November 7, 2023 • 60 mins
"The Queen of Extreme", Francine, has relaunched her "Eyes Up Here" podcast this week and welcomes WWE Hall of Famer, ECW Original, and Impact (TNA) Wrestling Superstar, Bully Ray, a.k.a. Bubba Ray Dudley, as her first guest. In the first episode of "Eyes Up Here," released under the iHeartMedia banner, Francine and Bubba relive classic ECW stories and moments, as well as discuss "Bully Ray's" current run in Impact Wrestling (soon to be TNA Wrestling again) and online fan critiques of live wrestling attendance. Bubba also describes how he deals with shady promoters and why there may be a negative perception of him among wrestling fans.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, everyone, his eyes up here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am the scene of the extreme brand scene and
I am so happy to be here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am joined by my co host Chad Dad. Do
you feel the excitement in the air.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The excitement is so thick you can cut it with
a knife.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We have been waiting for this launch for it seems
like forever. I know it's only been a month or two,
but I have been just waiting to be.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Part of the iHeart family.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And now I am here along with you, and I
couldn't be happier.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I am thrilled.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
This is great, This is this is awesome. I agree,
it's been it feels like a long time coming, but
it's just been great, the anticipation and the excitement, and
now it's here, and I think we're all ready to party.
Party with iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia. We're already to role.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, we're static to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
We've been doing this now for four years and I
feel like we've hit the big time.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's great. We're really happy to be here. I want
to thank those who have come along with us for
this journey. To our new subscribers, welcome, I'm going to
give you a little backstory on myself for those of
you who might not know who I am and just
stumbled upon this show out of nowhere. Again, my name
is Francine. I have been involved in the wrestling business
(01:53):
for thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know it's hard to believe, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I am an ECW original. I have also worked for
the WWE. I have also worked for TNA Wrestling, among
other places, and we still get out there and do
conventions and the occasional show and podcasting has taken over
my life. So I am more than happy to be
(02:21):
here and to share not only my wrestling knowledge with you,
because this is primarily a wrestling podcast, but we like
to call it a lifestyle podcast because we literally talk
about everything. My love for Disney, my family, what I
ate for dinner last night, you know, our health problems.
(02:42):
Like anything under the sun you can think of, we
discuss on here. Nothing is off limits. Sometimes you might
be grossed out, sometimes you might be intrigued.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It just depends on the day.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But I am again happy to be here, and I
thank everybody who tuned in today and hopefully you will
keep tuning in and your friends about us. So Chad,
why don't you give us a little bit of background
about yourself and then we can start the show.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's nice that you condensed the thirty year wrestling career
into like a minute. In thirty five seconds, I'll take
up the next ten if you want.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, I mean, if people want to look me up.
You know, Google is your friend. But I'm not going
to sit here and put myself over for a whole hour.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's just rude.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, allow me to be even more rude. I'll take
over that the audience.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've been podcasting for about eight years. I've been in
broadcasting for about twenty. I've worked for WWE, I've worked
for The Howard Stern Show. I've worked for the Philadelphia
Phillies and NBC News. But on the wrestling side again,
and in podcasting, I've interviewed who's who of professional wrestling
and been around the wrestling world myself for a number
of years. So to be paired with you like we
(03:52):
have for the last four has been the highlight for me.
And we've done so much and we've had a lot
of good laughs, a lot of good times, and now
being here on iHeartMedia is to me the highlights and
as you go along this journey with us, A lot
of the stories come out about my experience in addition
to Francine's lengthy and awesome thirty year career in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So I can compliment some.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Stories in such a little tiny way, but my stories
will pop out as we go along as well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, and you know, I just want to emphasize, like
you can't always believe what you hear or read on
the internet. So my goal in having this podcast is
for my fans to get to know me on a
personal level and get to know the real fran Scene,
not just the character that you've seen on TV for years.
(04:45):
Because I'm telling you she was a real bitch. Nobody
liked her. She was called every name in the book.
And while it was fun to play that character, that
is not me. And so I want to give you
guys an insight on my life, bring you into you know,
my home life, what's going on with my kids, my husband,
my family, stuff like that, as well as the wrestling aspect.
(05:07):
So yes, we will talk about tons of wrestling on
this show.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I will have special guests, like today, we have.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
An awesome guest coming up in just a couple of minutes,
but I get a lot of my ECW family on here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We also get people from the entertainment world.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We've had actors, we've had musicians, we've had comedians, and
I'm going to continue that trend and try to get
you the best interviews possible. So really really looking forward
to being with the iHeart family, and we have a
lot more to come and really excited about that. Wanted
to just start off with a plug if we can,
(05:47):
because we have a big show coming up and Chad,
you're a part of this as well. I will be
in Virginia Beach on November eleventh.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yes, I got the date right. I never get dates right. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So we're going to be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh.
We're going to be doing a signing from eleven to
one pm. So if anybody is in the area, come
on down and say hi. And I am looking forward
to meeting everyone down there. It's going to be a
blast again. Chad's going to be with me, and we're
going to be you know, promoting this podcast and promoting iHeart.
(06:25):
Now that I'm part of the family, I will just
promote iHeart as much as I can, so hopefully I'll
see everybody down there and we'll put up a graphic
at the end of at the end of this podcast
will let you know the address and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But really excited about getting back on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Been working on a lot of dates for twenty twenty four.
The big one coming up is WrestleMania Weekends. We're going
to be in Philadelphia for that, and I'm hearing that
it's going to be a big thew reunion of sorts.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My sources tell me a lot of the guys will
be booked.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And we're going to be doing a lot of fun
things together. So that is the beginning of April, and
I cannot wait for that. But we are working on
other projects that I hope to be able to discuss soon.
There's a lot on the horizon, you know, and it's
a pretty exciting time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And I'll be honest with you, at fifty one.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Years old, I am flabbergasted that I am getting all
these opportunities to still, you know, get out there and
do things, and that people are still interested in, you know,
myself and ECW as a whole. So it's very humbling
(07:42):
and I just want to thank everybody for you know,
sticking with me for this journey for thirty going on
thirty one years now.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's amazing. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I sit back and I think to myself, how the
heck did I end up here?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You know, because it really that I never thought that
it would lead to something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, you get your first action figure made and
you're You're in video games in the year twenty twenty
three at fifty one, Like wow, you know, And I'm
not trying to toot my own horn. I'm amazed at myself.
I can't believe this is happening, Like you know, it's
just it's surreal and it's cool, and I'm very appreciative
(08:27):
and I can't wait to see what next year brings,
because there's always something new that comes in, some new
opportunity on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Who would have ever thought how much the business evolved
from nineteen ninety four to now, right, Who would have
ever thought action figures would have taken off the way
they have, because back in nineteen ninety four, it was
only one line of action figures or two line of
action figures. Now there's thirty different people making them, and
everybody and their mother has them.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And you guys now have.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The ability to see different verys of yourself in action
figure form, and it's cool to see you have different
different attires, different sculpts, different molds and and things that
you never could have imagined now come to life, right.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And I'll remember, you know, when we were in acw
my heart was broken because I was supposed to get
an action figure back in the nineties, and then they
told me, well, the girl figures don't sell, so we're
just going to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Go with the guys. And I was just like, oh,
how dare you? So?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I never thought i'd get my own action figure, but
now you know, I have one, and there's other opportunities
on the table for.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
More stuff, and it's just it's a it's a fun time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, and I'm just so blessed that I can
be involved in stuff like this, So I'm really happy,
and you know, with the projects that I'm working on
now for next year, like unbelievable stuff is happening, and
it's just it's so fun, and I'm so happy to
be a part of the wrestling business still, because some
people just tend to fizzle out and you never see
(10:01):
them again. You know, I try not to be so
in your face, but I want you to say, hey, how's.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It going, You're still around, glad to seeing it. That
kind of thing. So it's it's fun to be involved.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's fun fun to be involved, and anytime they get
to meet you, it is very fun, unlike some other
superstars out there that it might not always be the
greatest experience, like we've talked about in the last few
weeks on Eyes up here.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, everybody has their own domani like that. Like I
try to be happy and you know, so we're going
to email our guests now and get.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Him because he's Impeatib.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's on the way.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay. He just texted me and was like waiting for email.
It's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, let me give him an intro. I know him
as Bubba. I will never call him Bully Ray. I
am so sorry. I cannot call him Bully Ray. It
is Bubba Ray Dudley to me now and forever. I
can never call you Bully Ray ever.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Franny, you call me whatever you want to call you.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Don't call me. They for dinner, kid, You.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Know I haven't missed the meal in a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think you look spelt okay, spelter, spelter, swelter, then
you felter.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I am great since the last time I saw you
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Since you saw me, and that was the first time
in a while, and I was very very yes it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Was no, not at the last autogrash session.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I saw you at the arena. That was the least time,
no where.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I just saw you at a signing when Devon took
a picture with your big butt.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I said before that I hadn't seen you in a while.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh, then it was at the arena.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It was my peach butt. My butt looked so good
in that picture.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm telling you to shabby, not too shabby for sixty two.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It's I'll dare you. He won, babe, he won.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
You look amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I don't lie. Who cares like I don't don't care?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So you know I want to talk to you, and
I'm not going to be like who trained you?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Please don't because I won't.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Answer a million times We've been over this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The first thing I want to discuss is because I
I don't really know what happened. You just had a
pay per view. You job to a girl, good job.
By the way, great, thanks. What triggered the name change
back to TNA from Impact? For those of you who
don't know, Bubba works for Impact. They're on the up
(12:32):
and up. I see in bigger buildings.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But I saw a very passionate promo from Scott the
Moore where he dropped like five F bombs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was like, what is this really necessary? I guess it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Was a bomb. He has to donate five hundred dollars
to charity.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Is that is that why he does it? Well?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
I don't know why he does it, but that's what
he does. He will donate every F bomb five hundred
dollars to charity.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I love that. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Why the name changed.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Why back to TNA?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I think Impact Wrestling discovered that as they were negotiating
throughout the world to get Impact on, you know, into
certain markets, that the TNA name, those three letters still
had value. People like to chant TNA. Listen, the original
(13:26):
chant was ECW, but right after that it was TNA,
and there are fans out there that still call it TNA. Yeah.
So I believe that they are embracing their history and
that they're going to bring this name back because in
(13:50):
certain parts of the world, like England and India, TNA
was more watched than the WWE. So I think they
want to see if they can take advantage of of
all of the good press that they got in the
past from the name and move it forward. All the
(14:12):
fans that I have spoke to so far, all of
the boys that I have spoke to so far, love
the fact that they've gone back to TNA. So I
believe it'll be called TNA TNA Impact.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh, okay, so it's kind of like a merge.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I think the company will be called TNA, but the
name of the TV show will be called Impact.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh. I like that. That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
See I I worked the first pay per view for.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Them, where you had to pay, you had to pay
ten dollars to say the product that was back in
the Nashville fairground days.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But uh, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And I saw the picture from the pay per view
this week and we were we were kind of comparing
a I Use crowds to the Impact crowds because my
point was, They're showing all these pictures of aaw with
all the empty seats, right, and I'm like, why isn't
Tony Kahan getting smaller arenas and making it look better
(15:16):
for TV. And then we pulled up a picture from
the pay per view and it looked fantastic. It looked
fantastic on TV, and you know, there were people there,
but it wasn't like the empty seats and all this
sudden I said, they're doing it the right way.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know, even though you've guts, you've basically.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Been around for what twenty something years now, you're still
doing that slow build and it's working, and I mean,
everything looks great. Everybody I talked to says they love
the locker room and they love working there. I got
to hang out with the girls one night after one
of the conventions. They were the sweetest things ever. And
(15:57):
I said, well, if I was twenty years younger, I
would love to be on the road with that. It
just seems like such a fun like it reminded me
of VCW, like a fun locker room where like not
everybody's trying to stab you in the back.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This is probably in my top two favorite locker rooms
of all time top two, so ECW would be number
one obviously, because listen, ECW will always be special period.
End of story. I don't care who thinks differently than me.
(16:32):
It is what it is. We changed wrestling history forever.
Blah blah blah. If you don't like it yourself, Okay,
that's just the truth. It is what it is. This
locker room is so it's just nice. Everybody gets along.
(16:56):
There is a healthy competitiveness to go out there and
have the best match of the night. In ECW, I
do believe there was a healthy competitiveness, but we still
had veterans there who might have had an agenda or two.
(17:19):
And I'm talking about a small amount of veterans there,
small amount. I don't see any agendas here. The creative
team and the talent work so well together. Ideas are
listened to. They're not just schleuffed off. It's a good
(17:46):
bunch of guys and gals. T and A is smart
enough to run smaller buildings. And I don't even know
if I can call them that smart because they haven't
had a choice. They've had to run smaller buildings because
they have not been doing as well. In the past year.
(18:08):
TNA truly has turned around, and I think it's because
they brought in some names to work with their homegrown
talent or the younger talent there or the established talent there,
because every locker room needs a good mixture of veterans,
homegrown women who can wrestle the whole nine yards. And
(18:33):
I think that's what you're getting from TNA right now
as far as aw and the small houses. First of all,
people who take pictures of any wrestling company's arena to
show that there's nobody there are pieces and don't belong
as a part of the wrestling community because they're not
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doing the wrestling community any good. Every major wrestling company
in the history of wrestling companies has their ups and
their downs. You have your sellouts, and you have your
nights where next to nobody shows up. So this this,
this industry will always be a giant rollercoaster. Sometimes you're hot,
(19:18):
sometimes you're not. It can all be like you, Francy,
and it'd be hot all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Well, Babe, I never said I was, but I agree
with you on that. I you know, we we just
got sent pictures and we brought it up and that's
exactly what I said. But everybody, you know, we want
them to fail. This is the demise of this company.
And I was like, why would you want something to fail.
You want all these people to be.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Out of jobs? Like, how hateful are you? It doesn't
make sense to me.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
These the people who want to see any one particular
wrestling company fail are failures in their own life. Look
at him and misery loves company.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, so they.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Need to be able to sit there and hide behind
a profile picture of SpongeBob SquarePants with thirteen followers and
talk crap and post pictures and do whatever they do
because when they look in the mirror, they're miserable and
probably want to run full speed into a brick wall.
(20:21):
Not that half these people could run anyway, because they
lack athletic ability period. In fact, he's you know, aw
is the same as any other company. They're going to
have their peaks, they're going to have their valleys. Now,
if they're seeing that the valleys are continuing and they're
(20:44):
booking themselves in twelve to fifteen thousand seed arenas and
they're only getting a couple of thousand people, yes, then
they might want to think about scaling back to smaller
venues or cut the venue used down even tighter. Listen,
you can be in Madison Square Garden, but you could
(21:08):
cut that arena down to an eighth of its size.
If you wanted to and just put twenty five hundred
people in there, sure ian to look packed. Or you
cannot pay Madison Square Gardens rent, you know, and go someplace,
or go to the mid Huffinson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie.
Love that building and there's nothing wrong with it. But
(21:32):
if you're if your ego can't handle the shit that's
going to be said on social media about the scaling back,
then you're going to have an issue. It's not this
business is not great all the time, and it doesn't
suck all the time. You just have to learn how
to ride it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I want to.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Ask you a question about you because this is a
question that I get from so many people, and when
I give my honest answer, I get something different back.
And I don't know where it comes from because the
bubba I know, and I'm gonna put you over. We've
been friends for a very long time, right, and I
(22:17):
see you as not only like knowledgeable in the business, right,
but I see you as having a good heart. And
we've had so much fun together when we hang out
and you're funny and you know, you're talkative, and we
can talk about anything under the sun. And when I
tell that to certain people, you're talking about Bubba, You're
(22:40):
talking about Bully Ray. Why do I get such an
attitude from people when I mention.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Your name Because people don't know who the real me is.
That's first and foremost. I'm an old school wrestler. If
I'm a heel, when you meet me in person in
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real life, you're getting the person that you see on TV.
Because the last thing I ever wanted is people to go,
oh my god, I met Bubba Ray Dudley or Bully Ray,
He's so nice. Well that just killed all the credibility
of what I've done on TV.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But what they are promoters?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What about him? You find me a promoter that I
have worked with that has something bad to say about me?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Okay, so they have to work with you.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Here's the thing, Francine, I am so straight up with
the way I do business right, I don't deviate. Here's
the price. Here's what I'm gonna do. If you try
to get over on me, I am going to verbally
eviscerate you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And I one hundred percent agree with you on That's it.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So these promoters see that they can't if a promoter
tries to get over on me and I tell them no,
or they conveniently forget to tell me something like, oh,
didn't I tell you about this extra stack of three
hundred pictures I need to sign. No, you didn't. Thus
(24:21):
I'm not signing them.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That just happened to me. Same thing three hundred trading cards.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I work with. I work with plenty of promoters who
know as long as they're straight up with me, I'm
straight up with them. And I don't like to go
do a million and one things. I keep myself what
I do and what Me and Devon do. I keep
it exclusive so that when you do see us, it's special.
(24:47):
I'm not going to do every Tom Dick and Harry's,
you know, autograph session or indie show or anything like that.
So if any of the promoters that ever come up
to you might have some derogatory things to say about me,
put them on your podcast with me ooh, and I'd
(25:08):
be more than happy to put them in their place.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I might have to do that so we can get
a return visit out of you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, a lot of people in the wrestling business cannot
handle straight up good business because a lot of promoters
try to get over on the boys. And you know this,
I do. I'm sure promoters have tried to get over
on you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They just did with the training they put. There was
a stack of cards.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And I sat down and the guy was like, and
the funny part was half the cards were Shane and I.
So it was the split signature thing. So Shane had
already signed them, and I said, what is this and
the guy goes, oh, just sign them.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I said, am I getting paid? And the guy goes, well, no,
you're the guy that brought you in is getting the money.
I said for my signature. This wasn't part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So if I didn't sign those cards, they couldn't be
sold because Sheen's autograph was on it, but mine wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I held out until he paid me, as you should.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, you're in the Franccene business, and Franccene deserves to
make money on her pictures, her autographs, whatever it is
you want to sell. Now, if somebody comes up to me,
if a promoter comes up to me and says, hey, Bubba,
I want you to sign for two hours, and then
I have like an extra ten mail orders that I'd
(26:30):
like you to sign. I'll ask him what the mail
orders are or if they wanted to sign a couple
extra things, And nine out of ten times the answer is.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, because he told you.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You tell me up front. We have no problems. It's
not like, oh, by the way, no, oh by the way,
go yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I know, well, it's funny, and I'm switching gears a
little bit. I tried to find and we didn't find it,
did we try?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I tried to find this video of us because my
next question was, and I know what you're going to say,
because you just did it on the pay per view
when we did a house show.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And this is back in maybe ninety I don't know,
ninety six, ninety seven something around there.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I beat up all of the Dudleys, and I don't
remember where we were, but I remember I did something
the big Dick. I did something to Devon and then
you let me give you a diamond cutter and laid
you guys all out, and then I ended up carrying
Spike to the back right, and I remember after we
(27:41):
were done, I went to eat you and I apologized
because I was always scared that the boys were gonna
resent me for an idea that Paul had. Did you
ever get mad like by having to put like a
girl over or.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Having somebody less stature? Like? I know it's the business,
but some of the guys had a chip on their
shoulder about it. You know, she's a girl. Why should
she beat you know, why should she beat me up
or pin me in the ring?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Well, I've never had a problem with what you did
to us that night because I don't even remember that happening.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
That's why I wanted to show the video of it.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's the house show it was. It was like a
quick little thing.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And for some reason Paul, I don't know if Shane
was injured and I didn't have anything to do, and
he said, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Let's just go pop the crowd and you go beat
up all the Dudley's. And I was like what And
I was so afraid I was going to get heat
for it? But I didn't Nobody this.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Is This is an art form, and this art can
be whatever we want it to be. Rules still apply
to this art form. But if you do something the
right way, you can get away with it. What is
your nickname? What was your nickname? To this day? The
Queen of Etch, the queen of extreme. So if you're
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supposed to be this tough bitch who has been was
the first girl that I know that ever got super
bombed through a table, if you're supposed to be this
tough and this much of a badass with cans out
to here, then it's eyes up here, eyes up here.
And as my good friend Tony Storm says, chin up
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kits out, big mark for Tony Storm. So then yeah,
if you're this tough of a girl, then yeah, on
a given night, you might be able to get in
a couple of shots on the boys. Are we doing
it every night? Absolutely not now. At the pay per
view The Battle Royal, The Gauntlet Battle Royal, it came
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down to myself and Jordan Grace bully right six with
three three hundred pounds. Jordan Grace is five two, a
Bucco two, soaking wet with a brick in a pocket.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Okay, but she's a former powerlifter, she's a former bodybuilder,
and on that moment, on that given night, the sun
shined on her and she had her personal best lift.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
When you competitive powerlifters, competitive weightlifters, they have what's called
a PR, a personal record or a PB a personal
best That means you could lift that weight one time
in that one moment. You may never be able to
do it again, but in that one moment in time,
you were able to get that personal best. That's what
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Jordan Grace had. She had her personal best record and
was able to hit me with that move, And that's
why it makes sense, right. But if you have girls
just going out there just beating it out of all
these men, it's not that believable unless your name was China.
Can I see Charlotte Flair wrestling a guy and stretching them? Absolutely?
(31:04):
Can I see Ria Ripley fighting a guy and beating
the shit out of them? Absolutely? But it can't be
every single night, and there's ways to do it, and
when done right with the right psychology, I believe it's acceptable.
But there's a lot of girls wrestling guys right now
who are just doing stuff that like a tiny little
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girl can't give a bigger guy. Nine Canadian Destroyers in
a row, it just makes sense.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, nine's too many? Just eight?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I know you said something that triggered me at
the signing.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You had asked me about the super bomb through.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
The table and how I landed and if I have
pain from it, and I you know, I told you,
I said, every time I see Gary Wolf, he always
tells me how much Anthony protected me. And I never
felt the same way. I never I never felt I
was protected on that bump. And when you said that,
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it made me feel like I was justified in my
thoughts because you know, I said to myself, is it me?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Is there something going on? But when you told me that,
I was like.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Damn, I'm glad somebody else realized that there was something
off on that because, like I said, to this day,
I still have problems with my tail boone and my
lower back and the arthritis and this, that and the
other thing. But I always felt guilty for feeling that
way because and I love Gary. I never had heat
with Gary Anthony. That's another story. God.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I mean, first of all, I like Anthony and Gary
coming up work with the pit bulls. You know, good dudes.
But nobody has mastered the art of putting somebody through
a table like I have. And that's not me blowing
smoke up my own ass. It's just a fact I
have had more women in my hands. And seriously, I
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have had more women's in my hands that I have
super bombed through tables than anybody else, and nobody else
Francine has even tried it. Yeah, you might get a
guy who gives a girl a standing power bomb, but
you'll never see somebody sit on the top rope and
do the sit out one that I do. And I'll
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never throw a woman the way you got thrown, because
it's almost impossible because of trajectory to land a woman
or a man for that matter, flat. It is a
little easier with a dude, because a heavier dude will
(33:47):
go south before they head out. I can get a
heavier dude to go straight down a lighter woman. The
minute I come off, her body will want to float out,
and your body floated, and that's why you landed on
your tailbone. I believe that Anthony, Gary and Anthony had
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all the best intentions for you. I mean I don't.
I don't know. Maybe they didn't, but I don't know that.
All I know is I've seen you. After years and
years of doing this and seeing how you landed, I
can tell you I'm not surprised if your hips were
broken or at a whack for your entire life because
(34:29):
you landed on your tialbone and your hips, and just
one of those bumps can bang you up for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well I broke my pelvis right after that, so it
kind of added to the lop side. And it's that
I was already having as I was walking, But it
just triggered me. When you said that, I was just like, Wow,
somebody else noticed, and it's not in my head that
it was off, like I always felt like it was off,
and I get I always get compliments like wow, it
(35:00):
was such a great bump, and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It hurt, like you know what I mean. But I just,
you know, when you said that, it just made me
feel justified in my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
So yep, I would have never I would have never
done you like that. I would have held you in
and and kept you close so I could control your
body more.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, Anthony, I liked Anthony, just to clarify, but he
he would always ask me on dates and I would
always say no, and that resulted into some stiff moments
in the ring. And so I feel like it and
(35:45):
I love Gary to death, but I was always scared
to have to work with Anthony. And then when we
got into the program where Shane and Anthony worked together.
I got stiffed a bunch of times, and I never
said anything back then, because you know, I was just
taught to just shut your mouth and if you have
to cry, go to the bathroom, go cry in.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
The corner, do something. Don't let them see you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
And that's what I always did. Yeah, and that's what
I always did. But you know, I hate to talk
about him because he's not here. But we had Todd
Gordon on Todd Gordon goes, oh, should I talk about
the time that Anthony thought you should give him a
BJ because you know, you were his manager and he
felt like he deserved one.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And I'm like, no, we don't have to, we don't
have to really go into details. Me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, well, you know that's a lot of the nineties.
I mean, I feel like the women or have more
respect maybe nowadays, but like back then, I was just
trying to prove myself and like, yeah, I want to
work and I want to be seen as one of
the boys.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I don't want to be seen as.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Some girl who came in as somebody's girlfriend off the street.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So when the guys would say stuff and then he
did I would kind of just brush it off, and
some got the hint, some didn't, and you just roll
with the punches.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And that's what I did, all right, Yeah, well you
have to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
But I never knew if it was deliberate or if
he just if it was accidental, because things had happened
before that bomb.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
And I always mean, I mean, from what I could
tell of, just just the wrong angle, and I would
have just held you instead of let you go.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Let's talk about something fun. Let's talk about Busted Open.
You have a spin off now you do the Fat
and the Furious. I think you're the Furious, Okay, am
I right on that one.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
You are correct.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You've been with them for years now, right since.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I've been with Busted Open now for six years.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yes, okay, how did your spin off?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Because now we have Busted Open after Dark it's on
Wednesday nights at ten pm.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Correct, yes, right after Dynamite.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Okay, great, how did that come to play?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Did you say again?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Did you pitch it?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
They asked me about it. They had asked me about it,
and I and I said, yeah, sure, I would be
interested in doing my own thing. So like you just
mentioned The Fat and the Furious, Like Dave Lagreca is
the guy that created Busted Open, he's the lead host,
it's his rock and roll band, it's his baby. I'm
the first one that got on board with Dave uh
(38:26):
just basically on a conversation that we had one day,
and I was looking at it from like a like
when you watch a show on ESPN, like with Shannon
Sharp and and any like a stephen A Smith where
you have the the expert, you know, or Hall of
Famer or the pro up and and the fan, and
(38:47):
that's what gives Busted Open that interesting dynamic. Then we
brought Dreamer on board, Then we brought Mark Henry on board,
Then Mickey James came on board. So when whenever Dave
is out and I host the show, I always like
to give the show a little bit of a name
or a little bit of flavor. So when it's me
and Tommy, we call it The Fat and the Furious,
(39:10):
you know, And then when it's me and Mark Henry,
I named it the Hall of Fame and Pain. So
you always know what you're getting as a listener. And
Busted Open after Dark is just me and whatever music
I want. To play and whatever I want to talk
about with Dynamite. And I've been asked like, how come
you don't have any guests on your show. I said,
(39:31):
I don't want guests. I want the fans to be
my guests. The only feedback that I want is from
the fan base who just watched the show on TV
or just left the arena. I basically wanted to be
like a tailgate party after a rock and roll show,
or a tailgate party after a wrestling event, where everybody's
(39:54):
in the parking lot and like, oh my god, that
was great. You remember this? Did you see this? And
just it's it's it's generating by how I felt about
what I just watched, constructive criticism, and then I open
up to the callers and we talk about wrestling. And
my persona on Busted Open after Dark is more of
my just genuine jovial persona, Like I don't even call
(40:17):
myself Bully Ray. I call myself Uncle Bully. You know,
come hang out with Uncle Bully for the night, Lay
on my couch, tell me your problems. Oh, I tell
all the hot chicks to call in. We'll put you
on first.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah. So that's what I was going to ask you,
so the chicks go to the front of the line.
Is the slogan that you use, right, Are you hooked
up with the UH because you're doing it from your
home obviously. Are you hooked up with like a producer
that handles your phone calls?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
How do you know who's calling?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Oh? Yeah, it's full blown radio, full blown radio. F
it's a serious what the hours are, state.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Of the art.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
It's state of the art. I have two producers with me. Okay,
live call ins. I mean I get call in from Canada,
you know, from the West Coast, from from every everywhere.
And what when I you know, when I talk about
women calling in, I always like to put first time
callers on first. And I like to hear from our
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female UH fan base because you know, pro wrestling is
really dominated by dudes. You know. I always like it
when when women call in to talk about wrestling or
to give their opinion about wrestling or ask a question
about it. So and it's also a little you know,
I have fun with it. But it's chivalrous. You know,
(41:38):
you open the door for a lady, you know, you
let them. You know, it's just gentlemen ly to let
the lady go first, and that's why I love it.
And it doesn't hurt if they're hot.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Well, how do you know they're hot?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, they conne.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
The sweetest, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I think you close your eyes and everyone's hot, right,
turn out the lights, same deal.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
That's it when you're in the when you're in the
bar at two in the morning and the lights come on,
you know what that's called. It's the moment of truth.
Oh my god, You're like, oh oh yeah, so yeah, put.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
The shades back on one one of these nights.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Can I pick your your band? Uh?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Who's your favorite band of all time?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Duran?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
You know? Oh my you know? Yes, I will? You will?
You know as a kid growing up.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Were they your favorite? Two?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Did you want to marry John Taylor? Like?
Speaker 4 (42:46):
No, quite the opposite. But here's the thing. So, growing
up as a kid in New York, I used to
listen to Z one hundred mm hm and Duran Duran
was on every other song. I mean, Duran Duran was
the hottest band in the world. There you go. So
I'd be like, what is it? D DD sucks a matter?
(43:08):
Where's Judas Priest?
Speaker 6 (43:09):
And I had made a slayer in Metallica. Meanwhile, where
were all the hot chicks concept?
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Because they were all hot and it took me. It
took me years. And the light bulb. It's kind of
like when you figure out psychology and a wrestling match
for the first time. The light bulb goes off and
you're like, oh wow. And then that day came when
I was like, Wow, durand Duran is really good.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
But you don't like any of their music.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
I like, I like a lot of their music. Okay,
I even that what was that one last hit they had,
the Ordinary World?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Oh beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
What a great song.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Beautiful song. I love New Moon on Monday. That's like
my favorite one from them. The Chauffeur is a good one.
I'm just in love with the band. I'm in love
with John I will be until I die. He was
supposed to be my husband. I don't know what happened
with that, you know, but they are my favorite. And
I said to myself, I'm going to ask Bobbo one
(44:12):
of these days if he can do Duran Duran, maybe.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Maybe I'll have you on one night and uh and uh,
you can introduce Duran Duran as the band of the night.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I would love to, Okay, just pick a knight that
I'm awake, because sometimes I fall asleep early. Fred I'm
I'm a little bit on the older side. I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I've only been to I think five concerts my whole life,
maybe six. One of them was Kiss and I wasn't
even a fan, but I became a fan after I
went to the concert.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
But who took yes?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
And he made me that bastard.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
So he made me carry a cooler, a big ass
cooler because we had the box, the press box, the you.
And he said he they won't check if a girl's
carrying it.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
So he goes in.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Damien Farren goes in, and here with this cooler, and
we lined Coca Cola cans on the top, but underneath
was like a bottle of jack.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
There was like all this liquor.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
And I'm saying, and they're walking away from me, and
I'm saying, I'm going to get arrested. And I don't
even know where. I think I was in Baltimore, Maryland.
I don't even know how to get back, you know
what is going on? And the guy goes open your
cooler and I opened it, and I smiled and he
goes go ahead, and my heart was like, thank you.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Sir, and I close it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I ran like hell, but it was heavy, but you know,
we got in there. But it was a great concert.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I was so impressed because they all had big high
heels on yes and.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Running up and down and I said, Jesus, I'm a
girl and I can't even do that.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
That concert was great. But the best concert I ever
went to the Wiggles. Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Yeah, I can't say that I've been to a Wiggles show.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Let me tell you. Parked the car, had my kids
with me. They were tiny, saw two Wiggles walking across
the street. We grabbed those kids and drug them down
the street to get the Wiggles and.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Take the picture with them. And they were the nicest
and they rocked and I loved them.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
And it's the only time I really marked out because
my kids were so happy.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
I was just going to say, you marked out for
the Wiggles.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Totally marked out. Oh my god. I knew their names.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
We took their pictures, they touched my kids, and then
at the thing, my daughter gave the bow to the
girl and she wore the bow and it was just
as a parent. That made my heart so happy. So
that was my favorite concert that I've ever been to.
But I haven't been too many because I have anxiety.
I always feel like, if I'm in a out and
I have to pee, I'm going to keep my pants
(47:02):
because I can't get to a bath room. Okay, I
have problems now that you could just wear an adult
viper and you're good to go.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
But back in the day, I see some of your
posts that you put up there on the old Twitter machine.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Have you got?
Speaker 4 (47:14):
You got things going? They got that this ended cameras
down your throat.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Oh I didn't even do that yet. I'm freaking out
about that. And now a urologist wants to see me.
So now I have urology. A G I an O
G B Y. I got everything going on? Everything? Yeah,
just say a prayer.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
For me, because I'm sure you'll be okay. Your hardcore,
you're extreme, You're extreme.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Have you gotten the upper and lower gimmick yet?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Have you gotten the upper and lower? Given? I feel
like you should have taken a drag off of a
cigarette then ended it with brother. Have you got the
upper and lower yet?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Has?
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Actually? Actually, I got the camera shoved up my butt
because I had something happened to me about a year
ago that scared scared me.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Blood in your.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Blood, like bad blood. I thought I was gonna bleed
out and I got to the hospital. Was no, no,
it was. I never took pain pills in my whole life,
you know, and that which is a miracle coming out
of E CW. But what I did take for the
pain all my career were advill and a leave. Well,
I guess just after twenty five years of advil and
(48:28):
a leave, it doesn't it doesn't sit right with you
and you get like these blood pockets that'll build up.
Why why is your mouth dropped open right now? You okay?
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Because my doctor just asked me what do you take
at night for pain? I said, I take one a
leave and he said, stop taking that.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It's going to destroy your stomach.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
It can, Yeah, it definitely can. Honestly though, Franny, I
don't think one is going to do it.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
One.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
I mean I was swallowing. I was swallowing like four
or five a night to deal with the pain. So
because I never wanted to get on percocets or you know,
any of that stuff. So what happened to a lot
of the guys. But yeah, after twenty five years of
taking it, finally caught of me. And I'm and I'm
bleeding like crazy. So they told me, uh, you know
(49:21):
tomorrow you're going to go in for uh what's the thing?
When they shove it up the butt?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
I think it's a lower colonoscopy, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Okay? Yeah, So I'm in the the the room of
the exam room with five female nurses. Now you want
to feel vulnerable, You're naked in a hospital gown. But
why you're flipped over on your side and trying to
(49:49):
make chit chat?
Speaker 1 (49:51):
What are you talking about the weather? I don't are
you putting yourself over to them telling them?
Speaker 4 (49:59):
Yeah, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Out.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
I didn't hit it with the old Do you know
how who I am? When I was face down? Ass up? Uh?
But this was funny. So the lady who uh uses
the uh you know, the stuff to put you to sleep?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
The thing?
Speaker 4 (50:16):
I think the thing? Yeah, anesthesiologist. So I look at
the size of the needle she has that she's gonna
pump into me my IV And I'm wondering to myself,
is this gonna be enough. So I said to her,
I'm like, excuse me, ma'am, do you really think you
have enough in there for somebody my size? And she's like, Oh,
(50:39):
don't worry about it, You're gonna be fine. This is
And I remember looking at the clock and it was
two minutes to twelve noon and I said to myself,
I wonder if she's gonna And then I woke up
in the recovery room. That's how quick it knocked me out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Yeah, I'm just scared because it's upper lower. And then
the scope because he goes, oh, we have to get
a scope.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
See. I had five surgeries on my stomach.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Five two were sea sections, three were to repair my
abdominal region. Right, I've had a surgery twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, so three consecutive years they worked on the
same part. And the third year they put a mesh
panel over my abs to hold them together. Now I'm
(51:31):
getting to the point where where I when I eat
something pain, I'm in pain, and I'm bloated. I always
look like I'm pregnant. And you know as well as
I do. If you go into the gym and you
work out. You see results on every single body part
except for the mid section, and my mid section looks
(51:52):
like I'm three months pregnant.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I'm sick of it. So I wanted to go to
the doctor see what's going on. Initially, he said.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
You have so much scar tissue built up that it's
never going to go away. And he said in the bloating,
we don't know, so we have to do you know,
we want to do the upper and lower and then
we want to do the scope and see what's going
on and see if you.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Have an ulcer.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
Maybe that's triggering what's you know, happening down there.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I don't know when.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Anytime I eat, it could be a cracker or it
could be a seven course meal.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Fat as a house.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
And it's annoying because I'm trying to stay in cheap
and look good for fifty one. But you get this
part of you that you can't control, and so it's
it's put me in a little bit of a depression
because I'm not pregnant and I look pregnant.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
I saw you the other day, you look good.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I'm thick. When when was you thick? You know?
Speaker 4 (52:52):
I don't agree with you.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Well, look I appreciate it, but the next time I'll
let you. I'd be part of the Fat and the Fat,
Fat Furious.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Team Fat the Furious, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
God, terrible.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Anyway, I'm going to get it checked out. I'm gonna
let you know how it goes. I do want to
come on your show one night and we'll sit here
tell the people where they can find you. I mean
we just kind of talked about it, but on the
Twitter machine and everywhere else.
Speaker 4 (53:21):
I don't even know my handles.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
I think you're at Bully Ray is real.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
It's real Bully fifty one fifty okay on the Twitter machine,
and then on Instagram it's Bully Ray Team three D
Academy or something like that. I don't even know. You
probably find me at your local McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
I don't think we follow each other on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (53:42):
You want me to follow you? Yeah, that's what shit
starts getting serious.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Follow me everywhere? Yes, you need followers. We need to follow.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Each other, all right, one day we'll go get drunk.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, we have to figure well, definitely WrestleMania weekend, yes,
but that's far away.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I did invite you to my Burgatta event.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
I was busy doing a job.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
You were busy job into a girl. That's okay, I understand. Listen,
this was great. I want to have you back on.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
In the future.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Well anytime we.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Didn't, we hardly scratched the surface. I kept you fifteen
minutes later.
Speaker 1 (54:16):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Why don't we have you on Busted Open on a Wednesday?
Because every Wednesday we do Women of Wednesday, women who
have affected the wrestling business in a positive way. So
let's have you on. We'll talk about Duran, Duran, Atlanta
and getting blitzed. I love it.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
I hope to see you soon. We'll keep in touch.
I love you, and I thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
You're welcome, everybody.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
This is Bubbaray Dudley, my friend. Take care baby, bye bye.
All right, that was a good one. That was a
fun one.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
I didn't expect the bleeding from the a hole at
the end, but you know that's always on.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Jim that nobody else probably touched on it this business.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
So that's the headline, Face down, ass Up Bully Ray
with five women.
Speaker 1 (55:07):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
Yeah, it's kind of like the Tony Storm thing sits
out shoe watch for the shoe, but face down, ass up.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
It's great as somebody who can sit here and always
listen to guys and gals like self. Yeah, history fly
on the wall. I love it. I could listen to
you guys talk for hours.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
We could have did that for hours because there's so
much history between us. And for everybody who says he's
not a nice guy, he really is a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
Like I just don't.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
I don't know, maybe because I've known him for so long.
I just feel like he gets a bad rap, but
tremendous worker, even better person.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
So so throwed that he came on, and I think
for our first I heeart episode, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
Absolutely so happy to have had him.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
He broke the cherry.
Speaker 4 (55:57):
Yeah that's right. I'm gonna say it's a New York thing.
I have to say.
Speaker 3 (56:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and
just say some people may not understand what it's like
in the Northeast, the New York attitude. Some people are
in your face. I mean I had you know coaches
like that growing up that they're in your face.
Speaker 4 (56:15):
Yeah, and you might not like it. They tell it
like it is. You know. I was afraid if I
said boo.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
He was gonna say shut up, but I was gonna
say hey, I didn't want to say a word for
you're a coach or bubba no bubba.
Speaker 4 (56:25):
I know, okay, but no.
Speaker 3 (56:27):
I mean, I think that's a lot of the criticism
is that they're afraid. I think people that they don't
get the New York attitude. And he's got it and
he's the man. I mean, what can you say?
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah, No, he's great, He's been a friend forever. And
great episode. Great first episode. So please guys, leave your feedback,
let us know what you thought, and please subscribe. If
you had not subscribed to this channel, you know this podcast.
Please subscribe wherever you listen to podcast. And you know,
(57:00):
I am again I keep saying this, but I am
so happy to finally be recording for iHeart and I
just hope it. You know, we have many, many, even better.
Speaker 1 (57:11):
Episodes in the future. I don't know how you can
beat this one. This one was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
They're going to be coming fat and furiously the fat,
fat and furious.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
I'm the I'm the second fat.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I don't like to call people fat, but I feel
like I'm blowed it all the time and it's sad.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
But anyway, don't feel that way. I know.
Speaker 2 (57:30):
Anyway, Chadster, where can people find you if they want
to follow you on social media?
Speaker 4 (57:36):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Yeah, you can find me on Twitter. It's at Chad
I A N B SO Chad E and B on Twitter.
On Instagram it's at IB Exclusives, which I also have
a website that is called IB Exclusives and it's just
very simple ibexclusives dot com. And you can find me
here on ice of here.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
November eleventh, Virginia Beach, for Virginia, I'll be signing from
eleven a m. To one pm at the Virginia Beach
Field House.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
A plethora of sports stars there. I believe I might
be the only female.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
I don't know. I'm the only female in the picture,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
I believe you will be the only female, only female there.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
You never know who's going to pop up at these things.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
But like I said earlier, I don't get the Virginia
Beach often, so please, if you are in the area,
come down and say hi.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
I'd love to see you. And Virginia Beach.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Sports card, comic book, Pokemon and Collectible's expo.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
Can I also add for wrestling fans, Rick Flair's Starkade
eighty three robe will also be in attendance. You have
to share the wrestling spotlight.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
You know what, it's Rick Flair. I'll share it with him.
I'm going to give a big WU if.
Speaker 1 (58:59):
I see that to try it on.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
Talking about can I, you think the doubt it's probably
gonna be behind plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (59:05):
Oh it's for sale.
Speaker 4 (59:07):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
No, No, it's just a show off piece. Okay. Anyway,
if you want to follow me on social media, I am.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
At ECW Diva Franccene on Instagram and on Twitter, and
I also have a YouTube page and you can find
that at ECW Diva Franccene as well with an exclamation
point at the end.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
So go over there and subscribe.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Subscribe to this podcast on iHeart and until next time,
make somebody smile, to have a good mone
Hey, everyone, his eyes up here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am the scene of the extreme brand scene and
I am so happy to be here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am joined by my co host Chad Dad. Do
you feel the excitement in the air.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The excitement is so thick you can cut it with
a knife.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We have been waiting for this launch for it seems
like forever. I know it's only been a month or two,
but I have been just waiting to be.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Part of the iHeart family.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And now I am here along with you, and I
couldn't be happier.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I am thrilled.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
This is great, This is this is awesome. I agree,
it's been it feels like a long time coming, but
it's just been great, the anticipation and the excitement, and
now it's here, and I think we're all ready to party.
Party with iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia. We're already to role.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, we're static to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
We've been doing this now for four years and I
feel like we've hit the big time.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's great. We're really happy to be here. I want
to thank those who have come along with us for
this journey. To our new subscribers, welcome, I'm going to
give you a little backstory on myself for those of
you who might not know who I am and just
stumbled upon this show out of nowhere. Again, my name
is Francine. I have been involved in the wrestling business
(01:53):
for thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know it's hard to believe, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I am an ECW original. I have also worked for
the WWE. I have also worked for TNA Wrestling, among
other places, and we still get out there and do
conventions and the occasional show and podcasting has taken over
my life. So I am more than happy to be
(02:21):
here and to share not only my wrestling knowledge with you,
because this is primarily a wrestling podcast, but we like
to call it a lifestyle podcast because we literally talk
about everything. My love for Disney, my family, what I
ate for dinner last night, you know, our health problems.
(02:42):
Like anything under the sun you can think of, we
discuss on here. Nothing is off limits. Sometimes you might
be grossed out, sometimes you might be intrigued.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It just depends on the day.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But I am again happy to be here, and I
thank everybody who tuned in today and hopefully you will
keep tuning in and your friends about us. So Chad,
why don't you give us a little bit of background
about yourself and then we can start the show.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's nice that you condensed the thirty year wrestling career
into like a minute. In thirty five seconds, I'll take
up the next ten if you want.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, I mean, if people want to look me up.
You know, Google is your friend. But I'm not going
to sit here and put myself over for a whole hour.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's just rude.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, allow me to be even more rude. I'll take
over that the audience.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've been podcasting for about eight years. I've been in
broadcasting for about twenty. I've worked for WWE, I've worked
for The Howard Stern Show. I've worked for the Philadelphia
Phillies and NBC News. But on the wrestling side again,
and in podcasting, I've interviewed who's who of professional wrestling
and been around the wrestling world myself for a number
of years. So to be paired with you like we
(03:52):
have for the last four has been the highlight for me.
And we've done so much and we've had a lot
of good laughs, a lot of good times, and now
being here on iHeartMedia is to me the highlights and
as you go along this journey with us, A lot
of the stories come out about my experience in addition
to Francine's lengthy and awesome thirty year career in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So I can compliment some.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Stories in such a little tiny way, but my stories
will pop out as we go along as well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, and you know, I just want to emphasize, like
you can't always believe what you hear or read on
the internet. So my goal in having this podcast is
for my fans to get to know me on a
personal level and get to know the real fran Scene,
not just the character that you've seen on TV for years.
(04:45):
Because I'm telling you she was a real bitch. Nobody
liked her. She was called every name in the book.
And while it was fun to play that character, that
is not me. And so I want to give you
guys an insight on my life, bring you into you know,
my home life, what's going on with my kids, my husband,
my family, stuff like that, as well as the wrestling aspect.
(05:07):
So yes, we will talk about tons of wrestling on
this show.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I will have special guests, like today, we have.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
An awesome guest coming up in just a couple of minutes,
but I get a lot of my ECW family on here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We also get people from the entertainment world.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We've had actors, we've had musicians, we've had comedians, and
I'm going to continue that trend and try to get
you the best interviews possible. So really really looking forward
to being with the iHeart family, and we have a
lot more to come and really excited about that. Wanted
to just start off with a plug if we can,
(05:47):
because we have a big show coming up and Chad,
you're a part of this as well. I will be
in Virginia Beach on November eleventh.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yes, I got the date right. I never get dates right. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So we're going to be in Virginia Beach on November eleventh.
We're going to be doing a signing from eleven to
one pm. So if anybody is in the area, come
on down and say hi. And I am looking forward
to meeting everyone down there. It's going to be a
blast again. Chad's going to be with me, and we're
going to be you know, promoting this podcast and promoting iHeart.
(06:25):
Now that I'm part of the family, I will just
promote iHeart as much as I can, so hopefully I'll
see everybody down there and we'll put up a graphic
at the end of at the end of this podcast
will let you know the address and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But really excited about getting back on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Been working on a lot of dates for twenty twenty four.
The big one coming up is WrestleMania Weekends. We're going
to be in Philadelphia for that, and I'm hearing that
it's going to be a big thew reunion of sorts.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My sources tell me a lot of the guys will
be booked.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And we're going to be doing a lot of fun
things together. So that is the beginning of April, and
I cannot wait for that. But we are working on
other projects that I hope to be able to discuss soon.
There's a lot on the horizon, you know, and it's
a pretty exciting time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And I'll be honest with you, at fifty one.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Years old, I am flabbergasted that I am getting all
these opportunities to still, you know, get out there and
do things, and that people are still interested in, you know,
myself and ECW as a whole. So it's very humbling
(07:42):
and I just want to thank everybody for you know,
sticking with me for this journey for thirty going on
thirty one years now.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's amazing. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I sit back and I think to myself, how the
heck did I end up here?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You know, because it really that I never thought that
it would lead to something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, you get your first action figure made and
you're You're in video games in the year twenty twenty
three at fifty one, Like wow, you know, And I'm
not trying to toot my own horn. I'm amazed at myself.
I can't believe this is happening, Like you know, it's
just it's surreal and it's cool, and I'm very appreciative
(08:27):
and I can't wait to see what next year brings,
because there's always something new that comes in, some new
opportunity on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Who would have ever thought how much the business evolved
from nineteen ninety four to now, right, Who would have
ever thought action figures would have taken off the way
they have, because back in nineteen ninety four, it was
only one line of action figures or two line of
action figures. Now there's thirty different people making them, and
everybody and their mother has them.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And you guys now have.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The ability to see different verys of yourself in action
figure form, and it's cool to see you have different
different attires, different sculpts, different molds and and things that
you never could have imagined now come to life, right.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And I'll remember, you know, when we were in acw
my heart was broken because I was supposed to get
an action figure back in the nineties, and then they
told me, well, the girl figures don't sell, so we're
just going to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Go with the guys. And I was just like, oh,
how dare you? So?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I never thought i'd get my own action figure, but
now you know, I have one, and there's other opportunities
on the table for.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
More stuff, and it's just it's a it's a fun time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know, and I'm just so blessed that I can
be involved in stuff like this, So I'm really happy,
and you know, with the projects that I'm working on
now for next year, like unbelievable stuff is happening, and
it's just it's so fun, and I'm so happy to
be a part of the wrestling business still, because some
people just tend to fizzle out and you never see
(10:01):
them again. You know, I try not to be so
in your face, but I want you to say, hey, how's.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It going, You're still around, glad to seeing it. That
kind of thing. So it's it's fun to be involved.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's fun fun to be involved, and anytime they get
to meet you, it is very fun, unlike some other
superstars out there that it might not always be the
greatest experience, like we've talked about in the last few
weeks on Eyes up here.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, everybody has their own domani like that. Like I
try to be happy and you know, so we're going
to email our guests now and get.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Him because he's Impeatib.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's on the way.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay. He just texted me and was like waiting for email.
It's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, let me give him an intro. I know him
as Bubba. I will never call him Bully Ray. I
am so sorry. I cannot call him Bully Ray. It
is Bubba Ray Dudley to me now and forever. I
can never call you Bully Ray ever.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Franny, you call me whatever you want to call you.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Don't call me. They for dinner, kid, You.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Know I haven't missed the meal in a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think you look spelt okay, spelter, spelter, swelter, then
you felter.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I am great since the last time I saw you
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Since you saw me, and that was the first time
in a while, and I was very very yes it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Was no, not at the last autogrash session.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I saw you at the arena. That was the least time,
no where.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I just saw you at a signing when Devon took
a picture with your big butt.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I said before that I hadn't seen you in a while.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh, then it was at the arena.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It was my peach butt. My butt looked so good
in that picture.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm telling you to shabby, not too shabby for sixty two.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It's I'll dare you. He won, babe, he won.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
You look amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I don't lie. Who cares like I don't don't care?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So you know I want to talk to you, and
I'm not going to be like who trained you?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Please don't because I won't.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Answer a million times We've been over this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The first thing I want to discuss is because I
I don't really know what happened. You just had a
pay per view. You job to a girl, good job.
By the way, great, thanks. What triggered the name change
back to TNA from Impact? For those of you who
don't know, Bubba works for Impact. They're on the up
(12:32):
and up. I see in bigger buildings.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But I saw a very passionate promo from Scott the
Moore where he dropped like five F bombs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was like, what is this really necessary? I guess it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Was a bomb. He has to donate five hundred dollars
to charity.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Is that is that why he does it? Well?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
I don't know why he does it, but that's what
he does. He will donate every F bomb five hundred
dollars to charity.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I love that. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Why the name changed.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Why back to TNA?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I think Impact Wrestling discovered that as they were negotiating
throughout the world to get Impact on, you know, into
certain markets, that the TNA name, those three letters still
had value. People like to chant TNA. Listen, the original
(13:26):
chant was ECW, but right after that it was TNA,
and there are fans out there that still call it TNA. Yeah.
So I believe that they are embracing their history and
that they're going to bring this name back because in
(13:50):
certain parts of the world, like England and India, TNA
was more watched than the WWE. So I think they
want to see if they can take advantage of of
all of the good press that they got in the
past from the name and move it forward. All the
(14:12):
fans that I have spoke to so far, all of
the boys that I have spoke to so far, love
the fact that they've gone back to TNA. So I
believe it'll be called TNA TNA Impact.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh, okay, so it's kind of like a merge.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I think the company will be called TNA, but the
name of the TV show will be called Impact.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh. I like that. That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
See I I worked the first pay per view for.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Them, where you had to pay, you had to pay
ten dollars to say the product that was back in
the Nashville fairground days.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But uh, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And I saw the picture from the pay per view
this week and we were we were kind of comparing
a I Use crowds to the Impact crowds because my
point was, They're showing all these pictures of aaw with
all the empty seats, right, and I'm like, why isn't
Tony Kahan getting smaller arenas and making it look better
(15:16):
for TV. And then we pulled up a picture from
the pay per view and it looked fantastic. It looked
fantastic on TV, and you know, there were people there,
but it wasn't like the empty seats and all this
sudden I said, they're doing it the right way.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know, even though you've guts, you've basically.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Been around for what twenty something years now, you're still
doing that slow build and it's working, and I mean,
everything looks great. Everybody I talked to says they love
the locker room and they love working there. I got
to hang out with the girls one night after one
of the conventions. They were the sweetest things ever. And
(15:57):
I said, well, if I was twenty years younger, I
would love to be on the road with that. It
just seems like such a fun like it reminded me
of VCW, like a fun locker room where like not
everybody's trying to stab you in the back.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This is probably in my top two favorite locker rooms
of all time top two, so ECW would be number
one obviously, because listen, ECW will always be special period.
End of story. I don't care who thinks differently than me.
(16:32):
It is what it is. We changed wrestling history forever.
Blah blah blah. If you don't like it yourself, Okay,
that's just the truth. It is what it is. This
locker room is so it's just nice. Everybody gets along.
(16:56):
There is a healthy competitiveness to go out there and
have the best match of the night. In ECW, I
do believe there was a healthy competitiveness, but we still
had veterans there who might have had an agenda or two.
(17:19):
And I'm talking about a small amount of veterans there,
small amount. I don't see any agendas here. The creative
team and the talent work so well together. Ideas are
listened to. They're not just schleuffed off. It's a good
(17:46):
bunch of guys and gals. T and A is smart
enough to run smaller buildings. And I don't even know
if I can call them that smart because they haven't
had a choice. They've had to run smaller buildings because
they have not been doing as well. In the past year.
(18:08):
TNA truly has turned around, and I think it's because
they brought in some names to work with their homegrown
talent or the younger talent there or the established talent there,
because every locker room needs a good mixture of veterans,
homegrown women who can wrestle the whole nine yards. And
(18:33):
I think that's what you're getting from TNA right now
as far as aw and the small houses. First of all,
people who take pictures of any wrestling company's arena to
show that there's nobody there are pieces and don't belong
as a part of the wrestling community because they're not
(18:54):
doing the wrestling community any good. Every major wrestling company
in the history of wrestling companies has their ups and
their downs. You have your sellouts, and you have your
nights where next to nobody shows up. So this this,
this industry will always be a giant rollercoaster. Sometimes you're hot,
(19:18):
sometimes you're not. It can all be like you, Francy,
and it'd be hot all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Well, Babe, I never said I was, but I agree
with you on that. I you know, we we just
got sent pictures and we brought it up and that's
exactly what I said. But everybody, you know, we want
them to fail. This is the demise of this company.
And I was like, why would you want something to fail.
You want all these people to be.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Out of jobs? Like, how hateful are you? It doesn't
make sense to me.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
These the people who want to see any one particular
wrestling company fail are failures in their own life. Look
at him and misery loves company.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, so they.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Need to be able to sit there and hide behind
a profile picture of SpongeBob SquarePants with thirteen followers and
talk crap and post pictures and do whatever they do
because when they look in the mirror, they're miserable and
probably want to run full speed into a brick wall.
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Not that half these people could run anyway, because they
lack athletic ability period. In fact, he's you know, aw
is the same as any other company. They're going to
have their peaks, they're going to have their valleys. Now,
if they're seeing that the valleys are continuing and they're
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booking themselves in twelve to fifteen thousand seed arenas and
they're only getting a couple of thousand people, yes, then
they might want to think about scaling back to smaller
venues or cut the venue used down even tighter. Listen,
you can be in Madison Square Garden, but you could
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cut that arena down to an eighth of its size.
If you wanted to and just put twenty five hundred
people in there, sure ian to look packed. Or you
cannot pay Madison Square Gardens rent, you know, and go someplace,
or go to the mid Huffinson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie.
Love that building and there's nothing wrong with it. But
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if you're if your ego can't handle the shit that's
going to be said on social media about the scaling back,
then you're going to have an issue. It's not this
business is not great all the time, and it doesn't
suck all the time. You just have to learn how
to ride it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I want to.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Ask you a question about you because this is a
question that I get from so many people, and when
I give my honest answer, I get something different back.
And I don't know where it comes from because the
bubba I know, and I'm gonna put you over. We've
been friends for a very long time, right, and I
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see you as not only like knowledgeable in the business, right,
but I see you as having a good heart. And
we've had so much fun together when we hang out
and you're funny and you know, you're talkative, and we
can talk about anything under the sun. And when I
tell that to certain people, you're talking about Bubba, You're
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talking about Bully Ray. Why do I get such an
attitude from people when I mention.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Your name Because people don't know who the real me is.
That's first and foremost. I'm an old school wrestler. If
I'm a heel, when you meet me in person in
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real life, you're getting the person that you see on TV.
Because the last thing I ever wanted is people to go,
oh my god, I met Bubba Ray Dudley or Bully Ray,
He's so nice. Well that just killed all the credibility
of what I've done on TV.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But what they are promoters?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What about him? You find me a promoter that I
have worked with that has something bad to say about me?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Okay, so they have to work with you.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Here's the thing, Francine, I am so straight up with
the way I do business right, I don't deviate. Here's
the price. Here's what I'm gonna do. If you try
to get over on me, I am going to verbally
eviscerate you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And I one hundred percent agree with you on That's it.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So these promoters see that they can't if a promoter
tries to get over on me and I tell them no,
or they conveniently forget to tell me something like, oh,
didn't I tell you about this extra stack of three
hundred pictures I need to sign. No, you didn't. Thus
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I'm not signing them.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That just happened to me. Same thing three hundred trading cards.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I work with. I work with plenty of promoters who
know as long as they're straight up with me, I'm
straight up with them. And I don't like to go
do a million and one things. I keep myself what
I do and what Me and Devon do. I keep
it exclusive so that when you do see us, it's special.
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I'm not going to do every Tom Dick and Harry's,
you know, autograph session or indie show or anything like that.
So if any of the promoters that ever come up
to you might have some derogatory things to say about me,
put them on your podcast with me ooh, and I'd
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be more than happy to put them in their place.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I might have to do that so we can get
a return visit out of you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, a lot of people in the wrestling business cannot
handle straight up good business because a lot of promoters
try to get over on the boys. And you know this,
I do. I'm sure promoters have tried to get over
on you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They just did with the training they put. There was
a stack of cards.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And I sat down and the guy was like, and
the funny part was half the cards were Shane and I.
So it was the split signature thing. So Shane had
already signed them, and I said, what is this and
the guy goes, oh, just sign them.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I said, am I getting paid? And the guy goes, well, no,
you're the guy that brought you in is getting the money.
I said for my signature. This wasn't part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So if I didn't sign those cards, they couldn't be
sold because Sheen's autograph was on it, but mine wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I held out until he paid me, as you should.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, you're in the Franccene business, and Franccene deserves to
make money on her pictures, her autographs, whatever it is
you want to sell. Now, if somebody comes up to me,
if a promoter comes up to me and says, hey, Bubba,
I want you to sign for two hours, and then
I have like an extra ten mail orders that I'd
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like you to sign. I'll ask him what the mail
orders are or if they wanted to sign a couple
extra things, And nine out of ten times the answer is.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, because he told you.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You tell me up front. We have no problems. It's
not like, oh, by the way, no, oh by the way,
go yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I know, well, it's funny, and I'm switching gears a
little bit. I tried to find and we didn't find it,
did we try?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I tried to find this video of us because my
next question was, and I know what you're going to say,
because you just did it on the pay per view
when we did a house show.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And this is back in maybe ninety I don't know,
ninety six, ninety seven something around there.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I beat up all of the Dudleys, and I don't
remember where we were, but I remember I did something
the big Dick. I did something to Devon and then
you let me give you a diamond cutter and laid
you guys all out, and then I ended up carrying
Spike to the back right, and I remember after we
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were done, I went to eat you and I apologized
because I was always scared that the boys were gonna
resent me for an idea that Paul had. Did you
ever get mad like by having to put like a
girl over or.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Having somebody less stature? Like? I know it's the business,
but some of the guys had a chip on their
shoulder about it. You know, she's a girl. Why should
she beat you know, why should she beat me up
or pin me in the ring?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Well, I've never had a problem with what you did
to us that night because I don't even remember that happening.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
That's why I wanted to show the video of it.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's the house show it was. It was like a
quick little thing.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And for some reason Paul, I don't know if Shane
was injured and I didn't have anything to do, and
he said, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Let's just go pop the crowd and you go beat
up all the Dudley's. And I was like what And
I was so afraid I was going to get heat
for it? But I didn't Nobody this.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Is This is an art form, and this art can
be whatever we want it to be. Rules still apply
to this art form. But if you do something the
right way, you can get away with it. What is
your nickname? What was your nickname? To this day? The
Queen of Etch, the queen of extreme. So if you're
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supposed to be this tough bitch who has been was
the first girl that I know that ever got super
bombed through a table, if you're supposed to be this
tough and this much of a badass with cans out
to here, then it's eyes up here, eyes up here.
And as my good friend Tony Storm says, chin up
(29:23):
kits out, big mark for Tony Storm. So then yeah,
if you're this tough of a girl, then yeah, on
a given night, you might be able to get in
a couple of shots on the boys. Are we doing
it every night? Absolutely not now. At the pay per
view The Battle Royal, The Gauntlet Battle Royal, it came
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down to myself and Jordan Grace bully right six with
three three hundred pounds. Jordan Grace is five two, a
Bucco two, soaking wet with a brick in a pocket.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Okay, but she's a former powerlifter, she's a former bodybuilder,
and on that moment, on that given night, the sun
shined on her and she had her personal best lift.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
When you competitive powerlifters, competitive weightlifters, they have what's called
a PR, a personal record or a PB a personal
best That means you could lift that weight one time
in that one moment. You may never be able to
do it again, but in that one moment in time,
you were able to get that personal best. That's what
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Jordan Grace had. She had her personal best record and
was able to hit me with that move, And that's
why it makes sense, right. But if you have girls
just going out there just beating it out of all
these men, it's not that believable unless your name was China.
Can I see Charlotte Flair wrestling a guy and stretching them? Absolutely?
(31:04):
Can I see Ria Ripley fighting a guy and beating
the shit out of them? Absolutely? But it can't be
every single night, and there's ways to do it, and
when done right with the right psychology, I believe it's acceptable.
But there's a lot of girls wrestling guys right now
who are just doing stuff that like a tiny little
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girl can't give a bigger guy. Nine Canadian Destroyers in
a row, it just makes sense.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, nine's too many? Just eight?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I know you said something that triggered me at
the signing.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You had asked me about the super bomb through.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
The table and how I landed and if I have
pain from it, and I you know, I told you,
I said, every time I see Gary Wolf, he always
tells me how much Anthony protected me. And I never
felt the same way. I never I never felt I
was protected on that bump. And when you said that,
(32:05):
it made me feel like I was justified in my
thoughts because you know, I said to myself, is it me?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Is there something going on? But when you told me that,
I was like.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Damn, I'm glad somebody else realized that there was something
off on that because, like I said, to this day,
I still have problems with my tail boone and my
lower back and the arthritis and this, that and the
other thing. But I always felt guilty for feeling that
way because and I love Gary. I never had heat
with Gary Anthony. That's another story. God.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I mean, first of all, I like Anthony and Gary
coming up work with the pit bulls. You know, good dudes.
But nobody has mastered the art of putting somebody through
a table like I have. And that's not me blowing
smoke up my own ass. It's just a fact I
have had more women in my hands. And seriously, I
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have had more women's in my hands that I have
super bombed through tables than anybody else, and nobody else
Francine has even tried it. Yeah, you might get a
guy who gives a girl a standing power bomb, but
you'll never see somebody sit on the top rope and
do the sit out one that I do. And I'll
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never throw a woman the way you got thrown, because
it's almost impossible because of trajectory to land a woman
or a man for that matter, flat. It is a
little easier with a dude, because a heavier dude will
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go south before they head out. I can get a
heavier dude to go straight down a lighter woman. The
minute I come off, her body will want to float out,
and your body floated, and that's why you landed on
your tailbone. I believe that Anthony, Gary and Anthony had
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all the best intentions for you. I mean I don't.
I don't know. Maybe they didn't, but I don't know that.
All I know is I've seen you. After years and
years of doing this and seeing how you landed, I
can tell you I'm not surprised if your hips were
broken or at a whack for your entire life because
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you landed on your tialbone and your hips, and just
one of those bumps can bang you up for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well I broke my pelvis right after that, so it
kind of added to the lop side. And it's that
I was already having as I was walking, But it
just triggered me. When you said that, I was just like, Wow,
somebody else noticed, and it's not in my head that
it was off, like I always felt like it was off,
and I get I always get compliments like wow, it
(35:00):
was such a great bump, and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It hurt, like you know what I mean. But I just,
you know, when you said that, it just made me
feel justified in my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
So yep, I would have never I would have never
done you like that. I would have held you in
and and kept you close so I could control your
body more.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, Anthony, I liked Anthony, just to clarify, but he
he would always ask me on dates and I would
always say no, and that resulted into some stiff moments
in the ring. And so I feel like it and
(35:45):
I love Gary to death, but I was always scared
to have to work with Anthony. And then when we
got into the program where Shane and Anthony worked together.
I got stiffed a bunch of times, and I never
said anything back then, because you know, I was just
taught to just shut your mouth and if you have
to cry, go to the bathroom, go cry in.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
The corner, do something. Don't let them see you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
And that's what I always did. Yeah, and that's what
I always did. But you know, I hate to talk
about him because he's not here. But we had Todd
Gordon on Todd Gordon goes, oh, should I talk about
the time that Anthony thought you should give him a
BJ because you know, you were his manager and he
felt like he deserved one.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And I'm like, no, we don't have to, we don't
have to really go into details. Me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, well, you know that's a lot of the nineties.
I mean, I feel like the women or have more
respect maybe nowadays, but like back then, I was just
trying to prove myself and like, yeah, I want to
work and I want to be seen as one of
the boys.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I don't want to be seen as.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Some girl who came in as somebody's girlfriend off the street.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So when the guys would say stuff and then he
did I would kind of just brush it off, and
some got the hint, some didn't, and you just roll
with the punches.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And that's what I did, all right, Yeah, well you
have to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
But I never knew if it was deliberate or if
he just if it was accidental, because things had happened
before that bomb.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
And I always mean, I mean, from what I could
tell of, just just the wrong angle, and I would
have just held you instead of let you go.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Let's talk about something fun. Let's talk about Busted Open.
You have a spin off now you do the Fat
and the Furious. I think you're the Furious, Okay, am
I right on that one.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
You are correct.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You've been with them for years now, right since.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I've been with Busted Open now for six years.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yes, okay, how did your spin off?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Because now we have Busted Open after Dark it's on
Wednesday nights at ten pm.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Correct, yes, right after Dynamite.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Okay, great, how did that come to play?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Did you say again?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Did you pitch it?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
They asked me about it. They had asked me about it,
and I and I said, yeah, sure, I would be
interested in doing my own thing. So like you just
mentioned The Fat and the Furious, Like Dave Lagreca is
the guy that created Busted Open, he's the lead host,
it's his rock and roll band, it's his baby. I'm
the first one that got on board with Dave uh
(38:26):
just basically on a conversation that we had one day,
and I was looking at it from like a like
when you watch a show on ESPN, like with Shannon
Sharp and and any like a stephen A Smith where
you have the the expert, you know, or Hall of
Famer or the pro up and and the fan, and
(38:47):
that's what gives Busted Open that interesting dynamic. Then we
brought Dreamer on board, Then we brought Mark Henry on board,
Then Mickey James came on board. So when whenever Dave
is out and I host the show, I always like
to give the show a little bit of a name
or a little bit of flavor. So when it's me
and Tommy, we call it The Fat and the Furious,
(39:10):
you know, And then when it's me and Mark Henry,
I named it the Hall of Fame and Pain. So
you always know what you're getting as a listener. And
Busted Open after Dark is just me and whatever music
I want. To play and whatever I want to talk
about with Dynamite. And I've been asked like, how come
you don't have any guests on your show. I said,
(39:31):
I don't want guests. I want the fans to be
my guests. The only feedback that I want is from
the fan base who just watched the show on TV
or just left the arena. I basically wanted to be
like a tailgate party after a rock and roll show,
or a tailgate party after a wrestling event, where everybody's
(39:54):
in the parking lot and like, oh my god, that
was great. You remember this? Did you see this? And
just it's it's it's generating by how I felt about
what I just watched, constructive criticism, and then I open
up to the callers and we talk about wrestling. And
my persona on Busted Open after Dark is more of
my just genuine jovial persona, Like I don't even call
(40:17):
myself Bully Ray. I call myself Uncle Bully. You know,
come hang out with Uncle Bully for the night, Lay
on my couch, tell me your problems. Oh, I tell
all the hot chicks to call in. We'll put you
on first.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah. So that's what I was going to ask you,
so the chicks go to the front of the line.
Is the slogan that you use, right, Are you hooked
up with the UH because you're doing it from your
home obviously. Are you hooked up with like a producer
that handles your phone calls?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
How do you know who's calling?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Oh? Yeah, it's full blown radio, full blown radio. F
it's a serious what the hours are, state.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Of the art.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
It's state of the art. I have two producers with me. Okay,
live call ins. I mean I get call in from Canada,
you know, from the West Coast, from from every everywhere.
And what when I you know, when I talk about
women calling in, I always like to put first time
callers on first. And I like to hear from our
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female UH fan base because you know, pro wrestling is
really dominated by dudes. You know. I always like it
when when women call in to talk about wrestling or
to give their opinion about wrestling or ask a question
about it. So and it's also a little you know,
I have fun with it. But it's chivalrous. You know,
(41:38):
you open the door for a lady, you know, you
let them. You know, it's just gentlemen ly to let
the lady go first, and that's why I love it.
And it doesn't hurt if they're hot.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Well, how do you know they're hot?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, they conne.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
The sweetest, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I think you close your eyes and everyone's hot, right,
turn out the lights, same deal.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
That's it when you're in the when you're in the
bar at two in the morning and the lights come on,
you know what that's called. It's the moment of truth.
Oh my god, You're like, oh oh yeah, so yeah, put.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
The shades back on one one of these nights.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Can I pick your your band? Uh?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Who's your favorite band of all time?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Duran?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
You know? Oh my you know? Yes, I will? You will?
You know as a kid growing up.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Were they your favorite? Two?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Did you want to marry John Taylor? Like?
Speaker 4 (42:46):
No, quite the opposite. But here's the thing. So, growing
up as a kid in New York, I used to
listen to Z one hundred mm hm and Duran Duran
was on every other song. I mean, Duran Duran was
the hottest band in the world. There you go. So
I'd be like, what is it? D DD sucks a matter?
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Where's Judas Priest?
Speaker 6 (43:09):
And I had made a slayer in Metallica. Meanwhile, where
were all the hot chicks concept?
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Because they were all hot and it took me. It
took me years. And the light bulb. It's kind of
like when you figure out psychology and a wrestling match
for the first time. The light bulb goes off and
you're like, oh wow. And then that day came when
I was like, Wow, durand Duran is really good.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
But you don't like any of their music.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
I like, I like a lot of their music. Okay,
I even that what was that one last hit they had,
the Ordinary World?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Oh beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
What a great song.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Beautiful song. I love New Moon on Monday. That's like
my favorite one from them. The Chauffeur is a good one.
I'm just in love with the band. I'm in love
with John I will be until I die. He was
supposed to be my husband. I don't know what happened
with that, you know, but they are my favorite. And
I said to myself, I'm going to ask Bobbo one
(44:12):
of these days if he can do Duran Duran, maybe.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Maybe I'll have you on one night and uh and uh,
you can introduce Duran Duran as the band of the night.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I would love to, Okay, just pick a knight that
I'm awake, because sometimes I fall asleep early. Fred I'm
I'm a little bit on the older side. I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I've only been to I think five concerts my whole life,
maybe six. One of them was Kiss and I wasn't
even a fan, but I became a fan after I
went to the concert.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
But who took yes?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
And he made me that bastard.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
So he made me carry a cooler, a big ass
cooler because we had the box, the press box, the you.
And he said he they won't check if a girl's
carrying it.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
So he goes in.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Damien Farren goes in, and here with this cooler, and
we lined Coca Cola cans on the top, but underneath
was like a bottle of jack.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
There was like all this liquor.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
And I'm saying, and they're walking away from me, and
I'm saying, I'm going to get arrested. And I don't
even know where. I think I was in Baltimore, Maryland.
I don't even know how to get back, you know
what is going on? And the guy goes open your
cooler and I opened it, and I smiled and he
goes go ahead, and my heart was like, thank you.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Sir, and I close it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I ran like hell, but it was heavy, but you know,
we got in there. But it was a great concert.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I was so impressed because they all had big high
heels on yes and.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Running up and down and I said, Jesus, I'm a
girl and I can't even do that.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
That concert was great. But the best concert I ever
went to the Wiggles. Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Yeah, I can't say that I've been to a Wiggles show.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Let me tell you. Parked the car, had my kids
with me. They were tiny, saw two Wiggles walking across
the street. We grabbed those kids and drug them down
the street to get the Wiggles and.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Take the picture with them. And they were the nicest
and they rocked and I loved them.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
And it's the only time I really marked out because
my kids were so happy.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
I was just going to say, you marked out for
the Wiggles.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Totally marked out. Oh my god. I knew their names.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
We took their pictures, they touched my kids, and then
at the thing, my daughter gave the bow to the
girl and she wore the bow and it was just
as a parent. That made my heart so happy. So
that was my favorite concert that I've ever been to.
But I haven't been too many because I have anxiety.
I always feel like, if I'm in a out and
I have to pee, I'm going to keep my pants
(47:02):
because I can't get to a bath room. Okay, I
have problems now that you could just wear an adult
viper and you're good to go.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
But back in the day, I see some of your
posts that you put up there on the old Twitter machine.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Have you got?
Speaker 4 (47:14):
You got things going? They got that this ended cameras
down your throat.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Oh I didn't even do that yet. I'm freaking out
about that. And now a urologist wants to see me.
So now I have urology. A G I an O
G B Y. I got everything going on? Everything? Yeah,
just say a prayer.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
For me, because I'm sure you'll be okay. Your hardcore,
you're extreme, You're extreme.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Have you gotten the upper and lower gimmick yet?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Have you gotten the upper and lower? Given? I feel
like you should have taken a drag off of a
cigarette then ended it with brother. Have you got the
upper and lower yet?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Has?
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Actually? Actually, I got the camera shoved up my butt
because I had something happened to me about a year
ago that scared scared me.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Blood in your.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Blood, like bad blood. I thought I was gonna bleed
out and I got to the hospital. Was no, no,
it was. I never took pain pills in my whole life,
you know, and that which is a miracle coming out
of E CW. But what I did take for the
pain all my career were advill and a leave. Well,
I guess just after twenty five years of advil and
(48:28):
a leave, it doesn't it doesn't sit right with you
and you get like these blood pockets that'll build up.
Why why is your mouth dropped open right now? You okay?
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Because my doctor just asked me what do you take
at night for pain? I said, I take one a
leave and he said, stop taking that.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It's going to destroy your stomach.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
It can, Yeah, it definitely can. Honestly though, Franny, I
don't think one is going to do it.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
One.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
I mean I was swallowing. I was swallowing like four
or five a night to deal with the pain. So
because I never wanted to get on percocets or you know,
any of that stuff. So what happened to a lot
of the guys. But yeah, after twenty five years of
taking it, finally caught of me. And I'm and I'm
bleeding like crazy. So they told me, uh, you know
(49:21):
tomorrow you're going to go in for uh what's the thing?
When they shove it up the butt?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
I think it's a lower colonoscopy, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Okay? Yeah, So I'm in the the the room of
the exam room with five female nurses. Now you want
to feel vulnerable, You're naked in a hospital gown. But
why you're flipped over on your side and trying to
(49:49):
make chit chat?
Speaker 1 (49:51):
What are you talking about the weather? I don't are
you putting yourself over to them telling them?
Speaker 4 (49:59):
Yeah, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Out.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
I didn't hit it with the old Do you know
how who I am? When I was face down? Ass up? Uh?
But this was funny. So the lady who uh uses
the uh you know, the stuff to put you to sleep?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
The thing?
Speaker 4 (50:16):
I think the thing? Yeah, anesthesiologist. So I look at
the size of the needle she has that she's gonna
pump into me my IV And I'm wondering to myself,
is this gonna be enough. So I said to her,
I'm like, excuse me, ma'am, do you really think you
have enough in there for somebody my size? And she's like, Oh,
(50:39):
don't worry about it, You're gonna be fine. This is
And I remember looking at the clock and it was
two minutes to twelve noon and I said to myself,
I wonder if she's gonna And then I woke up
in the recovery room. That's how quick it knocked me out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Yeah, I'm just scared because it's upper lower. And then
the scope because he goes, oh, we have to get
a scope.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
See. I had five surgeries on my stomach.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Five two were sea sections, three were to repair my
abdominal region. Right, I've had a surgery twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, so three consecutive years they worked on the
same part. And the third year they put a mesh
panel over my abs to hold them together. Now I'm
(51:31):
getting to the point where where I when I eat
something pain, I'm in pain, and I'm bloated. I always
look like I'm pregnant. And you know as well as
I do. If you go into the gym and you
work out. You see results on every single body part
except for the mid section, and my mid section looks
(51:52):
like I'm three months pregnant.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I'm sick of it. So I wanted to go to
the doctor see what's going on. Initially, he said.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
You have so much scar tissue built up that it's
never going to go away. And he said in the bloating,
we don't know, so we have to do you know,
we want to do the upper and lower and then
we want to do the scope and see what's going
on and see if you.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Have an ulcer.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
Maybe that's triggering what's you know, happening down there.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I don't know when.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Anytime I eat, it could be a cracker or it
could be a seven course meal.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Fat as a house.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
And it's annoying because I'm trying to stay in cheap
and look good for fifty one. But you get this
part of you that you can't control, and so it's
it's put me in a little bit of a depression
because I'm not pregnant and I look pregnant.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
I saw you the other day, you look good.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I'm thick. When when was you thick? You know?
Speaker 4 (52:52):
I don't agree with you.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Well, look I appreciate it, but the next time I'll
let you. I'd be part of the Fat and the Fat,
Fat Furious.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Team Fat the Furious, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
God, terrible.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Anyway, I'm going to get it checked out. I'm gonna
let you know how it goes. I do want to
come on your show one night and we'll sit here
tell the people where they can find you. I mean
we just kind of talked about it, but on the
Twitter machine and everywhere else.
Speaker 4 (53:21):
I don't even know my handles.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
I think you're at Bully Ray is real.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
It's real Bully fifty one fifty okay on the Twitter machine,
and then on Instagram it's Bully Ray Team three D
Academy or something like that. I don't even know. You
probably find me at your local McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
I don't think we follow each other on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (53:42):
You want me to follow you? Yeah, that's what shit
starts getting serious.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Follow me everywhere? Yes, you need followers. We need to follow.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Each other, all right, one day we'll go get drunk.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, we have to figure well, definitely WrestleMania weekend, yes,
but that's far away.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I did invite you to my Burgatta event.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
I was busy doing a job.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
You were busy job into a girl. That's okay, I understand. Listen,
this was great. I want to have you back on.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
In the future.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Well anytime we.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Didn't, we hardly scratched the surface. I kept you fifteen
minutes later.
Speaker 1 (54:16):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Why don't we have you on Busted Open on a Wednesday?
Because every Wednesday we do Women of Wednesday, women who
have affected the wrestling business in a positive way. So
let's have you on. We'll talk about Duran, Duran, Atlanta
and getting blitzed. I love it.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
I hope to see you soon. We'll keep in touch.
I love you, and I thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
You're welcome, everybody.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
This is Bubbaray Dudley, my friend. Take care baby, bye bye.
All right, that was a good one. That was a
fun one.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
I didn't expect the bleeding from the a hole at
the end, but you know that's always on.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Jim that nobody else probably touched on it this business.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
So that's the headline, Face down, ass Up Bully Ray
with five women.
Speaker 1 (55:07):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
Yeah, it's kind of like the Tony Storm thing sits
out shoe watch for the shoe, but face down, ass up.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
It's great as somebody who can sit here and always
listen to guys and gals like self. Yeah, history fly
on the wall. I love it. I could listen to
you guys talk for hours.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
We could have did that for hours because there's so
much history between us. And for everybody who says he's
not a nice guy, he really is a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
Like I just don't.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
I don't know, maybe because I've known him for so long.
I just feel like he gets a bad rap, but
tremendous worker, even better person.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
So so throwed that he came on, and I think
for our first I heeart episode, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
Absolutely so happy to have had him.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
He broke the cherry.
Speaker 4 (55:57):
Yeah that's right. I'm gonna say it's a New York thing.
I have to say.
Speaker 3 (56:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and
just say some people may not understand what it's like
in the Northeast, the New York attitude. Some people are
in your face. I mean I had you know coaches
like that growing up that they're in your face.
Speaker 4 (56:15):
Yeah, and you might not like it. They tell it
like it is. You know. I was afraid if I
said boo.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
He was gonna say shut up, but I was gonna
say hey, I didn't want to say a word for
you're a coach or bubba no bubba.
Speaker 4 (56:25):
I know, okay, but no.
Speaker 3 (56:27):
I mean, I think that's a lot of the criticism
is that they're afraid. I think people that they don't
get the New York attitude. And he's got it and
he's the man. I mean, what can you say?
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah, No, he's great, He's been a friend forever. And
great episode. Great first episode. So please guys, leave your feedback,
let us know what you thought, and please subscribe. If
you had not subscribed to this channel, you know this podcast.
Please subscribe wherever you listen to podcast. And you know,
(57:00):
I am again I keep saying this, but I am
so happy to finally be recording for iHeart and I
just hope it. You know, we have many, many, even better.
Speaker 1 (57:11):
Episodes in the future. I don't know how you can
beat this one. This one was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
They're going to be coming fat and furiously the fat,
fat and furious.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
I'm the I'm the second fat.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I don't like to call people fat, but I feel
like I'm blowed it all the time and it's sad.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
But anyway, don't feel that way. I know.
Speaker 2 (57:30):
Anyway, Chadster, where can people find you if they want
to follow you on social media?
Speaker 4 (57:36):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Yeah, you can find me on Twitter. It's at Chad
I A N B SO Chad E and B on Twitter.
On Instagram it's at IB Exclusives, which I also have
a website that is called IB Exclusives and it's just
very simple ibexclusives dot com. And you can find me
here on ice of here.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
November eleventh, Virginia Beach, for Virginia, I'll be signing from
eleven a m. To one pm at the Virginia Beach
Field House.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
A plethora of sports stars there. I believe I might
be the only female.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
I don't know. I'm the only female in the picture,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
I believe you will be the only female, only female there.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
You never know who's going to pop up at these things.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
But like I said earlier, I don't get the Virginia
Beach often, so please, if you are in the area,
come down and say hi.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
I'd love to see you. And Virginia Beach.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Sports card, comic book, Pokemon and Collectible's expo.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
Can I also add for wrestling fans, Rick Flair's Starkade
eighty three robe will also be in attendance. You have
to share the wrestling spotlight.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
You know what, it's Rick Flair. I'll share it with him.
I'm going to give a big WU if.
Speaker 1 (58:59):
I see that to try it on.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
Talking about can I, you think the doubt it's probably
gonna be behind plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (59:05):
Oh it's for sale.
Speaker 4 (59:07):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
No, No, it's just a show off piece. Okay. Anyway,
if you want to follow me on social media, I am.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
At ECW Diva Franccene on Instagram and on Twitter, and
I also have a YouTube page and you can find
that at ECW Diva Franccene as well with an exclamation
point at the end.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
So go over there and subscribe.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Subscribe to this podcast on iHeart and until next time,
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