MWFP Rewind - Episode 29

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rewind the only show on the Major Pod Network that takes some of the best
classic, ultimate, defining and major moments from the Major POD's rich history,
and I put it together for new and old fans to enjoy. This week,
we go back to WrestleMania Week from two thousand and nineteen, where the
boys recap what was an epic Rustlemania week. They talk about WrestleMania access,
the live show, all the week activities, and of course winning the tag
team titles. And I was there alive at MetLife Stadium. I got to
see him one tag team goal and they go into detail all about that.
But there's also a fun little moment. There's random moments throughout the show's history.
That's always lived rent free in my head, and it's just sometimes a
couple of sentences, but to me they always I don't know, there's just
some stuff I always remember, and this one is Browski talking about how he
recycles his boxes, and that's one of those, to me what this show's
all about. It's a classic major Pod moment and I founded by accident,
so that's, you know, that's the fun of this show. This show
is also going to start off of a little snippet from their Live two show
from that same year, and unfortunately I wasn't there for that, but now
I get to relive it. I get to relive it with all of you
major marks. And of course this is a Patreon bonus, so if you're
not on the Patreon, this is just a little taste of what you're missing
with this extensive back catalog of major moments. And then we end things off
with a WrestleMania exclusive Rick Flair WTF and of course some Q and Day enjoy
the show. Oh lady, it is good to see all of you out
here tonight. So you're all here from reason and you're well where This show
is full of moments where I do kind of dumb shit and Mac does really
go shit. So I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but lady and
gentlemen, here he is the Michael Jordan all Rough Figga collecting the dos and
don roofing. Mac don't, but I'm at the thousand dollars. That outfit
is gonna look great in the entre the Time Memorial Battle Royal. I spent
its Zodmark you got it. I spent you got him, get at it.
One time, uh Me and Gallas used to prank call Hunky dunk Man
and his voicemail will go you got him, get at it. I was
gonna say, I spent uh way too much money. I believe I'm as
outfit, and uh it doesn't. It doesn't even fit. It's a little
too big. Looks good. Yeah it looks like the child Halloween costant version
of what you wanted that to be. But yeah, it looks great.
I wish it cost that much. Um, guys, thanks for coming the
live Major Wrestling for your podcast two. There's a there's a simulcast in Chicago
and Los Angeles tonight. That's why Horne Swama couldn't be here. Who who
here is a major Mark. All right, Oh, I got it right
there. We just want to thank you everybody for coming to the show.
Thank you for the water, Brian Um. Full disclosure, We don't exactly
know what we're doing up here, but we got some surprise guests for you
guys tonight. Hopefully you guys were like that. We got surprizes for everybody
who got the zombie Sailor pin when they walked in. Baby, oh baby,
you know ll gonna go for big Bucks on eBay. Well, don't
don't reselling likest at least wait till get home before you met him on anybay.
Yeah yeah, um yeah, I know what the crane Pro floor looks
like. So if you took a picture and put it up around, I'm
gonna know. So we have a lot of guests. You think we get
to our first guest. I want to get to the first guest here tonight.
Um all right, So let's set it up. We we we grew
up on Long Island. We've been u We went to wrestling school on Long
Island and we met a fellow WWW superstar at wrestling school on Long Island,
and uh, this Sunday he's wrestling for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. I wrostl
mea give it up. We're Tony news. Yeah, but not what here
we go? Hey, I don't know who gave you that, Mike,
Damn Mike. You don't need that. You don't need that. Mike and
a security Raleigh Allen. So that is me my first Roley Chan in the
fifty two years. He's been alive. Thank you. We're gonna hear that
forever, all right, Tony reaction to me great? Oh man, I
don't think people realize how far we go back. We Oh yeah, we
go way back, way way back. When did we meet exactly? Oh?
Well, you met as soon as I joined the wrestling school. I
mean I always thought you had a lot of potential. I was a very
nice guy to your Tony, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think
you thought that at all. What do you mean? What do you mean?
Sure, the first thing you ever said to me was that nobody likes
you. But let me tell you the story. Okay, let me tell
you the story. I don't think I know this story. Bear with me
because I'm terrible at storyteller. Um. So if we're familiar with the SATs,
Okay, yeah, exam. Yeah, not not the example. I
walked out on it and I was like, I gotta go. What am
I doing? The Spanish announced team. So I joined a wrestling school,
and normally at this school, the first thing you have to do is learn
oh hey, guys, shut the back there. Yeah. I think the
biggest mistake was the album. That's probably gonna happen all night, but let's
keep let's let's power through it. It'll make my story more interesting about it.
So normally at the school you have to learn pretty much everything stand up
first before you can even step foot in the wrestling ring. So you got
to learn how to lock up and do all that stuff. All the Bullet
nobody wants to learn that, yes, but you have to right in order
to get in the ring. It's a respectful thing. So when I joined
the school, things were a little unorganized. It wasn't really a head trainer
at the time. Zach Here went through all of this, and my first
day the SATs happened to show up and they wanted to just grab some guy
and just beat him up in the ring and just try some new stuff.
So they picked me Bullet, so Here I am. My first day I
get to get bumped around in the ring and everything. This guy's just standing
on the apron just giving me the death stare. So after they were done
with me, I went on the apron. He's standing right next to me.
First first time I've ever been afoot from him, and he just looks
over at me and goes, nobody here likes you. It's a little jealous.
You had to have been there for like two days before. You think
you're no authority to say that. A couple of months. Um, but
I love you. Now you're here. You're going to wrestle media. Yeah,
baby, that's the right championship. Right. So obviously this is a
wrestling figure podcast and you don't have a wrestling figure. But but we got
something for you, and we got a gift for We get for you a
good luck on Sunday gifts. I'm tell hopefully the real play and hopefully that
day comes home with you. This is great Sunday if I have that too.
I mean, I don't know. Holding up Tony, You're gonna be
a cruise the right wrest Baby. We're foreshadowing, right all right, Kevin,
at everybody, what are you doing? Bill? We're crashing the podcast.
You don't know why are you doing here? Um, Bill, you're
already threatened. I'm always sweating, guys. This rain was really expensive.
I can't have Bill sweat all over and okay, gross even worse. So
we heard you don't have a figure, and we want to change that.
In Basic ninety eight, the very that is incredible. Wait, I sign
enough. That's having a wresting Scotts. Hold a second. Is WrestleMania thirty
five? Tony Nice having a WrestleMania moment? He's not just getting one figure,
Tony Nice Chase awesome. That is nat It even has my crooked smile.
It's awesome. I love it. Guys. That is amazing. So
congrats. We're very excited to bring this to you. Thank you so much.
So we're very happy to do something very special for Tony, but we're
also here to do something very special for everyone. Here. We're doing one
first stop all right, don't lie, don't plus the Ryan, get a
little plush of the roughs. Guys, come by, let's get somebody.
Let's get I told you I'm not addily this I ever gonna work all the
way in the back. Come on, Oh my god, this is chaotic.
All right, give up from a Tony Corn. It's all acting,
guys, Yes, seriously, Bill swapped my ringers, a lot of Bill
Home, Betta go Sunday, get the real thing, Tony down. All
right, So we got it. A reveal for a wrestling for you.
Let's pretty impressed. Very cool. Yeah, our first reveal in a live
podcast. You never know what's gonna happen. Pretty proud of that. You
never know what's gonna happen in one of these live shows. Um, speaking
of live shows, right, was anyone here in our first live show?
A couple of people, thank you, thank you? They I appreciate the
support. So you, like me, were probably very disturbed by a certain
moment that occurred. What moment is this, Brian? Actually that moment I
could throw to it right now in the Titan tron. Uh, Matt,
I just locked eyes with your mother in the front room. I didn't mean
it, Mom, I'm I'm scarred for life, but uh, I wanted
to take you up on that offer. Come on, come on, so
here he is Jack's legend, Jeremy. Come on, everybody keep your pants
on. Okay, we're just gonna that's gonna talk about Action figures. All
right, that's a reserve for John Cena Forgot six. Oh, I'm like
you got a comedian beer Jesus. For those who don't know Jeremy, Jeremy,
I think you're a living legend. You are the man behind the Jack's
Classic Superstars. I always pretl it like uh, I always pretser like the
movie Old School. You're the Godfather's Yeah, Jeremy, hold bike to your
mouth. Yea, yeah, what is that? Godfather likes to hold the
mic a little low. Jeremy tell us like how Jackson was just putting out
random stuff, great stuff, but yeah, nobody was doing classic things until
you came on board. What what gave you that idea? So I came
into Jackson two thousand and two, and before they had treated the Action figure
universe like kids toys, right, I mean basically, wave after wave.
It was as much product as they could put out there. And they were
doing a great job. I mean, don't get me wrong, they were
enough phenomenal job. Most of the time. They were doing a great job.
Um, and so when I came in, I look, I grew
up loving wrestling and so and I love the history wrestling and the biggest challenge
was getting you know, Bens McMahon and the WWE to embrace the classic wrestling
nostalgia. It wasn't it was never presented presented. So the first wave,
when we went to WWE and we had the conversations, the feedback was essentially
like, you know, yeah, we're open to it. And I said,
well, what if we went for like ultimate ware? And I fully
expected them to say no, but they said go for it. And it
was interesting because the way the contracts were put together, the biggest concern was
that if we went out and we signed someone that was not part of the
WWE current roster, that we would be in our situation where we would have
potential liabilities, we'd have potential issues. But WWE allowed us to essentially put
together a program where we would basically sign guys and if they were ever signed
to the alumni roster, we would immediately transfer all rights to WWE. So
it gave us the best of both worlds, and that's the reason why we're
able to sign some of the guys that you would never have imagined that we've
been able to sign. So now we're here in this intimate setting and we're
all friends. Yeah, give us a good story. What was a very
adventures signing? I mean you got some some wild characters. Yeah, there
was some, there was some unusual. We tracked, uh, we tracked
Marty Janetti down, you know, that's not easy to keep going in a
YMCA bathroom and basically put the contract under a stall essentially, and we're pretty
sure he signed it. Yeah, I'm gonna say it was him. I
can't say for certain, but I'm gonna say it with him. But at
the time there was Brett Harry, Ultimate Warre. Those guys weren't a part
of the w B family, and you were able to get them, and
you made some of the best figures ever in The line continued for like,
well, twenty sets or so oh yeah, twenty seven, twenty eight?
What what what's the best one that you worked on? Your favorite? Get
so my favorite? So again, When I was a kid growing up in
Tennessee and Mississippi, when Rick Flair would come to town, um, it
was southern. Yeah, yeah, come on, and none of that I
know I grew up in. Now, aren't all juice from the South.
I thought I thought we were here, what thirty four years on this earth?
The other first one I met, all right, yeah, no,
So when I was thirteen years old Rick Flair, I was standing right next
to the entrance stage in Columbus, Mississippi, and that and that curtain opened
up, and I had my Polaroid camera and I snapped a photo right as
Rick Flair literally pushed me to the ground, and I thought, this is
the greatest thing I've ever experienced in my life. So my favorite, my
favorite figure, my favorite opportunity was working on that Rick Flair. Like,
I think we did a red robe at one point, and yeah, Metello
just did a very similar one, but I like, you're in better.
Yeah, I'm sorry. He's getting real serious with that comment. Look at
that face, look at that sweat bill. No, listen, you know
what so exactly as h no, but but you know, the things that
I had really loved was doing the superlimited edition because not not because it was
necessarily the best thing from a from a broad consumer standpoint, but it got
interested in the brand. So what would happen is we do these superlimited editions
and then people who usually collect Taibini babies are buying superlimited edition wrestling figures and
selling them for a profit and getting a ton ton of people excuse my language.
Yeah, so I could say the S word. Yeah, you know
how much work Smart markets into our show to bleep out all the curses.
Oh, it's impossible, but here we just let loose. So no,
I mean, look, it gave us, It gave us that opportunity.
It gave us the opportunity to basically go as deep as we wanted to and
celebrate the entire roster. And and frankly speaking, I'd love to I'd love
to see wwe continue that that pursuit. So you talk about the exclusive figures,
and I've been hunting. I've been trying to rebuy you know, I
buy things, I sell them, I rebuy, sell them rebut I have
since since I'll remember rebought the entire Classic Superstar collection. You made way to
many figures. Jea, No, but it's gotta even it's kind of those,
hands down, the most extensive wrestling figure in life ever. Right,
and tell us about those Ultimate Warrior exclusives that they were exclusive to him?
How did that happen? So? First of all, Ultimate Warrior was one
of the best business people in one of the best business people slash superstars I
ever dealt with and essentially when we were talking to him, we were making
the deal, he was like, He's like, that's fine, but and
I want the following things. Oh my god, And think about it from
a manufacturing perspective. Let's put this all in perspective. Okay, these when
you do a one of five and it ultimately ends up selling for thousands and
thousands of dollars, it doesn't cost you thousands of dollars to make it.
It cost you dollars to make it. The thing is, you don't want
to do that every day because you end up aggravating everyone. But if you
can do that for a special personality like that, it allows you to kick
off a line and to have longevity with wine. It was exactly what we
were looking to. I mean, I just bought, like we got drunk
and bought a bunch of these harm segment on the show, and I bought
using the best offers on eBay, almost all those Ultimate Warriors. But I'm
only missing the one of five USA Ultimate Ward. You're never gonna find that.
I mean, if anyone had one, you buy it right now.
I'm a thousand dollars Rosky, Do you have it? Horrible? What what
what's this guy doing? Look in here? One second? One second,
Wait a minute, hey guys, it's got an Horker going on. Let's
going on. It's an I don't believe that. Okay, let me see
it. It's graded. That's authentic. That's authentic, one of five signed
graded Ultimate Warrior. That's the real deal. This, sir, sir,
is this for sale? Sure? Sure the price is right? You hold
this for now? Um? Oh, I mean, I mean I should
be saving up for like an engagement or something. But Chelsea got here.
She's too busy, learned how to wrestle the performance centa, taking bumps like
little Mark can we's what are we gonna do here? Back and forth like
opening Ben how much? I ain't my ten sunglasses? No? No,
no, no, no, she's not okay, Ol, Carol can okay
baby baby? By I did I thought you were hurt. I thought you
weren't coming here. Baby can just come down, babe, Just taking deep
breath, listen you you just you ruined myself. But tell me, hey,
hey, I'm actually I'm actually glad you're here. Um. I know,
I know your birthday's coming up, and uh, I know there's something
you've really really been wanting. So baby, you can just take a step
back and can you just close your eyes for a second. I probmise you're
gonna love this. Close them, cover them up, baby, baby,
Baby, it's your very old steel cage customing. Yeah, that's beautiful.
That's beautiful. Yes, it is beautiful. I should I should be mad.
I should be mad because you're not spending that money on a ring or
a toy. You're gonna spend it on this, right this, after everything
we've been through, nor the long deep passionate Greg two up talks right,
the figure hunting and Walmart browers. The figure baths So yes, I love
you, I love you, I love you. I will I will accept
that ring. Right. Okay, this is a really nice reading. I'd
really appreciate this. Someone got this for me, Jesus. Okay, should
we should we get Jeremany back out here? I said, yeah, I
almost bought a figure from talk about guy Chelsea Ruded. What a cockbox she's
been? All right? Okay, um, oh my god, let's let's
settle this show down a little bit. And really I need to bring this
next guest out here, so he stops talking in the locker room so loud,
holy gentleman, probably my favorite person on earth besides my wife and my
daughter, the one man rock man Slide never bought it, almost wanted screamed
seeing your silent next shot swallow, say what the fuck is travelers and beat
me up the whole time. I looked up for a second, I was
like, Jesus Christ, is this is this? My mic? I don't
know what he said, but yeah, hey, man, what's going on
back there? Man staying? Baby? All right, y'all will take a
seat. Let's have a good totally what have we done? Stay? Holy
s a curse on you. We wanted you to be a surprise. We
wanted you to be a surprised but you were. No. No, we're
probably talking loud. Are you talking about liking asses? You can say whatever
you want? Okay, I say that back there? No he didn't.
You missed it? Right? Hey there here, there ain't no kids,
right No, that that's why we had this late night. Let's have a
damn good time. Baby. If you were upset, the doors were delayed
by a little this because he had my students corral and was telling stories and
I couldn't get him stop. Hey, honestly, he's telling the truth.
But hey, what you gotta tell the students some stories, man, right
right, you gotta, you know, give him some knowledge, let him
have some fun, let him know how to hell this work. Whoa,
Hey, sorry for my language if you don't like the cuss but I'm a
cusser sometimes. Oh, babies, Stang are you blown away by the uh?
How everyone's really taken to Stang since you're appearance on our show like the
sting them right? Oh, little one, Matt stan Babe, I actually
like your other name, Booker Age. All right, all right, listen,
this is a true story. This happened probably what was it thirteen years
ago maybe twelve years ago when these two there has been best friends forever,
started altogether. Oh, this is such a you know, great story.
All right, so things are finish. It's the truth though, No,
no, honestly, it is very It is a good story. Listen to
it if you want to hear it is a good story. But the first
time this is in Deep South days, Deep South back? What was that
third? People don't even know that existed because they're like, oh, NXT
is so great. They don't even know that we were in deep South.
Well, first off, I was the foundation of NXT. You foundation,
you're technically not lying still the ground that they go on? What if you
mean actually you and Fanango really built FCW, like really built it. Yeah,
yeah, that's crazy, Like yeah, did construction on it like Will
did. So he's not lying. No, that's that's a true story too.
Sorry, I'm sorry with the FCW days, I was the foundation up
in XT season one. He slater everyone else and here anymore? But is
that why stan Stan? What did you tell someone to play Stangs? Though?
Why this really happened? Is this the backdrop to Oh my god,
that's Stang, That's that's Stang. That's definitely Stang, the popadence I've I've
seen Stang, that Stang. That's that's gotta be Stang. He do it?
Don't do it? He don't do it? No, don't do it.
You gonna I ask your childhood hero. You should at least give him
a hug. Should least give him a hug. It looks like Howard Stern
Stang Stack. You hear what you're laughing at? Look at this? Whoa
stay? I know, ladies to tell, but hey, so what are
you? We had a lot of so much to talk about. I uh,
real quick, I just want to say last week wash It'll be you
know, it'll go down in the books no matter what, like as an
unforgettable week of my life. Um, the most exhist week of my life,
busiest and best week in my life exactly, and we don't have to
get into it like detail for detail, detail by detail. I want to
hear about the show. Well, a lot of it was self inflicted because
we had the show, so it was like we did the show, do
another show again? No, no, we are, but just it was
so much work and that just started a week of like insane work, you
know, it was insanity. Every night we had something when I think we
had six appearances Friday if you count like that. They made us do the
live thing for shop. We went live in shops on Instagram. Then we
had a signing, then we had a what else. It was so much,
it's like a blur. It started with Wednesday with the show. Then
Thursday I got engaged. Then I took my dad to the opening day.
Yo. Like Friday, like you said, we had the the live shot
for a shop, then we had the actual sign then we just signing but
then we had like a break. Then we went back for access and we
had the matail thing animals health and that's a lot of things. And Ziggler's
comedy show was supposed to start at midnight, it was late and started at
almost one thirty in the morning. And Paradise invaded Carolines again, which did
we release that today? It will be out by the time comes out look
on our YouTube channel. That will be exclusive vlog all about invading guys love
those YouTube dot com slash Major WF. Basically it got down to like me,
you and Truth sitting in this little green room in our full stomp gear
like three in the morning, just like staring at each other, like,
oh my god, what are our lives? Um? But we had to
go to Carolines again. We had to say thank you to Ziggler because Ziggler
came to the live Major WF pod. Now, guys, we're not going
to release, um the footage of that that live show. We're not going
to release the audio, but we can talk about a little bit. It
was. It was great. It was It was inside a lot of work,
a lot of work, but it all paid off. Um. I
think the hundred plus people that came saw something very special. They got their
money's worth. Yeah, and I made a point like at the meet and
greet, it talks people Like. My biggest concern was I didn't want anyone
because we put such a high price point on it. But like I wanted,
I wanted to make sure everyone left that place. How much free stuff
did we give? God? Forget about off the hop rope open the show.
First, we John E three off the hop rope Kuzy when you walked
in the door. Johnny for those who don't know or dude tho. Johnny
was the voice of my Backyard Wrestling Federation. I got him booked for this
show. He did a great job, so thank you, Johnny. And
then we had off the hot rope with the U with the opener, and
they played a match of us which is plasma us versus Tranferetta. No,
it's a three way meet pros versus him um from a overweight camp. That
camp. I don't know if twenty nineteen you could say that okay, overweight
camp. Yeah, weight loss camp, weight loss camp. And uh actually
Tommy Boy from Massachusetts was the crooked promoter. Yes, he ran that overweight
camp. We didn't get paid. Yeah exactly. I just remember there's a
picture of all of us at a bar after the Overweight Camp show and Strikers
just like doing like nice tight trices like he's such a crazy oars. They
were like yellows, We're all like nineteen and Strikers like forty three. Yeah.
Um but yeah. So we put that on our YouTube channel, so
if we're going to enjoy it and laugh at us, so check that out
as well. And then our first guest was Matt Maverick ak a tony nice
and which, to be honest, sentimentally and emotionally, this is my favorite
segment that we absolutely planned. And the night before I was at Target buying
a refrigerator for all my meals and I was the target of Brooklyn I wish,
Oh my god. I went to the toy aisle of course, and
there was three kids titles just chilling there. It was two raw tag team
battles and the Cruiser Worries. Okay, this is a sign I have to
buy them that you never told me that it was like that. It was
like that makes it, That's all it was. It was two tag team
titles and one cruise away. So gave me that. I'm like, bro
chill out, like no, it was like, let's not count these eggs.
But no, before I saw those three, that's more like, that's
more like a good luck charm. Yeah, I'm like, God, I
get him. And then uh so later on the day of WrestleMania, I
put the tag team title in Hawkins bag. Obviously I already had mine,
and but at the live show we kind of swerved. We got a punked
Niece and said, hey man, you have a figure, but here's your
toy cruise away title. We we wish you look at WrestleMania. Yeah,
and then he held it up and then the Mattel guys came out, bill
dripping all over, ravishing, Robert rashing. Robert is still holding strong as
our favorite. He's our only Jedi. Let's see see if he gets corrupted
turn eventually, and they announced that Tony Niece be having not one but two
figures in the basic slash core line. I don't have the answers to I
wish we We haven't followed up on that a way. I think it's both.
But a fan tweeted us this week that the cases say core. Now
I know we haven't asked the elite two guys. So okay, we're totally
f and up here, guys. Sorry, Tony n we were. We
did a live reveal our our little stupid podcast that we're doing about toys.
We had a live comic Cotyle reveal. There's a lot to this, Like
if you don't know the backstory, guys, Tony started with us literally all
the same year in two thousand and three, the same wrestling school, and
we got signed right away and and he didn't make it. And when Trent
burt I got signed, people thought he was gonna sign with him, and
he didn't either. But you know what, he didn't quit. He didn't
even cry about it. He kept working his ass off. He did any
indie show he can get on. One of my favorite things that he was
actually in TNA and they weren't using him, and there was like some weird
time period where you could take other bookings as well, and he got offered
to work MUDA and they were like, oh, we don't want you to
do that. He's like, well I'm doing it, and they're like,
well then you're fired. He's like okay, and like he took it.
You know it took another chance on himself. So it's been a long,
long road from him and this was like some weird little segment that like we
came up with and we told him to tell guys and they did what they
could. Made no idea. Even at one point, I'm like, he's
stay in the ring, staying sill Legit surprised him so bad and I could
just tell that, like we got him and it was like almost it was
pretty emotional. It was very you could have ended the live show right,
really was. It was pretty cool. I think he was also like what
what am I doing here? I think he didn't like understand and we got
him so bad and so good that I was like, oh, yes,
like what a great moment. And you're right. I mean that he's someone
who who who who ate ate ship and liked it for so many years and
now it's finally paying off being in WW getting two figures, he won the
Cruiserway title wrestle just to feel good situation by the way around him. If
his career ends tomorrow. He won the Cruiserway title at WrestleMania in his hometown.
For sure, that's a storybook career right there. In my opinion,
we can't. We have to people a quick. People are quick, quick,
quick quick. So next we had Jeremy Badoer, the Godfather, the
legend, the legend. I did not as they can get all disclosure.
I wanted to. I wanted to, But Jeremy step that did you see
it? You see that shirt someone made like tongues to asses. Horrible?
Jeremy, I love you. But Jeremy, we talked about the Clutch Superstar
line. He gave us a lot of insight on how he created it.
And then I started talking about how I wanted to purchase the Warrior America figure,
the one of five, and then who had it? Talk about guy?
Had it? Talk about guys, talk about guys. Alleged he brought
his Warrior America very like official case. He looked like Erwin R. Shister
with the briefcase like it was like this even more serious than that briefcase.
And then as I'm about to buy this figure from talk about guy, outcomes
Chelsea Green, my my at the time, not my fiance time, just
my girlfriend. She came out. She was very pissed. Uh, and
I got down on one knee and I gave her a ring. But it
wasn't the engagement ring. It was a steel cage caused somethings, Chelsea Green
ring, and she pretended to like it, but then she just gave me
a good old low blow. I feel like this isn't fair for the people
that paid to come see us, and we're gonna do more and there's gonna
be incentive, so we need to just run to the Steven in less detail,
less detail detail was Stang. Next stag was next Heaths later, the
one man rock band, living up to his reputation as a wild wow man,
was confronted by his boyhood idol Stang. So is it Stanger? Stings?
Who's Stang? Who Stang is He's favorite wrestler. I think Stang is
Heath and he was one of them got into it. There's a little physicality.
Um. The next stag, we saw the villain friend of the show,
the villain he uh he came in the play was going nuts. They
had no idea who was gonna be there. No one knew anyone, right,
Ye, all surprise guests except Heath was talking so loud, so glad
anybody could have heard anybody. Yeah, but yeah, thanks to Marty for
coming. Uh you know he had an ROH World title match in Massacre Garden
that weekend and just said, hey, let me do a toy podcast.
Also brother loves toys Man, we appreciate it. Yeah. After Marty,
who was ringside raffo ring with all the free stuff that you guys could handle,
gave out a bunch of First of all, let's just say Mattel gave
out some free stuff. That was another thing. We didn't even know.
The Mattel guys throughout a ton of crazy. They were also chilling Applebee oh
Man, Kay Fabe Bill, Oh my god Bill, Kay Nick Lord.
Um they made you, we made you famous. Yeah. Uh Jesus Christ.
But the Mattel guys coming through and uh ringside really coming through ringside,
Steel Cage, Customs in the House, Zombie, Zombie Pinpin and easy.
I don't think people on the pod don't know about this because it hasn't been
really public information. There's a one of ten pins. Oh, there was
everyone who came at a free Zombie Sailor toy. Mayor of pod Pin which
stay tuned to Zombie Sailor Toys. We have a little overstock that we're gonna
put up very soon. Yes, limited, very very limited, but a
little bit overstock. So if you want the VIP pass lanyard and exclusive whole
thing, I would check Zombies Instagram like a hawk Beach the website when these
uh yeah, okay, well either way, it's gonna be very limited and
it's going up. Side note to that. At the show, Zombie unveiled,
Hey, check under your seat, there's a one of ten pin and
alternate New York Jets colors. Pained me to do the Jets that I'm a
Giants guy myself, but who's your who's your favorite player on the Giants?
I don't know the icebox anyway, So Pinpinasy Ziggler came out stealing the show,
super kicking everybody. John from her excited that he's about he was probably
move. Trevor took it, Steel Cage Customs took it. Zombie was bleeding
all over the place, got some color, uh, and then Zigler came.
We talked about life, we talked about love, and we talked about
some z R d Z stickers and those were given out, and we we
gave him out. I also put one of those of my WrestleMania gears,
so I'm hoping to tell makes some some Zach Redder figures with that is wishful
thinking. But our relationship with Bill like hurts our figures. Get it.
It's like like right, he takes his favoritism right, like nobody gives a
damn But I shouldn't say nobody gives a damn Ittels but like we love it.
We we I'm gonna say it weekly he from love it. We should
have had a battle pack right out just because of this podcast team for like
two months that i'd even as a free advertising throw throw some bones. Then
I don't understand we're passionate about it, but I think there, I think
you know what that Steve Corporate Seve was where I got to make another knock
on Mary. But the fact is Steve was wearing a major pod show to
access them at a lot. It does things like that count, and we're
legit friends with this guy. Have you see the video all night of Bill
marking out hard RD. I honestly can't believe because I thought he hated us.
So Bill, we love you, Ravishing, Robert, we love you
Corporate, we love you. Let's talk about um and then wait the main
event. But backtrack, I came out in a thousand dollars Brosky I was
saying, up to made by Rick Michaels are good, fred Rick and I
actually threw out thousand dollars Brosky bucks. I did, like, so if
you met matter I had access, and you had some kind of major merchant,
he would give you a Broski Bucks. That's great, No, a
nice touch. I thought it was a very cool thing to do. And
then the main event. I thought the show was over, but we did
a live incarnation of Domination with Gangrel full Entrance, Brood music, my mother
spitting the Blood, which I went to Creative for this week. The blood
is all over the spring steps and I need to clean that Legit had his
action figures there and checked them out and discussed them with him. So it
was pretty cool. And he's he's a great guy, like I had like
a weird burp. Yeah, he's such a great guy. It's just a
legend. I like, like, I don't know if I should say this,
but we paid him to be there, right, and he was like
flabbergasted by like that we paid him just sit there and talk about boys for
ten minutes. I paid him even more. I mean, I think he
was looking to take some bumps, you know what I mean, Like he
was just like blown away. He is a work Yeah, he's great.
I'm like, dude, No, that's it. That's all you have to
play when that music came with those red lights and and thanks to smart Mark
for setting this whole thing. Without smart Mark, forget the whole show would
have been. It wouldn't even have been a backyard child. It would have
been everybody who contributed. Uh, what about Brian Britt came in and cut
my hair? About my wife Liz worked the merch stand? What about little
Mark Jack who gave it instagrammed never there, you're a number one fan,
Jack Thomlinson number one Mark Instagram. I mean we uh it's a real mom
and pop shop production, but we got it done in it. I think
it was just such a special evening. I didn't get home and go to
sleep till four in the morning. It was just a wild night. The
VIP afterward was great to meet everybody, meet every major Mark, Johnathan full
Locker was there, Wildcat Bells, Tugboat Guy, so many of our regular
jove in, so many regulars that dude, it sounds weird, but his
name is. His name is Yokozuna, like two words. He gave us
those blue rays with all our Deep South matches. Oh okay, you know
stuff like that. It's just like we basically just can't say thanks enough,
like so many major marks, so many regulars, and we're gonna forget some
names, and if we're getting you, we're sorry, but we love you.
Did you guys make this thing go and you know, keep it going
and as special as is, and that night was I'll never forget it.
It was. It was a huge success. I mean, no doubt about
it, but it can hindue on to Access. We had a bunch of
Access appearances, meeting all our fans, meeting all the major marks, the
Carolite Show, Hall of Fame, and then we had a little bit of
this in my notes. I wanted to discuss it because the guy was so
cool and I just wanted to throw it out there. We were at Access
and this guy like, we're Matt and I are sitting side by side,
and like, when you're doing that, the people that run it, you're
just trying to get as many people in as possible because that's what they're paying
for for sure. So it's hard, like, Okay, when we're doing
the meeting, great this at the major you know our live show, we
can hey did you do this show? We talk to people. Johnny is
the security guys. I'm saying, there's no rush, you know, you're
just like, okay, whatever, Like we're gonna stay here until all these
hundred whatever people are done. Like then that's the end of story and access.
It's like you have two hours to sign as much stuff as humanly possible,
and everyone's been very rushed whatever. So once you're get in that mode,
you're just doing it. You're doing it and doing it. This guy
from my recollection, he just throws this replica title down right in front of
us. Oh, I know you're talking about and we both sign like just
right away, y tile. But it was upside down, so you didn't
know. No, okay, So I signed the backside, the leather side.
He goes, oh, did you just sign that? I go yeah,
He goes, I only wanted Zach too, And then I see it's
a it's a replica Icy title. And I'm not kidding. I think every
living person that helped, every living person that held the Icy title is on
it. Like and he was I, as like a fan and as a
collector, was like, oh my god, what I just do to this
guy's life. And he was not mad, and he could have been such
a dick about it. I mean also, he could have said, don't
sign this like right away, and that's fine. We've done signings before.
People have the icy title. They're like, oh, I only want Matt
to sign and it's like, okay, that makes sense because you held that
and I didn't like this. I'm just saying, but it's not like offensive
to me. But he didn't say anything, and I was like, oh
dude, my bad. I mean, like paint pen, like this thing
is done. It was like a bluepen sounding and end he was like it
was him. I take some nail posh remember and wipe that. I think,
like immediately he could have tried, but once it sets it's gonna.
I would. I would no offense to you, but I would get some
like black sharpie and cover it up or something. I don't know, unless
you win. I mean I was looking to do. He had like a
beautiful Ricky steamboat on there, and I'm just Zack Rider. Ricky Steve,
you honestly, you probably ruined it by signing. Yeah. Man, I
was like, whoa, sorry, he could have been such a jerk and
he was cool about it. So I just want to say sorry again about
that. It was so cool the whole weekend meeting all our major marks,
whether they had a hat or a T shirt, like, there were so
many of you guys, and we thank you because without you guys, there
would be no major pod. We love our major marks, and uh,
I think you guys love us, and uh, you wrap up this housekeeping.
I have one more thing. Go ahead, we're gonna talk about Sunday,
a little thing on Sunday or man, it's fine. Mark Sterling did
a run in Marks like several Wrestleman appearances. He took out the SNL guys.
He carried them out after the Eyes of the Gimond war about Royal and
then he did a run in during the Shane miss. We were just on
the kickoff no one, I mean Mark main show. I think it's all
Main Show. But Mark made me so proud. I was so happy to
see smart Mark vsk all your creative poor guys were there of course. Um
so here's here's my last little note. If we're gonna move on, I
went to Ringside Colexibles this week. Trevor, who was at the live show,
told me the story that he talked to Chelsea and soad that you don't
break down your boxes. That's true, okay, So I I get a
ridiculous amount of packages in my house. You get more than that, an
insane ant, and you don't. This is what I do. I should.
This is illegal. I should even saying this. I will fill up
my entire car trunk every day. I have a jeep with the boxes and
take them behind the La Fitness and throw them in the dumpster. Okay,
Normally human beings like I man, I get a package, I open it,
I check out my thing. I take that box to the box cutter.
Two seconds, it's flat and I have a whole stack. You go
out with my recycles on the recycling day, I take them behind the La
Fitness. But to be fair, but I got you. You spoiled some
of my weekly purchases. But I got Retro Series nine this week for myself.
I was there and try to put him in your box. Told me
the story. I was checking up mine and then he'd Trever shipped two box
cutters for Chelsea. Do you know it's like a dollar product, right,
Like, I don't understand it never crossed your mind to break them down.
I break it out so much eas of my car throw him out after the
gip man is that weirds well up? Next is the WTF figure of the
week. All right, the WTF figure of the week lately just been me
surprising you. You haven't really been coming to anything anything. You asked the
patroons and they get they feed you information. It's not really probably had this
figure. I never did. Now I don't know if Mark Mattel has this
figure, and I think he might need it. It is the tie square
one of six hundred figure nature boy whoo Rick Flair russelling a twenty Titan Tron.
Not this figure to be right. I mean it's like hanging out on
a Sunday rec flare, like black jeans maroon. Yeah, there's that.
He's not exactly style of a profile in here. Uh is this? I
don't great question? I don't know now. The other one is a triple
H digression. Yes, so these two figures dropped at the same time time
and all I remember this was in my days of like I had to have
every single thing of every Jack's product. So it was like a big deal.
Like me and Todd, who we referenced last week, we had to
go get these like immediately and it was like this huge deal, thinking we'd
never have him or see him again six hundred Did you think that's lit?
But there's they're just they're still an email like yeah, it's not like,
yes, I know, Mark has to get it for sure. We Actually
that's something that might be cooler than the baggage because as the stick of the
time square, I think you got it like otherwise it because he's just like,
like I said, hanging out on a Sunday player Rick Is. We're
like just T shirts out of Sunday. He's always on suit right, Yeah,
I don't know what the mindset would be, especially with something like you
said, one of whatever like so important, like at least from a resume
a twenty shirts. I'm a rude T shirt literally just him hanging out.
It was a rude T shirt. The guy who made wearing suits famous.
He's wearing a rude T shirt. And it's a tight drum. It's a
tight drun. What they all right? Anyway? Up next is the Q
and a all right, The Q and A asks a question every week using
the hashtag ask major pot. If we read your question on air, we
will send you a best wishes a pot ten. By the way, so
I've been personally, uh packaging all these prints. Yes, now, we
had signed them previously. Yes now I people were saying that they wanted to
personalize that if you put that in the notes when you order, then I'll
do it because I'll see like every has like a note. Yes, yes,
right, So someone um wrote I want the best wishes and a stay
true and I'm like, well, Brian's not here, I'm not gonna write
stay true. I would like, that's not true. You're gonna have to
get it from you. Sorry, that's not at the airport. But somehow,
Yeah, we want everyone to try to People are asking why did we
sign so small. It's because we want people to try to get everybody.
We had a group decision about this that like if we would ever bought a
paint pen and sign g enormous on it, Like there's two things. One.
I truly feel this is like a work of art. Maybe it was
the coolest thing. TTD has done some unbelievable things for us. I think
this might be the most impressive, of course, but like this is maybe
the most impressive, Like as far as I I would truly call it a
work of art. So if we were to like just almost like deface that
with a giant signature, I didn't think that would be right. Then.
The other rationale behind it was if we just sign it with a black sharpie
on ourselves, it would give incentive to the people that have them to maybe
try to collect all the other little Easter eggs that are in there, And
it'd be a fun thing to do and a doable thing because everyone has a
black sharpie and whatever you can say right now, I will give somebody I'm
a thousand obrowski the first person who gets every single one with verification like a
picture of you person, good luck on some of those. I will paypalt
one thousand dollars friends of family. That's a that's a big problems. Pretty
cool, and you get right. And the Mildew cards, huh, and
the mid one thousand dollars in the and the set of Mildew cards. I
guess this. I'll be twenty five. Okay, yeah, I mean that's
that's a tall task, but that's a lot of incentive possible. Yeah,
um, all right, well what do you all right? My question is
from respected booker man at its underscore Tyler hashtag asked major pot. Is there
a gimmick that never got over enough to deserve a figure, but you think
should have at least gotten a T shirt or something. I've scoured the internet
hoping that someone other than me also wanted a fat chick thriller shirt enough to
print one up. No luck so far I did. Um, that was
such a that's my awesome reference. I was. I was a huge,
my awesome fan, so I did not. I was not a big fat
chick thriller. Let me get the question right. Questions kind of all over
the place. One should I got a shirt? Someone who at least like
should have? I mean, maybe it figures out a question, but like
some kind of merch even then they didn't even get I mean, my biased
answer to that would be the first one that popped in mind was Tyler Rex.
Tyler Rex, should I got a figure? When I first saw Tyler
Rex at FW, I was like, this guy is going to be a
superstar. And that was way before he even tagged with them and stuff.
Not to mention he looks toy atic like figures thing that like he never he
didn't. I don't think it's anything. It's a couple of training cards.
How did he not get right? I think he was penciled into a battle
pack like right before it he ended his career. But uh so it was
there on the table. Lately, I don't know why I've been it's been
really bothering me that Masato Tanaka has no action figured representation, which is kind
of mind blowing considering that he's CW guy, CW champion, very successful,
everyone who ever got I know, I know, I know, but that
that there's there's a couple that are like head scratchy at this point three minute
warning during that r era where they're making everybody and they were definitely planning on
making one hundreds and that mold supposed to be them in that era. Um,
is there a three minute warning T shirt? I don't know. There
might be like a right, like a licensed one. I let's see a
good one like if the past couple of years. Um, in recent times,
I don't think Alex Riley ever had a w W E T shirt,
right it had a figure? Yeah? Who I think he's making a come
back to the wrestling many David C told me he's coming to his town soon.
I always thought Alex Riley was moneyla or I should have been a big
big star. There's still time, of course. Um a very interesting question.
I mean I would say, you know, Alex Riley for T shirt
Rex for uh, how about what could have been with like Mordecai, how
toy edic and oh yeah, right, something like that. Wow, there's
so many people. I mean, we're always gonna questions all over the place
because Boom shirt boom who knows Cobana? Obviously that question is all over the
place because my assom had uh plenty figures, but the Fat Chick thriller didn't
take off, you know when he had a little gimmick change in WCW.
But yeah, what about what like like that, like drastic gimmick like there's
no like Hacksaw Canadian merch drastic gimmick changes that weren't Do you really need that
though? No, I'm just saying Landstorm never got a WW figure. Yeah,
I think and that WW shirt if you count the an Americans one,
that's about That's fine about it? Huh. Wow, we can go on
all out of it. Yeah, this question I thought was very interesting and
I even tried to kind of got into a little debate. But I was
talking with a guy about it on Twitter, and I'm like, you know
what, like, instead of me talking to him back and forth, let
me just hear your opinion. This from at Hail to the Skins Underscore ever
seen or heard of the documentary Nintendo Quest, the guy tries to complete the
entire NS collection in thirty days on a budget without using eBay. We're doing
this, Hasbro collection be possible? It would make for great content. I
agree, And then I said this. I said, Wow, that's awesome.
I'll have to watch. Where can I see it? But what is
a budget? That's a very relative term. For instance, I bought the
entire set in one day, and I was on a budget, Like everyone's
budget is different. Also, what I bought the set for is cheaper than
what you would buy them for individually. So I believe it that I got
a deal. Yeah you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, so
yes, maybe I overpaid for like the Bushwhackers, but I drastically underpaid for
guys like one through three, kid smoking gun my gut ins thing, impossible,
impossible because there's no we go to these novelty stores. There's not just
there's no store in America or green cards are just sitting there, so boom.
Maybe count on one hand the amount of times it's all men on card
Hasbro even yeah, right, even like and even a foreign card Hasbro would
be shocking to see. He doesn't stress men on card or or loose,
but even loose, I don't see it. It'd be very tough, honestly.
And this is I don't even think you could do it on eBay in
a month, luc you could, Lucia could on eBay, men on card
on eBay and probably not way real race against time and it really really this
really wants it really makes me want to watch his Nintendo that's I think it's
a very intriguing free game. Ever, Like that's what I want to find
out, um because like I said, like I bought the entire hasboal collection.
We should ask AJ about that. I will ask it. Yeah,
AJ wants to collaborate with the major rest of your podcast and video games,
right, well, we'll get it done. But like watch that YouTube video
where I bought the entire Hasbro collection in one shot. Like people think like,
oh my god, you spent a lot of money, and I did
in one shot. But if you piece it out and wouldn't it wasn't it
wasn't too insane. So I would have went to like not as insane as
what this person saying, like the task that would be like ahead of you,
I don't have Let's say there's ninety figures. I don't know. There's
a thing I can't think of that would be in a month, like putting
a bone crunch crunch collection would be you can't do it. Yeah, So
it took me a year to the date, and I guess technically I still
you know, you were like, oh you'r Heenan's not the one he may
you could do it for an LGN and not care about money, yeah,
or condition. I know because even when I pieced together by LGAN collection,
Uh, condition was my main focus. And it still took a year.
Like unless you're in a card paying out the assid and opening them, which
is insane. Imper to say about these hasbros is that yes, I spent
a lot of money because I brought him in one lot. But let's say
I went to ninety different people I gotta steal, like, so I do
have it in the budget like I didn't over I didn't overpay one bit like
when you average it out, like I spent like I think a perfectly fair
amount of money. I think I'm the first one to make funny. But
I think so all those cases. Okay, here you go, excellent question.
I want to watch that. All right, that's it. Thanks for
bringing my figures. I'm gonna help down a chep on my head about it.
I'm gonna post a little surprise spect from just behind. That's fine.
Yeah, little butts in there, butt in there? Oh baby? All
right, guys, keep scratch that figure rich later he's out. All right.
Well, that's it for this week. We just got through another fantastic
episode. WrestleMania season is in the books. A huge congratulations to the major
babe, Chelsea Green on making her WrestleMania debut. Congrats to Matt and Brian
on a successful Live sixteen and a successful WrestleMania week. Of course, Mark
Sterling and throwing him in there as well, he had a great WrestleMania week
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