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Episode 45 Articulation Station Interview !!! · Podcast Championship Wrestling

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Christ Is. Oh you want to talk to her? I will give you
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a show like you have never recovered been before the wife because I can't.
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What do you guys want to talk about me? Act deep and the colored
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red in a world with the black and white leaders of world? Yeah,
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let me luck. There's no extreme the child who Ladies and gentlemen, boys
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and girls, children of all ages. Welcome back to another episode of pc
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W podcast Championship Wrestling. I am your host, Wayne also known as Semi
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Dried Chicken, and man, do we have a special episode for you.
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We are not reviewing a pay per view. We are not giving you the
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predictions for a pay per view. No, we are not gonna reminisce about
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an old pay per view from the Ruthless Aggression era. We're not gonna just
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gabble on about ship in the news. No, today we are interviewing a
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wrestling fan. Oh, yes we are are. But I can't do this
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alone, so let me bring down somebody from the commentary team. Drea.
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What's up? Man? Yo? Yo? What a do pc W crew?
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Damn man? So it seems like you know this this terrible ship weather
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that we've been having that's been hidden the East Coast. It seems like it's
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affected Doyle because he wasn't able to make it to the podcast somehow. I
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I he must have had graveling issues of some kind, but he could make
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it today. But we have somebody here we're gonna interview. I mean t
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interviews. I mean, I think it's a good idea interviewing wrestling fans that
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that we discover because I want to hear I want to hear the public,
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the WWE universe or the wrestling universe. I want to hear their opinions.
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I mean, we we talk and talk and talk every month for hours on
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end about how we feel. Everybody knows. The peeps out there know how
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we feel. But how do these guys feel. Let's let's interview them?
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So so coming out for this I don't know, maybe our version of the
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Bump or some sort of interview show, miss TV, whatever whatever you think
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this version is, but let's let's bring them out. Nobody and fine where
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did oh Man? That means it just hits the spot. Eric, How
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are you, Bud? I'm doing good man, Thank you so much for
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having me on the show. I'm excited to always excited to talk about wrestling
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with other wrestling fans. It's uh, it's gonna be a good time.
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I'm excited. Oh yeah, man. And when you sent me the theme
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music you wanted, I was like, this is a good one. This
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is good. It's just I mean, I I just picture you walking out
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to the ring just I mean, it's just strutting it. Man. The
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music's works, you know. Yeah, it's got a very nice bop to
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it. Yes, yes, just come on and get really easy and get
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ready for your match with was that Thundercat? It was, yes, I
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thought so. It sounded like Eric, what's your what's your your social handle?
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How how people recognize you on social media? So you can find me
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on social media two ways. Of course, on the TikTok At Articulation Station,
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I mainly just share a lot of action figure displays, wrestling and comic
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book pop culture, uh, on that sort. And then you can also
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find me on Instagram at the paper Champion. Yeah, and we'll plug you
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again at the end of the show. But yeah, I'm just you know,
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when I'm watching wrestling, uh, it's I guess for me, when
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you're in the middle of it, like in the middle of a raw episode
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or in aw it seems like the hottest time to be on the social media
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because it's like you get right then in their reactions to something that's happening,
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maybe something that we missed, maybe an accident or a mishap of some kind
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of botch, and the Internet is always undefeated and seems to find a way
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to show us, you know, or make fun of it or whatever the
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it may be. There's always a viral moment when it comes to wrestling.
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So, you know, I'm sitting there and I'm going through TikTok and I
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love looking through wrestling, you know, stuff for TikTok, and I'm looking
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for more wrestling fans cause there's a lot of wrestling fans out there. I
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talk to and they some of them don't even know what podcasts are or don't
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listen. But sometimes I bring them in, you know, bring them in
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as fans, and sometimes they stay for a very long time. Sometimes they
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become part of the show. Uh but uh, Eric, what like when
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did you get into pro wrestling? Like when did you start watching it?
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When did you when was it? Like? Uh, this is what I'm
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into, this is what I'm gonna watch. I'm a fan now. So
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when I was younger, we would my family and I would all go on
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Thanksgiving to my grandmother's house. And at the time, she lived in the
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projects in Brooklyn. She didn't really have a lot of money, she didn't
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really have much, but she always had one wrestling VHS and it was WrestleMania
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nine. So for some time, WrestleMania nine was my first introduction to professional
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wrestling. And then I could give you the exact month and year they sink
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it's hooks in and never let go, and that was December of nineteen ninety
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five. I remember the exact moment. I was saying Chriss cross Apple sauce
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style on the floor and I saw the undertaker m Poulbear, and from there
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I was absolutely just hooked. I have a fun stat that I like to
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tell people. So I don't know, I guess I don't know how this
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is gonna come across, but I have never missed an episode of Monday Night
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Raw. It's in the thirty eight, no, twenty eight years that I've
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been watching wrestling. Uh, It's I absolutely love it. I mean that
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that was the exact moment right then and there that I was like, yep,
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Yep, this is my jam. I'm never letting go of this.
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So would you say that, like, Paul Undertaker, is this like before
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Attitude era? Would you say that It's like maybe? Yeah, So this
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was right at the cusp of uh the what would it be? Know?
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And I guess the uh the Golden Era, right before the Attitude error began.
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So it was right at the cusp of that. I remember actually watching
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the Vince mcmn pass a speech when he delivered that. I remember that watching
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live and it going so over my head at the time, because you know,
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I was such a young kid. I was born eighty five, so
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at the time, I was about eleven years old, I want to say,
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so the level of it was going way over my head. But it
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was just shortly either way, my introduction, that was just shortly before the
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group the Attitude Ever. Yeah, I was born eighty six, so very
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similar. I mean, Dre like, I mean, like, how early
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were you watching like the Golden Era? Do you remember that era? I
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mean for me, given that I'm a bit older than y'all, Yeah,
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I remember I started watching wrestling in the late eighties. Yeah, yeah,
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that's what I got in. So, yeah, by the time the Golden
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Era came around, well, mostly WWF. I was I would say,
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casually watching because remember I got started in wrestling with NWA and WCW. So
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that's the product that I followed most diligently through the you know, through the
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mid nineties, through most of the Monday Night Wars. And it probably wasn't
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until the attitude there that I fully crossed over into full time WWF watching.
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Yeah, for that part. But so let me ask you, Eric,
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So if you got in it, you said in ninety five was when you
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kind of got in and got hooked and never missed Monday Night an episode of
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Raw. So what were you doing during the Monday Night Wars? Were you
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switching back and forth every Monday Night like everybody else was doing, or did
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you just put it on USA and watch Raw? And that was it?
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So I was a switcher. I was a switcher, but Raw and WWF,
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I guess at the time that was my number one. But anytime there
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was a segment on Raw that I just wasn't too interested in, I would
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immediately switch over and see what was going on on WQW. I loved guys
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like Dean Malenko, Jericho obviously, I hate to say it, you know,
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based on what he did, but even guys like Chris ban Wah,
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I mean, some of those guys in WCW, some of them were just
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so different than what we were getting in WWF at the time that a part
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of me was like, what's going on over here. Booker t was another
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one, probably like my favorite WCW wrestler coming out of that time. So,
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you know, suffice it to say I was, I was bouncing,
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but I'd say it'd be about seventy five to twenty five to Raw, Okay,
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I would say, yeah, I was probably I was probably the other
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way around during that time. I was probably seventy five percent nitro and twenty
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five percent RAW at that time until until Raw kind of jumped the shark with
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the whole nWo thing where it was like three fourths of the damn roster was
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in nWo, and then they HADWO Hollywood nWo wolf Pack, and I was
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like, Okay, this shit is getting ridiculous a bunch. Yeah, I
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never flipped channels. I was always like strictly ww because I don't know,
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maybe it's I think at the time, it was just what I was able
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to access, like I don't think I because I didn't have cable growing up,
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so like if I wanted to watch wrestling, I had to go somewhere
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else, some friends house to watch it, and if that friend didn't want
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to watch WCW, whatever. But I, you know, I just grew
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up in a time period where I've got in trouble in middle school, you
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know, for telling people to suck it and like cross shopping all the time.
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You know, like that was my time period. You know, Eric,
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what what's your what was your favorite wrestler? You would say from that
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time period? Like, okay, yeah, let's say from the gold the
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Golden Era, what was like some of your favorite wrestlers. Yeah, so
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obviously Undertaker, he takes the top as my favorite of all time. But
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excluding him, I really loved guys like Bam Bam Bigelow. I thought it
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was fantastic. I'm trying to think who else really the Golden Error Because I
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caught it so late in its run, there were a lot of guys that
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later in life I had to go back and look up. But some of
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those guys ended up going into the attitude. They were like your Brett harttend
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or Shawn Michaels, which I was also a very big Shawn Michaels fan.
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He was someone that that I was completely all about. Guy Brett Hart too
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as well. Like I said, Diesel, I really enjoyed Diesel before he
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went to the w game. You know, Kevin ash which which which was
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great as well, but I really enjoyed that that character for for whatever reason.
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So those would be some of my top guys. And then during the
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Attitude era, I mean d X was obviously just one of my favorites that
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still to this day. I mean, thank god Triple H has become the
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person that he is in wrestling, because I've always been such a big fan
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of him. And my hot take is I've never really been too much of
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a fan of The Rock. I mean, obviously their Rock has his iconic
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moments, but I've liked other wrestlers during his time more than I enjoyed him
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MW. But that's not knocking his his abilities, and it's what he's done
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for the sport of pro wrestling, right. Okay, So so you said
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you watch like even like now, like, how how much wrestling do you
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like? Take? In Like That's that's how I can phrase it because you
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can't just say, like, do you watch wrestling? Oh yeah, I
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watched like two hours of SmackDown. That's it. No, like I need
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to know, like what's your intake, like, because wrestling, if if
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you really wanted to, you could probably get it every day of the week.
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I mean yeah time period now, so yeah, there's definitely every single
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day. So I don't watch TNA Impact, I don't watch Ring of Honor,
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I don't watch NWA, but I do watch Raw NXT on Tuesdays Tonight
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aw Dynamite. Then I'll watch on Fridays both SmackDown and Rampage, and then
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on Saturdays, I'll watch Collision or obviously if there's a plee or pay per
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view or or whatever from Men from a W or WW or NXC, I'll
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watch any one of those and then following Collision after that or whatever it is.
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But I watched mainly everything A W and WW put out on television.
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Nice. Yeah, it's just so much to take in. It's a lot.
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Yeah, It's like there's no like day of the week we can even
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like really record without running into like wrestlings on like and even like we've done
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it where we're recording and news is breaking while we're recording, Like Lift Morgan
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got arrested while we're recording one episode, and oh yeah, Morgan got arrested
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for possession of marijuana, like when we were like on a broke you know.
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But it's like it's it's like it's always on, like and like,
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yeah, dude, you're right. You got Raw Monday NXT on Tuesday,
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you got your a W on Wednesday, you got your Impact Wrestling on Thursday,
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you got your SmackDown and a W on Friday, and then you could
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fit in your n W A or what's it. What is it? Yeah,
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New Japan Wrestling, and yeah you can fit all that stuff in on
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the weekends and then you got all right pay per views and it's just it's
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just it is. It's a lot to take in. Yeah, And like
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I do know podcasts that like review like Rall SmackDown a W for the week,
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and that's awesome, but like I'm not doing that at a show every
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every week, like covering, you know what I mean. It's rough.
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It's really rough. And that's why we like cover and just the pay per
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views and kind of recapping, like we step away for a couple of weeks,
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we come back, we recap a prediction before the pay per view,
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and then we'll do a post wrap up. Yeah. I mean it's even
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for podcasters, like, you know, like how much can even people take
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in listening to wrestling podcasts? Like, you know, I I want to
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listen to like maybe like a two three hour for the week. I don't
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think I want to listen you know, like a eight hours worth of wrestling
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podcast throughout the week. I don't know. Maybe that's why I decided not
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to go weekly, because I was just like, I don't think anybody wants
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to take in this much wrestling a week, you know, us some of
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those people are like those super die hard people who you know, live,
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eat, sleep, breathe wrestling to like what you better a check for that?
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Yeah you can go like what Culture any of those other wrestling podcasts,
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But to monthly baby sometimes become twice a month. Yeah, you know,
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if we get bored, we squeeze in other episodes. But uh, you
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know, I admire the people who follow it follow not just well, not
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the ones I'm not saying I don't admire them, but the people who follow
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the product enough to where they can you know, confidently speak on all aspects
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of wrestling, not just you know, just w W or all that stuff.
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Like they know about they know about the WWE product. They can talk
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about a w New Japan, they can talk about what's going on that the
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ND scene. And you know who these up and coming names are people you
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can check out, Like there are people who really are about that in terms
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of following the product, whether they're putting out content or not, they just
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follow it that diligently. And like I said, those people like I admire
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the hell out of them for having that, you know, that commitment or
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just having that much of a passion for it that they can follow to that
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great to an extent. Yeah, Live on air, Doyle just got back
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to me. Okay, so you know, I'm going through your page and
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your social media page on TikTok because that's where it came across you. And
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I like collecting action figures and putting them in my display case, and but
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nothing to the extent of what you have and what you have going on,
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you know, just a quick rundown of what I've seen. You have stuff
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like Power Rangers, Marvel, DC Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Lord of the
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Rings, Mortal Kombat, Ninja, Turtles, Gargoyles, power Rangers. But
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you know, so much wonderful stuff on there. But what caught my eye
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is the wrestling action figures. And you don't just you know, you don't
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just display. I'm like the average person who just like lines them all up
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or or keeps them in the boxes and makes your house look like a store.
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Now, I'm one of those people who believe that I bought it.
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I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm gonna take it out of its package.
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Oh and I hear people already. Oh, but you take care of
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its package, and then the value goes down. I don't care. Like
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I bought it to enjoy. I didn't buy it to see it for the
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next dude. You know, the only the only things I probably I probably
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have two things that are here that aren't opened. And there are two pops.
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And it's because I refuse to collect pops. And it's because once you
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stop, once you start, you can't stop. And I'm not going down
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that fucking road. No. So Duane Coleman a listener of the show,
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and I know he's listening. He decided and he knows he knows. Oh,
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I don't like pops. He knows I don't want to start this sick
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addiction of collecting pops and got me a Shawn Michaels and a Triple H one
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from d X, and I just I had to take them. I can't
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say no. And he was over the other day and he told me he
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got me some more wrestling pops. So I feel like I'm gonna have a
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collection of wrestling pops whether I like it or not. But yeah, you
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have. Yes, you have a great collection of wrestling action figures. And
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it looks like you're doing this whole multiverse situation and it's so cool because I
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have something similar, so like, that's why I admired it so much.
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I was like, man, I have something similar, but nothing on the
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scale of what you're doing. I love how you position all the characters into
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like action poses. The wrestling ones are great. What made you decide to
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go this kind of route of displaying them instead of, you know, being
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the guy who keeps them all in the package, hangs them on the wall
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like stacks them, you know, to cover the whole wall. Basically makes
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your room look like a retail store, but yours your your room. Looks
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like it's telling a story. And it's when you go in there, I
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don't feel like I'm in a store. I would feel like I'm in a
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I'm in the middle of a big story, a big universe that's going on.
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So tell me a little bit about that. So, so my idea
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started when I actually started posing the Superheroes and the Power Rangers, all those
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those figures. I had started posing them. One day. I had a
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whole tier shelf design that is above my TV, and I started posing them
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the typical way people would pose them, just next to each other and stuff.
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I don't know. One day, I was be honest, drinking a
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little beer and I'm sitting there and I'm looking at it. I'm like,
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you know, maybe they're just do something a little different. It seemed just
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boring to me for some reason. It was making me almost not even appreciate
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my collection or make me feel like I wasn't appreciated my collection, and it
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was just me personally, and I just decided, you know what, I'm
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going to pose some of these guys like they're fighting and see how it looks.
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And I remember i posed it was all of the Power Angers fighting.
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I think it was like the Lord said and Vitaverpolsa and I looked at it
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and I was like, that actually looks kind of cool. So I decided
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myself, let me, let me continue on. And I ended up doing
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all these figures on a huge wall, and I said, looks pretty good.
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And I'm someone that once that can of worm gets opened, I you
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know, it's almost a little scary what's going to happen next, because then
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all of a sudden, I'm like, you know what, let me take
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all of them down, because if I'm going to do this, let me
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do it. So then I did it again, and this time I had
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what seemed to be a whole huge war. This was back in my two
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thousand and one anything, and I did this whole world, all these pop
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culture good guys and all these pop culture bad guys, and people would come
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over to my house and they'd go into the room and they say, this
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is insane. I never see anything like this. I never was one to
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really post things on social media or even put that my any of my displays
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are my collection out there, mainly because I just didn't want to hear from
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people saying, hey, you're an older person. Collecting toys. I just
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didn't want to get that kind of flack. And then ironically I ended up
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seeing people like Danny O'manny on TikTok, someone who's an older collector that you
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know, he got that love and he was not afraid to show off his
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display. So that's when I decided to share the superhero display that I had
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done, and it got like half a million views, and I had a
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ton of likes and comments, and it boosted my confidence a little bit.
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And now, mind you, while I'm doing that, I look behind me
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in my in this room, and my wrestling figures are posed behind me into
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typical the typical you know, ad at orders standing up right, you know,
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looking forward, And I'm like, man, what if I do what
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I did with the pop culture filming and heroes and comic book stuff. What
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if I do that aspect but with the wrestling that makes so much sense,
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you know, the big battle royal where everybody just fighting. It's a huge
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just role that one goes into the other. And the first thing that I
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did was set up Sean Michaels about to kick aj Styles in the face,
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like the page of The Spying Man with the phenomenal forum and HPK was kind
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of setting up a little punk and then I had set up an edge Spearing
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Jericho. I set up a few few a little displays in a row.
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I think I have a look at it now. I have a Randy Jordan
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RKO and Kobe Rhodes and I had set that up and I posted that online
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and people started throwing out ideas and started liking it, and once again,
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it kind of triggered a little bit inside me where I was like, all
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right, let's let's keep it going. In typical Eric fashion, I then
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started going nuts, building in more shelves and that's when it became what it
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is now. And it's been like this now for about quite a while.
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I want to say maybe eight months now it's been like this. It's due
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for an overhaul once I'm done with the whole multiverse war I have going on.
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I have plans for for the wrestling world to make it even better than
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what it looks now. But yeah, it's something that I look back at
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now and I'm quite proud of how it's become, and I enjoyed when other
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wrestling fans you see the Easter eggs that I've added in there, like I
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have Naddy Italia night Heart and her father kind of standing next to each other
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that a couple of people have noticed on the Dudleys that's Matt's taken up a
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couple of little all the littles in there that it's nice to see people catch
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them, and it's great to see people appreciate it. You know, I
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never thought that people would appreciate it much, but it's nice. It's quite
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flattering. Yeah, you have such a variety of different types of pop culture.
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I mean, just all those stuff I rattled off earlier, and that's
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what just draws them to that that page and that that's awesome because like,
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you know, I wasn't gonna ever take that kind of crap from people,
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either like oh, you collect toys or action figures, Like why can't you
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collect something cool? Like dude, Like I'm taking advice from a dude who
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collects like TV guys or like street signs or like old dude. Everybody collects
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something something at least when I'm If I'm this, if this is what I'm
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hoarding, you know, at least when I'm dead, it's gonna be fun
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as hell to go through and divvy up. Do you rather do that or
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would you rather be on an episode of Hoarders going through like my old like
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porcelain dolls or some shit, you know what I mean. Like Grandpa had
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like three hundred thousand license plates from old cars. We gotta throw away.
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Like, no, everybody has a hobby. And like I wasn't into even
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collecting Action figures until I was older. It was like at first for me,
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it was kind of recapturing some of my childhood. It was mostly toys
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from my childhood. It was like, oh, man, Like you know,
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I'm into like Batman and Iron Man. That's kind of like the two
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things I really like collecting a lot of and then you know, just the
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average Marvel and DC stuff. Oh my goodness. But so you know,
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I I saw, like, you know, I'd go to a flea market
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or something. I'm like, oh my god, Like I used to have
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this toilet back in the nineties. And by the way, that was from
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Back to the Future, wasn't it. It was it was a regular I
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forgot put my phone on. Yeah, So like, uh, I would
29:18
find, like, you know, stuff from my childhood. I would collect
29:19
them, and then it's just like it just grew and grew and grew,
29:23
and to the point now it's like now I collect like I need one of
29:30
the best version of that character. Like I got a Loki and I was
29:33
like, okay, well now I want the best version of my favorite Loki
29:37
version of Loki. So you know, I go out and look for that
29:41
specific one or the version of Thor I really liked. You know, that
29:45
is the exact way that I also to collect. I don't like to have
29:49
multiple versions of a character unless there is a reason too. The suit's gotta
29:55
be different, and even for that, sometimes it's like it's pushing it a
29:59
bit. But I am the same exact way. You won't see two Peter
30:04
Venkman's next to each other unless one is the older one and one is the
30:08
younger woman, So that would be the only reason why that would even be
30:12
there. But I'm not one to have like too multiple I like for other
30:17
collectors to get a chance to get stuff, even the same way. I
30:22
recently got the new Wolverine figure and I love it because it's like just the
30:26
one Wolverine I've been waiting for the ninety seven comic book one, and it's
30:30
like perfect. So I have no other desire to get another Wolverine in my
30:33
collection. And I've actually even been acted that in comments, why you only
30:37
have one Wolverine because that's the only one one so definite you feel about because
30:42
like with pro wrestling, a wrestler, their gimmicks are just changing so much,
30:48
you know, like there's multiple versions of the Undertaker, Like you know,
30:52
there's multiple versions of Sean Michaels, there's multiple versions of I don't know,
30:57
like Kine even like you, how do you decide on wrestlers, like
31:03
which version you're gonna get, because like you get Seth Rollins this year,
31:07
but next year he might have a different gimmick that you might like even more.
31:12
Yeah, that is the unfortunate conundrum with wrestling figure collecting is the constant
31:22
questioning of do you need him because he's in this attire? Do you need
31:26
him because of the gimmick change? Like how much is it worth it getting
31:30
it? Because I fall into that trap. When Aj Styles first signed with
31:36
w w REE. I loved aj Styles from his TNA and Impact days and
31:41
when he signed with w REE, he had that look and I'm like,
31:42
he's gonna make a great figure and every single one of his figures at first
31:47
came out, I bought it, and now I look back at it and
31:48
I'm like, I only dispose one and I only really like maybe two of
31:53
them, and I've got like seven, and I'm like, I really need
31:56
this many AJA styles probably, So I've tried to get a little bit smarter
32:01
with how I handle it. I try to get I try to know how
32:07
Mattel is going to pump out the figure, so for example, I try
32:10
to get all the little inside scoops as I can too as well. So
32:15
one wrestler in particular is Dominic Mysterio. I have an old Dominique Mysterio figure
32:20
that is from when he started when he was wrestling with his dad and tag
32:22
team, And there are a few Dominic Mysterio Judgment Day figures that one had
32:29
recently came out that I was going to jump on, but then I saw
32:31
that they plan on releasing another one that's a little bit more updated and like
32:37
later this year. So I'm like, well, it's a good thing I
32:39
haven't pulled the trigger on the first Judgment Day went if they plan on just
32:45
releasing a second and better one. So a lot of it is you gotta
32:50
be prepared. You got to know what's coming up. It's it's a little
32:57
bit easier with guys that maybe aren't on TV as much or guys that aren't
33:05
as popular, because you know, those guys probably won't get another figure for
33:08
a while, so you want to get him. So for example, I
33:12
have a Chad Gable. Chad Gable I have is in which long hair,
33:15
especially how it is. But there is a new one to tell now that
33:21
I'm like, okay, it's about time for that upgrade. And now he's
33:24
someone that well he is on TV a lot. He doesn't get too many
33:28
figures, so he's someone that I would jump on and then eventually maybe sell
33:32
or or have a lot of dung cousin. I would just give a handy
33:37
down wrest. So you really got a it's a combination of a few things.
33:45
And then obviously want and desire. There's a lot of hope Hogan figures,
33:50
for example, that are out, but I have too. I have
33:52
Hogan and red and yellow, and I have Hogan and w O. I
33:58
don't need a cheap on Hogan or Hogan in blue or Hogan. And you
34:02
know, so was there like a is there like an eleanor of wrestling figures
34:15
as a gone at sixty seconds reference, like that one figure that you really
34:21
have always wanted to get but either can't find, or the one that that
34:24
you did manage to get that was harder or more rare, unique, or
34:30
the one that has gotten away or been the most difficult one for you to
34:32
acquire. Do you have one of those in your collection? So I did,
34:37
and thankfully toy companies now are getting a little bit hip to some of
34:44
the I guess grails that have gone by, and I have regretted not getting
34:52
one of them. In particular, actually that I'm thinking of a match pop
34:55
than I had was a CM Punk. Thankfully ladies signed back with it,
35:00
really because they'll probably end up re releasing this figure a little bit more updated
35:05
fingers crossed. But it was a CM punk figure in his attire from Money
35:10
in the Bank when he won the matchup and left that infamous moment where he
35:15
blew the kiss to Vince McMahon, and he was in that attire, and
35:17
I remember I loved that attire. The figure obviously sold out. I had
35:22
chances and opportunities at the time to get it, but you know, he
35:27
can't predict the future and how his career would end up going, you know,
35:30
a couple of years after that. And that figure is essentially almost like
35:36
untouchable for a decent price. And it's one that I haven't gotten it yet,
35:40
hopefully going to get it soon, hopefully, like I said, they
35:45
re release it. For one that I ended up did getting is a It
35:50
was a pink on pink Brett Hart figure. And I always love that Brett
35:54
Hart anytime he wore his black on black or his pink on pink attires.
36:00
Actually really loved that that aesthetic for him. And they had made a tellme
36:06
It ten years ago now maybe a little bit less, but they had made
36:12
a defining moments of Brett Hart. He was in I believe it was I'm
36:15
sorry. It was a Ringside exclusive Brett Hart and it was a pink on
36:20
pink attack what it was called that sort of looked incredible. I never got
36:25
the opportunity. I had the chance. It was orderable on Ringside collectible at
36:30
the time, and I just once again just didn't even think that it'd be
36:34
such a sought out figure in my eyes, And not until recently they re
36:39
released a couple of pink on pink bread hearts, and I was able to
36:42
finally get one that it satisfied me enough where I'm like, this is good
36:46
enough, I'm cool with this. I finally got a pink on pink bread
36:51
cart that I was on for ten years or so, So that's probably the
36:55
one I would go to me for sure. You gotta get yourself our truth
37:00
judgment day. They gotta pump that out quick man, you know. That's
37:06
That's the one downfall too, is sometimes with wrestling figures, the turnover is
37:09
so long that by the time the figure of the character comes out, they're
37:13
not in that gimmick anymore. And it almost happens so much that I think
37:17
that they do it on purpose, have a little bit of a conspiracy behind
37:22
it, because it just happens way too much. It's like, come on,
37:24
I feel yeah, it's a little different between trying to we're trying to
37:29
tool the whole action figure versus like pumping out a shirt. You can print
37:31
up a shirt and capture a moment and a heartbeat. We've seen w W
37:36
do that countless times, from the feeling oossy to yeat and damn and Mommy's
37:42
always on top the countless shirts behind came so quickly, like the the the
37:53
scribbled out or whatever, yat blurred one. Yeah, so quickly. Yeah,
38:02
versus an action figure when you're trying to you know, that's a whole
38:07
mold you have to create, and this and the third is not like he's
38:09
not like you can sit there and take all, right, well we got
38:12
this our troop and it looks just like that, So just just swap the
38:15
color palette and make it this. The noise work that way, Oh you
38:19
probably could. The man fucking never ages. That man's in his fifties,
38:23
and he does not look like he's in his fifties. He does not move
38:27
like he's in his fifties. He's still he still got it. Our truth
38:30
is on TV right now. That's what's most important. That man is getting
38:35
airtime, and he's the number one merchandise sailed right now. He overthrew sampunk.
38:43
That's incredible. Fucking bananas, dude. The man has held the twenty
38:46
four I don't know any other wrestlerhos held the title that many times. Doesn't
38:51
matter what the title is, I don't give a fuck. Nobody's held at
38:53
a title as many times as that man and can go away as long as
38:59
that man can and come back and become number one merchandise sales and insert himself
39:02
into like a big storyline of a stable and then just and then he can
39:07
just go away for you know, a couple of months and do the same
39:10
thing again. Our truth is fantastic. I'm so glad he's arrested that they
39:15
never let go. You know. Yeah, he's fantastic. He's somebody.
39:21
He's so he's a gem. He's a pure gem. Every time he's on
39:23
screen, he he cracks every time. So with with your collection, are
39:30
are you getting to the Matt car Cardona Cardona Zach Ryder stage? That's what
39:37
I can't pronounce his name correctly, Zachary. Are you getting to that stage
39:39
now where you're gonna have you're obsessed with with certain ones that you need to
39:45
get. I don't know. He's like a whole other level from what I've
39:49
seen with Action Ergers and when he spends on him Mike. Yeah, he's
39:53
he's definitely. I think he's called himself the Godfather of collecting. He's for
40:00
sure someone that has a mind blowing collection. I can't say that I'd be
40:06
that, Uh, that determined, I guess to say, to get everything
40:13
that he has in his collection. It's definitely respectable that that he does all
40:17
of that to get all of that. I can't see myself getting that far
40:22
just because oh I don't know that that's a lot. It takes up a
40:27
lot of space now that I had imagined with the collection of his magnitude is
40:32
warrants a few rooms in the household. Yeah, I mean I kind of
40:39
right now have most of my stuff contained in my office. Outside of the
40:46
office, like the liver room. Around the house, I have canvases and
40:51
paintings and stuff like of you know, like like the liver rooms, like
40:55
movies theme, like you know, I have movie theater stuff. And then
41:00
you know, throughout the house, I have like maps from video games and
41:04
and like just art I don't know, like video superhero artwork and stuff,
41:08
Star Wars stuff. But other than that, I keep all my action figures
41:13
in one space. I'm so running out of space. But I see how
41:16
you have yours. But I also play VR in here, so I can't
41:22
go to the extent that you do. But I'm thinking about it and just
41:24
saying SCREWVR. And because I'm running out of space. Every time we go
41:30
out, I'm always looking for new action figures, and I always come home
41:35
with something. And Christmas time, my god, Like I was at Ali's
41:42
the other day and not the other day around Christmas time, and the toys
41:45
were like so cheap, and oh man, I pick up action figures like
41:51
you know the ones that I'm missing. I'll tell you right now, kids,
41:53
the action figure is that nobody fucking wants that sat there even went down
41:58
to like off, they were cheap as shit. Nobody wants the Eternals.
42:04
The whole collection was there, if everybody, I feel bad for that line.
42:07
That whole line is. I do feel bad, but I know this
42:10
is a wrestling podcast. I'm gonna spit something right now. It's like nobody
42:15
the whole collection. You could have bought the whole collection of the Eternals right
42:17
then and there, probably like under fifty bucks all of them, and yeah,
42:23
nobody wanted them. Nobody just wanted them. And I'll tell you what.
42:29
Let me know if you guys get this feeling too, have you ever
42:30
got have you guys ever been to like, I know, like a a
42:36
store or like a market or a flea market or something and you see like
42:43
either one of two things. You just see a really old action figure or
42:46
a wrestler that you know nobody's gonna probably buy and you just laugh at it,
42:51
or you see like what they're like fake wrestlers, Like they're like,
42:55
oh, this is mister strong Man and it's like like a fake wrestler.
43:00
It's like you really and this guy looks like a Knockoffhull Coogan or something like.
43:05
Yeah, you guys have come across that kind of stuff. Yeah,
43:09
like in the old dollar stores. Uh. It actually makes me think of
43:13
a specific memory of when I was younger and I would visit my grandparents and
43:16
they lived in Brooklyn and stuff like I was mentioning earlier, uh, and
43:21
they would be like a lot of clearance stores and they would always have like
43:24
a four pack and to be like mister USA and before coving clearly and you
43:30
know, showboater and it's like clearly like a Rick Flair looking guy, mister
43:34
Mysterious and it's like a guy that looks like Sting or something, and it's
43:37
like, Okay, those they always make me laugh, those those little I
43:42
guess dollar store dollar General wrestling figures. Yeah, now do you do you
43:47
have the wrestling ring? So I do have a ring. I currently have
43:52
it in a closet in the other room because it is twenty by twenty so
43:59
it's freaking huge as far as just I can't really put it anywhere right now.
44:04
It is something that I do plan on working into the second version of
44:07
the Risk and Display. I don't want to give away exactly what idea that
44:12
I'm going on with it, but it's something I'm going to try to work
44:15
into the display because I think it just looks really cool with everything going on
44:20
to that. But a bring somewhere with there. You said twenty yeah,
44:24
so it's twenty inches by twenty inches. I have a team measure right here
44:28
in my hands. That's a good size. Damn. Like professional rings are
44:36
twenty by twenty feet. Now you have a twenty two twenty inches Like that's
44:39
that's that's dude, that's crazy. Like that takes up my whole Like that's
44:45
too much. I can't fin that shit on my desk. Yeah, it's
44:47
huge, and I've tried to put it in certain areas and I'm like,
44:51
no, it's just it's just too big. Even I try. I have
44:53
one of those officially three, but of those Ikia d loft shelves, they're
45:00
all glass and they have the tops, and it doesn't even fit nicely on
45:04
top of one of those. It hangs off and where I have my d
45:07
loss right now, it just doesn't really look So I'm gonna try something.
45:10
I might end up having to uh saw it in half. It's a little
45:14
spoiler alert. I guess right there to kind of fit it in and make
45:17
it look interesting enough. But we'll see. That's honestly probably something I'm not
45:22
gonna work until December, maybe, knowing with with how everything else is going
45:27
here, I'm gonna take some time off once the Superhero display that I have
45:31
going on all multiverse thing is done. I'm gonna spend a lot of time
45:35
basically filming and photographing that before I start working on a whole another display that's
45:42
cool, Like do you like? I do it? Do you like?
45:45
We'll just be rand seeing your room and like, you know what, I'm
45:47
gonna tinker some toys. I'm gonna move this guy here, move this guy
45:52
there, move this guy. Oh yeah, tinker oh that that sometimes can
45:59
open up a can of worms, because I've in the past have just said,
46:05
you know what, I'm like, move him over a bit, and
46:07
then I've moved someone else over and moved someone else over, and then all
46:10
of a sudden there's space now for new things. And it's like, oh,
46:15
what I do, Eric, what'd you do? Now? You know,
46:16
it's two in the morning, and you've been working on this now for
46:21
the last half hour, and you've you know, you've gone through all three
46:23
Lord of the Rings and you know you've just just continue posing. And so
46:30
sometimes I have to like check myself to be like, it looks good.
46:34
It looks good. You know, people come over to my house and like,
46:36
dude, it looks good. But I try to get as many cool
46:39
ideas out there as I can't try to make it look as best as I
46:43
can for what I have. But yeah, I end up sometimes just going
46:47
a bit overboard, overposing too much and just being like, leave it alone.
46:53
What is your what is your earthquake situation? Like there, Like if
47:00
you have an earthquake, are we picking up a lot of action figures off
47:02
the ground like my house? So I always anytime I set up these displays,
47:08
I always try to think of stability over practicality. Maybe I'm saying that
47:15
maybe wrong. It's okay, but I just always try to think of stability
47:20
because there is a garage on the other side of the wall, so when
47:24
the garage door open, sometimes the wall does vibrate just a little bit.
47:29
In the past, I've had to pick up figures they like just fall,
47:32
but I try to brace them as much as possible. I use rope light
47:37
clips that are used just to literally clip rope lights onto you screw them into
47:43
the wall, and a couple of years ago I found that they fit great
47:46
onto basically every single action figures angles or wrist or like elbow or knee or
47:52
biclele. Yeah, so that's how I actually have all of them pose.
47:58
So if you go on my profile you could see Actually I think I pinned
48:01
the clips that I actually use so people can go and get them. Appreciate
48:05
you get them at Amazon. That's where I believe a few other people that
48:09
told me they've gotten them from I originally got I originally got them at Home
48:14
Depot. They're in the lighting section, which like a twelve path or something.
48:19
But yeah, that's what I used to basically click them onto the wall.
48:23
So between that and Puddy the Little Blue putty that Honestly, I first
48:30
learned about this stuff from when I was in school and high school teachers would
48:32
put up like posters and stuff with it because it's removable and you can It's
48:37
basically like a blue little silly puddy almost, and that holds stuff in play.
48:43
But recently the toy community has told me about a couple other things that
48:45
I can use, like museum wax, which is clear, which is something
48:50
I got to invest in because it looks great and it also holds things in
48:52
place. So between that and the clips and making sure things not only look
49:00
cool, Blake said, at least there's some sort of balance. I have
49:02
to make sure you know that it's not gonna fall. Then that's pretty much
49:08
how I get them all to stay. All that being said, if we
49:14
ever have an earthquake in Florida, you're gonna have bigger problems than that freaking
49:17
those figures. That's another thing too, for sure, if there's an earthquake
49:22
here, I'd gotta like earthquake hits Florida. Something's gone horribly wrong with this
49:29
planet. Absolutely. Maybe that's why it's so safe to set them up there.
49:35
You know, it's probably the safest place to send them up right now,
49:39
potentially hopefully, I fear so Florida's like Swiss cheese. So I feel
49:45
like a sinkhole, because god forbid, I wouldn't know what piece of my
49:49
collection to save, and I'd probably saved my cats first, and two lovely
49:53
cats that I'd probably just throw in the garage really quick and throw in the
49:58
car. But besides that that, I'm not sure. Maybe Galactus, I
50:01
guess, because I paid a lot of money for that one, so I
50:05
always think what am I gonna grab? Yeah, it was a hurricane season.
50:08
Now that's something to worry about down there, Yeah, for sure,
50:12
for sure, thankfully, knock on wood, My family and I have been
50:15
blessed to not have had so much damage or or have been so much of
50:21
a victim directly any hurricanes, other than maybe some powder power averages. But
50:27
yeah, that's something too. It's like, well man, hopefully hopefully it
50:30
never happens. But but either way, I mean they probably still bring braced
50:35
onto the wall with how sturdy I latch them on? There? M I
50:39
thought hurricane season was over. I understood there, all right. Yeah,
50:50
so like, are you are you in any wrestling video games? Like does
50:54
that like to say I love them. I love them. Yeah, So
51:00
I don't have I don't have the aw one. Mainly I just didn't like,
51:06
Yeah, it didn't like how it looked. And I understand it's like
51:08
a throwback to the N sixty four days, but I was just like,
51:13
not for me. I love to use WW two K for the simulation purposes.
51:19
I love it. So that's literally what I do sometimes, Like if
51:22
I'm off and I got nothing going on, I'll just work on my collection
51:27
and I'll just simulate a bunch of tournaments or royal rumbles and stuff, and
51:30
I'll download. There's like an amazing community of creations that I'm like, these
51:36
look like the actual wrestlers. Like these people make these like double mgfs that
51:40
are like mind blowing like artwork. I'm like, he's look insane. So
51:45
I just, you know, download him and do my e feds and stuff
51:49
like that. But yeah, big, I'm big on them. I can't
51:51
wait, actually to see what they do with the new WWE. I know
51:52
they just announced a couple of things today. I think maybe I'm not really
51:57
too sure, but very soon the new details on this year's game, which
52:02
i'll probably get I always get the wrestling games. I always play the campaign
52:07
and then I find all the bugs and it pisses me off. And you
52:12
know they do they do things like, you know, we'll make the decision
52:15
for you, even though we allow you to make decisions the entire game of
52:20
your wrestling career, But if we want to fuck you over, we're gonna
52:23
do it automatically and not give let you fucking choose. Like if we want
52:28
to screw you over with the money in the bank briefcase cash in, we're
52:31
gonna screw you over. We're not gonna give you a chance to defend yourself.
52:36
Sorry. Some video game two K drama I do the community creations I
52:46
agree with. It's crazy, how you know, like some like I don't
52:52
know, some like twelve year old kid can make a better version of what
52:55
two K did? You know? It's like dode. They just all they
52:59
did was re released this wrestler with a different outfit, but yet they made
53:02
it look better than you guys did. Yeah, it is. It is
53:07
crazy with those two K games. You know, there's always something they just
53:12
can never nail it. My opinion was is because they would always have to
53:17
the same thing happened. I know we're getting a little controversial now, but
53:22
the same thing happened with like Call of Duty and stuff. I think because
53:24
if you feel the need to have to pump out a game every year,
53:29
I feel like the quality is missing. And you know, I was hoping,
53:37
yeah, when we went to two K, I got excited, and
53:39
then the first version of two K dropped and I was disappointed. I know
53:45
there was one year after that. I didn't get it. I got last
53:50
year's. But it's like, how can we not just sit down in a
53:54
room and just take a poll from each one of the wrestling games we made
54:00
the pass, Like what was the best quality of all these games? What
54:02
is what are people raving about? Why do people keep going back to Smackdowns
54:07
Know your Role or SmackDown Shut your Mouth or the original SmackDown versus raw games,
54:13
or you know, or old like an old WCWA, Like why do
54:16
people go back to these old games? Why don't we figure out what people
54:21
liked about them and you know, update it and modernize it. You know,
54:27
I always thought that, why don't you guys just work on a really
54:29
good game and then just have DLC every year, Like I understand. You
54:37
know, Johnsena changes his shirt every time it comes back. I don't I
54:39
don't need to buy a new game. Just give me the DLC. Just
54:43
give me thirty versions of John Cena. I'll pay, like, you know,
54:45
whatever the micro transaction is. You know, Grand Theft Auto didn't come
54:51
out with a new game every year. They stayed relevant all the way from
54:53
like twenty thirteenth till now. They just micro transaction everything to stay afloat.
55:00
And that's that's you know, why couldn't WW do that with their games?
55:04
Just update rosters. There's money in that in that process if they did that.
55:13
If they did did that, I'll almost bet you they would. W
55:16
W would almost go the uh Warcraft route, where you'd almost have to subscribe
55:22
to the game rather than just buying a single simple product because the when that
55:28
game comes in and that development cycle and the cost that goes into developing it,
55:34
I don't know that it would be even be sustainable to do just a
55:37
single release and then just update it like you pay for the update. People
55:43
would just be like, yeah, I don't know that there would be a
55:46
enough incentive to pay for the updates. So it's like, what the two
55:50
K, the twenty three roster comes and you have to buy the update,
55:53
Like, what are you really getting? Oh? Now you get Baca Bellair.
55:58
On the SmackDown side, it's like, who cares, I already got
56:00
Bianca Bellair. If I want to have Bianca Bella e versus Becky Lynch,
56:02
I can do Bianca versus Becky. I don't need to pay for the update
56:07
for that, or just for a new reskins. So, I mean,
56:09
I understand why they You kind of have to do the model of, you
56:14
know, a new game every year, as much as it seems impractical,
56:19
and yeah, it would probably be much more gamer friendly to just put the
56:22
game out and then update the roster periodically. It's just I understand the business
56:29
aspect as well, and I think if you did it, you do almost
56:31
have to go to, like I said, a subscription type service where you
56:35
subscribe to like the WWE universe, the game, and you pay X amount
56:40
of dollars a month play this game and it's some online thing and you can
56:45
wrestle anybody anytime yaha, yeahdah blah blah blah, and then that is live
56:51
updated periodically. But yeah, it's not a bad idea. For even a
56:57
separate game. Yeah, w W E M M O right basically, yeah,
57:04
everybody creates their own wrestlers, and you have a lot of events like
57:08
alright, this Friday, we're having a love event, Royal Rumble or something
57:12
like that, and you know, you get in the lobby with twenty nine
57:15
other people. Yeah. Actually I would that friends come over and I would
57:24
have them, like if we threw a party or something, It's like,
57:27
all right, dude, like you know, everybody's gonna enter the rumble,
57:30
so like we'd be just hanging out and chilling talking and wait until you hear
57:35
your theme music hit. Or we would do like set up tournaments and stuff.
57:39
I always thought wrestling tournaments were always fun with friends, especially like when
57:44
you do a tournament, you could do like you know, if it's just
57:46
one on one fightce, you could just set up like, you know,
57:50
sixteen people. But you know, however many people you have at a party,
57:53
you know I've done that before. That's awesome. Now do you do
58:00
get wrestling merch too? Like gear like shirts, any wrestling titles, Like
58:05
what kind of other wrestling stuff do you collect? So I also have so
58:09
much like yourself, I don't dabble in pops, and for the very same
58:15
reason, I know that I would buy far too many pops. Oh yeah,
58:21
I greatly appreciate them being bought for me. I just know if I
58:25
started collecting it would become an obsession. Yeah yeah, they the amount of
58:31
licenses and ips they have, it would be way too much money going into
58:37
that for myself and I just can't do that. But so I do have
58:42
a couple of wrestling shirts, so I try to get at least one shirt
58:45
for every wrestler that I like. I'm not obsessive as it as I am
58:51
with wrestling figures, not at all, but if I go an event,
58:54
I like to get, you know, a shirt from the event of whoever's
58:59
I'm card, you know, a w or w W. I'm fortunate by
59:04
me NXT does local. They do their local up circuit me. So there's
59:12
actually a little armory by me that that they hold house shows, so I
59:19
try to go there. It's like ten minutes away, so I try to
59:22
go there every time they hold the show, and I'll always buy a shirt
59:24
from there if they have a superstar from an XT that I like there.
59:30
So yeah, other than figures, really just and they had no belts.
59:34
I don't know why. I just there are a lot of money and it's
59:37
something that I never really wanted to have in my collection. If someone got
59:45
me one, that'd be awesome. I've got a couple of belt designs that
59:47
I absolutely love, like the Undisputed titled from back in This Depression Error but
59:53
there was such a beautiful but yeah, but I don't have any though belt.
1:00:00
But yeah, shirts I got it. Definitely a couple of shirts,
1:00:02
but I love yousally wear them all around a year round. Yeah. I
1:00:08
have a huge collection of wrestling shirts and a lot of them are just from
1:00:14
like, you know, when I was younger, and I can't fit to
1:00:15
them anymore. So it's like I go to my girlfriend, like, well,
1:00:21
you know you could wear these now, like I can't wear them anymore,
1:00:23
and like, you know, I'm not gonna She's like, well you
1:00:27
get rid of them? No, no, no, no no no.
1:00:30
You do not get rid of a I'm a Sexy rock Star Chris Jericho shirt.
1:00:37
You know, you know you don't get rid of a shirt like that.
1:00:39
You don't get rid of a Yes Movement Daniel Bryan t shirt. Okay,
1:00:44
you don't get rid of a class sic DX shirt. You don't get
1:00:47
rid of that kind of stuff. You keep it, you know, I
1:00:51
have absolute And it's kind of funny too, because sometimes you don't realize you're
1:00:55
a fan of somebody until you look into your closet. And sometimes I was
1:01:00
just I remember a time where I just I hated, not really, I
1:01:05
don't know. Hated is just the word I would choose, Like, look,
1:01:08
I don't know, I got tired of seeing Johnson's face for a hot
1:01:12
minute and the ruthless he was just in my face. And but iage yeah,
1:01:20
but I go in my closet, looks like god, damn bolfredy pebbles
1:01:22
is spilled over because there's there's colors of John Cena, hustle, loyalty and
1:01:25
respect going through my closet. Word Life. I have the like his WrestleMania
1:01:31
word Life shirt. You know, I have the tons of Johnsena shirts.
1:01:37
And it's like, damn, I guess I'm a fan, you know,
1:01:40
like, how did it come to this? How do I have like ten
1:01:45
Johnsena shirts? But now, oh, now PCW has their own merch on
1:01:53
Pro Wrestling Teas dot Com. So now the new thing for me is.
1:01:59
I got to collect them all. I gotta get all the PCW shirts.
1:02:02
I gotta get the the original logo. I gotta get the nWo version.
1:02:07
I gotta get the d X version. You know, you gotta get the
1:02:10
the standard peep shirt. You know. I gotta get them all, and
1:02:15
I gotta get them larger because I want to be able to, uh you
1:02:20
know, when I when I put this, when I cultivate more masks,
1:02:24
I want to still be able to fit into my PCW shirt. So if
1:02:28
you ever order a PCW shirt, I recommend maybe because they're cotton, ordering
1:02:32
them one size larger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But what else do
1:02:42
we want to talk about? I guess I guess you don't have a collection
1:02:45
of DVDs and vhs anymore because now you can get everything on Peacock, right,
1:02:50
I mean you pretty much they've got everything on there and b some DVDs
1:02:54
or something. I was never really one to buy. I do have a
1:02:58
couple of their documentary We have the Shawn Michaels and got another one. I
1:03:05
don't know what it is. Might be the matis still on, I believe,
1:03:08
but but yeah, as far as DVD's, I've never been going to
1:03:12
get them. You can pretty much get everything on Peacock now. And when
1:03:15
they announced the network at first, whenever it was many years ago, it
1:03:20
was that was the moment that I was like, yep, never buying any
1:03:22
wrestling tapes, DVD, no, none of that. No more so yeah,
1:03:28
all things wrestling. That was probably the one thing I did collect a
1:03:30
little bit of. For maybe about a year or two, I had a
1:03:34
run where I was snatching up those DVDs, like right around towards the tail
1:03:39
end of the attitude They're like, I got the WrestleMania eighteen DVD, I
1:03:45
got WrestleMania twenty and right in that area when they were coming out with like
1:03:49
a bunch of the superstar DVDs like Stone Cold, Steve Auston, what I
1:03:53
got that? When I got The Rock I got uh Rick Flair one,
1:04:00
which was like I think a three DVD set. I got the Hulk Hogan
1:04:02
one. I got Brett Hart Road Warriors. I got a Chris bin Wah
1:04:10
one. Ye. Uh what else? I wid? Who else do I
1:04:14
have? Uh? Do I have a mikefolder? I don't know. If
1:04:16
I have a micfoldy one, I don't know. I'd have to go back.
1:04:20
I got them all in some plastic crates somewhere. That's, like I
1:04:23
said, a bunch of those old wrestling DVDs from that time frames. Some
1:04:28
were better than others. I got Monday Night War I got that one,
1:04:30
yea, Yeah, some were better than others. Yeah, I don't know
1:04:34
what it was at that time. I just went on a run of just
1:04:38
collecting them when they came out. Yeah, And I don't know why how
1:04:42
I missed Wrestlelming in nineteen, like I got eighteen and twenty but didn't by
1:04:46
nineteen. I don't know why. Yeah, like a lot of those movies,
1:04:54
some of you can't find anywhere like that, Chrispin might want to hold
1:04:57
on that one might be worth something someday, uh, because another good one
1:05:01
that's hard to find, the Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. I don't
1:05:08
remember. If I haven't I remember the time that that came out. Yeah,
1:05:12
honestly, I think that might have been one that I skipped by.
1:05:15
I don't remember if I have that one or not. I don't regret getting
1:05:18
not getting too as well, because that one was so whoa, it was
1:05:26
clearly properly it was so much propaganda in it, but clearly they put that
1:05:30
one out with an agenda. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, let's trash
1:05:33
talk the motherfucker as much as we can, like holy crap, and then
1:05:36
like you know, fast forward, like you know, god, seven years
1:05:42
later, then you know, they bury the hatchet. It's just like I
1:05:45
know, man, I kinda I think if I was, if I was
1:05:48
worried before that Hall of Fame, I kind of would have watched that movie
1:05:50
one more time and like I don't forget, I don't forget, but that's
1:05:58
like another movie, Like I wanted to watch it again, but I can't
1:06:00
find it anywhere unless I need to buy it for off of eBay or some
1:06:03
shit. And since he's dead, it's even more money. But you know,
1:06:09
and I do, Yeah, I kind of regret not buying that when
1:06:12
I'm pretty sure I did not, because I felt like it was propaganda and
1:06:16
fel if people are like groage sales, you know, pawn chops even like
1:06:21
have old wrestling deitys and stuff like look through them, like there's some of
1:06:26
them that you just Peacock will not show or another good thing is Peacock also
1:06:31
changes music rights to a lot of things. We recently just watched WrestleMania in
1:06:36
nineteen and I was on revisiting the Mania podcast and we were talking about how
1:06:44
they changed h I think it was whul Cogan's music. Well, they are
1:06:48
one of the music, the theme songs. They've changed it, you know,
1:06:53
because times have changed, the rights have gone to other places. And
1:06:56
this is weird that they can go back and just tweak it, and just
1:07:00
enough that they tweak the theme music, the theme music of either a wrestler
1:07:04
or the theme music of the pay per view. But if you go back
1:07:09
and you have those DVDs like you had that forever, you know, you
1:07:12
have Ben Wass stuff that you can't probably watch a lot of other places,
1:07:16
or like a Ben wall documentary like it might be who knows, it might
1:07:21
be that way of Chris Jericho too, like or some other wrestlers might get
1:07:26
in some ship. Just there's certain stuff like that that you just can't get
1:07:30
anymore, you know. Granted, I love Peacock to death, well not
1:07:36
Peacock, but I love the idea that we finally were able to get wrestling
1:07:43
all in one location. I'm not digging. Yeah, anytime I wanted to
1:07:48
day, I can watch reminisce about any time error, any any wrestlers,
1:07:54
certain point in his career, any pay per view that stuck out, Like
1:07:57
I can just go back and watch it, and you know, some people
1:08:01
take that ship for granted, but like you know, d Og is where
1:08:06
it's at though. The DVDs and vhs, that's where you get all the
1:08:11
the stuff that oh yeah before they especially back then, because they would put
1:08:16
the DVD out usually within a month or two after, especially for like the
1:08:24
pay per view DVDs, they would try to put them out least a month
1:08:26
or two after it aired. That way, it didn't become you know,
1:08:30
too outdated and or too irrelevant. Like I think I got the first a
1:08:36
c W one night Stand. I think I've got that on DVD. That
1:08:42
one, you know, one of the summer I got the Summer Slam with
1:08:45
Brock versus the Rock versus Brock lesnar one. That's a good Summer Slam sable
1:08:53
was on the poster of that one, right, Uh no, the cover
1:08:57
the post of that one was just the Rock and Brock face. Oh yeah,
1:09:02
that's the one that also had sewn Michael's return match. Yeah yeah,
1:09:09
yeah, dude, that's awesome. Well, Eric, this has been great
1:09:14
man. I'm so happy I came across you. It's great to know that
1:09:18
we have another wrestling fan out there. You know, I want to attach
1:09:26
your social media links to the post to the podcast when we drop this episode.
1:09:30
I want people to come and find you. I want people to follow
1:09:33
you and see. So you guys just got to take a look. Like
1:09:36
I know there's some people like, oh, well I don't have the TikTok
1:09:40
that the kids have. Well, you know what, you don't need to
1:09:44
have an account to to go look. You can browse TikTok without an account.
1:09:48
So I want to post it. Once you go up there, once
1:09:50
you check it out, once you give him a follow, if you can
1:09:54
get some likes, just go back and look at the progress of you know,
1:10:02
your multiverse that you're doing, and it's ever growing. It's just getting
1:10:08
larger. I'm excited to see where it goes. I hope we have you
1:10:12
back on here. We do a lot of predictions and post shows, awards,
1:10:18
ceremonies, news, blah blah blah blah. We do it all.
1:10:24
So yeah, another person on another peep added to the show that'd be great
1:10:30
again promote yourself. Eric, Where can people find you if they want to
1:10:34
follow your stuff? Yeah? Absolutely, Well, first off, thank you
1:10:40
so much for having me on the show. It's been awesome. Like I
1:10:43
said in the beginning, it's always great to yap about wrestling with other wrestling
1:10:45
fans. Just enjoy wrestling and I love, love, love doing that.
1:10:50
Anyone can find me on either the TikTok if they want to check out the
1:10:55
displays that I've got, what I've got coming in the future that is Articulation
1:10:59
Station. Uh. Just one word on TikTok at Particulation Station. Uh.
1:11:03
And then on Instagram you can find me at the Paper Champion on Instagram,
1:11:10
and there I always share either wrestling memes, wrestling photos, and a couple
1:11:14
other things that I'm working on that I plan on releasing in the future as
1:11:17
well. Awesome, awesome, uh. Dre do you want to plug anything
1:11:23
or do you want to ask Eric anything else? Before we head on out
1:11:25
of here? Quick quick hit question wrestling questions before we Jane for sure?
1:11:33
All right? First up, favorite wrestler, top three wrestlers of all time,
1:11:41
personal favorite or who I think is the best three of all time?
1:11:47
Who you think are the best three. I think that's harder. I'm gonna
1:11:51
go with Sean Michaels. I'm gonna go with Daniel O'Brian. Uh. And
1:11:57
I'm gonna go with Kurt Angle. God damn, I like Okay, I
1:12:02
like this guy. Shit all right, So favorite match of all time?
1:12:13
Oh gonna go Undertaker show Michael's WrestleMania twenty five. Nice. Nice, good
1:12:20
choice. And lastly, if you can have dinner, and you can have
1:12:30
any five people associated with the wrestling industries not just doesn't have to just be
1:12:38
wrestlers. They can be wrestlers, referees, whoever. Any five people from
1:12:42
the wrestling business at that dinner, dead or alive. Oh okay, wait
1:12:47
you have off Who's who's picking up the bill? Because that's important. No,
1:12:53
it doesn't matter. I'm not inviting Yo Kazuna and otis and stuff.
1:12:57
If so, I would have I would have Vince mc man, I would
1:13:08
have Uh, I would have Visit Man Senor. I would have five Let's
1:13:15
see here, let me think this helped. Miss Man Senior is the first
1:13:18
one I would definitely have at the table. I would have Eric Bischoff,
1:13:28
I would have Jim Cornette, I would have I wouldn't have Vince himself.
1:13:38
He wouldn't be either, because I got his father, and I'd rather hear
1:13:43
his father's perspective, especially if I was going to bring him into current day.
1:13:46
I'm thinking deep on this, so I also bring him into current day.
1:13:48
There as a record for Gennantee, what his out take on the current
1:13:53
landscape or professional wrestling is interesting Cornette, he gets a lot of flat which
1:14:00
is reasonable flack, but I respect his mind and his hope for professional wrestling.
1:14:04
I respect that a lot, Bishop, because I think they'd be interesting
1:14:09
to have with those two. Next would be mm hmm. Next would be
1:14:21
Teddy Long because I think people sleep on Teddy Long has probably had some amazing
1:14:28
wrestling stories and he's been as a manager, obviously as the iconic general manager
1:14:34
that he was on SmackDown, but he's probably has so much great stories to
1:14:39
tell during that dinner. And then the last one would be Undertaker, just
1:14:46
to have the veteran in there that has amongst all those other gentlemen, uh
1:14:54
that has competed in the ring and probably has stories with those people, and
1:15:00
you know, maybe stories that can delay it. I think that would be
1:15:02
a very interesting dinner yeah, I could promise you Teddy Long and Taker have
1:15:06
stories together because Teddy Long managed I believe managed Taker for a period of time,
1:15:14
if I'm not mistaken, back in the old w c W days,
1:15:20
I believe so not not not to meet Mark Callous well, I guess you
1:15:24
was still meet Marcallus at the time. But yeah, I believe it was
1:15:26
part of a version of the Skyscrapers. I could be wrong on that the
1:15:30
whole time. Okay, nice, I know Teddy Long Obviously, Tedy Long
1:15:35
managed a bunch of tag teams back in the day from Doom with Ron Simmons
1:15:40
and Butcher Read and they also managed uh done What, Dangerous Dance Spivey and
1:15:47
Big sid Vicious as part of the Skyscrapers, And I think once sid Vicious
1:15:51
came out, they brought in Me and Mark Caallus obviously Undertaker impaired him with
1:15:57
Dangerous Dance Spoppy, and I think Teddy Long was still managing them at that
1:16:00
time. Those two go back on their own. Yeah, there's get you
1:16:06
Gon'll get a ton of stories especially out of Teddy and and Taker. Yeah.
1:16:10
Yeah, so that that that would be my five. There a nice
1:16:13
good meal with with some good wrestling minds. That it's not gonna be a
1:16:16
bunch of gimmicks, you know, just a bunch of nice just yapping about
1:16:20
wrestling and what these old heads think about the current landscape of wrestling and and
1:16:28
you know, and then pick their mind who's their favorite are and so on
1:16:30
and so forth. That's an awesome answer. I like that, Trady.
1:16:39
You go plug buddy, nothing else. Just as always, you can always
1:16:44
find me in PCW discord. Yeah, and next week we are going to
1:16:50
be doing the Royal Rumble Predictions episode, which I'm kind of excited for.
1:16:56
As much as I want to talk about tonight, I'm kind of like saving
1:16:59
it all for that episode. Dude. I think it's gonna be a good
1:17:02
one. So all right, guys. With with that said, I'm gonna
1:17:08
player out your music, so let's get the hell out of here. Sounds
1:17:14
good. The world's dumbest sign up a bit the fact that day in and
1:17:23
day out, for almost six years, I improved everybody in the world that
1:17:28
I am the best on this microphone and in that break and give it a
1:17:31
commentary, nobody can touch me. You are not pretty because there's street props
1:17:42
up and we watched the stuff your talk about, your songs, talk about
1:17:50
John three sixteen. Momstead three sixteen says, I just whipped your ass.
1:17:59
Well, let me tell you something, brother, who new game the Queen,
1:18:12
Praise to the Time, more Year, my true Madness Year, Welcome
1:18:17
to the Top, and Owen Show. Lately he just hasn't been Kerry Hucy
1:18:27
because I'm do this and I'm oh so those rotten priss bye bye. It's