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Interview with Jon Moxley · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is always ready.
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  Speaker 2: Mad Cardona hosts Major Wrestling Figure podcast and a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago, back when I was still in w RE,
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  Speaker 2: back when I was still Zach Ryder, myself and Brian
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  Speaker 2: Myers fka Kirk Hopkins, we sat down and interviewed mister
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  Speaker 2: John Moxley fka Dean Ambrose.
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  Speaker 3: So check out this interviewer.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we'll boot again soon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, here's something resting Ben your podcast us on the show,
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  Speaker 5: fucking designed Booty.
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  Speaker 4: What you say, march right.
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  Speaker 6: Up the show, love Jo.
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  Speaker 7: All right, welcome back to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast.
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  Speaker 7: We're here with our very special guests for the day. One,
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  Speaker 7: mister Dean Ambrose aka John Moxley aka Jonathan Good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here on the toy Cast.
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  Speaker 1: Baby. We use real names on it, so it's all good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of confusing. Sometimes we call each other
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  Speaker 6: the wrong names.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: I have decided I've been John most of my whole
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  Speaker 5: life because people just it's easier.
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  Speaker 4: When I was a little kid, people just my name
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  Speaker 4: is Jonathan. They just go John. So I just got
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  Speaker 4: used to it.
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  Speaker 5: Now that I'm getting older and a little more grizzled
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  Speaker 5: and uh, what's the word like a tom Selleck.
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  Speaker 4: You know that old Yeah, yeah, well I feel old. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting a little older.
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  Speaker 5: I I'm embracing going by Jonathan, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, nophisticated. That's kind of sophisticated.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I might start, you know, wearing like brown
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  Speaker 5: dress shoes and call myself Jonathan.
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  Speaker 1: Real different.
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  Speaker 7: First things first, I might be messing the story up.
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  Speaker 7: But I remember a couple of weeks ago, in like
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  Speaker 7: Argentina or something, me and Slater were yapping about this
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  Speaker 7: podcast in the locker room and you said, what you
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  Speaker 7: have a toy podcast?
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  Speaker 1: Said yeah, you want to come on?
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  Speaker 7: And you wrote you said no, right, well, and don't
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  Speaker 7: worry about curses are cruc will bleep about.
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  Speaker 5: When you feel so of a podcast it's all about
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  Speaker 5: wrestling figures. I'm like, how how much is there to
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  Speaker 5: talk about wrestling figures?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 5: Then I thought about it more and more and I
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  Speaker 5: was talking with writer here about you know, I remember
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  Speaker 5: my first action figure. It was a one of the Bushwhackers.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure which one because it was the only
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  Speaker 5: one they had at the store, and one half of
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  Speaker 5: the Headshrinkers, I'm also sure. And then we started talking
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  Speaker 5: about it, and then I got all my eyes all
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  Speaker 5: got all bright and stuff, and then I started thinking,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I it's easy to forget that you love wrestling,
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  Speaker 5: right and while you started loving wrestling in the first place,
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  Speaker 5: and it brought me back to my.
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  Speaker 4: Childhood and just my I love wrestling and I like
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  Speaker 4: you guys, And I said, you know, I'm putt my
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  Speaker 4: money while I'm out there coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Show.
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  Speaker 7: So literally, that's kind of like that, those good sentimental feelings,
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  Speaker 7: I think is more than half of what this podcast
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  Speaker 7: is all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because when we first started this, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: people are like, what are they going to talk about?
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  Speaker 3: Why would I listen to a podcast about toys? And
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  Speaker 3: all these people now are like, oh my god, I
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  Speaker 3: had this, I had that, I remember my child and
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  Speaker 3: now they're.
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  Speaker 6: Rebuying the figures.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you're gonna go out re buy some figures.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you will, maybe I'll scratch that figure at you.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm not haven't really been a toy guy
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  Speaker 5: as an adult, but as a kid, I traded and
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  Speaker 5: borrowed and bartered for all the figures. Trade is where
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  Speaker 5: I get a little that that I don't get is
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  Speaker 5: that people want to keep them in the package.
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  Speaker 1: We let them.
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  Speaker 7: We're all about that on the show. We talk about
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  Speaker 7: letting him bathe and means get him out of the box.
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  Speaker 7: They're meant to be, meant to be enjoyed.
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  Speaker 5: I agree, because if a wrestling figure, if you look
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  Speaker 5: at it like a sculpture, like a work of art,
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  Speaker 5: especially some of the real detailed, fancy ones, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: keep it a sculpture in a package.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta put you gotta put it in three D.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah right, so sense to me.
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  Speaker 7: Bushwhack, one bushwhacker and one head trigger, which is those
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  Speaker 7: are has bros.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, are you? How good are you? One?
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  Speaker 1: Like the lingo of the history of wrestling figures makes
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  Speaker 1: and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: None, I know that they were about yeah big, I
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  Speaker 4: know that he did the bushwhacker thing with.
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  Speaker 6: His arms, so that's a butch.
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  Speaker 1: He had a butch.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, Okay, the mystery is solved with the hat.
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  Speaker 1: The head triggers would be a little hard to decide
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  Speaker 1: because they did the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Well then they flip flopped.
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  Speaker 3: So he saw it with the blue card ones where
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  Speaker 3: it's totally with one of the headshrinkers. Yeah, that's that
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  Speaker 3: was a great set, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Believe the Headshrinker was like his feet were stuck together
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  Speaker 5: like a dolphin and he pressed down on his back
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  Speaker 5: and jump jump.
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  Speaker 1: Those were referred to as jumpers. They would jump and whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I had a Ultimate Warrior that did the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Juri's water Jumper, a great classic one.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I thought about this too.
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  Speaker 5: I was first introduced to WCW just through toys because uh,
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  Speaker 5: the first wrestling I ever saw was w W, and uh,
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  Speaker 5: I was not exposed. So now I'm a huge fan
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  Speaker 5: of like eighties U NWA and so forth, and I'd
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  Speaker 5: never seen WCW or NWA. This is maybe like six
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  Speaker 5: years old, so this is like, you know, early nineties WCW.
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  Speaker 5: But a friend of mine had his figures and we
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  Speaker 5: were playing and he had like a sting right that was.
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  Speaker 4: Like I believe it was all just solid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he had like a sting and a Rick Flair
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  Speaker 4: with like powder blue tights.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it. Great memory.
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  Speaker 4: So and I was like, is this like a knockoff
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  Speaker 4: Ultimate Warrior? What is it? Stin?
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  Speaker 5: Then I realized it's just that I seen like a commercial.
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  Speaker 5: It was flipping through and then I saw sting in
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  Speaker 5: real life and I went, oh, that's the toys got
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  Speaker 5: there's a whole nother That was my first exposure of WCW.
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  Speaker 1: That's I have the exact same story.
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  Speaker 7: I was a WWE fan and I started to collect
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  Speaker 7: the toys and then I went to like Toys Rust
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  Speaker 7: and saw these ww guys and I was like, what
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  Speaker 7: on what is this? And I want to say, Flair
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  Speaker 7: was on TV at the time too, so it was
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  Speaker 7: making a little more sense, right. Plus I had seen
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  Speaker 7: arn and old like costume home videos as brainbusters, and
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  Speaker 7: I have the same exact story. That's how I figure out, Wait,
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  Speaker 7: there's more than one kind of wrestling, and I was
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  Speaker 7: watching them both. But I loved they were the same size,
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  Speaker 7: so you could have WW ever's WCW orden player jumped
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  Speaker 7: or sid jump.
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  Speaker 6: They'd be purpose because they'd make the figure right away.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into stuff like that.
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  Speaker 7: Do you have like memories of playing with them, like
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  Speaker 7: collectors call it like your fig fed like growing up,
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  Speaker 7: you know, memories of like storylines or things you did
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  Speaker 7: playing with them.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 5: We started with h Our first two UH signees were
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  Speaker 5: Butcher and one of the head one of the headshrinkers,
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  Speaker 5: and we went from there, kind of like POGs. When
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  Speaker 5: you're a kid, you just started acquiring and uh, I
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  Speaker 5: may have been a bit of a I may have
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  Speaker 5: been a bit of a innocent thief in my childhood days.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, recording anything.
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  Speaker 4: KB toys might have contributed, contributed a lot of a
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  Speaker 4: lot to my roster.
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  Speaker 6: But good old KB toys in that era, that's what
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  Speaker 6: it was like. The three for ten sale was a cab.
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  Speaker 5: Somehow bordered through baseball cards of figures or something, and
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  Speaker 5: I got the ring. Friend, I was very jealousy had
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  Speaker 5: the ring. This is like the original one. It was
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  Speaker 5: like a solid piece with like the.
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  Speaker 4: Had a little thing where you put a little thing
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  Speaker 4: where you wrap the belt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: Those rings are classic with a lot of money nowadays too,
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  Speaker 7: by the way, Yeah, a lot a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of Buddy and just just a bunch of Battle
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  Speaker 5: Royals and wacky just playing fucking figures together, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: And like attitude there, did you like move on to
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  Speaker 7: playing with like that era toys like well, Jack's basically
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  Speaker 7: acquired the license.
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  Speaker 1: They were a little different. They're called bone Crunchers.
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  Speaker 5: Probably the latest version of toys I played with when
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  Speaker 5: they first came out, like ninety six, with like a
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  Speaker 5: Bret Hart that.
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  Speaker 4: Was new and they were better than the old ones,
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  Speaker 4: and I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like those of the bone Crunch.
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  Speaker 4: There was like a Brett Hard and like a Vader
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  Speaker 4: who was a Vader who wasn't fat.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we actually talked to were talking about I haven't
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  Speaker 5: thought about that decade.
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  Speaker 6: They later turned that Vader into a d Lo Brown.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a great deal because Delo wasn't that fat,
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  Speaker 1: So that was such a great Vader. But pretty good DEALO.
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  Speaker 4: That was that was a Delo body. Yeah, that makes
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  Speaker 4: more sense, right.
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  Speaker 7: So we were losers, so we kept playing, although we
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  Speaker 7: kind of like secretly played with our toys and didn't
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  Speaker 7: make it public into well into high school.
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  Speaker 3: Because when we came up to the main roster, we
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  Speaker 3: were still like figure hunted and play with toys for sure,
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  Speaker 3: but it was a different era back then. Didn't tell
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  Speaker 3: anybody toys, No, toys, toys are stupid. Yeah, we would
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  Speaker 3: pretend it. But now now we have a podcast and.
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  Speaker 4: We don't give it.
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  Speaker 3: And we're all three toys ourselves. That's that's the other question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how cool is it for you to get
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  Speaker 3: your first toy. I mean, now you have tons of toys.
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  Speaker 3: You're one of the most popular guys. You have tons
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  Speaker 3: of toys.
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  Speaker 6: But when you got that first one, was it was
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  Speaker 6: it cool or was it like?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think when you saw your first toy?
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  Speaker 4: It is trippy when you first make it to w W.
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  Speaker 5: That's one of those things where you're like, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna be like in the video game and on the
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  Speaker 5: toy and everything, and it's trippy. It's like, whoa, it's
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  Speaker 5: very cool. I mean, it's just it's hard to wrap
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  Speaker 5: you brain. It's still hard to wrap my brain around that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like that, I'm even in WW right, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean, you.
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  Speaker 1: Take a step back.
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  Speaker 5: Why because you're so used to just walking around and
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  Speaker 5: you're seeing like Triple H and Vincement man, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: so used to just having conversations with Vincent when it's
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  Speaker 5: hard to remember, like.
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  Speaker 4: Wholl you were like a kid watching this on TV.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, whoa are you aware that you have?
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  Speaker 7: So Mattel has like reimagined those hasbros that were just
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  Speaker 7: talking about like butching the headshrinker were that.
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  Speaker 4: You have one that's I've seen it because I sign
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  Speaker 4: them all.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm always first introduced to stuff by signing
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  Speaker 5: them at signings.
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  Speaker 6: Or fans at the airport. Yeah, which we don't condone.
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  Speaker 4: No, they ruin it for everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all about fans all the time in the world.
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  Speaker 5: For fans, I've done every appearance and signing that would
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  Speaker 5: last three hours.
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  Speaker 4: I always wait.
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  Speaker 5: Until everybody's done, no matter how long it takes. UH
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  Speaker 5: would be in a babyface. I always stay out there
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  Speaker 5: and sign all the autographs at the end of the
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  Speaker 5: show every single night. It takes an extra twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: But like some of these people ruin it forever exactly.
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  Speaker 5: We agree the airport discussion with a stack.
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  Speaker 4: Of stuff that last time signing, I'll sign all your
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  Speaker 4: at a signing.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago, we were talking about the pod.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody came up to me and he clearly didn't know
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  Speaker 3: who I was. I said, what's my name's I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna size for music sign it anyway. I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: you don't even know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: The airport at six in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: One of the one of the works this is when
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  Speaker 5: they send the kid see him over there, and the
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  Speaker 5: kid just walks up.
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  Speaker 4: Kenny, you sign this, and you can't say no to
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  Speaker 4: a kid.
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  Speaker 5: A guy had one time when I was first uh
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  Speaker 5: dating my now wife, she lived in New York, and
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  Speaker 5: uh sometimes on the day off, it would make more
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  Speaker 5: sense we'd spend some time in her house, sometimes in
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  Speaker 5: my house, depending on where in the country we were.
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  Speaker 4: So one time I changed my flight to go to
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  Speaker 4: New York. I didn't change it.
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  Speaker 5: I bought a new like pross line flight completely unrelated
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  Speaker 5: to like the company travel Sure.
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  Speaker 4: And when I landed in Newark, as soon as.
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  Speaker 5: I got through the gate, there was like ten people
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  Speaker 5: there with all this stan Ambrose stuff for me to sign.
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  Speaker 4: And for a second, I like, I just woke up
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  Speaker 4: from the plane, and I'm like, do I have a
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  Speaker 4: show today? What's going on? I thought I was going home?
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  Speaker 5: And then I'm like, I signed other stuff and then
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  Speaker 5: I was sending bags claim and I'm like, how did
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  Speaker 5: they know I was going to be here? It was
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  Speaker 5: an autonomous decision by myself to buy my own new flight.
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  Speaker 4: How did they know? Because you hear there's like leaks
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  Speaker 4: in the travel department. Just did this on my own.
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  Speaker 4: So they have leaks in like the airlines.
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  Speaker 5: And then this dude came up to me in Baggers
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  Speaker 5: Claim with some stuff and he said, hey, dude, I'm
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  Speaker 5: trying not trying to bother you.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give fifty bucks to sign these two things. And
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  Speaker 5: I went, huh, I'm want to keep your money. I'll
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  Speaker 5: sign these things for you, but tell me how you
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  Speaker 5: knew I was here. And he goes, oh, dude, we
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  Speaker 5: got like a whole system, dude. Of course, it was
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  Speaker 5: like a New York he's, dude, we got a whole
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  Speaker 5: system that you know, we got people everywhere amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get people listening to this ideas
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  Speaker 1: on how to do it right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was the die hardest of fans. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even think to go to the airpiand I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even think about it.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'd be scared to talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: And then the thing is, even if you're like because
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  Speaker 5: there's sometimes they're just legit fans. You can like when
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  Speaker 5: we land in like McCallan Airport and Hidalgo, Texas, it's
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: like people probably don't know when we go to this
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  Speaker 5: one particular town in Texas right on the border of
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  Speaker 5: Mexico Hidalgo. When we land and it's tiny little airport,
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  Speaker 5: it's like the Beatles just landed.
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  Speaker 4: The whole a whole town.
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  Speaker 5: Come and they're like, they're not collectors, they're just really
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  Speaker 5: passionate fans. It's one of our best crowds, and like,
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  Speaker 5: you gotta take the time for them.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's a little different.
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  Speaker 1: It's pure the intentions of what you know they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do with the items.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta step back and be like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 4: is the I'm living the dream right now. You know
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  Speaker 4: they got your ask you have.
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  Speaker 6: I got saw and I got rigged playing.
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  Speaker 1: He's d guy and you're not glemen.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and Brian and met Car they're so real.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell the.
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: Difference Restrica radio style?
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: Big rubber guys, they're for real.
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  Speaker 1: He's sold separately on major bendis dot com. Big rubber
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  Speaker 1: guys collect them.
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  Speaker 4: All, but those other people do ruin it for everybody.
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  Speaker 7: Just like people's stuff and autographs really isn't worth oh
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  Speaker 7: a lot unless you die.
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  Speaker 6: It's like rember zach Ryder tops cars or no one's
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  Speaker 6: going on eBay. It's like I want to buy it.
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  Speaker 6: If they're buying it, it's five bucks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no market for it. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew.
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  Speaker 3: This, but sometimes if they ask you to sign their
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  Speaker 3: name on the figure, they can remove that. That's a
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  Speaker 3: trick that they do so they make it seem like
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  Speaker 3: they're this genuine fan. But they can use like some
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  Speaker 3: sort of even like a wind Dex and just just wipe.
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  Speaker 1: It Rock to Billy Gone and just as Dean Ambrose.
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  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: It sucks, But so do you have any of your
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  Speaker 3: Dean Ambrose figures or you're like there's just too many
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  Speaker 3: anything you collect?
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  Speaker 1: Like whatsoever?
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  Speaker 4: No, really, I'm a see I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm known a lot of people who you go into
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  Speaker 5: their house, even as adults, and it's like a toy store, right,
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  Speaker 5: they got it all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: The wall.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're sitting next to two, one more than the other.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with that. I am, in general a minimalist.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: Having stuff. I feel like it weighs me down.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: When I moved, Uh, you'd have a heart attack if
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: you came to my house.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: I moved to Vegas.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: I had nothing but the bags on my back empty apartment.
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: When the girlfriend first saw my apartments at the time,
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: she's like, is this a crack den? Where is your stuff?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know, Like I don't have
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: any I'm on the road all time. I don't have
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: any stuff. So like now we have a house and
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: as it's been filled with stuff.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that I like.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: But sometimes I'm like, I feel like I gotta purge.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm like cleaning out the garage, just throwing I
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: got to throw stuff away, right. I like to be
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: able to just cut my ties and go.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: You know, if you have anything Ambrose that you've like
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: kept on too, that's like sentimental to you have a.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Couple cool like posters and chairs from like event, like
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: we had starkad and Cincinnati and it was a very
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: good night for me, you know, and I just had
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: a bunch of people there.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: So, uh, that's where I'm from. So I kept the
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: chair put it up at my gym.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: I have a couple of things like that. The thing,
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: I'm sure they do it to you. They send you
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: boxes of your own toys.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Yea.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: So at first you're like giving to people and you know,
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: but at a certain point they start sending me at
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: such a rate, and I'm like, I don't need boxes
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: of my own face.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: So I think you've reached a different level. You know,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: we possible to send Jonathan.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: You have so many it's unbelievable, like.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: An unreal amount of figures. Oh it's at the years
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: he's been up here. At one point I had him
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: like had stacks of them in the garage. So if
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: people come and visit, I'm like, here, take some toys
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: with you, give them to your friends.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Well that's a good feeling though, you know.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: But at one point, I like I threw a bunch
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: of them away.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: It's unopen, nice toy like because I had like boxes
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: and they're taking up all space, and I was like,
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: get out of my house, like I just want a
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: dumpster and put them in the back of the truck
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: and dump like four boxes full of toys. Probably like
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: pretty valuable, but I'm not valuable. But you know, I
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: wish we would have counted how many that he has had.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: I would say fifty two, one hundred for sure, easily.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: I told my mom that and she looked at me
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: like I murdered a child. I was like that I
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: had to throw a bunch of them away. She's like,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: because she's always trying to give.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Them the people for moms, especially, my mom's always asking
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: me for stuff.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: But every two days there's like a new box of toys.
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: Really, you just my memory that you're from Cincinnati. Did
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: you have the Brian Pillman and the Bengals and that
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: same I did not know, didn't.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen that.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Really, that was the same line as that thing and
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Rick Flair you were talking about.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: That was a hard one for me to get.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: We talked about.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't remember that being hard to find for me.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: It was when the ww ones were so much bigger.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Kind of was weird because they'd been fighting like the
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: you know, whatever your child brain puts it, like like
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: like Ohl Cogan's on steroids.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: He's a bad guy because he's twice as big as.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Like things make sense, right, I don't know.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: We Yeah, we do this podcast every week and we
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: just keep going and talk. So we'd love that you're
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: that you wanted to talk about figures because people love hearing.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Especially after the initial no I got. Yeah, an Argentin, glad.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: You came because we're here, like we're just like shooting,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: talking about toys, talking about our childhood. Like you said,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: you said it perfectly, like we're living we're living this,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: this childhood dream, and sometimes we need to take a
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: step back. But whoa, we're actually we're here.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: I think when we're actually old men, we don't just
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: feel like old men. Maybe well it'll be even a
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: different way to appreciate it, you know, because you.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Got you guys are like me.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: You're like, there's a lot of people here that are
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: just here from the money. They don't didn't grow up
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: watching it, don't care, don't care what they do. I
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: have no artistic h care.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: For what we do.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: But you guys are like me, like this is all
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: we've ever loved, This is this is that thing exactly.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So it's almost like the old they never worked day
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: in your life.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Really, toys are a part of it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: A bad day of wrestling is better than a good
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: day at some.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And we started as I don't really know, but yeah,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: my only job was I worked at gold gym with
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: no clients, a piece of delivery boy and uh and
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I worked at a deli and then wwe.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: I was a caddy growing up and I would use
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: the money to buy wrestling figures and wrestling tickets.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I had every job under the sun.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Maybe maybe six months might be the longest I could
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: have sustained the job anywhere because everything took a back
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: seat to wrestling. Sure, so you worked, you know it,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: worked somewhere for a week, train and learn the system,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: waiter somewhere, work in a factory somewhere.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: But then eventually I got a show.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Can't show it to work, you get fired or like
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I got to train, you know, or training ran along,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I'm late and fired, you know, and I just got
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: whatever on the next one, because I can always get
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: another job, especially if you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: If you acquire the skills to be like in food service,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: like a waiter.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: It's the same everywhere, right, So like if you get
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: fire from apple Bee's, jump over to Olive Garden, get
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: fired from you know, and just keep keep wrestling the priority.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: You can get money everywhere.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: So you're good friends with the he's a big fan
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: of our show, Ego Rob Rob Ego. Yes, he's a
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: huge collector.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Did you know that?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I did not know that?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You know that he wants A couple of weeks ago
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: got paid with Hasbro's a rare set instead of instead
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: of getting money, he wanted.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: The green series. He took a couple of weeks ago.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: He was bragg into his bat and we're like, that's coolly.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know if you get the full set or
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: something there, but they're that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Valuable that it was.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're that deep into it and know
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: all and you know like the world of toy collecting,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: you might be able to turn that into money.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: This promoter clearly knew the work too, that even put
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: the offer on the table, Like I know no thing
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: about like investing or stocks or bonds, So I tell
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: myself that I'm investing in this collection that I have.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I have you if you walked into my toy room,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: first of all, you have to do the Scott Hall
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: walk to get into my tour room because the door
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: isn't fully open.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: It's a full size badge of probably like four times
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: the size of this hilario in right now, and you can't.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Open the door. It's so full with display.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: It's all displayed. It's like nicely displayed, but there's just
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: too much stuff. I tell myself that one day, if
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I needed to, if I was in a pinch, I
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: could sell this. Some things I couldn't give away, but
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: some things.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Are very valuable that would give me so much anxiety.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: You would you would be like, get this stuff out
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: of here. You would hate it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't care what it is. I do
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: bars of gold. I'd be like, get these gold bars
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: out of here and do my.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Dean Ambrose retro in there. Of course I don't do
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: current guys, but the retro set.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: I have the Dean Ambrose cool anything.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Uh, that was a great Thanks for being on the
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Major domot.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: We really appreciate it. Trip down memory lane and uh yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: anytime I'll.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Try to get you some of those retros from Ringsy
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Collectibles sign them.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah you can keep, okay, you know, hopefully maybe not
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: have boxes of them.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: We'll get your one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: We'll get you one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I might put one up somewhere.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Actually they redid the ring, which is really nice too.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: We'll get you the ring. We'll get you if you
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: ever guys out of my house.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: You know, I'll give you some boxes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 20:20
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