WEBVTT - Another Ask Francine (Almost) Anything! 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.680 All right, let's kick off the week here Patreon the 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.000 Eyes up Here Extra, it's Monday. Oh no, not extra, 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:17.680 it's the episode so you can it's Eyes up Here, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.840 It's Monday. Let's get wild. If you didn't know by now, 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.279 my name is Chad. Sorry, there's a lawnmower. It's like 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.600 centimeters away from me here outside as blaming other things 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.640 when you mess up, keen to move on. So you're sorry, accepted, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.360 defeat and move on. If you didn't know by now, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.360 my name is Chad, and every single week I'm joined 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:41.280 here by the glitzy and glamorous Queen of extreme looking 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.800 very nice. Yes you are, of course, this is Francine. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.120 This is your show, Eyes up Here. Welcome, well, thank you. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:54.760 I'm glad to be here and uh yeah, happy to 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.880 be here. Happy. I'm not working for a major company 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.920 right now, That's all I say. Why not would you 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.960 fear for job security? Because you could literally be a 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.040 top star now and get released like kind of out 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.000 of the blue. We're starting hot today. This really, this 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:17.759 made me almost fall off my chair this week. These releases, now, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.160 some of them, I was just like, okay, I don't 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.479 watch the product. I'm familiar with most of the names 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.040 on this list. Right, I don't watch the products. I 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.160 don't really know what's going on, but I do know 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.560 that we talked about last week the promos that were 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.119 put out for the rest of house shows, and one 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.759 of the major players with these promos was braunz stroman 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.720 first guy in the problem to get these hands on 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.560 tour for the house shows. He's released. He's gone biggest, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.080 the biggest star I would say in this list, of course, yeah, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.200 oh yeah. Now you know, I was saying to my husband, 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.720 I was just like, where is the logic to this? 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.160 And you know, he turned around and he said, well, well, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.200 he was getting paid like a million dollars. I think 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.280 his contract was like a million or something like that, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.440 maybe more with merch added in or whatever. But he's 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.519 a draw, right, yeah, well presumably one of the only 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.919 ones that they have. So why on earth unless there's 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.080 something we don't know, why release the guy? I know 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.600 he's expensive, but if he's bringing in money, why release 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.200 some Two theories that are kind of banned about. I've 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.760 talked to some people who were kind of close to 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.240 the situation on the insiders on the talent booking end, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.200 of things. Uh huh. And my first question was it 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.560 had to be This is exactly what I thought it 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.560 had to be. His contract is due, he was gonna 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.840 want more money. They're cutting their losses. I was told 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:50.160 that's not the case. He just resigned about a year ago, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.040 so this was a complete It looks like wiping of 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.240 the contract off the books, which has been banned about 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.200 with this talk of a WWE sale we've been joking about. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.000 But when they wipe off a top guy who's making 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.440 seven figures, that's really like shocking because the money they 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.440 could have made off of him, that doubt is gone 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.120 and off the books. So do you think he was 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.320 blindsided or do you think he knew? I mean, I 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.440 feel like when this happens, everybody's on edge right because 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.639 nobody knows they can. I mean, they're pulling names out 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.760 of their ass, like the things you would never think 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.720 would happen. Or anybody is replaceable. I've said that so 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.040 many times. It doesn't matter if you're on top, if 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.119 you're scraping the bottom whatever. Do you think he had 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.200 a heads up? Yes? I think he did. He do 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:41.760 I think he was the only one on the list 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.360 who did because Alistair Black, who you know, didn't have 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.520 a top spot, but he was a very you know, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.160 I would say popular character who had been on and 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.960 off TV. Was just in a storyline they kicked off 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.520 for the Intercontinental title on SmackDown two fridays ago. Yeah, vignettes, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.720 building it up for six months and gone. He said 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.600 he was blindsided. Okay, Lana, I'm going to guess that 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.800 one was probably in the works for a while. Basically works. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.640 But did she know? Because now, again I don't watch, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.080 but I've read articles preparing for this day. Hear and 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:23.560 Naomi new tag team, new outfits, the whole nine yards, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.360 you know, fighting for the belts and stuff. And now 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.800 she's gone. Now do you think that has something to 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.640 do with her husband being in aaw? Yes, you did. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.440 That's been the case for a while. I think that 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.720 they were just looking for the right time to let 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.880 that contract go. Now, again, when were they do That's 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.560 the first thing I look at. When where they do 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.680 or were they like Braun, do they resign a year 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.680 ago for X amount of years? I think the thing 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.000 with russev Ormiro, I think that that was like kind 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.920 of after he was gone, they buried her on TV oh, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.760 she was going through a table in the week the 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.279 poor girl buried her And I think that that built too. Now, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.640 it might have just been they realized they didn't release 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.159 her before. That's what man. You know, You give, you give, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.279 you give, you do whatever you're told to do, you know. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.479 And I would assume she was just keeping her mouth 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.760 shut and not complaining about it because obviously, you know, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.840 she she knew with her husband being gone there might 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.359 be a little heat there. Yeah, And so you do 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.040 what you're told to do and then you get released. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.440 It's like, ugh, come on, do they do they have 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.440 an ounce of remorse for this day? Do they care? 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.640 I don't think they care. Oh man, I really don't 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:40.159 think they care. Again, I'm sorry for Braun. I really 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.640 think that it's probably the most shocking release that they 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.719 have had since probably Kurt Angle, and that was like 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.360 fifteen years ago. But Kurt Angle was at least because 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.680 there was reasons they had substance abuse issues that they 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.760 were not wanting basically anything to happen on their watch. Sure, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.200 that was probably the most shocking release, and that was 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.000 fifteen years ago. So that's that's a biggie, you know, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.320 And you know, he's going to AW. I mean, come on, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.480 I mean they'd scoop him up in eight second. Well, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:12.280 Mark Henry's showing up was a nice little surprise that 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.039 there's a guy that was an advocate for WWE forever 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.480 and you know now he's he's on a different program, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.400 and it's kind of like, you know, uh, where's your loyalty? 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.160 I'm reading and we're has nothing to do with Look, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.600 you can carry your family. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, uh, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.120 there are those who believe that if the rumors of 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.880 the sale are true, a guy like Mark Henry is 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.160 going to be told, hey, we're not going to use you. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.599 Go someplace else if you can. And that's why it's 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.560 so shocking that they just put him in the Hall 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.080 of Fame. He's on TV all the time as an 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.280 ambassador and it's like, hey, buddy, you know what, so 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.400 you know you might want to go explore someplace else. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.840 But now, just a sidebar, we know aw's got a 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.760 lot of money, right, I gotta be I think they 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.400 look silly spending all the money they have on Mark 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.320 Henry and the Big Show when now they're going to 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.320 have seven young, good talents to bring under their roster. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.760 Where are they getting all this cash from? Well, we 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.640 don't maybe it's an unlimited bank account. We don't know 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.680 what they what Tony Kahan has in his pockets. He 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.040 might have enough for everyone. He might. But but you 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.880 know what I'm saying, it's like, it's it's weird that 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.120 you would bring them in so high profile. These you know, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.400 these agents or announcers or whatever he's doing with them, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.120 and now you've got legit talent. Because Bron's gonna want 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.680 some money. He's not gonna just take five hundred grand 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.840 to come in. He's gonna be seven figures plus. Here 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.320 here's my thing, And I could be one hundred percent wrong, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.080 but this is what This is the way that I 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.160 would handle myself if I was in that position. So, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.600 if I was in WWE and I was making a 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:54.760 decent living, what was miserable? Okay, my contract was coming 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.160 up and they released me, right, or my contract was 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.520 coming up and they ask me to resign and I'm unhappy. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.040 I would gladly take a pay cut to go to 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.720 a company that I felt comfortable in, that would use 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.200 me correctly, that you know I had friends and that 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.040 I know would would be good to me. I would 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.840 be okay with a pay cut. Now, I want to 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.680 go for like a poverty each check, like for next 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.560 to nothing. But I'm one of those people. I've said 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.520 it before. I stayed in ECW. The pay was nowhere 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.960 near with the other two promotions were offering at the time. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.480 But I loved it there. I was comfortable there. I 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.760 was the big fish in the small pond, so to speak. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.240 That was my home and that's where I would have 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:46.960 been forever. I would have never left. So money sometimes 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.760 isn't everything to certain people, especially to the guys who 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.840 have managed their money correctly and saved a lot of it. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:00.200 You know, now you're older, your body hurts. You know, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.760 you're looking for a lighter schedule, which AW does have 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.240 a lighter schedule right now. Maybe a pay cut isn't 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.840 such a bad idea, you know, of a pay cut, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.760 is it when you factor in all the well, that's 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.520 what I'm saying, Like, you're not going to go in 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.959 for next to nothing, but if you could still provide 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.760 for your family, have a lighter schedule, be used properly, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.640 and be happy. Yeah, give it to me. I would 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.120 definitely take that over making a million dollars and being miserable, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.600 right because now you got your cameo back, now you 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.520 got your house, you have everything. You can do whatever 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.080 you want, and you can make that money that you're 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.960 losing on the side however you want, because they're not 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.280 limiting you to anything right now, exactly whereas they just 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.600 did they cut everybody from those third party social media 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.200 you know, money makers. Everybody is miserable, free advice. Look 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.920 at that from a vet. This is great for me. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.480 For me personally, I want to be happy, especially in 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.160 my older age. You know what I mean, Like, who 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.800 wants bullshit? Who wants to be understressed? We have enough 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.040 stress in our life. You know, you don't want stress 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.800 at home and at work. You want to try to 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.240 lighten the load a little bit. So for me, I 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.839 would gladly leave and go somewhere else for less money, 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.720 but be happy. Be happy, let them hear my voice, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.840 use me correctly. I'd be all over that. So maybe 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.960 a guy like Braun takes this the way I do, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.320 and maybe he says, well, hey, you know, I'm only 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.960 on the road a couple of days every two weeks. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.679 Because that's what they're doing right now. They're you know, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.520 doing two weeks and then the next week is I 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.960 believe it's taped, so they're only on the road a 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.040 couple of days a week, and then the next week 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.480 they stay home. You have such an opportunity to do 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.600 whatever you want and make that money from your house 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.000 or do it appearances, or spend the time with your family, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.000 take some time off, rest your body up. Yeah, so 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.079 there's there. There are so many other options out there 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.600 besides ww oh, you're you're right, You're right. And that's 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.160 funny because ten years ago those options were out there too, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.120 but they were a lot smaller. There wasn't that opportunity 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.000 to make this exorbitant amount of money. Fact that you're 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.200 losing and now you know, you know, with how some 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.680 of the you put the effort into your cameos. There's 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.640 guys who lay on their bed and do them. I 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.080 like braun Strom can sit on a toilet and and 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.240 you know, handover fist money and cameo yeah, and it's 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.080 it's your right now. There have been guys that have 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.920 gone to AW for less, and that's well documented. The 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.600 Revival said that they were taking a pay cut to 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.840 go to uh AW and I'm sure that they're much happier. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.800 I'm sure they are less stress in their life. I mean, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.800 that's to me that mental health is so important, you 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:58.160 know what I mean, Like especially now. Yeah, Like I 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.559 can't even tell you the stress that I was under 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.280 the short time that I worked there. I was worried 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:11.240 about everything, everything, and and it was like, you know, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.959 I dreaded going to work. It was not a fun experience. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.000 I was simply there for the paycheck because it was 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.120 It wasn't something that I looked forward to. Whereas ECW, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.160 I didn't mind to get on a six am flight. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.959 I couldn't wait till the weekend. Like I was packed 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.840 two days before and ready to go and out the door. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.720 It was just it's a different for me. It was 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.760 just apples and oranges. It was a different atmosphere. And 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.440 if you cannot enjoy what you're doing, then you need 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.600 to change your profession. And I know that's not that 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.920 easy for a lot of people, but mentally it will 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.920 break you down. So right now is the happiest, you know, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.480 besides ECW obviously, but this is the happiest I've ever been, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.480 and it's because I'm doing what I want to do. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.880 When I want to do it. And these people who 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.800 are leaving are leaving that controlled environment and coming over 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:11.439 hopefully to you know, a lesser of the two evils, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.920 let's say, where they have a little more freedom, they 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.960 could do what they want. So unbelievable. Now, just on 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.440 the revival, Jim Cornett feels they ruined their careers going 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.160 to aw because they're doing a lot of the comedy stuff. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.920 They're not doing the serious wrestling that they were portraying 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.480 themselves to be, so they took less money to be happy. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.680 But Jim Cornett fields, they're losing their credibility. Are the 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.160 fans into it? If the fans are into what they're doing, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.400 I mean, who cares. Well, you're a fan of the Gaga. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:48.160 This past they had Gaga Mania with this last pay 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.920 per view, they did another one of those stadium matches 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.679 that they did last year. And it's just comedy, right, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.880 It's not good comedy. It's comedy. But you'll probably pop 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.559 at it. You'll probably it's something that again, fan of 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.920 the Gaga, you'll like, here's the thing. We know they 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.520 can work, we know they can wrestle. We've seen both 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.160 sides of them, so a little Gaga never heard anyone. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.640 They could always come back and get pissed off and 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.960 do a straight match. I mean, it's not like they're 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.920 locked into the comedy thing forever. It just shows that 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.080 they have ranged sides. Yeah, there's different sides to them. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.760 I go like this, what if I start standing like this? 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.040 Hold on, what if I start staying like this? When 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.280 I talk to you? You look like a bouncer, right 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.320 a little. I wish I didn't have to push them up, 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.200 But you know, my perfectly rated shirt. The Tony Kahan 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.560 promos promoting a lot of stuff. Have you seen these, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.320 like maybe one or two. There's a picture going around 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.160 where's he's got He's pushing his arms up like this, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.840 but it's backstage at it took four days of shoots 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.480 to film this match. Okay. There's a picture of Tony Kahn, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.640 Jericho and JF who are competing and the coach of 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.400 the Jacksonville Jaguars where they film the piece in his 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.040 office and they're all standing watching a monitor and this 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.360 picture is released. That's the kind of stuff where the 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.560 Gaga people lose it because it's like it's so coordinated. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.000 It's like you're watching a movie now and are you 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.200 watching the resident You're watching a movie. It's one of 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.120 those things where you can appreciate the laugh, but I 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.760 think in terms of the wrestling fan it loses people. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.200 I just feel like you have to listen to what 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.480 the fans say. Right. If the fans are giving them 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.680 positive input and then numbers are up, you're doing something correct. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.480 It's not for everyone. Listen. You can sit down and 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.760 watch a show one week and you can absolutely love it, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.800 and then you can watch the same show the next 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.320 week and despise it. It comes down to the writers 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.680 and what they make the talent do, right. I feel 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:00.160 like Gaga's okay. It shouldn't be in every single match obviously. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.960 There shouldn't be a million promos where everybody's talking. There 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.120 shouldn't be eighty seven factions where everybody comes out with 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:14.440 five people in a group. You know, that's my personal preference, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.960 but if the demographic likes what they're saying and it's working, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.120 they're gonna run with it. So you know, you got 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.760 to pay attention to what the fans want. And WWA 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.720 always talks about WWA universe and dah dah da da da, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.680 and it just seems to me, like everything I read 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.520 is mostly negative. Yeah, it's the universe. Everybody's sitting on it. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:41.840 I don't understand if they're so gun ho about listening 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.480 to the WWA universe, why isn't there a change? You know, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.520 they're stuck somewhere. They're just stuck in this universe that 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.960 nobody cares about. I'll tell you. I'll tell you one 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.000 thing that wasn't release that is rumored about, and this 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.360 is another reason why they might be selling. Apparently Shane 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.960 McMahon is gone again from the company, and he's my 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.720 favorite mcman and he seems to be the first one 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.640 who when the going gets tough, he's gone. He's my favorite. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.320 Did he go back to? Like where was he, like 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.800 China or something building China away from China? It was 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.840 either Japan or China. He was he built the pay 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:24.520 per view structure for the country, like whatever the main paper. Yeah, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.639 I mean, if anybody knows pay per view, it's the 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.640 McMahon's and he's apparently gone, but that has not been 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.680 released to the public. So well, you heard it here first, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.840 ladies and gentlemen. I hope I'm not talking out of school. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.680 And then I hear I hear a lot of stuff 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.480 during the week, and sometimes I don't remember if I 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.000 was supposed to keep it in or keep it out. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.959 The views expressed right now when eyes up here are 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.200 from the Chadster and not Francine. Now, before we get 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.920 into some questions, we're gonna do some ask Francine almost 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.440 anything here, and I have all the questions now, which 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.040 I like. I want to ask you about the friends 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.960 reunion in a minute, but I just want to mention first. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.560 They talk about you're so happy doing everything that you're doing, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.240 you know, and most fun you've had since ECW. Yeah, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.919 I can tell you a person who attended the Square 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.679 Circle expo was very happy to see the crowd you 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.359 had gathered and how you were busy the whole time 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.159 and they could barely come over and say hi to 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.040 you because you were so busy. And then they said, 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.080 that's because she is and this is a quote she 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.960 is e c W. Oh, Well, I don't can you 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.199 say who said it so I can thank them. It 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.000 was a big vampiric friend of mine's very menacing and 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.080 he could used to have like fangs in his mouth. Yeah, 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.720 I love you, Kevin, Thank you so good. To see you. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.359 I'm making a note remind me to tell you something later. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.480 I'm writing because I know I'm writing it down. I'm 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.879 writing it down. It felt so good, uh, you know, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.000 to see Kevin, obviously, but to see the fans. I love. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.200 Like I said, I love being at home, but when 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.440 I do have to go out and do these shows, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.040 I just love meeting everyone's It's genuine and it's real 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.840 for me, and it just makes me so happy that 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.199 people still care about me and care about ECW. So 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.120 I appreciate everyone who comes over to say hi. So 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.600 thank you Kevin for those nice words. I think I 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.680 made up the word vampiric. Just oh that sounded pretty, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.239 I know, I like. I think I might have made 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.000 it up. All right, So the Friends reunion it was 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:38.720 last Friday, I think, right. I was super excited about it, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.240 Like when I saw the trailer, I was super duper excited. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.400 Shelley Martinez posted something and tagged me in it. That's 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:52.400 how I found out about it, and I had goosebumps 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.240 and cried almost through the whole thing. How much of 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.520 a nerd am I? It was that good to me. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.879 You're if you're a fan, you're not. It's not nerdy, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.000 it's if you're a fan, you're passionate. I was a 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.520 huge fan of Friends. I loved, loved, loved to show. 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.320 I remember crying like a baby when Monica proposed to Chandler. 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.760 There are just certain things that are in my head 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:21.240 that I could relate with, you know, being a twenty 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.320 something year old or however old. I don't even know 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.879 what year it was, but I think it was well done. 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.600 I think, like they said, there were a lot of 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.000 people that they wanted to have on the show because 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:37.119 they only had a handful of, you know, people come back. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.719 Besides the six regular there were some people that were missed, 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:47.280 but overall, just seeing them all together. And the best 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.719 part of the whole reunion that I did not know 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:55.160 about was that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer liked each 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.320 other but never never crossed the line. Interesting and they 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.480 had they had footage of them flirting, like when they 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.119 when the scene stopped and they were just waiting for 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.560 the next scene. And I love that. I told you, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.960 I love that. Backstage Yeah, taboo stuff that you're not 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.280 supposed to see, and they showed it. And they were 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:17.240 so young, so cute with the flirting, Like my heart 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.360 was just like I wanted them to get married when 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.760 I watched the show, and now knowing that they really 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.280 liked each other and they never acted on it, I 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.080 was like, man, she could have avoided two bad marriages 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:30.680 and been with David Schwimmer and maybe they would have 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.600 been together forever. But that's got to be so tough 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.280 to be in a situation like that where you have 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.880 to be in love with the person on television, have 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.200 an attraction to them off screen, and the only time 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.399 you can get it on is just the kissing on this. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:50.040 You know, it happens with a lot of people chat. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.040 I wasn't. I wasn't specifically stating. I was just saying 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.439 it in terms of this sitcom, we're talking about other world. 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:00.600 I can relate it. That's all I'm gonna say. But yeah, 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.719 it was good. It was very very well done, very cute, 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.920 and I enjoyed it. And if you're a Friends fan, 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.440 you need to watch it. It was a lot of fun. 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.720 Those are questions I have never asked you in our 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.800 two years of being together on the air of anything 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.520 having to do with your personal life and relationships. I've 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.960 never asked you about that. I'm saving that for our 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:26.040 car ride in August. So okay, I'm just kidding. I'm 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.119 joking our car ride and use it as an extra. 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.200 That would be pretty funny. Parts of it, do that? 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.959 Parts of it? Parts of well, you have the opportunity 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:37.480 to edit, so yes, I do. That's very true. I 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.800 did just about your friends. I did. I caught some 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:41.679