Eyes Up Here: New Year, New Show

happy New year, Happy twenty twenty two to you all. Yeah, I can't. I can't believe how quickly this year went by. I tend to say that about a lot of things, like things just go by quickly, but this year literally flew right by, really really did. And it's a very

cliche thing to say, but it's true. I know, And I just I was sitting here the other day and I just I was thinking about like things throughout the year that I was anticipating doing and the anxiety I was getting and they're all over with, and I'm like, wow, I wasted so much time worrying about things that are they're done and they're gone, and we have a new year ahead of us. So I am praying that twenty

twenty two is better for everyone. Way I do too. Yeah, I mean it seems like this last surge was a little little Craig Craye for the holidays. I saw testing centers with lines wrapped around the corner, police officers dictating traffic flow. We were literally at we were out to eat at Longhorn, you know the steakhouse. Yeah, out back

style steakhouse. Plase and uh it's he's on a hill and it was looking down and it was looking right on one of those like urgent care places, and the line was wrapped around their building and up the street into a parking lot of of a supermarket. Gosh, you know what's crazy. I'm not gonna mention names, but I have a friend who felt sick right went to his primary. They said, oh you have you have the new variant go quarantine. Never took a test, Okay, I said, I said,

how does he know? Oh my gosh, how are they The people are just saying they're positive and they're not even taking tests. They did the Johnny Parson they did like they put the thing up in there. They said to myself, good cord yet, I mean, you could have a cold for all you know, are the flu there right away? Oh you have COVID? Come on. Yeah, there

was some stat I saw. It was like of like this, the hundred in sixty thousand cases they reported, and like a certain span of time, it was really only like nineteen thousand. I just it's a nightmare. I just wish all of this would be over, you know, just go away, get out of here, get out of here. Well, we survived Christmas, we survived the New Year. Well, yeah, it's technically pre New Year's Eve as we're talking. But let's go back a little bit. We didn't get to talk

after Christmas. So how was your Christmas? How the kids like their stuff? Oh? The Christmas was wonderful. It was really a it was a great it's great, great holiday. I can't say it wasn't filled with joy. It was. It was fantastic. If you recall, I did attend a wedding the week before Christmas that I was dreading. Yes, that I was dreading. But you know, I have to say it's not that I had a bad time. It was the anxiety of the trip that was really getting

to me. It was the drive from Virginia to Connecticut that was really like kind of hanging over me. Now we did not have the children. The children stayed with their grandparents. My uncle who's a faithful listener of the show, and his family stayed with us on both ends of the trip. So coming from Florida, they came to us the day before we all left, and the day we left Connecticut they came back and stayed with us. Great time with them, so much fun. We got the open

Christmas presents with them a few days early. We always have to do it via pictures and video, you know, and it was nice to experience that. But I think my anxiety was the trip and the drive and the drive there led up that held up to the hype of going that was horrible. Was it worse than us driving to Albany? Yes, it was because not only was it an immense amount of traffic. Remember when you just went up to Rhode Island, it was basically the same route.

So all those those traffic spots in New York to George Washington Bridge, even getting off in Fort Lee, New Jersey, like just the traffic mixed with like a misty very annoying rain. And it was seven eight o'clock or so six seven o'clock on a Saturday, traffic rain, my windshow wipers. I didn't realize it needed to be changed, so it

was streaky. I couldn't see the road. It was so bad, and it took forever to get there that by the time we were there, it was like, there's the bar eggs in the room, and we went right to the bar. Tell me about it. I would have done the same thing, Oh my god. But at least you once you got there, you had a good time because you were actually dreading the wedding. I was. I was because I was in the wedding right, so I was dreading it, and I had an okay time. I'm not going to say had

the greatest time in the world. I had an okay time. You know, I didn't really know the groomsman. It was my cousin who who's so my family tier. He would be technically under me in age. He's there's a seven year difference, not a lot, obviously, but you know his buddies were all like these young you know, like upstart career guys. You know, I was like the veteran of the crew, but you know, once they found out what I do, it was a million questions about podcasting stuff, wrestlers, autografts.

You know, so your name might have been mentioned a couple of times throughout the day. Yeah, you know, I was definitely talking about my experiences talking about WWE because drove by the building, you know, all that good stuff to get there. So it was it was okay the wedding. The reception was better. Obviously, had a big contingent of family there. My Grandma was there out on the dance floor chopping it up. So it was that part of it was fun. And then Lizzen and I got to

spent a lot of time together driving and laughing. That was my favorite part. Good. Well, I'm happy it worked out for you. I knew you were dreading it, but I was hoping that you would have a positive that came out of it. So it sounds like you did. Yeah. And you know, how was your lead up into Christmas? Because I know, you know, the week before you had a lot of stuff going on too. So yeah, so the Christmas here was very quiet and very nice. We no family, just us, just the five of us, my

whole family of course, got together. They have been getting together all through COVID, but you know, because of my mom and traveling and getting her to and from, it wasn't worth going for just a day to see them because it takes a lot out of her. So we yopped it. And plus with with COVID, you know, I especially now you know, being vaxxed, you could still carry it,

still pass it on. I didn't feel comfortable having her in a room with like thirty people coming in and out, and friends that I don't know that they would have had invited, you know what I mean. It was just it was too much. So we just stayed here and we baked, and we got a ton of food, too much food for five people. But I didn't cook at all. We catered cause okay, why not. It's Christmas. So we had it catered and it was nice, you know, and and the kids woke up Christmas morning and at a

respectable time. It was like seven o'clock. I was wokay, yeah, you were done. Yeah. I was like, this is great, you know. And I think my daughter woke up at like six thirty and I was like, well, we have to wait because your brother's still sleeping, and then it

was like seven and I heard him running around. I was like, okay, and you know, they opened their gifts, we put stuff together and they just played all day and it was just I sat there with my coffee and just just relax, didn't have to run anywhere, stayed in our pajamas all day, and it was Yeah, it was one of those relaxes, peaceful days, and I love those, you know, I love that time and I love spending that time with just us. It was nice. No, that's great. Yeah,

we were up. We were at six, so not that much before. Yeah, we had alarms set from what we were instructed by the children, unless we're going to the airport, we had six o'clock, I believe was the alarm set. I woke up at six o three with anxiety because I thought I was gonna get yelled at by the children because you were minutes because I was three minutes late. And you know, I heard the little one ran into older ones room and they were waiting together, and it

was it was great. But by seven o'clock we were done, well, the kids were done, Me and Liz were We were probably at our stuff at that point, but we didn't have to leave until two o'clock, so we had a good time to decompress and put stuff together. The Disney Princess Record Ralph Comfy Castle is what we put together. You sent me a picture of that. Very nice, very nice, and it's big. It actually is very spacious. Now did you get this isn't Did you get this isn't the castle?

I wanted no, no, because that was a late addition to the Christmas list. So it was. And when we were up at the wedding, my mom went to so where I have my IVY Exclusives office is this really cool looking older building in the town of Warrenton, Virginia. And inside the building they had this thing called what

was it? It was a gum drop Square. So there was a back store that was transformed to like really Christmas land, you know, like they had decorations everywhere, but in this one room, lights off, all lit by trees. They had Santa Claus and the little ones who were scampering around. They they didn't see any straps for a beard. This was the real deal. This was the guy. And the last thing mentioned was the record Ralph Comfy Squad Castle. Okay,

he listened. We have a visitor. Oh those were the elves, right, Oh, okay, got it, Okay, thank you, she's clarifying it was yes, thank you, love, she knows what's up. I find funny about these kids. Kids are so observant, right they they pick up one every single thing Christmas time. They must see ten different Santas. They don't care, No, they don't. They don't even question it. It's just like that he's coming. But there's one at the mall, there's one on TV.

None of them look the same. No, these kids realize what they have to. One place that we went, you know, where we live is very rural, it is very country. We went to like the Lions Club, you know, the local Lions club in the area. Had a breakfast with Santa. This guy was like the Leonard skinnerd breakfast. He had on like rock and roll like you know, like like those colored yeah yeah, yeah, like red tinted glasses. He had like a long, scraggly beard. And I'm like, this

is the Southern rock Leonard Skinner sand It's hilarious. That's great, Oh my god. Well yeah, it was a nice, nice holiday, nice way to end off twenty twenty one. You know, up and down all year. For the most part, we were fine, thank god, another year without catching COVID for myself and my family in this house. So yeah, you and us airhouse, right, yes, right, we're good, thank the little good. And we've we've mixed companies. We were together,

you know, we worked together. I've been doing appearances, I've been out there and nothing, thank thank God. And I continue to pray that at lasts, you know, uh, just taking my supplements and staying healthy and trying to uh, trying to dodge and matrix and yeah, that's all we do. And we will be reunited and live and a living color in March. Oh in March. Yeah, that's that'll be

right around the corner. Yes, now there, it's on the website, but they haven't made the official announcement because they're going through all the I mean we can because it's on the website. But Francine will be appearing at the Big Event in Queens, New York on March fifth, and IB Exclusives will be there in full effect as well. So Big Event has it on their website under the IVY Exclusives banner. But they just haven't messed. They haven't put out like an official post yet are we going to

say who else is coming with us or is not yet? No, we're still clearing that he's not. He's in, but he just hasn't given me the full you know, like all right, go with it. But he's in, He's fully in. I was trying to like think when the last time, like when I was there last and I swear it was like four years ago, big event. You did a big ECW reunion at the Big Event. And the reason I know this is because when I was moving, I came across a picturehow last time, well, one of the last

times I worked with saman in Philly. People come up and they give you guys stuff all the time. Sometimes it's left at the table. Sometimes it's you know, sam Man goes, I don't want this stuff, just take it. And it was like a portrait drawn of him. It was like all this stuff and one of them is this picture of you guys, it's you, Shane Raven, Jerry Lynn, Saman like Saboo at the big event. It was a big reunion. That's the last time you were there. So

what year was that? In had to be twenty seventeen. I went, wow, Okay, so it's been a while so New York. I don't get there much. Come out and see me. Oh, I'm pumped. It's my first time I've booked people there. You know, I've had my talent there. John and I when we were doing shows together. John would go because he lives closer. But I'm trying to do one show a month in twenty twenty two. And oh, thank you very much, Shopkins. Very cool. I'm trying to do one show a month, and March is the third

month of the year. So I have booked the big event with you, and it's gonna be It's gonna be a good time. We're gonna have something good, very great. It's very great. It's gonna be a great time. Well, New York. We did Albany. Go elsewhere next, next trip, Let's go somewhere else. You gotta get you to Virginia next. That's enough. You know what I want to do, and I think it would be wonderful for me and Shane together. Is the Steel City Con in Pittsburgh, Yes, that's the

one I want to do April. Is that April? It's in April. They just booked Chevy Chase as the headline. Well, if they could have Chevy Chase Shane Francine on the day is I would book that. I just every year. I tell Shane, you know, we have to. I haven't been in Pitts. I have good Lord, I don't think I've done his signing in Pittsburgh since CCW. I would, I would probably can. It's probably true. Yeah, I think

I need to go to Pittsburgh. So I think that that's a no brainer we should look into I will look into that later on today and let you know what I can see. I have my thoughts about it, so we'll talk later on. When you say that there's a negative negative, it's just a perhaps an inquisitive question as it relates to the calm itself. Write it down because you're gonna forget. Write it down right now, Write it down right now, because you will write it down.

But yes, but I'm just saying, close out Christmas. So it goes by so fast, right, all that preparation, every you know, even though you guys had a chill one, what do you feel like afterwards when it's over, It's like all that preparation, now it's done. Here's how I take it. Right. This year, I decorated early because of

Russell Caid. Okay, every year, I usually great the friday or the weekend after Thanksgiving, but because Russel Kaid, this year, I decorated the week before Thanksgiving, like the like, well, not the week but Monday. I think it was before Thanksgiving. So I had the decorations up an extra week this year. Christmas night, I'm standing there and I'm looking at my tree and I'm like, you're coming down. I can't take it anymore. I'm done. I didn't even want to put

my lights on anymore. I was over it. I'm so excited when I'm decorating because the holidays and it's coming up. My sweetheart, she's in her heaven today. But as soon as it was done, like everything's down here, I took everything down on Tuesday. It's gone. I can't, I can't be bothered. I'm done, holliays are over. What about the superstition of taking it down before New Year's? Never heard

of that? So in there is a superstition. I forget what it's called, but there's some like Catholic related superstition about taking down your Is it? What the heck is it? I can't I can't get it in my head at the moment, church aren't really getting along right. Guy's got heat right now, jeez. So I'm not really concerned about what they say about taking my decorations down. Oh I went to church, did you? I did. We went to Christmas Eve Mass. It's the first time in two years

that we've been to church sans COVID right right. People wore masks. It was a mandatory and they did you know, like and I never observed this before. Listen, I must have not been paying attention, which could happen while I'm at church. I tend to drift. But they made this whole thing about like communions, like don't even bother getting up if you're not Catholic and you haven't received your sacraments,

stay in your seat and politely move. What would you get up if you, I guess people get up and try to get contic I never I never thought that it was like a free for all that like people try to come up and get communion like unauthorized. I was like, it would do that, Yeah, Like if you haven't received communion, why would you go and get it? Very odd, but COVID wise, very safe, very safe. Well here,

here's my stance. Now. I don't know if we talked about this before, but my kids, well we've talked about this part. My kids are now homeschooled, right, so they're pulled from school. We do we do everything here. They have not been in CCD Okay, okay, because when when we pulled them, when COVID first started and we pulled them. My daughter has received communion okay, and she's received reconciliation okay, so the next the next thing for her would be confirmation,

which they get. I believe in eighth grade. Eighth grade, yep, Okay. Now when I was a kid, we got that in fifth grade. Really yeah, I had it in fifth grade. Okay, it's eighth grade for them. So she's in seventh grade this year now. My son's in fourth grade. My son never went to Catholic school because of his apraxia. He was always in the public school system. He has yet to receive reconciliation or communion. So we're not loving the Catholic Church right now. But I want my kids to

get their sacraments. I feel like there's that little bit inside me that's still that Catholic girl who says if you don't get your sacrament, you're going to hell. And there's right now, I will not be the reason that my children are condemned later in life. Yes, whether it's a true or not, whether you believe or you don't believe, it's better to be safe than sorry. But there's a part of me now we still you know, we still pray. We teach them religion in their studies. You know, we

do Bible study, We teach them religion. We there's there's still God in the house, right. We just haven't been to church in a very long time. Part of me misses it. Part of me wants to go back. But then the other part of me looks at the way the church is and what they're doing and the way it's being run and all the backstage stories, and I'm disgusted by it. There's a lot of stuff. It could be a dark side of the ring. I'm not going on. And I said to my husband, do we change, like, uh,

I don't know what is it called. Do we not be Catholic anymore? And changed to a different religion which I don't even know what I would be interested in, like a non denominational place where you could just go like, I like the happy churches where they sing and they dance and they have a good time. That's fun. Catholic church is very somber. It's very to me, it's very sad. It's always like it's kind of like down, very down. It's not very happy to do all this for when

you die. Basically, well, I told my husband we have to find another church, and I want to get the kids their sacraments and then when they're done that we'll see where we're at, to which he replied he couldn't care less. Well, at least he's honest. He's so against the Catholic Church right now, and he grew up Catholic. Alter boy, you know, his parents are devout Catholics. During the church choir, my mother in law always calls me and says, please come back to the Catholic Church. And

I'm like, well, I didn't really leave it. I'm still kind of there, but I don't know. I don't know what to do. I'm torn. That's an interesting quand I mean, you know again, you're you're gonna do what you know. So, you know, growing up Catholic, you know what the stands for. Yeah,

it's true. Everything is sin. You do sound very much a candidate for the non denominational churches, because even if it's not something you want to pursue and you would prefer to go back to the Catholic Church, this is at least giving you that kind of like overall, look at what else is out there though, I mean, look, I know guys that are now pastors of these non denominational churches who were raised Catholic or Presbyterian or whatever, and they live and die by it. They love it.

They think it's the greatest thing. Ever, you might think the same. I don't know, Like, I still have faith, you know, I pray in the morning. I pray when I go to bed. Like I said, we teach our kids to pray. They pray before dinner, they pray before bed. In the morning, we all say good morning, got watch over me. It's kind of we have faith in this house. We're very spiritual. But I just don't know if I agree. It's a it's a touchy it's a touchy subject. Yeah

it is. No, it's weird, it really is. I just wish it was the same as when we were kids, because when we were kids, I didn't know any better. We went to church every single Sunday. We went to church on holidays, We went to church on you know, holidays. Church was a big part of my life growing up and now it's not. And there's that guilt that overcomes me.

But there's also the fear for my kids. And I know some people are probably rolling their eyes listening to me right now, and that's okay if you don't believe. But when you people kind of tell me, when I explain it, they kind of say, I was programmed. You're programmed because the Catholic Church programs you into that little robot who does whatever they tell them to do. And you know, if you think back, it's kinda no, it is, but you went to Catholic school, so it's even worse.

It was the Catholic school since kindergarten. That's even where I mean, I was CCD once a week for an hour, you know, like that's that's different from you have a different perspective. Yeah, from kindergarten until twelfth grade, I went to Catholic school. What's that? That's programming? And I you know, I remember there's a priest that I had. His name was Father Book of Fourny Old Italian man. He was old when I was in grade school. He just died a couple of weeks ago. God knows how old he was.

I have no clue. But he would come in and our teacher's name was miss Carusy. I'll never forget, and he would go over each uh commandment, like, but it took him all year to do the ten Commandments because all he did was talk talk, talk right. And he would say, like, I think it was the one do not covet your neighbors. What goods right? So, but he would here's the analogy he used in this little Italian voice. If you go into the store and you see a candy bar and you say, ooh, I want that candy bar,

but you don't have any money. You have no money for the candy bar, but you want the candy bar. That is lust, that is in your heart. You are guilty. And we're just sitting there like fifth grade, are you kidding me? And so he would say all this stuff and he would leave, and my teacher would walk and this is a Catholic sool, she'd walk right back and she'ld go, don't listen to her word. He said, what we just wasted an hour with this guy. Then if it's not true, you know what I mean, It's like

you don't know what to believe anymore. But I'll never forget. I used to feel guilty. Look at a freaking candy bar because I want that candy bar, but I can't have it. Well, it's not. Church hasn't changed. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same, little different. They put that guilt in you. That's what I'm saying, Like, everything is a sin. Remember the song the Pet Shop Boys, It's a sin. Yeah, I looked that up the other day because I was listening to it and I looked

it up. The lead singer, I don't remember his name, but the lead singer wrote it because he was raised Catholic and everything that he did was a sin. And that's where that song originated from. A lot of stuff is a sin. The video, I was like, I want to know about this video. It's it's the Seven Deadly Sins behind Closed Doors by yourself. When you think nobody's watching is a sin, Yeah, like God's watching us all the good Lord, don't do that, don't touch that. That's

a sin. Don't do that. Yeah. So it's the same minus a couple of prayers have changed a little bit. They've changed the verbiage, which I will haven't caught on too, So like, no, I have to my head saying it the other way. They've done it for years now, So when I would go to church, I would have to take up the laminated car because I had no clue what they were talking about. I would have to read what was on the card because it's way different from

when I went. Yeah, it's like instead of uh, we prayed, or it's like now it's with it is right and just and with your spirit, instead of we prayed to the Lord Lord. Here of prayers, I don't it's something like that. There's some differences. I can't remember. I gotta be in the moments. I don't know, but I can't see. And this is at the wedding. They weren't They did the ceremony in the reception hall, but it was a

Catholic priest who did it. And so I technically did attend services twice in one week, kind of in a reception hall which was beautiful on the a River in Connecticut. But I'm saying it the other way in my head because I remember that growing up. I'm not a vocal guy at church. I listen and I'd say to myself, and I got it all wrong, what's wrong? I would too. I wouldn't if I walked in today, I wouldn't even know what was going on. I'll be honest with you.

But I want these kids to have their sacraments. So I need to talk to a priest. And also this is morbid, but with my mom, I need God forbid something happens. I need someone for last rights. Yeah, they won't turn you away for that. They won't. They will come. They will honor that. Especially. I can just call a random church and say, hey, if all right, if you're home, yeah, you can call whatever your church. They will come. They will not. And if you're not a member of the church,

they will not. They will come. No Catholic priest will come. Same thing. If you're in a hospital, they will. They will have somebody come as long as you call the hotline and they'll get somebody there. Well the hospital, if it's Catholic hospital, I know there's priests that come in and give communion. Because my mom was receiving community. Here's

my question to you. This is an interesting question. Okay, if you die in a car accident or a burning building, or I don't know, somebody shoot you murder and you didn't get your last rights? Does does God say and you can't come in here? They probably have some sort of prayer that they would say at a service that

I guess would suffice. How do you get that if you got for bid die in a fire or a wreck or yeah, I would think that there's some sort of workaround prayer that they have for moments of clarity between the priests and they said departed. I always wonder that. I'm like, there's got to be like an exemption for these people. I got a good one. I almost got to fight at church, okay over peace trouble. Well, so that was the thing. So when it came to no, no, no,

it wasn't that no no, it was something else. But when it came to peace to be with you, you you were just like, hello, Hi, you know what anyone is? Anybody shaking hands? They some people did. We were we were just like we did like the princess wave like because that was my first question was what do we do? Kiss a piece? And list is like, I don't know, I don't think you do anything. But we looked around and there were some people and honestly, the only the

people in front of us turned around. I looked back at the lady behind me, and she didn't even look at me. They were like yeah, they were like, oh my god, no, my fight almost came in the parking lot. Ah, yeah, it was okay. So our church is older church, so the parking isn't the greatest. But they have a hill that goes down to where the school is, where CCD is, and there's a lot down there. Two years ago I

got blocked in in one lot. Three years ago, I got blocked in and was furious because they know the guy didn't come out for like a half hour, and I was going nuts. That fucked in. So I'm like, smart guy, this is ain't gonna happen. I'm gonna get a spot right on the end where I could just right out of the parking lot. We got there early enough, so they're directing people in and it's dude with cones and I looked down the hill and in the spots

down the hill by the school, there's nobody there. There's not one car in the lot. I say, hey, can I go down there and he goes, yeah, yeah, go right ahead. I go awesome down the hill, pull in spy right on the end. So when I'm the smart guy,

I can pull right out of the lot. All of a sudden, I see this dude like pointing like on the other side, like pointing at me, waving his cone and he sends this like younger guy, like probably like late teens up to me and I see him coming and I just stick my head out the window and I'm like, is there a problem? And he goes yeah. He's like, why did you park down here? I was like, the guy up there told me that I can come

down here. He's like, well, you know, we're not sure what the parking arrangement's gonna be, so you can't park here. I'm like, there's nobody in the lot. I go, that's gonna be filled in five minutes. Can I just leave the car here? He goes, yeah, that's fine whatever. I closed the door. The guy down the way is still with his arm in the air, is pointing. He's screaming, and he starts walking up and he's like, you can't park.

I'm blocking you in. You can't park there. I go, do you think I parked here because I just picked it. I go. The guy up there said come down here, and you can. You kind of picked it. I said, can I park down there? Say yes? I didn't say hey, I just go right down. I said, can I part? He said yes. If he said no, I would have gone okay and right into one of the spots up at the top. He goes, I'm blocking you in. I go, do you think I I just picked this on my own?

I said. The guy said I could come down here. He goes, well, too bad. You're getting blocked in no matter what. And I'm like, dude, I go, it's Christmas Eve. I go, I'm anticipating traffic. I'll go this car sitting here, it's fine. He goes, Nope, you're getting blocked and I don't care, you know whatever. So I so this other guy comes down the hill. He goes, sir, he's like, you know, I'm really sorry. He goes, I don't know why this guy is talking to you like this. He said,

you can leave the car here. It's fine. I said no, I'll go back and park up the hill because if this guy's gonna block me in purposely, I go, that's a real crap Catholic Christian thing to do on Christmas Eve. I go, screw this guy. I'm going I'll go back and park where he wants me to park, just to make him happy. Right, So I go back up parking a spot. When we come out of church, you're blocked in. Nope, five cars in the lot down the hill. Nobody was

in the lot, nobody came. Church was poorly attended, So I wonder why he wouldn't let you park there. He was just being a dick. He was just being a power hungry dick with a parking cone, like you know. But it's like, it's Christmas Eve, I'm just parking. You could see why I would park down there, right, But like the five ten minutes it took to then go through all that stuff and for this guy to be on some sort of like uh parking control power trip

was very It's just very unnerving. And it's like, you know, I had to go in and then I'm like all flushed and I'm all ticked off, and I'm settling into church, and I said to Liz, I'm like I can't I can't go anywhere. The trouble follows me wherever I go I'm getting in a fight with a parking attendant. That's great.

I like that story. It's good times. But yeah, and then and then and then you go in and the somber mood just bridge and then every thing it was a sin and everything I do is I'm going to hell for and you know it's a and then oh, then this is great. So then you know, we have a little one obviously think about it. She hasn't been to church in two years, so etiquette being what it is, there's this little girl in front of us with like

a little mermaid book. Right, she's staring daggers through this kid like I want that book, Like, what how come I don't have that book? Right? So my my wife waves to the little girl. The little girl laughs and she goes, Mommy, she goes, I'm your daughter, not her. It's like she's gonna get a fight now in the middle. And then everybody's talking and it's like we're stop. Did her eyes turn round and choot fire when she's I don't know, because you still you don't want to mess

with her. And people who have they've they've they live, Yeah, they haven't lived in this little sweet thing that just came up girl. Good lord, oh man, Yeah, it was funny. Actually, the last day we recorded in twenty twenty one, the day after, I went to a little sing along at their school. It was the most adorable thing. And I got all this great video of her jumping up and down, you know, the little hat on. It was like, and this cirl, This kid was troublemaker, you know, like a

day before at school. It's like, come on, I love it. Oh well, yeah, that's a that's a lot to take in. So are you had to be bullied around by that cone cop? It's just like why do we need that? It's like, you know what I mean, Like it's Christmas, you see, there's always traffic. There's always parking problems. Oh we're also now the leave after communion people because I

don't want to get stuck in traffic. We used to be them too, sometimes he did, or or I would place myself like right in the back of the church because you have to wait until the priest walks by you or else you look like a dick. Like you know how the priest gives the blessing and then he starts to if you leave while he's walking down the Yeah,

biggest asshole ever got to do. The old you gotta get out of there takes forever, go go, go, And then you're running out and we get through the back door, right, we're just about to leave, and then my older ones like I have to go to the bathroom. We're like, oh what, just gotta go there. But then you don't get the blessing. You don't get the final blessing. So my mom used to be like, look, we have to

say we need the final blessing. And I'm like seriously, So that's when I would position myself like on the end, on the last queue, so that as soon as we get the blessing, we just dart. We're out, grab the little paper, you know, and just yeah, just get out of here. And I grabbed one, so my wife didn't have the ground one, so we can just get out of there. Yeah we have two. Now, Well, my mom keeps saying, you know, you should go back. It would be nice if we go back, and I'm like, listen, lady,

you can barely walk up the steps. How the hell are you going to get the church? She goes, well, it would be a nice thing. I say, it would be nice, but it's not happening, so just keep watching it on TV like you do. And then she watches it on TV. Takes an hour and a half because the guy just talks. Yeah, those guys are Those guys are pontificating. They just love to hear themselves talk about the same She goes, he repeats over and over again.

I'm like, well, you know you can't fast forward it if you want to, but I just sit there in my brain just goes, you're thinking about fifty one time I was thinking about my mom. My mom said, I'm thinking about the Godfather or Good fella Maybe it was Good Fellas. She goes, the F word keeps going through. I thought she meant the Godfather, the wrestler. No, no, no, I'm kidding. I'm joking. I think we had just watched Goodfellas. And she goes, oh my god. They keep saying f

and I go what. She goes, They're saying the F word over and over in my brain. I go, my, you're in church because I know I can't get it out of my head. Wow, that's such a weird thing to have in your head during church. I watched it the night before or something I did, like business strategizing. I'm thinking about my next calendar year, like where am I going? What am I doing that? Every day that's always cycling through this brain of mine. How am I

going to make another dollar? What am I going to do? And I'm like, this could be the greatest year ever. I got all this stuff going, and then the next day I'm like, what was I thinking about last night? I didn't write it down. Well, I have to think of something because these kids are going to get their sacraments by hook or crook. I'm getting it done and then we will decide. How about you called Devon? He's a reverend, right, he's a reverend, but he's not Catholic.

That can't help me. He could just come in and do the old testify. Yeah, I need a Catholic priest. And I want to do CCD from my house. I don't want the kids to have to go and sit with other kids want I want to do it here, which I think people are doing whom season, Oh yes, yes they are. There's a whole online program. Yes see,

I want to do that. I don't know we have we had to do even though we still attended classes, they still made us do the online portion, which I thought was I have no idea because you know how the Catholics are, they just make it up as they go along. So she had Maddie to do both. Liz ended up doing half of it. And it's like, you know, come on, but I think you have to go to some like course to be a yeah whatever they call it. But I think you have to go to some course,

but you probably can. Is it bad if I wait until the new like the new school year to do this. Now this year's half over, and you know nobody's half over. I got Disney coming up, I got I got stuff, I mean, you got Disney. And then how much the Disney countdown? Oh like under thirty days? Wow, holy crab. We gotta start. We got to come up with our plan. We have to. That's creeping up up, it's creeping yeah. I have to write that down to Okay, yes, we have to. We have to get get all of our

eggs in a basket. And because because well well that leads into our new format. Let's talk about that before U before we wrap things up. So what we're going to do here on eyes up here is we are actually going to be putting out two shows two main shows for you instead of one, which is pretty exciting. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to add for Creative Control Network. We're going to add a special added bonus edition Eyes up Here to the lineup where we're gonna probably do some new

content with it. But we're going to be bringing a lot of our older content that people haven't seen or heard to the Creative Control Network. Yeah, things that might have been on an early Patreon episode that that you guys have not heard. Why you're not a member still, I just don't know. But we will also have new content as well that will be recording to so some will be flashback episodes, some will be current episodes. I could listeners leave comments as to what they want us

to hear. Yeah, absolutely, they can leave it. They can leave it on spreaker under the episode in Creative Controls speaker database. They can tweet it at us. They could do a million different things if they want, and anyway you want to make your voice heard. It's great, you know, because the fun of with doing the extra shows, and this is the what I always love about doing the Patreon.

I've always said is some of my favorite stuff I've ever done is on our Patreon because it's solosey goosey, right, I know, the drinking shows ridiculous, right, the watch along stuff, people want to hear you talking about old ECW stories sometimes that pop in your brain as we're watching stuff. That's the only place you're going to hear it. Yeah, because I don't remember anything unless you show me something and I'm like, yeah, this is what so so did

this and blah blah blah. So all the juicy stuff is in the Patreon episodes, but we might you know, pull one or two here and there and then have new content. So if there is what I was thinking, because this, you know, our main show is all over the place, we talk about everything. For the second show, I would like to just focus on one topic, yeah, and just discuss it until we can't discuss it anymore for you know, for that hour or however long we talk.

So if there's anything that you're interested on our take leave a comment and let us know what you want to hear and we can tackle it for you. Yeah, we're going to do that, and then we'll sprinkle in some of our extra content, Like I said, the quizzes, the watch alongs and stuff like that. But when we post the new show, the hot Take. It's going to be focused on one single topic. Yes, you might not like it. You might not like what you hear, you

might not agree, might agree. No, that's the beauty of these things. I get to say whatever the hell I want and you either agree or you don't agree. So which leads us to what's going on on Patreon? What's going on this week? This week I will start with the watch along, which is the end of our Patreon week. I've been talking about this for a while. I found finally a good one that we can dive through because it's like eight minutes long. The pulp fiction Homo from

September tenth, nineteen ninety six. You, you and Shane lead it off. Oh, I've probably said two words, if not no, this one, you didn't. That's why I'm keeping I ever do. That's the that's the funny part. No, this one talk No. You say a lot in this one. Yeah, yeah, this is a big moment in the early stages of your partnership with Shane. So this is yeah, this is a great one. But then that you guys are like the first like forty five seconds to like minute and a half,

but then the rest of it. I just want to show you the sights and sounds of September ninety six and ECW because everybody's in this one. I love the pulp fiction promos that Paul put together, the music, the just everybody gets highlighted. It was fair, it was these were the best segments back in the day. I love them. I love them. I love them. I love them. And that's what we'll talk about too. We'll talk about you know, what he told you about him, what he wanted, all

this crap, So we'll save that for the extra. But this one specifically, I've been watching him for weeks. The same guy on YouTube keeps uploading them from different shows, so there's a bunch of them. Oh, there's a ton of them. This is one specifically because it's long. This is eight minutes. So this one specifically I wanted to focus on because you guys kick it off and again, so it's a big what people think about your early

partnership with Shane, they think of this setting. So we'll just I'm trying to think what it was, but I don't know. Then the typical extra content, we're to look at some funny New Year's resolutions. Okay, cop Out of the Year starts with your New Year's resolution. Yeah, and we'll tell you yours. We absolutely will. Yes, I've got a couple. Okay, I had a whole conversation last night about it, so I have some of the ready and then this one. It's so stupid. If you're laughing, I won't.

Doctors talk about the best excuses they've heard from people with objects stuck in their ass. Oh well, this this one is right up my alley. No, I don't put things up my ass, but I know people do, and I would like to see what they're sticking up there and then how they're getting it out. So this, this one is going to be a good one. Yes, this is doctors describing, you know, things that they've heard and what what people have said to them as to why

how things happen. You know. Obviously we've heard perhaps Gerbils going up there and getting from the China three in Philadelphia was rumored to have a Gerbil off his butt, but who knows? Who knows? I don't know mister slave from South Park who had who was it? Lem me winks the Gerbil whole adventure in his rectum? Good Lord oh my okay, yes, that's what we do Patreon dot

com slash franccene. We get all the hard hitting news stories, gentlemen, So for every funny New Year's resolution, you get thing stuck up your butt. You know, to each their own, but sounds great. So for me, if you want to follow me in the world of social media, it's at Chatty and be on Twitter at ib exclusives on Instagram. In addition to March fifth, at the Big Event with Francine and soon to be announced guests, I have ran

the table over the last two weeks. If you've seen announcing my private signing with Brian Danielson from aw recently released WWE superstar Killer Cross, who could possibly be one of the most professional guys I have ever talked to in my entire Nice to hear that he is so smart about his business. It's honestly, it was refreshing to talk to somebody as honestly, it's very similar to how you look at things, and I was just taken by him from our first conversation. Very good dude. So we

got him. Jake to Snake Roberts, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat announced on the wrestling side, of things and my baseball suffice. It's in the works and we'll get there as the year goes on. So Jake Roberts just said he had COVID, So when are you supposed to see him? That is January fifteenth, obsolutely yes, so he should be good by that. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. Okay. So yeah, and I got a big bulk order on Jake, So

we need Jake to come through. And I saw one to feel better, amazing, needing to feel better, feel good? Well soon Jake. Yeah, I had a guy sending in sixty three cards for rapp. Wow. Yeah, that's like your I was your Life Savings. That's pretty good. No, it was, it was I was tickled pink. I think I got that on Christmas Eve. Is good. What a gift to get that nice congratulation. But h IB exclusives dot com you can still get the perfectly rated T shirt on

IB Exclusives. I sold one yesterday, so that's why I will plug it today. Okay, Well, I'm just going to say across the board on social media, you can find me at ECW Diva Francine and uh I didn't get to do it last week but I just want to wish everybody a wonderful twenty twenty two. I hope everybody is safe and healthy and happy, and again thank you for the support of eyes up here and myself and Chad, and we look forward to a wonderful year a head

together and with you guys. So with that that is a wrap us D D D d d d d d d D