensationalized every single thing, you know, and they actually in the documentary, they talked to a reporter like a paparazzi.
01:52:41
Speaker
Remember that literally that was her job was like going and getting dirt on Brittany and she would talk to people who were like her lighting crew on her tour and stuff. Um, and just like she would say, you know, you have anonymity if you just tell me, you know, whatever it is, you know, and obviously they spin the truth. But yeah, so like, you know, people are just saying all this stuff about you and you have no real means to come out and defend yourself, you know, and as a 25 year old Jesus Christ, you know what I mean? Like you'd have to come out and defend yourself as a 25 year old mom. Um,
01:53:11
Speaker
To have to do that like I just can't even imagine. So yeah, I'm really interested to sit down and watch again I haven't watched it yet, but everybody that I know that has it's just been like really like there I it's been very eye-opening for for a lot of people. So Yeah, super stoked to sit down and and watch that this weekend Marco. What's your all-time favorite Britney Spears song? Oh Man, that's hard probably lucky Oh
01:53:38
Speaker
Oh my God. This is a, this is a story of hazard. I think I would go as a beginning. No, there's a story about lucky. It's gotta be, it's gotta be, I'm a slave for you. I will never like, cause you know, back, back in the day when I was like, you know, crazy, you think like she was like body goals back then, you know, she had her big pink pie or her big yellow Python and she was doing like the, I had the like jungle gear on. I will never forget like her VMA performance from that year. So yeah. Um,
01:54:05
Speaker
I think that one's weak too. I think a piece of me, I think from like the later years of Britney Spears, I think that was a banger. The original one hit me baby one more time. Hit me baby one more time, still good. That was a good one. And then Oops, I did it again. Oops, I did it again. Toxic was pretty huge. Yeah. Toxic was a big hit, but I didn't really care for that song that much. I like Piece of Me, which was just... That was just a badass beat. Anybody could have hopped on that beat. That would have been sick. But as far as catching this value, I think it was...
01:54:36
Speaker
And oops, I did it again, I think. I like the softer side of Britney Spears. You guys are like attitude out of Britney Spears. What was her first soft feel? Was it like, sometimes I run or whatever? Sometimes I run. Sometimes I hide. I remember that video on TRL. I think that was actually her second single after Hit Me Baby one more time. That was another one. All the credits were like, I go to Max Martin. The elder millennials have spoken. We used the TRL reference. Yeah.
01:54:55
Speaker
you know, baby one more time and...
01:55:04
Speaker
You know i really in the music you know you might know the name max martin is the swedish songwriter he's behind a lot of the late nineties already two thousand in sync backstreet boys and renny spear songs just tremendous songwriter i'm definitely check them out so get the names max martin if you read his philosophy on like songwriting he's actually got some pretty unique kind of like
01:55:27
Speaker
Commandments, I guess, for lack of a better term that he uses that are what makes this song so catchy. There's a reason that those songs 20 years later still stick in your head. You know, it's got to, it's got to do with like the rhythm and the specific number of syllables and the way he writes them. Like they're designed to like get in your ear worms. Yeah. And stay there for days. So that's why like, you know, I still know all the words to like turn out my heart by instinct 20 years later, you know, and there's stuff that I heard yesterday that I could barely remember. So.
01:55:52
Speaker
Yeah, check out Max Martin. Check out the Britney Spears docs. While we're here, let's talk about our buddy Fig Tease. He started up a new website also. So it's not necessarily quarantine and chill, but it's definitely something to do while you're sitting around biding your time. If you're looking at your figures and you're like, you know what?
01:56:07
Speaker
This figure's cool, but it's just missing that little special something. The figure shirts are what can really bring these things to life. They really help finish it off, especially with some of these figures that are just in their ring gear. Or not even just in their ring gear, but if they have the Polly Pocket style t-shirts. Yeah. Yeah. The Polly Pocket style t-shirts, they suck, you know. I understand sometimes it's just cheaper to get them out like that, but you really got to have the soft goods to bring these things to life. The Fig Tees has been, you know, they've been in the game for a while just on Instagram.
01:56:35
Speaker
and Twitter, but now they actually have an online store. The website is figtease.co.uk. Don't be scared off by the UK address. I'll be honest, I first was skeptical because I was like, all right, this guy's based in the UK. I'm going to have to pay like 10 extra dollars for this. I don't know how he does it. The guy's a miracle worker. Somehow his prices are basically the same as if you're buying them from somebody that makes figure shirts here in the States. And the shipping is just as quick also. So hit up figtease.
01:57:03
Speaker
He makes a great product and a great service. And now he's got an online storefront. What's his IG in Twitter, Shane? Yeah, so his IG is at FigTees, T-E-E-S, and then you can use code CFS, as in Chick Foley show, CFS15, and you get 15% off your total order. So yeah, you can use that code at his website and save a little bit of money. And we'll have the link in the show notes. So check the show notes, support FigTees, help bring your wrestling figures to life.
01:57:43
Speaker
All right, it's now time for the retro wrestling recommendation of
Retro Wrestling Recommendation
01:57:47
Speaker
the week. This segment is brought to you by Chalk Line. With that being said, it's time for our Chalk Line check-in. So, Hugh husband, what Chalk Line shorts are you rocking tonight? So I busted out some Hall of Fame level Chalk Line shorts. If I have 60 pairs of Chalk Line shorts, you know, no shame. They make an excellent product. It makes me happy every time I put one of these pairs on. So, you know, if it seems a little excessive, it's not.
01:58:13
Speaker
But if I had to break it down to just one pair, if I want to keep one, these might be the pair I keep. These are the airbrushed.
01:58:19
Speaker
Rick Rude shorts. So they're the ones they say simply ravishing across them. They look awesome, all kinds of different colors. They're white shorts and then the airbrush on top, you know, they were probably Rick Rude's most famous tights that he wore back in the 80s. We really need to get these things cranked out in the Mattel Elite. Jax did an awesome job and classic superstars, but we need this in elite form. So, so if you guys are listening, this needs to be the next Rick Rude figure that we get. And I also have the retro recommendation for this week.
01:58:44
Speaker
with vengeance making a comeback on sunday i figured we should go with something vengeance expired and we're going with what's still one of in kayfabe the greatest achievements in wrestling history chris jericho becoming the first ever undisputed champion in professional wrestling history and he did it by beating the rock and stone cold steve austin in the same night marco what do you remember about this event
01:59:05
Speaker
Um, I remember just catapulted, you know, Chris Jericho as a top star of the WWF at the time. Um, and rightfully so. I think he kind of came in at like, kind of like a Rocky debut, not no pun intended because the rock was there.
01:59:23
Speaker
He didn't quite live up to the hype right away when he debuted in summer of 99. He was, he was always kind of, you know, he was the number one underappreciated guy in WCW, at least in the smart size, but it didn't quite translate as quickly as you thought it would when he came over to WWE there in the summer of 99.
01:59:40
Speaker
Yeah. I think they did something to Russell about Chris Jericho and his starting at WWF at the time and like the rise and stuff like that. And they went over pretty much then.
01:59:52
Speaker
that whole year. He had to kind of prove that he was that guy that he said he was. Yeah, he ended up actually with China for a little bit, which was weird. Yeah, so they pretty much threw whatever at him and he pretty much made gold out of everything that they threw at him. So the next step was definitely put him in the main event picture and
02:00:12
Speaker
Eventually give him that uh, that championship little did we know was gonna be the Undisputed championship and you know him being the top two stars of the company in one night. So Yeah, I remember definitely remember that night awesome night We got a great defining moments figure out of it And yeah, if Jericho never did anything else He would have something he could hang his hat on for the rest of his career but obviously he's going on to have one of the the most illustrious careers in wrestling history and now let's move on to some listener mail and
02:00:45
Speaker
All right, Sheena, what did this Foley fam have for us this week? All right, guys, you know what's happening. It's time for some listener mail, and our first question comes in from Ryan Ferguson. He says, what is your favorite pre-order trailer for WWE games? You know, as horrible as the game was, I thought the trailer for 2K20 was pretty cool, where they were at, like, the fancy, like, black tie event and Roman Reigns and Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin were there. That one was pretty good. Marco, what'd you think?
02:01:14
Speaker
Oh man, that's actually really, that's a rough one. The Seth one was pretty cool too. I gotta go with 2K18 with Seth, with the burn it down. Yeah, where Seth was in the warehouse and was like, you know, he had the baseball bat and he was smashing through all the stuff. I mean, that's where burn it down came from. Yeah, that was pretty cool. The Steve Austin one was awesome too, where the Steve Austin and Seth were showing up at that fire and throwing stuff in the campfire. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:01:41
Speaker
Um, they had some pretty cool, they had some pretty cool exclusive ones too, with like the Ultimate Warrior. Yeah. He was like walking through the office building. Pretty much punking everybody. Yeah. What else, it was a... That was another good one.
02:01:56
Speaker
I don't think they did one for 2K15. 2K16 they had the Austin one. The Kurt Angle. They did one for Kurt Angle. Yeah, they did one for Kurt Angle. They did the one with Brock too where they actually brought, they made Suplex City like a real place. Oh yeah. You've always done a great job on those. You know the 2K20?
02:02:14
Speaker
one with uh with the band with uh yeah that's the one I said that's why I said it was probably my favorite one yeah it was really good yeah awesome great question Ryan thank you all right so Thomas Kilgore says what's some things that you wish Mattel or Jazzwares would improve slash add to their figure lines for Mattel you know we actually just missed it get rid of the Polly Pot clothing I don't really have none at all than to have those you know because they just
02:02:39
Speaker
They're just not good. They end up with them like a life jacket or a bulletproof vest or something more than they do a t-shirt. For jazzwares, I want to see them improve their belts. For the regular AEW Championship, I'm using the one that WWE figure artist, our buddy in Greece, the one that he made. Same thing with the tag belts.
02:03:04
Speaker
For the women's belt, yeah, the one AW made, I mean, it's okay as a placeholder, but they really need to upgrade how they're doing their belts. You know, their belts look the same way that the Jax belts used to look, which is, they're just not quite ready for like, you know, really awesome photography. What about you, Marco?
02:03:20
Speaker
I think they actually didn't even talk about this, but I was probably going to say the elbow articulation, which they are adding to the retail line. That was one of the things there. I wish they would do more with the jazzwares. If you've messed around with the UFC figures that they did recently, the leg articulation,
02:03:47
Speaker
um seems more I mean even on the AEW figures they seem more like not stiff in a good way like they they're better opposable I think than the the Mattel um legs so I think I mean that'd be something to improve on would be the like the leg movements of yeah the the Mattel figures joints in the in the AEW figures really like they hold they don't yeah they feel like they don't like they're like they're actually like
02:04:12
Speaker
Like, actually, like, like, cracking a bone on what was it? Yeah, if Mattel had that, that would be, that would be mage. I would be, I would like that a lot. Alright, so a non-wrestling related question. Philip Dunnett says, Yorkshire Puddings, yay or nay? Do you guys even know what a Yorkshire Puddings is? I have no opinion on this. I, off the name alone, I'm gonna say no. It doesn't sound like something like Marco. I feel like I have, uh, ooh. Yeah, I've had, I've had it once. I mean,
02:04:41
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if I can, I mean, I could take it or leave it, essentially. I've never had this. It's like a cross between, because I had to research after he posted that question, I had to do a little bit of research, because I was like, what the hell is Yorkshire pudding? It's like a cross between a souffle and a cheese puff, but there's like no cheese. I was like, dude, you can tell, I don't know if this is like a UK thing or whatever, because you know, our buddy crossed the pond. But like, if this was in America, it would have cheese, you know, like. Yeah. Mirkins, we like cheese on everything.
02:05:08
Speaker
Um, but I was thinking it was going to be like a dessert, like something sweet, but it's literally just like a crusty, like, like hollow muffin. Um, so yeah, no, I'm going to have to go with no. Um, let's get one more question. All right. So.
02:05:25
Speaker
We will take, let's see here. Okay, we'll take a question from Robert Gino, because I liked this question. If we didn't answer your question this week, we will definitely hit you up on next week's episode. So Robert Gino is going to be our last one for today. So since Mania is slowly approaching, what's everyone's favorite match? And also what is your favorite?
02:05:44
Speaker
Serial favorite match like favorite match ever favorite match. It doesn't have to be a WrestleMania match I'm assuming he didn't specify a WrestleMania match one did having a WrestleMania March 1997 WrestleMania 13 read the hitman heart versus stone cold Steve Austin submission match is just It's perfection perfect feud two of the greatest of what you know The greatest of all time and then you know one of the other top five of all time Right. They're both operating at their peak. This is before Steve Austin's neck injury. So he was still at
02:06:14
Speaker
his best version and they execute a double turn, you know, that it's been attempted and, you know, very set of times that wrestling man never as perfectly as it was on this particular night, you know, they came in, Bret Hart was the good guy, Steve Austin was the bad guy and they left. Bret Hart was getting booed out of the building and Steve Austin was the most loved wrestler in the WWF by the time the event was over. So just perfect, perfect 10 of a wrestling match.
02:06:41
Speaker
It's it's got brawling. It's got technical action and it's got an awesome story that goes through the whole thing So that's my all-time paper match. Yeah, well you still mind I'm gonna go I'll also say summer slam 94 with Brett no one in the still cage. Yeah, I can't really mess with that It's a killer killer match brother versus brother And I love I have a really soft spot in my heart for that blue still cage. What about you Marco? Oh
02:07:05
Speaker
Man, if it wasn't for the finish, but this is definitely one of my, probably actually my favorite. We'll go media match, Rock Austin, WrestleMania 17. Yeah, that's an awesome match, man. Why you say that, just because of Austin, that kind of weird heel turn at the end? Yeah, at the end, but I don't think it was really a heel turn. He said he was going to win by any means.
02:07:28
Speaker
Necessary, but I mean they could have what should I wish they would have just like had him like kind of like side with vince And then the next night just like flip him off and drop a stunner right after the match, man, you know, oh, yeah It didn't really help him out that much. I mean what events do you hand him a chair, right? That was it. Yeah
02:07:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So they really had nothing to build on. That was an awesome match. So that was those two guys that kind of like, you know, as far as their, yeah, as far as the fans, you know, being over, that was the actual absolute peak. Yeah. And it was the best WrestleMania ever. You know, that would have been WrestleMania 10, I think are the two best ever. So awesome main event to an awesome show. All right. And the most important part of this whole question was what is your favorite breakfast cereal? Ooh.
02:08:18
Speaker
Breakfast cereal is hard for me because I love it. It's like my trigger food. I can eat a whole box of any breakfast cereal on the planet. Like I don't even keep cereal in our house. Like I keep a little bit for the kids. I don't even keep cereal in the house because it's like one of those things. Like I have no self control. I will literally eat cereal until I feel ill.
02:08:36
Speaker
I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch a lot. I made a lot of it. I eat a lot of it dry also. If there's Cinnamon Toast Crunch around, I'll just grab a handful and eat it. But when Sheena read this question, the thing that popped into my mind was Crispix. I know that's super, super different boring. Wow. Are you 80? But my mom used to get Crispix when I was a kid. And I just remember reading both of Crispix. And it sounds kind of weird, but I would actually like it when it was starting to get a little bit soggy and stuff. So yeah.
02:09:18
Speaker
I like berry kicks sometimes, so that pops into the favorites. I like life a lot also. Life is good too. You know what? I even like shitty cereals, like life. I'm just saying. I'm going to go with frosted mini-weeds. I do love frosted mini-weeds as well. Dude, I was going to say frosted mini-weeds. I love frosted mini-weeds. Frosted mini-weeds are so good. None of your cereals, Seth, had any sugar on them. It's crispy. Yeah, and apparently that's shitty. Sorry. I insulted Seth's cereal.
02:09:27
Speaker
If I had to pick one all-time favorite cereal, that's what I would go with.
02:09:48
Speaker
He just likes plain, plain corn, plain crunchy corn. So one, Crisp Mix is actually like very flavorful, like you probably didn't eat it because you're basic, so you're just eating the sugar filled cereals.
02:09:59
Speaker
She just claimed at me that long. You went from a smile to an angry face. But life has sugar on it. Life has sugar on it? Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, it does. It has sugar. No. Well, it doesn't have marshmallows or anything fun. Go frost it. The beauty of eating cereal is that it's full of fun and whimsy. You know what I mean? You might as well be eating oatmeal if you're just going to eat crispix.
02:10:26
Speaker
Crispix is delicious. It makes me happy and I like life also, so.
02:10:30
Speaker
Oh, and Frosted Mini-Wheats also definitely cleans out your insides too. Frosted Mini-Wheats is kind of painful sometimes. You gotta wait. There's a perfect point where the Frosted Mini-Wheats is just soggy enough where it doesn't hurt your throat. But it's still crispy enough to enjoy. Yeah, I love it all. Rob, I don't have any preference. I will eat Fruity Pebbles, I'll eat Lucky Charms, I will eat
02:10:58
Speaker
Cocoa puffs. I don't care. I'll eat out the cereal is like my my downfall when it comes to Patreon a Bracket of like a good idea. Maybe we'll do that after we do our black history month wrestling figure podcast Marches for breakfast little March madness for breakfast cereals Yeah, and we will fight to the death as to what why you know life isn't the best cereal
02:11:27
Speaker
All right. That wraps up Episode 115 of the Chick Foley Show. Sheena, remind the folks we can find you guys out on social media. Follow me on Instagram at Chick Foley. Follow Marco over on the Twitter machine at Chick Foley Show. And please join our Foley fam. We're lots of fun. Go to chickfollyshow.com. It's one dollar a month. A dollar a month. Ten bucks a year. Ten bucks a year. That's one trip to Taco Bell. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Don't buy your cereal this month and join the Foley fam.
02:11:56
Speaker
Yep. And remember guys listen or subscribe and review to the, uh, the show. It helps us out, helps new listeners discover us and use code cheek Foley at ringside. So as always Marco, do you have any closing thoughts for the listeners? I actually do. Whoa. For the, uh, so this is for, uh, for obviously it's Valentine's day weekend. So.
02:12:17
Speaker
We'll give a little quote on Valentine's Day quote. You ready for this? So it's, Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination of full hope. Kind of like the Ultra Warrior running down the aisle, hurtling and leaping fences and penetrating walls. That is by Maya Angelou, by the way. Yes. And no selling moves as well. But yeah, that's Maya Angelou, by the way.
02:12:47
Speaker
Wow. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day, Marks. That was going to be hard to top. So, episode 115 is in the books. We'll leave you guys with this. Enjoy vengeance.