Speaker 1: All right, let's get it going right here and right now.
Speaker 1: This is us up here, and you're listening to a
Speaker 1: brand new episode Divides up here exclusively on our Patreon channel,
Speaker 1: And of course i'm wullcast on the Creative Control podcast
Speaker 1: Network in audio form. If you didn't know by now,
Speaker 1: my name is Chad and every single week I'm joined
Speaker 1: here by my tag team partner, the Queen of Extreme Francine.
Speaker 1: I hope you had a Merrismis I think I did?
Speaker 1: Can you speculate? It was quiet and nice and my
Speaker 1: kids love their presence. I don't know. This is Francine
Speaker 1: of the Future talking because I don't really know what
Speaker 1: happened yet. Uh. Now we're there. We're taping on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: two days before Christmas. So let's not lie to the people.
Speaker 1: Let's just tell them the truth. I had a very
Speaker 1: merry Christmas. It was very nice, nice. It was I
Speaker 1: got everything I wanted. Everything was under the tree. You
Speaker 1: know the kids that thrilled Santa Claus came on the
Speaker 1: shelf left. It's uh, you have an elf on the shelf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never done that. Elfie is like a member of
Speaker 1: the family. Oh okay, Elfie's a prankster though some trouble.
Speaker 1: Elfie's a river. He likes to he likes to, you know,
Speaker 1: he likes to move things and steal things, and his
Speaker 1: display is very elaborate. Got you Okay, that's nice. Now.
Speaker 1: I never got into the elf on the shelf thing.
Speaker 1: I just we did. We always did the p what
Speaker 1: is it called p MP Santa or PCP Santa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: over the years we did that. And we also there
Speaker 1: was an app that you put Santa in the room
Speaker 1: where you want the presence to be. Have you seen
Speaker 1: this one? No, So you put so you get your
Speaker 1: phone and you put it like in front of your tree, right,
Speaker 1: and Santa Claus appears and he is either writing a
Speaker 1: note standing next to the tree, or putting a present
Speaker 1: down or doing something. But he's physically in your room,
Speaker 1: in your in your household. So we've done that for
Speaker 1: the kids as well, so they can they see Santa,
Speaker 1: you know, next to the tree with the presence. And
Speaker 1: you know, this year, I think I'm telling them, you know,
Speaker 1: because of COVID, Santa didn't want Santa didn't want to
Speaker 1: come in the room. Well, I've seen some states have
Speaker 1: declared him COVID free. Oh, oh, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if mine is one of them. So we're just we're
Speaker 1: just gonna let on that our numbers are high, and
Speaker 1: Santa didn't want to risk it. Now, my daughter, Bullyeve me,
Speaker 1: my daughter, we had this talk and I to do.
Speaker 1: We cried our eyes out, and so she's she's kind
Speaker 1: of aware, you know, of what's going on, and she's
Speaker 1: being a trooper not telling her brother. And and to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, my son haven't. He hasn't even
Speaker 1: asked for Santa. Everything around here, you know, was canceled.
Speaker 1: You can't see him. Our fire truck didn't even come
Speaker 1: down this year. Every year Santa's on the fire truck
Speaker 1: and this year, no Santa clothes on the fire truck.
Speaker 1: So we had the fire truck. Yeah, he didn't even
Speaker 1: call him this year. I was thinking about that the
Speaker 1: other day. I was like, he's social distancing. He's he
Speaker 1: never comes off the truck. He just like waves and
Speaker 1: his helper gives you a candy can or something, but
Speaker 1: no candy canes, no Santa. But for our guys, it
Speaker 1: was like I was basically thinking, candy canes are covid
Speaker 1: hot bits. They're super spreaders. They really are. But he
Speaker 1: could have at least drove by and waved at the kids.
Speaker 1: You know, this year we had nothing thing, so thankfully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really wait because it's the Santa all over again from Rudolph,
Speaker 1: the big jerk one. But yeah, he my son didn't
Speaker 1: even ask for him. So I don't know. It's it's
Speaker 1: different this year. It's very different, you know, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: But hey, I had a great Christmas song. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you did. I'm sure I'm sure I did too. Let's
Speaker 1: come that way and New Year's is next, and we
Speaker 1: know you're not a big fan, so no. I mean
Speaker 1: I used to always go out, you know, and party
Speaker 1: and stuff like that before I had the kids. And
Speaker 1: now it's like, I'm lucky if I'm up past ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: so I could care less. I get pissed off when
Speaker 1: I fall asleep and I hear the fireworks. That makes
Speaker 1: me angry. So you're the old lady that's yelling out
Speaker 1: the window. No, I don't yell out the window, but
Speaker 1: I yelled on myself. It's like, are you done? Like?
Speaker 1: Can we get this over with? Do we have to continue?
Speaker 1: You did twelve rounds? It's done. You know it's ten already,
Speaker 1: get over it. It's been the New York ten minutes.
Speaker 1: It's over, and you'll complain to anybody else. Can who
Speaker 1: would hear it? Right? Anybody? Nobody hears me? Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't you know. I just say I mutter it to myself.
Speaker 1: I have become the man from uh up, what was
Speaker 1: his name? I forget his name, but I know you're
Speaker 1: talking about the movie. Yes, I I cry every time
Speaker 1: first ten minutes of the movie, cry my eyes out,
Speaker 1: and then it's just a it's just smooth sailing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the old man is very grumpy in the movie, and
Speaker 1: that's me. On New Year's he was like, shut the
Speaker 1: hell up, turn those fireworks off. I'm done. I'm over it.
Speaker 1: I don't want that waking up my household. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: firework hit. Uh so. I used to have a jeep
Speaker 1: that had a spare tire on the back and uh firework, rogue,
Speaker 1: firework hit the cheap I'm attire and a big giant
Speaker 1: burn mark on my tire. Oh perfect. See these people,
Speaker 1: they have no consideration. Just shut the hell up and
Speaker 1: go to bed. Everybody go to sleep. That's what I say.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. You're stupid fireworks. Absolutely, So no
Speaker 1: drinking for me. I mean, maybe I'll have a cocktail
Speaker 1: at like seven o'clock while I'm sitting down relaxing. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but for me, not a big deal. So
Speaker 1: I'm just hoping twenty twenty one is like a tad
Speaker 1: better than twenty twenty. I'm not gonna I had a
Speaker 1: kind of good twenty twenty. I'm saying for everybody, For
Speaker 1: the majority of people, I mean, it's been a shit
Speaker 1: show and where you know. I'm just hoping that things
Speaker 1: calm down and and everybody has a better twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a prediction though, I think the
Speaker 1: first half of the year is still going to be crappy.
Speaker 1: I think it's still going to be much of the same,
Speaker 1: and people are going to be restricted and not able
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. That's what I think. Anyway, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's gonna last. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do with your stimulus check? Well, if if
Speaker 1: it goes the way Trump wants it to, it will
Speaker 1: be two thousand dollars. So for my family, if you
Speaker 1: include the children, that's eight grand That's like that's a party.
Speaker 1: I did that math this morning. Did the children get
Speaker 1: two thousand or do they get five? In the original bill,
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be six hundred in the same
Speaker 1: manner as the adults. So that's twenty four hundred for
Speaker 1: your family of four. So if I was just doing logic,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a two thousand dollars price tag on
Speaker 1: that eight grand We have two children. That's pretty that's
Speaker 1: pretty gend good if you ask me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's it. I might be retiring from eyes up
Speaker 1: here by eight thousand dollars and six months, six months later,
Speaker 1: it's back. Everybody. You're back six months. Do you think
Speaker 1: that's gonna last for six months? You're crazy? Yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I think he's right. If you watch what he said.
Speaker 1: I think he's one hundred percent right. I think the
Speaker 1: age should come to the US before it goes anywhere else.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's just my opinion. Who knows. I
Speaker 1: hope it's that. I really hope it's that. I mean,
Speaker 1: forever bitching about it, You're still going to cash that check,
Speaker 1: aren't you. I saw one anti Trump tweet this morning
Speaker 1: that called him Trader Trump, but then at the end
Speaker 1: of the tweet, it said like, but thanks for the
Speaker 1: you know, thanks for thanking, thanks for thinking of us
Speaker 1: with the two thousand dollars. They're all still going to
Speaker 1: cash the check. So I don't know what everybody's complaining about.
Speaker 1: It's more money. Just take it and run with it,
Speaker 1: That's what I say. I need to buy a few
Speaker 1: more hats. You and your hats, And I did get
Speaker 1: a new one. This is an l A RAMS hat.
Speaker 1: Very nice colored, yes, and if it's very nice on
Speaker 1: my head. And the emblem of the Rams is rubber,
Speaker 1: very cool. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: get wet rubber now, don't we Yes, we do sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes no rubbers. But that's a story for a different day. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my daughter told me that I am banned from buying
Speaker 1: anywhere makeup. She says, Mom, you really don't need that.
Speaker 1: I told her, I said, anytime you see me on
Speaker 1: on the iPad searching makeup, it's no no, because I
Speaker 1: have so much makeup, and she so I was looking
Speaker 1: at a sail, Mom, you really don't need that. So
Speaker 1: I don't think my stimulus check is going to go
Speaker 1: to anything that I want. Probably things I need. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: family things, you know, whatever floats your boat. It's all
Speaker 1: about family. I'm going to say this early because we
Speaker 1: have our buddy Matt from Patrion coming out a few minutes.
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Speaker 1: can I can I give a shout out to our
Speaker 1: one of our Patreon members, Troy. Troy actually tweeted that
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Speaker 1: for And that was a derivative because we had no
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Speaker 1: just state that it's the way to go. So Matt
Speaker 1: will be joining us very shortly. He is a new
Speaker 1: Patreon member. He took advantage of the tier that you
Speaker 1: get to join us and come on the show and
Speaker 1: introduce yourself. And you already met him on Extra, but
Speaker 1: he gets to pick the programming for his time that
Speaker 1: he comes on the air. Yes he does, and he's
Speaker 1: come up with a clever idea. He's shot me several
Speaker 1: ideas actually since he's joined, so mad full of U,
Speaker 1: full of ideas for this show. And I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the enthusiasm, keep it coming. It's great what
Speaker 1: it's all about. And you know he thought outside the box,
Speaker 1: and you know we've seen d C. He's come up with,
Speaker 1: you know, different kind of games. He's come up with
Speaker 1: different topics. MAT's done the same thing, and when he
Speaker 1: jumps on, we'll let him, you know, say hi, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get roll into it. Because it's very lengthy,
Speaker 1: so we got to take our We're got to take
Speaker 1: our time, make sure we have allotted space, and I'll
Speaker 1: be able to pull up some imagery that we can share.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, it's gonna be we got it. We
Speaker 1: got a good one on tap here. All we're gonna
Speaker 1: ask for you to do is tap into the old
Speaker 1: memory bank. Yeah. Well, you know my memory is shut.
Speaker 1: I say it all the time, so this should be interesting.
Speaker 1: I do want to welcome a couple of new Patreons
Speaker 1: to our little family here. I welcome Paul Wilson and
Speaker 1: I also want to welcome Dan Hawkins. They are two
Speaker 1: of our newest Patreon members. So we are happy to
Speaker 1: have you guys, and willed that you're here. And Ellen,
Speaker 1: did I mention Ellen the last time I think you did?
Speaker 1: I think we love you too, so I was going
Speaker 1: to say it deserves a secondary show. We love you
Speaker 1: all and so glad that you're part of our Patreon family.
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping to bring more men over as my
Speaker 1: only fans shut down, so I'm trying to ignure them
Speaker 1: over to uh, to our Patreon family. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Now, how's the Discord been and your Tuesday night?
Speaker 1: It's been busier, which is a good thing. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we have new members popping in and sometimes
Speaker 1: people pop in say hi, they have to go they
Speaker 1: have family stuff going on. But it's been, it's been.
Speaker 1: It's been busier because we have more members on the
Speaker 1: higher tiers, so there's for people to chat with. So
Speaker 1: it's good. So if you're listening to us on the audio,
Speaker 1: we tend to think, like we think to ourselves, like
Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? That just the thought, but
Speaker 1: we don't want to come out right and say it.
Speaker 1: But I would love to join the Discord, but there's
Speaker 1: always something going on. As I was, I haven't been
Speaker 1: in a while. I'm not lying or anything. And I
Speaker 1: saw the tweet Tuesday night and I was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I gotta go back, and then I kid you not,
Speaker 1: I fell asleep. Oh yeah, watching Yogi Bears Christmas Spectacular. Look, man,
Speaker 1: one of these days you're you're gonna get in there
Speaker 1: and you're you're gonna help me out, but until then,
Speaker 1: I will just uh man ship myself. It was like this.
Speaker 1: I saw the tweet and I was like, oh, look
Speaker 1: there's I said, oh, I'm going to tweet this, and
Speaker 1: and he's going to pretend he didn't see it or
Speaker 1: he saw it, and then he got so I can't
Speaker 1: join you. I was just in a state of unconsciousness. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I do it all. Look, I do it all.
Speaker 1: I do it all. You did it fine, absolutely do so.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting our friend here to pop up. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm looking at the director behind me, which
Speaker 1: is ironically my picture behind us, and I'm doing this
Speaker 1: your picture. Well, I have our monitor. I have a
Speaker 1: double monitor, so our monitor behind us where I then
Speaker 1: share the screens when we do the watch alongs. Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean I can go over that now if you
Speaker 1: while we're waiting for Matt to join us. Absolutely, so,
Speaker 1: I'll mention here. I'll save one part. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: do this. You make over here here a little echo.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say one thing. We'll reveal it later,
Speaker 1: but I'll say our watch along. At least we talked
Speaker 1: about this before we're definitely gonna we're gonna watch some
Speaker 1: clips while we talk. We're talking about Steve Austin when
Speaker 1: the only reason I'm going to bring this up now
Speaker 1: is because it was it was around this time when
Speaker 1: he left what see put me up with my with
Speaker 1: my lagging, you know, internet and stuff like. I think
Speaker 1: you might actually be saying it, But so Steve Austin
Speaker 1: and ECW because he left around this time in ninety five.
Speaker 1: So we're look at we're going clips behind this. We
Speaker 1: kind of talk and each thing got a little discripsion.
Speaker 1: So I'll cover the rest of the stuff now. Because
Speaker 1: Matt has Jordan Matt from Matthew, I'm calling him Matt.
Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? Good? Oh, there's a lex
Speaker 1: of Bliss as always. She's always making a cameo on
Speaker 1: my show. And that's fine. Pretty good. How are you?
Speaker 1: I expect you for a little bit. Last night we
Speaker 1: were just talking about the discord and uh picking up
Speaker 1: and we chatted for about an hour. Yeah, it's nice
Speaker 1: about Christmas and we're doing and you know this this
Speaker 1: airs after Christmas, So how is your Christmas? Matt? We're curious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we're going to visit. Well, we visited my family
Speaker 1: this weekend, this last weekend, this Saturday after Christmas, right,
Speaker 1: sounds good. Well, I'm glad you had a good time,
Speaker 1: exact safe and that's all that matters. So luckily it's
Speaker 1: in the same state, so that's that's a nice thing.
Speaker 1: There you go, Matt, what are we doing today? So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through as much as the two thousand
Speaker 1: w W rosters, two thousand and six roster. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna skip some of the wrestlers for an extra
Speaker 1: part that Chad has planned. Okay, but we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through probably fairly quick. Basically, just if you have a
Speaker 1: couple of words, a couple of sentences to say about
Speaker 1: each wrestler, I'll say a few words. If Chad has
Speaker 1: anything that's say and if and if you've met them,
Speaker 1: and if you had any experienced with this will this
Speaker 1: will include everybody, including the all the new bad ECW
Speaker 1: and the SmackDown and raw. Oh my, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. It is a lot of people. It's over
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty actually, actually the number was one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine people they had employed at one point.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're gonna go through a one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine. We trimed it down. So here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm gonna explain it like this because
Speaker 1: I was waiting until you popped up. So I took
Speaker 1: his list and I thumbed through it. Not that I
Speaker 1: eliminated people that I felt were relevant, but I just
Speaker 1: knew you probably wouldn't have crossed paths with them based
Speaker 1: on your time in there. But what I did was
Speaker 1: for the Patreon lore. We are going to cover the
Speaker 1: main inventors on Patreon. So we're gonna skip through and
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring up the big guns on the other side.
Speaker 1: So I don't remember who those people were. You'll find
Speaker 1: out on Patreon. Yeah, and I can. And if I
Speaker 1: didn't really interact, I could just give my opinions or yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah I'm a fan or whatever. Yeah, sure, okay, I'm right.
Speaker 1: One thing I did want to bring up is that
Speaker 1: one notable name is not on this list, and I
Speaker 1: was shocked, is Chris Jericho is not on this list. Yes,
Speaker 1: he who was two thousand and five. He was not
Speaker 1: on the roster in two thousand and six. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you, right, Now I did work with
Speaker 1: Jericho and ECW, and we'll go over that when we
Speaker 1: get tow So so Jericho. So Jericho leaves in August
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, okay, because that's he was the
Speaker 1: guy who was like, look I've had it with this,
Speaker 1: I'm stale, I've reinvented myself three times. I gotta go.
Speaker 1: He was doing v H one shows, he was, you know,
Speaker 1: getting Fozzy off the ground again. So Jericho is gone
Speaker 1: for all of two thousand and six and almost all
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, So you missed, and it was
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho bob haircut he had, so the bob you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's also one notable name who is not on
Speaker 1: this list that I will point out, and that's me
Speaker 1: because I worked for the w W in two thousand performer.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this. I actually didn't know this, like
Speaker 1: more Coronto are going to be on the list and
Speaker 1: watching Well I checked for like Bronjen Sing he wasn't
Speaker 1: on it either, So Bron and then I'll be fine. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll point out this as a list I found on
Speaker 1: the internet. It might not be one hundred percent accurate,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it seems pretty accurate from what I remember,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember anything so I can tell you,
Speaker 1: so I'll do my best. But uh yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: you absolutely came in contact with everybody at some point. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, come if you didn't have an interaction
Speaker 1: with them, just you know, were you happy to see them?
Speaker 1: What was it? You know, any any any interactions that
Speaker 1: might have been uncomfortable, you know, as whatever. I did
Speaker 1: have a little setup for it too. Whenever, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: it's all you man, You're said, okay, cool. So let's
Speaker 1: take you back to the year two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Spent a while, spent a long time. A A year
Speaker 1: before that, two thousand and five, a young Matthew mcjeski
Speaker 1: was twenty eight years old, sad for about four years
Speaker 1: that ECW had been away, excited that WWE decided to
Speaker 1: bring back One Night's Stand with ECW. I was so
Speaker 1: jazzed about this, and I enjoyed One night Stand. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a blast me too, And it was
Speaker 1: so cool that they brought like everybody back pretty much.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a few normal missing one like the
Speaker 1: franchise and a couple other people, but I know they
Speaker 1: had their own individual other show that they did, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that was an amazing show. I loved it. And then
Speaker 1: East then WWE announced they were gonna bring ECW to
Speaker 1: their brand and make an own separate brand on the
Speaker 1: Sci Fi Network. A young Matthew Majeskie was very excited
Speaker 1: because he was a huge ECW fan the originally c
Speaker 1: W obviously, and I was watching. I started watching again.
Speaker 1: I was kind of off wrestling after you CW died.
Speaker 1: I watched back in two thousand and five One Night
Speaker 1: Stand when it happened, and then when they brought it back,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm gonna get back into it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch ECW on Sci Fi. And I watched
Speaker 1: some Raw and SmackDown as well. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: the setup to this. I had a lot of fond
Speaker 1: memories of this these years, because again I was super excited. Again,
Speaker 1: everybody knows it was kind of a letdown the new
Speaker 1: ECW kind of but we're gonna go through the roster again,
Speaker 1: try to set this up. You know, just feel free
Speaker 1: to say whatever you want or what you can even say.
Speaker 1: If you have nothing to say, you to say. Oh,
Speaker 1: this guy was kind of cool or I didn't even
Speaker 1: meet him, so he's got the big pictures in the background.
Speaker 1: I see, which is that's the list I gave him?
Speaker 1: So one one quick question I had before we start.
Speaker 1: When you got to the WWE, did you shake hands
Speaker 1: with everybody in the WWE? Is that like the law
Speaker 1: or is it just people in your locker room? Well,
Speaker 1: if they were in the locker room, that's to you.
Speaker 1: You mean, like like if I had to go to raw, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you shook everyone's hand, Like if if you came in
Speaker 1: contact with someone, you had to go up to them
Speaker 1: and say hello. Okay, yeah, that's that was that's the
Speaker 1: old school mentality chat And I talked about this before.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the newer workers don't do it.
Speaker 1: They don't feel like it's necessary. But the way I
Speaker 1: was brought up in the business, you always had to
Speaker 1: go up to people, especially if you didn't work there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I was like an
Speaker 1: outsider coming in and even though I did work there,
Speaker 1: I was like down here and everybody else was up here.
Speaker 1: So I made it a point to go say hi
Speaker 1: to everyone that I saw. Now a lot of people
Speaker 1: I never met. Yeah, and we were under the same
Speaker 1: umbrella the whole time, and there were people that I
Speaker 1: never had cross pissers. I'm looking at this list right
Speaker 1: now and there's a bunch of people I did not meet.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm interested to find out. There's so many
Speaker 1: people I don't remember if I met them very brief. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: So some of this might go pretty quick, Yeah, pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So we're gonna start in alphabetically. Is that
Speaker 1: the plan? Run down the list, but skip the people
Speaker 1: in bold. Okay, So the first person you have worked with,
Speaker 1: and he was in the originally c W. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit higher than Chad has on the picture. It's
Speaker 1: Al snow Oh god, yeah, there we go. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the first one. Yeah. Al and I have known each other,
Speaker 1: excuse me, known each other for years. He was great
Speaker 1: to work with. I mean he I took the snow
Speaker 1: plat from him, you know. So, yeah, we worked several times.
Speaker 1: Him and Shane were in a big angle months and
Speaker 1: all taught me a lot about the business. So what
Speaker 1: a what an amazing mind for the business that I
Speaker 1: very smart to the business. And I remember one weekend
Speaker 1: when I actually worked for the fake he seed of
Speaker 1: I traveled with L and you know, just a plethora
Speaker 1: of information on that long, long ride that we had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just really really smart to the business. And God,
Speaker 1: he looks phenomenal. Now have you guys seen him with
Speaker 1: that man? I mean, he in better shape now than
Speaker 1: he was when he was you know, full time with them.
Speaker 1: So the dude got a mannequin head over That's all
Speaker 1: I have to say. That mannequin head was nappy as hell,
Speaker 1: and I stole her and washed her hair, conditioned it
Speaker 1: and brushed it. Never looked better. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the only time that ever happened. And if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, watch his Watch his entrance on ec W,
Speaker 1: the old gleasi W when you would come out to
Speaker 1: the Prodigy song and the whole crowd would be shaking
Speaker 1: the head up and down. That was insane. I didn't
Speaker 1: we just watched me did the watch along about a
Speaker 1: month and more and a half ago, Yeah, maybe even
Speaker 1: less when we we watched Shane and L from uh perview, Yeah,
Speaker 1: from the pay per view, And like it's it's a
Speaker 1: remarkable sight to see how over he was and the
Speaker 1: fact that you know he would then leave and and
Speaker 1: do what he did afterwards. It was just a yeah,
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, but what a uh, what a personality. So
Speaker 1: let's go to a sad one next. Unfortunately Ashley Masarrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna skip over a few here, but Ashley unfortunately Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ashley was a sweetheart. She was there because we it
Speaker 1: was e c W SmackDown, so Ashley was in the
Speaker 1: locker room and she was just a really really nice person.
Speaker 1: She just wanted to learn. I just remember she was
Speaker 1: just starting out wrestling and she was just eager to
Speaker 1: learn as much as she could and just a very
Speaker 1: sweet girl. Very sad story. Yeah. I thought she was
Speaker 1: gorgeous and talented. Just went way, way, way, way, way
Speaker 1: way too early. So anyways, we'll go next. Balls obviously,
Speaker 1: you know Balls from my heart, Yes, God rest his soul.
Speaker 1: What a character inside and outside the ring, so many
Speaker 1: we could do a whole hour on Balls mahoney story
Speaker 1: probably and take it over into the extras. He was
Speaker 1: a good friend, just just the teddy bear in real life.
Speaker 1: So it's such a good hearted person. And I was
Speaker 1: devastated when I got the call that he passed. And
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like if you just looked at the guy
Speaker 1: you wouldn't think he could wrestle, but he could go.
Speaker 1: He was a character like no other. And on Twitter
Speaker 1: today it popped on my my timeline or my feed,
Speaker 1: whatever call it. You know, when he was Anta clause. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I saw that. I was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what a what a sad sad time. Uh you see
Speaker 1: things like this and then you my mind just started
Speaker 1: remembering all all kinds of stuff with balls and it
Speaker 1: just makes me so sad. Quick quick thing. When I
Speaker 1: saw you guys the last time Milwaukee, him and I
Speaker 1: don't remember who teamed up in a tag team match
Speaker 1: and they put someone through a flaming table. So I
Speaker 1: got to see that gimmick, which was amazing. Y Uh. Next,
Speaker 1: we're gonna skive over a few We're going to Booker
Speaker 1: T five times. Five times. Booker T was always really nice.
Speaker 1: I I was encountered. Maybe I don't know, a handful
Speaker 1: of times. I shared the locker room with his wife.
Speaker 1: So when he would be you know, with his wife,
Speaker 1: I would talk to him. I saw him, uh maybe
Speaker 1: a year or two ago at a convention, and I
Speaker 1: went off to him and I shook his hand. Then
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Booker. I'm Francine from me c W.
Speaker 1: You know we were in the uh, I was in
Speaker 1: your locker room for a while, and he looked at
Speaker 1: me and he goes, oh, you're my favorite. You probably
Speaker 1: say that to everyone, because no, you really were my favorite.
Speaker 1: I go, Okay, so I don't know or whatever. But
Speaker 1: we didn't really talk to him too much, but he
Speaker 1: was always very nice, you know, to say hello to
Speaker 1: and groundbreaker for w c W n W. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: next one, Brian Kendrick. Brian Kendrick. Yeah, such a good,
Speaker 1: good guy. Uh, super talented. I watched some of his
Speaker 1: stuff when he first started with what was it four
Speaker 1: oh five Live or was that I know about that program.
Speaker 1: I I saw some of his stuff when he was
Speaker 1: playing like the Monster Heel and I loved it. He
Speaker 1: he is such a good worker and I know he
Speaker 1: I think he runs a school now and he trains
Speaker 1: people or something or he was, but he he was
Speaker 1: just a nice, nice guy. So I like Brian. What
Speaker 1: an innovator for his time. Crazy an interesting one. Candace
Speaker 1: Michelle never met her. I actually saw her wrestle her
Speaker 1: last match. She wrestled her Goal, her retirement match for
Speaker 1: Tommy Dreamers House a hardcore show in Wisconsin against against
Speaker 1: Ivory Victoria that it was a great or not Iry Vittoria, Yeah, Vatoria. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's our Tara, that's the other herd now the dream
Speaker 1: But yeah, I saw that match. It was awesome, so
Speaker 1: it was almost fun nice. I never I never met her.
Speaker 1: I think she met her anywhere. Interesting. No, Carlito, I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever met Carlito either. He was also
Speaker 1: at the House of Hard Corcial. He was in that
Speaker 1: group for a while. Yeah, well, I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever met him. Dude, Dude is Jack Now, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: very jacked. Uh, he's but he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that has proven he didn't need WWE to have a
Speaker 1: career of wrestling. And that's that's what I liked about
Speaker 1: his departure. It's almost god ten years work now. He's
Speaker 1: been in Puerto Rico, he does the Indias. He's yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, his dad runs Puerto Rico. Basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he didn't need them left. I wanted maybe like
Speaker 1: twenty twelve ish he left. Okay, you'll probably skip this one,
Speaker 1: but I can't stop staring at the next name. So
Speaker 1: I omitted him, but I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: do you remember the Dicks? I don't wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I remember were saying ones from no, the one from Okay, DNA.
Speaker 1: They had a different name, Okay, I forget what it
Speaker 1: is on the top of my head, t NA in
Speaker 1: rubber costumes. I can't. I I'm confusing them with the
Speaker 1: Gemini who were They had another name in TNA as well.
Speaker 1: So Chad Dick and his partner, I forget his name him?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, they're jacked, right, they're they're absolute animals. Guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know who he is, but he's like five
Speaker 1: five so when you see him, he's really small, but
Speaker 1: he's jack to the gills. What what other names did
Speaker 1: he rustle under? Pull it up? Hold on, give me
Speaker 1: one second. Who he is? He's they were ov W products,
Speaker 1: the Dicks and uh yeah, they got a cup of
Speaker 1: coffee on w W E t V. So his name
Speaker 1: is Chad Wicks. Ha ha, they really are okay. He
Speaker 1: was also uh Chad Toland and I believe O v
Speaker 1: W and was in Tankland. Who was his partner? Let
Speaker 1: me see you partner James Dick? Who was Tank Toland?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that name. No, I'm the worst for
Speaker 1: It's fine, but they were in disrespect to these guys
Speaker 1: at all. I just I wasn't a big wrestling I
Speaker 1: didn't watch a lot of wrestling this year. Obviously. It
Speaker 1: bill's Chad Dick as being five nine. I said he
Speaker 1: was five to five. But we all know that sometimes. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got he looks like he's a good look I mean,
Speaker 1: good looking guy. I just don't remember that that. Why
Speaker 1: would they name him that? Like because they paired them
Speaker 1: with somebody and it was hold on, I'll tell you again,
Speaker 1: like what with it? Goode? No, they were just Chippendale's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I looked at this outfit. They have a picture of
Speaker 1: him looking like a Chippendale. Oh so they came out
Speaker 1: with the little tuxedo gimmick and danced and stuff. And
Speaker 1: on Wikipedia under related articles, it's the top one is
Speaker 1: Kaylin Croft. They came my buddy, Chris Povonet a million
Speaker 1: stories about Chad Dick. Okay, well, yeah, no, I've never
Speaker 1: met Chad Dick be hot, but I don't remember that gimmick.
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, we're gonna skip a little bit
Speaker 1: to the Master of the Master Block. Chris Masters, did
Speaker 1: you ever? Yeah, Chris Masters. I was in catering and
Speaker 1: I was sitting at the table eating and Chris came
Speaker 1: over and sat down next to me, and it's the
Speaker 1: first time I ever met him. And this was in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six for the fake E. C. Dub
Speaker 1: and introduced himself and I shook his hand and we
Speaker 1: started talking. And his first question was, what have you
Speaker 1: been doing since you, you know, since ECW folded? Like,
Speaker 1: what you know? Did you have to get a job,
Speaker 1: did you? And I said, oh, I've been doing indies.
Speaker 1: And he was amazed. He said, you lived off of
Speaker 1: indie work for like seven years or how long was it.
Speaker 1: I don't even know, six years, I said, yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, how much work did you get?
Speaker 1: I said, oh, I was working like every weekend. And
Speaker 1: I remember Randy Worden was sitting at our table with
Speaker 1: Barbie was next to me, and he's like, Randy, and
Speaker 1: Randy didn't give it you that Francine has been on
Speaker 1: the indies for six years maybe living. He goes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great, that's great. I think he was more interested
Speaker 1: in other things, but he didn't he didn't care about
Speaker 1: my indie work. But Chris Minsters thought that that was
Speaker 1: such a great thing that I was able to work
Speaker 1: on the indies for so long. And he was like
Speaker 1: super duper nice, and I remember talking to him. I
Speaker 1: don't know we talked for a while, but that was
Speaker 1: the only time I've interacted with him, and I've never
Speaker 1: seen him again. But he was super duper nice, so
Speaker 1: I liked him. He another It's ironic he would ask
Speaker 1: that question because he would make a very healthy living
Speaker 1: on the indies after he left ww. I guess he
Speaker 1: wasn't aware that you can there is life after w
Speaker 1: w A. You know that he came up on the
Speaker 1: California scene, so you know how it is in California.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of places. But he also was
Speaker 1: married to w WE developmental for a long time, and
Speaker 1: guys that come up through the developmental system don't know
Speaker 1: jack about the indie scene, so they have a preconceived
Speaker 1: mission of what it is. They think it's either watched
Speaker 1: up legends who are getting booked, you know, in the
Speaker 1: main event beating you know a guy twenty years younger
Speaker 1: than them, or you know people who are making five
Speaker 1: dollars a night. Well, I'll tell you what. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Chris Masters and Carlito Rodriguez Ricardo, Yes, he was the
Speaker 1: announcer for Okay. So we follow each other on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and he has been in Israel, and Carlito and Chris Masters,
Speaker 1: they were with him. So I have been seeing tweets
Speaker 1: about this little trio amok in Israel. So they're out there.
Speaker 1: I guess they're out there working and training and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is cool. So yeah, wrestling's big over there. Von
Speaker 1: eriks like gods in Israel. Ah thing, it looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: They're showing like the landscaping and stuff and it looks
Speaker 1: really pretty. So yeah, they're running amok over there. All right.
Speaker 1: Next we're going to go to the American Dream. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do him. The Dusty Rhods,
Speaker 1: Oh Dusty please. We worked forever in ECW together. We
Speaker 1: had that big angle. Dusty was one of the nicest
Speaker 1: men that you could ever encounter, and you know, helped
Speaker 1: me with the figure four and U slap it on them.
Speaker 1: And you can't find a person that's going to say
Speaker 1: a bad word about Dusty, and if you do, they're
Speaker 1: probably lying. So he he was a treasure to this business.
Speaker 1: So smart and such a tremendous talent and such a
Speaker 1: nice man. The one of the people I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what the wrestling business would be without exactly. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: great Edge. Edge. Yeah. I met Edge probably a couple times.
Speaker 1: Never really had too many deep conversations with them. It
Speaker 1: was always a hello in passing. I remember one time
Speaker 1: it was after a show and we were waiting to
Speaker 1: leave the building, but there were too many fans so
Speaker 1: we had to wait a little bit and he was
Speaker 1: next to me. We were just small talk, but he
Speaker 1: was always very, very nice if I passed him. But
Speaker 1: again I didn't come in contact with him too often.
Speaker 1: One of the guys who is a huge superstar. It
Speaker 1: would have been even bigger if not for his neck injury.
Speaker 1: Edge Yeah, yeah, and he's great and and I mean,
Speaker 1: who doesn't love the Edge and Christian Show. I've made
Speaker 1: appearances on there without physically being there. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: loved I loved the Brood and I loved we were
Speaker 1: talking about the five Flash photography. Yeah, that was brilliant.
Speaker 1: And he's great, great performer. Next Elijah Burke, which also
Speaker 1: was in TNA. Yeah, he's awesome. He's a friend. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a really long time, but I
Speaker 1: just saw something because we follow each other again on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I saw something he's working. Is he working Impact
Speaker 1: or nw A or he was doing commentary for Impact
Speaker 1: for quite a while. I don't know if he's still there,
Speaker 1: but I just saw something about him. But happy for him.
Speaker 1: He's a really really nice guy, great guy. I like him.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. Yeah, he definitely. I mean I more
Speaker 1: remember him from this TNA days personally, but I do
Speaker 1: remember the bit that he was in. He had huge
Speaker 1: potential in WWE. I believe there was a little heap
Speaker 1: and that's why he never got past us certain point.
Speaker 1: Uh famously turned down the Spirit Squad. I wonder why
Speaker 1: I did not want to be a cheerleader. That's why, Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's it. I don't know. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you have to have balls to turn down something that
Speaker 1: opposed to you, you know what I mean, Like the
Speaker 1: developmental guy doing it too. Yeah, you stick to what
Speaker 1: you believe in and what you want to do. But
Speaker 1: like that could be career suicide at some point, because
Speaker 1: then they could just be like, well get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here. You remember it? So they'll push you
Speaker 1: and then that last minute they'd be like, you know
Speaker 1: what he did, turn down the Spirit squad And that's,
Speaker 1: I know, a bit of a controversial gimmick to some. Eugenie,
Speaker 1: I would the only time I remember meeting him is
Speaker 1: at a convention. That's the only time. And we had
Speaker 1: said hello, hello, we shook hands, pleasantries, and then that
Speaker 1: was it. So I don't ever remember seeing him backstage
Speaker 1: at a shower anything. Just curious, what did you did
Speaker 1: you not like the gimmick? Did you not care you know,
Speaker 1: anything that goes with mental illness? I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of ye. I feel like there are so many other
Speaker 1: things that they could be doing. I feel like they
Speaker 1: kind of poked fun at it, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a funny subject. So I wasn't a fan of it,
Speaker 1: you know, but look at all the stuff that they've
Speaker 1: done in the past. I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things I don't agree with. And you know, some people say, oh,
Speaker 1: shut up, it's just wrestling. Well maybe to some, but
Speaker 1: if it affects you in any way personally, then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a different outlook on it. So now I
Speaker 1: was not a fan of it. Next. Definitely a legend,
Speaker 1: mister fit Finley Fit. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: met him really, h see. I left him on there
Speaker 1: because I thought he might have been doing some of
Speaker 1: the female segments. But maybe that was you left. Was
Speaker 1: Mike most of the time, My agent was Mike Kerrent.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, Steve Kurry. I'm staring at the Yeah,
Speaker 1: Steve Kurrent. Yes, Steve Kerrent was was my agent most
Speaker 1: of the time. Graham, I don't know why. I just
Speaker 1: said Mike once in a while. It was like Ted Dbiassi,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. He didn't say much at all when
Speaker 1: it came to us, especially me. But Steve was great.
Speaker 1: So no, I don't remember. I don't remember Fit ever
Speaker 1: working with me. He might have been still wrestling at
Speaker 1: this point. Maybe he was. I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: he had anything to do with especially not ECW at
Speaker 1: the time. All right, how about let me tell your something.
Speaker 1: Me and Jane. I met me and Jean at conventions.
Speaker 1: That's how I met him. I don't ever recalling meeting
Speaker 1: him at a show. It was always at conventions. He
Speaker 1: was definitely a legend at this point, and I think
Speaker 1: he you know, they probably consulted him. He was the
Speaker 1: lightest prime of the list. I met him when I
Speaker 1: worked there. It was great when I asked you, Chad saying,
Speaker 1: every announcer that's coming up on the list, I got
Speaker 1: a story for awesome. How about stand back there's a
Speaker 1: hurricane come in. Yeah, I've met Shane a bunch of
Speaker 1: or Gregory as they call him here, a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: very very talented worker. Yeah, I've known him. He came
Speaker 1: to we when we had Jimmy Wang Yang on. He
Speaker 1: told a story about them coming to ECW and it
Speaker 1: was him, it was Shannon Moore and it was Jimmy
Speaker 1: And I remember for the first time I met him
Speaker 1: and Shannon when they came in the back, and that
Speaker 1: was good lord. Over twenty years ago. And I've seen him.
Speaker 1: I mean he was there in two thousand and six
Speaker 1: when I worked there, so you know, got to see
Speaker 1: him a couple of times there, and I've seen him
Speaker 1: on indies and conventions and stuff. So cool. How about
Speaker 1: next week got mister hardcore Holly? He was with E
Speaker 1: c W when I was there. Man a few words, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just always a very hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: That was it? And I can't do a good impression
Speaker 1: of the next personal lives. I would Howard Finkel. Oh God,
Speaker 1: Howard Howard is the one that would call you with
Speaker 1: your itinerary. He was in your travel You want you
Speaker 1: want me to call you? Okay? Hello, Hello, Francine, this
Speaker 1: is Howard Finkel. I unfortunately have some bad news. You
Speaker 1: will not be on the road this weekend. We will
Speaker 1: see you on Tuesday night when w and smetdown in
Speaker 1: Vain Vanessa Colisseum. No, I won't be on the road, Howard.
Speaker 1: You won't see me on Tuesday, but I will stuck
Speaker 1: with Jack. Thank you very much. I hang up, and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'm off this week. I know it
Speaker 1: would be great. First time I met Howard I believe
Speaker 1: we were at Madison Square Garden and I was with C.
Speaker 1: W Anderson and we were sitting up in the I
Speaker 1: guess bleachers or whatever you call those high seats, the
Speaker 1: cheap seats, and I saw him come like through the curtain,
Speaker 1: and he was walking and he looked up to where
Speaker 1: we were sitting, and I'll never forget it. He started
Speaker 1: walking toward us, and I'm thinking, no, somebody must be
Speaker 1: behind me or something. I don't know. He came right
Speaker 1: to me and said freight scene and I wanted to
Speaker 1: introduce myself. He came all the way from the bottom
Speaker 1: and walked all the way to the top to introduce
Speaker 1: himself to me, which I was just like, you're Haward Frinkle,
Speaker 1: I should be walking to you, sir, which I had
Speaker 1: pink to. He beat me to the punch and then
Speaker 1: I had so many interactions with him, and what a
Speaker 1: sweet sweet man, just such a nice, nice person. That's
Speaker 1: all I've heard from everybody. He was so awesome. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go a little bit skip another bunch of names.
Speaker 1: And there's James Dick by the way. We're gonna skip him.
Speaker 1: Will you be asking me about j B. L That
Speaker 1: will be coming on the Oh he's a main event.
Speaker 1: Oh you see, we'll be Yeah, we'll be covered. Harry. Okay,
Speaker 1: got you. Mister Jeff Hardy, who has a lot of
Speaker 1: up and downs in the wrestling business. Jeff Hardy, where
Speaker 1: are we at on this thing? Skip? This is a
Speaker 1: loose picture described. I was gonna say, we skipped a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Jeff Hardy. I remember having a conversation
Speaker 1: with one time and he was telling me about his
Speaker 1: pet goat, and I was just like, you have a
Speaker 1: goat And he's like, yeah, I got a goat, and
Speaker 1: tell me about this pet goat and I was just
Speaker 1: like oh, and I just found it so like I
Speaker 1: was like, do you live on a farm, Like what's
Speaker 1: your deal? And he was, I have pet goat. And
Speaker 1: I think it was at catering. We sat with each
Speaker 1: other this one time, and that was the only time
Speaker 1: I've ever talked to Jeff So and he was very nice,
Speaker 1: just curious. I don't know if you guys have talked
Speaker 1: about this, but were you fans of the Broken gimmick
Speaker 1: stuff with him and Matt. I didn't watch it. I
Speaker 1: liked it some of the things that they did. Some
Speaker 1: of it was kind of hokey, but I liked the
Speaker 1: Lake of reincarnation where you could come in and you'd
Speaker 1: come in as one character and come out as another one,
Speaker 1: you know, like Shane Helms got thrown it and he
Speaker 1: came out as the Hurricane. He came back out he
Speaker 1: was the guy from Three Counts, you know, Like that
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense to me now because I watched one
Speaker 1: of the ae W pay per views. It was a
Speaker 1: while ago. And they had met Hardy in a pool
Speaker 1: maybe you guys have seen this, and they kept dunking
Speaker 1: his head and every time he would come up, he
Speaker 1: would do a new gimmick. That you're saying that because
Speaker 1: I said, what is he doing this for? I mean
Speaker 1: because it was funny, But that's the same thing you're
Speaker 1: talking about. He was. He was going under the water
Speaker 1: and coming up and he would be a different character.
Speaker 1: Correct on this pay per view that, yes, the Lake
Speaker 1: of Reincarnation. Now, so there was one I forget which
Speaker 1: one it was, but they kicked somebody in the lake.
Speaker 1: Was it? No, I know what it was. So Stevie
Speaker 1: Richard had pitched that he gets kicked in the lake
Speaker 1: with Raven and they come back as their ninety five
Speaker 1: Flunky and ninety five Raven. But it got shot down
Speaker 1: in the background as a grown man exactly. All right.
Speaker 1: How about the King Drey Lahler, who we all know
Speaker 1: had dealings with E. C. W. Yeah, Yeah, I met
Speaker 1: Jerry early on, saw him again in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: He was great. I remember this one time he came
Speaker 1: up to me and he was like, what are you
Speaker 1: doing tonight? And I said, Jerry, what do you think
Speaker 1: I'm doing. He goes, don't tell me the bikini shit
Speaker 1: and I go and I go, yeah, and he just
Speaker 1: shook his head and walked away, just like I feel,
Speaker 1: your brother, Okay, I'm going to be a total mark
Speaker 1: right here. I would think he would have loved that,
Speaker 1: knowing his character on TV. No, because he knows that
Speaker 1: I can work. There was more to me than just
Speaker 1: doing this bullshit bikini contest, which I hate it, and
Speaker 1: I you know, pitched to them a million times. Let
Speaker 1: me manage, because when I signed my contract, you told
Speaker 1: me I was going to do this and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So I think Jerry understood and my frustration, and he
Speaker 1: just he was fed up with it. Two. But you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect him to go to bat for me
Speaker 1: or anything, but I could tell in his face he
Speaker 1: just felt my pain. So yeah, but yeah, Jerry was great.
Speaker 1: And I saw him and these two. I've seen him several.
Speaker 1: I saw him at the airport once walking with Stacy
Speaker 1: Carter and we uh embraced and said, hello, just a
Speaker 1: nice guy. Cool, won the all time greats. There's just
Speaker 1: there's not much you can say. They're wrestling again, would
Speaker 1: not be where it is without Drey Lawler. So uh,
Speaker 1: Jillian Hall. Jillian, she was in the locker room with
Speaker 1: me and we were friendly and then we became very
Speaker 1: friendly afterwards. Yeah. So I I've done a couple of
Speaker 1: conventions where we were booked together and I got to
Speaker 1: know her quite well. And she's a lovely girl. Just
Speaker 1: had a baby last year, which or this year recently,
Speaker 1: I should say, so Uh. I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: see her. Of course, the pandemic hit too, so we
Speaker 1: we both have the same uh, one of the same guys,
Speaker 1: Chad who brings us to everything. So hopefully I'll see
Speaker 1: her in twenty twenty one. But I really liked Jillian
Speaker 1: and I loved her her Britney spears. That was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all my Matt Matt liked it too. Matthew liked it too,
Speaker 1: A lot of fun. I worked with Jillian on a
Speaker 1: lot of the bikini stuff, so it was usually E. C.
Speaker 1: W versus WWE and it was usually like me and Kelly,
Speaker 1: Kelly versus Jillian Hall and Crystal Marshall. That was the
Speaker 1: that was the pairing that we had. And then we
Speaker 1: would just end them calf fighting and out of the
Speaker 1: ring and stupid stuff. Now. I took Crystal Marshall off
Speaker 1: the list because I thought that you guys didn't overlap,
Speaker 1: So that was one of the me as well. Okay, yep,
Speaker 1: just to interject, go up to Joey Styles on your side.
Speaker 1: That's where we I don't know, so yeah, right right,
Speaker 1: So Matt's to go up to Joey Styles on the list.
Speaker 1: You got, okay, Joey Styles and I no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, hit all the ones in between, up to Joey. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll play after day. He's like, okay, Jim dug In
Speaker 1: hatsaw saw Jim dugg In? I did, Okay. I met
Speaker 1: Jim when I won the contest. Uh what year? Did
Speaker 1: ninety three? Whenever that was? He was at that party
Speaker 1: that I attended, and that's the first time and he
Speaker 1: was a very very nice man. Uh. Then I never
Speaker 1: saw him afterwards until conventions, so I never saw him
Speaker 1: in the w W E. Loper room, but I did
Speaker 1: see him at many conventions and I worked one where
Speaker 1: we were at the same booth because we had the
Speaker 1: same guy bring us in. So cool. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: really cool. He was one of my favorites back in
Speaker 1: the day as a kid. Yeah, Jim Ross, the legend
Speaker 1: Jim Ross. Jim. Jim is great to this day. He
Speaker 1: will retweet my stuff on Twitter. He's such a nice man.
Speaker 1: He's another one. I remember myself and Shelley Martinez who
Speaker 1: was Ariel. We had our big match, big minute and
Speaker 1: a half match that we hear it up for, you know, backstage,
Speaker 1: and I remember Jim came over and wished us luck
Speaker 1: and he was just always he just supports the ladies,
Speaker 1: you know, just a nice, nice person. I like Jim.
Speaker 1: I like Jim a lot. I have a barbecue sauce
Speaker 1: shet though, but it's very good. I came out very good.
Speaker 1: I hear great things. All right, We'll go next to
Speaker 1: mister Joey Mercury, who was part of the eminem tape.
Speaker 1: You skip Jimmy Snooker. I have to tell a story
Speaker 1: off because I don't know why he's even on the list.
Speaker 1: I think he was a legend at this point or
Speaker 1: you know, but give us. I'm dying here in story story,
Speaker 1: quick funny story. So Jimmy was in e c W
Speaker 1: from the right earlier and I had just I was
Speaker 1: training and I just started there, just started coming to
Speaker 1: shows and stuff, and I was standing in the back
Speaker 1: and you know, I had really long brown hair, which
Speaker 1: I still do, and my back was turned and I
Speaker 1: felt this man grab my arm and turn me around
Speaker 1: and kiss me right on the mouth. I was like whoa,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I'm sorry. I thought you were a woman.
Speaker 1: I thought I was Nancy And I was like, oh, no, sir,
Speaker 1: but nice to meet you. I think that was the
Speaker 1: first time I ever met Dimmer. Yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: big kiss on. Did you ever hear the story about
Speaker 1: him getting accused of doing drugs in the Awa? No,
Speaker 1: So there was a hot rumor he was doing drugs
Speaker 1: before a show and he was confronted by mister Gania
Speaker 1: and his son, mister Greg Gania, who I believe worked
Speaker 1: at WWE in two thousand and six, and when he was,
Speaker 1: you know, accused of it and then he denied it. Uh,
Speaker 1: they kept pasting him saying, no, we know you're on
Speaker 1: something or whatever. So the legend has it that he
Speaker 1: went back to his bag and he said, if you
Speaker 1: want to say that, you know, the Superfly is messed up.
Speaker 1: He takes out a thing of coke, snorts the coke
Speaker 1: and goes now the Superfly. Okay, way to prove a
Speaker 1: point somebody. It's something that, yeah, the ground, quite the
Speaker 1: character and interesting. Okay, go ahead, I'm sorry, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Next to mister Jorian Mercury. Joey Mercury was
Speaker 1: so young when he came into E C DUB. Him
Speaker 1: and Christian New York were a tag team, and they
Speaker 1: were so good, and it's just they were so cute.
Speaker 1: You just wanted to pinch their cheeks. I just remember
Speaker 1: saying them and they were so young, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you guys are so adorrible. But they were good. They
Speaker 1: were so talented. And then you know, when Joey uh
Speaker 1: got his office position, I was so happy for him,
Speaker 1: and I was able to see him for the first
Speaker 1: time without any hair. He was completely bald. I saw
Speaker 1: him out one of the conventions that we did a
Speaker 1: year or two ago, and that was the first time
Speaker 1: I saw him in forever and he this time, he
Speaker 1: looked like a man. He didn't look like that you
Speaker 1: strapping young buck. He looked like a man. But I
Speaker 1: was got along with Joey. I think was that Legends
Speaker 1: of the Ring If I am correct, well, I think
Speaker 1: I sat across from him all day. Yes, that was
Speaker 1: it then, because I was like, look at you all
Speaker 1: dressed up like a like a big man, Like, look
Speaker 1: at you. I was with Larry's Abisco all day and
Speaker 1: laughing off the whole time. Show. Oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: so funny. All right, next, I'll do my best. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. I've known forever since I first started in
Speaker 1: this business. I love Joey. Sad that he's no longer
Speaker 1: uh affiliated with the sport. Uh. I understand his reasoning.
Speaker 1: I begged him to come on my show. He refused politely,
Speaker 1: But I still have love for Joey styles. But but
Speaker 1: how was he then? Did he change it all? Was
Speaker 1: he more happy in the bubble that he was doing
Speaker 1: stuff with the dot com? Like? What was he like
Speaker 1: in WWE two and six? Yeah? I think he was
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, this is my job. That's the way
Speaker 1: I saw him, like a different There was a difference
Speaker 1: from when he worked. You know, when we worked in
Speaker 1: e c W. There was a difference in everyone almost
Speaker 1: everyone from their ACW days to their ways. So I
Speaker 1: think everybody was looking at it as this is a job,
Speaker 1: this is what I do for a living. Whereas back
Speaker 1: in the nineties, we looked at it like, we get
Speaker 1: to hang out with our friends, We're having a good time,
Speaker 1: we love what we're doing, and you know, most of
Speaker 1: the time we're getting paid for it. So it was
Speaker 1: it was way cooler in the nineties. Oh, everything was.
Speaker 1: Although two thousand and six was a great freaking year
Speaker 1: from what I recall, it was definitely something that the
Speaker 1: nineties can't be replaced. Now, what we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: we're gonna pause this list and we can come back
Speaker 1: to it next time you come on and go through
Speaker 1: the entire roster. But what we're going to do is
Speaker 1: we're going to end the episode and go over to
Speaker 1: Patreon and we're going to talk about the main event guys.
Speaker 1: So there's there's guys you saw we skipped over purposely,
Speaker 1: and we'll find out what you uh, you know, what
Speaker 1: you remember about them meeting them, you know in your interactions.
Speaker 1: I know one good story you've told in the air
Speaker 1: that I'm sure you'll share again. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: cool to see. I mean, it's a it was one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine people when this list started got
Speaker 1: too Look at the picture of Jim Duggan if you
Speaker 1: look really quickly, doesn't he look like balls? Mahoney, he does,
Speaker 1: he does a little bit. Where's balls? Yeah? Look at
Speaker 1: that crazy face and had more I mean it was
Speaker 1: a little more similar, but they have the same like hair,
Speaker 1: facial hair, eyes. That's anyway. Yeah, here's the Jim and
Speaker 1: I over here in the right corner. There's the they
Speaker 1: were paired with Simon Dean. They weren't They might have
Speaker 1: been the guys that were dressed like condoms. Yes, they were.
Speaker 1: I think they were like they were penises or something. Okay,
Speaker 1: well they were nice guys. There you go. All right,
Speaker 1: there weren't dicks, thank god. Before we start our spiel,
Speaker 1: you want to tell everybody where they can find you?
Speaker 1: Sure if you like? I am on Twitter, m m
Speaker 1: AC two seven. That's really all I got. I don't
Speaker 1: do any I don't do any podcasts. I am on Instagram.
Speaker 1: He's exclusive. We have an exclusive deal with me. You
Speaker 1: have exclusive contract with Francie and the Queen. So love
Speaker 1: the life of Bliss. I love her too. That's all
Speaker 1: I got. Yeah, I don't have much the promote other
Speaker 1: than check out the Francis Patreon as well if you
Speaker 1: haven't and look forward to her on her upcoming ventures
Speaker 1: as well, so you don't even need to say anything now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So if you want to follow me, it's at Chad
Speaker 1: E and B on Twitter and Instagram. You want to
Speaker 1: go to my website, it's ib Exclusives dot com where
Speaker 1: I've got some signings with guys who were in the
Speaker 1: WWE in two thousand and six on my site right now.
Speaker 1: If you want to check it out and uh, anything
Speaker 1: else I've got going on, just go support it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's where all the links are. Don't need to go
Speaker 1: into a whole diet tribe across the board on social media.
Speaker 1: I am at ECW Diva Franksine, hopefully starting my twitch
Speaker 1: soon which is also under ECW Diva Francine and check
Speaker 1: me out on cameo. All the links will be provided
Speaker 1: on my Twitter page. Everyone here, well everyone, the three
Speaker 1: of us in DC and all the patreons would like
Speaker 1: to wish you a very healthy and happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Stay safe, stay healthy, stay extreme, and with that that's
Speaker 1: the wrapp