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Interview with AEW's Anthony Bowens - FROM THE VAULT · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well return after these messages.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a resting podcast show fucking.
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  Speaker 1: March block job.
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  Speaker 3: All right, everyone, here we are with the Patreon exclusive
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  Speaker 3: bonus interview with Anthony Bowens. I am smart Mark Sterling. Hello,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for coming.
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  Speaker 4: Down, Hello Patreon, Major Figure Wrestling Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Major Wrestling Figure Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I think this is one of the
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  Speaker 3: best hotel rooms we've ever been in.
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  Speaker 1: It is pretty nice.
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  Speaker 4: And I will say and point out the shade gimmick
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  Speaker 4: you have that blocks out the light is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: When I woke up this morning, I was like, is
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  Speaker 3: it still the middle of the night exactly?
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  Speaker 1: It was nine thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: It was a nice and cozy and then I was
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  Speaker 4: awakened by a text from one smart Mark. Actually it
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  Speaker 4: helped out because I was having a dream that myself
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  Speaker 4: and Michael, my boyfriend, were being chased by some evil
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  Speaker 4: guy with a gun.
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  Speaker 1: So it was very helpful. Damn, I wonder what that means.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys think did do you have deep down?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that there's an evil man stalking you?
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  Speaker 1: I hope nah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So what I think what makes a good hotel room?
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  Speaker 3: USB plugs all over the place, sure, right, A nice
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  Speaker 3: a desk chair, A nice desk. I do work, so
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  Speaker 3: I need that, okay, and then plugs. Sometimes they don't
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  Speaker 3: even have plugs near the desk. It's like, what are
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  Speaker 3: you supposed to plug your shit into?
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  Speaker 1: I just need a plug right next to the bed.
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  Speaker 3: Right, good, two plugs and two USB's on both sides.
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  Speaker 4: It's great because some hotels have a ton of shit
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  Speaker 4: plugged into it and then I have to start unplugging.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good. Yes, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: This one of the best hotel room. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about the area, but one of the best hotels anyways. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're enjoying this interview in that hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure my audio is being picked up? Fine?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm pretty far back away from this. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: we're good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's got it's good auto levels and all that shit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is not going to be the best,
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  Speaker 3: but we're recording, you know, full discloser. Guys were recording
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  Speaker 3: on two I mean on one microphone. Normally we have two,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't have the equipment to do that, and
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  Speaker 3: my bags were.
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  Speaker 1: Full, so this is what we have.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Okay, So uh, first of all, how did we meet?
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  Speaker 1: How did we meet? It's got to be creative bro.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember. It was probably a birthday party.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking the first time I sort of mingled with
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  Speaker 3: the New Jersey guys.
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  Speaker 1: We're birthday parties.
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  Speaker 4: Probably, I think when Creative Pro first started and then
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  Speaker 4: we were starting to kind of mix rosters a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: it was at birthday parties because I think Pat was very.
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  Speaker 1: Into birthday parties at one point. I feel like there
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  Speaker 1: was one every other weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was like it's a great money making thing
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  Speaker 3: for the school. If if they put like a I
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  Speaker 3: always think like if CAP ran like a television commercial
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  Speaker 3: about birthday parties, like you know shot, well it would fuck.
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  Speaker 1: It would be like you could retire on that business.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're great, Yeah, they're fine. Well they used
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  Speaker 1: to be fun. I haven't obviously, I haven't done one
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  Speaker 1: in like four years, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think the last one I did, I got it
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  Speaker 4: was disastrous because somebody it might have been Damien Gibbs.
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  Speaker 1: He uh that was the last one. He's been retired
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  Speaker 1: for for years.
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  Speaker 4: I think he did a big cake spot and didn't
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  Speaker 4: tell anybody. Oh yeah, you heard that I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 4: it was Gibbs and not a lot of people were
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  Speaker 4: happy about that because there's cake all over.
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  Speaker 3: Their gear, cake everywhere, ruined the kids' birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that might have been Castor. No cast did it
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  Speaker 1: at a Wrestleborough show. Was that the brewery?
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  Speaker 3: No? I think Castor did the cake spot at a
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  Speaker 3: Rustbroo show inway with and Pat had to wrestle right
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  Speaker 3: after kind of here literally.
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling birthday cake. That's very true.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, so now you are all there are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people know that because.
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  Speaker 1: You know the Ethan page vlogs.
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  Speaker 3: I guess do you talk about it much like in
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  Speaker 3: interviews or like on your social media?
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  Speaker 4: No one really brings it up sometimes. I mean I'll
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  Speaker 4: hear a like meet and greets. I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people will say, hey, I love your your your
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  Speaker 4: toy hunts with Evan. That's really where it comes up most.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, huge toy collector, you know that any
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  Speaker 4: kind of toy that meant something to me when I
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  Speaker 4: was a kid, I gotta I gotta get it back.
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  Speaker 4: If I still don't have it, and I either have
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  Speaker 4: to have it I can't have it.
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  Speaker 1: Just what do we call it opened. I needed to
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  Speaker 1: have it in the box.
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  Speaker 4: I need it fresh, I need the entire experience as
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  Speaker 4: I remembered it as a kid. And I have gotten
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  Speaker 4: most of the stuff back, but my hunt continues right now.
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  Speaker 3: I've never talked to you about this at all. What's
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  Speaker 3: the story with like the displaying? You have a room.
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  Speaker 4: So no, I don't have a displayed place yet. I'm
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  Speaker 4: currently looking into buying a home and hopefully I don't
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  Speaker 4: think this particular one will have the space for it,
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  Speaker 4: but the dream home down the line. I want a
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  Speaker 4: room where I will have everything displayed. And I will
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  Speaker 4: figure that out when the time comes. But right now,
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  Speaker 4: everything is in my closet at my parents'.
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  Speaker 1: Home in New Jersey. Oh man, so you ship it
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  Speaker 1: the Jersey, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Buy it?
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  Speaker 1: Ship it the Jersey yes, because we don't have any
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  Speaker 1: space currently at the my apartment.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's sad. You get it and then you have
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  Speaker 3: to give it away?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the thing is like, I I get so torn
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  Speaker 4: because then I have to think I maybe have to
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  Speaker 4: buy two of them, because when I get the box,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, the box is nice, but I really
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  Speaker 4: want to open it. But then I'm so into like
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  Speaker 4: box condition, and I don't want to like take the
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  Speaker 4: tape off and rip anything, so very OCD about that.
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  Speaker 4: But then I also want the piece itself, so I
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  Speaker 4: don't I don't know what to do. I'm very fickled
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to it. Sometimes I'll open it and
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  Speaker 4: be like, Wow, this is cool, but then I'll put
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  Speaker 4: it right back in the box and I'll put it
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  Speaker 4: back in the closet.
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  Speaker 1: So it just depends.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's every collector's dilemma with every piece. Really
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  Speaker 3: you get it. You kind of love the packaging, especially
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  Speaker 3: if it's retro, so you admire it, but then you
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  Speaker 3: just rip through it. It's a tough thing, even if
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  Speaker 3: you're I'm mostly a loose collector, and even I have
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  Speaker 3: a problem opening thing sometimes because they just look so
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  Speaker 3: great in the package, but you don't really have the
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  Speaker 3: space to display the volume of the boxes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in package.
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  Speaker 4: I do remember one of my biggest uh whatever you
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  Speaker 4: call it, I was torn was I always I had
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  Speaker 4: just about every Jack's figure that there was for a
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  Speaker 4: probably ninety.
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  Speaker 1: End of ninety seven on up.
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  Speaker 4: So I kind of missed the first two Superstar series,
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  Speaker 4: I guess Superstar one and two, and then I think.
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  Speaker 1: I picked up on might've been around four with the
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  Speaker 1: Bad Boys.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, that's exactly what I came into. But they just
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  Speaker 3: basically really still those guys anyway, Sure, Sean Michaels and
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  Speaker 3: the bread Harden.
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  Speaker 1: But that Ultimate Warrior, which I think was series one one, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I always had I couldn't find it, and then it
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  Speaker 4: would always be like ridiculous, that's hard to find.
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  Speaker 1: And then I took it in two. I went to.
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  Speaker 4: On vacation in Los Angeles and I went to a
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  Speaker 4: place called Big Lose Toys and Collectibles, and I found
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  Speaker 4: it for twelve bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Damn, that's a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the guy knew what he had because
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  Speaker 4: it was going for a couple hundred on eBay at
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  Speaker 4: the time.
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  Speaker 3: Still goes for a hundred somewhere up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was like, my dad saw it and he
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  Speaker 4: knew as we scooped it up real quick, and I
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  Speaker 4: just I refused to open it. And then as my
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  Speaker 4: figure fed grew and I needed some new debuts, I
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  Speaker 4: just kept looking over at this Ultimate Warrior figure, and
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  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden I had to rip it open.
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  Speaker 1: I opened it, and I don't regret it because it
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  Speaker 1: was a good figure. I still have it. Who cares.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know that you're ruining the value
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  Speaker 3: of most of these things as you open it.
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  Speaker 4: But the one I did not to cut you off.
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  Speaker 4: The one I did keep in the box was the
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  Speaker 4: Glow in the Dark Taker. I don't remember what series
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  Speaker 4: that was, but it's, yes, the Purple Taker, but it's
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  Speaker 4: got the Glow in the Dark face saying that one
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  Speaker 4: I never opened for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: That was my only Undertaker, the Glow in the Dark one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 3: A kid who I wanted more guys. So like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you go to the store, you got eight bucks, you
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  Speaker 3: can only buy one figure.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I am not taking that eight dollars and buying another
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  Speaker 3: Undertaker when I could have hardcore holly right.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. I wasn't like, we.
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  Speaker 3: Weren't rich, so it you know, it wasn't often that
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  Speaker 3: I would get a new figure, So I'm taking the
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  Speaker 3: new guy rather than a second Undertaker, And I'll just
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  Speaker 3: use my imagination when it's like, you know, when these
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  Speaker 3: guys change. I'm pretty sure I used Justin Hawk Bradshaw
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  Speaker 3: with the long hair in APA.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't want to get you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, so whatever, that was just my thing.
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  Speaker 4: I used to do that too, and some were just
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  Speaker 4: not even close because before the I think it was
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  Speaker 4: x pox came out in series seven, I needed an
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  Speaker 4: x poc and there was nothing close to him. So
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  Speaker 4: do you remember the Slammer's Mankind that, Yes, yes, he
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  Speaker 4: was the only one capable of grabbing the person's head
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  Speaker 4: for a perfect X factor because his arms are loose.
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  Speaker 4: So that Slammer's Mankind was my XPOC.
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  Speaker 3: For long brown hair. Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Matt
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  Speaker 3: talks about it all the time. He did the same
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  Speaker 3: thing with his with his Hasbro's famously, the mister Perfect
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  Speaker 3: Hasbro was his Sonny the Blunde.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, I don't feel bad anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I didn't even honestly, all this talk, all
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  Speaker 3: the toyots that we've been on, I knew you were
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  Speaker 3: a Power Rangers guy. I had no idea that you
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  Speaker 3: were a wrestling collect well, at least as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have any Now you're not diving back into
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  Speaker 3: that yet.
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  Speaker 1: I will only buy the people that I wrestle currently.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you do do that? Oh that's cool. So you
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  Speaker 1: have aw figures? I do. I refuse to buy anything
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  Speaker 1: until I wrestle them.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's cool. I had that collection. The guy's made
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  Speaker 3: fun of me about it, but yeah, I had a
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  Speaker 3: similar thing. But I actually just sort of sold most
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  Speaker 3: of it off. But why, I was just getting like
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  Speaker 3: I kind of did like anybody I worked with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so he was just getting really big.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, what am I doing here? M storage reason? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. But yeah I was, but I think, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you are actually wrestling that my not really, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was yeah, I do that for that.
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  Speaker 4: But for older like as a kid, I everything was
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  Speaker 4: just it went from straight from Power Rangers to wrestling.
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  Speaker 1: It was everything. And I was an only child. The
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  Speaker 1: nineties were a booming economy.
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  Speaker 4: Wrestlers were about four ninety nine or something, so I
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  Speaker 4: would my dad would bring me to toys r us
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  Speaker 4: Here's twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: I'd walk out with five wrestlers, four.
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  Speaker 4: Wrestlers every single time.
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  Speaker 1: So my my.
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  Speaker 4: Room was just absolutely stacked with wrestling figures and I
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  Speaker 4: had wrestling my wrestling Federation where I had, Wow, this
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  Speaker 4: is bringing back good memories at custom stages for everything.
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  Speaker 1: Really, I had a yearly planner.
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  Speaker 4: Where I would write out the federation schedule. I think
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  Speaker 4: my wrestling media was blood, Sweat and Tears. That was
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  Speaker 4: the big That was the big mania for my figure fed.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't see that bro all the time that
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  Speaker 3: we spent together, all the toyonts.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew that you had fig feds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was huge into it. I had
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  Speaker 4: the specially my room, my mom's room was the main arena.
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  Speaker 4: If I was a pay per view, it would be
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  Speaker 4: in my room. And then sometimes if my my grandma
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  Speaker 4: was in a good mood, I would go down to
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  Speaker 4: the special on the kitchen table. For whenever SmackDown was
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  Speaker 4: on for some reason, I'd go to the kitchen table
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  Speaker 4: and that would be like my SmackDown arena. So I
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  Speaker 4: would like to have different arenas from the kitchen excuse me, who.
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  Speaker 1: Else was there?
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  Speaker 4: I used to really get excited for the custom entrances
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  Speaker 4: like I bought do you remember, of course you do?
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  Speaker 4: But the Nitro arena with the trust off the best
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  Speaker 4: ye I that used to be on like Markdown at
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  Speaker 4: this place called zone for toys by my house, so
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  Speaker 4: I bought like three of them. So I had so
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  Speaker 4: many of those metal trusses, so I had ay every.
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  Speaker 1: Pay per view was a special interest constructed.
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  Speaker 4: And then eventually, eventually, when I had a fan in
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  Speaker 4: my room and it had like rungs around it, I
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  Speaker 4: bought some chicken wire and I constructed the trust that
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  Speaker 4: would hang.
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  Speaker 1: Over the ring. And then eventually I had my laptop
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  Speaker 1: so I could play music.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, perfect, Wow, that is way more. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I did similar things, but but you you went above
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  Speaker 3: and beyond. I think even Matt. I mean Matt lit
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  Speaker 3: his toys on fire for legit, but that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that is pretty crazy. Are you familiar with You're
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  Speaker 1: not familiar.
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  Speaker 3: But we have a thing. We have a spinoff podcast
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  Speaker 3: podcast called f.
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  Speaker 1: WF the actual figure feds right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but so it's a little confusing. We have live
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  Speaker 3: shows called the f WF that we actually wrestle on.
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  Speaker 3: It was our FWF Live, but f WF is our
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  Speaker 3: spinoff podcast where we the first season was Brian and
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  Speaker 3: Matt drafted bone crunching action figures and then booked weekly
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  Speaker 3: shows and presented them audibly in the podcast. Okay, so winners, losers,
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  Speaker 3: what's happening whatever. So basically they rebooked their fig feds
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  Speaker 3: and then took figure photography and it was a big hit,
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  Speaker 3: but it was so much work, like the prep for it,
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  Speaker 3: the pictures for it. We sort of had to retire
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  Speaker 3: it because we all got busy. But during COVID everyone
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  Speaker 3: had played. But I think I think you would be
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  Speaker 3: a great candidate someday when you maybe when you retire,
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  Speaker 3: we'll bring back f WF. You can you can go
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  Speaker 3: against Matt.
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  Speaker 4: I would love to do something like that because that
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  Speaker 4: was such a big part of my I would not
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  Speaker 4: think about anything else at school other than getting home,
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  Speaker 4: so I can you know if it was a Monday
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  Speaker 4: night and just having everything set up my arena, oh
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  Speaker 4: my god. Then the one of the stages that I did,
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  Speaker 4: my uncle drilled holes into like I think it was
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  Speaker 4: the cardboard raw entrance, yeah, oh yeah, with.
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  Speaker 1: The plastic ramp. Yep. He drilled holes into it all
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  Speaker 1: over the place and then on the ramp and then
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  Speaker 1: we rigged Christmas lights into it, so it was like
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  Speaker 1: a whole lit up stage. I think that was my
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  Speaker 1: favorite one.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, he is one of us more than one of
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  Speaker 3: us and funny the King of Us, funny enough at
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  Speaker 3: one point for a good run.
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  Speaker 4: Daddy Ass was my champion the signature your series too
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  Speaker 4: with the Blue Trust my favorite Billy Gun figure and
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  Speaker 4: it's really really crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Have you told about that? No, because I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: think you should.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If you got, you got, you gotta tell him it.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. I think he would like that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Well that was just us shooting the ship.
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  Speaker 4: So actually before we do questions, I want to ask
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  Speaker 4: you yes, and I don't. If you don't know, I
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  Speaker 4: got to ask Brian or or Cardona because they probably
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  Speaker 4: would know. Do you remember a figure fit online? Probably
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  Speaker 4: around year two thousand, I don't remember. I can't remember
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  Speaker 4: what the name is. But he would have a monthly.
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  Speaker 1: How did I put it?
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  Speaker 4: It was almost like what's it called stop motion? Every
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  Speaker 4: single month. It was like something heaven. But he'd have
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  Speaker 4: a full storyline with these cool custom entrances and he
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  Speaker 4: would have like instructions of how to build it, and
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  Speaker 4: then he would sell the stuff motion show on like
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  Speaker 4: the CDs.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: My god, and I don't know, I don't.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: That doesn't ring a bell at all, but I but
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: you are literally talking to the only group of people
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: on planet Earth that would know.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, so anybody can remember what it was, It had
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: to be around ninety nine two thousand, probably more of
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: the two thousand because the figures I think were the
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: the Titan Tron figures. It might have been two thousand
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: or oh one. Ye, But I used to look forward
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: to this dude putting this stuff up every single month,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: and I always wanted to buy the CDs, but for
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: some reason, I never did. But if you can, if
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: everybody remembers that, please send me the name of it,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: because I'd love to see if for some reason, like
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: there's like some existence of it still on the internet,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: because I will go back and I will watch every
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: single one of them.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: That's awesome, all right, Well, guys that you got a
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: job to do else, okay. Neil Donahue says, this is
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: a cool massive fan of the acclaimed Neil. Here's a
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: simple one. What is your absolute holy Grail piece.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: In general? Like, yeah, the one you're looking for or
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the one if you have it in general Holy Grail? Yeah,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: it's hard.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess right now, I guess it will
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: switch depending on what I'm in the mood for But
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: right now, it's a piece that Evil Uno just purchased,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: and it's the Batmobile, the Batmobile from the animated series.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: No in the box. I've been looking for that for
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a very long time. Great batmobile.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: I will fight him in a ladder match if need be.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Put that fuck comings into a dark put it up there.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I will wrestle them for it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: That's a great it's it's actually I think it's my
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: second favorite batmobile.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I like the eighty nine Batmobile.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Well I wasn't alive for that, right, God, seriously, I
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: was born in ninety I had no idea Brian Chair
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: is out of all this is a great question. Out
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: of all your gear, which would you choose if you
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: were making figures of you and Max, so you got
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: figures coming out, what if you could pick?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: So I think the figure the gear that they selected
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: was our first initial Was it our first pink set?
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I think I would personally pick the all out gear
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: right now because that was the I guess the match
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: that kind of cemented us as established.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: What was that? It was? The I think it was white, yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: white and pink. It was a mostly white color. Scheme.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: I would definitely have that and maybe have it as
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: like a two pack or three pack with Billy, like
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: the all out gear for both of us.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Because you guys talked about like you know, obviously Max
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: needs to come with a chain and a microphone, although
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I suppose you could come with a microphone too, because
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: you're part of that open Have you thought about like
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: a piece, like what's what's going in there?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Do you need you?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Well, you guys have we need scissor fingers. I think
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I came out with a boombox for about two years.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I'm just too lazy to carry it now to the boombox, Yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: it's hard to scissor people with that heavy ass boombox.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: That's classic. I think you need a bones boombox.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: You're right, boombox casters got to have the chain, the microphone,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: and the headphones. And then do you wear an entrance
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: jacket or you just shirtless the vest you wear a vest?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Okay? Women might need the vest.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: And the vest, yes, absolutely, Okay.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: What is your favorite toy from your childhood that you
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: do not currently have in your collection? And ps, I
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: love Anthony Bones and Ethan Pages toyots. By the way,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I meant to mention this earlier. I don't know about you,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: but I feel like when I get recognized in public,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: it's thirty percent aw national television, thirty percent major wrestling
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: figure podcast and Ethan Pages.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, I know you from the Ethan Pages of Fogs.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, not the TV.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Show, Oh I told you a lot of a lot
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: of the meet and greets, it's always, oh, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: we love the acclaim, but oh we loved you on
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the toy flog. So it's almost as much as just
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: as them watching the show, which is very very interesting.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Well, people that go to meet and greets when you
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: really think about it, people that go to meet and greets.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Are collectors and that makes sense.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And then collectors, you know, are our fans and also
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Ethan Pages fan, so it all sort of it's the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: same world.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It makes sense. And what was the question again? Oh? Sorry?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: So yeah, So what's your favorite toy from Chilote that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: You don't have and I don't have?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I guess the one that you're looking for, or maybe
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the one that you do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a couple of things that I'm looking for.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: The batmobile, there's a micro Machines van that I go, oh,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: you still don't have that.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: They don't have it. I want it new in the box.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I found it at the Toyhio, but it was kind
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: of eh, it was missing some things.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I want that completely new.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I got to pick up the I think it was
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: a match box car wash.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I used to have. That used to be one of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: my favorite toys growing up.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know I've had that early, so much fun.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they re released it many times throughout.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: It was in the eighties nineties.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's some like random things that like I
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: wouldn't be excited to have, but it would just be cool.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Excuse me to see it again because I used to
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: use it so much as like random, like not as scenn.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: There used to be like stuff on the the like
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: commercials that you'd have to only purchase through the commercial
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: with dial this number yeah blah blah blah. And I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: forgot what it was like this storage thing that you
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: would roll up and you as it would roll out.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: It had different compartments for different toys and stuff like.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: That cool or sort of ringing a bell. I can't picture.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I can't remember. There's so many different things.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: This is a terrible question Nick Jonas, how did you
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: learn how to wrap?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Nick Jonas? And what were your musical influences? Acclaimed, Oh guy,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Sir Josh Baker.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: If you could be put into any classic toy line,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: what would it be?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Phone crunching? I mean really, I put me in one
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of the super as opposed to being a Power Ranger.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, actually because I can just they have the new
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: mix and now where you can buy you can make
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: yourself a powering direct figure.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's a thing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: That just got his Ghostbuster back. It couldn't be worse. Okay,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I won't do that then, So you'd be probably better
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: off getting a Power Ranger, having somebody three D print
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: your face and then somebody painted and.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: It would be I think that as professional as they
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: would be better at it than somebody else.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that, like it's like mass produced. You know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: they're only charging a certain amount of money. It's it's
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: pretty cheap considering you're getting a figure of yourself. It's
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: not a really good scan process. You just take a
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: picture with your phone, so there's shadows, like Matt had
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: a shadow on his face that that like they kept in.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: It's terrible. It's not great, but like somebody who would
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: three D print your face is taking very care to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you know, three D design your face on their computer
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: then print it out, and then whoever paints it is
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: talent is probably talented, so they will put all the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: details in. I have some smart mark sternly heads that
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: probably will be better than any head that I would
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: have on a mass produced figure.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: So anyway, well I won't be doing that, so i'd
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: be a bone crunching figure.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You can.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: There's a did you know that there's lines right now
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: that are remaking bone crutters?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I forgot who I saw and I was like, that's
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: a bone cruncher, and then I realized it was new.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, Ultimate Dragons coming out with the dragon. Yeah, that's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: who I saw, but I know the legality.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: But maybe you can get a Anthony Bones.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I used to pretend I was the Series five
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Rocky My Vida because that was the closest to skin.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Tone I can find sure that was.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: That was not the rock for me. That was Anthony Bowen.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: So I'm very excited for when Unrivaled drops next year
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: to put that right next to my My My Anthony
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Bowen's Rocky My Vida figure.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: That's great, that's great. You know what's funny, I never
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: used a mark. I never really saw myself as a wrestler.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I never saw myself as doing it. I always, most
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: of my life thought I saw myself behind the camera.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So huh, I might have to do tribute gear to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that figure.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: That's true, because then I would have that figure and
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: then bro, I just I'm just thinking about it right now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You post that picture and then say it in a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: tweet and it's gonna be viral. Yeah, one hundred thousand
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: likes on it, John Swallow, What are some of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Power Ranger pieces you are.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Missing that I am missing?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I and missing really everything from Zeo through Power Rangers
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: in Space. I bought back a lot of the original
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Mighty morph and stuff, and a lot of the legacy
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: figures that came out or the Megazords, so I got
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: back the you know, I have two sets of the
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: original Dinozord. I got the Dragons or and then I
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: have the legacy versions of them. But I need to
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: get that Turbo. I love the Turbo Megazord. I need
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: to get the Power Rangers in Space, the blue one
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: that kind of the spaceship that opens up into the
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: actual dude Megazort. I wasn't really a fan of Power
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Rangers Zeo, so I don't really want any of them back.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh, and then the Showgun Megazord.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That was one of my favorites. I need to get
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that back at almost immediately.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Did you dabble in like the reproductions like Super Seven
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: has some great ones coming out, Hasbro's Got the Lightning Condition.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I stopped after the Legacy set came out because then
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: if I kept going, it would just would be at
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the time I'd have no money.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Now I'd be like, yeah, you can rebuy them Pylon,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But back then I was like, I just I can't
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: afford this.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Do you have one wrestler that you would say that
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: that inspired you or influenced your career?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Johnny JB by the way, Hello, Yeah, I mean Sting
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: was the first guy that got me in the pro
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: wrestling Relliant. You got the wrestling, and I got to
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: wrestle him nice. I got to main event Nina Mite
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: with him in Washington, d C.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: On my ninth.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Anniversary as a wrestler, which was also the same city
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: of the first match that I saw Sting wrestle hopefully
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: star K ninety seven against Hogan.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Wow did you tweet that? I think so? Did you
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: get a million? No?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I've mentioned a few times in interviews, but Sting and
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: then as I got a little bit older, probably Jeff
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Hardy because I was a very shy, introverted kid and
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I still am in certain ways, and him, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: just being Jeff.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, you know.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: He's being himself and cool and he doesn't give a
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: shit about anything like that's really cool.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So I'd probably stinging.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Jeff, Wow, that's cool. Robert Tamburrow. It's crazy to me
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: because I know the ins and outs of this, But
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: what is the origin story of the scissoring?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: The origin of the scissoring is uh a one dark
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Back in the pandemic of Daily's Place, I was doing
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: the we want to match, and I was doing the
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: acclaimed hand symbol with the A, the two fingers.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: A down yes, two fingers down.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: A two fingers down A and Castor was always trying
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: to find ways to rib me. So he came up
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: from behind and he scissored me. And there is a
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: clear shot of me going yes and looking at him
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: and kind of laughing, and because I was. When I
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: first came in, I was playing everything super safe and
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I was mortified that they were gonna like fire everything
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: we're gonna do at the burna Fyrus.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And he was.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: He's just the kind of guy he would. He wants
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: to rib you, he wants to have fun exactly. He
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: wants to push the envelope. He wants to push people's buttons.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I call it the cast Or Special where he's just
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: doing a bit that's only funny to him, but it
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's very accurate. But I think actually he's very funny.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: I enjoy cracking jokes with him, and now that I
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: am a lot more relaxed in myself at work, I
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: can give it right back to him, or I could
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: play off of them because I'm just it's fun.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, And you know, I'd say I'm also a similar
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: kind of person, the safe You know, I take the
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: safe route usually, and I've always I've told Castor don't
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: do it so many times and it ended up being
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: the most important things that he's done, you know what
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. So at this point when he asks if
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: he'd ask like my thought on something, I would say
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I think this, but I'm always wrong anyway, Just do it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we I always say we have evened
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: each other out in the best ways possible because he
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: he would really push buttons, and I think I pulled
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: him back to be a little bit not safer, but.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I know, in front of TV.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: And then he took me from being a very reserved,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: kind of shy, safe performer to shaking me a little
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: bit and going like you need to take some risks.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: So I think it's been a perfect uh relationship, tact
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: or partner over the last two years.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I agree, and I was first front road to see it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Robert Tamborrough, would you rather eat five pounds of asparagus
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: or Brussels Sprout's ough?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Asparagus? Really, I don't like Brussels sprouts. I'm in and
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Michael makes a lot of asparagus.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Make your peace smell so bad? Brian lyons, what's the
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: weirdest location you've ever been asked to scissor at while
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: you're peeing in a bathroom?
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I have been scissored in a men's bathroom at the airport,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: gym's hotels. I'm gonna use this in a promo at
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: some point, but I scissored a man to tears at
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Mohegan Sun.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know when.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it, but I'm gonna say it. Because
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I scissored, I'm gonna start crying. And I actually hook watched,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: so actually I might have to say that too, because
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: that's even funny. What was there, Bok was there to
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: witness this. This sounds like a great promo for television.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: But yeah, those everywhere. I scissor everywhere. It's very, very fun.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I was at dinner the other night with with Michael
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: for my birthday and I was walking and all of
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: a sudden, you can't see what I'm doing, but as
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I was walking by tables, I just sold two fingers
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: come up and I scissored a guy and just kept walking.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: It's just the way it is.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It's great to have something like for the fans to like,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: you know, want to do or come up to you with, right,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: So like if you approach me or Matt or somebody
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: like like what are you actually you can say, hey,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: you know I'm a fan or whatever. But the scissor
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: is just a quick sort of handshake and you don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: have to bother anybody and all that stuff to the
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: point where people now ask me to scissor. That's great, right,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: but I say I'm legally not.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: A lot, which is totally okay. It's a nice interaction, right.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: You did try and steal it from us, No I didn't.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: That didn't Was that your alter? You go? Yeah, oh okay.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: That's the other smart mart thing. Camberl Raiam Cook says,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: when are both of you coming back to Toy?
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I would love to come back to toy because.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: It was fun. It was really, really fun.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Rick's a great guy, and the people there were fantastic,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: a lot of good energy the entire day, a lot
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: of good toys. I'm more than open to.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Coming back me too, and not drive with castors through
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: the night and sleep in our car.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Well. I don't know why you guys drove in the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: first place.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Because we had to go to an event in New
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: York until like ten o'clock and.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: There's no uh yes, the event.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Let's see here, okay, Michael Fries, I don't know if
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: the zad a line or not.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think it is.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I apologize, but my question is as an openly gay
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: professional wrestler.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Out of line, as a gay professional wrestler.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Have you ever felt pressure to make that aspect of
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: your life a large slash larger aspect of your character.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I think we've had this conversation before, just sort of
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: just generally speaking about it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: No no pressure, I think I think that's one of
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: the best things about AEW is that Tony and you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: the management here allows you to just be yourself, whatever
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: that may be. You know, if that is a part
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: of I guess your presentation of who you are, then absolutely,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I'm just me. I'm Anthony Bowens. I'm a gay guy.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I'm a pro wrestler, I you know, and I am
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: the acclaims. I'm a guy who scissors and hypes up
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Max Caster's raps, and I scissor Daddy asks and I
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: screamed the city and I have fun with the fans.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: So I just I'm just me.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: And if me being myself and out and successful every
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: week on TV helps others, then you know, I'm very
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: very very happy.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Right. No one's forcing me to do anything.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: I'm not forced to play any kind of character written
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: in regards to it, which I don't think people should
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: be forced to do that because that's just kind of
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: playing upon demographics and stuff, which I'm not really a
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: fan of.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, your character shouldn't be necessarily that you're.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Gay or that you're black or whatever. It's just you. Yeah,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you just happen to be those things.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, Lane Dunstan says, what was your first wrestling personality? Like,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: what was the first gimmick?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I was Anthony Vigilante. My dad's last name.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Is actually Vigilante, Santolo, Vigilante, holy Hard or Italian.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to you know, my parents.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Are my biggest borters and my dad's like my best friend,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: so I wanted to honor him when I first started wrestling,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: because he was also wrestling fan since like the sixties,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: and I was Anthony Vigilante.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I thought the A and the V would be great.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: And then as a few months went.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: On, I was like, eh, I don't not really feel
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: in this name, and I think I don't think Pat
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: did either, So I just went back to Anthony Bowen's.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: And then the first like real gimmick as Anthony Bowens was.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I was in a group of four of us. We
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: were students at Creator Pro. It wasn't Creative Pro back then.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: It was a different name. But we were four students
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: who were at the top of the pack at the
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: class and we wanted to break away from our evil teacher,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Pat Buck and show them that we didn't need him anymore,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: and we became the untouchables.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Oh I didn't do that, Yeah, myself, Chris Payne, Ac Gamble,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and Bobby Wayward. I don't I know all of them
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: except for ac Gamble A C. Gamble. Really he got
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: hurt a bunch of times. Great dude.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Really added a pretty good mind for like for the
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: amount of time he was doing it, and always very
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: good with psychology. He was my tag partner for the
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: first couple of years. I think if he didn't get
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: hurt and he's stuck with it, I think he started
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: a family as well.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He what about decently far I always I always said
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that about we had a kid, Vinnie Spanno. He was
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: with us in the beginning, Remember Vinnie. I always thought
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: he was could have made it. Remember I thought I
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: was the whatever you call it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: That was the first match at CAP when everybody was
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, it was me and the lifeguard. I'm pretty
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: sure Castor was in the crowd. Castor was there. Vinie
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: was there, yeah, he was. I think Bronson was there.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: He was like an open house and it was like
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: a showcase.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a couple of matches, Brian and pat
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: rustled mm hmm, that's cool. What do you do in
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: your freedom free time? Angela Angelica Mancini.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It depends on how busy our schedule is with a
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: e W. If it is a busy schedule, when I
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: get home, I am cuddling on the couch with my
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: boyfriend and watching Netflix and going to the gym, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: I am not going anywhere. If I have free time,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: then we.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Are going to Hollywood elite parties. We do that from
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: time to time.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Beach.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: We like to go try different restaurants and grab food
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: and explore and pretty much anything. Right now, it's just
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: been looking for a place to buy to call our own.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I actually I say this is my wife all the time.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I love looking at houses.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: It's stressful, but it's so much fun. I'm like, huh,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: this is nice.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: It's like one of those like kind of crappy life
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: things that you have to do that I would actually
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: be excited to do. And we did it a bunch
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: so many times in the last ten years. You know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: we moved four times, so you know there's four different
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: periods that we were like looking for houses and stuff.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: But I experienced my first heartbreak two weeks ago because
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: we put in an offer. It was legitimately if you
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: got in the car from our current place and forty
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: five seconds down the street. Oh, it was like it
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have been the forever like home, but it was
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: like it would have been a dream to live in.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: And we made it to the final two and then
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: the guy went in with cash and they were just like,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: it's off bow and we want the cash.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I never get that because it's like the loans go through.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: It's the person getting the money doesn't have to deal
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: with the loans. They just they get cash in their bank.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: So apparently there's an extra process using a loan that's
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I don't want to go.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Through or something. Right, do you have to have the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: bank there and stuff on the clothing? All right, we're
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: winding down here.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Favorite Christmas present as a kid.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Oh that one's hard because I truthfully, again, like I
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: said earlier, I was the only child, so I was
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: very I don't want to say I was spoiled because
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I was a good kid that quite frankly deserved it.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't do anything wrong. I never gave any
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of my parents' trable.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: I got good grades, I did what they asked me to,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: and they rewarded me with, you know, wrestling toys.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So there's nothing specific. There's not a specific one.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: But my best memory is probably Christmas two thousand or
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: two thousand and one of me and my little cousins.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: We had so many gifts that you couldn't open the.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Front door to my aunt's house.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: My god, it was the living room, the tree, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: it was I wish I could find a photo of
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: it because it was asinine.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: It took us a good few hours to get through.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Everything and clean it up because there was just like
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: barbies for my cousins and wrestlers and everything everywhere.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Were you known as like the family as the kid
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: who loved wrestling or the wrestling kid or they.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: All knew it? Oh yeah, yeah, because that's all I watched.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: It was just wrestling, wrestling, wrestling, And then they would
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: my aunt would always get me tickets to UH when
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: they were at ISAAC or Continent of the Airlines arena.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: So we're always going to shows that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Ronnie Bosh says, I'm sure you're super busy
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: these days. But I actually first saw you on your
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: YouTube channel doing parodies ninety Day Fiance. Have you kept
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: up with ninety Day or other shows you would parody
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: like Love Is Blind? If so, are there any couples
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the two of you would like the parody that you haven't?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We still watch ninety Day Fiance.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: We actually just caught up on the latest Happily Ever
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: After season and a lot of times our we want
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: to do a lot of couples, but our issue is
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: a lot.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Of times, well not a lot of times.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: All the time the couples are ones from America, the
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: other one is from a different country, and you have
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: to find the line between parody and getting canceled.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Making fun of the ACCIENTI yeah, yeah, so like you
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: can do it. You have to find a way to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: We like to be accurate because Michael specifically, he's very
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: very good at impressions. He can find a wig and
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: do make up and be transform himself into this person
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: and do the impression of these women like yeah, beautifully,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: you're even.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Most guys.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Like He's really good and a lot of times he
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: has to do somewhat of an accent. So we have
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: to figure out how to do it tastefully and the
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: whole thing tastefully too, because like we actually became decent
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: friends or acquaintances via Instagram with most of the people
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: that we've parodied because they appreciated it that we weren't
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: actually making fun of them. We were just kind of
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: poking fun of how the show's edited and how they
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: were presented. So we don't want to be mean spirited.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: We just want to make fun of the show, yea.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: So we have to figure out ways to do it tastefully,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: and we I think there's a couple on there call
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: His name is Balal and his wife's name is Shida,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: and she's from Trinidad and she has she has a great,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: great accent. But there's certain things that we can kind of,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: you know, play up on, which I don't know if
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: it is tasteful for you know, twenty twenty three coming up.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, we have to figure that out.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Got it all right? I got a great last question.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: What is your mount rushmore of action? Figure lines.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Four? Figure four figure.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Lines bone crunching, yep, I was a big fit of
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: deluxe aggression.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, oh wow, I didn't even know you went that far.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't think many people enjoyed them. But the
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: finishing Moves set, I really liked them, except for I
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: think I it was a triple h's head because his
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: was straight.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I hated that part.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: But it was a great, very articulated, yes, because you
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: could do pretty much everything that Jeff Hardy was great
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: because you'd a nice swan to on bomb because his
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: neck would actually move. That's three, right, The fourth one I.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Think you might just wrestling. Oh no, oh well yeah,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it's gotta be Powerringers.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, that original.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: The head head slippers were great. Obviously, all the Megazord
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: sets were great.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Actually think the first Power Rangers stunk. They were kind
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: of big and they were not articular.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: The big ones. Yeah, I didn't like those. Yeah, I
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: bypassed them.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Then once you got the head flippers, there were at
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: least move their knees and arms and stuff, so that
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: were good.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's everything the Power Rangers came out with. I
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: loved it was just all the random ship that they had. Actually,
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: what I got to buy back is the gloves. Oh yeah,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: I think we were. I think I talked to Ethan
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: about it, but I had the I think it was
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: the Blue Ranger gloves, but I started to realize that
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: they had the whole set of them, so I think
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I need to get those.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're gonna buy it at one store.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: And then he kind of gave me the idy that
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: the guy was overpricing it because I didn't know what
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: the price points were on it, and he told me
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: not to get it, so I didn't get it.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's pretty knowledgeable with the Power Rangers vintage stuff. Yeah,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: so I get a I'll end that one with Power Rangers.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: Well, man, this was fun. I think people knew that
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: you were a collector. I don't think that they knew
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: this much. I didn't even know. And we're friends, so
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: this has been really cool, sort of eye opening. I
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: appreciate you doing this for our Patreon. I think that
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: you'll get a lot of people coming up to you
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: at signings about.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: This, you know, I hope so.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: And if you need me to talk on the actual
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: major figure pod y, yeah, we'll do it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I'd love to speak to all of you absolutely. All right, man,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Bye, guys.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: All right, we got some new tag team champions, the
• 43:44
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• 43:45
  Speaker 6: Podcast and Whatnot the Ultimate Tag Team. I'm loving it.
• 43:50
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  Speaker 6: And I'm not talking about brock Listner.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: We will actually be on there every week six thirty
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: pm on Monday's Eastern, and we're gonna be doing live
• 44:06
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• 44:09
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• 44:12
  Speaker 6: I mean crazy, rare, rare wrestling collectibles, rare collectibles from
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  Speaker 6: other genres, ring worn gear from our careers, what other
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• 44:25
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• 44:26
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• 44:36
  Speaker 5: I'm purg Finally, how many would you say?
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: You have?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Five hundred thousands?
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• 44:47
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• 44:50
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• 45:00
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• 45:03
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• 45:06
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• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Follow along, join in on our auctions, look at other auctions.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, dude, you'll get into it. I sometimes I'm
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• 45:21
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