Breaking Barriers: Women in Wrestling

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:00)
Well, hello.

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:00)
Hi.

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:01)
Chiara.

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:02)
And I'm Tanisha, and you're now entering the sister chat. Welcome to May event mamas. Midnight Confessions, woo!

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:10)
I know very different,

very different today. We got some fun in store for you guys. In our confession booth, we're inviting two dynamic, amazing women to spill their secrets. And they agreed. So that's like, I mean, amazing in itself.

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:29)
I mean, they had to say yes to get on here. mean,

they couldn't, you we could just pop people in there.

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:36)
But we're

going to have a blast today talking about all the things. We're going to talk a little bit about wrestling. We're going to talk a little bit about TV. We're going to talk a little bit about books.

But mostly we're going to do a lot of confessing, ultimately. And it's good for your soul, I hear. Yeah, so before we get started, we want to welcome you back to the Confessions booth. And we're here to spill some tea with some of the most incredible women breaking barriers in our industry today. Today we're going to be joined by Stephanie Hardy from the Hardy Wrestling Podcast and Felicia Gordon from...

MainEventMamasPodcast (00:55)
scared.

Thanks

MainEventMamasPodcast (01:19)
Well, one of the brilliant hosts, like I don't, you I can't just say it's all her. It's not right. But she's probably the brainchild behind the brilliance that is the storyline podcast. So let's just welcome them to our confession's food.

Stephanie Hardy (01:34)
Hey!

MainEventMamasPodcast (01:35)
Hi Stephanie.

And hello.

Felecia (01:39)
Bye.

MainEventMamasPodcast (01:41)
Hello,

sweet. Hi, Steph. How y'all doing?

Felecia (01:44)
⁓

Stephanie Hardy (01:45)
We're doing good!

Felecia (01:45)
Doing good, I'm good. Doing great.

MainEventMamasPodcast (01:48)
Love

it. Welcome to the confession spoo. It won't get too uncomfortable. It won't get too uncomfortable. promise. We're going to take it easy on you guys today. But before we get started, no, nothing is complete without our true serum, right?

Felecia (01:52)
Thanks for having me.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:05)
Yes, yes, yes.

Stephanie Hardy (02:05)
Right.

Well, yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:09)
But I,

I mean, I understand. We're gonna give Stephanie and Felicia bit of a break here because we did know for about a week or so what serum we were gonna go with.

Felecia (02:17)
Jesus.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:21)
I would

Felecia (02:21)
Thank

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:22)
say

Felecia (02:22)
you. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:22)
from the last episode, we knew what we were doing.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:26)
We knew what it was. I'm going to be a lot more sober today. So I'm excited about that. Hallelujah. But I'd like to take a minute for Stephanie and Fee to introduce themselves to our audience. Because in my opinion, no one does it like you. So let Stephanie go first.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:43)
Absolutely.

Stephanie Hardy (02:46)
Well, first of all, hey everybody who watches main event mamas, including me. I'm Stephanie Hardy. Thank you. I'm Stephanie Hardy. I'm the host and creator of The Hardy Wrestling Podcast and its smaller shows underneath the umbrella called HWP Extra and Stefan Cat Talk Wow, which is a post show for wild superheroes that I host with Katrina from In Cat We Trust, who is another amazing creator you should follow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (02:53)
We love you.

Stephanie Hardy (03:15)
watch and all the above. I'm also a contributing writer for Daily DDT which is a subsidiary of Fan Cited which is a blog site that covers all sorts of fandoms including professional wrestling ⁓ and I've also done commentary work with various promotions like Battle Club Pro in New York City, ⁓ Spartan Wrestling and Guess in Alabama which is an hour away from me because I'm from Birmingham Alabama, 205 lit all day, we're the Magic City.

Felecia (03:43)
Okay.

MainEventMamasPodcast (03:43)
Hey.

Stephanie Hardy (03:43)
and yes,

MainEventMamasPodcast (03:44)
Not the Magic City.

MainEventMamasPodcast (03:44)
Hey.

Felecia (03:45)
Hey!

Stephanie Hardy (03:47)
we are the magic city. And also I've also done commentary work for the all black female event, which was called black girl magic in 2022. And I've done panels, ⁓ about women of color and wrestling along with Katrina who created and spearheaded that as well. And I've just been blessed in this regard to do a lot of things with my platform. So that's who I am.

MainEventMamasPodcast (03:58)
A.

MainEventMamasPodcast (04:13)
What? Yes.

Felecia (04:14)
That's like

you got lots of less good

MainEventMamasPodcast (04:17)
I mean,

snaps all the way around, okay?

Stephanie Hardy (04:19)
Thank ⁓

Felecia (04:19)
Right,

right, right. Go girl. Well, I am Felicia Fee. ⁓ I am the creator and the host of the Storyline podcast. ⁓ I created that podcast. I've created my podcast based off of being a woman. A lot of the times men don't think you know what you're talking about. Everybody has an opinion. ⁓ But for me, a woman's opinion

Stephanie Hardy (04:22)
you.

Felecia (04:49)
is what it needs. Wrestling needs a woman's opinion. ⁓ Everything can't just be based on what men think or what men feel. I wanted the woman's perspective and I wanted my own perspective versus listening to the thousands of men talk about wrestling and what they think.

MainEventMamasPodcast (04:51)
Amen.

Yes. And same. ⁓

Stephanie Hardy (05:13)
Absolutely.

MainEventMamasPodcast (05:15)
It's one of the biggest struggles, I think, when you're out here in male dominated spaces, is trying to get your voice out there. Because you do have a unique tone, voice, background, interest, and perspective. And I think it's really important that people get a chance to hear it. Right? All right, Tanisha. Let's mix it up. What you drinking?

Felecia (05:30)
Absolutely.

Stephanie Hardy (05:33)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (05:34)
Yes. Okay.

You really wanna know what I'm drinking? Okay, here we go. So I probably should have mixed it first because this is strong. The last one wasn't as strong, so I feel like I needed to turn it up a notch. And I don't know if that was a smart idea or not, but you know, we'll see how it goes for the rest of the day. You know, how truthful I get, I don't know. But what I am, hold on, let me show you. I'm about to, I gotta show what I'm drinking, hold on.

MainEventMamasPodcast (05:42)
now.

Okay, okay.

Stephanie Hardy (06:06)
Hey Kiara, can't see you on camera. No, can't see you. All I see is an in the middle and it says 99 % on the left side of your screen. And I can hear you, but I can't see you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:09)
You can't see me?

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:18)
no.

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:18)
Okay, let me figure that out why Tanisha tells us what she's drinking.

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:22)
whilst

So apparently I like this Bacardi brand here, because last week I had Bacardi, I forgot, was Zombie? Blue Zombie, something like that. And this time this is Bacardi Hurricane mixed with... ⁓

Felecia (06:26)
⁓ whoa.

Stephanie Hardy (06:27)
⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:35)
It was zombie.

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:40)
I don't know how to say it, but it's tequila. Mixed with tequila. And my wealth fruit punch. I did only put a of tequila, but it clearly was at the top, so it was really strong. But that's, you know, that's what I'm drinking today. So we'll see how that goes.

Stephanie Hardy (06:45)
Wow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (06:47)
Okay.

Okay, well, I am over here trying to figure out this, but I will tell you what I am drinking because...

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:04)
I'm about to say, tell us what your truth serum

is since yours is the mock's tale version of whatever I'm drinking.

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:10)
It is. Today I am here with a mocktail and I am having a cranberry lemonade.

Sparkling ice that's what I'm having and it is delicious. I have to tell you because we had a little too much fun last time and well Someone's mom felt that I was a little too inebriated so

Felecia (07:20)
Thank

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:26)
That was the whole point.

She didn't say

you were inebriated. She just said that she could tell that you had a drink. That's it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:39)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Listen, my mom's not watching, so...

Stephanie Hardy (07:39)
Wow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:40)
But that's the whole point. The confession starts from Sarah. Well, I mean,

I have no shame in that game. We are old enough to be grown. Just saying. Love you, Mom.

MainEventMamasPodcast (07:52)
Yes, yes we are. And so...

So, strangely, so Stephanie, I can see you and I can see me on the stream. So I'm not quite sure why ⁓ it's doing that for you right now. But what I could do, I think it might be because you're in portrait mode.

Stephanie Hardy (08:09)
That's weird.

MainEventMamasPodcast (08:12)
While you're figuring that out, yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (08:16)
Maybe so. Do I need to turn my camera around?

MainEventMamasPodcast (08:20)
I think, can you go to landscape? Hi, John. Hey, Candice. Thanks for joining us.

MainEventMamasPodcast (08:25)
I was gonna say hi to everybody

in the chat.

MainEventMamasPodcast (08:28)
Did that help anything? Can you see me now? No? ⁓ now I lost you. so, huh. Because y'all know I'm also monitoring the chat, because I want to make sure I can see y'all on the stream. I can see everybody, so that's a little weird. I'm gonna have to figure that out. Hopefully, I wonder if it is, honestly, because of your portrait mode, but we'll move forward if we can.

Stephanie Hardy (08:31)
No. Uh-uh. ⁓

⁓ Is

Is it cause I'm on the phone?

MainEventMamasPodcast (08:59)
You have the app though, right? It shouldn't be a problem.

Stephanie Hardy (09:01)
Yes, I do.

Maybe I should pop out, pop back in. Okay. Okay, I'll do that.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:06)
You can, you can, we're still here.

Cool, cool, I don't know what's happening. Nothing like technology, y'all. Nothing like it, okay? Just over here drinking a true sum, which is great. Because I will tell you, I wish I was a sponsor for Sparkling Ice because that thing's amazing. Hi, Yazzie.

Felecia (09:17)
Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:31)
Yes, you have a visitor. And I don't know if you know that, Tanisha. Yep.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:34)
I did, I

Felecia (09:34)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:35)
kicked her out. Anyway. Hi Stephanie. You see us all? All right. Yay.

Stephanie Hardy (09:39)
Okay, now we're good, we're good. I can see everyone, yay!

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:40)
We're good? Yes.

Felecia (09:43)
There

we go.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:45)
And we are back right in time to move on to the Confessions booth. That was your moment to escape Stephanie, but you're back. So here we are.

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:53)
You're back.

Stephanie Hardy (09:53)
It's

okay. I don't run from from my challenges. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (09:59)
Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (10:01)
That's right John, Pepsi and ice. Steve Fee, someone's hanging with you. They got a soda and some ice.

Felecia (10:06)
Yep.

I actually just have water now.

MainEventMamasPodcast (10:09)
⁓ no!

MainEventMamasPodcast (10:09)
So now

you moved on to water. Hi Faith.

MainEventMamasPodcast (10:13)
Bye!

All right, we ready?

MainEventMamasPodcast (10:18)
Yes, look. I learned a thing. I know it's amazing. I learned a thing. So, all right, let's talk. This week's confession booth, we're talking about women succeeding in male dominated spaces. Something I think all of us know little something, something about. So our first question, and y'all know how it is in the audience. Y'all gotta participate too. This is not just us. We will converse with you. I wanna know what you think.

We want to confess one moment early in your career where you realize you had to be 10 times better than your male counterpart just to be seen as equal.

Storytime here At the main event mama's booth, so who wants to tackle that one first I Know right y'all know who was it's a deep one

MainEventMamasPodcast (11:05)
That was a, that's a deep one.

Felecia (11:13)
It is a big one.

It is a deep one. I feel like that happens all the time. It's not just one moment. I feel like it happens a lot. ⁓ I used to work for a marketing and tech firm and know, tech is a man's thing. And it was like, they all thought that they were just higher and better than me. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (11:21)
Man.

Uh-huh.

Felecia (11:38)
until it came to them needing a spreadsheet or a number or this, this and that. And then it's like, well, I don't know how to do this. Can you help me with this? Can you help me with this? And I always wanted to be like, no, you you got smart with me in that email because you thought I didn't know what I was talking about. So I think that that is a deep question because there are so many different times where that happens. It could be even going to the store. So it can, it can come from anywhere.

MainEventMamasPodcast (12:05)
Mm-hmm.

Felecia (12:09)
And we are seeing that a lot in these last few months. A lot.

MainEventMamasPodcast (12:16)
Yes ma'am, we are in fact seeing that a lot. Hey Stephanie, you got the story?

Felecia (12:18)
Yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (12:22)
Yeah, I think I have one in particular, which actually doesn't even have to do with the current career that I'm in. It has to do with something that I was doing in college. was a, lot of people who know me from wrestling don't know that in my past, sort of like in my college life, I was majoring in music and I have a voice degree. So the first production I ever did was Ragtime the musical, which is actually back on Broadway now.

⁓ so it's bringing back a lot of different feelings and considering I was considering I was still sort of new to the campus, Berea college in Kentucky. Not a lot of people, you know, knew exactly what I was going to bring, but I was co, but I was a part, I was a lead in this musical with a guy who I loved to death. name is Nigel and everybody loved his voice and everybody thought his voice was like this really strong instrument. Right. But a lot of people, you know, who.

MainEventMamasPodcast (12:53)
Wow.

Stephanie Hardy (13:20)
because this college is relatively small in comparison to your giant university. It was like a community. So everybody was like, okay, Nigel is like this one big singer, blah, blah, blah. We know his voice, but we don't really know if Stephanie, you know, her voice can, you know, match up to his because she's new and we just don't know her voice. We're not as familiar with it or whatever. And at the time I was still figuring out what my voice was going to sound like, how I was, you know,

MainEventMamasPodcast (13:24)
Okay.

Stephanie Hardy (13:49)
going to present myself in this role and all of the above. But the more I practiced with my voice teachers and with my theater teachers and everything, the more I found my strength. when, as it turns out, once I did start singing with him, there's this one duet in the show and we had to sing together. And once we did start singing together,

Everybody was kind of like, okay, so we see you and that's kind of how it became and it wasn't just a ⁓ Here's Nigel and here's Stephanie. We don't know her. It's kind of like here's Nigel and here's Stephanie boom and that's kind of what it was So yeah, I'm like Felicia said there are multiple ⁓ there have been multiple situations where that happened but that's one I've been thinking about quite a lot because

the musical is back on Broadway again and I was just having all of my feelings and stuff about doing that production as well. So I was like, ⁓ man, well let me tell this story. Cause I don't really get to talk about this as much. So yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (14:52)
really cool actually for multiple reasons. There she went, she'll be back, no worries. That's a really cool story. Especially that you were able to kind of just let your gift tell the story right. You might have thought one thing, but once you heard me, it's a whole different situation. So I think that's really unique first, because like you said, not a lot of people know that about you. But then also that's...

Felecia (14:53)
Yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (14:54)
Aww.

Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (15:21)
another opportunity for me, I can tell that story in quite a few different careers, because I've done a lot of different things. But I do remember starting my career early in insurance. like I graduated from high school, high school and college. And then I had a journalism degree, but I had two little kids, so I couldn't just start in the 30s. I needed a job job to take care of my house. And

In the insurance field, it's very white. It's very male dominated. And when I came on, it was very much, you're just like a admin at first. I had an amazing group of women I worked with, but we were just the admins, right? Like we were the admins period. And then within the first week, I was actually promoted to a different position, still administrative, but just more.

responsibility. And I became the person who ran processes because I was like, well, I identified that there was this need and I needed for ⁓ everyone to kind of start following the lead I set. Now there was a big issue with this. A, I was young. B, I was black. And C, I was a woman. So it was a real complicated experience of

Well, why do we have to listen to Kiara? They fought me, all of them, and all of them were older than me, right? So it was very much, ugh, we're not doing it. And I was like, you're going to honestly, hi, Trell, you're going to honestly see that this process is so much better if you just trust me, just trust my vision here. And they used to talk about me, they used to tell on me to the leaders, she's mean, she doesn't.

Stephanie Hardy (16:52)
Hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (17:20)
She doesn't do this, she doesn't do that until eventually I created a whole new process for checks. So that when, and we were insurance, so you know, your checks would go out. Who is it going to where everyone freaks out? Cause I'm looking for my check to fix my car or my apartment or whatever. And so we had this one person who was like, the check never went out. I can't find it. I've been waiting for it for 20 whatever days. And there's a threshold in which you can get the department of insurance involved. And then it becomes a really.

big issue because you can become fined. And the fact that I had created this new system, I not only was able to track it down, I could tell the guy where it was, I called the claimant and told them, and I just basically, they were all freaking out. Like, my God, this check, I can't find it. What am I going to do? Because of my new process, I was like, it's here. I was like, we can stop it. We can go get it. Like, what do you want to do? And I was able to work with the person who was waiting for the check.

Stephanie Hardy (17:51)
Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (18:17)
to avoid the claim, to avoid the like drama, improve my system and my work despite being young, black, and a woman in this field. And so that was the first time I really realized that like I had to work 900 times harder than anyone else because I knew that if a man had said what I said, they would easily have accepted it. It wouldn't have been fighting, telling, yelling. would have been none of that.

And so that was the first time I finally realized that, dang, I'm have to be a lot harder than anyone else. So that really sucks. But I continued in that field for several more years, but I did gain a nice little hide. I was able to learn how to deal with some of that adversity. How about you, Tanisha? When did you discover this? And before you answer, I don't want Faith to think we didn't see this.

The beauty industry is eat or be eaten. Men in the beauty industry are highly sought out, especially if they are fine. Amen. However, skill trumps sex appeal and I had to fight for the respect of skill I won. Well, yes. The beauty industry is also kind of complicated that way as well. So I can definitely see how that had to be difficult and stressful. But it's crazy to see that in so many different dynamics. Okay, Tanisha, time for your story.

MainEventMamasPodcast (19:46)
I I will only say what I've experienced is, guess, with us in our podcast, because I can't say anything else otherwise, because all my other fields is more of a women-driven field. ⁓ I mean, I guess, you know what, maybe this is, but it's not, wasn't a man-driven field, but when I worked at my last job, ⁓

most of, so pretty much I was the financial coordinator and most of the financial coordinators were males. So I was the first female coordinator at my location, put it that way. So I did have to always like, kind of like battle the guys as in like, y'all don't know what y'all talking about, even though y'all been here longer than me, but y'all still don't know what you're talking about. But other than that,

The only other way I would say that we've experienced is the fact that if I starting this podcast, because most podcasts, I mean, I'm not saying there's not female podcasts out there, but it's generally a lot of males out here, especially talking wrestling and just talking and talking their gums off and just saying whatever they feel like saying.

So, mean, that's we are experiencing now or even like to like when Naomi posted us and some particular follower decided to go underneath the comments and say what he was saying and was trying to nitpick what we were saying. And you can tell he was just looking at the one clip and you didn't really watch the episode. I chose not to engage any further because I realized you were looking for a way to get a rise out of me. And then if I gave you the rise that it would have been the

well see, look, you can't handle this. Like you can't handle the pressure of actually getting your opinion out here and getting, you know, and getting the criticism back. Or even when there's certain people on TikTok sit here and talk about me. You know, I decided to roll over because it's at the end of the day, you're watching me and judging me from a clip. And if you actually took the time to watch the whole thing, you will see I'm a good time. So I don't know, you know.

Felecia (21:35)
student.

Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (21:56)
right.

you are.

MainEventMamasPodcast (22:04)
But that's about it. I mean, I don't have no other real true thing because most of my fields, it's always been a woman driven field.

MainEventMamasPodcast (22:12)
Yeah, I would say that that actually counts, right? I would say that counts. Yes, and I think it's funny because we're going to get to that in the third question, but I definitely think I've experienced a lot of that in podcasting. A lot of the comments like, don't, you remember the comment like y'all are babies. Like you have no idea how old I am. I've been here a minute. Yeah.

Felecia (22:13)
My favorite.

Stephanie Hardy (22:16)
Yeah, that definitely counts.

MainEventMamasPodcast (22:33)
Someone said that I definitely didn't pay attention to that cuz I mean

Felecia (22:33)
my god.

MainEventMamasPodcast (22:37)
I get that a lot, like you don't know anything about wrestling or, well I do read a lot of the comments because I have to respond to some of them. But there are a lot of people who have something negative to say or don't. They don't have nothing, and I'm like, did you listen to the episode before you're out here telling me I'm wrong? did you hear, we just talked about this last episode, so while you're up here giving me all this drama, you could have just, two more seconds later I told you what I was talking about.

Felecia (23:06)
Right,

right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (23:07)
Which is

very weird. It is one of the, I think, most frustrating parts I feel like, is that I feel like we have to continually say, I know what I'm talking about instead of, like, everyone else out here talking their gums out and you just let them say whatever. But it takes 10 times more to prove that we know what we're talking about and we're worth listening to, which is crazy. Crazy, too.

Felecia (23:29)
Yeah,

MainEventMamasPodcast (23:30)
Go ahead, see you.

Felecia (23:31)
I get attacked on threads every other day. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, come on now. And I always have to put my disclaimer. Y'all can disagree with me as much as you want to, but do not be disrespectful because you disagree. ⁓ Most of it is men. They always disagree. No matter what it's, it doesn't matter. I think last week, I was like, I'm kind of disappointed.

MainEventMamasPodcast (23:34)
Mm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (23:34)
You

do?

Stephanie Hardy (23:51)
Mm-hmm.

Felecia (23:57)
and John Cena's retirement tour that sent the man over the moon for some odd reason. And it was, don't know what I'm talking about. And we asked for this heel for 20 years. He's not even healed no more. But anyway, we asked for this for 20 years. And I said, who is we? Not me. I didn't ask for it to be the way that it went. And this just turned into like this big thing. I said, I said, don't care what you're talking about. It sucked. It's sucking. We're witnessing it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (24:10)
Amen.

Stephanie Hardy (24:21)
It was.

Felecia (24:27)
the suckiest retirement tour I've ever seen in my life. And that just sent, he was gone after that over the moon for days. He just kept going. So I blocked him because it was just too much. I was like, dude, what? He just went on and on about how I didn't know what I was talking about. And

fans a fan like me it you know it's just a for now fan and you're not a fan because you know I that sent me shooting to the moon too I was like dude what you're you must be one of those new fans cuz his old fans they wanted him to be healed for this I never wanted that but whatever never say

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:07)
mean, listen, he definitely,

I'm not saying I didn't want him to be heel. However, he was not successfully a heel. He sucked. He was trying to be bad and you were like, you don't know how to be bad. You were the kid that told on yourself. You did not know how to do it. Even with the people, The Rock, who is like a heel but not a heel, but he was even giving you the tools and you still weren't grasping it. It wasn't like a...

Felecia (25:16)
⁓

It just

wasn't good. It just wasn't good. It's just not good.

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:37)
hence why you're not healed no more, because it didn't go.

Stephanie Hardy (25:38)
I'm in.

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:40)
What you think, Steph? ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:41)
It didn't work.

Stephanie Hardy (25:41)
Yeah,

yeah, I actually, you know, I actually disagree with the with respectfully. I disagree with the John Cena Hill turn because when I say it was something I never thought would happen and it knocked my socks off, I was like, wait, stop. Like I fell to my knees when it happened because it was just so crazy to me. Like, excuse me, this is what's going on. It was just a lot of emotions and I kept and I kept finding myself watching it back.

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:46)
Okay.

Felecia (25:48)
Yes?

MainEventMamasPodcast (25:57)
Really?

Stephanie Hardy (26:11)
so many times after it happened. was like, man, this is crazy. What is happening to the world where John Cena is bad? But you know, I actually didn't think it was the worst. I don't think this retirement tour is the worst retirement tour. I mean, because quite honestly, I feel like this is the first retirement tour I've really ever seen in my wrestling fandom. ⁓ So honestly, I really don't have anything to judge it on. So I think for me,

I just wanted to just enjoy whatever piece of John Cena we have at this point. you know, and I didn't think it was the worst thing in the world. When he did turn back face, I was happy. I was just like, okay, you're, you're, you're good again. Great. ⁓ that heals my soul a bit because if we get to the end and you're still being bad, then that, that'll just make me sad. And so now he's, ⁓ a face again, and I'm okay with that. But while he was a heel,

Felecia (26:45)
Yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (27:08)
I, it bummed me out because I was at Russell mania, ⁓ as media and watching him win against Cody Rhodes and the way he did with Travis Scott and everybody else. man, come on. You know, and it was evil and it was really bad. But at the same time, I think. I feel like there's a lot of criticism that people are bringing on it that I just don't naturally feel like I don't feel like it's the worst retirement or I've actually just been enjoying everything because really like.

this is it and this is all we get and I just don't, I try my best not to really just crap on everything. So for me, I'm just like, okay, here we are. Now, yeah, I feel like she has something to say.

MainEventMamasPodcast (27:54)
Before you go ahead and say something, wait a minute. First of all, this is the beauty of having diverse personalities and thoughts and feelings, right? Because I feel like...

Felecia (28:01)
Hello? ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (28:06)
Well, I feel a little differently, but that's not the point. point is that everybody has their own unique take and I think we honor that, right? Because there's certain things, like even if my sister and I, if you watch our podcast, sometimes she's like, this is trash. And I was like, I like it. Am I out here by myself over here? She's like, yeah, you over there on the left field. Cause I'm, I'm somewhere in the middle because I am such a story person that I like consistency.

MainEventMamasPodcast (28:20)
you

Felecia (28:21)
This is awesome.

MainEventMamasPodcast (28:25)
And I'm like, yeah, I don't, yeah, I don't know.

Felecia (28:37)
That part.

MainEventMamasPodcast (28:37)
And so

if you're gonna ruin wrestling, I wanna see it. What you doing? How you ruining it? I was hoping he would've got to the end and he took the belt somewhere. Hi, Nessa. Hi, BK. We see your comments. I was hoping that he was gonna take it and they was gonna have to try to figure out how to get it back. I was counting down the minutes.

Felecia (28:57)
thought the story was gonna be, I thought it was gonna

be big, big. I thought we was gonna see something so big. I just like the rock and the soul and I just thought it was gonna be, and then.

MainEventMamasPodcast (29:05)
Right?

I was like, this is gonna be a story where now you got the rock involved, they gonna have to bring Roman over here, we gonna have the Avengers. I was waiting to see something, anything, you know what I mean? But I was like, wonk, wonk. But I do have a different opinion of John Zeta. So I think that is probably why I'm just like.

Felecia (29:17)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (29:17)
Not the Avengers.

Stephanie Hardy (29:21)
I mean, it's interesting.

MainEventMamasPodcast (29:36)
I was expecting him to impress me more because if you followed us a little bit, you know I'm not the biggest John Cena fan. I am not. I love his acting. Not the biggest fan of the character. And that was one of reasons I dipped out when I did for that period of time. Once he started rapping I was out. I was like, I can't do

Felecia (29:55)
Ha ha!

MainEventMamasPodcast (29:55)
That was

the best part.

Stephanie Hardy (29:59)
Love the wrapping!

MainEventMamasPodcast (29:59)
can't do this.

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:01)
That was the best part.

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:01)
I was straight up like, I can't do it. I don't know what's happening.

Stephanie Hardy (30:04)
love the rapping.

I was a kid at that point and I love the rapping. So was like, my God, he's rapping. I was gonna marry him at one point.

wanted to marry him I saw the Marine I saw the Marine when it came out and he had he had his shirt off and I said look that's gonna be my husband I thought for sure he was gonna be my husband one day but it's alright it's alright

Felecia (30:16)
John Cena?

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:16)
Okay, well in the Marine I get it yes in the Marine

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:23)
you

Felecia (30:25)
Ew.

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:33)
You know what?

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:35)
No judgment here, okay? I understand. Because

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:36)
There is no judgment. There's

no, I understand too.

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:40)
the experiences and dreams that we had about Shawn Michaels and Triple H and The Rock, I mean, like, we had a whole storyline. It was bad. It was deep. And if I ever wrote those books, ooh. They are where they belong into our childhood. That's where they belong.

MainEventMamasPodcast (30:46)
We had a dream, we had a whole dream world growing up. It was really bad. Like we can, we wrote, we wrote, we wrote stories about it. Yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (30:46)
Wow.

Yes. Yeah.

Felecia (31:01)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:02)
Yes, yes,

the thangana. Yeah, all of that. All of it. All of it.

Felecia (31:04)
I'm gonna get my own mic.

Stephanie Hardy (31:07)
Yes, I had

a crush on Edge too. Yeah, when he was faced, I had a crush on Edge because I love men with hair. And when I saw him with all that hair on his head and all that, was just in love. yeah. Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:09)
Well, you know what? I can see that.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:10)
Really?

Felecia (31:14)
Yeah.

All right, two.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:20)
I can understand that. I can understand.

Felecia (31:22)
I can understand it. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:24)
mean, was, Shawn Michaels was my dream. I mean, like my dream, especially when, when he was bad, he was very bad. That was my favorite. Like, I don't know. I blame my father why I like villains because he always loved the bad guy. I know, right?

Stephanie Hardy (31:37)
That's funny. See,

that's like my daddy. My daddy loves the bad guys too and I don't love the bad guys.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:44)
I'm like, how did

you do this to me that I particularly enjoyed the bad guys? Like, I don't, that explains some choices in my life, I'm sure. But I think, I...

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:53)
You know what, to think about

Stephanie Hardy (31:53)
Yes, I'm a babyface

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:54)
it,

Stephanie Hardy (31:54)
girl.

MainEventMamasPodcast (31:55)
to think about it, dad even was like when he took us to the Lion King and we were all crying because Fossa died, he was like, why y'all crying? He was like, what do mean? Like his brother just killed him. He was like, well, you know, I mean, just like scarred with his person. We were like, how can you like him? He just like, we just watched him kill a bitch. Like, yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (32:08)
He-he!

Felecia (32:10)
Miss Bright.

Stephanie Hardy (32:20)
Yes, exactly. That's

how my boyfriend is. He loves Scarf too. And we almost had a fight over there. I was just like, he killed his brother. What are you talking about? He's just like, no, but the reason. He tried to make it okay. And I'm like, no, no, sit down.

Felecia (32:28)
You

MainEventMamasPodcast (32:33)
It's the reason behind it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (32:34)
my goodness. That's what I said, the motivation.

It was, the more you get, don't even get me started. The more you get into his background, I could understand some things. That's all I'm saying. But again, I understand and appreciate that there's so many different perspectives and thoughts. And I think you can respectfully disagree and have fun with it without it being a huge discourse. Now I just want to shout out Candace, cause girl, Candace, Candace is back.

Felecia (32:57)
Yeah. Without a thing. Man.

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:04)
Shout out to Candace, she was the reason that we got to watch AEW's pay-per-view and why we covered it in our episode yesterday. additional kudos and claps and applause for Candace.

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:14)
Wait, was it yesterday or was it last

week? Okay, anyway, it doesn't matter. My bad, sorry. We took, I know, yesterday was a long one. Okay, but what I was going to say before we went on a whole different tangent was that I don't, to counter what Stephanie said about John Cena, I don't really think this is the end. Like he's saying it's the end, but I don't think it's the end because... ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:22)
I don't remember.

Stephanie Hardy (33:43)
Me neither! Go ahead.

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:44)
I just, yeah, I don't think it's the end. really don't. How many times have we've heard people say, I'm leaving?

Felecia (33:57)
Right? You're right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:58)
million.

MainEventMamasPodcast (33:59)
And then maybe a year or two, they pop up and then it's like, then they get into with somebody. Now they want to fight. Or they go, I can't fight you right now. And then they, then they pop up again and now, now they gonna fight. Like, you know, so I don't really think this is the end for John Cena. What I will say is I did think, yes, we talked about this, that John was going to have the title to the end.

Felecia (34:05)
guess.

MainEventMamasPodcast (34:29)
and he was gonna walk off with the title and said, see y'all later. That's how he was growing wrestling. But with him now being back to being the baby face, I still don't like how they're booking him because if we're supposed to be celebrating him and showing where he is, like he shouldn't just be at the major ones. He should still be doing stuff. You know what I'm saying? Like he's still, or.

Felecia (34:53)
Right? Right?

MainEventMamasPodcast (34:56)
Or even he could do stupid stuff by like sitting at the commentary and sitting here talking with Michael Cole and saying stupid nonsense, know, like stuff like that. You know, like he don't have to fight all the time, but he can still be a, he can still be a present because to be fair, I watched Total Bellas and I watched Total Divas and all this stuff and John's actually funny.

Felecia (35:03)
Right.

Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:09)
No, he doesn't.

Felecia (35:09)
No,

he does not.

right? he is, he is funny.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:22)
You know,

Stephanie Hardy (35:22)
Yeah, he's hilarious.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:22)
Which is why I think I

like his acting. I'm just gonna tell you. I think he's naturally comedic.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:24)
well, I didn't like him in Peacemaker. I don't know what that was. I don't know why they did it, but you know it's what it is.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:30)
I mean, don't like peace, see that's the DC conversation we'll get into. I don't really like peace.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:33)
We'll get to it, but I didn't.

did your cat just walk behind you like that? Just like, your cat is just.

Stephanie Hardy (35:36)
love the first season.

Felecia (35:39)
Yep, there it goes again. That's

Stephanie Hardy (35:41)
Ayyyy

⁓

Felecia (35:42)
snow.

Yeah, is, yeah, he's only six or seven, he's like six or seven months. He's like all over the place. Luckily he's not jumping from here up there and like hanging. So we're real good for right now.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:46)
But she's like, hey, I'm here.

Stephanie Hardy (35:47)
Bye, Snow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:49)
Snow said, hey, I've been bite it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (35:56)
⁓

We good, he's behaving himself. Okay, cool, cool, cool,

Stephanie Hardy (36:06)
Yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:09)
But wait a minute, one of my kids are on here. Jesus, I don't know which kid it is, but one of them on here.

Felecia (36:19)
Shush.

Stephanie Hardy (36:19)
That is hilarious.

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:20)
Thank you!

Stephanie Hardy (36:21)
I don't know which kid it is.

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:23)
That's what happens when you have so many. It's just like which one is out here doing the most. Okay, well, while you investigate that.

Stephanie Hardy (36:26)
Well...

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:31)
Okay.

you

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:36)
So there's another question in here. We will get on to rest like don't worry. It's the whole situation. The next question at our booth we're gonna talk about the most ridiculous piece of unsolicited advice a man has given you about how you should act or sound.

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:38)
Yes, let's go.

MainEventMamasPodcast (36:56)
first because I gotta tell you I gotta tell you I hate this

Felecia (36:57)
Thank you!

Stephanie Hardy (36:58)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (37:03)
I grew up in the city, right? I really did. Even though people think I live, I'm sweet little southern belle, nope, that ain't true. I grew up in the city. I just know how to play roles. And when I was in the city.

All I would hear all the time, you should smile more.

MainEventMamasPodcast (37:22)
Don't say that.

MainEventMamasPodcast (37:24)
Like, W, listen here, I did not ask you to approach me. I did not want to talk to you. Like, the reason why my face is resting in this manner is because I am a woman in a dangerous situation. This was not an invitation for you to come over and tell me I should smile. Like, I was like, and it happens over and over again. I hear it at work.

Felecia (37:26)
you

Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (37:53)
I hear it at the grocery store, I hear it at church. I'm like, the next time someone comes over here and says that to me, I'm a snap. Because I'm like, there's a reason why I'm behaving this way. So I don't, and never do, and never will appreciate someone telling me to smile more, because it's stupid. No one asks them to smile more.

crazy okay I'm sorry I'm off my TED talk that just burns my biscuits it does

Felecia (38:28)
don't think being told by what to do by anybody burns me up. Like, I'm like almost 40 years old. Don't tell me shit. Like, don't tell me nothing. I don't want to hear it. I'll do what I want. yeah. I've heard the smile more. I've heard that like my nails are too long. I've heard that. I've heard that, yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (38:55)
the better to scratch you with, okay? Like.

Felecia (38:58)
I've heard

the, yes, I've heard so many different things. Not even by random people, like you need to wear a bra, stuff like that. Like what? Yes. Like just.

MainEventMamasPodcast (39:06)
Really? Why are you concerned?

Stephanie Hardy (39:08)
Ew! Why are you looking at my boobs? Leave me alone.

MainEventMamasPodcast (39:14)
How do you know I'm

not? You know what saying? Like, what do you know what's going on here?

MainEventMamasPodcast (39:18)
Why you staring so far? Why you staring so hard? I know.

Felecia (39:18)
Just leave me alone.

Just leave me alone. don't, this is me and you can go over there. I don't want to hear none of that shit at all. Don't tell me nothing. I don't care. Like, I just do not care.

MainEventMamasPodcast (39:28)
Yes, agreed.

Felecia (39:39)
Like I don't, honestly. Like I don't give a damn. Don't tell me not a damn thing. I could care less.

MainEventMamasPodcast (39:42)
That's real

Yeah, I do think there's something about approaching

that milestone where you're just like, F it. Like I was like, I used to hear people say that all the time. Like when I worked with people and I usually work with people who are older than me and they'd be like, wait till you hit 40, you don't understand. They're like, that's a whole different situation that you're not ready for. And they're like, wait till you get there. None of this is going to bother you. You ain't going to take none of the crap they're throwing at you. And I have to say having reached 40 this year, that is accurate.

Felecia (40:19)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (40:19)
do

not give two Fs anymore and I will hurt your feelings.

Felecia (40:22)
I turned

37 on Sunday. I'm not quite 40, but I just made it there not too long ago where I'm like, you know what? Bye. I don't care. Kiss my ass. Like the switch was like.

MainEventMamasPodcast (40:32)
Like what happens?

I feel like.

⁓

Felecia (40:39)
You win. Kiss my ass. Whatever. I'm over it. Whatever it is, don't worry about it. Sorry. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (40:46)
Are you Stephanie?

Stephanie Hardy (40:50)
No, that's great. ⁓ Okay, some The advice that I get that irritates me the older I get is just that I'm like I'm too loud. ⁓ Yeah, because my voice naturally carries and it always hands and People from not even man, but just everybody even family members, you know

They'll say that I'm too loud whenever I'm talking about a thing or whenever I get really excited about something and my voice just naturally just rises in volume because of the excitement or whatever or if I get angry, ⁓ I'll either speak very loud or speak very fast. And you know, it's just, I just get irritated with it at a certain point, because I'm just sitting here like, so would you prefer if you couldn't hear me at all? Like, what's the deal? Like it's...

Cause they be low key acting like I'm screaming and I'm just like, are you okay? Because, yeah, because it's just something that has always happened. And even my mom has told me that there are times where even when I'm speaking, like not in a room full of people, but just like maybe like a good amount of people and she could pinpoint my voice. And I'm just like, okay, yeah, I can't help it. It's just, you know.

Felecia (41:47)
I'm gonna go.

MainEventMamasPodcast (41:50)
Maybe you should get your ears checked.

That's good thing,

I would hope, right?

Felecia (42:14)
Yeah.

⁓

Stephanie Hardy (42:15)
Yeah, and it's just like, can't, you know, help that my voice is my voice. I've also been told that I, was told by a man once that I don't have any finesse. And that was one of the reasons why he decided not to date me. And for the longest time, I didn't know what that meant. And honestly, I guess, but I feel like the older I get, the more I realize I might don't and that's okay. You know,

Felecia (42:29)
Ew!

Stephanie Hardy (42:44)
I mean, that's okay. I mean, I might don't and that's fine. Yeah, that's cool. ⁓ You know, and that's all right. That's fine.

MainEventMamasPodcast (42:51)
Tim.

Felecia (42:53)
You

MainEventMamasPodcast (42:57)
What's

wrong with that in my opinion? just want you to know. My voice carries too. And so if my husband, this is like one of our most hilarious things, is he's like, I know where you are anywhere in this house. I said, well, that's great. So then you know where I am and what I need. And I do not apologize for being loud. But what I have learned is when I'm quiet, it terrifies them. So I'm like.

Stephanie Hardy (43:16)
Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

Felecia (43:25)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (43:27)
You get it anyway, mean, either way you complain. So I'm just gonna just live. I'm just gonna live. Sorry, or not sorry. It just is who I am. And I don't think there's anything wrong with being loud. Plus I think like when you sing, you are taught to project, right? So I'm like, and I used to sing a lot in choirs and stuff like that. So I'm like, that's what I was taught to do. I don't know how to mumble.

Stephanie Hardy (43:32)
Exactly.

That too.

Right, right, and then it frustrates me because you get around people who mumble, who speak, you know, really low and I get irritated because I'm just like, why can't you just speak up? Like, did nobody ever teach you to like...

MainEventMamasPodcast (44:12)
and say what you mean, right?

Stephanie Hardy (44:12)
Can I hear, like, like,

like use your, like use your words. I think my big mama, God rest her, used to say that, you know, she didn't want me or my, or my mom too, to speak with a lazy tongue. So it's just kind of like for her, like if there's anybody mumbling, I just get irritated. And I'm just like, look, I'm, can you speak up? Please like speak up so I can hear you clearly.

Say words, and it be adults, and I just, uh-uh. Say something, like speak for real. So I can hear you clearly. Make yourself known. Make your presence known. Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (44:47)
Yes. Yeah.

Which I agree with. Yes.

your business. That's all I'm like why can't you act like

like if you're saying it say it with your whole chest. What is the problem? That's right. Okay I have to pull this for the clock. Y'all out here John listen.

Felecia (45:02)
right.

Stephanie Hardy (45:02)
Right,

and let me hear you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (45:12)
What does that mean, John? What are you trying to say?

What is that? Anybody ever heard that before?

Felecia (45:24)
Like podcasting.

MainEventMamasPodcast (45:24)
It says,

yeah, my mama tells, okay, let me show that again. It says my mama tells, I think he meant me that means the same thing when I'm potting stuff. Okay, so that's what John was saying, okay. Okay, okay, okay. And then Faith says, I've been told that I come off too masculine.

Stephanie Hardy (45:38)
Okay.

MainEventMamasPodcast (45:48)
Like I beg your finest pardon, do not be mad at me if I can bench press your inflated ego and you can barely pick up my queendom. Now that is a bar. Fake. We might have to keep that somewhere. What's wrong with some of y'all out here? But that is one of the things I teach my kids. I'm like, use your words. Like you need, if more people could communicate properly, we would have less conflict in the world.

Stephanie Hardy (45:56)
Period.

Felecia (45:57)
Yeah, it is.

Stephanie Hardy (46:02)
Exactly.

Felecia (46:11)
Absolutely.

MainEventMamasPodcast (46:17)
So I'm like, say what you mean. They'll sit here and mumble, like what are you saying? And I will literally look at them, say it again, what are you saying? What are you saying? I don't know what you're saying. And so now everyone's like, they're so well-spoken. was like, cause I don't hear nothing else. Cause that's how I grew up. I wish I could mumble. My mom or my grandma, somebody would smack me upside the head. So I wouldn't have made it here. I'm just trying to tell y'all.

Stephanie Hardy (46:18)
Exactly.

Felecia (46:30)
I do that all the time.

Stephanie Hardy (46:30)
Mm-hmm.

Exactly.

MainEventMamasPodcast (46:47)
wouldn't have been me making it to adulthood so I definitely give that okay last confession Tanisha dipped out probably to find out which child is on her phone confess the moment you realized your unique female perspective was actually your biggest superpower in a male-dominated field

Felecia (47:11)
want to say with wrestling, you're getting a reaction for your thoughts. The reactions are crazy. I mean, they just, get really crazy. So I'm going to say with that, like that the reactions are so crazy. They're almost unbelievable at times, you know, but that's yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (47:28)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I agree with you. Totally.

Stephanie Hardy (47:34)
Mm-hmm.

Felecia (47:36)
Like if what I

feel is going to cause you to react that way. Okeydokey. That's crazy.

MainEventMamasPodcast (47:42)
right?

Why do you care so much what I say? Why does it like recall this one person argue with me all day on TikTok? And then he said to me, I don't know why I'm arguing. Me either. Because it's still my page. I don't know why you're arguing.

Felecia (47:48)
So worked up.

Thank

Right.

I was on another podcast called the Human Mosaic and I was talking about how I respect my kids dad, my ex-husband and this man just was like, you don't know how to keep your family together and if you meant these things that you say, then you wouldn't have done this. First of all, I don't know this person at all, not zero. He was like,

MainEventMamasPodcast (48:07)
Okay.

That's what helps.

Felecia (48:26)
You would learn, you women would learn how to keep your families together if it was, it was just so ridiculous. And he went on all day about it. I was like, what in the world? Like you guys are so butt hurt over things that don't have anything to do with you. What I'm telling you is my perspective, my perspective, my opinion. ⁓ I don't think that people understand that opinions are opinions. And that's just that.

And so when I was on this podcast and I was talking about, you know, the relationship with my kid's dad, that he just, this man under this post was just going, paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs about ⁓ not knowing how to control your emotions. And, you know, if you really wanted to be like, I don't know this person, it was so crazy. I'll have to send you a screenshot of it, but it was insane.

MainEventMamasPodcast (49:18)
Yes, please,

what is happening? It always makes me think like, you need therapy. That's why I always wanna put, the fact that you wanna sit here and argue with me. This is fun for me because I'm going to put this phone down and move on with my life. I'm not personally invested. Nothing you say is going to make me angry. This is a part of who I am. It is not the whole of who I am. And I feel like people get real confused about.

Felecia (49:25)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, at all. That is it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (49:48)
You don't know me. You saw a clip.

You saw a clip of one

Stephanie Hardy (49:53)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (49:53)
thing

I said. That's not, that's not knowing me. So it's weird. Cause I definitely have run into that. Sometimes people make assumptions and you're like, that's, did I say that? Even in person, I will feel like I'm like, cause the dynamic between myself and my husband, we are just jokesters. Like if you hear us talk about each other to our friends, you would think like we're enemies, but it's

Felecia (49:57)
No, head off.

The internet is a weird place.

MainEventMamasPodcast (50:21)
just how we engage also because it really helps us. So sometimes I could be like, he says I can't go. Now granted, he probably didn't say that, but I'm definitely gonna use him because I don't wanna go. And I've already tried to tell you no, and you were trying to hear me. But I feel like people take that one clip of information and just assume. Like I remember someone being like, my God, you guys hate each other. And I was like.

Felecia (50:30)
Bye

Because I don't

Right.

⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (50:48)
I was like, we're about to leave here and go hang out. So I don't know how we hate each other. I still been asking for 21 years. I don't know. But that's just, we're homies. That's how we interact. So I'm like, y'all are just weird. I'm like, maybe if y'all talked to more people like that, y'all might be a little happier. Everybody doesn't have to have that, oh, I love you dear. The Instagram romance, that's not, that's not real people. Are you back? You back?

Felecia (51:06)
Right.

Stephanie Hardy (51:13)
Yet, not all the time.

Felecia (51:15)
Yeah, that's

MainEventMamasPodcast (51:18)
Yeah, sorry, had to do a parenting moment. But I'm here, I'm alive. I'm alive, everyone's alive.

MainEventMamasPodcast (51:24)
You hear? hear? Okay.

That's important. We haven't heard Stephanie yet. The moment you realize your unique female perspective was actually your biggest superpower in a male-dominated field.

Stephanie Hardy (51:28)
Mmm.

Well, I think there's probably two scenarios and it and it does have to do in my wrestling career. One instance is the biggest one that just that happened months ago at Evolution when I was in the press conference and I got to ask Naomi that question about ⁓ the caution tape and how it and how her

Cashing in speaks to those who have felt that they've been undervalued under appreciating and a third wheel. ⁓ that made me feel like that was really like a really cool superpower to have an ask a question in that moment because in that room there were only two of us women it was me and my friend Emily May who is a very amazing ⁓ Correspondent interviewer host

who's been doing this for a long time and she's like a mentor of mine at this point and she's my friend. It was just us two because I was during a crazy weekend. It was also all in Texas weekend. So all of us just kind of all over the place. ⁓ But we were the only two in there and just thinking about what I was gonna ask her in that moment was just really crazy. But I was just like, you know what? This is something I've been thinking about with her since WrestleMania and I gotta get this out.

So once I asked her, I was so happy I had that opportunity because, you know, that's her, that's Naomi. That's the person I've been watching for years and that was just amazing. But seeing how people reacted to the question made me feel really good. Seeing women say that they wanted to show it to their kids, to remind them of their worth and whatnot to tolerate. Seeing men...

you know, talk about how great of a question it was and how journal and how great of a journalistic question it was. And even people like wrestling fans thanking me for not asking a crazy question or a dumb question that, you know, people don't necessarily like or feel like doesn't fit the moment and so many other things that is that is still one of the best moments I've ever had as a creator. And I hope to create more like that. But that would, you know, really means a lot to me at this stage.

And the second moment I realized my female perspective was super power was just anytime I share my opinion via my writings with Daily DDT and somehow or another it winds up happening because I'll never forget writing an article about how WWE needed mid card titles for the women. Now mind you, of course, that was just an opinion piece. It's an editorial.

I would never tell these people what to do, how to do, whatever, because I've never written for TV, never booked a show, never done that. But I was writing about all the ways a mid-card title would help with the women and how in NXT you see it helping over here. But a few months later, they announced that the United States title was gonna exist for the women and then the IC title was gonna exist for the women. And that made me feel really good, cuz I was just like so.

You know the Bible I'm a Christian and the Bible always says you know you have to write the vision and make it plain and I feel like even that applies even in wrestling sometimes where you can write something and maybe a year whether it's a few months or a few years down the road somehow another it's gonna manifest and the beautiful part about wrestling is that it catches you off guard it catches you by surprise if you just stay on the journey and just don't give up and

That has been one of the craziest things ever. It's just seeing things that I've either spoken about or written about in the past five years actually come to fruition. And that I feel like is my superpower. It's just being honest about how I feel, saying it, writing it or whatever, and then boom, it's there. So that's cool.

MainEventMamasPodcast (55:39)
is cool. Wow. Now what's not cool is what they're doing with those mid-card tiles but you know we'll we'll get into that a little bit later but that is really cool and I do remember reading that article actually and being like yes yes I was like exactly what she said exactly so no I definitely think that is a unique superpower for sure. Alright how about you Tanisha?

Felecia (55:40)
airing.

Stephanie Hardy (55:47)
Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (56:08)
Can you hear me? Okay. No, my mic is doing something weird and my headphones are doing static. I don't know what's happening over here, but.

MainEventMamasPodcast (56:10)
Yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (56:17)
I would say the same thing that Stephanie said in regards to Naomi, letting us know that we were doing on the right track. ⁓ Because if y'all watch the episodes, I am normally the funny one, the one who always got something to say, my face be turning up just like as it is on this live. But there's moments where I'll get serious and ask like some random question and you'd be like, well, wait, I gotta think about it.

I think for just like how you asked her Stephanie, it was more so just me asking like, why was it important to all of us? Because for whatever reason, when Naomi won, was just something, it was different than when she won any other time. And I'm not, and it was just like, why is it? Why is it this particular time is so mantra, mantra mental to us as a community or as a wrestling.

MainEventMamasPodcast (57:13)
Right?

MainEventMamasPodcast (57:15)
Community or like what was it about it? So with her? acknowledging that Reposting it and then when I actually met her in person Like I said, I'm sharing that video cuz I look crazy But for her to even just sit here and say, I love you guys Like keep doing what y'all do that was The it was the moment to realize

We are on the right track. This was good that we actually did this because who knows if I didn't push my sister and stay on top of her and like, yo, did you get all these different things? If we would even had this moment or I would have met her and it was just like, oh, I met you, you're nice and kept it moving. It wouldn't have no significant value to it. So that is me answering the question because I feel like I'm about to go on a whole different tangent.

MainEventMamasPodcast (58:04)
Yes.

Felecia (58:06)
See you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (58:06)
No,

it's cool. No, but you're right. And it was that I do feel like that was a moment and it was a defining moment. I think that you have times where you realize that you think about things a little differently. And when she asked me that question, she's specific. It was really, it was one of those days where you're like, did she just go ahead and ask me a deep question in middle of this episode where I'm gonna have to stop and think? ⁓ But I think sometimes the people who know you best.

can ask you some of the most deep questions. And the question really was like, what does this mean to you? Like, what does Naomi's win mean to you? And for me, as someone who just like has been watching her, but just being a black woman, having to like constantly, again, like we talked about, be 10 times better, you have to work harder, you have to do more. And to be, to just get a sliver of notice, I feel like sometimes.

that it just really spoke to just the dynamic. I felt like it was a experience that really highlighted a plight that we all know, but that people don't get a chance to see highlighted in a bigger way. So I definitely think for sure that it was a defining moment and I'm really excited that it happened and that we got to hear her thoughts on it and that you got to meet her. And yes, I've seen that video.

So y'all, ⁓ we're saving you. We're saving you. I'm not showing you the video, but she is the sweetest and my sister didn't stop crying for like an hour after practically.

MainEventMamasPodcast (59:44)
And it wasn't a good cry

either, it was an ugly cry. It was an ugly, was like the face was like, it was not, yeah, y'all would never see that video.

MainEventMamasPodcast (59:50)
It was bad. It was bad.

Stephanie Hardy (59:51)
Aww.

Felecia (59:54)
That's okay.

That's okay.

Stephanie Hardy (59:55)
But it's alright,

it's okay. Crying is, that's real.

MainEventMamasPodcast (59:58)
you

Felecia (59:58)
Meeting them gives

me anxiety. can't. They give me the worst anxiety ever.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:00:06)
I did, I had anxiety, it was bad. I didn't start crying until I physically got in there, but it was bad. I was ready to turn away, I was ready to run away, was ready to...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:00:07)
was a moment.

She was right.

Felecia (1:00:15)
This is...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:00:16)
was like, you're already here, you're already here,

I wish I was there to force you to do this. But keep going, you're almost there. And it meant a lot, and I think it was a defining moment in a lot of ways. All right, so now we're ask you guys out there, I know we got some females, we got some males in the chat.

We want to confess one thing, you refuse to apologize for anymore. Because women often are told, or we do, I don't even think that we are told that we have to apologize, but I feel like you have to apologize for the daily existence that you have. Like, sorry I'm doing this, sorry I'm doing that. What are you looking like that for? What's wrong?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:00:58)
I'm just saying,

that's me, I do it all the time. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:01:00)
Exactly. And so we try to ban, I'm sorry, out of our vocabulary, but obviously that doesn't necessarily work because it's almost like a defense mechanism, I think, at this point. So I want to just end this segment with confess one thing you're going to refuse to apologize for anywhere, anymore owning your womanhood, your abilities, your talents, your gifts. So what's one thing?

that you refuse to apologize for. And I want to hear the chat too. Y'all go ahead, tell us one thing you are not apologize for. Anyone, open to everybody. don't, not discriminating.

Felecia (1:01:39)
I'm not apologizing

for my feelings anymore, ever. Ever, ever, ever. I will never apologize for my feelings ever again. As far as anything. They're my feelings. You don't have to like them. You don't have to like me, but I'm not apologizing for shit.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:01:53)
See you

Felecia (1:01:54)
you

You

Stephanie Hardy (1:01:58)
Exactly.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:01:59)
Love it.

Love it. How about you Stephanie?

Stephanie Hardy (1:02:05)
I'm not apologizing for taking care of myself and having goals for myself because there have been times even now where there's pressure from people who have a tendency to like give their unsolicited advice about you know what they feel like you should be doing with your life and how it should be you know convincing everyone else and

Instead of just actually asking you like well, what do you want to do? Like what's best for you? And I feel like at this point I've reached the point in my life where I'm like, okay What do I want? Like I want to center myself and not apologize for it. So I want to center myself do what's best for me and Rise in my own way and in my own purpose regardless of what other people have to say so that's what

Felecia (1:02:43)
Absolutely.

Stephanie Hardy (1:03:00)
I'm going to not apologize for anymore.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:02)
I love it. I love it. How about you, Tanisha?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:05)
For being me, I ain't apologizing for that no both. That felt like such a corny answer, but that's the truth.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:07)
That's right.

Felecia (1:03:09)
Bye for now.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:11)
You should have. You should have.

Stephanie Hardy (1:03:15)
I mean, that's not corny at all.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:17)
No, it's not. It's not corny. I think it's relevant and important and I hope you take that to heart and I'm going to remind you about this tomorrow. I'm you about this tomorrow. The one thing I'm not going to apologize for anymore is taking up space. I think people think that you should be smaller than you are and I'm like not doing that anymore. So I'm like, sorry, this is what I bring to the table. This is the presence I bring to the room and I am not.

Felecia (1:03:17)
at all.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:31)
Mmm.

Felecia (1:03:37)
Sorry.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:45)
here to make you more comfortable.

Felecia (1:03:48)
right. I absolutely agree.

Stephanie Hardy (1:03:49)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:03:49)
Alright Trell,

I love that. I'm gonna pop that on the screen too. my goodness, this is awesome. You don't get this too many times for a male. I'll no longer apologize for wearing my heart on my sleeve. You shouldn't. That's beautiful.

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:02)
⁓ yes,

yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:05)
Somehow I feel like that's

a bunch of bullshit. But anyway, that's just my opinion. What? I'm just saying, I'm just saying.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:09)
You know what?

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:10)
No, see that's a no no

no

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:14)
energy we were not supposed to be giving. I don't think so.

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:16)
No, no,

no, no. Tanisha, no.

Felecia (1:04:21)
Hehehe.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:21)
Absolutely not. We're not giving that kind of energy.

A little less of the true serum, okay? A little less. No, I think that's a beautiful sentiment and I think it's important too.

Felecia (1:04:25)
Thank

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:28)
No.

Felecia (1:04:30)
Okay.

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:33)
No.

Felecia (1:04:36)
you

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:37)
not saying it's not

a beautiful sentiment. I'm not saying that it's like, ⁓ that is, I'm not saying that is not wrong. That is a beautiful thing to say. However, I'm still gonna call out and think it's bullshit.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:50)
Okay, listen here, and now it's time to move on to the next part of this convention, though. Right?

Felecia (1:04:53)
you

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:54)
But look, even...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:04:56)
I believe you, okay? I believe you. ⁓

Stephanie Hardy (1:04:56)
Take care.

can't believe

you two.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:02)
crazy. Alright, so let's talk about what we're watching. In the midst of insane.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:09)
just said I'm going to stop saying I'm

sorry for being me. So that was just being me saying that's bullshit. But you know what, it's K.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:14)
Listen here, that's not

Stephanie Hardy (1:05:14)
And we

love that.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:15)
what you need to apologize for there. The apology is for forfeiting what he said, not for ma'am.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:22)
Okay, all right, all right, all right, okay. I apologize

for saying that was bullshit. Even though I apologize.

Stephanie Hardy (1:05:33)
Alright.

Felecia (1:05:34)
Thank

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:05:34)
Y'all wonder how recording day goes. It's how it goes,

y'all. And I get to edit out some of the best parts I've guessed. So listen, this week I've made an endeavored effort to watch some TV. Now this used to be my thing. TV is one of the things I love. It helps me wind down. Besides the other thing we're gonna talk about later.

And a lot of my TV programming revolves around wrestling, admittedly. There's a lot of wrestling odd, so we kinda have to get it in there. But, why you look crazy?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:06:10)
Cause you said a lot of words that.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:06:14)
Anyway, the point is...

we started watching some new shows. And so we started watching Unreasonable Doubt on season three. So you can tell us out there if you've heard of Unreasonable Doubt because I've been obsessed with this show since season one. The show follows Jack Stewart, who is a criminal attorney, in her life, period, without giving you any spoilers. That's probably the easiest way I could say this.

And this show, season one and two, were off the charts. It airs on Hulu. It is a predominantly black show. It is written, I think it's actually executive produced by, yeah, it's produced by I believe Kerry Washington's ⁓ production company. And it's phenomenal. I'm not gonna lie. Every year I pray it comes back for another season. I'm like, don't do this to me. Because.

It really takes on, it tackles issues that you don't necessarily see on our day to day, right? She is a fluent attorney. She's a black woman. She is exceptional at her job. She works at an all white, mostly law firm. So kind of like we talked about, ⁓ and it's an experience watching the show. So season one and two, not going to give you recaps on that. I'm just go ahead and let y'all let Jim and I or chat GBT be the friend.

But, season three?

Also, by the way, this is Tanisha's fault because she's the one who found the show. I just want to point that out also. She found the show and told me I had to watch it. ⁓ But season three is back. It started, I believe we are four weeks in at this point, Tanisha, right?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:01)
Yes,

episode four came on. It's on Hulu now.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:06)
Yep, so we have a new case about a child star and a missing girlfriend. And Jax, at the beginning, her life's a little bit of a easy compared to the last two seasons. If you know what I'm talking about, you know. If not, I'm tell y'all to pick that up and watch it. But her life's a bit of a...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:27)
as.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:30)
It's much smoother than the first two years. Jax and her husband do not have a traditional marriage by any stretch of the imagination. There are sometimes other partners involved, or at there definitely wasn't the first season. And then also the second season.

Stephanie Hardy (1:08:42)
or I'll help.

Mm-mm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:49)
She said the same for me, the second season.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:52)
Is that why you stopped that episode, season one? Cause season one was, that was a lot.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:08:59)
Season one was a lot, I'm not gonna lie. The first season I was like, uh, what did I get myself into? It was a lot. But what I did appreciate about it, this particular season, is that the drama is not as centered on Jax herself. She's much more of a solid character, a, or at she's trying to be, as she navigates this case, which is,

by far the craziest case I've ever seen on this show. Normally you have a sense of who's wrong, who's right, who you think did it, except for last season, that was, her best friend was on a murder trial, it was a lot, that was a lot for anybody. But this particular season, you're dealing with something I think that starts to resonate, especially knowing the way Hollywood is, with child stars doing things that maybe they should not do.

It also has some phenomenal actors, including, I believe, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter. Rumor? Rumor?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:10:03)
⁓ her daughter, I think it's, I think it's, isn't that Ryder? Rumor Ryder, some, one

of them. I don't know, it's one. It's rumor? Okay. She's an amaz- she's, she's amazing.

Stephanie Hardy (1:10:08)
Yeah, rumor is rumor.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:10:13)
She's an amazing actress. So, Tanisha, how did you feel watching episodes one and two recently? Because I know you just got it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:10:23)
You know what? You don't have to put all my business out there that I just caught up, okay? Cause I mean, you just caught up maybe a couple days ago. So we're not that far in between. Anyway, how do I feel? I feel...

Felecia (1:10:34)
Thank you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:10:38)
that Jax is somehow going to bring the drama to herself, because she's a very complex person.

She, how I was about to say it, like she is like how Cardi B's album is. Am I the drama? Because I feel like.

her life itself, like she's the center of it. And if you have to scratch your head and go, do you realize you may have caused some of this extra stuff that you're doing to yourself or because of you? Cause I also realized she ⁓ carries the world on her shoulders and she feels like she has to carry the burden because she is a partner at the firm and seem like the only black one there other than her assistant. There's no other.

⁓ someone else that she can work with. Like last season she had Morris Chet Snutt's character and but then you know there was still sexual chemistry there so it wasn't like she could like really lean in and just be herself and then yes her world was yes it was competition but also too ⁓ that her world was exploding as well.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:11:48)
at competition.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:11:57)
You know, I'm just gonna run it back. Cause you know, I feel like we're talking in circles. So pretty much season two, her husband sat here. Listen, why is, I don't care. Her husband sat here and cheated on, well had a break baby. Right? And they had to sit here and try to navigate that while trying to go through counseling, trying to figure out if they were going to stay together or not. And then unfortunately his break baby, I'm sorry, I'm pronounciating.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:12:24)
Break? Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:12:27)
pronounce any whatever. Either way, ⁓ the baby unfortunately died. So now, pre-mo season three, we're starting with the baby mama being bitter and upset and hurt because ultimately her husband did not choose to be with her. Which is weird. Yes. Yes. Which is weird. Not weird, but weird. But anyway.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:12:42)
Mm-hmm.

his husband did not choose to be with the...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:12:58)
I would tell y'all to watch it, because it's just really profound to one, because I never really, like I watch murder shows, Law and Order, all that good stuff, but to watch a predominantly strong character, and also to her character, she likes to.

I feel like if her life is not in chaos, she does not know how to navigate it.

Like she's very complex, even like when she was, you know, pretty much she got fired in essence from her case. And she was like, yeah, that's just what it is. And he's going to come crawling back to me. Like her confidence is through the roof, but sometimes it could be too overpowering. If that makes sense, what I'm saying.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:13:44)
Yeah. Yeah. I definitely think it's a watch for this week too. I'm like, for me, I think it's a watch. Because it also holds a mirror up, right? I think that's one of the things I think is important is to recognize when seeing some of these things on the screen, it'll make you start to think about, I do some of these things? And she's not all good or all bad as a character. She definitely has some habits. She sometimes likes to smoke weed.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:13:47)
So.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:14:13)
She and her husband like to go in and out of affairs sometimes. It's a thing that they have and it's their own dynamic. And yet, like you said, she seems to thrive in a record number of chaos and does not know how to live because the opening of the season is quite peaceful and she's on the hunt for that next thing. So she's like, okay, great. I'm gonna need somebody to kill somebody so I can have a job. I'm like, really? ⁓

That was a choice. So definitely suggest you watch that this week. We'll definitely talk about it again in our next upcoming one. We'll talk about episodes three and four. And then I want to give you two more or three more suggestions of things. If you're on Netflix and you're like, don't know what to watch. The Wrong Paris is a hilariously funny rom-com about a dating show contestant who ends up going to Paris, Texas instead of Paris, France. And

It's hilarious, I'm not even gonna lie.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:13)
I didn't even know it was a Paris,

Texas. There's actually a Paris, Texas.

Stephanie Hardy (1:15:17)
Yeah, there's a Paris, Texas. There is a Paris, Texas. the, see funny enough, the way I know about it is from a soap opera. ⁓ Like it's an old soap opera, One Life to Live.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:17)
have no idea of this for you. No clue, no clue. But you know.

Felecia (1:15:18)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:19)
Fru-

Wish so far bro. Wish one.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:27)
Really?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:29)
Ooh.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:30)
One life to live? I used to watch that.

Felecia (1:15:31)
Wow

Stephanie Hardy (1:15:32)
Yeah,

they actually had a whole character arc of a girl, well no, of a guy going to Paris, Texas and running into like a former flame who he wound up marrying.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:43)
think I saw this story live.

Stephanie Hardy (1:15:45)
Yeah,

it was Rex Balsam and he was in love with this girl named Gigi. And well, he was about to marry Adriana Kramer, but then he goes to Paris, Texas somehow and she works at this strip club in Paris, Texas. And yeah, they want, I think it was a spotted horse or spotted pony or something. And yeah, yeah. my God. Okay. It's, it's, I'm impressed at myself that I remembered that cause I was so long ago.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:15:49)
YES!

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:04)
Whoa, wow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:05)
the spotted

pony. Excellent memory. Good job.

Stephanie Hardy (1:16:14)
But yeah, like, and they found each other at that place and, you know, fell back in love and Adriana Kramer crashed out. But yeah, it was in Paris, Texas. And Paris, Texas is a very much a real place. I Googled it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:22)
She did.

Yeah, and it

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:27)
Wow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:28)
is a delightful show because it's a twist. It also has the actress who played Molly on Insecure, whose name I can't remember right now because y'all know I'm not good at that. I don't remember all the stars. There you go. And she's so funny in this movie that it was a great break from the stress that was going on in my life on Monday. was, ha, it was delightful before, you know, Raw came on.

Stephanie Hardy (1:16:39)
Yvonne Orochi.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:16:54)
things I suggest you guys watch Ruth and Boaz there's a lot of mixed reviews out there I thought that was a lovely movie and then we're also going to be covering Tyler Perry's Beauty and the Black

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:17:05)
Beauty in the black.

Say it loud, say it with your chest, say it proud.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:17:10)
on a future episode. Alright, let's get into some A's. lord. Why? Go ahead.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:17:13)
But wait, hold on. What? I'm sorry. I

just wanna ask our guests, do you have any shows that you guys are watching right now that you think it's a good look?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:17:21)
Okay, please do.

Felecia (1:17:26)
No, not right now. We're about to get back into this. No, I still do the Chicago shows, Law and Order, stuff like that. Grey's Anatomy. I haven't added anything new at the, like, yet.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:17:28)
⁓ see, was expecting y'all be like, yeah.

I'm... those are classics. What about you, Stephanie?

Felecia (1:17:42)
Sorry.

Stephanie Hardy (1:17:46)
Yeah, I really don't watch TV outside of wrestling as much as I used to but what I will say is that I did finish this ⁓ There's an app called candy jar where they have like these soap operas that's with these episodes that last for like one minute And they have one

Felecia (1:17:50)
hehehehe

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:18:01)
yes, yes, yes. you mean like the storybook

ones that are interactive, the ones that they pretty much make it in video that they pop on Instagram.

Stephanie Hardy (1:18:09)
Yeah, and basically,

yeah, and basically I found this one of this girl who was in a strip club and she didn't tell her and she couldn't tell, you know, her brother that, you know, she was secretly this stripper. The name of it is called Secrets of Vixen. And it's the story of this girl who winds up being, who becomes a stripper to escape this job in a restaurant that wasn't good for her because the owner was trash. And she becomes this amazing stripper before

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:18:26)
Yes. Yes. ⁓

Stephanie Hardy (1:18:39)
becomes friends with this stripper. But then she's also in business school and hiding the job from her brother who is ⁓ having a whole litany of issues. But then her friend, her childhood friend comes into town and he's actually just underground fighter and she's been in love with him forever. And so she dances for him and under her secret thing, but they've known each other for years. And it winds up being this really hot and cute ⁓

story and I finished the entire thing and it is so precious and it's so good. yeah, secrets of vixen.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:19:11)
You did? Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't tell me.

Felecia (1:19:17)
What's

it called?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:19:20)
So it's literally, if you, okay, I've been watching, have, it's okay, it's on Instagram, but it's also on like on an app, sorry, go ahead Stephanie.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:19:22)
Where is it at?

Stephanie Hardy (1:19:24)
It's on this... It's...

Yeah, it's on this app called Candy Jar TV.

Felecia (1:19:32)
anything. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:19:33)
So, okay, remember Kai how

I used to like watch a lot of interactive books and I'll be like trying to get you on. So that's literally what it is. So it's one of those ads that pop up on Instagram where they be sitting here like showing certain things and sometimes they're very repetitive. You be like, you literally just put new actors in this role and changed it a little bit but it's still the same story. Yeah, it's the same story. And I feel like I've seen this one on somebody else too. Cause it was somebody else and he was like.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:19:38)
Yes.

Stephanie Hardy (1:19:52)
Yes, and that's what happened.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:02)
But it's the fact that it's a black cast this time that caught my attention, because normally they're all white or Asian. So.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:05)
Hello?

Stephanie Hardy (1:20:06)
Yes. Yes. Yes. ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:10)
Okay,

because you started to make me think, because I keep getting these, this is the other thing, I want to complain about Instagram, Facebook, little video reel things where they have the movies, because I was watching one, I think it was on Drama Reel, and you had to like, I paid for it like the first time, because I was like, got to see how this ends, like what is going on? Before I found out, you could just Google it and other people might have maybe potentially put that together for you.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:26)
Mm-hmm.

Stephanie Hardy (1:20:26)
Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:39)
No, no, it's

Stephanie Hardy (1:20:39)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:40)
But

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:40)
better to

watch it because you got it. You got it. Because especially when you get invested, when they like, especially when they give you the 20 minute ad long, I have to invest it. But this one has I'll send it to you because I saved it. I saved it so I could be able to download it when it's time for me to download so I can watch the whole thing.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:20:45)
Listen, but that one didn't have, ⁓ it didn't have black people though. This one was like.

crazy

okay I can't wait to look for this because yay

Stephanie Hardy (1:21:00)
It's amazing.

And the people are gorgeous. The black people are super gorgeous. Like, I can't deal. They're so gorgeous. And I finished it all. And it's like my guilty pleasure, but yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:21:03)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:21:03)
Really? Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:21:12)
Okay,

let me ask you first Stephanie, with this one, cause sometimes they give you like free trial, like some of them like in the beginning they used to give like a free trial for a week and I'd be like binge watch whatever, everything I need to watch in that whole week and then I'm like, all right, and now they stop doing that. Now they're like, no, you want to watch the whole thing, you're gonna pay $14.99 for the week. But so is that the same thing with this one? Do you have to pay upfront or is it like free for at least a day?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:21:23)
you

Stephanie Hardy (1:21:31)
Mm-hmm.

Felecia (1:21:32)
Right?

Stephanie Hardy (1:21:39)
It's free for like maybe a day and then you have to pay for the rest of them. And it sucks, at the same time, it's worth it though. When you get invested, you lock in and you're just like, you know what?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:21:45)
See, I just need to binge watch it the day. ⁓

That's what I'm saying. That's why I used to do it. So I can be sitting here like, need to watch this whole, there was one where it was about, ⁓ he was an actor and she was a delivery driver and he was, wait, hold on, wait, cause it was, cause he was a delivery, she was a delivery driver and she was like, and he was like, don't you know who I am? She was like, no, like take your food.

Felecia (1:21:56)
Right. $14.99.

Stephanie Hardy (1:22:21)
humble him.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:22:21)
and leave me

alone. And then some, his co-star was like, they had like a contract that in public they had to pretend like they were together, but in her head they were still together and she would like come. And he was like, we're not together back up. And then he made out with the delivery driver because she came back because they had the wrong food and she went to came to exchange it. And he was like, this is my girlfriend. She was like.

What are you doing? And he was like, just go with it. like, like made out with her in front of the friend. So I had to finish watching it because she got kidnapped or something. And I was like, wait a minute. Yeah, she got, she ended up getting kidnapped because the girl was upset that he chose. Listen, it was a lot happening. It was a lot happening. So I was like, I had to watch the rest of it to know what happened. I will send it to y'all. Don't worry. It's on, I think it's on drama.

Felecia (1:22:56)
Yeah, I watched one where... Yeah.

Stephanie Hardy (1:22:56)
What an escalation!

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:03)
Wait, I think I know this one.

one.

Stephanie Hardy (1:23:09)
don't know this one.

Felecia (1:23:11)
There was one... Yeah, there was...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:15)
Something someone else

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:15)
It's on DramaReal.

Stephanie Hardy (1:23:15)
Is it drama

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:16)
I saw this one.

Stephanie Hardy (1:23:17)
reel or drama box? One of the two.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:19)
One of those two, one

of those two, because sometimes they be simultaneously, they be promoting the same like different apps and then they be sitting the same, this different title. You be like, what? That's not the title that y'all had a second ago. Like even like there's the one where they are millionaires and like I'm waiting for one now that she like, yeah, like there's one that she's a millionaire and her daughter, they gave away the kid and the other kid and the mistress and this and that. And now, know,

Felecia (1:23:20)
I've seen one that was similar to that.

Stephanie Hardy (1:23:35)
Yeah, that's real short.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:37)
Yep, that's real short.

Felecia (1:23:39)
Acid.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:23:42)
Yes! Yes! That was a good one!

Stephanie Hardy (1:23:43)
Yeah!

Felecia (1:23:43)
Yes.

There was one that

I seen where they were like, the mom, the son was getting married to this girl and she thought that the mom was like the old girlfriend and like ruin this wedding dress that the mom bought and kidnapped the mom and tied her up. Yes.

Stephanie Hardy (1:24:05)
Holy cow.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:07)
They've that, they've

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:08)
Listen.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:08)
changed that story so many times. was then became the sister, then it became the daughter. And it was like, ⁓ you, you know, you are the mistress. And we're like, I am the kid, I am the, and they would beat them up. then, and if they were pregnant, they would like kill the baby. It was a whole bunch happening.

Felecia (1:24:12)
Yes!

The mob, yes.

Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:25)
Let's move to AEW time. Time for Chiara's hot takes, okay?

Felecia (1:24:30)
Thank

Stephanie Hardy (1:24:32)
Wait, I need to pop out real quick. I'll be back.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:34)
You're

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:34)
No worries, go ahead.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:24:34)
good, you're good. What? We not took on a whole journey. We're going to Kiara's Hot Takes because the first thing we're talking about, this is usually our AEW time, but we forgot a couple things on our WWE review yesterday. But first, I wanna talk to you how you feel about this. So we've been talking about the Crown Jewel situation with Cody and with Seth.

There's been some chatter online about how people feel like it's not quite a show. It feels like it's political these days. ⁓ It's not as ⁓ show worthy. Now my complaint about this is Cody has already done this twice, so he better not win again. And... ⁓

That'll take me somewhere else. I don't even know if I should go there with you. But the point is, how are we feeling about this build between Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins champion versus champion at Crown Jewel?

Felecia (1:25:22)
You

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:25:33)
Not you laughing, wait.

Felecia (1:25:34)
I see

that.

I see that shit.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:25:39)
Wait, what?

Felecia (1:25:40)
I don't ⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:25:45)
Why? Why don't you want to see it?

Felecia (1:25:47)
⁓

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:25:48)
Not you sick of looking at them, geez.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:25:52)
You still

gotta look at both of them?

Felecia (1:25:55)
I would do something else. Like I just, I love Cody. I'm a Cody crybaby, but I'm just not understanding why we're doing that. Like I just can't, I don't get it. There's a lot of things that I'm just not getting. I'm not getting it. I don't want to get it. I'm like, am I going to, like, what are we, why are we doing this again with him? I feel like they're not like, we're just the opportunity.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:26:11)
you

Felecia (1:26:20)
They can expand to other people. We don't have to keep looking at Cody Rhodes through everything. Like I literally feel like we're just, I love Cody Rhodes, but I don't want to see him do that again. And he better not win. Because that's just over and over and over. Like, y'all cannot tell me it's over and over and y'all ever watch Raw or SmackDown and be like, we just watched this, literally, last week. We're just doing this over and over and over.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:26:33)
Thanks.

I said.

Yes, in fact.

Felecia (1:26:49)
It got to the point where the last two weeks. That left. Yep.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:26:50)
That's why sometimes she fast forward through it. She'll be like, yeah, I've seen this already.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:26:52)
I do. Listen,

literally when they did their promo this week, I looked at it and I was like, when can I start fast forwarding? And I started fast forwarding until I went, wait, it looks like they talking about something real serious. Let me listen to this. Cause then it was like, and it was like right in that moment where he was like, we ain't friends. said, ooh, that sounds like a good one. But like I said, sir, I think you're also missing the...

Felecia (1:27:03)
you

Woo, that's a ring, too.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:27:19)
Yes, Groundhog's Day. You're also missing the point of, you can't say y'all not friends. Do you realize we watched you blow out your knees while you were helping him?

Felecia (1:27:30)
Keep crying.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:27:31)
and crying, how can y'all not be friends? I'm not gonna do that for no person who's not my friend. I'm gonna tell you that right now. may, you know, ⁓ hold your hand. I may lift you up, but I'm not gonna sit here and injure my body to help you win a championship and then go, I was waiting for us to do these things. And then you talking about some damn watch. What the hell the watch gotta do with anything? If you don't want the watch, give the watch back. Cause clearly you wearing it. Like I don't understand.

Felecia (1:27:47)
right.

It's a lot of

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:28:01)
is my moment

to tell y'all. We were talking about this watch earlier. I was like, the one thing Cody is not allowed to do is give anyone anything else. Because this watch has stemmed to be the catalyst of a lot of problems. The Rock had a problem with the watch. Roman, the watch disappeared. Now we dealing with Seth and his damn watch. I was like, don't give nobody no gifts, Cody. Like, I don't think they want anything from you moving forward. And what I will say,

Felecia (1:28:26)
Leave.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:28:31)
I was really hoping that Drew McIntyre was gonna win the title so we can have a slight break from Cody because Respectfully because I like Cody I do Codarius I like Cody I just Don't know that I care about him being champion I'm working through my feelings. It doesn't mean I don't love Cody I do but

Felecia (1:28:35)
thought that was going to happen.

Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:28:46)
Cotirius, wow. Is that his name?

Felecia (1:28:48)
I love coding, but it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:29:00)
I I want something else for Cody.

Felecia (1:29:03)
I really thought that Drew McIntyre was gonna win too and this was gonna go in a different direction and we were gonna get some brand new stuff. We were gonna get brand new stories and then he didn't win. And I was like, ⁓ no, back to it. Back to it.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:29:16)
But then, you know, we already kind

Stephanie Hardy (1:29:19)
Yeah,

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:29:20)
of knew.

Stephanie Hardy (1:29:21)
I kind of knew that Drew wasn't going to win it because Cody just won it back. it's just, I don't know. It just, to me, Drew winning it, and I'm not even just saying this because I'm a Cody girl. I love Cody Rhodes all the way down and I love what he represents. ⁓ But Drew McIntyre winning it just wouldn't have done anything for me, honestly, because he

He's a crash out and it just seems like he he's such a victim of his crash outness that it just doesn't seem like he can truly focus on what he claims he wants so bad. And it's just like, sweetheart, when are you going to like lock in and not let your spite get in the way of you winning things? Like really, like when is that going to happen for you? Because it feels like he's just been angry and spiteful for like two years now. And at this point, I'm just like, sweetie, when are you going to get past like

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:30:05)
Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:30:13)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:30:14)
Damn.

Stephanie Hardy (1:30:18)
all of these angry feelings and you know, first of all, like get to the root of the thing. It's like you really feel like your championship win where you won at WrestleMania that wasn't in front of people. You felt like that didn't matter. And because you feel like that didn't matter, you've been trying to compensate for that for years now. And it's just like now you feel like now that you're crashing out about it, you think that's valid. And I'm just like, no, sir, like I'm going to need for you to relax a bit.

recalibrate and refocus and not just crash out and blame everybody else for your issues. Like, I'm tired of Drew. Like, Drew, get your life together.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:30:56)
Here's the thing about me and Drew, right? I love his crash outs. I love the drama. I love the whole bored at work thing. I was like, same, same. Please. But I also think we need a shift, a change somewhere because right now the product is getting really stale around the championship picture and

Like I was telling Tanisha and I said in our live stream, like before we move on to AEW, I'm actually enjoying what's going on over there because it feels like things are moving and they feel new-ish to me versus like ⁓ Cody's champion. He's going to come out. And also, truthfully, Cody has heel energy. Okay. Like, I don't know why people don't feel it. I feel like the words he uses, the way he comes out, like,

He has such great heel energy that I am just ready to flip that switch. I just want to see what the other side looks like.

Stephanie Hardy (1:32:02)
Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:32:04)
That being said, okay, well.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:32:05)
Well, Candice

made a good point there. She was saying that what she thinks is that there's no good ⁓ people to really face them, real opponents. And then you do, we do need Karrion. They definitely ⁓ cut him too soon. ⁓ Because he could have definitely played an a part. ⁓ Because I do think it's time for Cody to become heel. I don't think...

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:32:08)
Okay.

any real opponents.

⁓

Yes.

Felecia (1:32:27)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:32:34)
this baby face, think that's what's giving the...

That's not giving us the umph. And that's why I feel so stale because we're just getting the same boring dialogue. I'm going to say it boring dialogue. Okay. What you want to talk about, sir, you turning heel. That's what I want to talk about. When is that happening at any point in time? When are we going to see this big, you know, cause your brother's over there doing crazy stuff in AEW or

Felecia (1:32:48)
What do you want?

What do you want to talk about? ⁓

Yes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:33:06)
And I know it's possible because you were kind of healed when you were a baby face before you left. I don't know, but it's possible. Unwillingly, whatever. It still is possible for it to happen. But what I am going to pose a question to, to both of you, I ain't you, Kai. Well, I already know because you, you know, you like Seth, but that's not the point. If you, I know, shh. If you guys could pick.

Stephanie Hardy (1:33:26)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:33:30)
I

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:33:35)
Who would be at Crown Jewel right now, battling for it? Who would y'all have picked?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:33:43)
Hmm.

Stephanie Hardy (1:33:44)
You mean battling for the Crown Jewel Championship for the man?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:33:47)
Yes. I mean, we can talk about the women too. Anybody but Seth and Cody. Anybody, but who? But who was your, if you had to pick this card of who is the champion right now and going at it together to give us a brand new face, give some freshness to it, who would you have picked?

Stephanie Hardy (1:33:50)
You mean anybody but Seth and Cody.

Felecia (1:34:07)
I wanna say one of mine would be Jacob 5'2".

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:09)
Hmm. Okay. Going against who?

Felecia (1:34:13)
Y'all gonna think I'm crazy for this. ⁓ my leg, my leg.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:15)
Mm-mm. Go ahead. It's a safe space. It's a safe space.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:15)
Maybe, maybe not.

Felecia (1:34:22)
Tala Tonga.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:25)
Really?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:25)
Really?

Wait. Okay.

Felecia (1:34:27)
Yes.

Stephanie Hardy (1:34:31)
I'm intrigued.

Felecia (1:34:31)
think we're missing, I think with all these factions, we're missing opportunity for other people to be great solo. You know what I mean? I think Tala Taga has the, he could be something. He doesn't have to be in the back for MFT or whatever he's in. can't keep up with all the names. Yeah, I think that he gives off, he gives like,

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:34:32)
Beats

family tree. Mm-hmm. MFT.

Felecia (1:34:59)
To me, he gives Kevin Nash. Like you're able to walk over top of the rope with, you don't have to go under, you can go over top because you're so ginormous. You're like, he's giving energy. Like he can win these things. Jacob Batu versus Tala Tonga, I'll watch it for hours and hours if it went, if that was something. I want to see something fresh, something new. New people do new things. I don't want to keep on seeing Seth and Cody and I love them to death, but.

I want to see something else. if I had to pick, Tala Tonga, Jacob Fatu.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:35:33)
Okay, what about you Stephanie?

Stephanie Hardy (1:35:33)
Mmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:35:34)
Mmm. Okay.

Stephanie Hardy (1:35:37)
⁓ For me I would actually

would I would have liked to have seen either Heel or face Kofi Kingston as world heavyweight champion ⁓ And see him fight

I would I have wanted to see him fight? That's crazy. All I know is that I would want to see Kofi as the World Heavyweight Championship because in my mind, I feel like when the World Heavyweight Championship was made, and I said this on my show, I felt like with Seth winning the tournament the way that he did and everything else, it felt like a consolation prize for him. ⁓

Felecia (1:35:57)
Thank

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:36:20)
It was.

Stephanie Hardy (1:36:21)
It felt like a consolation prize for him not winning or being at the tippy top where Roman Reigns was. And which I also feel like is a part of this underlying story and insecurity with his character now and why he did everything he did. ⁓ And I feel like with him having the title and being the top guy with that, he's holding it hostage. Now, mind you, we have seen Jay with it and we have seen Gunter with it and that was fine.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:36:30)
Mmm.

Stephanie Hardy (1:36:50)
But I feel like there's a missed opportunity to give that title to somebody who has not been champion for a long, long time. It's like we know Kofi Kingston more so for his tag team work with the New Day more than we do, more than they position him as a single star. And I feel like somebody like him and even somebody like Xavier could have been.

world heavyweight champion at some point by now. And it just feels like it's being held hostage by Seth and by these other people. So I would have liked for Kofi to have had it and I would have booked him in a Magic. It's maybe Seth or maybe Finn Balor or someone else. just give me anything else like that. Cause I just feel like

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:37:31)
⁓

Felecia (1:37:32)
Hmm.

Stephanie Hardy (1:37:38)
I feel like the World Heavyweight Championship, not saying it should be positioned the way that the IC title is because historically that's always been like the catalyst for the big title. But I really feel like the heavyweight title should have been given more of an opportunity to other people who never really had a chance at the big, big WWE championship. So yeah, and Finn has his history with the Universal title too, and that he never really had a chance at again too. him versus, Kofi versus Finn.

for that title would have been perfect for me. yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:38:09)
And that would have been a real technical match too, that they're both really good, good. They're really good for sure.

Felecia (1:38:10)
I'm a fan.

Stephanie Hardy (1:38:13)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:38:14)
huh.

Yeah,

let me tell you, let me tell you. y'all had time to think about this. Now y'all know I love Seth, but I'm not picking him right now. So be shocked. I'm not picking him right now. It's fine. It's fine. I love Seth, but I understand. I would like to see, you know what I really appreciated that year that they brought NXT in as a third brand. So what I would have loved to see was Oba Femi and Finn Balor.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:38:24)
Okay, I was about say, please do not pick him. is not the, okay.

Stephanie Hardy (1:38:39)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:38:47)
Because the thing is, when we saw Finn, there's something about Finn in NXT that does not translate on the main roster. And I don't know if it's creative or how it's shot, it's just something. But if you watch him, even when he went to homecoming, he came out like a star. It was like undeniably, this is like a main character.

Stephanie Hardy (1:38:57)
Mmm.

Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:39:14)
when he walked out and he did his thing and everyone did it with him. And all I kept thinking is that is what I've been missing on SmackDown, on Raw, that. This Judgment Day thing, I'm ready for him to just break up and move on. But also, NXT Finn and Opa Femi, I think could have a fun, crazy rivalry.

Felecia (1:39:27)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:39:41)
Because they're clearly moving Oba up. mean, he done disappeared from all NXT world. But I think I'd like to see something like that. I do understand what you're saying that is stale and is a little predictable. And as much as I love the Romans and the Seths, need to, even asking for Drew to be put up gives us a shift. It gives us a new energy to mess with. And I would love to see Jacob.

move into something. This is why I think I have an issue with how they're booking like the Intercontinental and the US titles too because there's so many people like I was like Carmelo could have easily been a champion by now. Like it's just crazy to me that it's just you get these other titles that don't get like really defended very often.

Felecia (1:40:17)
Yeah.

Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:40:36)
And then you have these main titles that also get defended not as much, but it's they're held hostage by the same people. Which is why it even got boring with Roman and we love Roman, but eventually we were like, God, man, if this, wins one more match the same exact way, I don't know what's gonna happen to all of us. So yeah, I'd love to see like, I think they need to mix it up somehow. I don't know. I understand the money of it all, you know, people draw and all of that, but I.

Felecia (1:40:53)
Yeah.

right?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:04)
also agreed that Kieran, he could have easily transitioned into that kind of picture, but they didn't give him that opportunity. Especially when I feel like he was finding his flow, right? Like right before he ended, he was in the pocket and then it was like, what? You leaving? Why? So, that's what I think. What about you, Tanisha?

Stephanie Hardy (1:41:15)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:27)
I was trying to escape this question. I was going to hey, what's AEW?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:32)
We gonna move on to that, don't worry.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:34)
Who would I have wanted?

I'm gonna say I would have loved to see Goonther wherever he may be.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:42)
Okay.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:45)
Against you know, I can see gun Gunther going against oba femi

Stephanie Hardy (1:41:52)
⁓ lord.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:52)
oooo

Felecia (1:41:53)
That would

be good.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:56)
because I think that would have been something that would have kept us like, wait, who? Wait, when? How did, who did that? I don't know. I think Gunther would have had a real challenge with Obafemi. And I think Obafemi would have had a real challenge with him too. I think that's the other thing too. We're not, like Candice was saying, there's not enough, but I feel like they're also not booking the right people to give the correct challenges to.

Felecia (1:41:56)
That's something. That would be good.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:41:57)
I that.

Felecia (1:42:23)
Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:42:24)
Right? So just like how we're looking even at NXT, right? We're like, how did Obofemi lose to Ricky Sinks? I don't think he should have lost to Ricky Sinks, but technically who else was he gonna lose to? Because we don't have that many people for him to go up against to lose to. It's the same thing with the women's division. Who are certain people gonna lose to because they keep playing the same ⁓ people. That's a whole nother thing and we're not gonna get into it, but I'm just saying as in like there's so many other people that they're overlooking just because we're looking at the

Felecia (1:42:39)
right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:42:46)
whole nother thing.

Felecia (1:42:47)
now.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:42:54)
main, the numbers or whatever the numbers is or whatever the draw is, but you're not looking outside the box as in, if you did do this, you may have more people actually watching. Cause now they're like intrigued of, wait, these are not the common folks. Hold on, what we doing? Wait a minute. We gotta, we gotta pay attention to see what the next move is and understanding that, you know, maybe they don't carry the brand as how you want it to be. Cause I even feel like what Seth, yes, is the Eagle driven thing.

or insecurity because of how Roman was and how he had the title for how long he had it and Seth didn't really have it and Seth works so hard and does all these different things.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:43:36)
and he makes everyone look great.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:43:36)
But

I mean, yes, but the same token, how many times are you going to keep getting the championship?

Stephanie Hardy (1:43:44)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:43:45)
You understand what saying? Just like with Cody, how many times are gonna get the championship? Did I expect John Cena to lose to Cody? No. Why? Why did y'all decide to give it to him? Why are we now putting both of these two people against? Now, granted, I understand we may not know the storytelling that you're telling, but you also need to learn how to give other stories and stop recycling the same stories and putting the same people in the same thing.

Felecia (1:43:56)
year.

Right.

Right. I agree.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:44:10)
I do get that. I do get that.

Stephanie Hardy (1:44:12)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:44:12)
But like, not too long ago I was complaining about Seth always kind of getting overlooked. Like not too long ago I was like, my God, dear God, like that man don't get his title back. That's insane. But now I get what you're saying because you still need to freshen up the lineup. And I do feel like you said that people keep getting lost in all of that. And with that, unless you want to talk about Roman and the USEPs, can we move on to AEW?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:44:39)
I just wanna say I'm happy Romy came back and kicked some ass.

Felecia (1:44:42)
for

the 50th time, Roman. I love Roman. I'm always surprised. I'm always surprised as soon as I hear the music.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:44:44)
You know what? It's whatever it's it was for the 50th time. It's.

Stephanie Hardy (1:44:52)
Let me just say I love that he came,

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:44:52)
surprised that was in my city.

Stephanie Hardy (1:44:55)
right, I love that he comes back in the cities that you really don't be expecting him to, because the first time he did it, he came back the Monday after Evolution, and I was like, and that was in my hometown, and I was like, that's so amazing, and I didn't go that time because I was going to see Beyonce, but it's okay. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And then I saw Evolution before, I was just like, yeah, okay.

Felecia (1:44:59)
Yeah.

you

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:45:11)
mean, come on. Come on. Yeah. I was mad because I thought about that ticket.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:45:12)
is Beyonce. Beyonce trumps Roman Reigns. Okay?

Stephanie Hardy (1:45:21)
I know what time it is.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:45:21)
debating about

that ticket for the longest time about going to Ra and I was like and then I got mad and I was like oh that could have been my moments you know what mean but I made it I see but if yeah you right I gotta go it's didn't appreciate that

Stephanie Hardy (1:45:33)
That's why you just gotta go. You just gotta go. You never know, you just gotta go.

Felecia (1:45:37)
I love Roman. I love me some Roman.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:45:39)
Before we move on,

I just want to acknowledge Trell in him saying that he feels like the brawn, one brawn, should go up against Brock Lester. And you know what? I ain't mad. I would love to see that. I would love to see Brawnbreaker get destroyed by Brock Lester, because that would be funny. And then also seeing Gooth.

Felecia (1:45:54)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:45:59)
Can it be vice

versa?

Felecia (1:46:01)
right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:03)
Sorry. Not really.

Stephanie Hardy (1:46:05)
I don't talk about Bruno.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:07)
And then he was saying to, if we had to do crown jewel, he would like to see Gunther versus the Brock. Brock, let's go.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:08)
Lord have mercy.

No. Sorry. No.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:18)
Okay. All right, so

now moving on, AEW.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:24)
Hey, look!

running down the time but anyway so Andrade yeah I know don't worry I'm gonna wrap this up pretty soon don't worry but Andrade surprise return you know and he attacked Kenny Omega I had to take note y'all cuz I had thoughts and feelings and during this episode I was like sir first of all I know I've had I mean I had to because I was like hold up

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:29)
Well, you do as you please, ma'am.

Not you pulling it out like you're a teacher.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:46:56)
So in Jade's return, that man keeps the job in a way that I admire and need to endeavor to do the same. Because somebody on Beyonce's internet put together a timeline of the times that he has left WWE, went to AEW, came back to WWE, went to AEW, and I was like, well, that is hella impressive. You know what I'm saying?

But we talked about this a little bit yesterday in that.

It was a surprise. It was an interesting surprise to me considering how his experience ended in WWE and all the stories that are coming out around that, right? So I'm like, how, is there no concern about his last situation ending and maybe a situation that may need to be addressed in terms of like some kind of intervention before moving him back into

Stephanie Hardy (1:47:44)
Mmm.

Hmm.

Felecia (1:48:01)
You

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:48:04)
another situation because there's no denying he's a fantastic athlete, but is there an opportunity for companies or promotions to step up and take care of their talent to make sure that their investment pays off? Because I feel, and I didn't say this yet to anybody, sometimes that when people go to AEW,

A, they get lost in the sauce. But also, it's like they're running from something and they end up in another situation and it doesn't necessarily work out and then we're going back and forth again. So I'm just like, is there a onus on a promotion to maybe do a little bit more research before you bring people hopping over, especially if it ends in a way that is not, you know, your contract just ending.

So I kind of want to toss that up to you guys. What do you think? Do you think, because when we talked about it yesterday, Tanisha, there was some conversation about like, should he have taken a moment to address what may be going on? And is this an ongoing problem? True. That's true.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:49:16)
But first he has to acknowledge it's a problem. He has to acknowledge it's a problem. If he don't think it's a problem,

Stephanie Hardy (1:49:21)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:49:22)
if he thinks he can handle it, he thinks he can manage it, and they just caught him on an off day, he has to be the one who wants to think it's a problem. Because it doesn't matter if anyone else thinks it's a problem, someone else clearly is going to hire him. Someone else is going to hire him. He could be an indie wrestler for all we know. You understand what saying?

Felecia (1:49:31)
Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:49:34)
to

mean, he's

fantastic as a wrestler. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying his last situation at AEW did not end well either, right? So my thing is like, it's almost like hot potato. So does anyone decide why the potato's hot? Does anyone like want to think about that and address that?

Stephanie Hardy (1:49:51)
Thank you.

Yeah.

Felecia (1:50:03)
Should they be checking on the talent more, like better? Like should he have been able to go to AEW right away? I don't think so. Because if there's an issue here, there'll be an issue there. And it's just gonna keep bouncing back.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:10)
right away anyway.

Stephanie Hardy (1:50:14)
I don't think so either.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:18)
So that was my concern.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:20)
But if we also, let's think about

it, right? Jeff Hardy. Nah, love me some Jeff. But he sat here and bounced back and forth until he decided and realized, yo, I have a problem and I really need to get my life together. Cause he went in and out of rehab too. And he still kept getting a job. Like only place that seemed like it wasn't going to, he wasn't getting taken back was, was at WWE when they decided like, nah, you can't come back. Then it became, that's not true.

Stephanie Hardy (1:50:25)
Lord Jesus.

Felecia (1:50:35)
Right?

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:46)
That's not true.

In AEW, he was suspended.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:52)
Okay, being suspended means nothing in hindsight if you're going to be able to still go somewhere else and get a job.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:50:59)
He couldn't. So that's the other piece. Like you might not have known that because you weren't really watching, but Matt wasn't working and Jeff, they had like sent him off to go to rehab. And even when he was going through the steps that he was going through, there was no rush for him to come back. Like it was very much like, let's make sure he's healthy and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I don't know how much of that was.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:51:00)
Mm.

Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:51:26)
Jeff and Matt and how much of that was like AEW's people because remember this is around the time all that CM Punk craziness was happening. So there was a little bit more of ice on the talent there during that time. But things have cooled off at this point now. So that's what I'm saying.

I don't know that is just as as vigilant as they were during that time if they're going to be having that same thing because I don't think I was hoping there would at least be like a 30 or 60 or a 90 day period for you to rest and recover or whatever because again I don't want to speculate about anything I don't know anything about or allegedly know anything about but I just

I don't feel like you should be able to leave one day, especially when you have a termination or something like that, and then pop up the next day. I just feel like, and I know it wasn't that soon, I know it was like what, a couple weeks through two or three weeks or something like that, but at the end of the day, I feel like the promotion should want to protect their investment, but then also that's a person. It's something going on.

And I understand what you're saying, like that person has to admit there's a problem, but it just concerns me when things like that happen because obviously we want the best for all of our favorite wrestlers. And I love Andrade as a wrestler. I think he's fantastic and amazing. And I just want the best for him, especially, you know, he had a hard year, you know what mean? So just saying that.

Stephanie Hardy (1:53:06)
Yeah.

Yeah, like him coming back last night really like surprised me. I was just like, wait, what? Didn't what? Huh? And funny enough, I was watching it with my dad and my dad called me and he was just like, he was like, Stephanie, I'm driving this back at A.W. And I was like, are you serious? And so I turned around and I looked on the TV and there he was. And I was like, Jesus, what type of contract witchcraft did, did

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:53:34)
Not witchcraft.

Stephanie Hardy (1:53:36)
Did that happen for him to be able to do that, number one, and then just hearing later on about the circumstances which he was let go, it was just like, ⁓ no. I hope that he's getting the help that he needs because under those circumstances, there's no reason for you to just be on TV for the sake of, and sometimes, and I know this might sound a little,

This might be the unpopular thing to say, but sometimes I feel like AEW has a tendency as a company to just kind of like take people who were from the last, the bigger promotion, like in WWE and do it for the sake of shock value as if to say, ⁓ we have this person now that you didn't know how to do anything with, and we're going to do better by them only for them to go back on a cyclical thing. And it's just not, and it's just always weird, but at the same time,

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:54:17)
Mm-hmm.

Stephanie Hardy (1:54:30)
I just hope that on Friday is just getting the help that he needs because if he's getting provided for in the way in which AW has a reputation for providing for the wrestlers, then hopefully he's getting help because if not, then that could go so many different ways and I don't want it to go that

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:54:45)
Right. But then also, so I do want to call out, Trell has some great stuff to say and Candice did too. ⁓ they did put him in the stable and yes, Jeff did, ⁓ he did, he wasn't really accepted because of his past as well. And yes, Candice, I do think just like what Stephanie said, sometimes it's like AEW just feels like they just want to stick it to WWE. But I absolutely agree with you, Stephanie. And what I am, they put him in a stable.

which again, when you think about his previous history with AEW, he was in a stable that didn't quite really work. And now they put him in his Dawn Callis family. And I just want to take a moment to think about that for a bit, because I wrote down how many damn people do you need in a faction? Like, how many people you needed a faction? That sounds like too many people, that faction. And they brought out a clone, y'all. I just...

That was a moment to be had. I just sat there like, I like the ridiculous, but I think seeing him made me feel more concerned. You know what mean? Like it almost took me out of the story a little bit because I was just like, why, why we got Andrade here? He needs a little time. I think there should be a cooling off period, no matter how you.

Especially depending on your the circumstances of your exit. I do feel like there needs to be a cooling off period because the New cycle hadn't even stopped, you know, I'd be like we were still talking about how he left and people are still feeding stories about what had happened. So No, I can't bring you in here because reputationally it makes AEW not look as good Because they just accepted him over

with all these stories kind of swirling around. And then there's only gonna be more people watching him and not necessarily in the best part place, right? So I'm like, ⁓ I wouldn't touch him. I'd have been like, I understand he has to work and Tanisha brought up that point yesterday, like my guy needs a job. Okay, cool, cool. I definitely think they need a cool off period. They just need to.

give you some time to get through some things and it could have been a bigger surprise later. You know, like I'm like this did not need to happen right now. All right, so that being said.

Stephanie Hardy (1:57:17)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:57:21)
That's all I want to talk about that with.

But Hangman Page and Samoa Joe is where we're heading for Wrestle Dream. And I, I kinda like it y'all. Like I was not, that was not on my bingo card. I did not think Adam Page and Samoa Joe was going to be where they were going next ⁓ with Adam Page at all. I just didn't see that coming, but there was a little.

Fluffle between them during the match and then Samoa Joe basically saying he didn't get a rematch and all that so he wants to Battle Paige. So what are we thinking about that? We have any thoughts about Paige and Samoa Joe or

Worth looking forward to? ⁓ it is.

Stephanie Hardy (1:58:09)
It's gonna be brutal.

Yeah, those are two very brutal men and Samoa Joe, he's, yeah, like he, there's just a certain grittiness to him that I'll never get tired of seeing. And I just want to see how Adam Page will bring it in order to keep that title. So that's going to be a very brutal match. Hard hitting for sure.

MainEventMamasPodcast (1:58:35)
definitely think it's something worth being excited about Wrestle Dream because I was like Simone Joe does not play so this is gonna be an experience for sure yeah I don't know how much more I want to talk about this clone in this hologram situation

I'm

Yeah, I don't really know how much I want to say other than I had question mark, question mark, question mark. But Mercedes and Harley Cameron, I thought that junk was hilarious. It was so fun watching Mercedes be annoyed by a puppet talking to her. And it made me, I didn't really know who Harley Cameron was before, but I thought it was a little, I mean, it was cheeky.

and funny and a nice way to see Mercedes lightened up a little bit considering right now she just seems like on an island by herself. So I'm like, they need to pair her with somebody because that whole Camille thing never works and they never really seem to do anything with her after. So.

I'm hoping, first of all, they start booking her a little differently, because that TBS title is just kind of, it's like a jewelry piece right now. It's like, you know she's not going to lose it, and there's...

Not too many people coming, except that they're supposed to be heading to Florida next week. And I am praying by all the gods that there's a Britt Baker fighting somewhere, somewhere, because it's real thin. It's real thin over there.

Stephanie Hardy (2:00:07)
Oof.

Mercedes is my great, she's my gold. And hearing her talk about the tag titles now that they've been created, first of all, I'm happy that the tag titles have been created for AEW for the women. I love that. Cause I just love any opportunity for more women to get chances. And then hearing Mercedes talk about it, it was just like, know what? Yeah, you do have this history with the women's tag team titles, but Miss Ma'am, you have nine.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:00:27)
Yeah?

Stephanie Hardy (2:00:45)
Like I want her to win like it's like it's like you like a part of me low-key like wants her to like get to that magic 10 But I want that 10th one to be the AEW Women's World Championship and not a tag team one Like I want her like to go after Chris like that's my thing like at this point I want you to go after Chris in my opinion I feel like she shouldn't have lost the Tony story met all in Texas. She shouldn't have

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:00:46)
And that's what my sentiments yesterday was.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:01:12)
No!

Stephanie Hardy (2:01:14)
And like, and her losing to her, that just bummed me out. And I'm just like, okay, so why can't this black woman win this top title if she's winning everything else and everybody else's titles? Like that really, honestly to me needs to be number 10. But her and Harley are funny together. ⁓ They're hysterical and I love seeing Mercedes be more funny and stuff because sometimes in her aura of her being the greatest,

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:01:31)
I like that. Yeah!

Stephanie Hardy (2:01:42)
It's like sometimes it's better to see a little bit more personality to her, but you know, yeah, it's fun.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:01:47)
Yeah, it's hard to play

off of her, I feel like. I feel like they put her in like this. This is the one thing I was kind of worried about, and I think it happens at AEW more often than not, is like they put you by yourself. Just be a load out there, and like, you got Kris Datlander, and you got her hanging out with people, and you got other people hanging out. But Mercedes is out there with her her aura, you know what mean? And her nine titles. And whoever carries all of them for her at that time.

Felecia (2:02:16)
Thank

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:02:17)
But I'm

like, they need to give her somebody to bounce off of her. think Mercedes does really well when she has some kind of counterpart to kind of help bring out that personality and bring, cause I think what ends up happening is it feels very one dimensional when you don't have the full picture of her. And I think they, WWE did a good job of that when she was surrounded by other people that she was interacting with. I don't feel like AEW has the roster yet to help.

elevate everything. But no, I agree with you. I would love to see her heading towards the AEW Women's Championship because first of all, I was confused why Chris won against Toni Storm. I was like, why? What happened? I was very confused. It doesn't mean I don't think Chris Stathland is great. I do think she is, but it just, Toni Storm is on another level. So it's very, it feels like they have like these top people and then it's just scattered.

underneath there and they need to like actually put people in a ranking or something. It just doesn't. That's what I, my wish would be for AEW was to add more people to the roster to fill it out and to actually put them on levels with each other. So you can see people who are getting better and you see people at those levels because yes, it's great to add championships, but when you don't have the roster to really uplift and continue that championship, it just, it gets lost.

And I'm worried that their tag team titles are gonna end up like WWE's, like whoever has them has them. It's just kinda like, hey, that's my new championship person. But a part of me wonders if she could win them all. You know what I mean? Like gotta collect them all. just makes me look like, because she have every single championship. ⁓

Stephanie Hardy (2:04:09)
Felicia, did

you say Pokemon?

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:04:12)
Yes!

Felecia (2:04:13)
gotta catch them all.

Stephanie Hardy (2:04:15)
Exactly.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:04:16)
part of me thinks that it was great. Also, I laugh my behind off that now the young books are broke again.

this is I wish they had told when Baron Corbin was in this story I wish they had told it like that where like you win you lose you win you lose because the it was like he did what he lost all their money so now they're the broke box again like I I thought that was brilliant and genius anyway so

Stephanie Hardy (2:04:35)
⁓ That was so funny

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:04:53)
Is that it? I think those are my AEW thoughts to say. don't have that many. Other than, I want more.

mixed tornado tag matches because I think that needs to be more mixed tag matches overall. It wasn't saying Wheeler Yuta, I couldn't remember his name last time because he just ends up getting beat up or pushed over or whatever, often and well. But I thought Chris Statlander and Marina Shaffir did an amazing job together. Marina is a boss and so I'm like, how come we don't see more of her being like, I think her and Mercedes would have some great matches. just.

Again, I feel like they don't put people where they need to necessarily be. Because I feel like she is great in that ring. And also, did we have to really use tacks on feet? Was that a thing?

That's crazy. We just had the whole tack table situation. don't, I would still have PTSD. So I could have done without the tacks on the feet is what I'm saying. But I wish we had more mixed tag matches because that was fun. And I feel like the way wrestling is, we don't get too much of that anymore. All right. So I know I was going to say I was going to do a whole book confessional, but let me tell you, I'm getting tired because we've not been hanging out for a while. So.

Felecia (2:05:54)
Yeah.

Yeah

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:06:18)
recommend the book I recommend this week is Mind to Break by Kalani Knox. I'm gonna write a blog about it and that's why I like this book. It's dark romance, it does have trigger warnings, check out the blog and I will happily explain all my thoughts and feelings there. Candice has one question, will she drop the TBS title after she surpasses Jade's record? What do you guys think?

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:06:48)
Jade had a record?

Felecia (2:06:50)
I didn't know Jade had a record either.

Stephanie Hardy (2:06:52)
Jay did have

a record.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:06:54)
⁓ okay. Yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:06:55)
She did.

Felecia (2:06:56)
I'm going to do some research.

Stephanie Hardy (2:06:56)
Yep, she was the first ever

TBS champion and she held it the longest. So yeah.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:06:59)
She was. Yes,

exactly. She had a record.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:02)
So in that

Felecia (2:07:03)
after some research.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:04)
regard then yes, she should surpass Jay's record because Jay shouldn't have a record. Don't get me on that tangent because it's time for us to go. But I'm just saying, we'll say that for another time, but Jay should not be. Yes, yes, Mercedes should surpass it. Sir surpass it. All the way to the moon and back. Okay.

Felecia (2:07:13)
You

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:18)
Well, to be. ⁓

That's the moon!

Stephanie Hardy (2:07:27)
I just don't want

her to though. I don't want her to surpass AJ's record cuz I feel like if they did that it would almost be like a petty situation like when WWE made Nikki Bella surpass AJ's record with the Divas title. That would just be petty.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:39)
Yeah, that was...

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:40)
Well, when you're

looking at it like that, sure, but when you're not looking at it from the other perspective, as in talent wise, yeah, no, Jade only had it because she didn't have no real competitors to go against her to take it off of her. Just saying. Okay, I'm done.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:56)
That's right Candace,

508 days, Tanisha.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:07:59)
Oh

lord, what? Oh, why? Oh my god.

Felecia (2:08:03)
Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:08:06)
Check the figures,

she said. All right, with that, we want to thank everybody for joining us for this Midnight Confessions. We had such a blast that we were definitely over time, but, so I'm like, had way too much fun talking about all the things, so I want to thank Stephanie and Felicia for being here with us today. I hope you enjoyed your time in our Confessions booth. You're always welcome back. Always welcome back.

Felecia (2:08:31)
Thank you.

Stephanie Hardy (2:08:31)
Yes.

Thank you for having me.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:08:35)
We had a box of these.

Absolutely. And I'd love to tell you what our next livestream is, but y'all know we don't know that yet. ⁓ But this is our reminder to let you know that if you haven't hit your subscribe button, either on YouTube or any of the many platforms you can find us, hit that subscribe button and follow.

Felecia (2:08:44)
you

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:00)
so that you can be the first to catch our content because you you might miss our surprise drop like we did last night because hey, we do that sometimes.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:08)
We only did it once, but it may happen again for sure.

Felecia (2:09:11)
You

Stephanie Hardy (2:09:13)
Not you busting her bubble. That was funny.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:14)
EAT

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:15)
Listen, but I mean

I'm just saying I mean in hindsight we only did it because we just did not feel like recording Anyway, never mind. Clearly I have way too much truth serum We gonna make sure next week next time we have it. I ain't gonna have it that strong because it's just it's not

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:30)
We gonna have to get her on mocktails.

goodness gracious. We also want to remind you that you can follow us. Where can they listen to our podcast? Tanisha, let's go there.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:09:40)
What you can

listen to Main Event Mamas on iHeartRadio, Amazon Audible, Amazon Music, Pocket Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Yo, I'm sorry. But other than that, where can they hear you guys at, Stephanie and Felicia?

Stephanie Hardy (2:09:56)
Heheheheh!

Felecia (2:09:57)
I'm

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:10:02)
Absolutely.

Stephanie Hardy (2:10:04)
Okay, well go ahead Felicia.

Felecia (2:10:06)
YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or Amazon Podcast, one of those. That's it. ⁓ maybe, yeah, that's it. Yep.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:10:18)
I know it's it I had a hard time too. It's Amazon music or Amazon on the balls both of them One of

the two you can be able to find Felicia. What's about you Stephanie?

Stephanie Hardy (2:10:28)
Well, you can find my show the Hardy Wrestling podcast on Spotify I heart radio Apple podcast ⁓ Amazon music Amazon podcast. and Everywhere else you listen to audio you can subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁓ and also follow me on Instagram and on Twitter at Queen step Hardy and follow the podcast on Instagram at Hardy wrestling podcast and on Twitter at

Party Wrestle Pod and read my articles on DailyDDT.com.

Felecia (2:11:00)
Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:00)
Absolutely.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:01)
All right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:02)
Where can they follow you, Fee?

Felecia (2:11:05)
⁓ on Instagram at letstalkstoryline or my personal page which is frecklefacefee ⁓ and threads which is frecklefacefee and Twitter which is freckleface underscore fee.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:21)
Say that three times fast.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:21)
Consistent.

Stephanie Hardy (2:11:22)
I love it.

Felecia (2:11:24)
Right.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:25)
consistent. You can follow us on TikTok, on X, on Facebook. Don't forget to join our Facebook public group, the Main Event Mama Squad. Also, you get exclusive content, drops. I send notes almost every day. Feel free to join that free community. You can also follow us on threads.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:46)
Patreon, ⁓

sorry.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:11:49)
You could also join our Patreon if you want to support us. There is a free tier. You do get nice freebies like the behind the scenes situation of that naked man who was in our shot last week. You never know what happens behind the scenes and you won't get to know unless you join our Patreon. We appreciate all the support. You can also get shouted out. We have been shouting out Candace to the rooftops and we'll continue to do this because without her...

We want to be able to cover one of the top pay reviews and we appreciate your support. And with that...

We want to say we're not new to this.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:12:27)
We're so true to this and this was Made in Vet Mamas. Woo!

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:12:31)
Mm-hmm.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:12:35)
Bye y'all.

Felecia (2:12:36)
Bye.

MainEventMamasPodcast (2:12:40)
You hip.