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name is Chad In. Every single week we sit down here with the one and only Queen of Extreme Francine Eyes up Here, the platform of all platforms for all things franccene. How are you this week? My friend? I cannot move my neck. It has been ongoing since I got home from Nashville this past weekend, which was a great weekend, by the way, shout out to Chad and Music City, Toys and Collectibles. What a fun, fun weekend.

It was myself and Shane Douglas and the Sandman and we did we did a virtual together that Friday, which got a little out of hand. It was a little loud, a little crazy, but that's what you should expect when the three of us get together. We did an in store Saturday afternoon. I met a lot of good people from Twitter that came by to say hello, and then

we went to the Tracy Smothers show at nighttime. And so when we got to by the time we got to the Tracy show, it was about four o'clock in the afternoon and I sat to start signing, I started getting this weird feeling in my neck out of nowhere. It just boom, pulling, pulling, pulling, and the pain was it starts at like my hairline and it goes down into my shoulder. And I kept saying, I can't move my neck. So Shane jumps up. It gives me this little massage. Is that better or no? But thanks Hack.

Sandman kept saying, you need cold, you need cold, so he it was so cute. He runs to the concession stands, he buys me a Coca cola and puts it on my neck. So I'm sitting there with a bottle on my neck. But uh, I just I get this twinge, this pain, and it's hard to it's hard to turn. So the first couple of days I did cold and now I'm doing heating pad like an old friggin lady. I'm sitting there with a heating pad on and I don't know what happened. I don't know what it is,

but I did something to it. I tweaked it somehow. Was it the plane? It was the plane uncomfortable? Well, I don't know because I flew on that Friday and I was fine until Saturday at around four when, like I said, when I sat down to sign autographs. You know, it was just it was one of those things, like I know. Jerry called me this week, Jerry Lynn, and I was telling him and he said, oh, he goes.

I pulled something trying on a pair of jeans, and I said, yeah, I guess we're at that age where any little movement we do we could boom, something could pop or break or pull, you know. So it was it's been a week for me telling me maybe the finger pressure on the marker or the pen and then no what it was. But I mean besides that, we we we were saying, like to Shane and I were texting this morning and he said, I have never laughed

so hard in my life. We were up until one thirty in the morning, and instead of like the old ECW you would see people like either do a drugugs or drinking or banging rats or whatever they did. Next time it was myself, Shane and Hack talking about our kids, you know, our home life, our aches and pains, what

we do on our off time. It was like I said, would you imagine like twenty years later, the three of us would be sitting here discussing like adult things, Like you know, nobody was drinking, nobody was doing drugs, nobody was being obnoxious or it was very monotone because you know, it was very late and we were just sitting there and we were just discussing life and it was so fun. It was so fun. That's awesome. Now you guys look like you're having a ball. I checked in on the

virtual It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was. It was a ton of fun. And you know, I say it all the time. I don't get to see these guys often enough, but when I do, I mean, my bedtime's usually nine o'clock. But I you know, I was up till one thirty two o'clock hanging out and it was worth it because it was it was just a lot of fun and I missed those guys, you know, So it was it was a great weekend, and I think Chad was happy. And you know, hopefully next year

we can do a lot more stuff together as a group. Yeah, we'll see what happens. It's my fifteen fabulous tour next. That's right, that's right. Well, what did you think of Chad's store? You finally got a chance to see it. I see it in the summer. But how did you What did you think? I think it's a great set up. You know, I think Chad there was a little heat. He got mad at me because right there's there's two

aisles in the store. If you recall, in the middle aisle there's a you know, all the stuff that he sells, there's uh, the two rows or whatever. Right in the in the front, he had a teenage mutant Ninja turtles set up like the big plastic dog. I don't know what they're. N't get mad at me collectors because I don't know what. They're action figures, but they're not. Actually, there were big fat toys, right, it's fully posable toys, okay. And they're all set up, the four of them they're

in there. They're set up real nicely. And I moved one of our fans over in front of the display, and when I went to put my arm around them, I knocked down the turtles. The turtles went down Chad space. He looked like it was gonna kill me, and I was like, I'm so sorry. He's like, you're a hazard. Get out of here. I like, I'm like a bull in a China shop, Like I'm I'm walking, I'm touching things and are falling. I was like, oh my god, I can't touch anything anymore. But you know, but I

liked I thought the store was nice. You know, it was nice. It's cool. I love those kinds of things. I wish there was more out there, but he's got a great set up there in Watertown, Tennessee. Did you stay at the same hotel I did? Did he mention that is it? It was the one that was a year old. Yeah, like the Loft or something like that what it was called. But it was beautiful, right that's In't that place amazing? It was beautiful. Yeah, it was relieve.

Everything looked brand new. It was only a year old and it was really really nice. It was a nice setup. So yeah, when I checked in, I said to the lady, go, oh you guys just open. She goes, no, we've been open for like a year. I was like, place looks immaculates. It was beautiful, and we we got to go to Charlie's, which is one of my favorite southern restaurants because we don't have them up north, you know. And of course I want a pot pie. Oh we don't do pot

pies anymore. Oh okay, can I get the fried pickles? Now? We don't have any pickles? And I was like, really, should I just go down the list and you just tell me you don't have anything in stock? Because that's fine. Fried pickles are a commodity these days, because I know two places around here that have run out of them

over the last few months. Run out of pickles. I don't know Charlie's, though, I was just like, you know, what you're pissing me off is not the one with the cake or something that you talk about the caramel pie, which I did not get because of my braces. Oh that's that's so good. But I mean we we had a nice little family sit down dinner and it was it was just a great weekend. It's really fun. Did you have somebody else order it so you can enjoy

it through them? So you could see there, no one got deserved because honestly, there were four appetizers at the table, so people were filling up on the I think it was spinach and caso dip with the chips. There was like four of them, and we were just talking and as you're talking, you're eating. And then by the time our entree came, it was just I was full. I couldn't even finish what was on my plate. But it

was delicious. They do a good dude. I just really liked the pot pie and they didn't have it, so I was pissed off. How about the wild eyed Southern boy Tracy Smothers memorial invitated, What was the deal with that that I saw? No, Yeah, there were many people there. I mean, we we had you know, we were there. I think we were there for two hours. We had little drips and drabs of people you know that came over for for autographs, Like everybody that was there basically

came over. But there were not a lot of people in attendance. So now people could have came right before bell time in droves after you guys all the way, but your tail tail lights were in the distance. Yeah, unfortunately, from you know what I saw, Like even the DJ was like for the six people in the room, put your hands over there, and I was just like, really, oh, you can't say that. You can't you can't acknowledge the

elephant in the room several times several times. Yeah, oh boy, I mean there were more than six people there, but it wasn't you know, thousands of people in attendance. So the South is weird when it comes to the kind of stuff you know, like people like some some people were complaining on uh, if you had to pay ten dollars for an autograph. They were complaining about ten dollars And I know the cost of living is different in

the South and stuff, but come on a little bit. Yeah, that's it's Chad and I have talked about that before. He said the same thing, like the first he goes I go here, I gotta charge there. I go here, I gotta charge. Yeah, it's like a different level no matter where you I said, God, come up north, I said, you make a killing. You come up north where you charge triple than what you would charge normally for double

the truth and people pay. It's it's just it's a whole different world down there, and I like it, don't get me wrong. And everybody was very, very sweet. But when you complain and moan about ten dollars, it's just time to just stay home. I don't agree. But a happy, happy reunion when you got back, A nice family, welcome my kids. Yeah, oh absolutely yeah. This this wasn't as

bad as the one before. The Rhode Island one was a long but this one I left on a Friday afternoon and got home Sunday morning, So it wasn't bad at all, all right. I like those kind of in and out ones, you know what I mean. They're good. Well film back, well filmed back. It was a successful, successful weekend. I was. I was very happy. It's always a pleasure to see Chad. He's I say it all the time. He's like one of the best guys I've ever worked for. So it's a good time. He's the man.

The other day he's a good dude, like him, really is like him a lot good people. So there's a couple of things we talk about today. Would you like to hear my Ashley Furniture drama before we do that? Sure? Did you see my tweet the other day? I did not, Okay. I don't take to the social media waves to express my frustration with stuff just because I don't like to bitch. You know. I bitched to you, a bitch to people I know, but not in public. Okay. Oh, Ashley Furniture

pushed me over the limit. They I can't even begin to express to you how much I regretted having to do it, because I really do like Ashley Furniture as a furniture store. Do have you ever purchased from Ashley? I know I've shopped there. I think there aren't they more of the higher end furniture outlets if you were to go back and forth between, Yeah, the higher it would be on that higher tier. It's got a different style. Okay, Okay, So I love it. I think their stuff is great.

We've gotten couches, we've gotten the Queen bed, We've got a lot of stuff from them. Well, I ordered a twin bed for my oldest daughter, and, just like I did any other products I've ever purchased from them, went on a website. Did the thing, clicked the clicks? Did this? Did that? Click the installation? Okay, which I do because I'm not a furniture builder. I am just the Chad st not a furniture builder. So I clicked the installation.

I noticed it was a little higher than normal. Okay, it was about one hundred and ten dollars for installation. I figured inflation, right, I figured it was week to week my bed. I had gotten a queen bed seventy nine dollars installation. This was one hundred and ten. But I didn't really think much of it. Make the order, don't really hear anything anticipated or arriving. I know things

are coming late, especially furniture. Out of the blue, I start receiving packages to the house via FedEx, big packages, big packages, one big one here, one big one there. It turns out the bed was getting shipped to me in pieces, in pieces, so I'm like, all right, that's weird. I've never seen it like this from Ashley. It always gets delivered on a truck. When the gentlemen come, they put it together and give them a little tipski and

then they're on their way. But I had never heard anything up getting these pieces, so I got Ashley on the horn. Found out apparently they have a service they employ for pieces that fall under a certain size. So a twin bed fell into this category. Okay. The service is called Handy. Have you heard of handy? Okay, Handy is now like the top retailer installation. They do it for everybody. Walmart, Target Bed, Bed, Beyond Home, deepot lows you order something from them, Handy's installing it. Well, I

don't know what the hell handy is. I just paid for installation. So Friday, when I call Ashley Furniture, they tell me your appointment is November twentieth for your handy installation. I go, November twentieth, I go, I've been sitting with these boxes for five days. I gotta wait two weeks for a bed to be made. I go, no, that's unacceptable. I need something quick. They get me an appointment two days later on a Sunday. Okay, perfect, ready to go,

Kid's bed, YadA YadA, YadA, mm hmm. An hour before the appointment on Sunday at four o'clock. They canceled, very very free. They can't. They called and canceled. They send you a text. It goes first it went get excited. Your handy professional is an hour away. Next minute it was your handy professional has to cancel and rescheduled four and they give you the date. So we canceled that Sunday at four. They moved me to Tuesday at noon. Just like that. I have no say in it. I

can't dictate when it's going to be. They're telling me that's that. I go, man, I'm pissed, but okay, tuesdays two days away. We can live. Tuesday comes send in the basement doing work, all of a sudden, texts, Hey, your handy professionals an hour away. Get excited. It literally says, get excited, followed by we're starting to inform you your handy installation has been canceled and rescheduled for Thursday at

three o'clock. Oh geez. So I was like, okay, all right, now it's time to get jerky call handy right Handy has zero zero customer service, zero people answering phones. They don't know what the fuck is going on. Oh, so this lady is listening to what I said. She's giving me the company. You know, we can't do we can't reschedule this, you have to go through blah blah blah. I said, look, refund me the installation because this is ridiculous. I just want my money back for the installation and

I will see you guys on Thursday. Right. She goes, Okay, click, hangs up, get an email says thank you for canceling your appointment on Thursday. So she's figuring if you're not going to pay for installation, they're not going to do it. Correct. Okay, So that obviously sent me off. You were trying to get free Oh I was trying to get the freebie of the installation because of the free installation technically for reschedulings. Right,

So I took to the Twitter waves. I wrote, ask your furniture, your awful new relationship with Handy is a terrible reflection on your company. Two last minute cancelation reps that hang up very bad. Look, you guys talk in circles. Do nothing to help the situation you cost. Okay, that's that's so they're right back. They're talking to me in the DMS. Well throughout this process, I get in touch with an escalations lead, big name at Ashley, who takes

her three days to get a hold of somebody at Handy. Okay, the refund never went through. They just yeah, I trust me, I need a handy. By the time this is all over, I'm very stressed. But this lady never refunded the purchase. She just canceled the appointment. She never refunded shit. So she just hung up on me and canceled it because she was mad. So they still charged you one hundred and ten for the installation across the bed. And when

Ashley did there, we apologize for your inconvenience. We'll give you something back. They gave me ten percent off my purchase. It's twenty nine dollars. So what do you so? Who's putting your bed together? So, because the Chads is persistent with his bitching and complaining, there was a man here at my house last night at six thirty pm installing this bed. Turns out he's a contractor. So Handy is just a service that sits in a call center and has a rolodex of handymen in your area that they

call when they need you to do something. So they called this nice guy that lived very close to me. So did you pay for him to come? I mean I was told so Handy eventually got in touch with me. A rep from them said, they're giving me a physical check of the refund for the installation and it was brought to me on their dime. Oh their guy. So I did get it in the end, it just took a long time. Monday Tuesday once it took four and

a half days to get this done. But still I had the bed for eight nine days in boxes that I said. Look, I go, I don't work for Ashley. I know your inner workings. I go. If I'm clicking the installation box, I think it's coming the same way every purchase has ever come from Ashley, just on the truck and dropped off of my house and built. Not it's coming in FedEx here. Ups, it's this, it's that.

So word to the wise, if you purchase from Ashley Furniture, make sure you're getting something that ain't installed my handy, because yeah, well, I mean the bright side is you saved one hundred and ten dollars, you got free installation. Yes, I well, by the end of it before they they went, and they did schedule this guy on very short notice. I mean call me at six o'clock. We were at Walmart. I had to run back home. Yeah. I was trying to get the bed for free at the last Yah.

Well you got twenty nine dollars off. Yeah, but I was like, you know, if they didn't take care of it yesterday, I was like, nope, I want the bed for free and I want it installed and I want it done now. And I was way getting pissed and yeah, and then today this morning, they offered me another twenty percent off my next purchase. They find a way to keep you coming, right. Yeah, Well, we wanted to get a second bed because we wanted the girls to have matching beds. So we wanted to try it first, see

what it looked like. And we love it, and I have I want to get the one for the little one. But I don't want to go through this shit again. So the handyman lives very close to me. Nice guy, I might just call him directly. Sure, Yeah, I understand. Well, I'm sorry that you had to go through that. That's uh, that's not fun. I don't I just don't like bitching publicly. I know people do it and it does get a response because they do DM you rather quick because they

don't want bad press, right. I just hate doing it. People wrestlers do it all the time. For on the airlines. I notice with airlines they're always tweeting a Delta or you know, Southwest or whatever the company is, like, you know, I've been on the layover for five hours and now I'm stuck for two days and you didn't give me a hotel and blah blah blah, oh please DM US. Yeah. I actually like I saw DDP do one of those

a few weeks ago. I Sean Waltman do one. He literally was canceled as he sat there at the airport and they told him, yeah, we won't have anything like for you in two days or something. Oh shit, and they didn't offer him a hotel. I'm pretty sure it was him. Oh wow. I was like, and what are you going to do to fix this? I was like, Oh no, that's terrible. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. That is crazy. One of the good things that happened this week for US was we finally booked our Disney trip.

Oh yeah, we're all set for for next year, so very very excited about that. Kids are excited and the only thing left to do is book the food reservations because you have to do that. Sixty days out. Lights were booked, we got great, great airfare, hotel is booked. I think the tickets might be purchased. I don't know did we purchase them. But everything's good, So a little bit of joy in my heart from uh, that's Disney. We did not get Genie Plus. They can just put

themselves on that one, not using that system. But it did say that crowd capacity will be low when we will be there, So I am hoping that that is the case, and that everybody stays home, and that the cheerleaders and the dance troops get the frig away from me and no offense the foreigners. I don't think they can come back now. No, they're allowed to entry back. That's true too. But the dance and cheer competition is what really gets under my skin because I told the

story about how they pushed my child. Yes, yes, you did pushed her right back, did you, little bitch? And I nudged her right back. They you know, they carry their flag proudly from wherever. Uganda wherever the hell they're from. I don't even know where they're from. Now they all end up in Disney World the same time. There's thousands of these obnoxious tweens running around clapping and singing their songs in these languages I don't even know. Yeah, they

break out and dance in the middle. They stop in the middle of the road and you can't get by because there's so many of them, and it's like, really, bitch, get out of my way, I gotta go. I have you know when we use that fast passes, I got a fast passed for this. I got a reservation. Right when they get into standby line, there's a million of them. You have to wait five hours for the ride. It's just, oh, it's terrible. They break out the thriller dance and they're

doing Oh I can't, I can't with them. And if you're listening in your kids one of those people, I'm sorry, but it's the truth. And anybody who goes to Disney that does not have a child involved in cheerleading or dance that competes, they know what I'm talking about. The conversations with complete strangers down there all take out our frustrations together as a group, and we don't even know who the hell we are. We don't know each other.

But it's annoying. Democrats, Republicans, Jewish together against the cheerleaders, Muslim everybody comes together against the cheerleaders of Disney World. It's an epidemic of epic proportion. We hate them. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I can't stand them. I wish to god they would pick another week, but it just happens the fall, the two weeks that were there, they're just and they're outside the door when we're in our hotel at eleven thirty,

twelve o'clock, they come cheering through. They come cheering. It's midnight. Get out of here. I want to sleep. I gotta wake up early. I hate it, I hate it. I hate them. Go away. How About like every hotel I feel like I'm ever at has the stupid baseball tournaments, you know, like gave me February tenth, and there's a whole baseball team of thirty five kids that are all

in the buffet line at once. Yeah, well that's it's the same difference, only there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these girls and there's always one dude holding the flag. That's right, one guy and forty two thousand women, And I'm just like, man, that guy looked out, didn't he. That's when he's like, I get to be on the bottom. Oh Jesus. I don't know about all that, but it's just it's too much and they're obnoxious and they need to just get the hell out of my way. Oh

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of heercing. Yesterday, wwe released another forty two thousand people from their roster, and you know people aren't just assuming that the sale is going to happen because they keep releasing and releasing and releasing. I'm not going to play it here, but Drake Maverick, who was rockstar Spud, he put out a brilliant video this week. I saw it.

It's unbelievable. The best line. Don't quote me on it because I'm not going to say it one hundred percent accurately, but he said something like, I didn't grow up wanting to be a WWE superstar. I wanted to grow up to be a professional wrestler. And that hit home because, you know, a lot of people think if you don't get to ww you haven't made it in this business, and that is so far from the truth. You know,

and getting there. I've said it a million times. Just because you make it to WWE does not mean you're going to be successful, rich, well known. I mean, they could just sweep you under the rug. There have been people that work there that have never been on TV. And we're getting paychecks to sit home yeh whole time,

and it's an easy paycheck. But when you're in this business and you love what you do and you love to work and it's a passion, you want to get out there and you want to show the world what you can do. And a lot of these people are so talented and never got the opportunity there that they should have so big, big opportunities now for other organizations to pick up these talents and to do right by them. But an interesting tweet that I read was from how

do you pronounce her name? Is it? Taya Taya tya valkyrie? Taya Taya yeah, Tya Valkyrie. Yeah, she's John Morrison's wife. I've seen her wrestle before. She's really good and she has a really good luck to her. She's been tweeting she was let go first and then her husband was lego yesterday. So she tweeted something. I'm trying to find it on the timeline here, give me one second, because people are, you know, in the up and arrow. Let

me see. She tweeted something like, why are you support Why do you keep supporting a company that treats their workers like shit? That was the gist of it. Now I can't find it. I don't know. I got it, I got it. I'm sorry. Stop supporting the company that is zero respect for their talent. You love professional wrestling, spend your money on the hundreds of other alternatives. This is wrong ethically as employers. They don't care about us, talent or fans. And I think she's got a point there,

She's on point. I honestly think she has a point. And then she put up another tweet. She says her husband removed it, but she wrote her my husband got fired. This is why I'm saying this. I'm speaking my truth. I'm sick and tired of people treating us like shit. In two weeks we lost both our incomes before the holidays. I'm all out to feel how I do. Yeah, people forget that. Yeah, for people like giving her backlash on

tweeting her feelings, like, I don't get it. She is allie out to feel how she feels because this is happening directly to her and her spouse. Yeah, so why can't she mouth off? Did you see the number that they've released no ninety talents this year? It was a ninety okay, ninety talents. And then on top of that, I think close to two hundred total office employees have been let go in the last year. That's that's insane. Something's happening. Thing is going down that needs to be

revealed very soon because what are they gonna do. Are they going to use the same guys over and over again and it's just rotate them. Yeah, they are to have no one left. Yeah, I don't. I don't get it. It's weird. They've like they they rated the indie scene over a three four year period and they've essentially replenished it as now, bringing them up as like fifteen times the star they were when they were signed. It's very weird. I feel like they signed certain people only to not

let other organizations grab them. Could be. Yeah, that's the way I feel about it. And I feel like the ninety day no complete is total bullshit. I just I don't understand, like, uh, you know, if you in other words, like if you don't want me, but another company does, why do I have to wait ninety days? Yeah? Let me just go work. Yeah you know what I mean. I just I understand they're paying you for that ninety days to sit home. You know, it's an easy payday

or whatever. But man, each day that goes by is a day that you might not get that offer again in three months because somebody else might come along and they will look at them before you, and it's it's a cutthrow business as well. It's hard. I think there's only been one person to challenge the ninety day and just completely ignored, and it was Raven and I think two thousand and four, two and three or two thousand and four, whenever he was let go by WW went

to TNA. He just he was released on a Monday. He was at TNA on Wednesday, and what happened were there are no percussions nothing. So that's why a lot of people say it's more of a fear that you can't do anything for those ninety days when you read the contract. But essentially they're not going to come after you. Nobody challenges it, though, and they collect the money and

then they move on. But I wonder if if Scotty was cut off from pay at that point, I sure I might have that might have been the thing to take. They would have paid him while he's on somebody. That's right, that's correct. But he tested the I'm just gonna go on and do my own thing. They okay, well we're not paying you anymore. Well I got a job, so for him, and that's and I don't know how many times that comes up anymore, because contracts are what they are.

But now you see the NXT contracts are only thirty days versus ninety and Scarlett Bordeaux got around that. So Scarlet Bordeaux is able to start taking bookings and moving on because it's only been thirty days for her. Now Killer Cross has to wait until February. Well, you can take bookings, you just can't appear on somebody else's TV, correct, right, But or you can't. I don't think you can wrestle for those ninety days, right, I don't think as long

as it's not on TV. It's such a slippery slope now though, because everybody's technically got some form of well yeah, I mean I know when I was released, the first thing that was said to me was you can't work for TNA. That was the very first thing they said to me. And I went right the weekend. The weekend after that I was released, I went and I started working again, and I was doing shows all over the place.

I just couldn't be on somebody's television. And also now the name thing has been brought up, so now for those ninety days, Killer Cross cannot sign an autograph carrying Cross has to be Killer Cross. Really Okay, Well, that. See, I never had to deal with that because my my name was borrowed because it's my birth name, right, so they couldn't. They had no control over that because I've used that since they won, So I was good to go. But yeah, there's that gray area. They so your your

WWE name. You can sign it eventually, but not during your ninety days. You cannot sign no technically, well no, they had somebody at these signings sits do not do it? Don't No, there's you know, how do you know, Joe? You know, somebody could have called me he said, hey, get to so and so's house now it wants to I've and signing and then they go, hey, just do me a favor. Just don't put those out for like another month, Like yeah, sure, oh yeah, I got those

in September. What are you talking about? Uh huh? So so selfish it really is, you know, you're dealing with people's livelihood. This is this is how people make money. This is their job. And it's right before the holidays, like she said, look, Thanksgivings next week. I mean, come on. You know what's tough though, and this is an interesting thing for somebody as yourself a veteran of the industry.

All these new talents now I have been released, right, So now they're coming their way onto the convention scene, and the convention scene's gonna start getting a little cloudy because there's a large group of people now that's getting included. So now maybe a veteran might not get booked because a TV talent's available. They're essentially letting so many people go once. It's like they're overbooking events on paper because there's so many people out there now. Unless somebody just

decides I'm done, I'm not going to do anything. It kind of hurts in the grand scheme of things, right, I mean, it depends. You know, a lot of these guys are charging way too much, and a lot of the promoters, you know, they either can't afford it or they have to get two or three people to come in and help them bring one talent, you know, to

to an event. If you are someone like myself who only works with certain people, because honestly, I get I get a lot of different people approaching us saying, oh, I want you for here, I want you for there, But I don't know them from Adam, and I won't I won't go. You know, I don't. I only take bookings from people that I know, or if one of the other talents is one of the guys that I've worked with, I won't go alone. I won't if I don't know you, I'd work for you kind of deal.

So I'm blessed because I have that little group of promoters that I work with that I know will use me for certain shows. Talent always finds a way to get in the door. You know, a lot of the guys will adjust their pay, and that's another thing that bothers me, Like if everybody would just stay steady with what they want and stop dropping their fees. You know, it's like these guys come in and they charge ten thousand dollars, but you know someone I'm not going to

use myself, but just anybody. Oh, they now they have to go. They were getting a thousand, let's say, and then they dropped it to five because those so and show's coming in. That's not fair. I don't think it's fair at all. And if everybody would just put their foot down. And I know a lot of people need they have to work, and they work every weekend consistently. But like me, I'm not going to stand for that. So if you don't want to pay me what I want, I'm going to stay home. I have that luxury. A

lot of the guys don't. But I just don't find it fair that so and so needs ten thousand dollars and you can't bring another person in because you have to give them all your money. Yeah, I've seen it on the I'm stortying a out on the you know, the private end. Anytime somebody's let go, I get a call, do you want so and so? Okay, how much are they charging? They give you the number. It's like astronomical for a private signing. Yea, this is what they want.

And there was one guy in particular that I literally turned down like once a week that they keep on pitching to me, and I go, look, I'm not interested because there's no chance to make money. Dave, he that's what he feels he deserves. That's great, But I go, that is a lose lose for the businessman because you can't sit on two hundred autographs for ten years. That drops his value because then I can't sell. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna throw them up for ten dollars each. On

Facebook and see if somebody wants one. It sucks. But you're smart. Yeah you. I'd give you all the credit in the world for how you run your business. You do it very smart. I feel like, if you can get it, get it right, you know, like these guys that are just coming off TV. If you can get it,

go ahead and do so. I'm not knocking talent. I just don't like the fact that the promoters, you know, people that have been consistent and good to work with, and then they turn around, oh, well I can't give you this, but I can't give you that, then I don't come in sorry, you know. And a lot of the guys will do it because they need the money, right, this is the way they make their living. Bothers me.

We were talking about it this weekend. We were like, if everybody would just stay consistent with their prices, then nobody would be going in and they would have to figure out a way to pay these workers what they're worth. Yeah, you know. It just to me, it blows my mind that some of these guys who have done so much for the business get paid in peanuts. It's not fair. It's not a fair business. I would just listen and

I'm not a prima donna. I'm not saying I'm worth millions, but I do know what i'm worth, and if it's not worth it for me, I will stay home with my children and I will have a great weekend because absolutely, that's that's it. At this point, I'm too old for this bullshit. I'm tired, almost fifty and fabulous tour coming for one, that's right, almost almost yeah, yeah, and like next week is restle Kid. Yeah, I'm super excited about it. I talked to Tammy yesterday. We're so excited. First time

we're signing together ever, that's crazy. I can't believe that. Like we've been at signings together, you know, at the same signings, I should say, but never at the same table. And we've never taken you know, dual photos together. So we're we're pretty excited about it. It's going to be a great weekend, you know. But now who you know, who knows who's going to be at this convention. I

have no clue. There's last minute editions. They're going to be, oh plenty, there will be, but thank god, I'm already locked in, so you can't change my price, all right, Yeah, locks dog barrel you're in. That's what it's all about. Yeah, it's great again. I wish I could go that something's changed last minute, so I can't make it, but uh, I will be with y'all and spirits. Yeah, it's gonna be a good time. I'm I'm super excited about it.

And you know, it's good people running it. Tracy's a good dude, and I've done it once before and this is my second time doing it and I'm excited to see everyone. So well, that'll be a recap in two weeks. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait. Christmas stuff have you? Have you dabbled yet? Yeah, So we we started toding the outside. We added a new piece to our outdoor display hubs, but a tree, one of those trees that are like all the lights. It's like the big, huge triangle that has all the

lights for outside. So we added that and we added red and green. We have torch what are they called torch lamps or torch lights going around the front of our house. They're usually like an orange amber color, but he changed it to red and green, so now they're all red and green, which is cute. And we also have a projector in the window oh, okay, yes, and it will project Christmas scenes like Santa, you know, putting the presents under the tree, or reindeer flying or snowman.

It's very animated, very cute. We also have a manger because Jesus is the reason for the season, that's right, and we have him up up front and center with a spotlight on and a little little wooden thing. That's cute. It's real cute. So we started doing that because, honestly, yesterday was gorgeous. The day before was gorgeous. The kids and I were out and about doing walking and enjoying the weather. And you know, today's forty friging eight years degrees.

It's freaking cold out. Yeah, the winter's here, even though it's it's not here yet, but it's here. And but at least it matches everybody's decorations like it finally, at least it makes it worth it. I wanted to start because I usually start Thanksgiving weekend and I'm not going to be home, and then by the time I do

get home, I get him late Sunday evening. Monday, I have a dentist appointment, so I wouldn't be able to start until like Tuesday, and that's already like we're already into like December almost, so I said, well, let me start this week that way we have time to enjoy completely agree. Yeah, we're putting up the tree tonight. Okay, we have the decorations for the outside, we haven't put them up yet. I'm not fully. The most I ever did was a little on our townhouse, little string of

lights around the doorway. Well, now I got columns, I got windows that have wreaths that are going on with the lights. So yeah, it's a big So we're slowly was surely gonna work on it this this weekend, but damn Thanksgivings next week. I know, actually it's Thursday as you listen to this, right, yeah, it's it's it's creeping up on us. So I asked the kids, like, what do you want to eat? Because you know, I don't do the turkey if it's just the five of us,

because none of us eat it. So I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at the Wagman's sol could the easiest thing in the world for everybody? Yes, their pre made platters are out of this world. So we're, uh, we're each gonna pick what we want, and then we're gonna have a nice uh nice together, and everybody gets what they what they hoped and dreamed for. Have I ever told you about the Betty Crocker sweet potatoes? You

might have last year? But I remember, all right, Well they're instant mashed potatoes, right, but they're sweet potato, right Betty Crocker. Well they discontinued them. Oh no, but if you go on lie you type it in, you can still find them. I don't know where the hell they come from, but I ordered them on Amazon right. God, they're from nineteen seventy four, so that's when it came. I was like, you know, one I thought about it, I got anything about the expiration date, I go, I

wonder if, and when it came I confirmed it. The expiration date is twenty twenty two September, but I think the manufacturer date was twenty thirteen, so they're still technically good. Well I had them the other night. They worn't go great, Okay, so I'm not dead. I actually feel great this week. I've been very strict on the dieting. I've been working out this week very clear head first week in along time, so I think the sweet potatoes are just part of

the process. Who knew that sweet potatoes could could turn your whole life around? Who would have known it could make me sweeter? That's true. You can't get much sweeter than that. But very good. Well, yeah, I just I was really bummed for everybody who got, you know, fired this week and it's just shitty right before Thanksgiving. That stinks. I mean that I was fired from a job right

before Christmas a few years back. Yeah, few years like twelve years ago, right, it feels well, it had long lasting effects that I think we only really recovered from a few years ago. Right while this was pregnant with the first baby. It was like a gut punch. I got fired right before my wedding in two thousand and nine from a job, and that was bad. This one felt worse just because of the timing right before the holidays sucked? It does it? Does? I just? I don't again,

I I there's something's going on a sale. I'm thinking, I thinking they're going to sell to who. I just I don't want it to be Disney. I don't want Disney to acquire them. Now there's a wonderful company that owns a cable company, or that it's a cable company that owns a broadcasting entity called NBC. If they are acquired by anybody, I think it's going to be comcasts. Okay, well I can deal with that. I just don't want to. I don't want to have to go to Disney Parks

and look at wrestling. I don't design be like if you smell what the rock is cooking restaurant that way, I don't want any of that stuff in my parks. Get out. The Ultimate Warrior Remembrance Pavilion is that way. I don't want any of that bullshit in my parks. The Hockey talk Man, yoursel of progress is that? No? But I you know, well, a Honckey talk Man and I had really deep and meaningful conversations at Rhode Island

Comic Con. I love the Hockey talk He was at my table every day talking to him and JBL just talking to me every day. Honckey talk Man gets a bad reputation based off of being a shrewd business guy in the height of being the Hockey talk Man. When you talk to him directly, he is a very smart guy. He is He's just he's seen some shit, but He is a very good dude. I like the Hockey talk Man a lot. And the funny part was somebody had

mentioned him and Jerry Lawler had this big, huge feud. Yeah, but they were next to each other at the signing talking and their cousins. Yeah yeah, and they were like, as somebody had said, oh it was family related. They didn't talk for years. But the guy was surprised that they were even talking at this convention. But they were right there. That's way long under the table. Yeah, I

don't know. It was something. Yeah, it was like for a good ten years where there was some bad blood, but it is like, I think, fifteen years removed from Oh it's been a long time, a long long time. I was going to say they were getting along just fine when I saw them. But what a cool family have, Jerry the King Waller and that's full gear, which was you don't get you don't get hockey talk man in the gear anymore. No, he just had like a regular outfit on. But did he have a zubaz pants on?

He might have. I can't really remember him and pack him and JBL were at my table, and you know I had I had an abundance of photographs on my tail. But everyone's in a a while, they look down at the don't look there, sir. Yeah. So all right, well, let's let's talk about what we got going on this week. Patreon my favorite time we talked about Christmas. Right, this is just an interesting one. I thought you and I

could rap about it. I'd love to gauge pass and present you, yourself, your kids, your husband, all time Christmas toys. There's a list of like top selling toys where they you know, did you get a part of the fat cabbage Patch kids? Remember the fad? People killed each other over cap There literally was death over Cabbage Patch kids. There were fist fights, that's for sure. It was ECW like battles. That's true Cabbage Patch Kids. So we'll look at the list, we'll see it. Does it sync up

whatever it's it's it's fun, it's holiday spirit. Let's get let's get it going this week with that. And this is what I'm doing for you, my Queen of extreme A big brother quiz Ooh well, you know I might not do too well because I didn't. I wasn't a fan from the get go. I joined the late. So this one looks like it's a few years old the quiz, but I saw a few names that I've heard you mentioned. That's why I went with, well, yeah, I'd love to

take it. We'll see how we did. And the CBS official one, so it's not going to be the UK like, yeah, you never heard of I saw that. I'm like anything that's from the UK ago. I don't think we're gonna take that one. And I'm super excited because Big Brother is coming back in February with a celebrity edition. So how do we get you on there? I would love to play, but the kids said, Mommy, I don't want you go in there. You'd have to stay away for

so long that will break my heart. All right, how about after the fifteen Fabulous tour, after they get a little bit older, We'll get you and you can. Yeah, when when when no one remembers me from the nineties and I go in there, no one knows who I am, It'll be great and it'll say on the bottom, we'll say ECW footage licensed by the Walt Disney Company for this episode. God, and then we're gonna look at an awesome promo where there's some physicality that I have some

questions over. It's a promo with yourself, h and Shane Douglas. You will remember it. It's it's about five minutes. You will remember it for one reason before we get there. Okay, you want me to tell you now what the reason is. Okay, we'll talk about it. Guys. I love these little surprises from you. Yeah, no, it's great. It's not. It's not the most most lengthy franchise promo in the world, but

just everything that happens in it is awesome. I need discussion and it is bringing us back to the Madhouse of extreme Oh. I will say that good times. So let's it. If you want to follow me, it's at Chad E and B on Twitter, on Instagram at ivy Exclusives. I was told that my big private signing is going to be allowed to be announced today, so I can't say who it is yet, but next time I can say the name. Finally, wait a minute, it's announced today.

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