WWE's 2006 Roster

kids love their presence. I don't know. This is Francine of the Future talking because I don't really know what happened yet. Uh. Now we're there. We're taping on Wednesday, two days before Christmas. So let's not lie to the people. Let's just tell them the truth. I had a very merry Christmas. It was very nice, nice. It was I got everything I wanted. Everything was under the tree. You know the kids that thrilled Santa Claus came on the shelf left. It's uh, you have an elf on the shelf. Yeah,

I've never done that. Elfie is like a member of the family. Oh okay, Elfie's a prankster though some trouble. Elfie's a river. He likes to he likes to, you know, he likes to move things and steal things, and his display is very elaborate. Got you Okay, that's nice. Now. I never got into the elf on the shelf thing. I just we did. We always did the p what is it called p MP Santa or PCP Santa. Yeah, over the years we did that. And we also there was an app that you put Santa in the room

where you want the presence to be. Have you seen this one? No, So you put so you get your phone and you put it like in front of your tree, right, and Santa Claus appears and he is either writing a note standing next to the tree, or putting a present down or doing something. But he's physically in your room, in your in your household. So we've done that for the kids as well, so they can they see Santa,

you know, next to the tree with the presence. And you know, this year, I think I'm telling them, you know, because of COVID, Santa didn't want Santa didn't want to come in the room. Well, I've seen some states have declared him COVID free. Oh, oh, well, I don't know if mine is one of them. So we're just we're just gonna let on that our numbers are high, and Santa didn't want to risk it. Now, my daughter, Bullyeve me, my daughter, we had this talk and I to do.

We cried our eyes out, and so she's she's kind of aware, you know, of what's going on, and she's being a trooper not telling her brother. And and to be honest with you, my son haven't. He hasn't even asked for Santa. Everything around here, you know, was canceled. You can't see him. Our fire truck didn't even come down this year. Every year Santa's on the fire truck and this year, no Santa clothes on the fire truck. So we had the fire truck. Yeah, he didn't even

call him this year. I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, he's social distancing. He's he never comes off the truck. He just like waves and his helper gives you a candy can or something, but no candy canes, no Santa. But for our guys, it was like I was basically thinking, candy canes are covid hot bits. They're super spreaders. They really are. But he could have at least drove by and waved at the kids.

You know, this year we had nothing thing, so thankfully. Yeah, really wait because it's the Santa all over again from Rudolph, the big jerk one. But yeah, he my son didn't even ask for him. So I don't know. It's it's different this year. It's very different, you know, yeah it is. But hey, I had a great Christmas song. I'm glad

you did. I'm sure I'm sure I did too. Let's come that way and New Year's is next, and we know you're not a big fan, so no. I mean I used to always go out, you know, and party and stuff like that before I had the kids. And now it's like, I'm lucky if I'm up past ten o'clock, so I could care less. I get pissed off when I fall asleep and I hear the fireworks. That makes me angry. So you're the old lady that's yelling out the window. No, I don't yell out the window, but

I yelled on myself. It's like, are you done? Like? Can we get this over with? Do we have to continue? You did twelve rounds? It's done. You know it's ten already, get over it. It's been the New York ten minutes. It's over, and you'll complain to anybody else. Can who would hear it? Right? Anybody? Nobody hears me? Okay, I don't you know. I just say I mutter it to myself. I have become the man from uh up, what was his name? I forget his name, but I know you're

talking about the movie. Yes, I I cry every time first ten minutes of the movie, cry my eyes out, and then it's just a it's just smooth sailing. But yeah, the old man is very grumpy in the movie, and that's me. On New Year's he was like, shut the hell up, turn those fireworks off. I'm done. I'm over it. I don't want that waking up my household. Yeah, the

firework hit. Uh so. I used to have a jeep that had a spare tire on the back and uh firework, rogue, firework hit the cheap I'm attire and a big giant burn mark on my tire. Oh perfect. See these people, they have no consideration. Just shut the hell up and go to bed. Everybody go to sleep. That's what I say. Get out of here. You're stupid fireworks. Absolutely, So no drinking for me. I mean, maybe I'll have a cocktail at like seven o'clock while I'm sitting down relaxing. I

don't know, but for me, not a big deal. So I'm just hoping twenty twenty one is like a tad better than twenty twenty. I'm not gonna I had a kind of good twenty twenty. I'm saying for everybody, For the majority of people, I mean, it's been a shit show and where you know. I'm just hoping that things calm down and and everybody has a better twenty twenty one. I'm going to make a prediction though, I think the first half of the year is still going to be crappy.

I think it's still going to be much of the same, and people are going to be restricted and not able to go anywhere. That's what I think. Anyway, I don't know, I don't know how long it's gonna last. What are you gonna do with your stimulus check? Well, if if it goes the way Trump wants it to, it will be two thousand dollars. So for my family, if you include the children, that's eight grand That's like that's a party. I did that math this morning. Did the children get

two thousand or do they get five? In the original bill, they were supposed to be six hundred in the same manner as the adults. So that's twenty four hundred for your family of four. So if I was just doing logic, I'm gonna put a two thousand dollars price tag on that eight grand We have two children. That's pretty that's pretty gend good if you ask me. I don't know if that's it. I might be retiring from eyes up here by eight thousand dollars and six months, six months later,

it's back. Everybody. You're back six months. Do you think that's gonna last for six months? You're crazy? Yeah, I mean, look, I think he's right. If you watch what he said. I think he's one hundred percent right. I think the age should come to the US before it goes anywhere else. But you know, that's just my opinion. Who knows. I hope it's that. I really hope it's that. I mean, forever bitching about it, You're still going to cash that check,

aren't you. I saw one anti Trump tweet this morning that called him Trader Trump, but then at the end of the tweet, it said like, but thanks for the you know, thanks for thanking, thanks for thinking of us with the two thousand dollars. They're all still going to cash the check. So I don't know what everybody's complaining about. It's more money. Just take it and run with it, That's what I say. I need to buy a few more hats. You and your hats, And I did get a new one. This is an l A RAMS hat.

Very nice colored, yes, and if it's very nice on my head. And the emblem of the Rams is rubber, very cool. I don't want to I don't want to get wet rubber now, don't we Yes, we do sometimes sometimes no rubbers. But that's a story for a different day. Anyway, my daughter told me that I am banned from buying anywhere makeup. She says, Mom, you really don't need that.

I told her, I said, anytime you see me on on the iPad searching makeup, it's no no, because I have so much makeup, and she so I was looking at a sail, Mom, you really don't need that. So I don't think my stimulus check is going to go to anything that I want. Probably things I need. Okay, Yeah, family things, you know, whatever floats your boat. It's all about family. I'm going to say this early because we have our buddy Matt from Patrion coming out a few minutes.

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will be joining us very shortly. He is a new Patreon member. He took advantage of the tier that you get to join us and come on the show and introduce yourself. And you already met him on Extra, but he gets to pick the programming for his time that he comes on the air. Yes he does, and he's come up with a clever idea. He's shot me several ideas actually since he's joined, so mad full of U, full of ideas for this show. And I love it. I love the enthusiasm, keep it coming. It's great what

it's all about. And you know he thought outside the box, and you know we've seen d C. He's come up with, you know, different kind of games. He's come up with different topics. MAT's done the same thing, and when he jumps on, we'll let him, you know, say hi, and then we'll get roll into it. Because it's very lengthy, so we got to take our We're got to take our time, make sure we have allotted space, and I'll be able to pull up some imagery that we can share.

So it's yeah, it's gonna be we got it. We got a good one on tap here. All we're gonna ask for you to do is tap into the old memory bank. Yeah. Well, you know my memory is shut. I say it all the time, so this should be interesting. I do want to welcome a couple of new Patreons to our little family here. I welcome Paul Wilson and I also want to welcome Dan Hawkins. They are two of our newest Patreon members. So we are happy to

have you guys, and willed that you're here. And Ellen, did I mention Ellen the last time I think you did? I think we love you too, so I was going to say it deserves a secondary show. We love you all and so glad that you're part of our Patreon family. And I'm hoping to bring more men over as my only fans shut down, so I'm trying to ignure them over to uh, to our Patreon family. So we'll see what happens. Now, how's the Discord been and your Tuesday night?

It's been busier, which is a good thing. And uh, you know, we have new members popping in and sometimes people pop in say hi, they have to go they have family stuff going on. But it's been, it's been. It's been busier because we have more members on the higher tiers, so there's for people to chat with. So it's good. So if you're listening to us on the audio, we tend to think, like we think to ourselves, like

what are you waiting for? That just the thought, but we don't want to come out right and say it. But I would love to join the Discord, but there's always something going on. As I was, I haven't been in a while. I'm not lying or anything. And I saw the tweet Tuesday night and I was like, oh man, I gotta go back, and then I kid you not,

I fell asleep. Oh yeah, watching Yogi Bears Christmas Spectacular. Look, man, one of these days you're you're gonna get in there and you're you're gonna help me out, but until then, I will just uh man ship myself. It was like this. I saw the tweet and I was like, oh, look there's I said, oh, I'm going to tweet this, and and he's going to pretend he didn't see it or he saw it, and then he got so I can't join you. I was just in a state of unconsciousness. Sure,

that's fine. I do it all. Look, I do it all. I do it all. You did it fine, absolutely do so. I'm just waiting our friend here to pop up. So I'm doing I'm looking at the director behind me, which is ironically my picture behind us, and I'm doing this your picture. Well, I have our monitor. I have a double monitor, so our monitor behind us where I then share the screens when we do the watch alongs. Actually, I mean I can go over that now if you

while we're waiting for Matt to join us. Absolutely, so, I'll mention here. I'll save one part. Okay, let me do this. You make over here here a little echo. So I'm gonna say one thing. We'll reveal it later, but I'll say our watch along. At least we talked about this before we're definitely gonna we're gonna watch some

clips while we talk. We're talking about Steve Austin when the only reason I'm going to bring this up now is because it was it was around this time when he left what see put me up with my with my lagging, you know, internet and stuff like. I think you might actually be saying it, But so Steve Austin and ECW because he left around this time in ninety five. So we're look at we're going clips behind this. We kind of talk and each thing got a little discripsion.

So I'll cover the rest of the stuff now. Because Matt has Jordan Matt from Matthew, I'm calling him Matt. How are you pretty good? Good? Oh, there's a lex of Bliss as always. She's always making a cameo on my show. And that's fine. Pretty good. How are you? I expect you for a little bit. Last night we were just talking about the discord and uh picking up and we chatted for about an hour. Yeah, it's nice about Christmas and we're doing and you know this this

airs after Christmas, So how is your Christmas? Matt? We're curious. Yeah, we we're going to visit. Well, we visited my family this weekend, this last weekend, this Saturday after Christmas, right, sounds good. Well, I'm glad you had a good time, exact safe and that's all that matters. So luckily it's in the same state, so that's that's a nice thing. There you go, Matt, what are we doing today? So we're gonna go through as much as the two thousand

w W rosters, two thousand and six roster. We're gonna we're gonna skip some of the wrestlers for an extra part that Chad has planned. Okay, but we're gonna go through probably fairly quick. Basically, just if you have a couple of words, a couple of sentences to say about each wrestler, I'll say a few words. If Chad has anything that's say and if and if you've met them, and if you had any experienced with this will this will include everybody, including the all the new bad ECW

and the SmackDown and raw. Oh my, that's a lot of people. It is a lot of people. It's over one hundred and thirty actually, actually the number was one hundred and fifty nine people they had employed at one point. Is that what you're gonna go through a one hundred and fifty nine. We trimed it down. So here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna explain it like this because I was waiting until you popped up. So I took

his list and I thumbed through it. Not that I eliminated people that I felt were relevant, but I just knew you probably wouldn't have crossed paths with them based on your time in there. But what I did was for the Patreon lore. We are going to cover the main inventors on Patreon. So we're gonna skip through and we're gonna bring up the big guns on the other side. So I don't remember who those people were. You'll find

out on Patreon. Yeah, and I can. And if I didn't really interact, I could just give my opinions or yeah, yeah I'm a fan or whatever. Yeah, sure, okay, I'm right. One thing I did want to bring up is that one notable name is not on this list, and I was shocked, is Chris Jericho is not on this list. Yes, he who was two thousand and five. He was not on the roster in two thousand and six. Okay, well, I can tell you, right, Now I did work with Jericho and ECW, and we'll go over that when we

get tow So so Jericho. So Jericho leaves in August two thousand and five, okay, because that's he was the guy who was like, look I've had it with this, I'm stale, I've reinvented myself three times. I gotta go. He was doing v H one shows, he was, you know, getting Fozzy off the ground again. So Jericho is gone for all of two thousand and six and almost all two thousand and seven, So you missed, and it was Chris Jericho bob haircut he had, so the bob you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's also one notable name who is not on this list that I will point out, and that's me because I worked for the w W in two thousand performer. I didn't know this. I actually didn't know this, like more Coronto are going to be on the list and watching Well I checked for like Bronjen Sing he wasn't on it either, So Bron and then I'll be fine. Okay, I'll point out this as a list I found on

the internet. It might not be one hundred percent accurate, you know, it's it seems pretty accurate from what I remember, but I don't remember anything so I can tell you, so I'll do my best. But uh yeah, all right, you absolutely came in contact with everybody at some point. So, like you said, come if you didn't have an interaction with them, just you know, were you happy to see them? What was it? You know, any any any interactions that might have been uncomfortable, you know, as whatever. I did

have a little setup for it too. Whenever, Yeah, you're it's all you man, You're said, okay, cool. So let's take you back to the year two thousand and six. Spent a while, spent a long time. A A year before that, two thousand and five, a young Matthew mcjeski was twenty eight years old, sad for about four years that ECW had been away, excited that WWE decided to bring back One Night's Stand with ECW. I was so

jazzed about this, and I enjoyed One night Stand. I thought it was a blast me too, And it was so cool that they brought like everybody back pretty much. I mean, there's a few normal missing one like the franchise and a couple other people, but I know they had their own individual other show that they did, but yeah, that was an amazing show. I loved it. And then East then WWE announced they were gonna bring ECW to their brand and make an own separate brand on the

Sci Fi Network. A young Matthew Majeskie was very excited because he was a huge ECW fan the originally c W obviously, and I was watching. I started watching again. I was kind of off wrestling after you CW died. I watched back in two thousand and five One Night Stand when it happened, and then when they brought it back, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna get back into it. I'm gonna watch ECW on Sci Fi. And I watched some Raw and SmackDown as well. So that's kind of the setup to this. I had a lot of fond

memories of this these years, because again I was super excited. Again, everybody knows it was kind of a letdown the new ECW kind of but we're gonna go through the roster again, try to set this up. You know, just feel free to say whatever you want or what you can even say. If you have nothing to say, you to say. Oh, this guy was kind of cool or I didn't even meet him, so he's got the big pictures in the background. I see, which is that's the list I gave him?

So one one quick question I had before we start. When you got to the WWE, did you shake hands with everybody in the WWE? Is that like the law or is it just people in your locker room? Well, if they were in the locker room, that's to you. You mean, like like if I had to go to raw, Yeah, no, you shook everyone's hand, Like if if you came in contact with someone, you had to go up to them and say hello. Okay, yeah, that's that was that's the old school mentality chat And I talked about this before.

I know a lot of the newer workers don't do it. They don't feel like it's necessary. But the way I was brought up in the business, you always had to go up to people, especially if you didn't work there, you know what I mean. Like I was like an outsider coming in and even though I did work there, I was like down here and everybody else was up here. So I made it a point to go say hi to everyone that I saw. Now a lot of people

I never met. Yeah, and we were under the same umbrella the whole time, and there were people that I never had cross pissers. I'm looking at this list right now and there's a bunch of people I did not meet. That's why I'm interested to find out. There's so many people I don't remember if I met them very brief. Okay, cool, So some of this might go pretty quick, Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, all right, So we're gonna start in alphabetically. Is that the plan? Run down the list, but skip the people

in bold. Okay, So the first person you have worked with, and he was in the originally c W. It's a little bit higher than Chad has on the picture. It's Al snow Oh god, yeah, there we go. Yeah, that's the first one. Yeah. Al and I have known each other, excuse me, known each other for years. He was great to work with. I mean he I took the snow plat from him, you know. So, yeah, we worked several times. Him and Shane were in a big angle months and

all taught me a lot about the business. So what a what an amazing mind for the business that I very smart to the business. And I remember one weekend when I actually worked for the fake he seed of I traveled with L and you know, just a plethora of information on that long, long ride that we had. Yeah, it's just really really smart to the business. And God, he looks phenomenal. Now have you guys seen him with

that man? I mean, he in better shape now than he was when he was you know, full time with them. So the dude got a mannequin head over That's all I have to say. That mannequin head was nappy as hell, and I stole her and washed her hair, conditioned it and brushed it. Never looked better. I think that's probably

the only time that ever happened. And if you haven't seen it, watch his Watch his entrance on ec W, the old gleasi W when you would come out to the Prodigy song and the whole crowd would be shaking

the head up and down. That was insane. I didn't we just watched me did the watch along about a month and more and a half ago, Yeah, maybe even less when we we watched Shane and L from uh perview, Yeah, from the pay per view, And like it's it's a remarkable sight to see how over he was and the fact that you know he would then leave and and do what he did afterwards. It was just a yeah, crazy stuff, but what a uh, what a personality. So let's go to a sad one next. Unfortunately Ashley Masarrow.

We're gonna skip over a few here, but Ashley unfortunately Okay, Yeah, Ashley was a sweetheart. She was there because we it was e c W SmackDown, so Ashley was in the locker room and she was just a really really nice person. She just wanted to learn. I just remember she was just starting out wrestling and she was just eager to learn as much as she could and just a very sweet girl. Very sad story. Yeah. I thought she was gorgeous and talented. Just went way, way, way, way, way

way too early. So anyways, we'll go next. Balls obviously, you know Balls from my heart, Yes, God rest his soul. What a character inside and outside the ring, so many we could do a whole hour on Balls mahoney story probably and take it over into the extras. He was a good friend, just just the teddy bear in real life. So it's such a good hearted person. And I was

devastated when I got the call that he passed. And you wouldn't like if you just looked at the guy you wouldn't think he could wrestle, but he could go. He was a character like no other. And on Twitter today it popped on my my timeline or my feed, whatever call it. You know, when he was Anta clause. Yeah, and I saw that. I was just like, oh my god, what a what a sad sad time. Uh you see things like this and then you my mind just started remembering all all kinds of stuff with balls and it

just makes me so sad. Quick quick thing. When I saw you guys the last time Milwaukee, him and I don't remember who teamed up in a tag team match and they put someone through a flaming table. So I got to see that gimmick, which was amazing. Y Uh. Next, we're gonna skive over a few We're going to Booker T five times. Five times. Booker T was always really nice. I I was encountered. Maybe I don't know, a handful of times. I shared the locker room with his wife.

So when he would be you know, with his wife, I would talk to him. I saw him, uh maybe a year or two ago at a convention, and I went off to him and I shook his hand. Then I said, hey, Booker. I'm Francine from me c W. You know we were in the uh, I was in your locker room for a while, and he looked at me and he goes, oh, you're my favorite. You probably say that to everyone, because no, you really were my favorite.

I go, Okay, so I don't know or whatever. But we didn't really talk to him too much, but he was always very nice, you know, to say hello to and groundbreaker for w c W n W. Yeah, yeah, next one, Brian Kendrick. Brian Kendrick. Yeah, such a good, good guy. Uh, super talented. I watched some of his stuff when he first started with what was it four oh five Live or was that I know about that program. I I saw some of his stuff when he was

playing like the Monster Heel and I loved it. He he is such a good worker and I know he I think he runs a school now and he trains people or something or he was, but he he was just a nice, nice guy. So I like Brian. What an innovator for his time. Crazy an interesting one. Candace Michelle never met her. I actually saw her wrestle her last match. She wrestled her Goal, her retirement match for Tommy Dreamers House a hardcore show in Wisconsin against against

Ivory Victoria that it was a great or not Iry Vittoria, Yeah, Vatoria. Sorry, that's our Tara, that's the other herd now the dream But yeah, I saw that match. It was awesome, so it was almost fun nice. I never I never met her. I think she met her anywhere. Interesting. No, Carlito, I don't think I've ever met Carlito either. He was also at the House of Hard Corcial. He was in that group for a while. Yeah, well, I don't think I've ever met him. Dude, Dude is Jack Now, Yeah, he's

very jacked. Uh, he's but he's one of those guys that has proven he didn't need WWE to have a career of wrestling. And that's that's what I liked about his departure. It's almost god ten years work now. He's been in Puerto Rico, he does the Indias. He's yeah, he's you know, his dad runs Puerto Rico. Basically, yeah, but he didn't need them left. I wanted maybe like twenty twelve ish he left. Okay, you'll probably skip this one,

but I can't stop staring at the next name. So I omitted him, but I wanted to ask you about do you remember the Dicks? I don't wait a minute, I remember were saying ones from no, the one from Okay, DNA. They had a different name, Okay, I forget what it is on the top of my head, t NA in rubber costumes. I can't. I I'm confusing them with the Gemini who were They had another name in TNA as well. So Chad Dick and his partner, I forget his name him?

Yeah right, they're jacked, right, they're they're absolute animals. Guy. I don't know who he is, but he's like five five so when you see him, he's really small, but he's jack to the gills. What what other names did he rustle under? Pull it up? Hold on, give me one second. Who he is? He's they were ov W products, the Dicks and uh yeah, they got a cup of coffee on w W E t V. So his name is Chad Wicks. Ha ha, they really are okay. He was also uh Chad Toland and I believe O v

W and was in Tankland. Who was his partner? Let me see you partner James Dick? Who was Tank Toland? Do you remember that name. No, I'm the worst for It's fine, but they were in disrespect to these guys at all. I just I wasn't a big wrestling I didn't watch a lot of wrestling this year. Obviously. It bill's Chad Dick as being five nine. I said he was five to five. But we all know that sometimes. Okay, he's got he looks like he's a good look I mean,

good looking guy. I just don't remember that that. Why would they name him that? Like because they paired them with somebody and it was hold on, I'll tell you again, like what with it? Goode? No, they were just Chippendale's. Yeah, I looked at this outfit. They have a picture of him looking like a Chippendale. Oh so they came out with the little tuxedo gimmick and danced and stuff. And on Wikipedia under related articles, it's the top one is

Kaylin Croft. They came my buddy, Chris Povonet a million stories about Chad Dick. Okay, well, yeah, no, I've never met Chad Dick be hot, but I don't remember that gimmick. So okay, all right, we're gonna skip a little bit to the Master of the Master Block. Chris Masters, did you ever? Yeah, Chris Masters. I was in catering and I was sitting at the table eating and Chris came over and sat down next to me, and it's the

first time I ever met him. And this was in two thousand and six for the fake E. C. Dub and introduced himself and I shook his hand and we started talking. And his first question was, what have you been doing since you, you know, since ECW folded? Like, what you know? Did you have to get a job, did you? And I said, oh, I've been doing indies. And he was amazed. He said, you lived off of indie work for like seven years or how long was it.

I don't even know, six years, I said, yeah, I said, And he's like, well, how much work did you get? I said, oh, I was working like every weekend. And I remember Randy Worden was sitting at our table with Barbie was next to me, and he's like, Randy, and Randy didn't give it you that Francine has been on the indies for six years maybe living. He goes, yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. I think he was more interested in other things, but he didn't he didn't care about

my indie work. But Chris Minsters thought that that was such a great thing that I was able to work on the indies for so long. And he was like super duper nice, and I remember talking to him. I don't know we talked for a while, but that was the only time I've interacted with him, and I've never seen him again. But he was super duper nice, so I liked him. He another It's ironic he would ask that question because he would make a very healthy living

on the indies after he left ww. I guess he wasn't aware that you can there is life after w w A. You know that he came up on the California scene, so you know how it is in California. There's not a lot of places. But he also was married to w WE developmental for a long time, and guys that come up through the developmental system don't know jack about the indie scene, so they have a preconceived

mission of what it is. They think it's either watched up legends who are getting booked, you know, in the main event beating you know a guy twenty years younger than them, or you know people who are making five dollars a night. Well, I'll tell you what. Speaking of Chris Masters and Carlito Rodriguez Ricardo, Yes, he was the announcer for Okay. So we follow each other on Twitter, and he has been in Israel, and Carlito and Chris Masters, they were with him. So I have been seeing tweets

about this little trio amok in Israel. So they're out there. I guess they're out there working and training and stuff, which is cool. So yeah, wrestling's big over there. Von eriks like gods in Israel. Ah thing, it looks beautiful. They're showing like the landscaping and stuff and it looks really pretty. So yeah, they're running amok over there. All right. Next we're going to go to the American Dream. I can't do it. I can't do him. The Dusty Rhods,

Oh Dusty please. We worked forever in ECW together. We had that big angle. Dusty was one of the nicest men that you could ever encounter, and you know, helped me with the figure four and U slap it on them. And you can't find a person that's going to say a bad word about Dusty, and if you do, they're probably lying. So he he was a treasure to this business. So smart and such a tremendous talent and such a nice man. The one of the people I can't imagine

what the wrestling business would be without exactly. Yeah, it's great Edge. Edge. Yeah. I met Edge probably a couple times. Never really had too many deep conversations with them. It was always a hello in passing. I remember one time it was after a show and we were waiting to leave the building, but there were too many fans so we had to wait a little bit and he was next to me. We were just small talk, but he

was always very, very nice if I passed him. But again I didn't come in contact with him too often. One of the guys who is a huge superstar. It would have been even bigger if not for his neck injury. Edge Yeah, yeah, and he's great and and I mean, who doesn't love the Edge and Christian Show. I've made appearances on there without physically being there. But yeah, I loved I loved the Brood and I loved we were talking about the five Flash photography. Yeah, that was brilliant.

And he's great, great performer. Next Elijah Burke, which also was in TNA. Yeah, he's awesome. He's a friend. I haven't seen him in a really long time, but I just saw something because we follow each other again on Twitter, and I saw something he's working. Is he working Impact or nw A or he was doing commentary for Impact for quite a while. I don't know if he's still there, but I just saw something about him. But happy for him. He's a really really nice guy, great guy. I like him.

I'm a fan. Yeah, he definitely. I mean I more remember him from this TNA days personally, but I do remember the bit that he was in. He had huge potential in WWE. I believe there was a little heap and that's why he never got past us certain point. Uh famously turned down the Spirit Squad. I wonder why I did not want to be a cheerleader. That's why, Well, it's it's it. I don't know. I mean, I think you have to have balls to turn down something that opposed to you, you know what I mean, Like the

developmental guy doing it too. Yeah, you stick to what you believe in and what you want to do. But like that could be career suicide at some point, because then they could just be like, well get the hell out of here. You remember it? So they'll push you and then that last minute they'd be like, you know what he did, turn down the Spirit squad And that's, I know, a bit of a controversial gimmick to some. Eugenie, I would the only time I remember meeting him is

at a convention. That's the only time. And we had said hello, hello, we shook hands, pleasantries, and then that was it. So I don't ever remember seeing him backstage at a shower anything. Just curious, what did you did you not like the gimmick? Did you not care you know, anything that goes with mental illness? I'm not a fan of ye. I feel like there are so many other things that they could be doing. I feel like they kind of poked fun at it, and I don't think

it's a funny subject. So I wasn't a fan of it, you know, but look at all the stuff that they've done in the past. I mean, there's a lot of things I don't agree with. And you know, some people say, oh, shut up, it's just wrestling. Well maybe to some, but if it affects you in any way personally, then you're gonna have a different outlook on it. So now I was not a fan of it. Next. Definitely a legend, mister fit Finley Fit. I don't know if I've ever

met him really, h see. I left him on there because I thought he might have been doing some of the female segments. But maybe that was you left. Was Mike most of the time, My agent was Mike Kerrent. I mean, I'm sorry, Steve Kurry. I'm staring at the Yeah, Steve Kurrent. Yes, Steve Kerrent was was my agent most of the time. Graham, I don't know why. I just said Mike once in a while. It was like Ted Dbiassi, but he didn't. He didn't say much at all when

it came to us, especially me. But Steve was great. So no, I don't remember. I don't remember Fit ever working with me. He might have been still wrestling at this point. Maybe he was. I don't I don't think he had anything to do with especially not ECW at the time. All right, how about let me tell your something. Me and Jane. I met me and Jean at conventions. That's how I met him. I don't ever recalling meeting

him at a show. It was always at conventions. He was definitely a legend at this point, and I think he you know, they probably consulted him. He was the lightest prime of the list. I met him when I worked there. It was great when I asked you, Chad saying, every announcer that's coming up on the list, I got a story for awesome. How about stand back there's a hurricane come in. Yeah, I've met Shane a bunch of or Gregory as they call him here, a bunch of times,

very very talented worker. Yeah, I've known him. He came to we when we had Jimmy Wang Yang on. He told a story about them coming to ECW and it was him, it was Shannon Moore and it was Jimmy And I remember for the first time I met him and Shannon when they came in the back, and that was good lord. Over twenty years ago. And I've seen him. I mean he was there in two thousand and six when I worked there, so you know, got to see him a couple of times there, and I've seen him

on indies and conventions and stuff. So cool. How about next week got mister hardcore Holly? He was with E c W when I was there. Man a few words, Yeah, I was just always a very hello, how are you? That was it? And I can't do a good impression of the next personal lives. I would Howard Finkel. Oh God, Howard Howard is the one that would call you with your itinerary. He was in your travel You want you want me to call you? Okay? Hello, Hello, Francine, this

is Howard Finkel. I unfortunately have some bad news. You will not be on the road this weekend. We will see you on Tuesday night when w and smetdown in Vain Vanessa Colisseum. No, I won't be on the road, Howard. You won't see me on Tuesday, but I will stuck with Jack. Thank you very much. I hang up, and I'd be like, I'm off this week. I know it

would be great. First time I met Howard I believe we were at Madison Square Garden and I was with C. W Anderson and we were sitting up in the I guess bleachers or whatever you call those high seats, the cheap seats, and I saw him come like through the curtain, and he was walking and he looked up to where we were sitting, and I'll never forget it. He started walking toward us, and I'm thinking, no, somebody must be

behind me or something. I don't know. He came right to me and said freight scene and I wanted to introduce myself. He came all the way from the bottom and walked all the way to the top to introduce himself to me, which I was just like, you're Haward Frinkle, I should be walking to you, sir, which I had pink to. He beat me to the punch and then I had so many interactions with him, and what a sweet sweet man, just such a nice, nice person. That's

all I've heard from everybody. He was so awesome. All Right, we're gonna go a little bit skip another bunch of names. And there's James Dick by the way. We're gonna skip him. Will you be asking me about j B. L That will be coming on the Oh he's a main event. Oh you see, we'll be Yeah, we'll be covered. Harry. Okay, got you. Mister Jeff Hardy, who has a lot of up and downs in the wrestling business. Jeff Hardy, where are we at on this thing? Skip? This is a

loose picture described. I was gonna say, we skipped a bunch of people. Jeff Hardy. I remember having a conversation with one time and he was telling me about his pet goat, and I was just like, you have a goat And he's like, yeah, I got a goat, and tell me about this pet goat and I was just like oh, and I just found it so like I was like, do you live on a farm, Like what's your deal? And he was, I have pet goat. And

I think it was at catering. We sat with each other this one time, and that was the only time I've ever talked to Jeff So and he was very nice, just curious. I don't know if you guys have talked about this, but were you fans of the Broken gimmick stuff with him and Matt. I didn't watch it. I

liked it some of the things that they did. Some of it was kind of hokey, but I liked the Lake of reincarnation where you could come in and you'd come in as one character and come out as another one, you know, like Shane Helms got thrown it and he came out as the Hurricane. He came back out he was the guy from Three Counts, you know, Like that makes perfect sense to me now because I watched one of the ae W pay per views. It was a

while ago. And they had met Hardy in a pool maybe you guys have seen this, and they kept dunking his head and every time he would come up, he would do a new gimmick. That you're saying that because I said, what is he doing this for? I mean because it was funny, But that's the same thing you're talking about. He was. He was going under the water and coming up and he would be a different character. Correct on this pay per view that, yes, the Lake

of Reincarnation. Now, so there was one I forget which one it was, but they kicked somebody in the lake. Was it? No, I know what it was. So Stevie Richard had pitched that he gets kicked in the lake with Raven and they come back as their ninety five Flunky and ninety five Raven. But it got shot down in the background as a grown man exactly. All right.

How about the King Drey Lahler, who we all know had dealings with E. C. W. Yeah, Yeah, I met Jerry early on, saw him again in two thousand and six. He was great. I remember this one time he came up to me and he was like, what are you doing tonight? And I said, Jerry, what do you think I'm doing. He goes, don't tell me the bikini shit and I go and I go, yeah, and he just shook his head and walked away, just like I feel, your brother, Okay, I'm going to be a total mark

right here. I would think he would have loved that, knowing his character on TV. No, because he knows that I can work. There was more to me than just doing this bullshit bikini contest, which I hate it, and I you know, pitched to them a million times. Let me manage, because when I signed my contract, you told me I was going to do this and it didn't happen. So I think Jerry understood and my frustration, and he

just he was fed up with it. Two. But you know, I wouldn't expect him to go to bat for me or anything, but I could tell in his face he just felt my pain. So yeah, but yeah, Jerry was great. And I saw him and these two. I've seen him several. I saw him at the airport once walking with Stacy Carter and we uh embraced and said, hello, just a nice guy. Cool, won the all time greats. There's just there's not much you can say. They're wrestling again, would

not be where it is without Drey Lawler. So uh, Jillian Hall. Jillian, she was in the locker room with me and we were friendly and then we became very friendly afterwards. Yeah. So I I've done a couple of conventions where we were booked together and I got to know her quite well. And she's a lovely girl. Just had a baby last year, which or this year recently, I should say, so Uh. I haven't been able to see her. Of course, the pandemic hit too, so we we both have the same uh, one of the same guys,

Chad who brings us to everything. So hopefully I'll see her in twenty twenty one. But I really liked Jillian and I loved her her Britney spears. That was great. Yeah, all my Matt Matt liked it too. Matthew liked it too, A lot of fun. I worked with Jillian on a lot of the bikini stuff, so it was usually E. C. W versus WWE and it was usually like me and Kelly, Kelly versus Jillian Hall and Crystal Marshall. That was the

that was the pairing that we had. And then we would just end them calf fighting and out of the ring and stupid stuff. Now. I took Crystal Marshall off the list because I thought that you guys didn't overlap, So that was one of the me as well. Okay, yep, just to interject, go up to Joey Styles on your side. That's where we I don't know, so yeah, right right, So Matt's to go up to Joey Styles on the list. You got, okay, Joey Styles and I no, no, no,

I'm saying, hit all the ones in between, up to Joey. Okay, we'll play after day. He's like, okay, Jim dug In hatsaw saw Jim dugg In? I did, Okay. I met Jim when I won the contest. Uh what year? Did ninety three? Whenever that was? He was at that party that I attended, and that's the first time and he

was a very very nice man. Uh. Then I never saw him afterwards until conventions, so I never saw him in the w W E. Loper room, but I did see him at many conventions and I worked one where we were at the same booth because we had the same guy bring us in. So cool. Yeah, he's a really cool. He was one of my favorites back in the day as a kid. Yeah, Jim Ross, the legend Jim Ross. Jim. Jim is great to this day. He will retweet my stuff on Twitter. He's such a nice man.

He's another one. I remember myself and Shelley Martinez who was Ariel. We had our big match, big minute and a half match that we hear it up for, you know, backstage, and I remember Jim came over and wished us luck and he was just always he just supports the ladies, you know, just a nice, nice person. I like Jim. I like Jim a lot. I have a barbecue sauce shet though, but it's very good. I came out very good.

I hear great things. All right, We'll go next to mister Joey Mercury, who was part of the eminem tape. You skip Jimmy Snooker. I have to tell a story off because I don't know why he's even on the list. I think he was a legend at this point or you know, but give us. I'm dying here in story story,

quick funny story. So Jimmy was in e c W from the right earlier and I had just I was training and I just started there, just started coming to shows and stuff, and I was standing in the back and you know, I had really long brown hair, which I still do, and my back was turned and I felt this man grab my arm and turn me around and kiss me right on the mouth. I was like whoa, and he goes, I'm sorry. I thought you were a woman. I thought I was Nancy And I was like, oh, no, sir,

but nice to meet you. I think that was the first time I ever met Dimmer. Yeah, I got a big kiss on. Did you ever hear the story about him getting accused of doing drugs in the Awa? No, So there was a hot rumor he was doing drugs before a show and he was confronted by mister Gania and his son, mister Greg Gania, who I believe worked at WWE in two thousand and six, and when he was, you know, accused of it and then he denied it. Uh, they kept pasting him saying, no, we know you're on

something or whatever. So the legend has it that he went back to his bag and he said, if you want to say that, you know, the Superfly is messed up. He takes out a thing of coke, snorts the coke and goes now the Superfly. Okay, way to prove a point somebody. It's something that, yeah, the ground, quite the character and interesting. Okay, go ahead, I'm sorry, Okay, let's go. Let's go. Next to mister Jorian Mercury. Joey Mercury was

so young when he came into E C DUB. Him and Christian New York were a tag team, and they were so good, and it's just they were so cute. You just wanted to pinch their cheeks. I just remember saying them and they were so young, and I was like, you guys are so adorrible. But they were good. They were so talented. And then you know, when Joey uh got his office position, I was so happy for him, and I was able to see him for the first

time without any hair. He was completely bald. I saw him out one of the conventions that we did a year or two ago, and that was the first time I saw him in forever and he this time, he looked like a man. He didn't look like that you strapping young buck. He looked like a man. But I was got along with Joey. I think was that Legends of the Ring If I am correct, well, I think

I sat across from him all day. Yes, that was it then, because I was like, look at you all dressed up like a like a big man, Like, look at you. I was with Larry's Abisco all day and laughing off the whole time. Show. Oh my god, he's so funny. All right, next, I'll do my best. Oh my god. I've known forever since I first started in this business. I love Joey. Sad that he's no longer uh affiliated with the sport. Uh. I understand his reasoning. I begged him to come on my show. He refused politely,

But I still have love for Joey styles. But but how was he then? Did he change it all? Was he more happy in the bubble that he was doing stuff with the dot com? Like? What was he like in WWE two and six? Yeah? I think he was just like, yeah, this is my job. That's the way I saw him, like a different There was a difference from when he worked. You know, when we worked in e c W. There was a difference in everyone almost

everyone from their ACW days to their ways. So I think everybody was looking at it as this is a job, this is what I do for a living. Whereas back in the nineties, we looked at it like, we get to hang out with our friends, We're having a good time, we love what we're doing, and you know, most of the time we're getting paid for it. So it was it was way cooler in the nineties. Oh, everything was.

Although two thousand and six was a great freaking year from what I recall, it was definitely something that the nineties can't be replaced. Now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna pause this list and we can come back to it next time you come on and go through the entire roster. But what we're going to do is we're going to end the episode and go over to Patreon and we're going to talk about the main event guys.

So there's there's guys you saw we skipped over purposely, and we'll find out what you uh, you know, what you remember about them meeting them, you know in your interactions. I know one good story you've told in the air that I'm sure you'll share again. But you know, it's cool to see. I mean, it's a it was one hundred and fifty nine people when this list started got too Look at the picture of Jim Duggan if you look really quickly, doesn't he look like balls? Mahoney, he does,

he does a little bit. Where's balls? Yeah? Look at that crazy face and had more I mean it was a little more similar, but they have the same like hair, facial hair, eyes. That's anyway. Yeah, here's the Jim and I over here in the right corner. There's the they were paired with Simon Dean. They weren't They might have been the guys that were dressed like condoms. Yes, they were. I think they were like they were penises or something. Okay, well they were nice guys. There you go. All right,

there weren't dicks, thank god. Before we start our spiel, you want to tell everybody where they can find you? Sure if you like? I am on Twitter, m m AC two seven. That's really all I got. I don't do any I don't do any podcasts. I am on Instagram. He's exclusive. We have an exclusive deal with me. You have exclusive contract with Francie and the Queen. So love the life of Bliss. I love her too. That's all

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