WEBVTT - WrestleMania weekend and backstage drama 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.840 All right, let's get it going right here, right now. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.480 This is Eyes up here, and you're listening to check 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.159 it out on all new Eyes of here on the 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.839 Creative Control Network. If you didn't know by now, my 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.519 name is Shannon. Every single week I'm joined here, of course, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.560 by the one and only trademark Queen of Extreme, Francine, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.800 and we are coming to you live here in audio format, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:51.479 live from my studio here in the lovely state of Virginia. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:57.360 You're from an undisposed location somewhere from the Queen's castle 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.880 in the trademark land of the Queen of Extreme. But 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.200 how the hell are you on this beautiful day we're recording? 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:09.920 I'm doing well? How about yourself? I'm just ducky. It's 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.480 kind of cold this morning. But really, you know, sun's out, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.240 guns out. You know, I'm locking and loading. You know, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.920 as we're getting recorded, you know, you're you're quieting the 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.639 people in your house. I've been dealing with the friggin 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.120 cat sitting at the top of the damn steps over here, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.120 crying for the last two to three days, like I 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.680 wanted to come down. We don't let the cat in 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.880 the basement, but holy shit, is it fucking annoying. Well, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.199 the language, the language. No, the cat's annoying as hell. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.440 It's sitting at the top of the steps going do 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.280 you think the cats in heat or she's fixed. She's 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.680 just crying. Oh okay, so she's she just wants to 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.400 come downstairs and play. Yeah, but she can't because she I, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.080 you know, like, my stuff are right and my statues, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.320 I got my stuff and she climbs on it, so 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.760 she can't come down. But yeah, oh my god, she's 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.960 annoying the ship. I'm trying to get my stuff done. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.000 And then here is are you logging her yet? Are 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.560 you a petner? Are you holding her? I go up 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.800 and I give her. I show her the the You know, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.760 I'm the I'm the dominant person in the house, so 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.919 she I show her. You know that I'm the dominant 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.760 male in the house. You're the only mail in the house. Yeah, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.120 I know. Survival of the Fittest. That's why you have 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.480 that title, because the only I know I know what's 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:37.440 going on with you. This This is a kind of 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.200 a quiet week for me. You know, I am not 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.600 booked this weekend. This is the Russell Con weekend. By 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:50.320 the way, uh weekend weekend I usually go to Wrestle Khan, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.200 but I opted not to go this year only because 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.160 California is very far and I would have spent like 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:04.640 two days traveling and three days actually working, and it 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.520 was five days is way too long to be away, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.840 you know, from my situation, so I opted to skip 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.520 this weekend. Now. The following weekend after that is Squared Circle, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.480 which I had booked months and months and months before. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.480 I you know, my mom kind of started with her 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.359 decline and that's I'm going to be away like four days, right, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.840 But I had already booked it and I'm kind of 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.240 locked in, so I couldn't renege on that one. So 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.520 I have to go to that one. But Wrestle Khan, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.839 I was just kind of like, I don't think I'm 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.960 gonna go. So I talked to a couple of my 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.800 friends who are heading out there today, and I hope 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.360 everybody has a great weekend. I hope it's very successful 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:53.240 for everyone involved. Are you gonna watch WrestleMania. I will 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.280 check out WrestleMania at some point. I'm not going to 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.200 fall into it like I did with the Royal Rumble, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.200 because I know that since it's too I don't have 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.320 eight hours of time to spend watching WrestleMania. That's like 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.200 a shift of work if you're going to watch WrestleMania. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.160 So I'll check out. I definitely want to see the 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.960 Cody Roman match for sure, and we'll talk about something 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.640 with WrestleMania relations in a couple of minutes. But that's 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.400 really it. I mean, I guess I'm invested enough in 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.279 this usso's Sammy's ay and Kevin Owen's storyline. I'll check 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.839 that out. Yeah, that's about it. There's really nothing else 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.720 popping off the page for me. Gotcha understood. Yeah, I 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.560 won't watch, but I'll look at clips and highlights and 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.600 read and see what's going on. And I don't know, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.680 it's a magical time of year though. It's like Christmas 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.280 for a wrestling fan, you know it is. I mean, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.640 it's lost a little bit. I feel like, and this 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.440 is a weird one because, you know, is this a 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.919 Vince mcmahonless WrestleMania for the first time? This be a 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:03.920 better WrestleMania. Maybe I gotta say the jury's out on 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.240 Triple H you know, not that everybody's crying for Vince 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.600 McMahon to come back. But the jury's out on Triple 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:18.200 H talking when this first all went down and Triple 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.880 H gained power and the ratings went up, right, I'm 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.600 not going to say through the roof, but the ratings 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.200 continued to climb when Triple H got control and people 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.159 were coming back. We were sitting here saying, this is 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.080 so great for the business and for WWE, and it's 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.479 such a good thing, And now you're telling me not 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.960 so good. No, they're still rewriting shows like at the 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.240 last minute. You know, they don't know what they're doing, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.200 if they're coming or going right. They've done that for years. Yeah, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.040 but it seemed like they were going in a little 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.279 more of a structured direction and it just doesn't seem 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.880 way anymore. All the guys that he brought back seemingly 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:06.200 have done absolutely nothing with you know, It's like, what 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.800 was the point of rehiring all those folks. I mean, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.840 great for them, they got a paycheck and a steady income, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.480 but creatively, you know, there's guys that just got taken 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.160 off that I guess indie scene and could have been 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.279 working more regularly and getting better instead of just doing 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.560 the old showing up the TV and not working and 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.040 maybe just being in a backstage segment. And I don't know, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.400 but it seems like this the jury's still out. So 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.760 this is Triple H's WrestleMania test. Is Vince gonna be there? 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.960 I'm sure in some capacity, But you know, the Hall 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.080 of Fame was like a big deal. It's very small 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.600 this year compared to previous years. And we talked about 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.320 the Hall of Fame with so Calval a couple of weeks. Yeah, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.400 so much controversy, a lot of controversy. And then, you know, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.560 and then the Stacey Keebler reveal come out, you know, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.719 about a week ago, and it's so nice to see 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.359 like how she settled into post celebrity life. Yeah, she 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.800 looks lovely. I mean I saw a picture of her 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.320 walking with her three children. Beautiful family, seems to have 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.760 a great husband, you know, good honor. It's great. I 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:23.520 love success stories in wrestling. I love the positive pieces. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:28.040 And you know, I never really gave my two cents worth. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.040 I sat here and I listened to Val talk about 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.880 Stacy and how she doesn't think she deserves it, but 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.480 you know, I kind of think she does deserve it. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:47.680 If you look back on her career and what she 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.040 has done for the business. She was a very prominent 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:58.320 player in that era. Now I'm not saying, you know, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.560 people say well this one deserves it more than this one, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.400 or this one deserves to be in it before her, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.640 because she did more than that. That's not the way 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.280 this hall of Fame goes. This isn't your typical hall 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.040 of fame. We've discussed this. This is like who they 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.360 think will help them benefit, what names will draw, what 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:25.320 names will sell tickets. I feel like Stacy, like I said, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.120 she was a very very prominent figure in the era 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.640 that she worked in. And I told this story before. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:39.320 When she first started in the business, she was trying 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.560 out to be a nitro girl. And I had saw 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.040 I was at the Baltimore Airport ide layover coming from 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.199 a long ECW trip, and I had my big ECW 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.920 jacket on and she walked over. She was with her 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.520 mom and dad at the time. She walked over to 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.960 me and she tapped me on the shoulder and she said, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.240 do you work for ECW. I said, well, yes, I do, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.560 and I introduced myself to her and she told me, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.040 you know, she was just starting with WCW. She said, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.320 all I want to do is dance. That's what she 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.080 That was the one line I'll never forget out of her. Man, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.560 I just want to dance. All I want to do 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.120 is dance. And I told her, You're going to do 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.040 much more than dance. Believe me, I said, they're going 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.920 to use you for a lot more than dancing. And 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:31.640 I was right. Do other people deserve it, absolutely do 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.960 and hopefully they'll get the call. But I feel, like, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.840 you know, Stacy has contributed a lot to the business 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.920 as a managers, as just a you know, a female, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.920 and everybody knows who she is. Everybody who's a wrestling 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.520 fan knows who she is, and I'm happy for She 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.760 accepted it graciously. She, like you said, she has moved on. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.920 I don't know if she acts anymore. I really haven't 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.640 heard much from her. There was an article up and 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.439 she hadn't even been on her Twitter in years, and 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.840 she popped up to just say, you know, thank you WWE, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.800 and you know, I'm happy to reconnect with you guys 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.160 and stuff like that. So I'm happy for her, you know, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.240 And again it's a positive story. She has a great 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.080 life and I love seeing that for people in the 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.040 wrestling business because too many times people get caught up 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.200 in the wrong things and we've lost so many of 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.800 our you know, dear friends and family because of it, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.160 and it's just nice to see a positive piece. Tory 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.360 Wilson also same era as Stacey Keebler in WWE Hall Fame. Yeah, 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.440 you have to also give them that little asterisk. Even 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:51.000 though they came through that WWE Diva era, they did 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:57.199 break in in WCW YEP during a quite tumultuous era 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.160 where you kind of got an education pretty quick because 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.560 there was a lot of politics going on and you 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.000 had to get kind of learn on the fly as 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.240 to what was going on from a business point of view. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.400 So whether or not she just wanted to dance, she 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.960 was thrust pretty quick into having to deal with sharks, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.760 having to deal with, you know, getting into storylines, having 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.600 to learn. She went from Miss Hancock the standards and 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.199 practices to I don't know if they changed her. I 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.120 don't think she was Stacy Keebler there. I think she 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.440 was just Miss Hancock but standards and practice to stripping 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.520 and this and that. So they kind of threw her 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.240 straight to the wolves and she contributed a lot to 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.440 the end of WCW. So just that WWE Diva era 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.480 where she's a Hall of Famer. She broke in at 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.920 the end of the nineties in WCW, so it's not 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.199 like it's one small piece of time. It is that 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.480 tail end of the Attitude era. It's it's a lot 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.120 more than just that two thousand's you know, ruthless aggression 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.520 Diva era. Yeah, and I remember when she came on 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:07.960 the scene. I believe I was at UH. I was 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:13.160 watching Paul edit the show for the week, the ECW show. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.960 We were up in Scarsdale and uh, I think we 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:23.320 might have had nightro on and Stacy was on and 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.800 Paul said, if I can get one girl, that would 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.440 be the girl to bring over to ECW. He wanted 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.680 Stacy Keebler. I remember him saying that, and could never 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.000 get her. And guess what after the the tail end 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.040 of the Alliance era, she was paired with the Dudleys, Yeah, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.680 saying that if I had my pick out of all 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.920 the girls that we don't have, I picked Stacy Keebler. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.280 So there you go, and there you go. Maybe I 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.000 don't know, so hall of Famer. We talked about it 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.280 a few weeks ago with so cal val and now 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:04.200 cemented in the Hall of Fame and equals cash everything. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.760 There are so many people who are Hall of Fame 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.240 worthy out there that have not gotten in yet, but 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.400 maybe they will, you know. But for me, like, I'm 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.160 not gonna crap on somebody because somebody else didn't get 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.400 in before them. She didn't sit on her on her 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.520 hands and do nothing. She she did what she was 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.120 told to do. She was over, she took the bumps, 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.880 you know, she helped get guys over. I think she's 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.880 Hall of Fame worthy. So there you go. That's my 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.760 two cents. People can argue with me all they want. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.480 I don't care. I do agree that there's others that 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.800 deserve it as well, but maybe everybody will get their turn, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.120 who knows. But again it's not the typical Hall of Fame, 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.480 so you have to keep that in mind as well. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.480 And the chatter will begin because next year WrestleMania is 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:05.720 in Philadelphia, So get ready because the WrestleMania experience hits 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.720 the Philadelphia area and I've already talked about with a 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.600 couple people that you know, the rumblings will begin probably 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.520 around January that hey, if they're gonna do it as 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.800 a group. Who would represent the group? If they're gonna 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.320 pick and choose, who are they gonna pick and choose? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.440 Probably not. Is there a default couple that they pick. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.720 That's the maybe logical guest that they would do that. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.960 But are they just going to umbrella? You know, there's 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.200 the umbrella. We're just gonna lump everybody under that umbrella, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.080 and then everybody who ever worked for the company says, oh, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.680 now I'm a Hall of Famer. Yeah, no, I don't care. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.680 How about this picture. I just found this as I 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:52.080 was scrolling through Twitter just casually. Here's a picture of 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:57.040 the Hall of Famer with the Dudleys. That's a great picture. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.240 I like that picture a lot. I could see your picks. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.440 I can see you doing with the tag titles as well. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.280 So there that's a place I did Queen's book. I 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.360 did that with the television championship. That's right, you did. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.040 There you go. Before this picture was taken, I took 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.360 one with a belt, So there you go. Yeah, And 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.640 as we say, the would be, we did it first, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.160 So there you go. But you know, we'll kind of 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.520 stay with that and uh, we'll kind of keeping the 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.120 you know, the w w E. Diva Era somebody who 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.400 you you know, you worked with in the news recently, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.680 uh for different not not Hall of Fame news, but 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:44.920 you know, personal news. Uh. Kelly, Kelly Barbie Blank announces 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.160 that she is expecting her first child. This story behind 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.280 it is that she had like a very tumultuous time 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.240 getting there and had a very very tough time ut 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.800 ivf battle you know, for years to get to this point. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.240 But I'll let you talk about it. But I was 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.480 just surprised with how much coverage there was because it's 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:13.080 like a very personal thing, but it was like a story. Yes, yeah, Well, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.760 she miscarried. She had a miscarriage a little bit ago, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.600 and like you said, she'd been trying for a very 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.200 long time. From what I understood when I met her, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.960 she was nineteen at the time, knew nothing about the business, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:35.920 as green as grass, sweetest little thing, and you know, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.280 we traveled together, and we roomed together a couple of 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.520 times and stuff, and she would always tell me like, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.400 I just want to be a mom, I just want 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.400 to have a baby. At nineteen she was saying this, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.720 really yeah, And because I was dating my husband at 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.520 the time when I was working there, and you know, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.720 being much older. I was about fifteen years older, I 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.120 belie than her. I was good lore thirty four years old. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.560 She was only nineteen. So she would say to me like, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.520 do you think you're gonna get married? And I was like, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.480 I don't know, maybe you know, and She's just like, yeah, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.119 that's what I want to do. I want to settle down, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.240 get married and have kids. And that's what I remember 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.439 from her the most is just her wanting to be 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.000 a mom. So when I saw that she was pregnant finally, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:29.720 I was elated for her super super happy and beautiful 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.240 pictures with her and her husband and her little baby bump. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.119 I never did those pictures. I don't know, maybe because 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.040 I'm not like an ig kind of girl, Like I 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.280 don't like taking pictures of myself, but all these girls 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.520 are taking pictures of their bellies and these beautiful outfits. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.680 I should have did something like that. I didn't take 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.080 any pictures. So I was just like, Oh, I'm as 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.480 big as Al's. I don't want anyone to see me. Yeah, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.280 I'm not my cup of teeth those kinds of pictures. Yeah, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.520 I don't like this. No, no, I don't get it, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.040 you know, and I watched like an Entertainment Tonight piece 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.119 about it, and that that was the thing that caught me. Yes, 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.280 and that's the thing that kind of caught me off guard. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.960 And she's still being billed as a WWE superstar. And 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.360 I know she comes back for all of the events, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.119 you know, the Raw twenty five, the Raw Super Show, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.800 the Legends Night and all that stuff, but they're still 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.080 billing her as a WWE superstar. Now. I don't know 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.359 if she's gotten into acting at all or if she's 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.680 just a model on the side. And but I didn't 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.320 know she would still be like under the WWE family, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.879 you know, I thought she had moved on completely. And 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.800 they're they're doing jokes on Entertainment Tonight saying, oh, maybe 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.080 this baby will be a future wrestler, ha ha. You 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.280 know what. I'm like, she's been gone for like ten 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.560 plus years. I wouldn't consider Kelly Kelly a wrestler anymore 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:57.280 by any stretch. I don't know, does she like I 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.199 don't know if she'd be under a Legends deal, But 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.680 is she under some kind of promotional deal with them? 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.240 I would guess she is if they. I mean, she's 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.560 been back for like the Women's Evolution event. They had 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 just got the Women's World Rumble, like two years she 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:18.920 was in the Women's World Rumble. Yeah, but like she's 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.320 not like on the independence scene now people remember her, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.280 I guess for her, you know her run there and 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.320 Kelly Kelly was never like released from w w E 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.640 and then like you know at like Wrestle Pro and Rahway. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.400 You know, she was not like on the on the 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.879 indie tour. But I do see her at conventions. I 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:44.920 have seen her at several conventions that I've done where 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.679 I got to chat with She's regular on the convention scenes. Yeah. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:54.240 Pretty pretty, uh pretty high asking price there from uh 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.400 oh really from what I from what I know, there's 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:02.600 the picture from a pretty she looks a little different 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.840 from when she first broke onto the scene. Well, she's 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:11.399 older now and she looks beautiful, and I hope she 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.480 has a healthy, happy baby, and I'm very happy for her. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.040 This guy's like, yeah, I did that. He's like I 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.680 got Kelly Kelly. Yeah, good for them. I'm very very 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.120 happy for them. And you know, nothing is worse than 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.640 you know, being a woman and yearning for a child 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:37.480 and not being able to conceive that is a terrible thing. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.920 I know so many women who would cut off their 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.560 arm to have a baby and they just can't do it. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.320 So when something like this happens, it's a huge blessing. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.760 So I am really really happy for her, and you know, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.920 it's motherhood's journey and she's got a lot in store 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:58.960 for her. But it's the best thing you can ever do. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:04.800 So can Congratulations to Barbie and her husband from me. Yes, 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:09.320 congratulations to uh somebody who had a better shoot name 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.679 than a wrestling name, and that they should have started. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.760 We all said that back in the day, like Barbie 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.280 Blank gets so much better than Kelly Kelly, Like what 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:25.399 the hell? But you know she got it. Yeah, it's funny. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.560 You know, I've seen in the news. I thought I 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:29.440 saw her name pop up like a couple maybe like 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.480 a week or so ago, because the anniversary of test 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.520 Andrew Martin passing away would had just passed and she 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:41.159 had dated Andrew Martin, yeah, you know, way back in 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:45.480 the day. And uh, it's been quite a while since 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.120 he passed away, and I couldn't believe how long it's been. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.760 It's been like fifteen sixteen years, and it's like, man, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.240 he was so young that he was such a big dude, 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.400 and I was I was listening to Kevin Nash talk 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.000 about him, and I didn't know was really close with 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.760 him when he passed away, and Nash looked at him 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.040 as like a protege that he could have been like 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.240 the next Kevin Nash. Like Kevin Nash saw him as 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.160 like the guy who could have carried that big man 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:17.960 torch of like the attitude mixed with like the big 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.359 man you know, like that Nash has that that aura 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:27.840 and like you know, the cockiness that yeah, yeah, I got. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.200 I always got along with Tests because you know, he 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:33.240 was he was there in the fakes. He dubb with me, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.040 and I just wish we would have been able to 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.920 do the run that we were supposed to do together 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:41.520 because I just feel like that would have been money, 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.680 you know, like working together with him. Unfortunately we never 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:48.600 got to do it. But I always got along with 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:50.720 him in the back like he was. He was a 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:55.840 very nice guy. And you in balls with Tests, No, No, 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.440 I you with Tests. I was supposed to be with really, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:01.919 Oh yeah I told you this story. I don't remember this. 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.200 Remind me, No, I don't remember this at all. Yeah, 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:08.520 So When I first went there, the pitch was you're 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.400 gonna be put with somebody, you know, a top tier guy, 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.760 and they didn't tell me who before I signed my contract, 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:17.439 you know. So I signed the contract and then I 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:20.040 get there and then I'm hearing all this stuff, and 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.280 I was told, we're thinking about you and test together 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.000 as a monster Heel team. So I was just like, 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:29.280 oh my god, I love it. And then I said 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.000 the test. Are you ready, like, you know, are you 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:33.800 ready to do this? He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, this 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:36.199 will be cool, blah blah blah, and then it just 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.040 never was brought up again. And I was just like, 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.480 what happened? And I wasn't pissing anybody off because I 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:46.639 hardly opened my mouth, Like I was just like, you know, 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.080 in the corner, reading my book, doing my thing, not 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.120 bothering anyone, So I know it wasn't me. I don't 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.399 think he had a problem with the angle, because he 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:57.320 seemed like he wanted to do something with, you know, 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:01.040 with it, but it just got scrapped for or whatever reason. 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:03.440 But I just in the back of my mind, I'm 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.520 just like, man, I wonder if we would have got over. 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:09.440 I think we would have I really think we would 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.359 have one hundred percent. That's what was missing in that 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:15.320 ECW because well, I remember I was in the building 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.159 the night he re debuted, and you looked at him 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:19.919 when he redbuted, and that's when they were kind of 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:24.720 starting to sprinkle the retread WWE guys in the ECW, 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.560 you know whatever, you want to call it, fake ECW, 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:32.439 ECW rebrand. When they were taking guys like Bob Holly 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:34.199 putting him in there, taking a guy like Tests and 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:37.520