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Eyes Up Here: Hollywood

Jun 07, 202256 min
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Today's Eyes Up Here features a fascinating conversation as Francine welcomes for an awesome chat, former GLOW star Jeanne Bassone aka Hollywood.

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This is Eyes up Here, and you're listen and watching the brand new Eyes up Here exclusively on our Patreon channel as well as on the Treat and Control Network. You didn't know by now My name is Chad and every single week I'm joined here by the one and only Queen of Extreme Francine looking on a nostrilly angle. This week, Mike Derband will love this one. Does he like nonstreals? Is he in? He loves? He loves pristine

audio quality, which you always have. You are at. If I was going to rank wrestling personality podcasters, your microphone game and presentation is at the top of the list. But for some reason, the microphone likes to ship the bit sometimes. Today it was at the bottom of the list because when I went to log on, I had no microphone and I unplugged in and plugged it and adjusted and moved it and nothing. So I'm on my iPad, got my uh my earbuds in crystal clear. But I

don't like I don't like this shot of me. But you know, what are you gonna do? You do what you do to get through and that's what I did today. It's funny as you say it too. There now started to be like a weird clicking noise as you started wonderful, perfect again, Mike Mike Turban picked the right time to become a Patreon subscribers. Keep the theme of the shitty mic going today, shall we? This is an interesting episode. Sorry to cut you off, but this is an interesting

episode because I was recording from an undisclosed location earlier. Uh, in the closed This doesn't need to be disclosed, you know, it doesn't need to be disclosed, but I was. I had the honor of producing for an interview that we're gonna have on today, and we'll talk about that in a minute. But how's everything going in your world? There's always something going on here. Mom is just a it's so it's it's getting to the point where I am I'm living in a fog, you know what I mean.

Like she's not eating, she's not moving, she's just there. She just I was in the bathroom with her a total of four times this morning, back and forth, back and forth, running up, running down. She kept having to go to the bathroom. She's not eating, So I don't know why she's gone to the bathroom. But there it's just when she just keeps declining, and it's just so sad to watch, and I'm dreamed. I'm so dreamed. She looks like a zombie. She says she can't hold she

can't eat the food. So it's not like she can't hold the food down. She can't even eat anymore. She has no appetite whatsoever, which makes her frail, and she has no energy. She can barely get up out of the chair. When she goes into the shower, she she can't breathe because she can't wear her oxygen. So now she's she doesn't want a shower. So now I have this stuff where you spray them down and you have to wipe them like it's a you don't add water.

That's where we're at because now she can't get into the shower. And unless she has a good day where she says, Okay, I'm gonna go in the shower, but like today she refused, She's like, I can't go in there. So I'm literally like she's sitting on the toilet and I'm spun. Put your arm up, put your leg up, here's your vaginia. Spry spray. You know, I'm just I'm trying to wash her everything. It's just it's like having a baby again. It's real. It's very difficult. And caregivers.

I mean, I all the respect in the world for them, including myself. I have to include myself. It is. It is so no I'm doing. It's so draining. It's physically and mentally draining. And it's like, you know, your kids get older and there's a little less burden with your children because they're older and they could kind of do things on there. Now I have another baby, so I love her, but it's getting every day is getting harder

in this house. So like right now, we have a nanny cam now so we can see and hear how yep, so my husband, you put it on your phone and now my husband's watching her because I'm talking to you. So if she needs anything, she can just talk and we can hear, and then whoever can run upstairs. But I got to keep an eye on her. I don't want her to fall. I don't want to not hear her and then have her have an accident. It's just it's a lot. It's a lot. Well, I'll give you

credit for what you're doing. I mean, you're putting in the work, that's for sure. You know. Sometimes when I'm gonna, you know, text you, I sometimes brace myself because I can't imagine how it's been. I know every time I've talked to you every week, it's been something else going on. So I don't want to lie to you, you know, And I know it's the same thing over and over again. Like I tell you, like you want to hear good news.

I'm Debbie Downer. I know that I love her so much, and I will continue to do it until you know I don't I can or I don't have to anymore. But it's just like like last night, I was so drained. I wanted I wanted a beer. I wanted one of my root beers, and I didn't have any out and it was too late and I didn't want my husband to run out, you know. And I didn't drink anything.

I ended up drinking water, but I was It's just it was just one of those nights where you just wanted to have a cocktail and just sit there and just relax, you know what I mean. And I didn't do that. I just went to bed. I drank water and went to bed, so I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, it's okay. I mean, I just I pray she's comfortable and happy, and that's that's what I'm doing. I'm keeping her and I'm keeping her happy. Right, So that's what's

going on here. That's what's going on. And you're letting you all know, you know, and how about you. I've just been busy, you know. I mean I can. I mean, I could kind of talk about it because it's you know, personal news, but I mean, I've had a recent career switch. Are we going to say where? Or now I'm not going to say where, but I've had a career switch, so I do know where, but I won't say it either. Yeah. So my uh, you know, my time working for a

news organization for ten years is over. Yeah, and the transition out has been interesting because obviously, you know, I wasn't feeling great last week and it kind of brought my spirits down. But I know, this was a really good week. It's it's very rare that I felt like this good at the end of a week about my profession, but then also like not feeling stressed going into next week. Yeah, So it's it's interesting. It's still developing. It's in the

very early stages of change. But so far, so good, so good, very happy, very good. I'm happy for you and uh, you know, a happy Chad makes me happy. So that's all good. Recording from undisclosed locations somewhere in this great United States a cave in South Africa and I'm back, are you? Yeah? No, it was the well let's talk. We just had an interview today. The lovely Hollywood joined me for Yes, beautiful inside it out. I

love this girl so much. She's so fun and we sat down and we chatted and she had a lot of good things to talk about in her life. So I think everybody's gonna like this interview, and I hope you all like it because I enjoyed it. And you know, that's that's what we have going on for guation, just you know, from from being able to to kind of

record it. You know, we've done where you've done, like solo chats with Shelley and the one on one, the back and forth like I was, the wheels were always turning in my head and I'm like the Francine chronicles like this one on one deep dive conversation. I can see you on Bravo or like actors studio style, you know, from one to the other, from you know, an insider's perspective. It was it was cool to watch. I can't wait

to check it out. So I will be watching, just as the Eyes up Here universe will be watching as well. So if you'd like to throw it to the interview, go right ahead and do I would so, without further ado, I'd like to welcome Hollywood to Eyes up Here. Hey, everyone, you are listening to Eyes up Here. I am your host, the Queen of Extreme Francine. My co host Chad had an emergency, so I'm solo today, but I'm gonna I'm gonna say I'm in good company because I am with

the legend, the one and only Hollywood Today. Hollywood, Jeanie, it's been a while. How are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm I'm I'm frazzled. I've been taking care of my mom all morning and I didn't have time to like do anything to myself, so my hair is soaking wet, and I you're beautiful. You look great? You

what you look beautiful? Well, You're gorgeous, and I'm so happy that I finally got you on here, because I know we've been going back and forth a little bit saying, you know, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, But you're finally here. First of all, how are you doing? And has the pandemic slowed you down? Because every time I talk to you, you seem to be getting on a plane going somewhere, which is the truth. I didn't let it slow me down. I was very careful. I

was careful with the people that I wrestled with. I think I wrestled three people during that pandemic and that oh and I never got sick, So that is a blessing, right, you know, that's one thing when we travel and we go from here to there, we got to eat, right, We need our water, our vitamins, you know, and sometimes it just can't be helped, you know, because I know a lot of people that got sick, right, and you know, I did everything that I could possibly do not to

get sick. And during the pandemic, not very many people were flying. So when I was on those flights, there was nobody on board. Fifteen people. I don't even know how the airlines, well, actually they didn't. Yeah, they didn't. They went bankrupt pretty much, but things are back to normal again. And then Francceine. It's really funny because right before the pandemic pandemic, actually in twenty eighteen, I started

making homemade soap and yes, which I have. So this is kind of weird because this is before the pandemic. So having that soap available was like everybody wanted to wash their hands right and be So that came about just because I was looking for some presents and I was at a mall in Burbank and this lady had this great display of soap, these homemade soaps, and I

love all that stuff, anything with no preservatives, natural. I'm kind of a hippie about so I'm looking at the soap and I'm like, you know what, I could do this. So I got a bunch of books and videos and I did a lot of due diligence and I thought, I'm going to learn how to do it, and then

I did it, and then I got hooked. And it's really interesting because you think after a year, almost two years, that you're a professional at it, but really you're even though you know, but you're still running into different situations with it. And I've been doing it now over three years, three and a half years. And you know, it's a side gig. It's fine, and I dig it. So it breaks up going on the road or doing this and doing that, and I come home and just putting a

recipe together. It's just very calm, you know. And all my soaps are natural. I have a company. I call it Hollywood Botanica and I spelled Botanica with a K, so and you know, it's nothing like I said, it's just a side gig. It's just like a release really for me just to be calm and do things at my pace. And at the same time, you have a product that is something that's good for everybody, you know, and I dig it. So you'll get little videos here and there that I post about it. But I love it.

It's pretty cool. Well, you were gracious enough to send me some samples and they smell incredible. So now because that was a while ago, now, Francy, and you need, like, you know, something that looks like, look how pretty? Not pretty? That's white rose. They can be pretty or they can just be really plain. I mean that's like cherry. But what I so good they uh, or look at this one, so they could be fine, Like you, what did you call me? Fancy? Fancy? No fancy, I'm very not too fancy.

But that's adorable. That reminds me of a birthday cake. But but I love it, and then I do little. These are mermaids, and yes I have that. I have a mermaid on mine. I think mine was like a blue. I think I had blue in it. Probably it was probably beach made. That one like a beach. Okay, yeah, it's no gorgeous. Yeah, so we'll have to send you some more. Oh I love that. Yeah, my hands smells so good in the end. They stay soft in your hands too. That's one thing that's really cool is I'll

have guys. Uh is there any mensense? You know? Do you have any fragrances with men? And I do as well, But they're they're pretty much all unisex. You're not gonna be smelling like a rose when you I mean, it's not like you're going to be it. Just can I just say. Men will say, oh my god, my skin is so soft with this. So I don't know what you were using before, but these are I use the same recipe, which is organic coconut oil, olive oil, shade,

butter castor oil. And to make soap you need sodium hydroxide. These I use a coconut milk, sometimes goats milk, sometimes distilled water. But when you've been doing it as long as I've been doing it, you can switch it up and you can figure out what you want, what you don't want. Yeah, So I like fun. That's all we use here in my house. So I love that. Yeah, They're wonderful, And we're gonna plug it again at the

end and get the links and everything for you. I want to go back to something you said which I wasn't aware of. You're wrestling in the ring again against on shows against milks. I haven't been in the ring. I did a couple of things with n w A here hey fill with Billy Corgan. Billy Corgan and I are good friends. We talk about this, Yeah, he I met him actually when we like we were doing the uh what do you call it? I came and talk

about it. Say it. At the end of it. We were doing the story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Rustling. We had voiceovers excuse me, oh yeah, So at the end Billy was going to be in it and interview a few of us. So we met back in Las Vegas doing those voiceovers. He also was at the CAACU and we became just acquaintances back and forth, and then I knew he was running in w A. And then we talked about my soap because Billy got a tea shop in Chicago called Madame Zusus and everything in Madame

Zuzu's is natural, It's all natural. He thought, well, Genie, since your soaps are on the same level as us, let's put your soap in my store. About in w A and doing work for him, so you know, once in a blue moon, I'll get in the ring and do something for Billy or some of his shows. And course I've always had my company where we wrestle and I rent out a ring in Los Angeles and we'll do things for my company, Hollywood Productions. So basically I've

never stopped wrestling from day one. Francine, I really didn't, I continued it. I had a broken leg at one point ye after glow. We talked about that. I think I still have seven screws and two plates in that leg. But at this point it's been so many years. I think it's been twenty years since I broke my leg,

so it doesn't bother me as much. The screws and plates are in there, so basically when it gets cold, sometimes you feel that metal in there and you're just kind of like, uh yeah, you mind you it's in there. You know. Do you set like the alarms off when you're at the I used, yeah, that's funny that you said that, but because after nine to eleven, I set them off all the time. It's all the time. I

would know right away. Back then they were really hardcore or and they didn't want you to talk, and I wanted to say, well I have they were like just stand over there. Nowadays they must have turned it down a little bit because I go straight through. Okay, yeah, so I'm with that. Okay, Uh well, I want to talk about something because when I interviewed you last time, it was for somebody else's channel, so my listeners may not have heard that interview. You told a really interesting story.

You you started with Glow years ago. You said that you were trained by Childo Carrero. Correct, Mindo, Mondo. I'm sorry, Mondo Ca. Yeah, so you you were yeah, yeah, and you were you were saying that you tell the story again, how did you yeah get involved? Because to me, it's it's just like a It's just a classic story, truly. You know. I always say being in the right place at the right time, and that basically for me securing

my position and globe. But basically, there was an audition and I had not done wrestling, and I hadn't done any acting at all. So I'm just this young kid in a laboratory drawing people's blood. That was my gig. My gig was in a medical clinic, drawing people's blood. I had done one thing and it was an extra. Somebody asked me to get with this agency and do some extra work, so I did it one day. That was it. Obviously this agency had my number and they

were calling everybody to come to the audition. The audition. They wouldn't tell us, Renine that it was wrestling. I had no idea. They just said sports. I'm like, well, I'm pretty good at certain sports, so let's go and check it out. And David maclain, who I didn't know, was up there, and David's telling all these girls with their headshots and resumes that this was going to be a show. On wrestling prem scene. I swear to god,

these girls probably were freaked out. A lot of them were actresses, right, and that's why they didn't say wrestling, because nobody would to show. No. Yeah, that's we're talking about nineteen eighty five. Wow, this nineteen eighty five, right. So I watched these girls get up and leave, and I'm like, oh my god, what do these chicks know that? I don't know what am I getting myself into? Right, But that was me. You know, when you're twenty two,

you're fearless. I say that all the time, and you are. You know, you're fearless, and you're like, I got this, I can do it, so right, But to the audition there's Mondo and the first thing he has all the girls doing is the front rolls and back rolls and learning how to take a fall forward backwards. And I'm looking at this, I'm like, I got this. I go that's it. That was part of it. Okay, sure scare me. I'm like, oh, that looks really simple. I can do a summersault. I can do this. I can do that.

So basically, when I would come in the rehearse, excuse me. The trainings were days Wednesdays and Fridays. They were after work, so they're seven to ten pm. And back then they were paying us. They paid us. It was seventy five dollars a night. So they trained us. Hat they paid us. They paid us and to train and I'm like, oh cool,

so I'm making some extra money here. But every time I would come back and be friendly with some of the ladies, they would be gone, like the girls would be gone, and they were starting to weed out who they wanted to keep. And they did tell us they needed twelve girls to do a pilot. It came one day where Mondo and I say it all the time, so I apologize for those who know the story, but

it's this is the way it went. Mondo said, to everybody in the rain, which one of you ladies can ram your head into the turnbuckle and turn over on your back. I rose my hand first. David McLean saw that and said, you are my first Glow girl hired. And you were the one that just said I'm not afraid. You know, that's that's what they were looking for. Yeah, none of us had that experience. So that's how I

secured my physician with Glow. We did we went on to do the pilot, we sold it, I quit my job, and that was in nineteen eighty six, and I stayed in this business for all that time. That's crazy. I love that story. And like I was a little young at the time to watch it when it was like, I mean, I'm not that much younger than you are, but to watch it when it was going on. I watched, like, you know, reruns, and I loved your care And I'm not just saying this. I loved the Hollywood and Vine

girls like they were my girls. And I'm a heel at heart, you know, absolutely baby face in real life, heel at heart, you know on the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I watched you and I you know, I liked you in particularly because you weren't the cookie cutter blow. You were gorgeous, but you had the dark hair. You stood out, you know, and and the outfits were so eighties. And I just fell in love with the show because it was corny and it was cheesy, but it was fun, right,

and that made it different. Yes, you know, that's what made that show different because we had we had our director who was from a film background, and then of course you have David McLean, who was all wrestling, And I know David didn't want it to be as corny as the director wanted it to be. A he didn't, okay, he thought that he wanted it to be full on wrestling, but you know the director had other ideas, and that

is what made that show different. When you guys would do your little raps, like the vignettes with the rap I was, I would just look at it and I would say, this is just so out there, but it works. It worked for that time period, and I fun and fancy the outfite that you were saying. I would never get mine approved. So the very first one where they have me in this one piece pink thing, the very

first one. I hated that so much. So when I would go back to La I'd go into Hollywood and go to Hollywood Boulevard and I go to all these like strip looking stripper looking one of what was called playmates. I'm like, what can I get for this bad girl that's sexy? And I would come back for buying my partner and I come back with the corsets and I'd bring one for her one for me. We would just throw them on and we wouldn't tell anyone because we

did have wardrobe and I just didn't. I didn't want anyone to tell me no. So there's the rebel, the bad girl for real. I'm like, I am just going to put on this leopard print or this zebra print one piece and just go out there. And that is why I have If you look, there'll be different outfits

at different times. I just go on. You know what, I thought our characters would look really good in Well you were right, because one worked for you guys, And do you remember, yes, I remember, I remember you wore it was like a it was a black horse, and I think it had like a little lace going around the center and you had these sleeveless glove lace gloves, and I fell in love. I was just like, oh my god, she looks perfect. I just loved your character

like so much. And you know certain girls I gravitated towards more than others, obviously, but the Hollywood and Vine you were two of my favorites or that show. And but just the vignettes, like the little jokes like that you used to like. It just broke them and not me up and it just it made it like a variety show. You go exactly. Yeah, and it was fun, a little cooler than he haw that I know, but

you know, those kind of corny jokes. And Stephen Blant was our writer and Steven blance bless his heart, you know, he had help in the beginning and afterwards it was just all Steve. The cool thing is is they would let us a little bit kind of have some words in I play. I also did POV excuse me PSA commercials, and they wanted to have a bad guy who could deliver these don't do drugs and alcohol but a bad girl. Let's let Hollywood do all those and that was kind

of cool. I was really glad that they picked me to do all of that, those PSA commercials. Yeah. Well, we're talking about all this old footage and you there's another great story that I never heard that you told me before. I want you to repeat it because, like I said, people might have not heard that first interview.

I asked you about archives and where these tapes are and why aren't we seeing them right vision today because everybody's throwing up like old footage, you know, whether it's on YouTube or fight TV or if they have cable accent whatever, you're able to find a lot of old footage, right, Where are the Glow Girls? Where is the footage? Yeah? What I see? I know that season three and four are on TV, t Ubi, TV to Bright three and four. Now my season season one and two is not there.

And that is because David McClain, I think, is holding onto those for whatever reason. I heard that he owned season one and two and that another producer I think, I don't forget, I forgot his name, sold his to whoever. So I know that they're they're around, and I tried a long long time ago with the Glowgirl Ursula Hayden, who plays Babe, the farmer's daughter. We went and looked

at some of the old whatever in tapes. I don't know what they're at one inch tapes, I don't know, and they were starting to get deteriorated, really really, so we went and looked at them to try to preserve those. But we only had like a few tapes. So somebody out there has all of the tapes and our director

Matt might know where all of those are. I keep I always hear this rumor that he says they're buried in the desert in there was a dead body somewhere right, dead bodies and like me that they've been finding like, oh my goodness. So there's just this, you know, we never know who has it, but these are the rumors I've always heard. And I tried to do a deal with Ursula where we could get all of these tapes, maybe edit them down to thirty minutes, and put those

back on TV somewhere. Yeap. That never happened, And so I don't have any pull that way. I don't own anything. I don't own trademark, you know, Thank goodness, we all own our names. Nobody trademark any of the Glow Girls' names. Okay, so I ended up trademarking mind a couple of year years ago. It took me a while, but you know, you do what you do. Yeah, it's difficuol about that. So just only Gorgeous Ladies of Rustling was trademark now and Ursula has owned that for quite a few years.

So do you guys, because with with like me, old footage is up on like what is it? Uh you? It was no, No, it was on the WWE network and now it's on whatever the new company is. I don't I don't have the channel. Whatever it's on okay,

but I always tell the story. Like you know, when I'm doing these signings, little little kids will come up to the table and they're obviously they weren't born in the nineties, right, but they watched me on uh you know whatever channel that we're on now, or they watched me on the network, and it's like they're they're starting to get into ECW even though a CW has been dead for over twenty years, doesn't matter, right, So, like I feeling with you guys, if they had the footage

started showing old footage you you know, I don't know how many reunion shows that you girls actually get together. Zero. Do you know how lucrative it could be if we not wea you guys started to show these these episodes and then get the gang back together and start touring again. Wouldn't that be great? It would be wonderful. Uh some of us could tour and some of us it doesn't matter. We could have you know, girls as managers and what

you have to work. You just something so great. I mean, I've had so many ideas, and we've had so many people try to pitch shows and reality shows and this and that. I think that the wrong people are owning the trademark because you have to get everything, okay, through the trademark. Hence Netflix, the Glow Netflix show. Well, Ursula did very well by leasing the trademark to Netflix. She leased it for three years. They paid her X amount only her. Yeah, she did well. But the other ladies

didn't get this anything. So I got out of it. Is oh cool, this is this is awesome. They are you know, this is a start here. You are somebody is remembering what we did thirty six years ago. I mean, is that crazy? Yeah? But yeah, And I just think the wrong people have the rights. I think if you had somebody else, that's a little bit more workable. Not greedy, I hate to use that word, but money comes into play and people get you know, yeah, no right, you know,

and and yeah, so I wish I had them. Trust me. Well, if I would have had those a long time ago, I can tell you we would be doing way more than you know, because we would have started back then when I wanted to. Yeah, he's trying to push it. The only thing I could do was sign autographs at conventions. You know. I do have a wrestling comic book that came out last year. John Crawther, thank you so much.

Carlos Strawn and Kevin LaForte, thank you guys, you know, for keeping Glow alive and all of the our promoters for you know, having us come to eighties Wrestling Cohn and all the different shows on the East Coast. I do a lot of work on the East Coast and in Florida, you know, and the comic cons and all of that that keeps us alive. And you can't imagine the people that come to the tables friends, you know, you know, but the big ones are comic cons. The

comic cons are huge, right, and people remember it. So man, I just wish that, you know, I could have had some kind of pull, But without trademark and all the legalities that's going on, you don't have much. Yeah, I get it, because like I think the channel's Peacock, the one that I couldn't think. I think it's the Peacock Channel or whatever. Uh, you know. But none of us get any money for these, you know, it's just vinz

Oonne's everything, so he you know. But the one thing that it does help with, like I said, it brings new fans absolutely to see you. And then when you do these conventions, you get a whole different generation guys coming up wanting pose with you, which is nice. It is nice we get this. I'll be at a convention and they'll talk about Glow Netflix, and I look at them, I'm like, do you think that I'm on the on

that Glow Netflix show? Yes, aren't you so? And so I go, no, I'm Hollywood from the Beach from They think I'm Melrose or something, the original Globe girl. Who know, I behind the original. And then some some of them were so young, like oh okay, or oh, oh my gosh, well were you ever contacted for the television show? You

were never contacted at all. That's I think they missed the boat on that as well, because I feel like, as as a fan, okay, I feel like we were drawn to that show because you know, we used to watch You Guys years ago, so it sparked my interest. I want to see what they're gonna do with this show, right if if it's comparison to what they did thirty years ago or whatever. If they brought back You Guys just for cameos, oh yes, I think it would have

been brilliant. I do too. I would have loved to see somebody in the background Outford Hitchcock did it for God's sake himself in his films. It wouldn't be much. He's getting on a bus. Sure, No, it's they missed the boat for sure. They totally like one line. You walk in and you say one little zinger and then everybody goes, oh my god, that's Hollywood, Oh my god,

freeze screenshot. How are there? But I'm saying it doesn't have to be a recurring role like little put you in little spots here, and I think that have cost them a sag day waiver right right. I don't know if something, if there was a deal that was made with Ursula, you don't know. That's what I'm saying, anything against her, but she could have done so much. Yeah yeahude. My idea was a glow cartoon. Remember you know cartoons with with wrestlers, right, having a cartoon show, you know,

an animated show of yourself the reason of Blast. It would have been a very cute idea. I just feel like I always say, you know, one person tenderrawl, but when you have a bunch of people together, yes, well that is the ultimate draw. And I love when I do conventions and it's not just me. It's like my brothers are there with me or whatever, and we're a grew Yeah, because maybe somebody doesn't like me, but they like you know, sand Man or Shane or something. You

know what. That's how I look at it. Not everybody has to like. That's what makes That's what made our show so unique anyway, is all the different flavors. Oh, so many different varieties, small girls, black, white, yellow. It was just a pleasure of women. It was so lovely. Yeah, and during that time, I can remember just really all good times. I mean, we're twenty one, twenty two years old. What is not to you know, love about your job.

And I think everybody as long as when I was there, because I did the pilot in all four seasons, everybody got along pretty well, which was great. You know. I see later in life where there was a little animosity and a little jealousy because this one's doing that, that one's doing that. But you know, you do what you do. I love what I do. I'm still doing that. But I love to tell young kids that if you want to be a wrestler, that's great, but you know what,

please have Plan B in your back pocket. That's a really important thing to have something else. Go to school. Try to go to school. Good advice, right, you know what? Fifty years old? But you know, people ask me, Hollywood, when are you going to retire? And my I always say and when my body tells me I need to, then I will do that, right right, I want to I'm sorry. I just wanted to say, you said four seasons? Yes, what was the downfall? What made you girls have to stop? Money?

That's the big thing, the money. Yeah. I can go into more detail, but I won't, just because it's just one of those things that will come out in the autobiography that I am finally read. What's the word revisiting? Okay, COVID put a big stop on that for me. So I've got somebody that I have a co writer, Dan Murphy. I know, you know Dan, I think from the East Coast. He wrote a Sisterhood of the Squared Circle. Okay, he's one of the writers. He goes to CAC he writes, well,

so I'm not a great writer at all. So there's that. So I need help, you know, so I can write all the things down. And finally we want to go back. He wants to start all over. So starting all over takes sure does. Yeah. So I've been working really hard on that, and you know what, I think that it's better because now I have other things to add to it. Okay, you know what I mean. I don't know if I was ready in twenty thirteen for Devin when I really

started I have. I mean, think about how many years have gone by where I wouldn't have been able to add any of these things. So the time is right, the time is ready. So I'm working on that now. So I'm excited about it and I would hope to have that done the end of the year. That's awesome. I want to read that, and I think it needs to be told some stories, right, you know, some background stuff. Yeah. Well,

you know a lot of girls, myself included. Like you were talking about your outfits, we all have these incredible outfits that we wore over the years. Do you have any of those outfits? Okay, so you have them, are you ever going to part with them? I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Okay. What's so funny is I can wear the pink one with the black still wearing them here, So the pink one in the black is good until you get here, you know, because I was pretty much you know, I had I had

to enhance myself. I'm like, okay, I need a little bit more here. Just yeah, eyes up here, everybody there. You you know. I went to get my mammogram yesterday. Yeah, and mammogram and my first bone density because I just turned fifty this year. Right, So the lady youngster you, what's that you youngster? Oh? Yeah, okay, So you fill out the paperwork obviously, and they ask you if you had implants and I said, well, I got mine in nineteen ninety seven, but they they ruptured, right, I don't

have them anymore now, it's just me. My husband won't let me get them done again. So I'm just like, okay, I'll just bet it's fine. I don't care. I just wear a push up bra and I'm good to go. But the lady was so perplexed. She's like, how did you rupture them? And I said, I don't know, and she says, well, how do you know they're ruptured? And I said, because when I got my mammogram, they couldn't find them. Oh my god. And the tech said, you must have ruptured them. See No, it wasn't trauma or

anything like. It wasn't like from you know how girls popping in playing their silicon, they're salien, okay, good, yeah, yeah, so if they just you know, I probably pissed it out. And now the bags are in there. But my doctor said, just leave the bags because they're safe. You know, you don't want to get another surgery to remove the bags if you don't have to, so just leave them in there. But this tech, you would have thought I gave her

like an algebra equation to side. She came out of the room like four different times asking questions, and I was just like, ma'am, they're not there. Hello, yeah, I'm just like, just just put my boobs in the machine and let's get this over with. I really need to get out squishing down on the same lord, well just squishing down on nothing too, because I don't have any ambling. She kept telling me my other boob was getting in the way, and she made she kept making me grab

it and push it and push it to the side. Yes, but it kept get and I said, ma'am, I'm a d cup. They're gonna like overlap sometimes. I can't, you know, I'm twist then I'm turned. She was so confused with my breast, and I said, thank god, I only have to do this once a year. And they asked. And it's more difficult with the implant because there's not a lot of skin for me over that implant. Yeah. Oh it's painful. It is not fun people. No, it's so you guys out there have no idea what we go through.

That's all I'm decide. And I got mine in nineteen ninety one. And the ones I had a tear in one and I just put one. And I've been through a few. I think if I have to do it again, they would probably come out. There's no reason, you know. I mean at this point, of course, I was a B cup. I was not a D like you. Well, I was a C. That's a thing. Well, but my chest was sunk in so they were low. Yeah, so I wanted height on the top. Yeah. So my my

emplanes were only two twenty five each. They were the smallest. Yeah, but they looked goode fifty maybe okay, is mine three something? I was two twenty five. I mean they were they were tiny. It just pushed me up, gave me some height. Oh perfect. So they're not there better. But in the nineties when we were watching all those eighties uh you know videos, rock videos, these chicks were like, whoa, yeah, you should look like that, right, Well you looked perfect.

You look perfect. Now where are you are? Do you have any appearances coming up that you want to let us know about. Let's see what I've got going on. Well, I want to tell you guys too. I'm an ambassador for a CBD company that is very cool. It's called Aces Joint Repair. They're out okay, and it's so FUNNYU was. I've been using that stuff. And my friend who plays in Alice Cooper, Chuck Garrick, kept telling me about this this rub and I didn't know that we had it,

so I was using it. And when he finally said, Genie, get a hold of me. I want to talk to you about blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, oh my god, check, I've been using this. Of course I'll do an a. I'll be an ambassador for your company. So I've been doing that. There is a wrestling it's like a comic con in jackson in Jacksonville coming up in June. That's coming up. C AC is coming up in September. Oh my gosh, I forgot. I have a movie, a little movie that we're going to shoot in October.

Oh my gosh. It's an indie film. Real quick, it's an indie film. It's based on old school horror. So basically, it's like what would Jason, Michael Myers and Leatherface do on their day off? Modern twist and that is what I'm excited about. And Michael Strider is the director for it. I've known Michael for a little while and he asked me if i'd be a part of his movie. So we are going to shoot in October in Charlotte, North Carolina. Oh well, fun. That looks like a fun top totally right.

I love anything that's scary, movies, horror movies, all of that. I used to love them. I was a big trauma fan. I don't know if you're familiar with trauma films. They are they're horror, but they're like the horror. They're very can't be very Check out Trauma. They have some great stuff. Toxic Avenger. Do you ever hear of that one? I've heard of that. Yeah, that's trauma. I loved anything trauma, and I loved horror, and then I had my children, likely so much your he's a fan of yours. Yes,

we follow each other on Twitter. But but hun, when I had my kids, I couldn't watch horror anymore. Oh it's so weird, like I tell everybody, like I became a mother and my perception of things changed, Like I'm always like, God forbid, what if that ever happened to my child? I can't watch this. I didn't watch it anymore, And it sucks because I used to love it. You know, it's so weird. Well, what's for you? Watch it for me? But I would watch that movie. That movie sounds fun. Yeah,

oh gosh, I got that would be great. I will let you know about it. Yeah, please do called Lake Norman. I didn't tell you the name of it Lake Norman. Okay? And where can people find you on social media? And give the link again for your soaps? I will so the link for the soap is Hollywood Botanica dot com. You spill it with a K if you guys are Twitter people at glow Hollywood. Instagram is official glow Hollywood. And then that Facebook that's somewhere under Jeanie bessone my

first name. So all right, we see. Thank you so much for having me on today. Thank you, doll. I want you to stay right there for a second. Guys, if you want to follow me on social media across the board, it is at ECW DVA Francine. Very active on Twitter, not so much on Instagram because I hate posting pictures of myself, but you know, follow me on Twitter, cameo, I'm on. Are you on cameo? I'm on cameo as well. Yeah, right, so we can we can get some cameos of each other.

And what do I have coming up tomorrow? Well, you're gonna hear this after the fact, but tomorrow I'm going to be in New Jersey for a signing and a virtual Yeah, my friend Captain's Corner. Yes, Nick, Yes, I definitely will. We're working together tomorrow and then I believe in June I have a couple of things, but we'll catch up on that later. I want to thank you Hollywood for coming on. You are a delight. You're gorgeous inside and out and I can't wait to see you somewhere.

Hopefully we can meet up soon and you work on something. Yes, I'm on the East coast. Well, we'll get together and we'll have to do something. We'll collab on something we we do favor and send me your I'm gonna just send me your shipping address, but absolutely I will. I will inbox you when we're done. Thank you for listening today to eyes up here. And with that, that's a wrap. Well that was wonderful fun. That was everything. Yes, I

know I won't push you on it, do not. I will not, But no, she's she's got a lot going on, and she looks incredible, and she's got stories for days and looking forward to her book and I can't wait to read it, and I can't wait to see what she's going to be doing next. So I really really enjoy her. I really like that kiss t shirt that she was wearing. I do too, I really do. I liked it because it was it looked sparkly to me. It was quite sparkly. Yeah, it looks to be dazzled. Yes.

So she's adorable and I love her, and I you know, I hope to see her soon somewhere. You know, she's been doing all these eighty con things and I don't really do those. So hopefully we'll cross paths again soon. But until you do fingers crossed? What can you say? Yeah, until we do? You know, we keep in touch on mind so very nice and she's sending me soap. Well there's the highlight of the day via free soup. All right, Well we will get to our Patreon lineup if you

would like. Yeah, what are we doing? We are going to do a few things. We are going to stick with the glow theme. And I know you always like to you know, you're you're a method artist. You like to think outside of the character that you've played and what other characters could you play. So we're going to see what glow wrestler you could be if you were

a glow wrestler. Okay, I wanted to be Hollywood because I loved Hollywood and Vine and I thought they were adorable and they were heels, and I like being a heel. But I want to see what this quiz tells me I'm going to be. Now. I don't know if it means that the answer is going to give you a glow character of the past, or like create a glow character for you don't know about that, but I do know, And we're gonna find out what glow wrestler you are prediction. Uh,

Sally the farmer's daughter. Maybe, Okay, maybe there's a lot of different scenarios we can go and do, so we could. Uh, then we're gonna let me go to the watch along. The watch along is going to be hang on, this is a good one. We're gonna this one. We're not gonna have audio for. We're gonna be watching this uh directly. Uh oh, way I erased the wrong one. Hold on, let me write it by I'll just tell you what it

it is. I'll write it afterwards. We are going back to the glorious year of two thousand e CW Tag team action, the Dream teaming with the Dream So Tommy Dreamer and the American dream Yesty Rhodes taking on Jack Victory and Steve Carino and I believe a Jacksonville street fight. Oh could could there be uh some some figure fours done in this match? So there is a figure for I. I scanned it. Okay, I didn't want to watch the whole thing. I scan like I want to watch it

with you. I just keep on seeing you getting up and down off the apress. Okay. Interesting, Okay, Because we worked with Dusty a couple of times, sometimes I was babyfaced. Sometimes it was keel. I'm wondering if this is the match that I remember. So here you go the Dreams versus Jacko and Carino. Wonderful, okay dream And then for our final extra of the week, we're going to focus on Tammy. Oh that's not Tammy. Oh sorry, you meant

the other one. Yeah, sorry, yeah, so Tammy. Uh. I went to jail today and yeah, we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna watch some there's a lot of video and we're going to talk about it. So I can't. I can't. We can't overlook this. This is a huge news story, and you know, everything happens after we record. I feel

everything everything. So if this would have went down before the the you know Hollywood thing that yeah, because I I when I was done with Jeanie, then I started seeing everything come in and I was just like, damn uh, you know, because we could have talked about it today, but we're going to do it on Patreon. So if you want to hear what I have to say, you got to come on over to Patreon to hear it. That's a great plug. Love that we will catch you

there on Patreon. It's Patreon dot com, slash Franccene podcasts for total podcasts per week to include what you're watching right now, the Eyes up Here Flagship Show, and then the three extras we have. Uh so come join us if you you haven't, and uh yeah, it's always fun time. So we'll kind of wrap it up here. My uh social media plugs would be the following at Chad E and B on Twitter, at IV Exclusives on Instagram, IV Exclusives dot com for your signing needs, and Below the

Collar dot com for the Chadster shirt. Okay, are we not pushing perfectly rated anymore? I mean I can, but I sold one the other day and like, I don't even think I published the link in quite some time. There's very limited amount left. So you know I haven't. I haven't really pushed it. But you want to perfectly rate a shirt, we'll get you one, all right. It was in Virginia too, It was it was a listener

in Virginia. I was like, where where are you? We have some time until our Virginia appearance, right, it's not next week, it's no. No. Three three weeks, three weeks. Oh it's good word. Okay, Well, we have time. All right, then I want to plug that across the border. On social media. You can find me at ACWD for Francie. And with that, I'm gonna say it again. That's a wrap.

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