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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, the Chad star is locked and loaded
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Speaker 1: I don't want you to explode on the eyes up
Speaker 1: her universary. Whatever you just said, it's grow.
Speaker 3: Maybe that should have been a couple episodes of what what,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry and just a gesture of jeering has returned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything new since I last saw you?
Speaker 3: Oh my god. No, it's been a crazy week. Devon
Speaker 3: Dudley joined us last week.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're back for another round yet again.
Speaker 2: You know, today's guest is pretty unique. I pulled it, literally,
Speaker 2: pulled me out from under a rock. We A lot
Speaker 2: of people have not heard from.
Speaker 1: Him in years.
Speaker 2: I don't think maybe he has done one, but I
Speaker 2: don't think he's ever done.
Speaker 1: A podcast before in his life. I could be wrong.
Speaker 3: I don't remember, and I've interviewed them all and I
Speaker 3: don't remember his name popping up anywhere. And someday you
Speaker 3: might say under a rock, But I might also say
Speaker 3: you help put him on the map.
Speaker 1: I think I did. Oh, you just reminded me to
Speaker 1: tell that story.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I forgot about that. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell that story when we talk to him. He's going
Speaker 2: to join us in a couple of minutes here. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was so excited because he's been resurfacing as of late,
Speaker 2: and I just saw him at the Wrestling Universe a.
Speaker 1: Couple of weeks ago, and I was like, dude, you.
Speaker 2: Got to come on because millions of people listen to
Speaker 2: this podcast and it will get.
Speaker 1: You so much exposure.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he you know, he wants to be booked
Speaker 2: for Wrestle Khan, So promoters, if you're out there, well
Speaker 2: I can't say his name, yeah, because you know, but
Speaker 2: this guy is the guy you will you will make
Speaker 2: bank if you book this person.
Speaker 1: And a couple of minutes we'll see who it is.
Speaker 1: But don't ye.
Speaker 3: I don't think has he ever been back at the arena.
Speaker 4: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: He just started working again and doing appearances like conventions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that he is working again, right.
Speaker 1: It's working again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 3: I saw a picture the over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Did you he want he won a tag title?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that. He looks great.
Speaker 1: He does look great. He's in great shape.
Speaker 2: It was funny because when I had first seen him,
Speaker 2: it was at that convention at the mall I forget
Speaker 2: where I was Rockaway yea, the Rockaway Mall or Yep yep.
Speaker 2: And it's the first time I had seen him, and
Speaker 2: in years, years and years and years, I haven't seen him.
Speaker 1: And uh so.
Speaker 2: We're like talking about our kids and our spouses and
Speaker 2: everything and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I show him a picture of my kids. He
Speaker 1: shows me a picture of his kids. And then he
Speaker 1: shows me a picture of a.
Speaker 2: Pizza, like really proud of this pizza.
Speaker 1: I made it myself. And I'm just like, oh okay.
Speaker 1: And then he goes, you want to see when I
Speaker 1: was fat? That shows a picture it's like so fat.
Speaker 1: I was just like, Okay, that's great. But this guy.
Speaker 2: I've always been friends with, like good friends with him,
Speaker 2: and we've talked a little here and there, but I
Speaker 2: just haven't seen him in so long. So I'm so
Speaker 2: excited for him to come on today, and you know,
Speaker 2: I would love to get him booked.
Speaker 1: On things and get him back in the mix. You know.
Speaker 1: I try to do that with my friends.
Speaker 2: Like if you talk to Sandman, he'll say to somebody, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Francine gets me all my bookings and.
Speaker 1: She knows my schedule better than I do.
Speaker 2: Because he has no clue what's going on. So if
Speaker 2: I can help him out, I will and it'll be fun.
Speaker 2: I love getting the band back together, you know, it's
Speaker 2: just with people that I like.
Speaker 1: It's it's such a pleasure doing these shows.
Speaker 2: And I used to hate traveling so much because it
Speaker 2: it would just be me, and I hate it going
Speaker 2: the appearances by myself. It's so boring. And now I
Speaker 2: basically try and book myself with my friends all the time.
Speaker 1: And that's the way to do it.
Speaker 3: That's the way. No better way to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm super pumped. So we'll get him here. Actually,
Speaker 1: let me send it to him now.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is a guy that I found, like
Speaker 2: I said, from under a rock. Oh my god, he's
Speaker 2: in his car because he's such a cool guy. Guys,
Speaker 2: it's Chris Chetty. Look at you you're driving.
Speaker 4: Can you see me? I can barely see anything because
Speaker 4: I'm old and blind.
Speaker 1: I see you. Are we not home yet? Are we
Speaker 1: on a bridge? Where where are we?
Speaker 4: I'm in Boston, Francine, I'm going to Colowns. Come on,
Speaker 4: don't you know where I am? I went there like
Speaker 4: a year, and of course we all went there. That's
Speaker 4: exactly where I'm headed right now.
Speaker 2: I went there after, like during the signing, because that's
Speaker 2: where I was signing.
Speaker 4: Come on, you gotta go to Collowns when you're in Boston.
Speaker 4: You know about it. Come on, girl, I drink. You
Speaker 4: know about Colounes.
Speaker 2: Chris, I drank eight my ties, and I was so
Speaker 2: I was so drunk that they put me on to
Speaker 2: do like a a what was it?
Speaker 1: Like a whatnot? Where you sell stuff like a like
Speaker 1: a QBC host?
Speaker 4: What? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was so drunk. I don't even remember the stream.
Speaker 4: But anyway, my ties, I'd be singing karaoke, and I'm
Speaker 4: terrible at karaoke, so what the hell?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I was just before I.
Speaker 4: Gotta be me, Frannie, I gotta be me. I'd be singing.
Speaker 2: I was telling everybody how close we were and how
Speaker 2: I'm trying.
Speaker 1: To get you back in the mix of everything.
Speaker 4: I don't say that too loud. I don't want too
Speaker 4: many people to know that.
Speaker 2: See, that's what's wrong with you, because if no one knows,
Speaker 2: no one will book you.
Speaker 1: I go exactly, Chris, I go about Twitter and he goes.
Speaker 1: I go, are you want Twitter? And he goes. We
Speaker 1: follow each other on Twitter?
Speaker 4: I do? We do for years to follow each other.
Speaker 4: The problem is I haven't tweeted, probably since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: I don't know, ill maybe once. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not big onto the Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to get yeah, social media pool, Chris.
Speaker 4: I'm making TikTok videos now, I'm gonna do tiktoks. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm blowing whistles and dancing, and I got fucking glow lights.
Speaker 4: I got the whole shit going on, Chris, are you
Speaker 4: kidding me? I'm gonna have a whole channel and me
Speaker 4: going like, yo, party people, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Do you remember when you and I went to a
Speaker 2: club and they had glow sticks?
Speaker 1: You and I were there, Yeah, went to this club.
Speaker 1: Do you remember this?
Speaker 4: Of course we were dancing like this and doing all
Speaker 4: this kind of shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, woo, I don't know how we went.
Speaker 1: There must have been an India show. Couldn't have been E. C. W.
Speaker 1: Because it was only you and I.
Speaker 4: We were you know what, it's all such a blur.
Speaker 2: I don't think you really remember. You know that you
Speaker 2: don't remember the story. We were listening to the people
Speaker 2: through the walls.
Speaker 1: Do you remember all this? I remember it like it was.
Speaker 4: No, I don't remember this at all. In the room
Speaker 4: we were.
Speaker 2: I am one hundred percent positive it was you and
Speaker 2: we went. Everybody had glows sticks and you were going
Speaker 2: up to people.
Speaker 1: We're just saying the most.
Speaker 2: Obscene ship that you could think of, and people were
Speaker 2: like getting out of my face like he was healing
Speaker 2: people with the close.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. It was great.
Speaker 4: But I don't even you remember the bam light.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god, can you tell that story.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: We're not even getting into you when you're come back yet,
Speaker 2: but this is a good story.
Speaker 4: Well I did we We might have been in like
Speaker 4: Lord of d I forgot where we were. We were
Speaker 4: out somewhere and we were out at a club and
Speaker 4: for some reason, you know, like the bouncer had this
Speaker 4: light that if there was a fight on the dance floor.
Speaker 4: They would use this light to shine to like light
Speaker 4: up the whole entire club. And somehow me and Danny
Speaker 4: got the light in our hands and we kept turning
Speaker 4: it on. Every time somebody would walk by, we would
Speaker 4: bam them. We would take this like you know, it's
Speaker 4: like like the like the light on the front of
Speaker 4: a freight train, and just we had the button to
Speaker 4: turn it on and on, and we had it in
Speaker 4: our hands, and every time somebody would walk by, we
Speaker 4: would go bam and turn the light on. And people
Speaker 4: were like falling down, People were spilling drinks all over
Speaker 4: the place. We were going blind, crying and falling off
Speaker 4: the bar. I mean, it was all kinds of shit happening.
Speaker 4: And we would bam lighting people the whole night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were all sitting at the bar and
Speaker 2: it was real dark work. And when that light turned on,
Speaker 2: it was just a yeah, I put that was Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 4: Sun came out all of a sudden, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: There were so many Well, we have to talk about
Speaker 1: more stories, but I.
Speaker 2: Want to talk to you first about this comeback because
Speaker 2: you you were gone for like seventeen years.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I kind of took a little time off,
Speaker 4: I figured, you know, I needed a little break. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: you know, to be honest, Franny, I never really. I
Speaker 4: was out of the business for reasons that are just life,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, like kids and a family,
Speaker 4: and you know I have five children, and you know,
Speaker 4: wrestling just wasn't enough to support my family. I just
Speaker 4: wasn't making the money. Whether I wasn't any good at
Speaker 4: it or whatever the fuck it was, whatever the reason,
Speaker 4: I just didn't make money and I couldn't survive doing it.
Speaker 4: And when I was doing independent shows at the time,
Speaker 4: I was doing it for money, and I wasn't doing
Speaker 4: it because I love to do it. I mean, I
Speaker 4: still love to do it, but I was really doing
Speaker 4: it more for the money, and it just wasn't fun
Speaker 4: anymore because I was working a regular job during the
Speaker 4: week too, regular jobs during the week, plus on the weekends,
Speaker 4: I was bouncing at clubs wrestling on the weekend. So
Speaker 4: I mean I was literally working like every single day,
Speaker 4: seven days a week, two to three jobs. Sometimes I
Speaker 4: would wrestle a show in the morning on Saturday, like
Speaker 4: an early show, like a noon show, and then a
Speaker 4: late show, and then leave the second show and go
Speaker 4: to the club and bounce till five o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 4: get up, go do another show, drive a few hours,
Speaker 4: come back, show up at the club at midnight, and
Speaker 4: work till four o'clock in the morning. I just was
Speaker 4: so burnt out, and I kept trying to hold on
Speaker 4: to the business because I loved being in the business,
Speaker 4: but I just it just wasn't sustainable anymore. And I
Speaker 4: just came to the reality that if I didn't make
Speaker 4: it at that point, that I had just way too
Speaker 4: much responsibility as a as a man, as a father.
Speaker 4: I just I grew up without a dad, and I
Speaker 4: didn't want my kids to grow up without a dad
Speaker 4: around whether I was alive. My father died when I
Speaker 4: was young, and I didn't know them, I didn't have
Speaker 4: a relationship with him, and I didn't want that for
Speaker 4: my children. I just nothing was more important to me
Speaker 4: than having a relationship with my children. It's still the
Speaker 4: most important thing with you know, with my family, my wife,
Speaker 4: my family. So I just decided it was time to
Speaker 4: step away from it all. And I did. I mean,
Speaker 4: I did one show in twenty thirteen because I wanted
Speaker 4: my kids to see me do it. At least one time.
Speaker 4: So I got in shape a little bit. I did
Speaker 4: a show. Me and Nova did a show together, and
Speaker 4: at the time, I was like, that's probably going to
Speaker 4: be the last show I'll ever do. And that was
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, that's eleven years ago. And you know, over
Speaker 4: the course of the eleven years, I kind of let
Speaker 4: my health go a little bit. I wasn't in shape.
Speaker 4: I really let myself get you know, go far in
Speaker 4: the wrong direction. And you know, about two years ago
Speaker 4: I really started to get control of my life again,
Speaker 4: like get in shape and get healthy and all that
Speaker 4: other stuff again and working out and back into martial
Speaker 4: arts training. And my kids are older now, my youngest
Speaker 4: is going to be seventeen, and they didn't really remember
Speaker 4: me doing it. And I just said, yeah, I know,
Speaker 4: can you believe that? I just said, if I'm ever
Speaker 4: going to have a chance to do it again, I'm
Speaker 4: going to do it again now. And I decided to
Speaker 4: just I called Brian, you know, I called Brian Meyers.
Speaker 4: I went down to create a probably worked out for
Speaker 4: a while a couple of times in the ring, just
Speaker 4: first of all, to see if it was even possible,
Speaker 4: because again I had been away for eleven years and
Speaker 4: it was like I stepped back into the ring and
Speaker 4: it was like I never left. I mean, of course
Speaker 4: I'm not. You know, I'm not that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: You're always.
Speaker 4: Well. But you know, physically, of course, I had I
Speaker 4: had major back surgery.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 4: Right in two thousand and eight, I had my whole
Speaker 4: lower back. I had, you know, a five level fusion
Speaker 4: in my lower back. I had that done. And you know,
Speaker 4: my neck is is still pretty bad. I have seven
Speaker 4: HERNI eight in my neck. So I probably shouldn't be
Speaker 4: doing this at all. But I'm taking it slow. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that I'm coming back into the business.
Speaker 4: But listen, I did. I did a show for Brian
Speaker 4: and then I did another show Saturday night. Those are
Speaker 4: the first two shows that I've done. I don't have
Speaker 4: anything else booked right now. I haven't planned.
Speaker 1: Let me stop you. Saturday Night. You won the Tag Straps.
Speaker 1: So there you are.
Speaker 2: You won the I'm sorry you won the Straps. You're
Speaker 2: Tag team champion now?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh jesus, what the hell did I lose you?
Speaker 1: No, you're here, you're here, Oh my god?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 1: All right? Should I tell him?
Speaker 4: The reclick.
Speaker 3: Chris, I'll kick him out. He just clicked back in
Speaker 3: even though he's driving safely, just as we're building to
Speaker 3: the crescendo of the Tag Team Championship win.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him and tell him real quick. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When that happens for some reason, it's probably because you're
Speaker 2: driving and you hit a dead dune.
Speaker 1: Just go back to the link and reclick it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, he's hilarious, isn't he.
Speaker 3: He's got I have to say for driving. He had
Speaker 3: bet he's got better audio than Devon.
Speaker 1: He's better than people stayctionary.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Got into an accident on ninety so that's good.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I almost just sideeswiped the brand new Jeep, so
Speaker 4: that would have been good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know this is more important than that.
Speaker 4: So of course, come on, nothing's more important than this.
Speaker 2: What I was going to say is you are Tag
Speaker 2: Team Champion of the World now, so.
Speaker 4: The book, yes I am, you are.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna get that said.
Speaker 4: You know that people people have been asking me to work.
Speaker 4: I haven't answered really anybody, you know. To be honest
Speaker 4: with you, my wife is really against me working. Number one,
Speaker 4: she doesn't want me to do it, and I don't
Speaker 4: blame her, because listen, I really have suffered physically for
Speaker 4: a long time. And but again I let my health
Speaker 4: go in a lot of different areas. I just was
Speaker 4: so busy working. I just didn't pay attention to that.
Speaker 4: I wasn't working out, I wasn't doing those things. And
Speaker 4: I am doing those again. So I feel good. I
Speaker 4: did that one show. I felt good. I feel fine.
Speaker 4: I would like to do some more, but we'll see, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So here's the deal, Okay, go ahead, And I
Speaker 2: told the story about the first time I've seen I
Speaker 2: saw you in years was at Rockaway Mall when we
Speaker 2: did the nineties con and we were showing each other
Speaker 2: our kids on our phone, and then you showed me
Speaker 2: a piece that you were really pretty to me, and
Speaker 2: then you showed me a picture of you really fat.
Speaker 2: Yes it's not really fat. Now you've gotten a tremendous
Speaker 2: shape since then. Right, here's here's what we all do,
Speaker 2: because we're all freaking old.
Speaker 1: Like, let's close me. We're old, right, I'm an old man.
Speaker 2: And when we do our shows, because there is that
Speaker 2: occasion when I have to step in the ring, I
Speaker 2: hate it, but it's part of the deal.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, if you do the convention, you have to
Speaker 1: do the show. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, fine, you work around your weaknesses
Speaker 2: and you focus on your drinks. Always book yourself in
Speaker 2: a tag or a six million, So then you have
Speaker 2: to do a lot.
Speaker 4: You know what we in the bottle oil.
Speaker 1: Come on a woman, you know the first minute, no
Speaker 1: one cares.
Speaker 2: You don't want to win that anyway, Give the younger
Speaker 2: kids the rub and get the hell out of there
Speaker 2: and get your payday. When we did it, we all
Speaker 2: did a show, not this December, the one before. So
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two we were all. They did an ECW show, right.
Speaker 2: I watched it when I came home, Chris, let me
Speaker 2: just tell you how sad When we all.
Speaker 1: Tried to get in the ring there were no wing steps, so.
Speaker 4: We're all, oh god, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was like we were all in slow motion.
Speaker 4: Rolling under the bottom rope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so sad.
Speaker 4: I said to myself, can somebody bring me a ladder? Please?
Speaker 4: Time out here? Time out is valid in any sport.
Speaker 4: We have to have a time out. I need a
Speaker 4: ladder to get in and out of the ring.
Speaker 2: People love to see E. C. W Alum for this
Speaker 2: nostalgia purposes.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Say no, you're not going to have a five star match.
Speaker 2: They don't expect you to.
Speaker 4: It's well, that's a problem too for me though, because
Speaker 4: I I don't know.
Speaker 1: You want to.
Speaker 4: Listen, in my mind, I can do all those things.
Speaker 1: Sure we all can't, But.
Speaker 4: Can I do all those things? Listen, I've that match
Speaker 4: I did Saturday. I've done more than that in the ring. Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, with Brian, I created prod. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that I'm you know, able to jump and do flips
Speaker 4: like you know, you watch you know some of these
Speaker 4: guys that are still doing it, that were with us,
Speaker 4: I mean that have consistently done it, like Rob. I
Speaker 4: mean it's impressive to watch because he still does his arsenal.
Speaker 4: I mean for the most part of all of it.
Speaker 4: And yeah, like you said, I don't know if that's
Speaker 4: possible for me anymore. And and I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know how I feel about it. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 4: I'm taking it slow, one thing at a time. I'm
Speaker 4: not in a super rush to do anything. I haven't
Speaker 4: decided really, I mean, this is a slow comeback, very
Speaker 4: really gently baby steps? Right? What was that movie? Baby Steps?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's fine, And you know you don't have to
Speaker 2: always work. It's like we do these conventions and you're
Speaker 2: just sitting there and signing, which is brilliant because you're
Speaker 2: not taking any bumps.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of hard to get in and
Speaker 1: out of the chair for pictures, like you get really tired, hurt.
Speaker 4: To get out again.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's right. You know sometimes I tell the guy, oh,
Speaker 1: come in the back, lean over me. I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: in this chair. It's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you should have like an aisle away with a
Speaker 4: chair next to you. That's like the setup you should have.
Speaker 4: Like you have a table, you sit at the end
Speaker 4: of the table, and then there's a chair next to
Speaker 4: you at the table. So whoever needs their picture taking
Speaker 4: you could come sit in the chair mm hmm, and
Speaker 4: you know, hey, with your arm around them, like they're
Speaker 4: sitting next to you in the car, Like if somebody
Speaker 4: was sitting next to me, I go, what's happening? And
Speaker 4: that's it. I like that setup. I like the way you.
Speaker 1: Think, Franny, you could do that if you're really tired.
Speaker 1: That day.
Speaker 4: But you know what do you got to say? You
Speaker 4: got anything to say over there? Anything?
Speaker 3: No, I'm just listening.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just glad some ship come on. I'm not ready.
Speaker 3: I want you are I want you guys.
Speaker 1: I have a little tidbit for you, Chris, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if.
Speaker 2: You know this, but do you know how you got
Speaker 2: your first win, your first singles win in e c
Speaker 2: W your first single win, and how you dropped the rookie.
Speaker 1: Remember you were the rookie, Chrischetti for a while.
Speaker 4: I did drop the rookie for a while. Yes, I
Speaker 4: don't remember that.
Speaker 2: You dropped the rookie because of Mender, because of me.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what happened. We were in I want
Speaker 2: to say it was New York, right, and it was
Speaker 2: I think it was a TV taping. Might have been Buffalo,
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure. It might have been the Burt
Speaker 2: Flickinger Center. I can't remember where we were anyway, it
Speaker 2: was a big one. And Paul was sitting at the
Speaker 2: table and he looked so perplexed, right, and I was
Speaker 2: walking by and I looked at him and I said,
Speaker 2: what's the matter? And he said, I'm stumped, and I said,
Speaker 2: what you know, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 1: He said, I'm.
Speaker 2: Trying to think of an opponent for Anthony Duranty pit
Speaker 2: Bull number two. And he says, and I can't think
Speaker 2: of anybody that could, you.
Speaker 1: Know, go over on them. And he goes, and I've
Speaker 1: been looking around, looking around. So I looked around. I
Speaker 1: saw you.
Speaker 2: Standing there, and I said, really, I said, let Chris
Speaker 2: Chitty wrestle him. Chris goes over and he drops the
Speaker 2: rookie because now he beat an established guy in the
Speaker 2: locker room. And Paul's face lit up like a Christmas
Speaker 2: tree and he goes, that's brilliant. And he wrote it
Speaker 2: on like his napkin or whatever he was writing on
Speaker 2: at the time, and that's.
Speaker 4: You never told me that.
Speaker 1: Yep. So you're welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You're so I never knew that your career skyrockets.
Speaker 4: My career took off from there. Who it was a
Speaker 4: idea and he thought it was such a good idea.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like somebody should be thanking you in
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame speech coming up now because of that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: That was the one story.
Speaker 2: Like, man, I don't know if I ever told Chris
Speaker 2: that story. But that's what happened, and that's how you
Speaker 2: got the rookie. Take it off your name.
Speaker 4: I have a bird flicking your story.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear one, I would love to
Speaker 1: hear one.
Speaker 4: So I was in the hospital. This is this might
Speaker 4: be why my wife was a little upset that I
Speaker 4: did this show. So I don't I don't remember the dates. Okay.
Speaker 4: So I was in the hospital for about seven days.
Speaker 4: I was coughing up blood. Nothing major. I had like
Speaker 4: a pneumonia or something in my lung. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I woke up one morning, I didn't have any symptoms, Like,
Speaker 4: I was fine, I was, I was good. I went
Speaker 4: into the bathroom, I had like a little a I
Speaker 4: got like a little thing in my throat. I coughed
Speaker 4: it out and it's blood. Like, holy shit, I got blood.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: This was like two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: So oh.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, this just happened. Right, So I'll get back to.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety nine or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, no, no, no, no, I'm going to get to
Speaker 4: the Burt Flickinger part of it in a minute. So
Speaker 4: I ended up in the hospital for a week right
Speaker 4: within the MOONI or whatever, and I'm fine, but uh,
Speaker 4: one of the doctors in the hospital, I guess figured
Speaker 4: out who I was, and he comes into the hospital
Speaker 4: room and he's like, e CWW, and I'm like, what
Speaker 4: the fuck right? So we get to talking and he
Speaker 4: went to college at the University of Buffalo and he
Speaker 4: used to go to the ECW shows in the Burt
Speaker 4: Flickinger Center. So he said, I went to every show
Speaker 4: at the Burt Flickinger Center. I said, oh, wow, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I said, so were you there when I landed on
Speaker 4: Danny Doring's head and put him in a coma And
Speaker 4: he goes, In fact, I was on the stretcher, so
Speaker 4: he remembered. I don't know if you remember that, but
Speaker 4: I did like a top rope, springboard, leg drop or
Speaker 4: something and the Rocketbusters has wanted to call it. And
Speaker 4: I rocketbusted Danny's head with my big, giant ass, And yeah,
Speaker 4: he ended up in a coma for a couple of days.
Speaker 4: Nothing big, nothing major.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I was just talking about the bird flick and just
Speaker 4: sent it with one of my physicians in the hospital
Speaker 4: who was an ECW fan in college.
Speaker 1: Isn't that great?
Speaker 2: When they recognize you in the most obscure places. I
Speaker 2: had to go to the doctor for my hip because
Speaker 2: I thought I needed a hip replacement. Remember when I
Speaker 2: broke my pelvis, I don't know, a bandman threw me
Speaker 2: and broke So I had to go to Rothman Institute,
Speaker 2: right and I had to pull my pants down. And
Speaker 2: I'm standing there and they're taking X rays and the
Speaker 2: doctor walks in.
Speaker 1: Went my pants down, and he goes, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and I just looked and him. I went not now.
Speaker 2: He goes, oh my god, I gotta go call my
Speaker 2: friend right now, and he runs out of the room.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like, oh, did I offend him? Like
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 2: And then it comes back in and he's like, I
Speaker 2: had to call my friend.
Speaker 1: He used to go to all the E. C.
Speaker 2: W Shoes and right then and there, I was like
Speaker 2: great because I'm standing there in like my little underwear
Speaker 2: with my you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, I'm standing here with my ass hanging out
Speaker 4: and the doctor had to run out of the room
Speaker 4: to call his friend. It sounds a little.
Speaker 2: Swear, and I was just like, oh my god. So
Speaker 2: it just happens in the weirdest, you know, the weirdest
Speaker 2: and then yeah, all the shows that he came to,
Speaker 2: and I'm standing there, I was like, can I at
Speaker 2: least pull my pants up for this inner this conversation,
Speaker 2: because I'm a little embarrassed right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a little nuts but a.
Speaker 2: Little crazy, but seriously, like, and you can tell Colleen
Speaker 2: this too, like you need to just not I know
Speaker 2: you want to work because you know it's it's fun
Speaker 2: and we've all been there and it's it's cool and everything,
Speaker 2: but the conventions are.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think she would have a problem with
Speaker 4: any of that. No, I think she's just more worried
Speaker 4: about me getting hurt. Absolutely, So now I don't blame her. Listen,
Speaker 4: I'm not a I'm not a young I'm not a
Speaker 4: young man anymore. I'm not an old old man. But
Speaker 4: I'm old enough that it's a would I.
Speaker 1: Get that hovering in the middle.
Speaker 4: Right now, I'd say, yeah, we used to talk about
Speaker 4: bam lights and going out drinking, and now I'm like
Speaker 4: my four oh one k is like take yourself down,
Speaker 4: and uh, I got I gotta call my endochronologist. And
Speaker 4: you know you've got all these paying for the kid's
Speaker 4: college tuition, Like, where the hell did all these problems
Speaker 4: come from? Well, nice and easy, like, oh, we gotta
Speaker 4: go to Boston and then we gotta go to freaking
Speaker 4: Cleveland and then we gotta go to Florida. Oh shit,
Speaker 4: that sucks. But like now I'd be like, please put
Speaker 4: me on a plane for like the next three weeks
Speaker 4: and not have anything else to think about, would be great.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about road stories. You you hung out
Speaker 2: with the you know, we were in that van Roadkill right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we were in the ring truck too. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know what's so crazy? Like I did an autograph
Speaker 4: signing for that guy Jack at Queen's. I saw you there, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know you, I know, I know, but Spike was
Speaker 4: supposed to be there two and I was talking to
Speaker 4: Danny and Roadkill and we're like, we're at an autograph
Speaker 4: signing in Queen's as the former ring crew for E.
Speaker 3: C W.
Speaker 4: And we're doing an autograph me Spike him, like we
Speaker 4: were all on ring crew together, you know. So it
Speaker 4: was like over too, so I know, but I'm just
Speaker 4: saying like it was funny to say, like the ring
Speaker 4: crew was doing an autograph signing, Like that's how I
Speaker 4: thought about it, like the old Ring Crew gangs back there,
Speaker 4: But I didn't get to see Spike. Did he ever
Speaker 4: show up? No, No, he must have done something must
Speaker 4: have happened. I was looking forward to see I haven't
Speaker 4: seen him in so long.
Speaker 1: We neither uh PJ showed up.
Speaker 4: I did see PG. I haven't seen him in Okay.
Speaker 4: I always saw him for like a second out on
Speaker 4: the street. I was doing a uh like whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was doing like a promo for Jack's place, like, hey,
Speaker 4: I we sell toys and or whatever the sell. Hey
Speaker 4: we got all the merchandise and crazy eddy prices are insane.
Speaker 4: You know, Well, give me.
Speaker 2: A story from back in the day, something crazy that
Speaker 2: you won't get in trouble for if anybody hears this,
Speaker 2: I told Devon, like you.
Speaker 1: Could tell a story and just substitute names if you
Speaker 1: don't want to get anybody in trouble or just them.
Speaker 4: Who cares anybody listening to this at all?
Speaker 2: No, it's just it's just it's okay.
Speaker 1: Private conversation among friends, you know, nobody's just.
Speaker 4: The conversation amongst friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So for the whole time I was on Ring Crew,
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this, but in the
Speaker 4: back of the ring truck at one of the shows. Well,
Speaker 4: let's let's go back. My wrestling at the time was
Speaker 4: so awful because I knew nothing about wrestling, you know that, right, Like,
Speaker 4: I was not a fan of wrestling at all, and
Speaker 4: I was clueless one clueless about it.
Speaker 2: Chris, can we just say you are cousins with Taz
Speaker 2: Yes for people who don't know that.
Speaker 1: So you started off in uh what was that called?
Speaker 1: TAZ is little group the.
Speaker 4: House of Hardcore. They called it, oh, Team TAZ, Right,
Speaker 4: I was a member of the Team Taz Yes, and
Speaker 4: the Team TAZ dojo Yes.
Speaker 2: For life?
Speaker 4: What do you force me? Yes? It was indentured servitude exactly. Yes,
Speaker 4: I had no choice and then that proceed But uh yeah,
Speaker 4: at the time, my wrestling was so terrible that one
Speaker 4: of the fans made a beautiful sign that said substituted
Speaker 4: my last name, so it said Chris Shitty. And of
Speaker 4: course Roadkill found the sign and he glued it to
Speaker 4: the inside of the ring truck so you couldn't get
Speaker 4: it off, and it was there literally the whole time
Speaker 4: ECW was in business. There was a Chris Shitty sign
Speaker 4: on the inside of the ring truck. So that's a
Speaker 4: little inside information for people that didn't know about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't think you were a wrestler when you started.
Speaker 4: Oh I suck. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I loved the gimmick with the face like this face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my face is really not that good mediocre at best. Say,
Speaker 4: even when I was in my twenties when I needed
Speaker 4: a gimmick, so I was the only one I had.
Speaker 1: I love it. I loved it. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was funny, but it was a
Speaker 4: little ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Give me a travel lodge story.
Speaker 1: Do you have one? Everybody has one. You have to
Speaker 1: have one.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think. That's so far.
Speaker 1: You knew I was going to ask you funny stuff.
Speaker 1: Give me a funny story.
Speaker 4: Have a lodge. I mean I know of stories from
Speaker 4: the travel lodge, like the Terry Funk story. You know
Speaker 4: the Terry Funk story opening the doors and he separated
Speaker 4: his both shoulders. You heard that story.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like I guess he was in the
Speaker 4: park a lot of something, drinking and whatever, and he
Speaker 4: was on the phone. I don't remember what he was
Speaker 4: doing at the time. I think he might have been
Speaker 4: talking to his wife and he went to open like
Speaker 4: the door and the door was locking. He told on
Speaker 4: it really hard and he like separated his shoulder and
Speaker 4: he did it like in the old Turry funk, like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, you know, I separated my shoulder. And
Speaker 4: then he tried the other door and he did it,
Speaker 4: and he separated his other shows he had literally like
Speaker 4: two separated shoulders and he's like, oh my god, and
Speaker 4: he was talking to his wife. That was a funny
Speaker 4: travel I think that happened at the Travel Lodge. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Mikey could tell that story better if you
Speaker 4: talk to Mikey, because I think Mikey saw it. I
Speaker 4: think that's who I heard it from. I was only
Speaker 4: at the Travel Lodge a few times. That was early
Speaker 4: on I think. And then we transferred over and we
Speaker 4: were all staying at the Holiday Inn.
Speaker 2: Yes, because we used to go to Legends. Remember the
Speaker 2: board Legends that was in there. So we took a
Speaker 2: step up and we went to Legends.
Speaker 4: So I'll tell you a story. Yeah, hear a story.
Speaker 4: So we did a show, did we? And I don't
Speaker 4: It was a Philly show. It was ECW Philly show,
Speaker 4: I believe, and that we went out with me and
Speaker 4: Danny and a few people went out after the show
Speaker 4: with some local guys from Philly. So they brought us
Speaker 4: to like a Philly bar, right, like a local bar
Speaker 4: in Philly. And literally I was like at the end
Speaker 4: of the line of people to pay, Like we had
Speaker 4: to pay like three dollars or whatever to get into
Speaker 4: this place. So it was like Danny and a few
Speaker 4: people and then a couple of these indie guys from
Speaker 4: Philly and then me at the end. So everybody pays.
Speaker 4: So by the time they all paid to get in,
Speaker 4: which is like a minute, right, I pay my three dollars,
Speaker 4: walk into the club, and within ten seconds, I mean
Speaker 4: a full on brawl within ten seconds, Like I walked
Speaker 4: up to the I walk into the bar and one
Speaker 4: of the guys from Philly was like, Hey, this is
Speaker 4: my buddy whatever, and the guy gave me like a
Speaker 4: fucking dirty look, and I'm like, what do you want
Speaker 4: to fight? And he's like, okay, I go all right,
Speaker 4: So he fucking takes the swing at me and then
Speaker 4: I fucking I don't remember if I got maybe got
Speaker 4: punched in the side of the head, and then I
Speaker 4: ended up kicking him and then fucking he was with
Speaker 4: like ten guys and they're like breaking bottles over my
Speaker 4: head and shit. So uh yeah, literally the fastest. I
Speaker 4: am probably have the world record for the fastest bar
Speaker 4: fight in the history of Philadelphia, which is a fucking
Speaker 4: bold statement to say, because we've all been in Philly
Speaker 4: and we know about it, so there's a lot of
Speaker 4: fighting going on. But I may have the world record.
Speaker 4: I may hold the world record. I might I should
Speaker 4: probably be in the Guinness Book of World Records for
Speaker 4: the fastest bar fight in phillip Yes.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, did you get kicked out of the bar?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yes.
Speaker 1: I never heard that.
Speaker 4: We probably never told anybody that story because he wasn't
Speaker 4: good to say it at the time. So you just
Speaker 4: heard it for the first time, an exclusive right here
Speaker 4: on your show. Isn't that unbelievable? You got an exclusive.
Speaker 4: It's breaking news. Yes, that's what.
Speaker 1: We're going to use to promote this episode. Story.
Speaker 4: Oh your life, you've never heard this one unless you
Speaker 4: were there. I mean a few people know that it happened.
Speaker 2: But well, Christy, do you have the man that you
Speaker 2: fought waiting to come on to confront.
Speaker 1: You right now.
Speaker 4: You got him on the phone. Callers, Bring the callers out.
Speaker 4: Let's hear the callers. Oh, we got call the number one?
Speaker 4: What do you got hello? I just want to say that, uh,
Speaker 4: I was there at the bar that night and it
Speaker 4: was definitely your fault. You're kind of a dick, and
Speaker 4: I'll go of course I'm a dick. That's why I
Speaker 4: got no friends. What do you think?
Speaker 2: I also have the guy who made the Chris Shitty
Speaker 2: sign waiting.
Speaker 1: I do my investigations him.
Speaker 4: I got heat with. Come on, you should have known.
Speaker 4: I knew nothing about professional wrestling. Who would have been
Speaker 4: through the business? And I knew anything about this business?
Speaker 4: All joking aside, how does somebody get involved in professional
Speaker 4: wrestling that knows nothing? I mean, I knew nothing about program.
Speaker 4: I did you know this? I just wanted I didn't
Speaker 4: know anybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't either. I called the hotline. I called the
Speaker 1: ECW hotline.
Speaker 4: That's how you got involved in wrestling.
Speaker 2: I saw the commercial one Sports Channel Philadelphia, and it
Speaker 2: was like, Hey.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be a wrestler, a manager, or
Speaker 1: a referee?
Speaker 2: Call this number. I was working at an insurance company
Speaker 2: and hated my job. And I go, oh, I can
Speaker 2: do what these girls are doing.
Speaker 4: And I called the hotline and you good.
Speaker 1: I met Todd Gordon and I started tring. I didn't
Speaker 1: know anybody.
Speaker 4: Who who trained you, j T.
Speaker 1: Smith?
Speaker 4: Really I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, I remember JT? Yes,
Speaker 4: what happened to him? Why did he stop wrestling?
Speaker 2: He moved to like Virginia. I think I was just
Speaker 2: with Todd Gordon him. I said, have you talked to JT? Anytime?
Speaker 2: And and he was like a little while ago. He goes,
Speaker 2: he's still in Virginia.
Speaker 1: Hey, how's it go.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get him, trying to get the camera.
Speaker 4: I want people to see this ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're looking great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah I saw. Yeah. I was so oblivious,
Speaker 4: Like I was wrestling Stevie Richards, like one of the
Speaker 4: first time I ever probably the first time I ever
Speaker 4: wrestled them, right, and you know, like this is a
Speaker 4: whole like if you're not in the business, it's like
Speaker 4: a whole culture around professional wrestling. I was no clue, right,
Speaker 4: you probably too, then, no clue. So we get in
Speaker 4: the ring, right, we call our match or whatever, and
Speaker 4: we get in the ring, and we're doing our match
Speaker 4: and he's like, oh, I just you know whatever, we'll
Speaker 4: call something out there, and I'm okay, yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: even know what he's talking about. Right, So he literally
Speaker 4: goes to shoot me into the ropes and he hits
Speaker 4: me with something, and he goes Ronnie Garvin, and I go,
Speaker 4: what the fuck are you talking about? Ronnie Garvin? Who
Speaker 4: the fuck is Ronny Gardens. I had to like stop
Speaker 4: him and like turn around, I go, who the fuck
Speaker 4: is Ronnie Garvin? And he goes, huh. He goes, you
Speaker 4: don't know, Ronnie, go like, this is the conversation you're
Speaker 4: having in the ring, Like, no fucking clue what he's
Speaker 4: talking about. Ronnie Garvin. You could have said fucking Santa
Speaker 4: Claus or fucking he's the Bunny too. I would have
Speaker 4: known what the fuck you're talking about. No clue, clueless.
Speaker 4: That's great. We were out one night. We did a
Speaker 4: show in Chicago, right and afterward, don't you ever go
Speaker 4: to Shah Booms Franny in Chicago? It was like an
Speaker 4: after after after hours place in Chicago was like a
Speaker 4: shady after hours joint. The guy that owned it was
Speaker 4: called mister Bill. I guess he was like an old
Speaker 4: wrestling referee, but it was like all old wrestlers and like,
Speaker 4: you know, it was like on the South side of
Speaker 4: Chicago's there's like pimps and you know, drug dealers and
Speaker 4: you know, just it was nuts. And of course pro
Speaker 4: wrestlers because we fit right in with that helmet, right.
Speaker 4: So we're sitting at this table, and shit, I want
Speaker 4: to try. I can't fucking remember who the guy is.
Speaker 4: I guess he was a big deal in pro wrestling.
Speaker 4: Like it wasn't Ronnie Garvin, No, but it was. Fuck
Speaker 4: how come I can't remember the guy's name. I'm terrible
Speaker 4: with names, but he was like somebody that was like
Speaker 4: a you know. So basically, we're sitting at this table, right,
Speaker 4: damn it, I can't remember the guy's fucking name because
Speaker 4: it might be a better story. It wasn't Rick Flair,
Speaker 4: but it was like close to that level. It might
Speaker 4: have been somebody that was in the Four Horsemen. I
Speaker 4: don't know. It was somebody that was like one of
Speaker 4: the top guys in NWA. I just don't remember who
Speaker 4: it was. So we're sitting at the table and I
Speaker 4: don't have a fucking clue who this guy is? Right,
Speaker 4: no clue. And it's like me and PJ and Danny
Speaker 4: and there was a couple of other people there, but
Speaker 4: the guy's talking about wrestling, and then he starts talking
Speaker 4: about ECW. You guys don't know what the fuck you're doing,
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah blahah. I go, who the fuck
Speaker 4: have you ever beat?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Literally, I get kicked under the table like three directions.
Speaker 4: I go, what the fuck is the matter with you? Guys?
Speaker 4: Fucked this guy? Fuck him? I get up and I
Speaker 4: walk in and they're like, oh my god, do you
Speaker 4: know who that is? And they told me who it is.
Speaker 4: I go, fuck him, no clue. And it turns out
Speaker 4: the guy actually has pretty much been every single person
Speaker 4: in the business. Yeah, and I had no idea who
Speaker 4: he was.
Speaker 1: You might have came up with the who would you
Speaker 1: ever be? Gimmick?
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't think I can one. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think I ever came up ago.
Speaker 1: You might have. You might.
Speaker 4: It's been around, it's been around the while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good story.
Speaker 4: That's a really good around. Defended.
Speaker 3: I can't can't go wrong there. He defended ECW.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I had no idea what I'm doing. I
Speaker 4: had no business being in the business at all. I
Speaker 4: didn't know anything.
Speaker 3: Pardon the brief interruption here on Ice up here featuring
Speaker 3: our guest Chris Chetty. We'd like to give you a
Speaker 3: instant payoff to the story featuring Chris Chetti's night inside
Speaker 3: of this after hours bar As. We found out after
Speaker 3: the interview that the one who was not identified in
Speaker 3: this scenario that Chris Chetti defended E c W was
Speaker 3: living legend himself, Larry Subisco. So add that for the
Speaker 3: context of.
Speaker 4: This or you just heard.
Speaker 3: Now back to Eyes up here.
Speaker 4: Do you watch wrestling? No today, not at all. No, okay, no.
Speaker 2: Once once in a while if something, if I hear
Speaker 2: something good happened, I'll either look it up I'll find
Speaker 2: a clip.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you the last time I sat
Speaker 1: there and watched.
Speaker 2: A whole episode of something like I think when I
Speaker 2: went to Florida to Disney Impact was on TV. I
Speaker 2: watched that because it was on and there's a couple
Speaker 2: of my friends at work there, so I just watched
Speaker 2: the hour. That's the first time I've sat down and
Speaker 2: literally watched it in the last decade, probably like I
Speaker 2: don't really watch it.
Speaker 1: I'll watch clips.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't watch that much. I watched some clips.
Speaker 4: But we got rid of our regular cable because now
Speaker 4: like everybody who has these like you know, Netflix and Amazon,
Speaker 4: Primes and all that of the crap. So I got
Speaker 4: rid of the regular cable because nobody was using it,
Speaker 4: right except me. I'm of course the only one that
Speaker 4: watches it, and of course the only one that watched it.
Speaker 4: Now I can't watch cable anymore, so I don't have
Speaker 4: it right, It's gone bye by cable. So now I
Speaker 4: have to scroll through like Samsung TV, and I'm scrolling
Speaker 4: through and it's like I could watch The Walking Dead
Speaker 4: reruns or I could watch Impact wrestling. So I watch
Speaker 4: a lot of Impact wrestling now. So I've watched more
Speaker 4: wrestling since I've gotten rid of cable than I've probably
Speaker 4: ever watched in my entire life. And that's probably like, well,
Speaker 4: I've only watched like about three hours of it, but
Speaker 4: that's probably more than I watched in my whole life.
Speaker 4: But it's pretty good. Yeah, I like her product from
Speaker 4: what I no, No, I'm only kidd and I have
Speaker 4: actually watched a lot of it. It's very good. Actually,
Speaker 4: I think they're excellent. Yeah, I think it's great. Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I think it's great. Yeah, that's great. There's a lot Listen,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of talented people that have come through
Speaker 4: there and worked there. And you know, if you if
Speaker 4: you watch, like going back to almost like maybe a
Speaker 4: couple of years after ECW went out of business, some
Speaker 4: of the guys that were working with us, and then
Speaker 4: you know, some of the other talent that that's come
Speaker 4: in there and you know, ended up wrestling for you know,
Speaker 4: WWE or now AW. A lot of people came out
Speaker 4: of there or started there or still are there. But
Speaker 4: there's a there's a ton of talent there. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I was on their first pay per view.
Speaker 2: You were yeah, you had to pay ten dollars to
Speaker 2: see it from the Nashville Fair. Oh.
Speaker 4: I thought you were going to say you had to
Speaker 4: pay ten dollars to get onto the pay per view.
Speaker 4: I know they paid me, dear, they paid you for.
Speaker 1: Working, me for working Do you believe that?
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you get paid to do this.
Speaker 1: The best is when we're are you talking about.
Speaker 2: Hey, Chris, We're at the Rockaway Mall and this guy
Speaker 2: comes to the table and Chris is sitting with me
Speaker 2: at my table, and the guy buys a picture from me, right,
Speaker 2: and he pays whatever, and then he says, Chris, can
Speaker 2: I take a picture with you? Chris goes short and
Speaker 2: he just gets up and takes the picture and the
Speaker 2: guy walks away, and I go, Chris, next time, get
Speaker 2: the money before you take the picture, Like that's the
Speaker 2: rule around.
Speaker 4: And what did I say, I get paid for this?
Speaker 2: I'm no clue, no clue from them before you do
Speaker 2: the picture.
Speaker 4: And you probably thought that I was joking, but I
Speaker 4: was not joking. I don't know if I get paid.
Speaker 4: I paid. It's so foreign to me, Franny, being away
Speaker 4: from this for so long, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: like it's so foreign to me to like I feel bad, like, hey,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just again, I'm so out of
Speaker 4: this for so long, Like I don't know, like I'm
Speaker 4: I'm not. This is not what I do anymore. So
Speaker 4: I almost feel like, all right, you take money, but
Speaker 4: thousands of documents a day, like nobody asked me to
Speaker 4: pay me to pay my put my name on it.
Speaker 2: So this is they know that they're going to spend
Speaker 2: money when they come to these conventions.
Speaker 4: I gotta get it in my head, like, hey, you
Speaker 4: know having a blast?
Speaker 1: Yeah, friends, shooting shit, catching up? Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you would like to do more?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you're taking it slow, but in
Speaker 2: all seriousness, like, I will try and help you if
Speaker 2: you want me to listen.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. I misusing that part of the brain,
Speaker 4: like the creative part, to do something cool and creative
Speaker 4: and come up with different ways to entertain people. I
Speaker 4: want to do it again, whether I do it in
Speaker 4: the ring or if there's another way for me to
Speaker 4: do it. I would love to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: I would. I don't know how many more matches I'm
Speaker 4: going to work. I would probably say that I'm going
Speaker 4: to do more. I don't know how many more, but
Speaker 4: you know, we'll see, you know. I don't want to
Speaker 4: say that I'm going to do something and not follow
Speaker 4: through and do it. So I haven't really made anybody
Speaker 4: any promises that I'm going to come do anything or
Speaker 4: you know, I haven't booked anything else because I really
Speaker 4: just haven't decided. I mean, I'm you know, I'm kind
Speaker 4: of torn on what I want to do, and I
Speaker 4: would like to do something but I just don't haven't
Speaker 4: decided exactly what yet. But I would like to do
Speaker 4: something with the business and maybe maybe make a couple
Speaker 4: of bucks.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see, maybe make some money in
Speaker 2: the process.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, hey, would it be the
Speaker 4: end of the world to make a few dollars from
Speaker 4: the wrestling business after thirty years of doing it?
Speaker 1: I mean it would not. Oh, it's okay.
Speaker 2: At your age, you'll still get booked for signings and
Speaker 2: this I'm telling you, the signings are the easiest thing
Speaker 2: you can do without.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean physical damage to your body. That's what
Speaker 1: I get.
Speaker 4: I can, I can. I can work, Frannie, I can.
Speaker 4: I can. You know I can do it. It's just
Speaker 4: a matter of do I really want to do it?
Speaker 4: Listen again, I just I started doing martial arts again.
Speaker 4: I feel great, but I just don't really know. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: Can.
Speaker 4: You're generally confused, so you know, look and I did
Speaker 4: how long you know me? You know I'm always confused
Speaker 4: about something. For you, I know nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 2: When we were at the Wrestling Universe, I picked up
Speaker 2: the phone and made a call and I tried to
Speaker 2: get you on the show.
Speaker 4: Remember I know, and you got shut down. Basically immediately
Speaker 4: you got took Christianny and you got hung up. I'm like, hello, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 4: is anybody there?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello? You did not hang up.
Speaker 4: I know. I'm only kidding. I know, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: I was making a funny haha, funny.
Speaker 2: You should be at Restlan, like you should be there
Speaker 2: this year because it's in Philly. It has a big
Speaker 2: ECW presence and you were part of ECW. You know
Speaker 2: it doesn't You're not on socials because.
Speaker 4: I am on socials. I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook,
Speaker 4: I'm on Instagram on every day.
Speaker 1: You don't use them, you have to.
Speaker 4: But I'm on their people can get in touch with me,
Speaker 4: they can find me. They know I'm there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: They don't know you're interested if you're not out there
Speaker 2: like you have to.
Speaker 4: Oh you mean, like all the people that email me
Speaker 4: or tech whatever it's called, Like they private message me
Speaker 4: and say hey, do you want to do this? And
Speaker 4: I just never answer them. Am I supposed to answer
Speaker 4: those people?
Speaker 2: If you don't tweet in the last two years, people
Speaker 2: probably think that you're like either dead or.
Speaker 1: That you just don't care. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: There's no presence there.
Speaker 4: If you see, my next tweet is going to be
Speaker 4: I'm not no, You're next.
Speaker 1: Tweet should be I am available for bookings.
Speaker 4: Contact No why my next My next tweet will be
Speaker 4: Francine told me that I'm supposed to help people. I'm
Speaker 4: not dead. My exact next tweet.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna retweet it and I'm going to say this
Speaker 2: guy is available for bookings.
Speaker 1: Who wants some wrest? I'm going to tag everybody.
Speaker 4: Listen, you tried to help me. Yeah, you tried to
Speaker 4: help me five years ago. Well, whenever I got on Twitter,
Speaker 4: maybe it was ten years ago. How long have you
Speaker 4: been on Twitter?
Speaker 2: I've been on Twitter for five you've been on Twitter
Speaker 2: for a while, yeah, five or six years?
Speaker 4: All right? So when you first got on Twitter, we
Speaker 4: got in touch on Twitter and you put out a
Speaker 4: tweet and said follow my friend Chris Chetty. And I
Speaker 4: think I got like three followers out of that.
Speaker 3: I started following you.
Speaker 4: You did, so now I got four followers. So now
Speaker 4: I have like a total of like eleven followers. So
Speaker 4: there you go, my eleven followers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Again.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put it out there again. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: find you. I don't know how because I don't I.
Speaker 4: Don't know my name, Chris Chetty. It's pretty simple. I
Speaker 4: made it easy. Maybe I shouldn't come up with something
Speaker 4: clever like like.
Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be clever. It needs to be easy,
Speaker 3: and it could be any easier than at Chris Chitty.
Speaker 4: I tried to make it as simple as possible so
Speaker 4: that if somebody typed in my name they could find me.
Speaker 4: But there's actually a fake Chris Chris Shitty. I should
Speaker 4: I should have done at Chrishitty. I missed the damn boat.
Speaker 4: I'm sure. I'm sure that somebody right now as we
Speaker 4: speak is making it at Chris Shitty on Twitter. At
Speaker 4: Chris Shitty right now the.
Speaker 3: Picture of your Is this a picture of your dog
Speaker 3: with a Santa head on?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 4: Absolutely yes? And in the background I have the Showglenner Harlem.
Speaker 4: Come on, don't you know about them? You should just
Speaker 4: put a picture Dragon.
Speaker 3: No, I might want to put we might want to
Speaker 3: put a picture of CHRISTI in there, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think put a picture of the pizza that
Speaker 2: you made, that beautiful pizza that you showed me.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't want to be like one of those
Speaker 4: people that's like, hey, look at me. I don't want
Speaker 4: to do that.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to do it. Look, I I promote
Speaker 1: myself all the time. You are your brand.
Speaker 2: No one knows that you're available if you don't put
Speaker 2: it out there. So you can either be mediocre and
Speaker 2: take a booking every six months, or you can try
Speaker 2: to get back in the mix and hang out with
Speaker 2: us because we're the cool kids and we have so
Speaker 2: much fun on the route. So you know, I'm here
Speaker 2: to help if you want it. But I do think
Speaker 2: you're not getting listen, you're not getting yourself enough credit.
Speaker 2: You were a big part of ECW, just like the
Speaker 2: rest of us were, and I feel like you deserve
Speaker 2: to be at Wrestle Con.
Speaker 1: You really do. So if any promoters are.
Speaker 2: Listening and you have space available, he's in driving. He
Speaker 2: can drive. He doesn't need a flight, So we're saving
Speaker 2: you money on that. Right, you're close enough.
Speaker 1: We're going to work on that. We have a month.
Speaker 1: We have about a month, all right, We're.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 1: Look you Is this the first interview you've ever done.
Speaker 4: In my life? No? Yeah, I've done a couple I did.
Speaker 4: I did a virtual signing. This is probably the first
Speaker 4: podcast I've ever done, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is the first podcast. Well, you know, I think
Speaker 4: so do I remember. I'm trying to remember back that
Speaker 4: I think I remember that.
Speaker 2: I've never heard you on any other Well, listen, let's
Speaker 2: close this episode out with Toothy, because.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I forgot to bring. I still
Speaker 4: have Toothy, by the way, I just got to bring
Speaker 4: them with me. I still have it. Of course I
Speaker 4: still have it.
Speaker 1: So Chris had this really rotten.
Speaker 4: Well my tooth. I hit the guard rail and I
Speaker 4: cracked my tooth. And of course, as professional wrestlers, since
Speaker 4: we get hurt all the time and you know, get
Speaker 4: banged up, we have no health insurance, which makes total sense.
Speaker 4: So I had no dental insurance and my tooth was
Speaker 4: broken for a while, and uh, it was terrible and
Speaker 4: I had to get the tooth taken out and I
Speaker 4: carried it around for years. In my they give you
Speaker 4: like a little plastic tooth on a string, and I
Speaker 4: war Toothy whip me forever. I mean, I had Toothy
Speaker 4: with me everywhere I went. Toothy came with me, and
Speaker 4: he was part of me. I couldn't let him go.
Speaker 2: Every time I would see him, I would give chrysal
Speaker 2: hugging the kiss and I would say where's Toothy and
Speaker 2: he'd pulled Toothy out. I'd say hello to Toothy because
Speaker 2: he was on the road.
Speaker 1: He was one of the boys.
Speaker 4: I love Toothy.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my, well, this part of the show, I
Speaker 2: usually say where can people find you?
Speaker 1: And what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: In your case, that would be absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: You want to find me? Yeah, you got to do
Speaker 4: a lot of work. That's number one.
Speaker 1: Are you defending the tag Belts anytime soon?
Speaker 4: I would assume that I'm probably gonna do that at
Speaker 4: some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not anytime soon. Though it's not booked yet.
Speaker 4: It's not booked yet. Uh, nobody booked a Big Angle yet.
Speaker 4: When the Big Angle gets booked, okay, you know that'll
Speaker 4: be that'll be something to announce. I mean, come on,
Speaker 4: all right, title defenses, Come on, that's a big time
Speaker 4: at at Chris Chetti. I'm on Facebook as Chris Chetty
Speaker 4: myself and I really went nuts on Instagram and I
Speaker 4: made it at Chris Chetty.
Speaker 1: I don't think on instag I hate Instagram, but I will.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not big on Instagram. I can't figure it out.
Speaker 4: I haven't spent that much time. I don't know how
Speaker 4: to do the story thing. I don't know how to
Speaker 4: get pictures. People send me things. I don't know how
Speaker 4: to get people. I don't know how to let people
Speaker 4: in or let people out. I don't have time. I
Speaker 4: just I have something there. I just don't know exactly
Speaker 4: what's on there.
Speaker 1: So all right, So Instagram is a bus it's a
Speaker 1: waste to follow you?
Speaker 4: Oh no, you can get Yeah, how you can follow me?
Speaker 4: Just it'll pretty much be like following me on Twitter.
Speaker 4: You'll it'll be there, but you'll navi get any content
Speaker 4: from me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I do put stuff on Facebook, which is does anybody
Speaker 4: use Facebook anymore? I don't.
Speaker 1: I I don't like nobody does.
Speaker 4: Is that like a Disney drop? Is that a thing
Speaker 4: of the past?
Speaker 1: I think it's like my Space?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: I think? So?
Speaker 4: I'm on my Space. I'm on I'm on the new
Speaker 4: version of my Space.
Speaker 1: Is thereble, there's a new.
Speaker 4: It's called Facebook. Facebook.
Speaker 2: We will talk because I feel like there's there's a
Speaker 2: market for you.
Speaker 1: And I want you to just I want you to
Speaker 1: do it, so I'll help you. That's what I do.
Speaker 1: I help people. I help people. Ask Chad, I do
Speaker 1: you know? Who?
Speaker 2: Do you think? Cha?
Speaker 4: Very quiet, Chad, I just as a co host. I
Speaker 4: was expecting a little bit more out of the co host,
Speaker 4: a little you know, some ship busting out, some ship
Speaker 4: saying some funny lines, a little you know.
Speaker 3: You know what I produce. I got you back on
Speaker 3: the show twice. You know, I cut up fill my role.
Speaker 4: You guys, shoot a breeze.
Speaker 3: I'm just here for the the eye Candy.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, he's the eye Candy. Well, there you go.
Speaker 4: That was some funny ship right there. I got you.
Speaker 1: I got a million of them. All right.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you came on. I thought you were
Speaker 2: k fab and me I was. When I saw him,
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 4: Franny, you know, I don't ca Fab never never.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I just never did a podcast before. So this is
Speaker 4: my first one. It only took us how long have
Speaker 4: you been doing a podcast?
Speaker 1: Five years? Five years?
Speaker 4: So it only took me five years to get on here.
Speaker 4: So it's pretty good. I'm pretty consistent with.
Speaker 1: Everything else time, Chris, because now I'm on iHeart radio,
Speaker 1: so we blew up.
Speaker 4: Well that's what I was waiting for. Hello, what did
Speaker 4: you think? What's I? What is iHeart radio? Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that something I don't know about?
Speaker 1: This?
Speaker 4: Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: I got to hit?
Speaker 4: A big deal. You got to catch me up to
Speaker 4: the year two two thousand. I'll wait a minute with
Speaker 4: past two thousand. You got to catch the two thousand.
Speaker 2: And you are cause, yes, Chris, But in all all honesty,
Speaker 2: Chris has a beautiful family, beautiful children, a beautiful wife. Uh,
Speaker 2: you've won the lottery of life, my friend, because family
Speaker 2: is everything, and you're doing fine, so you know, if
Speaker 2: you can come back to the dark side once in
Speaker 2: a while, it's all good.
Speaker 1: We'll take care of you.
Speaker 4: Every now and then, every name and now.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't do it every single weekend. I only
Speaker 2: do it when the money's right. You know, this month,
Speaker 2: I got lucky. I have three weekends that I'm booked,
Speaker 2: so I'm a busy, busy little bird this weekend.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know this month. But we'll get you
Speaker 1: down so I'll be in touch. But thank you for
Speaker 1: choosing me as your first. It's wonderful. It was great.
Speaker 2: Yes, all the stories were great, and have a safe trip.
Speaker 2: And if I can, Oh, you ran over that gimmick
Speaker 2: where you wake yourself. I'm going to try to get
Speaker 2: you onres digit. Thank you, so I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2: So everybody, that was Chris Chetti at Chris Chetti.
Speaker 3: All Right, we see you. He's gone, he's frozen, he's gone.
Speaker 3: We can't bring him back again.
Speaker 1: We're not watch him. Click the link to.
Speaker 3: Come back, come back from one last gas.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he is one of the nicest, funniest
Speaker 1: guys ever.
Speaker 4: So fun sounds like a blast.
Speaker 1: I mean I have.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think like I hung out with him
Speaker 2: so many times. He's just a terrific person and so
Speaker 2: fun and hilarious. So uh, promoters again, if if you
Speaker 2: need somebody for wrestle kN that's your guy.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, great to work with. You know, watch this. Hello.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, I love you and
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 1: You were great, and I'll be in touch.
Speaker 2: Okay, bye, buddy, uh huh bye.
Speaker 1: It's a mess. Yeah. So that was Chris Cheddy.
Speaker 2: So go follow him if you don't already, you know,
Speaker 2: and we'll try to We'll try to get him.
Speaker 3: You's got to change the picture. I mean it's not
Speaker 3: beautiful dog, don't get me wrong, beautiful dog, but Christmas picture.
Speaker 3: We got to update the picture. It could be him
Speaker 3: with the belt, the new tag strips. It could be
Speaker 3: an old school picture of the rookie, could be that
Speaker 3: toggle the folks of yesteryear's minds.
Speaker 1: Not standing champion.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he's not going to wrestle, you know,
Speaker 2: to retain the title, Like, what good is he?
Speaker 1: He's got to get out there.
Speaker 3: There's definitely there's there's a there's people out there that
Speaker 3: are looking for him.
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I hope so. Well, we'll try to we'll try to
Speaker 1: help them out.
Speaker 4: But that was fun.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was fun. Good stories from Chris. Good to
Speaker 1: hear from him. And he's a good dude.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: All right, what do you got anything anything?
Speaker 3: No, No, that's it.
Speaker 4: We're out of time.
Speaker 1: We're out of time.
Speaker 4: You're out of time.
Speaker 1: We gotta go everybody where can people find you if
Speaker 1: they want to.
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