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Speaker 1: listening to another all new episode of Iz up Here,
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Speaker 1: my name is Chad, and every single week we never
Speaker 1: missed a beat technically, but it's been a while since
Speaker 1: I've seen the person. And sitting to my right, you
Speaker 1: know her as the Queen of Extreme It is the
Speaker 1: hostess of this show, the one and only Francy. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to come back. No offense to you, Chad,
Speaker 1: but I just didn't want to return. It's snowing here
Speaker 1: today and I was leaving sunny Florida to come back
Speaker 1: to a not a storm, but it's snow and it's
Speaker 1: nasty out. Lucky you, huh? You now to be fair,
Speaker 1: to be fair, this is a receipt because you left
Speaker 1: and got out of Dodge and missed a blizzard. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's rewind. I leave fifty well seventeen days ago now,
Speaker 1: I think right, because we got back this Friday, late Friday.
Speaker 1: When I left, there was a blizzard. Right now. My
Speaker 1: in laws live in Illinois, and they got over like
Speaker 1: a foot of snow. They're texting us and showing us pictures,
Speaker 1: and we're like, we're out of Florida, see you later.
Speaker 1: We're yeah, sorry, where we were. We got like eight
Speaker 1: or nine inches. I think there was a lot of
Speaker 1: snow here. Get to Florida. It's forty nine degrees. No,
Speaker 1: it was not Brett. It was so funny. It was
Speaker 1: not funny. I was pissed off. I had brought, like
Speaker 1: I always bring hoodies or like a sweat jacket because
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's cooler at night, you know. I
Speaker 1: brought like a heavier jacket and a sweat jacket. So
Speaker 1: I had the kids in their two jackets, and I
Speaker 1: had on a hoodie with another zip hop and my
Speaker 1: husband just does this same thing. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what he doesn't. But we landed and I was just like,
Speaker 1: what is this crap? What is this weather? I'm pissed off.
Speaker 1: It's freezing here. It was. It was it was so
Speaker 1: cold for Florida. And I did I say forty nine,
Speaker 1: It might have been thirty nine. It might have been
Speaker 1: thirty nine. It was really cold. And they were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it's our cold front that's coming through, and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: you picked the wrong week to come down here, and
Speaker 1: I was just like I was walking. Yeah. But like
Speaker 1: the first day when we got there, it was just
Speaker 1: a check in day. We didn't have any plans and
Speaker 1: we literally just like checked in. I unpacked everything. We
Speaker 1: went to dinner at the hotel and Easy Breezy. There
Speaker 1: was a public like five minutes down the street, so
Speaker 1: like Hubbs walked over there got us because we had
Speaker 1: we literally had a full kitchen, a full dining room.
Speaker 1: We stayed at the same place. I said, I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to Oh that's right, you said that the last
Speaker 1: I did. But then they sent us this coupon and
Speaker 1: we were like, ooh, this is a good deal. But
Speaker 1: you know, two bathrooms, two bathrooms, so much space for
Speaker 1: the price. We were like, yeah, we'll just go there again.
Speaker 1: And then like the second day was like Disney Springs.
Speaker 1: It was a Disney Springs day and it was still chilly.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, all right, if this doesn't
Speaker 1: warm up, I'm really going to be pissed off, you know.
Speaker 1: But then as the week went on, like one day
Speaker 1: was like eighty seven and it was ungodly hot, and
Speaker 1: I said to myself, before I start to bitch about
Speaker 1: how hot it is, I remember a couple of days
Speaker 1: ago it was freezing, and I was pissed off when
Speaker 1: it was cold. So it literally it was between sixty
Speaker 1: five and seventy five ish, that was the norm. A
Speaker 1: couple days by a couple of days were really low,
Speaker 1: but it was perfect weather if you were going to
Speaker 1: the parks. Not too hot, you know, little light breeze.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think like one fun thing that that
Speaker 1: happened to us three times, which I never really thought
Speaker 1: would happen. They have cavalcies. They don't have the full
Speaker 1: parades right now, they have certain cavalcades. And there were
Speaker 1: like these two cavalcades. It was the princesses, and then
Speaker 1: it was like very rare characters. It was like Clara Belle, Aladdin,
Speaker 1: Mary Poppins, Max the Coven, a very rare, right, We
Speaker 1: three times. Now, I don't know how we did this.
Speaker 1: We didn't time it this way, but three times. Being
Speaker 1: a magic kingdom, we ended up right behind the cavalcade
Speaker 1: and they let us walk in the pre It was
Speaker 1: and so like the guys are here, you know, the
Speaker 1: guys that tell you stay behind the line and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But we were right behind them and they
Speaker 1: didn't tell us to get out of the walkway. We
Speaker 1: followed the cavalcade and when you make that turn into
Speaker 1: the hub in front of the castle, everybody's there. And
Speaker 1: we were literally walking in this parade ed hello, waving yes,
Speaker 1: I'm in the parade. They picked my badly to be
Speaker 1: the hey who was that? Oh they were extras in
Speaker 1: uh you know, uh Robson's not once, not twice. Three
Speaker 1: times we did this and it was so cute and
Speaker 1: it was My kids got such a kick out of it,
Speaker 1: and it was it was like we were supposed to
Speaker 1: be in this parade. It was really really fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: we didn't walk the whole length. We we got out
Speaker 1: when we needed to go where we did. Did you
Speaker 1: start to channel your inner Francene and start to soak
Speaker 1: in the adulation of the crowd and my my daughter,
Speaker 1: she was hilarious. She goes, Mom, is this like when
Speaker 1: you used to come through the moon. Yes, that's great,
Speaker 1: same thing. Here I am. But it was fun, you know,
Speaker 1: it was cute. It was something cute and uh I
Speaker 1: never expected to do that because they're always like, you
Speaker 1: got to go behind the line, you can't go you know,
Speaker 1: here I am, and I said, I said to my dworder,
Speaker 1: we have to memorize these moves that we could start
Speaker 1: dancing too with the people. But it was it was
Speaker 1: just cute. You grabbed King Arthur's sword and you start
Speaker 1: doing the thing with the kendostick. This is his second nature.
Speaker 1: You're in front of a crowd. I stripped the sword.
Speaker 1: It was it was just just one of those things
Speaker 1: that that happened. But it happened three times and it
Speaker 1: was just it was so fun. What else We went
Speaker 1: on ratituy four times? Oh wow, four times. At one
Speaker 1: point I want to say the line was like four
Speaker 1: hours long or something like that. It was, well, it's
Speaker 1: a new right, the new ride, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So the consensus of everybody that I hear walking out was,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a cute ride. But I wouldn't wait
Speaker 1: four hours for it again. But we loved it. We
Speaker 1: loved it. It's great for little kids, very clever the
Speaker 1: way you know, the trackless thing runs. It was really
Speaker 1: really cute. Gideons Gideon's Cookie line in Disney Springs. I
Speaker 1: don't know about anybody knows about Gideons, but they are
Speaker 1: the massive cookies. They're like a pound each. If you
Speaker 1: don't know about it, look it up. They're ridiculously good.
Speaker 1: Six and a half hour wait time for the cookies
Speaker 1: for the cookies. When we first got to Disney spring
Speaker 1: we got there towards the lunch afternoon time, and it
Speaker 1: was a virtual cue by then because in the morning
Speaker 1: you can go and you can line up. And we asked,
Speaker 1: we said, you know how long for the return and
Speaker 1: she said six and a half hours. And I said
Speaker 1: that would make the return. I'm nine thirty and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna stay here until nine thirty pm. Yes, because
Speaker 1: they'll text you yo, you're it's ready, and then you
Speaker 1: just go and you have to wait in the line.
Speaker 1: So my husband is such a mark for these cookies.
Speaker 1: He literally, on two different days went by himself, took
Speaker 1: an uber, went by himself got in line at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock because that's when Disney Springs will let you in,
Speaker 1: and then the store opens at ten. So he was
Speaker 1: third in line one day and fifth in line the
Speaker 1: other day and got both. Uh. He bought seven cookies
Speaker 1: each time, and then a piece of cake was brought
Speaker 1: home which was bigger than my head. Very good job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, I said, do we need these cookies? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: we need these cookies. I said, well, then you go.
Speaker 1: I'm not dragging the kids out at eight o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. So he went and he left, and he
Speaker 1: got these cookies, which are all for the cookie all
Speaker 1: for the cookies, yes, and really really good cookies. But
Speaker 1: I wasn't about to go out at eight am to
Speaker 1: you know, the Queen needs to just wrestle at Queen
Speaker 1: needs the beauty sleep for a reason. I'm getting the
Speaker 1: kids ready, I'm getting myself ready. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the weather was great. I got to try
Speaker 1: the mushroom risotto. It was the only thing in Epcot
Speaker 1: at the Festival of the Arts booths that I wanted
Speaker 1: to try, and oh my god, ten of them. It
Speaker 1: was like nine dollars and fifty cents and you only
Speaker 1: got about eight bites worth. It was very small and
Speaker 1: I shared it, but it was so good and it
Speaker 1: was the only booth that I took anything from, so
Speaker 1: that was delicious. Fessel of the Arts was very fun.
Speaker 1: If you've never been. They have a wall that you
Speaker 1: get a little pink cup and they say, you know,
Speaker 1: number eight is your spot, and you get the paint
Speaker 1: like five squares and at the end it becomes this
Speaker 1: cool mural of something. And before we got there they
Speaker 1: had started it and it was almost done, and then
Speaker 1: the rain hit and it dissolved all the paint boo,
Speaker 1: so everything was gone, and they started again, so now
Speaker 1: it's figments face like four times or whatever. So that
Speaker 1: was I felt so bad. And like the chalk, the
Speaker 1: chalk art on the on the ground got all messed
Speaker 1: up from the rain and stuff like that. One day
Speaker 1: it poured, it absolutely poured. Sumi Sakai came to visit
Speaker 1: and so I had a lovely She came to visit
Speaker 1: me twice. Actually she said, adorable freezing you mind, I
Speaker 1: come over? Absolutely not come over. So the first time
Speaker 1: she came she was by herself, and then the second
Speaker 1: time friends came and it was. We had a dinner
Speaker 1: and yes, that was quite the friend. Yes it was,
Speaker 1: and very surprised to see. Well, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to really talk about that too much. I'm I
Speaker 1: was just I thought it was very very cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, but uh yeah, we we got
Speaker 1: to eat and share some stories and it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun seeing her because now she's down there,
Speaker 1: she's not up here anymore. So I love SueMi. Trying
Speaker 1: to think we we just went to some cool restaurants.
Speaker 1: Who went to t Rex. We we went to Rainforest Cafe,
Speaker 1: which is generic, but the kids like that. We went
Speaker 1: there the last time. I love it. We went there
Speaker 1: t Rex. I had a delicious I'm really in the
Speaker 1: mushrooms I had. That was delightful. Best meal of the trip.
Speaker 1: We went to the Beer Garden in Germany and I
Speaker 1: filmed a little of it. We had an I show.
Speaker 1: We had a night there. It's back to the buffet,
Speaker 1: so you can go up a million times. They have
Speaker 1: a really delicious beer cheese soup. They have pretzel buns.
Speaker 1: I was all carved up dipping my buns in my
Speaker 1: soup and the beating and really good stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was just a really nice trip. You know. I
Speaker 1: hate it every day that went by. I do this
Speaker 1: every time every day that went by, I'm like bummed
Speaker 1: because it's like one day less my vacation, you know.
Speaker 1: And I know we were there for fifteen days and
Speaker 1: that's a lot, but like I would have stayed another
Speaker 1: fifteen days, Like I just I just love it. I
Speaker 1: was just looking at your pictures, just saying to myself,
Speaker 1: not the first day, because it's funny. My uncle and
Speaker 1: aunt live in Hallahassee and they were having the cold
Speaker 1: weather too, so you heard about it from their perspective.
Speaker 1: Every day. I was like, I would show the picture
Speaker 1: to like kids, or I show it to Liz. I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I want this weather. I want this is what.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the hot I don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's like a switch that one off
Speaker 1: on me about the cold and the last year. I
Speaker 1: freaking hate cold and it's it's And I was looking
Speaker 1: at your the sky, not even like just the just
Speaker 1: the sky is like, wow, look at that blue sky. Beautiful.
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking at anything else in the pictures after
Speaker 1: that sky. Yeah, crazy, But let me ask you this
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary, did it live up to it? The only
Speaker 1: thing that I saw that was different. They have these
Speaker 1: sculptures in gold stitch Donald Duck. They're all scat you know,
Speaker 1: you have to you're supposed to find them. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's like a scavenger hunt and you get
Speaker 1: something if you find them all. But they're all over
Speaker 1: the parks and they're in gold. I saw those and
Speaker 1: they were cute, you know. And then they had the
Speaker 1: fiftieth banners and they're like in gold with glitter. And
Speaker 1: then they supposedly have these treats that you can get,
Speaker 1: but my family, we're all about Mickey pretzels and then
Speaker 1: the kids like the premium bars and that's the only
Speaker 1: treats that they wanted popcorn. Like, they don't go for
Speaker 1: the fancy tmancy desserts, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: we didn't really get into those. But I really didn't
Speaker 1: notice anything different, you know from past trips that would
Speaker 1: make me think, oh, it's the fiftieth. The castle was
Speaker 1: decorated for the fiftieth, and that looked great. I saw
Speaker 1: that a couple of yeah, wonderful, it looks nice. But
Speaker 1: other than that, Like what was so different? I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you. Just a bunch of gold statues and and
Speaker 1: I don't know that was it. Treats. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, how we're gonna put our trip together.
Speaker 1: We're looking at June. I told you a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, understanding it's gonna be hot as balls, but
Speaker 1: I'll take it right now. I hate the cold. And
Speaker 1: I got the one of the main things I want
Speaker 1: to see, you know, the cool stuff for the fifteenth anniversary.
Speaker 1: And the castle looked great from the pictures I saw
Speaker 1: that you had, and that's that's a huge allure. But
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see like specialty stuff.
Speaker 1: And I wonder in previous years would they have done more.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean they did have characters out,
Speaker 1: but you still could not get near them. So it
Speaker 1: was like a rope was up and you could stand
Speaker 1: in front of the rope and character. Yeah, like the
Speaker 1: character was six feet behind you. Another thing was like,
Speaker 1: I my mother in law kept telling me get a
Speaker 1: good picture of the four of you, right, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. And there are certain cast members who
Speaker 1: won't use your phone they won't touch it. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: So I had to ask every cast member do you
Speaker 1: will you you would take my phone and snap a picture,
Speaker 1: And one finally explained to me. She said, listen, you
Speaker 1: know we're back working, but if we if we know
Speaker 1: somebody who had COVID like, we could still be at risk,
Speaker 1: she said, which even quarantine like they only have to
Speaker 1: quarantine I think five days or something. So she didn't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable touching my phone, she said, And a lot
Speaker 1: of cast members wouldn't and some would. But when you
Speaker 1: when they they don't use your phone and you get
Speaker 1: it scanned. The memory maker is two hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: all I wanted was a picture in front of the castle.
Speaker 1: So I found a lady who would do it. She
Speaker 1: was super nice. Oh, I'll do it, no problems. She
Speaker 1: took my phone. My husband wore his baseball cat, which
Speaker 1: made from here his nose up, you can't see his eyes.
Speaker 1: And that was the picture, so you don't you don't
Speaker 1: see any So I'm sure she's she's really mad that
Speaker 1: she didn't get a good picture in front of the castle.
Speaker 1: But I mean I tried. It was just hard. It
Speaker 1: was the one day it was a Monday, we were
Speaker 1: at the Magic Kingdom. We went four times this day.
Speaker 1: You couldn't move people everywhere. Really, okay, it on a Monday.
Speaker 1: It was so bad. And then towards the end of
Speaker 1: the trip the cheerleaders showed up. Oh that was my
Speaker 1: next question. But it wasn't as bad because I don't
Speaker 1: think a lot of the international troops came over because
Speaker 1: of COVID. I didn't really see any foreign groups, so
Speaker 1: it was but they're still annoying and I still hate
Speaker 1: them all. And they took them like a hundred spaces
Speaker 1: in line, which is really annoying. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, wait, times fluctuated. Now. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people were saying, like, don't trust the weight times.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the rides when we went in,
Speaker 1: I would time them and if it said fifty, it
Speaker 1: was only twenty five. Then other days I noticed if
Speaker 1: it said fifty, it was fifty. So it's it's like
Speaker 1: it's a crap shoot, you gotta just roll with the
Speaker 1: punches there. So, but some rides were on Godly Loan.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, man, that's you know. I guess it's you
Speaker 1: gotta expect, you know, I guess it's at the process.
Speaker 1: I have a hook up, so I didn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: have to wait in any long lines. Only once we did,
Speaker 1: and that's only because it broke down and we were
Speaker 1: stuck in the middle. What was it, I want to say,
Speaker 1: was it soaring? I think? I think yeah, And it
Speaker 1: was like, uh, it was supposed to be like a
Speaker 1: twenty minute wait and it ended up being an hour
Speaker 1: and a half or something, and you know, it's annoying,
Speaker 1: but there was nothing to do because it was shut.
Speaker 1: It was right what day did you really start the
Speaker 1: depression where it was like, ah, crap, like we're getting
Speaker 1: close to coming and gets like it hit that hump
Speaker 1: where it was like, all right, we're closer to the
Speaker 1: end in the beginning. This is how asinine I am.
Speaker 1: The second day we were there, I was thinking, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the first day is the most exciting
Speaker 1: day and it's over, and I'm really sad about it,
Speaker 1: because you know, your first day you're like, yes, we're here,
Speaker 1: we want to do all this stuff. So the second
Speaker 1: day I'm having like these withdrawals and I still have
Speaker 1: two weeks to go. It hasn't even started yet, and
Speaker 1: I'm already said yeah, I'm insane, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell's wrong with me. But it's like every
Speaker 1: day that goes by, I was getting a little more sad,
Speaker 1: and I would tell the kids, like, oh, we still
Speaker 1: have time, don't worry. Even up to the last day,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is our last full day. We have
Speaker 1: to enjoy it. And like we have a tradition we
Speaker 1: always go on Powers of the Caribbean as the last ride.
Speaker 1: And we were getting on Winnie the Pew and it
Speaker 1: it shut down or something, so they gave us a
Speaker 1: fast pass we could use at any time. They said, here,
Speaker 1: here's a return, just use it for any ride. So
Speaker 1: we saved it for the pirates at the end because
Speaker 1: it was like your money in the bank. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just been a tradition. That's always the last ride that
Speaker 1: we like to go on, and it was we made
Speaker 1: that the last ride. But I mean we got to
Speaker 1: do everything. There wasn't one ride that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to ride that we wanted to and we got on everything,
Speaker 1: which was great. Expedition Everest was was shut down. My
Speaker 1: daughter really likes that one, So that was I mean,
Speaker 1: you couldn't ride it if you wanted to because it
Speaker 1: was it was closed. But and a splash mountain, but
Speaker 1: we don't do that one because you get soaked and
Speaker 1: that's on the list. We we haven't done that since
Speaker 1: we started again. Well it'll be perfect for you guys
Speaker 1: because it's June. Yeah. How about people Mover. It was
Speaker 1: closed the last time you were there. We got to
Speaker 1: ride it one time, okay, one time. We usually go
Speaker 1: on it one hundred times. The line for people Mover
Speaker 1: was like super ridiculous. It was all the way like
Speaker 1: past the que past astro orbiter, around the bend like
Speaker 1: we were like, what the hell is for the people mover? Wow?
Speaker 1: For the people mover. Yeah, it was so backed up
Speaker 1: over there. And I don't know if it's because I
Speaker 1: think it was the day that Space Mountain wasn't running
Speaker 1: or I don't know what something wasn't running, but it
Speaker 1: was really really backed up and oh no Space Mountain
Speaker 1: was running. Because that's where my daughter went with my husband.
Speaker 1: I took my son and I actually had to take
Speaker 1: him to the left floor because we couldn't get the
Speaker 1: people mover was just too ridiculous, So I said, let's
Speaker 1: go to the left floor. Oh, go to the left floor.
Speaker 1: I submit a joke, right, you can text a joke
Speaker 1: to this number and then they'll, you know, if you're lucky,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll say your joke, say my son's name, and
Speaker 1: I completely quiet. I go yes, real loud, and then
Speaker 1: they go, uh from Myrtle Beach a same person, different name,
Speaker 1: real loud, my son his mom. That's not me. I
Speaker 1: was mortified. Oh yeah, I'm gonna hear my joke. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: What kind of nut always gets sick? What a catch
Speaker 1: you you had to submit kids? They should have banned
Speaker 1: you from the facility. I loved it, but I made
Speaker 1: an as out of myself and screamed when I thought
Speaker 1: it was him, but it wasn't him. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just it was a great vacation. It was to me.
Speaker 1: It was too short and I want to go back.
Speaker 1: So it was. It's funny like now you say seventeen days,
Speaker 1: so then that means it's nineteen days since we recorded last.
Speaker 1: So it's like a lot of time in between. But
Speaker 1: it's all kind of a blur for me. And it
Speaker 1: did go by fast now that we talk about it,
Speaker 1: but I don't I'm not sure if it did. I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm like in the middle. Well, now you'll
Speaker 1: have to explain why you're in the middle. I'm in
Speaker 1: the middle. People don't know what you went through. No,
Speaker 1: they don't. You know, I didn't make it. I didn't
Speaker 1: say anything like publicly. I didn't make any like declaration
Speaker 1: or dramatic Facebook posts or go on Twitter and ask
Speaker 1: for prayers. I didn't do any of that stuff. One
Speaker 1: like one prayer. I told the people that needed to know.
Speaker 1: You know that that I'm close with that felt I
Speaker 1: felt that that information was necessary. Yes, I shared with yourself.
Speaker 1: I shared it with my blonde haired, short, short tempered friend.
Speaker 1: I share why the way I would not leave me alone.
Speaker 1: And I kept telling him, I am on vacation, you
Speaker 1: need to stop. The funniest thing so, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we were supposed to record the first night.
Speaker 1: That's why I told him too. And the first day
Speaker 1: I was back at work, I get a text from
Speaker 1: him and he's like, uh, can you talk? I was like,
Speaker 1: it's my first day back at work. I was like
Speaker 1: I can't actually, and I got like the longest text
Speaker 1: message I've ever received in my life. But the reason
Speaker 1: I missed work and while you were gone it would
Speaker 1: have impacted our recording schedule for sure. But I had COVID.
Speaker 1: The whole almost the whole house had COVID and it
Speaker 1: was it was quite the experience. I gotta say. It
Speaker 1: was very uh surreal when you get that that positive test.
Speaker 1: It does take a minute to register. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: two weeks you were gone, the whole house decimated with
Speaker 1: COVID craziness. And you blame Bria, we do. Yep. So
Speaker 1: the week we recorded that last week, and I actually
Speaker 1: think it was even the day that we recorded. It
Speaker 1: was the middle of the week Tuesday. We recorded on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, I think right that last round. It was
Speaker 1: either that Tuesday or that Wednesday. She woke up and
Speaker 1: was just kind of junkie, just in the nose, just
Speaker 1: like you can hear the flem. Yeah. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: we I said to Liz, I was like, we we
Speaker 1: got to watch her. It was like, you know, she's
Speaker 1: she's kind of messed up today. And the next day
Speaker 1: cleared up fine, nothing, not even a like single sniffle.
Speaker 1: And never thought anything of it. And I went to
Speaker 1: that party on that Saturday night. This is how long
Speaker 1: ago this was. Remember we talked about the party and
Speaker 1: I text when you were texting me from saying we're
Speaker 1: sitting with the grandfather, and I sat in the the
Speaker 1: now just sidebar about the party, the things I do
Speaker 1: for love. Okay, this was we were we and this
Speaker 1: is not like we were the youngest group there. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was a rather older segment of people, so we
Speaker 1: didn't really kind of fit in. But my wife knows
Speaker 1: a lot of people from work, so she did her
Speaker 1: work stuff. There's one thing I fucking hate about these
Speaker 1: get togethers. Okay, I don't care who it is. Age.
Speaker 1: You could be a teenager, you can be one hundred.
Speaker 1: When you're at a party and people then say it's
Speaker 1: time to play X, whether it's a board game or
Speaker 1: in this case, beer pong, Okay, I tap out. I
Speaker 1: think that's fun. I want to just hang out and talk.
Speaker 1: That's all I want to do. I don't want to
Speaker 1: play to talk. I don't want to be on a team.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to play with people. I
Speaker 1: just want to chit chat and shoot the breeze. And
Speaker 1: that's it. When they said it's time to play beer pong,
Speaker 1: I looked at the couch. I go, there's my spot.
Speaker 1: The only other guy was the lady's dad who was there,
Speaker 1: and I was watching the Steelers and Packers whoever was
Speaker 1: playing that night, just texting people on my phone. That
Speaker 1: was the night I was supposed to have the Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson private signing that I could not make because it
Speaker 1: was rescheduled on me. Okay, so I'm talking to you,
Speaker 1: talking to a guy doing Danielson, I'm talking to my brother,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to anybody. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing freaking beer pong? Did Liz? She did
Speaker 1: because she was with the group. Now she's kind of
Speaker 1: in line with me. She doesn't, and especially beer pong
Speaker 1: she's not a big fan of. But you know, she
Speaker 1: had to because it was work people, and I just
Speaker 1: sat my ass on the couch. I think it's fine.
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to anybody, okay. And then this dude
Speaker 1: sat down next to me and he started asking me
Speaker 1: questions and then we started talking about wrestling, and you know,
Speaker 1: he said, what do you know? Well, I said, I
Speaker 1: I was texting a guy and the guy was from
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh who was next to me, and that's where the
Speaker 1: Daniel Bryan signing was going on. So I said oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking to the guys out in your
Speaker 1: neck of the woods in Pittsburgh. And we started talking
Speaker 1: that way and then I dropped names. Of course I do.
Speaker 1: What are you nuts? You were your ear wasn't ringing.
Speaker 1: So this party was on a Saturday. Right the next morning,
Speaker 1: Liz wakes up and she's like, oh, you know, my
Speaker 1: throat's just kind of bothering me. Don't really know why,
Speaker 1: but she's kind of, you know, doesn't feel great, doesn't
Speaker 1: think any of it. Monday, she feels worse, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: she's think about maybe staying home today and rest. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's just you know, you run down, just you know,
Speaker 1: give yourself a recharge, stay home, maybe go to the doctor.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, no, I'll be fine. She goes to work. Tuesday,
Speaker 1: she's getting worse. Wednesday she has no voice whatsoever. And
Speaker 1: she's been doing the work and she's going to work
Speaker 1: and I'm like, look, I was like, you gotta stop.
Speaker 1: You gotta go to the doctor. Now, I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: It's starting to clear up. Andever Thursday she's a little
Speaker 1: bit better, but still sounds terrible. Still never goes to
Speaker 1: the doctor. Friday, she goes, you know, I feel a
Speaker 1: lot better today, And I was like, well, good, I go,
Speaker 1: you go. Who knows what kind of damage you did
Speaker 1: by not getting this checked out? I go, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're feeling better. Friday night, we do our little
Speaker 1: bar thing in the basement. We're hanging out and she
Speaker 1: starts draining every two seconds, blowing her nose. It like
Speaker 1: felt better, and then wham hit her like a ton
Speaker 1: of bricks. So I tell her the next morning, I go,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to urgent care. You gotta go. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going to hear any other excuse.
Speaker 1: She goes, they test her, she's positive. So let me
Speaker 1: interrupt you. So she's positive, does she contact all those
Speaker 1: people that were at the party. So at the party
Speaker 1: by Saturday, okay, one week later, five people had gotten COVID.
Speaker 1: So maybe it wasn't Brie, maybe it was Liz at
Speaker 1: the party. We don't know. This is the this is
Speaker 1: the question. Well, so let me I'll continue. So so
Speaker 1: that was Saturday. So then sad she is knocked on
Speaker 1: her ass. She's you know, out of it. She can't
Speaker 1: wake up, she's just lethargic. She's sneezing, she's coughing. She
Speaker 1: sounds horrible, right, And that's Saturday, then into Sunday. Sunday
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, Maddie goes, I don't feel good. Take
Speaker 1: her temperature one hundred and one right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: But she didn't look it like. It didn't look like
Speaker 1: it was a you know you look ye. She looked fine.
Speaker 1: So I go, all right, I'm gonna take her to
Speaker 1: get tested on Monday, I said, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: yet because I'm fine. I'm just doing my thing. Take
Speaker 1: her boom positive. Just like that. She's so she's now
Speaker 1: eliminated and it's me and me and Brie who are
Speaker 1: the where the lone survivors. So Maddie kind of gets
Speaker 1: over it pretty quick. Liz is still in the column, coughing,
Speaker 1: you know, tireds. I forget what they put her on.
Speaker 1: Oh they put her on a Z pack, Yeah right,
Speaker 1: And that did help. It did help. By Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: I wake up and I'm like, I just don't something
Speaker 1: feels off, And I'm like, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's in the house. It's got to be COVID.
Speaker 1: I'm going to urgent care I go to urgent care.
Speaker 1: I go, look, I'm exposed, right. I go. Two people
Speaker 1: in my house have COVID and they go, well, what
Speaker 1: are your symptoms? I told them. They go, how long
Speaker 1: have you had it? I said, well, I woke up
Speaker 1: with it today. I said, I'm nipping it in the butt.
Speaker 1: I'm here, give me the test. They go, no, it's
Speaker 1: too early. They go, We're gonna give you a STRAP
Speaker 1: test and a FLU test. I tested positive for STRAP
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, these people are stupid. I go.
Speaker 1: So I go across the highway to another urgent care.
Speaker 1: I get a test. They don't ask questions. Came back negative.
Speaker 1: So then I'm like rubbing it in their face, like, ha,
Speaker 1: you got COVID. I don't. I just have strep throat right,
Speaker 1: not because I'm like, see, COVID is not gonna catch me.
Speaker 1: I've said it forever. What COVID wants me, They come
Speaker 1: and get me. I get put on antibiotic for the STRAP,
Speaker 1: and they go, if you, if your symptoms persist for
Speaker 1: a few days, get tested over the weekend between Wednesday
Speaker 1: and Saturday. I sounded like shit, and I actually released
Speaker 1: podcasts during the time, and I sound sick as hell.
Speaker 1: I sound freaking awful. And I went on Sunday and
Speaker 1: I got the red letter of positive and from Sunday
Speaker 1: to Thursday was quarantined. And thankfully, the worst I felt
Speaker 1: was like body aches. I didn't have a temperature or
Speaker 1: the junk in the nose or any of that crap.
Speaker 1: I just very achy and very very like uncomfortable for
Speaker 1: days and days and days. But it's no joke, I
Speaker 1: will say that. And then at the end of it, it
Speaker 1: it knocked me on my ass. By Wednesday and Thursday,
Speaker 1: I was freaking exhausted. It does take a lot out
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, but Bri nothing. So why are you
Speaker 1: blaming Bri because she had that one day? And how
Speaker 1: kids immune systems are reacting differently, I thought maybe she's
Speaker 1: the one. No, it's the Super Spreader party that you
Speaker 1: were at. Ain't that something? The Super Spreader party is like?
Speaker 1: That is to me, like wow, just wow, that that party?
Speaker 1: Which again and you know what's funny? Saturday? Liz did
Speaker 1: say like, oh, you know, I feel a little funky.
Speaker 1: But you know, we thought Saturday is a long week.
Speaker 1: She's tired. I go, maybe we shouldn't go. But then
Speaker 1: I see I say too much ahead of time. I
Speaker 1: say maybe we shouldn't go. It just sounds like I
Speaker 1: don't want to go because I didn't want to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now then it happened. We got it well you
Speaker 1: I mean, as sick as you were. It didn't last
Speaker 1: very long. No, which is good because you read a
Speaker 1: lot about people being sick for weeks and the lingering
Speaker 1: stay very lucky for months. Yes, yours was a short yes,
Speaker 1: very very low, and which is great. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: it's being in Florida. The cases they tell me, the
Speaker 1: cases are so low in Florida. But I kept saying,
Speaker 1: you know, we better not get COVID down here, like
Speaker 1: we better not. Now you're still wearing a mask indoors
Speaker 1: in Disney, right, But it's so stupid because you're when
Speaker 1: you're outside, you literally you're bunched with people obviously in line, right,
Speaker 1: but when you hit a certain point, you got to
Speaker 1: put that mask on. So I was standing with these
Speaker 1: people for twenty minutes before I got to this line.
Speaker 1: But now the mask is going to protect me from them? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, it's only in that yeah exactly. So
Speaker 1: it was nice not having to wear it in the
Speaker 1: heat because you know, the year before you had to
Speaker 1: constantly on which was a mess. Yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, once you get to a point,
Speaker 1: they have the signs up, you know, put your mask on.
Speaker 1: Once you're indoors, you had to put the mask on. So, like,
Speaker 1: the only ride I can remember off the top of
Speaker 1: my head was Barnstormer. You didn't have to put a
Speaker 1: mask on because the que is outside and the ride
Speaker 1: is outside. There's no indoor queue. Yeah, so you didn't
Speaker 1: have to put a mask on. But like everything else,
Speaker 1: like people mover or I thought you wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: put it on, but nope, put it on because there's
Speaker 1: two spots where you're going in before you come back
Speaker 1: outside and they make you wear the mask the whole time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was, you know, it was
Speaker 1: there's no six feet, there's no three feet. Like everybody's
Speaker 1: on top. You're all in the theater together. So if
Speaker 1: I pray to God, we don't get it. And if
Speaker 1: I don't get it, I guess my immune system is like, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: because you never know. I got to say you never know.
Speaker 1: I you know, I still generally think I took precautions,
Speaker 1: and it's funny if it's that party. Like to think
Speaker 1: of all the places I traveled, going to Disney World,
Speaker 1: the the Icons show in September with two thousand people
Speaker 1: inside of one COVID icons. Yeah, oh well the December Icons.
Speaker 1: The December Icons was a super spreader events. Everybody went down.
Speaker 1: My god. But but here's kind of the the make
Speaker 1: you think moments, right, I did not have it that bad.
Speaker 1: The little daughter did not have it that bad. The
Speaker 1: one who had it the worst was the one who
Speaker 1: got the jab. That is that a part of this
Speaker 1: discussion and that I'm not trying to play conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play anything like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be controversial. I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: any bit like stirring the pot. But that's just one
Speaker 1: question I have to ask is how did the one
Speaker 1: person who was vaccinated have it the worst? And I'm
Speaker 1: not even kidding, still lingering effects, dry cough, still with
Speaker 1: the junk in the nose and stuff. How is how
Speaker 1: is that still a symptom and an issue where yeah,
Speaker 1: a little congested I have, I'm a little nasally sounding.
Speaker 1: I didn't have one. I didn't sneeze once or cough
Speaker 1: once during this whole thing. Could it be that the
Speaker 1: vaccine is weakening people's immune systems instead of strengthening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be. I mean because a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of vaccinated people are getting sick. And I told you, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm still not talking to a family member over this.
Speaker 1: They called me a liar when I said that my
Speaker 1: vaccinated friends got sick. They could have oh, couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, people are sick, Like people are getting
Speaker 1: sick that are vaccine. No, we don't believe it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you know, that's why do I
Speaker 1: have to lie? There's a million things that we could
Speaker 1: talk about and have conversations about, and this just happened
Speaker 1: to pop up. And now I'm a big liar and
Speaker 1: it's been over two months and we're still not talking,
Speaker 1: which is complete bullshit and makes me so irritated. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I wasn't wrong and I wasn't lying,
Speaker 1: So I'm not giving in and that's that it's hard
Speaker 1: to not question that, and you know it really is
Speaker 1: so now right during this time, you know, we've like
Speaker 1: shut down all interactions with my parents because you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to keep them safe and drop something off
Speaker 1: to my mom's house the day I got the positive test,
Speaker 1: right before I took the test, and I had I
Speaker 1: think it was their their girl scout cook the order
Speaker 1: and I dropped it off on the front steps and
Speaker 1: had to do like the prison wave through the door,
Speaker 1: and you know, my dad forbid my mom from opening
Speaker 1: the door. This was actually really funny. So then like
Speaker 1: later I called her as I was on the way home.
Speaker 1: I go, hey, just so you know I got the
Speaker 1: positive tests. She tells my dad. My dad's screaming you
Speaker 1: better not have come in or you better not open
Speaker 1: the door. And I said to her, I go check
Speaker 1: your security camera. You got it. Don't don't accuse me
Speaker 1: of anything. Look at your camera. It's so crazy. People
Speaker 1: are literally at odds over no no one could have
Speaker 1: an opinion. Everybody's just fighting and this is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So so it was quite the two weeks. Yes, well
Speaker 1: it actually worked out for the best. It really did.
Speaker 1: I was away. You know, you picked a great time
Speaker 1: to catch it. Yeah, I really did it. And especially
Speaker 1: like when we usually record, it would have absolutely affected
Speaker 1: it because my voice was very strained. On that Friday
Speaker 1: before I got the positive test, it was I had straps,
Speaker 1: so I had the hard time swallowing, like the stab
Speaker 1: me pain in my throat and it was hard to talk,
Speaker 1: but I did. I recorded two different podcasts, one before
Speaker 1: I got the strap and then one after I had
Speaker 1: the positive tests, and you can tell if you listen
Speaker 1: to it, I just I'm very, very sick. You could
Speaker 1: just tell. It was very uncomfortable to do it, but
Speaker 1: I had to get it done. Yeah, I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: guys had to go through that. I was trying. I
Speaker 1: was actually texting you how do you feel, you know,
Speaker 1: like on odd days like I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and the text see how they're doing. And that's why,
Speaker 1: because I got it. You know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: bother you while you were on your trip. But again,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to tell people who I felt had
Speaker 1: to kind of know what was going on. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it. Not a lot of people knew and
Speaker 1: didn't make a dramatic post. You know, I didn't show
Speaker 1: my positive tests and here I am, you know, like
Speaker 1: it looks like a pregnancy test. I want to say
Speaker 1: to somebody like congratulations, like, oh no, I have COVID
Speaker 1: like or a badge of honor, like yeah, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But well, I'm glad you're feeling better
Speaker 1: better and sucks, absolutely sucks. But what can you do.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced now everybody's number will be up at some point,
Speaker 1: don't well, but or but how you react to it
Speaker 1: is how is up to your body. You might be
Speaker 1: able to fight it, you know. Well, it seems like
Speaker 1: people are fighting it better now than they have in
Speaker 1: the two years. So that's the only kind of benefits
Speaker 1: I could say. Yeah, and we know more now than
Speaker 1: we did two years ago. So who knows. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I'm planning not to leave my
Speaker 1: house unless I have to still. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what I did, you know, That's that's what I do.
Speaker 1: I don't have any leisure stuff coming up. I have
Speaker 1: a dentist appointment and then I have a I have
Speaker 1: the big event with you that New York better get
Speaker 1: it shipped together and be okay for us to travel too.
Speaker 1: There it is there, I am, uh and I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that one. What does that? UHL? Is that
Speaker 1: like at ten am start time? So I believe the
Speaker 1: door is actually open at nine. Okay, I want to sit.
Speaker 1: They pull up your site, Yeah, let me pull up
Speaker 1: the site again. Where did it go? And do we
Speaker 1: have been vote for the night before? Because I have
Speaker 1: not been plugging that, I don't have to. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: haven't sent me any kind of things for it. You're
Speaker 1: you're booked. They should send us something, maybe ask I
Speaker 1: will ask. The big event twenty one Saturday, March fifth,
Speaker 1: and the time is, oh, no, it is. It's ten
Speaker 1: am to two pm. Terrace on the Park, fifty two
Speaker 1: to eleven, one hundred eleven Street, Queens, New York. What
Speaker 1: I have come to learn about this venue? There is parking. Ah, okay,
Speaker 1: so we can park in a garage. We don't have
Speaker 1: to like park like randomly, like somewhere like two blocks
Speaker 1: away because it's in Queen's No, it's you park at
Speaker 1: the building. It's it's gonna be great. I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to be the I've spoken with people traveling to go
Speaker 1: that are excited to meet you, and I will be
Speaker 1: doing some private signings with a couple of the sports
Speaker 1: guests that are going to be there. So I actually
Speaker 1: got to find somebody that can handle the table for
Speaker 1: a few minutes. If I have to step away, what's
Speaker 1: that I will, Well, you're gonna sell some some of
Speaker 1: my eight by tens I always do. I do it
Speaker 1: for Chad when he's away from the table. Well, you might,
Speaker 1: you might be booked for for sales help. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. I think it's gonna be a great,
Speaker 1: a great show. I hear so many great things about
Speaker 1: the big event. I used to send talent there. I
Speaker 1: just I haven't been to the show. You haven't been
Speaker 1: to one of these in about five years. We've figured
Speaker 1: out so something like that. Yeah, something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a while. And then the night before I'm
Speaker 1: doing a virtual signing for K and S. But I
Speaker 1: don't have the info. Yeah, I think what they do
Speaker 1: just by seeing their how they promote their They don't
Speaker 1: promote them that far in advance. So I would say
Speaker 1: in the next week, since we are three weeks out
Speaker 1: as we're recording this, I would probably expect to see
Speaker 1: something coming up. Yeah, because I would like to. I
Speaker 1: would like to plug it to help them out if
Speaker 1: we want viewers, you know what I mean? Oh, absolutely, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh yeah, It's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: weekend for sure, big event. You know. Again, it's a
Speaker 1: great wrestling convention, but they're trying to do something where
Speaker 1: they're working in some sports talent as well. I've heard
Speaker 1: mixed reviews from vendors about that. Some people think it's cool,
Speaker 1: others say, if this is a wrestling show, we have
Speaker 1: to stick to the wrestling. For me, it kind of
Speaker 1: fits perfectly in my like department, it caters to both sides.
Speaker 1: So like, whereas I'll have wrestling merchandise, and this is
Speaker 1: gonna be another, this is another like, this is like
Speaker 1: an experiment for me because I tend to not sell
Speaker 1: like direct merch I said, I tend to just do
Speaker 1: the signings. I'm actually have merch this time. So I'm
Speaker 1: tempted to bring some of my Mets and Yankee stuff
Speaker 1: because why not they're sports guys there. Yeah, see what sells.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could always bring it and if it
Speaker 1: doesn't sell, you taking homet me, you do the next one,
Speaker 1: lug it back. I don't know, I might not have
Speaker 1: anything left. This has been a busy week. It has
Speaker 1: been a busy week. I real quickly want to talk
Speaker 1: about our YouTube channel, yes, that's another reason why it's okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm resurrecting my YouTube channel because Twitch did not
Speaker 1: work out for me. I feel like I've had more
Speaker 1: success on YouTube than I've had on Twitch. So Chad
Speaker 1: and I have decided to collab on it now and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be working together on this. And what perfect
Speaker 1: timing because the Queen Extreme is turning fifty Yeah, I
Speaker 1: said fifty. Oh my gosh, I can't even count that high.
Speaker 1: I'm turning fifty this Saturday, on February nineteenth, And because
Speaker 1: I share a birthday with somebody's daughter who has a
Speaker 1: birthday party planned, we can't do it on Saturday. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna go live this Friday, So February eighteenth,
Speaker 1: at did we say seven o'clock? I think seven o'clock
Speaker 1: is gonna ben o'clock Eastern Standard time. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a live YouTube chat on my YouTube page, which is
Speaker 1: ecw diva Francine space exclamation point. So we've been putting
Speaker 1: up some clips audio clips of some past shows, and
Speaker 1: we're getting a good response. We have some new subscribers
Speaker 1: that we've added within the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: I think the live will be a good time for
Speaker 1: you guys to check out the channel and you know,
Speaker 1: come ask me some questions. Chat will be in the
Speaker 1: chat as well. He's my wrench and you know we'll
Speaker 1: be there answering questions and just talking about life in
Speaker 1: general and wrestling and whatever you want to talk about.
Speaker 1: So again, it'll be this Friday, February eighteenth at seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern SNANDA time to celebrate my fiftieth birthday. And
Speaker 1: I want to point out super chats are welcome and
Speaker 1: super sippers and if anybody super chats five dollars or more,
Speaker 1: I will have signed merch that will be doing the
Speaker 1: drawing for at the end of the live stream, so
Speaker 1: you know, might get a chance to win something. And
Speaker 1: I used to do that before and everybody loved it,
Speaker 1: and we're bringing it back. So I'm excited about the channel.
Speaker 1: We're almost that four thousand subs and you know, I
Speaker 1: want to keep it growing and I want to do
Speaker 1: some fun stuff with it. So do you like Tommy
Speaker 1: dreamerholding the hot dog in this one? I didn't even
Speaker 1: notice he had a hot dog. So in the story this,
Speaker 1: I try to match the the graphic to the story
Speaker 1: as close as possible, and if somebody's named, I throw
Speaker 1: them in the shot. Stevie's poking out here in the
Speaker 1: behind Nova, but Nova tells the story about being booked
Speaker 1: at the ECW Arena for the first time. Dreamer comes
Speaker 1: up to him with a hot dog in his hand,
Speaker 1: gives him another hot dog and says, there's your first
Speaker 1: payoff in ECW PA with a hot dog. So I
Speaker 1: found a hot dog and I put it in the
Speaker 1: Innovator of Violence's hand here, Gal, that's cute. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: never got paid by receiving a hot dog. Crazy. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a great one because you guys are traveling.
Speaker 1: You tell you a story about driving up to a
Speaker 1: dilapidated building with your garman giving you bad info. So
Speaker 1: come on, look at that. It's great. That's great. Now
Speaker 1: you've been doing a great job with these uploodes. And
Speaker 1: I'm excited to bring this back because people did, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I think people my fans like YouTube over twitch,
Speaker 1: and I already have you know, I already had all
Speaker 1: those subscribers because I never took the page down. So
Speaker 1: they're still hanging out and we're getting more people, you know,
Speaker 1: every day, and I'm excited to do a live because
Speaker 1: I haven't done a live in a long time, so
Speaker 1: it'll be good. And it's my birthday. It's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like, that's the biggest thing. Fifty man, I know,
Speaker 1: I can't. Like I sit here and I think, where
Speaker 1: the hell did the time go? What happened to that
Speaker 1: little twenty year old girl who walked into Todd Gordon's
Speaker 1: office scared out of her mind? Like, holy crap, time
Speaker 1: is a bitch, that's for sure. I'm telling you it's
Speaker 1: it's it's gone by so quickly. But you know, you
Speaker 1: just have to live each day as well. I don't
Speaker 1: like to say as it's your last, because I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. That's kind of morbid. Just enjoy
Speaker 1: each day. That's what I try to do. I just
Speaker 1: try to have fun and enjoy each day. And it's
Speaker 1: just a number, man, That is just a number. It
Speaker 1: is and it is more than ever that that's I
Speaker 1: think the main takeaway is like, now you know again
Speaker 1: we say the joke all the time, you know with
Speaker 1: the Golden Girls, right, they were in their fifties and
Speaker 1: they look like five. They looked like they were old bats, right,
Speaker 1: that's but it's just the way we live differently. You know,
Speaker 1: we have better things afforded to us in terms of
Speaker 1: like personal care and knowledge of stuff that's bad for you,
Speaker 1: and it extends people's lives. So age is just that
Speaker 1: number now, and that I'm more aware of that, I
Speaker 1: think now approaching the other number that's not fifty, the
Speaker 1: one below it forty. Oh like that you talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, you've done your You've had like a you know,
Speaker 1: your nice time in your forties, and I think that
Speaker 1: that is like unfathomable to be in that age group.
Speaker 1: I'm like myself, that's not happening. It is depressing having
Speaker 1: to check off the next row of boxes, Like you know,
Speaker 1: when you're filling out a questionaire, they say, oh, what
Speaker 1: do you fall into? It's like forty to forty nine
Speaker 1: out fifty to fifty and I'm just like ugh, And
Speaker 1: then my mom goes, oh, you know, you're going to
Speaker 1: qualify for AARP now they have really good coupieh come on,
Speaker 1: so weird, Like they should change those names, right, are
Speaker 1: those those age groups because it needs to be like
Speaker 1: further out. I just feel like when I turn when
Speaker 1: I was turning thirty, I had like a mental breakdown
Speaker 1: because I wasn't married yet and I, you know, had
Speaker 1: no children, and that's all I ever wanted in life
Speaker 1: was to be married with kids. And I literally had
Speaker 1: thoughts of suicide at one point, like it never it
Speaker 1: never came to that, thank God, But you always, like
Speaker 1: I think everybody has a little bit of a mental
Speaker 1: health issue here and there. And I just was like,
Speaker 1: why am I here? You know, I don't have a
Speaker 1: boyfriend anymore, and what am I going to do? And
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I just hung in there, like
Speaker 1: you know, and got married eventually had my kids and stuff.
Speaker 1: And then when I turned forty, I felt okay, you know,
Speaker 1: But now that I'm turning fifty, I'm just like, hey,
Speaker 1: I've been here, you know, a half what is it?
Speaker 1: A half of a century, that's what it is, And
Speaker 1: it could be worse, lifould My life is going pretty good.
Speaker 1: I get to do things that I still love. I
Speaker 1: have my great family that lives under this roof, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy. So I think fifty is going to be
Speaker 1: good for me. You know, I feel more positive about
Speaker 1: fifty than I did about thirty. Wow, thirty, I don't remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember like what my feelings were. I remember
Speaker 1: we had a nice party in my house, but I
Speaker 1: don't remember like anything else about it. Yeah, thirty was
Speaker 1: not a good one for me. I don't believe. So
Speaker 1: I was kind of depressed and a friend that was
Speaker 1: going through about to go through a bad divorce. You know.
Speaker 1: Basically that started the night of my thirtieth birthday party.
Speaker 1: So remember that. Yeah, question about your ears? Are they
Speaker 1: new ears? Or are these are the ones you got
Speaker 1: before you? These are new. I bought them before I
Speaker 1: left from EBA, not Amazon. Ten bucks. Don't buy Disney March.
Speaker 1: These are great quality. They stood up the whole trip
Speaker 1: and they're standing up now and I love them. They're
Speaker 1: standing at attention. Look at them. Ten bucks. No droopy
Speaker 1: ears to be found in this group. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: For the girls, go to Amazon and get them these
Speaker 1: for twenty bucks. You get two pair. They're thirty dollars
Speaker 1: at the park. But then the little ones like I
Speaker 1: want those, and I'm like, all right, not me. I
Speaker 1: go no. I got them off of Amazon for ten bucks.
Speaker 1: Like I was getting compliments on these ears from people,
Speaker 1: and I keupt go ten bucks. Amazon, tell everybody got
Speaker 1: cheese for ten dollars with the ears and the bow.
Speaker 1: It's for you know, ponytails ten bucks, Like you can't
Speaker 1: beat it. You're telling them to go to Amazon to
Speaker 1: buy this, and the Disney people are watching you on
Speaker 1: like a monitor. They're like, they're like, she's telling people
Speaker 1: to buy outside of this. Better kick her out. No,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that you're spending an arm and a
Speaker 1: leg being at Disney anyway. If I can cut corners,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm being cheap. I feel like
Speaker 1: these years are and these years are more comfortable than
Speaker 1: the ones that they sell. Right the ones that they
Speaker 1: sell are very tight on your head. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're aimed for kids or not, but these
Speaker 1: no problems with them. Never had that. I would take
Speaker 1: them off only on roller coasters because I was afraid
Speaker 1: they would put smart cookie. Sure, yeah, learn stuff the
Speaker 1: hard way. There's so many hats and ears that were
Speaker 1: like under the tracks. I was like, no, ten bucks,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my ears. God take them off and them
Speaker 1: put them back on. But yeah, I try to find
Speaker 1: stuff before I left cheaper because I give them too
Speaker 1: much money. As it is every year so and these
Speaker 1: are they're cute now, they're very nice. They're so cute.
Speaker 1: Polka Dottie. How do you feel about Minnie's new pantsuit?
Speaker 1: I mean, what what is the reasoning behind it? Because
Speaker 1: I mean, why should she wear a dress? Why not
Speaker 1: she's been wearing the past one hundred years now? Well,
Speaker 1: is somebody offended because her knees showing? Is that the reason?
Speaker 1: Like now she just looks like a fuddy duddy, but
Speaker 1: she looks like she's in her pajamas. It's very dumb.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very stupid. I'm all for like different
Speaker 1: fashions and different outfits, but if this was if they
Speaker 1: keep this as her look, I'm gonna be upset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this has to be like a like a short term thing.
Speaker 1: Has I showed it to Breathe, who's a mini mouse fanatic,
Speaker 1: and she's like, she goes that ugly. You just want
Speaker 1: to you want the truth? You go to her. She'll
Speaker 1: tell you to set you straight. I heard about it.
Speaker 1: I was not happy, and but I'm okay with it
Speaker 1: if it's just a passing thing, you know, but if
Speaker 1: they if this is the new book, uh uh, I
Speaker 1: don't like it, just like I didn't like Jasmine when
Speaker 1: they changed hers covered her all up. Now she looks
Speaker 1: like good mamadel with this long thing here and the
Speaker 1: long thing get out of here. On, come on, Jasmine
Speaker 1: with it. It's not Jazzmine's fault, it's not whoever is
Speaker 1: complainant's fault. But so overall, beautiful vacation. That's great, And
Speaker 1: we're we're working ourselves back into the schedules, you know,
Speaker 1: we're working ourselves back up to the Patreon content. We're
Speaker 1: going to have a brand new watch along this week,
Speaker 1: but we will have two uh classic middle of the
Speaker 1: week pieces at this point that as we get ourselves
Speaker 1: back together. But this this birthday thing is going to
Speaker 1: be quite the shin dig. I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a fun time. I hope it's good. I'm like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to being live again. So if if
Speaker 1: you're around this Friday, please come join me and I'll
Speaker 1: have along with Chad. We'll all have the links on
Speaker 1: our Twitter and yes, IgA camps whatever else. The watch
Speaker 1: along for this week is going to be back to
Speaker 1: the ECW fan cams. Oh great, okay, this is from
Speaker 1: the Golden Dome in Pennsylvania. Yes, where the franchise and
Speaker 1: Francine were not heels, they were babyfaces. Is this against Gary? No,
Speaker 1: this is quite the This is quite the interesting match.
Speaker 1: Raven and Shane Douglas versus Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer
Speaker 1: March thirtieth, nineteen ninety seven. Huh the interesting one, Yes,
Speaker 1: because this is you know, Raven and Shane didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of interactions while they were at their heights
Speaker 1: in ninety six ninety seven. They were kind of the
Speaker 1: two superhels of the promotion, so there wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of com mingling. But on this night there is co mingling,
Speaker 1: but brilliant booking and parts of it. So this is
Speaker 1: holiday They call this Holiday Hell Night three. Why would
Speaker 1: it be Holiday Hell on March thirtieth? Uh, Saint Patty's Day.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. It was Easter early that year. I
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, maybe it was these who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought Holiday Hell was December. This is how at
Speaker 1: least this is called ECW Fancam March thirtieth, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Holiday Hell Night three. Who knows, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember this match. I don't know. And being in
Speaker 1: a baby Face into Pittsburgh. Like we talked about this before,
Speaker 1: we always were Shane never wanted to be a heel
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Rude called them a shitty heel, a big,
Speaker 1: big fight. It's great. Well, we'll talk about that as
Speaker 1: we go along. So that is what we have to
Speaker 1: look forward to this week. Actually I should have brought
Speaker 1: it up. I don't have it up on the screen.
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