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Episode 108 - SDCC + SummerSlam 02 Review · My Third Place Pod

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  Summer 2002, the year that I ran away from home.
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  I'm just kidding. I didn't run away.
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  I moved away. By the year of 1993, we moved
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  from Los Angeles to Sacramento. It was a long story.
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  I'll get back to that in possibly another life.
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  Another moment, another episode. Possibly some other time.
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  Not right now. I basically had nine good years
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  in that area. I was ready for a new, fresh,
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  new start. New start.
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  However they say it, We'll come to that another time.
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  I'm sure we will. Summer of 2002.
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  I was getting ready to move elsewhere though.
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  Chicago, New stomping grounds. I lived here longer than I lived
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  in California, basically. However, since I knew by the
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  summer I was going to move away. I told my family.
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  I told my job. I told my friends, my best
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  friend, my very, very best friend at the time for those
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  nine years, would have Payperview parties and decided
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  to give me one more, just one more Payperview party.
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  We ended up reminiscing about the time we met.
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  Oh good times. The many times we beat each
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  other up because both of us were into backyard wrestling.
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  I should do an episode about backyard wrestling.
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  We will soon have that. I assure you.
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  I have a plan. We were both either on the same
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  team or punching each other in the face and giving each other
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  concussions. Well, I took power bombs.
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  And believe me, taking a power bomb on grass will definitely
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  give you a concussion. Yeah, those were some good old
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  times, I tell you. Summer of 2002, though.
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  Oh, let's talk about summer of 2002.
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  Spiderman just broke the box office.
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  Superhero movies are in. I'm talking about everything
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  with superhero movies at that time.
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  X-Men. Blade, Spiderman.
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  There was what was it? Star Wars?
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  Attack of the Clones. Everything was scifi on the TV
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  side. Smallville changed the game for
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  the shows on TV and The Rock, wrestling era.
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  The Rock was on his way to becoming a major Hollywood
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  action star, but at what cost would that have been?
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  Summer of 2002 also marked the last summer slam that I would
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  ever watch in California. The tradition that started for
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  me in 1992 when I got back from Nicaragua ended here for me. 10
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  years of enjoying the blistering heat, the summer madness, the oh
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  you know, summer girls, and having watched parties with my
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  friends, which would turn into different tradition in 2003 once
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  I moved to Chicago. So let me just say how amazing
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  this show was. Let me bring you to Summer Slam
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  2002 for that very particular moment.
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  Thank you for tuning in. I go by many names, $1,000,000
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  Geek, as some of y'all have heard that name before on this
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  podcast, Sometimes Evolution of a Geek.
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  You've heard some people call me Evo if you're nasty or just
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  plain evil, whatever you want to call me.
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  This is from Under The Apron, the podcast I started in January
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  of 2002 because I wanted to have some organization in my life.
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  The podcast that helped me get through my depression and
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  anxiety that I was going through the year prior.
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  You know Diabetes Year, the podcast that I started because I
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  want to talk about wrestling and forgive me for being corny, but
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  it has evolved into the podcast that I wanted to talk about my
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  fight with diabetes and try to see if anyone out there was
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  going to the same issues. I was relatable.
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  I'm sure it was for some of you because you all tuned in.
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  You know, evolution doesn't stop there.
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  It keeps going, or so I've been told.
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  It keeps adding new features and with that I'm adding it to this
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  podcast as well. You know what I didn't do last
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  year? Talk about Summer Slam.
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  You all know that I took this whole 2 month hiatus because I
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  wanted to focus on my mental health.
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  And I'm basically talking about Summer Slam now because those
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  were the episodes I wanted to talk about last year, You know?
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  Well, I I didn't get a chance to do talk about San Diego Comic
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  Con but someone that went there and did and I interviewed her
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  Episode 51, Christine's dot TikTok who was there for the no
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  hold barred anniversary special among many other things.
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  We had a whole discussion. Go listen to episode 51.
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  I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.
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  I'm sure. And if you're still not sure, go
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  check out that. Go check out that episode and in
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  the show notes you'll find out where you can follow her on all
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  her socials on TikTok mostly and Instagram.
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  Do you know what I'm gonna do now though?
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  San Diego Comic Con was this weekend from Thursday to Sunday.
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  I didn't get to go, of course not money.
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  I'm broke. Who knew I was broke?
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  And just finding out that Christine did some, maybe
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  another interview with her and then it works.
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  Maybe I will interview her again.
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  I'm gonna have to go and look her up again and ask her if she
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  wants to be interviewed because of Sandhya Comic Con.
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  I, however, had a busy weekend as well.
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  I was refreshing Twitter. What's the left of the app?
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  I'm sorry. I know that guy wants to call it
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  X now, but just like the Sears Tower, nobody's ever going to
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  call it the Willis Tower. And now that he's calling it, XI
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  can't help but think of this now.
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  So I was on Twitter or X, whatever S San Diego Comic Con
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  tag. Hashtag.
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  The SDCC tag. I kept on refreshing every few
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  hours to see what was going on, and the first thing I see are
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  the new toys that line up a video from the movie with Sam
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  Roberts being shown around by Johnny Gargano and his wife
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  Candace Larae at the Mattel boot.
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  They even did a parody of Sid Vicious, being told he was live.
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  Pal, can I do that again? No, we're live, pal.
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  We're live, yeah. They showcase the Ultimate
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  Edition action figures of A2 box set.
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  One of Muhammad Ali dressed as the referee at the inaugural
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  WrestleMania, raising Hulk Hogan's hand.
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  And the other is boxer Ali looking down at Sonny Liston
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  after that controversial hi, what do you call it?
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  Phantom punch. In that space.
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  So we've added new leg articulation and as you can see
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  here from this diorama posed out by our copywriter Robert Rudman,
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  it really brings these figures to life like we've never been
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  able to do before with WWE basics.
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  So that to me, this is the most exciting reveal of the show.
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  I mean, and it's every era imaginable.
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  You Hulk Hogan in the Honky Tonk Man.
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  Over there you have game era Triple H Logan.
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  Paul is eating a Superman punch. And of course, top dollar is
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  getting it from first time in the line, right?
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  Every action figure department is going to be saying LA night.
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  Yeah, I was good. All right.
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  Big reaction out of. You, I mean just amazing.
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  You see all the detail and. And this is just where we're
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  starting. Beautiful.
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  Line cuz there's something for everybody.
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  First time in the line. Superstars, legends and
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  everything in between. Awesome stuff.
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  So in this glass case, was Triple H hitting a pedigree on
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  another toy. I don't know who it was.
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  It looked like Drew McIntyre, the other Taker setting up a
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  choke slam. What looked like Batista White
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  suited Seth Rollins hitting AJ Styles with the Curb Stomp on
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  the US title, Hulk Hogan lifting his leg hit Honky Tonk man Stone
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  Cold Steve Austin hitting Kevin Owens in the gut for a possible
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  Stone Cold stunner in the middle of the cage.
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  It's the toy ring and Roman Reigns hitting Logan Paul with
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  the Superman punch. There are a lot more, but I just
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  wanted to go through the just of what this look like.
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  I loved it. I might just get it.
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  I'll have the video and the show notes if you want to take a look
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  at it as well. After they introduced a kids
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  line of toys called Knuckle Crunchers, they had the Rock,
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  John Cena, Roman Reigns and Stuff rolls on display.
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  Knuckle cruncher. Tell me about Knuckle Crunch.
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  Brand new kids line, super fun small scale.
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  Those joints actually crunch just like those old school
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  figures. So when you move the arms and
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  and and waist and legs around they make great crunching.
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  Very really satisfying crunching sounds.
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  They come with awesome accessories, some with like, you
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  know kind of effects like Seth Rollins Chair There Wave 1
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  consists of rock, John Cena, Seth freaking Rollins Roman.
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  Reigns like Mount Rushmore. Yeah, all with, yeah.
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  I love that. Accessories and something I want
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  to focus on here is this ring. And for this ring, for the first
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  time ever, something that's never been done before, this is
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  a complete fabric ring skirt that bounces.
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  So when you toss those figures into it.
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  It bounces like the figures out, it's super fun to play with and
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  I think kids and adults are going to love this new Knuckle
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  Crunchers line. I mean, what I love about this
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  form factor is the cool stuff that you can package these
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  figures with. I mean, we see Brock down here
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  with a sledgehammer and a shovel and a broken table.
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  He's got all the all the accoutrement of a hospital,
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  which is probably where he's going to leave people.
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  Let's talk about Speaking of super fun, I've made no secret
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  about it. My favorite line.
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  You you already looking. You knew exactly where I was
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  going, the Ultimate Edition, and every year now you guys have
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  amazing things that you're showing off.
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  I feel like the Ultimate Edition kind of showcases what you can
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  do with action figures in 2023, and we got to see a taste of
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  this before Comic Con with some of the preorders that went up,
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  of course. Ruthless Aggression, Rob Van Dam
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  and Brock Lesnar and one that I'm really excited about.
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  The Ultimate Warrior from Target.
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  Yeah, I mean, you know what, we'll talk about this a little
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  bit later, but we're going to be celebrating 40 years of
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  Hulkmania and part of that celebration is this brand new
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  Ultimate Edition Ultimate Warrior from the Summer Slam
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  match where he teamed with the Hulkster.
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  So this gear is is very Hulkomania centric.
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  You see, you know, Hulkomania down the side here.
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  There's some deco on the back featuring the Hulkster as well.
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  I mean, I think Bill knocked it out of the park.
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  He's got that that great Hogan esque tan as well.
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  Bill, tell us about about the details of this figure.
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  Yeah, this was, this was a lot of fun to work on.
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  Just being able to recapture capture.
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  You know that much deco on a figure is like really what the
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  Ultimate line was created for just above and beyond.
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  With like the tassels and the artwork on the the knee pads,
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  some of the new printing techniques on the faces to you
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  know, to get the most accurate representation of Ultimate
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  Warrior as possible. Yeah this was a lot.
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  I mean this this one particular was very satisfying when it when
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  all the parts come together to to create what you see in the
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  case the colors on it are absolutely insane.
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  But it's yeah, as we look down at at the second shelf here
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  Johnny Candace like I know how much effort you guys put into
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  how you look in the ring, your gear and and I feel like that's
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  what the Ultimate Edition is all about like finding space to put
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  all those details in. Look at this Bianca Bel Air.
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  Look at the coat. Look at the bow that's removable
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  in her hair. I mean, this is you'd think this
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  was two separate figures. I almost did, actually.
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  When we walked up to it, I was like, oh, there's wait a minute.
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  It's like a whole different. But I think that that's the fun
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  with Bianca. And I think if they weren't
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  adding all these features that we could remove, then you're not
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  really. I mean, Bianca makes her own
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  gear, so we're not doing her justice if we don't make it.
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  Like this, You know, like, I love that this is what we have.
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  We can feel like I I just. I love it.
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  I love it. I think it does her justice.
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  It's incredible and you can even I mean there's just no mistaking
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  exactly who that is and and Johnny I know that that we grew
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  up around the same era and and it's very rare that we get a
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  crying faced. Kurt Angle There's not a lot of,
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  believe it or not, in the in the wrestling action figure realm,
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  there's not that many crying faces is.
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  There any? None come to mind, but we have.
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  It's the beauty again of the Ultimate Edition line.
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  You have multiple heads. You can capture all of those
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  different moments. What is it?
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  What's that singlet? A soft good.
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  A soft good singlet and it reveals under it.
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  Look the shorts. That he wore when he won the WWE
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  Championship. Of course, when you look at
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  this, Johnny, does it make you think like, oh, I have to find
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  some moments in the ring to cry so that one day Bill McKenna can
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  make me a crying face. Johnny Gargano, Bill on the spot
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  right now. If I Cry on live television,
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  will you make a figure of it? Like I have to now.
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  Yeah. Yeah, there it is.
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  There it is. It's on record.
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  I hope my hope with this figure is when Kurt sees in a person.
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  He cries again. Yes.
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  Then we make an updated version, Comic Con.
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  Kurt. Yes, Yeah, yeah.
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  And of course, Bobby Lashley with the United States
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  Championship with the side plates.
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  We love a custom side plate. The shirt, the heads,
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  everything. The Ultimate Edition line
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  consisted of The Ultimate Warrior.
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  Kurt Engel, Bianca Bel Air. I love the Ultimate Edition
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  line. I have Razor Ramon.
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  I just got him a few weeks ago. The box comes with two faces,
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  two sets of faces, three sets of hands.
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  I guess you could change his hands of course to do the two
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  suite And then and then added to it is the Intercontinental
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  championship belt. He is on display.
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  I'm going to have to do a video on what is displayed up here cuz
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  I have Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena 2, John Cena's
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  actually, Johnny Gargano, CM Punk, The Rock Roman Reigns and
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  to top it off there's Razor Ramon.
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  So keep a look at on this video that I might do.
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  And you know what? You know what I'm gonna do?
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  I'm gonna put it in the patron page.
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  Let's make our way over to an offering that I am and super,
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  super excited about. We talked about this a little
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  bit and it's infancy, I feel like at WrestleMania, but now we
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  see it on display. The Monday Night War is
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  exploding onto Walmart shelves, courtesy of Mattel.
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  And we have. Not only some of the ultimates,
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  but some of the elites on display here.
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  That's right. Monday Night War is coming to
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  Walmart in early 2024. We've got wave one of the elites
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  on display here and that consists of Undertaker and Stone
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  Cold Steve Austin representing WWE and Scott Hall and Hollywood
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  Hogan representing WCW. And what's really amazing about
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  these Monday Night War figures is that they contain a build a
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  figure and that is. First episode Nitro Lex Luger
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  with soft good shirt. Puffy, soft, good shirt, puffy.
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  Look at those sleeves. Look at those sleeves on that.
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  That's really, really cool and you can see Stone cold over
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  there also on the. Having a soda.
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  On the four Wheeler having a soda, Yeah, yeah, having them
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  so. Also in here we have a little
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  sneak peek of someone from behind and that completes the
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  NWI think you all know that it's Kevin Nash and I did see when we
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  revealed this yesterday, some people about the hat looks like
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  it's not removable. That is true, it's not, but the
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  whole hair piece is removable and you could put a new hair
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  piece on them that has no hat. So that is a really nicely
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  sculpted on hat. So it's nice and tight and
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  fitted around the head. So yes, and this.
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  I've always said it's important to have action figure designers
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  that are bald. Because they figure out how to
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  get hair pieces on snuggly. And Bill, you've done it again.
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  Well, you know big Ball has its privileges.
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  It absolutely does. That's I believe that's look at
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  the adjective. Kevin Nash in there and Scott
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  Hall at all. Denim is a look.
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  Fascinating. The Summer Slam facts.
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  They have it from the 80s up until I believe 2016.
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  I'm gonna have to get take another look at that one as
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  well. After we've discussed the show
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  in this moment, we were at the show by giving a unique rating
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  system, such as how many videotaped out of 10 would we
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  give it and would we take it with us to school to have our
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  friends watch it during a free class or an elective?
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  Because that's how we grew up in the 90s.
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  So let's start it. Summer Slam 2002 aired August
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  22, 2002 at Uniondale, NY in the Nassau Veterans Memorial
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  Coliseum. The attendance was 14,797.
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  It was the first Summer Slam to occur under the first brand
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  extension introduced in March, which blitzed the roster between
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  the Raw and Smackdown brands where wrestlers were exclusively
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  assigned to perform. Summer Slam featured wrestler
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  from both brands. It was also the first Summer
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  Slam to occur under the WWE name, following the promotion
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  being renamed from World Wrestling Federation to WWE in
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  May. Commentators for that event were
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  Tad and Michael Cole for the Smackdown side, and Jerry the
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  King, Lawler and Jim Ross for the Ross side.
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  One of the big reasons that Summer Slam 2002 succeeded
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  artistically was because the show was lined with guides that
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  could deliver. 83% of the men who wrestled on the main card
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  have been the top of the mountain at one time or another.
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  Half the wrestlers on the show 9 exactly.
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  Had worn the gold before Kurt Angle, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho,
• 24:09
  Booker T, Chris Benoit, The Undertaker, Sean Michaels,
• 24:13
  Triple H and The Rock had all enjoyed at least one World
• 24:16
  Championship reign prior to August 25th.
• 24:20
  The 6th. Future champions include Rey
• 24:23
  Mysterio, Edge, Eddie Guerrero, Kristen Robin Dam and Brock
• 24:26
  Lesnar, who of course didn't have to wait much longer to join
• 24:29
  the previous group. So let's start with the first
• 24:33
  match of the night. Kurt Angle defeated Rey Mysterio
• 24:36
  by submission. 9 minutes and 20 seconds.
• 24:40
  The best match of the night, I tell you.
• 24:43
  You know what? I'm just gonna go ahead and put
• 24:44
  it out there. First things first.
• 24:47
  Go ahead. Go ahead.
• 24:48
  Bananas. Boys, we got ourselves a good
• 24:51
  oldfashioned head banger. On the July 25th episode of
• 24:55
  Smackdown, Rey Mysterio may just WW by defeating Chava Girl.
• 24:59
  On the August 8th episode of Smackdown, the team of Mysterio,
• 25:03
  Edge and John Cena defeated Crispinwa, Eddie Guerrero and
• 25:06
  Kurt Angle with Mysterio Pent Angle.
• 25:09
  On the August 15th episode of Smackdown, Angle and salted
• 25:11
  Mysterio during a backstage interview and Mysterio
• 25:14
  confronted him and challenged him to match at Summer Slam,
• 25:16
  which Angle accepted. Later that night, Mysterio
• 25:20
  attacked Angle after his match after I guess Mark Henry and
• 25:23
  delivered a 619 to Angle. On the August 22 episode
• 25:26
  Smackdown Mysterio cost Angle a match against Billy Kidman by
• 25:29
  attacking Angle. Rey Mysterio had made us
• 25:32
  televised WWU on the Smackdown brand in July 2002 and quickly
• 25:36
  established that he could still deliver performances akin to his
• 25:40
  mid 90s show Steelers. He would have some of his old
• 25:43
  and contemporaries to work with on Smackdown included Chris
• 25:47
  Benois and Los Carrados, world class performers that he
• 25:51
  delivered alongside before. As for Angle, whom Mysterio
• 25:56
  would be paired with that summer Sam, it looked to be an
• 25:59
  interesting dynamic, a WE train star for the most gifted
• 26:03
  luchador ever. Mysterio had concerns that this
• 26:06
  style would not blend, but Angle was ready for anything Mysterio.
• 26:10
  Had at his disposal. In a 2017 ended to be with The
• 26:13
  Ringer, Mysterio said of Angle. He told me that he literally
• 26:17
  wanted to pull out my whole arsenal.
• 26:20
  And was willing to take every move to make me look good.
• 26:23
  The two produced an excellent open match, and Angle forever
• 26:27
  earned mysterious respect for his open mindedness.
• 26:31
  This match. I tell you this match.
• 26:36
  If you want to know wrestling, go to this match.
• 26:41
  Kurt Angle blended his moves with rare, mysterious moves.
• 26:46
  They worked well together. The freaking No matter how short
• 26:51
  it was, the crowd was on it the entire time.
• 26:56
  It was the start of the show. I've It started, it started the
• 27:03
  show and it just went from there.
• 27:06
  That's how a show is supposed to start.
• 27:10
  Next match, Ric Flair defeated Chris Jericho by submission. 10
• 27:14
  minutes and 22 seconds. Two matches back-to-back there
• 27:19
  has submission moved as the deciding factor for the win.
• 27:25
  Some went unceremoniously. 53 year old Ric Flair was working
• 27:28
  as a mostly mid card baby face on the robber and in the summer
• 27:32
  of 2002 there's nothing wrong with an elder statesman taking
• 27:36
  that role. But after Go Nowhere he'll turn
• 27:38
  that Steve Austin walk out and never really killed dead.
• 27:41
  Flare was treading water with little to no direction.
• 27:46
  Jericho recalls that Flare wasn't in the best place
• 27:48
  mentally at the time. After a rush rough stretch in
• 27:52
  his career had rubbed his confidence.
• 27:55
  When going over the match for Summer, Slamic Man told the two
• 27:57
  that he wanted to flare to win with an inside cradle.
• 27:59
  Jericho asked about losing to the figure four since Flare so
• 28:02
  rarely won with it. According to Jericho, Flare
• 28:05
  disagreed with the suggestion, telling what to Jade That he
• 28:08
  didn't deserve it because he wasn't himself.
• 28:11
  This led to Jericho giving him a fiery pep talk, making him
• 28:14
  realize that he was Rick Effing Flair and that he deserved the
• 28:19
  best for himself. Sure enough, Flair took the
• 28:22
  words to heart. Jericho added that he was merely
• 28:24
  returning to favor for when Flair reached out to him when he
• 28:26
  struggled as undisputed champion.
• 28:29
  Another thing to note here is that Rick Ric Flair still
• 28:32
  suffered through this until they paired him up with Triple H.
• 28:38
  Were evolution and that's when Ric Flair's confidence
• 28:41
  skyrocketed from there. Cuz he had Triple H to hype him
• 28:45
  up. He had Randy Gordon and Batista
• 28:48
  as well, but Triple H sat down and told him like you're Ric
• 28:55
  Flair also. And with that came this as well,
• 29:00
  this match. I am telling you match #2.
• 29:04
  Off to a great start. We're off to a great start here.
• 29:08
  First match killed it. Second match killed it again. 10
• 29:11
  minutes. We're already out at 20 minutes
• 29:14
  into the show and it's going awesome as hell.
• 29:20
  Next 10 minutes, however, killed it.
• 29:24
  Killed it still continues to kill Eddie.
• 29:26
  Defeated Eddie Guerrero at 11 minutes and 47 seconds.
• 29:30
  The third match of the night in the early days of the brand
• 29:33
  extension in the summer of 2002. Wrestlers crossed from Raw over
• 29:37
  to Smackdown and vice versa as they sought to find the perfect
• 29:41
  place for their talent and strike a workable balance
• 29:43
  between brands. July alone saw tons of Riot
• 29:47
  Crest Crossing, including Jericho headed to Raw and Benoit
• 29:50
  and Eddie Carrero to Smackdown. That double switch next a
• 29:53
  looming Jericho Edge viewed, but provided a fall back.
• 29:58
  Edge was told he would be working with Benoit at Summer
• 30:01
  Slam for Benoit's newly won in a title belt that had.
• 30:05
  Just brought over RAW. However, the officials decided
• 30:08
  they wanted to get the belt back of the Raw brand, so they did
• 30:10
  program Benoit against the RAW superstar that he won from it
• 30:13
  from Raw band Dam. As a consolation prize Edge was
• 30:18
  placed interfered with Eddie Gretel.
• 30:21
  One of the many great limits about the young death of Eddie
• 30:24
  Guerrero was left. A little less than four years
• 30:26
  earlier. He'd made a Herculean comeback
• 30:29
  from a serious addiction that had all but destroyed both his
• 30:32
  personal and professional lives. Carredo's returned to rigorous W
• 30:37
  life in 2002 seemed to be a gamble, given that less than a
• 30:41
  year earlier he was sent home from a TV taping in no condition
• 30:46
  to work. The gamble, however, paid off,
• 30:49
  as Carrero was laser focused on beating those demons.
• 30:52
  Though many into the locker room were happy for Carredo, they
• 30:55
  were skeptics. Carredo's Summer Slam opponent
• 30:58
  Edge was apparently with them, according to Carredo's
• 31:02
  autobiography. He noted that Edge wasn't sure
• 31:05
  that Guerrero was going to be a team player in their storyline,
• 31:08
  that he might only be out for himself.
• 31:11
  Guerrero demonstrated to Edge they was willing to do all he
• 31:15
  could to benefit him, and the two soon warmed to each other
• 31:20
  their work together with a long way in establishing the value of
• 31:23
  the Smackdown 6. I'm telling you this.
• 31:29
  Edge defeated. The Edge versus Eddie Guerrero
• 31:32
  was an absolute freaking monster as well.
• 31:35
  These three matches alone I am sending.
• 31:38
  I'm just giving the tape away. I'm already answering my
• 31:41
  question at the by the very end of the show, would you give this
• 31:50
  BHS tape to any one of your peers or friends?
• 31:54
  Would you show it to you to your class?
• 31:56
  Yeah, definitely. 3 Three matches alone prove that.
• 32:01
  However, I'm not going to talk about the next match because to
• 32:04
  me it wasn't that interesting at all.
• 32:07
  But I will say that the other Americans, Christine Lance Storm
• 32:10
  defeated Booker T and Goldas and remained The Dirty tag team
• 32:14
  champions and the match only last 9 minutes, 3779 minutes and
• 32:18
  37 seconds. The next match after that,
• 32:21
  though, again, it's it's, it's it's it's wonderful.
• 32:28
  It's amazing. It's wonder.
• 32:30
  It's the reason why the Smackdown 6 is a saying.
• 32:33
  Rob Band Dam defeated Chris Benoit for the, you know,
• 32:36
  Continental Championship 16 minutes and 30 seconds.
• 32:41
  Rob Band Dam and Chris Benoit, meanwhile, had been feuding over
• 32:43
  to the WEA College Championship since Benoit won it from Van Dam
• 32:47
  on the July 29th episode of Raw. Shortly after this match, Benoit
• 32:51
  took a banjo, what was referred to as Open season.
• 32:54
  Wrestler contracts and took his title with him to the Smackdown
• 32:57
  brand where he had originally been drafted.
• 32:59
  But no, I was still required to defend his title against member
• 33:02
  of the Raw roster at Summer Slam.
• 33:04
  And the Van Dam defeated Jeff Hardy on the August 12th Raw in
• 33:08
  a match to determine the number one contender.
• 33:10
  So Rob Van Dam takes the title The Intercontinal Championship
• 33:13
  back to Raw, meanwhile. Who was it?
• 33:21
  The US champion at the time was someone oh I'm sorry, there was
• 33:34
  no US champion at the time, as in November 18, 2001, a Survivor
• 33:41
  Series Edge defeated interground champion Tests in a title
• 33:46
  unification match. Edge became the interground
• 33:49
  champion while the United States title was deactivated.
• 33:52
  In May 2002, the WF became the WWE, so there was no US Champion
• 33:57
  until July 27th, 2003 when Ed Guerrero reactivated the W
• 34:06
  United States Champion. It was the title for the
• 34:08
  Smackdown brand. Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit
• 34:12
  in the tournament finals for a revived title at Vengeance.
• 34:16
  In 2003. So there you have it.
• 34:18
  That's why I thought the US title was still going even after
• 34:22
  the whole Survivor Series thing. I guess I was wrong.
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  mamamurderedapodcast@gmail.com. So how do you follow that match?
• 36:32
  You don't. You kind of do.
• 36:36
  And it's an 8 minute match and like it was the Undertaker
• 36:41
  defeating Test, it was only 8 minutes.
• 36:44
  But the the thing that got me here when I was rewatching it
• 36:50
  was that I don't know if this this person was the only person
• 36:53
  to do it, but he was the OR the first person to do it.
• 36:56
  But he. Was one of the first few that
• 36:59
  I've seen do it in 2002 when The Taker went up for the old school
• 37:04
  test, slammed him out of that. So I got out of that move real
• 37:09
  quickly. It like earlier in the year.
• 37:13
  I guess there was a saying going on where a wrestler in a W was
• 37:18
  performing a move such as the old school where he's walking
• 37:22
  the rope and who was it against Jay White?
• 37:28
  I don't know who it was, who he wasn't up against, probably
• 37:31
  equal to the king. Oh, but the fact that this
• 37:34
  person did a whole move set up there, climbing the rope, doing
• 37:39
  all kinds of stuff on the rope. And Jay White is still waiting
• 37:42
  for that move to happen. And it lasted like what, 3045
• 37:46
  seconds? And all tests had to do was kick
• 37:49
  the undertaker. Come on, the undertaker.
• 37:51
  Who gets out of who nobody ever gets out of that old school
• 37:54
  move. But test did it on this match.
• 38:00
  Which earlier in the year was controversial to some because Oh
• 38:05
  my God, why did it take so long for Jay to not actually get out
• 38:08
  of the move, only for the move to be performed into a
• 38:13
  slingshot, I guess. I don't know.
• 38:15
  I gotta watch it again. We'll go through that again.
• 38:18
  The other thing here, if we did tell us this all I'm saying Next
• 38:21
  match, however. Shawn Michaels.
• 38:24
  Triple agent unsanctioned street fight at 27 minutes and 20
• 38:27
  seconds at Vengeance. Michael's returned after being
• 38:31
  out of wrestling due to a back injury for four years.
• 38:34
  Triple H was given the choice of deciding which brand the he
• 38:37
  would appear for Raw or Smackdown, and Michael's helped
• 38:41
  him decide by offering to reform Degeneration X on the Raw brand.
• 38:45
  Yeah buddy, TX suck it. Thanks to those teachers that
• 38:52
  you know. Gave me detention for that one.
• 38:56
  Triple H chose to go to the RAW brand.
• 38:58
  But on July 22 episode of Raw, as Michaels and Triple H were in
• 39:01
  the middle of reforming the X, Triple H turned on Michaels by
• 39:04
  nailing him with the pedigree until the July 29th episode of
• 39:07
  Rob Michaels was found in the parking lot lane motionless
• 39:09
  following an ambush he was also bleeding from the head to due to
• 39:12
  someone putting his head through a wig hard window.
• 39:15
  On the August 5th episode of Raw Security Camera reel to be
• 39:18
  Triple H that attacked Michaels from behind.
• 39:21
  Triple H told Michaels that he did it to prove a point that
• 39:23
  Michaels was weak. Michaels then told Triple H that
• 39:26
  he wasn't 100% but he would be a summer slam.
• 39:29
  On the August 19th episode Raw, Raw General Manager Eric
• 39:32
  Bischoff announced it on Sanction Street fight between
• 39:34
  Triple H and Shawn Michaels for Summer Slam.
• 39:36
  Later the night Michaels was in for year to in Triple H non
• 39:39
  title match with The Rock and us out to Triple H At the beginning
• 39:42
  of the show, Brock Lesnar brought out the front row seat
• 39:44
  ticket to watch the main event between The Rock and Turtle H.
• 39:47
  But he only listened to try to interfere on Prolation's behalf.
• 39:49
  Michael's delivered a sweet kid music to Lesner.
• 39:53
  Michael then leaped on top of the triple agent and security
• 39:55
  ended the end of the show by knocking Triple H down, sending
• 39:59
  a clear message that he was not weak as they headed into their
• 40:01
  match as Summer slam Shawn Michaels Come Back demonstrated
• 40:05
  nothing else. How Ring rustus doesn't affect
• 40:08
  certain guys? Michael's timing, selling
• 40:10
  technique and energy were all pristine and Immaculate in his
• 40:15
  non sanctioned match against Triple H, and one could easily
• 40:18
  argue that it's one of the greatest of the matches of his
• 40:20
  Millennium, if not all time. Part of this bill to the match
• 40:24
  was noting that Michael's could have ringed rust, as in that
• 40:28
  wrestled since Steve Austin stunned him to early retirement
• 40:30
  at WrestleMania 14. Technically, that's not a true
• 40:34
  statement. Well, it's true that Michael
• 40:36
  does not wrestle for the in that 4 1/2 year stretch.
• 40:39
  He did perform in a one off match in April 2000 for his
• 40:42
  local Texas Wrestling Alliance promotion.
• 40:45
  There he took part in a hardcore match with Paul Diamond, a man
• 40:48
  he had worked with in numerous promotions including the in the
• 40:51
  80s and early 90s. After Michael's lived up to his
• 40:55
  Showstopper nickname once more, there were no immediate plans
• 40:59
  for him as a wrestler. At the age of 37, Michaels had
• 41:03
  proven that he could still go out there and deliver that
• 41:05
  typical match of the year candidate, stealing the show in
• 41:09
  the card that featured the likes of Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero,
• 41:12
  Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and Edge.
• 41:16
  But the match with Triple H was merely A1 off at the time.
• 41:19
  Given that Michaels was returning from what was got to
• 41:21
  be a career ending injury and that his balls out style had
• 41:25
  previously led to him indulging in substances that were nearly
• 41:29
  his ruin, it was that he decided to take it easy and see how
• 41:33
  things played out Healthwise. Michaels would obviously return
• 41:37
  down the line, but one day at a time was the thought process.
• 41:40
  Then however, this match, my God, it just proved that he
• 41:46
  needed to come back because he had it all in him and then but
• 41:51
  the oh the nail in the coffin man.
• 41:55
  Triple H Shawn Michaels won the match, but Triple H won that war
• 42:00
  when he grabbed the sledgehammer and struck him on his back
• 42:05
  twice. That EMT said to come out.
• 42:08
  And for sure there would have been a moment there when they're
• 42:11
  like, okay, he's not coming back to Russell ever again.
• 42:14
  Like this could be it. But then you know Survivor
• 42:21
  Series happened. We'll go on that later.
• 42:25
  Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman defeated The Rock for the WE
• 42:28
  Undisputed Championship 16 minutes and 16 minutes.
• 42:33
  The main feud heading into the Summer Slam on the Smackdown
• 42:36
  brand was between The Rock and Brock Lesnar, with the two
• 42:38
  feuding over the WE Undisputed Championship.
• 42:40
  On the June 24 episode of Rye was announced that Lesnar was
• 42:43
  faced off against the WE Undisputed Champion of Summer
• 42:45
  Slam as a result of winning the King of the Ring tournament at
• 42:48
  Vengeance. The Rock defeated The Undertaker
• 42:51
  and Kurt Angle in the Triple Drip match to win the W
• 42:54
  Unnisputed Championship by pinning Angle after executing a
• 42:57
  rock bottom. On July 25th episode of
• 43:00
  Smackdown during The Rocks WT Tag Team Championship against
• 43:03
  the UN Americans Lance Storm and Christian Lesner interfered by
• 43:07
  nailing The Rock. Lesner interfered by nailing the
• 43:13
  Rock Tag Team partner Hollywood Hogan with an F5 due to Lesnar's
• 43:18
  interference. The Rock and Hogan won the match
• 43:20
  by disqualifications, but not the titles.
• 43:23
  On the August 8th episode of Smackdown, Lesnar put his Summer
• 43:27
  Slam title shot on the line against Hogan with the
• 43:29
  stimulation added. If Hogan were to defeat Lesnar,
• 43:31
  he would face The Rock in the Wrestle Mania 18 rematch at
• 43:34
  Summer Slam for the W Underspeed Championship.
• 43:37
  At the end, Lesnar locked Hogan a bear hug when Hogan K Fay
• 43:41
  passed out. The referee stopped the contest
• 43:43
  after the match. Lesnar then nailed Hogan the
• 43:46
  head with the Steel chair, causing Hogan to bleed.
• 43:49
  On the August 15th episode of Smackdown, The Rock took on to
• 43:52
  the INTERCAL Champions Chris Benoit in the Champion versus
• 43:54
  Champions match, which Lesnar interfered once again.
• 43:58
  During the match, Lesnar taught in The Rock while The Rock was
• 44:00
  placed in the Crippler Cross blaze by Benoit, a move which we
• 44:04
  never say anymore because of the the connotation behind Benoit
• 44:10
  Crippler Crossface has now been turned into Crossface.
• 44:13
  Basically we don't say the Crippler anymore.
• 44:16
  At one point Michael Cole almost said Cripp and you know
• 44:21
  Crossface. The Rock, however, was able to
• 44:25
  defeat Benoit following a rock bottom on the app August 22 up
• 44:29
  until The Smackdown. After The Rock and Edge defeated
• 44:31
  Benoit and Eddie Guerrero on the attacking match, Lessener
• 44:33
  appeared for another stare down with The Rock which led to a bra
• 44:36
  between the two that ended the show.
• 44:39
  There are many examples of wrestling where title changes
• 44:41
  and towards passing moments, and it happened to correct way to
• 44:43
  the politics and greed in regards to The Rock for you as a
• 44:46
  cutter. Berries have ever had a cross
• 44:49
  word to say about him. For the most part, he's been
• 44:51
  noted for his professionalism and his willingness to do right
• 44:53
  by the wrestling business. Only the wrestling business, but
• 44:57
  if you put this guy in a movie set, you're going to have a
• 45:01
  grudge. Well, not anymore.
• 45:04
  Not if you're family. Lesnar would latest thing.
• 45:21
  Rock was all about putting him over clean as a sheet at suffer
• 45:25
  Slab, although Lesnar was a heel.
• 45:28
  A monster heel, but a heel regardless.
• 45:30
  W could just as literally have had Paul Heyman interfere or
• 45:33
  have Lesnar beat their top star through some other underhanded
• 45:36
  act. Lesnar explained that Rock, who
• 45:39
  was about to leave for several months they filmed the rundown,
• 45:41
  thought WE would benefit most from him losing the Lesnar,
• 45:45
  clearly so that new face of the company could have maximum
• 45:48
  credibility in Rock's absence. Brock Brock even said he would
• 45:51
  have been happy to return the favorite down the line, since a
• 45:53
  rematch would surely make him rock into each tons of money
• 45:58
  regardless of who won. Cyber Slam 2002 faded to black
• 46:02
  less than a minute after less than A scored a winning pin.
• 46:05
  Cutting off his broccoli fully examined his golden token as
• 46:10
  though if it were 72 ounce piece of steak.
• 46:14
  Yes, 72 ounce steak. I'm already missing out on the
• 46:18
  big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge, all right, That image
• 46:22
  capped off a three hour spectacle that didn't more than
• 46:24
  enough to earn a rave thumbs up. Alas, the den dwellers not at
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  the NASA College Mixed missed out on a nifty bonus.
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  Lefner left the rock behind the ring and the Great One began
• 46:36
  would be his farewell promo before getting off to Hollywood.
• 46:40
  As the Long Island crowd booed him, which it did for the match
• 46:42
  as well, Rock caustically boomed.
• 46:46
  Finally, the Rock has come back to it.
• 46:52
  Doesn't matter where The Rock has come back to, he eventually
• 46:57
  cut a promo declaring that thing along with the Rock is over.
• 47:01
  He yelled that he was still living here as the People's
• 47:05
  Champion fans showered him with Rocky socks.
• 47:08
  Rocky socks. Rocky socks That that old
• 47:11
  classic as he left the W for nearly six months.
• 47:15
  That's night parting shot. Wood, in hindsight, serve as a
• 47:18
  bit of foreshadowing for one of the most entertaining heel runs
• 47:22
  ever. Once Rock returned in late
• 47:25
  January 2003, where he turned heel on Hulk Hogan, leading to a
• 47:30
  WrestleMania 18 rematch at No Way Out, where special guests
• 47:34
  Referee Sylving and Mr. McMahon, both in fear and helped The
• 47:37
  Rock, defeat Hogan. Not just The Rock.
• 47:40
  Hollywood Rock, baby. Easy boy.
• 47:42
  Easy, easy down there. Hey, hey, The Rock.
• 47:47
  Hollywood Rock and his ego persona was fucking amazing at
• 47:53
  that time. I tell you on the August 26th
• 47:56
  episode of Rock due to requirements at the WWE
• 47:59
  Undisputed Championship. I don't know.
• 48:00
  I mean, W as I said there, but hey, it happens.
• 48:03
  WE Undisputed Championship being refunded.
• 48:05
  I'm defended on both shows. Rod Jenner manager Eric Bischoff
• 48:09
  expected Brock Lesnar to be able to return on Rod The next night,
• 48:12
  Lesnar and Smackdown General Manager Stephanie McMahon
• 48:15
  appeared to announce that Lesnar's contract only require
• 48:17
  him to defend the title on Smackdown.
• 48:19
  Subsequently, Bischoff established the World
• 48:21
  Heavyweight Championship as a separate world title.
• 48:25
  On the September 2 episode of Raw, Bischoff awarded Triple H,
• 48:30
  Raw Designated #1 contender, the World Heavyweight Championship
• 48:33
  in the form of the Big Gold Belt.
• 48:38
  The Undertaker went out to challenge Lesnar for the now
• 48:40
  renamed the Championship, but Unforgiven, and again at the At
• 48:44
  No Mercy in a Hell and a Cell match.
• 48:46
  John Michaels returned full time to the ring as Survivor Series
• 48:48
  and win the World Hero Championship from Triple H in
• 48:50
  the first ever Elementary Chamber Match.
• 48:54
  So there you have it. The best Summer Slam of that the
• 49:02
  2000s of the Millennium of 2000, 2002.
• 49:07
  Michael's favorite summer slam. Even the match Brock Lesnar was,
• 49:13
  The Rock was just like, like going in there.
• 49:16
  Like the last summer slam of me and my best friend.
• 49:22
  We heard the boos or like, oh, shit, Rock is getting booed,
• 49:26
  Brock. It's like knowing, like, it's
• 49:28
  gonna be that whole passing the torch thing.
• 49:31
  Yeah, it happened. Rock pressed the torch to Brock
• 49:34
  Lesnar. NBK, then Face of the From that
• 49:38
  moment on, that does it. I'm let's rate the show.
• 49:45
  Why Fucking I'm gonna give it A7.
• 49:48
  Besides the two other matches that I hadn't mentioned because
• 49:51
  they weren't interesting to me. I'm gonna give it a 77.5.
• 49:54
  Let's do a 7.5 because at least it entertained the hell out of
• 49:58
  me. The first three matches,
• 50:01
  everything, everything about this show was amazing, OK?
• 50:05
  Not everything. I'm gonna give you the 7.5
• 50:10
  videotapes out of 10, and I'm taking this tape to school.
• 50:15
  You know what? It's not even a tape anymore.
• 50:16
  It's the year 2000. We're gonna do DVD's.
• 50:19
  We're gonna do Blu rays with Blu Rays.
• 50:21
  This thing back then. All right?
• 50:23
  So we're gonna do DVD's and we're gonna send them to school
• 50:27
  and we're gonna like share the share the whole thing with my
• 50:31
  elder wrestling friends. Cuz that's how we do it.
• 50:36
  Like, hey, you got that Summer Slam 02.
• 50:38
  Yeah, here, here you go. And we all, we're all, we all
• 50:41
  did that that's gonna do it for this episode.
• 50:45
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  Collector of all things sentimental.
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  Belly El Papa Frito Scott MG418 Celestial Moon Goddess Goddess
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  Hippie Strawberry Chaotic. I know she changed her name, but
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• 58:30
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  Hartwell Lose me in the sun Lose me, lose me, lose me.
• 58:49
  Scorpion Deathlock Lock lock lock lock.
• 58:53
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