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Speaker 1: your intro. We have so many things to discuss with you, Renee.
Speaker 1: I have known you for how many years? A lot
Speaker 1: of years? What I want? A lot of years. That's
Speaker 1: a really great way to summarize our relationship. You are
Speaker 1: You no longer live in Las Vegas. You moved to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Your mom. You are a you wrote a cookbook. I
Speaker 1: can't even cook. You are a television host, you're a presenter,
Speaker 1: you're a TV personnel. All the things. We don't have
Speaker 1: time for the intro. But you're amazing. You've always been
Speaker 1: one of those women in this industry that have been
Speaker 1: so supportive of other women, as Aaron and I can
Speaker 1: attest to that, not everyone is like that, so we
Speaker 1: are thrilled to have you on here. And also, it
Speaker 1: is hard to get Colin Coward to love anyone because
Speaker 1: he's very opinionated on things. As we know, Colin Coward
Speaker 1: is obsessed with you. You can listen to her podcast
Speaker 1: on the volume as well, but there's a myriad of
Speaker 1: things that you do, but calling Cowards endorsement, I think
Speaker 1: is number one on that list. I'll take it because
Speaker 1: Colin is um not always the easiest guy to read
Speaker 1: him like, does he like me? Are we best friends?
Speaker 1: I'm trying, you know. I always try to work on it,
Speaker 1: and it's from a distance because I don't get to
Speaker 1: see him in person that often. I do my podcast
Speaker 1: from right here, so I don't get to hang out
Speaker 1: with Colin and get to rub elbows with him all
Speaker 1: that often. But when I do, I'm really trying to,
Speaker 1: like work in the nook and crannies. As Aaron can
Speaker 1: attest to, he cornered me in the hallway at Fox
Speaker 1: and was like, I'm obsessed with Renee. I love Renee.
Speaker 1: She's amazing. Do you know how many Instagram followers she has?
Speaker 1: I was like, Colin, you're on Instagram and selfie videos
Speaker 1: and we all know, but yes, when he's smoking his
Speaker 1: cigar and it's like that awkward angle up the nose, Colin,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I needed to like be introduced to
Speaker 1: all your follicles in your nose here, Renee, what's something
Speaker 1: about Colin Cowherd that people love him, hate him, don't
Speaker 1: know about him? You know what? I would actually say
Speaker 1: his generosity. So as much as like we've not got
Speaker 1: to spend like that much time together in person, I've
Speaker 1: honestly not really had many people through my career that
Speaker 1: I felt like really bestowed some wisdom. This man knows
Speaker 1: how to drop some knowledge, and I feel like anytime
Speaker 1: we've got to hang out, just like his perspective. Mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he's been so successful through his own career, but
Speaker 1: even talking to him about women in this game, I
Speaker 1: mean from him being able to work with you Carissa,
Speaker 1: working with Beetle, working with Joy Taylor, he has worked
Speaker 1: with so many amazing women, and it feels like he's
Speaker 1: really championed a lot of them throughout their careers. I
Speaker 1: think he has a great eye for the talent that
Speaker 1: he wants to work with. UM. So yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: it's were so like like that being able to have
Speaker 1: someone I'm like, oh, I think I can like really
Speaker 1: learn something from the things that obviously, I mean, God,
Speaker 1: you look at the man's career and what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do, but not everyone's always like willing to
Speaker 1: like shell out that information or like want to hang
Speaker 1: out and like really get into some of those things.
Speaker 1: So I've always really appreciated that from the times that
Speaker 1: we've got to spend together. He is rich rich, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, isn't he? How do I get a little
Speaker 1: bit of that? That's the you know, the business part
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Renee, he's always advocated. I remember
Speaker 1: when living in Connecticut and he's like, I own part
Speaker 1: of this wine store and I'm an investor in this
Speaker 1: jerky turkey burn whatever the hell he does. It's like
Speaker 1: what's going but it is. And so you're a woman
Speaker 1: who does a lot of different things. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: I just mentioned the cookbook. I can't cook. It's not
Speaker 1: my thing either, or age, which I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear all about this from you. Yes, exactly. So you're
Speaker 1: messing in the kitchen. Is cooking something that you've always done?
Speaker 1: Is that? Where does that background come from? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've always just love cooking. I love being
Speaker 1: in the kitchen. I'm sure. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 1: guys can't attest this if you don't want to be
Speaker 1: in the kitchen. But when you're on the road that
Speaker 1: often you're ordering up the club so much and like
Speaker 1: the caesar salad, whatever you're getting from the room service.
Speaker 1: Both Jesus, that's a cornucopia fruit over there. Killing for
Speaker 1: rash see if Vegas they serve some good things up
Speaker 1: every now and then. Um. But for me, it was
Speaker 1: like I feel like I really delved into it more
Speaker 1: through my time with w W E. I finally get
Speaker 1: home and I'm like, oh my god, I'm like in
Speaker 1: my own kitchen. I can cook my own food. Like
Speaker 1: I love going to the grocery store. It's like one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things to do. I love a little
Speaker 1: I'll perusing. But it's funny because like often when we
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, my husband and I go
Speaker 1: together and I'm like, oh my god, this guy like
Speaker 1: he takes off when we get in there, and then
Speaker 1: we are going like if he goes to get the
Speaker 1: deli meats, he goes to get the bread, he's in
Speaker 1: the ice cream. He's big into ice cream right now.
Speaker 1: So we like stup all right, but he's like, he
Speaker 1: wants to just get it done. He wants to be
Speaker 1: in and out where. I'm like, no, I want to like,
Speaker 1: I want to take my time. I want to see
Speaker 1: what other sites, like spices, Marinades, what's going on, like
Speaker 1: the fish counter. I love spending my time there. Aaron,
Speaker 1: you hate it? Why do you hate it? It's like
Speaker 1: home deep out to me. I'm nervous. I don't know
Speaker 1: where things are. But see that's because I am now
Speaker 1: trying to start and Chris is doing this too. We're
Speaker 1: trying to get better at things we kind of aren't
Speaker 1: that great at so, you know, being domestic, making meals
Speaker 1: so forth. So I like, I'm a NoteTaker. I was
Speaker 1: gonna write what are some Things? And I'm excited to
Speaker 1: read the book. I'm gonna read it on the way
Speaker 1: home tonight from Vegas. What are some things that girls
Speaker 1: like Chris and I who aren't home very often but
Speaker 1: want to start improving and be healthy and eat well
Speaker 1: and make great stuff that you need to start getting
Speaker 1: at the grocery store. What are our go toos? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I will preface this by saying my cookbooks definitely
Speaker 1: not like super healthy. I like to cook like the
Speaker 1: bad stuff, not like bad stuff, bad stuff, but like
Speaker 1: I want the pastas. Like my favorite thing with cooking
Speaker 1: is like I want to pour a glass of wine,
Speaker 1: I want to put on some music, and I want
Speaker 1: to spend some time in there, which honestly, in the
Speaker 1: last year, so my baby just turned a year and
Speaker 1: I've been like, Laura, baby, Nora sweet. Where's her name
Speaker 1: derived from? My grandmother was Eleanor. We went, we went
Speaker 1: Nora from from Eleanor. Yeah, she's just she's delicious. But
Speaker 1: I feel like, like you know, eating has been more
Speaker 1: of like, alright, necessities. Not only do I need to
Speaker 1: like get my life together and like try to attempt
Speaker 1: to get my body backed in shape. So it's just
Speaker 1: been like kind by the way, you posted that picture,
Speaker 1: and this is one of many reasons I love you.
Speaker 1: The self deprecation is amazing. You're like the shorts are
Speaker 1: working hard, like you must have been like having that
Speaker 1: Noura like the next second, right, I was like a
Speaker 1: house huge. Did you like being pregnant? Were you one
Speaker 1: of those women's like, yeah, I was annoying. Did you
Speaker 1: think you would go into it? Did you think you would?
Speaker 1: I did think that I would like It's so I
Speaker 1: was basing this off of and everyone kind of says,
Speaker 1: is that your pregnancy is a lot like what your
Speaker 1: mom's was, And my mom had like pretty easy pregnancy.
Speaker 1: So I got into it, and like, I know, I
Speaker 1: feel like annoying that I was that woman that like
Speaker 1: I felt great. I worked out the whole time, Like
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was like thriving. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I actually like miss being It's fun being huge for
Speaker 1: a little bit of just like your body fun right honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I will say though, I mean it took
Speaker 1: me a long time to get pregnant to it was
Speaker 1: like a whole ordeal where it took like it was
Speaker 1: like over a year where I kept, you know, your
Speaker 1: start like pye to try and that it's like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: what's happening here? Went to the fertility clinics. We're doing
Speaker 1: all the tests everything. I had the i v F
Speaker 1: at home and then I left my job and I
Speaker 1: got pregnant that month. It was crazy, crazy, crazy. So
Speaker 1: let's go back to that for a second. So when
Speaker 1: you made that shift and you made that decision to leave,
Speaker 1: let's go back even further for a second. I totally
Speaker 1: deviated off of what your original by the way, I
Speaker 1: think we give a ship. Yeah exactly. I was talking
Speaker 1: about ripping the hair follicles out of the back of
Speaker 1: my head because this rapunzeled mainsmen in here, and I
Speaker 1: can't believe I was talking about Collins follicles in his nose.
Speaker 1: So we're good, We're good. Okay. The know, the last
Speaker 1: time I saw your hair was super short, and I'm
Speaker 1: so fucking jealous of it. Airenatles. I literally started taking preenatals,
Speaker 1: and I was like that Barbie with like that crank
Speaker 1: arm where her hair just starts growing. Is nuts. I
Speaker 1: take prenatal vitamins and the hair on my chin grows.
Speaker 1: But now I get those two. I love a good chin. Wow,
Speaker 1: let's hear them all out. Okay, So let's go back
Speaker 1: for a second. So w w E how did you
Speaker 1: get into it? How did you get involved? You met
Speaker 1: your husband? There? I need the whole background and story
Speaker 1: for everyone that doesn't know the whole kitten caboodle. Um okay.
Speaker 1: So I was working in Toronto and I was working
Speaker 1: for a sports network there and I started working there
Speaker 1: because they had like a comedic take on sports, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's something I could maybe do.
Speaker 1: Like I was not that like behind the desk like
Speaker 1: sports center like I would die, I I just could.
Speaker 1: I would do none of job. Yeah, yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: get it. I would do a really bad job at that. Um.
Speaker 1: So I was doing that and then my boss at
Speaker 1: the time was like, hey, they had the rights to
Speaker 1: w W in Canada and they're like, hey, do you
Speaker 1: want to host this after show for Ron. I was
Speaker 1: like yeah sure. So instantly I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what do I need to know about wrestling? Like I
Speaker 1: was gonna say saying, I mean I knew for like
Speaker 1: a little bit from when I was younger and watched it.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, oh god, I gotta like
Speaker 1: some and you guys know, I mean it's like like
Speaker 1: anything that like and base is so intense that like
Speaker 1: you cannot you cannot Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know dick
Speaker 1: about hockey and I was like reading literally hockey for
Speaker 1: Dummies because they'll pick up real quick if you know,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they sniffed you out real real quick. Um.
Speaker 1: So I was doing that show and it was great.
Speaker 1: I had such a good time, and that was like
Speaker 1: a great way for me to like dip my toe
Speaker 1: into that world. And then as my contract was coming
Speaker 1: to an end there in the whole company is being sold,
Speaker 1: all these things blah blah blah, I was like, I
Speaker 1: want to make my jump down to the US. I
Speaker 1: want to figure out what I'm gonna go do. So, um,
Speaker 1: this is where we kind of come into play. Because
Speaker 1: I had come into audition for UM for Sports Nation
Speaker 1: and I loved it, had a great time. I thought,
Speaker 1: for sure, that's the thing that's gonna be it. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm headed. And then that at the end of
Speaker 1: that week, w w E brought me in for an
Speaker 1: audition and I bombed it. It was not good. It
Speaker 1: was a full day. So I get there and like
Speaker 1: you know, you're like meeting all like the producers, meeting
Speaker 1: the executives, blah blah blah, like walking through the buildings
Speaker 1: figuring everything out. So they had me do like, you know,
Speaker 1: like a post show style kind of thing that was fine.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this is my wheelhouse. I can
Speaker 1: do this. They had me jump in and do commentary
Speaker 1: and I was like what like so over my head,
Speaker 1: not a clue what I was doing, Like blessings to
Speaker 1: the man that was in the booth with me trying
Speaker 1: to do it, He's probably like, get this chick out
Speaker 1: of here. Um. Then they like gave me like uh,
Speaker 1: like a battery charger or something, and they're like sell
Speaker 1: this to me, and I like, I haven't, Like what
Speaker 1: are you doing? It was like full on like boot camp,
Speaker 1: sink or swim. So I honestly didn't really think I
Speaker 1: did a great job. And I was like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I don't know. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: go do this thing at ESPN anyways. Um, and then
Speaker 1: Chris A. Thompson enters the picture and then they gave
Speaker 1: it to me by default. Numbers never Lie got canceled
Speaker 1: and they're like this, but just got a year left
Speaker 1: on her contract, so we gotta put her somewhere. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, no, I remember like being at home. I've
Speaker 1: told this story before and like on my show and
Speaker 1: maybe some other places but I was like at home
Speaker 1: being like cool, I'm gonna go do this other thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to ESPN and blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: it was like the episode that Michelle Beatle was leaving,
Speaker 1: they shoot her out the can and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a nice little send up. And then this car
Speaker 1: pulls up and these like heels pop out, and like, wait,
Speaker 1: who's this, what's happening? What's going on again? By default, listen,
Speaker 1: you're so fantastic at everything you do, Like, God, you're
Speaker 1: so you were so great on that show and you're
Speaker 1: so amazing and all the things that you do. But
Speaker 1: it was that moment that I was like, oh my gosh, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's not happening. And then w W the contract
Speaker 1: came through with them and I was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go and do that. Let's go. And I had
Speaker 1: no idea what I was gonna do. They're not a clue.
Speaker 1: I was like, am I doing the show like I
Speaker 1: was doing in Toronto? Am I gonna be doing like
Speaker 1: a studio show? What am I going to be doing? Um?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, I mean I ended up doing a
Speaker 1: million things there. I started off hosting this show Vintage Collection,
Speaker 1: which was like all old wool wrestling that I was
Speaker 1: hosting with me gane Oakerland, who's just like an absolute
Speaker 1: class act, best man ever. Loved him. And then I
Speaker 1: end up going on the road doing backstage interviews was
Speaker 1: kind of the thing I started dipping my toe into,
Speaker 1: then hosting panel shows for for all the pay per views,
Speaker 1: joining Total Divas, doing a reality show we need to
Speaker 1: that's where Aaron insert erin there. Well, no, that's when
Speaker 1: I started hearing about you because I would get your
Speaker 1: name tagged onto my name at Twitter like she's the
Speaker 1: wrestling Aaron and and I was like, what's going on,
Speaker 1: what's happening? I was like, am I screwing up something here?
Speaker 1: So that I kept seeing your name everywhere? And I
Speaker 1: was like, is this bitch talking about me? Like what's
Speaker 1: going on? And you weren't, but it was like everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's the wrestling version. So I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: see you. So Total Divas so funny. So we get
Speaker 1: brought in to do Total Divas, which was like great,
Speaker 1: but it was also a little weird or like awkward,
Speaker 1: I guess for me because I was the only girl
Speaker 1: on there that wasn't a wrestler, So I'm like, what
Speaker 1: am I? Like, what am I bringing to the table?
Speaker 1: What are your trying to bring everywhever? Trying to bring
Speaker 1: the party? And then so my husband, now we were
Speaker 1: dating at the time, but we were doing the show.
Speaker 1: We were on it together, and it was just like weird.
Speaker 1: So my husband's wrestling character, especially at the time, was
Speaker 1: like this like crazy lunatic. So that was sort of
Speaker 1: the essence on the show where he's still this like wacky,
Speaker 1: crazy guy and I'm like, why is he so crazy
Speaker 1: all the time? So it was like this weird dynamic
Speaker 1: that's like not actually what our dynamic is. But it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. I mean, should you just
Speaker 1: get to like hang out with your friends and keep
Speaker 1: the champagne flowing you go on these trips. The only
Speaker 1: thing that like that I had really a hard time
Speaker 1: with was just being miked up all the time, having
Speaker 1: a mic pack on you all day long, and you're
Speaker 1: like on on vacation in a bathing you just put
Speaker 1: this on your bikini and it's like segging your pants down.
Speaker 1: It's like that, did you guys have a clause in
Speaker 1: your contract? Because we did when I danced on Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars, it was kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1: You were a mic pack all day, so if you're
Speaker 1: hooking up, you're fighting, if you're cussing out the producers,
Speaker 1: it's on tape. But we had it in the contract.
Speaker 1: As soon as I'm in the potty, the mic pack
Speaker 1: is allowed to be off, So that's where Maxim and
Speaker 1: I would fight or like bitch about the show, being like,
Speaker 1: of course she's gonna win it, right, Like, that's not
Speaker 1: going to bathroom, So yeah, could you take it off
Speaker 1: in the potty or no? Um? Yeah, I don't really
Speaker 1: remember there being any like you can do X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z like. It was a little more like loose
Speaker 1: in terms of that, because there are be times that
Speaker 1: we'd be shooting and then near the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like as the camera start like pulling out, pulling out,
Speaker 1: pulling out, we're like at dinner or shooting the ship
Speaker 1: and whatever. Am I allowed to swear on here? By
Speaker 1: the way? Right? Um calmed down and calmed down, everybody calmed.
Speaker 1: Can you not swear on the volume? Are you guys
Speaker 1: classy over there? No? I swear probably too much. I
Speaker 1: think it actually freaks people out because they're so used
Speaker 1: to me not swearing on television. They're like, who is this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's actually we're trying to work on. It's
Speaker 1: a tough one to break. I also feel like kind
Speaker 1: of boring when I'm just not swearing as much. I like,
Speaker 1: just by my sentences a bit had a little flair.
Speaker 1: He's going to go into one of our segments we're
Speaker 1: gonna have with you about Canadian or is it just
Speaker 1: Jared about swearing? Don't worry, how is being married to
Speaker 1: a Canadian? What's like the other side. They won't get
Speaker 1: to that. I mean, that's gonna be part of our
Speaker 1: segment Canadian or just Jared. So I can't wait. Give
Speaker 1: me the one thing. So you started in the industry
Speaker 1: at what age? Um? I mean I started like auditioning
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, like around eighteen nineteen. But then
Speaker 1: I was like brought Like I had my first broadcasting
Speaker 1: on national television job at twenty three. So I think
Speaker 1: it's awesome to, you know, when like younger girls or
Speaker 1: guys or whatever ask advice. Um on, you know, if
Speaker 1: you could go back and tell your younger self something.
Speaker 1: I also think it's important to continue to solicit advice
Speaker 1: from people that I respect in the industry. Give yourself
Speaker 1: advice if you go back in time the eighteen year
Speaker 1: old you or the twenty three year old you that
Speaker 1: you now know that you didn't know, then I would say,
Speaker 1: be selective who you take advice from, because everybody wants
Speaker 1: to dole. Not everybody wants to dole advice, but a
Speaker 1: lot of times, a lot of people can get in
Speaker 1: your ears and it doesn't mean that that person has
Speaker 1: the key to the castle. It doesn't mean that they
Speaker 1: know what is right and what's wrong. I remember early
Speaker 1: on in my career actually when I started doing the
Speaker 1: show in Canada about wrestling, and one of the guys
Speaker 1: and one of the executive producers at um ts N,
Speaker 1: which is like the bigger sports station in Canada, was like,
Speaker 1: don't do wrestling. No one's going to take you seriously.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't really want to be
Speaker 1: taken seriously, Like that's not what I'm trying to do anyway,
Speaker 1: So like, um, yeah, suck that. But yeah, I would
Speaker 1: just say, like, you know, find your people that you trust,
Speaker 1: that you want to be the source of people that
Speaker 1: you want to get information from. And of course listen
Speaker 1: to people and like, you know, take things with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. Not everybody always has the answer. There's
Speaker 1: no straight line of how you get somewhere, So stick
Speaker 1: to what you know and what you like. And I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really just getting in that experience too,
Speaker 1: and knowing what your voice is as a broadcast or
Speaker 1: who you want to be, and not letting somebody like
Speaker 1: really take the ring away from you on that. I
Speaker 1: love that. I want to know about your marriage and
Speaker 1: what you know before you jumped on, Chris and I
Speaker 1: were talking about just life, black sins. What makes it
Speaker 1: work you married somebody that's in your field, in your
Speaker 1: line of work. I you know, I'll be really candid.
Speaker 1: I you know that's frowned upon in my world and
Speaker 1: probably I don't know your world too, but I used
Speaker 1: to be so worried about it in my twenties, and
Speaker 1: I did. I dated athletes. I totally did, because we're
Speaker 1: you going to meet people for five to six days
Speaker 1: a week, and like, sorry, a normal Joe Schmo isn't
Speaker 1: going to understand my life going out here, going to bars.
Speaker 1: And I would keep it really on the d L
Speaker 1: about who I dated and yeah whatever, they were interested
Speaker 1: in the same thing. And then obviously I ended up
Speaker 1: marrying somebody in my line of work, not a sport
Speaker 1: I covered at the time, but you did, and and
Speaker 1: how is that and maybe fun stories from meeting going.
Speaker 1: So when John and I first started dating, we kept
Speaker 1: it under wraps for like a good six months before
Speaker 1: anyone like and it's like kind of hard. I mean
Speaker 1: we're always all together, we're on the road or at
Speaker 1: the hotels, we're in the arenas, like it is not
Speaker 1: easy to like really sweep that under the rug um.
Speaker 1: Did you have an o ship moment where somebody caught
Speaker 1: you and you had to like play it off, because
Speaker 1: I definitely did. In like a hotel, a lobby or
Speaker 1: something like that, Yes, I've had. Yeah, there's two to
Speaker 1: come to mind. There's one. So like there's always like
Speaker 1: the TV hotel that like most people stay in, but
Speaker 1: a lot of times wrestlers will stay and like the
Speaker 1: other they don't book their own flights, but they will
Speaker 1: often book their own hotels. So I went and stayed
Speaker 1: at the hotel John was at, and one of the
Speaker 1: other wrestlers was pulled up. He's like in his rental
Speaker 1: car and he's like, what are you doing here? And
Speaker 1: I was like, and I was so new at the
Speaker 1: time that I wasn't even like sure that I was like,
Speaker 1: oh do I handle this situation that I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just a hotel. They booked me this.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, okay, they sniffed me out so fast.
Speaker 1: But I also remember another time John't I have been
Speaker 1: together for a while at this point, but um one
Speaker 1: of it was JB L who's like legendary wrestler. His
Speaker 1: hotel room was right next to ours, and the next day, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was next to your guy, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I just start sweating, like sweating that I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I mean not even just on the like actually, but
Speaker 1: I was like, what were we saying? Talking about a
Speaker 1: panic mode? But you know that moment when you're staying
Speaker 1: in a obviously we all do. We're staying in a
Speaker 1: hotel with colleagues, and you're like, funk which room at
Speaker 1: the end, because it was I was talking too loud
Speaker 1: to my friend to whoever on the phone, like you
Speaker 1: got the worst I know, yeah, especially if you're like
Speaker 1: wine and you're like just here we go literally we'll
Speaker 1: tell someone the next day and not give a ship.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, I heard and gross or weird.
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like it's just because they'll call my
Speaker 1: ass out because obviously this voice travels um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So when John and I first started daying that, we
Speaker 1: did keep it to ourselves for quite a while, and
Speaker 1: then once the cat kind of got out of the
Speaker 1: bag and yeah, we've been together for a while, but John,
Speaker 1: So John really keeps to himself, like when he's he's
Speaker 1: like not the social butterfly. If you meet him, it's
Speaker 1: like he's Yeah, he just kind of does his own thing.
Speaker 1: So when he people started seeing him and I hanging
Speaker 1: around was weird to them because he talks to nobody,
Speaker 1: but him and I were always just like buddies. So yeah,
Speaker 1: people are like, something's going on here, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, what are you talking about? Oh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't talk to anybody kind of except for me.
Speaker 1: Uh So yeah, people people figured out probably quicker than
Speaker 1: we thought that they did. And then what's been your
Speaker 1: secret of staying together? Any please? I need them all?
Speaker 1: I think we know why listen. I will say I
Speaker 1: really looked out John is, um, he's so patient, and
Speaker 1: I can be a psychopath. Um. Yeah, like I am
Speaker 1: like constantly like at ten, where he is like so mellow,
Speaker 1: he's rational, he's not like that knee jerk reaction where
Speaker 1: I'm the opposite side of that. Um. So I really
Speaker 1: looked out that he's like so patient. Um. And I
Speaker 1: actually think it helps for us that we're in the
Speaker 1: same line of work, like wrestling such a weird world
Speaker 1: that like, if you don't get it, I'm sure for
Speaker 1: the people that are married to people that are outside
Speaker 1: the business, so many people in wrestling are married to
Speaker 1: people within the business, I'm sure when you're on the
Speaker 1: outside of it, it is nice to just like take
Speaker 1: a breather. But I find for us it's nice, like
Speaker 1: we understand. I understand the things that he's talking about.
Speaker 1: I get those ups, those downs, I know what that
Speaker 1: life on the road is. Like. I always felt bad
Speaker 1: for like people whose wives weren't on the road and
Speaker 1: didn't understand because I feel like you you often think
Speaker 1: that that life on the road is a lot cooler
Speaker 1: than it really is, and it's so glamorous and you're
Speaker 1: stacking around and it's so exactly Yeah, just getting by.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. I mean, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think what's good for me? And I think John knows
Speaker 1: this too. My husband knows my entire crew. I mean
Speaker 1: he was like really good friends with Joe and Troy.
Speaker 1: He knows all our guys behind the scenes. He knows
Speaker 1: the guys that I'm going to the bar with that
Speaker 1: are walking me up to the hotel room, and they
Speaker 1: know my nonsense, and he ever needed to call them
Speaker 1: they Oh my god, has there ever been times like
Speaker 1: that too? Were like God, Yeah, I remember John coming
Speaker 1: in really late from because when we were with W
Speaker 1: W E and there's house show, so he would be
Speaker 1: doing like the live event shows. I'd be at the
Speaker 1: hotel waiting for him to get there before we go
Speaker 1: do raw the next day. Um yeah, I remember him
Speaker 1: be getting in late after me having a couple of
Speaker 1: cocktails down at the bar and just like, am I
Speaker 1: gonna answer the door where we're at? But he knows
Speaker 1: all those guys, and I mean he's honestly known. Most
Speaker 1: of the people that I was really tight with have
Speaker 1: known him even longer than I've known him. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like we're all just like a bunch of buddies
Speaker 1: hanging out. For all of you Renee Piquette fans, good news.
Speaker 1: There's so much to talk to her about that we're
Speaker 1: going to make this a two parter. We cannot condense
Speaker 1: this conversation into one episode, so tune in next week
Speaker 1: for part two with Renee Piquette. Calm Down with Aaron
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