Eyes Up Here: Disney Return

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Here sent you. All Right, Well we're back, Well we were. Technically we never missed it, but we don't miss it in town anything. This is Eyes up Here and you're listening to another all new episode of Iz up Here, exclusively on our Patreon channel as well as the creative control of podcast Network. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad, and every single week we never missed a beat technically, but it's been a while since

I've seen the person. And sitting to my right, you know her as the Queen of Extreme It is the hostess of this show, the one and only Francy. I didn't want to come back. No offense to you, Chad, but I just didn't want to return. It's snowing here today and I was leaving sunny Florida to come back to a not a storm, but it's snow and it's nasty out. Lucky you, huh? You now to be fair, to be fair, this is a receipt because you left and got out of Dodge and missed a blizzard. Okay,

so let's rewind. I leave fifty well seventeen days ago now, I think right, because we got back this Friday, late Friday. When I left, there was a blizzard. Right now. My in laws live in Illinois, and they got over like a foot of snow. They're texting us and showing us pictures, and we're like, we're out of Florida, see you later. We're yeah, sorry, where we were. We got like eight or nine inches. I think there was a lot of snow here. Get to Florida. It's forty nine degrees. No,

it was not Brett. It was so funny. It was not funny. I was pissed off. I had brought, like I always bring hoodies or like a sweat jacket because you know, sometimes it's cooler at night, you know. I brought like a heavier jacket and a sweat jacket. So I had the kids in their two jackets, and I had on a hoodie with another zip hop and my husband just does this same thing. I don't even know what he doesn't. But we landed and I was just like, what is this crap? What is this weather? I'm pissed off.

It's freezing here. It was. It was it was so cold for Florida. And I did I say forty nine, It might have been thirty nine. It might have been thirty nine. It was really cold. And they were saying, oh, it's our cold front that's coming through, and everyone's like, you picked the wrong week to come down here, and I was just like I was walking. Yeah. But like the first day when we got there, it was just a check in day. We didn't have any plans and

we literally just like checked in. I unpacked everything. We went to dinner at the hotel and Easy Breezy. There was a public like five minutes down the street, so like Hubbs walked over there got us because we had we literally had a full kitchen, a full dining room. We stayed at the same place. I said, I wasn't going to Oh that's right, you said that the last I did. But then they sent us this coupon and

we were like, ooh, this is a good deal. But you know, two bathrooms, two bathrooms, so much space for the price. We were like, yeah, we'll just go there again. And then like the second day was like Disney Springs. It was a Disney Springs day and it was still chilly. So I was just like, all right, if this doesn't warm up, I'm really going to be pissed off, you know.

But then as the week went on, like one day was like eighty seven and it was ungodly hot, and I said to myself, before I start to bitch about how hot it is, I remember a couple of days ago it was freezing, and I was pissed off when it was cold. So it literally it was between sixty five and seventy five ish, that was the norm. A couple days by a couple of days were really low, but it was perfect weather if you were going to the parks. Not too hot, you know, little light breeze.

I'm trying to think like one fun thing that that happened to us three times, which I never really thought would happen. They have cavalcies. They don't have the full parades right now, they have certain cavalcades. And there were like these two cavalcades. It was the princesses, and then it was like very rare characters. It was like Clara Belle, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Max the Coven, a very rare, right, We three times. Now, I don't know how we did this.

We didn't time it this way, but three times. Being a magic kingdom, we ended up right behind the cavalcade and they let us walk in the pre It was and so like the guys are here, you know, the guys that tell you stay behind the line and blah blah blah. But we were right behind them and they didn't tell us to get out of the walkway. We followed the cavalcade and when you make that turn into

the hub in front of the castle, everybody's there. And we were literally walking in this parade ed hello, waving yes, I'm in the parade. They picked my badly to be the hey who was that? Oh they were extras in uh you know, uh Robson's not once, not twice. Three times we did this and it was so cute and it was My kids got such a kick out of it, and it was it was like we were supposed to be in this parade. It was really really fun. I mean, we didn't walk the whole length. We we got out

when we needed to go where we did. Did you start to channel your inner Francene and start to soak in the adulation of the crowd and my my daughter, she was hilarious. She goes, Mom, is this like when you used to come through the moon. Yes, that's great, same thing. Here I am. But it was fun, you know,

it was cute. It was something cute and uh I never expected to do that because they're always like, you got to go behind the line, you can't go you know, here I am, and I said, I said to my dworder, we have to memorize these moves that we could start dancing too with the people. But it was it was just cute. You grabbed King Arthur's sword and you start doing the thing with the kendostick. This is his second nature. You're in front of a crowd. I stripped the sword.

It was it was just just one of those things that that happened. But it happened three times and it was just it was so fun. What else We went on ratituy four times? Oh wow, four times. At one point I want to say the line was like four hours long or something like that. It was, well, it's a new right, the new ride, you know what I mean. So the consensus of everybody that I hear walking out was, you know, it's a cute ride. But I wouldn't wait four hours for it again. But we loved it. We

loved it. It's great for little kids, very clever the way you know, the trackless thing runs. It was really really cute. Gideons Gideon's Cookie line in Disney Springs. I don't know about anybody knows about Gideons, but they are the massive cookies. They're like a pound each. If you don't know about it, look it up. They're ridiculously good. Six and a half hour wait time for the cookies

for the cookies. When we first got to Disney spring we got there towards the lunch afternoon time, and it was a virtual cue by then because in the morning you can go and you can line up. And we asked, we said, you know how long for the return and she said six and a half hours. And I said that would make the return. I'm nine thirty and I'm not gonna stay here until nine thirty pm. Yes, because they'll text you yo, you're it's ready, and then you just go and you have to wait in the line.

So my husband is such a mark for these cookies. He literally, on two different days went by himself, took an uber, went by himself got in line at nine o'clock because that's when Disney Springs will let you in, and then the store opens at ten. So he was third in line one day and fifth in line the other day and got both. Uh. He bought seven cookies each time, and then a piece of cake was brought home which was bigger than my head. Very good job. Yeah,

well yeah, I said, do we need these cookies? Absolutely, we need these cookies. I said, well, then you go. I'm not dragging the kids out at eight o'clock in the morning. So he went and he left, and he got these cookies, which are all for the cookie all for the cookies, yes, and really really good cookies. But I wasn't about to go out at eight am to you know, the Queen needs to just wrestle at Queen needs the beauty sleep for a reason. I'm getting the

kids ready, I'm getting myself ready. There's a lot going on. But yeah, the weather was great. I got to try the mushroom risotto. It was the only thing in Epcot at the Festival of the Arts booths that I wanted to try, and oh my god, ten of them. It was like nine dollars and fifty cents and you only got about eight bites worth. It was very small and I shared it, but it was so good and it was the only booth that I took anything from, so that was delicious. Fessel of the Arts was very fun.

If you've never been. They have a wall that you get a little pink cup and they say, you know, number eight is your spot, and you get the paint like five squares and at the end it becomes this cool mural of something. And before we got there they had started it and it was almost done, and then the rain hit and it dissolved all the paint boo, so everything was gone, and they started again, so now it's figments face like four times or whatever. So that

was I felt so bad. And like the chalk, the chalk art on the on the ground got all messed up from the rain and stuff like that. One day it poured, it absolutely poured. Sumi Sakai came to visit and so I had a lovely She came to visit me twice. Actually she said, adorable freezing you mind, I come over? Absolutely not come over. So the first time she came she was by herself, and then the second time friends came and it was. We had a dinner and yes, that was quite the friend. Yes it was,

and very surprised to see. Well, you know, I don't want to really talk about that too much. I'm I was just I thought it was very very cool. I mean, you know, you know, but uh yeah, we we got to eat and share some stories and it was a lot of fun seeing her because now she's down there, she's not up here anymore. So I love SueMi. Trying to think we we just went to some cool restaurants. Who went to t Rex. We we went to Rainforest Cafe, which is generic, but the kids like that. We went

there the last time. I love it. We went there t Rex. I had a delicious I'm really in the mushrooms I had. That was delightful. Best meal of the trip. We went to the Beer Garden in Germany and I filmed a little of it. We had an I show. We had a night there. It's back to the buffet, so you can go up a million times. They have a really delicious beer cheese soup. They have pretzel buns. I was all carved up dipping my buns in my soup and the beating and really good stuff. I don't know.

It was just a really nice trip. You know. I hate it every day that went by. I do this every time every day that went by, I'm like bummed because it's like one day less my vacation, you know. And I know we were there for fifteen days and that's a lot, but like I would have stayed another fifteen days, Like I just I just love it. I was just looking at your pictures, just saying to myself,

not the first day, because it's funny. My uncle and aunt live in Hallahassee and they were having the cold weather too, so you heard about it from their perspective. Every day. I was like, I would show the picture to like kids, or I show it to Liz. I'd be like, I want this weather. I want this is what. I don't care about the hot I don't care. I don't know if it's like a switch that one off

on me about the cold and the last year. I freaking hate cold and it's it's And I was looking at your the sky, not even like just the just the sky is like, wow, look at that blue sky. Beautiful. I wasn't looking at anything else in the pictures after that sky. Yeah, crazy, But let me ask you this fiftieth anniversary, did it live up to it? The only thing that I saw that was different. They have these sculptures in gold stitch Donald Duck. They're all scat you know,

you have to you're supposed to find them. I don't know if it's like a scavenger hunt and you get something if you find them all. But they're all over the parks and they're in gold. I saw those and they were cute, you know. And then they had the fiftieth banners and they're like in gold with glitter. And then they supposedly have these treats that you can get, but my family, we're all about Mickey pretzels and then the kids like the premium bars and that's the only

treats that they wanted popcorn. Like, they don't go for the fancy tmancy desserts, you know what I mean. Like, we didn't really get into those. But I really didn't notice anything different, you know from past trips that would make me think, oh, it's the fiftieth. The castle was decorated for the fiftieth, and that looked great. I saw that a couple of yeah, wonderful, it looks nice. But other than that, Like what was so different? I couldn't tell you. Just a bunch of gold statues and and

I don't know that was it. Treats. Yeah, because that's what we're talking about, how we're gonna put our trip together. We're looking at June. I told you a couple of weeks ago, understanding it's gonna be hot as balls, but I'll take it right now. I hate the cold. And I got the one of the main things I want to see, you know, the cool stuff for the fifteenth anniversary. And the castle looked great from the pictures I saw

that you had, and that's that's a huge allure. But I want to I want to see like specialty stuff. And I wonder in previous years would they have done more. I don't know. I mean they did have characters out, but you still could not get near them. So it was like a rope was up and you could stand in front of the rope and character. Yeah, like the character was six feet behind you. Another thing was like, I my mother in law kept telling me get a good picture of the four of you, right, So I'm like,

I'm trying to. And there are certain cast members who won't use your phone they won't touch it. Oh okay. So I had to ask every cast member do you will you you would take my phone and snap a picture, And one finally explained to me. She said, listen, you know we're back working, but if we if we know somebody who had COVID like, we could still be at risk, she said, which even quarantine like they only have to

quarantine I think five days or something. So she didn't feel comfortable touching my phone, she said, And a lot of cast members wouldn't and some would. But when you when they they don't use your phone and you get it scanned. The memory maker is two hundred dollars and all I wanted was a picture in front of the castle. So I found a lady who would do it. She was super nice. Oh, I'll do it, no problems. She

took my phone. My husband wore his baseball cat, which made from here his nose up, you can't see his eyes. And that was the picture, so you don't you don't see any So I'm sure she's she's really mad that she didn't get a good picture in front of the castle. But I mean I tried. It was just hard. It was the one day it was a Monday, we were at the Magic Kingdom. We went four times this day. You couldn't move people everywhere. Really, okay, it on a Monday. It was so bad. And then towards the end of

the trip the cheerleaders showed up. Oh that was my next question. But it wasn't as bad because I don't think a lot of the international troops came over because of COVID. I didn't really see any foreign groups, so it was but they're still annoying and I still hate them all. And they took them like a hundred spaces in line, which is really annoying. But yeah, I mean, you know, wait, times fluctuated. Now. I know a lot of people were saying, like, don't trust the weight times.

So a lot of the rides when we went in, I would time them and if it said fifty, it was only twenty five. Then other days I noticed if it said fifty, it was fifty. So it's it's like it's a crap shoot, you gotta just roll with the punches there. So, but some rides were on Godly Loan. That's yeah, man, that's you know. I guess it's you gotta expect, you know, I guess it's at the process. I have a hook up, so I didn't. We didn't

have to wait in any long lines. Only once we did, and that's only because it broke down and we were stuck in the middle. What was it, I want to say, was it soaring? I think? I think yeah, And it was like, uh, it was supposed to be like a twenty minute wait and it ended up being an hour and a half or something, and you know, it's annoying, but there was nothing to do because it was shut.

It was right what day did you really start the depression where it was like, ah, crap, like we're getting close to coming and gets like it hit that hump where it was like, all right, we're closer to the end in the beginning. This is how asinine I am. The second day we were there, I was thinking, like, oh my god, the first day is the most exciting day and it's over, and I'm really sad about it, because you know, your first day you're like, yes, we're here,

we want to do all this stuff. So the second day I'm having like these withdrawals and I still have two weeks to go. It hasn't even started yet, and I'm already said yeah, I'm insane, Like I don't know what the hell's wrong with me. But it's like every day that goes by, I was getting a little more sad, and I would tell the kids, like, oh, we still have time, don't worry. Even up to the last day, I'm like, this is our last full day. We have

to enjoy it. And like we have a tradition we always go on Powers of the Caribbean as the last ride. And we were getting on Winnie the Pew and it it shut down or something, so they gave us a fast pass we could use at any time. They said, here, here's a return, just use it for any ride. So we saved it for the pirates at the end because it was like your money in the bank. Yeah, it's just been a tradition. That's always the last ride that we like to go on, and it was we made

that the last ride. But I mean we got to do everything. There wasn't one ride that we didn't get to ride that we wanted to and we got on everything, which was great. Expedition Everest was was shut down. My daughter really likes that one, So that was I mean, you couldn't ride it if you wanted to because it was it was closed. But and a splash mountain, but we don't do that one because you get soaked and that's on the list. We we haven't done that since

we started again. Well it'll be perfect for you guys because it's June. Yeah. How about people Mover. It was closed the last time you were there. We got to ride it one time, okay, one time. We usually go on it one hundred times. The line for people Mover was like super ridiculous. It was all the way like past the que past astro orbiter, around the bend like we were like, what the hell is for the people mover? Wow? For the people mover. Yeah, it was so backed up

over there. And I don't know if it's because I think it was the day that Space Mountain wasn't running or I don't know what something wasn't running, but it was really really backed up and oh no Space Mountain was running. Because that's where my daughter went with my husband. I took my son and I actually had to take him to the left floor because we couldn't get the people mover was just too ridiculous, So I said, let's go to the left floor. Oh, go to the left floor.

I submit a joke, right, you can text a joke to this number and then they'll, you know, if you're lucky, they'll they'll say your joke, say my son's name, and I completely quiet. I go yes, real loud, and then they go, uh from Myrtle Beach a same person, different name, real loud, my son his mom. That's not me. I was mortified. Oh yeah, I'm gonna hear my joke. Yes, absolutely, What kind of nut always gets sick? What a catch you you had to submit kids? They should have banned

you from the facility. I loved it, but I made an as out of myself and screamed when I thought it was him, but it wasn't him. But yeah, it was just it was a great vacation. It was to me. It was too short and I want to go back. So it was. It's funny like now you say seventeen days, so then that means it's nineteen days since we recorded last. So it's like a lot of time in between. But it's all kind of a blur for me. And it did go by fast now that we talk about it,

but I don't I'm not sure if it did. I don't know I'm like in the middle. Well, now you'll have to explain why you're in the middle. I'm in the middle. People don't know what you went through. No, they don't. You know, I didn't make it. I didn't say anything like publicly. I didn't make any like declaration or dramatic Facebook posts or go on Twitter and ask for prayers. I didn't do any of that stuff. One like one prayer. I told the people that needed to know.

You know that that I'm close with that felt I felt that that information was necessary. Yes, I shared with yourself. I shared it with my blonde haired, short, short tempered friend. I share why the way I would not leave me alone. And I kept telling him, I am on vacation, you need to stop. The funniest thing so, I mean, like, you know, we were supposed to record the first night. That's why I told him too. And the first day I was back at work, I get a text from

him and he's like, uh, can you talk? I was like, it's my first day back at work. I was like I can't actually, and I got like the longest text message I've ever received in my life. But the reason I missed work and while you were gone it would have impacted our recording schedule for sure. But I had COVID. The whole almost the whole house had COVID and it was it was quite the experience. I gotta say. It was very uh surreal when you get that that positive test.

It does take a minute to register. But yeah, the two weeks you were gone, the whole house decimated with COVID craziness. And you blame Bria, we do. Yep. So the week we recorded that last week, and I actually think it was even the day that we recorded. It was the middle of the week Tuesday. We recorded on a Wednesday, I think right that last round. It was either that Tuesday or that Wednesday. She woke up and was just kind of junkie, just in the nose, just

like you can hear the flem. Yeah. Yeah, and and we I said to Liz, I was like, we we got to watch her. It was like, you know, she's she's kind of messed up today. And the next day cleared up fine, nothing, not even a like single sniffle. And never thought anything of it. And I went to that party on that Saturday night. This is how long

ago this was. Remember we talked about the party and I text when you were texting me from saying we're sitting with the grandfather, and I sat in the the now just sidebar about the party, the things I do for love. Okay, this was we were we and this is not like we were the youngest group there. Okay, it was a rather older segment of people, so we didn't really kind of fit in. But my wife knows a lot of people from work, so she did her work stuff. There's one thing I fucking hate about these

get togethers. Okay, I don't care who it is. Age. You could be a teenager, you can be one hundred. When you're at a party and people then say it's time to play X, whether it's a board game or in this case, beer pong, Okay, I tap out. I think that's fun. I want to just hang out and talk. That's all I want to do. I don't want to play to talk. I don't want to be on a team. I don't want to have to play with people. I just want to chit chat and shoot the breeze. And

that's it. When they said it's time to play beer pong, I looked at the couch. I go, there's my spot. The only other guy was the lady's dad who was there, and I was watching the Steelers and Packers whoever was playing that night, just texting people on my phone. That was the night I was supposed to have the Brian Danielson private signing that I could not make because it was rescheduled on me. Okay, so I'm talking to you, talking to a guy doing Danielson, I'm talking to my brother,

I'm talking to anybody. I don't care who it is. I'm not playing freaking beer pong? Did Liz? She did because she was with the group. Now she's kind of in line with me. She doesn't, and especially beer pong she's not a big fan of. But you know, she had to because it was work people, and I just sat my ass on the couch. I think it's fine.

I didn't talk to anybody, okay. And then this dude sat down next to me and he started asking me questions and then we started talking about wrestling, and you know, he said, what do you know? Well, I said, I I was texting a guy and the guy was from Pittsburgh who was next to me, and that's where the Daniel Bryan signing was going on. So I said oh, you know, I'm talking to the guys out in your neck of the woods in Pittsburgh. And we started talking

that way and then I dropped names. Of course I do. What are you nuts? You were your ear wasn't ringing. So this party was on a Saturday. Right the next morning, Liz wakes up and she's like, oh, you know, my throat's just kind of bothering me. Don't really know why, but she's kind of, you know, doesn't feel great, doesn't think any of it. Monday, she feels worse, and I'm like, hey,

she's think about maybe staying home today and rest. Maybe it's just you know, you run down, just you know, give yourself a recharge, stay home, maybe go to the doctor. She's like, no, no, I'll be fine. She goes to work. Tuesday, she's getting worse. Wednesday she has no voice whatsoever. And she's been doing the work and she's going to work and I'm like, look, I was like, you gotta stop. You gotta go to the doctor. Now, I'll be fine. It's starting to clear up. Andever Thursday she's a little

bit better, but still sounds terrible. Still never goes to the doctor. Friday, she goes, you know, I feel a lot better today, And I was like, well, good, I go, you go. Who knows what kind of damage you did by not getting this checked out? I go, but I'm glad you're feeling better. Friday night, we do our little bar thing in the basement. We're hanging out and she starts draining every two seconds, blowing her nose. It like felt better, and then wham hit her like a ton

of bricks. So I tell her the next morning, I go, you gotta go to urgent care. You gotta go. I was like, I'm not going to hear any other excuse. She goes, they test her, she's positive. So let me interrupt you. So she's positive, does she contact all those people that were at the party. So at the party by Saturday, okay, one week later, five people had gotten COVID. So maybe it wasn't Brie, maybe it was Liz at the party. We don't know. This is the this is

the question. Well, so let me I'll continue. So so that was Saturday. So then sad she is knocked on her ass. She's you know, out of it. She can't wake up, she's just lethargic. She's sneezing, she's coughing. She sounds horrible, right, And that's Saturday, then into Sunday. Sunday in the afternoon, Maddie goes, I don't feel good. Take her temperature one hundred and one right out of the gate. But she didn't look it like. It didn't look like it was a you know you look ye. She looked fine.

So I go, all right, I'm gonna take her to get tested on Monday, I said, but I'm not going yet because I'm fine. I'm just doing my thing. Take her boom positive. Just like that. She's so she's now eliminated and it's me and me and Brie who are the where the lone survivors. So Maddie kind of gets over it pretty quick. Liz is still in the column, coughing, you know, tireds. I forget what they put her on. Oh they put her on a Z pack, Yeah right,

And that did help. It did help. By Wednesday morning, I wake up and I'm like, I just don't something feels off, And I'm like, I don't know what it is. Obviously it's in the house. It's got to be COVID. I'm going to urgent care I go to urgent care. I go, look, I'm exposed, right. I go. Two people in my house have COVID and they go, well, what are your symptoms? I told them. They go, how long have you had it? I said, well, I woke up with it today. I said, I'm nipping it in the butt.

I'm here, give me the test. They go, no, it's too early. They go, We're gonna give you a STRAP test and a FLU test. I tested positive for STRAP and I'm like, well, these people are stupid. I go. So I go across the highway to another urgent care. I get a test. They don't ask questions. Came back negative. So then I'm like rubbing it in their face, like, ha, you got COVID. I don't. I just have strep throat right, not because I'm like, see, COVID is not gonna catch me.

I've said it forever. What COVID wants me, They come and get me. I get put on antibiotic for the STRAP, and they go, if you, if your symptoms persist for a few days, get tested over the weekend between Wednesday and Saturday. I sounded like shit, and I actually released podcasts during the time, and I sound sick as hell. I sound freaking awful. And I went on Sunday and I got the red letter of positive and from Sunday to Thursday was quarantined. And thankfully, the worst I felt

was like body aches. I didn't have a temperature or the junk in the nose or any of that crap. I just very achy and very very like uncomfortable for days and days and days. But it's no joke, I will say that. And then at the end of it, it it knocked me on my ass. By Wednesday and Thursday, I was freaking exhausted. It does take a lot out of you. Yeah, but Bri nothing. So why are you

blaming Bri because she had that one day? And how kids immune systems are reacting differently, I thought maybe she's the one. No, it's the Super Spreader party that you were at. Ain't that something? The Super Spreader party is like? That is to me, like wow, just wow, that that party? Which again and you know what's funny? Saturday? Liz did say like, oh, you know, I feel a little funky. But you know, we thought Saturday is a long week. She's tired. I go, maybe we shouldn't go. But then

I see I say too much ahead of time. I say maybe we shouldn't go. It just sounds like I don't want to go because I didn't want to go. Yeah, but now then it happened. We got it well you I mean, as sick as you were. It didn't last very long. No, which is good because you read a lot about people being sick for weeks and the lingering stay very lucky for months. Yes, yours was a short yes, very very low, and which is great. Uh, you know it's being in Florida. The cases they tell me, the

cases are so low in Florida. But I kept saying, you know, we better not get COVID down here, like we better not. Now you're still wearing a mask indoors in Disney, right, But it's so stupid because you're when you're outside, you literally you're bunched with people obviously in line, right, but when you hit a certain point, you got to put that mask on. So I was standing with these people for twenty minutes before I got to this line. But now the mask is going to protect me from them? Yeah, yeah,

no, no no, no, it's only in that yeah exactly. So it was nice not having to wear it in the heat because you know, the year before you had to constantly on which was a mess. Yeah, it was awful. But now it's like, once you get to a point, they have the signs up, you know, put your mask on. Once you're indoors, you had to put the mask on. So, like, the only ride I can remember off the top of my head was Barnstormer. You didn't have to put a mask on because the que is outside and the ride

is outside. There's no indoor queue. Yeah, so you didn't have to put a mask on. But like everything else, like people mover or I thought you wouldn't have to put it on, but nope, put it on because there's two spots where you're going in before you come back outside and they make you wear the mask the whole time. Yeah. I don't know, but it was, you know, it was there's no six feet, there's no three feet. Like everybody's on top. You're all in the theater together. So if

I pray to God, we don't get it. And if I don't get it, I guess my immune system is like, hey, okay, because you never know. I got to say you never know. I you know, I still generally think I took precautions, and it's funny if it's that party. Like to think of all the places I traveled, going to Disney World, the the Icons show in September with two thousand people inside of one COVID icons. Yeah, oh well the December Icons. The December Icons was a super spreader events. Everybody went down.

My god. But but here's kind of the the make you think moments, right, I did not have it that bad. The little daughter did not have it that bad. The one who had it the worst was the one who got the jab. That is that a part of this discussion and that I'm not trying to play conspiracy theorists. I'm not trying to play anything like you know, I'm not trying to be controversial. I'm not trying to be any bit like stirring the pot. But that's just one question I have to ask is how did the one

person who was vaccinated have it the worst? And I'm not even kidding, still lingering effects, dry cough, still with the junk in the nose and stuff. How is how is that still a symptom and an issue where yeah, a little congested I have, I'm a little nasally sounding. I didn't have one. I didn't sneeze once or cough once during this whole thing. Could it be that the vaccine is weakening people's immune systems instead of strengthening. Yeah, it could be. I mean because a lot of a

lot of vaccinated people are getting sick. And I told you, uh, I'm still not talking to a family member over this. They called me a liar when I said that my vaccinated friends got sick. They could have oh, couldn't believe it. And I'm like, people are sick, Like people are getting sick that are vaccine. No, we don't believe it. And I was like, well, you know, that's why do I have to lie? There's a million things that we could talk about and have conversations about, and this just happened

to pop up. And now I'm a big liar and it's been over two months and we're still not talking,

which is complete bullshit and makes me so irritated. But you know what, I wasn't wrong and I wasn't lying, So I'm not giving in and that's that it's hard to not question that, and you know it really is so now right during this time, you know, we've like shut down all interactions with my parents because you know, just trying to keep them safe and drop something off to my mom's house the day I got the positive test, right before I took the test, and I had I

think it was their their girl scout cook the order and I dropped it off on the front steps and had to do like the prison wave through the door, and you know, my dad forbid my mom from opening the door. This was actually really funny. So then like later I called her as I was on the way home. I go, hey, just so you know I got the positive tests. She tells my dad. My dad's screaming you better not have come in or you better not open the door. And I said to her, I go check

your security camera. You got it. Don't don't accuse me of anything. Look at your camera. It's so crazy. People are literally at odds over no no one could have an opinion. Everybody's just fighting and this is just ridiculous. So so it was quite the two weeks. Yes, well it actually worked out for the best. It really did. I was away. You know, you picked a great time to catch it. Yeah, I really did it. And especially like when we usually record, it would have absolutely affected

it because my voice was very strained. On that Friday before I got the positive test, it was I had straps, so I had the hard time swallowing, like the stab me pain in my throat and it was hard to talk, but I did. I recorded two different podcasts, one before I got the strap and then one after I had the positive tests, and you can tell if you listen to it, I just I'm very, very sick. You could just tell. It was very uncomfortable to do it, but I had to get it done. Yeah, I'm sorry you

guys had to go through that. I was trying. I was actually texting you how do you feel, you know, like on odd days like I was like, oh yeah, and the text see how they're doing. And that's why, because I got it. You know, I don't want to bother you while you were on your trip. But again, I just wanted to tell people who I felt had to kind of know what was going on. And yeah, that was it. Not a lot of people knew and

didn't make a dramatic post. You know, I didn't show my positive tests and here I am, you know, like it looks like a pregnancy test. I want to say to somebody like congratulations, like, oh no, I have COVID like or a badge of honor, like yeah, it is what it is. But well, I'm glad you're feeling better better and sucks, absolutely sucks. But what can you do. I'm convinced now everybody's number will be up at some point, don't well, but or but how you react to it

is how is up to your body. You might be able to fight it, you know. Well, it seems like people are fighting it better now than they have in the two years. So that's the only kind of benefits I could say. Yeah, and we know more now than we did two years ago. So who knows. I mean, I don't know. I I'm planning not to leave my house unless I have to still. I mean, that's that's what I did, you know, That's that's what I do.

I don't have any leisure stuff coming up. I have a dentist appointment and then I have a I have the big event with you that New York better get it shipped together and be okay for us to travel too. There it is there, I am, uh and I'm looking forward to that one. What does that? UHL? Is that like at ten am start time? So I believe the door is actually open at nine. Okay, I want to sit. They pull up your site, Yeah, let me pull up the site again. Where did it go? And do we

have been vote for the night before? Because I have not been plugging that, I don't have to. Yeah, they haven't sent me any kind of things for it. You're you're booked. They should send us something, maybe ask I will ask. The big event twenty one Saturday, March fifth, and the time is, oh, no, it is. It's ten am to two pm. Terrace on the Park, fifty two to eleven, one hundred eleven Street, Queens, New York. What I have come to learn about this venue? There is parking. Ah, okay,

so we can park in a garage. We don't have to like park like randomly, like somewhere like two blocks away because it's in Queen's No, it's you park at the building. It's it's gonna be great. I'm very excited to be the I've spoken with people traveling to go that are excited to meet you, and I will be doing some private signings with a couple of the sports guests that are going to be there. So I actually got to find somebody that can handle the table for

a few minutes. If I have to step away, what's that I will, Well, you're gonna sell some some of my eight by tens I always do. I do it for Chad when he's away from the table. Well, you might, you might be booked for for sales help. But I'm looking forward to it. I think it's gonna be a great, a great show. I hear so many great things about the big event. I used to send talent there. I just I haven't been to the show. You haven't been to one of these in about five years. We've figured

out so something like that. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, it's been a while. And then the night before I'm doing a virtual signing for K and S. But I don't have the info. Yeah, I think what they do just by seeing their how they promote their They don't promote them that far in advance. So I would say in the next week, since we are three weeks out as we're recording this, I would probably expect to see

something coming up. Yeah, because I would like to. I would like to plug it to help them out if we want viewers, you know what I mean? Oh, absolutely, no, it's gonna be uh yeah, It's gonna be a fun weekend for sure, big event. You know. Again, it's a great wrestling convention, but they're trying to do something where they're working in some sports talent as well. I've heard mixed reviews from vendors about that. Some people think it's cool, others say, if this is a wrestling show, we have

to stick to the wrestling. For me, it kind of fits perfectly in my like department, it caters to both sides. So like, whereas I'll have wrestling merchandise, and this is gonna be another, this is another like, this is like an experiment for me because I tend to not sell like direct merch I said, I tend to just do the signings. I'm actually have merch this time. So I'm tempted to bring some of my Mets and Yankee stuff because why not they're sports guys there. Yeah, see what sells.

I mean, you could always bring it and if it doesn't sell, you taking homet me, you do the next one, lug it back. I don't know, I might not have anything left. This has been a busy week. It has been a busy week. I real quickly want to talk about our YouTube channel, yes, that's another reason why it's okay. So I'm resurrecting my YouTube channel because Twitch did not work out for me. I feel like I've had more

success on YouTube than I've had on Twitch. So Chad and I have decided to collab on it now and we're gonna be working together on this. And what perfect timing because the Queen Extreme is turning fifty Yeah, I said fifty. Oh my gosh, I can't even count that high. I'm turning fifty this Saturday, on February nineteenth, And because I share a birthday with somebody's daughter who has a

birthday party planned, we can't do it on Saturday. But we're gonna We're gonna go live this Friday, So February eighteenth, at did we say seven o'clock? I think seven o'clock is gonna ben o'clock Eastern Standard time. We're gonna have a live YouTube chat on my YouTube page, which is ecw diva Francine space exclamation point. So we've been putting up some clips audio clips of some past shows, and

we're getting a good response. We have some new subscribers that we've added within the last couple of weeks and I think the live will be a good time for you guys to check out the channel and you know, come ask me some questions. Chat will be in the chat as well. He's my wrench and you know we'll be there answering questions and just talking about life in general and wrestling and whatever you want to talk about. So again, it'll be this Friday, February eighteenth at seven

pm Eastern SNANDA time to celebrate my fiftieth birthday. And I want to point out super chats are welcome and super sippers and if anybody super chats five dollars or more, I will have signed merch that will be doing the drawing for at the end of the live stream, so you know, might get a chance to win something. And I used to do that before and everybody loved it, and we're bringing it back. So I'm excited about the channel.

We're almost that four thousand subs and you know, I want to keep it growing and I want to do some fun stuff with it. So do you like Tommy dreamerholding the hot dog in this one? I didn't even notice he had a hot dog. So in the story this, I try to match the the graphic to the story as close as possible, and if somebody's named, I throw them in the shot. Stevie's poking out here in the behind Nova, but Nova tells the story about being booked

at the ECW Arena for the first time. Dreamer comes up to him with a hot dog in his hand, gives him another hot dog and says, there's your first payoff in ECW PA with a hot dog. So I found a hot dog and I put it in the Innovator of Violence's hand here, Gal, that's cute. Yeah, I never got paid by receiving a hot dog. Crazy. I mean, this was a great one because you guys are traveling. You tell you a story about driving up to a dilapidated building with your garman giving you bad info. So

come on, look at that. It's great. That's great. Now you've been doing a great job with these uploodes. And I'm excited to bring this back because people did, like, you know, I think people my fans like YouTube over twitch, and I already have you know, I already had all those subscribers because I never took the page down. So they're still hanging out and we're getting more people, you know, every day, and I'm excited to do a live because I haven't done a live in a long time, so

it'll be good. And it's my birthday. It's good. I mean, that's like, that's the biggest thing. Fifty man, I know, I can't. Like I sit here and I think, where the hell did the time go? What happened to that little twenty year old girl who walked into Todd Gordon's office scared out of her mind? Like, holy crap, time is a bitch, that's for sure. I'm telling you it's it's it's gone by so quickly. But you know, you

just have to live each day as well. I don't like to say as it's your last, because I don't want to do that. That's kind of morbid. Just enjoy each day. That's what I try to do. I just try to have fun and enjoy each day. And it's just a number, man, That is just a number. It is and it is more than ever that that's I think the main takeaway is like, now you know again we say the joke all the time, you know with the Golden Girls, right, they were in their fifties and

they look like five. They looked like they were old bats, right, that's but it's just the way we live differently. You know, we have better things afforded to us in terms of like personal care and knowledge of stuff that's bad for you, and it extends people's lives. So age is just that number now, and that I'm more aware of that, I think now approaching the other number that's not fifty, the

one below it forty. Oh like that you talking about, you know, you've done your You've had like a you know, your nice time in your forties, and I think that that is like unfathomable to be in that age group. I'm like myself, that's not happening. It is depressing having to check off the next row of boxes, Like you know, when you're filling out a questionaire, they say, oh, what

do you fall into? It's like forty to forty nine out fifty to fifty and I'm just like ugh, And then my mom goes, oh, you know, you're going to qualify for AARP now they have really good coupieh come on, so weird, Like they should change those names, right, are those those age groups because it needs to be like

further out. I just feel like when I turn when I was turning thirty, I had like a mental breakdown because I wasn't married yet and I, you know, had no children, and that's all I ever wanted in life was to be married with kids. And I literally had thoughts of suicide at one point, like it never it never came to that, thank God, But you always, like I think everybody has a little bit of a mental health issue here and there. And I just was like, why am I here? You know, I don't have a

boyfriend anymore, and what am I going to do? And blah blah blah. And I just hung in there, like you know, and got married eventually had my kids and stuff. And then when I turned forty, I felt okay, you know, But now that I'm turning fifty, I'm just like, hey, I've been here, you know, a half what is it? A half of a century, that's what it is, And it could be worse, lifould My life is going pretty good. I get to do things that I still love. I have my great family that lives under this roof, and

I'm happy. So I think fifty is going to be good for me. You know, I feel more positive about fifty than I did about thirty. Wow, thirty, I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember like what my feelings were. I remember we had a nice party in my house, but I don't remember like anything else about it. Yeah, thirty was not a good one for me. I don't believe. So I was kind of depressed and a friend that was going through about to go through a bad divorce. You know.

Basically that started the night of my thirtieth birthday party. So remember that. Yeah, question about your ears? Are they new ears? Or are these are the ones you got before you? These are new. I bought them before I left from EBA, not Amazon. Ten bucks. Don't buy Disney March. These are great quality. They stood up the whole trip and they're standing up now and I love them. They're standing at attention. Look at them. Ten bucks. No droopy ears to be found in this group. I'm telling you.

For the girls, go to Amazon and get them these for twenty bucks. You get two pair. They're thirty dollars at the park. But then the little ones like I want those, and I'm like, all right, not me. I go no. I got them off of Amazon for ten bucks. Like I was getting compliments on these ears from people, and I keupt go ten bucks. Amazon, tell everybody got cheese for ten dollars with the ears and the bow. It's for you know, ponytails ten bucks, Like you can't

beat it. You're telling them to go to Amazon to buy this, and the Disney people are watching you on like a monitor. They're like, they're like, she's telling people to buy outside of this. Better kick her out. No, I'm telling you that you're spending an arm and a leg being at Disney anyway. If I can cut corners, I don't feel like I'm being cheap. I feel like these years are and these years are more comfortable than the ones that they sell. Right the ones that they

sell are very tight on your head. And I don't know if they're aimed for kids or not, but these no problems with them. Never had that. I would take them off only on roller coasters because I was afraid they would put smart cookie. Sure, yeah, learn stuff the hard way. There's so many hats and ears that were like under the tracks. I was like, no, ten bucks, I'm keeping my ears. God take them off and them put them back on. But yeah, I try to find stuff before I left cheaper because I give them too

much money. As it is every year so and these are they're cute now, they're very nice. They're so cute. Polka Dottie. How do you feel about Minnie's new pantsuit? I mean, what what is the reasoning behind it? Because I mean, why should she wear a dress? Why not she's been wearing the past one hundred years now? Well, is somebody offended because her knees showing? Is that the reason? Like now she just looks like a fuddy duddy, but she looks like she's in her pajamas. It's very dumb.

I mean, it's very stupid. I'm all for like different fashions and different outfits, but if this was if they keep this as her look, I'm gonna be upset. Yeah, this has to be like a like a short term thing. Has I showed it to Breathe, who's a mini mouse fanatic, and she's like, she goes that ugly. You just want to you want the truth? You go to her. She'll tell you to set you straight. I heard about it.

I was not happy, and but I'm okay with it if it's just a passing thing, you know, but if they if this is the new book, uh uh, I don't like it, just like I didn't like Jasmine when they changed hers covered her all up. Now she looks like good mamadel with this long thing here and the long thing get out of here. On, come on, Jasmine with it. It's not Jazzmine's fault, it's not whoever is

complainant's fault. But so overall, beautiful vacation. That's great, And we're we're working ourselves back into the schedules, you know, we're working ourselves back up to the Patreon content. We're going to have a brand new watch along this week, but we will have two uh classic middle of the week pieces at this point that as we get ourselves back together. But this this birthday thing is going to be quite the shin dig. I think we're gonna have a fun time. I hope it's good. I'm like I said,

I'm looking forward to being live again. So if if you're around this Friday, please come join me and I'll have along with Chad. We'll all have the links on our Twitter and yes, IgA camps whatever else. The watch along for this week is going to be back to the ECW fan cams. Oh great, okay, this is from the Golden Dome in Pennsylvania. Yes, where the franchise and Francine were not heels, they were babyfaces. Is this against Gary? No, this is quite the This is quite the interesting match.

Raven and Shane Douglas versus Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer March thirtieth, nineteen ninety seven. Huh the interesting one, Yes, because this is you know, Raven and Shane didn't have a lot of interactions while they were at their heights in ninety six ninety seven. They were kind of the two superhels of the promotion, so there wasn't a lot of com mingling. But on this night there is co mingling, but brilliant booking and parts of it. So this is

holiday They call this Holiday Hell Night three. Why would it be Holiday Hell on March thirtieth? Uh, Saint Patty's Day. I don't remember. It was Easter early that year. I don't Yeah, maybe it was these who knows, I don't know. I thought Holiday Hell was December. This is how at least this is called ECW Fancam March thirtieth, nineteen ninety seven. Holiday Hell Night three. Who knows, I don't. I don't even remember this match. I don't know. And being in

a baby Face into Pittsburgh. Like we talked about this before, we always were Shane never wanted to be a heel in Pittsburgh. Rude called them a shitty heel, a big, big fight. It's great. Well, we'll talk about that as we go along. So that is what we have to look forward to this week. Actually I should have brought it up. I don't have it up on the screen. Two new T shirts available for your wearing if you'd like of your buddy the Chad Sir, huh, how about it?

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