Dumb Blonde - Dumb Blonde Podcast: Reby Hardy

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

Throwback Thursday (Originally aired: 11/28/24)Bunnie gets in the ring with Reby Hardy this week. This beautiful wrestler, game designer, model, host, super mom and wife (and even more) paints the picture of growing up in Queens, becoming a child bride at 16 and divorcee at 18, and her journey to having her first wrestling match televised on live TV. She talks about working with huge brands like Sirius, MTV, and Playboy, meeting her husband, wrestler Matt Hardy through a fan's suggestion on Twitter, and together making the cutest viral Gothic Babies that the world has ever seen. Reby talks about building their family compound in North Carolina, and what's next for the family of superstars.  Reby Hardy: IG | TikTok Matt Hardy: IG  Watch Full Episodes & More: YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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another episode of don blonde today i have one half of the iconic couple the beautiful revie hardy is here baby oh thank you does it ever bother you being referred to as matt hardy's wife it's like i get it to an extent like he's the more famous one but it really does like discredit literally everything i've ever done in my life like all the cool shit that i've ever done it was before i met him really and there's a hundred different lifetimes that i feel like i've lived before i met him and all that is just like null and void like no one cares once you're with him you're just like my hearty's wife that's it that's your whole personality there's nothing else special about you yeah i get it but at the same time i'm like just fuck me i guess right like well what am i chop live oh yeah no for sure

Sure. So I heard the New York accent and I heard you mentioned 100 Lifetime. So I want to take it all the way back. You grew up in New York, correct? Yeah, Queens, New York. My father's from Queens, Q Gardens. Oh, shit, okay. I've never been. I don't think of a hospital. Not far from there. Oh, very cool. I love that. So growing up in New York, what was that like for you? Paint that picture for us. Growing up in New York, I feel like now that I've lived in other places than New York and especially now, I live in like the deep country. Like you're going to drive 30 minutes to go to the soup. supermarket. Oh my gosh. I didn't even know places were like that in New York. No, no, now. Now, yeah. So it's like, now that I look back on my upbringing and my childhood, like, damn, I really took shit for granted. Right. I'm out here, like, you know, just going and hanging out in the city and doing it, you know, just at the drop of a hat. And I think about that now. It's like, man, I really got to drive 20 minutes to go to Walmart. Like, it's crazy. But yeah, my dad was a superintendent of an apartment building that we

lived in. And that's how we were able to live in a nicer area, which was great. And, So we had three-bedroom apartment in New York and you're balling. Yeah, no, we were balling. Shout out to my dad because he busted his ass. I feel like everything I have now, even like the got the baby stuff in my life and my DIY stuff. I was watching him being like a handyman and doing everything himself. It's like that's where I get it from.

So you have a pretty good relationship with pops. Yeah, we actually ended up moving him down the street. So he lived in Puerto Rico after him and my mom split up because she was fucking the gardener. Damn it, mom. God damn it, Mom. You're damn trifling up. So the whole, you know, it was when the hurricane was happening in Puerto Rico about five years back. Maybe, God, even longer by now.

And we were like, you know what? Every time it rains, it rains inside of your house too. Like, this can't. We can't do this. So we bought him a house on the compound. We live on 100 acres in the middle of nowhere. So now he's part of the compound there. He's got his own little house.

So, yeah, we're close. And, you know, thank goodness for him. I love that. So you said, so growing up, did you have both parents or did they? split when you were growing up. Yeah, they were together up until not long ago. My mom bought a house in Illinois, North Carolina also, unrelated to Matt. It just, you know, meant to be in the stars, I guess. And she moves first to get the house set up and everything. And my dad had to finish so he could collect his pension. You got to stay X amount of years or whatever. And she ended up, you know,

she went buck wild. And then they broke up. Mom was just ready. She fucking had her, what do they call it? Midlife crisis? Apparently. Yeah, just went crazy. So growing up, what was Little Rebbe like? Were you always like into wrestling and stuff like that? Or was that like, were you always roughhousing? Do you have relatives, siblings?

Yeah, so I have four siblings, but there's like 18 years in between me and the youngest. Wow. So, you know, they were more like parental figures that I really never saw. So almost like uncles, really at that point. I'm closer with their kids now who were technically my nieces and nephews than with my actual siblings. So it was just me because I'm my dad's only kid. And I feel like wrestling in the like the late 90s, like Y2K was, it was like the hot, cool thing to do.

It's not like it is now. You know, it's like, oh, hokey wrestling. Yeah. Nerd. Like, wrestling used to be a cool thing. You know, it was like everybody was into it. So that's kind of, you know, I got into it that way. Yeah.

Did you know, like, as a kid, like, this is what I want to do? Or it was just, you were just kind of like a fan about it. I was like a showbiz kid, like in dance classes and piano classes. and just any sort of like entertainment or stage, like I was there. So when I was younger, I never really thought in a million years that I would have any involvement in wrestling at all. That kind of happened after I started working, not even working. I did, so crazy. So this is one of the lifetimes.

I had this thing where I would go to Giants game. I was a huge New York Giants fan and I would go to all the games and I would dress up. And now it's like, who cares, bitch, everyone dresses up. Listen, back 900 years ago, whenever this, no one was doing this. No one was dressing up in crazy outfits and, you know, like cute corsets and tutus and shit and going to the gate. It just wasn't happening.

Right. So I started getting this sort of like cult following and becoming like this New York Giants, I want to say icon because that's a big word, but you know, notable and like on NFL network and in the commercials and all that kind of thing. So I got to do interviews at Sirius XM and from there I met somebody who ended up hosting a wrestling show on Sirius XM. New Year always makes me want to reset my space. Like when your home feels calmer, everything feels calmer.

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And then we would have guests in studio, you know, kind of like this. And everyone who would come in would say, man, you should be in the business. Like, what are you doing over here interviewing me? Like, you should be wrestling. And then when I heard that, you know, enough times, I was like, well, fuck it. Let me go find a school and let me train. And literally two months after I started training, I got a deal with MTV 2 for a wrestling TV show that they were doing it.

It like spiraled from there. That's crazy. Well, let's real like one thing to another random. Yeah. Let's rewind it back real quick before we start talking about your wrestling. And let's talk about this child bride thing. Oh, we cannot just skip over that. I always do though.

I drop it every now and then I keep moving. Yeah, that's trauma. You're like, long story, bro. Well, we're ready. So everybody get your coffee, get your fucking crumpets and tea. We are sitting down right now. It's tea time. Okay.

All right. Child ride. So how old were you? I was 16 technically. The whole thing started when I was 15, but I was, you know, I, I want to say like problem child, but when I look back at it, like, was I really, like, I was sort of in the foster care system for a minute. I was in the troubled teen industry, which like, you know, I don't know if you guys seen like that Paris Hilton interview that she did speaking out. It was literally that.

It was one of those places. Did you just start getting into trouble? What was the, you know, it wasn't even trouble. I wasn't like, I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't like, you know, out here robbing people. Yeah, you're just rebellious. I feel like I was just a regular as teenager the way you would expect teenagers to be. Right.

My mom was really crazy. So she was just, I don't know, she had me really, I don't want to say really old, but she had me at like 41, which in the 80s is like, miracle baby. You know, nowadays, it ain't nothing. But back then it was a big deal. She already had four kids, you know. So I feel like she really, really liked me when I was a little baby. And then once I stopped being a baby, it was like this bitch.

It was hard for her to relate to you. She didn't want to do. It felt like she didn't want. nothing to do with me. So I feel like anything that wasn't just me being like a complacent like doll that she could dress up at that point was like too much. So anything I did was trouble. And I had met this guy and it was like my third boyfriend in my life ever, you know, like 15 years old, whatever, but he was Jewish. And the neighborhood right, you know, next to the neighborhood that I grew up in like Regal Park Lefrak was a huge like Hasidic Jewish

community. So his parents were like hardcore Jewish. So they absolutely hated me. And it was like, it was this huge thing. So his mom, just to be spiteful, called CPS on my mom. And because I was already in the system and like cops had been called to the house prior because like we'd be fighting and throwing hands craziness, you know, they were like, yeah, we're just going to, she's going to go back in the foster system. And I was like, bro. So what ended up happening? was they sort of like arranged for me to marry this guy so that my mom wouldn't go to jail because they were threatening her with that like because his mom had said oh you're allowing them to have sex in your house and you're soliciting all this illicit thing blah blah blah so my mom's

like you ain't you about to catch me and none of this so she's like you're going to marry him it's going to go away and I'm going to wipe my hands clean of it I don't have to deal with you and now I'm not going to get in trouble kind of is really how it happened how did you feel were you ready to get married and kind of get away and get out of the system? Well, you know, my dumb ass at 15, I'm like, oh, I love him. Like, whatever. It's like, this random dude I know for a few months. Like, what the, what do I know? How did his parents feel about the arrangement? Were they, okay? They were mad. Oh, they were mad. Oh, they were mad. So your parents are playing the game. You know, because his mom thought, ha, ha, I'm going to break them up. You know, I'm going to end this. And,

you know, her mom's going to get in trouble. And my mom was like, bet. So they're like playing their little chess game. Yeah. So that, that, that, that, that. That's really, that's how that happened. And it was, it was terrible. You know, I went to my first prom. I was with my husband. I was married before I went to my first prom. Wow.

And, you know, just having to figure out where we're going to live now. How are we going to make money now? You know, and it's not like, you know, around where I live. No, it's just getting a apartment. Get a room. In New York, it's like, you know, two grand for a studio, for room, whatever. So, I mean, it took a lot of, I feel like, time to develop and, like, become my own person and, like, pursue my own interest.

that I should have been able to have as a normal fucking teenager, like regular teenagers. Like, it took that away from me. I feel like part of that is why I'm like so psycho into everything. Like I literally do everything and anything because like I couldn't do that before. Like let me let me be crazy now. No, I love that. How long did that marriage last?

Technically it was two, almost three years. But I mean, really it was over. Right. It wasn't even really like a marriage really. How did you guys? get like did he work did you work like how did you guys even live yeah we both worked i worked as a belly dancer so i worked for an entertainment company i would do weddings bar mitzvahs uh you know can you belly dance for us still i mean i got the belly for it now i don't have it like that and i guess i

i could that's like so i love the way they move their hips and shit like it is just it's like it puts people in a trance it does it is so hot and seductive dude um okay so after you get this divorce you're how old Almost 18. Almost 18. Where does Rebbe go from here? So you're already, you're 18. Just divorced.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Divorcey. And I took my wedding photos from a wedding photo shoot that we had done at the mall. Like one of those like glamour shots places. And I uploaded it onto like. Glamor shots. I remember.

I'm fucking embarrassing. I need to go find these pictures because I think it'd make a good storytime or something. I'd do it. I put it on this like model portfolio website. Yes. And within the first, like, week I met this guy. Of course, I'm in a bunch of guys, a bunch of fucking creeps, because that's what that shit was.

And. Yeah. Yeah. If they hide behind a modeling agency. Oh, yeah. I'm a photographer. Oh, God. You know, come do artistic photos.

Yeah. There was a lot of that. And I learned that pretty quick. Yeah. I was dumb, but I caught on pretty quick. Yeah. But I met this guy who I ended up dating very briefly. But he had a friend.

And he was like, oh, yeah, I got this friend who's a photographer. And he shoots film. And, you know, I feel like he. you know, you'd be a good fit for him because I used to be like 90 pounds, like super, you know, ideal for that kind of stuff that he was doing at the time. So I went and I did that. We shot on like some rooftop in the city. I went to Montauk in Long Island and the Hamptons and we shot some stuff.

That ended up being the guy who shot my first Playboy pictures. My first Playboy pictures, I didn't even know we're going to be. I didn't even know I was going to be in Playboy. I got a call from this guy six months, eight months after the fact. and he's like, oh, I'm going to be in Playboy. And I was like, congratulations. And he's like, no, no, no, we're going to be at Playboy. And I was like, isn't that cool?

Isn't that crazy how back in the day, like people could take anybody's pictures as long as they had the author or not even an authorization, but as long as they had the pictures and submit them to a fucking magazine like Playboy, they would never do that now. I couldn't imagine. The lawsuits that would happen now is crazy, you know? But it's like, they were like film pictures on the beach. I literally thought he was just like, because I was. sort of like his test models for when he would, you know, shoot the real beautiful models, you know, like the real tall girls or, you know, those stuff that he, because he was doing arts and books and museums and stuff like that. So I was like, okay, nothing's ever going to

come of it. And, you know, that ended up being published. And from there, I was like, bitch, I'm going to run with this. Yeah. This is my moment. And I like took that and literally like marketed myself to try and be the most important model that has ever modeled in the fucking world of modeling. Like, I was just like, this is my chance. And I, like, I, just I hooked my trailer up to that shit and went and it worked out thank God so you got published in Playboy what happens after that uh after that really just like magazine stuff signed to a couple agencies I ended up moving to Florida um and then sort of the whole giants thing and from there it went to radio and to wrestling okay so now it we circled back to when you got signed you got signed by who was it

again was it not you didn't say MTV who who for the wrestling yes so it was a company it was called Lucha Libre USA and it was a show to be on MTV 2. Okay, gotcha. So it was on MTV, MTV 2. It was on the Latino MTV. And yeah, I was thrown into wrestling. My first match, my first proper match was televised on live TV. So it's like crazy because a lot of times wrestling fans would be like,

this dumb bitch, she's only in wrestling because of match. She sucks. That's the only reason she had a chance. Like literally like this was, I had like months of training and thrown into it and that's it. on TV, bam. It wasn't like how most people, you know, years of training and, you know, going to a facility and, you know, having indie matches, it was like, boom, right away on TV with like veterans of wrestling.

Sink your fucking swim. Yeah. It was like, yeah. Go ahead, bitch. Good luck. And so how did that first match turn out? I feel like they protect, the producers of the match protected me enough. It was like a six-girl tag match at least.

But, I mean, I was so fucking scared. Oh, I bet. Because, you know, I just have. Those pictures are tough. Oh my god. Oh my God. The people they had me in there too, I thought I was going to die. And it's very like wrestling cult mentality, like the culture of wrestling to like shit on the new girl and to like show her who's boss kind of thing. So in that match necessarily it really wasn't. But like that is sort of the whole feeling around wrestling in general, which is where I feel like a lot of my wrestling beef is started with because people are like, oh, this new bitch, she hasn't paid her news,

whatever the fuck. It's like a pecking order. It really is. And it's like a lot of those people got bullied coming up. even if it was coming up 20 years ago when, you know, the culture around wrestling and what was socially acceptable was a lot different 20 years ago. People used to be shitting in people's bags just to show them who's boss and that was normal. You do that now. You're going to jail. You know what I mean?

So it's like those people went through that and they're like, oh, who's this, you know, a little pretty bitch coming up? And she thinks she's just going to roll up in here and have a spot. And then especially once I started dating Matt, it was like bull's eye on this dumb bitch. So take us into your wrestling career a little bit. So you did that first match and then where does that go from there? How long after your first match did you meet Matt? So we actually met on Twitter.

Oh, really? Okay. Awesome. The worst way to meet anybody, honestly. I mean, you could have said Tinder. So I mean, Twitter is better than Tinder. It's more embarrassing than that, I feel like. But I was doing, I started doing indie stuff.

So I did it sort of backwards, right? It was on TV. And then I started doing independent stuff locally. And I was doing a lot of announcing work because I was still working in radio. So people sort of like recognize me from being able to talk kind of thing. Believe it or not. No, I think you're doing great. It's a very different life.

And this girl on Twitter saw that I was going to be at a show, or a show that saw that Matt was going to be at a show. And she tweeted me, and I had just broken up with somebody. And I'm lamenting like, my life is a very dramatic. Fucking emo 2012 Twitter, you know, whatever. Yes, very much that. I'm going to die. My life is up very dramatic.

So this girl, I guess, wrestling fans, seen it. And she was like, you know what? you should try and talk with this guy Matt Hardy. He's just, he's been through a breakup. And I even know what they were referencing, but bitch, I found out since. She's like, he's been through a breakup and you've been, and you guys would be really great together. And he just like wrote back like a colon parentheses. Is this how long ago?

Wasn't even emojis yet. Like, winky face. And I was like, uh-huh, yeah, sure. I'll let you know, you know, when the wedding is or whatever. And literally it just started with bullshit flirtations back. and forth because like this random fan on Twitter decided that we needed to be together out of thin air but that's destiny you know I mean literally I guess if you think about I mean like you guys have been together what 10 years now longer 13 years like that's obviously that was definitely

written in the cards okay so you and Matt are fucking tweeting each other when do you guys officially meet so there was that show that that girl was saying oh you should oh so there was a show that he had that weekend and the fan persisted right because I probably would have just let it go. But the family was like, are you going to go see him? And I was like, how else are we supposed to consummate the marriage? Jokes on me, bitch. Hello. Not look at me. But, you know, so I ended of actually getting booked on that show. So he was performing and I was booked as an announcer on that show. And then we met and from there it was like almost inseparable, like from that day. Crazy. Yeah. Oh, look at your eyes light up when you talk about it. She's like, he drives me nuts, but I love him.

Oh, I love that. So you guys get together. You deal with the backlash of his. breakup, right? We don't really have to touch too much on it because I know people go, are crazy. So that is day. Yes. All of them. I've seen it online and I'm like, bro. They have fucking four kids together. They literally are been married 13 years. Like, leave her alone. So you catch all this backlash. You know, how do you deal with everything that was getting thrown your way? Like the girls are picking on you and the wrestling and then, you know, you're dealing with the backlash from that. How did you guys kind of like come together and

just buckle down and just roll with it. It was hard. I really had a hold my own, but on top of it at the time, he was going through like a shit time, like a ton of issues. So he was like always in the press, like getting in trouble.

And I was having to, you know, tow that line of not wanting to defend him because I was the one trying to pull him out of it, but also like not wanting people to shit on your man kind of thing. So I got a lot of shit just for even sticking by him half the time. And, you know, we were young and dumb

and probably not making the best choices. you know, he got out of rehab for one day and the first thing we did was like do a nude photo shoot and post-a-like, and I look back and I'm like, what the fuck was I thinking, bro? But you know, I'm sure to fans, they're like, what the hell is this? You know, it probably looked fucking crazy.

But, you know, so it was a lot of backlash. Some of it was deserved because I was, I was just young and dumb and, you know, just going with it. And I've always had like a very like troll mentality. Like, you're not about to talk crazy to me. Right. Without having me talk back. And I've calmed down a lot.

Yeah, it's hard because you can't win. But I'm like, you're not going to disrespect me. I don't care if it's if you got a scream behind you or if you don't mind. You want to say that to my face. I want to let that slide in person. Why am I going to let it slide now? You don't find out. You'll whiver in your presence.

Yeah, exactly. So it's like I used to have to attack everybody. So yeah, I've had to learn that this very past week. It's very hard to keep your mouth shut, especially when it's like you know the whole story and they don't and everybody's got a fucking opinion. Oh, yeah. Now I just tell people, you know, hopefully you can mind your business this week. You know, and they hate it because they're like, you too.

And I'm like, miss you're on my page. You know, it's so hard. I'm not going back and forth. Yeah. So let's move forward. You and Matt have been together. You guys have created this beautiful life. How do you guys end up in North Carolina?

Mm-hmm. How do you guys end up in North Carolina? So his, he's from there. His whole family's from there, like for 300 years. Just everyone's been born on the same block kind of thing. Wow. And he's lived on the same, I say block, but, you know, Yeah, well, you're from New York.

It makes sense. But yeah, I mean, and he'll never leave. I've tried, especially before we had kids. Well, let's get a place in Florida. Let's get a place in New York. I tried to get him to buy my old apartment 10 years ago. And 10 years ago, it was like 500,000. That's just like 800,000.

I'm like, we should have bought it. You know, but he's just born and raised there. His whole family's from there forever. He will never leave. We'll be there forever. That's how country boys are. My husband will never leave Nashville. As much as he says he wants to, we're never going to.

He don't even want to, though. He's just like, this is it. That's all he knows. So you guys bought 100 acres in North Carolina. It was just there. It was just there. Oh, you guys built your house on the acres. Yeah.

So it's sort of like the family compound. It used to be like his dad's house and then like the house he grew up in across and then his sister's house. And the next to that was like another family house. It was like this huge plot of farmland. I think they used to be like tobacco farmers or something. So. Awesome.

Matt had the 40 acres on it, and then we've sort of built on. Jeff, his brother, is next to us. And then across is their dad who's passed. And then next to that is my dad. I love that. That is really awesome. Yes. So take me into the house.

Have you always been into Gothic interior? Like, is that your thing? Like, take me on this journey of Gothic baby. Because everybody is just obsessed with Gothic baby. That's what drew me in. That was the first video of yours I ever saw. I was like, look at this fucking baby. I was like, this is so amazing.

And then I saw all your shit that you do. And I'm like, oh, God, I'm following her. She's like inspiration, like for the decor and shit. Love it. Thanks. I grew up, you know, that apartment that I grew up in Queens, I mentioned that my dad was the super of the building. Right.

So when people would die, he would get first dibs on their apartment. You know what I was? Like if next to kid didn't come and claim the stuff, it's going in the dump or my dad's taking it. You know what I mean? So we had this very eclectic mix of like antiques and old stuff and oddities and sort of weird stuff. So that was the apartment that I grew up in. It was very like mixed match and antique.

So to me that was normal and I always thought that was the most beautiful thing. I never want anything modern or futuristic even throughout like white, okay, everything's, you know, modern. I just, I wanted to live like in a castle my whole life. So even like I feel like I would ask for Christmas for like, I want like a beauty in the beast mirror. but like I would get like something pink and plastic and I'd be like what the fuck is this right I wanted the carved wood gilded exactly so that's sort of like my whole life that was like goals you know so when I had when I was pregnant with gothic baby is she evermore yeah I love the names thank you I love all I what is it maxill evermore wolf gang wolf thalamew which I found out on Twitter is very controversial name bartholome

Oh, fuck. I didn't know that. I mean, either until I posted it. Apparently Bartholomey is like a name that you call somebody to like make fun of them. Or like, when you think somebody's not cool? You just like Karen. You're like, okay, Karen. If somebody's not cool, you say like, okay, Bartholomew.

Like, I didn't know that. I've never heard that in my life. Me neither, bro. No, I'm like, God damn it. I didn't know that. That is insane. Okay, so when you were pregnant with Gothic babies. So she was my first girl after three boys.

And I haven't in my head, like I'm a boy mom. That's all I am. I don't know how to deal with a girl, especially with all the horses. my mom. I didn't know how to have a relationship like with a mom or with a girl. You get to break the cycle. So, you know, the first girl after. Sorry. Matt's over here like. Asm. It's okay. It's okay. Bro. No, he's good. So the first girl after three boys and I could either like go completely pink, ruffle glitter like, you know, Barbie or, you know, maybe something more gender neutral, which is what I ended up going with. So the original

intent for like the nursery was never, I was never like, I'm going to make a Gothic nursery. It was like I'm going to do something neutral and try and make it like as lux as I can without being modern. So to me, what does that mean? A lot of antiques, a lot of like draperies and stuff. And then even in just sharing that stuff, you know, and there's nothing inherently, I would say, goth in her room. And I feel like there's a difference between like goth and Gothic. Like Gothic, I feel like is more of a style of aesthetic and architectural style. And goth is more like the music scene or, you know, the fashion or, you know, maybe even into emo, whatever the hell, you know. But people were seeing that.

I was just posting little bits here and there on my social media and people were just going crazy. Like this poor child living in a gothic house. She is no color. A huge fucking house. Yeah, poor child. Yeah. Like we just put her in this one room all day and that's all it's going to be.

So the whole Gothic baby thing started as like a satirical response like to what these people were saying. Like, oh, this gothic baby just mobs around all day, surrounded by darkness. So literally I didn't mean for it to be a serious. It was just me like, you know, like I was doing wanting a troll. Yeah. Like you're being, you know, being sarcastic. Like, yes, my poor fucking child, Gothic baby.

Yeah. And that's how it happened. If it popped off and people really liked it. And I was like, well. Dude, it more than popped off. It's literally just viral. Everybody knows Gothic baby now, which is fucking insane. Oh.

She's like, she's like, damn it. I get showed up by my husband and then I get showed up by my fucking kid. I've always said I'm the least popular person in my family. Oh, not true though. Because you're probably the glue that holds everybody. together. Facts.

That is true. I feel like us wives, we don't get enough fucking credit, but it is what it is. So do you have plans on like branding Gothic baby or like trademarking it? So I'm actually in the middle of writing a children's book. And it's sort of like based on her and inclusivity and that kind of thing. And I mean, I would love to take it to the moon, you know. I love doing it. It very much fits like our organic family dynamic and how we actually live and what our

house really is. You know, it's not like a front or anything. It just, it started because that's what the hell was happening in my house, you know? So it would be great to to keep on going with that. Are you going to put the kids into it, too, the other kids, the older ones? The younger ones, it's funny because anytime Bartholome, bless his heart, poor thing. We call it was Barthie. You know, Barty Hardy, it rhymes, you know? Poor thing. I didn't know about the Barty. Okay. I is never, that's news to me. I am so tired of the internet, though, girl. You caught me on the right week because I am just the fucking internet is so sensitive dude like you can't do anything right no you can't do any period yeah you're damned if you do you're damned if you're don't so just

fucking live your life fuck yeah like who cares love you guys but fuck you okay no i feel you there but but anytime we even see anything black or like you know for example i like have my nails done right and they're like you know they're darker they're black and the first thing that barty says he comes to his gothic baby nails like anything black is like gothic baby and you know they see their sister, you know, when I do my little bits and stuff with her. And he's always trying to get in. You know, they always want to be in. And even our first kid, you know, he was on the road with us at wrestling shows on TV from the time he was four months old. Yeah. Like literally traveling the world. He's been to like four different continents at this point at like one. You know,

so they're just, we're just a show biz family. That's just sort of how it is. You know, a lot of people. Why haven't they not done a reality show on you guys yet? We're actually talking to a bunch of people now, but I don't want to jinx anything. But like, if not. I'll produce it with my fucking production company. That shit would be amazing, dude. I agree. There's so, there's so many different things that are happening at any given time that I feel

like are weird and different. But, I hate the whole reality show thing because it takes forever for the networks and like the filming, this is what we've been doing it with Chelsea Handler for fucking since 2018. Or when was it? When did we meet her? Yeah, 2018.

And it is a fucking process, dude. Yeah. Takes forever. That just scares me because I'm like, first of all, she's not going to be a baby forever. Yeah. And then secondly, you've got to like strike wild iron top, you know, and I'm very impatient as a person.

That's what I just did with me. So it might end up being. I'll help you. We'll talk about it whenever we're done with this interview. Like, for real. Thank you. That would be awesome to go out there and like film for a few weeks and just get a whole thing for you guys.

We would be down. Yeah, we would love that. I'll talk to you about it after this. But yeah, so, okay, so you guys still Are you still wrestling or no? No. Matt is still wrestling? He is, yeah.

That's crazy that fucking, how long has he been in the business? Do you want to come? Say hi? He's eating. He doesn't have to eat. It's okay. 31. 31.

31 years. Like, that's fucking insanity. But do you think that your boys are going to follow in his footsteps? You know, when they were younger, it was like literally all they were about. And, you know, you'd ask them, what do you want to be when you grow up? And we would, I homeschool. So we do our little board every year for, you. you know, the beginning of the fucking super mom.

Thank you. And, you know, it would say, what do you want to do in Europe? And it was always wrestor, rest, or rest. I feel like the older one, which is the one that was on TV. He literally had a match on TV when he was one years old, like insane. I feel like he's almost like a jaded vet. Like, he's over it. It's funny.

The other two are very much, like the younger ones are very much into it. We have a wrestling ring in our house. So like they're always asking him to go out there. And, you know, the little little one is in jujitsu right now. So it's, I feel. feel I'm scared. I'm almost scared to say it because I know how the business is. Like I want them to do it because it would be cool and obviously like carry on the hearty legacy and yeah it makes sense. But at the same time, I'm like, I've been there. I know what it's like and that scares

the shit out of me. So yeah. Just going to it's it's whenever it's that comes, you guys will deal with it as it comes. I guess. I don't even want to think about it honestly. What if she is like I want to be the wrestler? No. Hard fucking no. Gothic baby the wrestler. I'm sorry. I let her have complete body and personal life autonomy until then the fuck you are. Yeah. Like, no, you're not fucking doing it. Girl, I've been there. Uh-uh.

You don't want this. Well, what do you think Gothic, the whole thing for you, your family, Gothic baby, what do you see it in 2022? Or 20, sorry, wrong year. What do you see for 2023? Gothic baby, your brand, all that stuff. What would you want to manifest if you could manifest something right now? I would love to have like a reality series or something and make it sort of like a modern day

Adams family, you know, not tie myself, you know, not too close to that whole thing. But I mean, it is a huge part, you know, sort of like the Osbournes were like the cool alt reality family back in the day. I feel like, you know, we could, there's not really that much representation, I feel like for alt people that's positive at least. And I feel like, you know, we do have that style and we do have that lifestyle and that aesthetic, but, you know, we're also, I don't know, I would say fairly wholesome. We're pretty cool. There's a lot going on. I feel like that'd be cool to share because extremely wholesome. There's already so many like misconceptions about every single person in this family at this point that it would be nice to like one clear the air and then two, like just share

the good parts. I think it'll be awesome and I think it will happen for you guys because you guys have a very, I love whenever he gets in the TikToks too because he's like my husband, my husband hates to get in the TikToks. And you can tell he's like, posted something the other day and I was like I forget what it was that he was saying but I was like oh my god this like literally word for word what my husband would say yeah no j hates it he always says you can be the online persona and I'm the fucking musician like he's like I just want to be mysterious and I'm like okay well mysterious this on my ticot there you go he's like fucking ticot well revi I really enjoyed having you here thank you for coming by why don't you tell people where they can find you

shout out your ticot instagram anything you want to plug yeah just take me out on uh on ticot is at Rebbe Hardy, R-E-B-Y-Hardy. On Instagram is Reb-E-E-Y-Hardy. Someone stole my name. Can't get it back. But yeah, other than that, that's it. Damn it. Thank you so much for coming.

Thank you. Really appreciate you. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.