Speaker 1: All right, let's get it going right here, right now,
Speaker 1: this is Eyes up Here. We're listening to a brand
Speaker 1: new episode of Eyes up Here, exclusively on our Patreon
Speaker 1: channel and also simulcast later in the week on the
Speaker 1: Creative Control podcast network. If you didn't know by now,
Speaker 1: my name is Chad. In every single week I am
Speaker 1: joined here by the hosts of the show, the newest
Speaker 1: affiliate of the Twitch community, like literally the master of
Speaker 1: all Internet domains, the one and only Queen of Extreme Franzy.
Speaker 1: Well thanks for that, but I have to disagree. I
Speaker 1: have still no idea what I'm doing. But woke up
Speaker 1: today and it said, hey, congratulations, you're a Twitch affiliate
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, all right, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so now I have to figure out what the next
Speaker 1: step is. I think I linked everything correct this morning,
Speaker 1: but you know me, I might have did something wrong.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. But it's exciting. So there's a
Speaker 1: there's more opportunity for me on that channel to grow,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to think of things outside the box
Speaker 1: to do. So yeah, stay tuned, America. So you've you know,
Speaker 1: you've done the Q and a's you're looking to do,
Speaker 1: you know, like cooking and stuff, maybe gaming at some point,
Speaker 1: but like, how have you felt the response has been
Speaker 1: with the Q and A? Is you getting a lot
Speaker 1: of new people coming in asking questions? You get a
Speaker 1: lot of the same questions, like where where's the Q
Speaker 1: and A at right now? So people love the just
Speaker 1: chatting portion. A lot of people have told me how
Speaker 1: personable I've been, and they're thankful because I'm answering every
Speaker 1: single question. There are some people who ask repeat questions
Speaker 1: only because they might be new and they weren't on
Speaker 1: the last stream, or this is the first time they're
Speaker 1: talking to me. So I think the response has been
Speaker 1: really good so far. I have a lot of the
Speaker 1: fans they're doing. They're hosting streams. It's called hosting the
Speaker 1: stream where they would bring somebody in that maybe normally
Speaker 1: wouldn't know that I was on Twitch, and they they
Speaker 1: send people over from their channels. There's something called a
Speaker 1: hype train, which they said, oh wait till we do
Speaker 1: the hype train, and I was like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know what any of this means, but I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for it and it's it's just fun. You know. We
Speaker 1: watched aw again last night. I had it on, and
Speaker 1: it's again it's hard to watch everything while you're trying
Speaker 1: to look at the chat because you don't want to
Speaker 1: ignore anybody in the chat, and then something will happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the other monitor to see what's
Speaker 1: going on. But it's it's been good so far. I
Speaker 1: always enjoyed doing live streams and talking to people, so
Speaker 1: I like it. You really have, because you know, I'll
Speaker 1: be starting to upload some clips for the show onto
Speaker 1: your YouTube channel, and you did a shitload of live streams.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize you did that many of them. You
Speaker 1: did a ton. Yeah, I did a lot of them before.
Speaker 1: It's just a way to communicate and keep in touch
Speaker 1: with people, and you know, especially now since I'm not
Speaker 1: out there working or doing signings, so this is a
Speaker 1: way to be able to communicate and see what's going
Speaker 1: on and keep myself out there irrelevant. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the platform. It's just another way to
Speaker 1: make some extra money while you know, we're still indoors,
Speaker 1: and but I do really enjoy it. It's been fun
Speaker 1: so far, So cool, very cool. I mean it we
Speaker 1: start like a brief little like I remember when we
Speaker 1: first started talking about like what twitch had to offer
Speaker 1: so long ago. It was like, still, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think we could have grasped what you would
Speaker 1: have done at this point. But you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's one of these things you take to you don't
Speaker 1: give yourself enough credits. A lot of times you take
Speaker 1: to things quickly and you draw into people and they
Speaker 1: love talking to you, and it's cool to see the response.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I see all the random people like
Speaker 1: you see a lot of regular names, you know, people
Speaker 1: sharing and people tweeting. But then I'm seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of people I've never seen before tweeting out that you're
Speaker 1: going to be live and all. It was so cool
Speaker 1: getting to talk to you. And I love that part
Speaker 1: of your UH outreach to fans. You're you're very good
Speaker 1: with that you put You're in the top level of
Speaker 1: that night of wrestling. That's nice of you to say.
Speaker 1: I just I generally enjoy it, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm a people person and I like to make people happy,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed speaking with everyone. And tomorrow I'm doing
Speaker 1: a cook my first cooking live cooking stream that might
Speaker 1: be a shit show, but we're gonna try it out
Speaker 1: and see how it works. The problem with this is
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to use my phone right to
Speaker 1: be live, so it's kind of like I'm going to
Speaker 1: have to position it every which way, and you know,
Speaker 1: the chat's gonna be really tiny. Hopefully I can put
Speaker 1: it on the iPad as well so I can see chat.
Speaker 1: But people have been saying, oh, we like cooking streams,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, I have to cook anyway.
Speaker 1: I might be in my pajamas with no makeup, but
Speaker 1: if you want to want me to cook, come on
Speaker 1: over and check it out. So so far, so good
Speaker 1: cooking for a hungry man this week. That's why appetite.
Speaker 1: I swear to you. If he calls and says, oh
Speaker 1: run and blade, I'm just gonna be at the show,
Speaker 1: I am going to kick him so hard in his
Speaker 1: balls when I get there, because this is like I'm
Speaker 1: doing a lot for him tomorrow to come and feast,
Speaker 1: so he better he'd better come over. And a cold
Speaker 1: tupperware isn't going to cut it for this one. No,
Speaker 1: you got to be live and a living color. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just it's a long drive. I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a long drive for him, but it has
Speaker 1: to be done. You know, I said, do you want
Speaker 1: to go eat on the road or do you want
Speaker 1: to come here and eat at whom cooked me on?
Speaker 1: He chose to come here. So hopefully it all works
Speaker 1: out and we can get there in time and do
Speaker 1: it and come back and chill and by this point
Speaker 1: the virtual signing will have happened, you know, three days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it went great. It was a wonderful response and
Speaker 1: great stuff. Fans are amazing, right, yeah, life is just
Speaker 1: great hey, you know, but it is. It's a rare
Speaker 1: thing for you guys now to be together in the
Speaker 1: virtual signing world. So there you go a little bit
Speaker 1: of goodness in twenty twenty one. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: more in a couple of weeks. But you are going
Speaker 1: to be working with me on private signing coming up,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that soon. Right now, of all
Speaker 1: the details that we finished, but I just I love, love, love,
Speaker 1: love love that you guys are getting to maybe do
Speaker 1: a little bit more together now that the we could
Speaker 1: see where this last is going. I just hope it's
Speaker 1: a good sign, you know. Knock on wood, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Still a lot of things are on hold. I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, gonna take stuff and then turn around and
Speaker 1: have it be canceled, even for the courtesy of the promoters,
Speaker 1: Like they go and buy you a ticket right and
Speaker 1: then you you know, you can't go or whatever, and
Speaker 1: then they're out the money. I don't want to do
Speaker 1: that to anyone. So I'm just declining everything right now
Speaker 1: and just doing as much from home. You know, it's
Speaker 1: safe here, I'm able to do it. The possibilities are
Speaker 1: endless from your house. I mean, it's really this COVID
Speaker 1: just lit a fire under my butt and it showed
Speaker 1: me just how much you can do from home. It's
Speaker 1: it's been incredible for me, so you know, it's been
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but it's been beneficial to
Speaker 1: be home. It's almost awkward to say because I feel
Speaker 1: this same way for me, Like I had a good
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, you know, among other people who had wretched ones,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously COVID, maybe job loss, losing love
Speaker 1: like I personally, I just I had a good year.
Speaker 1: And you don't feel weird saying it, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. You can't like sit there
Speaker 1: and gloat because you don't know who had a shitty one. Sure,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a really weird thing to uh to
Speaker 1: kind of baskin, but I don't know, Like I So,
Speaker 1: I traveled to New Jersey at this point over a
Speaker 1: week ago, and I got to say, whereas in Virginia
Speaker 1: we are very different in terms of how we approach
Speaker 1: this thing a little more willy nilly where I was,
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised and like, holy crap, Like,
Speaker 1: so this is where everybody's talking about the issues are
Speaker 1: coming from, and this is not a good area for it.
Speaker 1: Because on Facebook, as you travel right, if you reload Facebook,
Speaker 1: it'll give you the updated like you know, count of
Speaker 1: cases in the county you're driving through whatever, And like
Speaker 1: as you're driving up through Delaware, up the Jersey Turnpike,
Speaker 1: up the Garden State Parkway to where we were headed,
Speaker 1: numbers just kept getting bigger. Well, there's a's something interesting
Speaker 1: that was on let me see, I think it was
Speaker 1: off of Facebook. I had it sent to me. If
Speaker 1: I could pull it up really quickly, Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read it to you. He says. Remember
Speaker 1: how I said the levels for the positive COVID tests
Speaker 1: were set too high and creating false positives who basically
Speaker 1: now admitting it and requires a second test at a
Speaker 1: lower threshold to confirm a COVID result. Positives will plummet
Speaker 1: and COVID will look like it's disappearing. That's the latest. Okay,
Speaker 1: take that. Gee, the timing is so crazy, isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1: First day? Like wow? But yeah, and and please don't
Speaker 1: don't come at me. I'm not saying COVID wasn't a thing,
Speaker 1: So don't come out. I'm just reading what's coming out.
Speaker 1: You know. It's interesting. Uh, certain people say one way
Speaker 1: and certain people will say it's another way. And who
Speaker 1: do you believe all those death certificates of the people
Speaker 1: who were hit by cars that died of COVID might
Speaker 1: be adjusted in the next couple of months. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: It was a terrible thing. I'm not, you know, saying
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I just feel like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like things are going to change, and I think
Speaker 1: I think things will change for the better. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: let's keep our fingers crossed and pray and hope for
Speaker 1: the best. And you know, and as you know, as
Speaker 1: the weeks progress, if it gets safer, maybe I'll venture
Speaker 1: out of the house one day. Ye No, I want
Speaker 1: to cross my fingers, but I keep doing this instead
Speaker 1: a little too sweet. I read a cute tweet so
Speaker 1: Mary Kate, who is a longtime fan. She was in
Speaker 1: you know, eu c W First Row Forever. She tweeted
Speaker 1: at Shane and I this morning she was at a
Speaker 1: W and uh they played perfect Strangers and she so
Speaker 1: she put her camera and recorded it and said, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't It's something like I can't hear this song
Speaker 1: without imagining Shane and Francine walking out of you know,
Speaker 1: the curtain. And then Taz retweeted it and Test said
Speaker 1: he walked to the announcing table with his fingers. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's so funny. Alive and well that would
Speaker 1: be I mean, like the thing about ae W is
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Like they're the only place where I
Speaker 1: could say I could almost see a in a in
Speaker 1: a different world. I'm not saying that this is happening
Speaker 1: or it would happen, but they they're the ones who
Speaker 1: would appreciate you guys being there to recruit a new
Speaker 1: triple thread or this is going to be the future
Speaker 1: and you guys are standing in the aisleway with your
Speaker 1: arms crossed and the music play. It's the only place
Speaker 1: where I could picture it actually happening. Yeah, well, I liked.
Speaker 1: I liked this week because we saw a kind of
Speaker 1: a heelish Jerry Lynn appear on Impact. Yes, Yes, And
Speaker 1: I had talked to him. He called me from the
Speaker 1: airport Tuesday when he was flying out. He told me
Speaker 1: what was going on, and I saw it and I
Speaker 1: popped huge because I love me some heeled Jerry Lynn.
Speaker 1: So that was fun to watch. Pretty good positioning there.
Speaker 1: He's definitely Tony Kahan has a trusted, trusted friend there
Speaker 1: with Jerry Lynny. I love it. So, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you never say never in this business. You never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. But I think you'll find me at
Speaker 1: home watching it on television. They're gonna they're gonna zoom
Speaker 1: you in. Wait a second, that's Francine on the video board.
Speaker 1: She's quietly in her basement right now, just putting us
Speaker 1: over on our Twitch channel. Every week. Sure, so you have,
Speaker 1: So what do you think a couple of weeks in
Speaker 1: of AW what are your impressions? I mean, from from
Speaker 1: what I have been able to watch, I think it's
Speaker 1: a fun show. It's a fun show. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I see familiar faces again, so happy for my friends
Speaker 1: that are employed there, that have jobs. It's great. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to learn a little bit about angles, who's doing
Speaker 1: well with whom. Last night they had uh I want
Speaker 1: to say, the inner circles, the Jericho gimmick and they
Speaker 1: all the six of them had to wrestle each other
Speaker 1: and it was fun to watch because they you know,
Speaker 1: their friends, but they would lock up, but then they're oh,
Speaker 1: they would shake hands. I love that. Yeah, it was cute.
Speaker 1: I'm slowly learning, uh you know, who's on, who's a heel,
Speaker 1: who's bib phase, what's going on? So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: have to keep watching. But overall, I think it's a
Speaker 1: fun product. You know. I like the fact that they
Speaker 1: they've been showcasing different females like every week. It's not
Speaker 1: a consistent face, Like I've seen different matches with the girls,
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of talent there. So it's
Speaker 1: been fun to watch. Yeah, But now is that a
Speaker 1: good thing or a bad thing that one person doesn't
Speaker 1: get spotlighted and you might forget about a major player
Speaker 1: because you don't see it for three weeks. I feel like,
Speaker 1: well again, I I might have missed a lot of
Speaker 1: the show, but I feel like the regulars are there.
Speaker 1: They're they're either shown in a promo or there there
Speaker 1: present somehow You're not gonna forget about them. There's no way,
Speaker 1: but I I do like that they're giving other people
Speaker 1: a chance to shine as well. And then, like I
Speaker 1: just learned this, they have a Tuesday show on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that Dark. I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was on YouTube. I thought it was I didn't know
Speaker 1: where it was, but they had. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I know this is because Mike, Mike Verna was I
Speaker 1: saw him sitting in the crowd, and so I think
Speaker 1: all the Dark kids were hanging out over there, and
Speaker 1: along with some of the other you know talent, they're
Speaker 1: all around ringside, which I love. I love that. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was It's a fun show. You know, give it
Speaker 1: a shot. I'm not like gonna say I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: every single episode from start to finish. Still not in
Speaker 1: love with wrestling like I used to be, but when
Speaker 1: I do these watch alongs, you know, if it's on,
Speaker 1: it's great. Mike Vernon what six months ago with us
Speaker 1: saying like, you know, he hasn't landed anywhere. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got whatever, and he's getting his shot. He's been
Speaker 1: on their Dark Show, I would say the last like
Speaker 1: like four or five weeks. Yeah, and you know he
Speaker 1: looks like a million bucks. He's got a great personality.
Speaker 1: You know, there's other guys that also have that similar
Speaker 1: physique that are on the main show. So maybe they
Speaker 1: got to work him in somehow. But he actually, this
Speaker 1: is where I love him to death. He's he wears
Speaker 1: his Mets inspired gear right, and he's tweeting. He's tweeting
Speaker 1: at the owner of the Mets for permission to wear
Speaker 1: his He's got knee pads that have the logos on them,
Speaker 1: and he's asking the owner of the Mets for permission
Speaker 1: to wear the knee pads on TV. Do you need permission?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he's just doing it for
Speaker 1: a I think he's just doing it to get the
Speaker 1: rub from the owner of the Mets. But I saw
Speaker 1: him in his in his gear, uh, you know, no
Speaker 1: shirt tights, which looks like unduere Let's. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: in the stadium and there's like people look at him
Speaker 1: like what the hell is going. He's so funny now
Speaker 1: he's a good he is such a good dude. He uh.
Speaker 1: I talked to him a few weeks ago and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, you know, love to come back
Speaker 1: on whenever you guys want me. He's just he's what
Speaker 1: a what a good guy. Really hope big things for
Speaker 1: him because he's, uh, just a nice guy. And I
Speaker 1: love that absolutely for sure. It's I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of guests say they want to come back on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some we could definitely go back to because I've been
Speaker 1: going through our archive and I had to move some
Speaker 1: of our old episodes that are on video to a
Speaker 1: new platform. So I'm in the process of putting it
Speaker 1: back up. And you know, like we've amassed like quite
Speaker 1: the database of people that we had on that are
Speaker 1: absolutely worth circling back to at some point because like
Speaker 1: even going back to the Friend and I know we've
Speaker 1: done a few things with Shelley. You know, you've had
Speaker 1: her come back on you guys did the Girl Talk,
Speaker 1: But like I think she was on like episode like
Speaker 1: like four wright or episode three originally, but then like
Speaker 1: Shane was on episode four and like Selena Dila Reenta
Speaker 1: was like episode five and like these, the first couple
Speaker 1: of peeps, It's like, shit, that was a long time ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff's happened since. Yeah, I know. And
Speaker 1: when I was talking to Jerry, yeah, yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I told him. I said, you've done so much since
Speaker 1: you've been on that, you know, the first time you
Speaker 1: got to come back. He goes, oh, whenever you want me,
Speaker 1: I'll come back. And I was like, great, Mikey, I mean, Jerry,
Speaker 1: it's just so funny, like going through these and it's like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: we really have covered a lot of ground. You know,
Speaker 1: there's something that I would like to lobby for to
Speaker 1: see if we can get them on. I have to
Speaker 1: do my dirty work behind the scenes with with with
Speaker 1: the Queen. Okay, nonetheless, I yeah, I was impressed going
Speaker 1: back to our little video archive, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this on Creative Control, you should
Speaker 1: be joining us on Patreon for the hundreds of hours
Speaker 1: of shit. Now we've got the currently Yeah, it's all fun.
Speaker 1: It's all fun and games here and we would love
Speaker 1: to have you. And real quick, we have a we
Speaker 1: have a new Patreon member that I forgot to put over.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I said justin. Preston and Tony
Speaker 1: are our two new members, so welcome to the Patreon family. Guys.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to love anybody named Tony. They're already
Speaker 1: over with me. Just really just based off of the
Speaker 1: name I don't know why that's weird Tony. I just
Speaker 1: want to remember Seinfeld with and that's what I always
Speaker 1: think about ton Okay, and he does this little his
Speaker 1: little like yeah, yes, hey, everyone, just want to let
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Speaker 1: our uh ever go rounding the Patreon guest hosts, right
Speaker 1: because he subscribed to the Patreon tier. We'll have DC
Speaker 1: on next week, the other Patreon member who gets to
Speaker 1: come on and shoot the breeze and bring something to
Speaker 1: the table. Matt's format went over very well with the
Speaker 1: listeners of going through the roster. All right, tack it
Speaker 1: up where we last off. We'll have to do it again.
Speaker 1: I need I didn't wear sound bites out of you though,
Speaker 1: I need like sound bites so I could Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could clip it so we could say on YouTube Fran
Speaker 1: scene shoots on hoove and tune Guerrera. The juice is
Speaker 1: all right, man, here he is coming back on here
Speaker 1: over to the to the left of him, I could
Speaker 1: see you on the bottom. He's got a Lexa Bliss
Speaker 1: to the side of him. If I do watch, if
Speaker 1: I put us like this, where is it? She's giving
Speaker 1: me the stink face, the stink eye. Let's go. How
Speaker 1: are you buddy? Pretty good? Good? So what's news since
Speaker 1: last night? I spoke to him last night. By the way,
Speaker 1: how muchday wait? I talked to you Tuesday, and I
Speaker 1: talked to you last night, which was Wednesday, because we're
Speaker 1: filming on a Thursday this week and nothing's changed. No,
Speaker 1: I'm in the dark. I love to know what's going
Speaker 1: on about glasses? Yeah, I can't wait. These glasses are
Speaker 1: busted and old now, so it's time. How's your cat?
Speaker 1: The cat hurt its tail? Yeah, we're taking them into
Speaker 1: the vet today. That haven't looked at it? And what
Speaker 1: else did I learn? I got a new driver's license
Speaker 1: football on Sunday. So that's what I know so far
Speaker 1: about Matt this week. I got a new driver's license yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh excellent. Did you get the little stars so you
Speaker 1: can travel? No? I wanted to, but I didn't have
Speaker 1: all the documents I needed, so so we have I
Speaker 1: think until October. Yeah, get the star? What's the star?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not you have to get a star
Speaker 1: put on your driver's license in order to fly? Really, yes,
Speaker 1: since since last year, but because of COVID day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's right. When you're in line at the airport, do
Speaker 1: you have the star? If you don't have the star,
Speaker 1: you got to get the star, and you were supposed
Speaker 1: to have it last October, but for summary or was
Speaker 1: it last October? They whatever it was they yeah, it
Speaker 1: was because of COVID, so they extended it until this October.
Speaker 1: Never heard that. It's called the real ID. I think
Speaker 1: what the name is of the the new license. When
Speaker 1: you can travel with it, you can basically use it
Speaker 1: instead of a passport. But they're also going to require
Speaker 1: it for US flights. Yes, I had heard years ago
Speaker 1: that they were going to possibly work in passports on
Speaker 1: domestic flights a long time ago. But so the star
Speaker 1: gimmick is replacing the passports in the US. I think
Speaker 1: you can still have either. You can have either or,
Speaker 1: but I'm not positive about that. I haven't flown since
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, Okay, and I think it shows yeah,
Speaker 1: because I remember when I was I was in line
Speaker 1: and I it's like, oh my god, I don't have
Speaker 1: a star, and uh, they said no, no, you have
Speaker 1: time to get the star. So now we have to
Speaker 1: get it by October. Geez. It's just another way for
Speaker 1: them to charge you for more stuff. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: never ending. So you can't get a star like they
Speaker 1: used to give you an elementary school. You know, why
Speaker 1: don't I just get a sticker of a and see
Speaker 1: if that works. Go huh okay, And you topically don't
Speaker 1: need to get one if you're not planning on flying,
Speaker 1: like you only need one if you're gonna fly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well I fly, so I drive. I'll drive anywhere. I
Speaker 1: also never want to go anywhere international, so I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. But so I got to
Speaker 1: ask this. It's a big deal, new license, new picture. Yes,
Speaker 1: whoa glasses? Yeah, you could have waited a day. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's a lovely picture. I did. They just gave
Speaker 1: me the paper copy for now and then they mail it.
Speaker 1: That's how they do it around here. His picture has
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss off to the left of him. I should
Speaker 1: have bother to the d m B comes in slightly
Speaker 1: right there. That's so funny. I'm due for my new
Speaker 1: license in a few months because I got it in
Speaker 1: Virginia and like four or five months after we moved,
Speaker 1: and I need that picture desperately. I look like a
Speaker 1: whole different person a. But I was so pissed off
Speaker 1: because of how hot it was and how long I
Speaker 1: was there, So I looked like literally the stare of
Speaker 1: death in my license picture. So a bit of trivia.
Speaker 1: They actually have you take off your mask when they
Speaker 1: do the picture. Okay, well, yeah, obviously I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the questioning the question for me is gonna be is
Speaker 1: the chats they're gonna be able to wear, the hat
Speaker 1: and the sunglasses. They had me take off my glasses.
Speaker 1: They had me kick off my glasses. I feel glasses
Speaker 1: in the figure. How great would it be if I
Speaker 1: could wear the gimmick? How a great would that be? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I plan to get a star
Speaker 1: this year and a blue check mark on Twitter. I'm
Speaker 1: going to try a mission. I'm going to mission. But anyway, Matthew,
Speaker 1: today we are doing an extension of our last visit.
Speaker 1: Correct correct, hopefully get through the rest of the the
Speaker 1: trunc caated list of the two thousand and six roster
Speaker 1: we ended at. I believe it was mister Joey Styles
Speaker 1: is the last one we did. Yep. Now are we
Speaker 1: going to skip over certain names because we're going to
Speaker 1: be saving them for Patreon? Correct? Yeah, i'd be if
Speaker 1: you're cool with that. Yeah, no, absolutely, Just make sure
Speaker 1: you strategically get it as we go through, and Francine,
Speaker 1: don't call out, Oh what about this person? We're going
Speaker 1: to get to them. Patreon told the last I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that. I'll just reveal this part we're going. So
Speaker 1: was the last time we saved the you know, the
Speaker 1: main event guys champions for Patreon. We're saving the ECW
Speaker 1: guys for Patreon this time. So we're going to skip
Speaker 1: over a lot of people as we go. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say anything. You guys call out who you
Speaker 1: want me to talk about, Oh, we will, but I
Speaker 1: will bring back hang on, I'm going to bring back
Speaker 1: the screen with the fixtures because it is kind of
Speaker 1: funny to see. Like Francine called out, she had no
Speaker 1: clue who the dicks were the dicks, which that weekend,
Speaker 1: I had somebody telling me a story about one of
Speaker 1: the dicks, and I had to chuckle on the inside because,
Speaker 1: you know, because we talked about the dicks, you didn't
Speaker 1: know who the dicks were. Sometimes I didn't know who
Speaker 1: the dicks were. I mean, yeah, all right, So last
Speaker 1: week left off with Joey Styles, and if you're watching
Speaker 1: this on a Patreon, you've already heard us talk about
Speaker 1: John Seen, a couple of Caine, a couple all these
Speaker 1: other Yeah. Yeah, he covered the main inventors, after the
Speaker 1: after the well, I gotta just say, I I think
Speaker 1: I edited him off the list itself, But I gotta ask,
Speaker 1: do you remember Johnny Jeter? I remember that name, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what he looks like. Well, he's Johnny
Speaker 1: right there next to u n. Johnny Swinger was right,
Speaker 1: his great uncle, former w w UH superstar. But so
Speaker 1: Johnny Jeter was this like highly highly touted prospect that
Speaker 1: like they thought he was gonna be. He'd be like
Speaker 1: Dolf Ziggler. He was in that Spirit Squad group, but
Speaker 1: after he was a male cheerleader. He never rebounded. Like
Speaker 1: to me, they give you the gimmick and it kills
Speaker 1: your career, right, Sometimes I don't get it. I mean
Speaker 1: not for Dolph obviously, But you know, I remember I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the Spirit Squad. I did too. I thought it
Speaker 1: was funny and again I like the haha stuff. So
Speaker 1: you know, wrestling is is. If you don't take it
Speaker 1: too seriously, you might do well at it. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: gotta just tink ahead to see if somebody's on here,
Speaker 1: because oh he is. I'm going to ask you about
Speaker 1: another Spirit Squad guy when we get down a little
Speaker 1: further because the stories I've heard about this guy are legendary.
Speaker 1: I just want to see if you had heard any
Speaker 1: stories about it. But we'll get to him. Is my
Speaker 1: picture on here? No, it's not. It's it's infuriating what
Speaker 1: I know alumni section. Yeah, I know this is off
Speaker 1: somebody else's website. This is like, you know, a third
Speaker 1: party site. Uh, it's not w W. What did you
Speaker 1: say this guy? Then this is from like what was
Speaker 1: it her last date or her first date? What was
Speaker 1: this roster conglomeration? The one I picked was like her
Speaker 1: first air that the first showing that you had Okay,
Speaker 1: just to make sure, but I looked through like the
Speaker 1: whole year, and Francine isn't listed on this person's website
Speaker 1: and being in WWE, so they missed out on Queen.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll start rolling off, but I have to
Speaker 1: show up my Francine shirt to that. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: don't even have a shirt of mine, So thank you
Speaker 1: so much. All right, you're ready to go, Matt, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: It was yours. All right, Well, we're gonna pick off
Speaker 1: the two thousand and six roster. We still got a
Speaker 1: jay left. We're gonna skip one for the e CW alumni,
Speaker 1: But we got Justin Roberts who is now at a
Speaker 1: W as an announcer. Justin Roberts was my buddy still
Speaker 1: friends to this day. Spoke to him a little while ago,
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of months ago. Funny story, I think
Speaker 1: I might have said it. He is my travel buddy
Speaker 1: the one night when I went and get in big shows, uh,
Speaker 1: and Justin was amazed at the amount of hookers that
Speaker 1: was south West Philadelphia. But Justin's a really, really nice guy.
Speaker 1: I really think that he is one of the best
Speaker 1: announcers out there. He just has that voice, uh that's
Speaker 1: synonymous with wrestling now, Like I hear him and I
Speaker 1: automatically think, oh, yeah, this guy's one of the greatest,
Speaker 1: you know. And he's a good, good person. So I
Speaker 1: am a big fan of Justin Roberts. He might be
Speaker 1: one of the best ones right now. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't who else and good for a just knows when
Speaker 1: to hold his voice a certain way and how to
Speaker 1: say like when he says like the Spanish names he
Speaker 1: gets the role of correctly like he does it all
Speaker 1: like so great. And the thing I love about him
Speaker 1: too is I love the fact that he has been
Speaker 1: a wrestling fan ever since birth, and when he posts
Speaker 1: pictures of a little Justin with Sean Michaels or an undertaker,
Speaker 1: you can tell he loves this business and he's loved
Speaker 1: the business forever. So when I see people like that
Speaker 1: make it and love what they're doing like that makes
Speaker 1: me so happy. And I'm so happy for him that.
Speaker 1: You know, I always say there's life after WWE, and
Speaker 1: if you read his book, it wasn't the greatest experience
Speaker 1: there due to certain people. And I think AW is
Speaker 1: a great fit for him. So I'm so happy for
Speaker 1: him right now. What'd you think of some of those
Speaker 1: stories that came out of that, because I was covering
Speaker 1: that heavily at the time, and I spoke to him
Speaker 1: about it when the book came out. And he's such
Speaker 1: a soft spoken guy. He's just a very nice man.
Speaker 1: But those stories crazy to hear. It made me sad
Speaker 1: if you read, Uh, he says it over and over.
Speaker 1: His favorite part was when the ECW guys came to
Speaker 1: you know what, the fake Ecy Dum because we you know,
Speaker 1: we were all friendly and we all got along and
Speaker 1: he was a big ECW fan, uh, and we just
Speaker 1: became you know, he became part of the family with us,
Speaker 1: and we always treated him with respect. So I don't
Speaker 1: know why I feel like sometimes announcers, maybe certain referees,
Speaker 1: some guy don't consider them one of the boys because
Speaker 1: you're not bumping constantly, or you're not this, or you're
Speaker 1: not I don't feel that way, like you're a part
Speaker 1: of something that we're all trying to accomplish. We're all
Speaker 1: trying to get the company over. You're a company guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a company guy. Why would I treat you any
Speaker 1: differently than you know, somebody in the locker room that
Speaker 1: I work with, you know what I mean, just because
Speaker 1: you're not wearing tights and bumping. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I can see if Justin was a dick to them,
Speaker 1: then okay, you're gonna you know, you're gonna get punished
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I don't think he did anything wrong
Speaker 1: from what I understood. You know, Now those guys might
Speaker 1: have a different story. I don't know, But to me,
Speaker 1: Justin was a very very nice, personable man, right, And
Speaker 1: you know how it is. All it takes is one
Speaker 1: time of being quiet and maybe not you know, immediately
Speaker 1: looking in that person's direction that that's all it takes
Speaker 1: for them to get pissed off of you, especially the
Speaker 1: ones that were targeting him. All was one piece of
Speaker 1: them not feeling that you were being quote respectful to them,
Speaker 1: and that could have been the trigger. And that's, you know, hopefully.
Speaker 1: It seems like that's kind of a dying attitude in
Speaker 1: the wrestling world. Yeah, it's kind of like a double
Speaker 1: edged sword back then, and you were damned if you did,
Speaker 1: and you're damned if you don't. I got heat because
Speaker 1: I was too quiet and I didn't politic. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm not a dick. Excuse me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a weird business. So yeah, hopefully, like Chad said,
Speaker 1: it's changing for the better. And I felt bad when
Speaker 1: I read that. I didn't know any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then I'm reading and I'm just like, wow, what
Speaker 1: a shame. Yeah, So all right, next, you obviously had
Speaker 1: some bikini contests against her, Kelly Kelly, Kelly Kelly, what
Speaker 1: was it? The girl so nice? They named her twice
Speaker 1: when she came in. She was like nineteen years old,
Speaker 1: didn't know a thing about the business, greener than grass,
Speaker 1: willing to learn, though, willing to learn. I remember our
Speaker 1: first cat fight. We were at the arena. She got
Speaker 1: booed out of the building boot. I mean these were
Speaker 1: diehard ECW fans. She got booed out of the building.
Speaker 1: Trinity got boot out of the building and I got
Speaker 1: a huge pop, of course, And I remember taking her
Speaker 1: down and her just laying on top of me and
Speaker 1: not doing anything. And I literally had to like push
Speaker 1: her to the side and roll on top of her.
Speaker 1: And then I said, okay, roll on top of me. No, like,
Speaker 1: no clue whatsoever what to do. And she's come such
Speaker 1: a long way in this business, and I'm proud of her,
Speaker 1: you know, she's she's done a lot of great things.
Speaker 1: She became their Davis Champion and they go back and
Speaker 1: they use her a lot. The fans loved her, and
Speaker 1: she she was just she was a really, really nice girl.
Speaker 1: And when I got released, she actually contacted me and
Speaker 1: thanked me for helping her and being so nice to
Speaker 1: her because a lot of the other girls were not.
Speaker 1: So I enjoyed working with Barbie. That's cool and early
Speaker 1: on her own terms, which is cool. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: good for her, you know, and she can still go back.
Speaker 1: She has a good relationship and she can still go
Speaker 1: back and work the occasional you know, royal rumble match
Speaker 1: or whatever she wants to do. It's great. She's still
Speaker 1: young enough, she looks great. She was she was kind
Speaker 1: of thrown into a situation and she made the best
Speaker 1: of it, you know what I mean, and it worked
Speaker 1: out for her. So I just considered her like a
Speaker 1: really little sister that I just tried to help her
Speaker 1: because some of the girl I'm not going to name names,
Speaker 1: some of the girls weren't really that great to her,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to take her under my wing
Speaker 1: and try to teach her the ropes a little bit.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I taught her a thing or two. So
Speaker 1: next you definitely worked with Kevin Thorn. Kevin Thorn. We
Speaker 1: love Kevin Thorn, don't we, Chad. I just talked to
Speaker 1: him yesterday. Yes, yeah, Kevin's great. I wish my program
Speaker 1: with him and Shelley would have our Ariel would have
Speaker 1: lasted longer than it did. Great to work with great man. Uh,
Speaker 1: just a nice, nice guy that that I still kind
Speaker 1: of keep in touch with, you know, through social media,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad I got a chance to meet him
Speaker 1: and work with him because he's he's one of the
Speaker 1: good ones for sure. Cool. Yeah, I'd like him and
Speaker 1: Shelley And there's one of the few Bryce spots in
Speaker 1: the fake dub. I thought, sure, chemistry was amazing together,
Speaker 1: Like you would have thought they were sleeping together, you know,
Speaker 1: boyfriend girlfriend like just the I think anyway, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Shane and I, you know, we never
Speaker 1: were together, but everybody thought we were together. Yeah, chemistry
Speaker 1: on camera, it just came off as authentic and real
Speaker 1: to me. Even though it was a cartoony gimmick. It worked.
Speaker 1: It worked, and you know, Shelley was that sexy vampire
Speaker 1: and Kevin would just I don't know, it just the
Speaker 1: pairing just worked. And I wish they could have did
Speaker 1: a lot more before Shelley got released. And they definitely
Speaker 1: did a lot more than YouTube you and Shaane did,
Speaker 1: though in terms of in the ring, they were a
Speaker 1: little more handsy different. Yeah, it was you know, the vampire.
Speaker 1: What was he What was he supposed to be? He
Speaker 1: was a vampire enthusiast is what he was. They call
Speaker 1: him a frawl sometimes where they like are subducated to
Speaker 1: the vampires. Right. Well, when he would dress in the suit,
Speaker 1: you know, and he'd have the cane and stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know, we had the red shirt underneath, like he
Speaker 1: he just fit what the modern I guess at that point.
Speaker 1: It was like Twilight like that of what was going
Speaker 1: on at the time. And I think when they presented
Speaker 1: him first they spits at the camera the blood comes out.
Speaker 1: That that was more goofy than how it ended up,
Speaker 1: because as just like a vampire looking guy like it
Speaker 1: had legs, is like intimidation. He's fucking huge, you know,
Speaker 1: number one. So yeah, that's uh, it's unfortunate it fell
Speaker 1: into that Oh sci fi wants sci fi character, right right, right.
Speaker 1: So we did one of the conventions. I can't remember
Speaker 1: which one it was, but I saw him for like
Speaker 1: the first time in years, and he was Mordechai, big event,
Speaker 1: and he's wearing all like a white cream kind of stut,
Speaker 1: like it was really like a whiteish right yeah. And
Speaker 1: I come up to maybe I don't know, around here,
Speaker 1: and we embraced and I felt so bad because when
Speaker 1: my makeup transferred all over. Ye. So that's when he
Speaker 1: and I really started working together. We we brought back
Speaker 1: Mordecai and he started doing Mordecai at conventions and on
Speaker 1: indie shows. But this is different Mordecai because he was
Speaker 1: bigger than he was then and he had actually shorter hair,
Speaker 1: but he could still you know, put the stuff in.
Speaker 1: He got real dedicated to it. But that was the
Speaker 1: big event in New York a couple of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when we work together, I told him, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll take your finisher, Like, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: It'll be great. And I just remember vinces like, we
Speaker 1: don't do that here, and him and I looked at
Speaker 1: each other like, what the hell is going on? But
Speaker 1: you can't argue with Vince McMahon, you know. So Kevin
Speaker 1: comes over gingerly, puts his arms underneath my you know,
Speaker 1: armpits and moves me to and I'm just like, this
Speaker 1: is the lamest thing ever. If we could have did
Speaker 1: so much more, Such a shame. All right. Next we
Speaker 1: go to the L's a little bit down on the screen.
Speaker 1: We go to Laylah, So Layla? Where is she? Oh?
Speaker 1: There she is? Yeah? Her. I think we mentioned Crystal Marshall.
Speaker 1: H who else was in that locker room with me?
Speaker 1: Charmel was brook Brooke Adams, she was there for like
Speaker 1: a hot minute. I met her one time and didn't
Speaker 1: see her again after that, so I must she must
Speaker 1: have been on the way in when I was on
Speaker 1: the way out. But Layla was really friendly from what
Speaker 1: I remember. I never got to work with her, but
Speaker 1: I did get to spend a little bit of time
Speaker 1: in the locker room with her because all the girls
Speaker 1: on SmackDown would just be like hanging out, and she
Speaker 1: was really sweet, very friendly. I think she might have
Speaker 1: been her who helped me out with one of my costumes,
Speaker 1: something that I wore. She helped me glitter it up.
Speaker 1: She said, oh, you should put some glitter here. And
Speaker 1: the girls were really really friendly, you know, and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that. That part of being there was nice
Speaker 1: because I got along with the girls in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So she was nice. But I never got to work
Speaker 1: with her. Okay, another girl, maybe not necessarily in the
Speaker 1: locker room, but Lillian Garcia. Don't know her very well? Okay, no,
Speaker 1: just hi, And by fair enough, you haven't been on
Speaker 1: her podcast yet, have you? No? I never will? Okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough. One guy who I forgot this was his name,
Speaker 1: Originally Little Baster in Court turned into hornfloggle. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: my buddy, talk to this day. I've worked for him.
Speaker 1: That's where I met you out in Wisconsin. Ye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know him back in the day. I actually
Speaker 1: met him at a convention. He approached me. It's on
Speaker 1: YouTube actually, so it's not that long ago. Maybe twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen or twenty eighteen, something like that. But he approached
Speaker 1: me to work in Wisconsin, and we've you know, we
Speaker 1: keep in touch every now and then. So once in
Speaker 1: a while I'll get a text message, bizarre text message
Speaker 1: from Dylan saying obscure things. But he's he's funny as hell,
Speaker 1: and I like him a lot. I pop every time
Speaker 1: I see him, always text him and say your hair
Speaker 1: looked gorgeous tonight because the long flowing hair I'm jealous of.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's funny and he's a talent for sure.
Speaker 1: He's over with me because he got me to meet
Speaker 1: the Queen of k stream Ah. Look where we're at now, Matt,
Speaker 1: All right, may Young did you have any interactions with me?
Speaker 1: I met her one time, okay, briefly, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: Never never spent time, never got to work with her,
Speaker 1: but huge influence. Oh yeah, in the business. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: most of her work. I'm gonna say there were a
Speaker 1: couple of segments that were a little silly, not her fault, obviously,
Speaker 1: but for the most part. When they put her through
Speaker 1: a table, I was like, girl, you're like a hundred crazy,
Speaker 1: so much respect in that aspect for her crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Maria Canellis Maria. Yeah. I met her when
Speaker 1: I worked for the Fake ec dub. She was in
Speaker 1: there and very nice to me. You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen her in all a really long time, but when
Speaker 1: we were in the locker room together, she was always
Speaker 1: a nice girl. So nothing bad to say about her.
Speaker 1: Been around, She's been a lot of different feds. You know,
Speaker 1: she worked in Japan, worked in TNA or Impact and
Speaker 1: you just gorgeous girl. And heal died, all right, Francine,
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Speaker 1: at Eyes up Here, Mark Henry. I met Mark Henry
Speaker 1: for the first time at the show in Wisconsin. Oh interesting,
Speaker 1: and uh hung out. We hung out a little bit
Speaker 1: in the locker room and then he was like, I
Speaker 1: gotta get you on Busted Open, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta the reason I went on Busted Open. Oh,
Speaker 1: so he was the conduit for for that. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not know that. He called well. Dave Lagreca
Speaker 1: and I were following each other on Twitter. I never
Speaker 1: met Mark and Mark. Then I did meet Mark at
Speaker 1: this show and Mark called Dave and took a picture
Speaker 1: with me and was like are you jealous? And was like, man,
Speaker 1: you're taking all these pictures with everybody but me, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I never met you in person, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And Mark's like, you just gotta
Speaker 1: you have to come on the show, but you have
Speaker 1: to come on when I'm hosting because they have, you know,
Speaker 1: several hits. So I said, well, book it and so
Speaker 1: he did, and I was able to go on with
Speaker 1: Dave and Mark, and yeah, I like Mark Henry lot.
Speaker 1: He's funny, very very funny. And you know, I've seen
Speaker 1: him a couple of times after that at some signings
Speaker 1: where we were very uh, very nice to each other.
Speaker 1: But you know, at these signs you don't really get
Speaker 1: to sit and talk like you're in one room and
Speaker 1: the guys in the other room. So I'm sure if
Speaker 1: I see him again it'll be pleasant. But I enjoy Chocolic.
Speaker 1: Did you have you followed this little few? Yes? It's
Speaker 1: crazy right, Yes, I started reading about it yesterday and
Speaker 1: I was like, where did this even stem from? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I like Mark and I like
Speaker 1: Rye Back. I'm I'm Switzerland on this one. They were
Speaker 1: making great points. So basically there was a there was
Speaker 1: a whole controversy about, you know, calling the belts props
Speaker 1: and that you know your book to win the belts.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not an actual champion. You know, the
Speaker 1: booker is giving you the this it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a prop, it's not you know whatever he's saying that
Speaker 1: by back, Okay, Mark Henry said that that's that's a
Speaker 1: bitter guy who was never given a chance to be
Speaker 1: the champion, be the man, you know. Blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1: And they just went back and forth about it, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's calling Rye Back bitter because of Rye
Speaker 1: Back's you know war he's got with w W. He
Speaker 1: sued them over the trademark of the name Rye Back.
Speaker 1: You know, he's basically on record, you know that he
Speaker 1: lost his passion for the business because of his time
Speaker 1: in w W. He got out so he could recover,
Speaker 1: you know, blah blah blah. So these two are going
Speaker 1: back and forth about it, and they both make decent points,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's it's basically two machine guns shooting
Speaker 1: at each other. Wow. Yeah, And I think I've read
Speaker 1: that one block the other, so they can't even they're
Speaker 1: not even seeing what each other is writing, copying and
Speaker 1: pasting it for them. But yeah, it's uh, I said
Speaker 1: it before. There's a lot of people in fake Twitter
Speaker 1: wars because of their angles that are going on, but
Speaker 1: this is a shoe right. It is kind of like
Speaker 1: whoa what is happening? And Rye Back also feels that
Speaker 1: And and I tend to agree with rye Back in
Speaker 1: this respect that Mark Henry on busted open is nothing
Speaker 1: but a pr move by WWE to push the WWE narrative.
Speaker 1: And that since rye Back is in this bitter feud
Speaker 1: with WWE and suing them, and you know, Ryeback's accused
Speaker 1: WWE of shadow banning and stuff like that, that Mark
Speaker 1: Henry is the voice of w w E. And that's
Speaker 1: why it's uh, you know, it got so so intense
Speaker 1: so fast. Hmm. I tend to agree with the big guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this quickly. I don't know
Speaker 1: why Marty Jeannette remains on this list. I couldn't all
Speaker 1: see the list we have that's from the Rockers reunion,
Speaker 1: that picture. But Marty Jeannette was This was another stint
Speaker 1: where he had been hired, and I believe they were
Speaker 1: sending him to OVW and he couldn't leave the state
Speaker 1: of Georgia because of a warrant, so he ended up
Speaker 1: getting released. Jannetty do for to receive a warrant? Geez,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to go to check the old
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have to check the scroll on
Speaker 1: that one. I love Marty love him. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: someone who's been in the is this for a while?
Speaker 1: Still cooking? An a W. Matt Hardy, Matt Hardy. I
Speaker 1: met Matt in the fake E C dub because he
Speaker 1: was right there, always sweet, always a hug, Hello, how
Speaker 1: are you? Never really hung out with him, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? But he was always really nice and respectful.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of his work. I watched him
Speaker 1: last night, which was fun. And he's having a fourth child,
Speaker 1: which I'm in awe because I wanted more children. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited that they're having a little girl after having
Speaker 1: three boys. I think that's tremendous. But yeah, him and
Speaker 1: his brother left a huge legacy. Phenomenal workers like both
Speaker 1: of them, and just amazing matches. I'm happy he still
Speaker 1: can go. Yeah. My one of my favorite entrances in
Speaker 1: the business Melina, Oh do you like the splits? Oh? Tremendous.
Speaker 1: She'd signing with her right before COVID so I saw her,
Speaker 1: I guess in twenty nineteen, late twenty nineteen. Sweet girl.
Speaker 1: She's a sweet girl. Don't really know her too well.
Speaker 1: I've been in contact with her a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and she's always been super nice. So Michael Cole interested
Speaker 1: to hear if you had any interestence with Michael. No, okay,
Speaker 1: no I met him. I was just like, Hi, how
Speaker 1: are you nothing big? How about Michelle McCool. Michelle mccool's
Speaker 1: another one that was super sweet, really nice in the
Speaker 1: locker room with us during the SmackDown period. Again, didn't
Speaker 1: hang out per se, but you're sitting in the locker
Speaker 1: room just girl talk and she was always hello, how
Speaker 1: are you? Uh? Never tried the big league me. She
Speaker 1: was so awesome. It was like a lot of the
Speaker 1: females were pretty cool in the locker room. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: most were. So let's go to another one. Mickey James.
Speaker 1: I knew Mickey for years, years and years. She she
Speaker 1: actually came and tried out in ECW, but we didn't
Speaker 1: pick her up. I read that. I couldn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that if I read that, wh when I was
Speaker 1: making this list that she had tried out in ECW. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she tried out and they weren't interested, but she didn't matter.
Speaker 1: She could give me a huge star anyway. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mickey's cool. Always got along with her, you know, got
Speaker 1: to work with her a couple of times. We did
Speaker 1: a couple of things in TNA, which was fun, Miss
Speaker 1: TNA Pageant. If you didn't say it, look it up
Speaker 1: if you want a good laughing soon Patreon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: she's she's great and she's a great worker, and I
Speaker 1: like her. I really joyed her and Alexa's bit they
Speaker 1: did a couple of years ago. Of course, wish they
Speaker 1: would use her more on TV. But now is she's
Speaker 1: still under contract? No she's not. She's moved over to
Speaker 1: the legends category. Okay, yeah, I knew they brought her
Speaker 1: back a couple of weeks ago. It's not under an
Speaker 1: active performer contract, so she's maybe the alumni ideal. But no, no,
Speaker 1: she's no longer a contracted performer. Okay, fair enough, Quietly
Speaker 1: she was not. I don't think it was announced that
Speaker 1: she was in that she just kind of disappeared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was in that that dump that they did over
Speaker 1: the summer. You know, they got rid of a ton
Speaker 1: of people. I believe. I don't want to misquote myself,
Speaker 1: but I'm almost positive. Okay, all right, mister Mike Knox,
Speaker 1: Mike Knox. I loved Mike. I loved working with him. Again,
Speaker 1: fake e. C. Dub He was Kelly Kelly's boyfriend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so on house shows, every time I would try and
Speaker 1: beat Barbie up, he would come out and beat me up.
Speaker 1: And it was never a huge move again because you
Speaker 1: can't do that here, so it was usually like a
Speaker 1: pie face and I would over exaggerate the bump and
Speaker 1: fly out of the ring. And he was like a
Speaker 1: gentle giant, such a nice guy. I really really liked
Speaker 1: Mike a lot, and I never saw him after that,
Speaker 1: so I don't even know if he's still working. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. He's a guy. I just wrote
Speaker 1: him down. We got to get him on. I got
Speaker 1: connections to Mike Knox. He's a real estate agent, so
Speaker 1: he's not in the business at all anymore. Okay, good
Speaker 1: for him. I like that. I like hearing stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We gotta get I never thought about him. We're going
Speaker 1: to get him on. Yeah, I'm making a note for myself.
Speaker 1: It's too long, but from what you know, what we
Speaker 1: did together, he was great. I enjoyed him. So I'd
Speaker 1: like to have him on and interview and that'd be fun.
Speaker 1: He's coming, Well, one of your favorites. I'm curious if
Speaker 1: you knew him back then, you obviously have been a
Speaker 1: fan now mister Dulph Sigler, although he's known as Nicky Nicky, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't, really, like I said, I watched uh some
Speaker 1: of the Spirit Squad. I couldn't tell you the names
Speaker 1: of the guys that were on it. I just remember
Speaker 1: the skits that they did, which were cute. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Doll Ziggler fan. I think he's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal talent. I think he he is like the total package.
Speaker 1: What are you laughing at? Chad doing the mouse around
Speaker 1: Nicky's face, just pointing them out for the folks watching
Speaker 1: Ziggler is I would think, so NICKI, Oh, okay, so Nicky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never met him in person? Oh really, what's up
Speaker 1: during that time? You never met him in person? No,
Speaker 1: I never met If I did, I don't remember meeting him,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I did. I never met him person.
Speaker 1: We follow each other on Twitter and Instagram, so I've
Speaker 1: talked a little bit online to him, but I don't
Speaker 1: really know anything about him other than his work. And
Speaker 1: I see he's a little political sometimes, which is good. Uh,
Speaker 1: but he's an interesting he seems like an interesting man.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a there's more to him than just wrestling,
Speaker 1: and I like that. But he's a tremendous talent. So
Speaker 1: the belt I saw, they put the belt on him
Speaker 1: and Bobby, so I'm happy for that. It's somewhat of
Speaker 1: a push start and stop with him. Now, the one
Speaker 1: I was mentioning before that, I just want to ask
Speaker 1: you about. But you probably didn't meet him because he
Speaker 1: didn't meet Nicky, so you definitely never met Mitch. Mitch's
Speaker 1: Mitch is, Oh that guy? I don't think so. So Mitch.
Speaker 1: I've heard so many hilarious stories about that. He was
Speaker 1: one of these guys. He was not into wrestling. He
Speaker 1: was tired because of what he looked like, and he
Speaker 1: had no clue what he was doing, no clue, no clue.
Speaker 1: He was trained in OVW, but he came straight from
Speaker 1: off the street into OVW. And there's a match and
Speaker 1: Matt you might remember this, this the Spirit Squad against
Speaker 1: d X from Saturday Night's main event. There's this there's
Speaker 1: a part of the match where Mitch doesn't want to
Speaker 1: go along with what Sean Michaels was calling in the ring,
Speaker 1: and oh, he eats one of the stiffest kicks you'll
Speaker 1: ever see in your life. And I heard the story
Speaker 1: about it, and he basically like, they were like, well
Speaker 1: what do you do? He goes, I could throw a
Speaker 1: punch and he's like, well that's nothing, Like what else
Speaker 1: can you do? He's like, well, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really haven't learned much. So he's like, well,
Speaker 1: go out, you're gonna listen to Shaw and you're listening
Speaker 1: to Triple As. They're going to guide you through the match.
Speaker 1: And then when they got into the ring, he didn't
Speaker 1: want to do anything, so they did he Mitchy. They
Speaker 1: basically so they sent the whole entire Spirit squad in
Speaker 1: a box on raw back to OVW and Mitch was
Speaker 1: never seen ever again. You know who I did meet
Speaker 1: was that Mikey kid, Mike Mondo. Yes, I met Mike.
Speaker 1: He just was out of signing as the cheerleader. He
Speaker 1: had the head band around his head. Yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it was him. I met him, and it might
Speaker 1: have been at like a wrestle conn or a star
Speaker 1: cast or something. It was one of the I think
Speaker 1: fully embrace it and fits it perfectly. He's a ball
Speaker 1: of energy. He's got a hilarious personality, ballbuster extraordinary Mike Mondo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he has been all over the indies too, throughout
Speaker 1: the two thousands. Ay, Matt, scan the list for a
Speaker 1: few more before we run out of time here, So
Speaker 1: get to think a few of the best remaining ones. Okay, Cool,
Speaker 1: I'll skip we I mean you've talked about Shelley Martinez
Speaker 1: al a bunch, Yeah, and we can skip her Charmeli.
Speaker 1: You talked a little bit that you did hang out
Speaker 1: with her with Booker T. How about did you have
Speaker 1: much of it? I know you were scheduled to uh
Speaker 1: uh a thing with Tests. Did you have much talk?
Speaker 1: Did he talk with tests much? Oh? Yeah, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was able to talk to Test a lot. He was
Speaker 1: always he was on the ACW brand, so I uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he was in the locker room a lot
Speaker 1: with us. Cool, I'm curious about the miss. Did you
Speaker 1: ever meet her? Talk to the miss? So, yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: I guess he was just starting out when I was there,
Speaker 1: or maybe he was there for a little bit. We
Speaker 1: were I want to say, we were in catering and
Speaker 1: he walked up to me and he just put his
Speaker 1: hand down and he went Mike. I said, Hi, I'm Francine,
Speaker 1: nice to meet you, and he I remember his name.
Speaker 1: He went like us to me and then there was
Speaker 1: a monitor setup and they were playing back the show. Uh.
Speaker 1: He he was on ECW brand first right SmackDown. He
Speaker 1: was a SmackDown host. He didn't really have a role,
Speaker 1: and then they moved to e CW. He did something
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to say who, but there were
Speaker 1: a couple of the boys that were making fun of
Speaker 1: him because he was putting himself over in front of
Speaker 1: the monitor. I'm like just saying, oh man, whatever, he's
Speaker 1: my drum kick was great, my clothesline was excellent, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And everybody's like, oh man, he's such a
Speaker 1: freaking mark, like they were all and I was just
Speaker 1: like sitting there and I was and then I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: he's a huge star now and none of you have
Speaker 1: a job. So he turned out pretty good. But I
Speaker 1: got to meet him, but it was just kind of
Speaker 1: like yeah, and I was like, okay, Hi, so we
Speaker 1: can do a couple more. Sounds like I was a
Speaker 1: fan of his from the real world. Yeah, that's where
Speaker 1: I knew him from. And I never told him that.
Speaker 1: I never you know, cause I don't work out for people.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you over. You're just gonna say,
Speaker 1: Mike and shake my hand. I was like, Okay, did
Speaker 1: you have interactions with Torri Wilson at all? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tory was really sweet. I watched I remember she used
Speaker 1: to bring her dog on the road, and I remember
Speaker 1: telling her I'll watch your dog for you because I
Speaker 1: used to hide. I used to hide in the locker
Speaker 1: room because I didn't want to see anyone, and I
Speaker 1: would read a book and I used to watch Tory
Speaker 1: dog for and I said, oh, it's good, kick, come
Speaker 1: me here. So I would hold her little dog for her.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she was always sweet. So we talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about Victoria when we talked about somebody else
Speaker 1: because I saw what we talked about Cass Michelle, did
Speaker 1: you get to meet Victoria to I know, Lisa well cool?
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's she's awesome. I remember the first night again,
Speaker 1: didn't meet her until the fake e C dub And
Speaker 1: it was one of the same things, like Tammy. I
Speaker 1: was walking in and she was walking this way and
Speaker 1: she grabbed me out of nowhere, and she's like I'm
Speaker 1: dying to meet you. And I was like, me do
Speaker 1: and she's awesome. And Vicky, did you meet her back
Speaker 1: then or had you met her later? Vick Vicky Guerrero.
Speaker 1: I she came up to me in the faky C dub.
Speaker 1: She I hadn't met her before, and she I remember
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the locker room and she came
Speaker 1: over to me and she said, excuse me, Francine, she said,
Speaker 1: I'm Vicky. She said, my husband Eddie worked in E
Speaker 1: C W. And I know, and you know, I remember
Speaker 1: your work and you were you were awesome, Like she
Speaker 1: was really really complimentary, and we got to talking a
Speaker 1: little bit and I think we exchanged phone numbers right
Speaker 1: then and there. And then that night we were all
Speaker 1: going to the bar and she texted me and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going down there. If you're not going down there.
Speaker 1: She was. She she really wasn't working. Yeah, they first
Speaker 1: were bringing her in to do stuff. So she's like,
Speaker 1: are you going to go down there? If you go,
Speaker 1: i'll go And I was like, yeah, I'll go with you. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm super happy for her. You know, we follow each
Speaker 1: other on Twitter and stuff, and when I see her
Speaker 1: we always give a hug, say hello. I love her character.
Speaker 1: And I said this before, like, if I could do
Speaker 1: anything in the business, I would love to do something
Speaker 1: like an A W where I manage one of the
Speaker 1: girls and go against Vicky. I think that would be phenomenal.
Speaker 1: But her excuse me, like everything, like I just I
Speaker 1: love I love me some Vicky Guerrero. She's wonderful. Yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: we can uh, we can wrap this up and go.
Speaker 1: We talked about mister McMahon. We don't. I'm the top guys,
Speaker 1: I believe were talking about excuse me, sorry you will.
Speaker 1: We will cover the rest of the E c W
Speaker 1: folks that if you saw them as you're watching this,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back to them. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in Patreon extra, which would air tomorrow. If you're listening
Speaker 1: on Patreon, and if you're on Creative Control, you would
Speaker 1: have to come and sign up, which you know, there's
Speaker 1: if there's a reason you haven't, I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's put it like that. But yeah, before we
Speaker 1: get to the Patreon wrap up, anything else you'd like
Speaker 1: to share, Mett before we wrap this one up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I was on a tremendous episode of Get My
Speaker 1: Go recently with mister Mike Gerband episode number thirty three.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. I had a short,
Speaker 1: short stint with mister Johnny podcasting, a very short stint,
Speaker 1: so I met that guy. But it was fun to
Speaker 1: talk about that with Mike on his podcast, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: just follow me on Twitter if you like m m
Speaker 1: AC two seven tremendous. He said that four time, so
Speaker 1: I had to pick it up. But yeah, we'll go
Speaker 1: over to the down here. So the ECW alumni roster
Speaker 1: from this date in two thousand and six, we're going
Speaker 1: to go through that. Not a huge list of names,
Speaker 1: but you know, we have to talk about them. Then
Speaker 1: we're going to move into and I'm very interested to
Speaker 1: see this. We're going to do a sex quiz that
Speaker 1: the Queen of Dream has found that I am very
Speaker 1: interested in seeing what this is going to be about.
Speaker 1: Fail it. I mean, I'm like a little intimidated that
Speaker 1: I don't know what's I'd like to see these things,
Speaker 1: but that's okay in the dark about things. So I'm
Speaker 1: turning the tables this week and now you're going to
Speaker 1: be in the dark. I am I think I looked
Speaker 1: at the first question and I was just like, Eh,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's all takes. And then for the watch along
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different parents Shane Douglas with
Speaker 1: Francine of course, with Lance Storm versus Lancetorm with Dawn Marie.
Speaker 1: We haven't really seen Shane and Lance and singles competition,
Speaker 1: but this is from a house show, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick that up. It's going to be interesting to uh
Speaker 1: to see the franchise and Lance Storm and action because
Speaker 1: we talked about Lance a little bit and how he
Speaker 1: was a great addition to that roster. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: see him in the ring with the franchise. Awesome, and
Speaker 1: I don't remember this, so it'll be fun to look back. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and uh please it's patreon dot com slash Francine Podcast again.
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Speaker 1: That's a special inscription. That's Spanish. It is in my
Speaker 1: world because I don't know how to speak Spanish. So
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