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Danhausen Interview - FROM THE VAULT! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the news.
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  Speaker 2: Dan new podcast, Doctor Showing.
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  Speaker 3: What March.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome everyone to the Major Wrestling for your podcast on
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  Speaker 4: Major marks dot Com. A very special bonus edition for
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  Speaker 4: the month of April. I am your host, the Complete
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  Speaker 4: Matt Cardona and I.
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  Speaker 5: We host the most professional wrestler Brian Myers.
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  Speaker 2: Almost here a producer smart Mark Sterling, and we are
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  Speaker 2: joined by Donovan danausend.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, very regular, very normal, Donovan Dan Housen.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Take a little bit for everyone to
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  Speaker 5: adjust to. I think this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did what you did Brody on here before, right.
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  Speaker 2: We did Brody, but no video. I just interviewed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little confused because I was with Dan House
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  Speaker 4: in Australia. I saw him clean up with merch but
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  Speaker 4: he can't afford good WiFi.
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  Speaker 5: I love how he just got good WiFi like a
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  Speaker 5: month ago.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I asked we have this podcast for six years.
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  Speaker 5: He's had dog shit wi Fi.
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  Speaker 3: I asked for the best Wi Fi. They said they
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  Speaker 3: gave me the best Wi Fi and it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: been good in the last three weeks. I've had it
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  Speaker 3: for two years. It's been fine.
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  Speaker 2: He also lives in the middle of nowhere. So this is.
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  Speaker 3: This is true. It's uh yeah by me, it was
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  Speaker 3: a spectrum is what I have to use, which I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't excited about because I wanted like AT and T
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  Speaker 3: or some T mobile or something.
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  Speaker 5: Right, I have FiOS, man, it's the best I was
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  Speaker 5: gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: Verizon bios is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I have any of that by.
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  Speaker 2: Me, right, Yeah that makes sense New England maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Well, nobody wants to hear about Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 4: They want to hear about figures collecting.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why no makeup, no chapter. Just the dude,
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  Speaker 5: the real dude that you know, the three of us know,
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  Speaker 5: but you know not everyone else out there knows. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and uh, talk about your collection and your habits. And
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  Speaker 5: it looks like you're in your playroom right now, which
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  Speaker 5: I'm digging.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is like I'm in my basement right now,
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  Speaker 3: which is slowly getting turned into like the movie theater
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  Speaker 3: slash display room.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it's like half set up. I fake set
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  Speaker 3: it up for this. There's like a shelf of nothing,
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  Speaker 3: but I have like everything kind of place. I got
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  Speaker 3: my wrestling stuff set to the side and it's just
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  Speaker 3: all laid down, but I just know where stuff will
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  Speaker 3: kind of go at.
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  Speaker 5: Least magical led lights going on.
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  Speaker 3: As you're speaking, someone of the group pointed these out.
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  Speaker 3: So if I like move, they like light up and
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  Speaker 3: they look nice. But because when people were getting rid
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  Speaker 3: of detolls since they're gone or whatever's going on with them,
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  Speaker 3: they said, these ones are nice and they're pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I just paid someone to just build them, because I
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  Speaker 3: can't do that, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Matt, Yeah, is that what you did?
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  Speaker 3: No, I just it came with like I went, is
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  Speaker 3: it wayfair? And then they just at it like with
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  Speaker 3: like you can pay extra to have someone build it.
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  Speaker 3: So some people.
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  Speaker 5: Is very intimidating the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to do anything.
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  Speaker 5: Something that's not a thing that's terrifying. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got what I've got the DC collectibles guys,
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  Speaker 3: I've got wrestling, I've got a Hot Toys miscellaneous shelf.
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  Speaker 3: I've got some Simpson stuff. I've got horror stuff like
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  Speaker 3: all the Neca stuff. And then I've got a Marvel
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  Speaker 3: Legends and a Batman's shelf. I've got Bowen Marvel design
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  Speaker 3: and I'm looking like you guys can see it. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: But I basically what I've done is like buy all
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that I wanted as a kid when I
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  Speaker 3: go to the comic book store with my dad, and
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  Speaker 3: I am a kid, so I don't have money besides
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  Speaker 3: like five bucks or whatever. So uh now as an adult,
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  Speaker 3: I just buy all the things that I wanted as
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  Speaker 3: a kid, and and and then stuff that I see
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  Speaker 3: now that's way better.
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  Speaker 5: Right modern and vintage then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the vintage stuff to me is more fun.
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  Speaker 3: Like the modern stuff is kind of just like you
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  Speaker 3: bord a big bad toy store whatever. You just load
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  Speaker 3: up your cart and you just put it under the
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  Speaker 3: order because it's easy that way, or ringside or whatever
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  Speaker 3: for wrestling. Uh. But yeah, like that's why I like
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  Speaker 3: to go to the toy stores still, is because you
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  Speaker 3: get to find all the old stuff. Like I've been
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  Speaker 3: having fun collecting the Bowen statues, which are like the
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  Speaker 3: little like Marvel bus I don't know if you've ever
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  Speaker 3: seen them in the stores of like in gray boxes,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what I had Cardona bring back. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 3: from like late nineteen nineties, early two thousands, Okay, but
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  Speaker 3: I'd found like a super rare set in Australia at Lobos.
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  Speaker 3: So Matt had to bring it back for me because
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  Speaker 3: I'd go to the gym. But it's like he did
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  Speaker 3: me a favor.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I really, you know, I really didn't have
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  Speaker 5: anything else to do.
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  Speaker 4: I was just going back to the hotel anyway because.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna not I was like, I was like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: I can't buy anything because I don't want to carry
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  Speaker 3: around the statue in the gym. But it was like
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  Speaker 3: one of those one of those sets where I've only
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  Speaker 3: seen an eBay once and it's been sitting there for
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  Speaker 3: like way more money than I paid for it in Australia,
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  Speaker 3: so it's like rare uh, And I was like I
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  Speaker 3: have to get it. So I had been lugging that
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  Speaker 3: around with me for the last twelve days through Australia
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  Speaker 3: to Detroit and then through astronomic on and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Holy crap, geez.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's been taking up a big chunk of
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  Speaker 3: my suitcase, which is annoying.
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  Speaker 5: Matt uh Mark and I were just talking about this
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  Speaker 5: weekend and of vlog like it's funny, like vintage stuff
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  Speaker 5: like you just gotta collect because like it makes you
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  Speaker 5: feel good and you feel like it again. But then
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  Speaker 5: modern stuff is so good you can miss out on it.
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  Speaker 5: Like you're like, you're not gonna not collect that either,
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  Speaker 5: because it's like, you know, the best toys ever made.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. That's why I like. I like all the
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  Speaker 3: old uh the old like Universal Monsters stuff, because it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's just cool looking. But then Neka has those
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  Speaker 3: realistic ones that are out there, and then it's the
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  Speaker 3: thing of where I'm just buying the color ones, the
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  Speaker 3: black and white ones, and I go, I don't need
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  Speaker 3: all of this, probably.
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  Speaker 5: But oh man, that could get time you get the
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  Speaker 5: Ninja Turtle Monsters. Uh no.
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  Speaker 3: So they sent me those, but I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't need those because they're not even the old ones.
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  Speaker 3: They're not remakes of like the old ones. They're like
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  Speaker 3: new versions, so like they're cool. But if they were
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  Speaker 3: remakes of the original like Dracula, Donatello and all that,
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  Speaker 3: I would have kept them. But I was like, because
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  Speaker 3: they're like made up ones, I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: need those.
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  Speaker 5: They're like fit I got.
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  Speaker 4: I think I got the first Rafael when I think
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  Speaker 4: he's like Frankenstein.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like this is really cool. But I can't
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  Speaker 5: go down this rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually I have them sitting because I, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, I find they're sitting right next to me. Actually, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I have like boxes and boxes of just stuff. Un
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  Speaker 3: I don't need this collection. So I'm going to try
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  Speaker 3: to find one of our friends who owns a toy
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  Speaker 3: store and just be like, please, just take all of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff I have. My basement was full of boxes,
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  Speaker 3: and around Christmas time I opened everything. I just put
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  Speaker 3: them in tots. And now I'm finally getting to where
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  Speaker 3: it's getting set up.
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  Speaker 5: But what's the endgame like for this room?
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  Speaker 3: Like, uh, so I have two more shelves I want
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  Speaker 3: to put up my stuff, and like a friend's in
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  Speaker 3: whatever shelf too, I have a blank wall across from me.
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  Speaker 3: I've got everything else is pretty much filled up. I've
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  Speaker 3: got the Mondo What are they won with the big guys? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is that one fourth? Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: they're not one fourth. I forget that's naka. I've got
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  Speaker 3: the neca ones and all that too, But those take
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  Speaker 3: up a bunch of space. I've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: life size statues. I saw that Aliens one right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I have to figure that out because we've got the
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  Speaker 3: boy coming now, and I decided I don't really use
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  Speaker 3: my office. I'm just gonna use the downstairs as my
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  Speaker 3: thing for stuff like this. So I'm just gonna move
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  Speaker 3: him into my office because it has like Marvel cosmic
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  Speaker 3: walls and stuff like that already. But it's got the
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  Speaker 3: giant alien in it. I have to figure out how
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  Speaker 3: to get that because again I paid a contractor to
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  Speaker 3: put it together, because I don't know how sure that
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  Speaker 3: he was in my house. So I have to figure
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  Speaker 3: out how to deconstruct that and get that into the basement.
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  Speaker 3: But I've got like the life size alien egg from Mecca.
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  Speaker 3: I've got two life size alien like bust on a
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  Speaker 3: movie theater, like, I've got my projectors, screen and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got so.
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  Speaker 2: You want to turn this into a theater?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what Right now it's set up.
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  Speaker 3: I've got the four theater recliners.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was my next question was we gotta
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  Speaker 5: have something comfy then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got the four theater recliners. I've got the walls.
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  Speaker 3: Like at the end of this, I can do a
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  Speaker 3: quick walk through if that works for YouTube. I don't know, U.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mess, but you'll be able to at least
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  Speaker 3: kind of see like the idea of it, because it's
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  Speaker 3: my gym is down here. I've got a drum set
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  Speaker 3: down here. I've got wallpaper with like Noasparatu and Creature
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  Speaker 3: and Frankens all the universal monsters around my walls and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And then I have to figure out a space for
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  Speaker 3: all the artwork that I've collected over the years of
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  Speaker 3: just like alex Ross Prince and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: So and then you were so settled on this place.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you were like living there temporary.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, this is my house. I was like, So,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Michigan. I lived in Montreal for two years
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  Speaker 3: when COVID started, so I could be stuck with my
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  Speaker 3: wife and my stepdaughter. And then that obviously ended, and
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  Speaker 3: then we wound up buying a house sort of nearby,
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  Speaker 3: and this has just been our house. And we had
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  Speaker 3: it like completely redone because it was like very nineties.
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  Speaker 3: It was fine, but it was like a nice base
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  Speaker 3: with like a finished basement and everything, and we have
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  Speaker 3: a pool in the backyard now and all that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's trying to make it because we're on the road
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  Speaker 3: so much. When I'm home, I want it to be
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  Speaker 3: like I don't like leaving home. When I'm home, I
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  Speaker 3: want to have fun being here and just want to
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  Speaker 3: be here with my dogs and my wife and my kid.
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  Speaker 5: And that's in Vermont.
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  Speaker 3: It's right over there. I've lied to people about where
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  Speaker 3: I live, so I don't I don't live in Vermont,
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  Speaker 3: So that's okay either way.
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  Speaker 2: So what what started you? You know you said you
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  Speaker 2: got toys when you were little. What started you like collecting,
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  Speaker 2: like officially.
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  Speaker 3: Collected Because my dad the.
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  Speaker 2: Entire time known you, you've been doing it.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, my dad's a comic book hard guy. So
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  Speaker 3: like I used to go to the comic book store
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  Speaker 3: when I was like five, like uh and just you know,
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  Speaker 3: pay He did let me pick out books and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. Like I think I liked Morbius, which makes sense,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, considering my characters. Yeah, just like I liked
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  Speaker 3: all the hard looking guys like Vanam and Morbius and
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: obviously just Spider Man and Batman and stuff. But I
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  Speaker 3: think I would pick up those toy biz Marvel toys
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  Speaker 3: like the the Everything toys with like the Doctor Doom
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  Speaker 3: and all that, and my dad had left over like
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  Speaker 3: Star Wars, the original Tenner ones. I had all my
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  Speaker 3: dads left over g I Joe's, so I'd mixed those
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  Speaker 3: and everything. And then one year, I think what really
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  Speaker 3: kicked it off, like with the wrestling to really relate
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  Speaker 3: it to that is, uh, he got me the Giant
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  Speaker 3: Rows war Ring and I think I had Brett Sean,
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  Speaker 3: uh maybe who was in that first set or the
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  Speaker 3: first gold Dust I had gold dust. I for sure
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  Speaker 3: had gold dust because I remember taking his wig and
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  Speaker 3: putting it on other figures for some reason that But
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  Speaker 3: then I just remember that that one Christmas, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was like nineteen ninety seven, but he had got
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  Speaker 3: me like a Daredevil toy from Toy Biz And then
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  Speaker 3: maybe I don't know if WCW had toys out, but
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  Speaker 3: I know those came shortly after at.
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  Speaker 5: Least round then probably the vibrating ones which were weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like maybe I had a sting, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I had one of those.
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  Speaker 3: I just remember eventually the toy Biz ones came out
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  Speaker 3: and had Raven for sure, and I had those weird
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  Speaker 3: magnetic ones Ugan, But yeah, no, that that first Christmas
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  Speaker 3: was probably it because it was the mix of everything,
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  Speaker 3: but that wrestling ring was the first one. I think
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  Speaker 3: I just started watching and he's like, oh, I found
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  Speaker 3: these toys. I thought you would like him, and then
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  Speaker 3: then it was just over like he would do. He
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  Speaker 3: made me a custom cane before Caine had a toy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Caine was my favorite. So I think he took a
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  Speaker 3: I'm blanking on what it's called the you guys have
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  Speaker 3: the it's like the Army Ones. Yes, uh, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was Stomp Undertaker maybe, but he made a cane
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  Speaker 3: out of that. So like he did customs for me,
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  Speaker 3: He made custom bases for me out of a like
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  Speaker 3: wood and foam and stuff like that for like Justice League,
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  Speaker 3: Like I had hold Justice League base. I think I
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  Speaker 3: had old Marble base for something. So he was NonStop.
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  Speaker 3: He would hang my Millennium falcons from the ceiling and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Uh So yeah, it's definitely like my
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  Speaker 3: dad set me up on collecting because he still collects.
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  Speaker 3: His basement is full of Horror Batman. All of my
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  Speaker 3: stuff he collects, I give him all. Yeah, he collects
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  Speaker 3: all of my stuff, and I also give him because
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: I don't like to throw it away, like fan art
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  Speaker 3: stuff like fan customs where I'm like, I don't have
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  Speaker 3: room for it, but he'll put him on the wall
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  Speaker 3: and everything. Yeah, he collects all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: You don't collect wrestling right now, right.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, you guys ruined that good. I do now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I've tried keeping it. I kind of way less
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  Speaker 3: than what you guys do. But I don't do the
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  Speaker 3: modern guys unless I know them, Like if they're my friends,
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  Speaker 3: I buy them. But if it's uh other than I
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  Speaker 3: kind of keep it to like eighties and nineties and
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  Speaker 3: maybe a couple like I've got a John Cena from
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  Speaker 3: early two thousands or whatever, like one of the Ultimates.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's not early two thousands, but you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. Uh So I've got those. I got like Vader,
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  Speaker 3: I've got Paul Bart, I've got Bam Bam. I've been
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  Speaker 3: doing the Coliseum collection stuff. And then I've got like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I've got Seena, I've got Austin the Ultimates.
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  Speaker 3: I just got Dusty, and I got the Mankind and
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  Speaker 3: dude Love.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, let those breathe and pose them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I pretty much open everything.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, there's Jack rousing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh No, I don't have Jericho hasn't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think I sold them all.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I don't know what if a figure was made
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  Speaker 5: of me in that way, like, no, you gotta keep it.
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  Speaker 3: I probably have one in my storage, like it's my
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  Speaker 3: ch area I keep in like where I keep all
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  Speaker 3: my what not stuff and just like my march where
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  Speaker 3: I pack it up on the weekend. I I for
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  Speaker 3: sure have one sitting somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I guess has to make its way to
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  Speaker 5: your like shelf of yourself right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, because I try to keep everything. Again,
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  Speaker 3: like you guys, I don't have like every pro wrestling
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  Speaker 3: t shirt, but I have like every aw officially released
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  Speaker 3: shirt and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that counts I have.
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  Speaker 3: I have the major bendies, like I've got all the
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  Speaker 3: micro brawlers, like we got the prototypes and all that.
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  Speaker 3: So but if it's like I don't have legitimately everything
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  Speaker 3: or like every single custom thing I've ever had made,
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  Speaker 3: but I've keep some stuff like uh, Spumoni toys made
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  Speaker 3: me and Brodys Brody krang House him and like I
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  Speaker 3: have that, Like I'll keep stuff like that, like we
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  Speaker 3: had an action figure officially made by him or not officially,
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  Speaker 3: but you know what I mean for whatnot. So it's
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  Speaker 3: weird cool shit like that. I'll keep.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: So what with your your wrestling stuff? Like what's the
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  Speaker 4: uh you said you have to cut up? I'm the
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  Speaker 4: same way. I don't collect, Like I don't have a
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Dan Housen except for major Bendis. I don't have Brian
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Mott except for back of me, Like I can't do it,
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Like I can't. It's it's like I my cutoff is
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: when I first got into w W.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: That's like so May two thousand and seven.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so yeah, well I I keep like I've
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: got your guys' Super seven's. I think my thing is
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: like friends means I hung out with you outside of
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a wrestling show, like you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: we've got to eat or like we've held out in
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: a hotel room after.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Like Mark, guys that he like shook shook their hand with,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: like backstage.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: It was a little excitable when he first got on
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: the road.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Like I don't have that, Like I've
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: like you guys, I got Brodie, I've got like Ricky
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: starks and stuff like. Also like I got Ethan, like
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for his new one to come out, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I'll like maybe replace that. I don't know how many
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: of each of my friends I need.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I ran into that.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Issue with m at one point. Yeah, I was when
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: I had like twelve dovesigular elites, and I'm like, what
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: am I doing? Yeah?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Whatever, Yeah, so that that's that's what I try to do.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: But then like Brody has a bunch of cool ones,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: so like I do have like a bunch of Brodie's.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: He's got like the bloody ones, He's got the ski
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: mask one. I think he still has the best chase
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: for the aw figures because he is one of the
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: only ones that's actually kind of a different figure.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Man, they put the making the chase like very different.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: It's so cool. And then when you it's like, yeah,
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: that's what I was.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I was excited when they showed me mine, but then
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: they put out the hook two pack and it was
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the same figure because it was Nah, it's like very
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: slightly different. I think the tights are different, and I
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: think the cape is a soft goods versus hard goods,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: so it is different, but it's the same basic look
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: like and but aside from that, it would have been
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: backstage look with the sweater thing versus like full gear,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: and it would have been totally different.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Right, that's that's complete overhaul.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, but that I mean the two packs
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: sold out, so I was like, that's cool.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: I ever sold out?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I think? I think so?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Uh, I clocked the Harding two pack on there
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: just in case I can get little deal ski for whatnot,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: and they but it's still there.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, that that that sold out. I think
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: my ring side is sold out probably a while, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: then the unrivaled thirteen is just gone everywhere.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: So with all in the past two years, which which
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: has been your favorite? Uh?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe the r O. H. Lessond was. Yeah, it's kind
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: of like an independent figure, Like it's got the teeth.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: The fact that I was able to get a jar
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: of teeth made as a toy is insane, like, because
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: it's a stupid thing that I didn't think was going
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: to catch.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: On in a minute. Zombie did it too, Yeah yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: But like so it's been made twice then, which is crazy, Like,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: but to get it in a I guess that's not
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: necessarily a retail toy. But it's in a retail line,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, but yeah that that that that to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: me And then it's my first cape. It's my independent
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: look kind of like and just to be put in
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the line with like r H Legends.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: We discussed legends.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's I write it every time I sign one,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: almost every time I.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Sign yeah, yeah, top ski out of me when I
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: see those in the group.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as it's ridiculous that I have one, but I'm
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: also like it sells.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So so speaking of your your merch, you are a
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: phenomenal uh merch creator. You have an eye for design.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I'm always impressed with your shirts over the last year.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It's not even justin a w What do you think
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: is like one of the most un things that you
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: have created for your for your merch table or or
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: or for your website.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I was talking mad about this. I did like
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the Ben Cooper style masks in the box and stuff.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: It's like those old plastic ones, like the Halloween masks,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: and I thought they were awesome and they just did okay,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: But it's one of those items. Yeah, it was one
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: of those items where I was like, oh, this is
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: really cool. This is because like what Super seven makes
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: some fright rags make some like they're kind of back,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: and then I'm just like, oh, this just did okay.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: But that guy's a whole line, right, yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, and it's it's just it's a recreation
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of that, but it's me And I was like, oh,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: this is really cool. But I mean, aside from that,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: it's probably the custom stuff, like I said, the Brody
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Kranghouse and I did some soft Vinyl guys on my own.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah. Like just walking into a target and seeing
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: my Action figure for the first time I think was
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: kind of one of those moments where it hit me.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah where like because that's like a goal as a collector,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: is like, oh, I get to walk into a store.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Toys r US was the ultimate gold because they don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: exist except in Canada anymore.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Like I still make that happen though.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like but Val thirteen is probably sitting in Toys
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: r US right now.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It is not what is the set with Johnny Hunky,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is still there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Checking Toys r US is when I'm in Canada, because.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: It's just every single time, the only updates they get
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: are whatever the target exclusive is goes to Toys r US.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: There right, so like yeah, there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Those are there? Uh, the Ultimate Ray Phoenix is there still?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I think every time I.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Go, I like that one kind of disappeared.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've never seen the Penta. I've only seen
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: that guy. And then they have the weapons set I
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: think is still sitting there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah they made those kind of things.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then like I said, they'll have the Target
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Adam Cole and the Target Samoa Joe and those are
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: like always there.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Are you act collecting your trading cards? I mean you
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: probably haven't.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know. So I don't have like the ice
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: cream truck. I don't have like the weird ones. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: don't have the pixelated one, the ones that are like
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: harder to get. But I have the I've got the
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Joker card. I've got like the normal foil card. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: have like what if the online ones were. But I've
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: never seen like a full checklist of what my cards are.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, but I mean in card collecting, there's a
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: thing called like the rainbow.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, I don't. I don't need the whole rainbow.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's good. There's probably of like if
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: you have one card in a set. There's probably sixteen
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: of that car you've been in the inserts. It's like
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: you're saying, like, you know, yeah, I'm.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Like I have, uh, probably maybe half or seventy five
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: percent of them, but I like I don't have like
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the rainbow. I don't have the rare ones.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Are you like the kind of person that, like of
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: a fan brought you one to sign a show that
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: you didn't have? You say, well, can I have this
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: and I'll give you something else?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: No, I've never done that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I would I do that all the time.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I've never Usually fans are cool though, if they have
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: like extras of stuff, they'll be like, hey, I know
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: you collect your things. Do you have this? And I'm
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: like yes or no? And then if I don't, I'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: be like okay, yeah right.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons I have a lot of the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: variants of mine is because of major marks being.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Mark Long Yeah giving me was it Long Mark Sterling
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: or Mark Mark.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Long Sterling my rookie card?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Can you explain to me what this Dan Housend figure
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: is right here?
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: What is this that I have to buy?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, so okay, I heard you guys talking about
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: this on there No no, no, it's Midsummer the horror movie.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: They like wear a flower crown during the ceremony. It's
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: from a horror thing. But like I've done it a
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: couple of times. I had the micro Brawler that everyone loved.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I remember that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was like, well, if we're doing a repaint,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I want it to be different and cool. But I
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: also wanted to make it a joke like the Malibu
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Stace and the Simpsons where she just has a new
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: hat and they make a huge deal out of it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Let's put that on the package that like, no, no, no,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: he's got a new hat. Like, we'll we'll make it
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: a thing. We'll make it a sense of the show.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: We'll also make the presentation of the figure different because
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: it's not me and gear. It's like me backstage style.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So we've got to what the soft goods black cape
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: or not black cape, black sweater thing, which is like
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: my classic look. And then we've got.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the movie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Before my Life.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: It's kind of a if you know, you know, But
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I wanted to do something different where they kind of
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: like we did the Moumu. But like like I said,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I wanted the presentation of the figure to be different
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: than just like oh, the gear is a different color
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and he still has just the same cape and like whatever.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I was like, this is a fun way for my
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: like my old fans to do it too, or something
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: for my old fans, and this one's gonna be in
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: stock and ready to go. So like I stually, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: just talked to Zombie today on the phone about like
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: some stuff to get it out faster, but he's gone.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: He was just I think he's shipping like what twenty
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: thousand toys a day or something like that a lot. Yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: but I think he's catching up finally, and he's like, hey,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I would like to start planning this, So we're going
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: to try to plan some type of big release.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: For it, stuff we talk about on the show.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which I think is cool because he's starting to
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: work more in silence and then just releasing stuff, which
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: is good, right, because I'd even told him like, like what,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: my first figure took almost two years I think to
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: come out or something, and it was like a big
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: issue and I was like, well, let's make fun of
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: it if we do a commercial or something for it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Let's let's make a joke out of it, so that way,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: like I feel like that's that's better than just ignoring
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: that it happened. Like, yeah, if we make fun of
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: fun of that situation and we're like no, no, no, these
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: are ready to go, it's not going.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: To take ten years. Finally had a pre order.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, oh yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's so that
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: that's what that figure is is. I wanted to do
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: old style Dan Housen something for my original fans who
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: know what that stuff is. And then if you take
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: it out, it's just classic behind the scenes.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: If you just take the hat off, it's just yeah, yeah, it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Comes it comes off like you. But if you're like
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: mint on card guy, like you're probably not buying mine
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: unless you're a fan of me anyway, which then you
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: know what it was?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: So right? Right? So who has more micro bowlers?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: You were me, Oh wow, I think after this weekend
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: we've got the Hulk ones coming out. I think it's me. Yeah,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: but I don't know. I think I might have twelve
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: or thirteen or something.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's definitely more than me.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: No, I have like six, I think six, I have
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: like that more than six. I have seven. You have
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: way more than me. Oh man.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would have the chat.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Come on, figure this out.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's de fearing Mulligan would know. He's he's probably
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: counting right now, well.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Because I yeah, you don't count the Harrians and the chases,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: do you? Or does oo? Do those kids? Yet? Not
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the pro like I've got the Ultra Chase, Like I
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: get that one Christmas time Ultra Chase one, which is
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: what one of ten?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Someone sold it on you? Yeah, well there was one
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: on eBay. I wish I would have saw it because
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I would have bought it, but it sold for a
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: hundred bucks. Oh man. I was like they just didn't
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: know at the time that that Yeah, that's like less
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: than a normal chase when they first come out. But yeah,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: that's the only time I've ever seen that in eBay
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: and it just it was gone. Like I've had mine,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and I think maybe Ryan has one, and I've never
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: seen anybody have the other ones. I'm sure there's some
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: like uh what micro bowler groups on Facebook or something
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: that probably has, but.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I also think it's one of those things where people
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: don't even really honestly, I don't want people to bother
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: them to sell.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Them, yes, or it went to a kid.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I'm sure there's stuff like that too. They didn't know
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: what they had and it's been played with and destroyed.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot on, Yeah, the dog chewed up the ultra
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: chase erring says pretty sure Matt has a dozen.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, if Matt has a dozen, I might have fifteen.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Like that that would be it would be pretty it
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: would be pretty close. And that's only because like we
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: have the three convention exclusives this week, which one was
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: this last week in an Astronomicon, which was like a
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: misfit styled one, and then there was the Hulk coming
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: out and then Red Hulk.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So uh you. I was saying this earlier. You you
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: love you. You are really hands on with your merch stuff.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: You're talking about your micro brawlers, you're talking about your
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I was mentioned in the T shirts designs. Do you
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: like doing this kind of stuff? Do you like that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: sort of thinking about the design work and the and
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the images and the sales and all that stuff. Yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty natural at it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I try to control like ninety five percent of what
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I put out. Sometimes stuff just gets put out when
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: you work for a company it's kind of is what
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: it is. But like if I can control stuff, Like
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: there was a long time where everybody's T shirts looked
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: almost exactly the same to me, and I went, hey,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I don't want my T shirts to look like everybody
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: else's T shirts. I don't think they should. Like I
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: was like, can I please just buy find my own
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: artists and you know, pay them and then they can
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: put up my shirts and that they said, yeah, So
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: that's why a lot of my T shirts vary in
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: what they look like, especially like official aw release stuff.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: But like when I was on the indies, i'd find
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: a new artist like once every couple of weeks because
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I feel like I was putting on a new T
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: shirt a week because they were selling. Like now, I
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: now what what I think. I talked to Mad about this,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Like T shirts have kind of like gone down a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: little bit just in general.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: It's I mean, I don't talking about it's bad.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, I don't. Like there'd be times
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: where I bring a suitcase full of T shirts and
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: like I used to just sell out of them, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: now everyone is like, oh, yeah, we don't sell T
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: shirts anymore. Like I'm like, yeah, I think this this
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: last like live run that I have aside from like
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: leftover stuff that's been sent to me recently from uh
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Rocking foughten, Like I just got two boxes and leftover
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: stuff from them. I don't think I'm gonna order any
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: more like livestock T shirts unless it's like the Australia
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Tour or something special like that where I haven't been there.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: I think it's just because every every single thing is
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: print to order that, like they just any urgency, right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So that's why I like I go through
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: my friend who, like again, when I first started wrestling,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: he printed my shirts, so like if I get stuff
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: like live printed, I go through his screen printing company
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: just to help him out and like have something. That's
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: why I feel that not getting T shirts anymore, but
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I still try to use them for whatever I possibly can.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I just really think that people have closets full of
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: shirts they can't fit anymore and they don't.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Why have I legitimately have like a closet in another
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: dresser full of shirts that I don't want to get
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: rid of because I like them, but I don't eat
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: them like I could. I wear like five to ten
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: T shirts.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, we're dudes. We all did the same shit.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wear the same same things.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: In the terms of wrestling, though, I think it's like, okay,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: John Cena, well he would change that shirt like what
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: every six months, every quarter, everything, And now with like
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: print order, there's so many designs. It's not like you
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: know and that everybody.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I know everyone everyone wants the T shirt. But it
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: also makes it less special when everybody has a T shirt.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: There we go.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know that's probably a controversial thing maybe
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: to say where it's like no, no, everyone should have
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: a T shirt. I'm like sure. But also it's not
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: like didn't you have to earn your T shirts?
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Matt talk about that was like a huge deal you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Had, and it's like it was like unheard of, right, like.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like this is like but now there's so many
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: different options. But they gave me like a basic shirt.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: It was like ever, like the fifteen dollars one with
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: just a logo in the front, and I had to
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: make that sell.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: And then they finally I remember, because.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You were writing pencil stuff to people.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: I was setting the tops cards. I was the top card.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: And then to get your shirt like carried to live
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: events is a whole nother tier of like, yeah, different accomplishment.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: But now I feel like it's more just like, oh,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: here's a website. Everyone has a T shirt, right right, Yeah,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: It's like okay, like that's why you don't have an
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Austin three sixteen shirt anymore. Like in my opinion, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: don't know if that's correct, but that's.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Kind of how I No, I do think there's something
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: to it, Like there's just no specialness and there's no urgency.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: I imagine if there was just like one imagine if
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: there was one definitive yeat JUS shirt.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah no, there's like thirty Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: You know, like I can't if I close my thing
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: of ju So I know the shirt says yeat, but
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know the shirt right, you know, right yeah?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Because right it almost comes off too like when I
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: debuted at aw we had a list of like the
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: top five T shirt sales of debuts of all time,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and like I was on there, And I don't think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: that's been a thing since. Like I think it's because
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: there's oversaturation of just everybody has something.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Now. Yeah, I fought it was an Instagram company the
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: does shirts, and I think they're doing well, and I
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: think it's because they number. I mean, I'm sure other
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: places would have to figure this out, but the same design,
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: but just like a trading card, there'll be a little
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: thing like or I think he's just started that this week.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, they did a limited twenty five.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Thirty five out of five hundred, and then once they
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: hit that five hundred, that shirt's gone, you know in sales, Yeah,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: that design's gone.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: And which stuff like that is cool. I just found
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: a guy on Instagram I showed mattis also in Australia
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: where he's doing T shirts on action figure carding. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: it's like not super big, but it's like a small bubble,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: but the shirt is folded so like this one was
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a Doctor Doom t shirt, so it has like comic
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: book action figure carding on it, and then it's got
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: like a full backing like an action figure would and
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: then it has the little plastic bubble and it's presented
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: like an action figure. And I'm like, so I've messaged
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: that guy because I want to see if he'll start
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: doing stuff. Right now, it's just him doing his own thing,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: but he said he said he's looking into it. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: was like that would be a cool way to sell
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: T shirts, and then people might even like just collect
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: them and hang them on their wall, like that might be, Hey,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: let's do what we do with action figures, where we
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: open one to wear and then you keep one to
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: collect and you can.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Get it signed.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And then that way. Because I hate signing T shirts.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: It's annoying and it's like it it looks, it looks
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: bad every time, and it takes way longer signing it
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: eight by ten. So I always am like, I have
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: to charge you for this. This takes way longer than
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: signing anything.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Else, ring worn or something, and even then it still
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: sucks and it's a pain. But just signing a shot
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: such a waste. Someone's micro shut.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: It can't be twenty five.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's forty. I think it's fifteen.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: If I don't know, now I'm curious for the rest
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of us.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Well, someone said they saw the whole one and they
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: commented on my Facebook group and then go, he's jumped
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the shark, And I was like, this is literally what
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Michael Browlers can be used for. It is like having
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: like Hulk Dan Housen and things like that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's not you know.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: He was like I don't. No. I was like, I don't.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: So this is where you can do fun dumb things
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: like aw is gonna put out a Hulk Dan Housen toylet.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shred or nash is so cool. You could have
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: that in any other way, right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's not gonna aside from I guess the
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: technically the neck of toys that but like that's not
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: going to get released as a a w W figure.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Now, well, we certainly don't want to keep you too long,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: but you want to give us a little quick tour there.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. So again it's still under construction, so
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: it's a mess.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: But like those lights are I can't believe those lights
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: are like motion sensored.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can change the color on him too. So
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: like I've got my gym here, the paper, this is
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: my bank that uh yeah, and then there's a that's
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: another wall. I've got the shelves there. What else is
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: we got? There's this is all the stuff that I'm
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: trying to just gonna get rid of because it's too much.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: So that that was my whole basement, but like stacked
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: like halfway to the ceiling. I've got the shelves with
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: some statues and stuff that are built into the wall.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That's the Bowen Designs ones right there. They're just little
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: nice statues, and I've got my comics, but those are
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: getting moved. Those are just kind of a temporary set
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: up to see if it looks nice. I've got more
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: of like the Nosferatu stuff. I've got the theater right there.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so all of a suddenly the dog ate a
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: bunch of stuff on the floor, I guess, but yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: that's the like size alien heads in between the projector
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: and the projeck's upward. And then I've got the Modeu case,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: which again is getting set up.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: But yeah, those are awesome, man. Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: So but I've got like a Doctor Doom shelf. I've
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: got a spider Man's shelf, and then I think I'm
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: gonna do a Wolverine shelf at the bottom. And then
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: on this wall, I've got the life size wallpaper of
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: the Universal Monsters.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Is terrifying the wall, so it's getting set up.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: And then in my like corridor allway to this area,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna put like the I've got Storm collectibles, so
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: like the Mortal Kombat, the Street Fighters, and they're next
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: to the one up machines because it's like a little hallway.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: But there's a couple like little space areas that I
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: can use. So I'm gonna set that up as like
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: a mini s arcade. It's not an arcade, but that's
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: kind of what I'm going for with it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I love that, and.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Then I think, once I have it set up, I'm
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: going to do an MTV crib style walk through as.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: Dam Yeah, there we go in the paint though, in
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: the paint. Gotta be in the paint.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, it'll be in the paint.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: And that'll do insane numbers on your YouTube channel.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah you're back, You're back, I hope so because YouTube
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: is not YouTube is not great anymore, so hopefully that'll
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: resurrect it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Well that's how you like your pop u larity really grew? Right? Oh,
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: very nice, very pixelated. Go back to that spot that.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I have the best WiFi? Did I unfreeze?
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah you're.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, sorry, I was walking around so I probably
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: got into a bad dead zone or something. Uh what
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: did you ask about the YouTube?
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I said that's how you originally kind of like
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: you grew your popularity.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I would. I would say like that, and
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: then like Ethan Page's toy blogs, which I still at
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: meet and greets, get told like I miss you doing
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: toy blogs with Ethan Page, and I'm like, yeah, me too,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: like kind of is what it is. He's doing pretty
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: well right now. So yeah, yes, yeah, I was like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: he's going to become t and a champion again or
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: not again, but the first time. Right, But yeah, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: YouTube definitely built me up. I still get a bunch
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: of people where I'm like, it's so worth doing because
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of fans are like, oh, yeah, I saw
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: you on YouTube. Let me look great. Whatever you see
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: me on is good.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, do you last question for me? But yeah, yeah,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Like how exhausting is it doing the voice and the
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: makeup and stuff every time?
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Ah, so it takes me only about five minutes to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: do the makeup, so that's fine. I've just I've done
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: it so many times at this point and I've simplified
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: it enough to be able to just get it on.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: It was actually I was the reason for that. I
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: was as at aw and I was supposed to wrestle.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I was gonna scramble with MGF and we were supposed
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: to be on like third or fourth, and then they
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: switched it to first, and I was like scrambling to
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: get my makeup on, and I was like, I never
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: want to do this again. I never want to be
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: put in this position of like doing that again where
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: it's just anxiety inducing and gonna give me a panic
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: attack taking it off, sock. Taking it off is annoying.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I also don't like doing it. I always feel awkward
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: doing it in public because I don't want to make
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: anybody feel uncomfortable who doesn't know me. Same thing with
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: like the voice and stuff like. I don't care about
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: doing it in front of like you guys or like people.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But I don't want to make someone who's just going
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: there to shop and want to like they're like what,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be here right now. I never
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: want anything like that to happen. That's why I usually
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: we'll call ahead if I'm going to do something like
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: that and be like, hey, can we shut the store
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: down for like ten minutes, like and then you get
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: a free commercial out of it, like you can open
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: it up immediately after. I'll go within the ten minutes
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: or whatever. Sorry, what was the basis of the question
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: With the voice? The voice, I don't do it Like
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: people will be like, oh, you don't do the voice
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: at meet and greets and I go, no, those are
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: like hours long sometimes, and like I talk to you,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I have to talk to you as an adult. I'm
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: not doing the voice it. Also, I've made the joke
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: about being treated like what there's an episode of The
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Simpsons or Bart has a line when he's on the
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: crud like I didn't do it or whatever, and they're like,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: do the line, Bart.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Right, I'm not doing my voice.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Sometimes people walk up and go do the voice, and
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I go, no, yeah, that works.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: What's the longest amount of time consecutively you've been in
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: the paint?
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Uh oh. One of the Mania years, I was in
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: it for almost twenty hours or something. But I would say,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: like TV time, like if we're at aw and I'm
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: in it, I'm in it for probably twelve hours or something.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: It just depends because sometimes it's easier just to do
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: it in the hotel room too, and then just go
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: to the show. So I try to be in it
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: as little as possible because it exhausts me somehow, Like
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: just from being in it like that, if it like.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Stuffing beyond button you have to be on.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it like suffocates my skin,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: like on a technical level or something, but yeah, getting
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: it off is more annoying than putting it on, for sure,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: because it just it becomes a mess, and then it
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: becomes a little bit less of a mess, and it
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: takes like ten stages of being a mess to get
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: it off.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Finally, and you're like, yeah, you like black ears, Yeah.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I've got I've got Robert several times.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: With black eyes and black ears.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I look like I have undertake her eyes.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: And yeah, the most emo kid, or I just.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Looked, I just looked dirty because I didn't get it
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: all off and I ran. Yeah, so it's that. And
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: then I've got a bunch of stuff in my hair
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: for making my hair look stupid. And then if I
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: don't have a hat or something, I just have the
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: world's worst hair. But like, as a regular person.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Which is not fun. You're a superstar pal, No I'm trying.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: That's when people are like, well you do it every
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: single time, Like, yeah, no one wants to take a
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: picture I mean by myself, Like but I'm I'm not
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: staying like I'm not like a legend.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Right well, I'm looking forward to when you announce your
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: last year of signing in the painty paint.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll see I feel like you.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: Three yeah at the house. I agree.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Come see Dan now because demolition still does the paint.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: Sting announced this is the last yeah, I'll ever put
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: the paint on it, which.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Is unfortunate because he looks really cool as an old
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: man's sting. Right Well, I did see someone say he
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: looks like Scott Steiner. He looks like Scott Steiner sting
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: from this last week.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: We've had some crazy gotigue.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: But sure it has been like doctor, and it's not
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: that long, no one that's going on.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: No, I just because I was there with him at
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: that one and I was like, he doesn't look like
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Scott stein It's also not that huge like that is
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: definitely like.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Photoshopped at the time the doctor. That photo.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, listen, thank you for for coming on and
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: and you know, letting us in behind the painting and
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: showing it's your collection. We appreciate you, and you get
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: the big rubber guy coming soon. We don't know when
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: the fuck's coming. But it's coming. We got a major
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: stars coming. We don't know when the fuck's coming, but
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: it's coming, and I'm sure we'll do some other stuff
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: down the line as well.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course I always want to do stuff.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: And that big rubber guy's got to be.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I got the prototype in and it's awesome because I
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: think it's pretty close to what a final would be.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: So right, it's rubbery and everything.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Make sure where those red tights are, Bros, gonna be
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: real pisted. I know, I know.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I've worn him in front of him.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw it is pink ones now yeh, damn pink.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I had a bunch of new stuff that I wore.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: He was impressed. I wore four different tights for four
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: different shows in Australia. He said, I was very professional style.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: That's my style, very professional. I love the old Chava Guerrero,
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: different tights every night. I love it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, man, thank you appreciate, Yes, you are welcome.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me on