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Speaker 1: our Patreon channel and the Creative Control Network. I didn't

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Speaker 1: one and only Queen of Extreme Francine. Yes, hello everyone.

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Speaker 1: I've just kind of detached myself slowly but surely. Yes

425
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: see for me, I don't watch either, and I'm like you,

426
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 1: I keep you know, with my friends obviously, and I

427
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: see clips on Twitter and this and that. But like

428
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: getting back to like the Dan Hausen character. I think

429
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: he's interesting because it's so different and I love diversity

430
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: and wrestling. If you, like you said earlier, if the

431
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 1: same match is on the card eight times with nothing

432
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: different to it, and every guy looks the same and

433
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: every guy is doing a high fly dibitydo whatever it's boring.

434
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: So I like the fact that this guy is creating

435
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: something that hasn't been done before. To me, that's intriguing

436
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: and that makes somebody like me who hasn't watched it

437
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: want to see a clip of this guy work. What

438
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: is he doing? Like? Where does this character go? You

439
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like I like different stuff like that,

440
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: quirky stuff. I love it. Yeah, and I always like

441
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: the gaga I love haha. We tried to do it

442
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: house shows, especially because we had free reign, and we

443
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: tried to incorporate as much fun into our matches. I mean,

444
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 1: TV's a different entity. You can't really screw its storylines,

445
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: but we tried to make it as funny and as

446
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: fun as we possibly can. So I love diversity in wrestling.

447
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think he's hit a real

448
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: comfort spot where he's been able to and his character

449
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: has evolved. If you've seen where he started to where

450
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: he is now, you know he at first, you know,

451
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: he was just a guy with no face pain. He

452
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: was Donovan dan Housen. He was just you know, generic

453
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: wrestler number forty two on another indie show, okay, and

454
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: then he be became this demon, and he was trying

455
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: to incorporate all these horror aspects and then that's slowly

456
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: morphed into this half demon, half mister Burns character. Yeah right,

457
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: where like I would start watching the videos he would

458
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: post on YouTube where he's talking about the rocket cars

459
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: and and getting the best bags, and I was like,

460
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what he does, but I know I'm

461
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: entertained by it exactly. I'm not alone. Makes me seek

462
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: it out and continue watching, Like I would get bored

463
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: at my shoot job and just like go on cameo

464
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: and buy a cameo for him to say something to

465
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: one of my friends, Like just because I was bored. Wow,

466
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: I just thought it was fun. Okay, well look now

467
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: getting off of him and talking about you again, You're

468
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: doing lots of different things. I saw a clip of

469
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 1: you the other day. You have a YouTube channel I do.

470
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: You're a Disney Mark like me I am, which I

471
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: love because that's just one more thing about us that

472
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 1: we can connect on. I just took a trip. I

473
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: was down there for fifteen days. And yeah, when you

474
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 1: have children, there's there's a set uh at the fin

475
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know, I wouldn't understand. Got to get it.

476
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: But you know, Gideon's is a favorite in our house,

477
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,479
Speaker 1: and this guy goes and buys every cookie that they have.

478
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: He takes his bff, uh friend whatever she is, and

479
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: they just go and sit there and they just eat

480
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: cookies all day. And I want this life Florida. Turn

481
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: my YouTube into just the Disney related thing where I

482
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: just eat food and ride rides. That's all. That's that's

483
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: what I aspire to be in life. I really do.

484
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: I am. I always say I want to be so

485
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: many things when I grow up, and and like I

486
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: just turned forty and I'm still at that point, like

487
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: I don't know yet what I want to be when

488
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: I grow up. Okay, well you have time, but I

489
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: keep thinking, whatever it is, I want to do it all.

490
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: So during the pandemic, I was bored and I started

491
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel where I would just review crappy fast

492
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: foods and I got a little bit of a following

493
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: on there. And I've had a podcast where I just

494
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: talk generic pop culture for probably a couple of years.

495
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: So it's not for everyone, but for the people who

496
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: like it, they come, they sit down, and they enjoy

497
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: I love baseball. I'm a huge baseball fan. I used

498
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 1: to be a baseball blogger, or to some extent I

499
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: still am. I'm a member of the Internet Baseball Writers

500
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: Association of America. You know, I wanted to be a wrestler.

501
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: I started being a pro wrestler. I used to play

502
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: soccer when I was a kid. At one point I

503
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: was a Division one college scholarship athlete in soccer. You know,

504
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: I've just I always like, if you've ever seen Zootopia,

505
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: I'll make a Disney reference. I love Zoutopia. Judy Hops

506
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite Disney characters of all time.

507
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: If you ask me my favorite Disney characters, it's Judy

508
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: Hops and Gaston. And we'll get into Gaston in a second.

509
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: But the whole premise she you know, she wants to

510
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: try everything. And that's how I feel like my life

511
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: should be. I want to try everything because if I like,

512
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: there's no there's never a shame in trying and failing.

513
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: But I do not want to wake up in fifteen

514
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: twenty years and be like, ah, you know, I wish

515
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: I would have tried this. I'd rather live with the

516
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: knowledge that I failed rather than regret never trying. I

517
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, why not. I mean, if you don't try,

518
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: you never know no exactly. So which was your favorite cookie?

519
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. I

520
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: didn't get through the whole I didn't have time to

521
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: watch the whole thing, but I did. I do know.

522
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: You bought nine cookies and a piece of keke seven cookies,

523
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: So at nine in the beginning, there was six cookies

524
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: and that are like normal cookies. Then they have one

525
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: that's like a monthly special. Oh okay, seven and a

526
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: piece of cake. And I bought a piece of Oreo

527
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: cake just because I saw it sitting on the shelf.

528
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: And I'm right, I'm trying to prove to you that

529
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: I did watch it. Little girls, she had longer hair.

530
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: You were sitting at a table and it was beautiful outside.

531
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: I didn't even know Gideon's was a thing. And she

532
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: is like, I'm a Disney fan, but I'm not like

533
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: that deep into it as some other people like to me.

534
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: It's just it's just fun. It's just something to do.

535
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: I live in Orlando. Why wouldn't I go and enjoy myself.

536
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: Because I'm a big nostalgia guy as well, So every

537
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: time I go to Magic Kingdom, say, I have very

538
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: vivid memories of being six years old and going for

539
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: the first time and be like, oh, I remember doing

540
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: this with my cousin when I was six years old,

541
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: and like having that trigger, like it puts you in

542
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: that nice mental space. And I'm someone who deals with

543
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: some mental health issues, and so I like trying to

544
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: just be happy, you know, and just trying to make

545
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: myself happy, and that's one of them. But so this girl, Courtney,

546
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: she was like, dude, we really you have to try

547
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: these cookies, Like you're a fat guy, you want to

548
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: eat these cookies. And I was like, well, I detect

549
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: no lies. So we get there. I have to get

550
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: online because Gideons is one of those things that if

551
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,479
Speaker 1: you're not online at a certain time, you may miss

552
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: the morning exclusive cookie may be sold out by the

553
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: time you get in. So I go, I get to

554
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: the register. I'm like, give me one of every cookie

555
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: and a piece of that Oreo cake because that looks

556
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: delightful and how cool is the register by the way

557
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: with the fire, Oh my god. Right, So I almost

558
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: felt bad because the whole premise of Gideon's I'm a

559
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: big Harry Potter guy. I have the you guys can

560
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: see it because this is on a where on video,

561
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: but for the people listening at home, I have the

562
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: the Deathly Hallows tattooed on my wrist, Big Harry Potter guy.

563
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: So that the ambiance of Gideons very much reminds me

564
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: of like a Hogwarts and the the g in the

565
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: logo reminded me of the Gringotts Bank. And I just

566
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: feel like you feel that kind of magic in the air,

567
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: like almost like if you go to the Universal Hogwarts ride,

568
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: almost like you're walking through the botwels of Hogwarts. And

569
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a place that I'm very

570
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: happy to be in right now. So I get one

571
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: of every cookie and I'm now in the video. I

572
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: just eat a piece of each one to this and

573
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: that's about a week ago. I still have I think

574
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: three cookies left in mind. Yeah, I was gonna say

575
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: how much did you actually because they are thick, they're

576
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: about a half a pound each, and I you know,

577
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: like you say that and you go, oh, half a pound, Well,

578
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: you know it's a big cookie. But I'm a big man,

579
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: so I could put this down and that shouldn't be

580
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: an issue. But my goodness, they are thick and delicious

581
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: and wonderful. I'm even the cookie that I enjoyed. The

582
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: least I still loved. So okay, let me ask favorite

583
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: and least favorite. Favorite was the cookies and cream, the

584
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: Oreo one. But I'm an Oreo apologist, so I like

585
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 1: anything Oreo. I want all up and around my mouth. Right.

586
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: Least favorite was the peanut butter crunch. Really okay, it's good,

587
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: which is very one note. And then the girl Courtney

588
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: in the video, she said, Hey, what you have to

589
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: do is break off a piece of the peanut butter

590
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: and then break off a piece of the triple chocolate

591
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: cookie that we also had, and you put them together

592
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: and it almost goes down like a peanut butter cup

593
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: at that point. See, I am not the biggest chocolate person.

594
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: I like it, I don't love it. I would rather

595
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: have caramel than chocolate. So and they didn't have any caramel.

596
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: They had the toffee, the toffee, the toffee chocolate chip. Yes,

597
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that one, but my favorite was the coffee cake.

598
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: So that's that was her favorite as well. Yes, I

599
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: saw that. I thought, I think that one was great.

600
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 1: Oh it was delicious. It was so good, and we

601
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: got the cookies and cream. My husband went twice when

602
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: we were there. He was going to do a third time,

603
00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, seriously. He left by himself off

604
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock in the morning to go be one

605
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: of the first yes, because they opened at nine to

606
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: let you into Disney Springs, and he started. The first

607
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: day he was number three and the second day he

608
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: was number five. And we had went to Disney Springs

609
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: a couple of days before later in the day for dinner.

610
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: The line was ridiculous and when we said, what is

611
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: the wait, she said six and a half hours. Yeah,

612
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: So we would have picked up our cookies at nine

613
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: thirty at night. Absolutely not. I said we are not

614
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: doing this. So he said, I'll just come, you know,

615
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: in a couple of days. And he won at eight

616
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and uh, he was. He was

617
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: so good. It was so well. He loves those cookies.

618
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: So even if we didn't, I feel like he still

619
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: would have went and got them for himself. But my kid,

620
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: after having them, I completely get it now. Yeah, they

621
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: are wonderful, and especially when you don't live there, it

622
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: becomes a thing like if we're here. We have to

623
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: do it. We have to get it done. We have

624
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: to get these damn cookies. Right. Yeah. How often you

625
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: said you're an annual park passport? How often do you

626
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: get to go? I go probably maybe like once or

627
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: twice a month to one of the parks. I was

628
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 1: just at Epcot a couple of weeks ago. Two weeks

629
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: from now, I'm actually taking my mom to the Magic Kingdom.

630
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: My mom is sixty five, never been to Disney at all. Oh,

631
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: how fine. So they're getting ready, My parents are getting

632
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: ready to move back to New York. They've had their

633
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: fill of Florida. So I'm taking my mom with me.

634
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: My dad's going up on his own because he has

635
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: a disability, so he's being transported, but my mom is

636
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: coming with me and she's gonna fly on her own

637
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: back home to her new home. And I said, before

638
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: you go, would you like to go to Disney World?

639
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: Because this is probably going to be what's that? Are

640
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: you going to log in? Of course? I don't know.

641
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:02,720
Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of the Well, we almost

642
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: lost my mom a couple of years ago. She had

643
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: a little bout with cancer. So as that was going on,

644
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: there's a video on my YouTube which is YouTube dot

645
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: com slash Joe Shoes if anyone's interested. My thirty ninth birthday,

646
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: I surprised my parents by just showing up and I

647
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 1: rebuilt my fourth birthday. So when I was four years old,

648
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: I was a big he Man fan, so I went

649
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: on eBay. I bought all the he Man birthday party

650
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: decorations that were around in nineteen eighty five, decorated their

651
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: house in the middle of the night, and bought on

652
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: eBay the same like big gift that I got when

653
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: I was four years old and gave it to myself

654
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: for my birthday. And then I filmed basically like a

655
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: forty five minute interview with my mom because I think

656
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know at the time if this was going

657
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 1: to be the last opportunity I had to see my mom.

658
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: That's that's really where we were at that point. Thanks

659
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: Sina that it has been and she's so well, I'm

660
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: not the religious type, so I I just I just think, okay, whatever.

661
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: But we've you know, we've gotten out of the woods,

662
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: but there's been ups and downs. But we did this

663
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: interview where I just talked to her about life and

664
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: you know, you know, what was it like when she

665
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: met me? Like, at what point did she know that

666
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:26,240
Speaker 1: she gave birth to a legend? You know, stuff like that. Okay,

667
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: that's It's one of those things that I'm glad I

668
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: have because now it's it's up there for anyone who

669
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: wants to watch it, but really it's for myself more

670
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: than anyone else, and it's just up there in perpetuity

671
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: where I can always look back at it and be like, yeah,

672
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: well then you don't film. Just enjoy the day with

673
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: your mom. That's the way I'm looking at it. Go

674
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: on some rides. That sounds like a beautiful, beautiful guy,

675
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: and she's always very self conscious. She might. Neither one

676
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: of my parents really understand why I do the things

677
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: I do because their mentalities or once you get to

678
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: a certain age, you go to work and you work

679
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. They never really had

680
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 1: hobbies outside of busting their ass to support their two kids.

681
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: You ask my mom and my dad, like, what's a

682
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: good time. My mom is gonna say being able to

683
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: sit on the couch and watch Netflix, and my dad

684
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,479
Speaker 1: is gonna say, whatever your mom wants to do. So

685
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: they don't, but they don't have hobbies. They really because

686
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: of various health issues, they can't really travel. They don't

687
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: really enjoy traveling either. You know, they don't really collect things.

688
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: They just kinda they just have that thing where like

689
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: they just want to hang out and be around each other,

690
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: which is fine. But I've always Okay, now I'm wrestling,

691
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: now I'm doing baseball, now I'm being a captain on

692
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: a podcast. That really was, you know, just a mistake.

693
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: You know, this whole captain thing was just when the

694
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: boys were filming the commercial for Paps Blue Ribbon, which

695
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: is hysterical, which is hysterical. I wasn't supposed to be

696
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: in it. I just was showing up at Matt's house

697
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: to kind of hang out with my friends Brian and

698
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: Swaggle and Mark and Matt and I just showed up.

699
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 1: But this is how I dress like in real life.

700
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: So I showed up at the door. Chelsea Green opens

701
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: the door and she's like, oh my god, what are

702
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: you supposed to be? And I go, I'm shoes And

703
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: she's like, I know your shoes, but why are you

704
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: dressed like this? And she wasn't aware of this. You

705
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: live in the gimmick twenty four. Like I had only

706
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: met her maybe once or twice. Oh okay, so but

707
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: like she so she knew who I was, she didn't

708
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: know why I was dressed like this, and then like

709
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: I show it and the shirt's unbuttoned and everything, and

710
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: the guys from PBR are like, oh my God, like

711
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: can we put him in the commercial? So there's three time. Yeah.

712
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: So the one scene I made on that got actually

713
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: left in for when it aired on TNT is just

714
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: me standing in the background ripping a lung dart. I

715
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: don't know how that passed through standards and practices, but

716
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: soils so funny. I just want to ask you one

717
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: quick question. You did the Run Disney? Yes, I did.

718
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: How was that? Because I'm not a runner, Okay, I'm

719
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: a walker. If I try to run for a long

720
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: amount of time, I always get a sharp pain in

721
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: my left side. And it's not a thing. But I've

722
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: always been fascinated and wanted to learn more about this

723
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 1: Run Disney thing. Now you're waking up at the crack

724
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: of dawn. Are you running through the parks when there's

725
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: no guests there? Okay? So mine last year twenty twenty,

726
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I saw it come across my Twitter feed.

727
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: I said, I want to do this, but they were

728
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: doing them all virtually, so I said, okay, I'll sign

729
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: up for a five k because they didn't have they

730
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: didn't really want all those people running in the parks,

731
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: so they did it like you would go through your neighborhood,

732
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: track your time, and then submit it at the end.

733
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,240
Speaker 1: This year, I said I would love to do another

734
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: five k because I've always been an athlete. I've always

735
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: played sports, and though I am most certainly not in

736
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: PA physical condition right now, I just think I can

737
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: always finish it because that's just how my mind works.

738
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: And this year I was too late. The one in

739
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: the park had sold out, so they still had it

740
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: open for virtual. By mistake, I signed up for the

741
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: half marathon rather than the five K, so I what

742
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: what was supposed to be three point one miles turned

743
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: into thirteen point one miles. I ran your neighborhood for

744
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: thirteen miles. I legitimately went to a gym and ran

745
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: on a treadmill for over three hours. Wow. Like going

746
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: faster and slower because I had to. There was a

747
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: lot of walking involved in there. Okay, gotcha. When you

748
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: do these things, I mean, you're you're really competing against yourself.

749
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not going there to win the gold

750
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 1: or or anything like that. Okay, Yeah, I wasn't sure

751
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: if like you go because I heard you start at

752
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: like five am and you run through the parks. Yeah.

753
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: They they set up They set aside entire weekends for it,

754
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: like wow, crack of dawn. You know, one day it'll

755
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: be the five k, one day it'll be the half marathon,

756
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: one day will be the full marathon. And these and

757
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people. What they do too, is they

758
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: because they're not necessarily trying to, you know, set a

759
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: world record or anything, but they show up in costume

760
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: and they make like a whole event out of it,

761
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: and they show up as like if you're running in

762
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: a group of four, they show up as four characters

763
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: from Peter Pan or whatever movie. So you see a

764
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: lot of the pictures from that, and that I think

765
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: is going to be my goal for next year. I

766
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: want to I want to show up dressed like Gaston

767
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: and run the half marathon again. Yeah, my favorite character

768
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: is Donald Ducked, but Guesstan is up there. I mean

769
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: the interactions with him that I have when I'm at

770
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: those parks so legendary. Yeah, he's great. The first time

771
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: I met him, we both kept eyeing the crowd, trying

772
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: to pick up chicks who can read, because you know,

773
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 1: that's that's how I like literate women. Yeah, I think

774
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: you would make a great care at a Disney park.

775
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: I've always it's one of those things that I always

776
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: want to do, And it's like, I don't know if

777
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: it's something I can actually dedicate myself to, like for

778
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: a long enough period for them to allow me to

779
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, but I I love that kind of stuff.

780
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: I love performing, I love being. You know, anyone who

781
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: gets into this business is because you're you know, on

782
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: a on on some level, you crave hension. You know,

783
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: whether we want to admit it or not, that's you know.

784
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: So it's it's one of those things that I think

785
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: it would be a lot of fun. I always wanted

786
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: to do, like a kid's birthday party or something like that, Like, yeah,

787
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: you know, be some character. I want to be the

788
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: Evil Queen. Oh, you'd be phenomenal. I have years of

789
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: experience with evil Queen. Yes, I want to be on

790
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: the float and I just want to like just gaze

791
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: at people with my fingernail things. Yeah, I could sit

792
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: here and literally talk to you all day. We'll have

793
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: to have you back time. Promote yourself. Where can people

794
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: you on Twitter again? Give us plugs for your shows

795
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: and anything that you have upcoming. So on Twitter and Instagram.

796
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm just at the Joe Shoes. I have a podcast

797
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: called the car Jo Mez Podcast that comes out every Thursday.

798
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: It's a general pop culture movies TV. I just it's

799
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: me and my buddy just talking about what we think

800
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: are the most interesting things going on. So like this week,

801
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: we're talking about the new Batman movie. We both watched

802
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: Sing two because I love animals that talk. They're my

803
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: favorite types of animals. Yo, it really was. I even

804
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: liked it better than the first one. I mean I

805
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: just told her that over the weekend. And when you

806
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: open with a print song, you've hooked me. I have

807
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: to see it. I saw the first one, I haven't

808
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: seen the second one yet. Very good. I also have

809
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: a YouTube. My YouTube is just me trying out different foods,

810
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: going on little adventures, opening some toys. YouTube dot com

811
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: slash Joe Shoes and that's pretty much it. I mean,

812
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: if you're into it, you can hold on it. If not,

813
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: send it right on back. I won't be as fid

814
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: give it a try, because you never know exactly. Like, well,

815
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: you're a delight. I'm so happy we met twice. Now

816
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: forgive me for the first time because you know, maybe

817
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: I can lobby to get back on Alive within the

818
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: next year or so. And oh we would love to

819
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: have it again. Yes, people are dying for Francene and

820
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: shoes his dating advice. I know we have to get together.

821
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: I pitched something to Matt and he's like, I'll tell Brian,

822
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: but I just think he was me. So whatever I have,

823
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: I have the inside track to Brian. He's been texting me.

824
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: So Brian found out I was doing this and he's like,

825
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: that's just unreal, like that that I would get to

826
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: be on this show. And I'm like, seventeen year old me.

827
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: If you would tell him one day, the Queen of

828
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: Extreme Francine is going to slide into his DMS and

829
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: be like, Hey, why don't you come on and chat? Yes,

830
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 1: he would be like, no, my life's not that cool.

831
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: Listen to it is. I met you and I became

832
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: a fan right then and there. I thought, I swore

833
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: you were ribbing me. I was like, there's no way

834
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: Francine finds this at least moderately entertaining. I did. The

835
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: whole night captivated me. Everybody there. I was. I was

836
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: genuinely interested about everybody's character. I want to, I asked questions.

837
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: I thought I was very personable. I wanted to, and

838
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: like I was almost like surprised by that. You know,

839
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: like so many times we meet you know, like don't

840
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: meet your heroes type of thing, and then you came

841
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: in and you were very genuine and very personable, and

842
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: I was like everybody it was like group hugs for everyone. Yes,

843
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: I love meeting new people and working with new people

844
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: and getting to know what's because honestly, like I don't

845
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: get out much, so when I do, I have to

846
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: enjoy myself. And that night was very enjoying. These shows

847
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: are a great atmosphere because it's very low pressure. You're

848
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: just kind of coming in to hang out. And I

849
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: had no idea what the concept was. I was just

850
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: Brian just kept saying, Oh, we're just going to talk

851
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: to you. I said, what are we going to talk about?

852
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 1: What do we do, like, I have no idea what's happening.

853
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: That's really how it is with a lot of the guests.

854
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: They come in being like, so I'm coming into this

855
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: toy show and doing what and then by like you know,

856
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, at every show we're having a couple of drinks.

857
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: Everyone backstage is hanging out, you know. Like I said,

858
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: it's low pressure, and by the time you go out

859
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: and you do your thing and the crowd is into it.

860
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: They're in on all the inside jokes because they listen

861
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: to every episode of the podcast. They watch all the

862
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube, so they're in on everything. Like they

863
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: your Brian's crush on you is well documented over the

864
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: course of this podcast. So when you come out, everybody

865
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: is like, oh my god, this must be a dream

866
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: come true for Brian Myers over there. Oh, Brian needs

867
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: to get out more. Come on. Very very flattering though.

868
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: But I had a great time. Hopefully we can do

869
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,959
Speaker 1: something again, Absolutely sure, and we'll have you back because

870
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: I have a lot more questions, not only about you,

871
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: but this anything. I am such a oh I'm such

872
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: a fan and I love when I can connect with

873
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: other adults because a lot of adults look at me, like,

874
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, you would rather go to Disney than Hawaii.

875
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I think the stigma on that is

876
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: wearing off though. Much like the pro wrestling business has changed,

877
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: society has changed in a lot of ways where I

878
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: don't care what anybody says. I love my Disney exactly.

879
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: Do what you like and let people in jail do

880
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: you boo and you be happy and do what makes

881
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: you happy. So, doll, with a pleasure speaking with you.

882
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: I will slide into your d MS again, I'm sure,

883
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: and everybody go check out Captain Joe Shoes and he

884
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: has so much to offer. You were you were a delight.

885
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. This was This was a real

886
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: honor and a pleasure for me. You're a doll. I'll

887
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Thank you. Take care day later.

888
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: Take it easy. He said, you said he's a doll.

889
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: He's an action figure is I know? He is so fun.

890
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 1: He is like a super fun adult and I love

891
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: that type of person, very out going, uh just a

892
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: just a nice nice man in general. So hopefully I

893
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: get to do something with him in the future. He's

894
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: he's a good time. So I actually did look at

895
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: his YouTube channel, while he was talking, and I have

896
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: more in common with him than I thought. He's a

897
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: you know, he's a starting lineup baseball fan, he man wrestling.

898
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: I mean, what is it about guys in that age bracket?

899
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: What we grew up in a great pop culture era?

900
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: Why do we like cling to it's still and love

901
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: every second of this? He you know, he he just

902
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: he's very like he has a wide variety of stuff

903
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: that he's into, you know what I mean. So I

904
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: think like he can draw, Like he can draw me

905
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: for the Disney, he can draw you for the baseball,

906
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: he can draw this guy for the wrestling. He could

907
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: draw the other guy because he's in with the toys group. Like,

908
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: he's just he's got a lot going on. But his

909
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: personality is what makes him shine. To me, He's just

910
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: a really nice so I I would like to learn

911
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: with him in the future. So cool guy, glad I

912
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: had him on. But getting back to you and I, uh,

913
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: this past weekend we did so we went and worked

914
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: for K and Suh. We did that virtual which was great.

915
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: It was really really good. I had a great time.

916
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: Thank you to Ken because he was wonderful. And then

917
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:31,439
Speaker 1: we did the big event in Queens, New York, which

918
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: when we pulled up, we thought we were going to

919
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: a wedding because it was very fautiful. It's a very

920
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: fancy banquet hall room that we were in, gorgeous inside,

921
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: but we were positioned between the Nasty Boys, the Stunner Brothers.

922
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: I was cramped in the middle. Yes, and and so

923
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: many people were there and a lot of fans turned out.

924
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: It was it was really good turning on, I thought.

925
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: And it was very enjoyable. Got to meet a lot

926
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: of you, and I appreciate you all coming out to

927
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: see me, and I had a good time. It was

928
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: I want to go back to Friday Night with the

929
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: virtual signing because it was kind of funny, Like I

930
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: still like I took a couple of pictures of Ken's

931
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: place and was just sending it to a few of

932
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: my wrestling buddies, and like the amount of merchandise this

933
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: guy had, uh huh for each signing was like amazing, right,

934
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: just so impressive, But I wanted it to organize. It's

935
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: so bad. It was everywhere. Yeah. The thing that I

936
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: was impressed with was the encyclopedias. Yes, yeah, that was

937
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: really cool, Like he has a thing called the Book Club,

938
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: which I hadn't heard of it because you know, I'm

939
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: out of the loop one everything. But it's it's a

940
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: very clever concept. So if you have this W W

941
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: W Encyclopedia and you want it signed, you pay I

942
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: don't know how much he was charging per signature, but

943
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: you can send it in and like every page was

944
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: marked with a color. My color was orange. I'm sorry, Tez,

945
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: but it was orange. And like there was blue, there

946
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: was green, there was yellow. There was all these different colors.

947
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: And you know, you can get like twenty signatures from

948
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: Keen if you want for these, but the but the

949
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: there was a million books on the table, a million.

950
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: It really was like it's a great idea. Yeah, really,

951
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: Like you pay one shipping obviously, you ship it to him,

952
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: and then you can get all these cool signatures, like

953
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: the Beverly Brothers went on right before me, and that

954
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: those guys are a blasts from the past. You know,

955
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: I haven't heard about them in years. And one of

956
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: them came to the table and was super nice to me.

957
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: I was talking to him for a while. But what

958
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: a concept to get this book signed? Yeah, you know,

959
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: and I signed like a ton of the books and

960
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: some figures and a lot of ape. It was a

961
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: good night, you know. And he I'm sure you know

962
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: with your uh not knowing where everything was, I'm sure

963
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: Ken knows exactly. Really. Yeah, I can have everything organized

964
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: right and like ready to go and then somebody's like,

965
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: oh I need this and I'm like, damn it, where

966
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: is it? And yeah, it was like this and that.

967
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: I bet you if we were like, hey, can you

968
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: find that Brutus the Barber Beefcake magazine, he'd be like, oh,

969
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: it's a right. Yeah, No, it was great. It was

970
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: I love virtuals. I say it all the time. I

971
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: love virtuals and that was a lot of fun. The

972
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: big event was a lot of fun. I think I

973
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: hadn't been there in four or five years, so it

974
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: was nice getting back to New York and uh getting

975
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:51,240
Speaker 1: to chat with everybody and see everyone. So a really

976
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: fun weekend. I thank you again for accompanying me, and

977
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: you know you got your stuff done as well, which

978
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: was great. My wrestle Con trip is planned. I am going.

979
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 1: Everything is set, hotel, airfair, everything is done. I'm bringing

980
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: my bestie Betty with me. It's gonna be a hell

981
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: of a weekend. So Dallas, get ready because I have

982
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: I don't even know when I was there. It's got

983
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: to be it has to be twenty something years since

984
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: I've been to Dallas, so and I probably won't get

985
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: there again anytime soon. So if you're in the area

986
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: and you're a fan, please come see me because I

987
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: would love to see it at wrestle kan it's the

988
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: big one. Ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, that would be a

989
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: pretty pretty I mean imagine that, like you go back again,

990
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: like in five years' like I never thought i'd be

991
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: back here, but myrestle Mania is there again and it's

992
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: the fifty five and fabulous to work. Well, we don't know,

993
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: I mean you know, as of right now, my plan

994
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: was to kind of slow down. But I'm telling you,

995
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,720
Speaker 1: if if things keep picking up for me, I'm not stopping.

996
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep going until

997
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: no one listens. Mm hmmrow, just keep doing it. It

998
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: was mike Y and not mean Wayne bloom Is, who

999
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 1: the Beverly brother was. Beverly What a doll he was, yes,

1000
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: and he looked phenomenal, really good shape, and uh it

1001
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 1: was He was very complimentary towards me and very nice

1002
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: and it was nice seeing everyone, you know, it was

1003
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: just it was a good time. We have a little

1004
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: bit of footage that we recorded so you can get

1005
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: to see the crowds and who was there and what

1006
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: was going on. But I had I had a lot

1007
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: of fun me too. I always do all that prep

1008
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: and now it's over. It's over, yes, And the next

1009
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: one is right around the corner. So that's the one

1010
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for now. But you know, we're working

1011
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel. If you haven't subscribed, it's free.

1012
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: All you have to do is is click a little

1013
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: button and ring the bell so you get the notifications.

1014
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: But we have all content coming on very soon yep,

1015
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: and trying to get to five k subscribers, and when

1016
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: we do, we're going to have something very special for

1017
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: you guys. But we're on our way. We're going to

1018
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: be doing I think this coming weekend we're trying to

1019
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: get alive going, trying to get it going. Yep. So

1020
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: it's either going to be Friday or Saturday. Just check

1021
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: our twitters and we'll let you know the exact date.

1022
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: But I'm really digging being back on YouTube. Great responses,

1023
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, love the comments. You respond to every comment

1024
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: that's that's left. Yeah, I would say about ninety nine

1025
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: percent of them have been very just talkative and respectful.

1026
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: You know, you get not many trolls. But yeah, we've

1027
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: been uploading some old clips and also you know, kind

1028
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: of splicing up some of the Patreon stuff, putting it

1029
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: up there. There's the last thing I just uploaded as

1030
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: we're talking, is a short little vlog of the big event.

1031
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,720
Speaker 1: So we're on Patreon. You got close to thirteen minute

1032
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: vlog trip around the venue. On YouTube, you get three

1033
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:07,919
Speaker 1: minutes special so you can come in see a little

1034
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: bit of it and you see what you're missing on Patrion. Yeah, exactly.

1035
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, please subscribe to it like in comment and

1036
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: all that good stuff, and we'll keep giving you a

1037
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: new content. So it's been fun. Yeah, absolutely, all right,

1038
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: Well what are we doing on Patreon this week? Well,

1039
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: on Patreon this week, we are going to talk in

1040
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: detail about the wildest backstage stories that have ever been

1041
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: published online and some have not been published that I

1042
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: might share and we might need a part two for that,

1043
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: so depending on how long we go, We're going to

1044
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: talk about the wildest backstage stories. And then in the

1045
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: part too, we're going to talk about stories that you

1046
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: may have encountered. Now, I just hope that we read

1047
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: these and they're true. That's the other thing I hope. Well,

1048
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: allegedly we have to say allegedly now when I tell

1049
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: mine real and oh my gosh, are they crazy? Yes,

1050
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: So get RDY America and overseas, because I don't know,

1051
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: a lot of people might not know these stories that

1052
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: I have in the vault, but I'm gonna share them.

1053
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: No YouTube listeners to come up edge of my seat

1054
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: waiting for it as we anticipated. And then we're going

1055
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: to watch an impromptu match between the Human Suplex Machine,

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Speaker 1: the Orange and Black Master, Taz and one franchise were

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Speaker 1: in his shirt hare Shane Douglas TV title. I know

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Speaker 1: this five minutes cann who can tap out? The exchange

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Speaker 1: beforehand is so filled with curses. I thought we didn't

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Speaker 1: do this one. We did a clipped version of it.

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Speaker 1: This is the whole thing. This is the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: This is the exchange between Taz him. You were brought up,

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Speaker 1: you were called the not night name. I never called

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Speaker 1: a nice name by these men, and why we've not

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Speaker 1: We watched a clipped version of it. This is the

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Speaker 1: whole thing, but just the language that's used, like, holy crap,

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Speaker 1: this is I don't know, it's great. I get such

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Speaker 1: a bad rap and I'm such good person. I just

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Speaker 1: don't understand stupid tazz. We you know what we did.

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Speaker 1: We watched it in a in a conglomeration of about

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Speaker 1: three clips. That's why we only saw a clipped version

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Speaker 1: of it. This is okay, fifteen minute segment. I'll break

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Speaker 1: it all down for you. We'll break it down. So

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Speaker 1: that's what's going on Patreon, dot com, slash Francy pot here,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to my Patreon channel. That's what we put up

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Speaker 1: during the YouTube. So roll on the bottom. If you

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Speaker 1: want to follow me, it's at Chad E and B

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, at IB Exclusives on Instagram below thecollar dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash ib Exclusives for the Chadster shirt, and IB Exclusives

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Speaker 1: dot com for all your i'd be exclusive needs all right,

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Speaker 1: And if you want to follow me across the board

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Speaker 1: on social media, you can reach me at ecwdva Francine.

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Speaker 1: I have shirts on pro Wrestling Teas. I also have

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Speaker 1: cool shirts on wrestle merch Central and Uh, if you

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Speaker 1: want to cameo, just go to my Twitter click the

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Speaker 1: link and I'd be happy to do one for you

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Speaker 1: and everybody. Just stay safe and healthy and happy. And

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Speaker 1: that is a wrap.