Episode 22: New Generation Declassified: Picture This - WWF Publicity Promos
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's New Generation Declassified looks at the art of collecting WWF publicity promo photos. Starting back in the golden era of the 1980s, the WWF's publicity and promotional 8x10s were used for newspaper ads and meet and greets. Over the last few years the New Generation's shots have skyrocketed in price and today's guest, Joseph Bruen talks why the hobby is taking off as well as runs down some of the New Generation era stars that lead the pack in terms of rarity and collectible value.
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. |
| 0:19.0 | All right. Let's get back in here on new generation being classified. of course, every single week here on the two-man power trip of wrestling |
| 0:25.1 | podcasting empire. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad, and every single week we take |
| 0:30.2 | that journey back in time, and we go back and talk about the finer days of professional |
| 0:34.9 | wrestling. And our era, of course, is the new generation years. |
| 0:38.8 | This week, a little bit of a spin because we will talk about eras surrounding our beloved new |
| 0:44.6 | generation and beyond. But I'm really happy and proud to welcome in today a New England |
| 0:50.6 | Luminary joining his cast of characters from the New England wrestling universe |
| 0:56.0 | that have already been on with us in the past. I am so delighted to welcome in Joe Bruin, |
| 1:01.2 | the curator of the New England Wrestling Hall of Fame as well as the New England Fan Fest. |
| 1:08.7 | And we're going to talk about all that but Joe it's great to connect with |
| 1:11.1 | you tonight. Chad same here man. Thank you so much for having me and uh and taking the time and |
| 1:15.7 | it's my pleasure to be here. Yeah you know you and I connected a couple months back |
| 1:21.1 | innocuously I had reached out to you with a question and uh kind of left it at that. |
| 1:27.0 | Uh you have a dynamic Facebook group that I'm a |
| 1:30.0 | part of that's a learning experience to say the least. But again, you know, being a memorabilia guy myself, |
| 1:37.1 | always kind of knowing the trends, always seeing like where the collectible industry, especially |
| 1:43.2 | the wrestling industry is headed. You seem to be the one that is like where the collectible industry, especially the wrestling industry, is headed. |
| 1:45.7 | You seem to be the one that is like got the finger on the pulse of our topic today. |
| 1:50.7 | And that's going to be the WWF publicity photos. |
| 1:53.8 | And we'll stick with topic of the mid-90s during the meat and potatoes of the interview. |
| 1:58.4 | But just as a whole, tell people about your background, how you got involved with the business, and then we'll start talking about the fun stuff. Sure. Well, I always grew up as a big wrestling fan, huge, you know, WWF for the most part. That's kind of what I grew up. So Saturday morning, Sunday morning, the whole Superstars Challenge, that was me. Never missed an episode. |
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