WEBVTT - Francine REVEALS original plans for WWE NXT appearance 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.479 Hello everyone. It is the point of it strained Francy 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.760 and you are listening eyes up there with Francy the 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.080 iHeartRadio Network or where every Being podcast And as always 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.440 I am joying. I'm my co host Chad, and it's 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.080 so weird. I feel like I haven't been in this 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.080 chair for a month. And I know I have. I 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.240 know I have, but I just feel like I've been 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:56.720 on the road for twenty seven days. I'm still exhausted 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.680 from this past week. It's crazy. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.400 Yeah, I can't blame yet. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:09.040 Yeah, I haven't worked this hard in years. I'm not complaining, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:15.120 I'm just observing. You know, tired. I'm tired. It was 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:15.720 a long one. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.480 It's funny because the last place I saw you wasn't 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.280 in that chair, So I wonder if we're going to 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.040 talk about that today. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.759 We're going to talk about a lot of things. There's 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.600 a lot to discuss, a lot of fans asking questions. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.320 People this weekend were asking me a ton of questions, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.479 and I kept saying I'll explain everything on the podcast, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.199 trying to get people to come on over and listen. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.760 So if you would, if you are subscribed or following 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.039 me on here, share this episode with your friends and 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.840 family and let us know you care. There's a lot 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.200 to go over. Started the week. Well, first of all, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.320 how are you doing? Do you have anything to add 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:53.080 to this conversation. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.000 I'm doing great. I'm just I'm glad to be sitting 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.000 here with you. I you know, dying to hear the stories. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.080 I purposely didn't call you because I wanted to talk 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.520 about everything fresh on the air. Because I mean, we'll 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.280 talk about one of the other reasons I didn't call you, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.200 but I really wanted to hear this live in front 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.920 of you on the air with the listeners, because I 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.359 know the lead up. But I want to know right 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.560 now how this all went down, What an amazing week 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:24.000 you had. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.600 So I did got nothing? Okay, all right, Well, I 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.880 always give you a chance to put yourself over. So 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:36.200 my week started last week when I Halloween. It was 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.440 out Halloween. We went up to the Rhode Island Comic 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.160 con Convention and I was there from that Thursday to 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.000 Sunday night. That was a long one. That was like 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.800 a four day trip and it was a great turnout, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.480 thanks to everybody who stopped on my table. Have to 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.160 say that got to spend the weekend with Betty, which 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:01.560 is always a pleasure. Bubba and Devon just you know, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.640 good dudes for my brothers. It was. It was just 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.920 a great time. And thanks to Signed by Superstars for 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.960 bringing me into that one. It was a long one, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.600 but it was fun. You know. We had a really 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.960 good time. Got to go to dinner with Bubba, Divon, Me, Betty, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.800 Matt Hardy a couple of times, hung out with him 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.000 and uh, you know it was It was a lot 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.679 of work. The hours were very long, but we got 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.600 to hang out afterwards. And I don't get to see 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.320 Bubba and Devon that much, so that was a treat 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.960 for me to spend you know, that time with them. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.280 So it was it was a good time. But even 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.480 prior to that, let's go back, what two three weeks 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.240 something like that. Yeah, I was sitting at home. I 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.600 don't even know what day it was. I have all 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.000 the text messages to. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.200 Prove it was a Wednesday it was, or we had 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.040 just record. Did we just recorded? 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.040 Yeah, trying to see on here. I should have had 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.160 this pulled up because I've gotten so many text messages 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:18.200 since this all came came up. I was sitting at home. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.920 It was nine o'clock at night. Here's it here it is, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:30.080 excuse me, nine o'clock at night, one Thursday, October seventeenth 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.599 and a fifty four pm is when the first text 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.920 came in. But my phone rang first, and it's it's 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.480 a joke amongst all the workers, like when area code 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.400 two three pops up on your phone and you don't 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.240 know the number, everybody's always like, oh, what's WWA? Call 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.360 it a Stamford, Connecticut berberber. You know what I mean. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.160 We all you know, we always pop nine times out 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.479 of ten. It's always a telemarketer or wrong number or 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.320 something like that. So when I saw my phone ring, 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.799 I said, I was by myself. I just popped myself. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.440 I was like, Oh, must be WWE calling for something. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:13.760 Well guess what that time it was WWA. So John Cone, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.640 who I knew back in two thousand and six with 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.440 the fake ec du talent relations, such a nice man. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.839 I liked him back in two thousand and six, always 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.080 got along and I'm a perfect gentleman, very sweet. It 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.200 was him, and he had called he had got my 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.640 number from Brian Myers, who is a friend of mine. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.760 We all know that and we're gonna put the actual 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.520 text messages up when we do the YouTube, so I 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.320 don't get any haters telling me I'm lying or I'm 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:50.680 fabricating the truth. But initially they had contacted me because 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.800 they were working NXT was working the ECW arena in 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.080 a couple of weeks, and he wanted to run something 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:03.479 by me, and I was being very cautious. I'm like, 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.800 this is a rib who's ribbed me? Who you know? 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.800 Blah blah blah. But it wasn't a rib. But I 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.040 had asked what is this in reference to? And then 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.800 he started explaining everything. You can see these text messages, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.120 and I guess I should read it because we're on, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.880 you know, for people listening on iHeart. The initial text 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.840 message was Hi, Francine, this is Jan Kuhne from WWE 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.240 Talent Relations. We crossed paths back in two thousand and 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.039 six when I was a referee for the relaunch of ECW. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.440 I have something I want to run by you if 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.680 you have a minute. I wrote, Hi, John Hipball as well. Man. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.359 I asked what this is in reference to, and I 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.200 remembered exactly who John was. He said on Wednesday, November third, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.200 NXT will be running a show at the ECW Arena. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.640 We'd like to know if you would be available to 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.560 be a special guest referee for one of the matches. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.479 It would be with NXT talent Jada Parker and Lulla Vice. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.000 And then he writes the compensation will be blah blah blah. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.880 I wrote back, really, why me because at this point 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.479 he didn't say anything about the ECW connection. He just 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.320 said it would be at the ECW Arena, So I 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.680 was curious, like, why me? On n XT show it 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.600 didn't make any sense. I also said, November third is 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.800 a Sunday, not a Wednesday. He said, sorry, it's Wednesday, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.920 November sixth at the ECW Arena. He said, we want 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 this to be kind of a celebration of ECW and 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.400 a crossover with NXT. The writers came up with some 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.280 ideas on how to do that, and your name came up. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.880 Then he says, we also have and he gives me 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.440 a list of names confirmed and he's reaching out to 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.120 a few more. Then he puts more names. I'm not 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.160 going to mention because some people came through and some 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:49.360 people didn't, he said. He left them messages and I said, okay, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.560 I have to talk to my husband. Blah blah blah. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.239 May I contact you tomorrow? Have it repped in years, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.040 I'll need to buy a ref outfit. Not thinking at 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.800 the time of my stomach and the problems that I've 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.200 been encountering. Right, So he said, absolutely, call me your 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.440 text anytime. It should be a really fun show. I said, okay, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.440 let me talk to him. I appreciate you guys thinking 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.680 of me. I'll be in touch. I then talked to 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.520 my husband and he's like, did you not forget about 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.640 the five surgeries that you've had on your abdominals? And 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.040 I was like, well yeah, And he's like, do you 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.160 really think that you can be quick enough with the 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.720 way these girls work? Because these girls are good. Let 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.920 me just tell you these girls can work, right, He's like, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.480 do you think you can get down and you know, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.640 make the false finishes and then run around. We didn't 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.080 know what kind of match it was. It ended up 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.839 being a hardcore match and all this stuff. And I 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.160 was like, you know what for me now because my 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:54.199 core is so weak, just lifting myself up getting into 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.959 the ring is slow. And we've talked about this before. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.439 When I do the reunion shows and stuff. How we're 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.600 all like a little bit slower than we were with her. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.960 So I was just like, well, I guess I'm not 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.080 going to be able to do it. So I contacted 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.840 john the next day and I told him here's my problem, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.920 and I went on to explain what I had to 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.440 my stomach, blah blah blah. He wrote, good morning, no problem, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.520 we can do something different. Let me talk to Creative 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.880 and get back to you. Then I pitched an idea 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.920 about me being a timekeeper guest timekeeper, and I thought 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.880 of a spot that I can do with one of 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.640 the guys on the card. He said, thanks for the suggestion, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.400 he'll send it to Creative. Then I get a text 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.920 the following Tuesday, did Johnny Russo get with you about tomorrow? 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.240 This is the night before. I hadn't heard anything for 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.719 like two weeks, so I'm kind of like sitting there thinking, well, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.240 I'm booked, I think, but I have no idea what 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.280 I'm doing at this time. I went to Rhode Island 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.920 Comic Con for the four days, and I talked and 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.080 I talked and I talked and I lost my voice. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.880 So on Tuesday, they send me a script to be 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.960 like a backstage interviewer, and I go, ugh, oh, man, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:21.040 I can't do this either, shot right because it was bad. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.679 It was bad. And he's like, did Johnny Russo get 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.840 with you about tomorrow? And then how cute he sends 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:37.040 me directions to the twenty three hundred arena. It's horrible, okay, 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.880 I said, I haven't heard from him. I wasn't contacted 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.160 since last week. I don't know anything about tomorrow. This 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.880 is at nine o'clock, the night before the arena. So 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.040 he goes, I'll reach out to them now. I'm sorry 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.000 about that, I said, no worries. He rates, Johnny's supposed 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.720 to reach out to you. If you can arrive around 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.040 one o'clock tomorrow, that would be great. Please text me 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.760 when you arrive and I'll meet you. So I had 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.840 talked to Guido because I'm a horrible driver. Everyone who 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.040 knows me knows that I am the shits at driving. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.719 I can with that. I do hate driving, especially at night. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.880 I can't really see that well at night. I'm not 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.120 a good driver. So I didn't want to drive alone. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.840 So I contact Wido. No problem, meet me at exit, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.120 blah blah blah, we'll get it done. So I was like, okay. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.800 So his call time was at noon, so we were 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.319 gonna meet at eleven. So I was already getting there 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.720 super early, which was fine. Johnny Russo, who is a 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.640 very nice man, got to meet him, lovely person. He 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.480 calls me at ten o'clock or texts me at ten 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.840 o'clock right with the script for the backstage stuff, and 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:47.760 I type back Johnny, I am so embarrassed to I 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.360 have no voice, Like I don't have a voice, and 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.920 it just wasn't gonna work. And I you know, and 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.880 you'll see the text messages, but I literally say to them, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:01.800 if you want to pull me off the show, I 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.760 totally understand, like no heat, because this is on me, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.920 Like I can't I can't work really what they the 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.240 way they want me to? I can't talk? So what 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.800 am I going to do? You know? I have no idea? 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.520 And a couple of the boys were like, you can 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.400 sit in the front row. That's what they do with 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.080 a lot of the legends. They just put them in 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.959 the front row. I said, well, you know, do they 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.160 really want to pay me the same amount to I 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:33.240 don't know. So I tell him and he says, uh, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.520 hold on, now I have to go to Johnny's messages. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.160 Oh I'm sorry. Prior to this, they make me cut 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.600 a promo, a thirty second promo, put it on socials 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.439 and that's how I announced that I was going to 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.000 be at the show. At that point is when it 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.440 first happened, like the two, three weeks ago whatever it was, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.760 so I had my voice. I was fine. I was like, Okay, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.520 I'm going to do something. This is great. Everybody saw 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.640 the promo, they retweeted it. It was it was good. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:01.560 You know, it was a. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.800 Good super successful. That was awesome. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.840 Yeah, it was really good. They were like, do you 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.720 want us to write something for you? And I was 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.559 like no, I said, I could do thirty seconds by myself. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.040 That's good. So I said, do you still want me 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.040 to come? Even though I can't talk. This is what 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.480 I'm telling them, and he's like, we'll figure something out tomorrow. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.480 Let's see how you are in the morning and go 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.439 from there. We could have you sitting in the crowd 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.200 or being a timekeeper, that's what he wrote back. We'll 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.280 make it work, don't worry. So I did offer to 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.640 stay home, but at that point they had put out 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.360 the opening and they put me into opening this show. 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.720 I guess it was too late to pull me. I 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.320 don't know, or they they thought I should be there, 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.880 which you know, I was appreciative of that. So when 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.480 I got to the building, it was eleven twenty or 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.760 my call time was one, so super duper early. Me 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.479 and Weido pull up John. We text John. John comes out, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.960 exchanged pleasantries and there's a camera crew and they video 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.920 Guido and I going into the building. I'm trying to 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.319 save my voice, so Guido's doing all the talking and 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.040 I'm just pulling my bag behind him, and they videotape 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.520 us going inside and everything, and the arena has changed 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.920 so much, you know since we've worked there before. So 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.960 as soon as we went in from the back, hair 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:37.600 and makeup took up the whole back of the the arena. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.680 So I'm looking around. I'm the only girl there so far, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.240 So I said, can I jump in the makeup chair 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.680 and get it over there? Because there were like, there 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.720 was a ten girl thing, there was tag team, there 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.480 were so many women there, and I said, I don't 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.800 want to have to fight for a spot later. No 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.040 one's here. So I went up to hair and making 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.440 and I was like, would you ladies mind like starting 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.920 a couple of minutes early, and they were so accommodating. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.040 Oh no, sweetheart, sit in a chair. It's great. I 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.960 got to know them. We you know, exchange pleasantries. And 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.160 as I'm sitting there, Sewn Michaels walks in and I 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.160 was like, I have to say hi to him. He's 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.880 the head hauncho and blah blah blah. Such a nice 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:24.720 exchange between him and I. He said, we appreciate you 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.280 coming today, thank you for being here, and I said 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.760 thank you for including me in this weird voice, and 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.520 he's looking at me like, oh, okay. I don't know 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.600 if he got the memo that my voice was shot, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.480 but I did get to see him later on and 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.040 I was telling him, you know, we were in Japan together, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.240 and he kind of looked at me and he goes, oh, yeah, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.720 I remember, and I'm thinking, nay, you don't. I don't 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.720 think you do. But I did say to him, I 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.040 apologize for my voice being late this and his response 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.800 was you can just stand there and look pretty, and 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:07.000 the nineteen year old in me squealed Sean. I loved 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.280 Sean when I was nineteen, so I was squealing. But I. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.360 You know, My point was they were just so accommodating 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.960 to me. So I had to mention all of this 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.840 because looking back at socials now and seeing like some 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.200 of the old school fans mad and you know, saying, well, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.840 they could have did something more with you than just 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.600 stuck you in the crowd. Yes, they could have, but 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.080 it was me who couldn't do it. So I just 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.560 wanted to make that perfectly clear. Would I have liked 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.160 to have done more, of course, you know, I would 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.200 have loved to have had an entrance and walked to 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.880 the ring and did something. It just wasn't in the 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:54.080 cards for me. But just being included was enough for me. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.040 Like I didn't need any more than that, you know, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.120 it was it was fun. I got to meet so 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:05.080 many great people. The girls were so nice. Some of 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.119 them had on ecw attire, which I thought was adorable, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.480 and I'm like, you weren't even born when we were around, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.120 you know what I mean, And like I was telling them, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.760 you know, I started in this building like thirty one 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.040 years ago, and they were like wow, you know, they 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:25.040 were very very they seemed appreciative that I was there, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.400 but they were also very nice. I didn't see any caddie, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.679 you know, with the NXT roster, like, everybody seemed to 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.560 get along and they can work their asses off. The 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.960 talent is amazing there, and they all have really good attitudes, 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.000 so it was very, very nice to just talk to 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.240 some of them and get to know them a little bit. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.679 I followed I noticed some of them were following me 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.960 on social so I followed a couple of them back, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.960 and who knows, I mean, it's you never know where 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.800 you're going to see each other down the road. So 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:05.040 it was real nice to watch how they put the 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:10.199 show together. You know. There was one promo where it 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.520 was the five girls. They were in front of a couch. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.040 It was the Babyface team and I was sitting right 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.560 you couldn't see me, but I was watching them shoot 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.159 these promos the whole time, and it was giving me 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.919 flashbacks to when we were downstairs and we were shooting 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.840 our promos. Granted it was four in the morning, but 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.440 that's a different square all together. But just the way 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.000 that they, you know, put the show together, and everyone 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.760 from production to office to the talent, like everyone was 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:44.480 really really just seemed happy that the legends of ECW 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:49.600 were there. Very very nice crew, so I couldn't say 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.800 enough about it now. It was a very long day. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.920 I was extremely tired by the end of it because 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.560 you know, getting there at twenty after eleven. I think 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.800 I got home at eleven ten thirty eleven, So it 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.560 was Yeah, it was a lot. It was almost a 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.520 twelve hour day when you're there, a lot of sitting around, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.840 a lot of waiting. Plus I did not eat for 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.920 thirty six hours. I was fasting one because I didn't 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.800 want my stomach to be super weird and super bloated 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.679 from you know, the foods that they had, because they 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:29.439 had a beautiful catering offering for the guys and the 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.879 girls there. And number two, you never want to go 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:39.840 to the bathroom at the ECW, So I decided I'm 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.560 not going to eat, So I didn't eat for like 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.639 the thirty six hours. I was just sipping my water 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.879 and you know, just hanging out. But I'm really glad 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.080 that I got to do it, and my nerves were 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.640 bad leading up to it, but it all worked out 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.560 in the end. It always works out in the end. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:05.280 Like my husband says, it's just there. I am, Yeah, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.000 are we allowed to show this? I don't know. I mean, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:13.920 you're gonna do your gimmick on it. You missed them 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:30.280 announced me? What the hell's wrong with you? Crowd starting 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.520 a nice little e c W champ. I was see. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.240 I thought my name was going to be announced in 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.280 the building. So I'm sitting there. First of all, they 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.399 walked me out. It was pitch dark. I didn't know 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.639 what section I was in, right, They just led me 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:52.639 to this empty seat and I'm waiting because usually, like 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.120 on the pay per views, I I thought that they 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.520 announced in the buildings. But they don't do that. They 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.040 don't announce you. They don't I announce you with the 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.639 announced team for TV. That's all right, And I didn't 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.760 know that. So the the cameraman's in front of me 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.000 and he's letting me know, okay, you got a minute 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.280 to come back from commercial. You have thirty seconds. And 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.920 so then he points to me and I'm sitting there 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.439 waiting for my name, and he's like, stand up, and 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.119 I go what because give up? I go now? He 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.680 goes yes, So I stood up and didn't hear it. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:30.720 So I said, well what do I do? I said, 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.000 I'll start an ec D up cham. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.399 Just start a chating know what to do because I'm 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:37.879 waiting for my name to be called, and it was 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.399 never called, but I was told they did put me 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:43.840 on the Titan Tron or whatever. 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.720 They call it these days, and I got to watch 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.320 the match up close and personal, which was a lot 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:56.320 of fun. And that was basically it. You know, pretty 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.639 easy work, long day, but easy work for me. And again, 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.080 just happy to be there, happy to be included, and 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:05.240 met a lot of good people. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.000 Oh that's great. Yeah, I have some questions if it's 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.320 time to open up the floor a little bit, absolutely, 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:17.399 So my first question would be about the setup for 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.560 the arena itself, because obviously, you know, I've been there 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.719 for the indie shows that have taken over the arena 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.600 now and have done shows since. I got to think 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.760 that WWE has to expand a little bit more than those. 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:33.040 So how did they cram all of their sets, you know, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.680 placement and their production equipment. How did they cram all 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.919 that into that arena? 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.800 I was told that it was seven hundred seats, so 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:50.320 they downsized the seats because usually you can fit what 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.359 do they fit like twelve fifteen hundred? 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:55.320 Yeah, I thought it was close to fifteen hundred. 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:57.800 I think there were only seven hundred seats set up, 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.080 seven hundred chairs. I could be wrong, that's what I 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:01.560 was told. 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:03.920 But it could get a good gauge from the TV 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:04.879 how many seats. 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:06.720 They It looked beautiful on television. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.000 Oh yeah, I look fantastic gauge on. 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.400 You know, from from the way the ramp was set up. Now, 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.399 I will say I was hoping it was going to 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:19.280 be the old school E CW bricks. That's what I 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.960 thought would have been cool, with the ECW logo on 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:26.040 the top. But I don't know if that's readily available 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:26.600 to use. 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:28.800 I'm sure they have it because I know they did. 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:29.600