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The Hardy Boyz are the GOATS!

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Speaker 1

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Made Major World Order.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another major wrestling figure podcast live show.

This time feature in Matt and Jeff Lohrry Boys, my name.

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Is Billy Peck.

Speaker 3

Thank you all so much for being here.

Speaker 5

Have fun, have a great time, enjoy the show.

Thanks Herman for starting this thing off, and let's get the show.

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Roland, Boys and girls.

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I am smart Smart Mark Martin Sterling.

Speaker 7

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the producer of the show, My.

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Star, my smartest professional wrestler.

Speaker 7

Please welcome the most professional wrestler, he Na, a member of Le Systems.

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Surrie, My.

Speaker 6

God, this is a man there.

Speaker 2

Look at me and look at you.

Now look at me and look at you.

Speaker 3

What put that mean?

Speaker 1

You want to do?

Speaker 2

Now look at me, then look at you.

That's not things that's down the window half.

Speaker 1

Das wait the window, there's waiting wadow looking up to pluck you wadow make up they put that.

Speaker 4

We want them to look up that boys done with you all ways?

Speaker 7

Ready and lastlyase grand loose sight.

It's a world wrestling entertainment.

Speaker 1

Hell else, don't cushing, no craze to.

Speaker 7

You, not saying please loose wise in my mouth sleeping w.

Speaker 1

For the noise.

I don't you go and talk?

Speaker 4

I play with the boys if I'm pressing.

Speaker 3

You want the cushing?

Speaker 1

What's going on you guys?

You've broken up or something?

Well, we got some big guests coming out.

Speaker 4

Okay, I got some guests.

Speaker 1

Welcome every one days for coming.

Speaker 9

Welcome everyone to the Live Major Recipe Podcast.

Speaker 4

What number is this?

Mark?

Speaker 1

Twenty two, twenty three two three three is it?

What is it?

Speaker 4

Twenty day Twist of Fate.

We have the Hardy boys here tonight.

Speaker 1

We almost we almost didn't have the hardy boys here.

Speaker 9

We almost to have the Hardy boys.

Were almost did have Brian.

We're almost didn't have me, but we're here.

Yeah, show must go on, The show must go on.

We have all these major marks in attendance.

Speaker 1

Full house of the Tin Roof love it.

Speaker 4

Thank you to Tin Roof.

The best easiest setup right.

Speaker 1

Mark Oh my god, our man in the booth over there, shout out to our guy.

Thank you very much.

Speaker 9

We got the Major pod crew.

Everyone helping out.

CIS is here.

Cheap plug for CRS.

Yeah, get the side Hardy Boys figure signed.

Speaker 1

Let's get it.

Speaker 4

Get the signed Hardy Boy Sign theme songs.

Speaker 1

Today.

Speaker 4

I had my new song, Uh you stole Downstate from me?

They couldn't.

Speaker 10

Downstate system theme available this Friday, guys.

Speaker 1

I love that.

Speaker 4

I don't know WENSD is gonna be available.

Speaker 1

It's not available yet.

Speaker 4

It's not available yet.

Speaker 6

You can hold the mic if you want.

Yeah, you guys can yeah, hold the mic anyway.

Speaker 4

Anyway, Well, guys, this.

Speaker 1

Show is brought to you by Ringside Collectibles.

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We'll do a Ringside raffle after the.

Speaker 9

Show is Onside Raffle.

What else we got to talk about besides the Hardy Boys, anything else?

Brien's his pantsled.

Speaker 1

This is actually for you, guys.

Speaker 6

Brian is sick as a dog.

That's why we're actually we're so far away from him.

Speaker 1

I'm just don't eat his food.

I just really want to know I have food.

Speaker 3

But I'll be all right.

Speaker 1

Uh.

Speaker 4

I got a text actually from from Kit Wilson.

He wanted me to read it on.

Speaker 9

Air, okay, because uh yeah yeah both blue Kit Wilson.

Speaker 4

Bro Hi, Matt, Hi, Matt, this is Kit from work.

Speaker 9

You know, the pretty boy from that viral radio who attacked you blew up on TikTok.

Speaker 4

ESPN was posting about it.

Anyway.

Speaker 9

I just wanted to wish you guys good luck with the live podcast today, and don't forget to talk about how cool my new figure is going to be.

What color would you prefer to see me in?

Pink or baby blue?

Also, I hope you're reading this out loud to the crowd.

High crowd.

Hi, Brian, Hi Matt, Matt and Jeffy didn't say.

Speaker 1

Hi, Marks, what the kid?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

Speaker 9

I used to jump off my garden wall onto the trampoline, hitting leg drops and swantons.

Sorry, I'm going up in a tangent now.

Anyway, I got your number from Chelsea.

I told her I was going to apologize to you, but then she just gave it to me and said, just kidding.

This is this is too long, kid, I can't read this whole thing.

Speaker 1

Why not?

Speaker 4

It's too long?

Speaker 1

We're just riveting content, am right, no riveting good all right.

Speaker 9

I told her I was gonna apologize to you, but when she gave it to me and I said, just kidding.

And then I said you should dump him.

He's toxic.

Speaker 1

Ha ha, that's why you didn't want to read it.

Speaker 4

I thought that was funny.

Anyway, the next time you want I can't read out loud?

Why not?

Speaker 9

No?

Speaker 1

I just no, you're fine and we we appreciate his stutters.

Speaker 9

All right, Come on, anyway, the next time you want to step up, let's do it in the ring.

See you soon, XO XO Kit Wilson.

Speaker 3

I like that guy.

Speaker 4

I like him.

Speaker 1

I like him.

Speaker 4

I don't like it he's toxic.

That's a plan, pal, bring out the greatest tag team of all time.

Speaker 1

Let's do it.

Okay, hopefully they're ready at the music Mark I needed.

Speaker 11

Whoa Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest tack team of all time, Man and.

Speaker 1

Spot Man.

That was my bad.

I forgot to tell Billy to bring you around.

Billy's just right there.

I was supposed to tell you to bring them around, my bad.

Crap boy, Hey you guys improvise.

Speaker 4

Thank you for that.

Your the intro to the show.

Speaker 1

Yeah, sorry, boys, what's up.

Speaker 3

Thanks for joining us, Hey, thanks for having us.

Speaker 1

I'm glad we didn't come around the way.

Speaker 12

I'm afraid Jeff would have seen that ladder and maybe tried to jump to these tables.

Speaker 1

Oh right, yeah, he's got a very bad Geek.

Speaker 9

I said this to you guys probably I want to say publicly thank you.

They had a travel day from hell yesterday to be here.

If I was them, I would have canceled.

But they're true pros, true goats.

Give it up for the hardy boys.

They came here for you guys.

Man, they might not make it home tonight.

These guys are fucking inspirations, legends, roll models.

I love you guys, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1

Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 12

And it's also I think it is so cool, Matt that you ended up being here.

I know you were in common situation.

You actually are back at the great game.

Speaker 4

That's happy to be right.

Speaker 1

Now, you know, son again Mahon a broken man already love Meek Mahon.

Speaker 12

But but man, it's so cool that you were able to get down here kind of do it on your own and hang out and we're doing the show man.

Speaker 1

It was important, I think to all of us so I'm glad that we made our book and brother, we love you Orlando, all right, it makes it happen.

Speaker 4

Oh yeah, I gotta ask about it because we just heard it.

Speaker 10

And I don't know if I've told you guys this, but sometimes like if me and Eddie are feeling like sluggish at TV, we're like, oh, the hardy is about to make their entrance, and we sneak up and we want to just hear it because that that song and obviously you guys got a big pop.

It's just fucking you know, it's an adrenaline rush.

Did you think when you first heard that song that it would become such an identifiable thing with you guys?

And just did you think it was something that was awesome or did it grow on you in time?

Speaker 7

Yeah?

Speaker 3

I had no idea back then.

I just remember hearing the other our first instrumental track that we had, I forget the name of it, but before loaded, and I liked it a lot better than that first one.

Do you remember the one?

It was like, yes, so yeah, I didentify with the drums right away.

Speaker 1

We did.

Speaker 12

We didn't have any type creative team putting a lot of thought process into our music.

Speaker 6

I can tell you that.

Speaker 12

But you know, once they put us with Michael Hayes, we did have that one generic music and it was like eh, and then they gave us this music which is Loaded, and we're like, ah, that's better, but like student drums crazy, We're like, we were like, you know, give us a cool rocking pearl jam song.

Speaker 1

Oh we're still yeah.

Whatever we were, we were we were dreaming and thinking real big little.

Speaker 12

Did we know that Loaded would become like one of the most iconic wrestling entrance music's ever and uh, the.

Speaker 1

One thing that was thank you.

Speaker 12

The one thing that was very beneficial for us is like it's uncopyrightable music and it's licensed music, so like it could try with different companies, which rarely ever happens in pro wrestling.

Speaker 1

Right, like lives on right.

Speaker 10

I think because of that, you know, especially now, you know, using it in TNA, using w B pretty eppy.

Speaker 4

Yeah, use it the Major rustbur podcast live.

Speaker 1

And the Orlando Yeah.

Speaker 4

Do we have everywhere about it?

Speaker 1

Do we have to pay for that?

Or no, We're good, you get away with it.

Okay, thank you, thank you, guys.

I have heard it.

Speaker 4

Commercials and stuff though throughout the time too.

Speaker 3

I heard it on ghost Hunters and advertising ghost Hunters one time, I was like, well, that's our music.

One thing I love about music though.

Man, the first time I heard no more words when it was pitched for me to have it as my singles, uh, career elevated, and I just didn't like.

Speaker 4

It at all.

Speaker 9

It was weird.

Speaker 3

That's what I love about music, though.

The first time I heard it, I was like, Oh, this ain't gonna work.

I was so used to the dun but Dona.

But then I grew on me so much and now I can imagine coming out to any other music.

But that's what I love about music.

Speaker 4

Man.

Speaker 3

It might not hit it first, but over time it's like, whoa, that was perfect and totally written for me.

Speaker 12

I ironically, they our music started getting over and people were really into our music earlier on when we were doing the Hardy Voice things, especially like you know, after we did the TC matches and everything else, and we're really established.

But then in two thousand and three ish, two thousand and two ish, maybe they actually had that liver for the moment.

The song I ended up using as Matt Hardy version.

Speaker 1

One slam a Tornado Yes Live for.

Speaker 12

The Moment, you know, by Monster Magnet, and they actually said, hey, this is where we got it, like a very.

Speaker 1

Song for you guys, that's personalized for you guys.

Speaker 12

It's called Live for the Moments for the Hardy Boys, and they played it to us and we're like, I think we'd rather keep doing the Hardy's music we currently have, which is loaded.

And then like once we split, I ended up getting it.

And at first I think when we heard it, we weren't that crazy about it.

But once I can't imagine Matt Hardy the sense they have Mattitude version one without that music now because it is so identifiable with like that character in that persona, and it's I tried to bring that back whenever Jeff was out and hurt and injured, but Vince wouldn't do it.

Speaker 1

I think if Triple H would have been there, I think the man with three eighth.

Speaker 4

Would have let it happened.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, we meet kamal Hah.

When we first started on the road No.

Speaker 10

Seven, you were singles and you come out that it was one of the bigger pops of the night.

I always remember that, you know that it became very identifiable.

Speaker 1

It did, Yeah, totally identifiable for me.

Speaker 9

Yeah, I don't know if the TNA run would be as exciting if it didn't have this identifiable music.

You know what I'm saying, Because it's it's just part of history.

It's part of wrestling history, no, no, no.

Speaker 1

Doubt about it.

Speaker 12

I mean that that music adds so much value to us, you know, coming out because it also connects there's so many people like I mean, we're both ancient, you know what I mean.

I'm over halfway to one hundred.

I'm just trying to stay off the box, you know what.

IM trying to stay alive.

But the fact that we have been doing this and we meet people all the times that are like in their mid thirties to late thirties, and now they have kids and their kids have become fans of man Jeff Hardy, and it's like, oh my god, this is so amazing.

You know, I was a fan of you as I was growing up as a child, and now my kids have of you, and it's like a very special bond we have.

Speaker 1

And the thing that is kind of in common with that is we have.

Speaker 12

The same music, you know what I mean, thirty almost thirty years later, which is why connected it is connective tissue.

Speaker 3

I've had this idea for a long time and I've been sending it out to the universe.

I'm just gonna send it out again right now and share with y'all.

But when I do have a singles match, like for example, last week I worked Mustafa Ali and like for another situation like that, when I have a singles match, I got this track and it started with so it's like don't don't dn't dn't dn't, don't du'n du'n dn't dun't don't don't don't dunt dun't dun't cool, and it slows down and then goes directly into my first ever TNA theme, my original song called Modest.

So I'm hoping that happens sometime this year.

Speaker 4

That'd be cool.

Yeah, that's sweet.

Yeah, I'm gonna talk to some people and make that happen.

Thank you, brother.

Speaker 1

Yeah, he's half used in the office.

Speaker 9

Guy like Brian was saying, the pop you get at these DNA shows once that music, it's unreal.

And then what a lot of these don't realize that you do these meet and greets after the show and you're at the arena the way after midnight sign it for like the harding seem like they're more over than ever.

Speaker 12

It's it's crazy.

I mean we are, we are blessed in that capacity.

I mean we did that whenever.

Initially when we were coming here before the whole storm was set up, we were leaving like at noon, and I was like, oh, we'll have a late night that night.

We'll be able to sleep in, maybe get in a workout, and then go to the airport, travel across get to Orlando.

But we changed the flight after the snowstorm.

And you know, Brian is kudos of this guy.

This guy changed his flight.

He traveled with us.

He stuck with the whole wall.

He probably wanted to make sure we weren't going to like take off and go home.

A little bit of that for sure, but no, he traveled.

Speaker 1

With the whole wall.

But I said, oh, cool, what time is the light?

And he's like seven am?

Speaker 12

And we did the post show meet and greet and it's like by the time we're getting home, it's three you know what I mean.

We we notoriously it's often in notorious that we end up saying to like three in the morning, like if we have a show, that goes to like eleven and we'll do a four hour maybe five hour post show meet and greet and it's crazy.

Speaker 1

It's crazy.

Speaker 3

After our match with the Dudleys at Slimmiversary, I think it was right at four am and stuff.

I think that set the record when yeah, last human Beings in line was like this eighty something year old woman that waited that whole time, and it just made my day.

I mean after seeing that, and the picture was so cool when she was so sweet and just so glad to be there.

So and I think the reason we might be more over now because in the big scheme of human existence, you know, our career is almost over and people want to hold on for as long as they can, and so do we.

So we're gonna do this thing until we can, you know, plain and simple.

Speaker 12

I do think one thing to add a little context to what he's saying.

We started that post show meet and greet and it was in Louiell, Massachusetts, outside of Boston.

We started at five till eleven.

Yeah, it was five to eleven and we finished at four twenty four that morning.

So we did that after and we were moving.

We were like trying to go through the line as fast as possible.

I do think one of the reasons we have so many people that do do you want to see us, and they are interesting.

I think we've built a lot of equity with our fans over the years.

Speaker 1

You guys have been on television for thirty years.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 12

But also, as Jeff said too, and he says this to me, says, oh, Matt's being really patient.

We really we know there are a lot of people that have a lot of their youth and their childhood and a lot of nostallship tied into us from moments that they've seen from you know, nineteen nine one or.

Speaker 1

Two thousand and two thousand and one.

Speaker 12

The fact that we want to sit there and let them tell us about that experience, and we'll share back with them about how we felt as fans, and I think.

Speaker 1

It humanizes us to some degree.

Speaker 12

And I think there's a part of us that did love hearing those stories because we're those same wrestling fans, you know, the same people that are coming to us pouring all this love and information to us.

It's the same thing we would do for our guys at that time.

And now the fact that we're able to do it, and we're able to have these cool experiences with people and hear their stories.

I know that that's what they want, you know they I love the fact that everyone always says, like whenever they meet to say go like you know, they say, don't meet your heroes, but meet the hardys, which is cool.

That's like the greatest compliment we could be given.

And that's something that's really important to us because at the end of the day, we both know that without our diehardies, well out people who have support us, there would be no us.

So thank you all, everyone who's here tonight.

Speaker 1

Thank you all.

Speaker 9

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Speaker 13

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Speaker 6

I will say this, speaking of of your lines and how long it takes, there is possibly one reason and this is not a complaint, and nobody in this room is mad about this, but your signatures are works of.

Speaker 1

Art, right, so I mean up, especially Jeff.

Speaker 10

Went.

Jeff Went, you you altered that at some point though, that wasn't always your autograph.

Speaker 3

It has its evolved over time, and I always like, uh, I don't remember when it was, but that little profile that I put, I just remember back in Fevrue, North Carolina, whatever year it was, nineteen ninety, maybe we saw Sting and Flying Brian Pillman, uh leave the building and get in their car.

And we didn't get Stings they were in such a rush, but we got Flying Brian's and it was just a circle with a little bit of scrill.

And I was like, oh my god, this is I was.

I was kind of upsells.

This is not an autograph.

That's nothing.

Speaker 1

I think, I like, what is that?

Speaker 3

And I think that's kind of had and what's in like an inspired mind over the years.

Speaker 1

And I think he also took our pen and threw it down, right.

Speaker 3

I think he did.

He's very rude man.

Speaker 1

He was ready.

Speaker 3

Wowf he was ready to get to the next town.

Speaker 4

Brother.

Speaker 9

I'm looking at someone got their chair signed by Jeff right now?

That is legit or the chair signed by Jeff Hardy.

Can you can you hold that up so the people could say, hold it up, it looks beautiful.

Oh yeah, turn it to the people baby.

Hell yeah, Like it's just it's beautiful and something.

To go back to what we were saying about, how you know the fans have been supporting you for so many years.

I think it's because, you know, you know, Brian and I we grew up watching you guys.

But you were like the first guys who were like showing that they were fans too, and like did.

Speaker 4

Backyard wrestling and made it.

You know what I'm saying.

It was like, oh shit, they can do it.

Speaker 9

Fuck, maybe I can do it, you know, because I was backyard wrestling at the time seeing you guys, Oh shit, they did it, you know, and like it was so like, uh relatable to me, you know, because you were fans who made it, you know.

Speaker 1

And and I and I love that fact.

Speaker 12

I loved how when we were there that was like taboo.

You weren't supposed to be like that in any capacity.

And and I love how the culture of pro wrestling has changed and it has moved on from that, you know what I mean.

It's okay to be someone like, Hey, I was a huge fan and I wrestled in my backyard and I just want to emmiate what I saw on TV because I loved it, or you know, even the whole thing with toys and figures, just like the growth you guys have done for like action figures and people like making it cool.

Speaker 1

It's a cool hobby, it's a cool thing to collect and do whatever else.

Speaker 12

I love that so many of those taboos have left because the culture was so different.

Speaker 1

In the nineties, you know what I mean.

Speaker 9

It was.

Speaker 1

It was insane, Like when.

Speaker 9

We first started in ww IF I went to Target and got a hardcore Holly figure and brought it into the locker room.

Speaker 4

The autograph he shit in my bag.

But take me out.

Now it's cool.

Speaker 9

Everyone's cool about it, you know.

And I don't blame those guys because they didn't grow up with that stuff.

You know, they didn't grow up, you know, watching Saturday Morning wrestling and then playing with the wrestling buddies and playing with the figures, you know, like we all kind of did.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you know exactly, man, And it's the culture of the wrestling business.

Speaker 12

We saw the worst of the worst, and I know you guys got in where we're still lingering around a little bit, but they still couldn't go as far as they used to go.

Like it was in Sandy in the beginning.

That's one of the things I am most happy has changed in for us.

Speaker 4

For sure, we have some slides, but yeah, yeah you do.

Speaker 1

You you you were a big Hardy Boys fan.

Yes in high school.

Speaker 10

Okay, so correct me if I'm wrong.

But this is your first WWF catalog T shirt.

Speaker 1

And I made my mom order it.

Speaker 4

His monitors all over it.

Speaker 1

It has the tribal on the sleeve.

And my freshman year of high school, I wore this once a week without without getting made fun of.

Very proud.

Speaker 4

But am I right?

Speaker 12

That's the first to ever Hardy Boy.

Yes, that is the official first Hardy Boys shirt we had.

That was after we were with Michael Hayes.

And it's so funny because Michael Hays says, hey, why and I.

Speaker 1

Own the shirt.

He wanted three extremes Mary, Michael Hayeses and I was telling you guys to get ready for this.

Speaker 10

I was trying to find something vintage and cool like I couldn't find that to get it back, and then I wound up getting this, uh will not die Matt Hardy throwback.

But yeah, the things I was looking into, like I want.

I originally wanted the basketball jersey, and I could it's like four hundred plus dollars if you can find it.

Speaker 4

So I was like, that's not happening, but uh yeah, and then.

Speaker 10

Like anything really like vintage, you know, early hardy stuff was ridiculous.

Speaker 1

I couldn't believe that the pricing on it.

Speaker 12

So I was telling him in like the motocross jersey that we had back in the day, and we were I remember we were the first people to kind of do that like aldered stuff, because back then they just kind of.

Speaker 1

Did T shirts.

It was basically a T shirt thing.

And I remember we talked about I would wear all the time, and I think Jeff Wood as well.

Speaker 12

We're both big Carolina Tarhill fans, you know, like I was in that college system.

I went to UNC Charlotte for a couple of years, got my associates, and then I dropped out to Chase wrestling, and I guess it half ass worked, but I would.

Speaker 1

Wear I would wear my UNC Tar Hill jersey all the time.

Speaker 12

And Jeff Wood too, And I remember the March guys said those are really cool that you wear, and he said, what have we made like merch like this?

Speaker 1

Do you remember when we had those conversations.

Speaker 3

Yeah, for sure, And I remember, like I'm still motorc also, supercross is my favorite sport.

But I remember saying, yeah, what if could we do a motocross jersey?

Speaker 1

Yes?

And yeah that was definitely your very cool.

So you guys had a lot of insight into the merch.

Even early on.

Speaker 12

They would ask you back then, like what especially if you became an act that would sell stuff a lot, they would come to you like, hey, do you have more ideas?

Speaker 1

Do you have more ideas?

Speaker 12

They were definitely more.

It just wasn't so big and corporate back then, you know what I mean.

It's such a different beast now.

It's so crazy how much it's grown and expanded.

But they would, they would come, and it was cool because those jerseys that we would were all the time that I think we thought were cool and like, for some reason people thought we were cool in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and two thousand and one, and it was like, hey, those jerseys aren't really cool, and we're like, could you make like a Hearty's jersey like this?

Speaker 1

And they ended up making them and they did great.

Speaker 12

And the motocross jersey, I know they did that it did really well, and most of our merchandise did.

But it's cool because I feel like we were some of the early trailblazers that like released stuff that weren't just tea shirts in the beginning, you know what I mean, We like switched things up and tried different things, thinking outside the box.

Speaker 9

You guys had so much merch But it feels like it took forever for them to make the Jeff armbands like those.

Speaker 4

It took like a decade or so.

Speaker 9

Wait, I'm like, why are they just like people at Homer Maker, these white kids.

Speaker 3

W Yeah, that was weird.

I think it was around back back in eight oh nine when I was bigger than Obama.

Speaker 1

That's how it was.

Speaker 4

Uh, that's how long it took to make those.

Speaker 3

Yeah, they finally came out with the they found a place in Mexico or something to make them.

Speaker 1

I have to follow this up with the story finished.

Speaker 3

And but yeah, and you would see those everywhere, the neon green or the purple uh armsleeves.

We had.

It took them a while.

Speaker 1

You're right, what what where did the arm sleeps come from?

Like?

Speaker 3

How is Marilyn Manson I've got this alter ego or alter Nero and his name's Willow.

And yeah, Willow was in the my second run in TNA.

Uh he emerged in TNA.

I'm hoping that happens again in the next few years somewhere sometimes.

But uh yeah.

And when Marilyn Madsen came out with Antichrist Superstar, I just noticed we were these old, ripped up pantyhose and that's kind of where I got the idea.

So I bought me some trout women's trousers socks, and uh and I cut them up and like pulled him up my arm.

I Oh my god, this is it.

Speaker 1

This is my thing.

Speaker 3

And uh yeah, I'm so glad I figured that out.

Speaker 1

You got to hit it now that you tease that, you got to hit a little Willow man, you gotta hit your line.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, we Love, we Hate, We Die forever late in Willow Sway.

Speaker 12

Oh yeah, I want to see if you any of you guys can relate to this too.

Someone asked me when we were doing an independent show.

It was Jason Aren't Joy Abs of the Mean Stream Posse, who was one of our guys who came up with us that we kind of helped train and kind of forged to some agree, but he was wrestling match with Jeff and Jeff's Willow, and he pulled me to the side.

This is when we're doing OCCA, right, Hey, I gotta ask you, Matt, like, when you wrestle Jeff and he's Willow, is he does he feel like different?

Speaker 1

You know?

Speaker 12

He's just like kind of like a different like it's a different person.

It's not really Jeff.

It's like not really lay back.

And that's one thing I can say about how much Jeff loves the whole Willow character.

Like whenever he puts on that mask and his face is painted and he has everything, and when he's in ful gimmick, it's like he's a different person, you know what I mean.

It feels like his his his whole temperament, the way he acts, the way he moves is like totally a different person, which I think is so impressive because he gets so into it.

Speaker 1

Do you feel like that, Jeff?

Speaker 3

Yeah, totally.

I'll share this little secret with y'all as well.

Thinking about Willow, I got a new me and my oldest dawn a Ruby designed a new Willow face plate like a god a couple of years ago, and I finally had one made and it was just like I talked about the music earlier, like the first time I put it on is I don't know.

This just isn't in it.

It's not gonna work.

It don't look right, it don't feel right.

But I just put it on a few weeks ago and actually had my hair out of the mask, and I really liked it.

I was like, whoa, this is my This might be twenty twenty six Willow Jeff Hardy, so it looks pretty wicked.

And again I'm hoping that he's able to re emerge in TNA sometime this year.

Speaker 1

Jeff.

Speaker 10

You know, they always wanted to ask him there was a period where you wrestled in a baseball cap, and just right off the top of my head, like from working on at WW as Ow said, how did Vincigmann allow that even once, much less several times.

Speaker 3

Yeah, they never even questioned.

They just kind of let me do what I want.

And I mean I figured nobody else was trying to get through a whole wrestling match with a baseball cap?

Speaker 1

Was that your goal?

Speaker 3

Never did until recently, and I didn't do as much as I used to do back in my in my twenties.

But I wore a TNA hat the last time we were at the House of Glory, and I got through the whole match with it, man, And so I can say that I did, and I need to bring that back.

And there's never been a figure made.

Speaker 1

There was one.

W Do you guys remember too.

Jeff would like have piggy tails.

Speaker 4

Yep.

Speaker 1

He would have his hair.

Speaker 12

Like piggy tails, right, or the hair out and he cut holes in the hat and then they're sticking out of the hat.

Speaker 1

And remember that jet.

Speaker 3

That was the way I thought it might I might be able to stay on throughout the whole match.

I thought it might hold it.

Speaker 1

Yeah, because his hair was out and he had piggy tails.

And I remember that.

And he came up.

Speaker 12

We're in Gorilla one time and they're sitting there and Vince looked over and he said, and he said, why does he do that?

Speaker 1

I don't.

Whatever he does, he's cool, he says, damn it, he is cool.

Speaker 3

Back when I was working brock Lesser a lot, I was at this point.

I was going, man, I just need to do something new and something fresh.

And I was trying all these different things, but it was all like I was in the lift for the moment's shirt, but it was all like a blue outfit and bluefish net blue pants and the pigtails and all that, and it looked like it looked wild man.

But yeah, again, I was just trying different things back then, but that one, definitely it did not work, and I'm glad it didn't.

Speaker 6

You got you said something interesting.

Actually, So as a dad, over the years, I've been able to share this kind of work with my daughter, like you know, hey, what tie.

Speaker 1

Do you think I should wear?

Speaker 6

And stuff like that, And it's actually very special to me and I feel very proud to do that, like on TV where something that sort of she thought of.

And you guys, you know, talk about being parents all the time.

Is that something you also share with your kids?

And you mentioned designing something with your daughter for sure.

Speaker 3

Yeah, Mett Ruby.

And she is miss fashion man, my oldest daughter.

She's all about it man, and makes herself up and just great with makeup and everything fashion.

And I went to one of her volleyball games and I had like some I had more blue jeans in a long time, but I got this pair of blue denim like Air Jordan's and the rip Blue Jeans and then Atlanta Braves Jersey and I went to her game and this made my day.

The next day, the next evening, when Ruby came home from school, she said, all her friends thought my outfit at the volleyball game was fire.

I felt like a cool father.

That's okay, cool.

I'm gonna keep but yeah, she's amazing and we enjoy talking about We're always going to each other.

Does this look right with this?

Does this matchup?

Speaker 9

So?

Speaker 3

Yeah, that's the same deal.

Speaker 1

It's Mark.

Speaker 12

It's it's funny because Brian can speak on this a little bit too.

So like my kids are wired a little differently, Like if I'm doing something on TV and if they know, if they've kind of been keeping up, they might want to watch it.

They may not just kind of like, eh, I don't know.

My dad, he's just done this forever like it is what it is.

But whenever they know we're doing like a cinematic match at the house.

Now the kids are like like, hey, I've got some ideas.

Speaker 1

Agree.

Speaker 12

And now my oldest son is the most athletic that is Maxwell.

He's on TV when he was a baby is King Maxwell.

Uh, and he's going to be really good.

He's like still going to work on his personality.

My youngest son, who like tries to fight his way and like earn the respect of his older brothers.

Speaker 1

He's going to be the toughest.

He's going to like destroy everyone.

Speaker 12

He is the guy that's going to be the biggest worker, the best worker, best athlete, and the whole bunch.

They really want to wrestle and wood be my middle son.

He's like Dad, he said, you know, I think this is really cool what you do.

He said, but like, I don't know how I want to get beat up like that all the time.

He said, can you make money in wrestling by just like insulting people?

Like can you like like just talk and like and like and throw insults at people and like make money?

I said, actually, son, you can be a bad guy.

You can do that in your entire career.

You could manage.

Speaker 1

Somebody said, that's perfect.

That's all I want to do.

I just want to talk trash.

Speaker 12

And he's the one like when you were there, we you worked with Maxwell and the thing we had he did the thing with with Eddie where Eddie turned into a werewoof And he's got a lot of personality he's super charismatic.

But the next time the nimbus came out there and he did a thing with Ryan Nimmouth where he was sitting there and it's like Ryan Nimmouth was in the midst of his dream because I was out there drowning him in our pool and it's a special pool which makes you go to a dream land.

And in this dream with Woofe, woof Be is the psychiatrist and he's giving him advice and he said there blah blah blah blah blah and woo he had like he was great in it.

Speaker 1

They like really freestyled.

Everything they did was just kind of.

Speaker 12

Like just going and we just turned the camera on and let them do stuff.

And Ron was great with the kids.

And then uh, Woopy did the whole thing.

It's funny.

He watched it back and he was great.

Everybody talked about it.

Everybody loved it.

And I said, what do you think, woofy, was it good?

He said yeah, he said, what they cut so much more stuff out.

Speaker 1

That was the first thing.

Speaker 4

He said.

Speaker 12

That's great, Like you were over like four minutes straight in a segment, dude, But too funny.

Speaker 1

They're all politickers though, My.

Speaker 10

Favorite part of our shoot was when Moose was forgetting his lines and Barty was feeding him to him.

Speaker 9

Old, yeah, that was good, very very funny.

You guys with those cinematic matches like change the game.

Like now there's it's normal they have like a cinematic match in wrestling.

When you guys did it, people like, what the hell is this?

Speaker 1

You know?

Yeah, it was one thing that was cool.

Speaker 12

One thing that I really did about pro wrestling is how there's not just one right way or wrong way to tell a story, you know what I mean.

Like, obviously, we grew up watching a lot of Classic Wrestling NWA, so we got all that, and Jeff and I think we've you know, had tons of matches that have just been good quality matches, and we tell a story in the context of a wrestling match, and hopefully we have some emotional investment in the good guys and the bad guys that are that are fighting off against one another.

But then we said, hey, like if we have a tag team ladder match against Edge and Christian, we can really do some special stuff, like we can do something different.

Speaker 1

And we eventually talked Vincent, let us do that in like a little best of series.

Speaker 12

And that's changed the game for us that tag team Ladder match, No Mercy, Like our reaction was different.

People looked at as a legitimate stars from that point on, and I think that kind of opened up Vince's mind because you're like, well.

Speaker 1

Damn it, can you do something with the Dudley's like that?

Speaker 12

And I remember saying, dude, he they used to break tables in ECW.

I said, like, what if we had a tables match with him?

And I said, like, I kind of.

I came up with the rules and I told my well, hey, hey, passes on events.

I said, like, you know, both people, both members of the team have to go through, you know, and offensively you know, from their opponents to win the match or whatever.

Speaker 1

And we got to go nuts and we had like three and a half minutes cut.

Speaker 12

Right before we went out three and a half four minutes, and like, we flew through that first one, but it ended up being a classic because it was just like an absolute train wreck of the scene with all the carnage and breaking that was going on, you know, and that led to the whole TLC stuff and I felt like, you know, us having those TLC matches were also like telling matches in a different capacity.

Speaker 1

And then I felt like as I got older and my body was beat up, I couldn't do as much as I used to.

Speaker 12

And I was like, let me think about something I do.

I want to try and revert and do a character this maybe like Papa Shango.

Maybe the crowd kind of buys in and it's supernatural or something special is going on with it, early Undertaker, and that's when I did Broken Matt.

And then one of the first things I thought about was like, what if I just had matches on my property like we.

Speaker 1

Used to do as kids, you know what I mean?

And then we film it like a movie.

Speaker 12

It's like a cinematic match, and lo and behold we were and that was the right place at the right time, and we were able to do it.

Speaker 1

That's where the final deletion was born.

Speaker 3

Yeah, we used to rent.

We used to rent big old VHS cameras with the big old VHS tapes and we'd runt them for the weekend.

We'd make a movie, a short film.

And but yes, speaking of the cinematic matches and now knowing how badass like the shows like Breaking Bad was and Walking Dead, but being on AMC.

Man, the first cinematic match on AMC is gonna be.

Speaker 1

Huge, man.

Yeah's true.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I'm hoping in praying that I'm a part of that.

Speaker 1

Hey, so you you mentioned the best of series?

Was that that's the Terry Invitational?

Was that what you were talking about?

Yeah?

Speaker 6

Okay, so that was the Tip Yes tournament.

So nineteen ninety nine, and I got a little video to show you.

Nineteen ninety nine we had a little connection, Matt.

Speaker 1

Okay, all yeah, all right.

I don't know if you felt it or not.

Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6

Sixteen year old Mark Sterling.

All right, hold on a second.

Here, we got a little video.

Speaker 1

This is I think right after the sources tell me acquainted.

Okay, right there, that's me the hardy boys shine.

I knew, I knew that was said.

I'm holding up the arms.

Jane's left the question that All right, now, hold on.

Speaker 4

Here's the connection.

Speaker 1

Now Matt is looking right at me right there, he shakes his head.

Speaker 6

I'm jumping you're looking at Wow.

Speaker 1

I gotta I gotta tell you, you guys go way back that that is that.

Speaker 12

I wasn't sure, but that thought has haunted me for years, said, I think that was damn smart monster.

Speaker 1

So I saw him when he was a prodigy, right.

Speaker 6

I made that entire sign with markers all the letters, and I forced the people in my row who.

Speaker 1

I did not know.

I thought those were your friends.

No, I would just went with Steve Negrun So he was the a.

But I was really bad at the kid holding the bead because to get his face in so the beats too well himself Hardy always.

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Speaker 9

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Speaker 4

Let's let's go to uh, your debut figure.

Speaker 1

Okay, right there on screen.

Speaker 9

You guys remember this, this double slam two back in the I'll say iconic tight red shirts.

Speaker 4

You know ye, it only comes with one tag title.

That's that's cost cutting.

Speaker 1

Why would they do that?

Speaker 9

What?

Speaker 1

What?

Speaker 4

What does it make you feel that when you guys see that nowadays, I.

Speaker 1

Can tell you this.

Speaker 12

Whenever we finally got a figure, I remember we're like when we got with Michael Hayes and we started getting.

Speaker 1

Used and where it's my damn figure.

Speaker 12

Yeah, oh we heard it and he said y'all gonna do a three pack, right, and I'll never forget.

Speaker 1

Like I was like, man, we just want to figure.

We want to figure.

That was like our deal, Like we thought it was cool.

Speaker 12

You know, there's those moments and you guys know this when you know you've made it, like when you get a T shirt, when you're on a video game, when you get a figure, I think for for for me, maybe for Jeff two, Like I felt like having an official w w F action figure means you made it, you know what I mean, So I'll never yet.

This was like after WrestleMania two thousand and we like said, man, I don't even know if they're going to make figures out of us.

I don't know if they're going to make them because it took so long.

It felt like but that was just the process then, right, because it just took such a long right, right, we didn't know that.

But like once I saw this figure and Jeff and I were here tied on the shoulder and it's done, it has WWF on it, officially made by them, I'm like, dude, we have made it, Like they have this figure, you know, like we have made it, and we're like, you know, if this is the only one we did, then then we had it and we can say that we've done it.

Speaker 1

And it still kind of gives me chills even looking at it.

Speaker 12

It was like such a special moment to really reinforce that we had made it, we had achieved our dreams, and we had no idea.

They started rolling out like crazy after this, you know what I mean, and they kept coming, and it's cool.

I've had a couple of people that would really try and find our figures so we could collect them and everything else when I was back, and I still have a pretty good collection, nowhere near.

Speaker 1

As good as Josh.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, he's got it all there, he is.

He's got some great stuff to sign today too, He really really did.

Speaker 12

But yeah, man, this this for us was a true moment and uh really a true sign that we had succeeded in achieving our dream.

Speaker 3

And that was before they had they were forced to get the f out.

I thought that was one of the coolest shirts when they yeah, get the f out.

But every time I paint my face now, I think about an action figure and go, okay, this might be an Action figure, you know, immortalized as an Action figure.

So it's so cool to see all the different face paints I've done over the years being immortalized on an Action figure.

Speaker 9

Yeah, you guys have had literally hundreds of figures.

There's no way we can talk about it.

We did pick out a couple, do you guys remember these?

They were called finishing moves and they could like and they were packed separately so like they was doing the twist of.

Speaker 4

Faith, they were doing the swanton.

These were kind of like ahead of their time.

Speaker 1

They were.

Speaker 12

They were real funky because people are like, why are the action figures like standing up and looking appropriate?

Speaker 3

You know, I still haven't figured out how that one is a twist of fate at all.

Speaker 4

Yeah, they tried.

Speaker 12

It was cool though, how they tried to like just reposition They tried to like position the figures like unique, like a wrestling move is being executed or whatever.

Speaker 1

It was a cool figure and I give them, I give them an a for effort of trying something different.

Speaker 4

I loved because like the hair is all like blowing in the wind.

Shah, It's great.

Yeah.

And then speaking of hair, let's talk about this TNA true Pac.

What's with the braid?

Speaker 13

Look?

Speaker 1

Yeah, the braid.

I was ready, you know, I was.

I was reinventing.

Man.

It just uh.

Speaker 12

I think at this specific time in my career, I wasn't in the headspace I need to be in to go out there and put on my best performance.

Speaker 4

But but my my, I had like an.

Speaker 12

Idea about this whole cold bloody character, especially because it was going to be a hell and Jeff was truly a hill trying to be a hell for one of the first times in his career legitimately a hill.

Uh So I had some ideas.

Speaker 1

It didn't pan out, but who knows, maybe we'll do it again one day down the road.

I'll get the braids again.

Speaker 10

That's your only TNA two pac to date, and that thing's worth a lot of money, by the way.

Speaker 1

That is true.

Yeah, the Anti CHRISTI in Cold Blood.

After all these years now, they're having hundreds and hundred of figures.

Speaker 10

What are some that stand out to you guys that are your favorite or you know when you meet the people like today that you look forward to signing and seeing.

Speaker 12

One of my favorite is the one that we called the Brood figure that comes through you know, I'm talking about where we're wearing the actual tie did shirts that we had when we were with the Gang Girl.

That was like such a special time for us, I feel like, you know, because.

Speaker 1

That fit both of us.

Speaker 12

I think we were down with that too, because he's like, well, you know, he's a vampire, so just kind of be goth, just kind of be more God.

Speaker 1

That was the little bit of direction that we got.

Speaker 12

For events and we're like, okay, So that means like we can be serious and you know, kind of like almost cold, emotionless whatever.

Speaker 1

And that's where we first started coming out.

Speaker 12

And I don't know if you remember Chap at the beginning game girl said well, what are you guys gonna do whenever I like take my sip of blood, you know, do the blood?

Speaker 1

And you remember what we started doing there.

Speaker 12

We said, okay, I got some good ideas what we can do since we kind of we're kind of like vambera, yeah, we're doing this.

Speaker 1

And uh, at first Vince said, why do you what does it look like you have guns to your head?

Speaker 12

And I go, well, because we're we're goth and we're emo and like we're suicidal, we're willing to take any un of risk.

Speaker 1

That's what we're doing.

He said, I don't think we can put guns to your head.

You're gonna have to move them down a little bit.

So you know, then you start seeing the hardy boys posing like this all the time.

So that's where that's where that came.

I the evolution.

Speaker 3

Yeah, one of my favorite action figures is the one.

I guess it was from a TLC match, but it's the one that my shirt is ripped.

Oh yeah, match, I love that figure, but man, overall, I can't lie.

I think my favorite figure of all time is the I guess the last one that AW put out of me.

That the one that's in the.

Speaker 1

Black Light.

Speaker 3

And it's the uh you know, I had the pleasure of working with Darby Allen two times, but uh, that was from the first time I wrestled Derby Allen.

That's what I was wearing in that match.

But it's such a such a beautiful figure.

I just wish it could have came out like when I was in the AW dimension.

Speaker 9

Right.

Speaker 1

The also a naturally figure.

I would look forward to seeing.

Speaker 12

It's the only Brother Nero figure that is in circulation, really, and that's the Ring of Honor figure that AW put out when Jeff and I we were the yeah yeah Tech team champs and that that that's a great figure.

Speaker 1

It's one of the best broken mats.

Speaker 11

Uh.

Speaker 12

It's the only Brother Nero and we do look forward to sounding that.

Maybe that may be the absolute best thing we got out of AW.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 3

I think they said they only made three thousand, right.

Speaker 1

Well that's what they said.

Speaker 12

I've signed seven thousand, don't I don't buy those limited numbers.

Speaker 9

And what about when you guys returned to WW in Orlando wrestle Mainia.

Speaker 4

Yeah, then they made that too bad?

Oh yeah, man, what a what a pop?

That's the only stupidest pop I think I'll ever hear in my career.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that that action figure is very cool.

Speaker 12

To return the WrestleMania thirty three return action figure made into two figures immortalized is super cool.

Speaker 1

That's also one of our favorite figures.

No doubt, that was a that was a great moment.

Is there anybody here that happened to be there Russellmania thirty three?

Speaker 7

Oh wow?

Speaker 12

All these people, Okay, they contributed to the pops.

It's so cool because that was a moment that people saw as legitimate surprise.

And you know, we live in even at that time, we lived in the you know era of the Internet where information flies and everything gets out and spoilers are leaked and everything else.

But like, we did our best to keep that as quiet as possible, and there was only a handful of people that knew and like, I know there were some people like I think they're gonna show up, but like, we just had a killer thirty minute match with the Bucks of Youth the Young Bucks the night before, So it was real cool when we came out and it felt like a legitimate surprise and we hadn't been in that arena at all, you know.

We we showed the arena forty five minutes before our match was going to happen.

Speaker 1

You know, and none of the talent knew we were going to be there.

We showed up, we went and.

Speaker 12

Got on a bus backstage, and it's funny, we were in Orlando and it's in April is when that happened, and I'll never forget this.

Speaker 1

Said, hey, you go, you got to get some hoodies.

Go get some hoodies.

And we're like okay, and we're like they weren't that easy to.

Speaker 12

Find in April Orlando because you don't necessarily need hoodies here all the time.

Speaker 1

All the hoodies we got were pink, so we had to.

If you ever see that.

Speaker 12

Documentary piece, we're all wearing pink hoodies and we sneak into the building.

We do that, We go up there and then it was crazy because like we walk in.

I know, my wife was there and she was like she was seven months pregnant with a woofie and Maxwell.

She was baby wearing him on her back and she's mad because we had to run up four.

Speaker 1

Flights of stairs.

Oh, it was so far right here, really well.

Speaker 12

And we had no idea how the arena looked because we hadn't been there at all.

You know, usually at TV, you're there all day, you're kind of checking it out, you know what it looks like.

And just whenever we came out to see this sea of humanity, you know, out there doing something that we established the Broken universe in Broken Matt and Brother Nero and the Delete Delete taunt, Uh, there was you know, just there was forty fifty thousand people doing that and it was crazy and it just showed like wow, like wrestling fans do pay attention, and they were just so excited.

And the emotion I can film in slow emotion is we're going down.

Speaker 1

Like the emotion you can.

Speaker 12

See on people's faces from us coming back to w B was just so incredible.

And Jeff and I say this all the time.

The further we get away from that moment, I feel like it becomes more and more of an important part of our career, Like might be the top moment of our career.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I kind of feel it was.

And just recently I remembered one of the lies that developed over that month because I got so tired of just lying.

But we've been saying, yeah, we signed with the Ring of Honor for a few years, but I used to say, yeah, we signed a Ring of Honor for a couple of years.

Man, I'm even going to start doing some concerts with a Ring of Honor like throughout the year.

And I just I was so tired of lying, and that's exactly what I said.

I'm just glad it's over as far as you know, pumping it up as we were not going to be there.

But yeah, that's one of the things.

Yeah, we're gon I'm gonna be a Ring of Honor and do some actual concerts.

Man, We're in for the long haul.

Speaker 12

So we had to do all this media and even that weekend we're doing Ring of Honor and a lot of people forget.

On Friday night, we main invented the Wrestle Con Super Show and myself and Jeff Russell the Luchavros Penton Phoenix, which would be a hell of a match, you know, in this day and age.

But it was then we had a great match with those guys, and then the next night we had the Young Bucks.

Speaker 1

I remember we were doing media earlier in that day and they were sitting back and talking to Jeff and they said, so, Jeff, so now that you guys are here at Ring of Honor, I mean, I don't know how long.

Speaker 12

This is gonna last for, but like, you know, are you thinking about returning to the WV And Jeff's going like, Jeff's going eh, and I'm just hade, I'm going just like, no, no, no, no, We've signed contracts, so the Ring of Honor we're gonna be here.

And I remember once we minished the media, Jeff said, man, I'm just so sick of lyon.

Man, I want to stop all this.

Man, let's just come clean.

Speaker 9

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Speaker 1

There is whoa.

Speaker 4

Up the reveal, but there's still.

Speaker 1

Does anybody know what we won when we were wearing those outfits?

Is anybody?

Speaker 12

Yeah?

The NXT whoever said that was right, Yeah, we we were wearing all we'd weren't it a couple times before, but that was the NXT title win, which was a very cool moment for us.

We were the first WB contractor, We were the first TNA contracted talent to win a WB title, which was pretty neat and uh.

The fact that we won the NXT w B Tag team titles also allowed another fact for us.

Speaker 1

It was really cool.

Speaker 12

We're the only tag team to win w B titles consecutively over four different decades because we were w B Tag champs in the nineties, the two thousands, the twenty tens, and now the twenty twenties.

Speaker 1

Because of those NXT.

Speaker 4

Tag titles, that's a big make sure you buy those.

Speaker 10

I say, I petitioned hard for the white because I thought it was unique, that'd be a lot of fun.

Speaker 1

So for sure TTD knocked these out of the park.

They're beautiful.

So two of the most incredible figures I've seen.

Speaker 3

I just have a question as far as the creation of these things, Like I normally I go to photo and get pictures on my face painting designed, but it's like, I don't think I ever took a picture of that.

How does that work these days?

Speaker 10

We don't have time, but we have two maniacs in the back here, Ryan who introduced you to our artist TTD, and the guy next to him is uh D Freedom, who's our residence psychopath who wills scour the internet for every angle and image that he can find so we can get great reference shots.

Speaker 9

So yeah, so if you need any reference shots, D freedoms for man, he'll get you from any match, any angle he'll he'll he'll find photos of it.

Speaker 4

Awesome.

Well yeah, Major Stars Series three coming soon.

Speaker 1

Pretty excited.

Speaker 12

I was gonna say, besides, I mean we say this all the time amongst one another, like to be in this business, you have to be insane, you know what I mean, I'd be crazy.

But I think to even be in a business it is adjacent to pro wrestling.

Like you said, all of your guys, the whole team, they're they're insane too.

Absolutely, Yeah, we're all crazy man.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 4

Though.

Speaker 6

Can I ask you, actually, Matt, since we're finished with the figures here, could you explain to everybody your collection.

Brian has told the story many times, I just can't picture it in my head.

So, like you have most of your figures displayed, yes, proudly like it's a whole living basement or something like that.

Speaker 1

It's uh, well downstairs.

You have rules to this collection, you know what is it?

Speaker 4

Well?

Speaker 12

I mean, basically, I've just tried to collect every figure I had.

I had one guy, a guy named Thomas Simpson who's our investor back in Omega, and he's a real Southern gentleman.

Speaker 1

He goes, well, Matt, I got you some of your new figures.

I got him for you.

Speaker 4

And Jeff.

Speaker 12

You know, he's quite the character, quite the personality, but he he gave me so many of the different figures.

And if I was ever out and about and I was doing a run during our w B run anytime and I had to stop at a Target or Walmart.

Speaker 1

I would like go through the figure section just see if anything was there.

Speaker 12

But it is everything we had.

It used to be everything with myself and Jeff.

I'll be honest.

As time is going on, a lot of Jeff stuff has come up the wall because I was just gonna see singles Jeff stuff, you know what I mean, just because it overloaded all our tag stuffs there.

Speaker 1

But we've got that, and it's it's downstairs.

Speaker 12

I have a gym, and we have a pretty pretty nice kind of full fledged arcade down there in the gym.

Speaker 1

Uh, and it is in the arcade, like.

Speaker 12

On the back wall, and it has just covered his water wall from top to bottom, a little different shelf, and we we keep figuring out the way to put things in there and keep packing it up, and we even extended a little bit where it goes around the corner.

Speaker 4

Now.

Speaker 1

So it's uh, I have over I have over two hundred figures.

I'm on there.

Speaker 9

I know.

Speaker 12

Wow, and uh, it's it's it's pretty cool.

It's a it's a cool deal, and it feels like it's a nice it's a nice way to look at that and reinforces like, hey, you've done pretty good for yourself, kiddo, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3

So you've got replicas, like you've ever had too of your titles?

Speaker 4

Right?

Speaker 3

What's that you have replicas of?

Speaker 1

Okay?

Speaker 7

I do I have?

Speaker 12

I have everyone now except the WB TAG titles that we won in like two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, and that's the only one I am.

Speaker 1

I am yet to get.

Speaker 9

I remember when we first debuted, you had like a party at your house, like after SmackDown, and we went and I saw like the figures of the time, like this is the coolest thing ever.

It was like such like an inspiration, like I want figures of myself and I want them displayed like this.

And I remember you had this giant I don't know if you still have it, like a WF magazine cover, but it's huge.

Speaker 4

Yeah, and I'm like, this is fucking awesome at the time.

Speaker 1

Yeah, no, it was cool, man.

Speaker 12

I know they were like that too, Like whenever we would, you know, do covers of magazines, if they could hook us up and send a bigger one, they would.

And it's like, I mean, yeah, what we do is so unpredictable, right, It's this is this career is like so unpredictable.

Speaker 1

I mean, any match could be your last match.

You never never know.

Speaker 12

So it's like whenever you get an opportunity to get cool stuff like that that you have, you got to get it and try and grab it, you.

Speaker 1

Know what I mean, because you never know when this when this rod is gonna end.

Speaker 4

Yeah, well, I mean we keep meet greeting it and deting to do Yeah you guys again, thank you so much for coming you guys are fucking.

Speaker 9

Legendary, you know, wrestlers, But I grew up idolizing you guys like you guys are so fucking cool.

I would have canceled about with you guys maybe the fans.

Speaker 3

Uh.

Speaker 9

I love you guys as wrestlers, as friends.

Thank you so much for coming, and I really appreciate you guys being it right.

Speaker 1

And I say thank your time.

Speaker 10

Even when Matt and I were just green, dumb idiots, the two of you were so accommodating and cool and always took us in and invited us out, and like we've been friends a long time now, so we do appreciate you guys coming through here today.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

We do appreciate it.

Speaker 12

And I think one of the coolest things about us is like we we were born, you know, we were pretty poor our family and like our mom died when we were young, and this was our dream and we wanted to do it.

And we legitimately like as much as you can start at the bottom, bottom bottom, you know what I mean, come and being extras and after we would work TVs, we'd get damn sixty six percent of our money taken by the Italian study and he was booking us, you know, and he'd rip us off for three nights.

But you know, we were able to be those guys.

And we saw how some of those guys got treated by stars at that time, and we thought it was like shitty.

And I just remember, once we made it, we're like, well, if we ever see these guys, let's be very accommodating.

Speaker 1

And you know, it's like, hey, what's up.

You never know who is going to be what.

Speaker 12

You know, there's always potential everywhere, and you know, I think that's an important part of human kindom anyways, you know, just try and treat people good, try and be good to people, regardless of where you're at, especially if you're one that has been fortunate enough to like live a good life.

And we both, we both live a good life wrestling.

His blesses both so much.

And we're just so grateful to have good people like you guys and other guys in pro wrestling that we can interact with, that we can be friends with, especially people like you guys.

Speaker 1

I told you, I'm very envious.

I admire how you guys have built this whole Major Brothers brand.

It's incredible.

It's very very good stuff.

Speaker 12

And the fact that you Matt, you you know, better than yourself after WB and you went out and you did this stuff, becoming the King of the death Match and this, and then once again you're like the evolution of things that we have done in the past, and like you totally built yourself up where WB needed to hire you back as opposed to you needing to go back, which is very very cool.

Speaker 4

I appreciate that.

Speaker 9

Yeah, like all the stuff you did with you know, both of you guys, like truly inspirational.

So like we can't that, you know, you guys.

Speaker 3

And TNA is on a MC spread the word every week.

Speaker 1

Hell yeah PM Thursdays.

Speaker 4

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