Another Ask Francine (Almost) Anything!

defeat and move on. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad, and every single week I'm joined here by the glitzy and glamorous Queen of extreme looking very nice. Yes you are, of course, this is Francine. This is your show, Eyes up Here. Welcome, well, thank you. I'm glad to be here and uh yeah, happy to be here. Happy. I'm not working for a major company right now, That's all I say. Why not would you

fear for job security? Because you could literally be a top star now and get released like kind of out of the blue. We're starting hot today. This really, this made me almost fall off my chair this week. These releases, now, some of them, I was just like, okay, I don't watch the product. I'm familiar with most of the names

on this list. Right, I don't watch the products. I don't really know what's going on, but I do know that we talked about last week the promos that were put out for the rest of house shows, and one of the major players with these promos was braunz stroman first guy in the problem to get these hands on tour for the house shows. He's released. He's gone biggest, the biggest star I would say in this list, of course, yeah,

oh yeah. Now you know, I was saying to my husband, I was just like, where is the logic to this? And you know, he turned around and he said, well, well, he was getting paid like a million dollars. I think his contract was like a million or something like that, maybe more with merch added in or whatever. But he's a draw, right, yeah, well presumably one of the only ones that they have. So why on earth unless there's

something we don't know, why release the guy? I know he's expensive, but if he's bringing in money, why release some Two theories that are kind of banned about. I've talked to some people who were kind of close to the situation on the insiders on the talent booking end, of things. Uh huh. And my first question was it had to be This is exactly what I thought it had to be. His contract is due, he was gonna want more money. They're cutting their losses. I was told

that's not the case. He just resigned about a year ago, so this was a complete It looks like wiping of the contract off the books, which has been banned about with this talk of a WWE sale we've been joking about. But when they wipe off a top guy who's making seven figures, that's really like shocking because the money they could have made off of him, that doubt is gone and off the books. So do you think he was

blindsided or do you think he knew? I mean, I feel like when this happens, everybody's on edge right because nobody knows they can. I mean, they're pulling names out of their ass, like the things you would never think would happen. Or anybody is replaceable. I've said that so many times. It doesn't matter if you're on top, if you're scraping the bottom whatever. Do you think he had

a heads up? Yes? I think he did. He do I think he was the only one on the list who did because Alistair Black, who you know, didn't have a top spot, but he was a very you know, I would say popular character who had been on and off TV. Was just in a storyline they kicked off for the Intercontinental title on SmackDown two fridays ago. Yeah, vignettes, building it up for six months and gone. He said he was blindsided. Okay, Lana, I'm going to guess that

one was probably in the works for a while. Basically works. But did she know? Because now, again I don't watch, but I've read articles preparing for this day. Hear and Naomi new tag team, new outfits, the whole nine yards, you know, fighting for the belts and stuff. And now she's gone. Now do you think that has something to do with her husband being in aaw? Yes, you did. That's been the case for a while. I think that they were just looking for the right time to let

that contract go. Now, again, when were they do That's the first thing I look at. When where they do or were they like Braun, do they resign a year ago for X amount of years? I think the thing with russev Ormiro, I think that that was like kind of after he was gone, they buried her on TV oh, she was going through a table in the week the poor girl buried her And I think that that built too. Now, it might have just been they realized they didn't release

her before. That's what man. You know, You give, you give, you give, you do whatever you're told to do, you know. And I would assume she was just keeping her mouth shut and not complaining about it because obviously, you know, she she knew with her husband being gone there might be a little heat there. Yeah, And so you do what you're told to do and then you get released. It's like, ugh, come on, do they do they have an ounce of remorse for this day? Do they care?

I don't think they care. Oh man, I really don't think they care. Again, I'm sorry for Braun. I really think that it's probably the most shocking release that they have had since probably Kurt Angle, and that was like fifteen years ago. But Kurt Angle was at least because there was reasons they had substance abuse issues that they were not wanting basically anything to happen on their watch. Sure, that was probably the most shocking release, and that was

fifteen years ago. So that's that's a biggie, you know, And you know, he's going to AW. I mean, come on, I mean they'd scoop him up in eight second. Well, Mark Henry's showing up was a nice little surprise that there's a guy that was an advocate for WWE forever and you know now he's he's on a different program, and it's kind of like, you know, uh, where's your loyalty? I'm reading and we're has nothing to do with Look,

you can carry your family. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, uh, there are those who believe that if the rumors of the sale are true, a guy like Mark Henry is going to be told, hey, we're not going to use you. Go someplace else if you can. And that's why it's so shocking that they just put him in the Hall of Fame. He's on TV all the time as an ambassador and it's like, hey, buddy, you know what, so you know you might want to go explore someplace else.

But now, just a sidebar, we know aw's got a lot of money, right, I gotta be I think they look silly spending all the money they have on Mark Henry and the Big Show when now they're going to have seven young, good talents to bring under their roster. Where are they getting all this cash from? Well, we don't maybe it's an unlimited bank account. We don't know what they what Tony Kahan has in his pockets. He

might have enough for everyone. He might. But but you know what I'm saying, it's like, it's it's weird that you would bring them in so high profile. These you know, these agents or announcers or whatever he's doing with them, and now you've got legit talent. Because Bron's gonna want some money. He's not gonna just take five hundred grand to come in. He's gonna be seven figures plus. Here here's my thing, And I could be one hundred percent wrong, but this is what This is the way that I

would handle myself if I was in that position. So, if I was in WWE and I was making a decent living, what was miserable? Okay, my contract was coming up and they released me, right, or my contract was coming up and they ask me to resign and I'm unhappy. I would gladly take a pay cut to go to a company that I felt comfortable in, that would use me correctly, that you know I had friends and that I know would would be good to me. I would

be okay with a pay cut. Now, I want to go for like a poverty each check, like for next to nothing. But I'm one of those people. I've said it before. I stayed in ECW. The pay was nowhere near with the other two promotions were offering at the time. But I loved it there. I was comfortable there. I was the big fish in the small pond, so to speak. That was my home and that's where I would have

been forever. I would have never left. So money sometimes isn't everything to certain people, especially to the guys who have managed their money correctly and saved a lot of it. You know, now you're older, your body hurts. You know, you're looking for a lighter schedule, which AW does have

a lighter schedule right now. Maybe a pay cut isn't such a bad idea, you know, of a pay cut, is it when you factor in all the well, that's what I'm saying, Like, you're not going to go in for next to nothing, but if you could still provide for your family, have a lighter schedule, be used properly, and be happy. Yeah, give it to me. I would definitely take that over making a million dollars and being miserable, right because now you got your cameo back, now you

got your house, you have everything. You can do whatever you want, and you can make that money that you're losing on the side however you want, because they're not limiting you to anything right now, exactly whereas they just did they cut everybody from those third party social media you know, money makers. Everybody is miserable, free advice. Look at that from a vet. This is great for me. For me personally, I want to be happy, especially in my older age. You know what I mean, Like, who

wants bullshit? Who wants to be understressed? We have enough stress in our life. You know, you don't want stress at home and at work. You want to try to lighten the load a little bit. So for me, I would gladly leave and go somewhere else for less money, but be happy. Be happy, let them hear my voice, use me correctly. I'd be all over that. So maybe a guy like Braun takes this the way I do, and maybe he says, well, hey, you know, I'm only on the road a couple of days every two weeks.

Because that's what they're doing right now. They're you know, doing two weeks and then the next week is I believe it's taped, so they're only on the road a couple of days a week, and then the next week they stay home. You have such an opportunity to do whatever you want and make that money from your house or do it appearances, or spend the time with your family, take some time off, rest your body up. Yeah, so there's there. There are so many other options out there

besides ww oh, you're you're right, You're right. And that's funny because ten years ago those options were out there too, but they were a lot smaller. There wasn't that opportunity to make this exorbitant amount of money. Fact that you're losing and now you know, you know, with how some of the you put the effort into your cameos. There's guys who lay on their bed and do them. I like braun Strom can sit on a toilet and and you know, handover fist money and cameo yeah, and it's

it's your right now. There have been guys that have gone to AW for less, and that's well documented. The Revival said that they were taking a pay cut to go to uh AW and I'm sure that they're much happier. I'm sure they are less stress in their life. I mean, that's to me that mental health is so important, you know what I mean, Like especially now. Yeah, Like I can't even tell you the stress that I was under

the short time that I worked there. I was worried about everything, everything, and and it was like, you know, I dreaded going to work. It was not a fun experience. I was simply there for the paycheck because it was It wasn't something that I looked forward to. Whereas ECW, I didn't mind to get on a six am flight. I couldn't wait till the weekend. Like I was packed two days before and ready to go and out the door. It was just it's a different for me. It was

just apples and oranges. It was a different atmosphere. And if you cannot enjoy what you're doing, then you need to change your profession. And I know that's not that easy for a lot of people, but mentally it will break you down. So right now is the happiest, you know, besides ECW obviously, but this is the happiest I've ever been, and it's because I'm doing what I want to do.

When I want to do it. And these people who are leaving are leaving that controlled environment and coming over hopefully to you know, a lesser of the two evils, let's say, where they have a little more freedom, they could do what they want. So unbelievable. Now, just on the revival, Jim Cornett feels they ruined their careers going to aw because they're doing a lot of the comedy stuff.

They're not doing the serious wrestling that they were portraying themselves to be, so they took less money to be happy. But Jim Cornett fields, they're losing their credibility. Are the fans into it? If the fans are into what they're doing, I mean, who cares. Well, you're a fan of the Gaga. This past they had Gaga Mania with this last pay per view, they did another one of those stadium matches that they did last year. And it's just comedy, right,

It's not good comedy. It's comedy. But you'll probably pop at it. You'll probably it's something that again, fan of the Gaga, you'll like, here's the thing. We know they can work, we know they can wrestle. We've seen both sides of them, so a little Gaga never heard anyone. They could always come back and get pissed off and do a straight match. I mean, it's not like they're locked into the comedy thing forever. It just shows that they have ranged sides. Yeah, there's different sides to them.

I go like this, what if I start standing like this? Hold on, what if I start staying like this? When I talk to you? You look like a bouncer, right a little. I wish I didn't have to push them up, But you know, my perfectly rated shirt. The Tony Kahan promos promoting a lot of stuff. Have you seen these, like maybe one or two. There's a picture going around where's he's got He's pushing his arms up like this, but it's backstage at it took four days of shoots

to film this match. Okay. There's a picture of Tony Kahn, Jericho and JF who are competing and the coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars where they film the piece in his office and they're all standing watching a monitor and this picture is released. That's the kind of stuff where the Gaga people lose it because it's like it's so coordinated. It's like you're watching a movie now and are you

watching the resident You're watching a movie. It's one of those things where you can appreciate the laugh, but I think in terms of the wrestling fan it loses people. I just feel like you have to listen to what the fans say. Right. If the fans are giving them positive input and then numbers are up, you're doing something correct. It's not for everyone. Listen. You can sit down and watch a show one week and you can absolutely love it, and then you can watch the same show the next

week and despise it. It comes down to the writers and what they make the talent do, right. I feel like Gaga's okay. It shouldn't be in every single match obviously. There shouldn't be a million promos where everybody's talking. There shouldn't be eighty seven factions where everybody comes out with five people in a group. You know, that's my personal preference, but if the demographic likes what they're saying and it's working, they're gonna run with it. So you know, you got

to pay attention to what the fans want. And WWA always talks about WWA universe and dah dah da da da, and it just seems to me, like everything I read is mostly negative. Yeah, it's the universe. Everybody's sitting on it. I don't understand if they're so gun ho about listening to the WWA universe, why isn't there a change? You know, they're stuck somewhere. They're just stuck in this universe that

nobody cares about. I'll tell you. I'll tell you one thing that wasn't release that is rumored about, and this is another reason why they might be selling. Apparently Shane McMahon is gone again from the company, and he's my favorite mcman and he seems to be the first one who when the going gets tough, he's gone. He's my favorite. Did he go back to? Like where was he, like China or something building China away from China? It was either Japan or China. He was he built the pay

per view structure for the country, like whatever the main paper. Yeah, I mean, if anybody knows pay per view, it's the McMahon's and he's apparently gone, but that has not been released to the public. So well, you heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. I hope I'm not talking out of school. And then I hear I hear a lot of stuff during the week, and sometimes I don't remember if I was supposed to keep it in or keep it out. The views expressed right now when eyes up here are

from the Chadster and not Francine. Now, before we get into some questions, we're gonna do some ask Francine almost anything here, and I have all the questions now, which I like. I want to ask you about the friends reunion in a minute, but I just want to mention first. They talk about you're so happy doing everything that you're doing,

you know, and most fun you've had since ECW. Yeah, I can tell you a person who attended the Square Circle expo was very happy to see the crowd you had gathered and how you were busy the whole time and they could barely come over and say hi to you because you were so busy. And then they said, that's because she is and this is a quote she is e c W. Oh, Well, I don't can you say who said it so I can thank them. It was a big vampiric friend of mine's very menacing and

he could used to have like fangs in his mouth. Yeah, I love you, Kevin, Thank you so good. To see you. I'm making a note remind me to tell you something later. I'm writing because I know I'm writing it down. I'm writing it down. It felt so good, uh, you know, to see Kevin, obviously, but to see the fans. I love. Like I said, I love being at home, but when I do have to go out and do these shows, I just love meeting everyone's It's genuine and it's real for me, and it just makes me so happy that

people still care about me and care about ECW. So I appreciate everyone who comes over to say hi. So thank you Kevin for those nice words. I think I made up the word vampiric. Just oh that sounded pretty, I know, I like. I think I might have made it up. All right, So the Friends reunion it was last Friday, I think, right. I was super excited about it, Like when I saw the trailer, I was super duper excited.

Shelley Martinez posted something and tagged me in it. That's how I found out about it, and I had goosebumps and cried almost through the whole thing. How much of a nerd am I? It was that good to me. You're if you're a fan, you're not. It's not nerdy, it's if you're a fan, you're passionate. I was a huge fan of Friends. I loved, loved, loved to show. I remember crying like a baby when Monica proposed to Chandler.

There are just certain things that are in my head that I could relate with, you know, being a twenty something year old or however old. I don't even know what year it was, but I think it was well done. I think, like they said, there were a lot of people that they wanted to have on the show because they only had a handful of, you know, people come back. Besides the six regular there were some people that were missed,

but overall, just seeing them all together. And the best part of the whole reunion that I did not know about was that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer liked each other but never never crossed the line. Interesting and they had they had footage of them flirting, like when they when the scene stopped and they were just waiting for the next scene. And I love that. I told you, I love that. Backstage Yeah, taboo stuff that you're not

supposed to see, and they showed it. And they were so young, so cute with the flirting, Like my heart was just like I wanted them to get married when I watched the show, and now knowing that they really liked each other and they never acted on it, I was like, man, she could have avoided two bad marriages and been with David Schwimmer and maybe they would have

been together forever. But that's got to be so tough to be in a situation like that where you have to be in love with the person on television, have an attraction to them off screen, and the only time you can get it on is just the kissing on this. You know, it happens with a lot of people chat. I wasn't. I wasn't specifically stating. I was just saying it in terms of this sitcom, we're talking about other world. I can relate it. That's all I'm gonna say. But yeah,

it was good. It was very very well done, very cute, and I enjoyed it. And if you're a Friends fan, you need to watch it. It was a lot of fun. Those are questions I have never asked you in our two years of being together on the air of anything having to do with your personal life and relationships. I've never asked you about that. I'm saving that for our car ride in August. So okay, I'm just kidding. I'm joking our car ride and use it as an extra. That would be pretty funny. Parts of it, do that?

Parts of it? Parts of well, you have the opportunity to edit, so yes, I do. That's very true. I did just about your friends. I did. I caught some of it and whatever clips were floating around, just to see you know what it was. I just again, it's not my show. I'm glad you enjoyed it. You got a nice little little cry I did. I did my kids you, ok, mom fu good stuff? Very nice? All right, So we're gonna do a little ask francyinge almost anything.

A question submitted via Facebook time in a really cool Facebook group called Strictly Extreme where I mean, what do you think that the topic is here? It's CCW. Now I want to piggyback on the Facebook group. I am now a part of the Forever Fan dot Club ECW Facebook group, which I'm not gonna lie. Could be now the most hoppin' thing on my timeline, as every two seconds there are fans commenting memories, sharing memorabilia showing is

some of the coolest stuff. And if this is any indication of this project, this is the endorsement is for people to go to Facebook forever fan dot club, the group it is off the chain to the chatster in there too. Yeah, well I'm not in there because I don't do Facebook. But that's fun. I'm glad that it's getting some buzz and Facebook seems to be where it's at. I'm gonna have to make a profile and get on there.

I'll be the one with no friends. It's coming on to say hello, Well, can you just have Tom the MySpace guy as your profile picture? Tom? Remember him? He was everybody's MySpace friend. He was number one on my list, but then I moved him the number eight because I had other people that were more important than I. Loved MySpace. Yeah, I thought my Space was a good time. The party days in the mid two thousands. Okay, it was all about MySpace and literally your top eight could fluctuate with

who you were with on a Friday or Saturday night. Okay, and you got to play music in them, but like you log on and a song would pop me. Oh, it was a fun. It was fun very quickly and I will I have the questions here. I logged into my MySpace account for the first time, maybe like three years ago. It was still like there there if you could find out whatever you log in information was the email address I had on file I don't even use anymore. Oh, I wanted to get in for one reason. It had

a picture I took a hulkke on it. It was like my it was like on my wall right. I took it out of signing of Hogan walking right by me, and it was like I did like one of these really yeah, with the phone. It was with a disposable camera and it was on my MySpace page. I was able to pull it off. But there's nothing else left of the original MySpace. Oh yeah, I don't. I haven't been on there in ages. I don't even know how

to log on. I wouldn't even know my info. But my Space was a good MySpace was like the first Internet thing. I think I joined. Oh cool. I think it was because there was there wasn't anything else going on at the time, I don't think, right, nothing like that. You either talked to somebody on you know, AOL chat or that. Yeah. I mean remember when I got text messaging in two thousand and two, Literally the only people who had it were me, Liz, and John from a

Power Trip. We were the only ones who had text messages. And you had to pay like fifty cents a text. Yeah, right, you did have to, Yeah, because I remember when I first started dating my husband and we were texting all the time, and my bill was like two hundred dollars for text messaging, and now we have an unlimited Imagine that. And then when they went to unlimited, it was like one hundred dollars or something. You like, he married me because I'd be pissed if I spent two hundred dollars

on I didn't end up with some guy. You just be complaining about it in your current life, like I used to pay all this money. Toss about one hundred dollars. Come on, all right, here we go. So from this strictly extreme Facebook group, the first question was because I introduced myself as a co host of fran Scene and Shane Douglas podcast. The first question for fran Scene was when Shane Douglas threw down the NWA title, Whose idea was it for him to say you could all kiss

my ass? I'm sure it was Shane's. You would have to ask him, but I'm sure it was Shane Douglas. It was. It was, It absolutely was. But I just thought that was funny, like you gotta read, you gotta read what it's said. It said for Francine, that's okay, all right. This person wants to know names. I could say names, Yeah, give them shout outs. Sure, Jake Crockett wants to know what was the highest peak moment of

you and Shane's run together. It would be interesting to hear whether their answers differ, so they would want both of you to answer, But you go ahead and do it. The highest peak moment. Well, I feel like we had the most heat with the Gary angle. I I feel like it was the pitbull thing with the broken neck. Geez, I mean we had I believe I was with Shane for about three and a half years. I think that's how long the run was before he left to go to w CW. And I still think that if he

would have stayed, we would have never separated. I just feel like we were that good together. To my own horn too too, but we were just a good We were a good team. You know, we were really good together. So I feel like we drew heat the whole time. But I think the pinnacle, and it was early on, was the Gary, the stuff with Gary, because it was we were getting beat up every week, it seems like it.

And kind of watching that stuff about almost watching it in real time, just going through clips of watching basically from the week it happened, and it's like, I don't know, that night could be the high point for you guys, because that was insane. That was crazy. Yeah, that was crazy. And I wonder if we were in a bigger building, would it have been different? You know what I mean?

Because the arena is tight and there was about maybe fifteen hundred people there or so I wonder if we were in four or five thousand, seed Arena, six thousand, whatever, if it would have been different. But maybe just more people jumping the corn. I don't know. Now, you don't think that some point, let's just say Shane stayed all

the way to two thousand and one, never left. Yeah, you don't think at some point there would have been a call for Shane to be a babyface with you being a heel, like you turning on him or him getting frustrated with you. You cost him a winner something and the money being you guys separated but then getting back together a la macho man and Elizabeth. I think that it would have actually been better if you guys were still in the same company, separated and then came back.

Could have been I mean, I just feel like if it ain't broke, oh, I agree with that too. You know, yeah, we couldn't. We could have did a lot of cool stuff either way. But I just feel like him and I were a money duo. So you know, I was heartbroken when he left, I really was. I wanted him to stay. Understood why he left, obviously, but you know, it is what it is. Come see comes out, all right, have a this one, Darryl Patterson, much respect for all your work that you put in in ECW, especially your

willingness to take crazy bumps. He wants to know what is a moment that has you saying to yourself, Wow, that was awesome, Wow, that was awesome. I think I have to always go back to the night that I turned on the pipples and joined you know, Shane going

through the table. I honestly feel like that was the moment where the boys respected me and the fans were like, oh my gosh, because I'm now I'm told I don't know if it's true, but I'm told I was at first girl, at least in the States, to go through a table, and I don't think anybody really expected it to happen. And I think it was one of those like holy shit moments, she's dead, you know what I mean.

And for me, I think that just elevated me to another level that night where that people were just like, Yeah, she's here to work. She's not here to just hang out. She's here to work. And you know, every single week, I just tried to put the work in and you look back and you say, wow, this was awesome. That was an awesome night for me. It just when I walked through the back, you know, everybody was giving us

a standing ovation. I know it was just not for me, but usually people would clap, people got out of their chairs, and even the guys that were eliminated early, like Jericho and Scorpio, everybody was just standing there clapping and people were hugging me and telling me how well I did. And it just made me feel so happy and so good. So yeah, I like that night a lot. Were you afraid I know this might have been really hard. Were you afraid that the pants or the skirt might come

down and people could see the franchise written? Now, you weren't afraid of that at all, Right, just somebody grabbed it by accident, and that didn't cross my mind. I was afraid of getting hurt. I was afraid of like hitting my head on the lip of the table or something happening or hard way. And that's what I was afraid of. I didn't even think twice about the underwear. Underwear? Is it gone? Is it long gone? I sold it? Oh boy, that's gotta be. That's got to be in

a museum somewhere. I don't know where it is. Hopefully nobody's wearing. Hopefully nobody's wearing it. Let's just say you're probably wearing it on their head for all I know. Are you thinking it as a Corona mask? Very nice. Darryl Patterson also wants to know, with Shane being the hometown kid, was it difficult to manage him in Pittsburgh. No, it was easy in Pittsburgh because we were always baby

face in Pittsburgh. And I again, like, that's the only time that Shane and I like kind of disagreed, Like I kind of I liked the people loving us, but in the same aspect, I was like, but we're heels. It would be kind of cool to walk in your hometown and be despised. I don't know, you know, that's the way I thought anyway. But you know, he has his opinion and I respect it. The old Rick rude give you make it burden your hometown. You know you're a shitty heel, and he took except into that big time.

I would not call him a shitty heel, but I just think it would have been cool to go in as babyfaces and then have him clept this hillacious promo and have every single person bill us out of the building. I thought that would have been fantastic for TV. But he liked to be loved in Pittsburgh, so I just went along with it. I can't even walk the streets in Pittsburgh Beaver County. All right, how about this one? Ronan Margolin says, what's up, guys, huge fan of ECW

since ninety six. Right, First of all, glad you two squashed your beef. You and Shane mm hmm. When did you two figure out you were a good fit right away or was it? Was it a process? I think it was right away. I think we clicked right away. It comes down to that story where he he remembers this and I don't, but he always says that we were.

He was helping me with a promo when he came back and he wasn't even working yet, and Paul saulis conversing in the corner and a twinkle was in his eye and he thought, well, this is the new Dynamic Doo. I love the company, and uh we we just clicked right away. And I didn't. Again, I didn't know anything about Shane. You know, I didn't know his work. I wasn't a fan. I wasn't prevy to what he had done.

I had to go home and look up stuff, you know, and study, which I did, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, I could work with this. You are a student of the game for doing something that you have to. That's what it's all about. You have to you have to better yourself. How about this one? Mark Fioretti doesn't have a question, but he just says he just subscribed to your Twitch channel and is now going to join Patreon. Can't wait? Get it? Mark? Well, We haven't heard from yet, Mark,

but we're waiting. Come on over, babe. He wrote this an hour ago, so we'll give him a few minutes, maybe a reload of email, perhaps, Come on, Mark. The clock is ticking on. This is a good question. I'm not sure if we've answered it in this format. I think we've mentioned it in casual passing. What is your favorite version of the Triple Threat? Well, uh, jeez, I have to go with Shane Bambam Candido. I love Brian Lee to death, love love, love, love love Brian Lee.

And I thought Malenko Benoir was cool, but you know, getting to work, I didn't obviously didn't work with the earlier version, but I've worked with several and I love Lance Storm, He's a great guy. But to me, Bam Bam and Chris with us was just the best, the

most fun, the best angles. That's my opinion. Could you have seen yourself with the original Triple Threat with the Shane Malenko ben Wat Yeah, I could, but see those that version, Like, to me, they were all straight men, right, so it was kind of like, I like the diversity of having Chris be the kind of silly but still be like technically able to kick somebody's ass because he was just a great worker, you know, well rounded. I feel like that earlier version was so serious. Maybe they

didn't need me. I don't know. Like I I feel like I could have worked with them, but it just I don't know if it would have been as fun right, and nothing against any of them, because they're all phenomenal workers, but the dynamic would have been different. Yeah, the group evolved. I mean it really was the you know, the shooter, the technical wrestler, and then and Shane, who could really be a little bit of everything. They were a very serious wrestling crew, whereas you guys were like, you guys

are like a gang. You saw one, you got them all kind of thing. And that's what I loved about the Triple Threat was it was guys that had each other's back. This one. It was like three guys, you know, mad as hell against the world. They were a very serious demeanor to them. It's interesting that they didn't have a manager, but it's funny. Would Francine have crossed over well with them? I guess that's one of those ultimate

fantasy booking questions. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how much of a role I would have got to play, you know what I mean, like what I have been like a missilez who didn't get to talk at all and just stood there and did nothing. I don't know. Yeah, because it's weird because Shane, you know, obviously was with Sherry for a while, but Sharry was gone by the time the Triple Threat was for him. So I wonder if they kept them together, would Sherry have been with them?

But did they need it for again, there would be a serious group of wrestlers rather than a gang of guys that were all you know, friends. Yeah. Yeah, and they they weren't together very long. No, No, it was really a handful of shows. Yeah, yeah, So we don't know what could have been. But I yeah, my favor

is definitely Bam Bam Chris and Shane. Yeah. Shane always says there's only two pictures of them together and Malnko and Shane, one in a locker room and one they're outside and they're in there of course, you know, out outside the arena. Best Fanny Pax and Zubas lovely. So it's a time capsule in terms of the pictures taken. I was asked by Joseph Ryan the ninth, the ninth. Wow, that's a big family. Joseph Ryan the eighth didn't want any part of it. Yeah, he's not around for that.

That's okay. Uh, this one is Dominic Borgia. He would like to know where were the craziest fans. Well, I'd have to say Philly. Obviously the arena was a bit crazy. Uh, the Madhouse of Extreme in New York. They got a little crazy at times. Anywhere that a fight broke out, which was most cities, riots did ensue, and for the most Park fans, you know, were respectful. But again there were those over zealous ones who couldn't keep their hands to themselves and just you know, they thought it was real.

It was real to them, damn it, and they just they just had to spit or punch or attack us. And you know that's crossing the line. Bro, that's a little too much. I don't know. In the comments they said, without a doubt Philly. People were saying New York. But Dominic actually replied to somebody and said he figured that was the answer with Philly. But you never know. The War Memorial in Florida was pretty nuts. But I don't remember anything ever like crazy happening there. They were a

good grip, like a raucous crowd. Yeah, like they were reality and they were into the product. And I remember I liked working there. I liked that building that was for Lauderdale, right, yeah, yeah, Yeah. We would go there early and stay late, you know what I mean. That would like stay extra days to go to the beach and go to the clubs. And we would make that a vacation every time that we went there. But yeah, I if I had to choose, I think Philly and

New York topped the list for me. So yeah it was. I think that was also the venue where the ring came down. If I'm mistaken, the War Memorial in Florida. You ever see that? I think you had it either, you weren't on the road yet. It was the one clip of the ring comes down. It was all the fans inside of it. Everybody was jumping. I thought that was in Philly. Oh, I thought that was in Florida. No, I think that was at the Arena. Really is that when Public Enemy were in the ring. I don't remember

who was in the ring. I just remember it was darker. That's why I didn't think it was the arena. It was like a little the Florida one, wasn't it Like a little bit of a darker venue. Florida had a stage, had a stage where we came out and they had two sides were on the floor and then the back went up with bleachers. I think I know there was a stage, but I don't. I don't remember the Florida building, the the thing collapsing there. I know it did in Philly. I can't. I gotta, I gotta go back and look

that up. I mean, I know the chair incident was in Philly. Yeah, with Terry Funk and Cactus Jack. When Terry Funk is waving his arms in and then you get pit in the head with the chair and goes down. I want to say it was Philadelphia where Public Enemy was in the ring and it goes the one side and then everything falls. Oh that's so great. E c W was awesome. God man. I saw two other chair throwing incidents, uh similar to kind of you copy off of that. One was in the e CW arena. Okay,

it was a TNA house show. Main event was the Dudley's Team three Team three D against the New Age Outlaws. So on paper, that's pretty damn good main event. For some reason, fans decide of throwing chairs in the ring and road Dog Brian James gets on the mic and just goes off. He goes, you motherfucker's dust ruined a goddamn good finish, threw down the mic and walked out of the ring. Oh and that's how the show ended. Oh that's it was crazy. That was famously I got

hitting the balls by Billy Gunn during that show. He did. Yes, they were brawling outside the ring and oh no, Billy, excuse me, I hit by Bubba. Billy knocked Bubba down. Bubba goes back like this, nuts And I'm sure he probably saw somebody standing there and did one of those hit right in the balls. And then the other one was an right show that did the same thing with the chairs. Oh okay, e CW copycats all round. Before

I get to the questions, I gotta mention this. Did you hear Mark Shapiro who we mentioned last week in our watchlong Do you recall we saw him? He was with with you guys. He died? Oh he did in the past week he did upset. Now can you believe that we just saw and it was the whole thing. Shane brings them in front of the camera and says that he passed away. Heard it through the grape vine. Oh, I couldn't find anything about it online, but I heard

through the grapevine he passed away this week. We just I don't know of what, but we just talked about him. Weird. Oh I feel bad now, all right, p Yeah, really he was a very nice man. Go watch our our watch along Louis Pacoli versus Shane from September seventeenth, ninety six. Shane brings him literally in front of the camera says if anybody touches her, he brings them in the back and I'll kick their ass because you were getting grabbed.

We saw that now. Yeah, oh, poor guy. I'm going to ask one more before we move over to the rest of these on Patreon. Okay, okay, yeah, I'm gonna save that one. I'm gonna go back to that. That's gonna be a good one to start it with. Uh, we'll close in with this one. I've heard some tales about how much of an asshole Raven was. What's your take? Wow, he could be for sure. I think everybody has probably had their ups and downs with Scotty. You know, right now we're cool, and I have to say that he

does have a great mind for the business. I feel like the Raven character. I don't know if he came up with it or Paul came up with it or whatever, but I just think that it elevated him, you know, because he was doing this Scotty the Body or Johnny Polo all that. You know, he came in from WWF fresh off that character and to see him like in this grunge it was cool and it was relatable. Yeah,

you know what I mean. So you know, if somebody says to me, do you like Scott Levy, I'd say, yeah, I like Scott Levy, but definitely butted heads a couple times. And I've seen him butt heads with a lot of people. So you know, there's a lot of said with interviews, right. Obviously, you guys were very close. Everybody in ECW shared the locker rooms, the roads, whole nine yards, the shoot, interviews, the podcast, interviews, the right of interviews, magazines, all that stuff.

Do more problems and this is not you know, talking about Ravens specifically, This is everybody. Do more problems come out of those interviews with other things being said than actually things that happened in the locker room. I feel like, and I've said this before, I feel like these shoot interviews, people say things that they here and they feel is

the truth, and a lot of times it's not. And like you know, back in the day again, let's talk about the rats, talk about this, let's talk about that, and people say things, and people have said stuff about me that isn't true, and it may it hurts my feelings, and I call them on it. You know, Scotty did in an interview. I called him on it. We talked it out. I was furious, you know, Sandman did in an interview, called him on it, talked about it. He

was wrong, he admitted he was wrong. But now it's it's there for all to you know, for all to see, for the rest of eternity. I just feel like there are certain topics that should not be discussed, you know, uh, private things, things that you know happened behind the scenes. It's really nobody's business. But I'm going to say it because I'm going to get over because yoh I did this and I did that. Just keep your mouth shut. They're there, you know, especially now you're in your fifties,

get over it. That's the way I look at it. I just feel like guys should have more respect for the females in the business. Yeah, we talked about that many, many times. And you know what also is funny about that, And like you said, anything you talk to to Raven directly, you talk to sam in directly. People who just stumble on to clips that are fifteen years old are hearing that and then they go, oh, I heard Raven say that, so that's got to be. It's got and that's it.

And now you know, even some of the fine Stein's shoot interviews are twenty plus years old. Yeah, and whereas some of them are great time capsules because some of the guys are gone, the stories will live on forever. Other things, if they say something in passing, it's now in stone and that if they're alive and you're there, they if somebody say yeah, I didn't like Francine, and they go, oh, so and so it doesn't like Francine. You guys could have talked out one hundred and fifty

times since then, but it lives in infamy. I'd always find that, you know, it's almost these are as much of a benefit as they are a detriment. I was when I did Hannibal's thing last week. I went back and I was reading some of the comments just to see, you know, what people were saying about me or whatever. And one idiot was like, oh, she said she didn't sleep with Shane's so that means she did, and we all know that they were a couple, and I'm just like, no,

you're wrong. I didn't answer him, you know, obviously, but why is it like like people say, oh, you're trying so hard to make us believe that you didn't. No, I'm just telling you that it's not true, right, you know. And all these guys who said in their shoot interviews that I was Shane's rudd and Shane and I were sleeping town wasn't true. It wasn't a thing, you know. And we both said this. If we were both single, maybe it would have happened because there was an attraction there.

I'm not gonna lie, but it we never crossed the line. It never happened. There was never a kiss outside of the ring, or a holding hands outside of walking to that. Nothing like that ever ever happened. And I would take a lie detector test, and I would swear on a stack of Bibles it just didn't happen. So for people to throw that in my face and say, yeat, dude, you're you're just compensating. You're trying to make a no stopping an asshole. I'm just telling my story. Somebody asked it,

and I'm giving you my answer. Why don't people believe me? Why do I'm the person that it happened to. Somebody believes me. I don't understand because so and so said it in an interview. Well true, can kiss my ass. Because I just hate that people can say anything they want, anything this Internet, the Wikipedia page, people add to it, all people writing on my wiki page. Some of that stuff on there is not even accurate, not even true. But what gives people the right to just pull up

and add their two cents to it? It infuriates me absolutely. If it's not factual, it's absolutely should If Shane has said they've added extra wives to his Wikipedia, he goes, I had trouble with one ex wife. I don't need to exactly. I just feel like personal things should not be discussed. You know I've said it before, I'll say it again. Excuse me. We were on the road together four or five days a week. We had no social life. We would come home, do our laundry, say hi to

our families, and then go back on the road. People are going to date, Things are going to happen. It's no one's business but our own. And for these guys to just sit down and talk about other people and make up shit, it bothers me when they were not you know, there's two people in the bed, so to speak. Were you there? Were you sleeping with me? I was alone? Were you there? No, you weren't there. Shut your mouth.

We talked about many times, and it's never it's never a dull topic because it could always be brought up again. Forget me riled up again, especially for that interview you did last week. What did that have to do with what you were being asked? That somebody speculates in the comments about something they know nothing about, and both parties have vehemently said this is unfactual. Oh, this did not happen.

We're both lying. We're both lying. As a friend of both of you, I can honestly say that it's the truth. I mean, both people are admitting there was an attraction something would have happened if one of us wasn't married, because I obviously was single at the time. We're both admitting that, We're both saying there was there was an attraction there, but we didn't do it. So well, how much more honest can you be? I'm not sitting there saying, oh, I thought he was an ugly dude and I didn't

want to you know, blah blah blah. The thought never crossed my mind. No, I'm not saying that we're being as honest as we can be about it. And still people do not believe us, and they do not respect our answers. So I don't know what else to tell you. What more can I say? People? I respect your answer. I'm telling you it's it's it's annoying to say the least, But how could you resist a quaff, you know, I mean, his quaft looks always so good. Look, he was a

very good looking man. He still is a nice looking man, you know. But I'm an old, married lady with children and you know, too little, too late, buddy, And he's fighting he's fighting road rage with blue haired ladies in on the streets to Pittsburgh. He punched by ninety year old grandmothers No, actually, Gary got punched, not him. Oh my god, Gary got punched by this old lady. And it was the best thing I've ever seen in my life. He always says, he hangs out more with two ninety

three year old people and his stepmother. Yeah, when he goes to the far So there you go. He crew all right, he's a good friend. He's he's you know, hopefully he'll be in my life forever. I do truly love him. So there you go, exactly. And the rest is he would say, can all kiss his ass? So all right, we'll save the rest of the questions for Patreon, so I can throw that banner up where it now flew by. We're doing. Finish the questions, finish the question.

Here's another funny one for the extras. No, do we have another Ramath? What was that called? Behemo? No? No, no, no, something different? It was, Oh what the hell? Accuser of the Brethren. I don't even know what we motherfucker. We are going to look at ugly ring attire. Oh my god, bring me up every time. Some of my were disgusting. I don't think you were on this list. But there's some pretty ugly ring attire. It's more we're just going

to look at it, see if it's fashionably acceptable. Maybe we can rank the worst one by the end of it and what didn't work? But you know me, it's kind of goofy. And then, uh, here's another random match. You don't do much in it, but you're there. And I just thought it was I just thought it was interesting because I had never seen it and I watched it. Okay, the Pitbulls versus Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie from ECW just another night. Well do you want to know what?

Do you want to know what that means? Just another night? Sure for you guys, it was just another night blood and guts, uh fights hardcore, it was just another night. That was the tagline. We don't change anything about ECW. It was making well, it was making an assumption that WCW, Nitro and WWF raw have to have all these gimmicks and have to have all these things to get you to come in for ECW. It's just another night, another night, Okay, clever,

I've never seen this match, so I don't remember. We're gonna check it out and we're gonna run down the card because a ec mainstay and a guy who had a big you know, I would say portion of your run there with association with you debuted on this show and you'll tell me one month to tell you who it is on Patreon okay, because I don't know. I didn't know it either, So here we go. If you want to follow me, it's at Chad E and B

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