Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, his eyes up here. I am between the
Speaker 1: extreme crean scene and I am so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: When iHeartRadio, I am joined by my co host Chad Dad.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the excitement in the air.
Speaker 2: The excitement is so thick you could cut it with
Speaker 2: a knife.
Speaker 1: We have been waiting for this launch for it seems
Speaker 1: like forever. I know it's only been a month or two,
Speaker 1: but I have been just waiting to be part of
Speaker 1: the iHeart family. And now I am here along with you,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't be happier. I am thrilled.
Speaker 3: This is great, This is awesome.
Speaker 2: I agree, it's been it feels like a long time coming,
Speaker 2: but it's just been great, the anticipation and the excitement.
Speaker 2: And now it's here, and I think we're all ready
Speaker 2: to party. Party with iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3: We're already to roll.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're static to be here. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: now for four years and I feel like we've hit
Speaker 1: the big time. You know, it's great. We're really happy
Speaker 1: to be here. I want to thank those who have
Speaker 1: come along with us for this journey. To our new subscribers, welcome,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a little backstory on myself
Speaker 1: for those of you who might not know who I
Speaker 1: am and just stumbled upon this show out of nowhere. Again,
Speaker 1: my name is Francine. I have been involved in the
Speaker 1: wrestling business for thirty years now. I know it's hard
Speaker 1: to believe, but it's true. I am an ECW original.
Speaker 1: I have also worked for the WWE. I have also
Speaker 1: worked for TNA Wrestling, among other places, and we we
Speaker 1: still get out there and do conventions and the occasional
Speaker 1: show and podcasting has taken over my life. So I
Speaker 1: am more than happy to be here and to share
Speaker 1: not only my wrestling knowledge with you, because this is
Speaker 1: primarily a wrestling podcast, but we like to call it
Speaker 1: a lifestyle podcast because we literally talk about everything. My
Speaker 1: love for Disney, my family, what I ate for dinner
Speaker 1: last night, you know, our health problems. Like anything under
Speaker 1: the sun you can think of, we discuss on here.
Speaker 1: Nothing is off limits. Sometimes you might be grossed out,
Speaker 1: sometimes you might be intrigued. It just depends on the day.
Speaker 1: But I am again happy to be here, and I
Speaker 1: thank everybody who tuned in today, and hopefully you will
Speaker 1: keep tuning in and tell your friends about us. So, Chad,
Speaker 1: why don't you give us a little bit of background
Speaker 1: about yourself and then we could start the show.
Speaker 2: It's nice that you condense the thirty year wrestling career
Speaker 2: into like get a minute in thirty five seconds.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good too. I'll take up the next ten
Speaker 3: if you want, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, if people want to look me up. You know,
Speaker 1: Google is your friend. But I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and put myself over for a whole hour. It's just rude.
Speaker 3: Well allow me to be even more rude. I'll take
Speaker 3: over that audience.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I've been podcasting for about eight years. I've been in
Speaker 2: broadcasting for about twenty. I've worked for WWE, I've worked
Speaker 2: for The Howard Stern Show. I've worked for the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Phillies and NBC News. But on the wrestling side again,
Speaker 2: and in podcasting, I've interviewed who's who of professional wrestling
Speaker 2: and been around the wrestling world myself for a number
Speaker 2: of years. So to be paired with you like we
Speaker 2: have for the last four has been the highlight for me.
Speaker 2: And we've done so much and we've had a lot
Speaker 2: of good laughs, a lot of good times, and now
Speaker 2: being here on iHeartMedia is to me the highlight, and
Speaker 2: as you go along this journey with us, a lot
Speaker 2: of the stories come out about my experience in addition
Speaker 2: to Francine's lengthy and awesome thirty year career in wrestling.
Speaker 3: So I can compliment some.
Speaker 2: Stories in such a little tiny way, but my stories
Speaker 2: will pop out as we go along as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I I just want to emphasize,
Speaker 1: like you can't always believe what you hear or read
Speaker 1: on the internet. So my goal in having this podcast
Speaker 1: is for my fans to get to know me on
Speaker 1: a personal level and get to know the real fran Scene,
Speaker 1: not just the character that you've seen on TV for years.
Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you she was a real bitch. Nobody
Speaker 1: liked her. She was called every name in the book.
Speaker 1: And while it was fun to play that character, that
Speaker 1: is not me. And so I want to give you
Speaker 1: guys an insight on my life. Bring you into you know,
Speaker 1: my home life, what's going on with my kids, my husband,
Speaker 1: my family, stuff like that, as well as the wrestling aspect.
Speaker 1: So yes, we will talk about tons of wrestling on
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 4: I will have.
Speaker 1: Special guests, like today, we have an awesome guest coming
Speaker 1: up in just a couple minutes, but I get a
Speaker 1: lot of my ECW family on here. We also get
Speaker 1: people from the entertainment world. We've had actors, we've had musicians,
Speaker 1: we've had comedians, and I'm going to continue that trend
Speaker 1: and try to get you the best interviews possible. So
Speaker 1: really really looking forward to being with the iHeart family,
Speaker 1: and we have a lot more to come and really
Speaker 1: excited about that. Wanted to just start off with a
Speaker 1: plug if we can, because we have a big show
Speaker 1: coming up and Chad, you're a part of this as well.
Speaker 1: I will be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got the date right. I never get dates right. Awesome.
Speaker 1: So we're going to be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh.
Speaker 1: We're going to be doing a signing from eleven to
Speaker 1: one pm, So if anybody is in the area, come
Speaker 1: on down and say hi. And I am looking forward
Speaker 1: to meeting everyone down there. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: blast again. Chad's going to be with me, and we're
Speaker 1: going to be you know, promoting this podcast and promoting iHeart.
Speaker 1: Now that I'm part of the family, I will just
Speaker 1: promote iHeart as much as I can, so hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: see everybody down there and we'll put up a graphic
Speaker 1: at the end of at the end of this podcast
Speaker 1: to let you know the address and everything. But really
Speaker 1: excited about getting back on the road. Been working on
Speaker 1: a lot of dates for twenty twenty four. The big
Speaker 1: one coming up is WrestleMania Weekend. We're going to be
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia for that, and I'm hearing that it's going
Speaker 1: to be a big thew reunion of sorts. My sources
Speaker 1: tell me a lot of the guys will be booked
Speaker 1: and we're going to be doing a lot of fun
Speaker 1: things together. So that is the beginning of April, and
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for that. But we are working on
Speaker 1: other projects that I hope to be able to discuss soon.
Speaker 1: There's a lot on the horizon, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: a pretty exciting time. And I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: at fifty one years old, I am flabbergasted that I
Speaker 1: am getting all these opportunities to still, you know, get
Speaker 1: out there and do things, and that people are still
Speaker 1: interested in, you know, myself and ECW as a whole.
Speaker 1: So it's very humbling and I just want to thank
Speaker 1: everybody for you know, sticking with me for this journey
Speaker 1: for thirty going on thirty one years now. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I sit back and I think
Speaker 1: to myself, how the heck did I ends up here?
Speaker 1: You know, because it really that I never thought that
Speaker 1: it would lead to something like this. You know, you
Speaker 1: get your first action figure made and you're You're in
Speaker 1: video games in the year twenty twenty three at fifty one,
Speaker 1: Like wow, you know, And I'm not trying to toot
Speaker 1: my own horn. I'm amazed at myself. I can't believe
Speaker 1: this is happening, Like you know, it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: surreal and it's cool, and I'm very appreciative and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what next year brings, because there's
Speaker 1: always something new that comes in, some new opportunity on
Speaker 1: the horizon.
Speaker 4: So it's great.
Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought how much the business evolved
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety four to now, right, Who would have ever
Speaker 2: thought action figures would have taken off the way they have,
Speaker 2: because back in nineteen ninety four, it was only one
Speaker 2: line of action figures or two line of action figures.
Speaker 2: Now there's thirty different people making them. And everybody and
Speaker 2: their mother has them. And you guys now have the
Speaker 2: ability to see different variations of yourself in action figure form,
Speaker 2: and it's cool to see I have different different attires,
Speaker 2: different sculpts, different molds, and things that you never could
Speaker 2: have imagine now come to life, right.
Speaker 1: And I'll remember, you know, when we were in acw
Speaker 1: my heart was broken because I was supposed to get
Speaker 1: an action figure back in the nineties, and then they
Speaker 1: told me, well, the girl figures don't sell, so we're
Speaker 1: just going to go with the guys. And I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, how dare you? So? I never thought
Speaker 1: i'd get my own action figure, but now you know,
Speaker 1: I have one, and there's other opportunities on the table
Speaker 1: for more stuff, and it's just it's a it's a
Speaker 1: fun time, you know, and I'm just so blessed that
Speaker 1: I can be involved in stuff like this. So I'm
Speaker 1: really happy, and you know, with the projects that I'm
Speaker 1: working on now for next year, like unbelievable stuff is happening,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's it's so fun and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to be a part of the wrestling business still,
Speaker 1: because some people just tend to fizzle out and you
Speaker 1: never see them again. You know, I try not to
Speaker 1: be so in your face, but I want you to say, hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going, You're still around, glad to see it.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. So it's it's fun to be involved.
Speaker 2: It's fun, fun to be involved, and anytime they get
Speaker 2: to meet you, it is very fun. Unlike some other
Speaker 2: superstars out there that it might not always be the
Speaker 2: greatest experience, like we've talked about in the last few
Speaker 2: weeks on Eyes up Here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody has their own it like that. Like I
Speaker 1: try to be happy and you know, so we're going
Speaker 1: to email our guests now and get him because he's impatible.
Speaker 3: It's on the way, okay.
Speaker 1: He just texted me and was like waiting for email.
Speaker 1: It's coming on the way. Okay.
Speaker 2: Hey, the reception isn't what it's meant to be. Sometimes
Speaker 2: in the basement, what can I say?
Speaker 1: Or excuse me?
Speaker 3: The Eyes up Here Studio Undiscos location.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 1: He is not tardy to the party. He is ready
Speaker 1: to rock and roll.
Speaker 3: That's great, So well let me give him an intro.
Speaker 3: Well wait till he pops up, because they just pop up.
Speaker 1: He's there, he's ready to rumble. Can we go?
Speaker 3: I just want to wait.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting to see if the lets make it
Speaker 2: sure my reception isn't there?
Speaker 4: We go?
Speaker 3: This is where I'm about to tag out of the
Speaker 3: entire I could have.
Speaker 1: Been talking about him for a minute. Now I know
Speaker 1: him as Bubba. I will never call him Bully Ray.
Speaker 1: I am so sorry. I cannot call him Bully Ray.
Speaker 1: It is Bubba Ray Dudley to me now and forever.
Speaker 1: I can never call you Bully Ray ever. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I know that's your thing, but you will
Speaker 1: always be Bubba to me.
Speaker 4: Are you talking to me?
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you?
Speaker 5: Are you talking to me? What do I amuse you?
Speaker 1: We're live to tape. Okay, you know we're back in
Speaker 1: back in E c W D's. I'm saying Bully Ray
Speaker 1: like I can't get behind that name. I could never
Speaker 1: get behind that name.
Speaker 4: Franny, you call me whatever you want to call you.
Speaker 1: Don't call me for dinner, kid.
Speaker 4: You know I haven't missed the meal in a long time.
Speaker 1: I think you look spelt can okay spelter?
Speaker 4: Swelter? Then you swelter? How are you?
Speaker 1: My friend?
Speaker 4: I am great since the last time I saw you
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Since you saw me then that was the first time
Speaker 1: in a while, and I was very, very yes, it.
Speaker 4: Was no, not at the last autograss session.
Speaker 1: I saw you at the arena. That was the least time,
Speaker 1: no where.
Speaker 5: I just saw you at a signing when Devon took
Speaker 5: a picture with your big butt.
Speaker 1: I said before that I hadn't seen you in a while.
Speaker 4: Oh, then it was at the arena.
Speaker 1: It was my peach butt. My butt looked so good
Speaker 1: in that picture.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, not too shabby for sixty two.
Speaker 1: It's how dare you? He won? Babe one?
Speaker 4: You look amazing.
Speaker 1: I don't lie. Who cares like? I don't care? So
Speaker 1: you know I want to talk to you, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be like who trained you?
Speaker 4: Please don't because I won't.
Speaker 1: Answer a million times we've been over there. The first
Speaker 1: thing I want to discuss is because I don't really
Speaker 1: know what happened. You just had a pay per view.
Speaker 1: You job to a girl. Good job, by the way,
Speaker 1: great thanks. What triggered the name change back to TNA
Speaker 1: from Impact? For those of you who don't know, Bubba
Speaker 1: works for Impact. They're on the up and up I
Speaker 1: see in bigger buildings. I love it. But I saw
Speaker 1: a very passionate promo from Scott the Moore where he
Speaker 1: dropped like five F bombs. I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this really necessary? I guess it was an F bomb.
Speaker 4: He has to donate five hundred dollars to charity.
Speaker 1: Is that is that why he does it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I don't know why he does it, but that's what
Speaker 5: he does. He will donate every F bomb five hundred
Speaker 5: dollars to charity.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's nice, very nice.
Speaker 4: Why the name changed?
Speaker 1: Ye? Why back to TNA.
Speaker 5: I think Impact Wrestling discovered that as they were negotiating
Speaker 5: throughout the world to get Impact on, you know, into
Speaker 5: certain markets, that the TNA name, those three letters still
Speaker 5: had value. People like to chant TNA. Listen, the original
Speaker 5: chant was ECW, but right after that it was TNA,
Speaker 5: and there are fans out there that still call it TNA.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I believe that they are embracing their history and
Speaker 5: that they're going to bring this name back because in
Speaker 5: certain parts of the world like England and India, TNA
Speaker 5: was more watched than the WWE. So I think they
Speaker 5: want to see if they can take advantage of all
Speaker 5: of the good press that they got in the past
Speaker 5: from the name and move it forward. All the fans
Speaker 5: that I have spoke to you so far, all of
Speaker 5: the boys that I have spoke to so far, love
Speaker 5: the fact that they've gone back to TNA. So I
Speaker 5: believe it'll be called TNA, TNA Impact.
Speaker 1: Oh, Okay, So it's kind of like a merge.
Speaker 5: The company will be called TNA, but the name of
Speaker 5: the TV show will be called Impact.
Speaker 1: Oh. I like that. That makes sense. I like that.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 1: I worked the first pay per view for them where
Speaker 1: you had to pay, you had to pay ten dollars
Speaker 1: to say the product that was back in the Nashville
Speaker 1: fairground days. But it's been a while. And I saw
Speaker 1: the picture from the pay per view this week and
Speaker 1: we were we were kind of comparing aw's crowds to
Speaker 1: the Impact crowds because my point was, they're showing all
Speaker 1: these pictures of AW with all the empty seats, right,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why isn't Tony Kahan getting smaller arenas
Speaker 1: and making it look better for TV? And then we
Speaker 1: pulled up a picture from the pay per view and
Speaker 1: it looked fantastic. It looked fantastic on TV, and you know,
Speaker 1: there were people there, but it wasn't like the empty
Speaker 1: seats and all this sudden. And I said, they're doing
Speaker 1: it the right way. You know, even though you've, guys,
Speaker 1: you've basically been around for what twenty something years now,
Speaker 1: you're still doing that slow build and it's working, and
Speaker 1: I mean, everything looks great. Everybody I talked to says
Speaker 1: they love the locker room and they love working there.
Speaker 1: I got to hang out with the girls one night
Speaker 1: after one of the conventions. They were the sweetest things ever,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, if I was twenty years younger,
Speaker 1: I would love to be on the road with them.
Speaker 1: It just seems like such a fun like it reminded
Speaker 1: me of VCW, like a fun locker room where like
Speaker 1: not everybody's trying to stab you in the back.
Speaker 5: This is probably in my top two favorite locker rooms
Speaker 5: of all time, top two, so ECW would be number
Speaker 5: one obviously, because listen, ECW will always be special period,
Speaker 5: end of story. I don't care who thinks differently than me.
Speaker 5: It is what it is. We changed wrestling history forever.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah. If you don't like it, go fuck yourself.
Speaker 4: That's just the truth. It is what it is.
Speaker 5: This locker room is so it's just nice. Everybody gets along.
Speaker 5: There is a healthy competitiveness to go out there and
Speaker 5: have the best match of the night. In ECW, I
Speaker 5: do believe there was a healthy competitiveness, but we still
Speaker 5: had veterans there who might have had an agenda or two.
Speaker 5: And I'm talking about a small amount of veterans there,
Speaker 5: small amount.
Speaker 4: I don't see any agendas here.
Speaker 5: The creative team and the talent work so well together.
Speaker 5: Ideas are listened to. They're not just schleuffed off. It's
Speaker 5: a good bunch of guys and gals. TNA is smart
Speaker 5: enough to run smaller buildings, and I don't even know
Speaker 5: if I can call them that smart because they haven't
Speaker 5: had a choice. They've had to run smaller buildings because
Speaker 5: they have not been doing as well in the past year.
Speaker 5: TNA truly has earned around, and I think it's because
Speaker 5: they brought in some names to work with their homegrown talent,
Speaker 5: or the younger talent there, or the established talent there.
Speaker 5: Because every locker room needs a good mixture of veterans,
Speaker 5: homegrown women who can wrestle the whole nine yards and
Speaker 5: I think that's what you're getting from TNA right now
Speaker 5: as far as aw and the small houses. First of all,
Speaker 5: people who take pictures of any wrestling company's arena to
Speaker 5: show that there's nobody there are pieces of shit and
Speaker 5: don't belong as a part of the wrestling community because
Speaker 5: they're not doing the wrestling community any good. Every major
Speaker 5: wrestling company in the history of wrestling companies has their
Speaker 5: ups and their downs. You have your sellouts, and you
Speaker 5: have your nights where next to nobody shows up. So
Speaker 5: this this, this industry will always be a giant roller coaster.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're not. It can all be
Speaker 5: like you, Francy, and it'd be hot all the time.
Speaker 1: Well, Babe, I never said I was, but I agree
Speaker 1: with you one hundred on that. I you know, we
Speaker 1: just got sent pictures and we brought it up, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I said. I said, you know they're
Speaker 1: having an off night. You know, you can have a
Speaker 1: night where you draw fifteen thousand. You can go to
Speaker 1: I don't know, somewhere in buff Uck, Louisiana, and you
Speaker 1: draw five thousand, your house goes down. It just depends
Speaker 1: on your demographic and where you are, and but everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, we want them to fail. This is the
Speaker 1: demise of this company. And I was like, why would
Speaker 1: you want something to fail? You want all these people
Speaker 1: to be out of jobs? Like, how hateful are you?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 5: These the people who want to see any one particular
Speaker 5: wrestling company fail are failures in their own life. Him
Speaker 5: and misery loves company. So they need to be able
Speaker 5: to sit there and hide behind a profile picture of
Speaker 5: SpongeBob SquarePants with thirteen followers and talk crap and post
Speaker 5: pictures and do whatever they do because when they look
Speaker 5: in the mirror, they're miserable and probably want to run
Speaker 5: full speed into a brick wall. Not that half these
Speaker 5: people could run anyway, because they lack athletic ability.
Speaker 6: Period In facts, He's.
Speaker 5: You know, aw is the same as any other company.
Speaker 5: They're going to have their peaks, they're going to have
Speaker 5: their valleys. Now, if they're seeing that the valleys are
Speaker 5: continuing and they're booking themselves in twelve to fifteen thousand
Speaker 5: seed arenas and they're only getting a couple of thousand people, yes,
Speaker 5: then they might want to think about scaling back to
Speaker 5: smaller venues, or cut the venues down even tighter. Listen,
Speaker 5: you can be in Madison Square Garden, but you could
Speaker 5: cut that arena down to an eighth of its size
Speaker 5: if you wanted to, and just put twenty five hundred.
Speaker 4: People in there, sure, and it'll look packed.
Speaker 5: Or you cannot pay Madison Square Gardens rent, you know,
Speaker 5: and go someplace, or go to the mid Huffinson Civic
Speaker 5: Center in Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 4: Love that building and there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 5: But if you're if your ego can't handle the shit
Speaker 5: that's going to be said on social media about the
Speaker 5: scaling back, then you're going to have an issue. It's
Speaker 5: not this business is not great all the time, and
Speaker 5: it doesn't suck all the time.
Speaker 4: You just have to learn how to ride it.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question about you because
Speaker 1: this is a question that I get from so many people,
Speaker 1: and when I give my honest answer, I get something
Speaker 1: different back. And I don't know where it comes from
Speaker 1: because the bubba I know, and I'm gonna put you over.
Speaker 1: We've been friends for a very long time, right, and
Speaker 1: I see you as not only like knowledgeable in the business, right,
Speaker 1: but I see you as having a good heart, and
Speaker 1: we've had so much fun together when we hang out
Speaker 1: and you're funny, and you know, you're talkative, and we
Speaker 1: can talk about anything under the sun. And when I
Speaker 1: tell that to certain people, you're talking about Bubba, You're
Speaker 1: talking about Bully Ray. Why do I get such an
Speaker 1: attitude from people when I mention your name?
Speaker 5: Because people don't know who the real me is. That's
Speaker 5: first and foremost. I'm an old school wrestler. If I'm
Speaker 5: a heel, when you meet me in person in real life,
Speaker 5: you're getting the person that you see on TV. Because
Speaker 5: the last thing I ever wanted is people to go,
Speaker 5: oh my god, I met Bubba Ray Dudley or Bully Ray.
Speaker 5: He's so nice. Well that just killed all the credibility
Speaker 5: of what I've done on TV.
Speaker 1: Well, what about promoters? What about him?
Speaker 5: You find me a promoter that I have worked with
Speaker 5: that has something bad to say about me?
Speaker 1: Okay, so they have to work with you.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing, Francine, I am so straight up with
Speaker 5: the way I do business right. I don't deviate. Here's
Speaker 5: the price. Here's what I'm gonna do. If you try
Speaker 5: to get over on me. I am going to verbally eviscerate.
Speaker 1: You, and I one hundred percent agree with you on that.
Speaker 5: So these promoters see that they can't if a promoter
Speaker 5: tries to get over on me and I tell them no,
Speaker 5: or they conveniently forget to tell me something like, oh,
Speaker 5: didn't I tell you about this extra stack of three
Speaker 5: hundred pictures I need to sign, No, you didn't. Thus
Speaker 5: I'm not signing them.
Speaker 1: That just happened to me. Same thing three hundred trading cards.
Speaker 4: I work with.
Speaker 5: I work with plenty of promoters who know as long
Speaker 5: as they're straight up with me, I'm straight up with them.
Speaker 5: And I don't like to go do a million and
Speaker 5: one things. I keep myself what I do and what
Speaker 5: me and Devon do. I keep it exclusive so that
Speaker 5: when you do see us, it's special. I'm not going
Speaker 5: to do every Tom Dick and Harry's, you know, autograph
Speaker 5: session or indie show or anything like that. So if
Speaker 5: any of the promoters that ever come up to you
Speaker 5: that might have some derogatory things to say about me,
Speaker 5: put them on your podcast with me.
Speaker 4: Oh and I'd be more than happy to put them
Speaker 4: in their place.
Speaker 1: I might have to do that so we can get
Speaker 1: a return visit out of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people in the wrestling business cannot
Speaker 5: handle straight up good business because a lot of promoters
Speaker 5: try to get.
Speaker 4: Over on the boys. And you know this, I do.
Speaker 4: I'm sure promoters have tried to get over on you.
Speaker 1: They just did with the training they put. There was
Speaker 1: a stack of cards and I sat down and the
Speaker 1: guy was like, And the funny part was half the
Speaker 1: cards were Shane and I. So it was the split
Speaker 1: signature thing. So Shane had already signed them, and I said,
Speaker 1: what is this and the guy goes, oh, just sign them.
Speaker 1: I said, am I getting paid? And the guy goes, well, no,
Speaker 1: you're the guy that brought you in is getting the money?
Speaker 1: I said for my signature. This wasn't part of the deal.
Speaker 1: So if I didn't sign those cards, they couldn't be
Speaker 1: sold because Sheen's autograph was on it, but mine wasn't.
Speaker 1: I held out until he paid me, as you should.
Speaker 5: Right, You're in the Francene business, and Francene deserves to
Speaker 5: make money on her pictures, her autographs, whatever it is
Speaker 5: you want to sell. Now, if somebody comes up to me,
Speaker 5: if a promoter comes up to me and says, hey, Bubba,
Speaker 5: I want you to sign for two hours, and then
Speaker 5: I have like an extra ten mail orders that I'd
Speaker 5: like you to sign. I'll ask him what the mail
Speaker 5: orders are or if they want me to sign a
Speaker 5: couple extra things, And nine out of ten times the answer.
Speaker 1: Is yes, because he told you.
Speaker 4: You tell me up front. We have no problems.
Speaker 5: It's not like, oh, by the way, no, oh by
Speaker 5: the way, go fuck yourself.
Speaker 1: I know, well, it's funny, and I'm switching gears a
Speaker 1: little bit. I try to find and we didn't find it,
Speaker 1: did we try? So I tried to find this video
Speaker 1: of us because my next question was, and I know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, because you just did it on
Speaker 1: the pay per view when we did a house show.
Speaker 1: And this is back in maybe ninety I don't know,
Speaker 1: ninety six, ninety seven something around there. I beat up
Speaker 1: all of the Dudleys, and I don't remember where we were,
Speaker 1: but I remember I did something the big Dick. I
Speaker 1: did something to Devon and then you let me give
Speaker 1: you a diamond cutter and laid you guys all out,
Speaker 1: and then I ended up carrying Spike to the back right,
Speaker 1: and I remember after we were done, I went to
Speaker 1: each you, and I apologized because I was always scared
Speaker 1: that the boys were gonna resent me for an idea
Speaker 1: that Paul had. Did you ever get mad like by
Speaker 1: having to put like a girl over or having somebody
Speaker 1: less stature? Like? I know it's the business, but some
Speaker 1: of the guys had a chip on their shoulder about it.
Speaker 1: You know, she's a girl, why should she beat you know?
Speaker 1: Why should she beat me up or pin me in
Speaker 1: the ring?
Speaker 5: Well, I've never had a problem with what you did
Speaker 5: to us that night because I don't even remember that happening.
Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to show the video of it.
Speaker 4: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It's the house show it was. It was like a
Speaker 1: quick little thing and for some reason Paul, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Shane was injured and I didn't have anything
Speaker 1: to do, and he said, oh, let's just go pop
Speaker 1: the crowd and you go beat up all the Dudleys.
Speaker 4: And I was like what, And I was.
Speaker 1: So afraid I was going to get heat for it,
Speaker 1: But I didn't know this.
Speaker 5: Is This is an art form, and this art can
Speaker 5: be whatever we want.
Speaker 4: It to be.
Speaker 5: Rules still apply to this art form. But if you
Speaker 5: do something the right way, you can get away with it.
Speaker 5: What is your nickname? What was your nickname to this day,
Speaker 5: the Queen of extreme, the Queen of extreme. So if
Speaker 5: you're supposed to be this tough bitch who has been
Speaker 5: was the first girl that I know that ever got
Speaker 5: super bombed through a table, If you're supposed to be
Speaker 5: this tough and this much of a badass with cans
Speaker 5: out to here.
Speaker 4: Then it's eyes up here, eyes up here.
Speaker 5: And as my good friend Tony Storm says, chin up
Speaker 5: kit's out, big mark for Tony Storm. So then yeah,
Speaker 5: if you're this tough of a girl, then yeah, on
Speaker 5: a given night, you might be able to get in
Speaker 5: a couple of shots on the boys. Are we doing
Speaker 5: it every night? Absolutely not now. At the pay per
Speaker 5: view The Battle Royal, The Gauntlet Battle Royal, it came
Speaker 5: down to myself and Jordan Grace bully right six with
Speaker 5: three three hundred pounds. Jordan Grace is five two, a
Speaker 5: buco to soaking wet with a brick in a pocket.
Speaker 7: Okay, but she's a former powerlifter, she's a former bodybuilder,
Speaker 7: and on that moment, on that given night, the sun
Speaker 7: shined on her and she had her personal best lift
Speaker 7: when you competitive powerlifters, competitive weightlifters, they have what's called
Speaker 7: a PR, a personal record or a PB, a personal
Speaker 7: best that means you could lift that weight one time
Speaker 7: in that one moment.
Speaker 5: You may never be able to do it again, but
Speaker 5: in that one moment in time, you were able to
Speaker 5: get that personal best. That's what Jordan Grace had. She
Speaker 5: had her personal best record and was able to hit
Speaker 5: me with that move. And that's why it makes sense, right.
Speaker 5: But if you have girls just going out there just
Speaker 5: beating the shit out of all these men, it's not
Speaker 5: that believable unless your name was China. Can I see
Speaker 5: Charlotte Flair wrestling a guy and stretching them? Absolutely? Can
Speaker 5: I see Ria Ripley fighting a guy and beating the
Speaker 5: shit out of them? Absolutely? But it can't be every
Speaker 5: single night. There's ways to do it, and when done
Speaker 5: right with the right psychology, I believe it's acceptable. But
Speaker 5: there's a lot of girls wrestling guys right now who
Speaker 5: are just doing stuff that like a tiny little girl
Speaker 5: can't give a bigger guy nine Canadian destroyers in a row.
Speaker 5: It just makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nine's too many? Just eight? Yeah, I know you
Speaker 1: said something that triggered me at the signing. You had
Speaker 1: asked me about the super bomb through the table and
Speaker 1: how I landed and if I have pain from it,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I told you, I said, every
Speaker 1: time I see Gary Wolf, he always tells me how
Speaker 1: much Anthony protects at me. And I never felt the
Speaker 1: same way. I never I never felt like I was
Speaker 1: protected on that bump. And when you said that, it
Speaker 1: made me feel like I was justified in my thoughts
Speaker 1: because you know, I said to myself, is it me?
Speaker 1: Is there something going on? But when you told me that,
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I'm glad somebody else realized that
Speaker 1: there was something off on that because, like I said,
Speaker 1: to this day, I still have problems with my tail
Speaker 1: boone and my lower back and the arthritis and this
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. But I always felt guilty
Speaker 1: for feeling that way because and I love Gary. I
Speaker 1: never had heat with Gary Anthony. That's another story. God.
Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, I like Anthony and Gary
Speaker 5: coming up work with the pit Bulls. You know, good dudes,
Speaker 5: But nobody has mastered the art of putting somebody through
Speaker 5: a table like I have. And that's not me blowing
Speaker 5: smoke up my own ass. It's just a fact I
Speaker 5: have had more women in my hands, and seriously, I
Speaker 5: have had more women's in my hands that I have
Speaker 5: super bombed through tables than anybody else, and nobody else
Speaker 5: Francine has even tried it. Yeah, you might get a
Speaker 5: guy who gives a girl a standing power bomb, but
Speaker 5: you'll never see somebody sit on the top rope and
Speaker 5: do the sit out one that I do. And I'll
Speaker 5: never throw a woman the way you got thrown because
Speaker 5: it's almost impossible because of trajectory to land a woman
Speaker 5: or a man for that matter, flat.
Speaker 4: It is a little easier with.
Speaker 5: A dude because a heavier dude will go south before
Speaker 5: they head out. I can get a heavier dude to
Speaker 5: go straight down a lighter woman. The minute I come off,
Speaker 5: her body will want to float out, and your body floated,
Speaker 5: and that's why you landed on your tailbone. I believe
Speaker 5: that Anthony, Gary and Anthony had all the best intentions
Speaker 5: for you. I mean I don't. I don't know they
Speaker 5: Maybe they didn't, but I don't know that. All I
Speaker 5: know is I've seen you. After years and years of
Speaker 5: doing this and seeing how you landed, I can tell
Speaker 5: you I'm not surprised if your hips were broken or
Speaker 5: at a whack for your entire life, because you landed
Speaker 5: on your talbone and your hips, and just one of
Speaker 5: those bumps can bang you up for the rest of
Speaker 5: your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I broke my pelvis right after that, so
Speaker 1: it kind of added to the lop side. And it's
Speaker 1: that I was already having as I was walking, But
Speaker 1: it just triggered me. When you said that, I was
Speaker 1: just like, wow, somebody else noticed, and it's not in
Speaker 1: my head that it was off, Like I always felt
Speaker 1: like it was off, and I get I always get
Speaker 1: compliments on it, like wow, it was such a great bump,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, it hurt, like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But I just you know, when you said that,
Speaker 1: it just made me feel justified in my thoughts.
Speaker 5: So yep, I would have never I would have never
Speaker 5: done you like that. I would have held you in
Speaker 5: and and kept you close so I could control your
Speaker 5: body more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Anthony, I liked Anthony, just to clarify, but he
Speaker 1: he would always ask me on dates and I would
Speaker 1: always say no, and that resulted into some stiff moments
Speaker 1: in the ring. And so I feel like it, and
Speaker 1: I love Gary to death, but I was always scared
Speaker 1: to have to work with Anthony. And then when we
Speaker 1: got into the program where Shane and Anthony worked together,
Speaker 1: I got stiffed a bunch of times. And I never
Speaker 1: said anything back then, because you know, I was just
Speaker 1: taught to just shut your mouth and if you have
Speaker 1: to cry, go to the bathroom, go cry in the corner,
Speaker 1: do something. Don't let them see you. And that's what
Speaker 1: I always did. Yeah, and that's what I always did.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I hate to talk about him
Speaker 1: because he's not here, but we had Todd Gordon on
Speaker 1: Todd Gordon goes, oh, should I talk about the time
Speaker 1: that Anthony thought you should give him a BJ because
Speaker 1: you know, you were his manager and he felt like
Speaker 1: he deserved one, and I'm like, no, we don't have
Speaker 1: to pay, we don't have to really go into details. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know that's a lot of the nineties. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like the women or have more respect maybe nowadays,
Speaker 1: but like back then, I was just trying to prove
Speaker 1: myself and like, yeah, I want to work and I
Speaker 1: want to be seen as one of the boys. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be seen as some girl who came
Speaker 1: in as somebody's girlfriend off the street.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: So when the guys would say stuff, and many did,
Speaker 1: I would kind of just brush it off and some
Speaker 1: got the hint, some didn't, and you just roll with
Speaker 1: the punches. And that's what I did, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you have to do that. But I never knew
Speaker 1: if it was deliberate or if he just if it
Speaker 1: was accidental, because things had happened before that bomb, and I.
Speaker 5: Mean, from what I could tell, just the wrong angle
Speaker 5: and I would have just held you instead of let
Speaker 5: you go.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, I gotcha. Let's talk about something fun. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Busted Open. You have a spin off now you
Speaker 1: do the Fat and the Furious. I think you're the Furious, Okay,
Speaker 1: am I right on that one.
Speaker 4: You are correct.
Speaker 1: You've been with them for years now, right since.
Speaker 4: I've been with Busted Open now for six years?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, how did your spin off? Because now we
Speaker 1: have Busted Open after Dark. It's on Wednesday nights at
Speaker 1: ten pm.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, the after Dynamite.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, how did that come to play?
Speaker 4: You say again?
Speaker 1: Did you pitch it?
Speaker 5: They asked me about it? They had asked me about it.
Speaker 5: And I, and I said, yeah, sure, I would be
Speaker 5: interested in doing my own thing. So, like you just
Speaker 5: mentioned The Fat and the Furious, Like Dave Lagreca is
Speaker 5: the guy that created Busted Open, he's the lead host,
Speaker 5: it's his rock and roll band, it's his baby. I'm
Speaker 5: the first one that got on board with Dave. Uh
Speaker 5: just basically on a conversation that we had one day,
Speaker 5: and I was looking at it from like a like
Speaker 5: when you watch a show on ESPN, like with Shannon
Speaker 5: Sharp and and any like a stephen A Smith, where
Speaker 5: you have the the expert, you know, or Hall of
Speaker 5: Famer or the pro up and the fan, and that's
Speaker 5: what gives Busted Open that interesting dynamic. Then we brought
Speaker 5: Dreamer on broad Then we brought Mark Henry on board,
Speaker 5: and Mickey James came on board. So whenever, whenever Dave
Speaker 5: is out and I host the show, I always like
Speaker 5: to give the show a little bit of a name
Speaker 5: or a little bit of flavor. So when it's me
Speaker 5: and Tommy, we call it The Fat and the Furious,
Speaker 5: you know, And then when it's me and Mark Henry,
Speaker 5: I named it the Hall of Fame and Pain. So
Speaker 5: you always know what you're getting as a listener, and
Speaker 5: Busted Open after Dark is just me and whatever music
Speaker 5: I want to play and whatever I want to talk
Speaker 5: about with Dynamite. And I've been asked like, how come
Speaker 5: you don't have any guests on your show? I said,
Speaker 5: I don't want guests. I want the fans to be
Speaker 5: my guests. The only feedback that I want is from
Speaker 5: the fan base who just watched the show on TV
Speaker 5: or just left the arena. I basically wanted to be
Speaker 5: like a tailgate party after a rock and roll show,
Speaker 5: or a tailgate party after a wrestling event where everybody's
Speaker 5: in the parking lot and like, oh my god, that
Speaker 5: was great. Do you remember this? Did you see this?
Speaker 5: And just it's it's it's generated by how I felt
Speaker 5: about what I just watched, constructive criticism, and then I
Speaker 5: opened up to the callers and we talk about wrestling.
Speaker 5: And my persona on Busted Open after Dark is more
Speaker 5: of my just genuine, jovial persona, Like I don't even
Speaker 5: call myself Bully Ray, I call myself Uncle Bully. You know,
Speaker 5: come hang out with Uncle Bully for the night, Lay
Speaker 5: on my couch, Tell me your problems. Oh, I tell
Speaker 5: all the hot chicks to call in, We'll put you
Speaker 5: on first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: So the chicks go to the front of the line.
Speaker 1: Is the slogan that you use, right? Are you hooked
Speaker 1: up with the UH because you're doing it from your
Speaker 1: home obviously, Are you hooked up with like a producer
Speaker 1: that handles your phone calls? How do you know who's calling?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's full blown radio, full blown radio fans, a
Speaker 5: serious ex what the hours are, sight of the art,
Speaker 5: it's state of the art. I have two producers with me,
Speaker 5: you know, live call ins. I mean I get call
Speaker 5: ins from Canada, you know, from the West Coast, from
Speaker 5: from every everywhere. And what when I you know, when
Speaker 5: I talk about women calling in, I always like to
Speaker 5: put first time callers on first. And I like to
Speaker 5: hear from our female UH fan base because you know,
Speaker 5: pro wrestling is really dominated by dudes.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I always like it when when women call in to
Speaker 5: talk about wrestling or to give their opinion about wrestling
Speaker 5: or ask a question about it. So and it's also
Speaker 5: a little you know, I have fun with it, but
Speaker 5: it's chivalrous, you know. You open the door for a lady.
Speaker 5: You know, you let them. You know, it's just gentlemen,
Speaker 5: le to let the lady go first. And that's why
Speaker 5: I love it. And it doesn't hurt. If they're hot.
Speaker 1: Well, how do you know they're hot?
Speaker 4: I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they convene.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Have the sweetest boys, but I don't know. You close
Speaker 1: your eyes and everyone's hot, right, turn out the lights,
Speaker 1: same deal.
Speaker 5: That's it when you're in the when you're in the
Speaker 5: bar at two in the morning and the lights come on,
Speaker 5: you know what that's called.
Speaker 4: It's the moment of truth.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, you're like, oh oh yeah.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Put the shades back on one one of these nights.
Speaker 1: Can I pick your your band? Uh?
Speaker 4: Who's your favorite band of all time?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Oh my, you know, yes, I will?
Speaker 1: You will?
Speaker 4: You know as a kid growing up, were.
Speaker 1: They your favorite?
Speaker 4: Two? No?
Speaker 1: Did you want to marry John Taylor? Like?
Speaker 4: No, quite the opposite. But here's the thing.
Speaker 5: So, growing up as a kid in New York, I
Speaker 5: used to listen to Z one hundred and Duran Duran
Speaker 5: was on every other song. I mean, Duran Duran was
Speaker 5: the hottest band in the world. There you go.
Speaker 6: So I'd be like, oh, what is it Duran durand
Speaker 6: how this shiit sucks? About where's Judas Priest? And I
Speaker 6: had made a slayer in Metallig. Meanwhile, where were all
Speaker 6: the hot chicks? Dan concept?
Speaker 1: Because they were all hot?
Speaker 4: And it took me. It took me years. And the
Speaker 4: light bulb.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like when you figure out psychology in
Speaker 5: a wrestling match for the first time.
Speaker 4: The light bulb goes off and you're like, oh wow.
Speaker 5: And then that day came when I was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: Duran Duran is really good.
Speaker 1: But you don't like any of their music.
Speaker 4: I like.
Speaker 5: I like a lot of their music. I even that
Speaker 5: what was that one last hit they had, the Ordinary World?
Speaker 4: Oh beautiful song, What a great song?
Speaker 1: Beautiful song? I love New Moon on Monday. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: favorite one from them, The Chauffeur, is a good one.
Speaker 1: I'm just in love with the band. I'm in love
Speaker 1: with John I will be until I die. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to be my husband. I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: with that, you know, but they are my favorite. And
Speaker 1: I said to myself, I'm going to ask Bobbo one
Speaker 1: of these days if he can use Duran Duran.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe I'll have you on one night and uh,
Speaker 5: and you can introduce Duran Duran.
Speaker 4: As the band of the night.
Speaker 1: I would love to. Okay, just pick a knight that
Speaker 1: I'm awake, because sometimes I fall asleep early. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit on the older side. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I've only been to I think five concerts my whole life,
Speaker 1: maybe six. One of them was Kiss and I wasn't
Speaker 1: even a fan, but I became a fan after I
Speaker 1: went to the concert.
Speaker 4: But who took you?
Speaker 1: Shane Yes, And he made me that bastard. So he
Speaker 1: made me carry a cooler, a big ass cooler because
Speaker 1: we had the box, the press box thing yep. And
Speaker 1: he said he they won't check if a girl's carrying it.
Speaker 1: So he goes in, Damien Barron goes in and here
Speaker 1: with this cooler, and we lined Coca Cola cans on
Speaker 1: the top, but underneath was like a bottle of Jackway.
Speaker 1: There was like all this liquor. And I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: they're walking away from me, and I'm saying, I'm going
Speaker 1: to get arrested, and I don't even know where. I
Speaker 1: think I was in Baltimore, Maryland, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to get back, you know, what is going on.
Speaker 1: And the guy goes open your cooler and I opened
Speaker 1: it and I smiled and he goes go ahead, and
Speaker 1: my heart was like thank you.
Speaker 4: Sorry was it?
Speaker 1: I ran like hell? But it was heavy, but you know,
Speaker 1: we got in there. But it was a great concert.
Speaker 1: I was so impressed because they all had big high
Speaker 1: heels on yes and running up and down and I said, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I'm a girl and I can't even do that. So
Speaker 1: that concert was great. But the best concert I ever
Speaker 1: went to the Wiggles. Wiggles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't say that I've been to a Wiggles show.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. Parked the car, had my kids
Speaker 1: with me. They were tiny, saw two Wiggles walking across
Speaker 1: the street. We grabbed those kids and drugged them down
Speaker 1: the street to get the Wiggles and take the picture
Speaker 1: with them. And they were the nicest and they rocked
Speaker 1: and I loved them. And it's the only time I
Speaker 1: really marked out because my kids were so happy.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, you marked the Wiggles.
Speaker 1: Totally marked out. Oh my god, I knew their names.
Speaker 1: We took their pictures. They touched my kids. And then
Speaker 1: at the thing, my daughter gave the bow to the
Speaker 1: girl and she wore the bow and it was just
Speaker 1: as a parent that made my heart so happy. So
Speaker 1: that was my favorite concert that I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: But I haven't been too many because I have anxiety.
Speaker 1: I always feel like if I'm in a crowd and
Speaker 1: I have to pee, I'm going to keep my pants
Speaker 1: because I can't get to a bathroom. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: problems now that you could just wear an adult diaper
Speaker 1: and you're good to go.
Speaker 5: But back in the day, I see some of your
Speaker 5: posts that you put up there on the old Twitter machine.
Speaker 4: Have you got you got things going? They got that
Speaker 4: this ended cameras down your throat.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't even do that yet. I'm freaking out
Speaker 1: about that. And now a urologist wants to see me.
Speaker 1: So now I have urology. A G I an O
Speaker 1: G B Y. I got everything going on? Everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just say a prayer.
Speaker 5: For me, because I'm sure you'll be Okay. Your hardcore,
Speaker 5: you're extreme, You're extreme.
Speaker 1: Have you gotten the upper and lower gimmick? Yet?
Speaker 4: Have you gotten the upper and lower given?
Speaker 5: I feel like you should have taken a drag off
Speaker 5: of a cigarette, then ended it with, brother, have you
Speaker 5: got the upper and lower yet?
Speaker 1: Had?
Speaker 4: Actually?
Speaker 5: Actually I got the camera shoved up my butt because
Speaker 5: I had something happened to me about a year ago
Speaker 5: that scared scared me. Blood in your blood, like bad blood.
Speaker 5: I thought I was gonna bleed out, and I got
Speaker 5: to the hospital. No, no, it was. I never took
Speaker 5: pain pills in my whole life, you know, and that
Speaker 5: which is a miracle coming out of ECW. But what
Speaker 5: I did take for the pain all my career were
Speaker 5: advil and a leave. Well, I guess just after twenty
Speaker 5: five years of advil and a leave, it doesn't it
Speaker 5: doesn't sit right with you and you get like these
Speaker 5: blood pockets that'll build up. Why why is your mouth
Speaker 5: dropped open right now?
Speaker 4: You okay?
Speaker 1: Because my doctor just asked me what do you take
Speaker 1: at night for pain? I said, I take one leave
Speaker 1: and he said, stop taking that. It's going to destroy
Speaker 1: your stomach.
Speaker 5: It can, Yeah, it definitely can. Honestly, though, Franny, I
Speaker 5: don't think one is going to do it.
Speaker 4: Not one.
Speaker 5: I mean I was swallowing. I was swallowing like four
Speaker 5: or five a night to deal with the pain. So
Speaker 5: because I never wanted to get on percocets or you know,
Speaker 5: any of that stuff. So what happened to a lot
Speaker 5: of the guys. But yeah, after twenty five years of
Speaker 5: taking it, finally caught of me and im and I'm
Speaker 5: bleeding like crazy. So they told me, uh, you know
Speaker 5: tomorrow you're gonna go in for uh what's the thing?
Speaker 5: When they shove it off the butt.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lower colonoscopy.
Speaker 4: Is okay, colony?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'm in the room of the exam room
Speaker 5: with five female nurses. Now you want to feel vulnerable,
Speaker 5: you're naked in a hospital gown. But why you're flipped
Speaker 5: over on your side and I'm trying to make chit chat?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about the weather?
Speaker 4: I don't know with them?
Speaker 1: Are you putting yourself over to them telling them?
Speaker 4: Who? No?
Speaker 1: No, not at all out No.
Speaker 5: I didn't hit it with the old Do you know
Speaker 5: who I am? When I was face down, ass up?
Speaker 4: Uh? But this was funny.
Speaker 5: So the lady who uh uses the uh, you know,
Speaker 5: the stuff to put you to sleep?
Speaker 1: The thing?
Speaker 4: I think the thing, yeah, anesthesiologist.
Speaker 5: So I look at the size of the needle, she
Speaker 5: has that she's gonna pump into me my IV and
Speaker 5: I'm wondering to myself, is this gonna be enough? So
Speaker 5: I said to her, I'm like, excuse me, ma'am, do
Speaker 5: you really think you have enough in there for somebody
Speaker 5: my size? And she's like, Oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be fine. This is And I remember looking
Speaker 5: at the clock and it was two minutes to twelve noon,
Speaker 5: and I said to myself, I wonder if she's gonna
Speaker 5: And I woke up in the recovery room. That's how
Speaker 5: quick it knocked me out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just scared because it's upper lower. And
Speaker 1: then the scope because he goes, oh, we have to
Speaker 1: get a scope. See. I had five surgeries on my stomach.
Speaker 1: Five two were sea sections, three were to repair my
Speaker 1: abdominal region. Right, I've had a surgery twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, so three consecutive years they worked on the
Speaker 1: same part. And the third year they put a mesh
Speaker 1: panel over my abs to hold them together. Now I'm
Speaker 1: getting to the point where where I when I eat
Speaker 1: something pain, I'm in pain, and I'm bloated. I always
Speaker 1: look like I'm pregnant. And you know as well as
Speaker 1: I do. If you go into the gym and you
Speaker 1: work out, you see results on every single body part
Speaker 1: except for the mid section, and my mid section looks
Speaker 1: like I'm three months pregnant. I'm sick of it, so
Speaker 1: I want to go to the doctor see what's going on. Initially,
Speaker 1: he said, you have so much scar tissue built up
Speaker 1: that it's never going to go away. And he said
Speaker 1: in the bloating, we don't know, so we have to
Speaker 1: do you know, we want to do the upper and
Speaker 1: lower and then we want to do the scope and
Speaker 1: see what's going on and see if you have an ulcer.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's triggering. What's you know, happening down there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but anytime I eat, it could be a
Speaker 1: cracker or it could be a seven course meal, fat
Speaker 1: as a house. And it's annoying because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: stay in cheap and look good for fifty one. But
Speaker 1: you get this part of you that you can't control,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's put me in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a depression because I'm not pregnant and I look pregnant.
Speaker 4: I saw you the other day. You look good.
Speaker 1: I'm thick. When was thick?
Speaker 4: You know I don't agree with you?
Speaker 1: Well, I agree, Look, I appreciate it, but the next
Speaker 1: time I'll let you give me worse.
Speaker 4: You could look like Dreamer.
Speaker 1: I'd be part of the Fat and the Fat, Fat Furious.
Speaker 4: Team Fat and the Furious.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, terrible. Anyway, I'm going to get it
Speaker 1: checked out. I'm gonna let you know how it goes.
Speaker 1: I do want to come on your show one night
Speaker 1: and we'll sit here, tell the people where they can
Speaker 1: find you. I mean, we just kind of talked about it,
Speaker 1: but on the Twitter machine and everywhere else.
Speaker 4: I don't even know my handles.
Speaker 1: I think you're at Bully Ray is real.
Speaker 5: It's real Bully fifty one fifty okay on the Twitter machine,
Speaker 5: and then on Instagram it's Bully Ray Team three D
Speaker 5: Academy or something like that.
Speaker 4: I don't even know. You probably find me at your
Speaker 4: local McDonald's.
Speaker 1: I don't think we follow each other on Instagram.
Speaker 4: You want me to follow you? Yeah, that's what shit
Speaker 4: starts getting here.
Speaker 1: Follow me everywhere? Yes, you need followers. We need to
Speaker 1: follow each other, all right.
Speaker 4: One day we'll go get drunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to figure. Well, definitely WrestleMania weekend. Yes,
Speaker 1: but that's far away. I did invite you to my
Speaker 1: Burgatta event.
Speaker 4: I was busy doing a job.
Speaker 1: You were a busy job into a girl. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I understand. Listen, this was great. I want to have
Speaker 1: you back on.
Speaker 4: Okay in the future.
Speaker 1: Well, anytime we didn't, we hardly scratched the surface. I
Speaker 1: kept you fifteen minutes later. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: Why don't we have you on Busted Open on a Wednesday?
Speaker 5: Because every Wednesday we do Women of Wednesday, women who
Speaker 5: have affected the wrestling business in a positive way. So
Speaker 5: let's have you on.
Speaker 1: Let's have me on because the last time I was on,
Speaker 1: I believe it was with Mark Henry and it was
Speaker 1: like two or three years ago, so it's been a while.
Speaker 1: So have you're there. Yeah, if you're there, you can
Speaker 1: ask me different stuff, all right, nothing pertaining the wrestling.
Speaker 5: It'll be great, no zero, We'll talk about Duran, Duran,
Speaker 5: Atlanta City and getting blitzed.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I hope to see
Speaker 1: you soon. We'll keep in touch. I love you. I
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4: You're welcome, everybody.
Speaker 1: This is Bubba Ray Dudley, my friend, take care baby,
Speaker 1: bye bye. All Right, that was a good one. That
Speaker 1: was a fun one. I didn't expect the bleeding from
Speaker 1: the a hole at the end, but you know that's.
Speaker 3: Always once it got there. I was going to another.
Speaker 1: Jim that nobody else probably touched on in this business.
Speaker 3: So that's the headline. Uh uh, face down, ass up
Speaker 3: Bully Ray with five women.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, it's kind of like the Tony Storm
Speaker 1: thing tits out shoot, watch for the shoe, but face
Speaker 1: down as up.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 2: It's as somebody who can sit here and always listen
Speaker 2: to guy guys and gals like self.
Speaker 3: Yeah, history fly on the wall. I love it. I
Speaker 3: could listen to you guys talk for hours.
Speaker 1: We could have did that for hours because there's so
Speaker 1: much history between us. And for everybody who says he's
Speaker 1: not a nice guy, he really is a nice guy
Speaker 1: like I. I just don't. I don't know, maybe because
Speaker 1: I've known him for so long. I just feel like
Speaker 1: he gets a bad rap, but tremendous worker, even better person.
Speaker 1: So so throwed that he came on and I think
Speaker 1: for our first I Heeart episode, that was a good one,
Speaker 1: absolutely so happy to have had him. He broke the cherry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, it's a New York thing. I have
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and
Speaker 2: just say some people may not understand what it's like
Speaker 2: in the Northeast, the New York attitude.
Speaker 3: Some people are in your face.
Speaker 2: I mean I had you know coaches like that growing up,
Speaker 2: that they're in your face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you might not like it.
Speaker 3: They tell it like it is. You know, I was
Speaker 3: afraid if I said boo, he was gonna.
Speaker 4: Say shut up.
Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, hey, I didn't want to
Speaker 2: say a word for your coach or Bubba no bubba.
Speaker 2: I know, Okay, there's a there's an A and B conversation,
Speaker 2: say see your way out of it. But no, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's a lot of the criticism is that
Speaker 2: they're afraid. I think people that they don't get the
Speaker 2: New York attitude.
Speaker 3: And he's got it and he's the man. I mean,
Speaker 3: what can you say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's great, he's been a friend forever and
Speaker 1: great episode, great first episode. So please guys, leave your feedback,
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Speaker 1: I am again I keep saying this, but I am
Speaker 1: so happy to finally be recording for iHeart and I
Speaker 1: just hope it. You know, we have many, many, even
Speaker 1: better episodes in the future. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can beat this one. This one was pretty good.
Speaker 2: They're going to be coming fat and furiously the fat,
Speaker 2: fat and furious.
Speaker 1: I'm the second fat. I don't like to call people fat,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm blowed it all the time
Speaker 1: and it's sad. But anyway, don't feel that way, I know. Anyway, Cheddester.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you if they want to follow
Speaker 1: you on social media?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can find me on Twitter. It's at Chad
Speaker 2: I A n B so Chad E.
Speaker 3: And B on Twitter.
Speaker 2: On Instagram, it's at IB Exclusives, which I also have
Speaker 2: a website that is called IB Exclusives and it's just
Speaker 2: very simple ibexclusives dot com.
Speaker 3: And you can find me here.
Speaker 1: On ice up here all right, and can we pull
Speaker 1: up that really quickly? Can okay? November eleventh, Virginia, Beach, Virginia.
Speaker 1: I'll be signing from eleven a m. To one pm
Speaker 1: at the Virginia Beach Field House. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: plethora of sports stars there. I believe I'm I'm might
Speaker 1: be the only female.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm the only female in the picture, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: I believe you will be the only female.
Speaker 1: Only female there. You never know who's going to pop
Speaker 1: up at these things. But like said earlier, I don't
Speaker 1: get the Virginia Beach often, so please if you are
Speaker 1: in the area, come down and say hi. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see you. And Virginia Beach Sports Card, comic book,
Speaker 1: Pokemon and Collectible's expo.
Speaker 2: Can I also add for other for wrestling fans. Rick
Speaker 2: Flair's Starkade eighty three robe will also be in attendance.
Speaker 2: You have to share the wrestling spotlight.
Speaker 1: You know what, it's Rick Flair. I'll share it with him.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a big WU if I see
Speaker 1: that robe too.
Speaker 4: Try it on.
Speaker 2: We talking about can you think the doubt it's probably
Speaker 2: gonna be behind plexiglass.
Speaker 1: Oh it's for sale, I doubt it.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's just a.
Speaker 1: Show off piece. Okay, Anyway, if you want to follow
Speaker 1: me on social media, I am at e CW Diva
Speaker 1: Francine on Instagram and on Twitter, and I also have
Speaker 1: a YouTube page and you can find that at ECWDVA
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