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Crown Jewel Preview, Jordan Myles, Elite 74 News & Much More!
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Phil and Sheena preview Crown Jewel, plus weigh in on the Jordan Myles t-shirt situation, Paige taking a green load to the face, Elite 74 preorder news, Halloween memories, and much more!
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Introduction and Social Media
00:00:22
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Chick Foley Show. This is not the WWE 2K customer service line, I'm sorry. It's a different phone number, but we are here to talk about everything wrestling and wrestling figure related in the world over the last week. I am Phil Gentile here in the Jimmy's Famous Seafood Studios. And you can follow us on Twitter at Chick Foley Show. I have the Chick Foley on the line, Sheena Phelps, what's going on Sheena?
00:00:52
Speaker
Not a whole lot. I'm still here in the hillbilly gym studio from, uh, bowling or actually, Alvinton, Kentucky today. So, uh, yeah, still, still kicking it in the KY. Wait, that didn't sound right. That is a minute, six seconds on isolate that. What's going on, Marco? How are you? I'm doing fine, but, uh, I got to tell you Phil, how many times I have to tell you,
00:01:17
Speaker
My name ain't Marco no more. It's ice. Oh, that's right. That's right.
Gimmick and Storyline Discussions
00:01:22
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, if you missed last week's show, we are doing a giveaway this week. Uh, it is the burning rain of hell giveaway. It is, uh, we're going to be quoting our favorite Halloween movie, Hocus Pocus all throughout the show. And if you can name all of the quotes or, or count them all at least.
00:02:00
Speaker
I know. It's so crazy. This is like the first year like in a long time that I have not just been like absolutely on top of my Halloween game. Um, like, and it's really sad because this is my favorite. This is like my freaking Superbowl. You know what I mean? Like, like October, September 24th through October 31st is like my favorite freaking time of year. Um, but I'll be back better than ever next year for sure. Are you dressing up this year? I haven't seen any, uh,
00:02:00
Speaker
and let us know.
00:02:25
Speaker
Um, I don't have a costume if you can even believe it and I got the little guy I got him a costume But it's like, you know, you know me like I said, I like to go all out and like go above and beyond and this year I just didn't have it in me. So He's gonna be gizmo, which I think is super awesome. Anyway, I mean, yeah, I mean who doesn't love a mogwai I've always wanted a little mogwai of my own and now I have one, you know, don't just don't get him what don't get
00:02:50
Speaker
I know bath time is gonna be tricky. Thankfully, he's usually not up past midnight, so I don't have to worry about feeding him after midnight, which I never understood that anyway. I was like, at what point is the cutoff, right? Like if you can't feed him after midnight, like at six o'clock in the morning, okay? Because like- Yeah, when the sun comes up, maybe, I don't know. Yeah, like where's the threshold? You know, like not after midnight, but like before 6 a.m. So yeah, I feel like Gremlin should have cleared that up a little bit more for us. We would have had a lot less chaos.
00:03:19
Speaker
We got a lot of feedback from the, uh, the, the larger gentlemen that they love last week's episode. Sheena, they loved when they mostly love that you'd love, uh, you know, larger men this type of time of year. Yeah. It's big dude season is in full effect, man. Um, I've always, I've always, uh, had a, uh, had an affinity for, for the huggable gentleman. You wouldn't know that by the one that I married because he's kind of, you know, a little lean mean fighting machine. Um, he, but I mean,
00:03:48
Speaker
You know like I always felt like I would end up with like this like like I said a little a burly farmer Type dude, and I ended up with a guy who's like my exact same size Which you know I freaking the heel husband's exactly what I need But you know and like when you have those like days of our lives like daydreaming you're like yeah, you know
00:04:07
Speaker
When you have that little like, you know, like Wayne's was like, you know, and I'll like split my hair and this big like shirtless sweaty farmer guy's like walking up to me. Like that's, that's what I, that's what I see. Very interesting. Very interesting. Okay. Well, we got some new listeners because of that, you know, like if you didn't know a lot of the, a lot of wrestling fans fit that, that profile pretty well. So.
00:04:31
Speaker
Welcome, pesky gentlemen. You guys can follow us. We talked about on Twitter at Chick Foley Show. Sheena is on the Instagram at Chick Foley. And those are our social media outlets. You can find this show on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Podbean, and anywhere else that you listen to podcasts. Be sure to give us a nice review there. We appreciate it.
00:04:55
Speaker
We were talking about before we get on the air, we have Crown Jewel coming up on Halloween. We will run down that card and see if I can steal away the prediction championship title belt from Sheena Phelps. Not a chance. What a missed opportunity. I would watch the show if you just named it. Just name it Halloween Havoc. You didn't have to do anything Halloween on the entire show. Just name it Halloween Havoc.
00:05:21
Speaker
I know, but I mean, do the Saudis, like they don't celebrate Halloween, I wouldn't imagine. So like it would just be like such a foreign concept for them, right? Yeah. If you, if you take candy from someone, they cut, you cut like a arm or leg off. So yeah. Yeah. There would be some bad shit. Like it wouldn't just be trick or treat. It would be like, you know, you'd have to be very careful what you say.
00:05:43
Speaker
Yeah, we don't want to get thrown into any Pakistani prison, so we won't go any further than that. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley Show. If you want to become a Patreon subscriber to the show, we would appreciate it. It starts at $1 per month, gets you access to our Facebook group, and also gets you our show notes emailed to you every single week before the show comes out live.
00:06:08
Speaker
And, you know, we've been having a lot of fun with the folks on the Facebook group. A lot of good interactions with people there. We've kind of branched out from from wrestling and then we're talking about, you know, obviously wrestling figures as well. And just kind of a little bit of everything over there. It's been a cool a cool group of people to put together for sure. Yeah, we've had to we've had to branch out a little bit from wrestling because just talking about what's going on in wrestling right now is kind of
00:06:35
Speaker
depressing, am I right? You know, so we had to, we had to find some things that kind of bring us a little bit more, uh, joy. So we had to, you know, we just kind of talk about this and that and a little bit of everything. So it's not strictly wrestling. Um, we're kind of like a little tight knit family over there and they've been scoring some serious freaking figs on the chick Foley fam page, man. It was like, everybody put up their little list and then all of a sudden, like, everybody's like, look what I found. I found the target exclusives. I found Brisco. Like, yeah, it's been, it's been nice in the chick Foley fam this week.
00:07:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's been pretty cool. I mean, like we say, it's a dollar a month, so $12 a year. We all kind of put together a list of whatever figures we're looking for. We're 70 of us in the group. We're all out hunting for figures and helping each other out. So a good way to avoid eBay prices and beating the scalpers to the punch. So check it out. Patreon.com slash Chick Foley show. We also have higher tiers where we do some extra episodes and unboxing videos.
00:07:32
Speaker
Check that out there. We appreciate the support. And let's get into inside the squared circle. It's sponsored by Chalk Line. You can use code CHICK for 15% off there. Let's get into it. Raw and SmackDown. What do we want to talk about here from, man, the shows that I've almost taken a backseat to Wednesday nights here for me.
00:07:57
Speaker
Oh, yeah, they definitely, they definitely have. Um, we'll talk about the opening of smack down really quickly. They kind of just gave us a quick, you know, we were, we're talking about crown jewel briefly, but they gave us a quick team Hogan versus team player preview. Um, the teams came out minus obviously the guys that were on raw, which was drew McIntyre. And then who else was on, who else were we missing? It was, they only had six. Was it Randy Orton? Yeah, it was Randy.
00:08:23
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. When drew McIntyre, right? Am I like totally making that up? Okay, cool. Cool. Yeah. So they had, it was like, you know, six guys out there and, um, you know, they, they literally, I don't know what they did, but it's like, they just let like Rick flair and whole Kogan like go out there unscripted or semi scripted. And that was like such a huge mistake because that, that segment was like, Oh my God, it went on way, way too long. So after freaking Hogan and Rick flair got done jabbering and, and might I add,
00:08:51
Speaker
that Rick Flair said like, he said like the, uh, the bad word, the basically a four letter word in WWE. He said Saudi Arabia like four times. He was like, when we get to Saudi Arabia, you know, Rick Flair's gonna wipe the floor with your, whatever he said. And I'm like, Oh man, I bet.
00:09:07
Speaker
Vince is back there like tugging at his collar, you know what I'm saying? I could just see him being like, you know, um, because it's just like they, they completely omit. They just call it crown jewel. They don't say where it's at. Like, you know, they don't want any political implications. And then Rick flares out there just like shouting it from the rooftops. Um, so I thought that was pretty funny, but then they let every single superstar like have a, have a segment and have like a piece to say. And I was like, Oh my freaking God. Like when is the segment going to end?
00:09:37
Speaker
Is this a elimination like match like a Survivor Series type match or or is it just a five on five right? You know, one pin gets it over with. I think it's just a regular tag team match. I feel like I knew the answer to this and it's it's not it's not a standard Survivor Series match. It's not like an elimination style match. Marco, what are what's the the actual stipulation on the match? It's not it's not first pinfall.
00:10:07
Speaker
It looks like it looks like it is first pinfall actually they didn't really really uh Elaborate if it was like an elimination style match or just as team hogan versus team flare and that's Literally it nothing else interesting because initially remember initially I thought it was a survivor series style match because I was like Why are they having a survivor series style match like right before survivor series? You know, they could have saved this for survivor series not that I want to see this at all
00:10:32
Speaker
at Survivor Series. Do you think we're going to get some sort of iteration of this Hogan and Flair thing at Survivor Series or do you think we're going to get two totally different
00:10:44
Speaker
like Survivor Series teams when it comes to like actual WWE main Survivor Series. I mean, they'd be smart to play off this because that's the on the 22nd 22nd or like the 24th of November. So you're looking like three weeks away from basically crown jewels. So I don't know how much time they're going to have to build an entire card. I'm sure, you know, they've, they've, they've done it over and over again, you know, over the last couple of years. The cool thing,
00:11:11
Speaker
I mean, the cool thing is, is like that these, these teams are actually really freaking mage. You know what I mean? Like the, the actual, the actual talent in the team flare and team Hogan is like super awesome, but it's just the addition of flare and Hogan that make it feel so hokey and so like dated and just cringy. You know what I mean? Like if you were just to have like Roman and, um, Ali and, uh, shorty G, shorty G and then, um, you know,
00:11:40
Speaker
Baron Corbin and Cesaro or whoever's going to be, you know, they're Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton. Like those are, I mean, I'm excited to see that match. You know what I mean? Um, but it's just like the whole flair and Hogan bit makes me kind of just like, Oh God, can we get this ever with?
00:11:56
Speaker
Yeah, for as much as people seem to be shitting on this Shorty G thing, and it's not a great gimmick, okay? It's a bad gimmick. But what was Chad Gable doing before this? He's in the main event of a major pay-per-view, you know, be it a 10-man tag team match. I don't know. I mean, it's something. He was in the finals of King of the Ring, you know what I mean? So, I mean, there was that, and it's not...
00:12:25
Speaker
Shorty G, like I posted this on Twitter, not on Twitter. I posted it on Instagram. Like I don't like the whole name change. I was like, okay, cool. Like whatever, like they're changing his name. Um, it's stupid. I don't like the name, but if that's the worst thing that happens, it's fine. But then they had him come out with like this whole new look. Like I'm totally cool with Chad Gable just looking like an Olympic wrestler. You know what I mean? Just wearing his,
00:12:53
Speaker
singlet and I like the haircut I'm down for that I'm down for the new look um change it up a little bit but why do you have to put him in like Seahawks colors and make him look like some sort of John Cena NBA 2k create a player hybrid like it it he just looks so stupid out there like he just looked goofy do you know what I mean like if you're gonna lean into this like bullying gimmick and make him like you know the poster child for like
00:13:18
Speaker
accept who you are, be who you are. Don't let other people, whatever they think about you, get you down. Make him at least cool. You know what I mean? I feel like kids who are getting bullied need somebody cooler to look up to than Shorty G dressed like a freakin' Seahawks reject. Yeah, the outfit choice is pretty awful. It does look like he's a creative player.
00:13:44
Speaker
in a video game um but yeah i mean i i get the bullying thing i get the underdog but i don't know why you have to dress them up and give them a stupid name exactly exactly that's the whole thing yeah it's it's unnecessary yeah just making i mean i don't know why they could have just partnered him with kurt angle and him just been like a uh you know a kurt angle 2.0 like a badass true but i think they
00:14:08
Speaker
that that ship is already sailed because they already had his other half Jordan Jason Jordan pair with Kurt angle so I feel like they're like oh well we can't pair Chad Gable with Kurt angle you know what I mean like I feel like I mean I guess WWE they don't give a shit they'll do whatever they want but at the same time I'm just like they could have come up with something better you know and I like and like I said I'm not being
00:14:30
Speaker
I'm trying not to be smarky because yes, you're right. He's getting coveted TV time, which so many superstars want. He's like in a main event, you know, um, caliber match at crown jewel, right? He'll probably be in some sort of survivor series angle. Um, which is amazing, but do you really want to do it? Like looking like a buffoon? Yeah, that's true. Uh, we'll, we'll see. I don't know where they're going to go with it. I don't know how much, you know, life it has, but, uh, yeah.
00:14:57
Speaker
I think the match is going to be good. Overall, I think that that match at crown jewel will be will be good, you know, depending on what type of finish they have in store for it. Hopefully it has nothing to do with Hogan or Flair taking any sort of like bumps or getting involved. Hopefully they'll just sit ringside and just be there.
00:15:15
Speaker
I do like the entire Nakamura, Sami Zayn, Daniel Bryan storyline that we have going on. This kind of helped turn Daniel Bryan more of the good guy role, maybe bringing back the yes movement. And all three of those guys, man, you can pick three guys that can just be better pure wrestlers than those three guys. I gotta say, SmackDown hasn't been great, but you look at their roster from top to bottom, they have some dudes that can just flat out wrestle.
00:15:45
Speaker
Stop some of these stupid angles. I think once crown jewels over with Sheena I think we're gonna see a better look at like what both of these shows can do I Really hope so, you know, that's why I'm staying hopeful. I know this is like such a strange time, you know I mean the draft was horrible. We completely gave our true opinions on the draft. It was horrible It was like couldn't have been more poorly executed But the rosters on both these shows are amazing, right? So I feel like once we can get back to like main storytelling instead of just like, you know this
00:16:16
Speaker
fantasy booking that we're doing with crown jewel and having all, you know, MMA and, um, boxers and like all of this stuff that we're just kind of like throwing in to get ratings and legends. And we can get back to like the core group of people, um, that we love watching every week. I think, I think we will see an uptick, right? Hopefully I'm trying to stay hopeful here. Hopefully we will see, um, an uptick in like just.
00:16:40
Speaker
the storytelling and the booking and all of that. We did see a new, um, firefly fun house. It didn't really give us any insight, you know, it didn't really talk about Seth Rollins or anything like that, but, um, we did see the resurrection of Ramblin rabbit, which I was, I was excited about. I was kind of sad that he, you know, met his, his early demise at the hands of Seth Rollins, who he idolized. So it was cool to see him come back. But I'm like, what does this mean for bring a while? Like now he can like bring people back from the dead. Like what was the point of showing that, you know,
00:17:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's a... I don't think this feud is gonna be done with this match at Crown Jewel, obviously. I'm gonna keep this going probably into Survivor Series, so be that as it may. It's just, I don't know, it just feels like Seth Rollins needs something fresh still, like...
00:17:26
Speaker
I don't know. I think the Hell in a Cell match just completely killed both of these guys right now. I just don't have the interest that I had for it on either side. I mean, Ray's side or Seth's side. I just think you need to do something fresh here. It just seems like.
00:17:41
Speaker
I don't know if we just have too much exposure to this Raw and SmackDown shows right now but I mean it just doesn't even what like you would think with that with the I mean you can weigh in here too Marco you would think after the draft it would feel like so fresh and like new and a bunch of new stuff going on does anything seem different I mean if you know if you watched you know a month ago and then you watch this show would you even know that you wouldn't even know that there was a draft
00:18:06
Speaker
No, you wouldn't. Right? I mean, that's the opposite of what you'd want to happen. That's why you do this draft thing, is to put a fresh paint of coat on it. Yeah, a fresh paint of coat. Yeah, a fresh paint of coat. Yeah, you wouldn't know that anything was different, which is, like you said, is completely unfortunate. But I mean,
00:18:32
Speaker
I guess, I mean, what were we expecting? I don't know. I mean, maybe we just expected too much, right? Like maybe it just got built up and hyped up too much. Um, the fact that it was going to be on Fox, like did we think that WWE was going to crank out like a completely different product for us or like
00:18:49
Speaker
You know, what were, I don't know, maybe our expectations were just too high. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, we tend to get that way in this day and age. You think? You know, but, uh, I dunno, they haven't really given us anything to have expectations too, too high, but, uh, yeah, we'll see. I mean, as we get into survivor series and then toward the end of the year, then Royal Rumble, I think, you know, things will continue to improve, but, um, we're going to talk about the last thing on SmackDown, um, freaking, I think
00:19:16
Speaker
probably the highlight of smackdown for sure was the Brock Lesnar, uh, Ray Mysterio, Cain Velasquez, Dominic segment that took place. Um, I mean, Brock just went in there and like basically cleaned house with camp Mysterio. Yeah, that was, that was pretty fun to watch. Yeah. Um, I was, uh, I was definitely,
00:19:38
Speaker
impressed with his ability to just like, I mean, he like slammed Ray into the wall, F five Ray into the wall. And then after he'd already beat up Dominic, which they didn't show him beating up Dominic, I guess maybe, well, I don't know. They've showed him beaten up Dominic before. I was gonna say maybe it was like, it's not appropriate to like beat up.
00:19:54
Speaker
Teenagers on television, but he's done it before so I don't know why they didn't show it or maybe I missed it If they showed him actually beating up Dominic, but Dominic was on the trainers table and then he like f-fived Cain Velasquez
00:20:10
Speaker
Brock Lesnar was definitely just running like a muck, a muck, a muck in the freaking trainer's room. Um, which I thought was a pretty cool segment and actually built to a match that's happening at crown jewel, which a lot of other things I was like, Oh yeah, we didn't build like the raw, like the go home show to crown jewel. It didn't even, I guess it's not the go home show. Yeah. It was a go home. We're off for crown jewel. Didn't, um, build to anything. Like, you know what I mean?
00:20:38
Speaker
Yeah, let's get into Raw a little bit. We saw Paige take a look to the face that we haven't seen in quite a while. Oh, my gosh. A green one. Yeah. Green one. Yeah. Is different. Wow. It's fantastic.
00:20:53
Speaker
I mean, I guess they're done pairing her with them, which makes sense. And that was clearly just to give her something to do on TV, but she sold that green mist pretty well. But I like the Kabuki Warriors as heels now. I wasn't feeling it at first, but they're getting over my minds as heels, spitting on everybody.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah, um, I think it's okay. I thought the segment was a little unnecessary though. Like what's the point? Like, you know, Paige hasn't been with them for a while now. You know what I mean? Like she's kind of like not been on TV with them. So what was the point of bringing, I guess just to like make it definitive that she, that one that they're heels and that two that she's like not a part of their.
00:21:32
Speaker
you know group anymore i don't know i just i mean it was a cool segment like you know like i thought it was cool he said page sold it well but i felt like it was just a little bit um unneeded she's she's been more behind the scenes she kind of irons their kabuki outfits and um
00:21:48
Speaker
Pinks their faces. Yeah. We're going to get them sponsorships and stuff. She runs their social media accounts. Yeah. She spells everything with the Chinese symbols. You know, it takes her a while to do that, you know, in a British accent. Yeah. I can, I could totally see that. Okay. Get on your page. We saw buddy Murphy come back and get a nice win over our truth. And it was good to see him on Raw. Hopefully we see more of him. Mm-hmm.
00:22:16
Speaker
Um, let's see what else happened on freaking raw. Oh, um, ricochet took a, uh, pretty, pretty brutal RKO out of nowhere. Did you see that? I did not see that. Yeah. Marco, you, I'll let you elaborate on that. Yeah. He, uh, he, so the, it was actually a really good match and I'm kind of upset that they ruined the end. I'm saying they ruined it. It's that's my own personal thing. It really wasn't ruined, but it was supposed to happen.
00:22:44
Speaker
Um, but yeah, it was a really good match. Obviously. McIntyre Ricochet that they're like, I think they just did the pair right now that they got to put together and just, I'll watch them wrestle every week. They put them on. They actually really entertaining together. Um, but towards the end of the match, um, it almost looked like Ricochet had it. Headed one, but then literally RKO out of nowhere. Like you didn't see him, like he appeared like out of the side of the TV screen. Like you didn't see him. Like it was like, what the hell?
00:23:14
Speaker
RKO drops him on, I don't know how he did this, but he landed on top of his head like he railroad spiked. Yeah. Ricochet on top of his head and he just flopped to the ground. And that was, obviously it was a disqualification, but you have to see it. It's hard to explain, but it was, it was, it looked pretty brutal. Like I'm not sure if he was ready for it or if he jumped too much. I don't know.
00:23:35
Speaker
whatever it was it looked freaking incredible and ricochet sold it like a freaking true professional like he just i mean he like literally just collapsed and like died in the rain like it was like as soon as soon as his head hit the mat it was just like lights out um yeah so it looked it looked really freaking cool so um that was that was a huge moment i was like holy shit and like you said like it just it also goes to show you like you know i think we just get so used to
00:24:00
Speaker
Randy Orton like seeing him and you know his moveset and yada yada, but like he is a true like professional you know what I mean like he is just like I mean that the timing on that and just to like come out of nowhere and the perfect camera angle and all that stuff like He just executed that immaculately. Yeah, so you have a back and tire together too is pretty Awesome, like they look like they'd be like an awesome tag team if they were to put them together do that but they just like look like Randy Orton could be that like
00:24:30
Speaker
mentor to like drew back entire almost like getting the position where it needs to be. They just had like that, that like, look like, yeah, they got a couple of true. Yeah, just a couple of true badasses. Um, Sin Cara had a, um, lady, lady partner with him. Did you notice that? I was like, when did that happen? Did I, did I not know that this was going on, but he brought out like, so it was Andrade and Selena Vega, obviously. And then Sin Cara brought out, um, this chick Catalina.
00:24:59
Speaker
And she was like, you know, lucha babe. And, you know, she was like his answer to Selena Vega. So I thought that was pretty cool. You know, he's got him his own little valet now. Yeah, that was new. Where did she come from? Her name, I guess, is Catalina Garcia. Was she an NXT? I don't remember that name. She was? Yeah, from NXT. So I don't think she ever did anything like super noteworthy that we would remember. But yeah, she's definitely from NXT.
00:25:24
Speaker
Yeah, I mean it's I mean it's it's the thing about the brand split now you're having you're giving people like this and Humberto Carrillo and some of these other guys a chance to get some bigger exposure Which is which is always good and keeps things fresh and create hopefully he's gonna create bigger start more stars going forward Because we can't have the same people in main events, you know over and over and over again.
Controversies and Critiques
00:25:49
Speaker
So I
00:25:49
Speaker
We need to, before we get off of Raw, we need to touch on the King's Court and this insane- The what? Bobby Lashley. What segment was that again? The King's Court? No, I don't think that's what they called it. The Cux Court? No. The Cux Court. Oh, was it the divorce court? Yeah, it was the divorce court. The King's divorce court, yes. Because Rusev is a sex addict, apparently.
00:26:18
Speaker
Yeah, this is this is terribly uncomfortable. I just feel like. Oh, my gosh, this.
00:26:29
Speaker
OK, well, Bill, I want to get your thoughts on it first. So what do you make of this? Did you see this segment first and foremost? I did. Yeah, it was pretty awful. God. I mean, it's for this to be like the number one storyline right now, it is telling you something. I mean, granted, the clip of everything did get like four. It's got like four million views on YouTube. But I mean, that's just because people are like, you know, it's like a car accident and people just want to watch it.
00:26:57
Speaker
Um, you know, I think you're using these guys a little bit better. I told you, I think they have bigger things ready for Bobby Lashley, but I just don't know if they've even thought this through as to where they're going with this. At first it was that he wasn't treating her good and now it's that, uh, Rusev was a sex addict. So, but why is she now like dry humping on Bobby Lashley if he's a sex addict?
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, that was my whole, that was my whole thing is like, you know, the whole, the whole storyline with Lana and Rusev and like why their, their marriage dissolved has been like so inconsistent. You know, like you said, initially she was like, you know, he wasn't supportive of me. He didn't meet my needs. You know, Bobby Lashley meets my needs. He takes me out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, and then she gets in the ring and says, you know, yeah, like she goes on this whole tangent, but you know, Rusev wanted to have sex.
00:27:43
Speaker
all day long, you know, at WrestleMania, all this stuff. And, um, that he's a sex addict. And then she changes it to, Oh, he wanted kids. He didn't respect my career. You know, he just wanted me to get pregnant and pump out his little matchka brats. And I was like, wait a minute. That's not what you didn't just say that. And then all of a sudden it was like, Oh, um, no, he cheated on me. And I'm like, well, what is it Lana? Like in the matter of one segment, she's like given three different,
00:28:09
Speaker
reasons why she divorced or is like wanting to separate from, from rusev. And like I said, the whole sex addict thing doesn't make sense because all her and Bobby Lashley have done has like,
00:28:20
Speaker
dry-humped on television. You know what I mean? They ate at that restaurant that looked really nice, that the booth in the middle of a storage room, that was nice. It took her out to the restaurant. True. Definitely, definitely. I mean, it was no Olive Garden. It's no Benigans, but you know what it is. Yeah. What is?
00:28:40
Speaker
Um, I don't, I don't know. I don't, I just, I can't wrap my mind around where they're going with this. And like, then, so they had rusev, like, you know, actually man up a little bit and get aggressive and like beat up Bobby Lashley. And, um, you know, Lana's hitting him with the kendo stick, not like with no reaction, which I thought was kind of funny. Um, but then ultimately rusev is.
00:29:04
Speaker
They beat the hell out of Rusev and then they stand over top of his freaking lifeless body holding his balls on the ring and like start making out over top of him. And I'm like, Oh my God.
00:29:17
Speaker
How do you come back from, I mean, where is this even going? These guys are, they're not in, I mean, I know Rusev is in the, the match. So is Bobby Lashley. So that I guess that'll, they'll have some sort of blow off at crown jewel, but come on. I mean, you think they're, they're not, I mean, as of right now, crown jewels on Thursday, they're not even listed on the freaking like card right now. Do you know what I mean? One's on team.
00:29:42
Speaker
Yeah, they're on the teams. Oh. You're not going to have Lana there, so you can't do it like a blow off without. Oh yeah, you're so right. Yeah. Team Hogan and teams are for totally forgot about them being a part of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, that's going to be awkward when they like their, you know, they're going to make some sort of segment out of that. Like, you know, where they're going to have like their moment.
00:30:01
Speaker
the ring you know I would I would bet money they don't even do nothing with it I bet you think I bet this event is just like in like a vacuum like to never be spoken of again like kind of thing I mean because half of this stuff just just not gonna make any sense like you know like they're not gonna have Tyson Fury wrestling like
00:30:23
Speaker
How long is Kane Velasquez going to stay around? I mean, you would think they would build up this Lesnar Kane Velasquez thing. You know, it was a pretty big for MMA fans that know it. I mean, there was a huge like upset, right? When he beat Brock Lesnar and just beat the shit out of him and then they never ever got a rematch together. Like this could have been built up to be something pretty big.
00:30:43
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I was listening to, um, you know, mask man's one of my favorite, uh, wrestling podcast and he had, I think Taz on and he was talking about, he, he called it, he called it perfectly. He said, he calls it Saudi bag season. And I'm like, that's exactly what it is. It's just literally, it's just literally these.
00:30:59
Speaker
these men with like way too much money, just like handing it out to put together these like fantasy matches, whether it's like MMA, like they don't care. They get to like build their own universe. They're, they're playing in universe mode right now. You know what I mean? Just kind of like putting together these matches, um, that they don't really have to be cohesive or make any sense. So it's just like, and they're like paying these superstars are getting like insane.
00:31:23
Speaker
payouts. I mean, Tyson Fury is getting what's like, what's reported like what $15 million, like what the F you know what I mean? Like that's like, that's like freaking, you know, F you money, you know, that's insane. Like there there's no, I mean, I guess it's because they get so much money from the Saudis for, for to put the show on. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's definitely, it's definitely Saudi, but I don't think it's, it's definitely not WWE money. You know what I mean? Like it's not just like this, it's a show we're in Detroit. They would not be getting this type of money, but because of,
00:31:53
Speaker
You know, the, the deal that they made with the Saudi government and all that stuff that, yeah, that's why these guys are getting these huge payouts. But I mean, I'm not going to hate on anybody's freaking purse strings. You know what I mean? But at the same time, like it just makes this time of year extremely awkward, which we've totally seen happen with the draft. And then now this like weird break between pay-per-views where it's just like, we have this like bullshit pay-per-view right in the middle.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yeah, it is weird. Let's put a bow on Raw on SmackDown and jump into NXT. So we're recording this on Tuesday. And what we usually do is we'll watch NXT and AEW tomorrow night, and we'll do a Facebook Live video on Thursdays.
00:32:36
Speaker
uh... for all our patreon subscribers which you can sign up for for a dollar a month and uh... so be the kind of a mini episode uh... usually me myself me i'm not me myself that would be you know i would love that stuff you to just talk to myself the whole time uh... now could not do that uh... means you know or she and marco you know a combination of the two of us is kind of running down uh... that the night that is wrestling uh... because when this wednesdays have been so big but uh...
00:33:02
Speaker
There was an announcement today that Poppy was going to show up at NXT and I felt so goddamn old. I have no idea who this person is. I thought she was a wrestler. I had no idea she was a YouTube like singer or something. I still don't really know. I don't know. She's a singer. She's on YouTube. She's a wrestler. I have no idea. She looks like an Asian Barbie doll.
00:33:26
Speaker
Yeah, she looks like a Bratz doll. Do you know what Bratz dolls are? Yeah, I've heard of them. She kind of looks like a Bratz doll. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful lady. I feel weird just calling her a lady because she's only 24 years old. She's a beautiful young woman.
00:33:43
Speaker
Um, but yeah, she's American singer, songwriter, actress, fashion model, and YouTuber. According to her Wikipedia page. Yeah. I felt like a freaking old head too, because I was like, I even asked Marco, I was like, who the F is Poppy. You know, I was like, is she like some independent wrestler that I didn't know about? You know? Um, but yeah, no, she's not. She's some sort of like
00:34:02
Speaker
like internet personality. Um, the little, the little promo that they did was pretty cool. Like it was like right up my alley, very kind of like creepy and kind of like American horror story ish, like, you know, just very vague. And I don't know. I love the preview. So I'm interested to see what the hell they're doing with her.
00:34:22
Speaker
Yeah, I think her music is like definitely much more different than her images. I don't know if her images kind of led to play off of like the pop star, like manufactured pop star look or something, but I'll play one of her songs on the outro that Marco can add to our Spotify playlist, but because I've never heard any of her music, but I think she did a song for Takeover, right?
00:34:44
Speaker
Yeah, she did a song for Takeover Phoenix, I believe. And then she did some music for 2K as well. So 2K20. She's
00:34:54
Speaker
on part of the soundtrack for 2k20. So yeah, I mean, apparently she's been around WWE for a while. Cause I saw something where she did like, you know, a wrestling review or something. So yeah, I've been out of the poppy loop, so I don't know. I don't know anything about her. So all you young ones, please forgive me if you're like, you know, huge poppy fans out there. And like, this is like a huge deal. I need to get on Twitter and see what the reaction was when people saw that promo, because like, I want to know if people know who she is or people are like, who the hell is this poppy chick? You know, cause it'll make me feel a little bit better if they're like, who the hell is this?
00:35:23
Speaker
Yeah, if it's Twitter, people definitely didn't overreact or become angry or anything. It's probably pretty sound analysis if you go on there. Always, yeah. Everything on Twitter is usually pretty grounded and, you know, very thoughtful. I mean, people take the time to think it through before they post it, always.
00:35:45
Speaker
Yeah. You know, 200, 280 characters, you can really, really get your, um, you know, your deep thoughts and like, you know, thoughtful, you can have thoughtful conversations with one another over the Twitter verse. Yeah. You back, you back, Marco? Yeah, I'm back. I started talking about Lana's Yabbos and you disappeared. Yeah. I just lost like internet connection is where this dropped off for some weird reason.
00:36:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah. We were just talking about Poppy, man. You missed it. We had a big Poppy discussion. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry you weren't here for that. Yeah, go back and let's download. Increase the download numbers. Yeah. I think we recorded on Wednesday night last week, so we don't have really any NXT or AEW news to deliver, because obviously we already saw the show. We talked about it last week.
00:36:37
Speaker
But there was some NXT drama that went down over the last couple of days and it's like, you know, it's definitely.
00:36:47
Speaker
not something that I'm like gung ho and super excited to talk about. But I feel like it would, I would be, um, it would be remiss of us not to freaking talk about it as the whole Jordan Miles situation. Have you guys been following along with this? Uh, I have mostly through Twitter. So if anyone has it, here's the situation. Uh, this Jordan Miles guy, he, uh, was assigned to NXT. He's 31 years old. He's, you know, he's been wrestling for quite a while.
00:37:14
Speaker
And I believe he won that tournament for the NXT's Breakthrough Star type of thing. So I mean, he's been on TV before. So yeah, they came out with a shirt, which when you look at it as a very racist depiction of a smiling teeth on an all black shirt. So it kind of looks like the black face, like old, like 1930s.
00:37:42
Speaker
Yeah, definitely racist imagery for sure. It sounds like you guys can correct me if I'm wrong that, you know, he approved this shirt that, you know, they, you know, the people next to you or whoever does those things came to him and asked his approval and he said yes. And then, uh, he just went on a Twitter tirade about it and, and got upset and started MF-ing people in the front office and
00:38:09
Speaker
saying WWE doesn't care about black people and you said a lot of the stuff that he said in post that he's he's since deleted but Yeah, you know I don't know like the thing is like I don't know if he personally deleted him or if he was like threatened with like You know legal action which caused him to you know, delete the tweets I don't know what the situation is there but he's definitely been very vocal with his
00:38:31
Speaker
um, opinions of the design and things like that. And so apparently the design, the design came out and I never even saw this shirt. Like I never, until this whole controversy started, I never even saw the shirt because I think WWE put it on their site with all the other NXT shirts. Um, and then somebody must have said something or maybe Jordan said something. I don't know. And then they, they took the shirt down and redesigned it. Now he has a new, a new logo. Um, but he tweeted an image of the shirt and said, you know, I'm not going to stop tweeting this image until my voice is heard.
00:39:01
Speaker
And I think the hashtag was for the culture. Um, and then it got picked up by a lot of, you know, superstars and just fans and followers and things like that. And then WWE obviously released a statement saying that, you know, they, they work closely with all their superstars to approve all the, all their designs, which to me, I don't know whether this is true or not. I don't know if he approved the design. Maybe he just saw it and didn't, I mean, I don't know how you can see that design and not like,
00:39:28
Speaker
see the racial imagery there you know what i mean um but that's that's i don't know what he what he saw when he saw the design but he obviously um said they said he approved it but i don't know if that's true like that do you think that they work with every superstar on their designs i don't think they do
00:39:45
Speaker
I don't know. I would assume so if it's going to have your name on it. But it's not your name. It's WWE's property. Do you know what I mean? I was reading something earlier that said, because it was talking about that, because initially I was like, well, they said he approved the design. So this is all weird. And he's deleting these tweets and stuff. I don't know what the truth is. Obviously the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
00:40:09
Speaker
Um, but, um, I was reading somewhere earlier that Becky Lynch had released a statement like what before, like way before it's not controversial, but she didn't realize that they were going to start calling her the Irish last kicker until like, they started pumping out all this merch. And she was like, Oh, obviously I'm the last kicker. You know, so I don't know if it's true that they like run every design by every superstar and get their,
00:40:34
Speaker
approval on it before they put it out you know what I mean so he tweeted out when I originally saw the design I was uncomfortable rather than addressing the issue I decided to counter offer with another Baker Landon I don't know who that is lied to my face he said Triple H wanted this design so my hands were tied I spoke with Triple H in person
00:40:52
Speaker
And his impression was, I approved. And then he went on to say, the whole WWE system is a fraud. They created this system where you can't trust anyone. You grow cold. I mean, he really went off the deep end. He called another wrestler in ROH, an Uncle Tom. And it's just been going off. And I understand if he's upset about the t-shirt. It definitely, I mean, when you look at it, you can see it has a racial undertone.
00:41:21
Speaker
don't understand like If he is if he is this upset, you know, he has you know, that's I can't speak on how upset he is But it just doesn't seem like he's handling it the right right way. Like what is what is doing all this on social media gonna do like So I know I don't know is demanding to sell it and there were some big like back and forth I mean they've pulled it off, you know, it's I don't know
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Marco, do you have any input, like, as far as, you know, I know you've been keeping up with, uh, with this as well, but it's just kind of like, to me, I don't know. I mean, obviously, like I said, I think the shirt, I, I saw the shirt, I immediately saw the imagery and I was like, Oh, this is, yeah. You know, and I'm not even somebody who's easily offended or anything like that, but I can totally understand.
00:42:07
Speaker
Why, um, if that was going to be something that represents you or represents your culture, you would be like a WTF, like this is not cool at all. Um, and it's totally racist, but at the same time, like now, now his, his reaction and the way he's going about it, I feel like there's some sort of ulterior.
00:42:23
Speaker
motive there. Do you know what I mean? Like now he's like, he's like really, um, like, is he trying to get released? Is he trying to, you know, is he truly trying to bring attention to the design and attention to, you know, the, I mean, WWE, like let's, let's be completely a hundred percent honest here. They're not known that like they've been, I don't want to say they're a rate, not a racist company. That's not the, that's not the, uh, verbiage I'm looking for, but they've definitely done some questionable things in the past. You know what I mean?
00:42:52
Speaker
Um, that haven't always been up to like 2019, like do better standards. Um, so for, I don't know for it to be still going on. I'm just kind of like, what the F, you know, Marco, what's your thoughts? Are you still there? Did we lose Marco again? Uh, we must have Marco Marco's got a bad connection. Yeah. Sorry, dude.
00:43:22
Speaker
That's all right. But anyway, like I said, I don't know what to make of this. I'll still be following along. Hopefully you're back. We were just going to ask you about your thoughts on this whole, this whole mile situation because, you know, like I said, I can't speak, you know, obviously I saw the imagery, but I can't speak, you know,
00:43:43
Speaker
from personal experience or anything like that. Like if I was, what do you make of this? And his reaction, like do you think his reaction was justified? Do you think it was overkill? Do you think there's ulterior motives? Do you think, like what are your thoughts? I thought maybe he's gonna try to like get himself out of a contract at first. The shirt definitely does scream some type of like racist undertones if you look at it.
00:44:11
Speaker
You just definitely can't deny that at all. I mean, if you deny it, then you're just like pretty much blind to the fact. I understand the other side of people saying like, well, it's just a shirt, get over it type of thing. But at the other side, as a black person, you're not thinking that way. Like, what the hell is this? Yeah. And I did read an article where he did say he was a part of the approval process, but they
00:44:39
Speaker
did bring the design to him first, and it was on a white t-shirt. But I think even on, I mean, I don't think it would matter. Even on a white t-shirt, I feel like the imagery is still pretty prominent. But yeah, that's what Phil was saying. Well, I think you may have been disconnected when he was talking about that. He said that Triple H brought the design to him. And Jordan, I guess he had suggested some tweaks. And then Triple H, I guess Triple H took it as approval.
00:45:05
Speaker
and they went ahead and released the shirt. So again, we'll keep following along on this. I don't know what's gonna come of this, but yeah, it's definitely, you've been able to see people's different reactions and it's pretty interesting to see how different people like take, you know, what's going on and how they, that's the word I'm looking for. How they feel about it, you know what I mean? Yeah, the other thing too is like, just all the other stuff with like,
00:45:36
Speaker
They started bringing in, like you said, um, Jay lethal got brought into it. It was the wrestler and ROH, um, he brought him in and then quickly deleted that tweet that he said about him. So he was doing a lot of tweeting and deleting. Like that was the other thing I was like, he wasn't really sticking with like, like this, like the hashtag for the culture or thing. Like it was just like, he was putting stuff out there that like retract and I thought he did a video. Same F everybody. And then he retracted that video and delete the video. So it's just kind of like.
00:46:04
Speaker
Is he serious about it or is he just trying to play off for something? I mean, the other thing I've seen was a lot of things that fueled the fire was like the, what happened with Kofi and Brock. Like that was kind of like seen as like, uh, they had this, he had this super long run. It was historical night, you know, first ever African-American champion at the company. And then he just loses it like in 10 seconds.
00:46:29
Speaker
So it was like that that was like that also like I see that a lot a lot of dialogue in that on Twitter, like people bringing that up and like how how that stuff's treated and how certain people are treated in the company and things like that. So it started steamrolling into a lot of other things. But like I said, I get it. It definitely is a bad shirt.
00:46:49
Speaker
It does. This is a horrible design in general. I probably wouldn't wear that anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Even if it didn't have, you know, racial context yet, it's not a great shirt to begin with. If Chris Jericho can sell his shirt that says I have a ticket, which is probably like the number one selling shirt right now for a wrestling, he's, they can come out with a better design than that.
00:47:10
Speaker
Exactly. Um, yeah, so we won't we won't um stick on that that subject any any longer But yeah, it's just kind of like one of those things that you're like, I don't I don't know What to feel like obviously I know that like the design was wrong and wwe was 100 wrong and like producing it But at the same time i'm like what is jordan? Like what's his because he's doing all that tweeting and deleting and i'm like, why is he doing that?
00:47:31
Speaker
Like what does he want to see happen here? I mean, they've pulled, they've pulled the shirt down and, and like, does he want to, does he, like you said, do you want to be released here? Does he want to like create, if he wants to create a dialogue about this and like, make sure this doesn't happen again, don't go mother mother effing people and calling people and uncle Tom and all this other stuff. Like that's not like, that's just feeding into like the entire, the wrong side of the argument. I feel like so.
00:47:57
Speaker
Exactly. Exactly. I think, like you said, if he's trying to open up dialogue and trying to like bring awareness to things that, you know, maybe bothering over things that we as fans may not know about that are going on behind the scenes, like that's cool. I'm all for being an advocate and I'm all for, you know, like advocating for your cause. Um, but at the same time, like, I think there's better ways to go about it than like you said, flipping everybody off and saying like all that stuff and just.
00:48:23
Speaker
Kind of like you said, standing on shaky ground. Like if you, if you put something out there on Twitter or you put something out there in social media, first of all, it's out there. People are going to have screenshots of it. It's not disappearing. You know what I mean? But like to delete it from your timeline makes me feel like, well, do you truly stand behind what you're saying? Like, how can I get behind you? If I'm like, yeah, this is awesome. Like, you know, I believe in this tweet and then all of a sudden it's gone and I'm like, Oh, okay. Well,
00:48:49
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what happens here coming up. I would think he's not going to last too much longer in WWE, and I'm sure he's not too upset with that. And he'll, you know, there's plenty of places for him to end up with. So for sure. Let's move on to some news from AEW. Just came out earlier today that the AEW title match at full gear between Cody Rhodes and our buddy Chris Jericho, which I will be in attendance for.
00:49:13
Speaker
has a 60 minute time limit and will then be decided by a panel of three judges who will determine a winner to avoid any kind of draws. And I think this is the worst thing I've heard in a long time because
00:49:31
Speaker
AEW is positioned to just steal wrestling fans from WWE by just making simple entertaining wrestling and put together some convoluted bullshit like this. Number one, now I know this is going for 60 minutes, which I don't know if I want to watch a 60 minute Chris Jericho match.
00:49:53
Speaker
Oh my God, I know. He sweats. He sweats walking to the ring now. Exactly. Not that I'm in any good shape at all, but I just, and then like, who are the judges going to be? This is something I guess they did back in the day in old school, WCW and WA or something, but you know, it's
00:50:12
Speaker
2019 now like I don't want I want a match to decide like I don't want a Fiend versus Seth Rollins match where you know we end in the draw but I also don't want three random people deciding who's gonna win a match like and and what are the criteria it's not like boxing where you know you you have certain criteria that you're like grading who wins the round on like how many landed punches and things like that like I
00:50:37
Speaker
What are they grading this match on? Do you know what I mean? Like, what's the, like, are we getting, are we going to get a list of, um, you know, what, like what the judges are looking for in case this thing, in case I put in quotes, in case this thing goes to 60 minutes. Um, it's just all a bunch of hocus pocus. And I really don't freaking, I don't, I don't like it. I don't like it.
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, why not announce this before the first pay-per-view, and then you have the Hangman page, Chris Jericho match, where it doesn't come into effect? Because announcing it now is just kind of almost like a spoiler. Why would you even tell us this right now, unless it's going to affect the main event?
00:51:18
Speaker
Yeah, I'm gonna let this match go on for like 30 minutes and then I'm gonna tune in and watch the last 30 minutes of the match and then see who the judges pick to win this thing. You know what I mean? Like, that's the mentality I have. Like, I'm not gonna sit down and watch this hour-long match.
00:51:32
Speaker
The only thing I could think of that they could possibly do that would be entertaining would be to make, and this wouldn't make any sense at all, so it's not gonna happen, but put MJF as the third judge, and he's the deciding vote of the three people, and then he picks against Cody.
00:51:49
Speaker
and kind of turns on. So you think it's going to be like in-ring talent that makes up the judging panel? No, I don't. I just completely made... I don't know what this is going to be. I have no idea. Who would it be? Like former wrestlers? Maybe like a DDP and maybe Cody's dog? Maybe that wolf thing? Maybe we'll just have like JR and Excalibur.
00:52:09
Speaker
and
00:52:25
Speaker
There's gonna be some sort of schmaz, like, that's the thing, like, I was just hoping this was gonna be like, that's what people like about AEW, that's why people are tuning out of WWE. That's why, you know, AEW's beating SmackDown in the ratings this week, like, it's happening, like, people are tuning into AEW, their numbers are declining a little bit too, as the weeks go on here, but, you know, if you wanna keep stealing fans from WWE, just make it simple, don't overthink this shit.
00:52:52
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You're doing, you're doing good with what you're doing now. Like stops, like you said, stop adding these unnecessary stipulations. And like you said, it really helps us telegraph how the match is going to go. Right? Like what's cool about code? I mean, I'm totally there for Cody versus Chris Jericho. Do you know what I mean? Like cool. I'm, I'm, I'm down for that match, but.
00:53:12
Speaker
already knowing that it's going to be an hour long match with some sort of like weird ending where the judges have to like, you know, collaborate to find out who's going to be the winner. Like that just takes all the excitement out of it for me. There's going to be so many to two counts in this match. It's going to break the Guinness Book of World Records. It's going to get the fans up so high and bring them down. What's up, Marco? Well, so the way they I'm reading like the press release that they did.
00:53:42
Speaker
Um, for this announcement. So the way they said it was, it's going to be a 60 minute time limit. Like how they do, like, so it's not going to be an Ironman match. It goes through 60 minutes. They have a panel of three esteemed judges. They didn't say if they were like, like former wrestlers. I wonder if it'll be like Brett Hart and like
00:54:06
Speaker
DDT or DDP, you know what I mean? So it might not go 60 minutes. It might just be like a gimmick thing that they're throwing in there to say like, hey, just in case this goes 60 minutes, we don't like to have draws. We're going to have like an actual winner.
00:54:20
Speaker
type of thing. I'm assuming that's what they're going for. And I would have assumed that it wouldn't, like you didn't have to tell me that. Like that's the whole thing is like, I wouldn't have assumed that match was going to go an hour anyway. Do you know what I mean? So for them, if they had an hour time limit, like there's no way in my mind, I'm thinking this is going to go to a time limit draw. Like I'm thinking this is going to be a banger of a match. Like, you know, somebody's going to win definitively or, you know, by disqualification or something, something like that. Right. Um, but at the same time, like now, now they're telling me like,
00:54:51
Speaker
You know, this match is going to go for an hour, you know, even though they're not telling us that they're kind of telling us that because why would they say three esteemed judges? You know what I'm saying? If they want to utilize that angle. Well, and they kind of like dug themselves into a hole with the sports aspect of it. Yeah. Like having like judges and having wins and losses count. And like I was watching an interview with Cody saying that they're going to do like a, like a top five, like, um,
00:55:19
Speaker
like player of the week type of thing, like how sports have like, they'll have like the top five teams in this division, uh, top five teams in that division. They're going to do the same thing with, with the IAW wrestlers as well. Well, oh well. That was a good run while it lasted. No, we're not, we're not going to be that dramatic, but yeah, I do think the match could have been a lot better without this like updated.
00:55:45
Speaker
updated stipulation. So who are you guys going for? I guess this is going down tomorrow night, right? The, um, the tag team finals. Yeah. Yeah. S uh, SCU and the Lucha bros. Yep. Um, I don't know. Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm kind of on SCU side now. Now that Scorpio Sky's in there, man, I like him. I'm going, I'm going Lucha bros. I was going Lucha bros. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:12
Speaker
Well, only because I think it's going to set up a later meeting with the young bucks, like at a later pay-per-view. By later, you mean the next one? Yeah, yeah. Well, the young bucks are facing the guys from the inner circle. Yeah, so that's not happening there. But like. Well, yeah, I mean, like the one after this. And they're going to they're going to obviously beat LAX, I'm sure, because. Yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe who knows? They might they might not beat them. They might.
00:56:41
Speaker
going like a rut and they lost like two matches in a row or three matches in a row. And it's like, Oh, we're never going to win. And then they do this thing with the lucha bros where they miraculously won the titles. But I think the lucha bros only because it's going to set something up with the young bucks and the young bucks won their titles from them, the triple A titles. So I'm assuming they're going to, that's how it's going to play out. But yeah, I love the lucha bros. I think they're part of the best tag team in wrestling history.
00:57:10
Speaker
I'm joking on history, but they are really good. They're one of the top tag teams, I want to say in the world, definitely. For sure. I think if it was me running AEW, I don't think you need to put tag team titles on them. They're a huge draw no matter what, and you could do it. Yeah, true. You could do a feud with the Bucks and then put SCU against, I don't want to say the Dark Order, but start a feud between two teams that can just kind of elevate each other.
00:57:38
Speaker
But I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, Lucha Bros would be a great first tag team champions there. That'll be fun. I'm surprised that's not on the pay-per-view. I'm surprised that's on TV. But hey, if you're giving the fans something to watch on free TV, it's a good thing to do. It'll be a great match.
00:57:54
Speaker
For sure. That's definitely something that we've talked about in the past, like WWE, like how they could improve their product is like do more just random title changes on free television for people to enjoy, right? Like don't save everything for the pay-per-view. Yeah. Yeah. Just go back in the day, like the attitude I wrote back in my day, there's titles changing every week, literally. Like Triple H would win the title from like Undertaker and then
00:58:23
Speaker
You would lose it the next week to mankind. And then it would just go on and on. Literally every week, it was a main event caliber match on Raw. Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly what we said. Because it makes you tune in. Because if you're not going to see any meaningful title changes until the pay-per-view, why would you tune in to the weekly product? You know what I mean? So knowing that anything can happen during the weekly product, that's going to make you tune in and stick around for that third hour of Raw.
00:58:52
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And with that, I mean, I don't like a ton of total changes, but imagine if you would have had Baron Corbin win the title on Raw for a couple of weeks and then, you know, just imagine where that would put him right now. I mean, he would probably be closer to a main eventer than he is right now. You know, I just feel like that's how you're going to legitimize some of these guys. I mean, back in the day, like you said, we had
00:59:14
Speaker
at Austin, Rock, and so many different Triple H and Mankind. You had four or five guys where if they were an Undertaker, they were all in a match together. You didn't know who was going to win. At this point, there's two people on each show that are going to be going for the title. So just creating more people at that is always a good thing.
00:59:31
Speaker
I do want to say that we're doing, I am going to Full Gear. I'll be representing the Chick Foley show at Full Gear next month. But we're doing a meetup at the Pratt Street Ale House. It's on Pratt Street here in Baltimore. It's about a block from the Royal Farms Arena. So it's going to be about 3.30 on that day. I think that's a Saturday, I believe. So come out and we're going to be drinking some beers and eating some unhealthy appetizers and talking wrestling. So message me.
01:00:01
Speaker
at the Chick Foley show account or my personal account. I hate JJ Reddick. If you want to stop by, it's nothing, nothing formal. Just kind of, uh, you know, some dudes hanging out, you know, talking to wrestling. Beware that's that night is a full moon. That's when all the weirdos are out. So.
01:00:18
Speaker
Just, just know that. Yeah. Just know that. And also don't go, don't act like you're going there representing the chick Foley show. You're going there representing Rio. Okay. I am. I do want to give props to a bunch of people. Marco number one for finding me. And I posted it on the Facebook page, this shirt off of, uh, you went to dynamite, right? And you, and you picked it up, Marco. It's like a baseball. It's like a, it's like a baseball tee. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the, uh, I got the ringer tee for the, uh,
01:00:47
Speaker
for the, uh, for the bruiser rate. It's, it's got a pink, a pink Rio logo across the chest and then like turquoise sleeves. And it's probably the most effeminate shirt that I've ever worn. And, uh, Shane and Mike and Kenny from the, uh, the Foley family contributed money. And I said, if, if, if, if the Foley family contributed to the shirt, I would wear it in public to full gear. And, uh, it's a super soft shirt. You were right, Marco. They're not lying with these, uh,
01:01:17
Speaker
these AEW shirts, man. They're pretty legit and it fits nicely, so I should probably drink some martinis or like a Mai Tai with that shirt on. I can't be drinking craft beer in that shirt. It doesn't fit the brand. It's a little frilly, yeah. Yeah. I think Marco's right. I think we should do a Chick Foley shirt and just steal the gimmick and just make it like a
01:01:41
Speaker
Yeah, I saw one of the I saw one of the guys on the facebook page recommend that so i'm totally i'm totally there for that Yeah, i'm sure pro wrestling teams would like that if we just stole somebody else Totally totally jacket or something but make sure make sure you run it by me for approval first. Okay, don't be putting out Don't we put not don't we put not any logos or anything? um We've seen that that turned sour. So
01:02:04
Speaker
Let's make sure we get approval on all designs. Sure. I'm only putting out non-racist t-shirts going forward. I would so appreciate that. Yes. Let me see here. All right. So that's everything from in the ring, but I think we should run through. We're running through the Crown
AEW and WWE Event Previews
01:02:20
Speaker
Jewel. Yeah, let's run through the Crown Jewel car really quickly since it is going to take place on Thursday, which I don't think anybody's going to watch because
01:02:27
Speaker
It's Halloween. And even though we all know Halloween was just, it's a holiday invented by the candy companies. I think it definitely is something that we are going to prefer to be doing Halloween festivities versus watching crown jewel. Am I wrong? You are not wrong. Let's start off with the first match. It's a 20 man battle royal. The winner faces AJ Styles. Sheena, you care to share your California laid back tie dye point of view on this one. Who's going to win this and face AJ Styles later in the night?
01:02:57
Speaker
Um, I don't know. Okay. All right. All right. That's it for us tonight. Folks. No, I don't know either. This is a, this is a battle of midcard wonders here, but, um, Hey, this would be a great way to, uh, elevate Andrade into a spot that we'd like to see him in. I mean, who else from this match? I mean, I'm trying to find a list of people. Let me run them down. Let me run them down. Cause this is
01:03:24
Speaker
This is a who's who of catering all-stars. Sunil Singh, Mojo Rawley, Eric Rowan, Artruth Sinhara, The Brian Kendrick. I didn't know he was still around, but I'm glad he is. Titus O'Neil, Tony Nese, Akira Tozawa, Shelton Benjamin, Apollo Crews, Buddy Murphy, Andrade, Drake Maverick, Eric Young, Luke Harper, Cedric Alexander, The Entertainer, Cedric Alexander.
01:03:50
Speaker
He's later Humberto Carrillo and no way Jose at the very end last but not least so There's only two or three guys that are winning this Yeah, the only three that stuck out to me out of that whole list was Humberto just because he wrestled AJ this week You know, and they've obviously let him wrestle Seth and they let him wrestle AJ so there they obviously have big things that plan for this guy Andrade or Cedric Alexander are the only ones I can really see
01:04:21
Speaker
being actual contenders for the US title. What about you? I don't think he's going to win, but I got a dark horse and it's Sunil Singh. His name just sticks out here like a sore thumb. I don't know what he's... One of the Singh brothers? Are both Singh brothers in there or no? Just Sunil. The other one did not qualify. Okay. Well, yeah. Interesting, but random. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm going to go... I'm going on... I don't know. Now that you've said Cedric, it sounds good, but I'm going to go Andrade. He's my pick.
01:04:50
Speaker
Yeah. I was going to pick Andrade too. Damn it. Okay. Yeah. So we're going to agree on Andrade.
01:04:55
Speaker
Damn, all right, I'm gonna switch it up then. I'm gonna go Cedric Alexander. If Cedric wins, I'm gonna be pissed, because I put him in your brain. You did, you did. It sparked something in there. I said it with confidence. That's how I do. Do either of those guys beat AJ Styles? I'm gonna say no. Well, I don't know. I mean, Andrade's a heel, though, right? I mean, not that a heel can't fight another heel, but it's just like, wouldn't Cedric be a much more redeeming person to contend for the US title? Hey, I'm not questioning your pick, you know?
01:05:25
Speaker
Now I'm trying to rationalize my own pick. Okay. I'm gonna stick with Andrade. Okay. All right. I think both of them lose to AJ Styles though. Yeah. Yeah. We don't have a new US champion. Okay. Um, and a match everyone's dying to see. Mansoor versus Cesaro.
01:05:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think this match is going to be good. I mean, I don't think, I mean, Cesaro is great. Monsieur is good. Um, you know, we, this is just one of those signature matches. You know, Monsieur is going to wrestle just because he's, he's the hometown, the hometown hero. Um, I, he went over the last time he wrestled. Um, he won. What was it? Did he win? Was it the battle Royal that he won?
01:06:03
Speaker
Yeah, like the 200-person battle royal. Yes, the 730-person battle royal. Yeah, so he won that. I think he wins again here against Cesaro, but I think it's going to be a really good match. I can't tell if you're being serious. Monster is a good wrestler.
01:06:26
Speaker
I mean, he's not. I mean, Cesaro could wrestle anybody. I mean, he's not he's not freaking Seth Rollins. You know what I mean? But yeah, it's I think, you know, I think he'll elevate himself to wrestling with Cesaro. I think it's going to be it's not going to be like a shit show wet fart. You know what I mean?
01:06:43
Speaker
All right, I'm going on for two. I think he's the hometown boy. He's going to be the middle of the car, get everybody pumped up for everything. For sure. All right, let's move on to the 19, not 10 team. This is a 19 tag team turmoil match. Man, this is New Day versus the Viking Raiders versus heavy machinery versus Lucha House Party.
01:07:08
Speaker
versus the beat versus the major Rose versus the revival versus the OC versus Ziggler and Rude versus the B team. How are that many people even standing on the side of the ring? Dude, watching this is going to be like waiting 300 years for a virgin to light a candle. You know what I mean? Like it's going to, it's going to, it's going to be like
01:07:31
Speaker
Like what in the freaking hell and the name of this thing, what like, let me look at my little notes here. See if I had the official name of this freaking tag team bullshit match here.
01:07:41
Speaker
It's just tag team turmoil match, but I don't know. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not. Oh, yeah. Have you not seen the graphic that they post when they're talking about this? The graphic, it looks like an article. You know what I mean? Like it's like it's the largest tag team turmoil match in history to determine the World Cup for the best tag team in the world. Something to that effect.
01:08:03
Speaker
I'm not, yeah, it is. I'm a lion Marco. You had it work for the largest tag team turmoil match in history to determine world cup winner, the world cup winner and crop the best tag team in the world. Yeah. It's the longest. You're welcome. When have we started putting the, this is the like on the match description that it's the largest, why do we need to know it's the largest tag team turmoil? Have we ever had a tag team tour mo match before? I don't even know.
01:08:31
Speaker
Yes, there's there's been tag team. Yeah, there's been tag team turmoil matches before, but obviously it's a big dude season over in Saudi as well because they like to make sure they like to make sure everybody knows it's the largest. So this is where two teams start and then when one team gets eliminated, another team comes out. Is that what we're doing here? That's what the tag team turmoil matches, right? Essentially, yeah. OK, that's OK. So they're not all going to be ringside. OK, no.
01:09:01
Speaker
Well, but I mean, how do they decide who goes who goes first? Like is there is there a lottery a drawing like what? But yeah, so I think we're all is if we're all just gonna be confused during this match who I don't know I'm gonna lose your house party
01:09:23
Speaker
Wow, OK. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why you picked that either. They mentioned them more so in the last couple of weeks. And they got drafted in the third round. I don't even know what that means. But this is a good throwaway and just kind of a kitty, let the little Saudi Arabia kids celebrate type of thing. All right. I'm going to go with. Scientific. Heavy machinery.
01:09:53
Speaker
OK. Big dude season. Yeah. Yeah. Big dude season is a full swing. I like on the Wikipedia, it says, Lince Dorado, Gran Metalik, and Ora Calisto. Still the only one. When did they find out? I wonder where they find out if they're going to be wrestling. Like right when they're, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're not going. The other guy is with the other mask. OK. Yeah, that guy.
01:10:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to go heavy machinery since it's the largest tag team turmoil match. It only makes sense that heavy machinery would win this thing.
01:10:24
Speaker
Okay. Yep. All right. So let's move on to, I guess the title match fall. This is a long title to falls account anywhere for the WWE universal championship match. Cannot be stopped for any reason. Uh, so what you probably will be. Yeah, there's not, I mean, I'm, I'm putting money that there's not going to be a definitive, um, end to this match. No. Who do you, who do you have as a winner though? Uh, Seth.
01:10:53
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear. Yeah. They've been advertising some matches between these two after the fact. So with Seth as the champion. But yeah, I just don't see it switching on a show like this. But I mean, if you want people to tune into these.
01:11:10
Speaker
crown jewel events I mean that would get people like oh shit I missed the title change for the fiend I missed the fiend won't win in the title you know that would mm-hmm I'll put butts in the seats you know well yeah but you can't put butts in the seats after the fact you know what I mean I know I was just making a joke but I mean maybe for the next one that comes up people will end up watching it more but yeah I don't I don't think they do any title changes over there I think it's gonna be Seth Rollins some sort of schmaz but he's gonna leave as a champ mm-hmm
01:11:38
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, Brock Lesnar, the universal, no, he's the WWE champion against Cain Velasquez. Oh boy. I think Brock's going to win. Yeah. I don't think you can have this guy win, win the title. Uh, I'm just interested to see what this guy can do in the ring. Do you know what I mean?
01:12:00
Speaker
Yeah, he did some wrestling down in Mexico and was pretty, pretty okay. But I don't think he, you know, has more than six months of like, you know, he hasn't been doing it for very long. Um, I don't think it's going to be hard when you're coming from a real legitimate sport as, you know, as legitimate as UFC can be. But coming over to WWE and having to do, you know, fake punches and fake kicks and all that kind of stuff. When you've been just trained your whole life to just beat the shit out of people. It's gotta, it's gotta be pretty tough.
01:12:31
Speaker
I, yeah, I can't imagine the transition between like actual fighting to WWE style, um, fighting. I don't, I mean, I'm sure it's, especially if it's something that you've been training for like your whole life. You know what I mean? But I mean, you know, Brock did it. Ronda Rousey has done a really good job. Um, I think there's been lots of MMA crossovers that have been pretty decent. I mean, we got, uh, Jake Hager, it's the best MMA fighter in the whole world. And he's, he's, he's kicking ass and taking names over an AEW. So.
01:13:01
Speaker
Uh, Matt Riddle. Oh yeah. Our, our man, the bro Matt Riddle. Yep. Oh, how about it? AEW today was, was pimping up some sort of announcement on their social media. I don't know what's today or, or yesterday. Oh, yesterday. They were counting down the hours until this announcement at noon. And basically it was just saying that they were going to be back in Jacksonville for AEW dynamite on the, on the, uh, on New Year's day, like.
01:13:28
Speaker
That was the announcement? Yeah. Like, come on, man. Oh, my God. I saw the buildup. I saw them talking about, like, oh, we're going to have a big announcement. But I didn't keep tabs on it, because obviously, I'm here in family, and it's just been distracting. But yeah, that's kind of a disappointment. Yeah, it's little stuff like that. Like, come on, man. No one's going to get excited about that, I mean, unless you live in Jacksonville, but just announce it like, you know, it's not like a pay-per-view. It's just a TV show. Yeah, just say, yeah. We're going to be in Jacksonville. Yay. Just there like a year ago.
01:13:59
Speaker
Anyway, off topic, let's get back to the crown jewel here. Um, so yeah, we both have Brock winning, uh, Braun Strowman versus Tyson Fury. I'm going Tyson Fury here. There's the, there's only one reason why he would even be participating in this is to get a win over Braun Strowman. Yeah, I got to go with Tyson Fury too. I don't think they're going to put, uh, the monster among men over, over Tyson Fury, especially after paying him, you know, 15 mil.
01:14:28
Speaker
He is 20 and 0 in boxing, 20, 0, and 1. So I don't know shit about boxing, but that's a pretty good record. Yeah. That's a pretty good record, yeah. So yeah, he's going to go over. I've heard rumors that Braun Strowman's making, he's making a mill just to lose to Tyson Fury. So it's going to be pretty nice to be like, you know, mid 30s, making a million dollars for one night. Yeah.
01:14:54
Speaker
Oh my god, I'll take that. I'm not gonna hate on any of these guys. Like I said, any of these guys' paydays.
01:15:02
Speaker
Uh, we talked about, um, on summer. Okay. The, uh, the, I guess this will be the main event, right? Cause they've been talking about the most that the team Hogan versus team flair, 10 man tag team match reigns, Rusev, Ricochet, Shorty G and Ali against Randy Orton, King Corbin, Lashley Nakamura, and Drew McIntyre. Uh, that team flair is five dudes that you would not want to meet in a bar fight. Tell you what.
01:15:28
Speaker
I know! Like I said, the talent on these teams is awesome. I love these guys. I love these Survivor Series teams. It's just I hate the whole angle here, the whole Legends angle here. And I was listening to a different podcast.
01:15:43
Speaker
Earlier in the week, and it like made such a really good point that I never even considered that, um, you know, team Hogan is leading all the baby faces and team flair is leading all the heels. But like, in, when you think about like, who's the real heel and who's the real baby face, like Rick flair gets like a much more pop.
01:16:01
Speaker
He's basically a face in WWE and Hogan is ultimately a heel. You know what I mean? And he was talking about how he should have just come out as like Hollywood, and he could have led all the heels. And I'm like, God, that is such a great idea. Why did they not think of that? But I definitely don't think this is gonna be the main event. I think either one of the title matches is gonna be the main event, whether it's Seth and
01:16:29
Speaker
the fiend or Cain and Brock but because this I just don't think this has the The power to end the show, you know what I mean?
Wrestling Figure Collecting
01:16:38
Speaker
Because like really there's no there's no yeah Yeah, it does. There's no there's no stakes here versus like, you know, you want to see somebody in the show as the champion Yeah, good point. I agree with that So, okay. So who what team do you have this one? I think um
01:16:57
Speaker
I mean, I think the baby face has got to go over. Yeah. On this kind of show. Yeah. I'm going to go team flair just to be different. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think, um, I think the team Hogan's going over and you got a team player.
01:17:10
Speaker
this match does make me, uh, want some survivors. I love that. I always love survivor series as a kid. I don't know why survivor series is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I just like, it was like a good like break from the storyline, you know, from like title, like normal matches and normal pay-per-views. And you got like to see some guys tag up that would never tag up usually. So, you know, yeah.
01:17:31
Speaker
I'm looking forward to that in a couple weeks. So yeah, that's our hastily put together crown jewel preview. So we'll recap that next week. But a decent card. It's not like the best thing I've ever seen. But it's not something that's going to make me want to watch at noon on Halloween. Yeah, for sure. That's prime horror movie time right there. Exactly. Exactly.
01:17:55
Speaker
Yeah. So let's put a little bow on our weekly wrap up of inside the squared circle. I think we covered everything and we need to get into our go figure segment because we have some pretty awesome, you know, things to talk about in this segment. All right. Let's pull it up. Hold on one second.
01:18:19
Speaker
Oh man, I miss Shane McMahon. It's been a while. All right, this is our weekly Go Figure Sanken, where myself, Sheena and Marco go through our pickups of the week, be it wrestling figures, memorabilia, merchandise, and everything in between. And this is sponsored in part by our friends over at Ringside Collectibles. You can check them out and use our code CHICKFOLY, all one word, for 10% off of your order.
01:18:45
Speaker
They have a bunch of new stuff for pre-order that we'll get into in the news segment here in just a moment. But if you're looking for wrestling figures and you don't want to waste a whole tank of gas driving around and finding stuff, I highly recommend going over to Ringside Collectibles website and checking them out. It's wrestlingfigures.com. So check them out there. They're a great sponsor and huge friends of ours. They really support what we do here. So check them out and patronize them this holiday season.
01:19:13
Speaker
All right, you know, you want to start this bad boy off here because I got some good stuff to talk about. I had I had a nice couple of halls for my honey. I know. I told you guys. So I had my I had my big hall last week. I found Brisco like just like living his best life on the pegs, just like front and center. And I went searching. Obviously, I'm limited to like three stores here. So I don't have that much selection. And the target here is like completely abysmal, like
01:19:40
Speaker
Oh my God. Like literally there's only one AJ basic left on the entire show. Like that's the only, Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only wrestling figures that are in the entire target. So it's a little bit outdated target. Um, the Walmart's they're stocked with basics and stuff, but not a ton of elites. So I'm going to keep checking throughout, throughout the week and just see what I can find. But I haven't picked up anything this, this week. So I'm excited to, you know, re I've already know what you got, but I'm excited to recap with everyone else. Like what you picked up.
01:20:08
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Uh, I went into a bunch of Walmart's the other day. I just, I, not a fan of the brick seek for Walmart's. I just feel like it's not accurate. And now that they're using, like they're just saying, you know, six or more, they're not giving an accurate number. It's even harder. So I went into a couple, the second one I was into like, Oh, they never have anything here, but let me check. It'll take two seconds.
01:20:30
Speaker
and they had the entire Elite set, what's that, Elite 72 now with Gargano and EC3. Yeah, that's 70, I think. No, 71. 71, yeah. So I picked up EC3, I picked up our buddy Johnny Gargano, and I picked up Gerald Brisco, which I've been hunting for for a long time. So all three of those, the whole set was on the pegs, but they did not have the Pink Pants Dolph Ziggler. I'm still- Oh, I lie, it's Elite 70.
01:21:00
Speaker
OK, yeah, I lead 70. No problem. Not bad. I forgive you. So then I was about to pick the kid up from daycare, and there's a Walmart right by his daycare. And I said, maybe they're all hitting at the same time. Maybe I'll have luck here. Another Walmart, which I've never, I don't think I've ever found. I don't think they've ever had an Elite on the shelf when I've been there. So it's just terrible. So I went there and found another Johnny Gargano, because the first one had a crappy box. I picked that up.
01:21:27
Speaker
I picked up another Gero Briscoe, so I have another one of those for hopefully for a trade here with someone in the not too distant future. But I was able to send that Gargano loose out to one of our Patreon subscribers, Josh Drake. So he wanted that one. So it didn't matter what the box looked like. I took that out of the package and shipped that out to him. And I found a, I've had like a Rick the other day, I think it was like Friday or Saturday.
01:21:51
Speaker
I found Ricochet and Sonya Deville on the peg, so I sent Ricochet out to Alan Keohahn, who's also a Patreon subscriber. And yeah, so that was my haul. I found those, and I'm hopefully in the works to trade a Liv Morgan for a Page Elite, so I'll have that one all wrapped up. And I still need that Casiozona, but hopefully I'll have all three of these wrapped up before my birthday, and I don't have to beg anyone to find them for me.
01:22:19
Speaker
Yeah, we had a few people in the group find those Target exclusives, the Page and the Cassius Ono. So I was like super happy for them now. It makes me feel like, oh my god, I bet they're hitting back in Virginia and I'm missing it. Oh man, that's the worst feeling.
01:22:36
Speaker
I'm excited now. Isn't it weird that as popular as wrestling figures are, once they land, they don't last very long on the shelves, no matter what they are. You don't see too many, and everyone listening can probably attest to that because the pegs are pretty empty.
01:22:52
Speaker
Um, isn't it weird that they only get one box at a time? Even, like, it's very rare that I've ever been to a Walmart and they get more than one box at a time. Like, eight figures at a time, like, every other week? Like, that's like, I'm sure you like the Marvel and, like, the Lego stuff, and I'm sure you just, you know, I'm sure they're just getting boxes upon boxes of shit.
01:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know how the distribution works, but yeah, it always seems like there's never like multiples, you know what I mean? Like you said, with like Elite 70 and stuff like that, you're not going to find like three Gerald Briscoes on the pegs at the same time. You know what I mean? It's like one set. Yeah. Well, I am saying that that Rock Elite is becoming like a peg warmer. That's been showing up in like all my stores and I thought that was going to be really hard to get.
01:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, I've noticed that too. It's been in a lot of the stores in Virginia too. I'm like, oh my gosh, cause it was, we thought it was going to be hard to find. And then once the Ghostbusters hit and like all those rock figures came out, the, that first little round got snatched up pretty quickly and then they got restocked pretty quickly too. So, and now they're kind of just sitting.
01:23:55
Speaker
Yeah, the Ghostbusters on the other hand, those landed, every store got like one set. Those were gone. And they were gone and that was it. I guess it was a one and done type of thing. So if anybody wanted those, you're probably going to reach out to eBay or some of the Facebook groups. Here and there, some people on our Facebook group have been selling them from time to time.
01:24:17
Speaker
Yeah, that's about it. But I'm glad those things are starting to hit better now. And I'm assuming as the holidays get closer, as we're closer to Black Friday, these stores are going to get inundated with some more stock on some of this stuff, which I think is going to make things easier for people to find over the next month or so.
01:24:33
Speaker
We can only hope. Yeah, try to avoid the scalper prices. I mean, if you look up Cassius Ohno right now on eBay, he's a guy I've never seen win a wrestling match in my life. I mean, I've watched him on NXT. He's good, whatever. But there's no reason somebody should be paying $124 for a Cassius Ohno wrestling figure in 2019.
01:24:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's how I feel about all the people that really paid over for the Sonia and the Liv like when they started to be a little bit more easier to find. I'm like, yeah, you guys like it's just patience. You know what I mean? If you got that kind of bread and you and you and you want the figure first by all means like do what you gotta do, right? But I just feel bad for people out there that are like blowing their whole figure budget on these two figures that I'm like, dude, they're gonna hit in your store. Like just stay calm, you know, or you're gonna be able to find them at a decent price once they
01:25:23
Speaker
They start hitting in other people's stores because the market's going to get a little bit more flooded and these prices are going to have to come down, you know? Yeah. People just want to be like the first person to post a photo on it. I mean, it's not, it's not that serious. If I get it, I get it. If I don't get it, I don't get it. You know, I'm sure there's going to be a way to find it, you know, in another month or two. Eventually. As newer leads come out, as new series come out, people are going to totally forget about these.
01:25:46
Speaker
And as we know, you know, as collectors of anything, eventually, you know, sometimes people, you know, get tired of their collections and they, they start getting rid of stuff or people fall on hard times, baby. And they, you know, let some of their prized figures go. So like, just stay patient and just keep your ear to the ground and you know, don't get, don't get robbed just because you're impatient. You know what I mean? What'd you pick up this week, Marco? Um, nothing for myself. I've been trying to go around and grab some stuff for the, uh,
01:26:14
Speaker
for the toy drive and stuff like that, so I'm in, I'm out of the selfish mode. The only thing I really did was support my big dude seasoned brethren, which is Keith Lee, pre-ordered his, his, I mean, big dude seasoned, he had a, he had a represent, he had a, he's like the representation, he's like the figurehead of,
01:26:38
Speaker
Big dude season. Yeah. I think, I think Keith Lee is the one that started. Um, yeah, his little trunks. I think he's the one that, um, you know, got big dudes and kicked off. Right. Yeah. He has a, he has a build, like how my dad was, he has like pretty much like the, the big upper body and the, like, kind of like the, I mean, his legs are way bigger than my dad's legs were, but cause he works out, but yeah, he has like the, the, uh,
01:27:05
Speaker
Yeah, it's actually an action figure body, which is- Question. Can your dad do a moonsault? No. Actually, you know what? I was going to bring the story up last night, because I did bring it up in the chat that we had. I did see my daughter pull off kind of like a suicide dive move, which is really fast, because I didn't see her climbing, because she's really fast at climbing now. I have one-year-old twin daughters, so they climb. But you ever see, like, Seth Rollins,
01:27:33
Speaker
or Dean Ambrose or John Moxley, if you're an AEW fan, how they do like, they run into, they do the dive and they do the clean dive and they kind of like push the guy into the barricade. She did that to her sister and they both go like clean. Oh my God. On a mat, like it was kind of like, it was like, we have a, we have a dog. So like there's like a dog bed. So he was like, there was like boxes set up next to the dog bed. Cause we're trying to like move stuff around. She just climbed up super fast. I turned my head like really quick.
01:28:03
Speaker
It's just like a dive and then push, pushed her right onto the van. So she did, she did like the Seth Rollins, like the suicide, the suicide high five. It was, it was good. It was really clean actually. I was like, no, neither one of them got hurt. They didn't hit the table. They like, obviously one of them cried because she was the one that hit the floor or like they patted for, but the other one has gone up like, ah, pull it off really.
01:28:24
Speaker
Really well, so. I mean, they're going to be the next women's tag team champions. Oh, not now. They've already split up. Jeez. Oh, yeah. No, they have to do that early. So that would like when you get back together, now your bond is reinforced even stronger. Exactly. You're not going to break out. Yeah, you forge forever. You're not going to lose the titles. You don't want to keep them forever. But yeah, other than that, just a pre-order. And like I said, just gathering up some stuff for the toy drive. So I'll be sending it out soon.
01:28:55
Speaker
And then I sent out the figures for one of our Patreon guys. I saw that. Aaron. Yeah, so he got the other rock. And the Shawn Michaels Ghostbusters I picked up from. And that was pretty much it. Yeah, I had a pretty light week this week. I got a scale back. It's holiday season, so we got to tie it up a little bit. It's true, but that being said,
01:29:23
Speaker
We did get a bunch of new, um, you know, MOC and prototype images and everything like that, uh, of some things that are dropping pretty soon, which just looks super mage. And, um, we saw the super seven new Japan figures, like holy guacamole. So yeah, you better, the purse strings will probably be loosened up, uh, before long, but yeah, let's talk about.
01:29:49
Speaker
All the things that we saw ringside release. What are you most excited for Phil? Of all the things that you saw coming up.
01:29:56
Speaker
Oh, well, I really liked that Series 103, the Matt Riddle. I was hoping that would be an Elite, but that's going to be pretty cool. We've just seen the prototype images of it so far, but that's basic 103. I'm excited to get a Matt Riddle at some point this year. I don't know, Elite 74 looks like a set that I'm going to be passing on because you've got a Finn Ballet, you've got AJ Styles, Goldberg, Andrade again.
01:30:21
Speaker
Lince Dorado, but I really liked the Natalia just because I've been building up my mint on card women's division Collection so that and the Kyrie saying the Kyrie saying now they just released pictures of what those actually look like the actual figure and Yeah, it's a badass. I'll configure it comes with a bunch of little accessories with it Stuff
01:30:42
Speaker
yeah the telescope and you get like the little wheel and then um is that like a wristband i can't i don't know what that is but um yeah it looks really freaking cool i'm i that figure i think that's gonna that's the highlight of the bunch i think alistair black obviously looks really freaking cool too i mean we already have like a really sick definitive nxt alistair black but this one with like the spikes
01:31:04
Speaker
on the shoulders. I think they just nailed it. It looks so good. I'm a little disappointed with the packaging change on the elites now with like the kind of the box is more of like a, like a dot. Ugly. Yeah. Ugly. Yeah. Ugly, but also like.
01:31:19
Speaker
I do like that the plastic on the front is a little bit bigger, so it's better for MOC collectors, but I just don't like the switch. I don't know. I would hope they would just keep the same design of the package and maybe change the color scheme, but put some graphics behind the wrestlers in the package. Do something a little different. I don't know. Yeah, it's so freaking generic. And I hate the shape of the box, too.
01:31:49
Speaker
And I've talked about that before, like a little corner cut off. Like I'm like, just make it rectangle. You know what I mean? Like, just stop, stop trying to be all fancy. You know what I mean? It's just, so yeah, I totally agree with you 100%. Um, so yeah, those are really cool. And then we saw the on-card pictures of like the WrestleMania, the, um, WrestleMania 36 series. It's in stock over at ringside. So you got like Stephanie, uh, Becky Lynch, Seth Rollins, The Rock, Batista.
01:32:19
Speaker
Shane McMahon. If you're a basics collector, definitely check those out. Um, what else? Oh, all the storm collectibles, Hogan's launch. I think it was like this last week, right? Was it last week or the week before? Um, but they all, they all went out and, uh, they look pretty awesome. I mean, storm collectibles just freaking nails it every damn time.
01:32:39
Speaker
I'm hoping to see that basic 100 hit stores. I don't know if that's ever going to hit stores because... I have not seen it in any of my stores. No. You're already looking at 103 and 104 here for basics. That was cool. The packaging was cool. You had all the different legends there. That would have been nice.
01:33:00
Speaker
Yeah, a lot of good stuff coming out. At this point, I'm waiting now. I mean, they have a nice Halloween sale going on right now at Ringside Collectibles, which is going on for the last week or so. So if you're looking for stuff, it's a good time. But between now and Black Friday, the sales that they have at Ringside Collectibles for Black Friday are amazing. So it's hard to believe that we're like three or four weeks away from that, but we are. Did you pre-order the Major Brothers playset?
01:33:28
Speaker
I did not. I did not either. I totally forgot about that. It went, I saw that it went on sale. Um, I need to, I don't know if it sold out. It was only 300 of them. So I'm sure it did sell out, but I went on sale on Friday. So I'm curious to see if there's any, any left. I need to hit the heel husband up and see if that was something that he was wanting because I completely dropped the ball.
01:33:47
Speaker
Yeah, I forgot about it too. We talked about the Keith Lee in that series 104, but that's Dana O'Brien, Mysterio, Orton, Alexa Bliss, and Keith Lee. He's the chase figure, so there's two different versions. But yeah, a lot of good stuff coming out, and it will be interesting to see next week at Ringside Fest what is going to be announced there, because I'm sure they have a lot of stuff that they're going to save and drop there. That's on November 3rd, so that's a week. That's this weekend, yeah.
01:34:15
Speaker
Yeah, it is. Um, it's, uh, what's that Sunday? Yeah, Sunday, Sunday. Um, so what are your thoughts on the super seven figures? Uh, I'm not too familiar with anything new Japan, but they look pretty cool. I mean, it sucks that they're not coming out until, you know, about a year from now. I think it's summer, summer of 2020 they're, they're available. No, that was, um, that was the, uh, Pinta and the,
01:34:41
Speaker
Who else was it? Ray Phoenix? Yeah. Yes. It was a lucha bros. They did, they did a pre-order for that. And, um, you know, the heel husband was hitting me up and he was like, yeah, definitely see what the deal is with the pre-orders on those. And they were like 40 bucks a piece. I think it was like 30, 38 bucks, 37 99. And, uh, I looked into it. So I went to go pre-order them and they're not even releasing until freaking summer 2020. I was like,
01:35:05
Speaker
That's a long way away for a pre-order. You know what I mean? Like, and especially not to know, like, are they going to charge your card right now? Are they going to wait till they ship? Are they, I mean, are they funding this project? Like, could you possibly lose your money if they don't get it funded? Like what's the deal with this? Um, but the figures looked amazing. So yeah, I'm going to hang tight because I definitely want those figures, but at the same time, like I'm not willing to like buy them a year in advance. You know what I mean? I don't want them that bad. Yeah. Yeah. They do have a.
01:35:33
Speaker
They do have like, if you're going to buy a set of figures, probably this one is it because it's pretty much all the major hitters of New Japan right now. It's like literally all the best guys. It's not like one good guy and three other dudes or two good guys and two other guys. It's literally all four of those guys are like the major, like the major players of New Japan right now. So you definitely want that.
01:35:56
Speaker
You knew they had to come out swinging. The pre-orders for these start on the first. That's Friday. They start on Friday. So I need to get in touch with the heel husband and see if he wants any of these figures so I can pre-order those. But I wonder when they actually launch. Do you know what the launch date is? Yeah, it doesn't really. Even in that article.
01:36:19
Speaker
It doesn't really give any info. It sounds like Mike Lanham said that he pulled the page off of their website. I think in one of the Twitter accounts that posted it said Super 7 asked them to delete the post from Twitter. Oh, really? That I think they launched it and they weren't ready. That doesn't have all the information and stuff like that. Oh, then? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So I just looked up M&M Figure Clothing says, there was a post on Twitter. It says,
01:36:45
Speaker
The pre-orders begin on Friday, November 1st and they will close Saturday, November 30th in the Super 7 pre-order store. So I guess they're taking pre-orders for all of the like up until that date during that little time period. But yeah, it doesn't say anything about an actual like launch date.
01:37:04
Speaker
Alright, well, stay tuned to the Chick-Fully social media, Alex is you, as we will update you on that stuff as we're going forward. I had a good father-son moment, I was, I shouldn't really do this, my son was eating dinner, my wife wasn't home yet, and I was pulling the Gargano and the Ricochet figures out of the box to ship them loose to the guys, our Patreon subscribers, and I was like 10 feet away from my son, and I was just, I was opening up the Johnny Gargano box, and he's like,
01:37:32
Speaker
Oh, daddy is Johnny. It's Johnny Gargano. I was like, how the hell do you know this is like, like you can't read, obviously he's four years old. And I mean, it was just a, you know, a box that he's never seen before. So he hasn't seen Johnny Gargano more than one or two times on TV. So it was pretty funny. That's pretty cool. He made an impact, you know? Yeah. I mean, that's why, that's why he's Johnny wrestling. He, he knows how to, he knows how to make an impact. Um, he is a pretty little impressive little guy. You know what I mean? I love me some, I love me some Johnny Gargano. So the Nash.
01:38:01
Speaker
Nash Genteel has good taste. Yeah, I mean all the figures I got for him for Christmas are like NXT guys. I got him Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream. Now I'm probably going to have to get the Gargano for him. I'll probably get that riddle. So, you know. Well, that's the best way. Start him on stuff that's not going to make him disappointed or sad.
01:38:21
Speaker
When do you think we get AEW wrestling figures? It has to be soon, right? I mean, it has to announce something soon. I would imagine, yeah. I bet we see at least a deal go down or some prototype images or something in 2020 for sure.
01:38:39
Speaker
That's what everybody thought this announcement was yesterday and everyone gets so you know You can't you can't pimp out an announcement like people are gonna shut their imagination run wild Yeah, was there any figure news going on I think there was something else that I'm missing but I may maybe not I don't think so. I think I think that pretty much covers all the the big things that went down and
01:39:04
Speaker
Yeah, we talked about last week, the kerfuffle with the Sonya Deville and Liv Morgan figures not scanning. It sounds like that has been corrected, I guess. Resolved. Yeah, so that is good. I am losing my voice. I feel like I can't talk right now. I think it's maybe just no beer. This is one of the first episodes I've done without any. That might be the fuel for the podcast. Yeah, you definitely diet. Diet Coke's not going to cut it. So after December, like I said, I'll be cracking open cold ones.
01:39:34
Speaker
making it for lost time. But by the time we get to the retro wrestling recommendation, I'll probably be pretty, pretty drunk. I'll be like, Oh, well, well, you know, after, after nine months of nothing, I imagine I'm, oh, you're quite the, quite the lightweight.
Halloween Memories
01:39:51
Speaker
So here's what we're going to do for the Patreon, and I haven't told you guys this yet, but we're going to... Oh god, breaking stuff live on air. What's happening? Oh jeez, this is scary. It's going to be... Well, we can brainstorm this here if you like, but I think it's a great idea. It's going to be the three of us, the Hill Husband and Mike Lanham, on a email chain, and we are going to draft Mattel elites
01:40:16
Speaker
We each get five that we pick. They can be current or former, anything from Mattel, single elites. And we're going to basically build a Survivor Series team. And we're going to post those five teams onto our Patreon and our social media. And we'll let the folks vote and see who has the best squad. So this is going to be based on just the best figures, not like the best in-ring wrestlers or, you know, something like that. OK. OK. I think we're pretty cool.
01:40:44
Speaker
I'm down. I'm down for that. So, OK, are we this is all males, I'm assuming, right? Like this kid, like because I mean, I don't want to sound sexist, but but yeah, OK, I got it. It's OK. You can say yes. I'm not I'm not going to be I'm not going to be offended. There's not there's never been a female survivor series. Am I wrong? No, that's the only thing they haven't done yet. Right. Oh, like a fall female survivor series. Oh, yeah. But they have obviously they do like the women's Smackdown and Raw Tag matches. But other than that,
01:41:13
Speaker
Yeah, I was thinking, that's the next big thing in the works. Better hope Sasha Banks gets in on that historical moment. Might have to do a mixed tag team before my elite. I know. Might have to be mixed. Might have to have some ladies sprinkled out in there. I know, because there's some pretty, there's some pretty mage ladies, but yeah, we'll decide whether it's all male or whether we're going to let some mixed match challenge action happen. But I'm cool with it being all male, because then that way it also helps to
01:41:39
Speaker
Eliminate some of the competition because you kind of streamlines, you know, you got to just have dudes, you know form. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So yeah, I'm down for that. Do we have a random merch of the week this week?
01:41:51
Speaker
We do. And, um, it should come as no surprise. Cause like, I feel like three out of the last four, um, have been whole Kogan merches, but I've been looking at like vintage Halloween stuff for WWF. And there's a ton, it should be no surprise. There's a ton of vintage whole Kogan stuff. This one is super, super cool because it comes in the box. Um, it says costume and mask. It's by, it's by a company called Ben Cooper and vintage. Let me see if it's got the year on here. Um,
01:42:21
Speaker
I don't see a year, but I'll read the description here in a minute, but it looks so cool. It's like a plastic mask. He's wearing a white headband that says Hulkster. Um, and let me pull up the image. The actual body suit is like rubber and it's got like the heavyweight championship title. He's got like the, you know, the, um,
01:42:42
Speaker
the yellow pants and the red Hulkamania shirt. It is like super, super cool. Like it's like totally in my wheelhouse. Like I love these like vintage costumes. It just like takes me back to like a, you know, a time when Halloween was like, it wasn't trunk retreating. Like you actually had to like go to people's houses and like knock on their doors and you could trick or treat all night, you know? And you could just forget about being a cool teenager for one night and just go and enjoy yourself.
01:43:13
Speaker
Yeah, I'm pretty excited. This is a cool. This is the one I have found one for eighty nine nineties. And how much is this? This one is this one is 110. And it's like, I guess it's in the box and it's a lot. Yeah, it's a large. It fits children 53 to 58 inches tall. So I don't know exactly how tall that is. I'm not a really good at math, but I think that's eight feet. Eight feet. Big, big, big kid season.
01:43:40
Speaker
So this is from 1985, you guys. It's by Titan Sports. And it's got the original price tag on it and everything. And the original price tag says $6.89. Wow. Man, people have such a knack for keeping stuff, man. This is so cool. And this would be cool for a Hulk Hogan collection.
01:44:00
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, even if you just displayed it in the box, like with the, with the whole Kogan head, like in the front, like it is like the box and everything is just like screams nostalgia. Like it is so freaking rad.
01:44:12
Speaker
I want to find a walk around. I always wanted to like for Halloween is like sit on my front porch like dressed up like completely in like some sort of scary costume and like hold a bowl of candy and just have a sign that says take one and then when kids try to grab like more than one just like jump out and scare the shit out of them.
01:44:31
Speaker
Oh yeah. I, um, they used to do that in our neighborhood all the time when I was growing up, like my, my dad's little neighborhood where we would go trick or treating and, uh, people would do that, like sit up there and like jump out of bushes or they would hold bowls and like, you know, you go up and they would like scream and come chase you. Um, so yeah, I, I love, I love Halloween. God, I just, it's my favorite time of year. I'm not, I'm not looking forward to looking at all the, uh, um,
01:44:56
Speaker
vintage Christmas WWE merch. Did you get out of the house and go see Joker movie or is that not happening yet?
01:45:04
Speaker
It didn't happen. Um, let me tell, let me tell you about my, my pathetic, uh, pregnant story. So me and my dad, we went and we went and got breakfast. We're like, Oh yeah, we're going to go watch Joker. You know, the, the in-laws have, uh, had the Bretman it's going to be great. So then we got caught up doing something else. We had to run a couple of errands and we went back to the house and we're like, Oh, we're going to go catch the, um, you know, I can't remember like two 30, two 30 movie, whatever. And then we both fell asleep and we woke up. Yes.
01:45:32
Speaker
Like I laid down on the couch and my dad laid down on the recliner. We're like, oh, we'll just wait here and we'll leave in about an hour. And we both crashed out and we woke up and we were like, oh, well, so, so much for that. But I still have this week. So hopefully I can see it this week before I get back to Virginia. And I'm just like totally, totally solo. Somebody can watch the Bretman while I go see the Joker because I've heard really good things.
01:46:00
Speaker
about it. So I'm stoked to actually just go to the movies and eat popcorn and pour some M&Ms in there and drink a giant Coke and live my best life, my vintage life.
01:46:11
Speaker
Yeah, it was a good movie. I definitely recommend it. We talked about that last week. It's definitely one I think people should check. I think it's already now number one, like number one R-rated movie of all time or R-rated action hero movie or something, whatever, classic. Are you just making up these categories? Yeah, number one Saudi Arabia. It's the number one largest movie turmoil. Number one movie tag team turmoil movie that there's no ending. It's a 60 minute time limit ending. The number one European
01:46:41
Speaker
24 seven championship. Exactly. It actually is. It did win. It actually did become the number one. It surpassed Deadpool, I believe as the number one R rated movie of all time worldwide, which is kind of insane, but interesting.
01:47:01
Speaker
Yeah, well Marco you have an awesome retro wrestling recommendate. Well, I guess I shouldn't say awesome. Yeah, don't pre don't hype it like that It's still important for the people to to understand and go back and watch for historical purposes I mean if they're gonna so I'm gonna Say don't watch this for historical purposes watch the previous match because that's a way better but it is Halloween havoc 1998
01:47:31
Speaker
And that is infamous for a couple of things. One is the rematch between Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, which was, it's minus five stars if you're a Dave Meltzer person. So that tells you right there. The other part of it is, it is also known for ending before the main event on pay-per-view. I'm not sure if that was a, if you guys knew about that. So what had happened was they planned for a,
01:48:00
Speaker
No pay reviews of three hours. And in pay review time, you get cut off. And that starts like the replay of the next pay review. Well, this pay review went three hours and 30 minutes. And the main event was that 30 minutes. So most people did not get to see the main event, which was Diamond Dallas Page versus Goldberg. And that was probably the best match of the whole card, just up and down.
01:48:28
Speaker
I mean, there are some decent matches on there, but you get a marquee match in Sting versus Bret Hart. Just that alone is like, wow, it's a dream match, right? No, not a dream match. Not good. We all love Bret Hart. He's the excellence of execution. He's the best there is. There was a never will be. Just not on 1998. Yeah, not in WCW. Yeah, no.
01:48:55
Speaker
It obviously is one of those things where it could have been better. Like, if you look at the card, it's actually a really decent card for what WCW was in 98, because they were pretty much red hot at that moment. But just the execution of the pay-per-view was not there. But yeah, definitely, check it out. If you are going to watch a match, watch two, watch the Domino's page match first, just so you can get your hopes up. Wow, this is a great match.
01:49:23
Speaker
Watch Hogan vs. Wario, which has a lot of botches in it. There's a part where Hogan's supposed to blind him with a flash of light, and it doesn't go planned.
Holiday Traditions
01:49:38
Speaker
It doesn't even light up the right way, and it's bad. Just watch it. If you want to really scare yourself on Halloween, definitely watch Halloween have a nice, nice game.
01:49:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty much it for that. Yeah, there was also Bret Hart versus Sting. I mean, they recently did this card on 83 weeks. And then I think Bruce and Conrad did on their podcast, too, like a watch along. And there was a bunch of matches on there that should have been good. You had Hall versus Nash. You had Steiner versus Steiner, Rick versus Scott. Bret Hart versus Sting, Goldberg, Damondale's page. I mean, this should have been like,
01:50:15
Speaker
a huge card for WCW, but this is kind of the beginning of the end. At the same time over on the WWF side, we saw Kane versus the Undertaker wrestling for the WWE Championship with Stone Cold as the referee. So very different atmosphere over there as WWF was like finally kind of taking hold of the ratings and the attitude era was in full.
01:50:41
Speaker
full swing, so yeah, good pick. I always liked the Halloween Havocs and I would have always loved to go to a wrestling pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Vegas, man. That would be a fun fucking weekend to hang out and just eat and drink, watch wrestling and gamble, and man, whew.
01:51:00
Speaker
Good times. Spent a lot of money, I'm sure. All right. We haven't talked about it yet, but we've gotten quite a few donations for our holiday toy drive. If you haven't heard about it, Sheena, myself, and Marco have partnered with Jimmy's Famous Seafood here in Baltimore and Toys for Tots. We are going to be donating a bunch of wrestling figures and any non-wrestling toys that you want to donate. We're not picky.
01:51:25
Speaker
and I can give you the address here. It's Chick Foley Toy Drive, PO Box 3203, Catonsville, Maryland, 21228. Everyone that donates, whether you donate one wrestling figure or 100, will be entered into a drawing at the end of the thing for a huge giveaway of a bunch of cool stuff that we're going to do, whether it's
01:51:47
Speaker
some t-shirts and wrestling figures and all kinds of stuff. So make sure you donate. And like I said, we on our social media platforms, we're always letting people know about any good sales going on, whether it's Amazon or eBay or ringside collectibles. So we want you to donate. We also want you to spend your money wisely. And, you know, five below is a great spot. If you want to just donate money to us, we can do the shopping for you and then you can save on the ridiculous shipping charges.
01:52:14
Speaker
Uh, we're here to help. We just wanted to make sure some of the kids here in Baltimore have a good Christmas and that's what it's all about. So, uh, definitely check it out. Yeah, I think we've, uh, covered all of our bases, man. Um, yeah, it was, uh, another interesting week in wrestling. Hopefully, like I said, we have an uptick here in the next few weeks because I'm getting tired of like, uh,
01:52:37
Speaker
being like what the hell's going on ron's back down and that's what will be the will recall recap our halloween's will recap crown jewel will talk about ringside fast i'm sure a lot of good news will come from that and uh... will get into uh... thanksgiving season big dude season is upon us and this is the we're talking about super bowl that's that's my super bowl and that's what i holiday that's built for my body type
01:53:00
Speaker
I know we will get on a deep dive here on Thanksgiving just yet. We'll save that for for November. But I do want to know what is your what's your go to? Like what is your what is the one thing you got to have on your plate at Thanksgiving? Like what's the what's the the thing? Like if you didn't have any other things
01:53:19
Speaker
What will be the one? Oh, man. Oh, man. I'm weird, but I love green bean casserole because I. Hey, not something you get all the time. It's like you do the little crispy onions. Oh, yeah, of course. On top like the fully traditional. What about you, Marco? I'm going to go plain Jane here and I'm a I'm a stuffing guy.
01:53:44
Speaker
Oh, I'm a girl. Oh, look at that. Look at that. We're just like on the same wavelength right now with the we are with the not sending jiving. But yeah, I love it. Different types of suffering to everyone makes stuffing differently. It's not always not the same, but I always have to try if I'm at someone's house or I'm at a relative's or a friend's house. I always have to try the suffering just to see how they how they make it because everyone does it differently. I don't think I've
01:54:14
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tasted the same stuffing anywhere at all. Everyone puts their own spit on it, and that's just my favorite thing. Yeah, stuffing is the best, because it's like bread that tastes like meat. Yeah. It's like the best thing ever. So yeah, I definitely love, if I could only have one thing on my plate, it would definitely be stuffing. And like you, Marco,
01:54:37
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I'm the same way. Like if there's like, if it's like a potluck style Thanksgiving, like family and stuff, and there's like different types of stuffing, like I'm going to try both. You know what I mean? Like I'm going to put, I'm going to put both on the plate and like, you know, be my own judge because I don't want to miss out. But yeah, that's put sausage in it. Oh man.
01:54:56
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Yeah, my mother-in-law puts like bacon in hers and it is like yeah, it's so good then you'll be get the people that are like the fancy ones with like the big cubes of Like bread like the crouton style with like the cranberries and all that stuff in there. God. So freakin good
01:55:13
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I'm getting a little out of control. Today I found myself drinking straight from a gallon of apple cider just right at the front. Just not even giving a shit. Oh man, I love apple cider. I had my wife buy me some of her and the kid went with daycare to like a pumpkin patch. I was like, please get me some apple cider.
01:55:33
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Yeah, we had apple cider slushies at the at the little harvest festival like Jackson's Orchard that we went to and they were so good. And they were actually floats. They had like the apple cider slushy and then they mix like like the soft serve in with it. So it was like a float. So it was it was money. Yeah. It was so damn good. Let me tell you something else I'm a fan of.
01:55:52
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And this might like, this is going to be like the candy corn discussion. It's probably going to turn the people off, but I love me some eggnog. Oh, I do too. I love eggnog as well. All three of us are on the same page. Okay. That's why we're friends.
01:56:09
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I don't think best friends that anyone can have. I don't think I've had it till like like five years ago was like the first time I ever had it. I always thought it was like disgusting. It just sounds like really gross. But yeah, once you yeah, the spicy water, the cinnamon and stuff. Oh yeah. Oh my God. I've been I've been noggin it up my whole life and I just love the shit so much. Like it is so it is so good. But yeah, there's those people that it like repulses them. They're like, oh my God.
01:56:35
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That's disgusting. That's disgusting. Even Starbucks does like an eggnog latte and I'm like, all right, I'm I'm with it. I'm with it. Yeah. Yeah. I would fill up a kiddie pool of eggnog and swimming. Can we do it? Listen, I just had I just had I just had a brainchild. We need to do a holiday foods bracket. Oh, yeah, that's definitely so like just like over like all holidays, just like
01:57:02
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I think no, I think it should be like like like like winter holiday, like Thanksgiving, Christmas. You know what I mean? Like I don't want to do like Easter candy or like peeps or Cadbury. We'll say we'll save those for those specific times of year. But I think this time of year we need to get down and dirty and carby and sugary. OK, I'm going to talk about all of the media media.
01:57:25
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Yeah, and we need to do a holiday foods bracket bonus episode. We're really appealing to our big dude's clientele here. This is good for the brand. This is good for the brand. When are they going to start talking about eggnog? I've been listening to this podcast for an hour and 40 minutes now.
01:57:45
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I've been waiting for the eggnog conversation to kick off. What the hell? My neighbors across the street invite us over. We'll do mimosas and cinnamon rolls the week of Christmas. And the girl makes her own eggnog. And it's so awful. It is just the story. Really? Yeah, it's just not good. It's just tries too hard.
01:58:06
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Give me like a like a carton. It's pretentious. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like it's probably way more like like better for you. Yeah. It's more fresh. But yeah. No preservatives. Not near enough corn syrup. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. You need you need the shit out of the little half gallon carton thing with like the like the Christmas colors and like a bell on it. You know what I mean? Like that. That's the shit that I want to drink and I want to drink it out of a moose mug like Clark Griswold. There you go. I like that.
01:58:35
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Oh man, we should watch that movie too. This is the best time of year, man. I swear to God. It is the best time of year. Unless you're a wrestling fan and it's terrible. Yeah, it's bad. If you're a wine salesman, it's really the best time of year. Oh yeah, that's for damn sure. People starting to drink finally.
01:58:55
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All right, guys. Drink wine, at least. Everybody's getting off of their hard seltzer ticks. And they're like, oh, no, we'll drink wine. It's wintertime. Yeah, warms you up a little bit. Yeah. All right, so we're at two hours exactly, almost. I want to, for Sheena Phelps and Marco Denton, we wish you guys a happy and safe Halloween. And we will be back here next week to recap all of the goodness that is professional wrestling.
01:59:21
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wrestling figures so an eggnog too so thank you for listening we appreciate the support and we will talk to you next week stay classy marks
01:59:47
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i disagree everything you believe is a tragedy i disagree with the way you keep pitching insanity i disagree with all of the reasons you're mad at me
02:00:35
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to the ground when it opens down