Speaker 1: Hello everyone, It is between which Francie and.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Eyes up Here on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: network or wherever you get your podcasts, joining me as
Speaker 2: always as my co host, Chad.
Speaker 1: Chad, how are you doing today, buddy?
Speaker 3: Beautiful? Just like the eyes up here, the audience, just
Speaker 3: like the eyes of your listeners, just as beautiful as
Speaker 3: all of them.
Speaker 1: Look at you. You're a charmer today.
Speaker 3: What is going on? Kissing up and helping everybody? Subscribes?
Speaker 1: Are you drunk? What's happening? Didn't we drink today? No?
Speaker 1: Should we do one of these things a little tipsy
Speaker 1: someday and see how the dynamic changes.
Speaker 3: That would be lovely, just like all the listeners and
Speaker 3: everybody listening to a Let me.
Speaker 1: Tell you something, guys, I spent a weekend with him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot about that, or.
Speaker 1: We're here with a story. I had a little drive
Speaker 1: down to the Virginia Beach area, and while I was
Speaker 1: hot at him for the whole drive and cursing his
Speaker 1: name because it was very long. It was longer than
Speaker 1: what the chad Ster told me it was going to be,
Speaker 1: And you can't deny it. It was longer, and he
Speaker 1: had the nerve to tell me you took the wrong
Speaker 1: wrong route, and I was just like, get in and
Speaker 1: tell me what route to take. Then he tells me
Speaker 1: I used the wrong app to get there. I hate
Speaker 1: this app. You should have listen. You should have told
Speaker 1: me what to do to simplify my life because it
Speaker 1: literally took me like almost six hours.
Speaker 3: You didn't ask for my advice on it.
Speaker 1: You should have gave it to.
Speaker 3: Me, because sometimes people have like their own little way
Speaker 3: about doing it. So if somebody said to me, like, hey,
Speaker 3: make sure you do this, this and this to get there,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, what am I stupid?
Speaker 1: I've never ventured to your home before. Okay, so if
Speaker 1: you were coming here, I'd say, listen, Bud, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to take this route because it's the easier. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't say two words, see you when I see it.
Speaker 1: What's your arrival time? The hell if I know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in traffic for eight hours? Like I don't know.
Speaker 3: But when I learned a little longer than I thought.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you when I finally got there that
Speaker 1: we had a hell of a time. He has a
Speaker 1: beautiful home, a beautiful wife, beautiful family. We had some food,
Speaker 1: we had some drinks, we chatted a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we didn't have to wake up early the next day,
Speaker 1: I think I could have I could have lasted till
Speaker 1: at least two three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, we could have out for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, eleven o'clock. I was dying. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's I have to go to I'm so tired. But
Speaker 1: we had a really nice turnout in Virginia Beach. So
Speaker 1: whoever is listening that came to the signing, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I met such nice people there. And who
Speaker 1: was the group that brought me in.
Speaker 3: Seven five seven sports cards and collectible?
Speaker 1: There you go, a top notch from top to bottom.
Speaker 1: The team was great. Everybody again was super friendly and
Speaker 1: I had like the best time. I just wish the
Speaker 1: trip was shorter because, let me tell you, when I
Speaker 1: got out of that car, my ass was numb and
Speaker 1: my legs felt like noodles noodles. I couldn't even stand up.
Speaker 3: I had drinks waiting for you, we had food waiting
Speaker 3: for you, A lot of food waiting for you. So
Speaker 3: that's the most important I'm talking about. On the way
Speaker 3: who oh, on the way home, went. You went all
Speaker 3: a different way, which I think was a better way.
Speaker 1: It was still long as hell.
Speaker 3: It was long as hell, though I looked at that map.
Speaker 1: Was really long. That bridge bridge.
Speaker 3: Yeah awesome, Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was in a movie. I was
Speaker 1: waiting for Jaws to come and grab my car or something,
Speaker 1: because I'd never if I did drive over that bridge.
Speaker 1: It was thirty years ago, and I don't remember, you
Speaker 1: know me, I don't remember anything but the drive. We
Speaker 1: stopped once and we stopped at a little tiny diner
Speaker 1: and we were scared. Betty and I were like, oh,
Speaker 1: should we stop here? We don't even know. It's the
Speaker 1: best food ever. Okay, it was only like four or
Speaker 1: six boots, but then you could sit at the counter.
Speaker 1: There was like ten seas. It was very small. It
Speaker 1: was like a little trailer. But the food was awesome.
Speaker 1: So we got something to eat and then we just
Speaker 1: took off. I held my pee in for like twelve hours,
Speaker 1: and then by the time I got home, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: my ass was so sore from just sitting all that time.
Speaker 1: But worth the trip. It was a lit lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But you know, if there is a next time, A
Speaker 1: couple of changes need to be made.
Speaker 3: What my takeaways were Friday night, my my youngest daughter,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, both you and Betty's ears off.
Speaker 1: It is swifty. I've ever met swift seven and she
Speaker 1: knew the order of like the album covers and the
Speaker 1: tour dates. And I'm like looking at her, like, are
Speaker 1: you serious right now? She's like, are you swifty too?
Speaker 3: I was like, you gave her that little grain of attention.
Speaker 3: She's like, well, I sucked my teeth and that's all
Speaker 3: I needed to get.
Speaker 1: Maddie's beautiful. Don't get me wrong, but three she's my
Speaker 1: birthday twin. She is my little birthday twin. And she
Speaker 1: was just she was so overly friendly, like Maddie's in
Speaker 1: her own world. She had her friend on the phone
Speaker 1: like she didn't care.
Speaker 3: Preteen doesn't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't care. And I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: we've all been there. But Bree was just like the
Speaker 1: cutest little thing and just I was so enamoried with
Speaker 1: watching her and her I was dressing her barbies for
Speaker 1: her and just you know, looking I got a tour
Speaker 1: of her bedroom and her dolls, and I think she
Speaker 1: liked us.
Speaker 3: So she loved you guys. Now she was talking about
Speaker 3: to you the next day. It was Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: a great little friendship for the night. But then also
Speaker 3: in Virginia Beach, you know, I was with you back
Speaker 3: and forth. I would check in see how things were going.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I heard such a positive response throughout the afternoon from
Speaker 3: the people in and out before you were there, after
Speaker 3: you were there, just about how much people enjoyed you
Speaker 3: being there, how much people were looking forward to you
Speaker 3: being there. You know, how nice you were to everybody.
Speaker 3: It was so cool that that group. That's why I
Speaker 3: love working with them as my company. I'd be exclusives,
Speaker 3: she plugged, because it's just a great place to go.
Speaker 3: It's not the big city. It's not you know, the
Speaker 3: people that are so jaded because they see every big
Speaker 3: star you could possibly imagine come through the city a
Speaker 3: million times. They are so happy to meet whoever comes
Speaker 3: to their shows. That every person that came to that
Speaker 3: table was so thrilled to meet you, And you know,
Speaker 3: they sold out a trading cards yours. You know, they
Speaker 3: were running out of pictures. It was just so awesome.
Speaker 3: The interactions that the kids have with you, the adults
Speaker 3: and sharing stories like I loved it, and then the
Speaker 3: feedback we got about the podcast was off the charts
Speaker 3: as well. Was I was very happy myself with the
Speaker 3: whole day.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thrilled to hear that, because you know as
Speaker 1: well as I do, like I love meet and greets,
Speaker 1: I love conventions, I love interacting. The one that really
Speaker 1: stands out was this little girl with her father and
Speaker 1: she just was asking me so many questions and I
Speaker 1: literally picked her up for the picture and gave her
Speaker 1: a squeeze, you know, and she they tweeted me. The
Speaker 1: father eat at me when I got home and he
Speaker 1: said all she did was talk about me the whole
Speaker 1: ride whom and she said I looked like a princess,
Speaker 1: which was so sweet. Well, a little girl, Well that's
Speaker 1: okay because she was. She was like seven years old.
Speaker 1: She was so cute. Everybody was just so nice, and
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm happy to hear that they were happy
Speaker 1: with me, because that makes that makes it worth it.
Speaker 1: So again, thank you for setting it up, and thanks
Speaker 1: to everybody who came and seven I'm sorry seven.
Speaker 3: Seven seven sports.
Speaker 1: Seven five seven sports Arts and collectibles. Yes, appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you know Shane and I can come in
Speaker 1: together maybe this year sometimes that we'll do, you know,
Speaker 1: a dual signing. But it was a fun weekend.
Speaker 3: So my favorite So I have to throw this out there.
Speaker 3: You did. You don't have to comment on it. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying it. My favorite thing was at the end
Speaker 3: when we were walking out for all us baseball fans
Speaker 3: out there, former Major League Baseball slugger Mickey Tettleton just
Speaker 3: he calls to one of the large gentleman that was
Speaker 3: standing with him at the table and he comes over
Speaker 3: to me and he says, oh, Nicky would like to
Speaker 3: meet Francine. And I was like what, Like I didn't
Speaker 3: get it. I didn't hear what he said at first,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what did he What did you say?
Speaker 3: Nicky would like to meet Francine. So I was like hey,
Speaker 3: I was like, he wants to meet you. So we
Speaker 3: just walked over and he just stands up and just
Speaker 3: was like creepbly, like, hey, how's it going? Well?
Speaker 1: I went to shake his hand and he held my hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: each other's hands, and I'm going, how you feeling You're
Speaker 1: feeling good? What's going on? Like I didn't. It's like okay,
Speaker 1: let's just hold the hands for five minutes.
Speaker 3: It was very funny.
Speaker 1: That's another thing, like people wanted to meet me in
Speaker 1: the sports world, and I was just like the Washington
Speaker 1: in Redskin and Harvey. Ken Harvey came to the table
Speaker 1: and try to buy a picture and he put his
Speaker 1: money on the table and they were like, no, no,
Speaker 1: your money's no good. He because, no, I'll pay for her.
Speaker 1: But then when he heard I was an Eagles fand
Speaker 1: he got mad at me.
Speaker 3: And I was like, trying to get Ken Harvey on
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he not want to come on?
Speaker 3: No, we reached well, throw the guy from the show
Speaker 3: would reached out to see maybe get him off for
Speaker 3: a football second.
Speaker 1: Let's get both of the guys. Let's get the baseball guys.
Speaker 3: Two years ago.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk to both of them. But
Speaker 1: it's nice to be, you know, to have other people
Speaker 1: want to meet you. Because I've said this so many times,
Speaker 1: like you never know who's watching you. And I'm sorry
Speaker 1: the Redskin Ken he had said that when he saw
Speaker 1: that I was coming, he looked me up on YouTube
Speaker 1: and he said, the reason I came to your table
Speaker 1: is because all of the comments said that you were
Speaker 1: a nice person, and so I wanted to meet you,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, that's so cute.
Speaker 1: That's such a nice thing to hear, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it was, it was great. It was
Speaker 1: a great weekend. And again, friendly people. Virginia is for
Speaker 1: lovers and for friends, very friendly.
Speaker 3: But then they let me live here, so I kind
Speaker 3: of blew the mold out.
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you're friendly, but.
Speaker 3: Sometimes i'm a good Hey, I'm a good host.
Speaker 1: You can say that, okay in your house? Yeah for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, Okay, Well I'll consider that. So maybe in
Speaker 1: the future I'll get an invite to a party or something. Again,
Speaker 1: I won't calme, but it's just nice to be invited
Speaker 1: a party party.
Speaker 3: How oh, no, that was me. That was I was
Speaker 3: gonna say. I just said the light Now, that was me.
Speaker 1: We have a very special guest coming on. You can
Speaker 1: send the okay, very special guests coming on today. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk to him. He's a two timer
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, years ago though how many years ago was it?
Speaker 3: It has to be the first year, if not the second,
Speaker 3: just early into the second year.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's been a while, and I remember when
Speaker 1: we had him the first time. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long we had him on and he got hot. He
Speaker 1: was like, that's it.
Speaker 3: It has to be early pandemic if I really think back.
Speaker 1: Was it? Yeah? But do you remember him getting hot
Speaker 1: because we only had him on for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we'll try to we'll try to stretch it today
Speaker 1: and extend the interview. But I'm excited to talk to
Speaker 1: him and and see what's going on. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I know what's going on in his life, but I
Speaker 1: want to go over a couple of things that I
Speaker 1: just find crazy. And we have clips to show and.
Speaker 3: Wait wait for us to get the rub here. We'll
Speaker 3: start on iHeartRadio, but we're getting the serious XM rub.
Speaker 1: Okay, So today I said it. We have a two
Speaker 1: time guest or returning guest. It is Dave Lagreca Busted
Speaker 1: Open Radio. Dave, Hello, my dear, did you shave for me?
Speaker 4: I shaved for you. Yes, How are you good? It's
Speaker 4: good to see you, hey, Chad? How are you? Dave?
Speaker 3: How you doing? Buddy good man?
Speaker 1: Dave? It's been a hot minute. What's going on Busted
Speaker 1: Open to me is just growing and growing and growing,
Speaker 1: and I see your face everywhere. Not only are you
Speaker 1: of radio host and this is something I need to
Speaker 1: dive into. You are a wrestling personality now you you
Speaker 1: have you have crossed over my friend and you're you're
Speaker 1: managing your ring, announcing, you're doing it all. Are you
Speaker 1: going to put the boots on you? You're actually gonna wrestle?
Speaker 5: No, no, Francine, I'm fifty two. I don't have an
Speaker 5: athletic going in my body, so there's no reason for me.
Speaker 4: To do that.
Speaker 5: But you know what, I'm kind of old schooling the way,
Speaker 5: and maybe it's being a part of the entertainment business.
Speaker 4: I just say yes when opportunities come and I and
Speaker 4: I get offers, I say yes, doesn't matter how big
Speaker 4: or how small. It's something I have to kind of
Speaker 4: come to grips with too, because my wife is like,
Speaker 4: you don't have to say yes to everything.
Speaker 5: You don't have there's weekends you can be home. So
Speaker 5: I'm coming to grips with that. But yeah, I'm just
Speaker 5: having fun. I'm just living a dream.
Speaker 1: I guess as a fan, because you know, I say
Speaker 1: it a million times. That's why we got into the business,
Speaker 1: right because we're fans. We're all fans. I call us
Speaker 1: all marks. It's not a derogatory word. We're all a
Speaker 1: bunch of marks for this business. How did you feel
Speaker 1: the first time being able to actually perform in front
Speaker 1: of people? Like were you because you're on radio obviously, right,
Speaker 1: and you've talked all these guys, you've gotten to know
Speaker 1: the business and like the back of your hand basically,
Speaker 1: but now you're actually a performer and you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to work in front of a crowd. Are you nervous?
Speaker 1: Do you have to input in what you're doing? Like
Speaker 1: what's the what's the vibe?
Speaker 5: It's a big guess to all those questions, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, first off, like you're right when it's like
Speaker 5: when you're doing this podcast, you don't know who's listening,
Speaker 5: how many people are listening.
Speaker 4: You don't know. You're just talking to a.
Speaker 5: Wall, or you're talking to your co host. You're not
Speaker 5: you're not speaking to the audience that's listening to you.
Speaker 5: You know, everybody that's listening to you right now, they're there,
Speaker 5: They hear you, they stay hear you.
Speaker 4: And they but they also picture you. You know, I
Speaker 4: don't know who's listening. I don't know our audience it's
Speaker 4: not that I'm like, you know, I'm I'm live, but
Speaker 4: I don't see that presence.
Speaker 5: I don't see that crowd. So it's much easier to
Speaker 5: do that because you're not performing in front of people.
Speaker 5: So now that I am performing in front of people,
Speaker 5: I like it. It's it and you would know better than anyone.
Speaker 5: There's an extra shot of adrenaline that you get when
Speaker 5: you're working in front of a crowd, which is it's
Speaker 5: something that doesn't replace it's irreplaceable, but it is nervous.
Speaker 6: I do get nervous. I always get nervous whenever I'm performing.
Speaker 6: I always have a bit of nerves, which I think
Speaker 6: is good. I think the nerves is more that when
Speaker 6: I'm doing my radio show. It's my radio show.
Speaker 4: So if I make a mistake or I do something wrong,
Speaker 4: it only hurts me and it hurts my brand. When
Speaker 4: I'm performing for whether it's a you know, a pre
Speaker 4: show for the WWE, or doing something with Impact Wrestling,
Speaker 4: or even on you know a lot of the smaller
Speaker 4: independent shows, I'm working for them. So whenever I perform,
Speaker 4: I want to make sure I don't make a mistake
Speaker 4: or because it's I'm not it's not my brand that's
Speaker 4: going to be hurt. It's the brand I'm working for.
Speaker 5: I'm very conscious of that, and so yeah, I get
Speaker 5: I get a little nervous doing that and doing those things,
Speaker 5: but I but I love it.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love doing it.
Speaker 1: So what what made you cross over? Like? What in
Speaker 1: your brain did you like did you always have a
Speaker 1: passion to do something other than radio in wrestling, and
Speaker 1: then you know, working with the guys that you work
Speaker 1: with because you have a lot of star power on
Speaker 1: the show. Obviously, how did the idea of like putting
Speaker 1: you in a marine come to play?
Speaker 4: That was thunder Rosa.
Speaker 5: When I did I you know, thunder Rosa was right
Speaker 5: after the Lockdown ended the pandemic. She wanted to get
Speaker 5: me on one of her independent shows, Mission Pro Wrestling,
Speaker 5: and we didn't know what it was going to be,
Speaker 5: and it turned out to be a much bigger thing.
Speaker 5: We got the show involved, busted open, involved, it became
Speaker 5: a bit on the radio, and then performing in front
Speaker 5: of that crowd. It was great and really what we
Speaker 5: were able to do, that's when I think, you know,
Speaker 5: impact took notice, wwe took notice. It really came and
Speaker 5: stemmed from what I did with Thunder at Mission Pro Wrestling.
Speaker 5: But that was really That's what really kind of broke
Speaker 5: it for me, was going out there being in the ring.
Speaker 4: Obviously I'm not a wrestler. She beat the hell out
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 5: And I think I think I got a little bit
Speaker 5: of credibility. I think I got a little respect doing that,
Speaker 5: and and I think it stemmed from there.
Speaker 1: Did you get any tips on how to sell or.
Speaker 4: How to work or I didn't. I didn't need to
Speaker 4: because Thunder just beat the hell out of me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 5: She brought me in a day before and she wanted
Speaker 5: to see what I would be able to do, which
Speaker 5: was nothing.
Speaker 4: So she just said, keep your chit up and I'll
Speaker 4: do the rest. So when you watch, and it's a
Speaker 4: it's on YouTube, you can watch it. You know, she
Speaker 4: gave me a drop kick, she chopped me. You know,
Speaker 4: I what the pain that you see on my face.
Speaker 4: It wasn't selling.
Speaker 5: It was actually reacting to what was happening.
Speaker 1: Yes, you you pretty much would rather manage and do
Speaker 1: maybe one or two spots than actually get the knocked
Speaker 1: out of you, you know, with you know, with Tommy
Speaker 1: Dreamer had me referee some matches for House of Hardcore.
Speaker 5: I've done some ring announcing for Impact and I've also,
Speaker 5: you know, hosted a couple of segments for Impact.
Speaker 4: Like I'm willing to do anything. I mean, obviously, when
Speaker 4: I do a lot of independent shows, especially with ISPW.
Speaker 5: Which is a local company here in New Jersey, they
Speaker 5: had me do something physical, very limited, but I do it.
Speaker 4: I always say I don't want to do it. I
Speaker 4: always tell them I don't want to do anything physical.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get in the ring. Somehow I
Speaker 4: wind up getting in the ring and I wind up
Speaker 4: doing something physical.
Speaker 1: We have a clip, yeah, we have a clip. We
Speaker 1: want to watch with you right now. So very nice jacket,
Speaker 1: by the way, good ring jacket.
Speaker 4: Thank you. That's Danny Morris and Danny Doring.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh.
Speaker 5: That's but see that's me doing that's a little bit different,
Speaker 5: and I get to talk a little bit.
Speaker 4: Get in his face. Listen. I had to give him
Speaker 4: a low blow because I had to make sure you
Speaker 4: didn't get back up again, gotcha? So yeah, nice?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you want in as a baby face and
Speaker 1: you left as a heel. The crowd hate you now.
Speaker 1: The crowd hates crowd hate you. Did you have a
Speaker 1: big return to I s p W or was this recent?
Speaker 4: This was just this was just about a month month,
Speaker 4: you know, five six weeks ago maybe, Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: Yep, so I'll be there. I have a couple more
Speaker 5: appearances before at the end of the year, the Great
Speaker 5: George Depolitano taking pictures in the crowd Hall of Famer. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: this stuff is fun.
Speaker 1: It's so fun.
Speaker 4: I love it. Ye.
Speaker 3: I got another. I got another one. He tends to
Speaker 3: He tends to pick on the people from ECW, but
Speaker 3: also people that he works with too. I got another one.
Speaker 3: Hold on, let me pull this one up.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm interested to see this one.
Speaker 1: Let's see what you did.
Speaker 4: Tommy Dreamer.
Speaker 1: Reckon Racon. What does that name?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, there we are, got Tommy hanging over the
Speaker 3: rope a little jet.
Speaker 4: I'm Almo conflicted. I gotta change the look fancy and
Speaker 4: I can't have to look everything.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, Dave you something. I have to say something, Dave.
Speaker 1: If you're going to hit him while he's down, the
Speaker 1: ref should be in the corner with the other guy.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why I didn't do it. Just happened that's why.
Speaker 1: You are being smart. You can't do that.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna hit him. Come on, Rick, he gets
Speaker 4: the jackets are on, poet.
Speaker 8: I like your changing it up. It's good luck, you
Speaker 8: know what. Yeah, they're they're they they great. Francine, You're right,
Speaker 8: I gotta change the look. I can't have the same
Speaker 8: jacket on every single time. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 8: that jacket, the red jacket. A week after that, Don
Speaker 8: Kallas was wearing on a E W DV.
Speaker 1: That's because you saw you.
Speaker 4: It's because he saw me. And then the suit I
Speaker 4: wore at my roast. They had a roast for me
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks about a little over a year
Speaker 4: ago in Dallas, they did a Dave la Greca roast
Speaker 4: the suit that I wore. Two weeks later, Seth Rollins
Speaker 4: is wearing it on raw. So I think I'm a
Speaker 4: bit of a trendsetter.
Speaker 1: You are as you are. You are recreating what a
Speaker 1: manager should be in this sport. Basically, you're you're just
Speaker 1: putting it over the top.
Speaker 4: Now I'm trying.
Speaker 1: Hold on. If I make my comeback, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to watch tapes of you in order to to work again.
Speaker 5: Well, Francy, and if you ever do make a comeback,
Speaker 5: I want to be in your corner.
Speaker 1: I want to be against you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, God, that's terrible.
Speaker 1: I want to be I'll self for you. I'll let
Speaker 1: you beat me up.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna that's I know. That's where I draw
Speaker 4: the line. I can't put me in.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: The guys are beating the hell out of the girls
Speaker 1: these days. You know, I'm I'm wrestling.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, for me, I was never a
Speaker 5: huge fan of intergender wrestling. I mean, I've always was taught,
Speaker 5: you know, you never lay your hands on a woman.
Speaker 4: That's that's just the way I was always taught. That's
Speaker 4: I'm old school in that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but I'm also in favor of women's empowerment. So
Speaker 4: if a woman feels like I want to step into
Speaker 4: the ring with a man and I need to do
Speaker 4: this and this is something I want to prove, I'm
Speaker 4: all for that too.
Speaker 1: So I feel like, if if they keep doing the
Speaker 1: inner gender wrestling stuff, I think, like the p W,
Speaker 1: I should just have like one list and it's merged.
Speaker 1: If guys you're wrestling girls and stuff, why are there
Speaker 1: two lists? Like everybody should be together.
Speaker 4: But I mean, like you, if you think about it,
Speaker 4: like I think, the best women's wrestling in the world
Speaker 4: right now is Charlotte. I could see Charlotte getting in
Speaker 4: the ring with the seth rollins or an AJ styles.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, uh I think to your point, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think eventually who knows that PWY five hundred. You know,
Speaker 4: you don't have to category categorize it between men and women.
Speaker 4: Could be all inclusive for everyone.
Speaker 1: Right, That's the way I look at it anyway. Just
Speaker 1: if you're good, you're good.
Speaker 4: So this is you got. But this is the start
Speaker 4: of it. Now I get my head. Now, look at
Speaker 4: these punches. She gives me the chop, so obviously there's
Speaker 4: the chop there, Dave.
Speaker 1: You already look like you're blown up. We're minting in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at these the.
Speaker 1: Stomach on you.
Speaker 4: I'm getting destroyed here and now here it comes to big.
Speaker 4: Here comes to big. This is the big one. Once again,
Speaker 4: my head into the top turn buckle. You're right, I'm winded.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's these punches, you know, I mean, obviously, my my,
Speaker 5: you know, there we go.
Speaker 1: I like her shirt.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's it. I'm blown up. You're saying I'm blown up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I completely knocked, completely winded, not right out of it.
Speaker 4: Thank you Chad for bringing that up. Thanks manros going nuts.
Speaker 4: They love it. They love watching thunder Road. And she's
Speaker 4: gotta look Greca sucks Eggs T shirt.
Speaker 1: I just said, that's a great shirt.
Speaker 4: It's a great shirt.
Speaker 3: And there's the reveal again. There's a shoppered around the world.
Speaker 4: In case you missed it the first time.
Speaker 3: One more time.
Speaker 1: I remember I remember seeing like some promos that you
Speaker 1: guys did where you were like tied off in the
Speaker 1: room when she was at your house.
Speaker 4: She came to my house.
Speaker 5: She came to my house the home invasion while I
Speaker 5: was on the air doing the show, and she tied
Speaker 5: me up and took off her dirty sock.
Speaker 4: And stuffed it in my mouth. Now, people that would
Speaker 4: absolutely love that, may even actually pay money for that.
Speaker 5: I'm not one of them. So yeah, it was humiliating, embarrassing.
Speaker 5: But Francine, you know, all for the love of wrestling, all.
Speaker 4: For the fans. That's why I do what I do.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a tip. Okay, next time you have
Speaker 1: to work, go in barefoot. You'll be on Wiki feet
Speaker 1: and your your skyrocket to the top. They love the
Speaker 1: feet Wiki feet one time.
Speaker 4: All right, you know what I'll take. I'll take your
Speaker 4: word for it.
Speaker 1: It'll your brand will go skyrocket, You'll go up and
Speaker 1: point because people love me.
Speaker 4: I found a Yeah, especially my feet. I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody wants to see my feet.
Speaker 1: My feet are atrocious, and I think I have a
Speaker 1: score of nine point nine on Wicked feet. Hey, and
Speaker 1: they're atrocious.
Speaker 4: So different strokes for different folks.
Speaker 1: That I don't The most team fetish out there is
Speaker 1: the foot fetish. I don't get it. I don't know
Speaker 1: why people dig it, but they do, so you know,
Speaker 1: I I just know every time I wrestled barefoot, I
Speaker 1: ended up on wiki wiki feet.
Speaker 4: That Wiki feet. I didn't even know there was such
Speaker 4: a sight.
Speaker 1: Neither did I until I was old. So there Wiki feet.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything coming up, like any matches, big
Speaker 1: matches that you're a part of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I I well, we I've always obviously, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm busted open every day. But I have something that
Speaker 5: I've never done before. It's a bit of a stretch
Speaker 5: for me. I'm a little nervous about this as well.
Speaker 5: I signed with Live Nation the concert promoter, and I
Speaker 5: am going to do a show at the Grammar Sea
Speaker 5: Theater in February, February tenth. I'll be doing a show
Speaker 5: on my own. I'm gonna have some guests. I'm already
Speaker 5: building the guests to see who's going to be a
Speaker 5: part of it. But yeah, I'm going to be doing
Speaker 5: you know, we've seen it with Jim Ross, Bruce Pritcher
Speaker 5: did it and they were interested in me. So I'll
Speaker 5: be doing a show February tenth at the Grammarcy Theater
Speaker 5: in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Is a stage show.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'll be doing like a like a one man show,
Speaker 5: a live show. I'll have I have some very special guests,
Speaker 5: some special surprises. But this is a big stretch for
Speaker 5: me because it's kind of like outside of Sirius XM,
Speaker 5: outside of Busted Open.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of going to be doing it on my own.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's a big building that holds about
Speaker 4: five hundred people.
Speaker 1: So well, that's also congratulations. First of all, are not
Speaker 1: going to go like the stand up route? Are we
Speaker 1: on this one? No?
Speaker 5: No, no, I'm gonna be I'm staying in my lane.
Speaker 5: I'm talking wrestling. It's probably gonna be like New York,
Speaker 5: New Jersey theme since it's going to be in New York.
Speaker 5: Just sharing stories of being a fan and getting some
Speaker 5: guests from getting some guests, right, wrestlers and personalities.
Speaker 4: From that area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'll be announcing soon like what guests I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have, and then uh, how people can get tickets
Speaker 5: and be a part of it.
Speaker 4: Excited for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm also gonna leave it open for questions
Speaker 5: like unedited, unfiltered. Anybody has any questions about me or
Speaker 5: the show. You know, I'm willing to answer any or
Speaker 5: all questions. So looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh that's so good. Well, congratulations on that. And
Speaker 1: guess what if this one goes well, you might start
Speaker 1: a tour.
Speaker 4: That's that's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 5: And I think, Francine, because of the success of Busts
Speaker 5: That Open and it's given me these opportunities to kind
Speaker 5: of spread out and like you said, just be a fan.
Speaker 5: Like I'm not no disrespect, I'm not a Dave Meltzer,
Speaker 5: I'm not a wrestling journalist, I'm not a dirt sheet writer.
Speaker 4: I'm just a fan. So the perspective you get for
Speaker 4: me is not of some insider or somebody that's in
Speaker 4: the know. It's just the fan's perspective. I'm kind of
Speaker 4: the voice of the fan.
Speaker 1: So speaking of the voice of the fan, how did
Speaker 1: the look RecA rants start?
Speaker 5: I think it's started in the Logreca house, Like I
Speaker 5: think that.
Speaker 1: With your wife.
Speaker 4: I mean even before that, just my dad. Like you know,
Speaker 4: my brother is a talk show host for ESPN in
Speaker 4: New York and he has his rants as well.
Speaker 3: I think it's go off, go off.
Speaker 4: I think it's just a Regreca Italian thing that you know,
Speaker 4: Jersey thing.
Speaker 5: The combination of the Logreca, the Jersey, the Italian.
Speaker 4: You mix that all all up into one and you
Speaker 4: get a look recorand.
Speaker 1: They're very entertaining. But it's like, you know what, we've
Speaker 1: met a couple of times in person. You're and you're
Speaker 1: very soft spoken and kind and then like I'll put
Speaker 1: busted Open on and I hear you f bombing and
Speaker 1: screaming about something and I'm like, oh, that's not the
Speaker 1: Dave that I met the other day. He's like going
Speaker 1: off on a tangent over here, and it's fun to
Speaker 1: hear you, like a different side of you.
Speaker 5: You always you always hear you know, you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's my personality turned up to ten.
Speaker 4: It's like you have to remember you have to be entertaining.
Speaker 5: Plus, I think the biggest thing for me is that
Speaker 5: I'm passionate about pro wrestling. I'm passionate about my love
Speaker 5: for pro wrestling. So there's gonna be things that bother me.
Speaker 5: And when there's things that bother me, I I could snack.
Speaker 5: So let's just say yeah.
Speaker 1: I like the look recorands. They make me smile, Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Has there been now you you've
Speaker 1: interviewed almost everybody that's been in the ring, right top
Speaker 1: the bottom, I mean everybody. Has there been one specific
Speaker 1: guess that you're you're sitting here talking to besides me,
Speaker 1: that you're sitting here talking to you saying, oh.
Speaker 4: Fine, seriously, like like seeing you. I I was sitting
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 5: But I would but I would go to the CW
Speaker 5: Arena back in the day, like that was even from Jersey.
Speaker 5: I would take the track and drive into South Philly
Speaker 5: and you know, see you perform. It's like, you know,
Speaker 5: those were very very special times that I don't think
Speaker 5: will ever be duplicated. So you know, definitely kudos and
Speaker 5: credit to everything that you've accomplished, and thank you. I
Speaker 5: think you've I think you left an impression that people
Speaker 5: not only remember you, but celebrate you. And that's why
Speaker 5: your podcast is so successful. So I want to think,
Speaker 5: I want to give you your flowers. I want to
Speaker 5: thank you for everything that you've done.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Dave. But what I was what I
Speaker 1: was going for sitting where you are and interviewing all
Speaker 1: these great talents, who is the one guy that you
Speaker 1: said to yourself, My gosh, how did I end up
Speaker 1: being so lucky that as a fan I get to
Speaker 1: sit here and talk to this guy or gal, whoever
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's there's two okay, Because I'm a I'm
Speaker 5: a big music fan, I'm a big rock fan, and
Speaker 5: I'm a huge Alice Cooper fan.
Speaker 4: So I've got to interview Alice Cooper a few times
Speaker 4: on Busted Open because of his involvement.
Speaker 5: At WrestleMania three. Okay, it's kind of like a pinch
Speaker 5: me type moment. And then on the wrestling side, without
Speaker 5: a doubt, and it's.
Speaker 4: It's not even close. It's it's it's Rick Flair.
Speaker 1: I knew you were going to say that, and my
Speaker 1: next question was what do you think of him signing
Speaker 1: with AW.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for him.
Speaker 5: He's been able to keep himself relevant or at this
Speaker 5: time I was, you know, I'm a Jersey guy. I
Speaker 5: grew up in Jersey, so you know, twelve thirteen year
Speaker 5: old Dave Lagreca would was a big Rick Flair fan.
Speaker 4: And this is you know, this is whole Cogan WWF territory.
Speaker 4: So it's so funny, like nobody knew Rick Flair, nobody
Speaker 4: knew who I was talking about, and now you know,
Speaker 4: thirty five years later, everybody knows the nature boy Rick Flair.
Speaker 4: The guy's been actually able to not only keep himself relevant,
Speaker 4: but probably he's bigger now than he's ever been, you know,
Speaker 4: with what he's been able to do. But I've I've
Speaker 4: become you know, really good friends with Ric Flair. When
Speaker 4: I got inducted into the International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame,
Speaker 4: he did a video for me for my induction. There's
Speaker 4: a video I'm very proud of my interview with him.
Speaker 4: It's actually on our available on YouTube. It's on our
Speaker 4: on the bused open YouTube page. Even now, like when
Speaker 4: I interview him.
Speaker 5: When I talk to him, it's just like it's Rick Flair,
Speaker 5: you know, It's like, that's.
Speaker 4: The guy I grew up watching. That's the guy that
Speaker 4: the reason why I fell in love with wrestling to
Speaker 4: begin with. So that's definitely the person.
Speaker 5: Like where I'm like, where I'm sitting and interviewing him,
Speaker 5: it's like, oh my god, I still can't believe like
Speaker 5: that I get the opportunity to talk to somebody like
Speaker 5: Rick Flair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you ever interview somebody that you said to yourself,
Speaker 1: what a jerk? Never again?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 5: In wrestling, And I think it's because you have to
Speaker 5: be a personality.
Speaker 4: You have to be a character. You have to be
Speaker 4: somebody that's over the top and understanding promotion. I got
Speaker 4: to be honest, Like, working in the world of the
Speaker 4: NFL or all sports, you're going to run into a
Speaker 4: lot of athletes that are just jerks and don't understand
Speaker 4: the importance of media. Wrestling's the best when it comes
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 5: There's really not a lot of people that I've even
Speaker 5: interviewed where I said, man, that was a bad interview.
Speaker 5: I think for the most part, wrestlers know that they
Speaker 5: have to be entertaining.
Speaker 4: So it's it's very rare that I've had like a
Speaker 4: bad interview, And I can honestly say, I don't think
Speaker 4: there's been one person where I interviewed that I was like, Wow,
Speaker 4: that person's a jerk.
Speaker 1: That's good. Then you're very lucky, have you. I not
Speaker 1: that I've interviewed. There have been people that I met
Speaker 1: that I've been a little let down by because I
Speaker 1: thought they would either be friendlier or just maybe a
Speaker 1: little more interested in what I had to say at
Speaker 1: some point. You know, we've talked about this, like in
Speaker 1: today's generation, you go into a locker room and some
Speaker 1: of these guys don't even look up at you. And
Speaker 1: like Shane and I did a we did a show
Speaker 1: and we literally walked in. And I'm not saying, you know,
Speaker 1: people have to run up and gush over you or anything,
Speaker 1: but to look up and want to shake your hand
Speaker 1: is a different story. And the way I was brought
Speaker 1: in in the nineties is when you especially a locker
Speaker 1: room you've never worked in, you go and you introduce
Speaker 1: yourself to people and you shake hands. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a lost art form because no one seems to
Speaker 1: do it. Anymore. And so we went into this building
Speaker 1: and into the locker room and like I remember, they're
Speaker 1: lacing their boots and they looked up and they went
Speaker 1: back to lacing their boots, and Shane and I are
Speaker 1: kind of standing there. So I went around, I extended
Speaker 1: my hand and I either got the lame worker handshake
Speaker 1: or I got I know who you are.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it's just it's a different it's a different world.
Speaker 4: It's kind of scary.
Speaker 5: And one of the things I've been lucky enough, I've
Speaker 5: done a couple of, you know, pre shows for NXT
Speaker 5: and the one thing I noticed with NXT is they
Speaker 5: are taught how the respect of the business. That's something
Speaker 5: that and I'm sure with the people that are working
Speaker 5: there showing my gls Terry Taylor, they they are They're
Speaker 5: taught that you have to respect and understand the history.
Speaker 4: As soon as you work. We'll walk into that WWE
Speaker 4: Performance Center. On the walls, you you feel the history
Speaker 4: of that company. But when I work there, every every
Speaker 4: single wrestler in that company came up to me shook
Speaker 4: my hand and said thank you for being here today,
Speaker 4: thank you for coming right thing to do. But I
Speaker 4: think they're taught that.
Speaker 5: And I think that's a problem on the independent scene,
Speaker 5: is that a lot of these promoters and bookers don't
Speaker 5: see the importance of that.
Speaker 4: And and I and I think that that that's something
Speaker 4: that needs to be taught, and it's something that you
Speaker 4: need to have like because it's it's kind of like
Speaker 4: a team You've got to have that team atmosphere, and
Speaker 4: you have to have that camaraderie between everybody or it's
Speaker 4: going to fail.
Speaker 1: It's also just being a decent human being and acknowledging
Speaker 1: that somebody entered the room. Again, I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: ever the biggest star to ever set foot in the ring.
Speaker 1: I'm just walking around saying, Hi, I'm Francine. Nice to
Speaker 1: meet you. And if you can't even make eye contact
Speaker 1: with me and shake my hand like a normal person,
Speaker 1: you know, like I was kind of taken aback, like ooh,
Speaker 1: I don't like it here, I.
Speaker 4: Think that might be a I think that's more of
Speaker 4: a problem just in our society today. I think I
Speaker 4: think a lot of people don't understand the art of
Speaker 4: just communicating with each other. I think a lot of
Speaker 4: it has to do with the phones. And and I
Speaker 4: think even like the pandemic and the lockdown, people got
Speaker 4: used to not socializing with each other. And I feel
Speaker 4: like it's a real problem right now that people feel
Speaker 4: fancy and Chad and both of you probably have dealt
Speaker 4: with this. I sometimes I go to a store and
Speaker 4: I buy something and the clerk doesn't acknowledge me, doesn't
Speaker 4: say hello, good morning, good afternoon, or even look up
Speaker 4: like they.
Speaker 5: I think there's like a disconnect now with people being
Speaker 5: very anti social.
Speaker 1: It's the worst.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Busted Open being done from
Speaker 1: your homes as opposed to being in a studio. Do
Speaker 1: you like it better being home or do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's more personal when you get to, like sit
Speaker 1: next to the superstar and interact with them.
Speaker 4: It's always better to sit. That's why I like.
Speaker 5: And you'll you'll notice on our YouTube page if we
Speaker 5: have a guest in studio, I always come in for that.
Speaker 4: I'll travel in to New York to do that. But
Speaker 4: because Busted Opens got such a great national feel. You know,
Speaker 4: all my hosts live in different areas, right you know,
Speaker 4: Micky Mickey's you know in Virginia, and Mark Henry's in Texas,
Speaker 4: and Bullies in Connecticut, and you know Thunderosa is sometimes
Speaker 4: she's doing it from La Sometimes she's even done the
Speaker 4: show from Mexico. So like, you know, even if I
Speaker 4: was going going into the studio every day, my colos
Speaker 4: wouldn't be in studio with me. So it doesn't really
Speaker 4: it's really not that much different for me doing the
Speaker 4: show from home as opposed to doing it in the studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Bubba a couple of weeks ago. We
Speaker 1: had Bubba on when we made the jump to iHeart.
Speaker 1: I was asking him about his after dark show and
Speaker 1: I was telling him, like, you know, can we get
Speaker 1: Duran Duran on as your favorite band of the night
Speaker 1: And he said he would put them on. But I
Speaker 1: like the way, like it's kind of like an extended
Speaker 1: version of the Busted Open morning show. Now he has
Speaker 1: his night show. Do you see like any other like
Speaker 1: spin offs coming off from you guys, And.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's gonna be it's all under the Busted Open umbrella, right,
Speaker 5: but yes you are going to see expansion and branching off,
Speaker 5: like that's something that is a priority because, as you know, Francine,
Speaker 5: you got to diversify. It's so Busted Open is the
Speaker 5: live show on Sirius ExM. We also have the podcast
Speaker 5: that's been very successful, which I'm very very proud of,
Speaker 5: and now we're available on YouTube as well.
Speaker 4: We have our show is now available on YouTube, so
Speaker 4: subscribe to YouTube. But yeah, that's part of it is
Speaker 4: that we're branching out and you're going to start seeing
Speaker 4: more shows like the one that Bully has, Like I
Speaker 4: really want to see.
Speaker 5: That, and that's going to have different people involved. So yes,
Speaker 5: we are definitely gonna get bigger and we're definitely going
Speaker 5: to expand.
Speaker 1: I love that. And do you have any and you
Speaker 1: don't have to tell us right now if you don't
Speaker 1: want to, but do you have plans for maybe WrestleMania Weekend?
Speaker 4: Yes, we are going to be doing our show live
Speaker 4: on Saturday from the old ECW Arena, so fun.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So we we always try to pick a special venue.
Speaker 9: Last last year when WrestleMania was in LA we did
Speaker 9: our show from the Whiskey of Go Go on the
Speaker 9: Sunset Strip, and then the year before that in Texas,
Speaker 9: which was my roast, we had a twelve hundred seat
Speaker 9: venue that's sold out.
Speaker 4: So we are always trying to.
Speaker 10: Get bigger, get better, and just have it at Like
Speaker 10: historically there's when it comes to wrestling venues as far
Speaker 10: as still standing and still being around, I don't think
Speaker 10: it gets any better than that ECW Arena.
Speaker 1: For me, I don't think so either. And everybody says, well,
Speaker 1: it was a shittle guess what it was. But it
Speaker 1: was our shit hole, if that makes any sense to anyone.
Speaker 1: And it was the most This sounds weird because it
Speaker 1: was so small, but it was one of the most
Speaker 1: electrifying buildings I've ever worked in because those fans made
Speaker 1: it that way. It was they They were so interactive
Speaker 1: with us and so passionate that I've worked in a
Speaker 1: lot of bigger buildings and that will always be my
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I never understood like it was a shithole.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was, but.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, when I go to see wrestling or a
Speaker 5: football game or a baseball game, I don't go.
Speaker 4: There to walk around or to shop or to eat.
Speaker 4: I go there to watch the game, and I go
Speaker 4: there to watch wrestling.
Speaker 7: I always was big on I'll eat before or after,
Speaker 7: or I'll have a beer before, Like I'm not like
Speaker 7: when it comes to that venue, it was just about
Speaker 7: the wrestling and there was.
Speaker 5: There wasn't a bad seat in that arena. Every arena was.
Speaker 5: Every seat in that arena was electrifying. Like you said,
Speaker 5: it was electric.
Speaker 4: I don't need it to look nice. I just need
Speaker 4: to be able to have a good.
Speaker 5: View of what I'm watching in the ring, and I
Speaker 5: thought that arena did that better than probably any other venue.
Speaker 1: You weren't going there for the cuisine culinary arms.
Speaker 4: No, I wasn' and most likely I probably wasn't going
Speaker 4: anywhere near there anyway.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully I will see you because I'm at Russell
Speaker 1: Conn all three days with Shane, So hopefully we'll see
Speaker 1: you that weekend.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure we will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to cross me out somehow. One more question.
Speaker 1: If you weren't doing what you're doing now, what would
Speaker 1: Dave Legreca be in life?
Speaker 5: Well, before I got into radio, I was a bank manager,
Speaker 5: so I wore a suit and tie. I was a
Speaker 5: bank manager for years before I got into radio. I
Speaker 5: got into radio kind of late. I majored in communications
Speaker 5: in college, but life kind of takes you in different directions, and.
Speaker 4: I didn't get into it until.
Speaker 5: I didn't get into radio until I was almost thirty,
Speaker 5: so for a good almost decade I was a bank manager,
Speaker 5: so I'd probably be still in banking or finance or
Speaker 5: mortgage something like that. But let's just say I'm very
Speaker 5: happy with my choice doing radio.
Speaker 1: I think your your personality that you have would have
Speaker 1: been wasted at the bank. Let's just put it there.
Speaker 1: I think you need to be an entertainment somehow, so
Speaker 1: you're a perfect fit for this.
Speaker 4: Trying to make banking entertaining, it just did. It just
Speaker 4: didn't work out. Nobody yet.
Speaker 1: I don't find it entertaining.
Speaker 3: You can work in every wrestling cliche into closing a
Speaker 3: you know, a mortgage sale or something. Body slam the rates.
Speaker 4: I tried my best, Chad, just didn't work out.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well tell the people again where they
Speaker 1: can find you, your handles, your podcast, everything you want
Speaker 1: to plug. You have an opportunity right now.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that. You can follow me at
Speaker 4: David Logreca one David Lookgreca, my name the number one
Speaker 4: on Instagram and on Twitter or whatever. X You can
Speaker 4: listen to me Monday through Saturday, nine am to new
Speaker 4: nistern time on Sirius XM, Fight Nation on Serious XM
Speaker 4: the Busted Open podcast. If you don't have Serious XM,
Speaker 4: we have exclusive content that's not even available on Serious,
Speaker 4: so make sure you subscribe to the Bus and Open podcast.
Speaker 4: All our merchandise is available at potswag dot com, slash
Speaker 4: bus it Open, and now we're available on YouTube, so
Speaker 4: make sure you go to YouTube and subscribe to the
Speaker 4: Busted Open YouTube channel. So and like, keep an eye out.
Speaker 5: We'll be having our WrestleMania party at the old DCW
Speaker 5: Arena this Saturday, WrestleMania Weekend and then yeah, please keep
Speaker 5: an eye February tenth, my live show hitting.
Speaker 4: The Gramma See Theater. So I hope to see every
Speaker 4: member of the nation, all the fans of the Queen
Speaker 4: of Extreme.
Speaker 5: I hope to see everybody. I hope to see everybody
Speaker 5: at the Gramma Sea Theater. If you're anywhere in the
Speaker 5: Tri State area February tenth.
Speaker 1: Can they buy tickets in advance for that?
Speaker 4: Yes, tickets aren't available yet, but keep your eye out though.
Speaker 4: I'll have it posted on all my social media platforms awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, if possible, if you can give us a plug
Speaker 1: this coming Tuesday, because that's when this episode will drop
Speaker 1: with you have my word. I will I will DM
Speaker 1: you and remind.
Speaker 4: You you have my word. Next thing anyway, But you
Speaker 4: have my word. I'm writing it on my calendar. Awese,
Speaker 4: this is dropping.
Speaker 1: Yep, Tuesday at three oh one am on.
Speaker 3: iHeart ched with the capital C yep.
Speaker 4: I know, but I you know, Chad, I use all capitals.
Speaker 3: That's what I like. I mean now you're doing it
Speaker 3: my way. You say you remembered, you remember, Dave. That's
Speaker 3: how I do it.
Speaker 1: I love you, Thank you for coming on. I am
Speaker 1: so happy for all the good things that are happening
Speaker 1: to you. The expansion, uh, the nagerial career that you
Speaker 1: were creating in this business. Just like every the stars
Speaker 1: are aligning for you, and it is so fun to
Speaker 1: watch you evolve. And I just appreciate you and I
Speaker 1: thank you for gracing us to doubt your presence.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 5: You chat as well, And it's all because of the fans,
Speaker 5: Like I wouldn't be able to do this if the
Speaker 5: fans didn't want to see it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, thank you to the fans, and thank you
Speaker 4: for having me on. It's always a pleasure. You're You're amazing.
Speaker 4: I love you and thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 1: We love you, Dave. We'll talk soon. Luck everything, Thanks
Speaker 1: to bye. That's Dave Legreca. What a what a nice
Speaker 1: guy and how fun that his life is just just
Speaker 1: the big party. It just seems like every week something
Speaker 1: else is happening for him and he's loving it and
Speaker 1: that makes me happy.
Speaker 3: And yolo, what he's got to do? Those glasses are
Speaker 3: any indication of how much fun he's having.
Speaker 1: He is having such a good time, and it's well deserved,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, what did he say?
Speaker 1: For the past twenty years, he's been doing this and
Speaker 1: now he gets to just perform and hopefully that stage
Speaker 1: show is huge for him and it can turn into
Speaker 1: a bigger opportunity. And I'm just so happy for him.
Speaker 1: He's such a nice person.
Speaker 3: So his brother Don works for ten P fifty or
Speaker 3: I don't know what they are in the dial anymore
Speaker 3: ESPN Radio in New York, uh huh. And he's got
Speaker 3: you want to talk lo Greca rants. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: got these epic epic rants talking. So he's a Met fan,
Speaker 3: just talking about how the Mets are the worst franchise ever.
Speaker 3: Why is he bothering being a fan of them, and like,
Speaker 3: why do they do this to him? Just like amazing, amazing,
Speaker 3: amazing stuff. So when you say loagreca rants, yeah, now
Speaker 3: I can think of both of them.
Speaker 1: Well. It's funny because like every time I've only met
Speaker 1: Dave a couple times in person, you know, but we've
Speaker 1: interacted online a lot. But every time I meet him,
Speaker 1: he's very Like the first time I met him, he
Speaker 1: came and he was standing kind of in line to
Speaker 1: meet me and to wait his turn, and I just
Speaker 1: remember him just standing there, you know, and he was
Speaker 1: so soft spoken and so sweet. And then one day
Speaker 1: I turn on you know, bust it open, and he's
Speaker 1: just like and I'm just like, is that the same
Speaker 1: person I just met last week? He's gotting crazy? So
Speaker 1: it's just fun to see the different jeckyle and hide
Speaker 1: if you will, of Dave.
Speaker 3: And it's so funny because you know, you go back,
Speaker 3: let's say thirty years right, and wrestling radio was one
Speaker 3: hour a week overnight Saturdays at like two o'clock in
Speaker 3: the morning. I know something else that was on two
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning on Saturday nights, but that's what
Speaker 3: wrestling radio got was that. Now you got podcasts, you
Speaker 3: got serious, you got all these outlets for wrestling. To
Speaker 3: have this this platform, it's just it's so crazy to
Speaker 3: think about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's great. It's and you know again, I'm
Speaker 1: so blessed to be able to get guys like this
Speaker 1: and girls like this on the show. You know, my
Speaker 1: role of Dex is pretty full with some really good people.
Speaker 1: So we have so much more planned for this podcast
Speaker 1: and I'm just super excited to grow here on iHeart
Speaker 1: and to take you all along for the ride. So
Speaker 1: it's been a good three weeks so far. Is there
Speaker 1: anything in the news since we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of time, is there anything that happened this week that
Speaker 1: we need to discuss.
Speaker 3: So here's a good wrestling story that I'll give you. So,
Speaker 3: starting to get into the realm of those remember those
Speaker 3: superstars that were released, you.
Speaker 1: Know the twenty two go down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the twenty two.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now the the rumor mills starting to move. It's
Speaker 3: starting to come up about who's going where and how
Speaker 3: are they going to end up going into other places?
Speaker 3: And the names are starting to circulate of who's going first. Now,
Speaker 3: if you were going to pick which was the first
Speaker 3: person that was going to be picked out of that group?
Speaker 3: Which name do you think is going to be the
Speaker 3: first person picked off that list and signed someplace?
Speaker 1: In my opinion, yes, it would be Doff Ziggler.
Speaker 3: Wow, Oh my gosh, you're so what you know, my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I'm a mine reader like, is it not him?
Speaker 3: So it's very strong speculation that he may be signing
Speaker 3: with AW eminently and debuting as as soon as the contracts,
Speaker 3: stipulation of the release or the ninety days is up.
Speaker 3: Are you any been surprised?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not Number one, he's the hottest release start
Speaker 1: number two. His brother works there. Number three. He needs
Speaker 1: to get back on television. Where where's he going to go?
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, uh and didn't have their TV
Speaker 1: deal impact. I don't think there's enough money for him there.
Speaker 1: That leaves a w for sure? Was there any doubt?
Speaker 1: Didn't we say as soon as his ninety days is up,
Speaker 1: he'll be on AW television?
Speaker 3: Yes we did. We did say that. But you know
Speaker 3: there's also that wild card of maybe they resigned him right,
Speaker 3: maybe you know, refresh him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to work anymore, Maybe he wants to
Speaker 1: focus on his comedy routines and is touring and maybe
Speaker 1: he wants to sit home and eat Chipotle next to
Speaker 1: his pool. Who knows. I don't know. Maybe what's going on.
Speaker 3: From my indications and what I've heard, he is loving
Speaker 3: life at the moment. Uh huh so no, but allutily
Speaker 3: he is. All indications point he is signing with AW
Speaker 3: as soon as the ninety days is up.
Speaker 1: Well it makes sense. Listen, he's what forty one years old, right.
Speaker 4: Something like that?
Speaker 3: One years old?
Speaker 1: Okay, he's still young enough to work. He still has
Speaker 1: a lot to offer.
Speaker 11: And could you imagine like if they use him in uh,
Speaker 11: like you know, the capacity that he's supposed to be used,
Speaker 11: like seriously, Like I never not that I really watched WWE.
Speaker 1: I tried to watch NXT other night, by the way. Oh,
Speaker 1: but like you know when you see somebody that you're
Speaker 1: you're a fan of and that you look at them
Speaker 1: and say superstar, Right, I've always felt that way about
Speaker 1: Dolf Ziegler, even when he was losing every single match.
Speaker 1: I he always made his opponents look like a million dollars.
Speaker 1: And that is what makes a good work or good
Speaker 1: not just getting yourself over but getting your opponent over
Speaker 1: and everybody that he worked with looked like a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I always felt like people like that be rewarded, and
Speaker 1: I never got that vibe that the office felt the
Speaker 1: same way about him, And like I would love to
Speaker 1: see him sign with AEW and have Tony put a
Speaker 1: strap on him and center the company around him, because
Speaker 1: I think at this time in his career, I think
Speaker 1: that he deserves it and it would be a nice
Speaker 1: slap in the face to WWE and look at this guy.
Speaker 1: He's a superstar and this is the way superstars are
Speaker 1: supposed to be treated, so I think, but soon, I
Speaker 1: don't care if he's in there for one day. I
Speaker 1: think they should push him to the mood because I
Speaker 1: feel like the last fifteen years of his career he
Speaker 1: has been nothing but giving and he hasn't really taken
Speaker 1: the lot back. And that's just me looking at him
Speaker 1: as a fan. I am a fan of his. I
Speaker 1: do admire his work, just keeping up, you know, hearing
Speaker 1: his interviews, seeing some of the frustration on his face
Speaker 1: but him not really shown it. He's a team player,
Speaker 1: and I think somebody like that would be an asset
Speaker 1: to AEW, Right, now, so good for him?
Speaker 3: Heal or babyface, he'l he'l five tools, look, size, work,
Speaker 3: promo and attitude. Never heard anything about.
Speaker 1: Him no, And I feel like him walking in should
Speaker 1: be a promo the first night coming in, should just
Speaker 1: him be cut, you know, cutting a promo or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's going to get a babyface reaction because he's in
Speaker 1: aaw and everybody's going to love him. But he can
Speaker 1: turn the crowd like that, and that's what I want
Speaker 1: to see from him. I don't want to see him
Speaker 1: as a baby face. I want to see him as
Speaker 1: a full fledged dealer.
Speaker 3: Don't come in with the shaking hands and yeah you.
Speaker 1: Can, no, no, no, you can, but then turn them
Speaker 1: with five ten words, one sentence, turned the whole crowd.
Speaker 1: By the time he leaves, there'll be booing the shit
Speaker 1: out of him. That's what I want to see for
Speaker 1: Dove Zigler.
Speaker 3: We're just pairing with his brother, who they all hate,
Speaker 3: a tag team before Yes, you have you had, I
Speaker 3: think you wanted one of the first.
Speaker 1: I think that would be a great idea. But does
Speaker 1: he really need his brother? No, does his brother need him?
Speaker 1: Maybe I think he can get a nice rub off him,
Speaker 1: But I think I'd like to see him have a
Speaker 1: very successful singles career there in a w So just
Speaker 1: my opinion. If I was the booker, that's the way
Speaker 1: I would book him. But I guess we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: So Ka's ear.
Speaker 3: Whisper doesn't take much.
Speaker 1: Not what I hear anyway, good story, that's all I got.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, where can people find you? Oh? Wait?
Speaker 1: Can I give a plug before the graphic? I just
Speaker 1: put it on Twitter not too long ago. Can you
Speaker 1: pull it up? I think it's December seven. Shane Douglas,
Speaker 1: Bill Alfonso aka Phonsie and myself will be at Blizzard
Speaker 1: Brawl in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Yep, I think is in uh walk uh.
Speaker 1: Walkershaw, Wisconsin. Okay, I'm flying into Milwaukee, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: driving to Waukershaw. So yeah there we are presented by
Speaker 1: Scott Hewlett Saturday, December second at the Waukeshaw County Expo Center.
Speaker 1: For more info, you can check you out Blizzard Brawl
Speaker 1: dot com. So, uh, that's on I leave that Friday,
Speaker 1: so I leave December first, but I get the colonoscope
Speaker 1: and the scope on that Monday. So everybody say a
Speaker 1: little prayer that I'll be okay to get on that
Speaker 1: plane and uh my thing.
Speaker 4: That I could do.
Speaker 1: Hey, can I just tell you I have an update,
Speaker 1: a health update. I have another one. Does anyone want
Speaker 1: to hear? I have kidney stones? Went to urologists this week.
Speaker 1: I have a clusters of kidney stones and both kidneys.
Speaker 1: The biggest one is seven millimeters but it's embedded in.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like the lining of my kidney.
Speaker 1: I forget what the doctor said because I'm not I'm like,
Speaker 1: in Layman's terms, please, But he was saying all these
Speaker 1: big words. I didn't know what the hell he was saying.
Speaker 1: He said, we could possibly have to blast it. But
Speaker 1: I need to go get a X ray and I
Speaker 1: need to do a twenty four hour urine test. So
Speaker 1: they send you this kit in the mail, and for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours you just drink, drink, drink, And then
Speaker 1: you gave me this plastic thing. It looked like a
Speaker 1: cowboy hat. I'm like, why are you giving me a
Speaker 1: cowboy cat in it? And I was like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: this thing, and you have to measure your pee for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and then you send your pee in
Speaker 1: a box in the mail them and they do an
Speaker 1: analysis of your urine.
Speaker 3: What's in the box?
Speaker 1: What's in the box urine? So yeah, so a bunch
Speaker 1: of kidney stones, so not good. So yeah, I have
Speaker 1: that added to my list. So next week we'll talk
Speaker 1: about my mammogram ultrasound and uh that's a scan and
Speaker 1: her dex a scan, the bone scan that's coming up,
Speaker 1: and then you know the colonoscopy in the scope, which
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. And they called me yesterday
Speaker 1: for the pre uh. You know, they ask you all
Speaker 1: the pre exam where they ask you, you know, what
Speaker 1: meds are you taking this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1: And she's like, well, the day before you can't eat
Speaker 1: anything for twenty four hours before the test, so no food.
Speaker 1: So I'm like okay, and she goes, you can only
Speaker 1: have green jello. You can have water, and you can
Speaker 1: have either clear or yellow gatory. Those are the only
Speaker 1: things you're really out for the twenty four hours plus
Speaker 1: you have the drink that they give you. And she goes,
Speaker 1: and you'll have every loose stools. I go really, and
Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, And it tells you to take the
Speaker 1: second dose six hours before your exam, but we don't
Speaker 1: want you to do that, So just take everything before midnight,
Speaker 1: poop as much as you can, get it all out,
Speaker 1: and then we'll see you that morning.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, great, so dirt cheat headline. Francine's full
Speaker 3: of loose shit, loose stool.
Speaker 1: She said, you'll have plenty of loose stool. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: so you're telling me I just need to stay home
Speaker 1: that day. She goes, oh, you'll want to, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, that's so. At least Thanksgiving that's
Speaker 1: my last big, big meal. And then that Monday is
Speaker 1: when it's it's happening. So I wish I could vlog it.
Speaker 3: What I I don't know. I don't want to have
Speaker 3: to edit that one. There's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Going on with my body, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So oh and remember I told you I'm on a
Speaker 1: special pill and I don't get my period for three months.
Speaker 3: I do got my period.
Speaker 1: Oh that means the pill isn't working.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So I have to double up the doses. So instead
Speaker 1: of taking one pill every day, I take two pills. Noil, Well,
Speaker 1: they shortened me ten pills because when I was counting
Speaker 1: I'm down ten pills and they won't renew it until
Speaker 1: January because my insurance won't pay for it. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: how am I supposed to take the medicine?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm in a pickle a pill I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: double up if I don't have the meds to take.
Speaker 1: And I got my period so I have cramps. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm a mess. I'm a mess. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: don't get old kids, just Joe. It sucks, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really does. I you know, all that one for Christmas
Speaker 1: is health for my family. But I want to stop
Speaker 1: going to the doctor myself because it's a bit annoying.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to give you a little update, like.
Speaker 3: Freedom Flyer Miles.
Speaker 1: At the doctor, I do, man, I'm seeing all these
Speaker 1: and the neurologist starts telling me about his problems and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not here for you, bro, I'm here
Speaker 1: for me. You know, have some sympathy, but yeah, that's so,
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. So you know, send me the
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Speaker 1: forgot to tell.
Speaker 3: You headed your way?
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