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MWFP Rewind - Episode 34 · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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Happy Mother's Day Out. Well I think we did that last time.
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We're in We're We're are we in London? Technically I don't know where we
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are, man, I was freaked out. Way we're in the boondocks here
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and out right outside London. A cheaper hotel if you will. That's what
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I can only assume. But I don't know. I don't want to make
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false accusations. But yeah, mad going overseas, baby Mother's Day overseas here
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in the United Kingdom. I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all the
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moms that listen to the Show's Day was you know how many how many moms
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do you think listen to this show? Probably zero? I don't even think
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my mom listens. No, my mom definitely listen, but whatever, if
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she is, I just want to say, thanks for buying me all those
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wrestling figures. Nice a lot. Happy Mother's Day, even though Mother's Day
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was like last week. But whatever. You put up with a lot growing
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up, you know, chasing down those bone crunches for me. Absolutely,
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we had some good house keeping, a lot of follow up. What do
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we have? I think the first thing I want to say is, if
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slash major WF pod. Still trying to get to thirty thousand subscribers, and
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when we do, we will give you a bonus podcast episode. We got
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a lot of a lot of stuff ready to be edited. It might be
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up by now, possibly. So I did a Jack specific last Superstars Hulk
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Hogan Vintage on Boxing. I did well. We did the first ever live
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major of Pod of Carolines. We're doing a a vlog of that log slash
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documentary behind the scene, behind the scenes view of Yeah. So all that
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stuff is either out or coming out very very shortly, so subscribe to that
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too. It was a historic week for the wrestling figure community. Why is
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that? Why is that? Because that's the Bushman has joined finally the Bushman.
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Mark Bushy, I can't coon two o two, or if you can
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read, it's I can see you, let her see, let her you
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two o two. Mark Bushy with his pick that is rumored to be from
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two thousand and two. He told me he just got an iPhone and now
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that's why he's gonna do Instagram because now we can take better pictures. I'm
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like, dude, you gotta update that profile. Police folks man, take
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a selfie. Bushman, Welcome to Instagram. He's already you giveaway. He's
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already giveaway away. He's got a post stuff. Told me he's gonna he's
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selling stuff. He told me he's gonna do a pole to see what his
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new name should be, like a pole, like people really give up.
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That's too much bushman Bushman, too much wit that I can see who's going
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away. I think he wanted um at the Bushman, but somebody already had
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it. Geez. So I was suggesting, like at the real Bushman or
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mister Bushman, something like that. Um. But by the time this pod
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comes out, it might be one of those, I hope. So it's
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it's Mark Bushy. It's not right now I'm looking at his profile. So
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welcome to this century, Mark Bushy. And uh, we'll have to stay
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tuned to see what you got on the Graham. With that being said,
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I think it is now time for the weekly purchases. Some MTE costs a
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little, some mighte cost a lot, but I'm the thousand dollar Growski and
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your figures will be bought all right, Weekly purchases time. I've got a
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couple of things, um, some things big, something's not so big.
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I guess I'll start, um. I actually had a pretty decent week.
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Um okay, So a couple of weeks ago, I was talking about the
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lute Crate Slam Crate Slam Stars, and I just picked up the stone cold
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Steve Austin. I'm only gonna do the retro guys. Austin came in the
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in the mail already. I opened him up, let him breathe, display
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at him the schools holding like a beer can. Yeah. At first I
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was against these things that I thought they were statues stuck in the ring.
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And then I wish we just discussed this because I could have just told him
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because I've been obsessed with the Baseball Ones for a while. I know.
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Well, I ended up getting Jericho rock In the undertaker of eBay. Also,
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and uh, you know Brian Baty who was back in the form back
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to day. I was chatting with him this week about everything, and uh
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you know he also helps in development of Wicked Cool and Loyal Subject stuff.
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Really it's well, Loyal Subjects does kind of look like stuff. So it's
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not just uh, it's not just the Slam Stars and those little uh many
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guys were talking about from we Get Cool, like the Zach Ryder micromaniacs,
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like he designed those two whoa at all those time have his it all has
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his flavor. He's very, very talented. He's he listens to the pod
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and it's cool. Like three guys who used to be on these forums back
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in the day. I would love to ask him. So you're not going
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to care about this, but that those Mets guys. It was a subscription
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crate. He was telling me about that for five guys, right, and
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then if you got the whole season, which I got all five, you
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got a bonus one. Right. This was the summer of twenty seventeen.
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Okay, and I keep now quarterly I get emails saying, oh, that
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bonus figures coming. It's kind of one guy in the Mets who has a
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figure. Those five is retired. One was just traded twice this week.
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He's gone. One's been hurt for like the whole time. Oh wow,
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one cut his hair doesn't even look like him anymore. So, like it's
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been a long time. I'm waiting for this one. I'd love to know
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who it is if it's ever coming. That's interesting. Yeah, we weren't
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talking about that. We were talking about some some other stuff. Life and
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and figure fading stuff like that. So these these am stars, Man,
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I was sleeping on these and even the other guys like the you know brun
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Strowman really cool. The ring is just like the base right right, because
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all the mets come with like a mound or a home plate and they they
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peg into it like a little je Joe. I thought it was like I
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thought it was like remember WW shop made those like bobbleheads and they were in
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the ring base. Yeah, like I thought it was like that, like
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a big statue but now fully articulate. Yeah. They're pretty damn cool.
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And uh, there was one I was on the fenceive I was like a
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triple H and it looked like an old school one, but the tights were
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like modern day. So I can't get that one by my rules. You
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know what I'm saying. Get eyes on this. It's just a old school
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look a triple H with modern day trunks. Triple H slam stars. Yeah,
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from the front, it looks fine. When you spin on the back,
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it's like a modern The baseball guys are called ballers Ballard. They're pretty
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cool. Yeah, I was. I was blown away by these and I
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was actually like I couldn't believe that I had him in collect them from Derry
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wan USh. You know what I'm saying, that's an old school triple ate.
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No, look at the back whereat Well, that's the thing. I
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was doing something, some weird investigating work. But picks, I was doing
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some weird investigating work, because that's just I understand thousand and two. I
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understand, maybe bro the back is like he's dude. I'm telling you.
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The back design ruins it for me, unless unless you you can still get
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it. I don't see how that's the back is like a current concept design.
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Where do you want to picture of his butt? Maybe on eBay?
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I don't know. Trust me on this one. I might still break it
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down and get it, but I think you need Oh way, I just
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found a butt shot. That's okay, So that's that's not when that logo
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is. But it's not like it's not. But either way, even you
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display that that's not even gonna be visible. Maybe I'll get should guys,
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if anyone wants to be trades Sky of the Week and has that has to
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be mint in box ski. I also love that. Hit me up.
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I google Triple H Slam Stars and there like so many pictures of this figure
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and then just a random picture of the Viking Raiders and him and Gorilla doing
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the two suite together. All right, so what do you get? Okay?
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So first things first, I made a little purchase from the LJ and
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Whisperer himself, so so we'll get into this deep here. It's winding down.
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I finally like was like, that's it. I gotta start attacking this
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winding dinding six one dinding. Anyway, Zoro, the LJ and Whisperer,
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I contacted him, I gave my list, he says this, so I'm
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looking forward. He only had two in my acceptable condition for sale, and
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there were some two heavy hitters Ultimate Warrior. Congratulations on that one, which
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I've never which i've honestly, I feel proud to own it like I've never
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owned in my life. I think I've only even like held yours once.
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Ever, like I've never. It's been very elusive to me. And Billy
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Jack Haynes, which I cannot believe. But that figure with the hat any
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Ljan with the accessory boosts it like thirty forty dollars, which is insane too.
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But the Billy Jack Haynes was pretty pricey, so I mean, I
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paid good money for these. I thought it was fair for what I've been
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doing my research and whatnot, so I'm happy about that. I also made
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a couple of eBay attacks through for my list. I got mean Gene,
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which was one of those ones that was just like plentiful and it sounds odd,
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but then he passed and they like went away and I assume you have
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the one with the logo on the mic. Yeah, yeah, there's like
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a quote unquote Varian with no logo. To me, that's a cup,
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but that's not a variant. I agree. Um, so yeah, there
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was one of those ones I was putting off and I was like, I'll
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get him when I get him. Then unfortunately he passed and then they were
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just kind of like disappeared from eBay, and especially ones in good condition.
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I was finally able to snag that. I snagged a Fuji with the King,
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a great one. Another one that's pretty expensive and lucrative. Kamala.
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Okay, I found a beautiful Christine Kamala. I pray paid a pretty good
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you know, they were gonna make Kamala's mask right what you've seen the prototype
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of well, I have it unpainted. I had an unpainted and it painted.
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I still kept the painted. I think I might have sold it to
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the Bushman the unpainted one. Really Yeah? Interesting? But yeah, so
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from what day was that that we started? Had to be September October.
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I started this on episode of Figure It Out and currently my list it's the
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final ten. Oh let's hear it a final countdown anyway? Uh okay.
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As discussed last week, Andre short hair, crazy, not easy to find
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and expensive. This one is blowing my mind, Elizabeth, which now I'm
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on the fence. I always wanted one with the gold skirt because that's what
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I thought it was supposed to be. But then in the package she's wearing
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a full length pink dress. So is that what it's supposed to be?
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In my mind, it's the gold is the one you need, That's what
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I always thought. On the pack she's wearing just it's not like a it's
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not a shirt and a skirt. It's a pink dress. That makes more
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sense. Does that make sense? Yeah? So now I don't know which
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one I want, but this either way, I can't find either one on
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eBay in good condition. And we've talked about before there's like the hard rubber
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one and like the lucy rubber one. But that I don't think you'll never
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know. To you, I'll never know, And I don't think i'll be
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a I'm not gonna worry about that because I could drop myself insane. What's
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the point? Oh this one? Okay, two stories. King Harley Race.
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So I'm a big I'm in my older years have become kind of a
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Harley Race fan more than I was growing up. I guess you just appreciated
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him when you get in the business a little bit more than you do in
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your kid, especially when he's a heel and you know this is a good
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heel whatever, very hard to find, lg and in good condition. Forget
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about it. Finally one popped up on eBay one ninety nine mint with the
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crown, and I'm like, that's not a bad price, but it's had
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best offer, So I put an offer out. By the time the guy
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named check my off or someone bought it. Now, I was devis staying
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if it says best offer, you have to do something like that, you
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know, I know, but I was fashioned. I thought it was like
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within probably within the hour. Wow, I was pissed. And then another
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one. I've been hunting and I just out bid this week and I lost
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a Cocoa Beware with Frankie. Okay, impossible and especially in good conditions and
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stuff. Um. And rounding out the list is Demolition Acts, which is
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another one's not fine, Hacksaw with the two by four which it's crazy expensive.
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Um the Referee which is given me. I want the one in the
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blue shirt because I feel like that's the right one, but it's not there.
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This one is really not anywhere. Tito Strike Force Trunks. Oh,
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I think was it telling you? Was it on the pot or they talked
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about it? Yeah? Was it on the potter in like real life.
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I was saying, how my dad, I'll never forget My dad bought me
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everything as a kid, but this one he would not get me because I
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already Rick martel in White. I already had Tito and Purple. It was
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a two pac. I obviously understand both sides. Yeah, but now I
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have Tito, so it's all right, dead, don't worry about it.
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Andre at the Blackstrap another one that's just not there to and then another one
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this might be the most expensive one out of all these, Big Bossman with
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the Night Stay. So there's some rough ones ago, I mean both Hogan's
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and the shirts, yes, and you count both. Yes. God,
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So it's been a long road. Are you ever going to get a ring?
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I thought about it, but I don't know what I would do.
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I'd have to hang out on the wall or something that's not bad. I
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don't know what I do with it. Well, that's not a bad list.
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I mean, I'm proud of myself for what I've done, and I
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feel like I haven't like overpaid, and I've been I've been crafty in my
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purchases and buying lots on eBay and then flipping stuff coupon style and doing what
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I can. But I think these final ten are are going to be a
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real pain in the askey Um, Okay, I got this is kind of
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I'm kind of in this weird kick where Okay, my my first elite,
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Zach Ryder was in the ECW like the one Legged Tight. It's like era
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kind of Zach Rider. Yeah. So I've gotten like a basic Timmy Dreamer
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to go along with him. And what really started it was that gold standard
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Shelton, who I'm like, ah, like if I get him because he
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wasn't quite old school by my rules. Yes, so if I get him,
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I could put him like near that Zach, because now then I'll get
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dreamer. Then I tracked on a Hurricane, and then I was trying to
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get the Elite Series three Christian in the get up. Took me a while,
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but I finally got him. He was lucy. That's hard, now,
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yeah, it's very hard. So all I'm looking So I got the
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Christian. All I'm looking for now is I think it's the first battle pack
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of Finley and he comes with Hornswoggle and he's got like orange. I need
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that if anyone wants to be trade Ski. What's wrong with the Finley Elite.
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That's not what he wore when he was like wrestling and ECW D and
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Mike Knox. But I didn't wrestle Mike Knox in ECW. You never it's
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only people you came in contact with. You need a tatsu. I was
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thinking about that that the first one they in the Green. You won't know
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why. I don't why, because that was he debuted that gear at WrestleMania
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once ECW had died. The Green the Green, No, no, no,
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you're thinking the Green. He war like the spray painted green they wore
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forever. They make a basic in the green that he wore forever before that.
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Oh really, yeah, I might need that that hundred I need that.
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Damn the Biretta wears you probably have, Trent, I don't. Yeah,
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I did he wear to that. So there's like that gold dust for
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that era, which one like there's they just made. They just made gold
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dust that you didn't need that. I wouldn't need that goldus because I wrestled
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him on ECW for sure. God damn, there's an Elite and a basic.
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You have to oh my god, you might have to decide between the
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two. I gotta see if one of them matches up exactly how when he
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wrestled me. That's the rule. Well in that particular case. Okay,
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UM, all right, anything else for you? Okay? Yeah, so
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um, friendly neighborhood Rinksite Collectibles hit me up brand new in stock Elite sixty
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eight. I ran over that hours to spare before I was coming here,
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but I wanted to get them, open them, let them breathe be able
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to discuss how beautiful they are. So I picked up both Mabels, the
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Chase and the regular um are we gonna talk about the little snaphoo, Let's
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talk about the news section. Okay, well, brinkside, I got them
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as well, they're not in my possession. I got Yeah. I knew
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that you wouldn't be able to because if they shipped them to you, you
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wouldn't see him before we record it. So I got thee get there Undertaker.
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Okay, I got Mabel Undertaker, and I actually had to pick up
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Brie Bella really never had an Elite, so it's the first elite. So
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if I get every elite one of everybody I needed it. And Nikki's coming
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soon, so yes, yeah, I'm pretty sure. Huh so uh Undertaker,
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very cool figure, surprisingly cool figure. That would be a great figure.
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The masks, we know, it does make sense, but everything has
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already in my session's been never to be seen again. Uh, and I
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don't mind the no logo in the hat. And it looks looks really cool.
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Come on, it looks great. Man. The shades and they put
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the ebble pads are on. The long hair supposed to be talked to.
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It's to me, it's it's pretty fantastic. I think it's great. Dude.
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Maybel might be one of the greatest figures. How crazy last week of
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a figure that wasn't released, he's still like one, which I was like
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disgusted with myself for saying that, because I felt like a shill, right,
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But we had, we'd seen it, We've done that appearance. It
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feels like forever ago we at them a tall headquarters bliss and we saw it
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in that case. You know, I've seen it several times but not held
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it. This figure is unbelievable. The attention to detail, I mean,
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everything about it's like brand new, every little piece of molding, you know,
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it's all unique to itself. And I really couldn't tell you which one
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I like better because the differences really are so minuscule. It's the like the
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lightning bolt in the am that's really that's it, I mean, but like
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it's incredible. I cannot wait to get that in hand. It's long overdue
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and it was like worth the way that I'd say it's it's pretty unbelievable,
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like up there with Figure of the Year type stuff. I can't wait to
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get it and I can't wait to display it. Let him breathe. And
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the only sad note which we haven't really discussed on here is that? I
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mean, it's cool to Elite sixty eight is this Summer Slam theme, But
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does that mean it obviously means the Summer Slam set is gone? Huh,
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you know what I mean. We haven't really discussed that, but obviously that's
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the case. Maybe we haven't. We have a confirm that we're not going
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to two Summer Slam sets. Maybe there's SummerSlam packaging, but it's Elite sixty
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eight, like they merged the two together. Good call. That's a little
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sad because I always look forward to that. But either way, the figures
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incredible. Um. I also want a little old school uh. And I
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got the Diesel Bone Crunching Action Series one rerelease of Diesel, which we talked
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about this off air off air. When was it before after we recorded last
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week? I don't remember. I don't know. I don't know. I
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don't know how it came up, but I was like, yeah, you
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need that because so they there's a lot of reasons they rereleased gold Dust and
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Diesel from Series one at series three. For some reason, they didn't do
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Razor, which is weird because Diesel and Raise at the same time both long
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gone and only to rerelease Diesel, who is already main event in the NBO
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this point answers will never know. But yeah, and Goldos was slightly different.
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They put a little blam, but the change is the whole figure and
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it's like much nicer. Like there was nothing done to Diesel to improve it
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all that na, right, All they really did was like tighten up the
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joints because those first bonk runchers like Woody from Toy Story. Yeah, and
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they added the hole in the foot to go on the new display stands,
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which debut was serious. You have it out of the package in your hand,
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it's a very different figure. Not just looking at the two in the
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packages you wouldn't think it's that different, but right out in your hands,
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Okay, there's some there's some improvements here, right, So I won't be
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displaying both of them obviously, But I'm about to complete well not I haven't
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even started with my list, but I want to for this year have all
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the bonk runches done. So I'll need this Diesel because it's technically different because
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of the little foothole. The other thing which maybe Vintage checks BC can help
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us out, like did those ship on their own or in cases of Series
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three. I don't recall. But on the back is a Series three box,
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you know. It's the same box, in same shape as series Yeah,
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and like best of ninety seven looking packaging and stuff. But yes,
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I would love to know how that all went about. I don't recall.
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I mean I remember finding it then both the toys r us, but I
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don't remember. I mean obviously I didn't open a case. You know,
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no neither neither to die, um anything else for you. I'm all tapped
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out, all right, Well, it's funny. I wish I could say
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I want a Harley Race and Coco Beware else Dan, but I didn't Power
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Drive I was. I would I would pay good money to have Divon recreate
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that. Oh my god. When I was a kid, like a lot
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of that whole album on a VHS with the music videos. Yeah, I
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never had that. I think I've rented it from time to time when I
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was a little bit came So that must have came out in the eighties,
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right, yeah, definitely, right, So I remember like ninety five,
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like when I bought like this Shawn michaels like zebra hat and like the Hardship
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glasses like it came as like a bonus gift. So I was watching shop
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from shop they're just getting rid of old stuff. Yeah, but what's so
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weird about that video? Video is great? But his version of a pile
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driver is a brainbuster, not like a pile d Oh. Yeah, there's
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some we're weird. Yeah, anyway, so it's definitely worth checking out.
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I haven't seen on YouTube. The whole UH tape is amazing. The video
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driver. Yeah, music and that video UCHI qu with me Gene Oakland,
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which is my segue to the Michael Jordans the thousand dollars bros. Gotta get
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his checkbook out? Literally, how to break out the checkbook? Who figure
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guide takes checks? An LJN an x lj N employee who sold me the
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mean Gene Oakland alternate pose kind of doing like the UH, like the Brent
25:48
Hart style pose that's a hard entrance handshape. He was seen in at least
25:55
two different advertisements promotional material no microphone and U. This seller had two mean
26:03
genes, so I assume one was from one moment from the other. I've
26:07
gotten some things from this guy in the past, like I got the macho
26:11
man hamp paid a prototype from him. I got my articulated Hogan and Bundy
26:15
from this guy, so I knew he was a reputable guy and uh.
26:18
In fact, when when Gene passed away, I contented him shot. I
26:23
contacted him immediately saying, Hey, I know a bunch of people are going
26:26
to try to get this from you and like self for crazy prices. I
26:29
want to make sure that doesn't happen. So I would like to get it
26:32
because I know like where it's going, because that so, like you just
26:34
said, his LJN's going up in value, his regular one. Someone got
26:38
their hands on no offense, but it was like common or as common as
26:42
l jns have become. Nothing's really common anymore, I would say. But
26:45
it was there for the taking in so I knew I didn't want someone to
26:48
take advantage of like this, the passing, like with this prototype figure,
26:52
because like with the passing of Gene, and if you had a protype,
26:56
you know someone's gonna take it, yeah, and make the price to the
26:57
roof. So I wanted it to be a good hands. I told this
27:02
guy that, and he didn't get He got back to me, but it
27:04
wasn't interested in selling, he said, cool, nobody do and like last
27:07
week, I random he got an email asking if I still wanted it,
27:10
absolutely, and uh did he have any like backstory he worked for LJ but
27:15
nothing like that's not what I'm saying, Like why they changed it? Why
27:21
exists nothing? I assume they change it because the one that's releases way better.
27:25
He's holding a microphone one the real one's way better. And I'm in
27:27
my mind, I like to think they've been so it's like, where's that
27:30
goddamn microphone or something? But uh, so I got it in the mail.
27:36
Um, it's great. It's a little shorter than the other Gene school.
27:40
Um, I posted the pictures on the major w pod to have the
27:44
managers and like people like that makes Ljan so timeless. What's so great is
27:48
like why didn't Hasbro. It's not like it would make sense if Hasbro capers
27:53
then Ljan. Ljan came first and did the rets. Yeah, man at
27:59
the time was like barely on TV, and I mean he's company to see
28:02
the business side of it, like what are you gonna do pump out another
28:03
Hogan or a random ref you know. And that's what made the original Star
28:07
Wars lines are successful is that they made everybody, Yeah, you need your
28:11
hammerhead. So like like I was telling Billy, you need your hammerhead.
28:14
You need there's some guys on two or five Live, but then we're there
28:17
on the first episode, so don't have all the blows. My mind,
28:21
wrestling in the eighties is going to that rock and wrestling like super boom we're
28:23
in like the early nineties not so much. So maybe they're like, maybe
28:26
we're better off making these hogan and Warriors and not pumping out obscure guys.
28:30
I get it, but I do think there's there's there were some ways around
28:33
it. But anyway, I got the mean Gene. It's beautiful. Check
28:37
out the pics on the Major David Pods Instagram. Um, I love it.
28:41
I'm not a big We'll see it sound like I'm necessarily It's not that
28:45
I'm not necessarily a big LJN prototype guy, but they're just not um out
28:48
there. Oh so I have a couple pieces I have like just the opportunity
28:53
to make to purchase it as unique, That's what I'm saying, right,
28:56
So I have a hand painted matro Man, I have a I now have
29:00
this hand painted mean Gene. Those are the only two I have that are
29:03
hand painted. I've been unpainted short haired Andre and unpainted Bobby heenan Um.
29:10
I have a unpainted Liz, unpainted naked Liz that we're not gonna get into
29:14
again right now, and have unpainted Slaughter. Got rid of that. No,
29:18
it's it's in the back of my display. Cats. You can't see.
29:21
It's bizarrely you get old. It necessary exactly, that's anyway I got
29:27
the mean gene. So I want to say thanks to the seller. He
29:30
does not want to be known. So I'm sure he'll come out eventually with
29:34
like his long list of whatever he's got, and I'll be buying some more
29:37
things. Do we know for a fact that he has more. I know
29:41
he's got. Wow, there's some things that are gonna blow your mind.
29:45
Wow. Yeah. Oh. Domination, Incarnation and Domination weekly segment. We
29:55
choose a superstar, we try to stump each other. We talk about our
29:57
favorite versions of that superstar. Domination. Jemmer he's a sponsor of this segment.
30:07
Jemmer has been dominating. Everyone goes on Gemmer. Now, I think
30:11
it's the new cool thing to do. Is you go on Gemma. You
30:14
look at the figures, you have look at the figures you need, the
30:15
figures you want, you talk about the figures that you're a community. We're
30:18
a community, the figure community, the major pod community. And I want
30:23
to thank you to Jemma and we have a winner and Mark, who is
30:26
the winner this week? Hey, guys, this week's winner is referee l
30:30
u c a sw I guess that's referee lou cass woo whatever. But here's
30:37
the deal. These guys like to make fun of my hat. That's not
30:41
my hat. Okay. I was shooting a promo for cap TV, a
30:48
show that everyone's watching, and yeah, so stop making fun of my hat.
30:53
Guys. It's mean it wasn't really my hat. Thank you, Mark,
30:56
thank you so much. Thank you for taking time from shaving your silver
31:00
balls to give us the winner. But now it's not for the incarnation of
31:03
domination. Brian, who is your pick? Matthew? I know you like
31:07
to refer to yourself as the cat daddy I am, but this week I
31:12
just want to talk about what is your favorite Jerry the King Lawler figure.
31:22
Well, I'll tell you what it's not. Oh, I knew you you're
31:25
so sad about this. It's not the raw Ted adniversary. Law I don't
31:30
think that's ever come up on this show. It's come up on and figure
31:33
it out. I think it made the cutting room floor. Okay, yeah,
31:37
So I know this bothers you so much? Can I be honest?
31:40
Yeah? Never bothered me because the jacket. But we know, I know.
31:45
But when I'm thinking, okay, so do we want to explain this
31:48
before I explain it? Okay? So there was a Jerry Lawler that was
31:51
supposed to come out in the Red Outfit. They got cut when he left
31:53
ww T t Tron. Then they finally released one in this raw X set.
32:00
It's a tighten Tron figure during the Ruthless Agression era ra X Raw tenth
32:04
Anniversary. Very disappointing set, overall garbage beyond a couple of gems. One
32:08
of the gems is this Jerry Lawler. He's in blue now, not the
32:13
very detailed. It's a tighten Tron in the infancy of the Ruthless era.
32:17
So really works, uh, you know, a little late. But to
32:22
me, he's got his entrance jacket on, yes, and the crown and
32:25
the crown and it looks sharp the bone crunching crowd. But to me when
32:29
I'm using him or playing with him, or displaying him. Even he's sitting
32:31
there in the jackets and who you don't know when you open that jacket up.
32:37
He's not wearing the Jerry Lawler Andre style one strap signature one strap.
32:43
He's wearing the King Kong Bundy Heavy Machinery, Jesse if Jesse and Festus Hawkins.
32:51
Holy, he's wearing the Kurt Hawkins single at top. And yes,
32:58
with the jacket clothes, you can't quite tell. Okay, I am peeling
33:04
it away, okay. Um. In fact, there's a picture on my
33:07
phone of me peeling it away the other day because episode disgusted of it.
33:10
I'm gone, why do you have that? So many reasons, but that's
33:15
very odd. Look at this photo right now that I just took the other
33:20
day. I was sending it to Dustin from Figure it Out those episodes.
33:22
Figured Out's coming back soon, guys. It's so bad that the way you
33:30
have that looks terrible. But that's not really what is seen, so who
33:34
cares? But even when the jackets closed, it doesn't quite look exactly how
33:37
it should. The only other tie in turn Lawler is the one from that
33:40
exclusive X eight Jersey like, yeah, whis pretty funny. Um, I
33:49
can't believe and correct me if I'm wrong. Um, Mattel hasn't made a
33:54
flashback Lawler but of this era of like nineties early two thousand era. Correct,
34:02
Yeah, I think so. They made him in his Affliction style shirt,
34:07
which is modern day very cool. Um. I think this is maybe
34:09
a Bill question or whatever. But the Jerry Lawler that came out and Elite
34:16
maybe eighteen, I want to say, is not it's this flashback on the
34:22
packaging, but it's him from his match with Michael Cole from Wrestleman twenty seven
34:28
in two thousand and eleven. And that figure came out in like twenty twelve.
34:30
So obviously with the time Hall of Fame one where it is a flashback
34:35
similar, that's like a seventies eighties Lawler, doesn't that? Wow? I
34:39
nail that Elite eighteen Jerry Lawler got the gote. That's really a throwback Lawler.
34:47
Um, great figure, but like you said, there's no like WWE
34:54
Active Wrestler Jerry Lawler figure like a you would want an early nineties Lawler,
34:59
right, mine is missing my favorite Jerry Lawler. And this is I can't
35:05
believe I'm gonna say this, but I think it still holds up. Is
35:07
Superstars series for bad Boys, Jerry the King law I love that figure.
35:13
He's had the chest hair molded on like SENSEI gripped through the pile driver,
35:16
but it was that and this is maybe a vintage Jack specie. I think
35:20
I feel like that nothing about him was ever used again on like any other
35:22
guy. There are some weird um variants where Kane is wearing those legs and
35:28
wearing those boots. Yeah, certain Knes interesting, but I love that figure.
35:32
I think the crown's removable. That's the first removable accessory for Jack's I
35:37
really Oh there's the Justin Log Bradshaw as well, Undertaker and Wig totally anyway,
35:46
the Hall of Fame Jerry la I just came out is from Mattel's pretty
35:52
perfect two years old whatever, It's pretty perfect. I think what my favorite
35:58
is, because I don't think we'll ever see it again or any other version
36:00
of it, is the Classics Super Superstars Lawler and Andy Kaufman too, because
36:07
that's just so cool. That's something that like a moment that really shaped and
36:12
changed the history of the business. I know Jack's made a couple of Jerry
36:15
Lawlers Class Superstars, but they never made a commentator Jerry Lawler classes Superstars?
36:20
Did they a ruthless style? Jerry? That's modern day? Yeah, man,
36:24
I don't think so. They made JR. Well. I found the
36:28
prototype of the one that was cut and look you can tell he's wearing a
36:31
one strap singlet in that one. That's even more strange than they had.
36:36
They would have had the mold. That very interesting. And quinnin Michaels,
36:39
I know you that Linda mcmah out there. You said, of a bitch,
36:43
he's not listening, but you know, like so man, he might
36:45
be. I know someone's listening that that knows. Quinton. Jerry Lawler kind
36:50
of fits in the maybe the Jimmy Snooker realm of like. And there's someone
36:55
else we talked about recently where you're like, this guy should have more figures
36:59
than he does, absolutely more figures. But he does he have a Mini
37:02
Jack's figure? Yes he does, right, yeah for sure, But does
37:08
he have the crown not figure or two pack with he's in the Royal Rumble
37:13
Mini Jacks with a clown. I think the crown comes with You're mistaken the
37:17
crown that comes with the King of the ringset. I'm not mistaken. I'm
37:22
I'm I'm inquiring if he comes with the crown, that's what you're thinking of.
37:25
There's also the one with Brian Christopher there too, tough. I was
37:29
just saying that before you cut me off. Yeah, which I really liked
37:31
because I liked that Bad Boy's Lawler. But that one is way better Deco
37:36
the two pack, Yeah it does. Jerry Lawler, Man, this is
37:43
up for debate. Lawler and brat Hart have two of the most unbelievable beautiful
37:46
autographs in like pro wrestling. Oh total proh. Yeah, that's a real
37:51
sign of especially when you get with a paint pan on a figure like that.
37:54
Wow, I'm just looking at this Mattel Jerry Lawler the back of his
37:59
affliction, she says, king me, I think that's like a it's not
38:02
really affliction Shirt's a Lawler Shop Zone shirt that they sold and it just looks
38:07
like an Affliction shirt. Andy called MITCHI pac is beautiful. Um. It
38:12
comes to that soft Goods neck brace. He says, it's pretty cool.
38:15
Man. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say my favorite is Bad Boys.
38:19
Um. He'd be a great candidate for a retro as well. In that
38:22
era that we were discussing. Dude, I used to use the Hockey dog
38:24
Man as Jerry the King Lawler. They are cousins. I didn't know that
38:30
the time, though. All right, well that was a great you're right,
38:34
here's the Royal rumble set and he does not come to the crown.
38:36
I'm looking on the old Google machine. I used to use these Royal romal
38:39
figures as my Mexican minis. I did that too. Actually, all right,
38:44
it is now time for the w TF Figure of the Week. All
38:57
right. The WTF Figure for the Week is a segment where you look at
39:00
a figure or set or a couple of figures and you say to yourself,
39:04
what the And this week we didn't even have to ask people. Somebody,
39:08
Hearty Heft he came to me and said, hey, you gotta cover these
39:13
as w TF. And I looked at them and I said, you are
39:16
absolutely right. These are on the these are on the later days of the
39:22
Jack Swos aggression. I was definitely out by that. This is like when
39:25
they threw in the towns. That's it, Matel's tacon whole year two thousand
39:29
and nine. There's some pathetic stuff. This one might take the cake worse
39:34
than Naked Market. That was naked Mark Henry was. I don't even remember
39:37
this set. This is how bad this set is. This is Adrenaline thirty
39:42
eight. It's Christian and Jack Swagger, Edge and Big Show and Finley and
39:49
Hornswaggle. You know what makes the set so special? There's no like deco
39:55
him, no deco on any of them. No across the board, across
40:00
the board. So Christian is in plain black tights. Swagger played black siglet
40:07
man. That is just I met. These are worth money too, Edge,
40:14
plain red tights. What is the They said? Get Finley playing green
40:22
Swag? The swag have his I can't tell. Swago has his little uh
40:30
like clover on his chest. Maybe that's it. He's got the dirt on
40:32
his face though. How can you just throw in the talent to the point
40:37
where you put out a set and don't care to that. I'm looking right
40:40
here there's a Christian figure and just plain black ts. Imagine if you were
40:45
a Christian and you'd like collecting your figures, would you buy this is probably
40:49
display this of the stores? I mean, what you mean in your home.
40:52
I mean, you'd have to buy it according to our rules, Like
40:55
I want everything I've ever done. I mean, what were you thinking?
40:58
It looks like a bootleg like video game character, like before we put the
41:01
cool outfits on. When we get to interview Jeremy. This is something I
41:05
would love to bring up, like explained to me the dying days of Jack's
41:10
relationship. So Edge and Big show up here to have their tattoos, but
41:15
no logos on the gear whatsoever unless Edge has on the side of the type
41:17
that we just can't see. No, there's none, because that that he's
41:22
got the start, you would see a little bit of the star. This
41:23
is unbelievable. There's a swagger and Christian. Man, I don't remember this
41:28
at all. There's a swaggering Christian on eBay for like forty ship. Nobody
41:32
would buy that. I'm just so some of these ones. The distribution wasn't
41:37
so wasn't so plentiful. So uh, you know, sometimes they have become
41:44
rare if you're looking to get them, you know, like they just weren't
41:46
that many out there, And obviously it's like the dying days like this here
41:50
you're swaggle and Finlay's on eBay sixty five. What I'm saying it's probably if
41:57
you were. They come with the inflatable chalaile which is pretty inflatable. It's
42:01
meant to be that. It's not actually inflatable, it's look it's all fat.
42:05
It's meant to be that one like the inflatable Chalilean. They sold it
42:08
the supposed to look like that. That's pretty cool. Yeah, um so
42:13
Hardy had, thank you very much. These are totally wtfs sad. This
42:17
is just kind of sad, brutal um all right, guys, Next up,
42:21
the most influential wrestling license in agreement of all time and it dies and
42:28
it dies, and that's what they're spitting out. Um one potentially potentially ahead
42:35
of ourselves. So we're working on that. So not quite next week,
42:37
will Q and A and take this home? Q and as been editing into
42:43
the wee hours here as they silver Bow though he grew back. All right.
42:50
My question comes from Adam mcconnley at Adam McConnell McConnell one at Major w
42:58
F Pod. Do you think original ECW guys could ever be included in the
43:02
Mattel retro line? If so, who would you include hashtag? Ask major
43:07
pod so first and foremost, Um, the only official ECW flashback is the
43:14
Terry Funk Elite forty one. I mean that's pretty well. No, it's
43:16
got e CW logos on the packaging. It comes to ECW title. Um,
43:21
there's what about one of the cactus jacks, So that's not officially here
43:24
is the logo on it. We think there's some kind of misdirection with that.
43:30
I mean, I love it and it's cool, and we did like
43:31
extensive research, you and I because we're psychopaths, and and uh fully never
43:37
wore that outfit in WW as cactus. So it's in like only a ECW
43:43
So it's it's an ECW cactus jack. That would be the the more recent
43:49
cactus, not the ringside cactus. Um, so technically that counts to me.
43:53
That counts about retro. It's late, folks, you're talking about retro
44:06
figures. Brother, that my answer be not likely. End of story.
44:12
I was really interested. Oh, I was really into answering that other question.
44:15
But I can't foresee it. There's so many guys that need to be
44:20
done, including modern day guys and including lay up flashback guys. That they
44:24
haven't done. I'm not against it obviously, I'm a freak. Can see
44:29
maybe an RVD, but I think they would use a WWE style. It
44:32
wouldn't it wouldn't be And if they are going to make a Tazz or a
44:37
Tommy Dreamer, I'd rather than be in the elite style than a retro.
44:40
Yeah, I guess so. Um, great question. That was some batch
44:45
romania. He's got a basketle Oh, which is this sky Way? Got
44:52
you got me? Adam McConnell. Okay, my question is from mister Waffles
44:57
ninety nine, Pedro A or t He's the third come on, this is
45:02
the real day. You shouldn't laugh at it, but it sounded funny when
45:06
you said, mister Waffle blah blah bhat thing. All right, this is
45:10
a very interesting question. I thought, what were your thoughts when the Jack
45:15
Slammers series came out and do you still feel the same way about them now?
45:21
I was not a fan. I was not a fan when they came
45:22
out, and I'm still not a fan of them. Okay, so series
45:27
one completely sucked because there's nothing special about it, as all guys that are
45:30
already out with weird action moves with weird actionals, so like completely to me,
45:34
especially playing with my guys, I'm like, I don't need, you
45:37
know, gold Us to do a bear hug, like if I want to,
45:40
because you could do like that sitting down and hugging and rocking back.
45:44
You know. It's like to me, my imagine good for the backstage.
45:47
When yes, I was playing so often and so hard, like I didn't
45:51
need this, Like my imagination wasn't it was enough, you know what I
45:54
mean. So I wasn't looking for this. But then Series two series different
45:58
ball game, completely different because all those guys, you know, that was
46:00
the only way to get him, So that was that was exciting. Are
46:04
the like for instance, on Patriot, his upper body is plastic slammer.
46:08
Are his legs bone crunching actions? I'm pretty sure? Yeah, I don't.
46:12
I mean, they're definitely rubber, but I don't know if they had
46:14
the bone crunching action either way, they have that feel. So someone Series
46:17
one though, like all those guys, that's true. Yeah, so Series
46:21
one is just Undertaker Goldberg, Goldberg, gold Dust Austin for Rouke, Brett,
46:28
Brett, Mankind Mankind Is that six? They say? Yeah, I
46:32
think that's it. So mankind taker Gold does Brett for Austin. Actually,
46:36
now I'm having fighting. Yeah, he doesn't quite do the kick of the
46:42
gut Toomstone. Yeah. Brett came out way later than they he left the
46:46
company. Yeah, I want to say those came out like early ninety eight.
46:52
So he's gone, and the Brett I'd like, if you like flick
46:54
the back, you can do like that, doesn't guess? Yeah, Okay.
47:00
Other than that, now, Series two, even if they had like
47:02
different deco, different deco would have made a wait, maybe it would have
47:06
made a cooler a little more space, but there was like no incentive to
47:08
me, like I bought them all. Of course I did as off Mark,
47:12
but uh yeah, but Series two games changer. Series two as Shawn
47:16
Michaels, who's not wrestling where it was at like the leather chast that was
47:21
pretty different. Different head scams, yeah, everything everything about it was different.
47:24
Patriot long gowns from the company, but still still blue Blazer head,
47:29
a fresh face, you know, Brian Pillman who Patriot is Patriot Blue Blazers
47:34
Patriot's head. There you go. Wow, let's get late folks. Yeah,
47:38
I gotta wrap we gotta wrap it up. Brian Pillman, who's season
47:40
the stomp Head. Now, this is like unfortunate Brian Pillman passed away by
47:45
the time the stomp figure release ten months time the Slammers is out. It's
47:50
like he's definitely passed away. Yeah, for sure, I still love the
47:54
figure. Yeah. Um. Then there's Dude Love, which is awesome.
47:59
This is great. I did love figure of all time. Wait and tie,
48:04
sure if you can believe it, there's Kane, the first ever.
48:07
Kane was at the time hysteria to get that Alistair Black level Pete Dunn level
48:14
hysteria to get that figure because it was the first King little spoiler for the
48:17
first ever Patreon exclusive let him Breathe, I do a bone crunching Kane and
48:22
I talked about the hysteria of that King and what was the other figure one
48:29
of my all time favorite? Oh A six on with the A six logo
48:37
which was illegal af um. So those figures were fantastic. Is there never
48:43
announced three or like, yes, Superstar Series six we talked about this was
48:46
supposed to be Slammers three, but that could be like a typo in that
48:50
thing. No, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be and then it
48:52
just didn't take off, so they switched it back. That's why there was
48:54
It doesn't sound right to me. I'm skeptical about that. Um So I
48:59
love Slammers too, because yes, they had the weird slamming action, but
49:05
they kind of still work to the bone Crunchers, you know, and they
49:07
you know, obviously they're all the same scale, so he can't really mess
49:10
up that. But and series one I think sucked. If the details the
49:16
decals were different, would have been okay. But Series two was okay.
49:21
And Series three was supposed to be rumored to be super serious six not fact.
49:27
But here's the here's the thing, and this is my opinion. I
49:29
feel like every time a company, whether it be Jack's or Mattel, goes
49:34
out of their way to make a more like kid friendly line, it doesn't
49:38
work like I love. If it doesn't work, it doesn't last, or
49:44
these companies give up on it. I don't know. I think at the
49:49
end of the day, kids just want to take their their basic figures or
49:52
their bone Crunchers or whatever er we're talking about and just play. I think,
49:55
Yes, I'm sure there's a couple out there who want to use like
49:58
the action move, but I think they want to do like suplexes and fig
50:01
feds and not like Karate chop action. Like I said before, kids have
50:06
imaginations, so like I don't need all that. I don't think they want
50:08
to take two figures and connect them at the chest and hope that they actually
50:12
talk to each other. You know what I'm saying. Like you know what
50:14
I'm saying. Like I think how many lines has Mattel gone through? I
50:17
thought that I don't. I don't know how Rumblers got canceled. I thought,
50:22
if you want to do something a little cute and special for kids,
50:24
that was it and they never had to change. So yeah, like you
50:28
said, I don't know if it's unsuccessful or a company gives up on it
50:31
and up it feels. But to answer your question again, Slammer Series one
50:36
sucked, Slammer Series two iconic, and uh and see you next week,
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folks and guys, listen, all right, A couple of things tomorrow Patreon
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noon. Get your retro ring singers, ropes. This has been Okay,
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we're at over two hours, folks. This might be a two and a
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half hour long episode, not counting the interview. I'll be out of the
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interview. Oh yes, this god be log. Bill is hrd at markus
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F marks o f T because he is not happy right this episode. But
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until next time. This is the major pod. Macie O'Brien Myers over it
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out pieces and that once again wraps it up for this week. I try
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to keep this podcast just like a pack of skittles. I keep it snackable,
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if you know what I'm saying. And I'm laying it down right now
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to you, brother, because I got a big show coming up. You
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already know what it is. We're breaking boundaries, not just on the major
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rewind we are breaking boundaries. July thirtieth, Creative Pro Presents Breaking Boundaries featuring
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the Creative Pro. I think I believe this is a Creative Pro debut of
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Effie against an vork And I'll figure something out to do on the show I
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always do. And well we've reached that point. You know, I could
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plug this that FWF if you haven't already order it up. But other than
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that, I just wanted to leave y'all with this as as we we end
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things here, as they say, And now the end is near, and
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so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear.
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I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's
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full. I traveled each and every highway, and more much more than this,
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I did it my Waygrats, I've had a few, but then again
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too few to mention. I did what I had to do and sawed through
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without exemption. I planned, he charted course, he each careful step along
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the bye way, and more much more than this, I did it my
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way. Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew when I bit
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off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was
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doubt, I get up and spit it out. I faced it all,
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and I stood tall and did it my way. I've loved, I've I
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often cried, I've had my fill, my share of losing. And now,
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as tears subside, I find it all so amusing to think I did
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all that. And may I say not in a shy way, Oh no,
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oh no, not me. I did it my way. Oh man,
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what has he got if not himself? I gotta blow my nose,
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then he has not to say the things he truly feels, and not the
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words of one who kneels love. Record shows I took the blows and did
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it my words. Yes, yeah, that's right. Everybody know Jesus should
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have done that before staying yes it yes, it was my words. Fe