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MWFP Rewind 62 - Ringside Jon tells all! The Rock is back! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  knock them out of the park, and this one's no different. Ringside John
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  segment to have a very special interview, an interview we've been wanting to do
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  since day one, an interview with a man sitting at this dining room table.
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  So the producer smart Mark Mark, we do an interview you. It
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  all started one night You got nineteen three. Yeah, at Christmas ninety eight,
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  when that nightro Ring came. We know that now. But we have
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  a very special interview with the the other co hosts of the Major Pod today
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  and that is John from Ringside Collectibles. John Say, Hello, John,
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  Hey, everybody, it's an honor to be a guest on the major Wrestling
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  figure podcast. I'm we've been hanging out here. We're drinking beers. I
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  brought you the best beer on planet Earth. The beer that you was incredible.
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  I kind of disagree with think John bought the best beer up on Earth.
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  The bud light line. Can't go wrong with the b l L horrible.
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  So we've been wanting to do this interview for a long long time.
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  In full disclosure, we're not really interviews, but I think we have a
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  lot of questions that we I'm pretty good. Sucks, but I can do
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  it because you just have to listen this guy. Sometimes we do the guys
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  next stage. I'm firing away and he's like, that's because he doesn't like
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  to listen something. Sometimes I'm doing all the work and you're like not doing
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  it. I thought exactly. He likes it to be about him, but
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  it's not. He's like, turn any John. We've been a long time.
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  I think, did you have anyone signals to them behind your back?
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  Can I have them go help yourself? Anyway? John, We've known any
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  a long time now, and uh, I think we have a pretty good
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  understanding of your backstory, but like in full detail, we don't so I
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  think, you know, it's very interesting and uh a grat I mean,
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  people see rings at what it is now, and it's this epic company that
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  you know, kind of has a stranglehold on the industry, but had very
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  grass roots beginnings. Right, So let's take us back. How did this
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  all come about? Absolutely? It started back when I was twelve years old
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  in my parents' basement. I was doing I was a huge collector, and
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  I was doing a lot of buying and selling on the AOL wrestling figure message
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  boards. Really and what until what year is this? This was the early
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  to mid nineties, so it was around like ninety two ninety three is when
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  I first got into collecting and I was doing a lot of buy and selling
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  on the message boards. Did that break? And I actually started my collecting
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  with the Hasbro line? Okay? And I did you buy all Jans as
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  a kid? You know what? I didn't even know the l jns existed
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  when I started collecting the hasbrog Yeah, your dad was just a you're not
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  much older than us, John, No. But but I think when I
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  got into it, the Hasbro line was going full steam. Okay, So
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  that's kind of what got me in. Yeah, like, I always remember
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  l Jan's in my life, even going to the store and getting them ever
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  since I was a baby. No, I think you were a fan earlier
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  than I was. Okay, maybe that's it. Yeah, so yeah,
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  so I was a huge Hasbro collector. And then when Hasbro lost the license,
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  they started blowing out all these toys of KB for three for ten dollars,
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  legendary, Yeah fronds that sale multiple times in here, Like I feel
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  like, what had to be nationwide, right, I don't know if it
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  was nationwide at that time. I know, I believe it's summer ninety five
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  and you could just go and it'd be bins and I'll be honest, at
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  the time, I didn't appreciate it because I already had everybody too, and
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  I was getting guys like customize or like I would just yeah, you took
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  it for granted. So back then I was on the message boards. I
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  was on a lot of the internet boards, and I saw some of these
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  Hasbros Selling for ten twenty thirty forty fifty dollars apiece time. At that time,
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  the cab had for three for ten dollars. So I literally, man,
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  I literally had my dad drive me to every cab that we could find
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  on Long Island that had these, and I bought a ton of these hasbros.
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  And I was I was lucky at the time that my dad supported me
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  in this, and then he let me he let me use my quote barmits
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  for money. Oh my god. And I had a decent amount of figures
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  and then I started selling them. People had to mail me money orders.
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  There was no seven eleven moneyers. Yeah, there was no eBay, there
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  was no PayPal. It was very archaic, like people are literally mailing me
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  money orders and that was the only way to do it. Wow. And
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  it that's kind of how the whole business started. And then you realized there's
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  something to almost flipping it just basic fig product. It's just there was so
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  much because I did a lot of buying on the boards also, and there
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  was just so much surplus of these three for ten dollars figures all over the
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  place. And I said, Okay, everyone in the message boards want disease,
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  let's let's you know, like some money. Yeah. Originally it was
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  just to pay for my figures. Like I didn't even think of it as
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  a business really, And it just kind of grew from there and then Jack's
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  Pacific got the license right after Hasbro. And at that point I had a
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  decent customer base and I met I met up with Jacks because how old.
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  I'm about twelve or thirteen years old, So this is what So this is
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  what happened. So I said, I had this good customer base, and
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  obviously I want the Jacks figures to start selling to them. Also, like
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  what I'm seeing my head, Yeah, this is like now you could be
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  on like Shark tak Absolutely why did we not think of that? But like
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  that's what this is, like the vision. But and to me, I
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  think part of it also is when you're that young, like you're you're fearless.
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  Basically you don't think of you. You don't think like, oh what
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  am I? This is crazy? You know. Like so I Jacks was
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  going to show off the new line at the New York Toy Fair and you
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  have to be eighteen or over to get into the toy Fair. So this
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  was a problem. So I literally I went with my dad to the toy
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  Fair and we had to keep going from security guy to security guy till we
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  found one that didn't care that I was, you know, twelve or thirteen
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  years old. So that was the first time circle. And then I went
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  into the New York Toy Fair and I met with Jacks and I got very
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  lucky at the time that they were a brand new company and their their booth
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  was probably the size of this table. Wow. And I said, Hey,
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  I want to sell your toys on the internet. And they're like,
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  they were so hungry for business because they're a brand new company. They're like,
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  sure, go nuts if you're if you're gonna pass, it's fine.
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  And I also got lucky that one of their sales guys kind of took a
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  liking to me and helped me out. So because the founder of Jackson is
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  a co founder of l j N. Correct, Yeah, the founder of
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  Jackson founded l JN basically, and I'd never really dealt with him, you
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  know, personally, but one of the sales guy that I dealt with also
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  worked for l JN okay, so he like all, yeah, all of
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  them kind of it was like basically a three person company at the time,
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  and they were all like, okay, we're back, and all they had
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  was the six figures from the Jacks WWF you know, series one, And
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  when we did our Patreon exclusive the history of series one through three. We
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  found an old message board where you were the first person to report that these
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  are coming out. That's true, al nuts, is that we found the
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  post. Yeah, it's insane. You were the first person to, like,
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  you think that's spread the word. That's summer ninety six or spring ninety
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  six. It was probably some time in wave ninety five or ninety six.
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  Yeah, probably they came out in summer nineties. Probably maybe if Toy Fair
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  ninety five something like my god, okay, and so how old were you
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  that? I was around twelve or thirteen? Yeah, in ninety five.
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  Yeah, so you were just like, you're doing this business and at twelve
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  or thirteen, like I never even thought of doing anything. It was crazy
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  because now thinking that back on it, it's crazy because I had you had
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  to import the toys from China. Here's my other question, how or when
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  did you decide, Hey, we're going to get these shipped by plane and
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  not by boat? Was it right away? Oh? That's what's crossing my
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  mind is like these came out the toys r US from day one. Yeah,
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  So why did you think it? Like, how come no one even
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  in twenty nineteen, No, one's thinking that. I'll tell you why,
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  you have to be a maniac to do that. It's insanely expensive. And
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  then you have these toys that you're competing with Toys r US and Walmart and
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  every other store selling them for retail price, and you're adding an insane amount
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  to the cost of the item. So you you would have to be insane
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  to do it. And it's work because that's your business model and twenty years
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  later, but I mean for a normal okay, for my business because we're
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  so niche and specialized and because that's what we're known for. Now that it's
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  worked, But for normal retail business it would it would be crazy because you're
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  compete now, you're meeting with you, Amazon and everybody who's trying to sell
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  it for next to nothing. I understand, like, okay, so when
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  Elite sixty nine hits the shelves, you're competing with them, but right now
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  you're beating them to market by months. Well think about it. I was
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  like a hardcore collector. I didn't care what it costs. I want it
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  as soon as possible, so the time is money. That's why I started
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  doing that from day one, because you know, I thought it was worth
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  the premium to get it first. And that's kind of what our you know,
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  our businesses in terms of our first figure shipment that we get, we
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  charge a premium so the hardcore collectors can get them first, and you know,
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  it's it's really cater to the most diehard fans that that we have.
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  So even back then, like things, just what, what's how far ahead
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  before Series one Superstars on the shelves? Did you have it? I mean,
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  it would vary, but it would generally be about a month before in
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  most cases you get them in diet collector's hands. Yeah, because even you
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  get them. Yeah, matel screwed on those retros. I don't know what's
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  going on with Mitel right now, but yeah, generally it's about a month
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  before. So it's it's the bone crunching era things. Yeah, yeah,
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  spiral and just take off for you or so basically I was in middle school
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  when I started, and it was running out of my parents' basement and then
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  it kind of their pants when the cases of figures. Okay, my dad
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  was my dad was supportive it, but my mom really like was not happy
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  with all the figure boxes going through the living room. And yeah, she
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  was not happy with it, but she was, you know, she let
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  it go, So I was. I was thankful for that. So I
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  was what kind of volume are we talked about? But I was another thing.
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  Okay, I was very lucky. You look at jack right now.
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  Sorry, I was very lucky with the fact. Speaking of Jack, I
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  was very lucky with the fact that it was Jack's because if it was Mattel
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  or Hasbro, they would not have wanted to deal with a twelve or thirteen
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  year old. There's no way they wouldn't let me in the door. Just
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  as you're talking, I'm thinking about you lucked out in that scenario that Jackson's
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  company no one's ever heard of, and they like, let this all happen.
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  But then like the attitude there hits in this boom and you're like the
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  king of selling. You're like in ninth grade, right, But I mean
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  a lot of cool timing things definitely lined up for you. But I think
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  your fate, I saw it your fate. I mean, yeah, we're
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  big in terms of the collector community, but if you look at the figure,
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  the WW figure business as a whole, like you know what Walmart does
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  or what Toys r US did, like that Dwarfs anything that we do,
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  you know, so yeah, like just the timing and oh yeah, the
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  timing, I know that you have the product. Yeah, I mean I
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  from the beginning, I just said, okay, what would I want?
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  And what I would want is I'd want to have the figures as soon as
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  possible, and you know I was, I'd be willing to pay a premium
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  for it. And that's that's what our customers want. So when did this
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  evolve from like the message website? Right? Obviously, I mean I'm assuming
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  God out of the basement, so hold on the volume in the basement.
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  I need to know you're talking about that. What I'm saying one palette is
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  that we're talking like a palette or are we talking multiple palets? If like
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  the Bad Boys series came out, you know what, it would depend on
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  how I felt about the set. If I thought it was a hot set,
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  it would be a lot. If I thought it wasn't, it would
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  be less. So it would really depend on and that's kind of still the
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  way. Yeah, yeah, that's how we have to do it, because
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  you know, we're catering to the most diehard people. You know, I'll
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  never forget it. Was the summer of me going into seventh grade. So
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  that's ninety seven. My parents finally got the Internet. I had my Compact
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  Presario computer and all night like wasn't Google, I don't even know what it
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  was, but I was searching for wrestling figures and I found Ringside Collectibles dot
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  com and there were pictures of tag teams, managers, Superstars series five,
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  I believe, and I was like, oh my god. Like I thought
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  like because at that time this was also new. Now you get the pictures
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  of the figures online like for this like all the time. Yeah, but
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  then it didn't exist to me. It was it was it was brand new,
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  so I didn't know, like, there's no way these are real,
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  Like how do they have these? How were they making the Sultan? How
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  are they making the head batteries? How do they have these pictures? Yeah,
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  and it was Ringside Collectibles and I'm like, oh my god. And
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  but think about it, I'm like a couple of years younger than you.
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  I'm a little loser tech on the computer. You're selling these things, Well,
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  this is how different. I even predating that. I have all the
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  pamphlets from even before those series. I was very impressed. You have all
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  of our mailing sailor flyers that we used to sell out. Yeah, and
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  I'd bother my mom and dad to buy these things for me. I would
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  save everything. I have them all still in the stack. I brought them
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  to you a couple of years ago. Yeah, we used to the first
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  one to have is bad Boys, Like a black and white flyer with the
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  bad boys image is like going crazy. Yeah. I used to send out
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  like flyers every few months in the mail to our mailing list, and like
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  that's how we would market it because there was no email marketing. Really back
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  then. There was no Vision website. It was before a website even.
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  Yeah. So, but then at one point there was email marketing and that
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  must have been a big deal. That was later years later, Yeah,
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  but it was. The website probably came out a few years later and then
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  ninety ninety two thousand. Yeah, the website was definitely there in ninety seven,
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  was it not it that's how I found these figures. I mean it
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  probably existed, but that was he's talking about when the source of the when
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  the business was mostly websites. Yeah, I mean basically I had a good
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  run too. From Mania. It was Mania sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen,
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  where I got a seat in the front row and I held up a
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  Wrestling Figures dot Com sign and the site would crash every time I did.
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  It's awesome. Yeah, that is an insane story. That's great. That's
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  the best market. And if you look on the ww network you can see
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  it. That's awesome. Yeah. And then by like Mania twenty twenty one,
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  they figured out that they don't want dot Com signs in the crowd.
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  Yeah it yeah, yeah, yeah, I never told this story on here.
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  You used to sign contest, oh you, that's right. We used
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  to have a contest where if you get a Wrestling Figures dot Com sign,
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  Yeah, if you bring it Wrestling Figures dot Com sign to a raw or
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  any any TV taping and get it on and get it on, improve it
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  and prove it to you, you win a gift certificate. Yes, and
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  Ryan one, I went to either a SmackDown a Raw at the Coliseum and
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  I know, for some reason, I just remember the match. It was
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  like a Edue Christian versus the Hardy Boys Terry Invitational match, but not obviously
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  the latter one. And I held it up and I like, yeah,
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  I don't know my mom or I wrote the email saying like, look you
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  can see it here here and here I got like one hundredgus Yeah, that's
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  one hundred dollars, and I have I have the like congratulations letter. Yeah,
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  it was in all that stuff autography John Hell. Yeah, what's with
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  the John Hell? By the way. Okay, so there's a backstory to
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  this. So when I first started ringside, I was using my parents' home
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  address for people to mail me money orders, and then people would start visiting
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  my parents' house looking for figures because they thought that was like a real store.
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  Right. Oh, So this happened like two to three times. So
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  I said, okay, I got a I gotta find some way to get
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  people to stop visiting my parents house. So I got a you know,
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  one of those ups store boxes. And then I started using my middle name
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  on top of that, which is how because I thought, okay, then
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  really, no one's gonna be able to find out where my parents live.
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  Yeah, so that's the whole origin for John Holl And then it just kind
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  of stuck in terms of what I've used is my online name, Yeah,
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  exactly. And it's wrestling. You have to have a gimmick name, right,
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  I mean, come on, easier to say exactly. There was an
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  article. People can look it up. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool that
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  that was on Huffington Posts. There was an article a few years ago.
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  Four years ago, I think that we spread that We're like, wait what
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  and I'm gonna be on Zach's favorite show Toys that made us coming up,
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  We'll get at that time if you didn't know, he's death staring, So
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  I guess my question would be like, okay, so Attitude Era is picking
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  up then like not only that, but the figures are coming out, so
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  you're not just getting like Superstar Series one, right, And then a couple
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  of months later another said, the session is coming and coming and coming and
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  come in. How do you decide? Okay, you know what I'm just
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  gonna do. I'm gonna turn this little like basement company into Okay, I'm
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  gonna be full fledged, like I'm going for it. When did you decide
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  that? So basically I was kind of running it when middle school in high
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  school, and I had friends helping me, and it was you know,
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  it was a hobby. I would say, hobby slash business. And then
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  when I graduate, when I went to college. I had friends helped me
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  also, and then when I graduated college is when it kind of I said,
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  okay, I have to go balls the wall, see where this can
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  go. What year is that? That's two thousand and three. Wow,
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  Okay, when you went to college the whole thing was to be because I
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  wasn't. It wasn't full time until two thousand and three. Like you're saying
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  me, pretty impressed. That's a lot of things, dude, because I'm
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  thinking, like, there's so many figures I ordered before that, and you're
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  not fall the I mean I was. It was my life, definitely,
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  But when something is your life when you're middle school, in high school and
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  college just the kids, Yeah, so it's like then you have to I
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  mean, I'm just impressed, is what I thank you think. I thought
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  you were like this real business and you were a real business, but I
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  didn't know you were a kid or someone three years older than me. Here's
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  the question just bopped my mind. Have you ever had to have like any
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  other job in your whole life or just selling wrestling figures? I did an
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  internship and I've had his pizza. I did an internship with Disney Pictures marketing,
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  when I was in college. It's the only other job I ever read
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  where it was that that was like in the city. That was in Manhattan.
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  Yeah. But here's the other crazy thing. I went to college in
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  Boston and my business was running out of my parents' basement and my dad helped
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  me out, and I had friends helping me out, and that was crazy.
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  And like on the weekends, I would come back from Boston and like
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  help get the orders done for the week. And I mean, that makes
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  sense because at that time we order something, it's not like Amazon Prime where
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  you get the next day, you know what I mean. Yeah, back
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  then people were okay if you took like five days or a week to ship,
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  like it wouldn't matter. Now people freak out if that happens, But
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  back then it wasn't that unusual. So so what year do you go from
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  your parents' basement to the first warehouse? Yeah? So the big big moment
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  is when I graduate college and I have to decide, Okay, do I
• 22:37
  need to want to go balls to the wall with this or do something else?
• 22:40
  So wait, hold on. When you were in college, you did
• 22:41
  like business and stuff because you thought that you would run this business. Well,
• 22:45
  yeah, I mean, actually I almost was. I was like just
• 22:48
  baiting if I wanted to go to college at all, but my parents kind
• 22:52
  of talk me into it and they said they would help me run the business
• 22:55
  while I was in college. So yeah, I went for marketing and it'd
• 23:00
  actually I kind of I kind of in retrospect, I'm happy I went to
• 23:06
  college because I learned a lot about how to run a business, because of
• 23:11
  course you have to. Yeah, yeah, smart, Mark Sterling, you
• 23:14
  got to go to college. Absolutely, I graduated. Tommy Dreamer thinks we
• 23:21
  did, but we did that a couple of dropouts. Yeah. So when
• 23:25
  I graduated college, I got a warehouse and an office and that was essentially
• 23:30
  the birth of you know what it is today, I would say, And
• 23:34
  that was in linn Brook. That was in lin Brook. Yeah, that
• 23:37
  was our first word, Like that big moment like that, making that call,
• 23:41
  you know what? It was kind of like a natural progression for it,
• 23:47
  and it's it really Again, the timing was perfect because in two thousand
• 23:56
  and four, I believe, is when Jeremy Padouer took over the Jacks line.
• 24:00
  Jeremy, if you're listening, I want to lick your up. So
• 24:07
  when Jeremy took over the Jacks line and brought the Classic Superstars line to be
• 24:12
  that kind of blew up the collector market. Yeah, because you had all
• 24:18
  these classic guys that have never been done. There was no nostalgia in wrestling
• 24:22
  figures until that moment. Really. Yeah, And that was the exact moment
• 24:25
  that I was kind of growing the business. Fa Yeah, it was figure
• 24:29
  face. I had some crazy figure face. The fact that I'm sitting here
• 24:33
  right now with you guys is like mind blowing to me, Like that's insane
• 24:37
  figure faate. So I know it's pretty cool to sit with smart Mark Star.
• 24:41
  Yeah he's here after seeing those cabs on Christmas, I understand. So
• 24:45
  like, if if Jeremy didn't launch the Classic Superstars line at that moment,
• 24:49
  I don't think my business would be anywhere with that coolness and like hitness of
• 24:56
  like collecting, this wouldn't have been you know. I feel like he really
• 25:00
  brought the collectors into the ww figure line and that was and getting thing signed,
• 25:04
  because you have to remember that was right after the Attitude era, and
• 25:11
  like the line really needed that injection of something huge, and Jeremy gave it
• 25:17
  that. And before Jeremy, Like WWE never really monetized their legends. No,
• 25:22
  Like Jeremy is the Godfamily and now look at all the Legends products.
• 25:26
  It's insane that exists. And I Jeremy's responsible for a lot of that.
• 25:30
  Like we just talked about in that in the weekly purchases, I bought those
• 25:33
  little kids Warrior and Macho Man's. They weren't in the w family before Classic
• 25:40
  Superstars. You know what I'm saying. That's true zero zero. Yeah,
• 25:44
  So what Jeremy did, it was huge for the wrestling figure business. It
• 25:48
  was huge for the wrestling business. It was just incredible, and it really
• 25:52
  helped our business take off because it just brought collectors and droves to the law.
• 26:00
  So. I don't know if you remember this, but used to be
• 26:03
  I think it was you on Instant Messenger as Ringside fifteen. Yeah, so
• 26:07
  we I would talk to you a couple of times no way back. Yeah,
• 26:11
  I can't remember if I did, because I remember once we got signed.
• 26:15
  Yeah this you must knew it was me because I said like, hey,
• 26:18
  blah blah blah, I'm getting zo, Like I wanted a little deal
• 26:22
  ski on the Rocky figures that were covered and you gave you a little deal.
• 26:27
  Can I give you a deals keep good good for the Jack's rocky figure.
• 26:32
  That's awesome, smart marketing smart absolutely, Ringside fifteen on a well is
• 26:37
  the messenger? Absolutely? Wow. Here's what's sticking out in my mind.
• 26:40
  Yeah, when I graduated college, I rented an apartment from my mom for
• 26:45
  five hundred dollars a month with three other guys, and I remember freaking the
• 26:49
  peep out about the money I was spending. You just said when I graduated
• 26:53
  college, I got a warehouse. That's pretty bad. There's a couple of
• 27:03
  more things where I want to touch on Hurricane Sandy. You talk about that
• 27:08
  and what happened to ring. I don't think the public really knows like all
• 27:11
  that. Yeah, I don't think we publicized it that much. Yeah,
• 27:15
  but it's times fast. Yeah yeah, it's nothing left. Well, you
• 27:18
  moved from Limbrook to Freeport. Yeah, yeah, just keeps growing. Yeah,
• 27:21
  Yeah, you needed a bigger warehouse and yeah. So yeah, and
• 27:25
  Hurricane Sandy, we got like four to five feet of water, which was
• 27:27
  crazy, and it just you know, destroyed a lot of the packaging and
• 27:33
  stuff. So we basically, you know, the the toughest part for us.
• 27:37
  Was it took like nine to ten months for the insurance company to pay
• 27:42
  anything. So that was really the toughest period of time financially, Yeah,
• 27:47
  financially for the company. Yeah. But then you know, once we got
• 27:51
  over that, then we had all the what I think what like the wrestling
• 27:53
  figs boards went crazy over was all the loose figures we had. Yeah.
• 27:57
  We literally had a team of people like clean eating these figures to make sure
• 28:00
  they were fine, and we you know, we sanitize them and all that.
• 28:03
  Yeah. There Wow, just walking team like the school kids sitting there
• 28:10
  like uh liesole wiping down loose figures and then making a bit and like they
• 28:14
  would just be like we saw a giant of just Trent bread figures to the
• 28:18
  brim, you know, like whatever it was, Mark like just crazy because
• 28:22
  a lot of these figures had value loose for sure. And you know what's
• 28:26
  crossed my mind right now, I feel like maybe some of the secondary Mattel
• 28:30
  value might be due to you guys, you know, like you think so
• 28:33
  Card, a lot of that stuff isn't out there. I guess original Mattel
• 28:37
  legends on Card anymore because of that, And I'm sure a lot of stock,
• 28:41
  you know, I mean we just skipped about five years. There's so
• 28:44
  many questions that have in between that, and then we could talk forever double
• 28:47
  That's what the people want to know. Like, okay, a couple of
• 28:49
  things I want to know, Like so when Jack when you know Jacks is
• 28:52
  losing the license, what are you like, Oh my god? Like now
• 28:56
  we got deals with matel, I don't know anybody from Mattel, Like how
• 28:59
  do you build those relationships? How do you start that? Because with Jack's
• 29:03
  you guys had so many awesome exclusives, so you had such a cool relationship
• 29:07
  with a unique relationship with Jackson. So were you worried when Jack's lost a
• 29:11
  license? Like how far in advance did you know? And like, oh
• 29:14
  my god, now I have to deal with Mattel, Who's a big company
• 29:17
  who deals with like you know, not saying Jacks isn't, but they deal
• 29:18
  with hot wheels, you know, Barbie, They're like, you know,
• 29:22
  as legit as possible. What what was it like then? I mean,
• 29:26
  we didn't know they were losing license till everyone knew, so, which was
• 29:30
  a few years in advance, so we didn't we didn't really know what to
• 29:33
  expect and we kind of said, Okay, let's just get the most out
• 29:37
  of we can with Jack's in the last few years that we have, and
• 29:40
  we actually had a few exclusives with Jack's at the end that ended up not
• 29:42
  coming out. Really, can you disclose what those are? One of them
• 29:47
  was like an Undertaker three pack and I've seen something. Yeah. One of
• 29:51
  them was a Jericho with that Austin with like seven hundred belts that came out.
• 29:55
  Yeah, that came out Austin with a bit that was like the tribute
• 29:59
  to Stone Cold. I can't believe it. And then we had a Jericho
• 30:03
  with his like blue entrance vest from WrestleMania. Huh. Yeah. There's a
• 30:07
  few of the coolest things I loved or still love to this day is the
• 30:11
  ringside exclusives. I mean we talked about earlier the w W East, so
• 30:15
  like, not only did you make like the superstars, you mean guys that
• 30:19
  weren't usually in the line. I remember you guys made a val Venus,
• 30:22
  right, which is really cool. I mean, I'm sure I can't remember
• 30:26
  every exclusive you guys had the TAZ so many coolest things gold So I was
• 30:33
  gonna ask which ones are your favorites and and then b I was gonna ask,
• 30:36
  like what goes into even you know nowadays, like okay, we want
• 30:40
  to do a ringside exclusive. How does that work? How do you decide
• 30:42
  what we want? And how do you get that approved? Do they come
• 30:47
  to you? Do you go to them? How does that work? Or
• 30:48
  is a combination of both? I think well, back in the Jack Stays,
• 30:52
  I mean, I think we're different than any other customer that Jack's or
• 30:56
  Mattel has because, you know, Target Target buying a figure, it is
• 31:02
  not going to say this guy needs this attire from this pay per viewer.
• 31:06
  He's got to have he's got to have this paint detail and this and all
• 31:11
  the Walmarts and Target in America didn't say, Mattel, can you please make
• 31:14
  knockamore in these red pads? Target? You know what? Target? And
• 31:18
  Walmart fuck tooth and nail over that n X t RUSSEV Target Target one.
• 31:27
  So the good thing about the Jack the Jack Stays were unique because we could
• 31:32
  basically pitch something to Jeremy and if he thought it was a halfway decent idea,
• 31:36
  he would do it for us. So we like Jeremy is a collector,
• 31:42
  and it was he's making the soul he's well and also he's making the
• 31:48
  sol he's making he gets he's making the sole decision about what to make.
• 32:00
  So we would it basically was up to us in terms of what we wanted,
• 32:05
  and we would tell them, Hey, we want Taz in this attire
• 32:09
  with this body type, with this head, with this speaking of tas tell
• 32:15
  us about this disaster. Okay. So so first we were covered in I
• 32:21
  want to hear that first guy you made Valvenus with the Times a Sunday Night
• 32:23
  Heat Superstar, because which was amazing was because everybody wants a hammerhead, as
• 32:30
  I say, you need everybody for your figure in the gap between Valvenus releases.
• 32:36
  Oh my god. So it was like applause, bravo. But then
• 32:42
  we didn't really want the Taz and the matching Valvenus tows. Tell us what
• 32:45
  happened was that job? Okay? So our first shipment Classic Superstars Ring Cycles
• 32:51
  Exclusive Taz. Yeah, the first ship, yes, arrives and it has
• 32:55
  a towel around the waist just like a Valvenus figure because the factory in China
• 33:01
  just assumed the towel should be packed the same way Valvenus was packed because in
• 33:06
  China they don't know which is like ultra bad because with the black single top
• 33:10
  and that a dress dress. Right. And I had known from Jeremy previously
• 33:15
  that Taz was not happy with his ECW figure. Yeah, and he had
• 33:21
  made his opinion known to Jeremy and maybe he can get into more of that
• 33:24
  opinion at a later time. What's your reaction when you open up these cases
• 33:29
  of having known thousands that you committed to and they all have known how upset
• 33:36
  Taz was with Jeremy about the previous figure. I let Jeremy know about it,
• 33:40
  and Jeremy was nice enough to have them reproduce it. And what we
• 33:46
  did, he said, Okay, the ones that you have, you can't
• 33:50
  sell with the towel on it. You have to open them and take the
• 33:52
  towel off. So we basically sold them as damage package. And we took
• 33:57
  the towel off of each one. Wow. Yeah, there's a little uh
• 34:02
  ks on some of them because the towel left stains on the legs. Yeah,
• 34:07
  that is true. A lot of all of them though, yeah,
• 34:09
  not all of them. Yeah, a lot of the black cloth accessories,
• 34:14
  even from Jack's or Mattel For some reason. Mattel has fixed this more recently,
• 34:19
  but back in still I still don't even chance. I get so terrified,
• 34:22
  Like if I pack away a figure, I wrapped the whatever cloth thing
• 34:24
  and like a zip block. Yeah, put it in the zip bloc with
• 34:28
  the figure, because I'm so worried about the staining. Up until recent scarred
• 34:31
  from my jack's you know, upbringings, it would be a big complaint that
• 34:35
  we would get items with black cloth that they have stains. So how much
• 34:39
  of that have insanity have you dealt with through the years? But collectors about
• 34:44
  carding being damaged car or or you know figure errors that it's obviously on the
• 34:52
  distributors. Yeah, you know, part not yours. Like you're not making
• 34:54
  these figures in the factory, You're just getting them shipped there. So yeah,
• 34:58
  I mean, how much of that goes on? A difficult thing is
• 35:00
  when you know something is a mistake is made by the factory and then the
• 35:06
  customer's not happy. Yeah, you know, there's nothing, not much we
• 35:08
  can do about it because they're all like that I said we talked about before
• 35:12
  when we're off their Trevor in his office, Yeah, he has like wait
• 35:15
  a say one second, tell us about Trevor cut off, king bro.
• 35:20
  We need to know about Trevor. Absolutely, there's a great story about Trevor.
• 35:23
  Trevor has a like a raised shelf above his desk and it has all
• 35:29
  like the defective figures that customers have sent back over the years. I said's
• 35:31
  kind of like sids that you know that, Yeah, in toy story.
• 35:37
  So Trevor is an integral part of the company. He definitely is. He
• 35:40
  has a lot of stuff, So let's talk about him. Yeah. So
• 35:43
  basically, Trevor and I went to the same college and we met. We
• 35:51
  were in a class and we weren't we were really friends back then, and
• 35:54
  then we I was responsible for bringing Ultimate Warrior to a peer a college whoa
• 36:01
  pumped the brakes job it happened. What yep, you brought him? He
• 36:08
  did the ringside shoot interview, and he did ring side Fest, the first
• 36:13
  ever ring side Fest. Od I've done ringside Fest? Wow? Well it
• 36:19
  was the back to Trevor, back to the real star here. So Trevor
• 36:23
  didn't have a camera with his real name. Are you gonna that's okay?
• 36:27
  That's a real name. So back when Ultimate Warrior I brought him to appear
• 36:32
  at my college, and I took a picture of Trevor with Warrior because he
• 36:37
  didn't have a camera on him because you know, back in the day kids
• 36:40
  cell phones didn't have cameras. So I had the camera. I had the
• 36:45
  photo with him, and I got his email address to email in the photo,
• 36:52
  and then I really I had a class with him, but we weren't
• 36:54
  really like oh four, this is before oh three, because I graduated in
• 37:00
  two thousand and three, so it's how to be like wow, two thousand
• 37:02
  and two or two thousand and one, okay, so nuts. Yeah.
• 37:07
  So then when I was starting up ring you know, ringside at the warehouse
• 37:12
  after I graduated, I go to WWE dot com and I see that.
• 37:19
  I see Trevor's face on the front page of w W dot com. And
• 37:22
  Trevor won the WWE Fantasy Tournament. He was the winner. We need to
• 37:30
  buy that. This is figure fight. Also, this is figure Fate.
• 37:35
  So Trevor was on the front page of ww dot com and I was like,
• 37:38
  oh my god, I know Trevor. We were in college together.
• 37:43
  So I emailed him because I email addressed from the Ultimate Warrior photo. Oh
• 37:46
  my God. And it turns out he was living in New Jersey and he
• 37:51
  was looking for a job and that was Figure Fate. Wow, he's like
• 37:54
  right hand man, I mean he I mean, who better to like backbone
• 37:59
  rings, who better to figure to predict what is going to sell than somebody
• 38:04
  who won the w w E Fantasy. Yeah. So, and he's been
• 38:10
  working there ever since, ever since. Yeah, and he's incredible. I
• 38:14
  mean really he knows this stuff like he lives, eats, sleep, breathes
• 38:17
  like he's the manner of It's like figures but Ringside collectibles absolutely, and he
• 38:23
  designs all the special ring Side Collectibles accessories and stuff like that. Correct.
• 38:28
  Yeah, I mean we basically a lot of these some of these accessories that
• 38:32
  we've done are kind of his baby, and he goes into a lot of
• 38:35
  the design work with the factory, and you know, he's also integral in
• 38:39
  a lot of our exclusives as well. I think we can jump ahead and
• 38:43
  we'll go back track it for a little bit, but the major recipe or
• 38:47
  podcast figures and accessories like we did it, Like is that not figure face?
• 38:52
  Like we two kids who grew up a being wrestling nerves and turned out
• 38:58
  to be wrestlers, but figure fans are who bought from RECYC Collectibles now have
• 39:01
  Ringside Collectibles exclusive figures. Was that the first? Alse now edend Christian else
• 39:07
  know Aliso is the first exclusive? I think al Snow was the first.
• 39:12
  If you want to call it an exclusive. Yeah, it's signed, right.
• 39:15
  It was a little sticker that says, it's not like you just saw
• 39:17
  signed out Snow. Yeah we we We had him sign a certain amount and
• 39:21
  called it, you know, a limited edition that you signed. Yeah,
• 39:23
  exactly, just like our heroes, Edgind Christian. That's true. I cannot
• 39:28
  wait for all the major marks to uh to buy these figures. I can't
• 39:31
  wait till week and can buy them, get them in all collections. We
• 39:36
  debuted them a comic con or we're gonna debut them. But this is so
• 39:38
  weird doing these things in advance because we're going to debut them. By the
• 39:42
  time you're listening, we already did debut them. You know what I'm saying.
• 39:45
  But yeah, you explained it every time and everyone understands that. Every
• 39:47
  one understands makes sense. That's fine, but weird to you, it's not
• 39:51
  weird. It's a dream come true. So John thank you for that,
• 39:54
  because that's the more figure face. So thank you, no problem, thank
• 39:58
  you guys for the partnership. I'm just another figure. Fate is that I'm
• 40:02
  mind blowing that there are two w W superstars that are this hardcore and figure
• 40:07
  collective. I mean, I mean often what makes us working. It's very
• 40:10
  odd that. Yeah, that's just my glowing of each other. We're like
• 40:15
  twenty days apart in age, and like, yeah, a lot of if
• 40:20
  you sit in whatever, if you sit and think about it's a real crazy
• 40:23
  yeah, because I mean growing up, I could never have imagined that any
• 40:29
  w W superstar would care. Is there any you know, crazy ones that
• 40:31
  don't care? And we're gonna look up our past orders, like could you
• 40:36
  look at like an I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
• 40:39
  if I have that far back, I have to check the cardon. So
• 40:47
  uh so, like, what's what's going on with the business nowadays? Like,
• 40:53
  you know, to finish this off? You know, you guys are
• 40:58
  growing and and and all that, and with the MATEL deal and you guys
• 41:02
  still keep coming out with different with ringside exclusives and yeah, I don't know,
• 41:07
  I guess to finish this off, you know. Yeah, I mean
• 41:12
  we just did our first ever Mattel Elite two pack exclusive of the Broode Hardy's
• 41:16
  so that was hugeviews. Yeah, mitt All did an incredible jobs. So
• 41:21
  we've been working a long time on that, and we have a lot of
• 41:23
  big things planned for twenty twenty. So they kind of like quarterly. Can
• 41:29
  you count on that like four year or three or year or like it varies,
• 41:31
  right, I can't really put my finger on it. And you guys
• 41:35
  also have Ringside Fest, which was kind of like your mini comic con.
• 41:37
  Every fall we reveal new stuff, which is awesome. You always have ww
• 41:42
  superstars there signing. Yeah, I mean we kind of we had done conventions
• 41:46
  previously, and we thought, you know, there's not a lot of wrestling
• 41:51
  fans a lot of these conventions, so why don't we just do our own
• 41:53
  little promotional event. And it kind of just took off from there. And
• 41:58
  you know, the first one we have the Ultimate War You're At and that
• 42:01
  was four Yeah, and it's just kind of taken off from there and Jack
• 42:07
  supported it back in the day and they would show off all the new toys.
• 42:09
  And we've been lucky that Mattel has supported it and Sweaty Bill just kind
• 42:14
  of free trip to New York. Yeah. Bill loves showing off all the
• 42:16
  new toys there and interacting with the fans, and it's it's a fun event
• 42:21
  and it's a way for us to kind of meet our customers and our fans
• 42:25
  in person because normally we're buying a computer. Yeah, and I don't know
• 42:29
  if you guys realize this or even know this. Like you guys are everywhere,
• 42:34
  especially online, So when a figure comes out, Ringside Boom puts their
• 42:37
  their stamp on it and puts it up everywhere. The majority of the WW
• 42:40
  superstars who we talked to, they think Ringside Collectibles makes the figures, you
• 42:45
  know what I'm saying. They don't understand that's like a hotel, your social
• 42:51
  media presence and stuff like following that they think they're so ahead of the curve,
• 42:54
  so on top of things that the WW superstars they think it's Bringsy Collectible
• 43:00
  who's making these figures. It's crazy, It's nuts. Social media is it's
• 43:06
  a compliment. Like you guys are so on top of everything. You guys
• 43:08
  are so synonymous with Mattel and so and with wrestling figures or even like the
• 43:13
  YouTube channel that's went up for years and years now, Like there's a lot
• 43:15
  of times I have to like reference something like or like an accessorieson my be
• 43:19
  I'm like, who did this come with? And I'll have to like use
• 43:22
  your YouTube stuff and those figure reviews to like figure it out, or like
• 43:24
  oh did this come with this? Whatever? Bring wiet figure and I'm like
• 43:28
  organizing my crap and I could figure it out, but using a great reference
• 43:30
  tool. And also there's wrestling things even before then. Yeah, yeah,
• 43:34
  oh god, wrestling boards. We can talk all day about that. You
• 43:38
  a vendor on there. I didn't go as nuts as you point. I
• 43:44
  wanted to be a mod like that was one last question. Personal question.
• 43:51
  I kind of don't even really know the answer to this because in your office
• 43:54
  you kind of have things all over the place, like on display and the
• 43:58
  things that you have up. I know you're a big Japanese wrestling fan,
• 44:01
  but what do you ques, like, what do you have over the years,
• 44:07
  what have you held on to, like what is in your actual personal
• 44:10
  collection? I mean I basically have to pick and choose at this point because
• 44:15
  otherwise it would just get out of control. So yeah, I mean my
• 44:20
  personal collection, I have every Habsborough m oc okay one of each, like
• 44:28
  some I have multiples of something I have been going through some of a ringside.
• 44:30
  You have like multiples of that Brett Hart with the purple heart that I
• 44:34
  need and you still need it multiple it's just min on card, multiple multiples.
• 44:37
  How do you tell the difference between the mellow ay and you don't?
• 44:39
  It's the same thing, Okay. The only way there's a bred heart meloe.
• 44:51
  You don't know if it's in the bag. If it's not in the
• 44:53
  bag, it's not the mellow my opinion, there's no way if you're a
• 44:58
  loose collector. Nope, nope, nop. So I have one of my
• 45:06
  holy girls in my collection, is the elite one. Jeff Hardy held and
• 45:12
  inspected this in the office. It's pretty cool. Yeah, So it never
• 45:15
  came out. It never came out, and they made a few samples of
• 45:21
  them and then they don't. I don't know what happened to the sample the
• 45:24
  rest of the samples, but they was gonna warehouse somewhere with the King Harley
• 45:28
  Race distribution problems. So did that come into sample case before that series came
• 45:37
  to the ringside. No, an ex Mintel employee gave it to me.
• 45:43
  BI is just Bill set. Those head bones are punched his windows. Bill
• 45:50
  would never give that to me. No, never, but he's mad that
• 45:52
  you disclosed that. And I hope he has one that I wanted so barely
• 45:55
  had the retro zach reda prototype? Did an he give it to you?
• 46:00
  Listen to this, John Cena, Mister John Cena went to Comic Con last
• 46:05
  year, went to the Mitel booth special for me to request that I get
• 46:08
  that prototype. They said, of course, mister Sina, we'll give it
• 46:12
  to him. They never did what Bill, I don't know if it was
• 46:16
  Bill, Bill, I don't know what next show. I just want to
• 46:21
  say Bill led to Sina hustle loyalty collect. One of my other holy grails
• 46:27
  is The Family Divided Jack Specific, which is a huge box set of all
• 46:32
  the McMahon's, including Linda, that was never released. It has uh triple
• 46:38
  h and yeah, it's it's incredible. It's you have what I would describe
• 46:45
  as jaw dropping autographed min on card Hasbro's in his office right. I have
• 46:52
  undertakers like just stuff like you wouldn't believe. That's one of my favorite pieces.
• 46:58
  I've a signed Owen and Go It's so cool. Yeah, that King
• 47:01
  of Hearts and he signed in the King of Heart States didn't do that back.
• 47:06
  Yeah, certain for you to have those, it's like crazy, you
• 47:08
  know now, Yeah, but not people are obviously deceased and whatever. But
• 47:12
  unbelievable. Yeah. I have a bunch of Hasbro signed That was I was
• 47:16
  big into getting the Hasbro signed in the nineties. So how how far off
• 47:22
  do you think you are of like completing that. I'm very far off really.
• 47:25
  Yeah. You had a lot of Green Cards signed, a Green Cards
• 47:29
  signed. Yeah, but I oh my god. Do you take one of
• 47:34
  each shrinks exclusive for like a sentimental I do. I think I have one
• 47:37
  of each ring side exclusive, and sometimes I like in terms of like the
• 47:45
  Elite line, I'll take certain guys that I want to have in my collection.
• 47:52
  It's just it just I have to pick and choose because it otherwise they
• 47:54
  just take up too much room. And I think we're all at that point
• 47:57
  except Bro has no filter. But wow, it's crazy. I mean you
• 48:04
  you are literally living the dream, just a fan who collected wrestling figures,
• 48:08
  and you revolutionize the figure business. Whether you want to admit it or not.
• 48:12
  You know, I think those way beyond action figures, it's like the
• 48:15
  American dream type stuff. Appreciate way beyond, but like you, you literally
• 48:20
  changed the figure business. I mean, and there's been so many companies that
• 48:22
  have tried to compete with Ringside and they they all cool gifts. They're dead.
• 48:29
  You killed. I haven't even thought about it, right right, remember
• 48:31
  all cool gifts. And they tried creeping up, you know, they tried
• 48:36
  to attack them behind you turned around, you gave them the double bill figure
• 48:38
  of the sunner, you know, because they're done, you know, like
• 48:42
  you are the number one. There's no yeah, I mean there's no.
• 48:46
  And the thing is, if there's a number two, it's like see you
• 48:51
  later. It's like all the way down They're like, you guys are killing
• 48:54
  absolutely. I mean it's it's a tough business, you know it really,
• 49:00
  it really is. And this is not family, all right. Thank you
• 49:07
  very much, Thank you very much for ben Thank you, thank you guys
• 49:12
  for having me. This is an honor to be on your podcast, and
• 49:15
  thank you guys for your friendship over thank you all these years, and I'm
• 49:22
  just so thankful that you guys are doing this podcast and that you guys are
• 49:27
  so passionate about the toys. I mean, it's it's awesome. Incarnation of
• 49:32
  Domination. The Incarnation of Domination is a weekly segment where we choose a superstar
• 49:38
  and we discuss our favorite versions of that superstar. Each week we try to
• 49:43
  stop each other and this week, Brian, it's my turn to stop.
• 49:50
  What do you got for me? So we did this a couple of weeks
• 49:52
  ago where I didn't choose an actual person per se, but I choose I
• 49:59
  chose a no bluetooth the line, the whole line, I chose to stop
• 50:04
  line. Yeah. Today I'm gonna choose the retros. Who is your favorite?
• 50:10
  Tell me Lie, Well, it's definitely not the Shawn Michaels, Chris
• 50:15
  Masers. Uh wow. And you know what I think? Can we do
• 50:19
  the top five? Top five? Top five retros? Now? Now full
• 50:23
  disclosure, I think the bonus episode for next month on Patreon should be the
• 50:29
  history of the Retros Too soon, brother, I want to hype this up.
• 50:34
  Man. Possibly, well, we'll put a pull up on that.
• 50:37
  I wouldn't I won't commit to that. Let's do top five Mattel retros.
• 50:43
  Well, Diesel's number one is that umber one? Done done deal Diesel number
• 50:47
  one? Other ones that I loved who I love the Scena Sena is good.
• 50:55
  He's doing the attitude adjustment iconic. So I would say, so Hogan
• 51:00
  one s right, but of like our generation? Yes, yeah, I
• 51:04
  agree. Put that scene one there. Okay. I love Triple H and
• 51:12
  Jumper. I know I'm not I know because I love Jumpers and I even
• 51:15
  mentioned it earlier in this episode. We were at summer time ninety eight Highway
• 51:20
  to Hell. He wore those trunks. It's become like iconic and several incarnations
• 51:25
  of action figures. Now, well, he could be on your list.
• 51:28
  He's not on mind. I understand. I'm just satt Let you know,
• 51:30
  like that would just be sentimental to me, like forever you can pat Triple
• 51:32
  H. I'm gonna pick Zach Ryder. I hate that figure, Okay,
• 51:37
  Well, I mean, am I in love with the actual like decko of
• 51:40
  it? Absolutely not? Why was it not bearded? Modern day? Everyone's
• 51:45
  modern day? I guess Bray and Danny Bryant are in the same brown as
• 51:50
  yours. I would have design it. I would have done either bearded trunks,
• 51:52
  modern day or one legged ecw woo woo. I would have just went
• 51:58
  straight up WrestleMania, a icy title when you know what, guys, beggars
• 52:01
  can't be choosers, of course, But I'm just saying, if it was
• 52:06
  me, there was reason, based on television time, I deserved a retro.
• 52:08
  But I'm saying this out loud. You Bray and Danny Ryan are the
• 52:14
  only guys who are modern day guys that had like weird older, older versions
• 52:19
  of yourself come out. It's a weird category. I have. Mine come
• 52:22
  out was literally a dream come true. You're just trying to rub it rub
• 52:25
  it in and I'm never going to get one. Right now? Did you
• 52:30
  design an entire segment to just remind me that I'm never going to get a
• 52:34
  retro? Maself? So my number three is Zach Ryder gold Dust. I
• 52:38
  think that's to be on my list. This is my four removable wig.
• 52:42
  Don't have to use my vendoms, Goldust, don't have to use my misapperfect
• 52:45
  yellow. Finally, after all these years, Uh, they're so plain.
• 52:52
  But I love jy D and Chic. I have to say my five and
• 52:59
  you're gonna think I'm because I am not a current collector. But I think
• 53:04
  the Roman reigns with the Jake. The snake punch is to me so rare.
• 53:09
  That to me is has Bro. That's retro. That's I mean,
• 53:15
  now it's pointless to say this, but like it's weird that I understand he
• 53:19
  was his own unique mold. But why more guys didn't have that action feature
• 53:22
  is a little kobookish. I don't know. So that's my five. I
• 53:27
  mean, it's also going to be the Green Trunks Macho Green Trunks MACHOs on
• 53:30
  my list. I think he's your five. Is it a Roman? Yeah,
• 53:34
  that's fine. Cool. So that's the incarnation of Domination and Mark who
• 53:37
  won the Gemmer Sweepstakes. Hey, guys, this week's Gemmer winner is I
• 53:44
  Dot fought Dot a dot lion. I fought a lion? You win?
• 53:50
  Also, I think I mentioned on one of the sort of bonus episodes we
• 53:54
  did, but I recently start to a new collection. I'm collecting Elites from
• 54:02
  ninety seven to ninety nine, and I've been using Gemmer actually to sort of
• 54:07
  plan out which figures I'm getting, Like which stone Cold am I getting?
• 54:10
  Which rock am I getting? Which Triple H things like that. So Jemmer.
• 54:17
  It's great and next up is the WTF figure of the week. What's
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  brand. All right, this week's WTF Week, I think it's gonna hit
• 55:22
  it a little close to home. Well, it will, but this was
• 55:25
  decided in our Patreon group. Yes and the winner of this first of all
• 55:30
  go to Patreon dot com slash Major f Pod to be in our Facebook group.
• 55:34
  So much goes on in there. I actually had a suggestion, but
• 55:37
  you had already made this, so I guess I'll have to save mine.
• 55:40
  This guy is going to wear that. In my notes for next week,
• 55:44
  this guy will win a SDCC exclusive major podpin aj Blair with his his nominee,
• 55:52
  the bone Crunching Buddy hbk uh So, all right, where are we
• 55:58
  agin with these? These are Jack's bone crunching buddies right now? They in
• 56:02
  nineteen ninety eight. Yes, we all love wrestling buddies to takas, and
• 56:07
  we're thinking we're gonna get these like similar like this. I'm thinking we're the
• 56:10
  same size with bone crunching. Whenever we don't get those, I'm like,
• 56:15
  why why why are we trying to reinvent the wheel? Like if it ain't
• 56:20
  broke, don't fix fix it. But this is man Jacks. How many
• 56:23
  times did Jackson do this? Hotel and hotel? Yeah, this is wild.
• 56:28
  I don't get it, a buddy. It was made once the first
• 56:31
  time they was it right in nineteen ninety and you never had to do it
• 56:36
  again. Like you're good to go. But there's been so many horrible plush
• 56:40
  wrestling these things buddies were up there. These are just like they're I guess
• 56:45
  their sizes of them is cool, but they're they're all so ugly and especially
• 56:50
  sewn its way too small. I got you can't wrestle with the bit like
• 56:54
  big and these these big they're there. I was the less than half the
• 56:58
  size of a talk. I want to all these peg warmers because but they're
• 57:01
  not obviously they're too big to go on pegs. But they were shelf warmers
• 57:06
  back back in that ison era. I don't remember. Oh, brother,
• 57:08
  these are just always there, always now, to be fair, they improved
• 57:14
  after series two, got a little better. Yeah. Oh, anyway,
• 57:17
  so I was saying, this is close to home because you currently own how
• 57:22
  many of these? One of each? Guy? Unreal? And where are
• 57:24
  they upstairs? And there by the way, folks. Oh baby, it's
• 57:30
  been a it's been a busy couple of months. Honestly, since WrestleMania.
• 57:35
  We've been booked on every single WW event and we have not been home a
• 57:38
  lot. But and I complained an awful lot on here when I was doing
• 57:44
  my home improvements and stuff, and my house was a little wreck, nothing
• 57:50
  in comparison to what's going on. Right now here, and the cat Cat
• 57:52
  Daddy's dead, his playroom is porderline destroyed. Uh needs weeks and weeks organizing.
• 58:06
  Let's not even get into the garage. And then and he showed me
• 58:08
  that I'm already blown away. And then before he left for the show,
• 58:10
  before he peeked open the garage door, and I went, oh my god,
• 58:15
  Oh my god, I don't know what you're gonna do. Yeah,
• 58:20
  So I have one of each guy. They have like nice heads. The
• 58:22
  heads look pretty good. The Austin is a little Kobookiah goofy goofy heads.
• 58:25
  The Sewan he's got the Zebra Taker's pretty crappy. These are terrible, dude,
• 58:30
  I think what dude loves the best one and led two thousand. The
• 58:35
  later Austin's are kind of cool. So I had like the acid washed jeans
• 58:38
  and so like. I had these as a kid, sold and obviously in
• 58:44
  classic Mat Cordona style, Sam Roberts would love this. I rebought them recently,
• 58:49
  I can confess to when I was a kid, I had every single
• 58:52
  one of these so and probably sold them in nine when the license in got
• 59:00
  rhy of them. So I bought these. God, that's embarrassing to say
• 59:04
  I bought the min in box. I wanted to make sure everything was perfect
• 59:06
  and want like some kids played with one. But I forgot to realize,
• 59:09
  like these, you're able to test these out in the stores. So a
• 59:13
  lot of my bone crunchings was broke because I'm sure they were like broken in
• 59:16
  the stores from people kids just touching them all the time. I'm telling you,
• 59:21
  my recollection of these are just sitting on shelves because they were not desirable.
• 59:24
  They looked stupid and Kane, yeah led two thousand, but they were
• 59:30
  just they looked so ugly they just sat there. It's like because he went
• 59:34
  I guess in that era, Jack's was a big against like uh just like
• 59:38
  naked Chess. So like Sean has like a vest and later Rock has a
• 59:43
  vest. Yes everyone has a vet, but Sean definitely a crap figure.
• 59:50
  If Jack's just made regular but Tanka style, buddies would be just gushing over
• 59:54
  these, and Sean had already left it be you know that too. So
• 1:00:01
  there was a lot of and now I get it because you know, you
• 1:00:06
  learn later that w W was paying them a lot of money just to stick
• 1:00:09
  around, but he wasn't on television, so he had a lot of merchandise,
• 1:00:13
  especially Jack's merchandise that whole time he was out. I love hate these
• 1:00:16
  figures, like I said, I have them all, but like I could
• 1:00:20
  see if you think of like classic Taca buddies, like oh, you have
• 1:00:22
  the Jacks buddies, you had the bone crunching buddies, and then you show
• 1:00:25
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  When it comes to later ECW series, how common was it to have old
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• 1:04:33
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• 1:04:47
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• 1:05:10
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• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:17
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  Uh. Super seven now has the NJPW license. If you could fantasy
• 1:06:06
  book WCW WW or ECW in the reaction line, assuming it's for figures,
• 1:06:13
  who would be in your first way for each brand? Now we met up
• 1:06:18
  a Super seven I comic God couldn't have been cooler, cool company, cool
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  product hip. They're making new Japan figures yeah, and we broke it down
• 1:06:28
  on YouTube. You can watch a video. Dude. While you're reading that
• 1:06:33
  question, I was just thinking if there was EZW Super seven like reaction,
• 1:06:39
  God, oh my god, I'll jump to this glass window behind me,
• 1:06:43
  like jump in your pool and excitement, you know what I mean, Like,
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  forget about it. Go on our YouTube channel. I've already unboxed the
• 1:06:48
  Rocky four Super Seven's. I love reaction. If you don't know what reaction
• 1:06:51
  are. They look like figures that should have come out in the eighties.
• 1:06:55
  Is like z I shouldn't say zero articulation, its five points of articulation.
• 1:07:00
  They're made to be very basic, but look retro charding is where it's cool.
• 1:07:03
  Yeah, to look vintage and retro. It actually says on the package
• 1:07:09
  of not like a toy, not to be opened, which is very cool.
• 1:07:11
  So I thought this obviously, and I want you to. I'll give
• 1:07:15
  you my answers and you tell me what you think. What's a set?
• 1:07:16
  Six guys? Four guys? He said? Four guys. Okay, Now,
• 1:07:20
  damn. If I was building this toy line, and I'm not,
• 1:07:25
  but I would build a line for longevity. You don't want to just build
• 1:07:30
  a one and done. You want to continue? Okay, so hear me
• 1:07:33
  out on this, So what are you gonna do? Like so hear me
• 1:07:35
  out Disco Inferno? No like that margin, I would kind of listen.
• 1:07:41
  So I would do WWE like this old school. I would do Macho Warrior,
• 1:07:46
  Andre and Uh and Hogan, okay, right like eighties nineties. But
• 1:07:53
  then I would flip the script and for w CW go Attitude era and go
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  Hollywood Hogan, crow Sting, Hall and Ash. Because then for series two
• 1:08:02
  you'd flip flop it and you'd go early WCW nineties and add a strategy.
• 1:08:08
  Strategy. Yeah, but what do you do for c W? I would
• 1:08:11
  do this. I'm going to steal what's exactly on our extremely Majored, extremely
• 1:08:16
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• 1:08:23
  and Nu Jack keep RBD. For series two, I'd have the same lineup,
• 1:08:27
  no new Jack. I'd do Shane Douglas and I do a long the
• 1:08:29
  first ever long haired Shane Douglas figure. I man, I would when I
• 1:08:38
  see that packaging, I don't see crossting, I see surface sting, like
• 1:08:42
  I would want to go that route almost like a glue esque sure sting Man
• 1:08:47
  Man, maybe yeah, sting Flare, maybe the fourteen inch lineup, that
• 1:08:54
  exact lineup, Luger. Luger said, and ww that would be my series
• 1:08:59
  two. I think I would go like I wouldn't even count worried to go
• 1:09:02
  even like early eighties and mid eighties like Hogan short hair, Piper, Oh
• 1:09:12
  man, this is tough, like maybe like afro Andre Oh wow, chic
• 1:09:18
  and like chic or wonderful wow right, like deep because they're supposed to be
• 1:09:27
  so old. You know, I respect that. That's a cool question,
• 1:09:30
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• 1:09:33
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  pod party of the summer goes down August tenth. And yeah, man,
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  you see, when I was a young lad, I had a jackass and
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  I loved that jackass from this moment on. I'm sorry if I'm a little
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  fucking snippy Ti I work with children, you know, I'm just I want
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  to tell you one thing. The thing is that I'm the Antichrist and I
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  want all the people to have respect on me because I'm the Antichrist. And
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  I don't know who's on the wrestle against me because I'm the best. But
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  that jackass broke its leg. And when that jackass broke its leg, my
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  father took that jackass and put a gun to that jackass's head and blue that
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  jackass's brains out. I said, Daddy, Daddy, why did you do
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  that to my jackass? And I want to show the people that anti crest
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  is the number one and that's it. I don't have nothing more to say
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  because the Antichrist is number one? Daddy, why did you do that to
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  my jackass? Hey, you see, when I was a young lad,
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  I had a jackass. From this moment on, this will be the moment
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  starting now. You got it? Yeah? Retired? Okay, listen,
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  what are we gonna do? What do I got freaks? Nine days out
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  of the week I can do. I was gonna seven days in a week.
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  Man, You ain't big pub I'm a big bad mood. He got
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  in and non stop. Now listen English, I am the next big thing.
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  What is a mustache? I am the next big thing. I am
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  the next generation shit and starting this moment, from now, this moment on,
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  from this moment on, this will be the moment. This will be
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  now, starting now. What is a mustache? It's a little bit of
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  hair growing over the upper lip. I don't have one. Nobody else here
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  has one. But you know what a mustache for a real man? Has
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  anyone? From whichuck? You ever been in a little hippy even Noah's state
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  you call? Huh? Have you even hunted? Life? Game? Have
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  you even tasted gaming? Folks? There's jumpings Jeff Farmer, Jef a while
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  back, what a match you had with Motley? Yep? Probably the hardest
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  bets I ever had in my life. But I don't like it when things
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  aren't going my way, Motley crue. You turn the tables on me,
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  You turn the tables in a wrong way. You got me mad. Now
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  I've stood around, I've listened to everything you had to say. I've did
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  everything necessary. But when you turn around and you backstab me one way or
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  another, and you treat cheat me out of what's rightfully mind, that's when
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  I get angry. Now I'm the one doing the challenging. I'm issuing a
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  challenge to you, Motley Cruz, dummy, just one one, Lease me
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  tell you one more thing. Let me tell you one more thing. And
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  these were all the number one, the number one, and the best.
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  It's the anti grace, but not of God, not God, to God,
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  the unto Christ. It's me always old men talking down to me,
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  looking down on me, shutting me out. That's all you're doing. That's
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  all you're doing. Now you know what I want. I've been asking for
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  it for years. You're gonna give me what I want or I'm gonna continue
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  to hurt people you love one too oh, one too oh, this is
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  awesome. Well, you're not gonna bust a nut anytime we're in the ring.
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  I don't want a damn thing. Days I have not given you a
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  damn thing except the beating you deserve. No pot you want it. That's
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  chilling you. Look at you. I know you, I see it.
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  It's telling you. It's tearing you apart. You want to hurt me so
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  bad you can't stand it. But you want to give it to me because
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  you're not in control. You don't know me. You don't know me.
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  Damn no me, you don't know. You don't know nothing about me.
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  Give me what I want, Give me what I want, what I want,
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  Give me what I want. Let me hear you say it. Everybody
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  here wants to hear you say it. That's probably pizza and satisfy the whole
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  of maniacs. I'm gonna get off by cranking your knob just a little beyond
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  the breaking point. Give me what I want. You know what I want.
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  You just don't want to give it to me because you're not control.
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  Hey die Jack, Hey die Jack, Hey die Jack. Take those stupid
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  sunglasses off. We're inside. Give me control a hundred Give me what I
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  want. I am gonna give me the beating you deserve, day and nothing
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  more. No, that's not what I want. I want you and Jane
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  to me, you love me, jeded to me. Give me what I
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  want. You like me in WrestleMania. Give me what I want. You're
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  only wait a minute. Do you know who that is? That that that
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  that's Fry. This is Jeremy Brak. I've came here to Louisville, Kentucky
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  to give it all I got in professional wrestling. I'm going to the top
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  of sports entertainment. You may have seen all these greats before, but you
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  need seen nothing until you see Jeremy break coming live into an arena in your
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  town. When I came to Louisvillentucky, I came with the presence of mind,
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  the work ethic, and the skill to bring what I have to do
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  to this business to make it to the top of wrestling. Former heavyweight champion,
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  and I have one stone cold fox of a wife WHOA. Now,
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  you may think you know my abilities in this ring, but I promise you
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  you don't know Jack. From this point on, forget everything that you think
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  you may know. SmackDown Live is a land of opportunity and I'm gonna be
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  a big problem. Man. I'm gonna be a big problem. Fus,
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  where's the life. See, I don't have to have a mess night.
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  But I'm still working off because I have nothing else to do. What am
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  I gonna do? What am I gonna do playing guitar? I can't play
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  guitar. All I do is people up. I question was, what is
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  Bully Ray's motivation? You know I love he. I know he's love Shooter
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  by checking my pocket, I don't have no donuts. I don't have no
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  cheeseburger. I know you love sugar, But I ain't got done, Bully
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  Ray. You got one week to come up with a magini, set a
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  boss, to get a ring with me, because next week I'm gonna beat
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  your ass. Well, I'm gonna take care of business. The witch should
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  be done. Perhaps I've been too nice. Well, I'm gonna take care
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  of business. The witch should be done. Perhaps I've been too nice.
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  Perhaps I've been trying to be a real a real sports, be a real
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  a real sports, be a real a real sports, a real gentleman.
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  And as my Papa always said, y'all about as nervous as some long tailed
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  cats and a roof of rocket chairs. Now, Tolly Blanchard, I want
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  you. It's not Uncle Sam talking to you, Ronnic Garvin. I want
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  you, and I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna have you, I'm gonna
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  get to touch your body. I'm not just making promises. I'm telling something
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  that is going to be done, something that is going to happen in the
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  future. Because bones do heels. But I've got a memory like an elephant,
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  and i can do it like an elephant. All elite Scooby Doo,
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  All elite Scooby Doo. You don't want to play cards with me if it's
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  all cheat, Okay, I cheat. Mhm m Hey die Jack, Hey,
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  die Jack. Take those stupid sunglasses off. We're inside h