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All right, let's 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.520 get it going right here, right now. This is Eyes 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.880 up Here, and you're listening to an all new Eyes 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.680 up Here exclusively on our Patreon channel and of course 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.920 on the Creative Control podcast Network. If you did know 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.760 by now, my name is Chad and every single week 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.360 I'm joined here and live and in living color by 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:51.240 the one and only Queen of Extreme Slide whistle. Wow, Francy, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:02:00.120 what's amazing? Oh you know I'm here? Do if you know? 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.240 You know I'm here and I don't, So it's even better, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.600 I said, And I don't, so that's even better. Now. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:15.560 I'm just I'm extremely under the weather, just not feeling 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:20.160 good at all. Have to travel. We're not going to 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.520 say where or what I'm doing until next week, but 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:29.160 I just don't feel well. And then my mother, oh 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:34.440 my god, so the other day, I don't know the 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.560 beginning of the week, I guess it was my son 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.440 is he's a little hyper sometimes and when he goes 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.880 to kiss you, he will jump on you. And you know, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.639 my mom is very fragile, and she she's on couman in, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.080 And if you don't know what that is, it's a 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.280 blood dinner. And old people that are on coman in, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.880 they tend to bruise a lot. Yeah, you know, So 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.000 she had this, these two bruises on her leg. I 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.400 didn't think anything of it, because you know, it's just 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.760 it is what it is. She bruises. She didn't bump anything. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.360 She just wakes up with these bruises. He went to 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:17.639 go kiss her, bumped into the bruise and she didn't. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.160 She screamed, but she didn't realize what happened. Here. He 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.640 the way he bumped her, she was bleeding. Now, she 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.000 didn't realize she was bleeding. So I heard her scream 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.040 and I ran in and I said, are you okay? 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.920 I didn't look at her leg. She goes, yeah, you know, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.080 he just he hit my leg or whatever. You're all right? Yeah, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.240 I'm all right. Hours go by nothing, you know. I 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.160 go in there. She's under a blanket. I can't see 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.600 her leg. Around nine point thirty, we're getting ready for bet. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:51.400 She starts calling me. She's covered in blood. It bled, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.720 But yeah, she didn't realize it. So I'm like, you 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.680 didn't realize this when you you know, did you get 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.560 up to go to the bathroom or I mean it 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.960 was maybe it was like two three hours since he 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.960 had hit her, and she was like, no, I didn't 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.320 realize it. So I start freaking out. I can't stop 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.000 the bleeding. I'm like, you have to go to the 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.840 emergency room. She won't go to the hospital. She's scared. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:18.760 She's gonna stay there. Oh gosh. So the last four 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.360 days I've been tending to her leg and I keep 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.880 telling her, do you want to at least go to 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.880 like uh uh Med Express urgent Care, like for them 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.840 to look at But it's starting, it's starting to scab, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.960 you know, just wrapping it real tight to stop the bleeding, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.200 because that's what it said online. And she's she wasn't 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.919 lightheaded or dizzy. She could walk. Oh my gosh. I 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.719 just yeah, it was just like and this was early 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:52.680 in the week, this was on maybe Tuesday. Wowser's so, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.160 I mean, she's she's okay. Now it's it's scabbing over nicely. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.000 And they that's all you could do, Like they couldn't 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 and it didn't need stitches, It wasn't like a cut, right, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.560 just a bump. Yeah, and their skin is so delicate 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.880 and fragile. Yeah, exactly. But it was just, you know, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.200 it was just running back and forth and cleaning her 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.000 and cleaning everything. And then my son felt bad and 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.640 it wasn't his faults and just like, don't jump on 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.080 my mom, like give her a nice kiss on the 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:29.240 cheek and you'll be fine. Yeah. Well, you know, but 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.599 I have had a massive headache all week. It will 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.960 not go away. I feel like I haven't slept in 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.640 about twelve days. I just I don't know what's going 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.200 on with me. So you're lucky i'm here today because 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.120 I just drilled to like get under her blanket and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.320 just go to sleep. I've drilled. You're here man. Yeah. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.440 So yeah, I would have taken her in the hospital. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.239 She didn't want to go in quite frankly, she didn't 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.800 need to go. I just panicked. I was just I 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.160 was just concerned just because blood levels. But they did say, 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:09.640 you know, just make sure you pressure. But it was just, yeah, well, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.240 I'm gonna call you out on the spot for this 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.279 and this is nothing bad, so don't worry because I 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.560 know something else that might have bothered you this week. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.039 But this is where you're gonna channel the old queen 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.000 of extreme and it's time to cut a promo on 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.479 a certain travel destination of yours for their decision this 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.440 week to eliminate the fast pass. I have it. Has 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.279 that caused the shit store? I have it up over here. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.680 I want to bring it up. Yeah, So we're getting 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.680 a new gimmick called Disney Genie plus the Genie like 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:46.000 a Latin the Genie. I guess. So, I don't really 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.839 understand why we had to do this. I guess Disney 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:55.279 just needs more money from us on our vacations. But 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:04.800 fifteen dollars is it? Fifteen dollars a day per guests, 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:10.480 per person? So do you get access all day? Because 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.080 I'm seeing different things here. I think you do, because 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.320 it's the thirty rides that they're saying, rides and attractions 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.840 that have the ability to have the fast pass. But 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.040 for somebody like you who goes for two weeks fifteen 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.520 a day, sixty dollars a day, ya day times? You 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.360 know how many day do the actual parties? It's a 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:40.320 spicy little bit. That's a couple of cameos there. I 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.400 don't make a lot for my cameos. It's a couple 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:47.160 of cameo chats and a few cameos. This is something 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.040 that my husband and I said we are not going 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.880 to get. I think if enough people boycott this, then 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.640 they might, you know, go back to the old ways. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.679 But this is just another money grab and it really 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.640 pisses me off, like we don't spend enough on our 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.320 trip to begin with, you know what I mean, I 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.680 am highly upset. I tweeted at them too, and they 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.440 did not respond. That's how the anger level was up 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.600 here was I saw the tweet and I knew that 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.440 was a big deal. But it's funny because you know, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.600 this the current America, and this is not a political statement, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.920 so please don't take it. Is that with inflation being 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.680 what it is right now and everything being more expensive 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.160 and everything going up, you figure somebody like me who drives, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.920 that's automatically going up because the price of gas is 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.640 through the roof, food is through the roof, and now 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.640 you're adding sixty dollars a day for a family afoord. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.240 It just jumped the line a little bit to you know, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.040 not pass out in the one hundred degree heat. It's 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.240 it stinks, really it's a very ill, ill thought out 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.640 plan by that. Yeah, I'm not a fan of it. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.920 I don't like it. And I also read I don't 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.520 know how true this is, but the new ratitituy ride. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.400 They want to do it like Rise of the Resistance. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.920 Oh that's stupid. And I said to myself, Oh my god. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:17.199 It's hard enough getting you know, getting up early because 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.120 you have to be on your phone right before seven 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.280 o'clock to hit that butt. Now I have to do it, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.880 you know, for another ride. Yeah, it makes you work 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.640 on your vacation. Oh yeah, you really can't relax because 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.040 you're doing all this stuff and planning and sorting things out. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:37.040 It's just it's a disappointment, you know. I'm really and 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:38.959 my kids are like a weep wey conning Disney and 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.000 I'm just like, no, but I'm really pissed off. Yeah, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.440 there's still enough to do. You can get around certain things. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.520 I'm sure at times you go it won't be that 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.280 hard to get on certain rides. But it just, you know, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.480 it's just a and I've been experiencing this a lot lately. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.360 It's a move for the sake of a move. They're 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.160 just doing it for the sake of doing it. They're 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.120 adding a couple bucks their pocket, and it is what 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.880 it is, and there's nothing we can do about it. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.559 But you're right, maybe there will be such a revolt 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.240 they'll have to tweak it. Maybe they'll bring fast Pass 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.720 back in some capacity and keep their diaper genie or whatever. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.640 The stupid thing. I have a well, so did I 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.640 for the first one, and then we got rid of it. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.880 But it makes you it just it's again, it's just 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.960 the sake of doing something for the sake of finding 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.520 another place to add five hundred dollars for a family 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.880 of four, when you know maybe that's five hundred dollars 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.400 that you just missed out on merchandise or the food. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.760 The food is ridiculously expensive, especially if you want to 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.719 sit down meal your fourteen dollars chicken fingers. Yeah, exactly. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.880 It's just it's very upsetting to me. I haven't even 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.520 planned my trip yet. We are usually booked in July. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.360 The state of the world right now is so crazy. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.920 I don't want to book anything until I know if 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.920 we're going to lock down or if we're going to 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.839 keep going like I I'm afraid to book, then them 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.080 shut the whole country. You know what I mean, like 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.080 them will be screwed. So we are waiting, but you 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.319 know I'm not happy to Yeah, it's it's funny right now. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.640 COVID wise. Okay, our area which is a very rural area, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.520 which was not hit very hard with COVID just so 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:28.040 happens to be this hotbed for children getting the little variant. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.600 Out of the blue. This happened where all the schools 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.760 in our county are going down. They've officially hit one 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.560 percent of the students at my kids elementary school are 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.640 in quarantine because other kids have it and those were 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:49.080 exposed out of nowhere. Wow, this happened. I mean, do 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.160 you think they're going to go to remote learning again? 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.320 They've brought Bessa now whereas they were this was the 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.240 mess thing. They enacted this idea that you could get 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.760 out of wearing the mask if you had religious or 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:08.920 whatever health restrictions, okay, or what you could do is 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.280 is you could sign a little waiver and your kid 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.800 would wear it. Right, they've changed that. Since one percent 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.720 of the kids are now in quarantine, they've gone ahead 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.320 and they have just said nope, twenty eight days worth 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.280 the masks, so go you know you got to go 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:30.160 figure that's the deal right now, can you hear me? Yes? Okay, yeah, 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.680 because I was thinking of Liz, is she gonna have 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.680 to just not teach again and teach from home? So 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.720 far her school is fine. It's these it's our rural area, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.760 which again last year, not a thing, nothing, all of 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.840 a sudden, and that's where you know, I feel. You know, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.559 this makes me so happy that we pulled our children 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.839 from the schools. The more videos that I see come 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.080 up of the way these teachers are speaking to the 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.160 children and the whole COVID thing, I'm like, my kids 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.000 are safe and I don't have to worry about a 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.640 lunatic teaching them the wrong things in the classroom. So 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.600 I am happy that we pulled them. But speaking of 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.280 being safe from COVID, two weeks ago, you and I 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:20.240 had the the the great honor of having a nice 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.160 day and a half with this gentleman from Connecticut. He's 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:28.400 been talking, what's up, guys morning, how are you cheers 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.599 to everyone on this woking morning. Just coffee? Yeah, no, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.360 it's just an energy drink. Okay, I don't I don't 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.000 have a beverage in front of me. So I'll air cheers. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.280 We already a high five, so we'll air cheers. Yeah, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.920 So how have you been, Nick? Been great? I've been 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.640 great sen you last Yeah, yeah, I know it feels 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.840 like it's been forever, right right, No, but yeah, just 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.240 been So my wife's actually, uh, three weeks away from 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.520 giving birth to our child, so excited. So it's it's 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.680 crunch time. It's the final stretch. But so she's just 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.720 over with the process. But we're looking forward to the 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.719 baby getting here on September tenth. Other other than that, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.080 I've been keeping busy. You know. I had a few 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.760 signings last weekend since I last worked with you, Franny, Jerry, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.320 and Jack Victory. And then next weekend I have. This 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.120 weekend we're taken off. Uh we're actually doing a surprise 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.640 baby shower for the missus, and then next weekend I'll 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.560 be with Rachel and Paul Ellering and then i'll be 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.160 place running I do for about a month. Can stay 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.320 at home and help out. That's very wise of you, Yes, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.320 very well appreciates it. Another will be here too, so 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.720 I'll have to keep them apart. Okay, okay, so let's 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.520 go back a couple of weeks. What was your like 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.760 thoughts on the weekend because I had never I don't 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.080 believe we'd met before. No, no, this is this is 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.160 the first time. I actually so I know that a 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.400 few years ago when when there was a big showman 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.520 in Lanx I believe, but Chad had brought you in. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.240 I actually had Shane Douglass. Uh. And but we didn't 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.240 really get a chance to check the other chat. Yes, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.680 other chests. I have to Chads in Chad so Tennessee, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:18.400 Chad Jersey, Chad. Yeah. So uh. But it was a 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.600 fantastic weekend. I can honestly say that the kapathon that 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.520 we did on Saturday with you, Jack and Jerry was 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.760 one of my most fun days that I've done. A 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.360 virtual signings. Oh that's fun to hear. Jack was a 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.560 great way to kick us off. You you were the 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.360 jukebox that kept on giving and uh and then Jerry 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.400 kind of cooled us off like a good dessert at 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.040 the end of the night, you know, like a sweet 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.400 like a sweet Verbooth, you know, and there you go. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.200 I like that. I was thinking more of like a 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:57.160 Krembrolet so good. I you know, I I've done several 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.480 of these virtuals, you know, and you never know, like 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:04.160 some guys that run it have no personality whatsoever, and 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.240 you know you have the talent has to carry everything. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.160 You were equally bubbly, and I said to myself, Wow, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.160 this guy's really having a good time. He knows what 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.040 he's doing over here. So you made it fun for 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.800 us to be working with you as well. So I 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.480 wanted to thank you for having such a good personality 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.240 on air, because some guys just don't. Well. I actually 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.920 learned that the hard way. So where I've had some 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.400 guests that not everyone's like you and Jack and that, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.080 and even Jerry is such a good storyteller, you just 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.880 need to bring him in the right direction. There's lots 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.360 of guys that you know, once once that red light 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.320 comes on, that they just maybe they don't feel as 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.000 comfortable or as honest. And it's like teeth. But god, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.520 it was like considering I was working for essentially seven hours, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.120 it felt like it was two hours. It went by 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.680 se I'm glad, well, well that makes me happy to hear. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.920 And then the next day we were at that mall, yep, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:03.360 Colony Center here I was Colony Center, YEP. It was 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.040 like a flashback for me because I haven't done like 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.119 an in mall signing. I don't even know when the 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.240 last time. It's years and years and years. And it 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.880 brought me back to like my ECW days because as 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.919 we were approaching to see a line wrapped around the 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.760 wall like waiting to get in, I was so happy 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.480 because you know, it's been like twenty something years and 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.399 you're like, oh, is anybody going to show up? But 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.040 we had a really nice turn out greet. There was 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.280 a there was a line for the for pretty much 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.080 I would say ninety minutes straight and truth be told. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.240 And there was so much talent there, Jack Victor, Jerry Lynn, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.480 Sam and Justin credible Mustafa. But Frandy, you had the 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.480 biggest line of that day. Yeah. Absolutely, hands well, I'll 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.560 vouch for that. I was okay, thank you, that's nice 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:52.800 to hear. I was overwhelmed seeing everyone. It was. It 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.280 was such a nice group of us, you know, together 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.480 and I hadn't seen Mustafa since ECW. I hadn't seen 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:04.080 Jack in probably right after ECW, so it was so 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:09.119 nice just to get everybody together again. Me and PJ 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.000 were just saying, like, you know, there's there's power in numbers, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.320 and I said, we're stronger as a group than we 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.720 are as individuals. So I would love next year for 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.520 us to just start doing more of these group signings 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.200 because I think it was very successful. Oh absolutely, And yeah, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.439 I think more like you just hit the nail on 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.760 the head, probably more than really any wrestling company ever. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.440 When you think of ECW, you don't always think of 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.639 one person or two people. You think of like ten, fifteen, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.240 twenty different people, because you guys were just a family. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.560 Everyone came to see ECW. They had their favorites, but 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.280 you know, it was one of those things from match 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.800 one to match eight. You know, the fans were into 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.800 it the entire time, and it's like the definition of 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.880 a well balanced show, you know. And I think still 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.840 with the conventions people they came to see you for 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.560 any but they were happy to see Jack and Jay, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.960 you know, and it works out works up perfectly. Yeah, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.000 it was a lot of fun, So thank you again 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.400 for having us there. It was not and I look 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:06.720 forward to doing it again and love to be a 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.600 part of it the next time we do east W 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.520 Part two. Yeah, that's something the look forward for twenty 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.320 twenty two for sure. How did you get into this 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.600 crazy world like our fan growing up? I assume good. Yeah, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.760 So I grew up a huge fan. So my dad 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.760 was a big sports fan, and one of the sports 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.399 that he enjoyed was wrestling. So I grew up Red Sox, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.919 Celtic and Bruin fan. Ironically enough, but I grew up 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.560 as a fan of those sports in the Bronx, New York, 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.800 which wasn't easy when you're about twenty twenty five minutes 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.919 from Yankee Stadium. But wrestling was one of the sports 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:46.320 that he always loved, and you know, he went to 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.560 see Brunos and martinovers Larry's Bisco Chay Stadium in nineteen 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.159 eighty and it was just one of those things I 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.920 always enjoyed watching with him. So maybe about ten years ago, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.200 me and the missus had our first baby, Dylan, and 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.000 we wanted to move some stuff I had. I had 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.040 just a collection of stuff I acquired as a kid, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.840 you know, magazines, cards, videotapes. So the conventions that I 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:13.200 had previously been to as a fan, I saw an 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.720 opportunity to maybe kind of squeeze my way in there 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.760 as one of the guys. Oh I knew I didn't 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.040 even know the name of it. It was just a 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.199 vendor selling stuff at a table. So I got some 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.280 information and I did that a few times, and after 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.760 a couple of years of doing that pretty much liquidated 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.040 my entire collection. And it was my wife. She goes, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.280 you know, if you're gonna keep on doing this, you're 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.240 probably gonna need to bring in the wrestlers like everyone 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.240 else does. And this is twenty fifteen, And it never 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.840 even crossed my mind until twenty fifteen. It was one now, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.639 that's it, twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen. Yes, yeah, man, I 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.720 feel like I've known you longer than this. I know. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.080 That was And ironically, to bring it full circle, the 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:57.240 first guest I ever had was Shane Douglas. So, yeah, 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:01.520 that's right, Triple Threat podcast. So it was so funny. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.119 I didn't have the best experience with uh and not Shane. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.399 Shane I've worked with a half dozen times. She's the best. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.760 But the person I went through to get Shane was 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:12.919 not the best. But it led me to Big Chris. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.959 Yeah we all know, Okay, I had a little bit 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.880 of a heart's flutter for a second. No, I had 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:21.520 nothing to do with Shane. Nothing to do with Moose. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.080 It was it was uh someone that uh lied to 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.960 me based on the numbers that were told to me. Yeah, right, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.960 that doesn't happen, I know never. So they actually they 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.239 told me I was sending a deposit to Shane, and 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.600 I sent the deposit them, and naively I thought he 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.040 was going to get to Shane. Never got to Shane. 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.080 And Moose called me about two weeks out, just kind 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.680 of curious on because I had known Moose before, and 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.359 he put you and two together and realized I was 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.439 the person working with Shane. I went over the numbers 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.439 with him, just full transparency, and he was like, yeah, 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:02.040 so we didn't get this. Normally Shane, you know, would 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.560 get that. Yeah, so we talked over. Shane still showed up. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.479 He drove in with Rhino. Actually they came in together 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.879 for a big show in Jersey. And then uh, for 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.480 the rest is history. And then the conventions that I 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.760 was setting up with just selling magazines and DVDs and 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:22.119 started bringing talent in. And now since the pandemic, you know, 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:24.720 killed the restaurant industry for the most part, which is 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.520 still recovering. I've been doing this full time now for 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.680 the last eighteen months or so full time. Crazy believe 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.560 it's been that long. Yeah, March. I was laid off 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.879 the end of March. Yeah. So you were in the 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.240 restaurant business before you started, Yes, yeah, so I was. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.840 I was working for a company called the Chef's Warehouse. Uh, 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.399 not to give them a cheap plug, but and uh 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.520 so they dealt with you know, we go to country clubs, 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:54.159 you know, hotels, you know, fine level restaurants and just 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.359 try to sell them, serve and played items, chief sucutery, 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:00.760 things like that. And then obviously when everything started last March, uh, 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.320 you know, restaurants, I had seen better days and I 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.200 got furloughed for a couple of weeks and then after 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:11.439