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September 2, 2025 50 mins

Step back into ECW history with this special Eyes Up Here watch-along! Francine and Chad revisit the unforgettable clash between Shane Douglas (with Francine) and Tommy Dreamer (with Beulah McGillicutty) from Terry Funk’s WrestleFest: 50th Anniversary Show. Relive one of the most memorable nights in hardcore wrestling history, with behind-the-scenes insight, stories you won’t hear anywhere else, and Francine’s firsthand perspective from ringside.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hm m. Hey everyone in many are listening to Eyes

(00:36):
up here with you know I are great network or podcast.
As always, I he joined by my host Da. What's up?
H I'm doing well? How about you?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh man? I'm living a dream?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are you? As in?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
As in you know, busy weekend? Beautiful weekend? Okay, nice boy,
the nice weather hung out on the porch and a
couple of drinks runs over.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
What were we drinking?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
They brought over some truly's they were I have stopped
drinking like the Seltzers because I just don't think they
taste that great. But this one wasn't bad. It was
some orange coction.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I don't know. I like orange.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I of anything orange. I'm a sucker for the orange
orange crush. It wasn't crush. It was like a blood
orange or something.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh okay, all right, sounds good. You know, the last
time I was at my in last house, they're they're
getting up there in age. I think my mother in
law's like eighty two. My father in law's like eighty one,
something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
We won't hold that against them, though.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
No, No, they're great and I love hanging out with them.
They're fun and she you know, she's a breast cancer survivor,
and so she doesn't drink alcohol anymore, and to support her,
my father in law doesn't drink anymore. And when I
say drink, i'm they were they liked a wine, right.
So we're all sitting in the one room in the

(02:10):
house and she says to me, you know, when if
we go into assistant living someday, you're gonna have to
take a walk around the house and you know, tag
what you want, put your name on things. And I
go what She goes, Yeah, you know, get a sticky

(02:31):
note or whatever, and just tell me what you want
in here. And so my sister in law is like, well,
I already have this and this and this my name,
and so I'm looking around. I said, I only want
one thing. I said, I'd like that wine rack. If
you guys aren't going to drink wine anymore, I'd really
like that wine rack. And it was like a I
don't know, it's cute. It had like a table on
the top that you can put something on or whatever.

(02:53):
But it was green. And my father in law is
very handy. He goes to like all these flea markets
and stuff, and he'll pick up beat up stuff like
beat up rocking chairs, beat up team, and he restores everything.
And so I told him, I said, well I need
that in black, and he goes matter shining, and I

(03:17):
was like a matte black will do great because we
have a black and white room in the den. So
I'm getting a new wine rack, not furbished. So I
love it. So I've become a kind of like a wino.
I don't have any wine in the house, but I
plan to become a whino because when I got rack,
I'm gonna go to the liquor store and I'm gonna

(03:37):
buy about twelve bottles of vino and I'm gonna put
them on my rack, and I'm gonna put like some
nice pictures, maybe a little flower. I'm really excited about
this wine rack. And I said to myself, you know,
I'm fifty three years old. Is it a crime to
have a glass of wine at night while you're partaking
in a movie with your spouse or chilling watching some

(04:01):
reality TV? Does that make me like a drunk if
I start to drink a glass of wine a day,
because technically I don't drink when I'm home. I've said
this a bunch of times. Once in a blue moon,
I might have a drink. I usually drink on the road.
But I'll tell you what, I don't have any shows
coming up for a very time. So I'm like, I

(04:22):
got this wine rack. I want to fill it with wine.
I like, I want to drink some wine.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
You gotta fill it. You get the wine rack, you
gotta fill it. I mean, I got I got two
over here next to me. There's one little two wine racks.
You gotta fill them.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I like wine now, and again, I don't like the
dry wines. They have to be on the fruity side.
I like, I like them sweet, you know, a little
bit of sugar nut.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Anyway, we're big on the pino in this house. Yeah see,
but so we have all, like all the red wines
that we have. Yeah, they're all like when people come
to the house, go here's here's a wine for you.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
So those are the ones that usually tend to sit
there and collect on the rack. So when we fill
in the spots for the ones that we want, but
the filler spots go to the ones that people bring
be like, oh here's the wine, oh thank you, right
on the rack.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, you could always offer that to your guest and
see if they bite, and then that's how you use
it up.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Also, oh you have a new house. Oh look, you
got through a bottle of wine.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
All right. Wine is one of the best gifts you
can get. I remember my at my dad's funeral. We're Catholic,
so it was it was at church, and I never
would drink the wine because I think it's disgusting. It's
so gross to drink the chalice that forty million strangers.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh but you just go like this and it's fine.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
But they wipe, Yeah, they do the little the little
schmudge of the wipe. But I'm just like, dude, you
know that's terrible. So I never would drink the wine.
But at his I drank the wine because it was
all my family, Like, you know whatever, It's still gross,
but I drank it right. Not gross that it's Christ's blood,
gross that stranger's mouth are on the chalice that I'm

(06:12):
drinking out of. But I remember this. It was red wine,
and I hate red wine. This wine was absolutely delicious,
and I remember telling my husband. I was like, Wow,
that wine was so good, and he goes, he goes
ask the priest what brand it was, I go.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
I will not them like, hey, hey, I got a
question for you. Yes, yeah, where'd you get that stuff?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
My child? What kind of wine do you hear? I
couldn't you know? I here. I am a blubbering mask
because I took my dad's death so hard, because you know,
he died. I was holding him when he died, so
it really affected me. But I'll never forget like sipping
that wine and thinking, wow, this is red wine. I
hate red wine, but it was so good. It was
nice and sweet and it was really good. It wasn't

(06:56):
grape juice. It was wine. But I said, this is
not the time nor the place to ask the priest
brand of wine.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I know, I'm not big. I'm not big on
the red.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I don't like the red. I've never found a red
that I liked except for that one day in church,
and I never found out what it was. So I
love sangria. I love white. I'll drink rad if I
have to, But I love the white sangria. But the
fruity wines. I found an excellent watermelon. There's a berry
that I like. So I'm very excited about the wine rack.

(07:28):
And I think a glass of wine at night wouldn't
help me on wine and relax. No, I don't do drugs.
I don't smoke weed. What's wrong with a glass of wine?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
What's wrong with a glass of wine?

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Once once that rack gets here, I'll let you know.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean when we go to the winery for
our trivia, I mean, that's fine. They have they have
this one. I wish I could remember the name because
they you know, they grow it all on site, right
they all the wine is uh, you know, it's all
the get the how they whatever, how ever the hell
you do wine? But this one is like stronger than

(08:11):
the other and versus like us buying the bottle and
then having it for the table. You can only get
a glass of this one because this one knocks you
on your.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Ass a high alcohol count.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, holy Shnikey's. I forget the name of it though,
Oh man, what the hell is the name of it? Well,
I will it's all like, next time you come here,
we'll take you to the winery. I would love.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I've never been to a winery.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
This one is great.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I think it would be fun to like sample
wines and have some. Do they give you like a
little charcotery board.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
And get well, you buy it, you can buy that.
During trivia they give us popcorn though, you know they
get it's nice.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, yeah, I would definitely if I if I come
in May, maybe we can do that.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah. The funniest thing about this is this beautiful grounds, right, beautiful,
but it's located across the highway from and I'm not
saying this in a disparaging way, so please don't at me.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Dick alert in three two one.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's located across from a mobile home park. Okay, Okay,
which did I say there was anything wrong with it?
It's just that no, No, I'm just saying it's funny
that you've got this beautiful, like sprawling ground winery and
then across from it along the highway. Okay, it's this

(09:38):
mobile home park. Location. It's just location is weird something location.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
There are several different types of mobile home parks. There
are the ones that are you see in the movies
like eight Mile, right, which are the ships, and then
there are ones that are the the mobile homes cost
five hundred thousand dollars. Well, these don't costs by the land,

(10:05):
and they're absolutely beautiful. You know, let me hold on
on YouTube because I watch YouTube every day because I'm
a housewife and if I'm not working and i'm done
my cleaning, there's nothing to do, you know. I play
with my kids and I watch YouTube.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
I have taken these virtual tours of these mobile homes
four hundred thousand, five hundred bigger than my house that
I have now.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Absolutely gorgeous homes. Yeah, unbelievable. The advancements that they've made,
like five thousand square feet. It's like what I mean,
I don't know, like I would think they depreciate quicker
than a regular house would, but man, are they beautiful.

(11:01):
You gotta take a look through.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I have seen. I know what you're talking about. I
know me Again, I'm just pointing out location is odd
for which everyone came first. I'm going to say that
the mobile home park was probably their first, and then
the winery built afterwards.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, so what you're saying is the poores from the
mobile home park don't cross the street and go to
the winery.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
I haven't seen that's what you're saying. I haven't seen many,
but you know you're terrible.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm just saying it's across the street.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's all I'm saying, listen, people live to their means,
not everybody, you Chadster.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I listen. The Chadster estate here is.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I should have a dickhead counter, and every time you
say something that is obnoxious, one one for this episode,
we should have a counter, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
I mean again, I was just saying again, We're just
saying location, but not everybody. When will you come here
in May? We will absolutely go to the winery.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Not everybody is as blessed as you or I. And
you know, there's nothing wrong with living in a trailer
park or living in a wherever you live.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
It's you know, do what you can agree with you.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, you're still getting a one for the dickhead response,
because that would there you go. I don't know, I
I but I do changing like changing the trajectory of
this negativity. I think a winery would be a lot
of fun. I've never seen one. I've seen people do
it on TV. I always say to myself, hmm, I

(12:55):
would like to do that. The more I get into wine,
now I'm not you know, I don't know how to
swosh it and smell it out. I don't know. I
just know what tastes good. I want a little bit
of a buzz. I want to have some crackers and cheese.
I want to do it all.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
So book it booked it?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Look me at a winery. Can somebody book me at
a winery? I would wear the prettiest sun dress and
look adorable and I get to like have some wine
and cheesey.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
How great would that be?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
A wrestling event held at a winery?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Can somebody booked that? Because I really feel like the
fancy would come out of me and I would really
like it. So let's get on that promoter. I would
love it. What a what a concept you should look
into that you promote. Let's get that done. Talk to
your winery.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I would talk to you know, Bob. I think Bob
will be down with that.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
I listen.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I tried to sway Bob into some wrestling questions for trivia.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I think, oh my god, stop, we don't even need
a show. I can be a host for wrestling trivia
at the winery. Can you can you pitch that to.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Working yourself and do a payday down here?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Is there an email address for Bob that we can
get all the fans to tell him.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Bob at the Bob at the Winery dot com. I
love it, Bob, do it Bob and Umberto.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Just mention it to him. I can draw people in there,
wrestling fans like wine.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
It was it was on Berto's birthday last week.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Who's in Burco?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Umberto? He's the bartender behind him.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Hopefully I meet him when I do my hosting gig
at the at the Wine the Winery. Get this done.
You know, it could be a double shot for me.
If I'm already coming down for that one booking, I
can have two.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Are you're gonna say a double shot of wine?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I could do that too. I can do it all.
All right, enough about my wine versions. We're doing something
different today, Yeah, not totally different, but something we don't
do too often. We're going to do a watch along
and some commentary. But we're going back in time because

(15:15):
I haven't been in a ringing quite a few years.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
If I could turn back time.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
If I could turn back time.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Top five share songs.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
What match do you have it that you pull it out?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
We are going back to Amarillo, Texas. September eleventh, nineteen
ninety seven. Awesome The fifty Years of Funk, one of
many of Terry Funk's retirements, but this one had a
full show wrapped around it, with many of the ECW
stars on the actual wrestle Fest card.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
The fifteen years first retirement.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I can tell you that the retirements like this was
just one of many, is all I can tell you.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Because you know, we all thought that this was the
end for Terry. Little did we know it was not.
But yeah, this was something. Obviously he was in ECW
at the time, and a lot of us went there
to work this show. I remember being on an airplane

(16:33):
going to Amarillo and Brett Hart was on my flight,
sitting with us, and I remember, I want to say,
Balls Mahoney was on my flight, or maybe it wasn't Balls.
Was Balls at this show? Yes, okay, then Balls was
on my flight. Was Shane on my flight? I don't remember,

(16:57):
but there was a bunch of ECW people and Brett Hart,
and let me tell you, the turbulence was.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
So bad, really so bad.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
And I remember freaking out, and I remember Brett and
he'll never remember this, and he I don't think he
remembers even needing me. But I remember Brett just laughing,
staring at me and laughing because I thought we were
going to die. The plane was a rocket and it
was just like the boys were egging me on because

(17:28):
I didn't like flying. I still don't like flying to
this day. It scares the shit out of me. But
we were hitting air pocket after air pocket and just
dropping and dropping and rocking, and I really thought we
were gonna die. And I was like, could you imagine
if this flight goes down so much? Talent on the

(17:49):
airplane would be dead forbid? Absolutely, But you know when
you're on it and you're experience in it like it was.
The was one of the worst flights, and I was
just I was scared shitless. I was just like, oh
my god, please don't let I'm praying and people are
laughing at me. And but yeah, Brett and his family

(18:15):
were there, his brothers, I think Stu is even there.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
It was a.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Lot of talent.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
There corner in the actual matter.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I think Bruce kind of took a liking to me,
very nice to me. But I remember shaking Stu's hand,
and the grip on that old gentleman was enough to
kill you. Like he had the strongest, firmest handshake. I
think one of the strongest I've ever experienced. In my life.

(18:53):
But it was a fun, fun weekend. I remember being
in my hotel room trying to get some pop music
on the radio, and all I could find was country
music because I'm in Amarillo, Texas. We got to go
to the ranch, the Double Cross Ranch, and we got
to have like a cookout with the family. It was

(19:15):
just a great, great time, very very special to be
included in that. And I loved Terry. You know, Terry.
I've said it a million times. Terry was great. He
was very intent in the ring, and sometimes he was
wild card and he would do things that weren't talked
about because he was a little Yeah, we're all a

(19:39):
little crazy, but when he got out there, he was
just like one hundred times ramped up, you know what
I mean. But I loved him a great man. So
was this was special to be included.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Do you know how the talent was selected at all?

Speaker 1 (19:59):
No. I was just told we're going to the Double
Cross Ranch, and I was like really, and they're like, yeah,
Terry's retiring, So yeah, I don't I don't know. I
mean it made sense. I guess Terry worked with Shane, Yeah,
and Terry was really close with Tommy Dreamer, so it

(20:20):
made sense that they went. And then you know, myself
and Bulah were aligned with Shane and Tommy, so we
were going. But I don't I don't know how that
card was put together. I don't know who put that
card together. I don't know if it was just Terry,
I don't know. I was never told that. I was

(20:41):
just told you're going.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah. I mean I remember when this show actually took place,
and you know, and they announced Brett was going to
be on the show, and that was such a huge thing,
and you knew there would be some ECW involvement, and
then they had others from outside. You know, you had
Puerto Rico representation, you had the Japanese representation, all honoring Funk.
But the ECW representation, I mean, I'll go down the

(21:05):
card too, and we can mention who was in it.
You could tell it's some of like I think some
of the e CW guys that maybe you know, held
higher positions perhaps.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
See I mean, well, you know, you want to I
hate to say this, but you want to draw. You
want your house to draw. So if you're going to
do something like a big show, you're gonna get top talent.
You know what I mean, like you want to draw
a house, so you know that that might have been

(21:35):
a factor as well. Was this the show that that
referee was trying to get on? Okay, we did talk
about that once when he was kind of like trying
to maneuver his way onto the card.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, that's the classic from beyond the beyond the mat,
Beyond the mat and a stamp jumping on the trampoline.
You know, I'm not booked, that's the whole. Yeah, he's
the referee of the main event for Brett and Funk,
but I'll go down the card. So again, ECW represented
more than anybody because that's where Funk was at the time.

(22:13):
But opening match Wing Kamara Kindamara versus Roadkill Taz versus
Chris Candido. Match for the ECW World Television Championship. Shark
tossy ya tatsa ya ya. I don't know how to
say this versus Lady Couga, the young Bloods versus the Bushwhackers,

(22:39):
Ball's Mahoney with the Saldman versus Bubba A Dudleyman. But
it was originally advertised as I think it was supposed
to be Balls versus the Samman. On the original card,
but this was balls with the Saldman defeating Bubba uh

(23:01):
Dory Funk versus Rob Van Dam Mankind versus Saboo, which
is again that's another great callback to their feud for
me CW as Cactus Jack, but Mankind being his WWF
character and being so close to Funk. And on this
show then you got Hakushi Hayabusa Masado Tanaka versus the

(23:21):
Headhunters and Jake Roberts and and then at the main
event Brett Hart.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
And Terry Funk and you forgot our match.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
And well, I was gonna say it without question, Shane.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Where did we place on this You were six six.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
And that was a singles match for the ECW Heavyweight
Championship Champion, Shane Douglas versus challenger Tommy Dreamer.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, now I have not watched this match in years,
So again, right now I'm drawing a blank. But it
always jars my memory when you pull stuff up. So see,
I do remember uh being there, I don't remember what

(24:04):
we did. See. I look like I'm going to a winery.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Not dress that is that is a very winery ish.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Very nice dress for you. I like that dress a lot.
That was velvet. Is it velvet?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
George Constanza, you're gonna drape yourself in velvet? Velvet?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah? No, pads greenery? Is that fake turf?

Speaker 3 (24:30):
We're on again fair ground, so it might as well
be up. Shane's got the mic.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
We know he's gonna probably say something very productive, very
nice about the crowd in Amarillo and Terry Funk if
he mentioned funk.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Can you turn this up?

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Alott Yeah, out Justice.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't wonder he goes are awful?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
God damn thing? Is that necessary? The great line? Gotta
bring up funk.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
About bring.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well said? Well said? But like I had mentioned before,
you know, he's right there in the middle of his reign.
So in the middle of that rain, that's what he
was up. Here we go a little bit more. Tell me.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Glass, I don't very old at the time. Oh my god,

(26:21):
I'm cutting three good.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Lord, let's say you know that's oh well, there's some
conflicting news right there. So eastw in Texas. I mean,
did you guys work there often?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
No, you never went there? Right, No, we did a
great line?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Whoop you yeah? Oh stop. It might as well have
a shirt that says Amarilla's number one disgusting babyface. I

(27:30):
see there's what what did she.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Say she sees there's I'm thinking she was nothing. Yeah,
I think there's something like that. Oh, there we go
hit him right in the I.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Mean, here we go, very pro e c W crowd.
I might add, you know.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
You think you're going to a nice Terry Funk retirement
show and here you are hearing about little dicks.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know what I can't understand, Like people pay eight
dollars for a beer and then you just hand it
to them, let them use it. I'd be like, no,
I want to drink my beer. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
I can do agree. And you know, I guess that's
like sharing the Communion wine when Tommy Dreamer drinks your beer.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
I guess. But he never got it back, the poor guy.
It was a full beer, I guess, just to be
a part of the show, you know. Dribble, dribble, dribble,
bounce in his head.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Okay, so now that's a great camera angle of Shane's
head bouncing off of the mat, right, because that's an
awkward move to do sometimes. Yes, Okay, Now, this past
weekend at WWE's Clash at the Castle, or whatever the
hell they call the class in France. Whatever it was.
Meanie face McGee got exposed big time because the camera

(28:51):
was right up on her. Yeah, as they were bouncing
her face off the announced table and all you could
see was her hands. Oh bouncing off of the announced table.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Should have went wide.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Oh my god. Should have gone from behind like ten
miles away like they did for that camera shot.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh look at that dropkick with the chair to Tommy
Dreamer's face. Nice move by Shane Douglass.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Might I add, Shane dropkick gotta be on the list
of some of the best of that era?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do you think so?

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
I think you're just biased.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I am not. I'm not go watch off that. I
do love that coth but no, go watch. Even in
his WWF era in the early nineties, his dropkick was
on point.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right, Okay, several photographers at ringside for this kept
getting in the way. I kept telling them, get the
hell out of here. Are different also to see.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
That's a fair ground guard rail right.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
There going through the crowd.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Oh, very nice goes after Beulah. She runs. She's not
brave like me, I must say. I know he's trying
to woo her.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
But you know, you got really like I said, you've
got the Puerto Rico representation, you've got the Japanese representation,
you've got the heavy ECW representation. And then to add
the WWF guys onto this show.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Brilliant.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
In ninety seven, this was probably the biggest show of
the year.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
This was almost a four thousand people house, you know
what I mean, Like, that's that's pretty good. I think, oh, absolutely,
look for an indie show, so to speak, because that's
what it was, an indie show with top talent on it.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
And I'd probably put Brett and Shane right there.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Excuse me, all right, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Bret and Shane probably in that one two maybe one
two three in the top heels of ninety seven spot.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I thought I did. I thought Change was gonna leave
him for me. He did not. Hold on. Hold on
very good, very good. Always work the k me, always
go for the knee. Yeah, I mean, you know, Change
the World Heavyweight Champion here, So he's he's top dog
in he c W right now right bright hard, always

(31:25):
top dog in w w F. One of the top dogs.
Tommy Dreamer, always a top tier talent, you know. Oh,
here here comes a spot. Let's let's let's do something here.
Uh go take them? Here we go, lay down, lay down, bitch.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
There we go and a gown.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Heels come on in a gown and heels. Mind you?

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Uh oh, how's he coming after? If you went out?
If you're working the leg?

Speaker 1 (31:57):
He grabs me. How dare you? Yeah, he's limping, he's
selling it. Oh perfect. I bake them, I hook them,
I reel them in. We get them every time. I
loved being a heel so good.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Bam, yes, guardrails open right there.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know, you could ask the question what chairs were
hurt more, the metal or those plastic. Those plastic ones
were brutal.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
So which chairs hurt?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Bend the plastic the the metal ones they would bend
the plastic ones they didn't give. I don't know they
I think they're both contenders here. Oh I think he
got them in the huh? How cool is that the
chair remained on his uh, his knee As he gets

(32:55):
up and starts to limp away, the chair is still there,
so we uh And then the snot rockets there. There
has never been a Shamee Douglas match without a snot rocket.
I told him utterly despicable.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Wow, three minutes were made in this match, so excuse me?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Was it ten limits?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Must have been a ten minute time limit, time limit. Yeah,
to squeeze everything on this show.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, you know, maybe some people before us went a
little long.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
The bushwhackers need their time.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
And you know, like this wasn't stream like we didn't
have the streaming services. Could you imagine this would have
made so much money?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Oh hell yeah, if you can stream.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
It for like twenty bucks or something, this would have
made a killing back then. But it was just on.
I guess they just sold, you know, sold it.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
This got the fourth longest amount of time on the show,
the fourth.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Should we should have had the second amount.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
The main event got the longest.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
That referee turned around too quickly.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh oh oh whoa hey.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yes, how dare you get her? Get her that cheating bitch?

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Oh no, oh, cradle.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
That's okay. I kept him just the right amount of time.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Come on.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Now, I'll give you this too. And we mentioned this,
uh as we were transitioning Joey Styles not being there.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
I don't think he was there.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I just from knowing the commentary. I wouldn't think he
is either, but giving it his all. On the commentary
for this track, Ah.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh, I gave him little kiss.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's right, you cost him backfired.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Hey, I'm motivating. I uplift my people. Oh no, come on,
those are punches. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Oh man, body drop nice. We'll send them out of
the ring on that one.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Let's go. Let's go. No, a little bulldog. Oh so close,
so close up?

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Back on the apron again.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Come on, I gotta do my work. I got it
on my keet. You know what I'm saying. Let's go.
The girls better do something here. When I say the girls,
I mean me.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Look at that. Wow, breaking the eyes there, you love.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Breaking the eyes In Amarillo, Texas, I sent a calf fight.
Oh no, listen to the people.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Listen to this. Ain't your terry in Dory Funk classic
Right here.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
She's dead. I'm choking the hell out of her. She's dead.
Oh no, oh no, that's right, that's right. Get her.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Nope, she's done.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Bye bitch, bitch, bye.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Bad my god, shut up. Announcer Joey Styles.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
No, no.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
The announcer in the background keeps talking.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, do I smell a belly?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
To belly coming I do whoa wah, good night Beulah.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, no, no, come on, come on, no no, so
many false tinistions.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
This is a world title match.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
So he doesn't Oh wow, he uses his maneuver. No way,
get out of here. Oh no again, get out of here, bitch.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
I think the girls are taking some abuse on this show.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Don't pop out my boobs.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
This is Terry Funk retirement show. You're done, I'm dead. Well,
wait a second, Dreamer, don't celebrate too long.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah, I will say Tommy always protected me on that
pile driver.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
One two. That's it, But at what cost?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I'm lying dead? Hello?

Speaker 3 (37:52):
You know what the last match we watched, Shane was
dead and you were fine.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Think of me sometimes.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Wow, man, I have observation about this one. When we're done.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Okay, Yeah, every every bump that I took from Dreamer, though,
I have to say he protected the girls. He really did.
It was it was a pleasure working with those two.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Let's pull this carcass out of the ring here. Joey said,
he you can need a squeegee.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
A squeegee. I just I'm dead. At least my asses
and hanging out. Usually it is at this point, you.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Know, wow, man, that was awesome.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
That was fun. I get got five stars.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Meltzer, Well, you know, if it was better lighting, maybe
he would have given the five stars.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
He probably gave this one one in a quarterstar.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
So let me ask you this, did you get You
were there every night I've seen accelerated because of the
ten minute time limit.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
You know, I don't even remember there being a time
limit on this match, to be honest with you. And
why would there be a time limit? Did we have
to get out of the building at a certain time?

Speaker 3 (39:14):
He the announcer said something about two minutes remaining, two
minutes remaining, and then something like before people.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Are escorted from the ring, meaning us.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Like, what is the guy with the hook gonna come
and drag you guys out if you guys don't get
out in two minutes.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
I don't I you know, I don't know. Maybe the
only thing I can think of because it wasn't TV right,
so it wasn't like we were going off the air
in five minutes or something. Only thing I can think
of is maybe we had to be out of the
building by a certain time. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Match times are weird. Opening match five minutes, tas In
Candido seven, even the Bushwhackers nine minutes. You guys got
nine to fifty eight. Uh tez excuse me, Dory Funk
and RBD eleven thirty two, Saboo and uh Cactus Jack
nine oh six, and the main event is twenty five twelve.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well, of course they're going to give Terry all the time,
right because it's his show and his retirement. But there
had to be a reason. Maybe they just wanted everybody
out of the building at a certain time. I don't know,
I don't remember. It's weird, yeah, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
But it just seemed like I know, again, I've seen
a million Dreamer and Shaine matches. I love that one,
and I think it's a great match, but it just
seems like the pace there at the end, they're just
boom boom, Yeah, super fast paced.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Well, if if you have people with their little stop watches,
you know, I guess you want to be as accurate
as you can be if there is a ten minute
time when or whatever amount of time. But I honestly
don't remember. I don't really remember much of that match
at all. Like watching it back, I know I was there,

(41:06):
but there's it's so weird, like I don't know if
it's because I hit my head a lot and maybe
my memories jarred some matches. I can go over and
tell you, piece my piece, step by step, what I
did this one. I really don't remember it all, which

(41:26):
is so bizarre to me. Interesting, But I remember going
to the ranch and having the cookout and all that
stuff leading up to this night. But I don't really
remember this night too much. I couldn't tell you what
the locker room looked like. I don't remember. That's kind
of scary to me.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
What do you remember? What do you remember about Terry
Funk's banquet from the night before?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
I didn't the banquet, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
The Terry Funk retirement banquet. What do you remember about it?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Are you talking about the one that they had in Philly?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Is that the Philly one? Or am I get again that?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah? No, there wasn't one.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
I'mused, Okay, I'm getting in confused with the Philly.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
We're confused, and we weren't invited to that banquet because
we were in a feud with him at the time, So.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
All right, that was That's right, it was before barely legal.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, it didn't to be there, so we were not invited,
so we didn't go. Eight. I I know it does,
but I was pissed. I wanted to go. I went
to bor A with Bubba and Devon.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
That makes even more sense that that sounds like fun
to me.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yeah, we had a good time.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
How about this, If you look at it, you had
the w W Champion, Brett Hart, Heel, Shane Douglas, ECW
World Champion Heel, the w CW World Champion at the time,
Heel Hulk Hogan. So all three we're gonna say Haul
Cogan was at the show.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
I was gonna say, no, no.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
No, All three major companies in September ninety seven have
a heel world champ.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, interesting, it's where it's at.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Man, he was rue babyface.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Well, it also goes to show you how at that time,
you know, people were pushing that kind of badass heel
as like you know, this is the way, you know,
we're gonna start moving in the counter Like Austin was
the guy chasing the champion. You know, Sean Michaels was
going up against Brett on TV. He was the tweener,

(43:28):
you know, they were starting to do the sucket and
all that stuff. And you guys, obviously with your crude
just terrible for children content that you.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Had really wasn't me as much as Shane.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Oh you were in that current affair piece. Okay, I was.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
He blames me for all the cursing and stuff, but
you know it came out of his mouth, so really
it's not my, uh my doing. But I'm telling you
that looking back, like not even just that he's but
as wrestling in general in the nineties, man, you couldn't
beat this stuff that that we were doing and the

(44:07):
stuff that the other two were putting out. It was
a glorious time to be a wrestling fan.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Oh hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
And it was the I I mean, the kids these
days sound like an old griddled vet, but they the
twenty somethings think that that it's so compelling these days
with you know what's on TV. They have no idea
what compelled excuse me, compelling means or edgy means or

(44:36):
go back and watch that older stuff. Man. And again
I'm not just putting ecw over. There was good stuff
on every single uh, every single promotion was putting out
some good shit back in the nineties and that's the
stuff that I miss and if it was still that way,
i'd still be a diehard fan to this day. But

(44:59):
sadly it's it's just not so I don't know. You
like what you like, but I like the nineties and
that's that's pretty much where it lies for me.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
I'm right there with you.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah, but that was fun. That was a fun look back,
you know, a time where I just didn't remember. So
that's why I love doing these watch alongs because it
just it's it's like seeing it for the first time
in my eyes. It's been like thirty something years or
twenty something years for some some films that we we

(45:34):
get to go back on and it's it's fun. So
if you have a specific show that you want us
to see, comment below and we'll review it. We'll do
a watch along on it. But I I enjoy these things.
It's a good time. So thanks for pulling it up.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Absolutely, yep, drop some comments if you want them down
below and we.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Will do that. You want to start plugging your your
big signing? Can you can you give us a name yet?

Speaker 3 (46:00):
No, I'm not going to give it a name because
it's not on paper yet, but just keep staying tuned
to at ib exclusives on Instagram and at chatty and
beyond x and it'll be announced probably within the next
two weeks.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Okay, well, I'm going to plug the YouTube as I
always do. Subscribe. It's free to do if you want
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You will get this show and much much more in
audio and video format. And they have a new feature.
It's called the hype button or it's hype Yeah. You

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hype the video up, and it's geared towards smaller channels.
I would consider us a smaller channel. We're on the
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need your help. If you can push that hype button,
we get to go on a top one hundred list
and it claims that we'll be seen by more eyes

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Speaker 3 (47:45):
We go further up. And I think this is also
more of a mobile tablet thing. I don't see it
on the desktop.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
So okay, Well, if you're watching on an iPad, is
it for the phone?

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I think it's been I think it's on more of
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don't see it on the PC, so.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
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