Ghostbusters versus Beanie Babies.
>> So I will say that when Beanie Babies were a thing, Black Friday in Atlanta
just hearing people get stomped on because people wanted Beanie Babies,
something that I was was afraid of, like, legitimately.
But I'll tell you one thing that I ain't afraid of.
>> [LAUGH] >> I ain't afraid of no ghost.
And that is why I am selecting Ghostbusters.
>> What a transition.
>> [LAUGH] >> Hell of a setup.
[LAUGH] >> That was well done, well done.
>> [LAUGH] >> I think that counts for
double votes actually, so.
>> Yeah, yeah, hey.
>> [LAUGH] >> It was a good segue.
>> [LAUGH] >> You wanna go, E, or what you doing?
>> I mean, I think we all know what's gonna happen here, so just go.
>> Okay, let's just move on, Ghostbusters [CROSSTALK]
>> Ghostbusters advances.
>> Ghostbusters.
>> Yeah-
>> [MUSIC]
>> I was just looking through,
I'm Googling some of the Ghostbusters toys right now and they're pretty cool.
The Stay-Puft Man, just look at him.
>> Yeah, man [CROSSTALK] >> Keeping marshmallowy.
Beanie Babies, the peak of Beanie Babies is like nothing,
we may never see another peak like that again.
That was, like you said, people damn near killing each other for them.
I don't know why Kofi was flexing right there, but he was.
>> Showing his peaks off, dude.
>> That was for y'all, you said we'd never see a peak like that again and I flexed.
>> Showing those peaks.
>> Right. >> Even though I have the smallest arms in
the group. >> Hey.
>> But I tried to get a little peak, get a little peak there.
>> That's a big mountain though.
>> It was just for us.
>> And I appreciate that.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> But yes, so
sometimes I start worrying like maybe we do need to think more about
not just our own personal feelings,
maybe we do need to think more about the historical context of said toys.
But even that being said I still feel like looking back I feel like people will
remark about the peak that Beanie Babies had, but
I think people will more fondly remember Ghostbuster toys.
And they had a much longer run, they've sustained a longer run,
they're still in the zeitgeist, they are still something that we talk about.
There are new films, and I know we're not talking about the films but
I would still be enamored by the Ghostbusters toys.
Well, if we're being honest, Beanie Babies fell off man, they fell off.
>> They did.
>> They fell of hard.
>> If someone said hey, I got this Beanie Baby for you I would swat it,
as they tossed it to me I would swat it out of the air.
>> [LAUGH] >> [NOISE] No, no, no.
>> I'd say, what, you think this is 93, sucker?
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> I don't want that trash.
I don't remember what year it was [CROSSTALK]
>> It was 97 I think.
I think like 97, they had that Princess Di one, remember that one was worth like
a ton of money, that was like the most rare one I think.
>> Yeah, the rare ones were stupid expensive.
>> No, 93, 93.
>> 93?
>> 93, was I right?
>> Yeah, so you're good [CROSSTALK] >> Wow.
>> Don't test me, Dan.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> When were they in McDonald's,
cuz that was the peak there.
>> So they were created in 93, Beanie Babies emerged as a major fad and
collectible during the last half of the 1990s.
>> There we go, there we go, 97.
>> Look, it was created in 93, the fact that I even know, that's good enough.
>> That's good, give it to him.
>> And they may have blown up cuz of the Internet, so it says they may have been
cited as being the world's first Internet sensation in 95.
>> Wow.
>> Yes, but anyways, my vote is for Ghostbusters toys.
>> All right, it advances.
Next up, Tonka trucks versus a trampoline.
>> Actually I have a question about this trampoline thing,
does a trampoline count as a toy?
>> Yes.
>> It's more like a constructed large thing.
>> What is that yes based on, Dan?
>> Just the bracket, I ran it through everyone, it passed the committee.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] The committee all said yes
it's a toy, so ran it up the ladder.
How is it tightening, we were all looking over the numbers and everything, yeah.
>> I just feel like it's in its own category,
cuz you can't have like trampoline and
marbles on the same bracket [CROSSTALK] >> It's right here.
It's right here.
>> [LAUGH] >> Hey, l can I propose something?
Can I propose something here?
>> Yeah.
>> Trampoline versus who?
>> Tonka trucks.
>> So to this point, Woods, I don't know if a trampoline is a toy or
not, can we get a hot tag for Transformers?
>> [LAUGH] A hot tag.
>> Can we get a hot tag from Transformers?
>> That's actually a great thing to do in the bracket.
>> Hearing from the judges.
>> Cuz it would've been in round two I'm sure of it if trampoline's
[CROSSTALK] >> Hm,
there's no way to prove that really.
>> Actually, there is.
>> [CROSSTALK] make it right.
There is, if we can go back and
we say what did trampoline beat in the first round?
>> Do you want that, Austin?
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Because it was Creepy Crawlers.
>> It was Creepy Crawlers, okay, so
if we would have put Creepy Crawlers against Transformers, I probably still
would have voted Creepy Crawlers cuz it's a soft spot in my heart, I like obsessed.
I love Transformers, they're incredible, but I was obsessed with Creepy Crawlers
cuz hey felt like they were mine cuz I didn't see them a lot,
nobody was really messing with them and it felt like it was my toy.
So I would have voted Creepy Crawlers still against Transformers, but
what about you two?
>> I would have voted Transformers, 100%.
>> Okay.
>> I will say this, this bracket is in honor of March Madness, and
let's say we had a team that, well, actually ended up being ineligible.
Let's say Oregon we found out their players were out there beating people up
in alleys, and their tutors were taking their tests for them, and
they were ineligible, they can't move on.
Oregon can't be swapped out for for Oregon State if they didn't make it,
that's not how it works, if anything Oregon is stricken.
If you want to make any movements here and we deem trampolines ineligible,
then trampolines are out and we move on, I'm sorry,
we can't go back in time and add that really.
I know this bracket really has no integrity as is, it has very, very little,
but let's hold on to our last shred of dignity here, let's hold on to it,
because we can't at this stage it's too late.
>> But are we trying to argue, are you essentially backing this
podcast tournament into a corner by only equating it to real sports and
not letting it have any type of flexibility?
Considering we are wrestlers who are part of the WWE where anything can happen and
we're here to put smiles on faces, and
I think that would put a smile on a lot of faces.
>> That's right [CROSSTALK] that's our job, do your job.
>> I feel like taking something from real sport and
then us moulding it into something that really meshes with who we are as people.
You know what I'm saying, you hear what I'm saying?
>> Right, right, yeah, yeah.
>> Who we are as men and
how we wanna right wrongs to make sure our audience understands that we hear them, we
hear their cries of the injustice that has occurred and we want to right this wrong,
do you wanna not do that for them is that what you're saying?
>> I will say Transformers should have been in this bracket, and
Transformers they could have won it all, but it's too late.
It's too late, I don't know why we voted.
So all right, tell me at what round this is then deemed unacceptable.
So are you telling me now we can do the whole bracket and
decide a champion of this, and then we say in fact,
actually we left out Transformers and let's pit them up against the champion.
They need to go through the rigors of March Madness,
they need to go week in, week out, round by round, to work their way up.
And just that the fact that you wanna give them a buy,
I don't know whether they didn't even qualify in the field of 64,
now you wanna just jump the line, I find that acceptable.
>> You still have not answered my question.
>> That to me is the most important question.
>> You started off saying that this tournament is in honor of March Madness,
but you lost me at in honor.
Because it was in honor of anything then marbles wouldn't have
been in the first round alongside with stick and wheel,
so honor is completely out the window if we're talking about honor.
[CROSSTALK] >> Marbles brought a lot of people a lot
of joy, just cuz they're old and in nursing homes now that's not my problem.
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] >> They love
this podcast, that's our demo.
>> Transformers also brought a lot of people a lot of joy and
should definitely have been in this tournament.
>> Well you should have been on time to make sure it was in,
you should have been here.
>> What do you mean?
>> Why didn't you at least send a text, right?
>> The tournament was already set.
>> Why didn't you send a text to get Transformers was in?
>> It was already set by the time I got it.
>> It's too late for Transformers.
>> And I wouldn't have known until the end of the round anyway, so
what does that matter?
>> I will offer this.
>> Yeah.
>> As we run down on time on this episode we could end it right here and put it
to a vote for social media to see if we replace trampoline with Transformers.
>> That's a great idea.
>> Mm-hm [CROSSTALK] >> And
then we will come back with part three and we will see if Transformers makes it in.
>> Leave it to the people.
>> But the folks at home will decide.
>> So does it need to then go back,
are you saying it goes straight to the second round?
It takes trampoline out of it, or do we have to go back to
the first round to decide whether- >> You pretty much already said
the Creepy Crawlers thing, it sounds like it would have advanced.
So I think if the fans vote for
Transformers it replaces trampoline in the second round against Tonka trucks.
>> And it's such a TRA anyway.
>> And they're both trucks.
>> So it's pretty much the same.
Yeah and there's trucks.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's damn near the same thing, yep.
>> Right, I will say i've been doing some Googling on trampolines.
And the experts, Consumer Affairs by the way,
says trampolines shouldn't be regarded as toys, experts say.
>> Yeah.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> That's some safety thing.
>> They're very dangerous, they're very dangerous.
>> No, they're incredibly dangerous.
>> Right. >> Slip and Slide, break a leg.
>> You're not really falling off anything, you're just sliding on the ground.
>> You're sliding [CROSSTALK] >> You could hit a rock,
it could be on a hill, a very narrow hill.
>> A narrow hill.
>> Yeah, you have to be aware of where you place it now, that's on you,
that's not the Slip and Slide.
[LAUGH] >> That's right.
>> That's on you.
The toy itself?
>> Yes.
>> That's on you.
>> [LAUGH] >> I see that I'm not going to-
>> Actually, I'm okay with this.
I'm okay with this Twitter poll, I feel like it'll be a landslide.
And honestly it really is a crying shame that Transformers did not make it.
>> So you did all that just to say yes, let's do it?
>> Well I also, I believe in the process, >> [CROSSTALK]
>> I believe in democracy,
I believe in the values that our forefathers worked so hard to extend.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> And I'll be damned, damned I say,
if we allow them to just go to the wayside.
That's all, I just want this process to mean something.
>> It does, it does.
>> That's fair.
>> It means what we make it mean.
>> [LAUGH] >> And we make it mean a lot,
because we have the help of you, the listeners, the people.
>> There we go.
>> You're a part of this bracket.
>> So keep an eye out, look on my Twitter @DanRyckert, Dan R-Y-C-K-E-R-T,
I will tweet out after this episode goes live, trampoline or Transformers.
And even one vote, whichever one wins by anything,
will be the one that goes into round two here against Tonka trucks.
There we go, will that suffice, folks?
All right.
>> I like it.
>> You got your precious Transformers toys.
>> Let's go.
>> And possibly this is highly unorthodox, gentlemen.
>> Very.
>> Well, I feel like we're highly unorthodox.
>> Yeah.
>> If we just did a tournament just like everybody else does we're just drinking
the same water, cooking the same soup,
there's no reason to listen to us if we're gonna be the same.
>> Fair enough, fair enough.
>> Great debate today, spirited debate, I like it.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Keep an eye out folks, and have your voice heard for
part three of the tournament coming next week.
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