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MWFP Rewind - Episode 33 · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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You're listening to the Major Pod Network, the only place where your favorite toy
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Rewind, a show that takes some of the best classic, ultimate defining moments
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from the Wrestling Figure I'm not gonna do it again from the Major Wrestling Figure
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neat little package for new and old Major Marks to enjoy. This week,
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we go back to the basics. We go all the way back to two
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thousand and nineteen where the boys are on the road, which means memories from
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Kansas City and Brian has some fun stories. He goes into an epic prank
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war involving him, Heath Slater, Kofi Ziggler, and even an infamous taco
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incident involving Trent and Broskie me or may not have been there we don't know.
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We're not sure. He doesn't quite remember. He says he was there,
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but Brian says he wasn't. I don't know. And then we have
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a bit of an unboxing bonanza. There was a special challenge made by Brian
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about getting some bad purchases overseas and they get into a little bit of boxing
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there, some classic items, a fun segment overall, and then Lecu de
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Gras, the man himself, the Diamond Fiend Baler is on the podcast with
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a very fun interview, and then we get into some incarnation of domination for
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the monster known as Abyss, a classic WTF all about the legends FCC,
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lou Albino Albano, and then we end it with a Q and Day which
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includes a classic That's Abroski story. That's it. Enjoy the show. This
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am your host, Brian Myers. Ay ka WW superstar Kurt Hawkins. Let
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me just say that my phone, Man, my phone is being held up
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right now by a Zoro Mendez pop socket. Yeah, baby, I can't
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believe. That's the week, the test of time. I love this.
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What do we have an update on Major Wrestling Figure podcast? You were supposed
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to order them, didn't get it done. You didn't order them, but
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I did. Yep, So we have them coming. I'm not quite sure
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what we're gonna do with them. I know we design them or we uh
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we said that we're gonna be for giveaways only, but I know there's gonna
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be some major marks out there that want them right away. So maybe we'll
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put like limited edition for sales, like maybe like twenty five for sale.
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The rest of these for giveaways, because I know there's like the job in
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and out there, and there's a lot of guys out there who collect all
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of left out. I got everything finally understand that that's we'll figure it out.
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Hey, we're in Kansas City, home of the Donut King. The
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Donut King shout. I still have the Donut King T shirt. I didn't
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indulge today the donuts I had one. I think a picture with the actual
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Donut King himself. Nice. Now I'm trying to think of more memories.
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Man, I've been here so many times. It is one of those buildings
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that I remember always being here because of the catering, because there's like a
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weird like video game area in there. Is that still there? Still there?
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Still here? Baby? Oh, I didn't even I know that's that
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building bils. Is that something of yesterdyre Um so what I always think of.
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And this has nothing to do with you. I don't think you even
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know this story. There's some weird like prank war that was going on for
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a while when I was riding like me Swaggle Kofi a long time was me
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Swaggo and Kofe and something two and a half men right? I honestly I
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asked Heath yea the two and a half men right? And honestly, I
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can't remember what started. I asked Heath tig because I remember he had something
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to do with it, like one time we got in the car after a
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live event or pulling up to a live event and he threw like a burrito
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at our car and like exploded in the side that something happened and then which
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really doesn't I can't tell you the details because I don't remember what happened exactly,
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but somehow like Zeke and JTG got involved in this. And then like
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we came out of a show and we went to put our bags in the
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trunk and it looked like someone had taken a garbage kid and dumped it out
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in our truck. Just disgusting. It's all garbage all on our We're like
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in our trunk and we're like, oh, what the heck? And somehow
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we got we figured out that was Zeke and JTG. So then we're plodding
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plotting. It was like Sunday into Monday day off and then we we're going
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to SmackDown here in Kansas City. And just by chance, we were like,
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if we can figure out what what Jtgen and Zeke or riding in,
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we're gonna get him back. And we saw them like we crossed past them
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at this random gym, oh boy, and we like ran to the window.
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We played it cools at the gym. He would go, this is
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going to the gym with hornsboggle, we check in. He maybe walks on
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a treadmill for like two minutes, tells me us to take it, and
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then I don't see him until until I'm showering. But anyway, we played
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it cool with him when we see him, pretending like there was no heat,
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nothing. And then we ran to the window of the gym and saw
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them drive away in their car and were like whatever it was, and we
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were like, oh, that's it, blah blah blah. So when we
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were done at the gym, we go to this grocery store and we buy
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all these cans of soup and we made sure they were the ones with like
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the poll top like Anesota can. Yeah. And then like a psycho,
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we like drove around to different airport hotels and we finally found that car.
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Yeah. And then this at like midnight, one in the morning, and
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then we got out and just unleashed, just open up these soup cans,
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like like absolutely covered this car and Kansas soup and disgusting. And then the
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next day was Kansas City and I remember being in that locker room and the
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three of us are sitting there, two and a half of us just sitting
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there waiting and like no sound. They came and they know sold it like
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completely. They couldn't believe. But then someone stood off that they saw them
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like come out in the morning and like and like go crazy and they I
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guess they went straight to a car wash. This story is kind of unrelated
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but kind of not. It made me remember this story. I don't know
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if you were there, but uh, but I believe Plasma was there trem
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Baretta and we were driving this is our indie days and driving to a Jersey
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show. I think a Jersey show. I just said, day, Barry,
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this weekend, we were telling a story to people. You know,
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you were not in the car. I was there. No, you stood
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us up and didn't come. So like I remember the story about it wasn't
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there? Not there? That's even better. So then you tell the story.
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I could have swear I was there. I got it. I got
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all the details. I literally just talked about this at Alex Reynolds bachelor party
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over we came with Dan Barry showed up. I had no idea it was
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covid. Uh. What happened was we were all everybody's stavorite wrestling. Everybody
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stayed wrestling. Dan Barry me you, Dan Barry and trump Bread were supposed
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to go to an R eight show like as fans and buy tickets and check
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it out. Yeah, in the summer of oh five. That happened to
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be the show where it was supposed to be Punk's last show. But he
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does the big swerve and he like beats Aris for the belt and like it
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was a pretty big deal at the time. That's why exactly, and that's
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why I remember it. You bailed the last second for no reason. I
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think Lindsay Sankey wanted to hang outy or something and he flaked that. I
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was pissed. Yeah, where the Chuck Balumbo hair? And I was pissed.
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And then we went to the Taco Bell, which literally is a taco
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bell that's around the block for my house right now. And uh, we
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ate there and went on the road to Jersey, which is like at least
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ninety minutes you know New York traffic. Yeah, yeah, this is exactly
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what happened. We saw a homeless guy on the GW Bridge, Like I
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was there, You're not there, and there's out there. We're on the
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bridge. See a homeless guy like sayings like he had a sign that said
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hungry or something like that, and it's hard to see that kind of stuff,
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you know, and we're going We drove past him, and Trent was
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driving and he said something like, man, I hate seeing stuff like that.
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God, you know, it breaks my heart. And then he looks
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at his dashboard and he had a couple of tacos left over from taco.
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He goes, oh, man, I could have gave this guy this taco.
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God, I'm an idiot. Blah blah blah. We're driving. Five
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minutes later's another homeless guy, right, but this time we're not really in
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traffic. We're going like thirty miles per hour, like way faster than we
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were going. So Trent sees him. It was like super hot summer days,
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junk old car, no ac the way, the windows down. He
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goes, oh god, another guy. He grabs the taco, whips it
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out the window, like with the intentions of giving it the kind of give
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the guy, but he guy hummed it at this homeless guy hit him in
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the chest. And we're driving. So vest I just saw like cheese and
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lettuce explosion like go in the air, and I'm just like that was the
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complete oppos said of the moment you were trying to have you know this,
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this good? Wasn't there for that. I literally just talked to Dan Barry
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about this. I feel like, Okay, I definitely wasn't at that Ring
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of Honor show, but I remember this story. Where where will we be
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going like Jersey All Pro? Yeah, no, no, Well we'll follow
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up with Ann Barry. Uh, we'll be in housekeeping Mark anyway, guys,
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I saw that something I came up with. I don't know if it's
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five people. Oh whatever. Either way, Yeah, a KDD Wrestling design
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for us, um everyone who's ever done Yes, thank you guys very much.
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And speaking of shirts, our shirt, our WW shirt because we're actually
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wrestlers, technically the first ever official Hawkins T shirt. After all these years,
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no Major Brothers, Rough Run, no Hawking Through, no Lat Familiar
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Ship, Lat Familiar Shaw. I think there should have been a lot of
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familiar Yeah, but we finally have a Hawkins and Ryder's shirt. Win or
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lose, never defeated. I'm proud of it. I'm proud of them,
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I'm proud of the message it sends. I'm proud of like you said,
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guys. And we're gonna do a little giveaway we've been talking about on social
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media this week. So we weren't on RAW this past week. We were
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on main event, which is before Raw. So we did wrestle and we
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we saved those shirts. We didn't throw them to the crowd, and we're
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gonna give those away to two lucky fans. I'm gonna wash mine, you're
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gonna wash shirts. No, people don't want to like that. I don't
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want to washed. Well, it's not it's not like I didn't work in
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it, work to the ring, I get like I cut it baby oil
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and stuff, probably and you don't want to watch. That makes them,
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That makes it real. Are we gonna sign it? You'll sign yours,
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I'll sign mind exactly. And you don't know who you're you don't know who
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you're gonna get. So all you gotta do, guys, is proof just
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that you bought the shirt. Sending a little screenshot or hashtag never defeated hashtag.
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I would say hashtag major never defeated because it's probably some never defeated hashtags
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out there, people using that sending motivational messages. Hashtag major never defeated sounds
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good? And pick two. We'll pick two randomly. You will get a
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shirt that was worn by you. Got a screenshot your proof of purchase?
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Yes, and don't and don't try to like screen shot somebody else's screenshot.
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We'll catch you. We'll catch you, guys. We cat We always catch
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We always catch you dirty dogs out there, especially you, Bob Rude.
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I challenged you last week to bring in your inebriated UK tour bad Idea purchases
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in this and follow up not I think so I got enough in purchases that
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we're totally good. I think we do it. Now there's we have another
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unboxing. There's a lot of them boxing, That's what I'm saying. It's
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a long po A lot of people love that's fine, the long podcast.
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You know who doesn't love it? Burning them? SIT's a rib on Smart
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Mark the long pocket for everyone else. You're ready, Smart Mark is there.
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It's just like pulling out his silver balls, you know, pull these
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little puba cares out. I was trying to figure out the time to edit
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all this, just yanking outs pop socket. Yeah, all right, so
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you're gonna show me am I gonna show you one the same mind first are
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you? How are you? I'll show you minding you show me yours?
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Oh boy, I was inspired by our fearless leader on that tour. You
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know me, know, the true leader, the voice of inspiration and uh
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you know who you look to for advice on that tour, Oh testify.
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I have no idea why I bought this is a t and a brother divon
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with breakaway title, Oh my god, you Robert rude On the Box of
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Robert Rudski is in the set. You threw down this, uh this challenge
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to me and I had already just randomly like, put in the best offer
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to this guy and he accepted. Can I tell you something, guy,
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I get best something to you? Yes. Me. So after I bought
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that Abyss, I was thinking, like, I need to get some of
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these TNA figures. Is Hena. I think it's one of the more underrated
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lines in wrestling figure history. Literally. Then I'm like, okay, I'm
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not gonna get everybody, but let me just get guys I've worked with.
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Everybody can do that. The Dadley HND sing though, the three D look
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at that. Okay, anyway, we gotta open. Theis are pretty pricey
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to get, yo. I know that like all of them. There's nobody
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who's just cheap, Like nobody I even want to get. So there was
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like, okay, now I know soldiers. I want to get up.
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Yeah, you know, I want to get lending himself. It's not easy.
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Um um, you got more than one. Two best offers were accepted,
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Raven, Do you know that? I kind of because is this series
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one? This is three? Oh, I don't need this. Then I
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like this one because he has the longer hair and he's got the trench coat.
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Um, I'm getting at you for these tnas right now. Yeah,
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they're not. They're on boxes right now. I think we should Yeah,
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what do you do with them? I have no clue Miscellaneous might need these.
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I have a bunch of loose Rave. I have like almost like a
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weird loose Raven collection going on because I did all those unboxings. Right.
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Um, I'm like, do I get ECWT and HAGA. I don't know
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what I'm doing. I think you should say you should save these from boxings
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for the YouTube channel. Okay, I can do that too, yeah,
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sure, but these are very cool. So you have the TNA was a
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Series three Raven and Jacket deep on this the last series seven. Then there's
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no Bubba. There's no Bubba, but no brother, no brother, right
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but actually I think series eight is the set with Angle and like they just
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skip Bubba and then he just never gets made. So there's also one natural
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h you know, exclusions. I want some of these, but I can't.
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I can't do it quite yet. I think I'm should do with the
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Robert Rude that you got at Wrestling Universe. I hit it in Robert Rude's
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bag. Oh yeah, yeh damn yeah, because I get it to brother
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Nick. Um. That's those are awesome, and I might need those eventually
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because I want to get some of them. I wouldn't get that Raven,
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but I would get that Divon. I'd get series one Raven. There's so
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many taboo because I might have that might be next week. Oh boy?
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What? Um? Why series one? I think I need that, Jeff.
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I think I think I might cut it off and not get any of
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the figures if you just get Jared because that symbolizes everything. It symbolizes TNA
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symbolizes the toy line, which one the first first one with the n WA
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title. Yeah, I think that's what I'm gonna do. And can I
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keep by something what I already bought it. It hasn't come in the mail
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yet, but I bought the series one. Uh TNA, Jeff Jarrett,
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Um, and that's what I'm gonna use. Thinking I had all these guys,
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had all the races everything. I love that. I said, it's
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one of the more underrated series. So we'll say those on boxing History YouTube
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dot com. Slash Madia of pod people love your your on boxings. Okay,
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that's I'll do that. Well. So I showed you mine, you
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have to show me yours. This went on late night. Oh brother,
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this we bought these late on a tour bus. Were we drunk and I
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think it was actually one night where we didn't Okay, we're just bored this
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right here, you're so bored in these doings. My wife was like a
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bunch of packages. Better not come. It was like it was like stacking.
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It was it was stacked Dylan Postle hide mounting boxes. Why what about?
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Why? Then it's like the length of his button. This is a
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Winston Toys nineteen eighty five whole Cogain's a Rock and Wrestling erasing. I'm so
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happy you're doing this right now. I cannot wait. These these look like
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Bendham's, but they're just erasers. Um. There is the J Y D.
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Junkyard, Dog, Hulk Coogan, Wendy Richter, Iron Cheek Piper,
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and Jimmy Snugger. This is based off the Rock and Wrestling cartoon. But
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the Hogan looks pretty much like his Bendham doesn't look like how he looks in
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the cartoon. As you can see how the box are, that's how he
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looks in the cartoon. This is just a LJN. Bendy type thing.
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Yes, and what's interesting about these box. Look at this, you just
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slide off the back carting. I never knew that, and then you can
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just take it out. So that's what I'm gonna do. And this is
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the eraser. Oh my god, definitely look at this. There's definitely some
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color damage to this. Oh my god, he's got two skin tones.
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From the front. He's got like a greenish zombie Scott zombie sailor no zombie
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sailor real zombie. And then you flip it over and he's got the meant
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to be color like. Yeah, I think now that I've opened this up,
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I realized you're gonna need another one. Yeah. And what's great about
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this package is I could put it right back in. Yeah, I'm saying
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that's what I'm going to do. Hey, have a it's been confirmed.
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I guess a little follow up ski that the ultimate editions are meant to be
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kept. Even though you actually announce the shoe box and the shoe, you
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absolutely annihilated that round up package. Le bummed out that this is all sun
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damaged out I got. I don't know, you're gonna have a hard time.
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Well, man, I can't wait to get it to the next segment.
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Is that. No, we have a lot and follow up at housekeeping.
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That's all I purchased. How much does that cost you? Not a
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lot? Right? Maybe like sixty seventy bucks. Even that sounds like more
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than what I would thought. I really can't believe the sun damage on the
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back. This is like useless to me. All right? Um, wow,
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well that doesn't go as I had planned? Should we? We should
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just transition to this this week. Friend of the pod Cpa one third works
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for a toy store. He works for a guy that, like I don't
20:07
know, does like storage wars type stuff and finds collectibles. Um one third
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of the Off the Hop podcast, the Hop Ropes podcast of you Know proud
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sponsor the Mad Dress FIGR podcast. He hit me up and said he found
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a very rare item. I said, yo, Brosi's gonna want to want
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that. Yeah, and I said, get it. I'll surprise him on
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the podcast. Little to know, you had already seen it on social media
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and attacked to the seller choired about it. But while you doing that,
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I'm kind of curious now that you just opened this one. This is solid
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follow up for right now. Wow. This is the Wendy Richter of the
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whole COVID's Rock and Wrestling, Winston Toys, Eracer, same kind of deal.
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You can just slide off things. So CPA was mistaken. He's like,
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I think it's already been open, but it's receivable. Really see like
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this looks I think they're all gonna look like this. She looks like zombie
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out too. Oh my god, literally looks like a Mattel. First of
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all, it looks like Mulla, not Wendy Rictor. Look look at what
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Randy Richter is supposed to look like. All the cool like details and this
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is Detales, but there's nothing. It looks more like Mula. Um.
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I think we'll look a foot. I think you have a hard time finding
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anybody. I think I'm gonna keep this Hogan as well until I bet find
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a better one. I think, Yeah, but I think these they look
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like figures. But there are racers like pencil eracers. Yeah. So she's
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super super super rare. Hogan's very common. Yes, Actually he does not
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say, Okay, you know what I'm gonna do all this right now.
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So my friend Joe, who I hung out with yesterday with the Royals D
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List portstar possibly in another life, h he's friends in CPA and we're all
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Mets fans, and we this came up in our group. Thank you very
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much, EPA, Yeah, this came up in our group. I paid
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for this either way, he was the connections right, but um so,
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anyway, this came up and it came a topic of discussion. We came
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back, we're hanging out, and then we just got down this deep like
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Google hole of these erasers. You know, there's some prototypes, you know,
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who asks them? Man, there's a guy as is that someone else
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has any different ones on like two ups of them on eBay? Yes,
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yes, yes, yes yes. Um. Then there's Marians of like Hogan
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and snooking with their hands in different poses and that's too crazy for me,
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okay. And then then we find this and I go, oh my god,
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I don't think Broski knows about this, and he is going to want
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it, so I put it in my watch list thing. Oh no,
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can you please tell everyone what this is? Oh my god? A click
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around on that Rocky and Ivan Drago, I knew about these. We yeah,
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two pact offer, get the cat here nowhere else, dude, that's
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probably what it's worth. I'm not buying these. But yes, I did
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know. If I don't want that, no after five twenty five for five
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need that in your collection? In your rocky detol action. Oh my god,
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that's very very cool. Um this Hogan, This Hogan, I think
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I'm gonna keep for now until I find a better green at all. By
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the way, no, this this didn't look green until we opened them up
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and saw the real back. Yeah. And the Wendy Look, I mean
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look at the sun damage on these. The Wendy's got the sun damage way
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worse than Hogan. I really Uh Joe pop this say when I showed him
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for the Woolworths originally a Woolworths I know on that Wendy Rictor one ninety nine,
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but thank you very much CPI, even though I paid for it.
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Um, these are really cool. I'm gonna try. There's only six of
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them. I'll try to track him down. I can't wait for next week
23:33
when you buy this Drago and Rod. Now, I won't do that.
23:38
I'm for our interview, our interview with the Demon. There's the moment we
23:44
all have been waiting for. Bill mckeena right now, he's got as his
23:48
tissues out, he's painting his face. It's hard to do because he's sweating
23:52
and it's going so hopefully get through it. If Bill paid himself as the
24:00
Demon, he like paints over the bald head and makes it like a giant
24:06
eyeball or something like that. Like he's got more, He's got more canvas.
24:10
He does like the eyeball sometimes on his back and he can build us
24:11
on the top of his head. Yeah, he's got more canvas than the
24:14
thing. Somebody please want more of Bill mckeena as the Demon and the eyeball
24:21
the top of his bald, sweaty head and the makeups coming down because he's
24:25
sweating. Thanks, let's get all right, Brian, can hear that?
24:37
What is it? That's our downloads going up this week because we got a
24:41
very special guests. Let me just say this is definitely gonna help a little
24:45
bit. He's gonna give us a little boost. So for that, I
24:47
thank you, um, because my good friend, Yes, I used my
24:51
friend too. I'm only doing this from one person. Let's be care.
25:00
Dustin Wall to Dustin Prince Fergal Damn aka Finnbaler, thanks for being on the
25:07
Major Wrestling Figure podcast. I gotta be honest. That it's been a long
25:11
time coming. I've been a big fan of the podcast since infancy. It's
25:15
infancy listen, listen to it in the car with Brian and I feel like
25:21
this is a very full circle moment for us now about six months later getting
25:23
to do this Yeah in Sheffield, have Yeah, we are in Sheffield,
25:27
England, which is a little tidbit um. You're you're the most toyetic character
25:33
probably say do you know that. It's the first day I've ever heard that.
25:37
Okay, So if you would look up the word toyetic in the dictionary,
25:41
it would be you. It's like someone that you just look at that
25:44
person, whether it's a wrestler or superhero or whatever, and like, wow,
25:48
that would make an incredible toy, Like that's toy. Yet, like
25:49
the guys in Mattel's see you and it builds like that's a different story,
25:56
but they see you in the Demon especially, and they go like the way
26:00
their minds very single. Wow, that would look great in packaging on the
26:03
shelves at a toy store, like that's a toy. That's that should be
26:04
a toy. Like someone walking down the aisle, little kid walking down the
26:07
aisle, offense still like Kevin owns. I don't think they when they see
26:10
him in jim shorts and a T shirt, they're like, Oh, that's
26:11
gonna really jump off the peg like fan or not. They see your figureing
26:15
like what is that? Like it just it's an eye popper? Is that?
26:18
Is that like a head turn the Yeah, toy aedic is the term
26:25
that it's kind of like photogenic. But it's just like meant to be an
26:29
action figure. All those incarnations of the demon. I would have loved if
26:33
we could have had a Prince Devitt light up jacket action figure. Well,
26:37
Bill is such a mark. He might go back and they get they'll figure
26:42
it out. He made uh an Akamorra in a jacket he never wore me.
26:48
It's definitely from du Japan. It's somehow he snuck it in. There's
26:51
a lot of finn bowlers out there and costumes that I've never worn. That's
26:55
well, that's very recent. Ones like that have came out, Like the
27:00
two most recent dolls that came out are like I never wore that cop Can
27:04
you just can you describe them to me? I think there was like a
27:07
white fin with like black backing on the on the knee pads that just came
27:11
out. I never wore that gear. I wore solid, very particular about
27:15
your stuff, so you would know. Yeah, I like I respect that,
27:18
you know, Yeah, for sure, he's very I like that.
27:22
You know. You know what one thing that annoys me about the toys is
27:26
the knee pads, right, because like it's just the one knee pad for
27:30
everyone, right, and it's like the kind of the the AMA kind of
27:33
style knee pad. I don't wear that. There's no there's two. There's
27:38
two styles, but they're both they're ones bigger than the other. None of
27:41
them are AMA. I mean, none of them are traits with the two
27:44
lines in the back with a bare back, you know. I think there
27:47
is though, No, that's like jack Stad like I tape my knees as
27:49
well, so that's never they've done that for a couple of toys. They've
27:55
done that for me for one. They take my knees and it. But
27:56
the knees and taping all your figures. Now you have been thinking, do
28:02
they make a style? I mean, I'm sorry, trace more times than
28:06
not, those big clunky ones they put on guys forever reason. I don't
28:08
know why. And that's also something I think, like since we're wrestlers and
28:12
like we need that stuff to like do what we do and stay healthy.
28:15
Right, I think we know what we're talking about. Whereas I think that's
28:18
one of the last all these fans listening tause I'm always wearing pro wrestling boots
28:26
also, like where I never wear I wear shooter shoes, right, so,
28:30
but he's always in like pro wrestling boots with like a kick. I'd
28:33
say the same thing as long as I just said along the lines as the
28:36
kneepads. That's something that we're seeing because we're like, you know, we're
28:38
in the business and it's important to I appreciate that you you look at those
28:42
those details. Geez, well, let's um, let's get back to the
28:47
start. What what are your first memories of wrestling action figures or merchandise in
28:51
general. And they were like eight inch like rubber like nonposable like King Kong
28:59
Bundy. Oh yeah, those are called the l killer bees. Oh yeah,
29:02
Like I remember like having a couple of those, like two or three
29:04
of those, and then my like junior school, there was like what do
29:08
you call that thing where like people just bring their garbage and er trashing,
29:11
and they sell it like it's basically like a yard sale. It's basically like
29:17
yeah, like a junior school flea market. And like I remember like picking
29:21
up like a couple like a Jake the Snake and a couple of other ones,
29:23
but like there was no snake with them obviously because no snakes jumble.
29:26
Yeah, that that was like my first memories of like wrestling figures because they
29:32
weren't easy to come by in Ireland, especially saying food it was hard to
29:34
come by in jadies Man live through the potato fan. Yeah. I don't
29:41
know if you noticed, but I'm actually eighty four. I used to two
29:44
on my l jans. Is that kind of food? I actually I remember
29:48
like what the lgms I have, is that what they're called? I had.
29:52
I had one in my backyard one time. I was so young,
29:53
and I just like started like smushing his head on the concrete and like just
29:57
like basically using it as a a racer. They were so holding his head
30:00
down. Like my brother, who was like your age, told me that
30:04
he remembers playing in the schoolyard and there was this thing the kids would take
30:07
them and like grab him by the two legs and just whip them down in
30:11
the pavement as hard they couldn't make them bounce and like try to climb to
30:14
each other and stuff and not break the play talking Bundy, you could kill
30:18
someone is so heavy? Yeah, Um, did your brothers and stuff collect?
30:23
Like did they have or no? Not? Especially no, no,
30:27
because like what we call football or you guys call soccer was like just the
30:32
only real thing on TV. You know. It wasn't until like maybe like
30:37
ninety three when like WWF came on like like TV like kind of maybe it's
30:44
just a my house because we didn't have cable up until then, right,
30:45
So like that's when like I really started getting into it and like started like
30:49
going out to seek like figures. And I live in a small town like
30:52
outside of the city, so I'd have to take like an hour train right
30:56
into Dublin City go to this one toy store and had occasion like I'd be
31:00
like fingers crossed on the on the train, like please have Shan Michaels,
31:03
Please please have raizermon and like you get there, you know, just na
31:07
have the repo man like an old school feeling like we actually had an interview
31:14
today with this guy from w W Kids Magazine. We're talking about like people
31:17
our age now, Like it's very sentimental to go back and get all these
31:19
guys. I think that's a big part of like this community that we've built,
31:23
you know with collectors, Like it's sentimental to go back and get these
31:26
guys you had when you're a kid. But the one thing you really can't
31:29
replace is that feeling of like going to the store because like with the Internet,
31:33
you know, like okay, like if you're a collector, you know
31:36
like Okay, this Finn Valley Demon figures come out in six months. You
31:38
know, I'll text you pictures, like I'll look you a new figure,
31:41
but it's like bro type month supports on the shelves, Like that surprise of
31:44
going there and being like it's so few few and far between. You also
31:48
also like how naive I was to like just think I can walk into the
31:51
store and pick up like Shan Michaels. You know what I'm saying, Like
31:53
with that age speak of the Devil, he's in that top talents. Like
31:56
I try to explain this to you for that very reason, right right,
32:00
So like when when fans going to a store let's say, like I keep
32:04
saying this all the time, Like little Jimmy just starts watching Raw and he
32:07
said, oh, I want to go get wrestling figures. You need to
32:09
go into a Walmart Target and be able to get like the Finn Balors,
32:13
the John Cena. So you're in a set called top town, which basically
32:15
is like you're always being made constantly. You're like you're always You're always on
32:22
the shelf. So just in case somebody starts at collection that day, your
32:25
chances of you Braun said aj being there right are like and there's a big
32:30
difference between that and like Apollo Cruise no offensive. We call a peg warmer
32:34
who's everywhere his figure just sitting there. There's a lot of people's feelings getting
32:38
hurt on this podcast. You should hear as some of things we've said about
32:44
Mojo. Oh my god, Oh yeah, it all slips through the cracks.
32:47
So when was like, how did you I'm sure you get out of
32:51
it much earlier than we did, which is never like, when was the
32:53
last time you remember really caring about wrestling figures? I remember, like vividly
33:00
when the Titan Tron came out and and they had like the little silver like
33:05
magnetic deals that like when you put the foot over the entrance that would play
33:09
their music, and like I remember it then, like I worked at it
33:14
might have been like I don't know what what year was that that was,
33:17
Yes, so I was maybe just starting like my first job at a supermarket,
33:22
and I was like you know, packing shelves and sweeping and stuff,
33:23
and like I'd steal like the boxes, like the cardboard boxes. And then
33:28
I like I was pretty good at art, so like I'd go to the
33:30
art store and i'd like buy like black paper and I'd blew it onto the
33:32
cardboard box and I'd make it like a giant actual Titan tron to go over
33:36
it with Raw's war like And what I used to do then was this was
33:42
at the time of like game Boy Photo came out. It was like game
33:45
Boy Color, but like I had like a cartage child had like a little
33:49
camera on it, remember that, and you could take photos on it,
33:52
and I would do like a little stop motion like entrance time. That's a
33:55
very big nowadays called the action figure photography. Like you can like hashtag.
34:00
I didn't see like some people do some unbelievable stuf I'm sure you get tagged
34:04
and things with your faith. I've seen some I've seen your like little like
34:07
the little set you had at your head, Like I basically had a homemade
34:09
one of those, like when I was like nineteen, yeah, like sixteen
34:14
seventeen. Um, I have a couple more questions. You're very prepared to
34:16
go ahead, coming to go ahead? How about um? You know obviously
34:21
spent a lot of time in Japan and stuff. Yep, what were you
34:23
doing is did you catch anything like the Japanese merch or anything there like that?
34:27
There was always like T shirts. I was more into the Japanese T
34:30
shirts before I actually went to Japan, and like I was be on high
34:34
spots and like if there was like a cool lucha shirt or a cool like
34:37
like Japanese like just say you say, like Hashimoto or something like if I
34:43
could get one of those shirts, I'd be like super into that. But
34:45
like as soon as I kind of got to Japan, I kind of got
34:47
out of it, you know, right, Like it was more like I
34:51
was so deep into like I didn't want sure to represent that in my my
34:54
personal like so, but like it was obviously a lot of like merch stores
35:00
in Japan and like you get to go to them, and like, I
35:04
always felt like the Japanese figures were cooler than w W E or WWF And
35:08
even though they like they weren't like posable, I just felt like there were
35:12
more big difference and more accurate and less there's playability we'd call it right there,
35:15
more like display pieces and like the action figure. Yeah, for sure.
35:20
I just started getting into this. I actually when I was in Santa
35:22
Monica dojo in California when I was twenty four, they had like a Ricky
35:27
Choshoo figure and I stole it. And that was like before I went to
35:32
New Japan where I don't know. It could be in in Brave in my
35:37
parents' house, or it could be in the dojo in Japan. I don't
35:40
know, but like I was like, man, that figure is cool.
35:43
Do you think anyone I was like, hey, Chad, do you think
35:45
anyone noticed that I stole this? Why I was there? Yeah, well
35:50
it's New Japan. It was probably like just someone had brought it and left
35:53
it there on display. This is what you can achieve a few yeah.
35:58
Okay, So then all these years wrestling, you finally come to ww and
36:00
you get your very own action figure. Yeah, what was that whole moment
36:05
that experience like for you the first time you you know, you had maybe
36:07
have it in your hand. What was kind of more surreal was like right
36:12
before I came to w W, people startup making customs, right. I
36:15
think to me that was more of a big deal than when the figures,
36:19
the actual legit ones came out, because to me, I was thinking,
36:22
like, wow, someone like sat down and took the time to like create
36:25
a figure that doesn't exist off like a Cody Rhodes or something else, right,
36:30
and then went to went to you know, not to waste, but
36:35
you know, yeah, and I just thought that was cool that like someone
36:39
would put that effort in and that like amount of time into like creating something
36:44
that didn't exist. And then sometimes like they would send it to me.
36:46
And I remember someone sent me like one of a Tokyo Dome entrance I'd done
36:51
like an astronaut suit, but like a fabric astronaut suits that they had gotten
36:53
this off like a different like maybe astronaut doll and like put it on like
37:00
a custom fim batter. I'm like I had that helmet and everything. It
37:04
was badass. I still have it at home and it's great. That's great.
37:07
And then obviously, you know, you come to to NXT and they've
37:09
done to figures and honestly like no offense, but I felt like they weren't
37:15
as good as some of the customs. But you know, it was probably
37:17
the first, Yeah, the first. The first one was probably like a
37:22
basic I guess, right, or was it? You guys don't even you've
37:27
had so many hard to keep, but I remember when you've had in a
37:30
certain amount of years is like stagger. And what's so unique about you is
37:34
that you're really two different characters. You're like fim balor, like the normal
37:37
dude, and then the Demon. So it's like you've so many figures of
37:40
the demon, so many figures as yourself. And yeah, there's just so
37:44
many. And like I said, it's so toyatic that anytime you do the
37:46
Demon, I mean they're probably like sweat. That's a whole other story.
37:54
But the Mattel's wheels are spending that night probably to start, you know,
37:58
getting that, you know done. I remember having like a like a conference
38:02
call with Mattel, like when I got hurt and right before I came back.
38:07
We had like a conference call where I was like, Hey, we're
38:08
gonna try and like get the Demon figures out faster, so like we need
38:13
to know like what paint and what costume and what color are you gonna do,
38:15
like you know, four months ahead of time, so like we can
38:19
get the jump. I was like hang. I was like, hang on
38:22
a second. You guys are asking me what costume and what paint I'm gonna
38:25
do, but you can't even tell me where I'm working next weekend? Like
38:29
come on, man, is this is a little bit. It's a little
38:30
bit. I've ever heard of such a thing like that, to the point
38:32
where I'm thinking, Bill just wanted to talk to you. Was it from
38:38
my personal California number? So I guess, I mean when this thing?
38:44
But what's your favorite Mattel figure? Is there any that you think are especially
38:47
cool of me or you or anybody? You know? What? They never
38:52
made the Jack the Ripper, the London Takeover Demon. I don't think he
38:58
like had a top, hot and stiff. I don't know. There's so
39:01
many. There's one of the chainsaw, which one is that that was pretty
39:05
cool? And I gotta be honest. The Texas and I gotta be honest,
39:07
that's a cool figure. And I hated that gear, yeah, like
39:12
and when I put it on, as like, oh this sucks, and
39:14
like the way that the way the toy came out amazing. And then the
39:20
gear that I really loved was like me and Joe Don the cage match in
39:22
n XT and I just don't like black and silver and the toilet like garbage.
39:28
But like to me that in real life of the better. So like
39:30
is talking about like toy edic or whatever the word is, Like some sometimes
39:35
like the more outlandish in reality, the custom is the cooler it is as
39:39
adults, I guess with the way you the whole thing works. Like like
39:44
my WrestleMania gear came in the mail whatever three three weeks before Mania, I
39:46
tried out in my bedroom. I'm like, Okay, it's gonna be fine,
39:50
right, Like you really don't know what until like minutes before your match,
39:53
like with the final like of everything, that's great, right, Yeah,
39:57
No, like we didn't we didn't know what we were doing at wrestle
40:00
any like even as we'd started, we didn't really know exactly how it was
40:04
going to finish or how it's going to turn out or there's so many like
40:07
people don't take into consideration, Like if you know, you get to the
40:12
building, I just say ten o'clock in the morning for WrestleMania, right,
40:15
and then I got to find a room, get it all set up,
40:17
get the painters settled, get food. Then I probably get called away to
40:22
like you know, go over stuff or you know, do a promo or
40:24
something. And then all of a sudden, where we had budgeted five hours
40:28
to put paint on, now we've got two. So like all like these
40:30
detailed ideas and designs that I had on my brain are like gone, Okay,
40:35
we got to like budget this out. So like I don't know if
40:38
I've ever told this story before, but when we were like done the first
40:44
when we've done Summer Slam against Bray Wyatt, Yeah, I think I was
40:49
on like fourth match, and like someone I just considered that it was East
40:53
Coast, so it's eight pm start, So like I feel, okay,
40:57
I get there, like you know, work out everything, all the backstage
41:00
stuff, and then I'll get painted and I'll have enough time like I'll have
41:02
like four hours up until my match like to get it done, and then
41:07
like I remember, like it was like seven o'clock and I heard John Seen
41:09
his music playing, and I'm like, only like just started painting. I'm
41:13
like, oh, that's weird. John Seen is on the pre show.
41:15
What's gonna I'm like, someone goes, no, no, no, that's
41:17
that's the show started. I'm like, what I'm upen like forty five minutes.
41:22
So that was like that was a really rushed paint job, and like
41:23
I was one that I like, I wasn't super happy with. Can you
41:27
even like warm up when you're not really Oh my god, I would die.
41:30
I would literally break. Yeah, I'm actually be wrestling without getting the
41:35
warm buzz. I mean I like to warm up, and I'm not as
41:37
grizzled as Zach, but oh my god, I'm like at on top of
41:40
I'd like to hear sitting in a chair for like for three to five hours,
41:45
just like sitting still. They gotta have like a banger like that one
41:47
with a like oh yeah, so actually, um. Recently, I've started
41:53
like getting there ahead of time, like ten o'clock in the morning even for
41:59
a regular pay per view due to paint first, right, and give myself
42:01
like five hours and then just sit in it all day. Which is an
42:05
idea like the giant Gonzales. Body see no, no way, no way,
42:09
good everybody. Well maybe your kids that way. Let me see those
42:14
like costumes for the kids like you Halloween costumes. Oh, the Halloween costumes
42:17
are amazing. They sold out that year. I couldn't even get them for
42:21
my niece. Yeah right cool, Yeah, all right, I appreciate you
42:23
doing this. I really I'm gonna miss you. You're my riding partner for
42:27
a couple of years now. I don't even know how it really happened.
42:30
Like it was like me and you gals and Anderson because I'm friends with Drew
42:32
and your friends with Chad and Drew. Yeah, and then we kind of
42:37
can them ourselves starting. Yeah we hit it off. Yeah, hit it
42:40
off. That man, those guys trying to jump back in with me.
42:43
I'm trying to brow you should you should feel lucky. Man, I'm missing
42:47
my favorite riding partner ever. But I had to say, I don't really
42:51
have complain I don't have complaints about you. You're you're nuts, but I'm
42:53
used to did you only you for fifteen so he was okay with you stopping
42:57
and like figure out stories about it. He put it. Yeah, I'm
43:00
your hunts because like I'd be on first a lot of nice opening the show,
43:05
and then he'd be on like you know, like right before intermission,
43:07
and we'd be bolted out the door yet intermation, but like into towns.
43:12
If it's like at ten o'clock, like Walmart, like we go, like
43:15
you know, we're at the door by nine pm. We'd go straight a
43:16
couple couple of Walmarts. As he's got like the inside scoop on maybe they're
43:21
gonna have these figures. I'll be like, yeah, I'll pull up outside.
43:23
I'll just put the blinkers on him. You go in and run in,
43:25
and I think, what you gotta remember this? So this baby,
43:28
like, uh, it's pretty funny. It was one that build a figure
43:31
Howard finkel set was dropping and I was checking all his Walmarts and he was
43:35
like, you know, tailing along like that, and I finally found it.
43:37
And then I'm like thinking I didn't really know him that well. Yeah,
43:40
I'm like, man, he probably thinks I'm the biggest losers. I've
43:43
been trying to find this Howard Finkels right all weekend and then like wherever we
43:45
put up the hotel. You were like, oh, if you build that,
43:47
hell Finkels, send me a picture someone always do. It looks like
43:50
Okay, it's like a total opposite me. Ride with Bobby Rude, who
43:54
don't have absolutely it's say, basically stopped riding because I made him stop.
43:59
So by times he's like a grown up with no like right, and I'm
44:10
looking for his figure. I would like go up to him like, Bob,
44:13
here's your figure, like your new figure. He wouldn't even can All
44:19
right, thank you so much, Thanks a lot. I've been using this
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46:04
Brosky. Apparently this week one an autograh wait, what's going on? An
46:12
autograph? Impact toy biz A bit serious one figure to be fair, I
46:17
bought this drug and I didn't know it was auto, don't drake and got
46:24
eBay folks, Yeah, definitely not um so truth be told. I guess
46:30
we uh, well, first off, you I know about from indies and
46:34
my my little tena running stuff. But you're just getting to know him.
46:37
So that's pretty exciting for me. But he is very toy atic, very
46:42
toytic. Y had a lot of cool figures. Um. First off,
46:47
I feel like we don't talk about enough. But when the Marvel or toy
46:51
Biz TENA line started, I was like all in, like really watched TNA
46:57
that much, but I still collected all the toys. And I remember that
47:00
one of bisses I just bought, remember squeezing the legs and he did a
47:01
pose and he came to the chain that Series one a number one off,
47:06
so it's not my number one. All four of those uh series one,
47:09
I don't know, man, I was so excited to get I had him
47:13
like pre ordered and I was so pumped to get him, and they were
47:15
they were just really different from the ruthless guys that are out of the time
47:19
too, so I was like, sorry to cut you off. There's an
47:21
Abyss Jack's Tupac Abyss and Hulk Hogan dud the Okay, so that's across the
47:27
line Jack's Abyss where he's a regular Biss. But then there's Abyss in the
47:31
Hogan like gear Hogan when he tagged with them, and he was like Hogan's
47:35
like super fan that was his character. See, I didn't watch Tenado in
47:37
the time way too much Tena like pretty much up until I was in it.
47:43
Then I probably stopped watching it after that. But how Jacks did this
47:45
like sleeveless shirt and it like bleeds over. That's something that they wouldn't have
47:50
done to And that's a deluxe figure um which you know, all those guys
47:54
are pretty much the same bodies and stuff. He had his own like unique
47:58
mold, which made it all his Deluxe Jack's figures pretty awesome. He's got
48:00
a Ruthless regular style Ruthless figure because Tina had that like weird uh dollar store
48:07
ish line, and that's in the white when he was like a crazy person
48:13
in Gimmick. My favorite one is the two pack with Jeff Hardy from toy
48:17
Biz slash Marvel. But there's a running change where he's got open shirt and
48:22
closed shirt. Yeah. See I remember I had the one that where it
48:24
was open. I'm like, I don't like this because he doesn't wear an
48:27
open one. It isn't an open one, and the no offence but like
48:30
literally it looks like Matt Sidell underneath they're not abyss. But then the closed
48:35
shirt one they made like a running change and fix it. I thought it
48:37
was perfect. Why is that one better than Series one in your opinion?
48:40
It's taller and bulkier and just kind of no chain, no chain, which
48:45
is one thing. You'renna need a James Mitchell to go with him. Uh
48:50
no, I will not. I'm just saying this. I that was that
48:52
a build a figure or he was a solo release lease solo release. But
48:57
he's had a lot of cool figures. Like I said, he's very toy
49:00
edding. I had this mask to Fury one too, with the mask.
49:02
Yeah, the same figure you just bought, but it comes with the mask
49:05
to play no chain. It comes to that mask, you play like happy.
49:07
I got this one, the Series one. He's got a microaggression.
49:12
I didn't know Jack's made those. Yeah, there's a bunch with with Bobby
49:15
Rude, Robert Rude. It said, oh mustache, no listening. I
49:20
might need to get a Robert Rude. Oh my god, from my little
49:22
from my my gearbag. Wow, even some of these these Jacks, like
49:27
I was so out of it so I but I do know that they didn't
49:31
make a lot of guys, right, It was like the same guys over
49:34
and over, guys like Robbie E. They've never made no right. Yeah,
49:38
to a degree, it got a little repetitive, but it's a really
49:43
really cool run. He's someone that even though his you know, run his
49:47
tena, if like Mattell made like a flashback of him, I'd be perfectly
49:52
worked for the company. That's what I'm saying. It's it's an imaginary possibility,
49:57
but it's also a possibility. Definitely, definitely Toyetta. And that's that's
50:01
a funny. It's funny that you picked him and that I can't believe that
50:05
that I bought the figure. That's unreal. I don't know. Wife hoped
50:07
to my head, but I feel like you're really overpaid, dude. No,
50:10
that's another thing. Really, that's why I don't even realize that was
50:14
why the cheapest one on there. That's crazy. Yeah, And I just
50:17
it just happened to be autograph and you're just gonna let it breathe and put
50:20
it let him breathe. That might be on the Let Him Breathe one of
50:23
the on one of the episodes Guys Got sign Up Autograph Figure Live Patreon.
50:30
Um, alright, it is now time, all right to our next phone
50:34
called Chris, they'll see you. It's now time for the WTF Figure of
50:38
the Week dot com. All right, WTF figure the Week's pretty obvious.
50:49
I think you. Uh you take one look at the of a figure.
50:52
One look up a figure. One look up, Oh my god, take
50:55
a shot. One look at a figure. Right. But it's a little
50:58
late here, not that late. It's twelve forty two. I'm jet lagged.
51:02
Yeah, i'd say we're jet legged. This is what's going on.
51:04
You still spray my back after this by the leading Oh yes, just Tanner,
51:09
Okay, um, all right and uh so you look at a figure
51:14
and you think what the peep? And h you said you had a good
51:19
one, so hit me with it. Yeah. Uh last week we discussed
51:22
the legends of the Ring FTC. I've due at the butcher that you said
51:27
you picked up and they can yes, and they can't Bunny and so I
51:30
don't think I said this. But on my miscellaneous shelf, I have hot
51:35
Stuff Eddie Gilbert, which is like is a is a must for me because
51:39
I'm a big hot stuff and that's his only action figure representation. I also
51:45
have a Bloody Original Chic which I just think is cool because he's you know,
51:50
Sabo's uncle and whatever and the legend. Uh. And then I have
51:52
a Duala but he's not bloody, So you put that in my stupid brain.
51:57
Yeah, and I've been like searching it and whatever scene. But then
52:00
I stumbled a bunch across all of them. At one point I had them
52:02
all and then I was like, this is not really I never had and
52:07
that came out like like right in the smack Dad. But the attitude er
52:10
or what they're like very compatible with bone crunchers. I never got them.
52:15
Yeah, I think maybe. Were they like so much more money, like
52:16
fifteen bucks, I think maybe, but then eventually discounted for years and years
52:21
and years, where now they're not that easy to come by. Um did
52:24
a little, a little roller coaster ride. So you just took me down
52:29
a trip down memory lane, if you will. Looking at all these things
52:31
that I remember it, Oh my god. The winner of this week's the
52:36
WTF Captain Lou Albano. So I mean, first off, he's got painted.
52:45
There's no pant mold on any of those figures. So they just painted
52:47
over trunks and boots and knee pads like skin tight pants skin tight pants with
52:53
essentially skinny jeans with knee pants and boots. Okay, so and that's all
52:58
black and you can maybe kind of look past that. But then, which
53:01
is kind of ironic because FTC is making these figures currently with some of the
53:05
most unbelievable cloth accessories maybe in the history of wrestling figures. This is not
53:10
the case. This is the clete opposite. Actually, so I don't want
53:14
to decipher between the two. I'm gonna bring up my reference pick here.
53:19
So the basic release of Captain Lew that's not bloody. He has a referee
53:25
shirt on. Let me see which came from their accessory pack. Do you
53:30
have a picture of him min on card with a REP shirt? I mean
53:34
the baggy the same Minium box. Oh so there's not They're not on cards
53:37
anymore. Okay, after halfway through the series they turn into boxes. It's
53:43
all in the same box with the same photos and stuff, and then it
53:45
says in the top who it is and what version regular bloody display those Mintum
53:51
box anymore? No, some people just get the box signed by the guy
53:55
and like, well they're on eBay, but it's it's not a very I
54:00
please incollectible. So that's the regular version. Then the bloody versions I think
54:06
might be even worse. He's in he's painted in white pants, okay,
54:10
but blood Yeah, but he's bloody, Which that's cool, I think.
54:15
I think that this whole line, that's the coolest part to me. Yeah,
54:17
like the uniqueness of that. Um so he's bloody. He's in white
54:22
pants, which means he's in tight white skinny jeans and neaps and boots and
54:28
however you want to imagine it. But again, no effort put into his
54:31
signature Captain lew uh you know, Hawaiian shirt or whatever he'd be wearing.
54:36
Instead, he's wearing a yellow event staff jackets, not even bloody, and
54:42
it's that blood I mean, yeah, that's too. Well. Maybe he
54:45
in this big brawl and then he beat up the event the event staff guy.
54:49
Maybe he got so much heat he was trying to sneak out of the
54:52
building an event staff jacket. Not I think, not be bothered by the
54:54
fact. I think what happened was that when when Steve Austin was wearing that
54:59
T shirt in his underwear and he got in a fight with Goldberg in the
55:01
locker room, there's a big bloody fight. Captain Lew was trying to break
55:05
it up, and he got blood all over his tropical shirts. You know
55:07
what he did, he uh, he took Austin's Gene shorts and wiped the
55:10
blood off. That's why Steve couldn't wear the Geene shorts for the Mattel release.
55:15
It's all coming. He knocked on the uh the events to have doors.
55:20
Hey can you let me in? You got an extra jackets? I
55:22
don't know. I can't believe we figured this out after all these years,
55:27
figure it out. Um wow, those both sucks a double double induction.
55:31
It's almost undisplayable garbage like you can't you know, almost like line ruining that
55:39
which also, when I was searching these images to confirm all this, uh
55:45
pictures of his um man, it's escaping me. The legends, um,
55:51
those are great, those legends series one figure Captain lewis awesome them. Yeah,
55:57
blast I didn't like because, like I think, what's her name?
56:00
Slot, No dig call legends. They just called legends legends, not like
56:02
ruth It's Andre Snuka and Ruthless. Legends just legends, two different sets,
56:08
but they're the same. Yes, figures, those are great figures. Yeah,
56:13
I really wish it was a series two and he has some prototypter Series
56:15
two out there. Also he's got no h no Mattel. That's that's crazy.
56:23
Need to fix that. Well is that for w t F. Yeah?
56:30
All right, Well let's go to the Q and A. The Q
56:34
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56:43
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56:47
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56:52
we'll send you a best wishes A by ten. So I will go
56:57
first my question. I thought it was a very very interesting question, and
57:01
I think I've answered part of it before, but I figured just talking about
57:05
it all at once. This is from t VO sixty seven. Add Zach
57:10
Ryder. I've always been curious on how the Internet title was able to be
57:14
made in action figure form. There has to be a story there, and
57:17
I'm not sure it's ever been told. Maybe this can be discussed on major
57:21
w pod hashtag ask major pod. So this is all you, This is
57:25
all many kind of that's fine. I know this story. So I'll sit
57:29
back and let so long story short. I had a YouTube show called z
57:31
Truelong Island story where I created an Internet title, and at first it was
57:37
just my brother's kid size Attitude era ice title that I transformed into the Internet
57:44
title. But then I went to Wildcat Belts of all people. That's how
57:47
we started this little bond Wildcat and I got a real Internet championship created,
57:53
and I was not allowed to wear it on WWE television and ever, which
58:01
was fine, but I was using it on the YouTube show every week and
58:06
even on some wb Live events. I'd bring it out, but it was
58:08
kind of like not an official thing. And Mattel was making my Elite seventeen
58:14
figure. I was looking at some old emails like me and Billy's to email
58:16
back and forth. He sent me like I did too. Yeah, he
58:19
sent me a studio shot of the gears. Were like, hey, we're
58:22
gonna make this gear blah blah blah blah. It's this gray gear whatever,
58:25
and he said, if we're gonna include the Internet title, but they had
58:30
to get the rights from me to make the Internet title, so I had
58:32
to sign off on it, which was pretty damn cool to have the figure
58:37
with this title that was never on WWE television. But then like it ended
58:44
up being in the video game somehow and ended up being on a T shirt
58:45
somehow, and even we later found out that that figures inc. When they
58:50
were making the titles, they were gonna make an Internet title, but nobody
58:53
had contacted me about it. And there's some prototypes out there that I really
58:57
really want, but people are trying to charge me more than I paid for
59:00
the real Internet title, so there's no way that's going to happen. An
59:04
interesting thing about that figure with the Internet title, it was on display for
59:07
the first time. I believe it's twenty twelve San Dieo Comicon. I think
59:12
I've told the story of the pod and the headband, said Broski, and
59:15
they had to do a switch, so it's at www. Y Ki and
59:19
Bill gave me the prototype and I had it wrapped in like a little hotel
59:22
towel and I left it in a hotel. Story makes me sick. Can
59:28
you believe that? No? I can't believe it because you do stuff like
59:30
that, and I don't remember if it was a hand painted prototype. Maybe
59:34
it could have been just the test shot, like painted up like a sample.
59:37
Either way, either way, so damn. So you have that figure
59:43
without the headband or the whole thing. No, I threw the whole thing
59:45
out or left it behind. So and then when you hear something else.
59:52
So this week I was organizing my garage and I'm a psycho. When it
59:54
comes to figure, it's like, there's the you are, Yeah, there's
59:58
the figure I have on display of me inbox, mintle card, whatever.
1:00:01
Then like a Lucy that I have, and then I need like one for
1:00:05
safety, backup, backup. Yeah. So I was going through all these
1:00:08
like toads and I used to do that. I don't really do that anymore.
1:00:12
Okay backups. You don't have backups? Wow? Okay, well sorry,
1:00:15
Like right now, currently I have like twenty five of the most recent
1:00:20
elite zach Ryder backups and usup for a trade ski stuff like that. That's
1:00:23
not a backup, that's an army. Like that's a little different. I
1:00:27
don't have any of the elite uh seventeen backup and I want to go buy
1:00:32
them an eBay. They're super expensive. Oh yeah, yeah, that's not
1:00:36
gonna happen. So I have I have at least back one backup of everything.
1:00:38
But you know what else said in the backup of my most recent basic
1:00:42
We're not the hypers one, the one, whereas in the Russellmania gear he
1:00:45
didn't have backups? Did that backups wasn't I'm like Amazon for like so six
1:00:51
months, so I out, so I bought all of them Amazon. They
1:00:53
all came with the damn Slammy Award. What's wrong with that? I want
1:00:59
the real one not to want the Slammy All the awards? How much were
1:01:04
they? They were like ten bucks? Still, yeah, that was not
1:01:08
possible. I don't know. It's a bild question. It's a bild question.
1:01:12
They all came to the Slammy. We won't get a stray answer,
1:01:14
but that's a bild question question. So the answer question, UM, I
1:01:16
don't know how I it was. You know, the YouTube show was popular
1:01:22
Mattel Want to Capitalize, and they asked me if I would sign off,
1:01:24
and of course I would. Um that the YouTube Twitter those logos on on
1:01:30
it, it's just blank name plates. But it's really cool to have this
1:01:34
title in figure form, consider I never came out with on w wwe take
1:01:37
a Shot TV the most remarkable. That's the coolest part about it. I
1:01:42
don't use any video game and actually figure zero TV time that's nuts. I
1:01:46
think I think the actual is the craziest part. Yeah, and I'm very
1:01:51
I'm very very proud of that. And maybe maybe maybe our our our our
1:01:55
elites that hopefully they're making for us. Right now, we'll come to the
1:01:59
major They was odd the title the imaginary Elite sets that I'm not, you
1:02:05
know, I think we should get some elites battle pack True Moves. Just
1:02:09
give me true move please. All right, all right? My question is
1:02:15
from Nick c at eight Underscore Bit Underscore Killer at Major w Pod. Let's
1:02:22
say original San Francisco toymakers had one more wave of ECW figures that never got
1:02:28
released. Who's in your dream wave hashtag, asked Major Pod. So obviously
1:02:32
I'm a massive, massive massive they were doing eight. Let's let's do this.
1:02:39
Okay, Okay, let's exclude Doring and row Killed because we knew they
1:02:45
were. This is fantasy, so we don't know, but they never came
1:02:49
out, but we saw that. No, we didn't see it doing.
1:02:52
But I'm going to assume that he was being planned. Okay, I say
1:02:55
you gotta include in this list. We include him kill. Are going to
1:03:00
cut ourselves down a little bit because there were sets of eight, they didn't
1:03:02
come out, so we gotta put them in let's say six or new guys
1:03:06
two repaints, because that would be realistic. Okay, Okay, Dorian roll
1:03:09
Kill have to be there, Dorian roll Kill, Mikey wrote with red hair
1:03:14
and like crazy. Would that'd be great? Missado Tanaka okay, Spike,
1:03:20
Oh my god, I know there's First off, I've been thinking about this
1:03:23
for years and years and years. I would you better say. I was
1:03:28
thinking myself, there's not that many guys they miss but you just named a
1:03:30
bunch, and then I would if I was rounding out the list, I
1:03:32
think more guy, I would think I would do Simon Diamond, Yeah,
1:03:37
definitely, Simon Dimeon. What about Haymon and styles Kid Cash Cash yeah,
1:03:42
easy money or Julio de Niro. See, those guys were like so at
1:03:45
the tail end that it wouldn't be that realistic to me. But obviously if
1:03:49
he said kept same, if he said you kept going, maybe would have
1:03:53
been more deserving. But those, to me, those guys Mikey, uh
1:04:00
Tanaka Spike, like they were like in the trenches like that whole time they
1:04:04
had the toys and they didn't get one, you know, Tony mom Luke
1:04:08
for sure if they kept going. And then so let's say the six it
1:04:12
would be during roadkill Massado, Mikey Spike, Simon Diamond maybe could cash my
1:04:19
sweek out. Simon is a big, big um. Repaints were off the
1:04:26
bat. I could tell you I would want Samn with black jeans, not
1:04:29
those like Mom jeans, white jeans he has on. Okay, that's weird
1:04:32
to me. I always thought it was straight. Would he be at that
1:04:34
time? Yeah, so he's come back from hack already. Yeah, he's
1:04:40
out until the end. Okay, okay, and he's champ that's true,
1:04:45
black black jeans. Switch that up. So wait, so when he's the
1:04:49
salmonc figures after Hack, Sam Man, Yeah, he comes back to late
1:04:57
late ninety nine, he leaves comes back out pretty quick. That's that's up
1:05:00
there with the Karina where it's like how did they get that done so fast?
1:05:03
And it's like great, Yeah, likeness at least is great. I
1:05:06
hate that he's like this kind of fat and here's no I hate Kane though,
1:05:12
No Kane, but I would use that weird stick Yeah. Whatever,
1:05:15
Okay, so Sam and repaint, But then who else is really just worthy
1:05:18
of it. I would love a Jerry Lynn repaint because he only had the
1:05:21
one release. I would love a Karino repaint. I'm not against the Karino
1:05:26
repaint the Jerry Lynn like that's his gear though, but they could do the
1:05:29
flipped colors like yellow, that's actually the one more more. He wore more,
1:05:33
Yeah, and I was st just he could lighten his hair and be
1:05:36
more blonds. Repaint on that. Jerrylyn's one of my favorites. Man,
1:05:42
No, I love Jerry Lynn. Not a cooler RBD RBD liking that tiger
1:05:47
stuff like his ZCW. Jackson's in wears in the Last Baby, that'd be
1:05:53
fine. No. Uh, the rhino maybe another Scotty Anton, the clap
1:06:01
Um, maybe the r The red Rhino is a good one. That's a
1:06:06
good rhino. But so that's like to me, red rhinos like we need
1:06:12
debuts and the like over like menacing rhino. Wore the black singlet so and
1:06:15
that thrills someone is kind of it, but it's like a cheesy version of
1:06:18
it. It's not really accurate. I just wonder if those prototypes are out
1:06:23
there somewhere. I'm dying to talk to Paul about this whole thing. Yeah,
1:06:27
but I don't think he'll know about the prototypes. But I think he'll
1:06:30
know about how the deal was made of that kind of stuff. Yeah,
1:06:32
but he's I don't know how much like geeky information will have for us.
1:06:38
Maybe maybe it surprising Dreamer has not Dreamers of liars. He's not gonna tell,
1:06:45
doesn't know. I could believe Bubba didn't know about the no recollection about
1:06:48
prototyping trunks. Well, everyone's a figure nerd like us. Sometimes I think
1:06:55
we have to take a step back, yes, and realize that. But
1:06:57
yeah, well this is a great episode. It's a little eight Prosky's hurting.
1:07:00
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1:07:28
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1:07:34
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1:07:49
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1:08:00
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1:08:11
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1:08:17
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