WEBVTT - Best of: Bubba Ray Dudley 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:11.200 Hey, everyone, his eyes up here. I am between the 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:16.239 extreme crean scene and I am so happy to be here. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:23.000 When iHeartRadio, I am joined by my co host Chad Dad. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:24.920 Do you feel the excitement in the air. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.000 The excitement is so thick you could cut it with 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.680 a knife. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.640 We have been waiting for this launch for it seems 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.120 like forever. I know it's only been a month or two, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.839 but I have been just waiting to be part of 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.480 the iHeart family. And now I am here along with you, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.879 and I couldn't be happier. I am thrilled. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.640 This is great, This is awesome. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.240 I agree, it's been it feels like a long time coming, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.000 but it's just been great, the anticipation and the excitement. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.440 And now it's here, and I think we're all ready 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:06.440 to party. Party with iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.440 We're already to roll. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.600 Yes, we're static to be here. We've been doing this 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.840 now for four years and I feel like we've hit 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:21.960 the big time. You know, it's great. We're really happy 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.400 to be here. I want to thank those who have 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.959 come along with us for this journey. To our new subscribers, welcome, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.640 I'm going to give you a little backstory on myself 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.880 for those of you who might not know who I 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.960 am and just stumbled upon this show out of nowhere. Again, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.560 my name is Francine. I have been involved in the 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.480 wrestling business for thirty years now. I know it's hard 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.680 to believe, but it's true. I am an ECW original. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.440 I have also worked for the WWE. I have also 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:00.080 worked for TNA Wrestling, among other places, and we we 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.840 still get out there and do conventions and the occasional 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:09.120 show and podcasting has taken over my life. So I 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.560 am more than happy to be here and to share 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.800 not only my wrestling knowledge with you, because this is 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.840 primarily a wrestling podcast, but we like to call it 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.040 a lifestyle podcast because we literally talk about everything. My 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.560 love for Disney, my family, what I ate for dinner 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.000 last night, you know, our health problems. Like anything under 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.919 the sun you can think of, we discuss on here. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.000 Nothing is off limits. Sometimes you might be grossed out, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.840 sometimes you might be intrigued. It just depends on the day. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.160 But I am again happy to be here, and I 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.079 thank everybody who tuned in today, and hopefully you will 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.600 keep tuning in and tell your friends about us. So, Chad, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.480 why don't you give us a little bit of background 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.160 about yourself and then we could start the show. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.280 It's nice that you condense the thirty year wrestling career 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.200 into like get a minute in thirty five seconds. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.919 That's pretty good too. I'll take up the next ten 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.480 if you want, you know, I. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.040 Mean, if people want to look me up. You know, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.880 Google is your friend. But I'm not gonna sit here 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.960 and put myself over for a whole hour. It's just rude. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.919 Well allow me to be even more rude. I'll take 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.040 over that audience. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:20.239 No. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.800 I've been podcasting for about eight years. I've been in 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.240 broadcasting for about twenty. I've worked for WWE, I've worked 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.519 for The Howard Stern Show. I've worked for the Philadelphia 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.840 Phillies and NBC News. But on the wrestling side again, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.040 and in podcasting, I've interviewed who's who of professional wrestling 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.440 and been around the wrestling world myself for a number 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.960 of years. So to be paired with you like we 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.840 have for the last four has been the highlight for me. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.640 And we've done so much and we've had a lot 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.960 of good laughs, a lot of good times, and now 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.840 being here on iHeartMedia is to me the highlight, and 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.600 as you go along this journey with us, a lot 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.600 of the stories come out about my experience in addition 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:06.360 to Francine's lengthy and awesome thirty year career in wrestling. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.960 So I can compliment some. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.680 Stories in such a little tiny way, but my stories 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.600 will pop out as we go along as well. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.920 Yeah, and you know, I I just want to emphasize, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.960 like you can't always believe what you hear or read 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.720 on the internet. So my goal in having this podcast 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.800 is for my fans to get to know me on 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.320 a personal level and get to know the real fran Scene, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.440 not just the character that you've seen on TV for years. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.400 Because I'm telling you she was a real bitch. Nobody 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.400 liked her. She was called every name in the book. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.640 And while it was fun to play that character, that 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.280 is not me. And so I want to give you 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.240 guys an insight on my life. Bring you into you know, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.080 my home life, what's going on with my kids, my husband, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.159 my family, stuff like that, as well as the wrestling aspect. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.360 So yes, we will talk about tons of wrestling on 0:04:59.400 --> 0:04:59.839 this show. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:00.760 I will have. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.760 Special guests, like today, we have an awesome guest coming 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.920 up in just a couple minutes, but I get a 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.000 lot of my ECW family on here. We also get 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.960 people from the entertainment world. We've had actors, we've had musicians, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.800 we've had comedians, and I'm going to continue that trend 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.359 and try to get you the best interviews possible. So 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.960 really really looking forward to being with the iHeart family, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.679 and we have a lot more to come and really 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:35.320 excited about that. Wanted to just start off with a 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.239 plug if we can, because we have a big show 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.360 coming up and Chad, you're a part of this as well. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:48.800 I will be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh. Yes, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.000 I got the date right. I never get dates right. Awesome. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.720 So we're going to be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.040 We're going to be doing a signing from eleven to 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.640 one pm, So if anybody is in the area, come 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.359 on down and say hi. And I am looking forward 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.280 to meeting everyone down there. It's going to be a 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.960 blast again. Chad's going to be with me, and we're 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:14.040 going to be you know, promoting this podcast and promoting iHeart. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.719 Now that I'm part of the family, I will just 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.400 promote iHeart as much as I can, so hopefully I'll 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.480 see everybody down there and we'll put up a graphic 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.160 at the end of at the end of this podcast 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.720 to let you know the address and everything. But really 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.080 excited about getting back on the road. Been working on 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.200 a lot of dates for twenty twenty four. The big 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.839 one coming up is WrestleMania Weekend. We're going to be 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.120 in Philadelphia for that, and I'm hearing that it's going 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:50.400 to be a big thew reunion of sorts. My sources 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.120 tell me a lot of the guys will be booked 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.000 and we're going to be doing a lot of fun 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.280 things together. So that is the beginning of April, and 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.400 I cannot wait for that. But we are working on 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.839 other projects that I hope to be able to discuss soon. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.120 There's a lot on the horizon, you know, and it's 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.600 a pretty exciting time. And I'll be honest with you, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.760 at fifty one years old, I am flabbergasted that I 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.720 am getting all these opportunities to still, you know, get 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.800 out there and do things, and that people are still 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:28.720 interested in, you know, myself and ECW as a whole. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.679 So it's very humbling and I just want to thank 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.760 everybody for you know, sticking with me for this journey 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.239 for thirty going on thirty one years now. It's amazing. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.200 I can't believe it. I sit back and I think 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.720 to myself, how the heck did I ends up here? 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.560 You know, because it really that I never thought that 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.520 it would lead to something like this. You know, you 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.200 get your first action figure made and you're You're in 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.480 video games in the year twenty twenty three at fifty one, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.960 Like wow, you know, And I'm not trying to toot 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.720 my own horn. I'm amazed at myself. I can't believe 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.640 this is happening, Like you know, it's it's just it's 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.800 surreal and it's cool, and I'm very appreciative and I 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.360 can't wait to see what next year brings, because there's 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.120 always something new that comes in, some new opportunity on 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:24.960 the horizon. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:25.520 So it's great. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.520 Who would have ever thought how much the business evolved 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.800 from nineteen ninety four to now, right, Who would have ever 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.600 thought action figures would have taken off the way they have, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.000 because back in nineteen ninety four, it was only one 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.520 line of action figures or two line of action figures. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.360 Now there's thirty different people making them. And everybody and 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.720 their mother has them. And you guys now have the 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.960 ability to see different variations of yourself in action figure form, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.199 and it's cool to see I have different different attires, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.640 different sculpts, different molds, and things that you never could 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.920 have imagine now come to life, right. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.719 And I'll remember, you know, when we were in acw 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.760 my heart was broken because I was supposed to get 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.480 an action figure back in the nineties, and then they 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.080 told me, well, the girl figures don't sell, so we're 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.600 just going to go with the guys. And I was 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.280 just like, oh, how dare you? So? I never thought 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.400 i'd get my own action figure, but now you know, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.200 I have one, and there's other opportunities on the table 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.760 for more stuff, and it's just it's a it's a 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.720 fun time, you know, and I'm just so blessed that 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.520 I can be involved in stuff like this. So I'm 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.400 really happy, and you know, with the projects that I'm 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:42.120 working on now for next year, like unbelievable stuff is happening, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.600 and it's just it's it's so fun and I'm so 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.679 happy to be a part of the wrestling business still, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.120 because some people just tend to fizzle out and you 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.200 never see them again. You know, I try not to 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.760 be so in your face, but I want you to say, hey, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.040 how's it going, You're still around, glad to see it. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.080 That kind of thing. So it's it's fun to be involved. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.240 It's fun, fun to be involved, and anytime they get 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.480 to meet you, it is very fun. Unlike some other 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.800 superstars out there that it might not always be the 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.280 greatest experience, like we've talked about in the last few 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.040 weeks on Eyes up Here. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.400 Yeah, everybody has their own it like that. Like I 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.760 try to be happy and you know, so we're going 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.520 to email our guests now and get him because he's impatible. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.000 It's on the way, okay. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.559 He just texted me and was like waiting for email. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.120 It's coming on the way. Okay. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.960 Hey, the reception isn't what it's meant to be. Sometimes 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.480 in the basement, what can I say? 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:38.160 Or excuse me? 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.240 The Eyes up Here Studio Undiscos location. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:41.959 He is. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.280 He is not tardy to the party. He is ready 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:44.920 to rock and roll. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.880 That's great, So well let me give him an intro. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.240 Well wait till he pops up, because they just pop up. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.599 He's there, he's ready to rumble. Can we go? 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.040 I just want to wait. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.800 I'm just waiting to see if the lets make it 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.000 sure my reception isn't there? 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:03.319 We go? 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.800 This is where I'm about to tag out of the 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.280 entire I could have. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.560 Been talking about him for a minute. Now I know 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.240 him as Bubba. I will never call him Bully Ray. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.480 I am so sorry. I cannot call him Bully Ray. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.480 It is Bubba Ray Dudley to me now and forever. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.600 I can never call you Bully Ray ever. I don't 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.360 know why. I know that's your thing, but you will 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.400 always be Bubba to me. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:28.480 Are you talking to me? 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.800 I'm talking to you? 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:35.559 Are you talking to me? What do I amuse you? 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.360 We're live to tape. Okay, you know we're back in 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.560 back in E c W D's. I'm saying Bully Ray 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.040 like I can't get behind that name. I could never 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.040 get behind that name. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.040 Franny, you call me whatever you want to call you. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:49.880 Don't call me for dinner, kid. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.800 You know I haven't missed the meal in a long time. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:59.040 I think you look spelt can okay spelter? 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.720 Swelter? Then you swelter? How are you? 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:05.559 My friend? 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.280 I am great since the last time I saw you 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:10.160 a couple of weeks ago. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.880 Since you saw me then that was the first time 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.400 in a while, and I was very, very yes, it. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.560 Was no, not at the last autograss session. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.560 I saw you at the arena. That was the least time, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.319 no where. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.480 I just saw you at a signing when Devon took 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:27.920 a picture with your big butt. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.600 I said before that I hadn't seen you in a while. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.200 Oh, then it was at the arena. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.280 It was my peach butt. My butt looked so good 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:36.000 in that picture. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.800 I'm telling you, not too shabby for sixty two. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.400 It's how dare you? He won? Babe one? 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:46.600 You look amazing. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.480 I don't lie. Who cares like? I don't care? So 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.760 you know I want to talk to you, and I'm 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.760 not going to be like who trained you? 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.559 Please don't because I won't. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.080 Answer a million times we've been over there. The first 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.560 thing I want to discuss is because I don't really 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.960 know what happened. You just had a pay per view. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.920 You job to a girl. Good job, by the way, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:16.600 great thanks. What triggered the name change back to TNA 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.000 from Impact? For those of you who don't know, Bubba 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.120 works for Impact. They're on the up and up I 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.240 see in bigger buildings. I love it. But I saw 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.640 a very passionate promo from Scott the Moore where he 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.920 dropped like five F bombs. I was like, what is 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.080 this really necessary? I guess it was an F bomb. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.040 He has to donate five hundred dollars to charity. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:39.760 Is that is that why he does it? 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:40.320 Well? 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.960 I don't know why he does it, but that's what 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.079 he does. He will donate every F bomb five hundred 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:45.959 dollars to charity. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.720 I love that. That's nice, very nice. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:50.640 Why the name changed? 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.679 Ye? Why back to TNA. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.760 I think Impact Wrestling discovered that as they were negotiating 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:03.560 throughout the world to get Impact on, you know, into 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:08.760 certain markets, that the TNA name, those three letters still 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:15.640 had value. People like to chant TNA. Listen, the original 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:21.640 chant was ECW, but right after that it was TNA, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:28.560 and there are fans out there that still call it TNA. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:29.720 Yeah. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:35.200 So I believe that they are embracing their history and 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:40.000 that they're going to bring this name back because in 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:45.400 certain parts of the world like England and India, TNA 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.040 was more watched than the WWE. So I think they 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:55.880 want to see if they can take advantage of all 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.040 of the good press that they got in the past 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.920 from the name and move it forward. All the fans 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.160 that I have spoke to you so far, all of 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.240 the boys that I have spoke to so far, love 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.480 the fact that they've gone back to TNA. So I 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.880 believe it'll be called TNA, TNA Impact. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.760 Oh, Okay, So it's kind of like a merge. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.880 The company will be called TNA, but the name of 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.080 the TV show will be called Impact. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.440 Oh. I like that. That makes sense. I like that. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:27.920 See. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.720 I worked the first pay per view for them where 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.760 you had to pay, you had to pay ten dollars 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.840 to say the product that was back in the Nashville 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:43.280 fairground days. But it's been a while. And I saw 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.000 the picture from the pay per view this week and 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:50.680 we were we were kind of comparing aw's crowds to 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.720 the Impact crowds because my point was, they're showing all 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.080 these pictures of AW with all the empty seats, right, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:04.440 and I'm like, why isn't Tony Kahan getting smaller arenas 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.880 and making it look better for TV? And then we 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.120 pulled up a picture from the pay per view and 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:14.320 it looked fantastic. It looked fantastic on TV, and you know, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.640 there were people there, but it wasn't like the empty 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.360 seats and all this sudden. And I said, they're doing 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.840 it the right way. You know, even though you've, guys, 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.320 you've basically been around for what twenty something years now, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:32.160 you're still doing that slow build and it's working, and 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.680 I mean, everything looks great. Everybody I talked to says 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.200 they love the locker room and they love working there. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.200 I got to hang out with the girls one night 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.040 after one of the conventions. They were the sweetest things ever, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.040 and I said, well, if I was twenty years younger, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.480 I would love to be on the road with them. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.720 It just seems like such a fun like it reminded 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.920 me of VCW, like a fun locker room where like 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.000 not everybody's trying to stab you in the back. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:07.200 This is probably in my top two favorite locker rooms 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:12.399 of all time, top two, so ECW would be number 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:17.560 one obviously, because listen, ECW will always be special period, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.359 end of story. I don't care who thinks differently than me. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.560 It is what it is. We changed wrestling history forever. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.120 Blah blah blah. If you don't like it, go fuck yourself. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.040 That's just the truth. It is what it is. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:43.840 This locker room is so it's just nice. Everybody gets along. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:52.040 There is a healthy competitiveness to go out there and 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.280 have the best match of the night. In ECW, I 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.199 do believe there was a healthy competitiveness, but we still 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:08.840 had veterans there who might have had an agenda or two. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.720 And I'm talking about a small amount of veterans there, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.159 small amount. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.800 I don't see any agendas here. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:25.280 The creative team and the talent work so well together. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:33.760 Ideas are listened to. They're not just schleuffed off. It's 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:40.280 a good bunch of guys and gals. TNA is smart 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.040 enough to run smaller buildings, and I don't even know 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.200 if I can call them that smart because they haven't 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:52.400 had a choice. They've had to run smaller buildings because 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.080 they have not been doing as well in the past year. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.800 TNA truly has earned around, and I think it's because 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:08.760 they brought in some names to work with their homegrown talent, 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.960 or the younger talent there, or the established talent there. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.560 Because every locker room needs a good mixture of veterans, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:21.200 homegrown women who can wrestle the whole nine yards and 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.720 I think that's what you're getting from TNA right now 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.960 as far as aw and the small houses. First of all, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:36.280 people who take pictures of any wrestling company's arena to 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.480 show that there's nobody there are pieces of shit and 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.119 don't belong as a part of the wrestling community because 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:48.960 they're not doing the wrestling community any good. Every major 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.760 wrestling company in the history of wrestling companies has their 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.719 ups and their downs. You have your sellouts, and you 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:02.000 have your nights where next to nobody shows up. So 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.080 this this, this industry will always be a giant roller coaster. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.000 Sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're not. It can all be 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.240 like you, Francy, and it'd be hot all the time. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.159 Well, Babe, I never said I was, but I agree 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.119 with you one hundred on that. I you know, we 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.879 just got sent pictures and we brought it up, and 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.520 that's exactly what I said. I said, you know they're 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.399 having an off night. You know, you can have a 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.600 night where you draw fifteen thousand. You can go to 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.919 I don't know, somewhere in buff Uck, Louisiana, and you 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.159 draw five thousand, your house goes down. It just depends 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.520 on your demographic and where you are, and but everybody, 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.040 you know, we want them to fail. This is the 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.160 demise of this company. And I was like, why would 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.639 you want something to fail? You want all these people 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.439 to be out of jobs? Like, how hateful are you? 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:51.600 It doesn't make sense to me. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.080 These the people who want to see any one particular 0:20:55.160 --> 0:21:01.199 wrestling company fail are failures in their own life. Him 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.320 and misery loves company. So they need to be able 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.080 to sit there and hide behind a profile picture of 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:16.200 SpongeBob SquarePants with thirteen followers and talk crap and post 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.120 pictures and do whatever they do because when they look 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.560 in the mirror, they're miserable and probably want to run 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.200 full speed into a brick wall. Not that half these 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.720 people could run anyway, because they lack athletic ability. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:35.520 Period In facts, He's. 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:39.240 You know, aw is the same as any other company. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.040 They're going to have their peaks, they're going to have 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:46.760 their valleys. Now, if they're seeing that the valleys are 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:51.800 continuing and they're booking themselves in twelve to fifteen thousand 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:56.639 seed arenas and they're only getting a couple of thousand people, yes, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.240 then they might want to think about scaling back to 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:08.240 smaller venues, or cut the venues down even tighter. Listen, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:13.040 you can be in Madison Square Garden, but you could 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:17.720 cut that arena down to an eighth of its size 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.800 if you wanted to, and just put twenty five hundred. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:23.719 People in there, sure, and it'll look packed. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.600 Or you cannot pay Madison Square Gardens rent, you know, 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.359 and go someplace, or go to the mid Huffinson Civic 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:32.359 Center in Poughkeepsie. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.080 Love that building and there's nothing wrong with it. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:42.480 But if you're if your ego can't handle the shit 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:44.960 that's going to be said on social media about the 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:49.960 scaling back, then you're going to have an issue. It's 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.959 not this business is not great all the time, and 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:55.720 it doesn't suck all the time. 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.560 You just have to learn how to ride it. 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:02.000 I want to ask you a question about you because 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:05.439 this is a question that I get from so many people, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:10.919