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You Won’t Believe Our First Episode… 400 Episodes Later! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a wrestling dr podcast show fucking thing Glendable.
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  Speaker 2: Today March show Jo.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host.
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  Speaker 1: Matt cardona Ak the Thousand Dollars broski Ak, the Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan of Wrestling Figure Collecting.
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  Speaker 2: And i'm your host the most professional wrestler Bryan Myers, and.
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  Speaker 3: I am also here produce of the show, Smart Mark Sterling.
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  Speaker 3: And we're here with our good friends Ringside Collectibles guys
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  Speaker 3: from episode number one.
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  Speaker 2: Which made me very proud when I listened to her back. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: super cools, super cool and very grateful.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just any episode of the podcast, folks, this
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  Speaker 3: is a retrospective and the look back at the pilot
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  Speaker 3: episode of the podcast, episode number one.
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  Speaker 2: The debut edition. Do we have the date on that Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Stand by?
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  Speaker 2: August something very easy to find? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, keep talking twenty so you recorded it the Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: YEP right of Summer Slam.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and then you got it to me and then
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  Speaker 3: it came out later that week, August twenty third, twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: The podcast was something that I had been pitching to
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  Speaker 1: Brian for a while because we were just talking about
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  Speaker 1: figures every day, sending you know, each other of the
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  Speaker 1: news our weekly purchases. So I thought there's got to
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  Speaker 1: be some other crazy sobs out there like us, And man,
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  Speaker 1: was I right.
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  Speaker 2: In that particular weekend, we went to wrestling for Sales
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  Speaker 2: pop It was a New York obviously summer Slimon's the Barclays,
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  Speaker 2: so Broski was in town. I live here. We went
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  Speaker 2: to wrestling for Sales pop up shop in the city,
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  Speaker 2: and then we stopped by Bruce Pritchard's live show. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: said hi to him and Conrad. And then I think
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  Speaker 2: maybe Broski said, let's just because now we've had plans
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  Speaker 2: before this, because Cabana sent us the equipment. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: So maybe we just knew after watching SummerSlam we were
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  Speaker 2: going to record it. And I hosted Summer Simon and
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  Speaker 2: I and you know what, I just remembered for sure,
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  Speaker 2: Heath was here and watched with us, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he ubered back to this hotel. I have no memory
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  Speaker 2: of that he did, because he's everyone knows. I might
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  Speaker 2: signed figure collection in my gym and he signed a
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  Speaker 2: figure for me then, And it might be when I
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  Speaker 2: finally got you to write a nice one to me too.
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  Speaker 2: After four attempts.
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  Speaker 1: Best wishes, Like the podcast, I think with anything in life,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to start it and do it right.
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  Speaker 2: If we had waited for everything to be.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect, for the stars to align, I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: ever would have started it. And luckily Mark he he
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  Speaker 1: saw some tweets that we're gonna do this and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much paid us to kidding.
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  Speaker 3: I completely forgot. I kept saying that I did it
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  Speaker 3: for free. I didn't do it for free. The I
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  Speaker 3: what I asked was I would do it if you
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  Speaker 3: let me advertise for my podcast at all.
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  Speaker 2: Remember those guys you completely turned on He'll Turn. It's
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  Speaker 2: like I cashed to the Beach ninety six and then
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  Speaker 2: Mark's He'll turn. I'm Off the hop Rope.
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  Speaker 3: So, by the way, after we're done shooting the ship here,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna hear episode number one. I'm putting it up
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  Speaker 3: here right after this podcast, we're gonna go right into
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  Speaker 3: this little talk, and then you can hear episode one,
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  Speaker 3: including my advertisement for Off the Hop Rope. At the end,
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  Speaker 3: I was so surprised, what's my voice doing your.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even introduce myself either. I didn't even say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: it's smart. Mark Stter, like, I just said you should
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  Speaker 3: listen off that broke, but I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the pilot, you'll listen. It's like forty minutes long,
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  Speaker 1: and it's basically just an introduction.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a perfect pilot because there's no segments, there's no nothing.
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  Speaker 3: You guys just kind of say, here, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do this thing.
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  Speaker 2: You guys forced me to listen to this, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like dreading it, and I felt like it was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be just like a cringey thing for me.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't at all. Actually I was shocked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's bad at all. It's a perfect introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Even the way like you figure out who Bareman and
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  Speaker 1: Brian is right at the very beginning. What with the
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  Speaker 1: way you you it showed the show. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not how you do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then that was you get your game show host voice.
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  Speaker 2: But people want to be entertained. I think I think
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  Speaker 2: we're entertaining enough.
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  Speaker 3: But said Brosky has come down, yeah and Brian has
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  Speaker 3: gone up, so you kind of you both meet in
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  Speaker 3: the middle.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be like this the whole time because I
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  Speaker 2: was going to say the the real thing, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: we're genuine from the jump, you hear. It's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of like being who we are Matt and Brian, Yeah
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  Speaker 2: about toys, no ego, just kind of like letting our
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  Speaker 2: nerd hang out. And that was like even evident in
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  Speaker 2: this episode, which I was like proud of almost like
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  Speaker 2: because I think that's what's made this work throughout the years.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, there's nothing fake about it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's totally authentic.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think much has changed, uh in our
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  Speaker 1: collecting habits.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that really stood out to me was,
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  Speaker 1: well besides us saying we weren't going to have different
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  Speaker 1: social media and then it wasn't going to be long episodes,
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  Speaker 1: that we do have social media.
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  Speaker 2: We have long episodes.
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  Speaker 1: We have a Patriot group, we have a YouTube show,
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  Speaker 1: we have you know, we had a live wrestling promotion,
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  Speaker 1: we have a toy line, like.
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  Speaker 2: So much, so hard.
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  Speaker 3: When Brian said it's not going to be like a
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  Speaker 3: three hour episode, oh no, two days after I uploaded
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  Speaker 3: a three hour.
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  Speaker 2: Episode, I mean, we're about the record another episode and
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  Speaker 2: it's Mattel revealed week and I'm like, oh my god, Dfredo,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to have me sitting in this chair for hours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bringside, like you said sponsors from day one.
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  Speaker 3: Pilot episode proof of There was no even proof of concept.
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  Speaker 1: They said, yes, well we appreciate that. Didn't John and
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  Speaker 1: Heath come over and watch Summers. I have no memory
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  Speaker 1: on John would have went to Summerson. John came over
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  Speaker 1: Saturday after we went to the Wrestling for Sale the
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  Speaker 1: pop up shop. I have no memory of any of this.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, well, we like had a talk with like,
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  Speaker 2: you can't just like make him a sponsor, like he
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  Speaker 2: agreed to it.
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  Speaker 3: Discussion Here Here is a part of my memory from
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  Speaker 3: that weekend. I knew that this was happening. I knew
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  Speaker 3: that it was going to happen. You, Brian had kind
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  Speaker 3: of clued me in. You made those tweets. I said
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  Speaker 3: I would help. Brian said, yeah, it's probably gonna happen soon.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea when that weekend. I was doing
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  Speaker 3: extra work for the ww so I I was working Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: Sunday and Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Probably those summer SIME weekends were great, good, good little
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  Speaker 3: chunks of cash. But that I would have been at
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  Speaker 3: SummerSlam that night being an extra. I think I was
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  Speaker 3: really upset because I didn't get picked to get super.
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  Speaker 2: Kicked by somebody.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, so then when I was told, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: recorded the episode the next day at RAW, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you did, Oh my god? And then I started thinking
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was.
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  Speaker 3: Surprised when you guys did it?
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  Speaker 2: Why because I just didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't heard like, hey, we're going to record at
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  Speaker 3: Sunday night. I think it was more of a impromptu
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  Speaker 3: kind of hey, work together, let's do it type of thing,
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  Speaker 3: or at least I wasn't privy to that information.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we did it. Four hundred episodes later,
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  Speaker 2: we're still here.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you major marks for your support over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and we got we got four hundred more to go.
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  Speaker 2: We we ain't finished, like my t shirt says on
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  Speaker 2: WW shop And then some.
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  Speaker 3: Well what also one thing that I wanted to mention,
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  Speaker 3: I was surprised that the audio quality was great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's thanks to the podfither called Cabana, who insisted
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  Speaker 2: we used his equipment to start the thing up.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you'll be surprised and not really hear
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  Speaker 3: much of a difference from this opening recording for it
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  Speaker 3: episodes later to the very.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same equipment. First, it's the same device. I
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  Speaker 2: will say that I used to be so intimidated by
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  Speaker 2: that thing, like what is this contraption? Kind of like
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  Speaker 2: when you get a kid's car seat for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, com I ever gonna figure this out? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Like what am I supposed to do with this? The
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  Speaker 2: same thing with this little box. I'm looking at it
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  Speaker 2: right here like I was like, what, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do this volume knob. Yeah you crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There's like bars and things going up and down.
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  Speaker 3: But now you're a pro.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say a pro, but I can handle my
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  Speaker 2: way around it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things have changed, but a lot has
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  Speaker 1: stayed the same. So enjoy episode one. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: we do have tons of social media. You can give
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  Speaker 1: us a follow after you watch.
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  Speaker 4: This is the rate at our Superstar Edge and you're
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: listening to the Major Wrestling Figure podcast. You see what
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: they did there. They put in Major because they used
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: to be the Major Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: You get it.
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  Speaker 4: You get it, and Zach, You're never coming on the
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  Speaker 4: NC pot of awesome as ever, Kurt, you got cart
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  Speaker 4: blanch kid?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hello, and welcome to the debut slash pilot episode
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  Speaker 2: of the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. I'm your co host
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  Speaker 2: WWE Superstar Kurt Hawkins aka Brian Myers. You need to
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: be a little more enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the debut edition of the Major Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: Figure Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Cardona, also known as
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  Speaker 1: Zach Ryder WW Superstar.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my co host. Yeah, but this supposed to be casual,
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  Speaker 2: and you're doing your fake, fake story and voice said
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  Speaker 2: and early. You gotta, you know, excite the audience.
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  Speaker 1: They're driving their maybe they're at home, maybe they're at work,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: maybe they're working out.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're talking about toys, like how how excited can
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  Speaker 2: you get? Action figures? Action figures toys and all the above.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this has been a long time coming
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  Speaker 2: and people kind of need an explanation of I think,
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  Speaker 2: why it took so long, why we're doing it in
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  Speaker 2: the first place. You know, maybe people aren't familiar with
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  Speaker 2: why we think we're so qualified to sit here and
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  Speaker 2: talk about.
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  Speaker 1: And right off the bat, this isn't a podcast about
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  Speaker 1: wrestling news. Or backstage wrestling stuff. This is strictly about
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  Speaker 1: figures and wrestling figures and our our love for figures
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  Speaker 1: and maybe other collectibles and maybe some T shirts stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that thrown in there. We'll dabble, but if you're
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  Speaker 1: here to get the inside scoop, turn this off right now, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, that's not that's not what this platform is for. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is something we've been talking about for maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: almost almost a year. Close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because we're texting every day about wrestling figures,
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  Speaker 1: about different collectibles, So why not put it out there
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  Speaker 1: for everyone else to hear and listen and then join
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. We can, you know, now with social media,
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  Speaker 1: they can tweet us, Instagram all that stuff, and we
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  Speaker 1: can include everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And there was there were some hiccups and bumps in
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  Speaker 2: the road getting us to this point, but what really
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  Speaker 2: helps was the latest shakeup and now we actually see
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  Speaker 2: each other every week.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because we didn't know how to do this if
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do it via skype or I mean, right now,
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  Speaker 1: we don't even know what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting here in this is your toilet.
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  Speaker 1: We're in your man cave, right now filming this pilot,
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  Speaker 1: but now we're on Raw, the same brand together, so
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  Speaker 1: we can do it every week.
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  Speaker 2: I actually call it my playroom. This is your playroom. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like my daughter has a playroom upstairs. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: call this daddy's playroom because she really can't be roaming
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  Speaker 2: around in here for you, so she knows not to
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  Speaker 2: be touching my okay collectibles. Yeah. But yeah, so here
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  Speaker 2: we are wrestling figure podcasts. I think we should give
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  Speaker 2: everyone a little backstory about how we met and how
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  Speaker 2: kind of like figures became the glue of our or
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: maybe let's call it the foundation of our relationship. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't too fond of each other until we figured
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  Speaker 2: out that we both collected.
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  Speaker 1: Right because we both went to the same wrestling school
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and three we met. You started a little
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  Speaker 1: before me, but you went off to college, and then
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  Speaker 1: when you.
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  Speaker 2: Came back Edwine was kind of comparing us to each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because we're the same age, very similar look, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously like it's human nature. You're kind of like you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be like I want to be best
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  Speaker 2: friends with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of like this guy's too much, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get into the wrestling business to be a
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  Speaker 1: tag team wrestler.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, one day I'm gonna be the tag
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  Speaker 2: team champions.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, don't think I ever thought about it, right, So
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  Speaker 1: I when I see you, I don't think, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is the guy this is gonna be my tag team partner.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think, now, this is the guy who I'm
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  Speaker 2: competing with for a spot. We're totally leery of each other.
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  Speaker 2: But I think what the real thing was though, Like
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  Speaker 2: at that time, so this is two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 2: were we had just been seniors in high school and
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  Speaker 2: entering our freshman year of college, so like to just
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  Speaker 2: be out and about and open about collecting action figures,
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  Speaker 2: And it really wasn't like a thing he goes quick
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: In my high school, there was nobody else collecting, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I think I was kind of really like embarrassed
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  Speaker 1: to be collecting. So I would collect through my young
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  Speaker 1: my youngest brother. I would buy things for him, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd kind of play with them, you know, and collect them,
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  Speaker 1: but like they.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't kally mine anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And then I met you and I saw your bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and you had all these figures like proudly on display
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  Speaker 1: and everyone in make condition. I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I need to get back in this. So I kind
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  Speaker 1: of blame you a little bit for my addiction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember being so like out and about about
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  Speaker 2: it though, because like obviously, like I'm trying to impress
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  Speaker 2: girls and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was like being in high school and
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  Speaker 1: he got like the bashing brawler on your bed and
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  Speaker 1: you're making out with this chicken hohoke hold and goes
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  Speaker 1: like you're.
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  Speaker 2: Hurting my right arm. Brother. I love those. Actually, the
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  Speaker 2: brat ones really underrated. I just bought the whole set
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  Speaker 2: on email again. I have them all.
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  Speaker 1: I got Steiner, I got Nash goal Berg, Macho Man Brett.
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  Speaker 2: Who else was there? DDP peasical one. Yeah, there's multiple
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  Speaker 2: Hogans and savages and stings different. Yeah, I'm just doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing just Hollywood. But yeah, So I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember being that like like my clothes as friends obviously
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  Speaker 2: knew because they would come over and see my room,
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  Speaker 2: which was like ridiculous growing up with everything wrestling you
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  Speaker 2: could think of. But so I don't know how like
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  Speaker 2: I don't really remember how the ice was broken between
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  Speaker 2: us where we both realized like whoa you collected?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I kind of forget that too, but I
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  Speaker 1: do remember. I mean, we've told this story publicly before
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  Speaker 1: the WrestleMania twenty uh Jack story. I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: your version of it, because I always tell it, but
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to hear, like your.
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  Speaker 2: Version exactly what happened. Exactly what happened. So I had
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  Speaker 2: a h It's funny growing up I had I had
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  Speaker 2: two friends who were also into wrestling, and they were
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  Speaker 2: in different grades and stuff. So it was like I
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  Speaker 2: was like the wrestling guy in my grade, and then
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  Speaker 2: there was a guy that you know, a great old
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  Speaker 2: on me. He was the wrestling guy that we befriended,
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  Speaker 2: and then another guy the next grade, and we all
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  Speaker 2: will go to shows together and stuff and hit a
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: lot of like timeless New York wrestling events. I had nobody.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to these shows by myself, really, like
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  Speaker 1: because I wanted the pay per view chairs, so I would,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wait all day on like ticketmaster dot Com
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  Speaker 1: to get these tickets like front row, and then my
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  Speaker 1: two brothers would like sit like in the nosebleads. Because
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  Speaker 1: I still have I have some of them still but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like that's what I wanted, was that chair.
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  Speaker 2: So I was a big uh.
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  Speaker 1: I was is a big collector of all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all that memorabilia, all the stupid like like the foam fingers,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, the T shirts, the sunglasses, necklaces, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff that they would make.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So anyway back to my story, one of those
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  Speaker 2: particular guys I was friends with was deep into collecting
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: wrestling figures like as bad as diehard as you can get,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: which is weird because.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: We later found out I was online friends with him
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: in the Wrestling Bigs message boards stranger. So we would
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: like direct message back in the day whatever you would
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: call it, like what is the car place? Toys of
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: us have the.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Sporting like which is just one complete loser stuff. Yeah,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: when you should be out, like you know, chasing chicks
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: and doing stuff the high school kids do. But anyway,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: he this is before tex so we're really dating ourselves
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: here for the young listeners. And I want to say
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: he called. We definitely had texts. No, I don't remember
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: texting until we were like in Deep South.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: We definitely had Like, we definitely had because I remember
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: we were in we were both went that summer class,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and that's why I were in the same class.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: No same time though, Okay, okay, here we go. I
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: want to say. He called me in the morning or
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: something whatever it was. So we were both very not
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: good at college. So we were in a summer class
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: at a community college where he was taking a different
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: class and I was taking another one. But it was
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: at the exact same time I was taking sex And
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I got an a why did you have to go
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: to summer school for sex?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It was like an elective to like finish quicker got it?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was taking math one hundred because I failed.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: So anyway, human sexuality maybe that was what it was.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: What how why is that a class? I don't know.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I also took circus arts and guy, I do remember that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I remember you're talking about thinking what who is this kid?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Anyway, so he called me, tells me, hey, that brand
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: new WrestleMania twenty set that's exclusive to toys r US.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I just found it this morning a case. So figure
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: collectors out there no modern toys for the most part.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: A case means, especially the Mattel kind of runs this
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: way and Jack's always do twelve. It's twelve it's of
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: a set six, there's one of each there's two of
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: each guy too. Yeah, so unless it's like short packages,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: unless there's like you know, yeah, things like that. So
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: the typical assortment, you got two of each guy, he goes. Obviously,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I scooped up a set for myself, but I took
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the entire other six, the whole other set hit him
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: in the rafters for you, so you can get them.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: After class, I went, wow, man, thank you. So, uh,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I just met mister Cardona here and Brosky
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: to my left ear, and I was feeling we at
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: this point, they had like put us together at our
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: wrestling school where we knew we were going to be a
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: team and we were becoming friends and stuff, and we
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: had bonded over wrestling figures. We had both gone to
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: wrestle me at twenty, you know, so it was a
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: sentimental event to us. So I said, you know what,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: so this was like two thousand and four, right, this
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: is for sure, summer two thousand and four. Okay, the
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: event was March two thousand and four.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So we were kind of okay, yeah, okay, but not
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: quite like not quite well.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: We finally I felt like we had finally hit a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: point in a relationship. I'm like, you know, this guy
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is going to be my friend and we're going to
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: probably be a tag team, and you know, let's see
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: what the future holds here. So it said, at the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: kindness of my heart, I've hit you up, and I said, hey,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: my buddy, who's my buddy? Now your buddy? You don't
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: even know technically, even though I found out later you did,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: but not really. He hid these figures for me. There's six.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Why don't we go together after class and split them
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: three piece and then you know, we'll venture piece together
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the sets on our own, you know, down the line whatever.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: But at least this is a start, you know, you
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: just know you're collecting. You say, sure, sounds great. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: then what I did was I he says, sure, great,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We have our ninety minute class, we meet, we drive
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to the car place, toys r us in Long Island
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: or rest in Peace? Here are you? It was just
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: absolutely said, that's something we'll have to talk about down
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: the line on this podcast. We go in race down
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: that aisle. You know that that feeling when you're in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a toy store, that little rush, you know, you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the anticipation of heading down the aisle and whatnot. And
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we get there, open up the you know, old school collectors.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: You know, now this won't exist anymore, you know, open
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: up that rafter little shelf, that hidden shelf up top.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Nothing or at least no resume of twenty figures, no
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: none to be found, whatsoever? Where could they have gone devastated?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: So this guy to me, he goes, oh my god,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's someone found their gune. I go, yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: oh my god, that sucks. You know, I guess we'll
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: have to get them another time. You know, it wasn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: meant to be. Yeah, shucks. He gives me, and we
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: we get in our sleeve separate cars and go by
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the rest of our day, never throw anything of it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty sure I got to set two
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: or three weeks later. I think it was a couple
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of days later, because then I didn't feel ass bad. Yeah,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: like I walked in and found them all and knocked
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: him all out. And maybe I asked you and you said, oh, no,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I think my dad got him from me or something
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: like that. Oh, because I had to say that I
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: found him, of course, right, And then I don't even
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: remember for sure. Years later, years had passed years, holding
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: onto this for years later for no reason. He just
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: confesses to be I felt bad. How to get off
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: my chest? Bro? He confesses to me that that morning,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: when I called him to tell him those figures were
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: there Toys Rustling, we made that plan. He said, Okay,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: hung up the phone, called his father and said, hey, Dad,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: go to Toys r USS right now. And by this entire
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: set that's hit the room.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Exactly where they were, and my dad got them all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: all sick guy on my condition. Yeah, So that's how
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: our friendship really started.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: That's like our most infamous right then story.
• 21:05
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  Speaker 2: you'll see that like, we're both pretty nuts, you're super nuts,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and we'll get into.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're both nuts in our own right.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at your display right now and just like
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the detail and the way you organize things.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Blows my mind.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I see these customs. I can't believe you actually count
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: customs in your collection.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Count them. It's just sometimes that and I think there's a.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Lot that counts customs, like, oh man, okay, let's talk
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: The way you're looking at Martin Genetti, I wasn't even
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: looking at that margin.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I was looking at like those ECW like custom like
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: paper titles you got on them, cause I don't know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I just like the ECW figure came with those awesome
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: detailed titles.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not really, only the Mike awesome one as the detail.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: The rest are like kind of.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: The RBD has the TV title has it, but it's
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: not like nice.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: But uh, you just threw me for a loop there. Yeah.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: But the things we're going to talk about on this podcast, eventually,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have a real format. What that format is,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll talk about the news of the week.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And you might be thinking, if you don't collect wrestling figures,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like what's the news, Well, there's news dropping all the time.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: News. Yeah, you know what. Honestly, we kind of have
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: inside sources now these days, so like make Bill sweat brother,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: they'll make Bill sweat constantly.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe have Bill on here a little make
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Bill swim. You will have Bill the real Bill actually
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: figure attack. Yeah, we got guys, we got inside sources.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Will have fellow colleagues, you know, ww superstars and talk
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: about you know, maybe even guys that you wouldn't expect
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to collect or this or that you know, and get
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: their stories.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And they're's a lot of fun stuff. But the options
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I think are endless.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But I think like, well, like I said, we'll get
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the format down, we'll talk about the news is, we'll
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: talk about you know, maybe the purchases we make. Now,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we we're going to all the stores, Target, Walmart, you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we're looking for the new stuff. But I think what
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: drives us the most is the old stuff on eBay
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that we're just dropping all this coin on and all
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the stuff we're rebuying, things from our childhood, things we
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: never had, things we wish we had. And and if
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you follow me on social media, you know I'm kind
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of borderline obsessed with getting these pre production prototype figures, which.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Is a whole nother one. Like I don't live in
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that world. I know what goes on there because I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: watch you do it. But like he was just making
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: fun of me about having kind of custom stuff. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: don't have any protots. I have probably Kurt Hawkins prototypes,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: which is a different story.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Because like even like today before were recording this, we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: were discussing this just toys Diesel prototypes. This is what
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you happen to do today, right, So what I'm saying
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: like we're gonna have material for years.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because we just you today today. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: by the way, we just watched SummerSlam. When I do
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: this isn't live or spoiling it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, guys, we just watched Summer Sign and we weren't there,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: but we watched it from my home because we have
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: to go to work tomorrow. Order some sushi, ordered some sushi,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: enjoyed the event, but for some reason this morning you
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: decided that you had to make a purchase.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Well no, someone contacted me and said, hey, I got this, Dez.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I knew exactly what it was talking I've seen it
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the pictures for years, and then he showed me the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: picture all him. There was a little, you know, suspect.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe it could be a good custom because
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: people make good custom wrestling buddies, but I talked to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: my other friend, Zombie sailor, you know the zombie good
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: good to shout out for the zombie right there, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: he confirmed being at the convention where this guy had
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: bought it and remember seeing it with his own eyes
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and confirms that it came from a Just Toys employee.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: So that really made me feel more secure. And until
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I have it in my own hands, I can't really
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: judge because pictures these days it just it just doesn't
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: do it justice.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: What if this comes then you think it's like just
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: pure garbage.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I'm screwed because I sent the money friends and family, paypals.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I can't I can't even geta.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And just for the record, how much was that? How
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: much money did you send friends and family? Well, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: mean it was, it was. It was one thousand dollars.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Oh my godling buddy folks shipped so free shipping, which
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it's a pillow Okay, But I included two insta grab shoutouts,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: two instagrab story shoutouts, and a Twitter tweet shout out.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Now I didn't include a podcast shout out, so I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: can't say the guy's name here. If I got it
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: for like seven fifty, maybe I would have shouted him out.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So the next time, you know who I'm talking about.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Next time we do a deal, I can shut you
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: out on the podcast.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: What I'm doing. This mean that that guy has more
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: more to offer. No, No, he just bought this a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. All these shout outs for them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes he's I thought you meant other wrestling buddies. Yes,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he sells like figures and.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Old school stuff. Yeah, he's a toy dude.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say his name because it wasn't part
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of the deal. Sorry, bro, man, it's business. It is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a toy BND.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, So back to my other question, like the the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: chances of you getting ripped off a pretty slim then,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: because he's got his credible.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this guy. We've done a couple of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: deals before, so I trust this guy. Like I said,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I can't say his name because it was more of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the deal. In your recent purchases, have you felt like
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you were ripped up.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: By something or the question the there's a couple you
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: do your due diligence. Oh absolutely, I'm no sucker.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some some l JN prototypes that I have acquired,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: like there's this, they're unpainted. There's a Sergeant Slaughter. There
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: is like a Andre the Giant and Miss Elizabeth in
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: an alternate pose.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Like, I'm not sold that these are authentic, but I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: do believe they are. He hasn't confessed this to me
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: in real life, but.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: They all they all, they all came from an l
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: J n EX employee, so that helps. And there is paperwork,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I would I it's a dangerous game.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. ECW is my favorite thing ever, And if I
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: were to at anything pre production prototype, I would want. Dude,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: imagine if that would have to begin San Francisco toy makers. Yeah,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: like whoever was supposed to be in that, which, besides
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: roll Kill, has never really been proving. There's like that
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: with the turbine. Yeah, things like that would interest me.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: But that's about it, because it's a whole different ball game.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I guess we could also talk about like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: old figures we can go by, Like we could talk
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: about l J in one week or Hasbro or matter,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: whatever the fans want us to talk about. We can
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: kind of do we do some Q and A things
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we can Well, this isn't gonna be a three hour podcast.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Half hour. Something easy, listen a little quickie. Yeah for
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: you guys. You can't. We can't something to wrestle you
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: guys on a deep subject. I just I just scooped
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: up a great dude. Oh the the Remco. I don't
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: do remkos. I only have him in Terry Gordy. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: have one assorted shelf which really has no like so,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: like you were talking about before, the way I just
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I have like a pretty high case of O c D.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I would say, so the way things get displayed are
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: like pretty intense.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: We should take a side by side still photo of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: your room and how it looks right now. In my room,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: my room looks like a bomb went on.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Which I literally like walk in here and like make
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: sure things are all like perfect and like there things.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Down, like I wait until like I get too much stuff,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and then like I'll reorganize everything this day and then
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I never do it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I bought I bought like those aerosol cans you clean
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: keyboards with, and I'll like walk around and like.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, that's incredible. I'm just like that's nuts
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: because I'm just dusty in here. Not really, to be
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: honest with you, I keep the fan on in my room.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that helps dust, but I keep
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it on.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Twenty four seven. Really, I growing up my bedroom Ben
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: would get sold goddamn dusty. I don't know. It was
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: like those old ready or just something and like I'd
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: have all these like, you know, figures on displaying it.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So pisi because it's not good. That's why I like
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: this concealed cases. If you're gonna if you're gonna build
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: a you know, playroom like I have, or a man cave,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: wherever you want to call it, I do suggest it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Those Ikia detap very affordable seventy bucks, Yeah, very affordable.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: You have one. I have about ten. But they're a lifesaver.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I've convinced a couple of my fellow like collectors like, hey,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: loo's cheap. It looks great, it looks good. It looks
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: so good. It's easy for the other two. Yeah, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: wouldn't go that far. Well, have we go on time here?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Almost twenty We're fine for our to give people at
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a taste of what we're talking about.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be all about wrestling, like a new
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: thing that we've kind of been talking about the past
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: couple of days is uh wrestling T shirts?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Old school t shirts. Yeah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: So we went to that wrestling for sale pop up
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: store in New York City and then we saw these
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: old shirts and then made me go through my parents'
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: attic and find all my old shirts.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I know you've been collecting, by the way, we talked
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: about yesterday. So we went to this and I'm like,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: back to what I said, I'm extremely organized in like OCD.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: So like, yeah, I I left the house estay wearing
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: a Summer Slam ninety eight Highway to Hell shirt that
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I bought at the event. My wife was like, you
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: just knew where that was. I'm like yeah, you know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I had ready to go, and then I say to him, like,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: where's all your shirts? Oh man, they're my parents. They'll
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I'll never be able to get to them. I'll never
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: find them, they're so buried. And then a couple hours
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: already send me a pictures. I'm like really never.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll admit my mom went through the attic and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it got him out for me.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Come on, it was too it was too messy, it
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: was too many boxes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I told her what I was looking for and she
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: knew where the box was, so she moves cause it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: like Christmas ornaments in there and.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Uh, Halloween decorations and stuff like that. But she was
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: able to get you know what else is there?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not even getting hundreds and hundreds of purple
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Zach Rider sunglasses from WW shop hundreds because like I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: just was buying it where.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: They were cheap. Oh, I'd like literally have hundreds. You
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: used to like do that, like just buy anything up
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Kurt Hawkins just to have, But no, I don't them anymore.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: If anybody wants some purple zach Riders some guy like
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: maybe a little get.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Away off like some of my trading cards to hand
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: out to.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Like those Deluxe Aggressions Jack zach Riders, like they were
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: on sale at Ringside ones and I think I got
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the whole.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I still got it, Indy run I got rid of those.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: It's pretty quick. Yeah, but god, yeah, So we'll talk
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: about everything. I mean we are. Let's talk about the
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: elite squad WW be elite squad. Like I said, we
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: got a little bit of an inside horse. I'm not
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: going to say we're the leaders.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: There's I would say a JS we're the leaders, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: there's a j there's Renee, there's Kathy Kelly. I think
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: we are the ones who are we were the tost
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: draft picks, I would hope. So.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Actually I heard it was supposed to be heat Slater,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: which is which? Which is?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's maybe somebody just saw like a picture,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe picture of us thought it was the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: same guy.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: But I've been really trying to get away from the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Heath Slater Mike Knelis and Buddy Murphy look alike comparison.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So but yeah, so like being a part of the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: elite squad, we do get some upcoming news before everyone else.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna spoil things here unless we're you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: giving the green light for sure.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And I just think this, I.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Don't worry a bill. I want to know Bills out
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: there like sweating it out.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Like relaxing where he's at, of course, but uh, I
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: want to encourage people to listen to this, whether they're
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: like a vintage collector, because we'll for sure get into
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: plenty of that all the time, and if you're a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: modern day collector, you know, so it's a little bit
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: for everybody.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're definitely gonna you know, go from l JNS
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to Mattel. We're gonna talk about everything, and.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Which reminds me. Support the Mattel retro line.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, please, these things are my absolute favorite,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and I feel like the fans aren't giving it enough
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: love because the more love the fans give it, the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: more love Mattel will give.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And it's guys our age that need to support it
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: because it's sentimental to us growing up and I don't
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: loving it and it's so similar. God, the ring is
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: twenty bucks. Amok, it's amazing. Come out of this ring
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: right now. It is. I just kissed the mic perfect.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know how that sounded, but I just kissed
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the mic because these figures are beautiful and I'm getting
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: my own retro figure, so I'm a little biased.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: True, you're getting too a leite, so that's kind of cool.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I gotta smile ear to hear. Baby, you got that?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: What is that? That Chase Chase variant, which is very cool.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Matel's offering Chase variance this year. I won't be the first,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: we'll be the second.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And that's what's cool about Mattel, you know, because I
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: know we're it feels like we're kissing their butt right now.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: But honestly, they're the best figures of all time, which okay,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: if you guys won't proof of. I was gonna tap
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: out completely to collecting when like that two thousand and
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: nine twenty ten switch over, and then I saw the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: first set of Elites. I was like, I bought them,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: took the package up. There's another thing we'll have to
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: get into. We open toys. Oh yeah, a lot loose collectors.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I took them out, and I know for
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: a fact, I told Joy said, look, man, these might
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: be the greatest rest all time. You're gonna to collect these,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: and hard headed bro scrib here didn't do it for years.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I was, uh, and I'm telling them one time, they're
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: making these legends.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: They're onving Jackson license.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: It broke my heart life too, and my long term
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: girlfriend broke up with me. It was like a double whammy.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because they were they were around nine
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: ninety six over ten year run.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: It was a big run.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And then to tell me my collection was not going
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to continue, yeah, oh my god.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: And I felt the same way, but I just quickly
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: got over it when I saw him, and I tried
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: to convince you, but you weren't hearing it until years later.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I've since gone back. I pieced together, and I have
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of money and doing stuff that he should
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: have been doing. But they are incredible toys. So support
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the line, support the podcast, and uh yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And we'll keep this podcast family friendly so the kids
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: can listen, you know, the kids who like their basics.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Sure, let's do it. I'm not I'm not a basic
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: post that. I'm trying not to curse anymore anywe, because
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I have a daughter, I do try not. I have
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: two cats. You can curse round cat. That's true. That's true.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: That's probably fine. All right, folks, we are signing off.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap it up for episode one, the pilot
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of this podcast.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Hope you guys. So eventually they'd be like a little
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: jingle right here here right something, but instead of just uh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: here's what I was thinking earlier. Are we going to
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: have like an official like podcast Twitter? I think that's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: too much. We don't need that. Our twitters are so
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: especially you are so big and popular, Like, what what's
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the point? So keep like our twitters? Yeah, anytime you
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: want information on the podcast.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not gonna be like at the major restaurant
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: or on Instagram, so I.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Just follow up.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: We post pictures the thirties and we're posting pictures of
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the action figures at least me on a weekly basis.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I admit, I'm I'm so bad. Like so, we just
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: had our good friend Pat Buck Teachers had a podcast
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I appreciate areciate bad a couple of minutes ago because
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about technology. I'm real bad. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: don't play video games. I don't do anything to do
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: that's what kids, bro, Like, You're way more tech savvy
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: than me. Like, I don't know anything. That's not saying much.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I was telling Finn in the car. I was like, yeah,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I can't run the Creative Pro Instagram because I don't
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: want to be logging in, logging out and changing the
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: pastwards and stuff. And he goes, dude, it's right there.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: It's a click. Like I didn't realize like you could
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: just like you can bounce back and forth between them
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: without like signings that I had. No. He blew my
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: mind like something that that's how far off I am anyway,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: you know what, No.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: No, no, none of that stuff. Yeah, we gotta gotta
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: come up with the little goodbye not.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Today, then Ziggler later marks all right, end it there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: That's it.
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